ONCE
...IN THE DARKEST NIGHT
Snow White had rode her horse through the woods as the forest become much darker. Her thoughts were mixed as what she would see this night.
Her whole entire world hadn't been the same and maybe that was the point. She was going through many different feelings when it come to...her. Since the time when she was moaning her to hunting her down. There where memories of having happiness too with her...
...But that was before she found out who or what she was dating.
It would been so much easier to just hate her for what she did to her. Snow like her real mother wear her feelings on her sheave and this woman had drove her into feeling like everything she could ever represent meant nothing.
Everything was confusing...terrible for it, yet she couldn't feel angry
WHY didn't she feel angry but she don't want to dwell on it now...
Her horse stop at the edge of a darkened hillside, she try to calm it down but get off.
She whispered to her horse to go back. It understood her as the horse back away and left her to the darkened area...
She had arrived at...
The Shadow Lands
Snow had hear a lot of stories about this land, a dark menacing kingdom that bordered on the magical land of OZ. It was once a land of beauty and its people happy until the coming of a dark mysterious new ruler who with her brought a whole new order...
Horror and black magic, demons released from the very depths of Hades.
She remembered the name of that ruler
The Countess
After a time legends and rumors filled the other kingdoms as to avoid the dark land which was said to have creatures searching the countryside for victims. She never find out what happened to the Count of these stories. She was here for a different reason as she heard the biggest rumor about the Shadow Lands...
It was now the home to the most fearsome werewolf of them all, The Big Bad Wolf
She begin to loosen her blue cape as she continued to slowly walked through the woods. The trees were blackened without leaves on them, the ground felt hard and broken. Yet she wanted to do this until she reached her destination...
The blue cape fell to the ground as she begin to smile
She remembered her...
"Your're late" Ruby said quite more calmly then she would have liked. She had rode all this way to the border of the Aurora Kingdom just for this
"And your're doing it again of trying to hide something from me"...
Ruby smiled widely, Snow could tell there was something going on with her. "Don't play coy with me my dear Princess. Am still trying not tell my stepmother Queen Regina about...us"
Princess Ruby turned her head toward Snow "You could do better then that"
She noticed that her long black hair and the stunning blue left eye as the other had a golden stripped eye patch on the right. She was teller then Snow still taken to wearing a red uniform, similar to the Musketeers that surrounded her mother Queen Anita.
Ruby also wore on her, a strip to a stunning golden jeweled sword
Everything about her was stunning...
Snow laughed lightly she neared the princess "Better wouldn't mean a thing if i could have a life with just you in it.."
Ruby touched her face, slowly her fingers neared Snow's lips as the eyepatch glowed in the morning sun "Close your're eyes..."
"Close your're eyes..."
Snow opened hers with near tears coming down. She needed to focus as she unbuttoned her white blouse, the need to see her again was too great.
With that thought, she throw it to the ground. Topless,her long black hair blowing around wildly.
She could feel like she was being watched as she made her way along the path again
In any other times, she would utterly terrified of the woods and darkness around her. The trees around her seemed to take on gruesome faces, yelling at her in silent terror or taking on the forms of various monsters.
She noticed a stream with a rock in shape of a witch
Maybe this was one of the leftover tricks of the Count to warn visitors to stay away from there domain.
She wouldn't be easy now to just...stay away as her breasts hardened with the warm air.
Unknown to her a figure was following her through the trees, leaping the limbs. Its eyes shined through the dark woods
It's look was that of sadness...of a happier time...
With her eyes closed, she felt something in her hand as she opened them...
"Its so beautiful!" she said stunned to Ruby's smiling face
She saw a flower with a white yellow look to it, "What is it?" she questioned to Ruby
"During my travels. I came to the kingdom of Arendelle near the highest point of there North Mountain. When i come across a lovely sight
A flower in full blossom in the middle of a howling snow storm. It felt so lonely i just had to take it.
Then the strangest thing happened as the storm suddenly stopped."
Snow giggled abit as Ruby too begin to laugh but she don't know why. Snow's glare was stunning to the young soon to be Queen, since what had happened before hand with both them changed how they even looked at each other.
