Purple Blood

Chapter 1

The first time Violet saw her blood, she was five. She was running around the woods, hiding from her Nanny. She wanted her to work on her writing and writing was not fun, Vi tripped over a fallen tree and got a large cut on her thigh. The little girl cried out, and her Nanny ran to her immediately. "Oh, my poor baby, did you hurt yourself?"

Vi reached out for her while crying. She carried her back to the cabin, the only home she'd ever known. Jennifer gently placed her on the table. "Does it hurt?" Vi shook her head no. She didn't like crying, so she did everything possible not to cry. "Such a brave little Amethyst you are."

"Violet," she whispered. 

The Nanny laughed quietly, "Fine, fine, Violet it is. Let's get you cleaned up and stop this blood."

Violet watched what she was doing, "it's pretty."

"What's pretty, Vi?" She pointed to the dark purple blood falling down her knee. She sighed quietly, "There, all better." All the blood was cleaned up, and she had a bandaid on her wound. "Dinner is almost ready, and then you will practice your writing."

Violet's life was spent studying every subject her Nanny could teach. It seemed like she knew everything. Vi learned new languages and how to shoot a bow and arrow. She could throw a knife at a moving target and hit it 99% of the time. She could catch, kill, and cook wild game.

When she was ten, her Nanny cut herself, and Vi was so shocked when she saw her blood wasn't the same color as hers. When she asked, her Nanny just brushed it off.

When Vi was 15, her period came, and Nanny was always on edge. It was like she barely slept. She was paranoid like some big bad wolf would come to steal her away in the middle of the night, like all those fun books she tried to hide from her. The day Vi turned 18, all the pressure was off of her, and she was happy again.

"Vi? We are going to make a trip tomorrow. Now that you are of age, it's time to return home."

"Home? Where is that?"

"Ellesfire, the Kingdom of Ellesfire. You are their Princess."

Vi scoffed because that sounded like the dumbest thing she'd ever heard, "If I'm a Princess, then why have I been living in a cabin in the woods for as long as I can remember?"

She looked sad, "it's not my story to tell. I was woken up in the middle of the night, and you were pushed into my arms; your mother told me to run and not to return until you turned 18." She wiped away the tears that were falling. "It sounded like a battle was going on inside the castle. I was so scared, but I took you and ran. I didn't know where to go, but your mother thinks of everything. I looked in the bag she gave me, and there was a map to this cabin. It took me almost a month to get here, we had to take stay hidden, we nearly starved to death on the way. But we made it, and we've been here ever since."

"So tomorrow, I get to meet my parents?"

Jennifer smiled at her so big, she was so happy. "I finally got to see my family again."

That made Vi frown and pout a little. Yeah, she gets that she missed her family, but she's raised her since she was a baby. Now, she wants to dump her off on strangers? "I'll pack my things," Vi muttered before she stormed off to her room. She wasn't mad; she understood. She's not the center of the universe, but she was for most of her life, and it hurts. 

Sadly, she didn't have much to pack: a few dresses, some of her favorite books, and a few she stole from Nanny's collection. There was a soft knock on the door. She knew it was her; who else would it be? But she ignored her. "A car will be here tomorrow to pick us up."

"What a car? I've never been able to ride in a car before."

Nanny smiled at her so sweetly, "Get used to it, Princess Amethyst. You are about to live a life of luxury from now on."

Vi went to bed early that night since it took her no time to pack. But her mind wouldn't let her roll over and go to sleep. She was a Princess like she knew every little girl dreams of waking up one day and being told, "Sorry you've had to live in such a shitty house, but we wanted you to be humble. Here's your crown and castle." But Vi never wanted that life.

Nanny woke her up early the next morning. "I went to town and ordered a car. It'll be here shortly. It'll take us a few hours to get there, so I want to leave soon."

Violet nodded and went to get cleaned up. She put on her best dress, which basically meant it was the cleanest and had the fewest holes in it. "What's going to happen to all of our stuff?"

She looked around, "If you want anything, we can always send someone to get it after we've settled in."

"I'm going to miss this place and Mr. Lou's donuts."

Nanny smiled at her, "Those are some yummy donuts."

"Can we get them one last time before we leave?"

She sighed, but Vi knew she had won, "Fine, I'll have the car swing by there, and we'll get some to go, okay?"

Twenty minutes later, they were happily munching on donuts during her first time riding in a car. She wasn't kidding about it taking a long time to get there; they stopped several times to get gas and go to the bathroom. Violet barely talked the entire ride; she was too busy looking at everything. She'd never been this far from the cabin, and there were many incredible things to see. She must have fallen asleep at some point because she was gently shaking her shoulder, "Vi, we're here. Wipe the drool off your chin."