Disclaimer: I own Athena. Sabre Wilde owns Brenna. If you want them, ask for them. Now, some things in this don't belong to us. I'm not sure which ones, exactly, but we don't own them, whatever they are. Okay, that's not quite true. I don't own Babylon 5, Highlander, Superman, stuff like that. So please don't sue us. We're financially challenged.
Author's Notes: All right, let me explain exactly what this is. I'm completely re-doing the "Immortal Aide" series. There will be two series, the "Immortal Aide", and the one leading up to it, which is started with this story. Kinda. It's supposed to be written after "Déjà vu", but it'll start everything rolling. I know. Confusing. I'm good at that. This might be long, but you'll see why once you read it. And the title is a play on words from a certain movie I happen to have recently fell in love with. All of you are smart, I hope. You can figure out which one I'm talking about. So, have fun, and tell me what you think.
A Princess's Tale
Prologue
Let's get one thing straight. It's only because of Josh I'm writing this. Bastard. He knows I cannot resist him when he flashes me that puppy-dog look of his. And so here I sit, staring at this screen as I try to remember everything that has ever happened to me. Yet I digress.
There are stories about me in almost every culture, on almost every world. Most I've managed to get rid of, but a few still leak through. It's not so bad, and most are actually true, which is rare in legends, no?
But still, they don't tell my story. And even I cannot tell you exactly what or who I am, because I don't even know. So I can only tell you part of a type of poem a wizard wrote about me about, oh, a thousand years ago:
I am the Princess,
I am the Pauper.
I am Everything,
But I am Nothing.
I am Death,
I am Life.
I am Order,
I am Chaos.
I am the Darkness,
And I am the Light.
There're about two more pages, but I won't bore you with the entire poem. That's the closest anyone has come to describing me, and it doesn't really clarify anything, does it?
That's my point. There's no way to describe me. There's no way to tell who I am, so if this gets confusing, I'm sorry. I'm a confusing sort of girl.
I am Athena, Champion of the Light, and the Princess. I have lived forever, and I cannot die. I am Immortal, I am a goddess, I am a witch, I am a wizard. I have been a peasant to a Princess. I am the oldest being, besides God, and, of course, Uncle. I have a bit of every type of blood or creature in me. I am a vampire, I am a murderer, I am a hag. I am a nymph, a Druid, a Dryad, a Jedi, a Sith Lord, everything and anything you could think of.
But above all, I simply . . .am.