The El Princess

C18

ONE EARTH YEAR LATER (THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE THOUSAND DIHIPIANS YEARS) LATER.

LAURA

I've never felt loved by anyone, people feared and respected me but never loved me. And with the way I was brought up it was easier to turn off your emotions and just like the way other people wanted you to. The truth was no one in Di Hipsodat really expected anything great from me except from protecting El and the realm, and I was good at that. I was the best. I lived to serve El and all of Di Hipsodat. I'd give my life for either without second thoughts but everything changed when I got to Earth.

The first time I saw Riga when the very first day I was born. Everything about Dihipians is different to human. On Earth women carries their offspring inside them and give birth to them but it's not like that on Di Hipsodat. Dihipians get to choose how many offspring they want and what time they want them, that's why it was easier for the Elian to have male heirs because they already know beforehand. Mated Dihipians watch their offspring grow in a pod after a part of them are copied to the machine, it's like what happens to humans but without the physical and fertilization parts. Anyway, the females tends to bond with their offspring when it's almost time to them to form and they spend all of their time in the factory where all the pods are kept. My mother was with my pod from the beginning till the end. She dropped dead the second our eyes connected.

I was born with my blood all over my whole, which was usually. Most Dihipians offsprings are born plain and clean but I was born dirty, wrapped in my black blood. No one knew at the time that it was my blood that killed her until the Priestess came and took one look at me and knew I was born with darkness but no one knew how deep I'm wrapped and connected with my inner demon.

Riga knew this. He was there for everything, ever moment, every training, ever power discovery. One could say he knows me better than I knew myself. He was my teacher but as great as it was showing me the ropes, I didn't want a teacher or a boss. I wanted to lead. I want to command and that was what I did when I challenged and threatened his position. I won and he got replaced by his student. Some might say the defeat drove him mad and that was why he snapped and started the uprising.

It didn't matter what I did or didn't do. Riga always had plans for coming for my father's throne because I was everything he wasn't and more. He planned everything well from making himself seen in Sege to conjuring that portal that took me to earth. He was studying my every move and I was even aware. I wanted to go back home so badly that I missed everything. And then there's him.

"I love you, Laura."

I'm drowning in my weaknesses. I know the feeling too well. My body have gotten used to the pain. It's hurt more than it did before because my body is waking even if my mind has been awake this whole time.

"The real you, Lurytendra. I know the real you."

He needs me. I need to escape this prison. I need to get to him before it's too late. He needs me. I need to leave. I need to save him. I need to save them.

"Look away! Don't look at me! It will kill you!"

My body is being submerged in the only thing that keeps me powerless. Engulfed in shield powerful enough to keep me from breaking out and it worked. It worked until now. I don't know how long I've been drowning in this vincibility but I know I will release hell when I free myself of this imprisonment.

My mind is open and it's been said that it's the most powerful weapon I possess. I search my mind and try to heal my body even though I'm still trapped inside. He needs you. They need you. You need to save them. A voice in me reminds me why I have to leave this place. I have people counting on me and I need to go to them.

"Lurytendra Azra Bycom." My eyes snaps open as the power flows through me. The link is weak. The walls of the confinement is blocking me from my using my power, but the will of my spirit is stronger than my weakness.

"Lurytendra Azra Bycom El Di Hipsodat." I repeat but this time with a little help and it works as my strength increases. My fingers curls inwards. Blood rushes to my brain, bring life to my body.

I uncurl my body from the tight position it has been since he trapped me.

"By the power of El Di Hipsodat, I beseech you, set me free, set me free now!"

The shield begins to crack, the little crack is enough for me to break free. "Gar." I whisper the gate keeper's name when the crack rapidly circulates the shield until it's completely destroyed and I'm tossed from the edge of the Galaxy to the place it all started. The place I've longed to be since my mind woke.

Earth. The familiar scent of Earth hit my nose before anything else. I'll find time to admire this planet later, now I need to find him. I won't stop until I find him. I won't rest until I see him.

My flutter eyes opens, connecting with trees. I close my eyes again and flatten my palm on the ground before curling it inward, packing some sands in the process. I don't know how long I've been gone but I know exactly where this is.

"Hey! Lady." I open my eyes and raise my head to see a man in a black uniform with his flashlights on me. "What the fuck are you doing laying down naked like that?"

Naked?

I look down at my body and see that I'm indeed naked. Sighing, I expect my uniform to appear on my body but nothing happens. I frown, I raise my hand up and try to remove a dagger but I can't feel the Elsword or my powers.

Riga, what have you done to me?

"Excuse me, sir, do you have any idea where I can find Kai? Kai Stark?" I ask

"Who?" He looks confused before shaking his head and take a step back, he moves his hand to the walkie-talkie attached to his uniform and begins to talk. I don't bother listening in but I pick up on somethings like 'naked', 'crazy'.

Kai. Where are you? I'm coming. I'm coming to find you.

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