Prologue-How It All Came To Be
Every life has a beginning. Mine was not the day I was born. Mine was the day my daughter was born. I guess that could not be much of a life, since I died three weeks later. But I still believed those three weeks were when I started to live.
My husband and I were not planning on having a little girl, well, at the time he was my fiancee. But as soon as I had found out I was pregnant we married as soon as. It was difficult, though, since I had just been elected Queen of Scarlatina.
We never did name out beautiful daughter. We could simply not decided on a name. My husband wanted Isabella, but I thought it was far too formal. Isabella was not a name I wanted for my daughter. I wanted my daughter to be an individual, being unique. Not like everyone else. I just could not think of a name to go with that.
My sister, Maria, managed to name her daughter as soon as she was born. Arianna Tiama Reed. She was only a week younger than my daughter, but I still could not decided on a name when Arianna was born. I liked Demitra, but not as a first name. As a middle name perhaps.
Of course, by the time that three weeks had passed after the birth of my unnamed daughter, I was poisoned. I was happily eating my breakfast, when my insides started to hurt. They felt as though they were all on fire. Slowly my brain started to shut down. I could feel my self losing conciseness and I never woke up again.
So, you may ask, how could I possibly be telling my story now? Well, it all depends on if you believe the after life. I do, which is why it is possible for me to be telling my-I mean, a story. This is not the story of me. But the beginning of what I thought was my life. Instead, it was the beginning of my daughters, Courtney Demitra Black.
"NIGEL!" The blonde girl yelled once more. She was fed up of the man not paying any attention to her. She watched as he paced back and fore in the nursary, craddling his young daighter back off to sleep.
It was amazing how one child can look so much like one parent. In Courtney's case, she looked just like her mother. There was no resemblance to her father at all in her appearance. However her attitude was the perfect mixture of the two. Curious, wanting adventure from her mother and all the grumpiness from not getting her own way from her father.
"Nigel..." The blonde girl sighed. She was stood in the doorway, not even bothering to enter the room. "You know me and Kristy are leaving tomorrow." Nigel didn't move. He didn't make a sound, he just kept staring down at his perfect daughter. She was even more beautiful as she slept peacefully in his arms. "Nigel, you need to get out of here, too..."
"Masey..." Nigel took in a deep breath, but said no more. He silently walked over to the two cribs that were against the wall. He laid his daughter down in one, whilst another little baby was fast asleep in the other. "I know I need to go...But I can't leave..." He turned to face the window, looking out to the whole town of Scarlatina. It was his, for now. But he did not want it. "I can't leave all of this...I can't leave all of this in the hands of a baby...Arianna is barely nine months old, how is she going to handle it all?"
Masey did not know what to say. She was deep in thought about what Nigel had said. It was all true. There was no way you could leave the whole town of Scarlatina in the hands of a nine month old baby. It was the stupidest idea ever. However, Nigel had to escape with baby Courtney. If the two stayed for much longer there was a good chance that the Trackers would harm Courtney. And no one wanted that.
"Nigel, listen to me...Take Courtney and run." Masey sounded scared. "Run until you get as far as way as possible...Take her to...I don;t know, EARTH!" Masey was starting to get quite frantic. "Either way, it's not safe for Courtney to be here...You saw what happened to Courtney and Maria...Do you really want your daughter to come to the same fate?"
Nigel didn't know what to say. He had moved back to stare down at his daughter and niece as they slept in their cribs. The slow rhythm of their breathing was enough to hypnotise anyone, but Nigel fought back the tears. The two babies looked so innocent, so vulnerable. They had not done anything wrong, yet their whole lives were already predicted as a doom.
"Okay...I-I'll take Courtney...A-And we'll go...We'll go to Earth...Back to where I grew up...Muskoka, Canada...She'll be safe there." The king took in a shaky breath. He did not want to say goodbye to everything he was giving up, especially abandoning his niece. But he could not take her with him, too. It would be too difficult and he was not even Arianna's guardian, Kaly, the new head council member, was.
Masey wiped away the tears from her eyes. Nigel beckoned her into the room and she complied. The two hugged each other as if it was the last time they were going to see each other. And for all they knew it was going to be the last time. Courtney was not going to be allowed to come home. Not unless there was no other choice. Courtney would be brought up human, never knowing about the realities of where she belonged. It was far too dangerous if she ever learnt of her past, of her future. That could ruin everything.
"Duncan..." Masey let out a shaky breath and the vampire appeared at her side. His lime-green 'hawk shook a little from the fast movement, but his facial expression was on full alert. "I need you to go to Earth with Nigel." The bodyguard stared from the council meber to the King, not quite knowing what was going on. "Watch over the Princess, protect her."
"Of course..." Duncan nodded his head, his icy blue eyes full of care and fear. He knew he was meant to be in the baby's future, he just did not know where he belonged. He was only sixteen, maybe a little older in vampire years, but he still knew he had to watch over Princess Courtney. It was part of what he believed his destiny was. "I will watch over the Princess until she must return."
"No...She will not be returning." Nigel told his most faithful friend. Duncan had been there for him for as long as he knew, he could trust Duncan.
"But, Nigel...She must..." But Nigel was having none of it. He did not want his daughter to return to a place where she would easily be influenced by the Trackers. They could easily kill her, and Nigel could not bare the death of his only surviving family member.
The blonde girl leaned down, planting a single kiss upon the young Princess head as she slept in her cot.
"Until we meet again, Princess Courtney." She whispered, then disappearing on the spot. She had much to prepare before her departure from Scarlatina.
Princess Courtney Demitra Black was no longer a sorceress, she was now human. Her life had been plotted out for her, but at what cost?
A/N: How was it?
The prologue to the ENTIRE! The Going's On series.
LOL! I hope it was good...I had quite a bit of fun writing this and I do hope you like it :)
This was requested by Clarissa and encouraged by InstruMental, so you may thank them for this story of The Going's On :) LOL! Thanks, you two :)
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So...This story is basically how it all began...You all know the basics of how Courtney found out about their powers...And how she discovered Scarlatina...And how she was actually a Princess...But what happened before all of that? Hopefully this will be able to explain it all :)
And this story may just give me the effort I need to continue with the rest of The Going's On series :)
I hope you enjoy it all :)
Um...I'm not sure if this one will be updated daily like The Going's On is...But I can try...Possibly starting Sunda, depending what time I get home on Saturday. It's my friends birthday tomorrow and she's having a sleepover, so...Maybe :) LOL!
Thanks for reading, please review :)
I should probably go shut my window...I can see bugs...
Love, ChloeRhiannonX