An: Another story I've been with, I might continue it if enough people like it, again I'm trying something new with this fic and I still don't have all the bugs worked out of it yet. Anyway this is only the prologue and some of the characters are a bit out of character but they're children it can be excused I suppose... anyway this chapter is merely snapshots of the past...and the story is AU
A young King Oritel held his daughter up, showing her the urban area, "The Pride has finally triumphed and we have cast out the darkness, and one day this will all be yours." Bloom giggled at her father, who smiled back at her, "It will be your job to protect the people from the darkness, which is why the dragonfire was bestowed to you." Oritel looked at his queen who now entered the room, a distressed look placed on her face. "What is it?"
Miriam looked at Bloom, "My sister has just delivered, and the baby,"
"What's wrong with the baby?" Oritel asked as he walked over to her.
"Her eyes, her eyes she might be the one Oritel," Miriam said.
Oritel gave a sigh of relief, "All because her eyes are different doesn't make her one of them, and if she is one of them it is up to us to make she doesn't stray off the path of light, we could be the very ones who turn her evil."
"If it were only the eyes then it would be fine, the baby didn't cry, I have never seen such a solemn face on a child. The girl has been touched by darkness, we should get rid of her before she grows to strong."
"And if she survives? We could be the ones who push her to the other side, think Miriam give the child a chance. And you know you know we can't just kill an heir to the throne. What did they decide to the name the girl anyway?"
"Jade-Senka Caron Veil Isolde Anima Oriana, Princess of Canzomar."
Oritel frowned, "Even her parents?"
"No my sister is depressed that she gave birth to a marked, her father like you doesn't care, he was slightly disappointed that it wasn't a boy though. From what my sister tells me the only time the girl even smiles is when her father is holding her."
"He's smarter than I give him credit for, and maybe the baby is onto something, you know as well as I do that the dark is weak at this moment of time but if we give them a chance to take the girls heart then we are pretty much giving them what they want, even if you dislike the girl you will treat her as if she is Bloom." Oritel ordered, as he brushed past his wife, Bloom was now crying, scared from the yelling.
"I told you that Baltor would fail, a weapon is useless if you don't know how to use it right, and now because of your reckless judgment our forces have been decimated, it will take years before we will ever pose a threat to The Pride," a witch shouted at the
"I hear that the Pride is going to start hunting us down, if this is true then we will die out," another witch shouted.
"You three lead us to our destruction," another voice was heard.
Esmeralda sighed and looked at her sisters, "You fools, if we hadn't fought back we would have been wiped out anyway, a few months ago you weren't complaining you always knew this could be a possibility. Besides Anwyn had an interesting vision, a child has been born, who could spell the destruction for the Pride…" Esmeralda looked down at her 3 year old daughter, who pulled on her pant leg.
"Mommy, what's comes after the pride?" A small Icy asked.
Esmeralda a smiled, "Why the fall of course," she turned back to the crowd, "My dear acolyte, we will be the Fall of the Pride, because the proud must always fall, shouldn't they. This girl coupled with Baltor will spell the end of the Pride," she spat as if she had a nasty taste on her tongue, "But until then we must survive so we can all witness the death of this abomination."
"Bloom your cousin is weird," a young Princess of Solaria said looking over at Jade who was sucking her thumb and watching the butterflies fly around the garden as she tossed a ball to Bloom. "Can she even speak?"
Bloom turned to Jade, who finally gazed in their direction, "She can talk she just chooses not to, I don't think my mommy likes her, she always says that Jade is evil."
"But what about her eyes? My daddy says that she has to be one of them," Tecna said.
Bloom shrugged, "My daddy says that Jade is just shy," she said.
"Shy more like she's a freak," Stella whispered, as Jade tried to catch a butterfly with her free arm.
"My mommy says that you should never call someone a freak," Flora reprimanded them.
"But Flora even you have to believe that she's weird," Musa said throwing the ball to hard as it whizzed towards Jade's feet.
Jade looked down and got of her bench and removed her finger from her mouth and bent to pick the ball up, not noticing that Layla had rushed up to her friends and had began babbling to them incoherently as Jade toddled towards them with the ball in her outstretched hands.
Stella turned to Jade first, a small sneer on her lips, "We don't want to play ball anymore freak," she said knocking the ball out of Jade's hand.
"Yeah," Tecna chimed in, "We're going to go play at the pond," Tecna said.
Jade brightened slightly at the mention of the pond, her daddy took her their sometimes, it was interesting to watch the fishies. "Bwoom can I go pwease?" she asked her cousin.
Stella shook her head at Bloom, "No you just stay here its to dangerous for a baby," Bloom said.
"Oh," Jade said in a dejected voice. "I'll be good."
"You heard her no freaks around," Stella said pulling Bloom away from her cousin.
"Yeah, no freaks allowed," Tecna jeered right along with Stella.
Bloom glanced at her friends, even Flora was making fun of her cousin, "I really don't want to play with a freak Jade, so can you please go away?"
Jade blinked as she watched the older faeries heading towards the pool, and picked up the ball and headed towards a nearest wall where she sat down facing the wall. She let the ball roll until it hit the wall and returned to her. She did this for nearly an hour to her father and uncle came to check on the children.
"Jade where are the others?" Oritel asked.
Jade looked up at him, "They went to the pond," she said with a shrug, as she continued playing with the ball.
"And you didn't want to go? But I thought you liked the pond?" her father asked.
"Bwoom said no," another shrug came from Jade.
Oritel glanced at Jade's father, an apologetic look on his face, "I'm sorry Miguel…" he began.
Miguel shot him a grin, "She's younger than them, of course they're going to exclude her at times, they'll grow out of it."
