~Rosie~
My wonderful gift that was the joy and happiness in my life, which had always given me solace when I wasn't feeling so well, was gone. As Lord Ferdinand guided me about the grand hall all I could do was jump and hop along. I couldn't step once with the beat and whenever I did it was on his feet. To my utter horror I not only did not remember how to dance it was like someone stole it away from me.
Tears formed in my eyes. Then by no surprise I tripped over Lord Ferdinand and crashed into someone who landed on the dessert table that catapulted cake in the lord's face. I didn't have time to notice that it was the prince who had been flung on the table because the lord was so frustrated, probably due to his battered and bruised feet and the chocolate cheesecake on his face, that he started shouting his anger for the whole hall to hear.
"You! You .CLOD!! You Great Oaff!! How dare you even accept my GRAciouSss ooFfer to dansssse .when.when you can't dansse without attempting to kill the prinssse in .in .in your savage attempt at eloquent dansssing! He sputtered and spit and ssssss ssss ssss more but I had had enough. I could not take this anymore and I began to wonder why I even tried. The next thing I knew I ran from the room tears streaming down my face.
The only thing I knew was that I was outside and the only reason I stopped was because there was a wall in front of me. At this time I crumpled in a heap on the mossy ground. I sobbed and sobbed. I thought that this curse had taken its worst from me but I had never known that it would take everything.
Ever since that fateful day, long ago, my life was never the same. I was six when my mother told me to go outside and play. Perhaps pick some flowers. So I did just that I went outside sat by the pond and picked flowers to make them into a flower crown for my performance later that night. It was going to be the Queen Alana's birthday.
When I was finished I looked up to see smoke coming from the woods. I decided to go exploring to found out what was going on. I had to climb over the courtyard walls of the palace in order to do this. Unfortunately mother never would have allowed to do this if she saw me. So I looked around to see if anyone was watching and then scrambled up the tree that grew near the wall.
Even though I was a pretty small child, climbing was always something I was good at and I got over the wall easily with few scrapes. The woods were a long stretch from the wall and between them was a long grass field. The grass was so tall that I could barely see over top of it. I stumbled once but got back up and reached the wood. I paused for a moment to look at it. Up this close the wood did not seem as inviting as it did from a distance but I continued on.
I ran some ways into the wood and there was a small vine covered cottage with smoke coming out of it. I came close to peer inside the window. To my surprise there was Hezzel and a woman about his age talking with him. Their voices were raised and I soon found they were arguing over something but I couldn't figure it out because they were speaking a language I had never heard before. I had never known Hezzel could be that angry before. He always seemed so calm.
Their conversation ended quickly. As I saw the woman about to leave I ran to find a better hiding place. I ran quickly and tripped. I had graceful skills at dancing, walking/ running were another story. I had gotten far enough from Hezzel's house that it was no longer in sight but the woman was coming up really close.
I couldn't move when I saw her. There wasn't anything special about her but her presence was enough to stop a battling army in the middle of their war. Her hair was loose and fell down to her waist. It was a mixture of white and gray. Her eyes were like two sapphires and her face had smooth wrinkles. She was average height and she wore a dark blue velvet robe tied with a golden cord. I could tell that in her younger years she was very beautiful.
I kept staring at her until she spoke to me in a liquid voice that would have soothed a baby from a tantrum.
"Hello. What are you doing out in the woods all alone? I don't think that is very safe, don't you?"
I could only nod with my eyes locked on her. She let out a gentle laugh that I had often heard the ladies at the court use when they thought I was being a "darling child". Then became angry. Here she was mocking me, yelling at Hezzel, and she didn't even know me.
"Why were you yelling at Hezzel?" I asked her. How she answered this would determine my opinion of her and her chances of answering in a way I would like were slim. Somehow though, it seemed she was reading my mind.
"Oh we were just having an argument, you friends can't be friends without a disagreement every once and a while. I'll tell you what. To prove myself and show that I wish to become friends with you, I shall give you a present."
I looked at her suspiciously as she dug into her pockets. She soon pulled out a small golden bag and handed it to me. I peaked inside and found a necklace with a silver chain and a ruby in the shape of a heart on the chain. I stared at it in awe. I had never been given something so wonderful. I immediately praised her a fairy in my mind and was angered at Hezzel for raising his voice at her.
I murmured a pathetic "thank you." And slowly and carefully started to pour it back into the golden pouch so that I didn't lose it or brake it. She stopped me.
