Forever and Always

Chapter 1: Once Upon A Time...

Chapter 1: Once Upon A Time…

 Once upon a time, there was a princess name Coraline Holmes in Mystic Palace. Okay scratch that. That is too main stream. How about, my name is Coraline Holmes and I’m a rebellious princess. You see, everybody keep imagining a very perfect princess, a blonde one, and having a very perfect manner. Well I on the other hand was different; I don’t have any friendship with the other princess because having a conversation with them just making me sick. They keep talking about makeup, shoes, hair style and what not, but not to forget about prince too.

I don’t have any interest with the princes across the region. They are the stereotypical type of guy. But at last I fall in love, with a guy. But he is not a prince, he just a commoner. That is the starting point where I end up in this museum. 

*Present Time*

“Ipod… check. Note book… check.” I mumbled alone.

Hi, I’m Niklaus Mikaelson. Weird name? I bet. But nevertheless I love old stuff and vintage so I had no problem with my weird name. You were guessing why am I mumbled alone? I love to be alone. I’m not social awkward, I have lots of friends. I do because I love to travel a lot so when I said I’m having lots of friends you can imagined that my friends are all over the world.

I was planning to have a ride at mysterious palace because they said the castle there had been cursed before by a king. I don’t know whether it’s true or not so I was going to investigate. They said the castle and the story was just a myth and our bed time story for kids. As usual I won’t believe it and I will find this castle even it is deep down in the earth. I heard about this castle from a friend of mine. Actually, when I travel all over the world for sure I would something very rare such as necklace, cup and whatsoever. I’m going to keep it and sell it to museum. Dude, I make money by selling it! I put my earphone in my ears, and Muse songs blaring through the small devices.

I get into my black Camaro 78, which I named it as Joanne. To be truth, since I was thirteen; I never had a girlfriend because I always feel that I already had someone special in my heart. Maybe the feeling had been replaced by Joanne; my car.

My ride was, hmm, typical and bored for normal guys out there. But as I said before I love travelling. The ride took 5 hours from my house in Bradford. The castle was stated in place named Mystic Palace. I drive into a very small and dusted lane, it was so dark. I was praying so hard that my precious Joanne here did not fuse any problem using her problematic engine. I was in the heart of the forest, damn dark and freaky but don’t worry ladies and gentleman. I love adventures. I drive deeper in the forest until I met a beautiful large lake in the middle of road with a bridge across it.

“Yeah baby! I found you! Joanne, let’s get the party started!” I mumbled.

 For normal people out there, they did not call it as beautiful. They called this creepy. I drive onto the bridge, with very low speed in order to avoid any unfortunate events. This is an old castle; the bridge must be hundreds or thousands years old already. I might risk my own life and also I would ruin a very beautiful ancient artefact here. Once I had arrived in front of the old castle I let out a relieved laugh and sigh. I really hoping that this is not a myth and unbelievable it is real! I pumped my fist in the air and jumping around my car like a crazy guy. Well, no one would see me right. I took my back pack and run into the castle.

The door was huge! Damn huge! The door knocker is a half man/half lion design. There is a wolf sculpture on each side of the door.

“Hey doggie. You’ve done a good job by taking care of this precious castle.” I said while patting the wolf’s head.

I push the door with my almighty strength, not all of it. It’s just a metaphoric sentence. All dust and spider web stuck on all of my body. It forced me to cough in order to release the dust that trapped inside my lung.

“Wow, you’re huge baby!” I was literally jaw dropped once I step inside the castle. I light up my favourite torched which I design it with my own genius brain. It could last longer till 3 days.  It was beyond awesome. The furniture in the castle was remaining untouched; I guess I was the first person found it after the ‘curse’. I practically running and jumping in the castle. I yelled in happiness in the castle. After I had finished discover all those stuff on the first level of the castle. I heard a soft woman voice calling for my name. It gave me goose bumps but in the meantime the voice makes me calm and I feel longing to hear it. I shrugged off the thoughts of calm and longing to her it. It scares the crap out of me!

‘honey, come here.’ The voice said again. The angelic voice was soft and low. I barely noticed it if I still screaming on top of my lung. I follow my feet to the stairs. My genius and conscious mind are useless right now. All I want to know is where is the voice coming from. I took a very slow step, climbing the stairs carefully. Afraid any of them had broken. I watched my steps carefully without noticing where my legs lead me, all I know are I was standing in front of a large room. A very large room.

‘c’mere baby. Inside.’  She said again. This time the voice was a bit louder than before, I heard it more loud and crystal clear.

“Hello?” I said after I pushed the door and step inside the room.

BANG! The door behind me shut closed.

I was too numb to act until I heard the voice again. My heartbeat was beating very fast like a horse; the room was too silent until I could hear my own breathing. I walk to the dressing table and I grab a frame of a very beautiful lady. Her smile was so happy showing all her white shining teeth. Her dark colour hair was tied into a very neat bun; she was wearing a very nice ancient dress. She looks so happy and care free. Her eyes were bright and shining, I can’t said what colour is her eyes because the picture was in white and black but it did give me some weird feeling in my stomach. My stomach was doing this all flip and somersault while watching her face.

“Dude, are you falling in love with this dead princess!” I said out loud. I had to make my mind work again. She’s dead! She’s ancient! I’m alive! So get a live Nick!

‘I’m not dead,honey.’ She said with a very sad voice. I drop the frame due to the shocked.

“Who are you!” I screamed.

‘here, please. At the balcony’

I walked at the balcony, and I found a necklace with heart shape pendant. There’s a small picture of the princess in it while at the back of the heart shape pendant there was a name printed on it. Coraline Holmes it says.

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p/s: forgive me lads for my grammatical errors. Have fun!