Birthday Update Time! Today, August 27 is my birthday! You know what I want for my birthday? Reviews! :)
Divina sat in the near dark room, glancing over at her twin brother in the next bed, illuminated only by the moonlight shining through a window.
Malachi hadn't woken up yet and they had escaped captivity three days ago.
She worried for him. Would he ever even wake up? He was always the stronger of the pair, always the one to encourage her even if she was nervous or scared, always the one to try and keep their spirits up during their period of captivity... What would she do without him?
And her father... King Ferdinand... just daddy to her... he was already gone for sure, she knew that. Her mother, Queen Adelaide... they didn't know what happened to her and she was scared of what might have happened to her. She couldn't stand losing her brother too.
He was the only one she had left...
She huddled up in her bed and began to cry, thinking of how happy life had been before Kirova had decided to ruin all of that.
Why would Kirova want to turn on them like that? Hadn't she once been her mommy's friend? Why would she suddenly become so mean and evil?
The thoughts made her cry even harder, until the sobs began to rack her body and she rocked back and forth in the bed, letting the tears fall freely down her face.
She heard a noise in the doorway and turned to look, startled.
"I'm sorry for startling you, Divina. It's just that I was up to go get some water and I heard you and well... Here..." Miele finished lamely, handing the dark-haired girl a glass of water, while sitting on the edge of the bed, holding her own glass.
"Thank you..." Divina said softly.
"No problem. So you... you were crying? Mom says when I'm sad, that it helps to talk about it with someone else..." Miele offered.
"I... I can't yet. I just can't! It was all just so horrible! Daddy's dead, Mom... I don't know what happened to my mom and Malachi won't wake up!" Divina began to cry again. "It's so hard! All these bad things happened to us so fast and I haven't seen the outside of that horrible place we were kept in until I managed to bring us here and, and..." Divina began to somehow cough and cry at the same time.
"I just want my parents back!" She wailed.
Miele looked sad. How do you talk to someone who had been through what Divina and her brother obviously had?
Miele sighed. "Try to drink a little water and calm down. It has some Aloe Vera in it and I find that at helps with the coughing sometimes..."
Divina did as Miele suggested and smiled weakly. "Thanks. At home I never had any friends around my age and neither did Malachi. We only ever had each other to play with and talk to most of the time..." She hiccupped and took another sip of water.
"Well, maybe if you go to school here, I can introduce you to some of my friends there. I don't know if that's likely or not though..." Miele thought aloud.
"Friends? School... with others like us? I... I've never been to a school like that before. It was always me and Malachi privately taught together or separately. I don't think I could handle going to school with other kids. I'd probably be terrible at it. I'm not very good with people and I was never particularly good with my education even the personal tutoring I had..." Divina sniffled.
"No you won't! You gotta have a little confidence in yourself, Divina!" Miele exclaimed.
"How can I, after what happened to my planet? I saw a lot of horrible things. Things I couldn't even do anything to stop!" Divina burst out crying again, rocking back and forth.
At this, Fern entered the room, looking concerned.
"There, there. You're okay here, Divina. I promise. We're going to do everything we can to help you and your brother, okay?" She said soothingly.
"Nothing's ever going to be okay again! Mommy is gone and daddy is dead! How can things ever be okay again?" Divina cried even harder.
Miele slunk out of the room, looking and feeling troubled. She really wished she could do more to help Divina feel better, but how could she ever do that?
The twins sat at a banquet table with a beautiful brown-haired woman with piercing green eyes and a handsome man with jet black hair and bright blue eyed.
"Father, what are we supposed to do today?" Malachi asked the man.
"I have promised to visit some of the farmers of our world today and you are to come with me. Farmers are very important people, you know." The man said to him.
"But Father, they don't wear a crown like you do sometimes!" Malachi exclaimed.
"Not all important people wear crowns, my son. You do not have to be a royal to be important to your planet. Farmers are the ones responsible for cultivating the plants and raising the animals that eventually come together to be your meal every day." The man gestured to the table. "If they do not have what they need to work properly or are not very happy with their conditions, you don't get to eat all the food you like to eat." The man poked Malachi in the stomach, making him laugh.
