Everlasting Beauty (Free Ebook)

Chapter Twenty Two

I waited in the dark room, heaving nervously. I barely moved from where I was nor did I wonder within the area. I waited until I thought I had spent enough time in there. I opened the door in front of me, but in that moment, I heard a strange rattling sound.

"What is that?" I wondered. I turned around and was about to scream, but I couldn't scream. Huge tentacles grabbed me. One of them hugged my back and twirled it's slithering discusting gooey tentacle around my waist. Another one slobbered all around my head and mouth. I pulled the tentacle with all of my strength, but I could barely remove it away from myself and then I felt a strong tug and an instant pull. Immediately I was next to a slobbering creature with a humongous head the shape of an egg that moved and seemed as soft as a piece of jello. An oval shaped dark eye pierced at me and a lot of growling came out of it, but I didn't understand. The growling became intense as I tried to get it off me. The hairs of my arms rose like a porcupine's and my heart beat fast. When I didn't know what else to try I hard bit into the tentacle and the creature finally let me loose. I turned around and was about to take a run for it, but something stopped me. His lime green head glowed. I didn't know why but I felt like if it was somehow very sad and crying. Slowly I paced towards him with my hands at my sides. The sides of my jaw and chin were covered in gooey slime. My heart raced and my breath grew heavy, but I didn't have the heart to turn around. I wanted to comfort it, however I could.

"What are you doing in here!" I heard a voice and tilted. It was the prince.

"I was... I was..." The prince walked towards me and grabbed my arm with force.

"That hurts," I said as he pulled me out of the room. I tilted my head to look back at the creature and I didn't fear him anymore. I had realized that there was only one person to fear, the person who was yanking me away. If he could even be called a person. To me he was nothing, but a beast. The prince pulled me aside and then he closed and locked the door.

"I forbid you to go into that room again."

"I saw something like that in the ship. What is that thing?" I asked. The prince turned his head to look at me. His deep yellow eyes pierced me and they felt so unnatural I was still afraid.

"A Kron," he grumbled.

"A what?"

"Why were you in there?" Brok asked me. I didn't expect this question.

"I was lost," I lied.

"I might have known. You have been sleeping many hours. It is only natural for you to no longer feel the need of sleep," the prince said. I didn't respond.

"Anabella... may I ask..." he said hesitating.

"What?" I asked. The prince shook his head.

"Never mind. I don't want to see you in here again," he said and turned around to leave me, but I wondered what he wanted to ask me so I followed him.

"What did you want to ask me?" I insisted. He turned around to look at me.

"Are you alright?" He said. I nodded.

"Yes, why?" I questioned.

"I am your master and I have the authority to ask of you whatever I want. Now return to your room. I want no more incidents in this castle. We will talk tomorrow," he said pointing forward. I frowned and crossed my arms, but Prince Brok would not move.

"Did you hear what I said? I told you to go to your room. We will talk tomorrow. Are you humans so intellectually inferior that you cannot understand a demand upon request? I said go to your room!" He roared. I marched along and then in front of him completely annoyed at his cruel and foolish remarks. I hated him so much I could hardly stand him. From time to time I tilted my head and I would catch him looking at me with a frown.

"Stop looking at me," the prince mumbled.

"Why?"

"Because I demand it!" The prince roared. I tilted around and didn't look at him again. I didn't want to look at him right now. I couldn't even stand him anymore.

"Why did you kidnap me?"

"I did not kidnap you. You exchanged your life for the life of your father. Your ignorance abhors me," the prince said.

"I've had enough of your insults!"

"And I've certainly had enough of your incompetence. Do not speak to me," The prince argued and I answered back.

"I certainly won't." The prince roared, then he grabbed me and pressed me to the wall. Purple lights lit behind me as he grabbed my wrists up. We stared at each other and for the first time I saw some very thin white lines on his face. They were so thin I hadn't seen them from a distance, but now close to him like this I could see they were scars. I looked under his long black eyebrows and into his deep yellow eyes. I recognized the signs of weariness and distress. He carried the burden of pain.

"I apologize. Please forgive me," he said. I felt a heavy load on myself, like if his life depended on my forgiveness. I swallowed hard and then I nodded.

"Okay," I replied mumbling. The prince let me go. I had to rub my wrists because his hands had been firmly tight on them. He stared at me again. I stared at his facial features. He seemed almost human until I glimpsed his eyes. He breathed on me and then he paced backwards a bit giving me my space back.

"Thank you." he said and then he left. As he walked away, purple lights of lit the walls. His long hair tousled and his cloak ruffled at the bottom. His boots didn't bang as heavily as I thought they would and his hands were formed as fists at his sides of his hips. He was a large being, but still I could see him disappear in the distance until he was gone. My heart still pounded hard as I remembered his breath on me. As I walked into my room my legs shook, but the shaking did not last. Halfway to my room the trembling stopped. Purple motion lights turned on and off in the walls every time I moved and soon I was used to it. Arriving at my door I heard footsteps and turned my head. A purple light was on from afar, but there was nobody there. I opened my door pressing the hologram buttons that appeared in front of it. The door slid open and I entered. I had to take off the gooey slime that was all over my body.