The beginning of Fineena
Bryan's POV
I slowly and painfully made my way to the castle gates, it was almost white stone, a rare gem that the king like to make his castle of because it was so strong and filled with magic. I didn't really know if it was because he liked to show how much wealth he has or if it was to protect his people, I've never met him myself. Today if actually my first day at the castle, you see there is a great war going on right now, a man from every house hold was pulled, my father died from a sickness and I was his only son. I entered when I was sixteen, now at eighteen I am returning as a war hero, the war is not over but people say that I' the reason they won a battle, all I did was blow up some walls when no one else from our side was left, almost killed me, but still, who is bragging?
As we made it into the metal gates opened by magic I gasped at the castle town inside, people of all kinds were here, Dwarves, Elves, and Humans, all of them talking, training, and betting all together. It didn't matter if you were from a differing land or a different race they were all together, some would stop and stare at us, I couldn't help but think it was because of my hair, a dusty pick color and my eyes didn't help, sky blue, odd colors to have on one person. As we made it to the actual castle gates I was surprised it was normal dark stone, but not without the best security, guards posted on every wall and another guard within a few yards away.
My two companions led the way to the throne room,
"Why are we here again?" I ask with a sigh of irritation,
"The king wishes to make an alliance with the Rashira kingdom, but to get there we have to get past the Thergon kingdom, where our enemy is, so he wants us to take his daughter to Rashira and protect her," Abir almost snaps at me,
"Even if we're here on business you should count yourself lucky to even see the castle. Do you know how many front liners get to see this place?" Genude asks smiling back at me,
"Not many I guess," I reply shrugging, they sigh but continue walking. Once we entered the throne room I saw an older man with brown hair and grey streaks sitting on the thrown, his has soft chocolate eyes and a big golden crown, and he also has on a red cape and a paler completion. Slowly he stood, though he looks nice enough something inside me told me to keep my guard up, this man, this king, was no weakling. Even with his cape on you could see a little of his muscles, he is at least seven feet tall, he smiles at us as we bowed,
"Stand war heroes," he commands we do, "I have chosen the three of you for the most important task because you all have taken a big part in this war, Abir, the Balvarine slayer. Genude the pixie slayer and Bryan the one man army, I want you to take my daughter through Thergon to Rashira, my daughter has the battle planes for the final strike against those monsters in Thergon, don't lose her, she is valuable to me," the king warned us with a slight glare, it was enough to make me sweat, which being the only one on the front lines didn't do. We nod quickly Genude looks like she is about to cry. We all hear a small, soft, elegant laughter,
"Father, don't scare them, they have had enough being on the front lines," a lady says stepping into the light, she has a light blue gown on with a silver hem, it also has silver flower pattern belt and design in the middle starting from the top and getting smaller to the bottom. The sleeves are smaller at the top and get wider as it goes down, her pale completion perfectly assents her soft pick lips and deep green eyes, it also makes her blonde curvy hair look a little darker, it's pulled up into a half pony tail showing the many different shades of blonde in her hair and all the curves.
The king's eyes immediate soften,
"I know dearest, I just want to make sure you are safe," he says meeting her eyes, the princess smiles which makes her look even more beautiful,
"I will be, the war hero are more than capital," she says looking at us, my breath is take away, I can hear Abir has the same trouble. The king stands in front of her looking conserved,
"Very well, do the three of you accept the task?" he questions coldly to us, we bow symbolically,
"We do!" we say together, I look up to see the princess smiling widely at us.
Fineena's POV
I smile at the warriors, they were risking everything to accept, even more than they did before, I was impressed and grateful there are such people my father and I was count on. I meet the eyes of the dusty pick haired one's eyes, his eyes widen a bit and he blushes then looks down again, I blink but laugh a bit,
"Go rest, we'll leave tomorrow, tonight you will eat with my father and I," I say nodding once, they all stand and thank me before almost running from our presents,
"I don't like them," father says glaring slightly in their direction,
"Father, they are the strongest we have without brining magic in and that would be death to us all since the Pixies and Nixies can sense them, I will have enough magic to set off some of their sense, we can't have anymore," I reply gently putting a hand on his cheek, "we just need to sneak threw and all will be well," I say back away, "I will see you at dinner, father," I state bowing and leaving.
