The Boy in the Witches Tower

Episode 9: Celestia

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  Arriving in Celestia was like crossing over into a dream.

The place was absolutely stunning even at night. The lights of each house laying across the hills was like a garden of stars,
 
  it was completely different from Normandis, the fae kingdom had a palace surrounded by greenery and a large forest not far off to the north side and on the south there was a large city sqaure an afternoons carraige ride away,
 
  The Sun Palace, however, was on the largest mountain whilst the surrounding hills had a group of houses on them making up one large community in the sky. They all had wings anyway, so traveling wasn't hard,
 
  our flying carraige landed in front of the front of the shining gold palace on an open feild, there were soldiers in gold armor standing at attention with a man in silk clothes waiting for our arrival,
 
  Harella goes down to meet them as Myren, King Leon, and the five soldiers with us go ahead of me,
 
  when I was finally on the ground, I shivered when I realised how tall the Celestial guards were!...
 
  even taller than King Leon!, and he was the biggest man I know!,
 
  I stepped closer to Myren, who just smiled and indulged me,
 
  "Your Highness King Leon, I am attendant Agustus, I am here to escort you to meet the Royal family,"
 
  he bows to Leon and then leads us towards the shining palace,
 
  did I mention how shiny this place was? it was like daytime walking through the golden halls,
 
  "Close your mouth Phillip you're drooling,"
 
  I glared at Myren, who just chuckled,
 
  I then look up to see even more tall people. My jaw drops again, and I stay frozen in my place,
 
  as King Leon and the others address the King and Queen along with a young man and a little girl, I do not move,
 
  since leaving the tower, I have had this strange aprehension for freakishly tall people, except King Leon. Of course, he's different,
 
  but others scare me a lot,
 
  the little girl who looks no more than ten stands just a few cetimeters below me, just a few,
 
  when they turn to me, I flinch and take a step back,
 
  Myren sees this and frowns,
 
  "Phillip, it's okay. They won't hurt you,"
 
  when he tries to make me step forward, I pull away as soon as I am a few steps away,
 
  "n- no!, I mean, hello..."
 
  I step back, and this time, it was King Leon who approached me,
 
  "Phillip, it is going to be okay.."
 
  I look to him and relax a little but stay rooted in place,
 
  "I know, but... I don't feel particularly ...uhm... comfortable.."
 
  the little girl with shiny blond hair and pale blue eyes smiles and steps forward,
 
  "Hello...my name is Caroline (like the movie) it's nice to meet you, I love your hair,"
 
  her voice was soft and sweet, I could tell she was timid but still spoke to me, I smiled and shook her out stretched hand,
 
  "Hello, my name is Phillip. It's nice to meet you too. My hair can not compare to yours, it's shining and so neat."
 
  she smiles brightly and strokes her braid that reaches just below her shoulder in a neat braid,
 
  "it's because Mother keeps troubling me to brush it, but your hair is very long. How do you take care of it?"
 
  before I could answer the Queen comes up to me,
 
  I have never seen a woman so tall!,
 
  "darling, we can not stand here all night, let them rest for tonight, and you can ask questions in the morning, if that's okay."
 
  I nod and walk along with them far away from the Celestian King and his humongus son,
 
  "Are you afraid of father and brother?"
 
  I turn to caroline and nod
 
  "yes, they are very tall and tall people scare me, one time when Amiira had a client who was half giant, he was dissatisfied with his potion and attacked us, I was alone at the time and he broke the door, came in and destroyed everything, poor me was only seven at the time and the table I hid under collapsed so i broke an arm"
 
  shivering at the memory, I look down to see Caroline frowning,
 
  "Did that bad giant get arrested?"
 
  I found it amusing how angry she was,
 
  "No, Amiira had frozen him from the inside out and took him away, I don't know what happened to him,"
 
  she huffed and scoffed,
 
  "I would've had my brother destroy him! You were only seven!"
 
  her mother hushed her as everyone else chuckled, I was more comfortable now, I don't feel any bad intention from these people,
 
  "It's okay~" Even though I am still a little afraid of tall people, I have learned to be less scared,"
 
  the queen tilted her head and asked me
 
  "Why do you speak so... like a child?"
 
  I was not offended,
 
  "I have just learned how to socialize with different people, and the way I did so was mimiking how they speak to me, so if you speak to me more, you will realize"
 
  I was now walking happily beside the two, and my curious unafraid naive self took over,
 
  "Mi'lady, what's your name?"
 
  she smiled
 
  "My name is Estella."
 
  and I go on
 
  "How old are you?"
 