Snow White know Red always picked the most beautiful flowers for her. She felt like there was always something in the air whenever the two of them get together. These feelings had crept up more and more inside her, yet she had to suppress them mainly because there was one thing standing in her way of happiness...
"These are very lovely Ruby...but you know how MY stepmother feels about all...this!" Snow tried to sound calm but Ruby had known she was far from it.
Snow watched as Ruby turned away in anger."What is it about that...that "witch" that keeps us from seeing each other.."
She don't know how to answer that question really as she pressed her hand over the taller girl's shoulder. "That "witch" has been teaching me various ways to handle ruling my kingdom when the time comes for me..."
"...To be a queen of course i know that Snow. But there's also this feeling that i have, that your're stepmother is a very dangerous woman. She give me a look in her eyes that don't feel..."kind" or warm about her...unlike you"
Snow giggled again as she just hugged Ruby close to her."Am NOT the one in danger from her i can ensure you of that. But am worried what she could think of us.
I don't know how she would react to us being together"
Ruby let go of her grasp of Snow. She motioned toward her hat and pull out from it, a letter.
"What is this?" Snow asked as Ruby simply answered "An invitation to a very special event...
One that i hope you will be at. When the time comes" she said as went toward her horse. A big knowing smile across her face
Snow stood beside the beautiful tall tree as she waved her "friend" good bye...maybe they could get away with anything from the eyes and ears of the queen. She felt that with Princess Ruby by her side she could take on the world
The world was a cruel dangerous place and it felt like hell wanting to even take it on.
She shook with anger not cold as her legs carry her ever deeper into the dark forest that surrounded the Shadow Lands. She don't know how she felt when it come to the fact that everything she ever believed was a outright lie.
She couldn't just let go of her so easily but if the world demand that she so...NO!. Why the hell would she think of such a thing, her mind was as conflicted as her body. Just knowing, feeling the fact that in the past few weeks...nothing was real.
Damn it, she hated these thoughts running her head.
Then the sounds of the forest become dead silent, closing her eyes once again. She stopped to strip once more.
If any of the stories about the forest were true, then this was a stupid act to do...but she don't care.
She quickly and quietly pulled down her brown overalls, throwing them by a fallen tree
Just then there come a huge sort of sounds from all around the forest...
Howling
"But Stepmother please just understand..." Snow begin her speech as Regina and her had there morning breakfast
"UNDERSTAND...what my dear" Regina answered rather coldly "..That you been playing around behind MY back.
That everything i DONE for you is nothing...because of HER!"
Snow had the look of surprise on her face, how in the world did know? "Stepmother i am not 12 years old anymore. You can't decide who i want to see.."
"Oh why not then you wouldn't have had that Dragon come to force you to marry him..."
"Stepmother..."
"Or the fact that you had taken Princess Ruby with you on that damned journey toward his domain of Agrabah..."
"It wasn't like that..."
"Then she just happened to lost her left eye to a creature with a full grunge against the princess..."
"Clearly Cruella was an insane person but..."
"OH NO PRINCESS RUBY WAS THE ONE WHOSE CLEARLY INSANE!...stop making these excuses for her. I have no interest dear girl in your're lust or love for her. She is clearly not for you and i will KILL her on the spot if she so sets foot within this very castle."
Regina yelled out for all to hear. All but Snow White with clear angry look to her
"No Stepmother! you can't and whatever faults the princess has i just don't care...she is better then you..."
Snow forced herself out of her chair and turn out from the looks that she and the Queen were clearly making
"...And I AM NO longer a child for you to shape"
Snow was going to ignore the animals that come with the unearthly sounds coming from all around her.
Any other sane person would run from the spot but not Snow. Not with the path still ahead for her and what she wanted.
Maybe there was now nothing to keep her here but once again would not take it. She now begin to undo her red bows around her hair as they uncurled revevling how long her black hair had gotten since that time.
She was now down to her panties.
To others she was vulnerable now, but she didn't feel like it
This feeling must be what kept the one she wanted going...this insane amount of freedom
Even all the scary howling around in the middle of this stripping, she looked up at the moon shining down at her...