Oritel gave him a grateful smile, as he picked up Jade and began to tickle her causing her to giggle, before he put her back down.
Jade picked up the ball and held it out to her father, "Daddy what's a fweak?" Jade asked and Miguel finally frowned as did Oritel.
"Who told you that word?" Miguel demanded, and Jade shrugged.
Bloom watched a few students beat her cousin, who didn't yell out in pain or scream nor did she shed a tear. She still hadn't received her magic abilities, or if she had she hadn't shown them to anyone, which was one of the reasons she was in this situation, the other reason was her eyes. Bloom glanced away as a crunch was heard, and blood spurted from Jade's nose. The group surrounding her soon dispersed leaving Jade to attempt to pick herself up, amid the bruises and blood. "Dad's going to kill me," she whispered mostly to herself as she winced in pain as she sat up.
"Then why don't you fight back freak?" Bloom asked offering Jade her hand. Jade ignored it and forced herself into a sitting position. Jade shrugged, it would be pointless to head to the nurse, the women hated her with a passion as did most of the populous. "You're only embarrassing me, how can someone who's related to me be so weak, our family line was filled with heroes." Jade picked up her smashed sunglasses and sighed, it was the 14th one this month and it was only the fifth. "Here, my dad makes sure I always have extras," Bloom said handing Jade a pair. "You need to stand up for yourself more, maybe then you wouldn't be getting a beat down every day. We're supposed to be strong so that we can defend the Pride from the darkness, if you can't do your part my mom says you'll be replaced. Do you even have powers?"
Jade turned to Bloom and shot her a look, "Fine then don't answer me but this probably why many people thin k you're one of them. You don't speak, and your eyes are really creepy. I'm only trying to help you cousin," she shouted at Jade who had taken off.
Jade kicked the rock in front of her, and it bounced until it hit someone shoes, Jade sighed and looked up at the three girls, who were obviously older than her. She hoped that she wouldn't be in anymore pain tonight, it was difficult to walk as it was. "Sorry," she muttered as she tried to pass them.
"Where do you think your going?" The one in the middle asked as she grabbed Jade's arm causing her to wince.
"Hmm look at those glasses maybe she thinks she's so cool," the one her left side sneered, as she pulled the glasses off her, and Jade immediately closed her eyes. "Look at those bruises, what the fuck happened to you?"
"I said I was sorry," Jade muttered, as she flicked one of her eyes open hoping to surprise them with her eyes.
"The stupid faeries were beating up one of their own I see," the girl on the right side said reaching down and touching the cut on Jade's forehead. Jade flinched, as she felt the magic from the female's fingertips slow the blood down.
"And they say that we're evil?" Darcy sent to her sisters, "What's your name?"
Jade looked away they were being somewhat nice to her, "Jade, my name's Jade."
"Don't you have any friends that could at least help you home? You're bleeding all over the place," Icy said. Jade shook her head, and tried to pull away.
"We can't just leave her here, she's one of us isn't she a pariah simply because she is not like the rest. Misunderstood just like the darkness," Stormy said only to be shot a glare from Darcy telling her to shut-up.
"The darkness," Jade repeated, "Who are you?"
Icy sighed, what a bother, "That's Darcy, I'm Icy, that's Stormy and we're late for our magic training, if you'll excuse us," she said briskly hoping to avoid a situation.
Jade watched them go for a little while, "Can I come?" she asked.
Icy shrugged, "Do whatever you want twerp," the seven year old gave a rare smile and ran to catch up with them.
Bloom watched the boy being taken out of the room, and stared at her cousin, who was staring at her hands, Bloom could only pray that boy wouldn't die. She knew it had been an accident, and that the boy deserved it but still.
"Miguel we have to bind her powers," Bloom heard her mother whisper to Jade's dad.
"She lost control, what happens if she loses control again, at least we know now that her powers are light based," Jade's mom said. "Besides what if she loses control while playing with her brother, would you like to lose a son?"
Miguel sighed and picked up his eight year old daughter, "We really have no choice then, her powers are dangerous and she does display an immediate lack of control. She can become a specialist I suppose, which wouldn't be that bad."
Bloom watched as they led her cousin away.
Esmeralda looked at Jade and frowned in distaste the stupid little faerie had followed Icy home. Icy's pity for the brat had made her soft, though even Esmeralda felt sorry for her it would be horrible to lose their magic, "Pass me that can brat," she ordered knowing full well that it was to high for the faerie to reach.
Jade looked at the can on the top shelf and raised her hand as a shadowy tendril appeared and wrapped around the can as Jade pulled it down, catching it and handing to an awestruck Esmeralda, and smiled at Icy as she entered the room.
Icy looked at her mother who was laughing to herself, "The one who will help us win power is one of them, not only that she is the offspring of one of those pathetic Pride, the irony of this all. I'm sure they worked so hard on trying to keep her good as well, those fools have just sealed their fate."
Icy gave a smile to Jade, "I suppose I can teach you how to use your powers, as long as you promise me that you'll never use them in public until you finish your training, would you like that twerp?"
Jade gave her a toothy grin, "I'll do my best."
"Good now go home Jade, your parents are probably worried, I'll start training you tomorrow," Icy said shooting Jade a smile. Jade nodded and skipped out of the room.
"They bound her powers over light but they didn't realize that she had powers over darkness as well so they only said half the spell," Esmeralda mused.
"Which means that the darkness is enticing her heart, the Faeries are doing our job for us, the more the girl is ostracized the more she comes over to our side, but even still we should at least mentor her in the dark arts so she can be ready," Icy said with a chilling smile.