Scarlett
It had been exactly one week since Queen Aurora's daughter, Princess Danis, had become the new queen. Scarlett had never liked her. Princess Danis was exactly one year younger than Scarlett. With her long, flawless auburn hair and bright, orange eyes, she was as majestic as nature and fire and water combined. Scarlett was the opposite. She had shoulder-length, jet-black hair and eyes a gray so dark it almost looked black. Now she was queen, and, to make things worse, she was engaged to Prince Earin. Scarlett had secretly been in love with him since she was 15 and now, within one year, they were to be married! Scarlett angrily stomped through mud puddles until she finally found the old well she always got her water from. While Scarlett was always struggling to survive, Danis was pleasantly living comfortably in her lush palace. Scarlett's clothes were caked with dirt and so tattered that there were holes all through her dress. Why did Queen Aurora have to drink that poison?! You would think that one would learn her lesson after falling asleep for a hundred years! "I just hope that that evil fairy tricks Danis into drinking poison as well," Scarlett thought. Nothing was ever fair for Scarlett. Her parents died when she was 14 and that had left her as a struggling orphan always hanging on the end of the rope when it came to surviving. Her only inspiration for not giving up on a happy life was Prince Earin. But now her fantasy life was crushed, and it was all Princess Danis' fault! As Scarlett angrily stomped into the next mud puddle, her foot sunk deep, and she found herself falling into a cave of darkness and mud.
Danis
Danis slipped her skinny wrist through the golden bangles and looked at herself in the mirror. She looked like a queen-flawless beauty and a face ready to command any order. She looked happy; she was always surrounded by precious gems and rooms of gold, canopy beds so large, you sink into the mattress when you go to sleep- but she wasn't. Her heart was filled with more sorrow than what she could take. her father had died when she was only 9, and now, her mother was gone too. To make things worse, she was going to be forced to marry Prince Earin in a year. Sure, he was handsome, but she didn't know a thing about him! He could turn out to be an awful person! Sometimes, Danis even thought about running away-away from this madness of royalty and death. Oh, what she would give to trade places with someone else! "No," she thought. "I am the queen and I have responsibilities to handle and a kingdom to run!" She slowly walked out of her room to the grand meeting room where she would discuss plans on politics. Being queen had to be the most boring and difficult job in the entire kingdom!
Scarlett
When Scarlett first looked up, she saw nothing, but darkness. Then, she started to see swirling purple lights. The lights slowly started to take the form of a castle with a flag as tattered as her clothes. On the flag, was one single creature. A dragon. Scarlett started to run as fast as she could, looking for a way to escape the doom that lay before her. She was in the dark fairy's territory! She ran without thinking, without looking; she had one goal: to get out. All of a sudden she ran right smack into a soft black cloak, covered with purple swirls. It was the dark fairy. "Calm down child, I have no means to hurt you." Scarlett could do nothing, but gape in awe. "I have a proposal for you. You want to become a princess and live the life you've always wanted. I can't make your prince fall in love with you and guarantee your happiness, but I can make you a princess nevertheless. A simple nod will do." Scarlett did not know what to do, nor what was happening. Her brain had only calculated two words- you and princess. Her heart told her to say no, but she could think of nothing more than her own selfishness and greed. She slowly nodded her head. "Then it is done."
Note:
Thank you so much for reading my very first story! I hope you enjoyed it! All comments are appreciated and chapter 2 will be coming out soon.