Summary: 100 years time has continued and Raem still rains his miasma over the lands. Zella Nae, a orphaned Selkie child, is brough into the house of nobility with Lility parents, and not just ordinary nobility either. A adopted princess is who she was brought up to be. But the chains and shakles that bear her to the castle can not contain this princess, whos dream is to carivan. Will she escape her palace to see what once ran through the blood of her ancestors? What will she find on her journey? Meeting new people, a caravaning experience like no other, and a chance of find love?
*Important* Time Period of Story: If your confused when the story takes place, its 100 years continuation of the first Crystal Chronicles, so imagin it in that setting, nothing has changed much, except for a few things I personally thought of that they might find in 100 years (nothing big though just simple things). ;) This story has nothing to do with Crystal Bearers, Echoes of Time, ect. Pluse this was kinda inspired by the short side quest in the game about the run away princess, and you had to help find her, ect., but this story has nothing to do with that princess!
A/N: Okay! Officially my first story on Fanfic and stuff, yada-yada-yada, I started the 1st chapter quiet some time ago so the styles a little different then more previouse chapters I'v worked on. But none the less I'm posting it anyway. Oh, this is exciting! READ! xD
Disclaimer: I do not own Crystal Chronicles.
Chapter 1: Prologue
The Summer night was warm, thousands upon thousands of tiny diamond white stars showned brightly in the sky but the white moon was absent. No creature stured, and the grass was dry and dying from the lack of rain that season, and the trees where becoming wilted and the bushed had lost their leafy greeness. This area was dried, because the Jegon River that had supplied the water for this dead forest, had dried almost a year earlier.
Through the thorney, dry trees and bushes , quickly rushed a Selkie man and women. With each step they took their heart race increased and pain, fear, and painc made their blood run cold like ice.
They women was gasping in panick as she constandly glanced back behind her. Her long blond hair getting in the way of her eyes with every time she turned back, but she could hear them coming closer and closer, their strange screatching as they threw small hand bombs at them that would instead hit tree's and explode against those, sending splintery wood hailing over their heads. As the sharp splinters fell, the women covered a bundled blancket in her arms wit her head and shoulders.
The Selkie man held on tightly to one of the women's hands and he led the way, beating away at any branched or plants in their way with his racket. The women felt tears form in her eyes as she looked down to the bundle that she protected, and craddled tightly against her large bussom. There in her arms, a baby Selkie stayed craddled, in the blancket. Its thumb in its mouth, sleeping, completely unaware of the danger that surrounded it as it was craddles in protection by it's mother.
The women looked ahead following the Selkie mans every dodge and move to avoid running into trees or getting stuck behind thick crispy bushes thats tiny branches where so sharp they could cut your skin with a simple pass by.
She glanced behind her one last time. The closness of the goblins was so close she could making out the faces of maybe 5 of the 20 red and blues following behind them.
She screamed in panic but the man quickened his speed despite the amount of sweat running down his face and the exhastion in his leggs that he felt. Still holding his wife's hand, he turned sharply around a tree with a thick trunk and ran straight ahead.
After running through and around the dead and leafless tree, they came into a clearing of the dead forest. A small section that was open but still had several dead trees encircling around them. The man stoped and looked around with a face of horror. The women stood close to him, terrified. They stood back to back because they could hear the russilling and noise of the goblins still around them, hidding in the surrounding dead trees, tall grass, and bushes; not knowing what direction they where exactly, but it felt like... they where surrounded.
She looked back at the bunddled little Selkie in her arm, still so unaware and innocent. She clentched the baby so much closer, protecting it with her arms and and body as the Selkie man moved his arms around her shoulder in a protective mannor, his racket still in hand as he watch his surroundings carfully.
Both where exhasted and weak. The goblins could sense that, which made them all the better to be their prey for that night.
Then the russling and cracking noise of dead leaves being steped on... stoped. Absolute silence.
Teriffeied, the women fell to her knees and covered the baby completely with her body. "I wont let them harm our baby!" She screamed.
At that exact moment the gomblins jumped from the trees and tall grass. About 20 of them attacked the two, but three if you include the little baby that was so protected in it's mothers arms. The Selkie man swung his racket hitting several in the heads, knocking them away from his wife and child. His breathing was heavy, a pail face, and sweat dripping from his chin. Surely, if the goblins don't kill him, exhastion will.
The goblins gave no mercy. Several jumped on his back, and kicked him down. His weak legs gave in, hitting the floor with a hard 'thud'. The women watched helplessly in horror as the goblins stabed her husband in the back with their jagged daggers. She shrilled loudly. Climbing to her feet quickly with a quick stumble, she took the racket from her husbands dead hand drabbled with his own blood.
