Note- Even though this is based on Tamora Pierce books, some things such as
ages have changed.
Chapter 2
"You've got to be joking, no one can do all that before they're fourteen. It's impossible!"
"It's not an easy thing to do, I admit, but it's far from impossible. Though there are certain things that helped," said
Liz, a mist clouding over her eyes.
"What type of things?" when Liz didn't answer he added, "I don't think I believe you."
"I didn't think you would." The mist had vanished and was replaced with a mixture of anger and amusement. "Just think about this. You were your father's favourite child. So much like him when he was a child, not shy like your brother Roald. When you ran away, he tore apart the whole kingdom looking for you. He offered never-ending debt to anyone who could return you to his arms. Only a few years after he had lost you, you enrolled as a page a faced him, the father that was ready to die for you. You faced him and h never recognised you. It is impossible, without help, to face a man who had never got over you leaving and to go unrecognised. It was because of me he never recognised you. I was there, under an invisibility spell and I heard every word that was said between you." She paused, knowing she had hit a spot.
Finally his eyes met hers.
"Fine then. I believe you but tell me, after all these years of just silently watching me, have you decided that we should meet." There was pain in his voice.
"The reason I decided we should meet was because it's time you were reunited with your parent. You don't know how eager they are to meet you. When I told your father that he might be able to meet you face to face, Thayet had to stop him from strangling me because I didn't tell him sooner." Jon could see she was fighting to keep the humour from his voice, which only made him angrier than he already was.
"What made you think I want to go back and become a prince. As far as I remember, I make my own decisions."
Liz's purple eyes flared at the tone of his voice.
"Some people would be grateful I was bothered enough to actually help you on your quest to run away from your problems. Obviously you're not one of those people." She didn't bother hiding her anger. There was even a glow of purple light around her.
" I am not running away from problems. I don't know who you think you are to know what I need to do in my life!"
"I know enough to be the strongest god in all the realms!!" She suddenly stopped, realising what she had said.
Not the nicest place to finish, I'm sure, but if you review I'll add some more.
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I said I'd add more and so here is what I've thought up.
"You're what!" exclaimed the amazed Jonathan.
"I'm a goddess. A daughter of Mother Flame and Father Universe."
"How come no one's ever heard of you," asked Jon, looking confused.
"I'm known as Lady of the Beasts, which explains my wild magic, but my powers don't stop there. Even though I am more powerful than Mithros I'm one of the youngest gods. When I was born, my parents decided they would keep me unknown to the mortal realm so they would have someone to keep track on what's going on here without me being recognized."
She stopped and sighed. She had not wanted to tell him the truth. She tried to keep a very small number of people knowing it.
"That's what you meant when you said other things helped you achieve what you've achieved," said Jon, working through everything he had just heard in his mind.
" Well done, clever clogs, that was exactly what I meant." Once she realized he was not suffering from shock, her usual attitude returned.
"How many people know the truth?" Jon inquired, truing to figure out if there was anything else she was keeping from him.
" Only my parents, your parents and Daine and Numair," she replied, frowning over the fact that he was enquiring over her own business.
"How come Daine and Numair know?"
"Daine knows because after the Immortals war she was banned to see her parents in the Divine Realms. I wasn't at the meeting because I was sorting out other problems to do with the Animal Kingdom but when I found out I made the gods change their minds. Daine needed to know who to thank and I told Numair as well because he had always been suspicious over my powers." She noticed next she would be spilling out classified information and brought up her guard.
" Stop pestering me for more information about my life and go to sleep. We are heading back to the castle at first light.
"I never agreed to go back to the castle," he moaned.
" We are going back even if I have drag you back their otherwise your father will have my head on a platter, god or no god." She looked over to her horse FlameTail and said, "I'll be back in a while. Keep an eye on him." With that she disappeared leaving behind a faint cloud of sliver mist.
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Not much of a cliff-hanger, I know. I'll try harder. (P.S- this is going to be a long chapter)
Jon sighed a he settled down to sleep. When he had first saw Elizabeth, he thought she had looked like a soft noble lady who had gotten lost. Now he knew the truth he found he was strangely attracted to her. She was beautiful beyond imagination and seemed perfect in every way. The problem was he was her heir and even if he wasn't she would never consider herself with him. She seemed like the type of person who didn't like company, let alone lovers. He sighed again, wishing his life was different.
Lizzie stood in front of the Great Mother Goddess and Mithros, waiting to find out what they had wanted to speak to her about. Finally Mithros opened his mouth.
"Father Universe and Mother Flame told us to inform you that you are to remove the spell you have put on the world and let people remember who you are." He cringed as the sharp reply flew from her lips.
"Absolutely not. I decline. I have spent 6 years not being known to the public and that is not going to change. I don't know what put such a notion into their heads but I refuse to follow it."
