A week has passed, and I've seen so many things. I've seen my entire kingdom, and now, I'm going to explore the majestic 7th Kingdom, which is run by the elves. It is so exciting, I love it there! Although, I do miss the old castle. I miss cooking with Virginia, and causing mischief with Wolf. Most of all, I miss Damien. I don't love him anymore, no. But, I do miss talking to him. Oh, Aden is coming back from the river with water. I'll write later!

Leora

"Better get a move on! It's nearly dawn and we are just on the border of the 7th Kingdom!" Aden helped Leora up from the ground and handed her the jug of water.

After taking a sip, she asked him, "Why exactly do we have to be there at dawn? I mean, it's not like it's invisible or anything!"

She chuckled aloud, but then realized she was the only one chuckling. "It is there, isn't it?"

"As a matter of fact, Leora, it is an invisible kingdom…the only one actually. It is only seen at dawn and dusk. If you don't enter then, you can never enter! I suppose we'll spend a few days there. Oh! And I'll show you the Melancholy Mountains first!"

"The Melancholy Mountains?" She asked as they stood on the line between the 8th Kingdom and the 7th.

"Yes! I've never actually been there, but I hear it's got tons of magical creatures there! Fairies, centaurs, pixies. We may even bump into another wizard!"

"A less superior wizard you mean!" Leora said sarcastically.

"Of course! No one could match my power!" He bellowed dramatically. Leora smiled, and Aden smiled. They burst out laughing at his stupidity. Then, they heard a strange sound. It was like wind chimes mixed in with a flute.

The wind began to blow, and in a white flash, a beautiful door appeared. "It's the golden door!" Aden exclaimed, "I thought it was only a myth, but here it stands!"

Leora looked at the door. It was a clear crystal with a hint of rainbow in it. "Gold? You call that gold?"

"It's a diamond gold door! Very rare stone. The only way that the gem is formed, is by the purity of a soul. For example, say a child has a very sick mother, and is saddened because of her failing health. The caring and pure love for his mother will then form a small gem, the size of the pupil in your eye."

"Well, how did they get enough diamond gold for the door?"

"Simple! You see, the purity of that tiny child and the caring for his mother is small. But, the bigger the true love, the bigger the gold! It's not determined who formed this gigantic gem, but it happened long ago. Some believed it came from an entirely different kingdom…which would make sense, now that your kingdom was discovered. But long before your time; it must've been someone so pure and good-hearted, like a miracle man of some sort! But hey, it's just a fairytale, right?"

Leora nodded. She touched her mother's gold necklace pondering. But then, Aden softly took her hand. "Come on, let's go!" He grabbed hold of the crystal handle, and opened the door.

A bright light came upon them, and Leora closed her eyes. Swiftly, the door closed behind them, and the light faded.

Aden squeezed her hand, and Leora opened her eyes. The sun was just peeking behind the tall, majestic mountains. They were at the edge of a wide lake, and the fog was hovering over it gracefully. Then, beams of red and orange light came out and color filled the air. They saw beautiful flowers that Leora had never even heard of before. As they walked through the meadows, she could see small fairies flying through the air.

"This is amazing!" Leora told him.

Aden beamed, "I'm glad you like it. It's nice to see your beautiful, perfect smile!" They walked deep into the forests feeling magic soaring around them.

They walked for many hours, looking for the nearest town. It took them all day to actually find another person, almost at least. Aden ran up to what seemed an elf who was out on his piece of land farming.

"Sir, do you know where I can find the nearest town, or village?"

The elf crinkled his nose and tossed some unusual beans out of his hands onto the yellow grass, "O' course I can! BrambleWood Village is just over tha' 'ill!" The old fellow pointed west towards the setting sun, and Aden thanked him and the two walked off. As soon as they did, the farmer's once yellow land grew into lush green plants and colorful flowers bigger than coconuts.

Leora and Aden came to the peek of the hill and stopped in exhaustion. She bent over and was panting. It had been a while since her last adventure, she was getting lazy.

"There it is!" Aden gasped.

They two gazed at the village, but Leora suddenly grew a puzzled look, "This is a village?" Aden shrugged and they made their way into the town.

There were tall castles throughout the village, all huddled together as shops and inns. All sorts of creatures were in the cobblestone streets trying to sell items. Leora saw a dwarf trying to sell mirrors, a winged elf selling what looked like pixy dust, and a strange creature selling something that Leora had to stop and look at.

She went inside the small, dark shop and looked around her. Never in her life had she seen anything so beautiful. They were carvings, of people. There were all sorts of portraits shown in each carving. She saw one of two people standing in front of a mirror, one of a dog walking with a man, and then a particular one that showed a man and a woman kissing, however, the man had a tail. 'I wonder who that reminds me of!'

All of a sudden, Leora felt someone was watching her. She looked up to find she was right. A very sickly looking man with green bubbly skin was looking at her from behind the counter, and smiled.

"Um, did you make all of these?" She asked.

"Aye, I did." He replied.

"They're so beautiful. You have real talent!"

"Thanks, you're the second person who's said that!" He said confidently.

Leora nodded and looked down at the carvings again. "What made you carve these certain images? Its so unusual."

"I don't know really. My first carving was only a couple of months ago. One night it just came to me, these visions; like I could see into the future almost. But it was specific, dealing with certain people, certain events. That's the best I can explain."

"It's alright. That's pretty interesting. Does it scare you? These visions?" She asked.

"No. They're focused on heroes, at least, that's what I believe."

"Well, they really are beautiful. I'd buy one, but I wouldn't know which one to pick!"

