I let out a sneeze and sniffed as I wrapped the blanket around me tightly as I scooted closer to the fire. Custard placed his massive tail in front of me to provide me with more warmth. Viex, shifting back to his smaller form, wrapped himself onto my neck.
“What the hell is wrong with this place. Why is it so cold!?” I demanded as I continued to shake. I was already dressed in a long-sleeved shirt and some trousers that we had to pin to the side. I refuse to wear another fancy dress and shiver to death.
What’s worse is that we had to camp outside because the inside of the cave is colder. It was too damp and wet from the spring and the hole at the top didn’t help either.
Ren appeared and placed a blanket over me before sitting by my side. He scratched Custard’s chin and lau
Custard, Viex, and I arrived back at our campsite pretty late at night that we all just huddled up in one corner, no longer caring about where we were sleeping. I swear it simply just closed my eyes and when I opened them again, the sun had already risen and the princes were now starting to cook while slowly cleaning up the camp.I wanted to cry. I want to sleep longer! Even my familiars were agreeing with me as we curled ourselves to the ground. I grabbed one of Viex’s tails and placed it over my eyes to shield myself from the light.“Rose, if you stay like that, you are going to get a sunburn.”“Good. I always want to get tanned anyway.” I grumbled and turned over to my side. Then I heard a loud thud on the ground that made me crack an eye open to see what it was. It was
I let out a gulp as I took in the scenery in front of me. I know that Serena said that she would take us back to the surface and I am grateful for that. I really am. But I actually thought that they would perform some sort of ritual to teleport us back.Either that or we would go through a portal.Well, there is a portal. But the problem is the location of how to get there.Serena and the rest of the Nymphs finally stopped walking in front of an old rickety bridge. “Friends!” Serena turned back with a wide grin. “We are here!”“That’s a bridge.” I pointed out nervously as I tried to look through the heavy fog to see through the other side. Unfortunately, I couldn’t.
I was sitting crossed-legged on the ground and dragging the stick along the dirt in boredom. “Any luck?” I wondered out loud without even looking at them.“Umm…” I heard Ren tailing off that I had to look up to see him glancing at Ace hesitantly.“Can useless people shut up? I can’t concentrate enough to find them.” Ace snapped at us before going back to placing his hands on a tree to concentrate.I let out a tired sighed as I continued to doodle on the ground. We were finally back on the surface, but we could not go home yet because our horses are missing.Well, not really missing. More like...okay fine! They’re missing! And Ace is trying to locate them.I
I hear birds chirping outside as rays of the sun seeped through my window. I yawned and got out of my bed. Custard and Viex were still sleeping on my pillow and were covering their ears. I smiled and covered them with my blanket.The birds still continued to chirp as I headed for my balcony. I opened my balcony door and welcomed the cold breeze of the morning air. I took in a deep breath and exhaled as I lean onto the railing.Still, the birds continued to chirp. I smiled and blinked slowly as if I was in a trance.The bright and cheery songs of the birds were forcing a song out of me. And that’s what I did. I started singing. “Do Re Me Fa SO….FUCKING SHUT UP YOU DAMN BIRDS! TWEET TWEET MY ASS! GO TAKE YOUR STUPID TWEET TWEET ELSEWHERE!” I screamed bloody murder as I took
“Rose, come on. Do you or do you not want to go to his coronation?” Nate asked me while I was squatting on the ground and pouting. I was back in my track uniform while having my morning run with the Vampire prince.“I want to.” I grumbled.“See? Now, less sulking and more running. Come on. I’ll run with you.” Nate offered me his hands and I lazily took it. I let out a dying groan as I got up to my feet. “Don’t give me that attitude. Remember the condition that the queen gave you so that she would allow you to attend?”I rolled my eyes. I do remember. “I have to at least convince her that I am capable of protecting myself.”“And what else?”
“Sir Terrence, I am sorry. I was reckless.” I said as I followed closely behind him while walking through the hallway of the castle. I dusted my arms and shirt already, but there were still remnants of when I literally mopped the ground.“Rose, wipe your face.” Nate chided me. He took a damp cloth from the following maid and started whipping at the dirt on my face gently.“No, princess. I was at fault here so you do not have to apologize.” Terrence says.“Great.” I moved my face slightly to the side so that I could see Terrence amidst Nate wiping at my face. “Can I have the weapon back?” I pleaded as we continued to follow him. I even plastered on my most convincing look.Terrence immediately stopp
The day, training began and I was dead nervous. Emphasis on the dead part. I mean, who wouldn’t be nervous? I was going to go up against a genius assassin!What bothered me is the fact that he was already practicing his swings even though Terrence isn’t here yet.“You know, you should follow his example and do some practice swings yourself.” Nate commented.I nodded. “You know, I have thought about it.” I agreed.“And?”“That’s it. I just thought about it and I suddenly feel tired so I didn’t do it.” I looked at Nate and smiled proudly.“I agree. I mean, Sir Terrence isn’t here yet so
It hurts when I move my arm. It hurts even more as I opened them up and the tailors were taking my measurements. My aunt, the queen was finally convinced by my progress in training that she immediately had me fitted for a new dress.“Please. Don’t make the dress heavy and puffy.” I told the tailors.“As you wish, Princess.” The head designer, Gary nodded.“We’re done.” One of his assistants said and they helped me put on my shirt. My sore muscles screamed in pain with every movement that I have to gasp in relief when it was over.“Thanks, everyone.” I told them as I headed for the door. “Custard, Viex, let’s go.” I called as I opened the door for them. Immediately, they ran for th
“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