Chapter 2: Emanuela

It was 3o'clock in the morning when, instead of any maid, it was my mother that woke me up.

"Come on darling, get up quickly!" she said nervously.

"Why, what is wrong?" I asked a bit lazily.

"You have to get to the ship immediately!" she said as she was shaking me to wake up.

"To the ship?" I asked curiously.

"We don't have time for question. You have to get dresses and fast.

I got dressed in a long hooded green dress with matching shoes, as my mother was looking at the hallway to see if the coast is clear.

"Mother, what is happening? It is what you were discussing with father yesterday, is not it?"

My mother nodded silently as she passed me through the hallway.

We walked in silent until we reached one of the secret passages of the palace. One of the passages that I used to use when I was younger to get out at night.

"Sara?" I whispered waiting for my best friend to appear from inside the passage. After my mother hugged me tightly, she pushed towards Sara's direction and left, leaving me alone with her.

"Do you see what I'm thinking?" I asked.

And Sara nodded "yes" as we were walking towards my ship.

"As we reached the end of the passage, Sara knew that I would never leave my planet without saying goodbye first. I was still mad when I fell asleep for not telling me, but now all I could think of was how am I supposed to go on with my life without Seth in it.

As we reached Seth, I ran to him and he pulled me into a tight hug. We both knew the dangers that would lay in front of me if I stayed in this planet, this palace, and most unfortunate of all, this hug. I didn't want to think what would happen if I never returned. The loss of my planet losing their princess, the suffer of my parents losing their only daughter, and the worst of all, of Seth losing his true love. I knew I should leave him behind, no matter how much it pained.

"Come on, it is time to leave Sigun." he said as he grabbed my hand and we both ran towards the ship. Tears had started to form in my eyes by the time we reach the ship, and as Seth turned back, he saw what I'm sure was the last he ever wished to see. Tears in his beloved's eyes. I burrowed into his chest, while he was trying to confront me, saying "Shhh. Everything will be alright. I promise, Emma." It broke my heart, just seeing the look on his face when he was seeing me in a state like this.

I saw tears starting to form in his eyes too, as he held me tighter, while bearing his hair to my curly blonde hair. Seth then slowly pulled out of the hug, and lifted my chin so that he could look deep into my bright hazel eyes. With each other's face burned to our memories, he slowed his lips to mine. Our kiss was full of passion in love.

I just stared into his crystal blue eyes for a moment, holding really tough as not to let any more tears form. I then took off my power necklace and gave it to him "Here." I said. "Take my Pentagram necklace." I wanted him to have something of mine.

"No! Please Emma, I can't take this. This is your power necklace. With this, you can control your powers. I can't take it." Seth said, trying to hand it back to me. "Exactly. This way, if... if I come back after many years, you will give me this and I will know it is really you! And I do not think it will be of much use on Earth. Please Seth, as your princess, I command you to take this necklace." I joked as Seth put my necklace into his pocket.

Then, Seth took a small red velvet box out of the other pocket. "Alright." he started. "If I will have your necklace, you shall accept this gift." he said as he opened the box to reveal a very beautiful ring with a big and shinny diamond on it. "This is my promise ring. I promise to love you forever, and wait for you as many years it takes for you to come back." he said as he put the jewel to my ring finger on my right hand.

I kissed him on the lips one last time, before leaving to board on the ship. With these beautiful vows, the ship left the ground of Sigun and flew to the sky for another planet, while I watched Seth from the ship glass window, waiting with patience the day we will be reunited.

Once the ship was out of my planet's atmosphere, I turned my head and watched the space. According to our information, Earth was 3000 light years away from Sigun. So, I stood near the window, watching the space, with me already missing Seth.

After 2 hours, or so, I saw Earth from the window. It sure looked beautiful, green and blue and a little bit white. This is when the ship sped up to a location they called ''Las Vegas''. The ship sped up until we were going really fast, even faster than light. I could see the captains of the ship, trying to slow the speed down, but they couldn't. "We are getting there. Slow the speed a little bit." I shouted to one of them. "I wish I could, your Grace. But I can't" he answered me back.

We were getting closer and closer and I could see we were going to crash. I was holding from anything I could find at this moment. Suddenly, we landed with so much force and speed that I heard the ship crashing. That is when I felt myself lose consciousness and everything went black...

This chapter's title comes from the 9th episode of the 2nd Season of the 2009 premiered TV series "The Vampire Diaries": Katerina