Dark Tremors

Chapter II

Tabek.

"Hello Tabek, I brought back gifts."

She held two water spheres in the palms of her hands, and in them swam two Goliath Groupers. I couldn't hide the joy that overtook my insides, mother knew that these were my favourite sea creatures. They grew to the sizes larger than elephants.

"Thank you mother, I'm grateful. Shall I place them in my garden?" I asked her as I levitated towards her huge form and took hold of the sphere.

"You may." She smiled at me and with the blink of an eye she dissappeared again. I sighed heavily and began to feel a wave of sadness in the pit of my stomach. I wiped my eyes from the forming sting of tears, and looked at the giants I held with the control of a finger, and my smile came back again.

I, much like my mother, have the abilitly to manipulate the elements, except for me I can't do all of the amazing things like breath life into dead animals and beings, I just medicated the living. I also couldn't completely disappear and teleport anywhere I wanted, but I could slightly camouflage myslelf. Also, I can easily get hurt, since my skin is one that resembles a human's. For that flaw she placed Timberwood, to be my protector from my birth, even though I can heal myself, and not to mention I'm immortal.

But nothing ever happens to me either way, since I fly everywhere. Walking hurt my feet, and it took forever to go to the places I wanted to go when I used them.

As for the comparison to a normal human, I'm not that much different if I were to give my honest opinion. I get tired. I get hungry, and I get really, really bored. Thats why I made myself a private garden. It's so beautiful and filled with all the rarest and extinct plants and fishes I adored, I tend to it everyday.

I flew down to the bottom of the waterfall and dove under. At the raging pressure above the water, held a bottomless well below. If any mortal was to swim in it, the pressure and currents would quickly pull them to the dark endlessness. I tried to reach the bottom one day, but I got immensly bored because it just kept going.

I formed a protective air sphere around me to breath, and went into the cave behind the waterfall. After I went inside I flew up and and went over to my gigantic water orb mother created for me, and placed the giants inside, completing my addition to all of my favourite sea cretures.

I quicly made a habitit for them from the stones below me and smiled in satisfaction. "Perfection... are they not Timberwood?"

He appeared beside me from the shadows, and I resisted the urge to become upset. He's not supposed to follw me here anymore this is my only escape from everyone, including mother and he was now invading that little liberation I thought I had.

"They are, my prince." He said with strained irritation in his voice."I turned around and looked at him, and saw that he had his head bowed. With a roll of my eyes I hand gestured to him to get out what ever he needed to say.

"Out with it then, what seems to be the big problem that you had to invade my privacy about?"

Thats another power I had, I could feel when someones close by from the vibrations of their movements, but it mainly came from the natural life forms surrounding me as well. We communicate with each other. I protect them, they protect me.

"The Queen is planning to be going away for a while and she asked for me to summon you, to give you your tasks."

I gritted my teeth in frustration thats all she ever did, nowadays. Leave with no proper reasoning, and then come back and rain me with gifts. Stupid as I am, I fall for it everytime, and forgot the reason why I was even upset in the first place. I blame it on my lack of rule or disrespect, but after so long a boy must turn into a man someday. Just as a servant should have and do have ulterior thoughts or motives. Which I knew Timberwood had, but everyone in the garden knew he would never act on it.

I remembered when I was just coming into grasping my abilities,... in my younger years, that we would play upon hours and hours. Back then I amost never got tired, much like her. Actually I even remebered her when she reduced her towering size to a normal human's, but as I grew up she stopped doing it. Along with everything else.

I wondered for years what I did to her to deserve such a change, but I deceided to just obey her rules, to stay on her good side because she did had a bad side.

Mother is the protector and guardian of all living things. From tiny little water bears and bacteria to huge beasts. She has dominion over the entire world, and never fails to show it. For that reason alone, you won't want her to show you an example of her true strength.

"I know my tasks Timberwood, you or her don't have to tell me. She says the same thing over and over again. Bring light snow to the early mornings of the tundra, rain to the desert because on the second day the creatures get axoius, fog the jungle in the mornings to give buoyancy to the plants and give havy rain in the afternoon for the forest. There's no need for my audiece if she repeats the same thing countless times." I said while sprinkiling water on my plants and adjusting the hot star(sun) that mother also made for me."

There was no need to for me to be present when she decides to disappear again.

"My prince, this will be a different hearing, she's not just leaving for an hour or two, she will be gone for atleast a year, ...maybe two. I'm not entirely sure about it, that's why I came to your private garden. Your highness this is important. If I'm not mistaken, she will be taking one of the exticnt species here in the garden, to outside world to experiment on them, ...for one part of her journeys.

She's going away agan, and for that long? Leaving me to watch this boring kingdom? She thinks she can just leave me alone, without no warning? Just deciding on when she wants to do things, I can't remember the last time she held a conversation with me for more than fifteen minutes. I'm her son! I felt rage prickling at my finger tips and eyelids.

When I bring these things up with her she says it's a part of her being a mother and a goddess all at once. There must be balance, she says. But I'm tired of balancing, if she' such a goddess, these things shouldn't matter. I should come before any of the trivial things, should I not?

I've watched the fae people, the animals and all of the other creatures watch and nurture their young, even when they're old enough to do so for themselves. Why can't I have that? That is love, that is family, that is balance. What I have with her is nothing anymore. "I'm but a SERVANT to her now. Is that it?!" I questioned him as the thunder above began to rumble.

"Please your highness, ca-"

I dashed into the water and out of the cave in persuit of the kingdom. She thinks she can just up and leave for years and leave me to this place alone. I think not! This time will be different, this time I'm going with her.