"Wait, you do not think I would buy your friendship that easily? There is something more that I have given you. Can you guess?"
"Noo," I said cautiously.
"Well, that necklace that is in your hands comes with three wishes. You must make them now or they will grow old and die."
My eyes widened and I thought of the three things that I wanted more than anything in the world.
" I want to be the best dancer in the whole world. And I want to be very famous, so famous that everyone knows who I am. and I .."
"Hurry, hurry my dear we mustn't waste precious time." She made me make a rash decision.
"I wish I were.abletoseethefuture." I slurred making it sound like I had just reached the finish line in time. She smiled an almost too happy smile, one that should have made me suspicious from that point on.
"Now hurry home.What is your name?
"Rosemary "
" Well Rosemary, we wouldn't want your parents angry with me now that we have just become friends. Take good care of the necklace and maybe I will see you soon."
I smiled and waved good-bye and wondered how long it would take for my wishes to come true. I can laugh now at how I should have wished that none of these wishes came true. I was stupid to trust her. She did not lie for they all come true.
I became very famous because of the day the guards found the King Thudalk and Queen Alana dead on their ornate chairs with me asleep on the floor cuddled up to a bloody knife. I was from that day forward known by everyone as the little girl who murdered the king and queen of Tubika. No matter how I screamed my innocence, it was all in vain.
And until now I haven't really tried to dance since then. I think I would be a wonderful dancer, the greatest in fact if I could only remember the steps. But wait before I start feeling sorry for myself I must remember, I asked for this, all of this.
I saw the future all right. Right when I ran back to the palace I saw myself asleep on a rug that was in the throne room. I failed to see what was in my hand. I also saw the Prince Kladuth and me talking but I did not see the chains on my hands or the rats in my cage or the anger in his face. I have seen many things but never have they shown what I really needed to know like now, I have seen myself crying in a garden much like this but what I didn't see was at that exact moment, Prince Ryan Thudalk son of the King and Queen of Tubika come up with five guards and they didn't look happy.
A/N * Hey everyone, I am still unsure about this chapter. I think I may have said too much at one go butumyea.sigh, please leave some encouragement or some advice to make it better. And feel free to write corrections of mistakes because then I will go and find them and fix them! Yay! Ok yea Ima gonna go now but you review!
My wonderful gift that was the joy and happiness in my life, which had always given me solace when I wasn't feeling so well, was gone. As Lord Ferdinand guided me about the grand hall all I could do was jump and hop along. I couldn't step once with the beat and whenever I did it was on his feet. To my utter horror I not only did not remember how to dance it was like someone stole it away from me.
Tears formed in my eyes. Then by no surprise I tripped over Lord Ferdinand and crashed into someone who landed on the dessert table that catapulted cake in the lord's face. I didn't have time to notice that it was the prince who had been flung on the table because the lord was so frustrated, probably due to his battered and bruised feet and the chocolate cheesecake on his face, that he started shouting his anger for the whole hall to hear.
"You! You .CLOD!! You Great Oaff!! How dare you even accept my GRAciouSss ooFfer to dansssse .when.when you can't dansse without attempting to kill the prinssse in .in .in your savage attempt at eloquent dansssing! He sputtered and spit and ssssss ssss ssss more but I had had enough. I could not take this anymore and I began to wonder why I even tried. The next thing I knew I ran from the room tears streaming down my face.
The only thing I knew was that I was outside and the only reason I stopped was because there was a wall in front of me. At this time I crumpled in a heap on the mossy ground. I sobbed and sobbed. I thought that this curse had taken its worst from me but I had never known that it would take everything.
Ever since that fateful day, long ago, my life was never the same. I was six when my mother told me to go outside and play. Perhaps pick some flowers. So I did just that I went outside sat by the pond and picked flowers to make them into a flower crown for my performance later that night. It was going to be the Queen Alana's birthday.
When I was finished I looked up to see smoke coming from the woods. I decided to go exploring to found out what was going on. I had to climb over the courtyard walls of the palace in order to do this. Unfortunately mother never would have allowed to do this if she saw me. So I looked around to see if anyone was watching and then scrambled up the tree that grew near the wall.
Even though I was a pretty small child, climbing was always something I was good at and I got over the wall easily with few scrapes. The woods were a long stretch from the wall and between them was a long grass field. The grass was so tall that I could barely see over top of it. I stumbled once but got back up and reached the wood. I paused for a moment to look at it. Up this close the wood did not seem as inviting as it did from a distance but I continued on.