  "Thirty-seven"
 
  and on
 
  "How old is your son?"
 
  she laughs
 
  "You are very peculiar. He is eighteen,"
 
  I do the calculations, but before I could go on, King Leon warns me,
 
  "Phillip, I allowed it but not here,"
 
  I pout at him and glare at Harella and Myren, who laughs,
 
  "It's a process. It's how I communicate. Can I ask you a personal question, your highness?"
 
  I ignore Leon's warning and ask Queen Estella myself,
 
  "Of course, dear, but it depends."
 
  I happily look at Leon, who he just sighs,
 
  "How old is Caroline?"
 
  before she can answer, the little princess speaks up,
 
  "I'm eleven years since a month ago!"
 
  "You are seven years younger than your brother!"
 
  I look up to the King and his son and hesitantly ask,
 
  "What are your names?"
 
  the very tall prince smiles and slows enough to walk beside his mother,
 
  "My name is Bellamy."
 
  he was just as enthusiastic as Caroline, and now I'm closer to him. I realize he has a childish air to him,
 
  "You have a very nice but peculiar name, I like it,"
 
  he smiles and scratches his wild golden curls,
 
  "I know, my friends call me Belle, and I hate it,"
 
  Caroline laughs,
 
  "Wait till you hear daddy's name!"
 
  I glance curiously towards the hulking man who has a calm smile on his face. He speaks before I can ask,
 
  "My name is Airadell-Finn, and that's just my first name."
 
  I look over to see his family laughing at him, and I giggle along,
 
  "That's not bad. At least it isn't as plain as 'Phillip'"
 
  he shakes his head,
 
  "No, it's not as plain as 'Leon'"
 
  I laugh at that and look to see King Leon glaring at him playfully,
 
  "At least this plain named man can beat your hulking behind in a fair fight,"
 
  with that, he lifts his head higher and walks ahead,
 
  "That was one time!, you can't do that now, you old man!"
 
  I laugh harder, almost teetering over when everyone suddenly stops and stares at me. It was Caroline who pointed at me,
 
  "You're glowing!"
 
  I look down to see my hands are literally glowing gold, I panic, and it just...disappears?,
 
  "What was that? Why was I glowing?"
 
  King Airadell suddenly walks closer to me, shocking me, and I unconsciously shrink away, and I hear another round of gasps,
 
  King Airadell closes in and looks into my eyes,
 
  "Your eyes are glowing this time. They are still green, but..."
 
  when he reached out to touch my face, I flinched away, and he pulled away suddenly, holding his hand,
 
  "ah!, it burns!, there's scales on your face!"
 
  I reach up and touch my face to find the corners of my eyes, and part of my cheek, solid and warm, I start getting really scared,
 
  what's happening to me?
 
  "Phillip! Calm down. It's spreading!"
 
  Myren tried to get closer to me, but King Airadell stopped him,
 
  "Don't panic, let him calm down first, I think I know who he is,"
 
  I look up to him and ask,
 
  "really?, you can find my real family?"
 
  he smiles and nods,
 
  "yes, and I think they would be happy to see you too, but you must calm down first. If you shift in this hall, you might hurt us and yourself,"
 
  my eyes widen in shock,
 
  "I'm a shifter!?"
 
  but the only species that I know that shifts and has scales are crocodiles, am I!?
 
  he laughs at me and shakes his head,
 
  "I think you are, but it seems we can go and find out now,"
 
  I touch my face again, and it's soft, I sigh,
 
  "Can you tell me who I am now?"
 
  he nods and leads us to a large room similar to King Leons' study, only much bigger,
 
  King Airadell walks around the large desk to the bookshelf behind it and takes out a massive brown book with a lock on it,
 
  "This has been in my family for thousands of years..."
 
  he takes out his gold necklace with a small key pendant... but it's a real key.
 
  "Is that a real key? I can carry around a key like that?"
 
  they all look at me smiling like i'm some toddler... even Caroline!?,
 
  "Can you stop looking at me like that? I'm upset when you do,"
 
  Harella, who was awfully quiet the whole time, speaks up,
 
  "When you act so clueless, it's very cute, we can't help it, I can't believe you're an adult."
 
  she laughs, and Caroline grabs my hand,
 
  "we are almost the same height, and my brother is way younger and bigger than you. You are very pretty,"
 
  I blush, how can a little girl be so flattering! But what she says next made me choke on my spit!,
 
  "Why don't you marry Bellamy? Your babies would be so pretty!"
 
