Floravera; Where dreams become reality.

🔜 Chapter Five 🔚

By Arabella:
[December 4th]

"One day you will wear this crown, rule all of Floravera. That day, I will know I have finished my job at raising you." - Rocklynn Valente

Murmurs. All I hear are murmurs around me as I stand at the thrown room doors. No one has noticed I'm here yet, thankfully. Music starts playing from the piano. That didn't last long

All eyes are on me in an instant. I look around all the people, some are royals the rest are civilians of Floravera, or neighboring towns. Straight in front of me stands the oldest royal, Cecilion the III.

He stands on the podium, my mother's crown to the left, in a glass case. To the right, my wand in a glass case. Then behind the podium is 2 ginormous white, and black dragons; guarding the artifacts with their lives.

I take a step onto the red carpet as the music plays. Everyone in here has a different expression on their face of either, happiness, pity, jealousy, or disappointment. Just as I expected.

"Their emotions will have no effect on you. You are the one becoming Queen, not them." Arnold's voice rings in my ear as I recall his speech from this morning. He is currently standing behind in the doorway in a salute formation.

I finally reach the podium. One of my other butlers takes my hand, and helps me up to the podium. I stand before the elder royal, I bow at him. He bows back.

"Today we are gathered here to honor a fellow, friend and Queen as she, and the ones before her rest peacefully in the ground, united once again." Almost everyone in the crowd is crying, some are fake, some are genuine.

I look around at all of their crying faces, I would be crying with them if I had any tears left to shed. My eyes land on someone near the wall. Green eyes stare back at mine, he isn't crying either.

"Today we also gather to celebrate new beginnings. We celebrate our Kingdom's continuous cycle of life, and how it just keeps giving. Let us all bow our heads." Everyone, including myself, and even Liam bows our heads. Giving honor to everyone before us that helped us all to get to this point in our lives, including my mother.

"All rise." He says to the crowd, "you, kneel." He says to me. I do as he says. He walks over to the glass case, a dragon uses its claws to open the case for him. The cases weigh approximately 70-100 pounds depending on what it's holding. It's a security measure we take to protect us, and the magic.

He walks over to me, and gently places the crown on my head. Then to the wand casing, he takes it out then places the wands tip on my forehead. "I now pronounce the new Queen of Floravera" the crowd claps, and cheers. A few of the younger kids in the back scream at the top of their lungs.

He takes my hand, and helps me to my feet, then hands me the wand. I am now the Queen of Floravera. The wand is fully mine, as well as the Kingdom.

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Classical music can be heard throughout the entire castle. Everyone is dancing around. Celebrating me. I'm seated on the thrown where the wand's casing used to be, but now my chair is. My 2 dragons still behind me, standing on guard incase anyone tries to even sniff me.

I wave the wand in my hand, making flying noises since I'm very bored. If my great great something grandma could see me, she would be very disappointed. "The wand isn't a toy." Is all I've ever heard growing up.

Which they aren't wrong. After the stone built the palace for my grandma, milliani Valente it made power surge through her. Ideally claiming her as the 'chosen one'. When it did so, a part of the stone cracked, and no longer held that glow. So she valued to keep it safe, forever.

She put the stone to her chest, and said "if I get a home. So do you" and then, another fog appeared. This time over the forest. When it cleared, there was a stone path the slowly lead into this open field. That open field is now our town.

Along the path, near the town there is this giant tree built solely as a home to the wand, and its magic. The tree draws life from the earth, then also feeds the earth with new life. When Miliani walked to the tree, the tree instantly took the stone into its branches, and then wrapped itself around it. Then cut the branch off, and put the staff at her feet.

Yes, a staff. Everyone calls it a wand because it can shrink itself if needed, as well as enlarge, but it is indeed a staff. One that milliani used as she aged. When we aren't using the wand staff, we tend to put it in the tree. It is very well protected with many dragons, guardsmen, as well as all of our civilians, not only in this town, but others know the story well.

The townspeople would protect the tree, and wand with their life, as would any dragon just like milliani Valente. We even have a statue of her on the cliff pointing the staff at the castle, and town with a golden glow coming from the staff.

"You look bored" someone says. I look up, it's Liam. "Are you not happy you finally got the crown you've been practicing for forever?" He's grinning again

"Don't even. You know in all those practices my mother was there. Even your mother was there." The grin falls off his face as I mention his mother. Replaced by grief, grief I know all too well.

"That's cold Ari." I roll my eyes.

"So was yours." He opens his mouth to say something else but I'm already up out of my chair, and walking away.

I walk out of the thrown room, and through the hallway to the back doors wanting some fresh air.

I gasp as I feel a tug on my arm, then suddenly everything is black.

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So sorry for the change to wand/ staff. I tried to play it off. In all honesty I went to Pinterest to find a good wand that matched the one in my head, then it showed me staffs. And I was like 😱 WOAH WHY DIDNT I USE THAT INSTEAD OF WAND!? So I did.... Just in a very confusing way