The runaway of Winterblade

Chapter 6: A New Pain

" Look on the map," Skyler is busy driving while I look at the map. "We are near Mermaid lake but we're in The Southern Kingdom." Skyler looked drained as he rode the wagon, but he never noticed until I broke silence.

" Are you sick? Do we need medical attention?" I will be concerned; and I've been asking him so many questions ever since we've been dating, bet he's sick of me asking questions. " Stop asking questions, I'm not sick; can you stop being so worried about me; I AM FINE." He looks at me with a very grim look then goes back to driving.

" Okay, I won't worry anymore for the next forty-eight hours." I look at him and put my hand on his thigh, with a sorry, trying to be kind smile. " Now, where were we? Oh, right."

Then we just drove through our life until we found Mermaid Lake. Mermaid Lake was huge yet beautiful, this was a landscape coming to life. " This place is beautiful!" I exclaim with the beauty in front of me, it wasn't just me and my boyfriend, it was the happiness I felt in this lake and our love.

" Boo!" He picks me up and spins me around, and I was frightened yet surprised by this wonderful action. " You scared me!" I say as he puts me back on the ground. But after a millisecond, he kissed me the most passionate way I could ever feel. " Oh.. Wow, how about we go and get ourselves a refreshing drink, then we'll come back; yes?" Skyler asked me as he daggers his eyes into mine... Those eyes are the best thing about him. AAAnnd his personality, of course!

" Yeah, my mouth is cotton!" I reply and then we go out and as we were about to take a scoop, a mermaid slaps our hands and comes out of the water and forms into a fairy with a marine blue dress with a bubbly crown. " What on Earth in Triton's name ARE YOU DOING?!"

The shape shifting woman was the most civilized woman I've ever seen that involved with water. When mom always tried to give me a glass of water, it froze or it almost broke. So when mom had something to do with water when I was there, something would've always happened.

" Well, we haven't drank anything for the past day, and we'd like to have permission to drink this water, please." She had a great scowl that made me feel like I was the young one for once. I'd never thought that I could feel this way. " Pl-ease you are some lying teenagers that " need" water. Man, I need to talk to The Fairy Godmother about you lying."

She never saw me wearing the dress that was a princess dress, so what I did to tell her I was a princess, I sang the song that my mother sang when she had a jubilant or depressing thing in her life. " Live on your life like you never did before. Even if things are joyful or so sore. Be the woman that you want to be, then you'll feel like you're oh so free. Be a fighter, be a lover, be who you want to be. Be a giver, be a taker, even be a queen. Just be yourself, just have hope and love one another. And of course trust every other. If you don't know this song, you're truly mistaken , you're talking to a princess or a queen, my breath will be taken. So respect the person who is singing this very song, respect me and nothing will go wrong." I sang quietly to her, she heard me and then she bowed down. " I'm sorry, drink all the water you want!!!"

She got out of our way and let us drink some water. Skyler got five glass jars and filled them with water. Then we went back and started making out. Life is amazing with him... nobody is this hot, sentimental, and caring for others. Why did we meet? I ask myself that... I don't care why we met, but I love him because I do. " Hon, the sun's setting... Let's get in the wagon." " No.. not right now..." I started kissing him hard, cherishing every moment; so if this is all a dream. I will cherish this.

I started getting tired when the moon finally rose from the trees. "Skyler?...." I grab his wrist as we went back to the wagon. "Did you like the kiss?" "Yes. A lot." I replied with my flashy smile lighting up with sunset.

"Ready to sleep?" He asked as he set out blankets and pillows inside the wagon. "..." I stayed quiet a little bit then he started worrying a little bit. "Are you okay?" He held my hand and looked at me deeply. "S-sorry.." I take my hands out of his and I start fixing my hair. I also have a weird power of my hair never being messy but always greasy. But I just fix it by touching it. "I just had a dream yesterday and I saw on your map it had a few things that I seen in my dreams." His eyes widen and he grabs his map, turning it around. The sketches weren't there anymore.. the hell? "Ummm... Winterblade?" "Yes?" "Have you ever wondered about places that don't have happily ever afters?" My hands immediately set in my lap and my eyes widen. " Are you talking about the Otherworld???" "Y-yes.." He stuttered as the drawings slowly were going back. "Well, no. I never thought about the Otherworld but I was informed to not to speak of it. At all. Unless I wanted to be punished for life." I said with my voice slightly shaking. "Same. But all of this happened when I argued about this with my aunt. Then this started happening." The map had all the illustrations back. This is crazy. "Why are you so curious?" I grab his hand that didn't hold the map. "I don't know... I heard about it when I was a child and I couldn't stop thinking what is it really like. Is it worse than it sounds like?? Is it better? What is it called if there were no real happily ever afters? What would I be like if I was in the Otherworld?..." His voice trialed as a shriek from me came. "Oh shit!" My arm screeched in pain and suffering... it was wanting to leave my body. I collapsed to the grass and my vision became blurry.. blurrier and.. blurrier.. then. Darkness...

I wake up in a castle, baby blue and white. I was in a silk bed. It felt like my sheets at home. "Queen, she's ready to be seen." A dark tone of a man said. His voice was booming in my ears. I shrieked again," OWW!!" My head hurt like an earthquake, shaking rapidly. My wrists and ankles were tied in and locked into rope and shackles. I felt like I couldn't breath.... There was something wrong. The footsteps were like giant earthquakes in my ears, a laugh sounded like a witch. My heart was like a knight speeding his way to his lover. The woman came up. It was my mother... my mother. "WHAT DO WANT?!" I scream to her but all she had was a frown. And her eyes were filled with pain. She took out her right hand and laid it on my cheek. "Shh shh, Winterblade..." her voice was calm and all pain went away. Her voice made everything better. "You're finally home." "HOME? WHAT DO YOU MEAN HOME??" My voice was still loud but I felt weak. "You're back in the Winter Kingdom.." she used her power to break off the shackles and rope. "And it seems someone else wants to talk to you." She tried to smile but she continued to be serious. I thought it was Skyler but it was my father. I sat up; I was back in my room. "Sweetie.. don't leave us again." My father said as his wooden staff turned more and more silver. "Where is he?" I ask and I look around. "Who, sweetie?" Mother asked me. "Skyler. Where is he? Mother where is HE???" I kept asking. I got up and looked around. I looked everywhere in my room. "Skyler Quillingbird?" My ears perked. " I think so." I looked at my father. " He's in the dungeon. We put him there for a good reason." I ran out of my bedroom, straight to the dungeon.

I got there, the man at his dungeon told me not to go in there. I sai," I AM THE PRINCESS, NOW LET ME IN!!!!!!!" the man quivered in fear and opened the door. Skyler was there.. in tears. His faced was scratched up. His hair was messed up. I run in and hold him, "Skyler, Skyler... what's wrong?" I hold his face as I healed his face and hair with my hands. He looked at me, his eyes filled with pain. More than my own mom. "YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER?????! THEY HURT ME!!!! THEY TORTURED ME!!!! I DIDN'T HURT YOU AT ALL!!! I'M INNOCENT!!!! I'M JUST A DELIVERER OF FOOD TO PASS AROUND THE UNITED NATIONS!!!' he cried in pain. Hurt. The sound in his voice.... It just... I started crying and getting angry at my parents. "It's okay.. I'm right here." I hug him and he hugs back. HARD. "I missed you. I thought you were in pain and just passed out. I was gonna treat you but those men that shot your arm and brought you here. They thought I hurt you.... They tortured me..." my mind boggled on how much torture was going onto him. "THAT'S. IT!" I get up and walk out but before I closed this door," I love you, Skyler."