...Was this how always felt for someone who couldn't get this kind of freedom...from everyone
Dear Snow
Today will be my 21 birthday, everyone who is anyone will be part of this occasion including sadly your're stepmother. She can be a most forceful woman when it comes to grand balls like this one.
But it is not her i am excepting but you. It is my very wish for us to make this something a happy joyful party and i do want to see you
but if you not come then the dove i will sent to you will understand.
Red
Snow read the letter again and again as the dove look on from her window. As she come close to it afterwards
"Tell her i said...YES!"
The dove seemed to nod in response to her answer as it take off toward the north
Laughing now she couldn't think of a better place to met her.
The princess in all the grandest most loved kingdoms in all the world.
Beauty behind compare, lips that made her shook in kissing them,
A body that any man OR woman would want
And the bravest person she ever met.
She begin to dance and laugh some more within her room as her movement get wilder and wilder until...
"How lovely.."
She stop in her tracks "...Stepmother please just try to understand..."
Regina closed the door loudly behind her in rage "You poor wrenched little fool. You think that this princess is the one for you?
That nonsense like a "happy ever after" is to be made with this filth...no Snow that isn't for you"
Snow faced her stepmother in equal amounts of anger "Don't you dare call her that!...
My love for her is beyond measure and besides why do you hate her so much?"
It was there that Regina give her a sinister look as she suddenly spoke softly to her. "She maybe the Fairest One of All and THAT my dear is something that i will not allow.."
"That is the dumbest excuse i ever heard in my entire life. Stepmother...now please LEAVE!"
As she left, she stared cold at the princess and with a smirk on her face "Your'e never going to that ball and that's final!"
Why was she just remembering the bad moments in her life right now?
Even as wolves howled around her and completely naked for all the world to see. She went back on the trail through the woods as before.
Maybe there were memories further down that equally much more painful but the heated taints between her and Regina never stopped. The Queen was someone who was meant to be bold and outspoken to everyone of her critics.
But Snow felt even back then of never truly knowing her
Her father was taken too much by Regina's haunting beauty and devilish charm. A fatal mixture and sadly Snow was taken in by the thought of anyone willing to be a new mother for her. She felt like a fool then but not now.
Queen Regina was someone with power and influence takes to the fact that the family was part of old "inner circle" of heroes. A group that once ruled over the various kingdoms before they split and went to war with one another.
Some say the now gone "Dark One" lead to that split and now with him dead. There was no one truly from the old times.
Whatever Regina wanted from her, it was the fact that she wanted to mold her into something dark and unfeeling.
She didn't seem to hate her out of anything personal though least at the age of 12. Regina seemed to regret her as something like a toy to play her feelings with. Snow just don't truly or if ever understood a woman like that.
One thing she did understand though was just how incredibly vain she was.
Her family including Queen Cora Grimhilde was a hero from the old times and how someone like Regina ever turned up not be her. No one but the evil Dark One would ever tell.
In truth least according to rumors, the Dark One NOT Queen Cora shaped her but then she become his greatest enemy
It was all vague though and Snow at that time didn't pay attention to such outrageous stories. Given the fact that some thought she was a witch along with Regina
Still not even the dark evil forces that controlled the Dark One could ever get ahold of what made Regina truly dangerous.
Some part of Snow felt least back then, that her Stepmother could indeed reach some level of redemption. But that was a fool's dream given all the horrors the Queen unleashed on the entire land.
Someday Snow hoped, she would found some way to stop the evil that was Regina.
Such thoughts like that would be in the back of the naked princess's mind.
The howling stopped as she walked along the path, carrying nothing but herself.
What could have been her goal then in coming here if the rumored creatures were waiting just outside her view. Such nightmares were said to have always been on the lookout for such prey like Snow to wander in.
And she was allowing them to. No girl in right mind would have thought as walk this path in the nude!
Maybe Snow thought to herself
That's just what other girls lacked then...sanity
She had watched with tear filled eyes as Queen Regina's carriage pulled away from the castle
As she sit in the dinning hall washing the dishes away. Regina's little "punishment" to Snow. Put her in rags and have all the other servants never talk to her.
