I open my eyes as I look out too see that I'm laying on the ground in front of a giant flying creature. It looks wounded and that worries me. I sit up and look around and I find nothing besides what seems to be a cloak draped around my shoulders.
I go too pull it off and I realize that it's rather cold where I am. I take notice of my surroundings too see that there's only… snow around me. Still the animal's wound comes first. I find a dagger and cut up the cloth and wrap it around the animal's wing. I smile as I notice the creature's eyes open too look at me.
"Don't worry. I won't hurt you. I just want too hell."
I feel something warm and wet move on my leg so i look down. As I do all I see is blood seeping through my green skirt. I sigh in defeat as I sit down on the ground.
I look at the creature as I ask him, "What happened?"
I'm pretty sure this creature won't answer me so when I hear the crunching of snow I shoot up and pull out a pair of knives. As I turn too look I see a man with black hair, black eyes, and black armor fur looking clothing. His face though looks familiar like I knew him from before.
Before I can speak I hear a strong demanding voice leave his lips, "Who are you and what are you doing at the Xailen Temple Woods?"
I stare at his eyes to see if he has any hints of who I am, but I can't see with all my hair in my face. I sigh as I sit down on the snow. Next too me is a saddle bag and a regular traveling sack. I open both and sigh when I see a comb and hair ties. I quickly deal with my unruly hair and tie it up in 2 buns on top of my head. He-he they look like little ears.
"Selene," as I hear that demanding voice soften as he says that name.
Though it doesn't give me a good feeling when I hear that name. I shake my head as I cover my ears not wanting to hear it again. I start to shake and it's not from the cold, but from… fear. Fear of what that name means.
"Selene," though when I hear that name my ears perk up and I look at the man. I feel a warmth course through me like he's the only person in the world that can make me feel this way saying just that name.
"Is that my name?" I can't help but to ask him as I reach up to play with what hair hangs in my face.
"Do you not know your own name?"
I shake my head as I look at him, "I'm not sure who I am."
The man doesn't seem more than 20 years old. Before more can be said I feel a strong sense of magic coming our way and I push the man too the other side of me through doors of a building that was hidden behind my flying friend. I create a shield that absorbs the mana that was used in this attack and I look up angry.
I notice a flash of red then it's gone. I race into the building that I sent the black haired man through. I find him at what seems to be an altar. I place my hand on his head and I feel something pass through me. I fall to my knees as a wave of absolute worry washes over me. A worry that I'm sure where it comes from.
"Do I know you? If so then prove it."
He looks at me and he moves my hair too the side and sighs, "Yes, I'm Wingul and we used to be friends growing up. Do you know where you had gotten this scar?"
I shake my head as I look him in the eye.
"You had gotten this from trying to save my life. It was when we first met. You were younger than I, but yet you were a lot older in many ways. This was about 14 years ago. I was just a stubborn brat that didn't seem too know anything. I was a young prince that just wanted to challenge everyone and everything. Yet when I met you it all seemed too had changed for the better until the day you disappeared."
"I disappeared…?"
"Yeah, shortly before my father died in battle. That was about 10 years ago. You disappeared without trace, but then you appeared again a couple years later for about a year. That was about the best ear of my life even with all the pain I had gone through too get too where I am now."
"What was that?"
He looks silent as he says, "I did what I could to bring down the man that killed my father, but instead i joined him believing in his values."
"That would be this king of the land then?"
"Yes, he's a great man that puts the people in front of himself."
I smile at him as I can't help, but to say, "I'm glad you're in a better place unlike last time. You were so skinny and fragile. So much pain from that thing that you had placed inside of you."
"You remembered something?"
"Had I said something?"
"You don't remember do you."
I shake my head as I smile sadly at him, "I had spoken, but I hadn't heard what I had said."
He nods his head as I tell him what's on my mind.
"Do you have the right thing you mind on what's happening?"
I look at him purely confused, "My mind… it doesn't seem to be working like I'd like it to . My mind is in jumbles. It's not a pretty thing too have. A mind that doesn't seem too want to work the way that you want it too. I want to have my memories. I want to have a clear mind, but all I want in truth is too know who I am. I feel like that's something that I've always wanted to know."
"How would you know?"
I look at him and I know that my eyes are clouded over somehow, "I don't know. It's just a feeling that I have. A feeling that I've always had pieces of myself missing."
