‘A royalty!’ A voice laughed inside of my head. It was clearer compared to the other voices streaming in the background.
I jolted up immediately as the eeriness of its voice sent shivers all throughout my body. “Oh Gosh!” I yelled, scaring my familiar that was resting it’s chin on my bare stomach. I then looked all around me. I was back in my hut.
‘Master!’ My familiar whimpered excitedly and started licking my face while wagging it’s tail at me furiously. He was getting crazy smothering me that Ren had to pull my familiar back just so I can breathe.
“You’re alive!” Ren whispered and suddenly engulfed me into an embrace. As soon as we parted,
I shoved Nate away from me as I rolled and jumped back. The princes and the others were now looking at me.“Get her!” Ace ordered as the princes all charged at me. Well, all of them after Ren gave my sleeping familiar to the chief.I don’t know how my body became so light, but I was able to avoid all of their moves and advances. I undid the belt from my dress and wrapped it over Nate’s eyes as I threw him over to Ren. Ace tried to grab me but I blocked him with my hand and side stepped so I could stand behind him. He turned back with a jab that I narrowly dodged.I paused, then pointed an accusing finger at him. “Hey! That looked like you really meant to hurt me.” I commented as I compared him to how the other two were moving. Ren and Nate prioritize to c
‘Malduk, I see you have found yourself a new host. And a working tamer at that.’‘Viex, you are free. Long time no see. I have heard word of your liberation but I wasn’t able to welcome you personally.’There was a laugh. ‘Doesn’t matter. What are you doing with this half baked tamer anyway? I understand that her powers are working but those people from the tribe would be far more useful than this one right here.’‘You do not understand, Viex. She’s a royal blood.’‘A royal-’ There was a pause and I can hear a twig breaking and leaves shifting on the ground.
“Let me guess. Don’t make any sudden movements so it wouldn’t see us?” I whispered to Viex as I looked back at the forest monster that was now slowly making its way towards us.‘Woman, are you nuts!? That is a totem and not a snake! RUN!’“Rude fox says run!” I told the princes and started running on ahead.‘The other way! Cross the river and head towards the forest!’I skidded to a stop and ran past the princes to cross the river. “Sorry, guys. Wrong way.” My feet splashed through the water and I had to raise Viex just so he wouldn’t get splashed with the water as well. I looked back, Custard was safely in Ren’s arms.
The Nymph, far different from how I last saw her, bolted towards me. Viex, Custard, and the princes moved out of the way as if sensing something that I couldn’t. I was looking at them all until the nymph held my face in between her hands and started pinching and playing with my cheeks. “It has been a while since I have visitors! Wow your skin is lovely but so stressed. I mean,” She pulled my head closer so she could examine my forehead. “Would you just look at this zit?”I slapped my hands wildly in front of me to shoo her away as her offensive words reached through me. I moved back and covered my forehead. “Will you all just leave my George alone?!”“George? Is that your name? But you’re a girl.”“No. My name is Rose. George is th
‘Help. A-’ It was the last words that I heard from my dream before I woke up. I blinked slowly and felt myself floating. I carefully looked from side to side and realized that I was still in the water. I winced as I forced my body to move but to no avail That’s right. The last thing that I remembered after pulling PRINCE Ace to the water was feeling a burning pain to my chest. Every part of my body was burning despite being in the water. Steams of black smoke coiled from my body as I felt the foreign spirit being burn out of my body. It was like I was being steamed alive that my consciousness decided to shut itself. I was floating on my back when a panther suddenly appeared in my line of vision and was looking down at me. Before I would have screamed, but now I simply reached out and scratched the back of his ear. Somehow, just by touching him,
The statue of Prince Terrence looked as if he was trying to reach for something before he was petrified. He looked exactly like what he did when he showed himself to us when he was a ghost.I glared at Serena. “Lady, I understand that you have not interacted with other people for a long time but this is just sick. You can’t just show Nate the corpse of his father.” I pointed out.Serena’s eyes widened in horror. “Wait. Wait, my friends. Prince Terrence is not dead. He was simply placed under a spell!”“Who would...who would do such a thing?” Ren asked while we cautiously glanced at Nate, who was staring intently at the stone figure of his father.“King Varon of course!”
I ran towards Nate and started pulling on Prince Terrence’s hair to get him off of Nate. “Sir, this is called child abuse! I could sue you!” I threatened him, but the old vampire Prince seemed to be blinded by something that he wasn’t listening to me.“Who sent you to assassinate us? And how the hell did you people know of this place?!” Prince Terrence demanded Nate, who was pinned under him.“What the hell? Get off of me!” Nate yelled. In that instant, Ren and Ace came forwards and dragged a thrashing vampire off of Nate. I ran to his side worriedly.“Are you okay?” I asked and glanced at his wrist that was now starting to bruise. To hurt a vampire-like Nate, Prince Terrence must be pretty strong.