Although Regina want everyone to ignore her as she had done. Only the old soldiers from her father's guard still address her as "Your Highness"
But Snow just smiled kindly at them and never tried to undermined her stepmother's orders...for now anyways.
The brown and white rags least fit this time around compared her first time in them. Much like suddenly being made a servant within your own household felt very weird for her to get used to.
But whatever made Regina "happy"
Not that tonight she would ever forgive someone like that.
Fairest One of All?
What the hell did her stepmother mean by that?. She never heard of such a title much less Princess Ruby even handling it.
She heard of Ruby being the best hunter in all the land but never fair?
Ruby was brave and bold and beautiful and...
Oh by Zeus's thunderbolts, she now couldn't her out of her head. No one could just say "no" to someone that fantastic.
Someone pretty the opposite of Snow in every way possible. If her story of at a young age completely killing a wolf to save her sick grandmother, with just a kitchen knife was true then truly what wasn't to love about her?
Damn it she even had same way with animals as Snow!.
Yet tonight was her birthday and it felt so far away from this castle. As she went into the courtyard and around the old "wishing" well
Her father and mother believed in this old well so much that any wish could come true.
Looking bitterly into the darkened well, her face shined back her own reddened face. She wanted to be selfish for once in her life, she felt with all her heart to act on it.
Such desire to just see Princess Ruby again but for one time
Closing her eyes, she spoke out to the well
"...I wish..."
"...I wish i could just see for once" Snow said bitterly
Suddenly turning around on the path, she had to rest her feet if only for a shot time near a log. Suddenly all the anger within her couldn't be silent as she rise and screamed
"I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME...
DAMN IT
DON'T BE AFRAID OF ME
I COME A LONG WAY TO SEE YOU...
DO YOU THINK I COULD JUST LET GO...
YOUR'RE WRONG..." she yelled into the surrounding woods. Kneeling into the soft leaves as tears come down her face
"Why are you so terrified of me?...
What did i ever do to deserve that?
Please tell me"
A blue light suddenly shined around the well
A light so blinding that Snow had to cover her eyes, out of it she saw the outline of a beautiful outer worldly woman
Her skin was pure blue, her eyes and lips were black in color. Her figure was in a shining blue dress, she wear her longer blue hair was centered around a golden crown with jewels that also shined through the brightness.
Within her long thin right hand was a green wand with a whale's head carved into it. Smiling she waved her wand at the nearby water turning it into gold
"Her mother always loved that trick" she said in a kind matter of fact voice as Snow looked amazed at what just happened
"Um excuse me just who are you?"
The being seemed to laugh lightly at the answer as get close to Snow "Why am your're fairy godmother Blue's my name..."
"Blue...my mother once said that you were always watching over me"
Blue giggled at that "Why yes and i also watch over wood carvers and toy makers. Although they been rather scare of me lately...calling me "Shady Blue"
Have you ever heard of such a dumb name before in your're life...really"
Snow had never met a fairy or the very least someone like Blue before. Through Regina, Snow met the Queen of the fairy folk but never the Godmothers. They were a wild "breed" and therefore women to be avoided.
Regina had "trust" issues with them
Snow would be the one to date a giant then ever meeting a Godmother in Regina's eyes
"I thought all Fairy Godmothers were..older then you are!" Snow said as Blue leered
"Honey your''re mother appointed me at your birth to watch over and so past several years i done so. Don't blame me for not being there to stop your holy then thou stepmomma pulled this insane stunt of making you a dirty kitchen maid!"
"Besides this very night your're wish will come true" Blue said in a light giggle
Snow gasped " You know what my wish was?"
Blue now giggled again "I'll heard your're wishes countless times through out your young life. Basically one about a dashing maiden whose bravery captures your heart. Quite a catch really"
"She is and i want to just see her and then..."
"STOP right there and maybe i'll help. The first thing to do is these rags!. Why the hell did she have you in such horrible things?" Blue said in utter disgust
Snow don't answer and that was enough for Blue
As she ordered the girl to stand start turning around. She did so as Blue waved her wand a nearby tree
Suddenly the pieces of bark were peeled off the tree onto Snow's figure
Where there been rags was now a beautiful brown dress made from the very bark. "Why its so lovely. I never seen anything like it" she said happily
Blue begin to chant with wand in hand
"From one princess to another. A crown of leaves will form around your're head..."