I ran some ways into the wood and there was a small vine covered cottage with smoke coming out of it. I came close to peer inside the window. To my surprise there was Hezzel and a woman about his age talking with him. Their voices were raised and I soon found they were arguing over something but I couldn't figure it out because they were speaking a language I had never heard before. I had never known Hezzel could be that angry before. He always seemed so calm.
Their conversation ended quickly. As I saw the woman about to leave I ran to find a better hiding place. I ran quickly and tripped. I had graceful skills at dancing, walking/ running were another story. I had gotten far enough from Hezzel's house that it was no longer in sight but the woman was coming up really close.
I couldn't move when I saw her. There wasn't anything special about her but her presence was enough to stop a battling army in the middle of their war. Her hair was loose and fell down to her waist. It was a mixture of white and gray. Her eyes were like two sapphires and her face had smooth wrinkles. She was average height and she wore a dark blue velvet robe tied with a golden cord. I could tell that in her younger years she was very beautiful.
I kept staring at her until she spoke to me in a liquid voice that would have soothed a baby from a tantrum.
"Hello. What are you doing out in the woods all alone? I don't think that is very safe, don't you?"
I could only nod with my eyes locked on her. She let out a gentle laugh that I had often heard the ladies at the court use when they thought I was being a "darling child". Then became angry. Here she was mocking me, yelling at Hezzel, and she didn't even know me.
"Why were you yelling at Hezzel?" I asked her. How she answered this would determine my opinion of her and her chances of answering in a way I would like were slim. Somehow though, it seemed she was reading my mind.
"Oh we were just having an argument, you friends can't be friends without a disagreement every once and a while. I'll tell you what. To prove myself and show that I wish to become friends with you, I shall give you a present."
I looked at her suspiciously as she dug into her pockets. She soon pulled out a small golden bag and handed it to me. I peaked inside and found a necklace with a silver chain and a ruby in the shape of a heart on the chain. I stared at it in awe. I had never been given something so wonderful. I immediately praised her a fairy in my mind and was angered at Hezzel for raising his voice at her.
I murmured a pathetic "thank you." And slowly and carefully started to pour it back into the golden pouch so that I didn't lose it or brake it. She stopped me.
"Wait, you do not think I would buy your friendship that easily? There is something more that I have given you. Can you guess?"
"Noo," I said cautiously.
"Well, that necklace that is in your hands comes with three wishes. You must make them now or they will grow old and die."
My eyes widened and I thought of the three things that I wanted more than anything in the world.
" I want to be the best dancer in the whole world. And I want to be very famous, so famous that everyone knows who I am. and I .."
"Hurry, hurry my dear we mustn't waste precious time." She made me make a rash decision.
"I wish I were.abletoseethefuture." I slurred making it sound like I had just reached the finish line in time. She smiled an almost too happy smile, one that should have made me suspicious from that point on.
"Now hurry home.What is your name?
"Rosemary "
" Well Rosemary, we wouldn't want your parents angry with me now that we have just become friends. Take good care of the necklace and maybe I will see you soon."
I smiled and waved good-bye and wondered how long it would take for my wishes to come true. I can laugh now at how I should have wished that none of these wishes came true. I was stupid to trust her. She did not lie for they all come true.
I became very famous because of the day the guards found the King Thudalk and Queen Alana dead on their ornate chairs with me asleep on the floor cuddled up to a bloody knife. I was from that day forward known by everyone as the little girl who murdered the king and queen of Tubika. No matter how I screamed my innocence, it was all in vain.
And until now I haven't really tried to dance since then. I think I would be a wonderful dancer, the greatest in fact if I could only remember the steps. But wait before I start feeling sorry for myself I must remember, I asked for this, all of this.
I saw the future all right. Right when I ran back to the palace I saw myself asleep on a rug that was in the throne room. I failed to see what was in my hand. I also saw the Prince Kladuth and me talking but I did not see the chains on my hands or the rats in my cage or the anger in his face. I have seen many things but never have they shown what I really needed to know like now, I have seen myself crying in a garden much like this but what I didn't see was at that exact moment, Prince Ryan Thudalk son of the King and Queen of Tubika come up with five guards and they didn't look happy.
A/N * Hey everyone, I am still unsure about this chapter. I think I may have said too much at one go butumyea.sigh, please leave some encouragement or some advice to make it better. And feel free to write corrections of mistakes because then I will go and find them and fix them! Yay! Ok yea Ima gonna go now but you review!