The Lost Princess

Chapter 18

"The bloody fuck are you talking about, Frankie?!" Harry asks, looking at me like I'm crazy.

My shoulders shrug down and I relax a little.

"You saw Malcom?!" Mabel comes over and asks, wrapping a towel around my shoulders and sitting me down. "I mean, remind me to slap you for nearly killing yourself earlier, but really! How did you see him?!"

"W-when I was knocked out, I was in a room with that Malcom guy." I stutter out to her.

"He must've infultrated your dream state to visit you. What a crazy bastard!" she says, shaking her head in awe.

I look back up at Harry. "But---he looked exactly like---"

My spine cracks as it turns inhumanly to the side. The scream that escapes my mouth surely woke the entire island. I drop to the marble library floor in agony as my body turns, snaps, and cracks. It feels as if every bone in my body is being individually split in half.

"She's changing! Why is it so violent, it's not supposed to hurt!" Mabel screams, not knowing what to do.

"Go get the Kings and Queens! We'll stay with her!" Harry screams as he kneels down beside me, followed by David.

I'm rolling on the cold floor, tears probably pouring out of my eyes. I can feel the veins in my neck, face, and eyes popping without regret as my screams echo throughout the castle. David tries to hold me down but I can't stop. It hurts to much to lay still.

I hear my mother and father burst through the doors. They kneel next to me alongside Harry and David. Harry briefly tries to explain what happened and my mother stares at me, crying with wide eyes and shock.

Then, almost instantly, the pain subsides.

The pain dies down to a dull ache, and then nothing.

My mother leans forward to whisper to Mabel. "Are there any transformations you know of that cause such pain!?" She asks frantically.

"I know of one, but it's incredibly rare. There hasn't been one in hundreds of thousands of years! She couldn't be----"

But then, an orb of turquoise light shoots out of my body. it hovers slowly over my chest, gradually growing larger and larger. My eyes go wide at the sight of it. After a minute of hovering, words appear in the orb.

"Francesca Renalde," i simply says. I turn to my parents and everyone, but they're patiently watching the orb.

"Power Assignment:" It says, leaving us all in impatience.

Then finally, the words that will change my life forever.

"Vixen."

Then, the orb travels back into my chest and disappears. 

i sit up and frantically pat my chest, looking for where the orb went. "What?" I ask stupidly.

Everyone is quiet.

"A Vixen?" Mabel whispers. 

"What?" I ask her once more, getting frusterated. "What's going on? What did that all mean!?"

My mother speaks with tears in her eyes and a smile. "That orb was your power assignment! You're a Vixen, sweetheart." she says, wiping her tears of joy away.

I study what just happened.

It....it WAS my power assignment. I'm a vixen?!

"What's a vixen? I'm a vixen, what is it?" I ask, a little too eager.

Everyone chuckles. "It's literally one of the most powerful beings in existence. One hasn't been born in hundreds of thousands of years! You have, well....ALL abilities!" my father says, equally as proud as my mother.