The women swung at a few of the monsters, bashing them in the heads. Even with every stike she made, she covered the baby in her arms with her body, taking several slashes and cut from the goblins. Several taken out, but still so many... it seemed like they'd never stop coming.
Out numbered, the women fell to her knees, and screamed into the sky. "What ever god is up there! Save my child but take me instead!"
Her blood ran cold and he eyes widened. A dagger had plunged into her back. One small stream of blood fell from her mouth as she greatly winced in pain when the goblin removed the dagger from her back. He vision was going blurry and her limbs where going cold and numb, but with everything that just happened, she held that baby close to her.
As the goblins seemed to move in, they scattered, and quickly. The women painfully and slowly turned her head. She could see lanterns approtching in the trees to her left.
"Is anyone there!", she heard a voice call out.
As the figures approtched even closer and the lanter's light got brighter, she could see they where... Lilties... knights of Alfitaria infact. As the women looked down at the child who was now awake and unharmed, with only a smudge of dirt on it's face. The women smiled as tears swealed in her eyes.
She slowly fell onto her back, child still craddled in her arms. Only moments after hitting the ground, she could feel hands covered by metal gloves lift up her upper body.
"Selkie women!" The knights yelled out, shaking her to see if she was awake or even alive. The women's blue eyes cracked open. They where haized, blurry with tears. Her body was bloody, covered in cuts, and her face was covered with sweat and dirt mixed.
Fellow Lilties hovered a lanter over her head, some becoming startled at first glance at the women and her wounds. Other Lilty knights came running through the dried forest aswell, lanterns in every other ones hands.
The short knights leaned over her while others attented to her husband's corpse. "W-We must get her medical attention! At this rate she'll-"
"Please..." the Selkie women said weakly, but loud enoff to interupting the Lilty. She shifted her arms so that the baby craddled in them could be seen perfectly in the lanter's soft orange and yellow light.
"Take my... daughter..." The Lilties stared in shock at the Selkie.
"Ples..." the Selkie choked, "Take my daughter..." She liffed the baby toward them with every ounce of strength left in her body. "Her name is... Zella... Nae."
"Zella Nae..." One of the female knights echoed, the knight proping her upper body up motioned with his head for another knight to hold her up as he gently lifted the baby from her arms so carfully he made it seem like it was made of glass.
The Selkie women smiled. Now that her child is in care... she could rest in peace. Her arms went limp and her head fell back. Her eyes rolled back and she exhaled her final breath. But, she died... with a smile.
"H-Hey!" One of the knight called, the other holding her upper boody up shook her shoulder. She didn't move. Almost each knight took a step back from the sight.
"The male Selkie is dead, aswell..." One knight said, the pitty sound of sorrow akeing in his voice echoing under his helmet. "She's... gone..." Another knight narrated for the rest, breaking the chilling silence.
The knight holding the baby bunddled in a white blanket -covered in patched of dirt and mudd with little holes- glanced around at all the knights present. About 15 knights too be exact.
"What should we do with the baby?" One knight asked from the gathered Lilties.
"Its a Selkie! I say we leave it for the goblins! One less Selkie in the world too worry about!" One knight called from the group. The knight holding the child glared around, not exactly sure who said it, but willing to scold them all for it.
"H-How dare you say that! Have you no honor as a knight! I say we take her to their majesties! They will know what to do!" The knight holding the baby called out. Chatter of agreement arose from the Lilties. But yet, some seemed to agree with leaving the baby... because its a Selkie. A race of theives and mostly bandits...
The Lilty knight holding the child stood, "Agreed?" He asked loudly. The knights fell silent and still, then all nodded in unisync.
The Lilty holding the child, handed it too some of the female Lilty knights who cooed at the baby's cutness. The knight took the lead up at the front of the group and then marched into the dead forest with their lanterns and weapons.
Not all of the land had dried out and whithered... yet. Much of it closer to the Jegon River remaned lusher and green. The sound of the river moved to the south as a pair of Liltes sat by a fire on the shore banks. They were being closely watched by 3 other Lilties, knight, in fact.
The Lilty pair was a male and female. The man next to the women. He had a stubbled chin and his leaves for hair tied back in a some what ponytail, his robes and clothing where clean and well made silk, as a shinning crown was attop his head.
The female, was kneeling on the ground her hand hovering by the fire for warmth even on such a warm night. Her leaves in a high ponytail like most Lilty women. Her little hands where covered by white gloved and she was dressed in a fine red and white dress, fit for royalty. Infact... a crown was resting on her head aswell.