I walk silently and gracefully threw the halls until I get to my room, I smile at Abigail my lifelong friend and hand servant, and she sniffled a bit,
"I packed a traveling bag for you, it's infused with magic so it's bottomless but light as a feather," she says handing it to me, I smile and take it, a few tears coming to my eyes, slowly I put in by the door and wrap her in a hug,
"I will miss you," I say calmly, I hear her sniffle again and nod,
"I will as well, your majesty," she replies pulling away, she bows a little and walks away, I watch her and sigh a bit, knowing there may be a chance I will not see this place again.
Bryan's POV
I didn't see the princess at dinner that night, we ate and drank together with the king and his knights, I didn't drink at all not wanting to see the princess half drunk or in pain. Well not more than I was already in, the cut in my side was still healing, I felt some pain hit and excused myself, I walk in the halls leaning against the wall, slowly I sat down and put a hand on my side, I brought my hand to my face and saw blood,
"No, not now," I say leaning my head on the wall,
"Not now what?" I hear an elegant voice say, I jumped to attention with my sword out, I see it's the princess and lower my sword and bow as much as I can without pain,
"Forgive me; I didn't know it was-"
"You're bleeding, here come with me, we must take care of that," she said completely ignoring that a just had a sword at her throat, she grabbed my arm and gently pulls in the direction of the doctor and I went in too much pain to resist. After we got there the doctor rebadged my wound and gave me a drink to ease the pain, when they thought I was sleeping they talked,
"How is it?" the princess asks,
"Not good I'm afraid, it's a cut in his side from a Balvarine, he could turn," the doctor replies,
"It's been a week since he fought anything like that, if he was going to turn he would've already," she says,
"I guess, but the wound is not healing, it could've been a poisoned sword," the doctor states,
"Can you heal him?"
"No, and no one is this castle can, only magic can, only high level," the doctor says as if hinting something,
"What will you tell him?" she asks,
"That I know a bit, he knows nothing of magic, it won't matter to him,"
"Alright," the princess says, I hear her foot steps and then her hands on my side, I feel a warm sensation consume me and the pain is completely gone, the feeling fades all too quickly.
"Go, someone who only knows a bit of magic would be tired after such a healing spell, I will tell him you went to sleep," the princess orders with ease, the doctor bows and leaves. After a few moments I pretend to wake up,
"Good evening," she says,
"Where am I?" I ask,
"The doctor patched you up, try to go back to sleep, it's in the middle of the night," she says,
"Then, why are you still here?" I ask rudely meeting her eyes,
"I only stayed to see if you would wake and to tell you to stay here and sleep, also the doctor said that the magic he used on you might have a bit of a side effect about memory loss of a few hours," she states hardening her look, I nod,
"my apologize, good night," I say laying back down, she huffs and walks out before almost slamming the door and walking away, I grumble a little bit about women then fall asleep.
I woke up to the sound of the door slowly opening with the person trying to be silent, I waited until they were right behind me to jump up and punch them, in one fluid movement the person dodged and knocked my feet away, then caught me by my forearm before hitting the ground there was, they then let me drop the little spare, I looked up the aim but found, again, the princess. She offers her hand and a small smile,
"If you are ready, it's time to go," she whispers, I nod and put my armor on,
"The sun has not even risen," I state looking at her, she laughs a bit,
"We need all the time we can have to get to Thorgon, we have an important mission," she replies boldly, I nod and fallow her out, I then noticed she had on an outfit like mine but a brown shirt and black pants, she didn't however have any armor,
"Where is you armor?" I ask,
"I can move better without it, run faster, besides my mission is to get the planes to Reshira, yours is to protect me," she states with ease,
"You trust us enough to go without weapons?" I ask scoffing, she stops and knocks me against the wall, hard, her face was so close to mine I could feel her breath,
"So far you have not given me reason, but I assure you, cross me and my kingdom and you will find yourself crawling and screaming in pain," she says glaring at me, the glare was even colder and harder than her father's I found myself sweating and panting before she let go. For a few seconds I stood there but then recovered and ran after her.