the Warrior's prince

The pixies ball: PART ONE

Serena

  The Castle walls were making me feel like a hopeless prisoner with no hope of escaping the darkness that they call home. The servants were the only people I had been able to talk to in weeks, they were truly amazing people. All with families they had to feed, some for more than their families alone. Tara was one of my favorites, her stories about the life beyond this planet, the trees and birds that are all different colors in this place called earth. She has told me how she had visited many different planets, which always lived a bit different than the others. My favorites were the lands of the gods, there roamed all individual kinds of gods and goddesses. She told me the story of how there was one major God, who was God himself. The others had different gifts, but one God had all of the gifts that they possessed. The darkness was made of two people that lived in the under world. One known as Lucifer, or Satan, and the other one was known as Hades, Satan's companion in all of the evil he has done. They were both powerful but one was more powerful than the other. I loved how she talked about them with such emotions, sometimes it made me cry just thinking about it. Tara wrote about all the places she had been to, hoping that one day she would become one of the best writers in Leniopia.

 I spent most of my days in the Castle's library, which was also a building itself. I read and read as many books as I could, thinking that maybe learning some stuff about the castle's culture would make me fit into the world of fantasy and adventure. When I was a child, my father read to me every night about the world around us. My favorite story was 'Ninochka' also known as one of the most famous Russian warriors in the 1100s. I never knew what a 'Russian' was. Never heard of their kind or where they were from, but my father always told me the wonderful stories about their wars, and how women were disrespected in their country until Ninochka made a difference. She was my inspiration, I loved her stories and the way she didn't let love get in her way, just like I promise myself that I will never fall for a man nor woman.

  3 days later

   Today was 'The Grand Pixies' Ball. I don't really understand how they have a pixies ball in a castle with no pixies...Anyways, today was going to be my first ever encounter with Prince Ethiel. I have been in this castle for almost a month and this is my first encounter with the person that I'm supposed to protect. The maids wanted to pick my own warrior's attire. Meeting a stupid cock-headed prince was apparently a big deal here in Leniopia.  I was partially dressed in the worst kind of attires imaginable, Even though I was still wearing a warrior's clothing, I felt incredibly naked because of how tight it was. Clothing in the city was certainly different from the villages. Here, women wore beautiful green, yellow, blue, and other colored gowns, while in the villages we didn't have any gowns since we couldn't afford anything. Most women wore homemade brown or other colored skirts that they made out of curtains, and sold it in the markets.

  For the first time in my life I felt incredibly beautiful. My hair was tied in a ponytail, but it wasn't messy like ir used to be, it was silky and perfectly straighten. I had something on my lips that the maid called lipstick, I wondered if it was made out of blood because of how red it was. My midnight blue eyes looked almost warm with whatever the maids arranged on top of my eyelids and eyelashes. my warrior brocade jacket was gold with glistening diamonds on the edges. Not that it wasn't uncommon,anyone in Leniopia could find jewels anywhere that's why we had to store some in the human world since we had too much. I was wearing beautiful leather brown boots,  under my robe were some very tight leather clothing that fitted a little too much. How was I supposed to fight in these clothing, if I couldn't even move in them? After about another hour, the maids were finally done making me look 'Beautiful', Although I'm pretty sure all the maids in the room with me were a thousand times more prettier than I could be in a lifetime. Looking at myself in the long-length mirror, I felt self-conscious. My midnight blue eyes now looked dull and so cold that it made me shiver. My violet hair made me think of death, my skin looked too pale, and my lips looked too big with the red substance that was on it. I wanted to get back into bed and go pack so I could back to my tiny village where everyone seemed to fit in without needing to try.

 While running back to my chambers, I bumped into someone who had the nerve to not apologize. Getting back up, he/she walked away as if he/she had no matters. Not knowing who he or she was I walked away, not feeling serene at the moment on how people lacked politeness in this castle. Unfortunately for me, Queen Alexandria was standing in front of my door in the most elegant gown I have ever seen her in. Her hair was side-braided with curls falling beside her eyes, the braids had gold jewels running down until they reached the tip of her hair. Her crown was neatly refurbished making her creamy white face look flawless. What stood out the most was her dress, a beautiful golden color mixed with ruby jewels at the shoulder, and a triangle shaped chest to show a bit of cleavage. She made me feel even more insecure with her standing in front of me looking like a beautiful goddess. Even Athena herself would feel ashamed in front of her.

"What's the matter Serena, we might have started on the wrong toe but I do not like seeing my employees unhappy." She asked.

" There's nothing wrong your highness, I'm just a little bit nervous that's all. It's my first time attending a ball." I confessed. Her smile was polite and for the first time I did not fear being in her presence.

" I remember my first ball, you would never believe how much I wanted to be like my brothers." she said, surprising me, A queen wanted to be like her brothers." I was thirteen and since it was my early teen age, I wanted to feel special, beautiful and wanted. But I had brothers and not sisters, so I decided to dress up like my brothers, wearing brown leather pants, leather boots, and a leather jacket with nothing under there." She chuckled. "Fortunately I was wearing a mask so nobody knew who i was. It was the most embarrassing moment in my life, but I learned that all I had to do was to be myself and I would've been fine. Now Let's go get you a prince, and I mean literally."

We walked down the hall together. Me, feeling happy that I heard that story making me feel much better about myself. I was now time to meet Prince Ethiel and there was no backing down.......

Author's note: Hello everyone ninoshkka is back and thank you so much everyone who've read this story and I've almost reached 500 reads so thank you to everyone. VOTE for this book or add it to your library. It's been a while since my last update but taking honors classes is harder than I thought, but thank you to everyone. Much love, have a great Thursday or Friday to wherever you live.....BYE!! Also ninochka is how my name was usually spelled in the russian book but I wanted to be more individual so I asked my mom to change it to ninoshkka.-----------------> Picture of Serena's hair color....It's the only thing that I could find that looked similar