[ WP ] Magic is discovered and it 's channeled with music . Modern nations dissolve and new countries rise in their place divided by the preferred music . In the frozen north lie the Metal kingdoms . Far to the south are the countries of Soul etc .

And here I was, alone. In between aal the countries in which powerfull spels were casted with the use of a guitar or violin, I sat looking at my keyboard. It was the only thing my father left me and boy was I glad he did. The powers of it were unknown, but many said it was one of the most powerfull instruments off all time. This was partly because almost nobody knew how to play it and partly because it could adjust itself. It was one of few instruments able to play more then 1 genre and with the few modifications I made, also perfectionise them. 
 
 Ever since magic was discovered and people moved either towards the north for metal, or south for jazz, I was pretty lonely. As far as I knew nobody was left here. Somewhere in the middel of the globe, just above the equator, I was stranded as one of the few people who liked dance over anything. No guitars for me, just my keyboard and a computer. The edm and with that dance genre had, as far as I was concerned, pretty much died out. And for some reason I was glad it did. It gave a special feeling knowing you're one of the few people who could master so many powers using just 1 instrument. But it also feld strange, I could n't really describe why, but it just did. 
 
 Their was one occasion however, when I was n't alone. An old man, coming from god knows where, showed up every now and then to teach me how to play the keyboard. He was always talking about how powerful I could be, how great the instrument was and so on. Though I never wanted to become powerful, really. I just wanted to play music and enjoy it. 
 On the news there were many articles about great wars between pop music and country. I would give you the name of the countries, if I knew them. See, since the discovery of magic people started to worry about other things. Life as I knew it had suddenly been given up for the simple life of trying to learn to play some instrument so you could fight in some war. And with that came that places were n't devided by borders anymore and countries became meaningless pieces of land. The only thing that mattered now was to survive. 
 
 after a few years, I had learned to play the keyboard, a war broke out between a group the alternative rockers just a few kilometers north and the soul Sisters about 3 kilometers south. Because nobody knew I excisted, they did n't really account for me being in the middle of their battleground. The leader of the alternative rockers, a man who looked as tall as a crane and as strong as a bear. He came to me and asked me who I was. I told him who I was and he was shocked to hear that I could play the keyboard. He almost seemed frightend. He soon left, but with that came a girl. She was not much larger then me and was dressed as if she were to go to a ball. Why she wore a dress was unclear to me, but it did n't seem very practical. Anyway, I told her the same and when I finished talking, she stared at me for a few moments and then left. 
 A few days went past before the war started and both sides were pretty hesitating to go past my house. I did n't get it, what could 2 leaders of big clans have to fear of a 20 year-old keyboard player? I soon found out that war had changed too, the camps did n't go for a regular fight, but just started playing music. It sounded horrible, not because they were bad at playing their instruments, but because all sorts of music played at the same time. I tried al sorts of things to not have to hear the horrible sounds of war, but nothing helped. after a contineous and dreadful 4 hours of guitars, drums, cello's and saxophones, I completely lost it and went outside. The noises slowly started to get milder as I set up my keyboard and hooked up some speakers. I put on my headphones and started to play one of my favorite songs. It was a song I remembered from my youth and it meant a lot to me. for 1-2 minutes I was so concentrated on my music that I did n't see what the others were doing. When I finally looked up, I was filled with surprise to see both groups dance together! Nobody was playing an instrument, nobody was arguïng, everybody was just dancing to my music. It took me a second, but then I realised what the old man once said. `` Magic is strong, but music is stronger.'' 
 
 P.S. If you see a lot of mistakes, I'm sorry. I'm dutch and still learning English at school. 