"It was I who put that notion into their head, Sister. I think you will find yourself obeying it," said a misty voice. Elizabeth spun round to face Shakith, the God of Seers.
"Thank you, Brother. I wanted to know who to take my frustration out on," she said menacingly, her eyes snapping.
"I had a reason for suggesting it. If you still had the Gift for Seeing you had when you lived here, you would know what has to be done," replied the same misty voice calmly, "I never suggest thing without reason. You need to reveal yourself to the world now, to prepare for thing to come."
"What 'things' are you suggesting are about to happen," she asked, the spiteful tone never leaving her voice.
In reply he said, "Your Gift for Seeing was taken away for a reason. As a part mortal you need some surprise in your life. If you refuse to do as Mithros says, the rest of us Gods will have to take the matter into our own hands."
Lizzie knew this meant removing the spell themselves. Even though she was stronger than one god, or maybe even two or three, she was no match for all the Great Gods put together.
"Fine then," she said, knowing there was know point in arguing, "I'll remove the spell but if anything goes wrong, you will be to blame."
"We understand," said the Great Goddess.
With a wave of her hand a small model version of the world appeared, a veil covering it. She removed the veil and the model disappeared.
"Are you happy?" she said angrily and then, not waiting for an answer, she disappeared herself
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Due to the time difference between the realms, she arrived back at the camp at dawn. Jon was already up and packing his saddlebags. By the looks of things, he had already eaten his breakfast and had left some for her. She ate quickly and the mounted FlameTail.
She watched Jon closely as they set of at a quick but steady pace. After five minutes she said,
" I'm suspicious. How come you're not kicking up a fuss? And don't bother lying; I can spot them at a glance."
"I decided that I would just do as you say. You don't seem like a person who would steer me in the wrong direction."
She kept quite, thinking about his reply. The rest of the ride was mostly silent. They just stopped for lunch. Elizabeth was wound up on her thoughts and Jon spent the whole time thinking about Liz. Since they had not been far from the palace to begin with, they reached the palace just as the sun was beginning to set.
They walked through the gates and as soon as they had signed in they went straight to the Royal Wing. Liz knocked on the door to the Kings bedroom, saying,
"I've brought him as I said,"
The door opened and Jonathan found himself being swept up into the arms of his father.
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Long, wasn't it? I'll add a new chapter as soon as I get ten more reviews. (I know its blackmail.)
Chapter 2
"You've got to be joking, no one can do all that before they're fourteen. It's impossible!"
"It's not an easy thing to do, I admit, but it's far from impossible. Though there are certain things that helped," said
Liz, a mist clouding over her eyes.
"What type of things?" when Liz didn't answer he added, "I don't think I believe you."
"I didn't think you would." The mist had vanished and was replaced with a mixture of anger and amusement. "Just think about this. You were your father's favourite child. So much like him when he was a child, not shy like your brother Roald. When you ran away, he tore apart the whole kingdom looking for you. He offered never-ending debt to anyone who could return you to his arms. Only a few years after he had lost you, you enrolled as a page a faced him, the father that was ready to die for you. You faced him and h never recognised you. It is impossible, without help, to face a man who had never got over you leaving and to go unrecognised. It was because of me he never recognised you. I was there, under an invisibility spell and I heard every word that was said between you." She paused, knowing she had hit a spot.
Finally his eyes met hers.
"Fine then. I believe you but tell me, after all these years of just silently watching me, have you decided that we should meet." There was pain in his voice.
"The reason I decided we should meet was because it's time you were reunited with your parent. You don't know how eager they are to meet you. When I told your father that he might be able to meet you face to face, Thayet had to stop him from strangling me because I didn't tell him sooner." Jon could see she was fighting to keep the humour from his voice, which only made him angrier than he already was.
"What made you think I want to go back and become a prince. As far as I remember, I make my own decisions."
Liz's purple eyes flared at the tone of his voice.
"Some people would be grateful I was bothered enough to actually help you on your quest to run away from your problems. Obviously you're not one of those people." She didn't bother hiding her anger. There was even a glow of purple light around her.
" I am not running away from problems. I don't know who you think you are to know what I need to do in my life!"
"I know enough to be the strongest god in all the realms!!" She suddenly stopped, realising what she had said.
Not the nicest place to finish, I'm sure, but if you review I'll add some more.
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I said I'd add more and so here is what I've thought up.
"You're what!" exclaimed the amazed Jonathan.
"I'm a goddess. A daughter of Mother Flame and Father Universe."
"How come no one's ever heard of you," asked Jon, looking confused.
"I'm known as Lady of the Beasts, which explains my wild magic, but my powers don't stop there. Even though I am more powerful than Mithros I'm one of the youngest gods. When I was born, my parents decided they would keep me unknown to the mortal realm so they would have someone to keep track on what's going on here without me being recognized."
