The sun rose, lighting the sky over the mighty land of DunBroch.
The rolling hills, the lush valleys, the exotic forests, the cool rivers, this was the magic land. The homeland. This was the land where young Princess Cairistìona would one day be Queen.
Cairistìona was playing hide and seek with her mother Kyoko.
"Where are you? Come out! Come out! Come on out! I'm coming to get you!" Kyoko said.
Young Cairistìona laughed as she hid under the table. "Where are you, you little rascal? I'm coming to get you!" Kyoko looked under the table but Cairistìona quickly moved to hide somewhere else. Hmm. Where is my little Birthday girl, hm? I'm going to gobble her up when I find her! Cairistìona comes up behind Kyoko and goes to run away but Kyoko catches her. "I'm going to eat you!" She pretended to eat Cairistìona and they both laughed as Kyoko and Cairistìona play, Katsuya placed his bow on the table. "Ach! Katsuya, no weapons on the table!" Cairistìona ran towards the table.
"Can I shoot an arrow?" Cairistìona picked up the large bow from the table. "Can I? Can I? Can I? Can I? Please, can I?" She fell and laughed as the bow was too big for her.
"Not with that. Why not use you very own?" Katsuya presented her with a small bow. As Katsuya taught young Cairistìona how to shoot with her bow, Cairistìona missed the target. "Now, there's a good girl. listen. Draw all the way back now to your cheek. That's right, keep both eyes open, and…boost." Cairistìona shot and missed the target again.
"I missed it." Cairistìona said.
"Go and fetch it, then." Kyoko said as Cairistìona ran off to fetch the bow, Kyoko turned to Katsuya. "A bow, Katsuya? She's a lady! A lady learns the Way of the Sword!" Katsuya pinched Kyoko's behind playfully and laughed.
"Mother I've already mastered the Way of the Sword." Cairistìona said, and to prove it, she pivoted and lunged, hitting the target without even looking, all with her trusted sword Kiboken.
As Cairistìona sought her missed arrow in the forest and found it, something felt strange she turned and saw a floating blue light.
"A Will O' the Wisp." Cairistìona ran towards it and tried to catch the wisp but it flew away. "They are real." Cairistìona then saw a line of wisps and went after them excitedly, Kyoko called out to her.
"Cairistìona! Come on, sweetheart, we're leaving now…" Cairistìona ran back towards her parents.
"I saw a wisp! I saw a wisp!" Cairistìona said.
"A wisp? You know, some say that will o' the wisps lead you to your fate." Kyoko said.
"Oh, aye! Or an arrow! Come on, let's be off. Before we see a dancing charging bubu or a giant…" Katsuya walked off and Kyoko picked up Cairistìona.
"Your father doesn't believe in magic." Kyoko said.
"Well he should, cause it's true." Cairistìona said. Suddenly a huge black bear came behind Kyoko and Cairistìona, making Cairistìona draw her sword.
"Mor'du! Kyoko get Cairistìona and hide!" Katsuya said.
Kyoko reached for Cairistìona but she was eager to prove herself. She lunged for the bear and it attack, making a long scratch down her cheek. Katsuya grabbed her and put her on her mother's horse.
"Ladies are not warriors." Kyoko scolded. "Look at what you have done."
Kyoko and Cairistìona ran off, one of Katsuya' men passed a spear to him, and Katsuya charged towards Mor'du but he snapped off Katsuya's spear, then Kyoko and Cairistìona escaped on horseback, then Katsuya held up his sword at Mor'du and shouted. "Come on, you!" Suddenly Mor'du lunged forward.