Chapter one

So cold...

The fairy struggled to move as ice slowly encased her legs, she held a package wrapped in beige cloth in one hand and a halberd in another as she did her best to walk on her shaking legs. The halberd she held dropping from her shaking fingers just before she fell to the ground onto the bright green grass catching herself with her now free hand by placing it on the ground before her, a hopeful smile coming to her face as she thought she had made it out of the kingdom only for the hope to turn to fear as a boot came down in front of her, missing her hand by barely an inch. The ground in front of her slowly starting to turn to ice causing her trembling hand to turn numb. The fairy didn't want to look up as she felt something warm land on her head and several red drops dropped onto the ground in front of her which caused her to hold the beige package closer to her body, she didn't need to be an expert to know that as the red drops continued to drip onto the ground to know that the red drops where blood. It was so cold... The thought invaded the fairy's mind just before she forced herself to look up at the person in front of her. She slowly brought her eyes up from the pristine white boots, travelling up the long legs of the person blocking her path as she saw her legs where covered by a very thin but durable white fabric that swirled around up to the woman's waist and up over her shoulders to form a type of sheer jump suit that was all one piece of fabric that also formed a white fur cape that hung from her shoulders down to the ground, the only thing that interrupted the flow of white fabric was a bright luminescent crystal snow flake that was pinned to the white fabric just below the perpetrator's exposed bellybutton. The fairy ignored the blood coated hands of the woman in front of her and instead looked at the face of the woman who had destroyed everything.

It was so cold...

Biting the inside of her cheek the fairy watched as the white clad women barely moved the tip of her pinky which caused a small pillar of ice to appear just below the halberd, lifting it up from the now frozen ground and bringing it to rest in her hands, and with the weapon in the woman's hand it felt a little more chilly, as if all the warmth in the entire realm had vanished when the blue halberd touched the woman's skin. The women turned her head just enough so that her eyes could have an uninterrupted view of the halberd, her curly raven black hair bounced as she lifted her head, looking down at the halberd as she gripped the weapon as she opened her carnelian red lips, her words coming from between them where just as cold as the ice that she manipulated to her whim

"So, the king thought you would be able to keep this from me?" the woman said, the lack of emotion coming from her voice could scar warriors, not a single drop of emotion was held in her voice, not hate, not surprise, not boredom or even triumph, this woman who had just destroyed the strongest dynasty the realm had ever known didn't even have a note of pleasure staining her voice. The fairy dug the nails on her free hand into the ice, causing spider web cracks to form, what kind of wickedness was this bitch to not have any emotion even when causing so much suffering? Why had she done it? A little whimper came from the beige bundle that the fairy held onto with her other arm and she quickly loosened her grip, with the appearance of the woman in front of her she had almost forgotten about the princess. The sound didn't seem to bother woman in front of her as she raised the halberd a few feet before slamming it down on the ground, causing shock waves to ripple though the ground, a collective scream coming from the frozen city behind the fairy, but her attention wasn't on the people who where crying out for help but they where instead on the halberd as the ax fell away and dropped onto the ground to reveal the bright stones beneath, sapphires, Onyx and pearls all dotted the former halberd which was now revealed to be a beautifully decorated pointed sceptre

"Father made a horrible mistake entrusting this to his mistress" the woman said and the fairy growled coldly

"How could you do this Isolde! To the people! to the kingdom! To your family!" the fairy yelled and the woman, who's name was Isolde, turned her head causing her dark curls to bounce around her face

"because this is what I am!" emotion finally came into Isolde's voice

"This is what the you, father, mother, everyone made me like this!" Isolde said as she pointed the sharp end of the sceptre at the fairy, her orchid coloured eyes narrowed as the fairy had to lift her head as the point pointed at the hollow of her throat

"Please, Isolde, you know you're not like this. I've raised you since you where a little girl, You're not evil, I would have seen it, Please put the sceptre down, we can still remedy this" the fairy said and Isolde frowned

"At one point or another I would have believed you Claire, but after that...thing's birth" Isolde turned the point to the bundle in the fairy's arm

"after that thing appeared, I accepted what everyone else knew" she hissed as the fairy held the bundle to her tighter as she slowly sat back on her knees

"This isn't you" the fairy whispered as she looked into Isolde's eyes "and you know it...this is just envy, jealousy, the tantrum of a little girl, you don't need to bring it any farther" she whispered and Isolde looked at the fairy, blinking several times, her eyes seemed to change for a moment before suddenly hardening as she swung the sceptre

"Shut up!" Isolde roared as she brought the sceptre down on the fairy, but with lightening speed the fairy dodged it by flinging her body to the right, scraping her entire arm along the rough ice as she slid. Struggling to her feet the fairy was breathing hard as Isolde raised the sceptre up and though her arm forward causing ice to appear out of no where in the shape of sharp thin lethal blades, but when the fairy dodged the ice blade shattered against the stone behind her

"Stop moving!" Isolde screamed, rage contorting her beautiful face into a disgusting mass of stressed wrinkled and crows feet as Isolde flung more and more icicles at the fairy as she ran along the wall, holding the crying bundle to her chest as she felt ice from the shattering icicles land on her back. The fairy slid as she turned the corner, putting one hand on the wall to steady herself she fell into a hidden crack in the wall and landed on cold hard ground, but it wasn't frozen, it was just cold. The fairy could feel grass tickling her raw arm as she stumbled to her feet and started sliding her way side ways though the crack in the cliff side wall. The raging screams from Isolde as the fairy flung herself out of the crevice and onto the ground on the other side of the wall. Gasping for air the fairy slowly stood up, the bundle in her arms had rolled off several feet and she gasped as she scrambled over to the unearthly still bundle and removed the layer covering it's face.

The fairy let out a sigh she hadn't realized she had held back when she saw the rosy cheeks of the Princess, she had somehow managed to just fall asleep. The fairy picked her up and stood, looking around she felt slightly better as she saw that she was standing in the middle of a farming field. Several people where staring at the fairy as she raised her free hand in a sign of peace as someone was already walking toward them dressed in loose dirty green pants and a loose brown shirt

"My name is Claire, please we need your help"