Bellona

Four

I could hear my heart pounding, it felt as if it was going to burst out of my chest any second.

Anyone else would have thought my Father was going through a mid-life crisis but somewhere deep inside me I knew what he said was true.

Which stung a little as I was basically saying the last sixteen years I had thought he was my father meant absolutely nothing.

"So what now I have mystical powers and I am princess of the whole Nijian race?" I joked half heartedly.

"Well we don't exactly have magical powers and you aren't Princess as such" Aleksander explained vaguely.

"We...?" I said raising my right eyebrow in a questioning glance.

"Yeah well I'm kinda a Nijian and Alexei is half Nijian, half human"

"And how am I supposed to believe all of this, for all I know you could be crazy lunatics who need to be sent to a mental asylum or something?"

Suddenly a bright spark appeared from Aleksander's hand and ran all the way up his arms and continued to reach up to the base of his head.

What was left there were these tattoo like markings, that twisted and wrapped around his arms, It looked truly astonishing.

"I must be going absolutely positively mad!" I cried in dismay "This couldn't be real?" I thought grabbing my hair in frustration and pacing back and forth

"I mean this simply couldn't exist, there is no plausible explanation, yet in my gut it feels as if it is all real...." I trailed off.

"That's because it is Bellona" Aleksander said gripping my shoulders in a firm grasp

"But all of this time I thought I was normal..." I said gazing up into his extremely blue eyes that sparkled in the snow

"You are not normal you are a Nijian Princess"

"Princess!" I squeaked absolutely horrified

I turned towards my supposed Father

"You!" I pointed towards him accusingly "You've been lying to me for the last sixteen years, how could you? I not only find out that I'm not human but a Princess of some magical race of ice people!" I shouted

"And you!" I whipped back around to face Aleksander "This is all your fault, If you wouldn't have shown up this would have never happened!" I shouted hysterically

"Belle, this would have happened anyway, calm down"

"Calm down, Calm down?" I shrieked "Don't you tell me to calm down, you...you... imposter!"

"For the last sixteen years I have been living a perfectly normal life and then I'm chucked into this alternate reality that I have no clue about and then I find out that I'm Princess, what kind of sick joke are you two playing at?"

"This is no joking matter Bellona, you are Princess of the Nijian race and in about two minutes you will be transitioning into one of us"

"Transitioning into what exactly?"

"Exactly how Aleksander looks right now, there isn't much of a difference just some tattoos on your arms and some magical powers"

"But I don't want tattoos and magical powers all I want to be is my normal self"

"This will be your normal self, this is who you were always born to be Bellona. If it wasn't for the war sixteen years ago, you would be your normal self and none of this would have happened" Aleksander reasoned

"So what now? What's this prophecy you keep speaking about?"

"Well we can't really do anything until you've turned into your true form, in about thirty seconds" My Father said looking at the watch on his wrist