Abyss of Time
By Youkiyra Solar Alias Krystal Fox
Krystal Fox: I do not own anything of Rayearth. I do not gain anything from writing this story besides the joys of writing it.
Chapter 1 Spain 1989
Esperanza was one of the princess of the Spanish Royal Family. She was the middle child. Her older brother and sister took Publicity in the public lights for all the good they did and her younger sisters took all the bad publicity with all the scams they produced. While she was pretty much just the ordinary princess.
She wasn't know very often in the public eye and she stayed mostly in the shadows. But not that she didn't like it. She was quiet most of the time. When it came to diplomacy she could knock over one off their rockers. She could use her diplomacy to get out of Ball dances, public meetings and no one stopped her because she argued her point so well. Plus hse could do it in other languages as well she knew English, French, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese.
Esperanza was 16 years old, very tall and had light green eyes unlike most of the Spaniards, she loved to sword fight, in fact she was better than her only brother who was supposed to be the best male sword fighter in Spain.
She could race bareback on a horse and win. She was teaching a new way of riding a horse. One without bridles and saddles. Her mother always fainted when she saw Esperanza riding her horses without saddle and bridle and was many times scolded for risking her life unnecessarily. But she always got away with it and did it again and again.
When at night Esperanza wanted to get away from the royal life she would use the lessons that she secretly learned from a Japanese ninja master who taught her because she was willing. Fotunately her family still hasn't found out that she learned those lessons.
Her long golden hair reached almost to her ankles. But she always kept it in tight braids that hid the length nicely it only looked to the world that her braids went to her waist.
Her brother and sisters hated how she could steal something off their person without them ever finding out till they noticed. She usually took the objects when she talked with them and they also hated her riddles. She would give them riddles to find out where the missing objects were and until they found out the riddle they would never find the missing object unless they accidentally came upon it. And that was very rare.
To her parents in the home she was a menace, she was sweet and kind and good when all else were watching but she was an excellent liar. You could never tell if she was telling the truth or not, so they just took everything she said for truth, usually she only lied when she was teasing or playing a joke, so they could trust her a lot. In fact if they were to trust her with a life and death wish or secret she would keep it to her death. So many secrets had been entrusted to her.
Unlike all her family she had made friends with all the servants and commoners she hated Royal life and wished she could live a simple life tending her exotic garden that she cared for in the palace. In fact because of her skills they didn't have to hire a gardener because of all the care she did for the plants. And searching her libraries for any new way of gardening.
In the truth of everything she longed for a friendship that wouldn't be hampered by her being royal.