Another nearby tree shook its leaves on Snow's head forming into a green emerald crown
"For the waters turn to ice like your're namesake to hide your're very features"
Like fast acting makeup, icy yet warm to touch blanketed her looks like a mask
Then with a final wave, she chanted toward a stone horse long forgotten among the courtyard
"With one wave of this wand bring life to stone and rode this maiden off to the ball"
With one stoke, the horse become flesh and blood as Snow looked shunted by all that take place.
She hugged Blue "Oh how can i ever think you"
Blue just smiled widely " With keeping these in mind my dear"
And another wave at Snow's feet, suddenly there were two golden slippers "There beautiful"
Blue then drew her wand toward Snow "A word of caution. The magic will only last as long as you stay at the ball. Everything will go back to what it was before if you ever decide to leave..."
"Oh i wouldn't forget that and thank you with all my heart Blue" Snow smiled as spoke
And with just a grasp of the stone horse Snow White waved good bye to Blue
Off into the road that lead to Princess Ruby's fabulous ball...
Why was no one answering her?
She looked down at her feet, the golden slippers under the fallen leaves. Magic within them kept them warm at least. Much less tiring then the rest of her body was feeling
Her mind bitterly asking numerous questions as to why she wanted to do once she reached her.
Snow felt more angry then ever before if all this torture was really for nothing, surely madness would over take her soon if not later.
But she wasn't giving up
Nothing was left of her and still felt like moving on. As the woods around her grow darker and the features within the trees become more horrifying to look at.
Her mind was starting to play tricks on her now as she felt like they were watching her.
She hadn't eaten in over a hour or so since she started. Maybe it was hunger now that giving her the various voices thorough out the woods calling out toward her
Turn back
Your're not wanted here
Make her into one for the Witch
YES THE WICKED WITCH
Go back
GO BACK AND NEVER RETURN
Kill her
The Witch of the West wants her alive
Drive her mad then the Witch can have her
JOIN US
...YES JOIN US
Breathing hard and her mind in such a haze from all the walking. Her feet under the slippers become to grow sore, her head was spinning. Everything within her body become painful beyond belief.
She hadn't been resting at all along this path.
Suddenly she come toward a log cabin. It must been her mind as she can't make up all the wonderful little details within it. Maybe it was her feverish imagination as her vision become more and more blurry.
Stopping she begin to knock in panic like she was about to break down the door
Then she must have slapped on something and fall on unconscious as a black furred figure come over her...
Snow White soon find herself walking toward a magnificent grey stone castle. Looking at the various guests waiting along with her on a long cast iron bridge across a beautiful reflective lake.
She could see all the guests come from across different kingdoms, each one carrying a gift to the birthday girl
Then she realized that she wasn't carrying a present of her own for Ruby!
Looking quickly around within the line, she saw a pack of flowers, without much thought. She grabbed the flowers basically roses and with much patience walked past the various royal guards reading off the guest list for the ball
"Grand Drake Marc of Davis..."
"Sir Ollie Johnson..."
"Baron Wolfgang Reitherman"
"Sir Lounsbery"
"Sir Thomas of Camelot"
"Baba Yaga of the Shadow Lands..."
"Oh how clumsy of me" Snow said as she run into a black dressed figure which in turn completely destroyed the roses Snow had. The hooded woman seemed to smile at her as she picked herself up from the accident.
"The fault is sadly all mine my pretty" the strange woman answered with a rather thick accent.
Snow wasn't paying attention however since the roses were now all over the floor "That...that was my gift to her..."
"Vas princess Ruby can be someone very forgiving with the possibly of another gift...then just simple flowers" The black dressed woman said with a hopeful tone.
Snow looked up at her as the woman handed her a blood red see through marble ball. Small and yet beautiful in design, Snow could see within it a mini figure of a white timber wolf.
Handling the marble, Snow smiled toward the woman "Think you Miss..."
"...Please dear call me Countess Mina. It is one exchange for another.
