Lacey's POV
"What do you mean, were not human? What are we then?" "We are Alarum, or Alae for short" Silence. He stared at me. Was that supposed to solve my problems and answer my questions? It didn't. At all. "We need to go to Angelus right away" I decided to ignore the urgent voice and pleading eyes. "What is Angelus?" "Our home. Where we belong" Of course it is. "It doesn't happen to be close to here does it?" "It takes a 3 day fly to reach the gates" Of course it does. Wait, fly? "Do you take a plane to get there?" He frowned at me for a minute, but then saw I was deadly serious. He threw back his head and laughed, this perfect, deep chuckle.
No, I did not say perfect. I do not like him. I thought I loved him when we were younger, before he left, but then he went and, it took a while, but I excepted that he had gone. Now though, here he is, and I am angry at him. But not so much because he left. All I had wanted, was for him to take me with him. To have an adventure together. Us against the world. But he left me to wonder about what happened to him after. I had even wondered if he had someone survived the fall and just ran away, because they never found his body. That thought soon left my head though. Ironic, isn't it?
"Can I ask how you fly there then?" "With your wings, of course" Hold up. No one, said anything, about wings. Cool! "I have wings?" "Yes, but you need to learn to grow them and use them before we leave, okay?" "Leave, I'm not leaving!" "You have to, its your destiny" "Is not!" "Is too! You don't even know what your destiny is!!" "Okay, then what is my destiny?" I sat back and grinned, waiting for him to spout nonsense.
"Well, when you were about 4, Angelus was under attack and the only way to keep you safe, was to send you out into the human world. You were sent with a protector and someone in the human world, this world, found you and your protector. Different families adopted them, but the Alae made sure they were always close. The legend says, that when they are 16, they will return to their kingdom, you will defeat the enemy and take your crown, and they will become your royal protector, to watch over you and keep you safe forever."
I was gobsmacked. Utterly speechless. I felt like I remembered someone saying this speech to me before. A past memory had awoken inside of me. There was a women's voice, not my adoptive mothers, probably my real mothers voice, telling me this, as swords were clashing in the background and she was wrapping me up in a coat. "Everything will be fine and I will see you soon my sweetheart" She placed a kiss on my cheek and I felt a tear drop too. "I love you Ariana" Then rough hands picked me up and ran with me, away from the woman, who was probably my mother. The people's faces were blurred but I saw the surrounding buildings and landscape. That was all I remembered.
"Is that true?" I whispered, still shocked by the memory, and the fact that everything was starting to make more sense. "Yes, every word" "So, I'm the rightful heir to a country I've never seen before?" "That's not true, the first 4 years of your life were spent there" I had always wanted to know where I came from, but not like this. I never imagined this.
"So, who is my protector?" I asked, mainly trying to distract myself from un-answerable questions. This one should be easy "Ummm...." Maybe not. He seemed unsure to answer this question, unlike all the others. His eagerness had gone. "It's me" "What! Then why did you leave!?" "I had to go back, for training, to be told what and what not to tell you before I bought you back" Fair enough, I'll give him that one. "Do I have to go back?" "I can't force you, but I wan't you too. I will have to go back, with or without you" It was tempting. We could go on our adventure I had always dreamed of. Us against the world, for real this time. "Your fate is always inevitable" He said in a sing-song voice. He knew I loved quotes, and I liked this one. 'Fate is always inevitable' In other words, suck it up and get on with it, it's going to happen anyways. I smiled at my old-new-best friend. "Okay, we have ourselves a deal"
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FantasyLacey dosen't want a normal life. She wants adventure and excitment. But when she suddenly enters a magical world, will it become too much for her? Will she do what she should do, or what she wants to do?