"Ferdinand, dear, I'm thinking of taking Divina to the beach today. She has been expressing the desire to go there for a long time. The royal guard would come with us of course. What do you think?" The woman asked him.
Divina looked across the table at her father with big, wide eyes. "Please, Father? May we go?" She begged.
Ferdinand pretended to think for a moment. "Sure, I see no reason not to, Adelaide." He shrugged.
"Yay! Thank you Father!" Divina giggled.
Adelaide smiled.
That smile was immediately turned upside down when there was a loud explosion sound outside, shaking the palace and throwing them out of their seats.
"EEP! Mommy, Daddy! What was that?" Divina asked.
"I don't know, dear..." Adelaide shoved her daughter behind her.
There was another explosion that caused the walls of the dining room to cave in.
Over the wreckage, Kirova floated, smirking.
Divina and Malachi climbed out of the wreckage, scratched and bruised.
"Lady Kirova, what happened?" Malachi asked.
"I happened." She fired off a spell at them and the twins screamed and took off as their parents emerged from the rubble and tried fighting Kirova.
"Kirova, really? Why would you do this to us? Am I not your friend?" Adelaide asked, shocked.
"Not anymore I'm not. Friendship has no place in your life when it's power you seek." She fired off another spell.
"Sister, we have to get out of here. Now! I don't know why Lady Kirova is being so mean but she obviously doesn't like us anymore!" Malachi exclaimed, taking his sister's hand.
"You do not have to tell me that again!" Divina had already begun to cry.
"Come on!" he tugged her along as they ran down the corridors.
Chaos had already broken out in the castle. Ordinary servants and guards alike were fighting strange monsters and strange people who were attacking them.
All of a sudden a large monster that more resembled a demonic looking Saber-toothed Tiger with horns atop its head and glowing red eyes jumped down in front of them.
The twins screamed in horror.
"Where do you think you two brats are going, huh?" It asked them before casting a spell at them.
"NOOOOOOOOO! DIVINA!"
Malachi woke up, sweat drenched and screaming.
"No, no, no, no, no!" He screamed.
"Malachi? MALACHI!" Divina was the first to burst through the door and be at her brother's side.
"Divina! The monster! It's going to get us again! We have to go! We have to go!" He whined- although it was in a language that the Linpheans in the doorway could not understand.
"Malachi! Brother! Wake up! We got away from Kirova! We escaped! Wake up!" Divina also spoke in that strange language.
"I- what? Divina? Wha- what happened to us? Where are we?" Malachi bolted up in bed suddenly, looking around the room.
"And who are those people? Are they more of Kirova's people?" He asked, pointing at Linden, Fern and Miele standing in the doorway.
"No, no, brother. Not at all! Remember when I borrowed some of your power to help us escape from captivity?" Divina held her brother's hands.
"No, not really. It's all really foggy to me..." Malachi rubbed his head and groaned.
Divina turned to the Linpheans and switched back to English. "My brother! He's awake! Can you do anything for him?"
"Of course." Fern moved forward slowly.
"Divina, who is this strange woman?" Malachi asked her in the strange language.
"She says her name is Fern. We are in her home and she is the mother of a Guardian Fairy so this house is one of the safest places for us to be right now." Divina answered quietly.
"How is he? Does he speak English?" Fern asked, leaning down to be on their level.
"He does, but he's too out of it now to think in any other language but Ganymedi..." Divina said sadly.
"You will just have to translate for us then." Fern smiled encouragingly at the twins.
Kirova pounded her crystal ball angrily.
"This stupid thing will not show me where those blasted twins are!" She growled in frustration.
"They must be somewhere with lots of strong magical protection around it. Great. Just great! It's only going to make my job even harder!" She snarled.
The large burly man who had been the twins' guard in captivity stood quietly behind her.
"Nazir! Go fetch these items from the spell ingredients storeroom!" She conjured up a list of items and handed them to him.
"I'm going to need some much more powerful magic to get those pesky twins back here, it seems!"
