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SPOV
Today will the day that I have to pay a visit to the legendary balancer. My people's children are getting sicker and 5 have already died. I must swallow my stubborn pride and ask for help. The coolness of the water helped me to calm my nerves, although I'm not afraid of the balancer, the words of the village seer scares me greatly.
****Flashback****
"Seer, will the Balancer help to cure the children or will it be for nothing?"
I whispered, fearfully because I knew that the balancer was my last hope of saving the children.
"Today at the conference between my Queen and the balancer, an alliance of great importance will be made but…" she hesitated while flipping the tarot card over
"But what?" I interjected; please I cannot take the stress of the balancer on my back. The world's greatest warrior of all time out to get me that would be really great.
The Seer stared at the card with two cups held in two hands. One of black and white the other of blue, what does that mean?
"But if the soul of black and white rejects the soul of shimmering blue the children will be lost forever"
"What does that all mean?" I asked in frustration.
The Seer replied with and annoyed tone," I don't know the gods send me the messages and I deliver them. Remember Selena I'm only a Siren not a bloody pixie, those silly little folk are so annoying."
Ahhh! Did I forget to mention that the Seer is my long time friend who has been with me since my coronation in 1378, she goes into a bloody trance when she tells looks into the future and never remembers, her actual personality is being scatter-brained. Well off I go to my ultimate doom.
****End Flashback****
Yes the Seer or Freya (that's her name) is the best there is but her fortunes are always very cryptic.
I arrived at sure and morphed back into my human form. In siren form we look much like mermaids but our entire body is blue and shimmery, (is that a word? Oh well it is now) although my tail and body resembles a phoenix. Hues of red, gold, orange and yellow, (Because I am of royal blood.) and we all don't have long flowing hair. Actually most of as prefer short hair, really can you imagine having long hair to your butt, flowing out free? It gets caught in our gills and a girl suffocated once on her own hair. Humans are so unpractical!
I walked up the beach to the Balancer's mansion and knocked on the great big door. A woman answered, "Queen Selena, we have been expecting you. Please come in and wait in the Rose Gardens. The Balancer will be here soon." She bowed and waited for me to follow. I walked alongside her down a few corridors and we came to a pair of French glass doors. She motioned me through and I sat on a chair.
I was admiring the beautiful architecture when I heard from somewhere within the mansion, "Very well. Why don't you bring her a pool to wait in, she must be feeling dry." That's just insulting! I know very well that the Balancer knows that sirens are just like humans on dry land we do not need to be kept wet like mermaids. That comment enraged me she is taking her petty time insulting me while my people are dying.
Suddenly the doors are thrown wide open and a beautiful, no stunning woman of about 17 walks through. She has long flowing mahogany hair with red and gold highlights, her lips are full and red, her skin so pale that it was almost transparent and glowing.
So this is the famous Balancer created by the gods and sent to earth to keep the peace between good and evil.
"Ahhhh Selena it's been along time, what brings you to my humble abode?"
She says almost smug like.
"You know very well what I have come here for, Balancer. As you creator intended you to do, fix the problem." I screeched. She knows she can see all and hear all.
All of a sudden I'm slammed against the cold stone walls, held against it by her grip on my bodice and she sneered into my ear,
"If you have a problem tell me it in a fashion worthy off my time, I will not tolerate being told my place by a mere siren. I have lived longer than you and have seen many things in my years, things that I wish never to see again. I will help you because I fear I know what is happening to your young and if I am right we must treat it at once. But do not criticize me again or I will take your young away."
Her eyes, when she said she had seen things that she wished never to see again, her eyes showed something I would not expect from the Balancer, loneliness.
I whispered back in a neutral voice, "Forgive me Balancer, I forgot my place."
She retorted immediately in what only could be disgust, "Do not call me Balancer, it reminds me of my reason to live. Now show me the young that have been affected."
"I cannot Lady Isabella, for they are to sick to move." I whispered in what I hoped to be a strong tone, as I stared determinately into her chocolate brown eyes. .
"Then think of them and I will see."
What? Only Vampires have the power to see into another's mind so I decided to voice my opinion, "But Lady Isabella, only Vampires have the power to…"
She interjected me and said with an exhausted sigh, "Just show me and I'll explain later…"
I showed her and she did the weirdest thing she placed both hands to my temple and took a deep breathe in, then I was inside her mind I saw the answer, knew the answer but I saw something more. I saw her tired and broken wondering in a barren wasteland, and at that moment I realized that was her past, that was one of her many memories. I gasped as she did and she yanked her hands away from me.
She wrapped her arms around herself, as if she was giving herself a hug, and dropped to the ground shaking. I stood shocked, what just happened, but deep down I knew what was wrong, she was lonely, she was all alone. As far as I know she has been alive as long as anyone could remember, "Longer than that I am as old as the earth". She whispered brokenly. As old as the earth! She has been alone for that long. I walked over to her and wrapped her in my arms. I let her weep and slowly my heart started to break, from that moment I vowed that she would never be alone again; as long as I live I will shower this girl with affection.
"Thank You" I heard from within my arms, "You have been the first person who has truly wanted to be my friend". Yes I would help this girl grow and flourish
In Bella's Room, 1 month later
SPOV
I sat on Bella's bed, through the one month that we had known each other we have become the best of friends, no more than friends, we have become sisters. She the younger and I the older, you would think she would be the older but she really is just a teenager who needs guidance.
"I don't need guidance, Lena, I just need a sister. I get enough guidance from the gods." She said quietly, it warmed my heart that she saw me as a sister too.
"Of course I see you as a sister Lena, I love you." Know that's getting a tad bit annoying, "Stop reading my mind or I will really be your older sister!" I thought, "Sorry Onee-chan." (Onee-chan is older sister in Japanese). We mythical creatures know all human tongues.
"That's okay I forgive you, for know." She fidgeted on the bed and kept twirling her hair around her finger while simultaneously biting her lower lip. She's nervous about something; she always bites her lip when she's nervous.
"Your right Lena, I need to tell you about my past and my origin you have a right to know."
So I'm ending it there I've got serious finger cramp. That's the longest chap I've ever written. Its 1,442 words!! So review and enjoy, and I'll try to update soon! Oh I'm putting pics up of Selena and Bella and other stuff so check out my profile!!!