Wingul seems too sigh as he looks me in the eye, "Let's go."
"Go where?"
"Too the castle. Unless you want to freeze to death or something."
I look at him and notice a flash of something close to hope."
"Wingul, do I bring a side out of you that no one has seen before?"
He looks at me as a sad smile looks at me, "Yes… Well you and my parents."
I smile as I take his hand in my own, "Well lead me to your home."
He nods his head as he slips his hand into my own and I smile at him, "Then follow me, Selene."
I nod my head as I let this stranger, but yet something tells me that I've known him for many years even more than he says. I sigh as I feel a pang of pain course through my head. I place my feel hand on my hand as Wingul's. I let this young man lead me to a city that's mostly stone giving off a cold feeling, but yet it holds a deep warmth that's a little hidden from plain sight. This being hidden in those black eyes drag me off to somewhere unknown.
"Wingul, come down from there!" a young girl with little buns on top of her head looking like ears shouts at a young boy.
"Or what?" the boy in the tree challenges.
"I'll tell your father. He said you had too look after me until they can figure out where my parents are. So please don't do anything reckless."
I take notice of a snow wolf staring over at me and a pack forms.
"Wingul, let's leave here. It's not safe for us. Let's go back to the castle."
I hear a slight huff and I sigh knowing that he probably won't get out of the tree anytime soon.
"Wingul, I'm scared. Let's get back to the castle right now."
Before he can say anything a wolf jumps at me and I can't help but to scream and as I do a bright light appears from nowhere and like a shield knocks the wolf away from me.
"Wingul, let's leave and head back to the guards at least."
I hear a huff as he shouts at me, "You just want to see the one that you claim is cute."
Though i won't argue with him on that he's still the best looking person I've ever seen even with the charming guard.
"That place is a Temple correct?"
Wingul looks at me as we enter a cable car, "Yes, it is or more so was."
"Did we ever play in a set of 'woods' over there," I point in the direction we had came from.
"Yeah, though we were watched closely after an accident."
"Did it have to deal with a pack of wolves?"
"Yeah, a pak had attacked us and you tried to warn me, but I played mister jealous. I was 10 at the time and I think you were about 8."
I want too say, 'No, I was 10 as well,' but I don't know how I could or even if Wingul and I are the same age.
I look at the man and I can't help but to notice when he's not looking my way his eyes and face seem rather blank… apathetic.
We exit the little car and I take note of how simple this castle seems to be even for a king. Was this the castle we would play at or would we just escape to the woods somehow?
As if a thought comes too mind Wingul suddenly takes note of me and he opens a path to the castle before we reach the guards. I dont' say anything and I simply follow Wingul too a large apartment like room.
"Where are we?"
"This is where I call home."
"Why bring me here? I thought I was going to talk to the king."
He shakes his head and I want to throw a fit, but I don't think I can cause all I can do is look around learning more about this man. I stop at a portrait of a young girl that looks awfully a lot like me. Her eyes tell me that she's happy, but there's something about them that scares me like she has something bad planned.
"Is this me?"
"That portrait…. I'm not entirely sure. This was here since I can remember, but that's a lil fuzzy."
"Wingul, what is this kingdom called?"
He looks at me confused for a short while until he answers, "This is the kingdom of Auj Oule."
"Auj Oule…. Ahh…. I'm not sure where that is exactly. Could I be where you grew up? What of Trigleph?"
"Trigleph… I've never heard of it."
I nod my head as I smile sadly, "So I won't be able too see my family then."
"You're family. I thought when we were kid syou told me they were dead."
"I feel that my parents are, but there's someone in Trigleph that I'm related to. I feel like I still have a family. A family that I miss and I wish too see soon."
Wingul looks sad as he asks, "Will you leave me again too look for this Trigleph?"
I shrug my shoulders as I smile at him, "I don't want to leave this spot again," I tell him as I grab his hand and look him straight in the eye, "Wingul. I can't explain it, but I feel like if I leave this spot again I'll die. I need and want to be by your side."
He smiles as he kisses my hands, "Then marry me."
I look at him shocked. I can't explain the feeling of fear that overcomes me causing me to shake as I shake my head seeing something that will bring nothing, but pain. Yet if I leave it could be far worse.
"I'd love to marry you, Wingul, but I do not know you. Though I feel like I do. I have no memories only these feelings that are resting in my chest. So if you;d like we can start with simple courtship."