The clanking of metal arm approtched at a distance in the dark. The Lilty pair and knights turned their attentinon toward the noise, the knights having their spears and lances ready in their hands for whatever may be approtching but they settled down when they relized the noise belonged to the group of Lilty knights that where sent out earlier.
"Your majesties!"
They king and queen gave their full attention to the knights, the queen even rising to her feet. "Did you see what that noise was? I-I swear it sounded like screaming." The queen asked in a gentle tone.
The knight looked too his feet, though, he only stands about 3 feet tall. "Yes, your highness, we did... but we found somthing horrible..." Both the king and queen waited nervously for the knigt to continue, as the 3 Lilty guards that were left behind, began glancing at one another chattering amoungs themselves in worry.
"There was a Selkie man and women... both are dead. We suspect they where killed by a hord of goblins." The queen gasped lightly, while the king grumbled somthing under his breath as he rubbed his chin.
"Give them a proper barriel." He uttered, turning his back toward the knights and began walking toward the stream that was once the Jegon River.
Some of the knights in the back of the small group looked back at the forest, until they came to the desision in their own minds to go back in and burry the 2 Selkies corpes.
"Wait! Your majesty! Theres more!" The knight called. The king stopping dead in his tracks, and stared coldly over his shoulder.
"When we arrived, the Selkie women was still... some-what alive. But she had a baby with her." They queen's eyes widened with shock as the corners of her eyes moistened. She gasped, "A b-baby? The poor thing..."
"No your majesty, the child is alive. We suspect its a new born, barely 3 weeks old." The knight spoke stepping aside, the female knight now holding the baby steped from the Lilty knights, holding the little bunddle out for the queen and king to view.
The queen was the first to rush to the child. Looking at its small defensless baby with kind eyes as she placed her hands over her chest with a warm smile breaking on her lips.
"What shall we do with the child? Put her for adoption when we return back to Alfitaria?"
The queen reatched for the child, craddling it in her arms. The size of the child was bigger then a Lilty baby, which made her hard to craddle but the queen managed. The king steped up behind his wife looking over her shoulder at the baby.
Her skin was a pretty pale color, she had short locks of straight blond hair on her little head, and in the midst of her sleep, her eyes cracked just a bit for the Lilty king and queen to see her eyes where already colored and they where as green as the tree tops use to be.
The queen tilted her head lightly stareing at the child, fuzzy warmth spreading throught out her body. The joy of holding a baby was a wonderful feeling too her.
She moved one of her little fingures toward the baby's tinier hand, who then grabbed on and attempted to stick it in her mouth but the queen pulled it away quick enoff before it entered its saliva filled, toothless mouth, but giggled anyway at they childs cutness.
"We... We've always wanted a child, Dear..." The queen spoke gently looking back up at her husband. The king arched an eyebrow at his wife with skeptical thoughts flowing in his mind.
"Oh Dear..." She began as her eyebrows furowed down and a frown bent on her lips turning quickly around to look face to face with her husband.
"This child may not have leafy hair or... grow to be a maximum 3 feet tall, but... oh just look at it..." She motioned toward the baby with her head.
The pair stood in silence for a moment. The king crossing his arms over his chest, staring down at his foot that tapped every second that went by, senting chilling vibes to the queen as she knawed nervously on her lower lip. He signed heavily, and grinned lightly up at his wife.
She smiled as a weak laugh escaped her lips and tears swelled in the corners of her eyes, trying to contain her joy.
The Lilty knights watching close by began to chatter amoungst themselves. 'A Selkie Princess?' was the common question beging a buzz. 'Theres never been Selkie race in royalty!', some said in either a good or bad way.
"Your majesties!", the knight who led he small group of knight called out, interupting the moment and silencing everyone. "Before the Selkie women died, she said that the child... erh... the girl's name, is Zella Nae."
The queen giggled, "Well I could already tell its a girl... shes so beautiful."
"Zella Nae?" The king echoed, arching an eyebrow again.
"Zella Nae... a lovely name... Zella." The queen said letting the child grab ahold of her tiny index fingure again.
-19 years later-
To Be Continued
So how was that for a first chapter! I'm rather proud of this for being my first story! ^_^ But please, if you liked it drop a review off, please. But give me your oppinion on the writing style, any improvments needed? Or if you even are still confused about the time period, I didn't really check through what centuery all the other Crystal Chronicles games take place after the 1st one, but whatever!
With the fight scene between the Selkies and the goblins, I got extreamly lazy if you coudn't tell, I really just wanted to post the first chapter ASAP, so I made it small and to the point. Any other fight scenes in this story are probley going to be double or triple that ones size.
Oh! And just a little heads up, the next and last MAIN character/hero/ heroin's partner of this story wont be introduced until chapter 3 or 4.
Please rievew! :3
~SomtinERanother