I am after all a extremely OLD friend of the royal family and they would be disappointed if my gift is not handled by one such as you...my pretty"
Snow seemed taken in by Mina's strange otherworldly charm and glowing green eyes
Possibly just the candle light was starting to play tricks on her."Well think anyways..."
Countess Mina seductively smiled at her, giving off what looked like fangs like a bat or a wolf would give. "Am sure we will meet again Ms..."
Snow had to think of something a name rather quickly "Ummm ohhh...Frosty"
"Frosty?" Mina questioned
That wasn't it "No of course not, my name is Mary actually.."
"Well MARY. Good luck for the rest of the evening"
Even after meeting the strange Countess Mina
Snow know the rest of the time at the ball would go off without incident. The royals around the Red Forest sure know how to party though. A whole entire zoo round the garden area...
Gypsy entertainers and dancers for even the local people and nobles alike to enjoy...
A huge stage puppet show recreating Red Riding Hood encountering the dangerous wolf in the forest...
Mermaid performers from Atlantis leaping around the lake to sound of fireworks and music...
Snow couldn't dare believe this was all happening to her. When her family put on a birthday party it would be a small occasion. Nothing as insane or outrageous like this.
Then again the more she and Ruby had gotten close, the more opposite they felt like completely
She was the one to spoke her mind...Snow hadn't still couldn't
She was so bold and outspoken...Snow wanted with all her life to be kind of "bold"
She was the one who was so FAIR...
But then nodded her head out of that last one since that argument with Regina. "Damn it Snow.." she said to herself
"There's no such thing as the Fairest One of All!. That's just nonsense!"
Saying that clearly and loudly made her laugh before she turned right into looking right at the face of a huge black wolf...
The sight was quite terrifying to look at...but fastening as well
The wolf was stuffed and it was right at center of the castle's outside entry to the grand ballroom!...
The thing was the size of an adult cow, its dead eyes were blood red and looking straight at her. The yellow sharp teeth looked like it could be sharper then any knife in the world.
She put her hand to the strange blackened red fur that run along its entire body, how surreal that it felt warm to the touch. Knife marks were present through out random areas of the fur and skin of the creature
Its lags were the size of a well trained horse
and the most strangest feature was the tail, less like a normal wolf's then some sharpened spiked weapon!...
Snow could easily tell that such a "wolf" like this, if one were to call that would horrify a child like Ruby for the rest of her life.
This would give her some nightmares just thinking about how it was once alive!...
This thing shaped a tiny little girl into something else. Judging from the marks on the body, that girl was gone....
Moving that out of her mind, Snow entered into the grand ballroom of the castle...
This was something out of amazing dream
Countless different lighted chandlers which filled the room with a number of scents...
The candelabras were in the very shape of swans and such countless number of them...
Murals filled with all sorts of animals but mainly swans...
She saw an elegant orchestra made up of all kingdoms performing in low part of the ball room floor. As the various dancers circled around them...
She could see a ton of high end young noble males here as well. Most if not all had tried their hands at marrying her but now they were chasing Princess Ruby for a more "hopeful" outcome.
Snow did feel quite sorry for them right now because of that...not really though.
Laughing from that thought. She made her way through the growing crowd that seemed amazingly easy in no small part to the magical wooden dress that fit perfectly to her figure.
She never seemed to sweat from the ice makeup that made her face look blue and pale yet moved with her expressions.
Even the crown on her head never lost its place on top of her head.
Yes this her being the most selfish about something and it was giving a weird unexplained feeling...
Snow come toward a huge staircase and at the top sit Queen Anita, the surprisingly teenage looking "Grandmother" and...
"Oh please Ruby just try the stuffed lobster..."
Ruby seemed to be ignoring her as look on the various passing guests "Mother please! don't the doctor told you not to overeat!.."
Anita laughed uncontrollably "AHAHAHAHA oh no but i can't since the baby just loves these things"
Ruby was giving her Grandmother a sudden cold look after that statement "Hey don't look at me...its the baby that's doing it. So start blaming it once their born!..."
Ruby had come to one conclusion after this "Well why was i even born into this family again!?..."
Snow generally don't know to ether laugh or cry at that statement or not...