She stopped and sighed. She had not wanted to tell him the truth. She tried to keep a very small number of people knowing it.
"That's what you meant when you said other things helped you achieve what you've achieved," said Jon, working through everything he had just heard in his mind.
" Well done, clever clogs, that was exactly what I meant." Once she realized he was not suffering from shock, her usual attitude returned.
"How many people know the truth?" Jon inquired, truing to figure out if there was anything else she was keeping from him.
" Only my parents, your parents and Daine and Numair," she replied, frowning over the fact that he was enquiring over her own business.
"How come Daine and Numair know?"
"Daine knows because after the Immortals war she was banned to see her parents in the Divine Realms. I wasn't at the meeting because I was sorting out other problems to do with the Animal Kingdom but when I found out I made the gods change their minds. Daine needed to know who to thank and I told Numair as well because he had always been suspicious over my powers." She noticed next she would be spilling out classified information and brought up her guard.
" Stop pestering me for more information about my life and go to sleep. We are heading back to the castle at first light.
"I never agreed to go back to the castle," he moaned.
" We are going back even if I have drag you back their otherwise your father will have my head on a platter, god or no god." She looked over to her horse FlameTail and said, "I'll be back in a while. Keep an eye on him." With that she disappeared leaving behind a faint cloud of sliver mist.
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Not much of a cliff-hanger, I know. I'll try harder. (P.S- this is going to be a long chapter)
Jon sighed a he settled down to sleep. When he had first saw Elizabeth, he thought she had looked like a soft noble lady who had gotten lost. Now he knew the truth he found he was strangely attracted to her. She was beautiful beyond imagination and seemed perfect in every way. The problem was he was her heir and even if he wasn't she would never consider herself with him. She seemed like the type of person who didn't like company, let alone lovers. He sighed again, wishing his life was different.
Lizzie stood in front of the Great Mother Goddess and Mithros, waiting to find out what they had wanted to speak to her about. Finally Mithros opened his mouth.
"Father Universe and Mother Flame told us to inform you that you are to remove the spell you have put on the world and let people remember who you are." He cringed as the sharp reply flew from her lips.
"Absolutely not. I decline. I have spent 6 years not being known to the public and that is not going to change. I don't know what put such a notion into their heads but I refuse to follow it."
"It was I who put that notion into their head, Sister. I think you will find yourself obeying it," said a misty voice. Elizabeth spun round to face Shakith, the God of Seers.
"Thank you, Brother. I wanted to know who to take my frustration out on," she said menacingly, her eyes snapping.
"I had a reason for suggesting it. If you still had the Gift for Seeing you had when you lived here, you would know what has to be done," replied the same misty voice calmly, "I never suggest thing without reason. You need to reveal yourself to the world now, to prepare for thing to come."
"What 'things' are you suggesting are about to happen," she asked, the spiteful tone never leaving her voice.
In reply he said, "Your Gift for Seeing was taken away for a reason. As a part mortal you need some surprise in your life. If you refuse to do as Mithros says, the rest of us Gods will have to take the matter into our own hands."
Lizzie knew this meant removing the spell themselves. Even though she was stronger than one god, or maybe even two or three, she was no match for all the Great Gods put together.
"Fine then," she said, knowing there was know point in arguing, "I'll remove the spell but if anything goes wrong, you will be to blame."
"We understand," said the Great Goddess.
With a wave of her hand a small model version of the world appeared, a veil covering it. She removed the veil and the model disappeared.
"Are you happy?" she said angrily and then, not waiting for an answer, she disappeared herself
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Due to the time difference between the realms, she arrived back at the camp at dawn. Jon was already up and packing his saddlebags. By the looks of things, he had already eaten his breakfast and had left some for her. She ate quickly and the mounted FlameTail.
She watched Jon closely as they set of at a quick but steady pace. After five minutes she said,
" I'm suspicious. How come you're not kicking up a fuss? And don't bother lying; I can spot them at a glance."
"I decided that I would just do as you say. You don't seem like a person who would steer me in the wrong direction."
She kept quite, thinking about his reply. The rest of the ride was mostly silent. They just stopped for lunch. Elizabeth was wound up on her thoughts and Jon spent the whole time thinking about Liz. Since they had not been far from the palace to begin with, they reached the palace just as the sun was beginning to set.
They walked through the gates and as soon as they had signed in they went straight to the Royal Wing. Liz knocked on the door to the Kings bedroom, saying,
"I've brought him as I said,"
The door opened and Jonathan found himself being swept up into the arms of his father.
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Long, wasn't it? I'll add a new chapter as soon as I get ten more reviews. (I know its blackmail.)