"Let me pick for you," He said turning around and going to the back room. He returned with a wooden box and opened it. Holding it up to her, Leora gazed at the sculpture of two people, dancing.

"It's wonderful. But I can't take it; I don't have any money." She sighed.

The man closed the small box, and looked deeply at Leora. Then, he put it in her hands, "I believe you were meant to have this."

Taking the box, she asked, "Why?"

"Two reasons. He replied. One, you were the girl in my vision when I carved this."

"What?"

"It's true. The moment you walked through that door, I knew it. It was your destiny to walk through that door. It was my destiny to give it to you."

"Well, who is the man dancing with me?"

"Your true love."

"True love? You must be mistaken I don't have a true love."

But this hasn't happened yet, remember? My visions are of the future, so of course you wouldn't know who he is, it hasn't happened yet!"

"Oh," Leora said in agreement. "But wait, you said two reasons. What's the other?"

"The other reason is because…" He trailed off.

"Because?" Leora asked impatiently.

"Because you are a hero. Every person in every kingdom is grateful to you for what you did, your highness." He bowed slightly.

At that moment, Leora was grateful no one else was in the shop. "How, how did you know?"

"It's simple." He stated, "You look just like your mother!"

With that, Leora couldn't help but smile. Just then, the entrance to the shop was open, and Aden ran in and grabbed Leora's hand. "Come on! They're having a festival outside!"

Struggling out the door, Leora asked the green man, "I never got your name!"

"It's Clayface!" He yelled after her with a grin. Then, the door shut, and Aden and Leora went off to join the celebration.

Fireworks were going off. Everyone was dancing around and playing music. There was even a feast for all of the village folk. Finding a seat at one of the tables on the grassy lawn overlooking the entire town, the couple happily feasted on all sorts of food, seeing that they hadn't eaten a decent meal in over a week.

"Mus is greap!" Leora said with a mouthful of food. Aden nodded in agreement. Then, he looked over a saw an old goblin lighting the fireworks for all the children.

"Be right back!" He said jumping out of his seat to go see is he could help with the fireworks. Leora wiped her mouth after finishing and laughed as she watched Aden try to light fireworks. She wiped the excess crumbs off of her dark green velvet dress just as a young man came up to her.

"May I have this dance?" He said with an outstretched hand. He was an elf! He had pointed ears, white-blonde hair and beautiful blue eyes, wearing a dark blue suit, but oddly didn't have any shoes on. Leora smiled at him; this had never happened to her before. She had never been asked by a rather extremely cute boy she had never met to dance with before.

'What should I say? Should I say yes? Oh, I don't know! Would Aden mind? What? Why does that matter? It's not like we're 'together' or anything! I'm not held down by anyone, I can dance with whoever I want; especially with a guy this cute!'

Slipping off her shoes, "I would be delighted!" She said smoothly. She gave her his hand and he lightly kissed it, bowing. She curtsied, and they went off to dance with the crowd in the grass. The song was lively and fast, and Leora was happy to learn that the elf's way of dancing wasn't practiced, but spontaneous and fun.

Leora giggled and laughed as she jumped around the circle holding the elf's hands. The fireworks were shooting off, and everyone was having a wonderful time. Leora thought it would never end.

Then out of no where, someone took Leora by the shoulder. She turned to see it was Aden, who pushed her away from the elf boy. He went straight up to the elf and punched him across the face. Aden hit him so hard that the elf fell to the ground. The music stopped, and everyone stared in silence.

And Aden yelled enviously, "Don't you dare touch her!"

Leora went up to Aden calmly, "It's alright Aden! He wasn't trying to hurt me! We were just dancing!"

"NO! It's not alright! He can't touch you! He can't dance with you!" He turned back the elf who slowly rose from the ground. "She's mine! You stay away from her!" The elf's eyes narrowed towards Aden. Leora couldn't believe her ears.

"Hold it right there! What did you just say?" Looking at Aden.

"I said you're mine!" He yelled. Everyone looked at him, then at her.

"And what makes me your property?" She asked curiously.

"What do you mean? You're my girl! You're my princess, my destiny!"

"Your what?"

"My destiny! My father, Marlo the Wizard, on his deathbed, told me my destiny. That I would bring forth the purest true love ever seen in all the ten kingdoms! And that I would marry a princess. And not just any princess, but the most beautiful princess that I would first meet at a wedding! That is you, Leora."

'That's it, I've had it!' She thought. And the next moment, Leora screamed at the top of her lungs. She was heard throughout the village, throughout the kingdom. Wendell and Tony were talking in the House of White and heard the sound. Reena was trying on her wedding dress when she heard the strange sound. And even Damien, admiring a rose on his balcony, heard it.

"Destiny! It's all about destiny with you people! Ever since the beginning of this summer I've been consumed with it! First, it was my aunts destiny to die to save me, then it was Wolf's and Virginia's destiny to help me save the kingdoms, and it was destiny for me to be a princess and have so many problems! And you all want to know why? Because it was my destiny to come here! To this world! Yeah, I've made a couple of friends along the way, and it sure beats sitting in a book shop reading for the rest of my life! No, wait, actually, I think I'd rather enjoy that better than to have you all bother me with your issues and desires and problems! I want it to stop! I want…peace…" Leora became so upset that she fell to the ground, fainted.

Aden began to go over to wake her up, but he felt something sharp at his neck. He turned to see the elf had his bow and arrow pointed right at him. "Stay away from her!" He said gravely. Aden took a step back with his hands in the air. The young elf went over to Leora and said something in another language to and elf girl about his age. They talked, and then he lifted her up, and carried her away. The whole crowd followed him and left the grassy knoll barren, with only Aden standing there, completely confused.

"But we're meant to be together."