Snow had the closest look at the birthday girl with each passing step
For some reason or another, Princess Ruby was dressed in a golden white lean dress and long black hair now tied in a simple brown bow. The lipstick she wore was still pure red which also matched the eye shadow of pale green.
She wore long white gloves and golden dancing shoes on her feet.
But all looks she seemed to Snow to be rather uncomfortable with this whole look anyways
That thought was stop though when the Grand Crier begin his hitting large staff down upon the steps
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...
GREAT PEOPLE FROM FAR AND NEAR...
I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT ON THIS MOST GLORIOUS NIGHT...
YOUR'RE PRINCESS RUBY LUCAS...
DAUGHTER TO GRAND QUEEN ANITA OF THE RED FOREST KINGDOM...
IS TONIGHT AT THE AGE OF 21..."
Suddenly a huge amount of appease went out within the massive ballroom. Snow couldn't be happier to her as the Crier concluded his speech
"YOU MAY NOW PASS THE GIFTS TO YOUR'RE PRINCESS!"
Snow felt weird having never for the life of her ever handed a gift to someone in her entire life til then.
Looking down at her hand, she still had the marble. It wasn't something really truly spectacular like basically everything else around her. What the hell would Ruby see with such a small gift like this?
Sure there must been other lesser ways to get the princess but she was feeling like such a...
"Its beautiful Ms..." Ruby said quite calmly as Snow put it in her hand like a child forced to play with others
But the way Ruby spoke turned her head and glam from her one good eye made Snow smile in trying to talk again
"Its Mary of Arendelle your're highness.."
The Grandmother seemed to laugh a bit at that as Ruby kissed her hand "Well the ice folk sure don't waste time with party favors or frozen makeup!"
Snow begin to laugh at the Grandmother which in turn give Ruby a odd look...
"AHAHAHAHA Am sure you would be great at the palace games!" Snow suddenly remembered that was the only time in her entire life she had visited Arendelle. Then noticed the Grandmother suddenly catching her fist in anger toward that statement!...
Quickly Ruby stepped in carefully grabbing Snow away from the steps "THIS GIRL IS A OLD FRIEND OF MINE, GRANNY!...please don't mention the Arendelle games again!.."
"Why!?" Snow questioned as Ruby whispered "Lets just say she had a pretty bad time at those games and leave it at that"
The Whiz begin to play as Ruby and Snow danced together in the center of the room
For the time in forever this felt...wonderful
Snow had no other words to even think what she was feeling right now with Princess Ruby by her side. Why don't this feeling ever go away or better yet why don't stay to make her heart beat even faster. Maybe it was unhealthy but she couldn't care less
This night seemed to be made for them
"Your're smiling again.." Ruby spoke with hint of seduction about her to Snow
"And your're ruining your're own birthday party by not dancing with anyone else" Snow answered rather aware of the onlookers around them
Ruby just continued to ignore them "Let them stare...Snow White!"
Snow seemed scared for only a moment as Ruby just smiled at her "How did you know?"
Now it was her turn to laugh "AHAHA something about your scent... the way you carry clumsy along toward the stairs...THAT makeup oh boy..."
"Okay enough i can't fool you one bit...not that i was trying to anyways" Snow sheepishly said but Ruby don't seemed to hear her
"Come on princess. Would you dare risk your're stepmother's wrath just to see me tonight?" Ruby questioned
"Would the answer always be yes" Snow felt that was simple enough
Ruby just moved with the music as they danced. To them the world stopped and it felt weird at the very least to Snow White. It shouldn't have been since she been invited to hundreds of balls before. But not tonight...she generally felt funny but maybe it was just her reacting to the chums from earlier. So many thoughts were going through her head and each one involved Ruby.
Was this something that been building since they first met?
Such questions were filling her head and don't want a answer to any of them
It shouldn't be this insane when come just to seeing her again...
Touching her like this was very hopeful...
The way just her good right eye looked straight into her soul and she was smiling at it...
So why the hell was she feeling so incredibly sad then?
"May i cut in?" intoned a cold voiced Queen Regina to the unrecognizable Snow
"Of course your're majority" Snow answered with equal if more coldness to the smiling unsuspecting Queen.
Next Chapter:Shadows of the long past