It had been over six months since Rothbart had kidnapped me. And, every night after the first time he would come to me and ask me to marry him promising me everything I could ever want, but I always refused him. One night I sat by Swan Lake and relaxed I focused my mind on Derek, I had been practicing for weeks and now I believed I could really do it.
For some reason I could link my thoughts to Derek it always worked best if he was asleep, I could enter his dreams and give him information. I cleared my mind and felt myself drift away I was looking down on Derek he was asleep in his bed. I closed my eyes and entered his mind. I began to change his dream making the scene look like swan lake. And there Derek stood in the middle bow in hand looking very confused.
"Where am I?" he yelled into the night.
"Swan lake." I said back I wished I could let him see me but I never could project myself into his dreams.
"My prison, find me Derek please." He spun around, eyes wide.
"Odette?" I tried to reach out for him but I heard Rothbart calling me back in reality.
"I must go." I said.
"NO!" he cried out. "How will I find you?"
"Swan…" I was jerked back to swan lake. My eyes flew open Rorthbart was walking towards me with the same goal he had every night. To make me his wife and rule my kingdom, big surprise I said no. He was so furious he could hardly control himself but as always he turned away and stalked back to his castle.
Derek's point of view
I flew up in bed eyes wide. The dream had seemed so real. I had to find this swan lake dream or not it seemed like I had been there before. The castle in the back seemed like a ruin I had found once while hunting with Brom. I leapt out of bed and ran down the hall, sprinted down the stairs and skidded in to the library. I quickly lit several candles and began to look for the maps of the kingdom.
I spread out the maps and scanned them for any ruins in my land. Then I saw it the ruins Brom and I had found fifty miles North West of the palace. I ran for the books that told of my family history and found the page that described the ruins, they were an exact match to what I had seen in my dream this had to be it. But, King Williams words haunted me what could they mean, than I saw another book. Creatures I grabbed and began to flip through it and found a section on animals that could change their shape. What if the creature that had attacked Odette and William was one that could change it's from. Seem harmless at first but the next turn into a massive beast that could kill anything.
I returned to my room and dressed quickly, hurrying to the kitchen for some food I ran into Rodgers who was just awake. I stared at me wide eyed as I raced pass. After a short stop in the kitchen I went to the stables and saddled Ares.
We rode for most of the day till it was almost sundown then I saw it the ruins just in the distance. I dismounted Ares and ran the rest of the way, I reached the edge of the lake.
"Odette!" I yelled there was no response. Then I saw it a beautiful swan swim out of the shadows and towards me. It swam right up to me unafraid, it was so strange.
"Have you seen my love?" I asked the swan as I gently reached out for it, the swan let me pet her soft head. The moon began to rise and the swan swam away to the middle of the lake.
When the moonlight touched the swan the water lifted around it encasing it, and intense light exploded from the sphere.