‘Princess, look out!’ Viex yelled in my mind and grabbed me using his tails to pull me out of the way as Custard charged at me. I let out a yelp when I felt the intensity of the air when he landed. Our eyes met briefly before Viex placed me on his back and secured me with his tail.‘What the hell is wrong with you!?’ Viex growled at Custard. ‘You let an evil spirit possess you just as you are about to become a royal familiar? How shameful. You even attacked our princess!’ Viex chastised him.In response, Custard lowered his front legs to the ground and growled. I was stunned. His beautiful white fur whenever he transformed was now a
“I see.” Sophie, the seer that I met a long time ago when I went to Hazel, laughs. “Now do you believe the prophecy?” “He is rich, I have to tell you that.” I joked and laughed along with her. Sophie has become a close advisor to King Fred. She was the last seer in the lands and is now being taken care of. “So, is my guess right?” I asked hopefully. Sophie gave me a look as she nodded. “Congratulations, Queen Rosalie. You are - ” She was cut off when Custard lets out a yelp. ‘Master master! Arcielia keeps on pulling on my tail.’ Custard whimpered as he sat on the floor with his head and ears down. “Sorry, Custard.” I said before I fixed a look at a young girl. Her hair is as dark as her father while her eyes are as blue
The guy lets out a scream as his other friend pulled him away from the stranger, who was now standing in front of me as if shielding me from my two attackers. “Leave. Or would you like me to break your jaws and feed you that...glass thing that you are holding?”Glass thing? Does he mean the can of beer? But it’s not even GLASS!“You two aren’t moving. Would you like me to break something else?” He asked menacingly and started moving forward. The two immediately ran away in a haste the longer they continued to look at the guy.As soon as they were gone, I looked at the man warily. His back was still facing me that I can’t even tell what he looks like at the moment. “Thank you.” I blurted out.The moment I spoke,
****2 Years Later in The Human Realm****I was bouncing on my toes as I waited for my teammate to pass me the baton. I was already at a pretty slow pace in order for her to be able to hand it over to me.“Please, Rose. Hurry!” My teammate pleaded with me.I gave her a reassuring smile as I got the baton in my hands and began to run. My mind focused on my own path. As soon as the wind hit my face, nostalgia suddenly hit me and I feel as if I was running in a different with different people. One was a red-head and the other one was a brunette.Despite the crowd in the background, all I could hear were the cheers of these two imaginary men.‘Go on, Rose. You can do it.’
“LOOK OUT!” Ace came forward and shielded me. In the process, Ace’s arm got a second-degree burn. Ace winced in pain as he immediately removed the sleeve on that particular arm.“No…” I whispered. Horrified at what I saw. Then I turned to glare murderously at Camille. “It was you, wasn’t it? You set him free!”Instead of looking guilty, Camille had a crazed look in her eyes. “Nate is mine. He is mine. If it weren’t for you then I would have become his queen!”“Nate and I are not in that kind of relationship!” I told her. “And he doesn’t belong to anyone!”But as hard as I tried to convince her, it seemed like Camille couldn’t hear any of it as she just screa
“Ow!”“Camille?” I gasped as soon as I saw the fairy princess emerging from under my bed with a swollen eye from my hit. Can’t say I don’t regret it. “What are you doing here? And why are you in my room?” I demanded.“Give me that!” Camille charged at me with her eyes fixed on the chalice.“Hey! What are you doing?” I moved my hand back, the one that was holding the chalice as Camille continued to charge at me with a crazy look in her eyes.“That’s what they wanted, right? Just give it to them!” She yelled at me and attempted to grab it this time with flames igniting from her hands.“You don’t even know what this is. Ba
Everyone was quiet as we all let the information sink in. When I thought about it, it all made sense now. Luke was the one that we were looking for. The only thing is, he is not exactly a traitor, just controlled by something that he cannot fight.“Hang on, who attacked Luke in the greenhouse?” I asked. “I mean, the place was basically a mess.”“He did that to himself,” Stella says. “As soon as he realized that Ferius was looking and hearing events of what was happening, he put himself to sleep to purposely stop Ferius from knowing of our plans. But upon realizing this, Ferius tried to take control over him. That was why the dose of the sleeping potion that he took was too much as to put him in a temporary coma.”“I see.” Ace and I exchanged a look.
‘Princess, focus!’ I felt Viex slumping down when the supply of magic that I was giving him was cut off. In that brief moment of weakness, a few rogues were able to catch on and started targeting us instead. I got down from Viex as he was still trying to recover from the unstable magic. Custard and I managed to handle a few of them with our backs facing Viex to protect him. ‘Princess, behind you!’ Viex yelled as a warning. When I looked back, I saw a leopard pouncing at me. Custard blocked its path but the leopard didn’t fully reach us when a hood figured appeared, landed on the leopard’s back in midair, and plunge his blade to its neck. As they both landed on the ground, Ace took his hood and pulled me until I w
I woke up early the next day as we all started to prepare ourselves. But I, on the other hand, woke up especially early because I wanted to make sure that everything was settled. Plus, I was getting nervous about all of this as well that I just can’t get a few more minutes of a shut-eye. I already have my shirt, chainmail, vest, trousers, and boots on. Now, I was contemplating wearing the gloves that Eltur and Darem gave me, but I decided against it as it would only hinder my grip on my whip. As I got out, I noticed that Nate was outside of his tent as well and just doing a few stretches. He must have heard me stepping out because he looked back with a tired and nervous smile on his face. “Hey. Good morning, Rose.” He greeted me. “Morning, Nate.” I greeted his back as I held the tent open for Custard and
Nate and I headed for the larger tent in the area. He told me that it was where all the royals are supposed to gather for the briefing.Nate opened the tent for me go to inside, but before I could even enter, I heard two familiar voices behind me. “I almost cried. You look so much more independent compared to the last time that we saw you. I just hope that you really are what you look like from the outside.”It was Custard who first reacted. He lets out a howl and ran behind me. ‘Master Ren!’I turned just in time to see Ren picking Custard up on the ground as Custard showered him with adoring kisses. The twins were humbly wearing plain shirts like what we usually wore in training. And judging by the looks on their faces, I can only guess that t