Raeliet (A Romeo and Juliet Parody I Guess)

Part 2

After tossing and turning for a few hours I get up and, after putting on some light clothes, decide to take a walk around the gardens to try to relax my mind enough to sleep. Thankfully, I did not run into anyone other than the usual guards along the way, making the trip quick and easy. When I finally get there I wander aimlessly, looking at all the different plants until I suddenly see my love sitting up above me on a balcony that must be connected to her rooms.

"Juliet! Juliet! Look down below!" I call up to her, trying to get her attention.

She looks around, startled, "Raelynn my love is that you? Here, let me create something so that you may come up to me." She stands, and using some magic that I could not see, makes the nearby plants grow into a ladder for me to climb. I quickly climb up, jumping onto her balcony and holding her tight.

"Oh My love, how could I ever live without you?" I ask.

'I have the same question, however you can not stay long to discuss it. If you are found here we will both be in trouble."

"What do you mean? There is no reason for us to be in trouble if found."

"The hate between our races still exists, remember. If they see you here with me they will assume I have done something to you using magic to make you come here to me." I frown slightly at that. By using that reasoning they will never support us being together, even if it could possibly bring our two peoples together.

"I do not care, so long as I can be with you my Juliet" I grab her hands and pull her towards me, kissing her frantically, "Please, I could not live without you."

She kisses me back, "I promise, we will be together eventually."

"Promise?"

"Of course Raelynn"

"Then... will you marry me Juliet? It doesn't have to be soon. But sometime in the future I want to be yours and yours only." I ask her pleading with my eyes as I kiss her once again.

"Yes my love. Now go, you must get some sleep tonight and if you stay any longer we may be found." She says, gently pushing me towards her magically made plant ladder. I climb down carefully and blow her a kiss before heading back to my rooms, quickly falling into a deep sleep until morning.

In the morning I wake up to yelling and running in the hallways outside my room and quickly get up to investigate. Only, when I open the door I instantly want to go back inside my room to get away from the fight going on. Tristan, my cousin, was fighting one of Juliet's guards, screaming insults at him the entire time.

"Tristan stop this!" I scream, hoping to break up the fight for the sake of the guard. But my idea backfired, because as soon as he looked at me his sword slipped and he stabbed the guard right through. The hallway goes silent as we all look down at the dead guard in shock, before looking up as my father and Juliet along with the rest of her guards come running over.

"What is going on here!" He demands, before looking down and seeing the body on the ground, "Who did this?".

"I did Uncle, the dirty elf ran into me and then proceeded to insult me." my cousin states, standing upright indignantly, "I demanded a little duel for the insult, and the weak thing couldn't even put up a decent fight."

The King looked around and when no one denied the story he nodded and turned to Juliet, "Lady Juliet I must request you return to your homeland so that another incident does not occur. It is now obvious that the goal of your little trip here serves no purpose since it appears you do not mean what you have said you are here to accomplish."

"My Lord I am sure-"
"That is Your Majesty to you, you elven hag!" He screams, now in a rage, "Now leave! You are no longer welcome here!" Juliet gasps and steps back, only walking away as her guards gently push her along for her own safety. I stare after my love as she gets taken away from me, only to shake myself out of it, looking back towards my father and Tristan.

He gives out a few orders for people to clean up the body and tells Tristan to go away to do something that I couldn't hear before turning to me. "Raelynn, my daughter, I have some very important news to tell you." He says.

"What is it father?" I ask, confused.

"I have arranged a very important marriage between you and Prince Premur of Slegia, for the better of our family and the kingdom as a whole," He says, proud of how he managed to arrange such a good marriage for his eldest daughter.

I stared at him in shock. "W-wait father why?" I asked, confused about this sudden plan to marry me off.

"Didn't I just explain? It is for the good of our kingdom to create this connection to the Kingdom of Slegia. Also, with the recent events with these pesky elves I thought it better to make sure you are married now, before you get too much older." I just stare, before running back into my room, slamming the door.

"Raelynn! Raelynn? Girl you are not getting out of this, you are being escorted to Slegia's capital for the wedding tomorrow." he says before walking off with the guards, leaving me to sink down to the floor in despair.