Mirror Kingdom

Mirror Kingdom "Chapter 1"

-Im sick of this!

-Don't you worry, Nat, we will find someone.

-You think?- not listening to his fathers advice, Nathan watched himself close in one of the mirrors, in the huge banquet hall, still being angry of what he has to deal with.- besides, you are old, dad! How would you possibly know what im going through?

-Well, i've been here longer than you, let's start with that. And, remember, i had a father once too.

-Yeah, old and grumpy, just like you. I wonder if i ever will turn into you when im older.

-Don't you dare saying that while im still here, you hear me?- Demos looked his son right in the eye.- we will find someone, and i will get the wizard now, and he will help us.

Demos nodded towards one of the guards and he went straight away to deal with his task.

In this Mirror Kingdom, Demos has been a king for five hundred years, his son Nathan, however has been here just seventy five years, but he looks twenty.

When Demos became a king, he aged for twenty six years, and then the ageing stopped. In human years he is 46.

Nathan is 26, the perfect time to marry a woman, who would be worthy. But now he is stuck.

-Your majesty, the Wizard is here.

Nathan laughed, because the wizard's name is Wizard, how sick is that?

An old man stepped in, slowly approaching them. The hall was decorated with different sizes of mirrors, vases with flowers and some ice figures, that never melted.

Demos and Nathan were sitting on their thrones, and some maids walked in, serving them tea, all of them dressed in light clothing.

-Im glad to hear you need my help, master Demos,- the Wizard bowed his head,- how may i help you?

-We have a problem,- Demos stated, his hand playing with a ring that he's carried with him for a long time.

-Im bored,- Nathan started,- here, in this kingdom, is no woman pretty enough to marry and have a life with.

Demos had a fake smile, knowing his son won't tell the truth to the wizard, but it's not the first time this wizard has to find an alternative.

When Demos was the same age as Nat is now, he had to find a woman, who wouldn't be scared of him, but there was none.

Every body knew the truth of the kings cruelty towards his own people, and Wizard helped them into tricking a young girl named Clover, from a small village, far away, but still belonging to Mirror Kingdom, to fall in love with Demos.

He wasn't happy about fooling the girl, which, to be honest, Demos found to be quite attractive, but he continued to stick to his fathers plan.

He got married, and a year later, Clover gave birth to a child- Nathan. Then Demos started getting older every year.

And Clover... she died, when Nathan was sixteen.

Within their life together, Demos learned how to treat a woman in the right way, how to love someone, how to rule kingdom with a wife by his side.

The truth is, as much as Demos wanted to love Clover, he couldn't. She wasn't his true love.

And Clover was always there for him. During her last hours of living, Demos told her everything, about how they tricked her, and as a surprise, Clover wasn't mad.

She said to him, that she was happy, and that Demos was the best thing that's ever happened to her.

But the curse.

Loving a royality isn't a bad thing, right? Loving a Mirror Kingdom royality is.

-But, sir, im afraid that's not the actual problem, now is it?- Wizard turned to Demos.

-Well, old pal, you already know the truth, don't you.

-Yes, your majesty.

-There isn't a single girl in this kingdom, who isn't afraid of us!- Nathan burst in anger,- NONE! They all are afraid! How can i marry someone, when all they would do is to cry in pain while touching them?

Yes, the curse. Mirror Kingdom royals married, just becouse they had to, and every day they had to see their wifes suffer.

Even touching each other hurt. Touches burned their wifes skin. Usually, after the wedding ceramony, sleeping together is what they have to do, but how to do it, so everyone would be happy?

There isn't a way, not unless you marry the right person.

Now, a TRUE LOVES KISS, that's always an alternative.

-Can i have my tea, please?- Nathan asked, and the maid tried to give him the cup, without touching him.

The maids, they were good at what they did. They never got hurt, because they knew how to do their job perfectly.

-After i got married, everybody knew the truth, how i got myself a wife,- Demos took his cup and drank from it,- so there is no one here that we can trick, at least, not anymore. Even the people from the farest village know what i did.

-But sir, there is always a way.

-What way?- Nathan seemed to be interested.

-A human.

-A what?- Demos didn't quite understand.

-There is a world, behind the mirror, that i've seen with my eyes a long time ago.

-Another world? How is that possible?- Nathan looked at his father, who didn't know that another world existed.

-Your father,- Wizard looked at Demos,- he saw it too.

-How can it be, that i've never heard anything about it?

-Your mother, Demos, she was from there. She was from a human world.

-Grandma was different,- Nathan agreed,- the was a lot different to other woman from here, dad, it's true.

Demos was more surprised than his son, he just couldn't believe it.

-My father didn't get along with my mother at all, but still, something kept them together.

-She couldn't run away,- the Wizard spoke,- there was no way, she could escape, that's why your parents made it work. Once in this world, FOREVER in this world.

-So, how do we get someone from there, to get here?

-Think through it, both of you.

-If i get a girl from there, no one of our people would know where i got myself a wife, now would they?

-It's true, your majesty, no one knew your mother was a human,- he told Demos.

-What do we have to do?- Nathan asked.

-Chose a mirror,- Nathan stood up and walked around the hall, he stopped in front of a big mirror, with golden frame and diamond engraving on it,- now touch it.

Nathan did what he was told to do, and all of the sudden the mirror became „alive". The glass moved like water. Something or someone was screaming and getting closer very fast.