The silver princess

Chapter fourteen: The king

From just behind one of the pillars a pair of eyes stared back at Me  the appeared almost luminescent in the dark.
"I don't remember a Delia in my court"speculated the king
"Your grace, you haven't met me yet I've been in the infirmary since I arrived" I said quietly as I walked around the pillar to face the king
" so you must be the one they say is my daughter" the king said as he stepped out from behind the pillar.
"Yes I am" I said taking s couple steps back
"How old are you?, and how many spirits do u have?" Questioned the king as circled me
"I am nineteen and I have two spirits"I said meeting his curios gaze
"Hmm your not an adult yet, which means that you may be gifted with more in the coming years" said the king ominously
" I thought if I didn't have any more by twelve that would be the permanent amount I would have" I said
" it's different for royals Delia " chuckle the king as he turned to the throne at the end of the room.
The king gestured for me to follow toward the stairs. As I slowly walk I can see the shadow of a griffin with glowing gold feathers in the corner of the room.
" is that one of your spirits?" I asked in awe
"Yes, this is Ametta" the king said waving for his griffin to come over.

She walked with a sense of grace and pride, she knew she was a rare and unseen beauty. Her and the king had a likeness both their eyes glowed a brilliant amber shade  and had golden skin tones, even though the king was over three-hundred years old he looked as he did in his early hundred years.
Amettas voice coated the air
"I assume this must be the girl they speak of as your child , Jeremiah. You two resemble each other more than that traiter Elowien"
She was right the former princess had bronzed skin and white hair like her real mother and her eyes were black as obsidian, her appearance was odd especially when she stood next to the king and his wife, everyone thought it was because her most popular spirit was a marble fox which definitely made sense.
But now that I compared her to my mother I definitely saw the resemblance with her and the rest of my family.
"Yes, I do believe she is mine. Just to be sure let's test it"speculated Jeremiah as he look at Delia with great amusement
The king handed something to his griffins taloned hand and she took off swooping around trying to catch me off guard on one side, I commanded Begira and Mavis to come and materialize next to me.
Begira was at my side in an instant and Mavis on the top of my head watching my back for Ametta, Begira was lunging every chance she got Ametta got to close and Begira caught a handful of golden feathers, Ametta became more aggressive and as the fight went one I felt this burning in my core.
I tried to suppress it but it only grew bigger a feeling of protection and comfort washed over me, it was the same feeling I had when Mavis and Begira first appeared, I closed my eyes and coaxed this fire within me to burst open into the material world.
My eyes burst open with a roar a dragon burst from me and materialized, and catching Ametta in its grasp and landing behind me with Ametta under it.
The king was awestruck at the dragon as was I but I felt weak and tired I put all of my energy to bring the dragon forth, I felt a warm liquid on my torso my hand was smeared with blood, all the excitement had caused my wound to reopen.
Begira was already at my side holding me up.
The king shook out of his daze and came up to us
" I've never seen a spirit appear like this one has and I kindly ask if you would tell her to let my Ametta go" said the king as he descended the steps
I turned back to the dragon and gave it the go ahead to let Ametta go and just like that her hand gently let Ametta go and walked toward me.
Then the doors burst open with Rowan and Eli swords in hand.
They looked at the dragon in shock,
Eli was to stunned to move but Rowan instantly ran to me.
"What the hell kat?!" Rowan said in anger as he put his sword away put my arm over his shoulder to hold me up
"You truly don't understand the meaning of bed rest and leaving me with princy was not a funny joke" he said in a strict tone
" okay give me shit later, I reopened my wound by accident" I chucked even though it hurt a lot but I refused to cry in front of the king.
"Ametta can help with that, Katerina" said the king as he plucked on of Amettas feathers from off the floor and shaved off a bit with his sword and sprinkled it on my wound, we all watched in amazement as the blood disappeared and was replaced with scar
" tomorrow we will meet again and announce that the real princess has been found in front of the whole kingdom." Said the king and with that he and Ametta left without another would. But Rowan gave me an earful walking back to what I thought was the infirmary