By: Nashia Vang
In the clouds, there existed a castle. And in that castle, a girl was being held. The castle itself was known to none down below, but there were still those who lived there.
The girl was cursed, by a spell long forgotten, a spell known only by a one man. As she grows older, the spell slowly loses its power. Slowly, she would grow her wings.
One day as a young boy was roaming the castle, he came across a hidden door. Out of curiosity he follows the path to a bolted wooden door. He stares at it as he cautiously walks over and touches the lock. The door bursts open with a blinding flash of light.
There in front of him was a room with crystal walls. He felt a gust of air hit his face as he entered and shivered. He looks around in awe as he runs pass crystal after crystal. But he pulls to a sudden stop when he spotted a cradle slowly rocking back and forth.
He peeks over the cradle and inside he found a baby girl wrapped in drags. Around her neck was a milky snow-white pendant in the shape of wide spread wings.
She stirred as he starts poking her. She opens her eyes and started laughing. He thought she was cute and started laughing as well. Later when she fell asleep he crept out of the room and told none what he had found that day. Every day since then he came and brought toys and played with her, but he never had the courage to pick her up.
After two months of the boy disappearing everyday the adults got suspicious. One afternoon a man fallowed the boy to the girl. After finding out that he had found the girl and woke her, he tried to grab the girl and seal her into slumber once again.
After spending all that time with her and with his strong desire to save her, he finally found the courage to pick her up. He reaches his hand into the cradle and carefully lifted her up as he had seen his mother pick his little sister up before.
As he runs from the man a blinding light not much different from before flashes from the baby's body. He fell backwards from the shock. But shocked as he was, he held the baby to his chest to protect it from the impact to the ground. But instead of hitting hard frozen crystal, he feels a warm, soft sensation surround him.
He soon felt ground under him and opens his eyes to find something even more shocking. He was no longer in the room. As his eyes adjusted to the light, he finds he's not even in his world.
His hands flew to his head as he got dizzy from the confusion. As soon as his head stilled, he remembered the baby. He looked into his arms and found nothing there He began through searching his clothes and everywhere around him, to find some trace of her. He soon felt lightheaded and fell to the ground as darkness surrounded him.