This is a Prince Nuada x OC Fanfiction. I do not own the cover photo! Nor do I own Hellboy characters. Aili, the OC is indeed mine though. As is her backstory.
She could feel her anxiety and panic fueling her actions, it was all she knew how to do- run. In a situation like this it was all she could do. Run and hide. She felt even worse than before she had started talking, Rama was in trouble now- And Liz- Abraham- They all flashed to the forefront of her memory as she ran. Surprisingly, Nuada was having difficulty keeping up with her. Her small build making it easy for her to run. However, her attire made it somewhat challenging. Not to mention the tears blocking her vision.
"What have I done? I've opened my mouth and talked again- Stupid girl!" She thought to herself, internally scolding herself and forgetting to watch where she was going. Her lungs burned, her legs ached, it felt like shed been running for hours. And she very well could have been. Realizing then- that there was no sign of the elven Prince to be found. Had she lost him?- There was no time to ask such a question however. She needed to hide. And so she did.
Attempting to keep her breathing quiet and still replenish her oxygen, she found a crack in the tunnels large enough for her to hide in. The humans never maintained this area it seemed. Good. Silencing her thoughts- because she knew he would attempt to reach her through them. She closed her eyes in the damp darkness and leaned into the wall behind her. Then she heard it- the pattern of the sand. Coming down the tunnel. She held her breath, counting the steps, counting the seconds as her lungs slowly began to tense due to the lack of air. He'd stopped a mere few steps ahead of her hiding space.
He too seemed out of breath and tired, but after deeming the area empty he let out an angry roar. Heading back to the camp in which she'd run from, she didn't doubt that he would try to find her again. Once he was far enough away, she deemed it safe to breathe through her darkened vision. Taking a moment to recollect herself, she decided to find the nearest exit from the tunnels and hide above the surface. Her mission was compromised.
She had made it to the surface after hours of searching. Emerging into an alleyway in front of a factory. Where was she? No matter- she needed to get out of this disguise. It was disgusting and smelled of those accursed tunnels. Finding a clothesline conveniently located above her, she grabbed a dress she found, it was a pale yellow color. And she also snagged a thick white shawl she found to use as a hood. Finding somewhere and hiding to change into the outfit. It fit her loosely, though the rain continued to pour down.
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Aili put the shawl on over her dark brown hair which she'd braided, she felt slightly better- however, she kicked off her heels and threw them in the nearby dumpster with the rest of her old disguise. Which was a shame since she really did love that outfit. Heading towards the main streets, she continued off in the direction of the facility. She could have called- but her communication devices had been lost in the fleeing of the museum- or more rather being kidnapped by her betrothed.
Despite how much she did care for him, she couldn't follow him through his mission to destroy humanity. She thought that maybe she could have persuaded him, talked him out of raising the army. But she had just dug humanity's grave even deeper. Pausing a couple of streets away from the factory she sighed. The facility would no-doubt have her probed for the truth and his plans. Aili couldn't betray two sides like that- though she was certain that she was considered a traitor to her kind at this point. She was following the King's decree for peace however- so she wasn't certain if she was only a traitor to the Prince or Bethmoora as a whole.
Turning back, she walked back to the crumbling building. Looking up at it from beside the billboard with some human advertisement. Another shopping mall? Didn't they have enough? Of course not. They were only human after all. She stared at it for what felt like hours in contemplation. She'd seen the kindness that humanity could offer, she'd been taken in by a human after all. But she was born to a completely different world. A world that was dying. What could she do? What else would be taken if she stood idly by? More lives? More places that creatures called home? Wasn't there a way to achieve peace? Equality even?
Her thoughts were interrupted by a strong voice calling out to her. "You there! What right do you have to be here?" She heard, as expected. She was found. She sighed and lowered her head, turning to face the person she'd just run from. There stood an irritated Nuada and a very sour looking Wink.
"No right, none at all." She answered, . That seemed to make them both do a double-take and get confused. Nuada had recognized her voice.
"Why did you run?" He asked. That made her tense slightly, uncertain of how to answer.
"I was upset with myself. I've endangered the people who took me in and helped me through being abandoned and lost. But I've also betrayed the ones who gave me a life and a name. I am stuck, Nuada. My place in both worlds is gone, I am lost again." Aili answered calmly, almost in a monotonous tone. "Do not tell me otherwise because I have known for a long while that this would happen. There is no way for peace and equality to flourish in this world. Do what you will, but I will not be there to watch the world burn." She added quickly, giving no room for argument.
"Where will you go? Who will be there for you if you are no longer welcome on either side? How do you know you are not welcome with us?" He asked, less irritated and slightly frantic. She couldn't leave- surely she couldn't just abandon the world? Abandon him?
Aili thought about that for a moment. Turning back to the billboard behind her to think about those answers. "I will go where time takes me. I will fall with the rest of the world, I will be there for myself. I know I am not welcome because if you succeed. What you say will be law. A law that I cannot follow with a sound heart and mind. I have family in this world. And they will die if you succeed. They may not be blood, but they had cared for me when you left me behind for war. They taught me to feel again, they did not leave me no matter how much I hated or loved them. They protected me when I was weak and dying. It is not fear I hold for them." She said calmly, hearing him approach her.
"Then why were you afraid when we spoke?" He pried. Making her whirl around in frustration. We were nearly face to face now.
"Because you wish to kill the ones who saved me! You want their world to burn and I cannot allow it! I could see that plain as daylight- and when I spoke to you of my worries you percieved them as dread! You believed that they'd hurt me! Why would I protect them if they hurt me!? I wouldn't! I would have killed them myself! You don't seem to understand that I am trying to save both of our worlds! I am not siding with anyone! I am trying to make things better! to co-reside with these people! That is what the world intended when she birthed our races together in the same world!" She growled out angrily, was it really so hard to understand? To grasp her point?
"If that is so.. why don't we present these ideas to the council?" A voice said in their native language, the couple's heads quickly turning to the sound of the voice. It was the Chancellor, he had heard the commotion and came with two guards to investigate. "I am certain the King would like to hear both of you out." He added timidly at the sight of Nuada's piercing glare.
"Thank You, Chancellor. We accept your invitation." Aili replied, softly. Approaching the Chancellor with a formal bow, the bow being returned as Nuada and Wink followed the woman and Chancellor inside.
