“Don’t you dare to argue what I am telling you, Celestine…” King Dragon looked at the young woman who was standing in front of him. He could see the flames burning inside her eyes…flames of anger. “You are not my king. I don’t have to submit to any words coming out from your royal mouth…” Celestine hissed. Her lips were tightly clenched. Her stare at him was so intense without any blinks a second as she gritted her teeth. Their eyes were locked and both of them were standing with each of hands clenched. King Dragon smirked bit that it appeared to sneer in cynical expression. “You want to see my power right to your eyes, huh…?” He tried to grab the wrist of the woman with appearance like a noble woman. “Don’t you dare touching me, a princess of this kingdom!” Celestine snapped with flying off the handle to the hand of King Dragon from touching her. King Dragon laughed. “Don’t touch me???” He paused, created a haze of silence within them. His gaze was eating piece by
Storm stopped running as they reached the border between the Sapphire Island Kingdom and the Wallachian kingdom. He marched along the path under the shady big trees to a hidden mansion among the woods. Celestine got down and walked along with the horse next to her, standing in the front of wall gate with a small hole to peek inside or outside. The mansion was captured as an abandoned castle, sturdy building with rambled plants on its wall. It was hidden among the high shady trees, appearing like a pearl inside its muddy shell. A man with ragged clothes was standing in the front of gate after Celestine knocked the gate three knocks with pause. “Who are you?” He peeked out. Celestine beamed at him. “The shadow from the east coming out, the haze of silence will be disappeared behind…Smoky mountains have their rules as well as the stormy hearts…” she peeked inside. Telling him those magic words, turning around to see whether there was or not someone following her. She
The Voice of Nature…it was the first song going to play. It began with sounding the song of birds from the violins and the flutes. The artificial fountain delivered bubbling water and all the attendants were nailed on their seat. Their soul began to be captured into an imaginary world. Airing the room, the imaginations were drawn to small river downing the creek with the splashing water from bathing birds. Waiting for the next… The playing sound of the harps then began to take another breathtaking session. It came like the whispers from the garden of angels. Taking all the breaths from the audiences inside the kingdom’s hall. King Dragon rose to get applauses as his song finished to play. He sighed after faking a wide prideful smile. His eyes were scattering the room, looking for a woman’s figure in a red dress he bought. He returned to his seat next to the hosted King and his Queen, rested his hand on the chin. They were taking seats on the highest row among the o
“See you next, my love…” Jacques swathed Celestine with his warmth. His soft smile drained the flame inside Celestine to not touch his lips with her gentle stares. Otherwise, she held that desire, sensing every ponder of her heart but she bit her lips. The harbor breezes blew his hair, he held the hat back as the wind bustling. Celestine smiled and gripped the young man’s fingers as if there was no much time left to spend with him, racing the horse ridings, catching some butterflies around the suburbs, or laughing together for silliness and crazy stupid stories or jokes, listening to him playing a flute or a guitar for her and let her admiring the beauty he possessed with some poems she wrote to dedicate for him. Her heart still yearned for him to stay. She sighed. The ship would bring him back to his kingdom was whistling. “Take care yourself, Jacques.” Jacques looked at into her eyes. “Could I practice what you taught me?” Celestine widened her eyes. “Not in the front
It was about to reach dusk. Celestine got down from Storm, the horse, and skulked to the gate of Moustache's mansion. She knocked the gate three times with a pause. She peeked into the hole. Storm stood behind her and he bent his head down to follow Celestine. She saw a man in black ragged suits and wearing a ragged hat in the front yard, taking care of the garden. ‘He’s Moustache in disguise.’ She cleared her throat to catch the man’s attention. The man gazed at the gate. "The Shadow from the East is surrounded by some clouds, the tornado will come probably." She paused, taking a long breath. "Afraid of being caught by the dinosaur king." A pair of eyes appeared and peeked in the hole. "What??? Is he just ancient or about to extinct?" It was Moustache. He asked those men, guarding and helping him to open the gate and took the horse to the stable. "It wasn't enraptured prose as the password." Moustache complained as both of them walked to the mansion. He sigh
Three hours before the dinner invitation in the palace… “Are you sure, Princess Celestine? It will change your skin tone,” she paused and examined the bottle potion in her hand, “Becoming freaking blue…” she turned her sight back to Celestine. They were inside the dressing room and Ersa prepared the dress with its accessories, Celestine was quite flapping for the dinner moment. She squinted her eyes as Celestine studied the notes from Moustache on a table. Celestine stopped reading and turned her head at Ersa. “That’s the point.” She said and nodded as a sign of agreement at the time Ersa showed her a red dress. Ersa sighed, bringing it to Celestine. “Hope you’ll be fine then.” She saw Celestine drinking the potion all. The hall was crowded with the king’s guests. The dinner time would be held and left for counted time. King Victor wasn’t there, the guests were the noble family members from the kingdom, the Wallachian kingdom where King Othello ruled and the aristo
Celestine was chuckling, bumping herself with the face hit on the bed. Ersa was standing by the bed, looking at her, she put the princess’s shoes off. Celestine’s body was shaking because she kept laughing. Ersa waited for her to flip over so she could change the dress that princess was wearing as she draped a night dress on her arm. Celestine put off the diadem with tiny diamonds in both sides from her forehead and handed it to Ersa as she got up, taking a seat by the bed. “If you see King Dragon’s expression that time, he looked particularly good to be fooled.” Celestine stopped chuckling. She jiggled her head as she didn’t believe with she saw from a strong man and he was also known as a king with fiercely controlling power among the empire. Ersa lifted one of her eyebrows. “But you must be careful Princess Celestine, he isn’t stupid.” She started undressing Celestine and changed the princess’s dress into a sheer satin made night dress for taking a rest. She gasped
It was a few moments after the announcement of his engagement was cancelled due to prior unexpected events. King Dragon sniffed, sneezing many times after a cat had walked passing him. His steps were rushing to reach the spot where he would be staying during his visit in the Sapphire Island Kingdom. ‘Damn, why my acute allergies come back again? Was it because of Celestine’s condition? What illness does she carry? Was it infectious? How come did she change to become blue like that? So scary…yes, as a lady, she seemed so scary in that look.’ King Dragon wiped his nose that it started running. He turned around and stopped walking. He saw another black and white small animal was sneaking from the plants growing inside the palace’s garden. He tried to stay away but it seemed the cat was running to escape from that other cat. He nearly kicked the other cat away, separated them from getting to fight. “No, don’t do it, my king. We are going to have a disaster. It’ll ru