The iron fey fanfiction
My name is Arianna, I would tell you my surname but I'm sure you will find out what it is later on. Anyway, this is my story about well... me, my life.
It all started with the famous Robin Goodfellow, yes I know you're all thinking Shakespeare's donkey heads and love potions, yeah, well he's my dad.
Anyway. It's my 15th birthday in the Nevernever and I'm bored as well, any other day. Obviously Robin Goodfellow/ Puck was always busy causing mischief to the courts and generally everyone so when he found out about me, he dumped me off to the iron court for Meghan and Ash to look after as they already had a son, Keirran.
Me and Puck had just finished our long trek to the barrier of the iron kingdom and this is where we said our goodbyes. Wait, hold a second, I missed out a very important detail, I'm a half-breed. So as you can probably guess, life is quite tough for me, summer won't let me in and, I mean, why would I go to winter? So that leaves Meghan and Ash. So yeah, I was immune to the effects of iron but my dad wasn't, anyway...
"Do I have to go; can't I just stay with you?" I whined at my dad, who was gazing into the trees. He didn't answer so obviously, being me, I poked him repeatedly with a stick that I found on the ground. " Ouch, what, yes you're staying there" and with that he turned into a raven and flew off, leaving me standing there, " Goodbye" I whispered, even though I knew he couldn't hear, I felt a tear run freely down my face but decided to ignore it.
I turned and gazed into the woods, feeling a presence at my back, their glare burning my neck, instantly making me cautious. I slowly turned around, there stood Ash, prince consort of the iron realm. " Hi there!" I greeted cheerfully to Ash, who looked at me with a unreadable expression. " Are you Goodfellow's daughter?" He replied, becoming disinterested and looking into the shadows. " The one and only" I said dramatically doing a little bow. He was not impressed.
"Well are you coming or are you going to stand there all day?" He shot back, "Someone's not so good at first impressions" I mumbled to myself, hoping he wouldn't hear. Then we started walking towards the iron court.
We made it to the castle with a mostly quiet journey. I walked into the throne room with Ash at my side, I immediately saw the huge throne with a women sitting lightly on the hard stone, she had blonde hair and blue eyes, there was also a boy, perhaps my age, standing by the throne looking at me curiously. I decided to make the first move as there was a really awkward silence. "So you're Meghan the iron queen" I said, forcing a grin on my face, "Yeah, and by the hair I'm guessing you're Puck's daughter?" "Yup, that's me with my awesome red hair" I replied, chuckling. "So I know who you and Broody are" I said, glaring at Ash who had magically appeared by Meghan's side "But who are you?" I finished off, looking at the figure standing by the throne. "I'm Keirran" He announced, pushing himself off the wall to reveal pale, blue eyes and silver hair, flowing freely around his face. "Ohhh, right so you're their son, the one with the summer,winter and iron glamour?" I said, gesturing to Meghan and Ash. "Yeah" He mumbled back, "So I trust you had a pleasant journey here?" Meghan piped up, looking questioningly at Ash. "Almost" Ash nearly growled which made me laugh. A lot. All three of them looked at me strangely before Meghan asked "What happened?" "Hehe, well Ash got a bit angry" I chuckled looking at Ash. "You know what, I don't even want to know" Meghan said inbetween laughing fits. I think I caught her mumbling "She is so much like Puck" to Ash, But I just ignored that comment. "So do you know how long I'm staying here?" I asked Meghan, "Well, not really but I'm sure it wont be too long" She mumbled, fiddling with her fingers. I was going to be here a while.
I stared out my window, looking at the city through the glass, I hadn't been here a human week and the servants already hated me, In my defence they make very good food here.
I heard a knock at my door and called out "Come in" Keirran stood there with his usual black outfit on, his silver hair was tied up, revealing two pointed ears and soft, pale blue eyes. "You ready?" He asked, (for the past few days we had been doing daily training in the court yard, I lost as many times as I won which was good because I knew Keirran's fighting skill was amazing since Ash taught him, sometimes Meghan, Ash or even Glitch would join us.)
I was growing accustomed to living in the iron court but there still was a small part of me which longed for the wildwood, for the excitement and danger but I still knew that I wouldn't be getting out of here without Puck.