Chapter 3
It’s been who knows how long and I’m still out here. In that time I’ve come to terms with the fact that all of this really exists, but did I really have to get lost to see the truth?
“Hello? Is anyone out there,” I scream into the forest for what seems like the hundredth time. This is so not good I think while pacing back and fourth. I doubt anyone can even hear me out here.
“Well, hello. What are you doing here?” says an old lady coming out of nowhere.
“What are you doing here?” I ask suspiciously, I want help but I’m not stupid, she could be a murderer for all I know.
“I live in that house over there,” says the woman pointing to a house I hadn’t seen before.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I’m just lost and I have only been here once before, a long time ago and I don’t really know my way around.
“It’s alright maybe I can help you find the place you’re trying to get to.”
“Umm, that would be a great help thank you. I’m trying to find my way back to the castle.”
“I know just where that is, follow me,” she says as she starts walking. I wonder why she is being so helpful. After a long silence I ask her.
“Out of curiosity, why are you helping me?”
“I don’t know, but you feel special and you look familiar,” she answers and we continue to walk in a comfortable silence the rest of the way
Once we get to the gate doors a man automatically opens the gates for us to pass and waves hello to the lady, I guess she’s well know here. We walk to the castle door and the lady knocks. As soon as the door opens all you can see is chaos. Everyone is running around looking worried. I wonder what happened, but I get a feeling that it has to do with me.
The lady and I walk into the house, all eyes turn to me and everyone goes still looking relieved.
“Uh, hi.” I say sheepishly.
“Where have you been young lady?” say my aunt and I guess my mother at the same time, both looking furious but relieved.
“I, uh got lost. I just needed a minute for all of this to sink in, I mean can you really blame me? In one day I found out that there is a whole different universe and that my parents are alive. Don’t you think that that’s a bit much?”
“Oh, don’t forget the fact that you’re a princess!” adds my uncle.
“Wait, what?” I say completely shocked.
“We thought you had figured it out by now. Since your father and I are the king and queen of Amare, it’s only logical that you are the princess.” says my mother.
“Um, wow I guess I was so overwhelmed that I wasn’t thinking clear enough to connect the obvious.” I say feeling incredibly stupid.
“Don’t feel bad sweetheart, we’ll explain everything. You might want to sit this will be a long story.” My mother says while my aunt makes room for me next her on the couch.
For the next 2 hours my mom tells the story of how I ended up on earth and about who I really am. It had all started when a human ventured into our world somehow and he came with such great ideas that would surely help Amare grow, Amare being the kingdom my parents ruled in this dimension. The people wanted to learn more and more but, many were not able to go the earth without getting trapped there until the day they died.
Only trusted people in Amare, the gifted and royalty had magic since a revolution started by an elf, gone basically rouge many centuries ago. He had tried to destroy the strongest magic that existed in the whole world, love. Apparently after losing his wife, he became bitter and hated anything to do with love so, he tried to ruin it for others as well. He had the power of persuasion which he practiced, until he became almost unstoppable. He made people join him and sometimes even broke up relationships. He had almost everyone under his control, that was except for a few couples and the king and queen who possessed the purest love of all. Love overcame everything and the king and queen rebuilt everything, but after that, strangely only a few people had magic. The king and queen went to the elder for help with the situation. She told them that until another love as pure as the one shared by the king and queen of that time existed , that only few people would exist with magic. Until now, now one’s love has been that pure.
Since then, only the people with magic could go back and forth, my parents decided to send me with my mother’s sister and her husband to earth to experience life there and come back with ideas to better help Amare. They said that they had missed me and that they had been notified of everything through my aunt and uncle, so they knew the simple things about me.
I wish they hadn’t sent me away to a foreign land, but I understood that it was for the good of the people. They also explained to me that I was to be the future queen of Amare so I had to start training for the job. I also had to start perfecting my powers so that I would not expose us or the few that existed on earth and so that I could be powerful enough to take over for my parents. The lady I met was an elder and my new magic teacher. Everyone that has powers have similar power abilities except for one thing that only they specialize in, mine was the weather. I could control the weather to a point, but since my magic hadn’t been trained my emotions would sometimes affect the weather. That is why my aunt had been acting weird asking me if I had noticed anything strange, though my powers don't work at full strength in a different dimension than this one. My powers had kicked in on my 17th birthday which was in December, but hadn’t really pronounced themselves until recently. Once my aunt and uncle had noticed the changes, they decided it was time to reveal the truth.
I was also told that when I turned 18, I would have to come back to Amare to rule the kingdom, their hope being that I would bring forth fresh new ideas. I had to live on earth for now but, I could come back home at any time I wished by singing a song like the one my aunt had sung before. My song went like this, “Take me home, where I belong, I am the princess of Amare, I came here long ago, but now I wish to be home again.”
After they finished telling me everything they thought I should know, my aunt, uncle and I go back to earth. We get back to earth around 5:00 in the afternoon, since time goes faster in Amare, so we do our normal everyday things as if I just didn’t learn the most strangest and important thing ever. I go to sleep thinking about everything that has happened today, I hope I can do this.
