Day 21- Royal AU
The princess and the Snake Part 2
Part 1-Day 19
Hello, I know I said I might not be posting anymore but I thought about continuing the Princess and Snake story with the Royal Au and the story pretty much wrote itself. I hope you enjoy. Love and kisses ~ Dia
As the maid brushes my hair and reprimands me for once again dirtying my dress with grass stains, all I can think about is the man that can turn into a snake. I commended him to stay, he simply looked at me over his shoulder, smirked and left. I don't even know what to do or how I could find him. I can't ask any of my teachers about people turning into snakes for they will ask where I heard about such things. I can't tell them that a man came into the castle walls without being noticed, that would make them reinforce the wall and I would no longer be allowed to spent my days alone as I see fit.
The maid finished brushing my hair and leaves the room. I walk out on the balcony and allow the night wind to brush my skin. All my life I have been stuck inside these walls, unlike other royalties I have not attended any events or balls, I have no idea what the world beyond the wall looks like. I've learned to accept my situation and have not thought of escaping for a long time, but I do now. I wish I were on the outside so I could go look for him.
I'm not even sure why I wish to see him again but from the moment he appeared even in snake form I felt this pull towards him. He looked terrifying yet I wasn't scared and when he turned into a man, I should have screamed but I didn't. I was captivated by him, by his pure dark eyes with ghostly-pale skin. Even as a man he did not look like a man but more like a ghost. Is that the reason why I wish to see him again? To make sure that he is indeed real and not a fragment of my own imagination?
My balcony looks onto the garden and at night I always love to stare at it but today my eyes focus on the wall, even from this height I can't see over the wall. When I was little, I was convinced the wall was endless and that it was not human made but rather the edge of the world. For many years I went on foolishly believing that the castle grounds were the whole wide world.
The night wind is quite chilly so I walk back to my room and blow out all the candles so to go bed. Just before I fall asleep I see the man once more turning around and leaving, but this time I follow him. I walk behind him all the way to the wall where he turns into a snake and slips though a hole in the wall. I extend my hand to touch the bricks but my hand goes thought it, so without another moment to think I pass thought the wall. I don't even take a second to inspect the world outside, my focus is on the snake leading the way for the other smaller ones. The walk does not take much and we reach a cave, the smaller snakes each go their own way, whether inside the cave or to a small lake next to it. All around are much more snakes of various sizes. The man turns into his human form and walks inside the cave and I follow.
Upon taking the first step in the cave something changes. The atmosphere feels different, my body that was light just a few moments before feels heavy and my bare feet hurt against the rock path. The man is no longer in front of me and the sunlight disappeared. I turn around to look at the exist of the cave and to the sky. It had suddenly turned to night. I can not se anything and the only think I hear are occasional hissing and crawling. I have never been afraid of animals but I am scared now.
I turn once more and start running inside the cave, discarding the pain of the rocks against the soft sole of my feet. The deeper I go into the darkness the more my fear is subdued. I take a couple more steps before I notice a door on the left side. It would appear the cave goes much further into the mountain then I expected. I open the door and I'm met with a throne made out of rock, two small torches on either side of it and the man I wished to see sitting on in. His eyes are closed and he seems to be asleep. I take another step forward and step on a snake, I can't stop the scream that escapes me. I look to the floor and there are snakes everywhere.
The man opens his eyes and when they find me, he gets up. "How did you get here?"
I'm not sure what to tell him, for some reasons this does no longer feel like a dream. "I wanted to see you. This…this is a dream…right?" I ask uncertain. The fact that I could walk though the wall, the sudden day to night change they all point to the fact that it is indeed a dream, but the pain I feel on my feet, the cold chill that made my hair rise, the feeling of when I stepped on the snake…they are all too real.
He takes slow steps towards me until he is too close to me for me to think about anything else but him. He tips my face further to look him in the eye. His fingers feel dead cold onto my skin. His eyes are bottomless pits that turn one second from tranquil black to a violent and turbulent glowing red. "does it really not feel real?" He says right before covering my eyes with his hand. I feel a sudden pain in my neck and I shot out of bed.
My room is still dark, my whole-body trembles and I feel cold. I get out of my bed but the moment my feet touch the ground they hurt, I look to them and see they are bloodied. I pick up my hand mirror and look to where the pain was on my neck, I see 3 black dots that spin around for a moment before stopping. Looking in the mirror a few moments longer, the image changed before my own eyes and I see the man, the snake King, with his red eyes. He is smirking once again. His voice echoes in my head. I am terrified but at the same time, my curiosity only grows by the second.