  I swear I almost faint from how embarrassed I was! I couldn't even meet anyone elses eyes, thank heavens her mother saves me,
 
  "Caroline, leave the poor boy alone. Can't you see he's burning up?"
 
  I thought you were saving me!,
 
  I look up to find Bellamy...blushing?,
 
  AH! please, someone! I want to die, I look away, but King Leon was in my line of sight, and his face was expressionless,
 
  almost as if he was irritated,
 
  King Airadell, who couldn't care less about the situation, finally looked up from the large book and shouts,
 
  "I found it! I knew it! You Phillip are a dragon shifter!"
 
  the room goes eerily quiet as I walk closer to the desk and peer into the book, which had old Celestian text with a drawing of a greyish white dragon next to it,
 
  "Dragon shifter?, I thought they exist only in the Nevaeh, above the plains below the heavens a place unaccessible to mortals, how am I a dragon shifter"
 
  my heart was racing. If this was true, we were in trouble,
 
  "Yes, you are, and currently, an ancient prophecy is in effect, so we are in BIG trouble."
 
  that's what I thought,
 
  I turn to Harella,
 
  "I want to scream. Right now, it's right there,"
 
  my breathing becoms heavier as I look around at all of them, and my eyes stay on King Leon,
 
  Harella suddenly hands me a silver pillow,
 
  "Is there an empty room nearby?"
 
  Bellamy points to a side door, and I silently walk to it, I stop and turn to them,
 
  "Give me a moment."
 
  I screamed so hard, I swear they all heard it,
 
 
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  Phillips' muffled screams can be heard in the silent room where they all stood. It was King Leon who spoke,
 
  "we need to figure out how to help him, the prophecy, read it to us,"
 
  King Airadell clears his throat,
 
 
 
 
  "At The Suns peak and The Full Moon,
 
  Darkness will envelope the Earth,
 
  Those Below will arise,
 
  Those above will fall,
 
  The birth of the new World will follow,
 
  Born in the image of the Child,
 
  A child of Neither the Heavens or The Plains,
 
  He will be the Scale of Faith"
 
 
 
 
  no one knew when he came into the room but a shaking Phillip asks,
 
  "So I will destroy The Plains?"
 
  they turn to him, and Bellamy explains,
 
  "I think you will either be the destruction or the last saving grace for The Plains. You will lead the dragons during the Eclips whether you like it or not."
 
  Phillip wipes away his tears,
 
  "My birthday isn't for another four months, I think that's what it meant when it says 'birth'. Maybe my coming of age?"
 
  King Airadell nods,
 
  "A dragon can live for thousands of years, so the coming of age is actually very young even at twenty-one, Phillip is actually considered a baby still even though he looks like this."
 
  Queen Estella joins in,
 
  "yes, normally he would be kept with his siblings under strict watch by the dragon elders, they wouldn't be allowed to roam until they shift for the first time so as not to disrupt the process..."
 
  something clicks in Myrens' head
 
  "Was the process disrupted when he started shifting earlier!?"
 
  Harella gasps
 
  "Will he be okay!?"
 
  King Leon shushes her,
 
  "he will be fine for now, as long as we don't trigger any bad emotions and do anything that would cause it he will be fine"
 
  "Maybe he should stay here,"
 
  King Airadell looked over to Phillip, who shook his head,
 
  "No, I should go back to my tower, then no one will get hurt, I will live there by myself until my birthday passes,"
 
  Phillip was now biting at his nails, shaking ever so slightly making everyone around him sad,
 
  "That may be better, but what about the witch who kidnapped you and the people she works for?"
 
  King Leon has been thinking about this for a while, and he also doesn't want Phillip out of his sight,
 
  "you can tell he was kidnapped at a young age and that rougue witch had managed to evade us for so many years, I know she works for a bigger operation, how else would they manage to get a dragon shifter, mush less the legendary dragon king"
 
  Phillip flinched at the title. Since he was a child, his 'mother' had told him stories of the dragon king from Nevaeh, and all these years, he thought they were fairytales,
 
  "Can I please go to sleep, I need to rest, I have a headache."
 
  they all nodded, and Phillip left feeling drained and unable to think.
 
 
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A/N: I hope this is getting as good as I think it is... C U guys next Chapter.