ARAGU

First Meeting

Princess Frea was traveling for hours, it's nearly morning for the sun is slowly rising. The fire land is the only land that is not yet devastated because of the attacks that is happening across the world.

The Shadow King only invades lands when the ruler of that particular land, will stand against him. The Princess looked up to those rulers that will stand against the Shadow King, and maybe soon their Kingdom will also stand against the Shadow King.

The thought of that made the Princess shudder in fear. She doesn't want the Shadow King to be her husband, and yet she's in the middle between the safety of her Kingdom and her people and the Shadow King.

Now that she's traveling to find this Master of Fire, her father's words not hers, is their only hope to help them against the Shadow King if they decided to refuse the deal.

Shaking the thoughts away, she focused herself in finding the Master. The border is near, so it means the shrine is close also. She only needs to find the path between the two mountains.

After a few minutes, the Princess reached the entrance of the path between the two mountains. She sighed in relief and smiled, "I'm here at last. I hope getting there is not that difficult." she said to herself and pat her horse's neck.

She unmounted her horse and rest under the shade of a tree. She tied the rope of the horse to a smaller tree nearby. The Princess took the food out of her satchel, she was starving and tired. But she needs to endure all of this for her Kingdom.

After she ate, the Princess readied herself to leave. She dusted herself, while she stood she heard some noise coming from the entrance. She peeked behind the tree and saw a young girl, not far from her age.

"Who is she? And what is she doing here, the border is dangerous for a young girl like her." It was true, the border was dangerous for there must be thieves around from another land.

They were always at the border so they can hijacked all the travellers, coming in and out of Kingdom Fylux.

The Princess sensed that this girl is not dangerous, she walked towards her. The path was full of stones, there are boulders placed beside the path and it looked dangerous for anytime a rock slide might happen.

"Greetings fellow Aragura, may I know why are you here in this kind of place?" Princess Frea asked the girl and the young girl just looked at her not quite acknowledging the Princess.

"You should ask that yourself lady. You looked like a royal, your not allowed here." The young girl rudely said, Princess Frea was taken aback but her patience was long enough.

"Same to you. For a young girl like you, your not allowed her too." The young girl snorted and stood up looking at the Princess with a piercing glare. Princess Frea noticed that the young girl wore a different clothes. She looked like she's not from Fylux, the girl wore a men's clothes.

"Look here lady, I don't care who you are or what you are doing here. Just leave, before they arrive." Princess Frea was confused as what the girl is talking about but she stood her ground.

"You are not my father to tell me thi-" The young girl shut the Princess by grabbing her hand and covered her mouth and hid themselves behind a boulder. Princess Frea squirmed but the young girl shushed the Princess.

"Quiet! Or they will know we're here." The young girl whisper yelled and the Princess relaxed after a few seconds. They heard voices not far from where they're hiding. "There's a royal horse here! Who do you think the owner of this horse?" A voice of a man said, it was big and you will notice from the voice that the man has a well built body.