Chapter 10: Close Encounter

That afternoon the prince sat under a tree in a place that had no particular name. He was getting ready for the night. The Enchantress had gone off somewhere over the mountain situated on his left. They would be journeying that way once again in the morning. He looked over to where Philippe was tied up against the tree on his right. The loyal horse was grazing lazily over the grassy patch that surrounded him.

He looked back to his left to see that the Enchantress had just appeared over the mountain coming back his way.

He saw something in her mouth and as she got closer he realised it was a rabbit, situated between her sharp teeth.

Once she arrived at his side she let it drop from her mouth and said, "There I caught you dinner."

The prince looked into her large emerald-like eyes and said, "I'm not hungry."

He then walked over to lay a blanket over Philippe's back.

"You must eat something. We've been journeying all day." she replied annoyed with him.

He turned around annoyed and said, "Look…I don't even want to go back to this life that I supposedly lived. It was a long time ago." He said angrily, as he slumped to the ground looking away from her.

There was an awkward silence for a few minutes, which the Enchantress broke.

"I know you feel distant from her at the moment, but deep down under all the confusion and hurt…you know you still have feelings for her, and she still has feelings for you." She said soothingly.

"But I don't even remember a thing from my past. All I've had is dreams. That's it. Nothing else." He said bashing his right fist against the rough bark of the tree next to him.

The Enchantress jumped back a bit startled, as it was in her nature as a dog. She stepped forward and said, "Don't blame yourself, you were under the influence of both my brother and I."

"Yes that's another thing. Why did you even believe your brother if you knew he was a wrongdoer in the first place? What were you thinking when you supposedly made him check up on how I was doing?" he said confused and frustrated.

"I honestly don't know why I believed him. But I do know that I can't change the past. What is done is done. All that I can do now is to try and fix the future."

"Yes that may be. But what will happen when we arrive at the castle? Will I suddenly remember everything? Will everything go back to the way it was?" he asked her with a questioning look.

"I'm not sure. I guess that it is possible." She said sounding unsure of herself.

He looked up and said, "What kind of Enchantress are you? You don't even know what is going to come of all this. It's your spell…why don't you know anything? " He yelled frustratingly.

"How dare you. Here I am, devoting myself to fixing your life and all you do is complain and criticize." She shouted giving him an evil glare with her green eyes.

He walked over to Philippe and faced his back to the Enchantress.

"You are only helping me because it will benefit you. You don't care if I am happy or not. You just want your conscience to be clear so that you are off the hook from those elders of yours." He replied with a hint of sadness in his voice.

"That is not true." She said as little sparks of green flared out from her eyes dangerously.

He noticed this from the corner of his eyes and said, "I know that you won't hurt me. I'm too valuable to you. If you hurt me, that means your plan will have failed. The elders will have you locked away again, will they not?"

She seemed somewhat surprised at his realisation. She didn't know how to answer back to this comment so she simply said, "Get some sleep. We start early tomorrow." She said curling up next to the tree and propping her head up on her two front paws.

He smiled to himself mischievously. He had gotten to her. In a way he had the power of her. If she did anything to him that would hurt the plan, she would have to pay the consequences.

That night the prince had a terrible time trying to sleep. He closed his exhausted eyes trying to drift off to slumber land. But he sensed something was not right. He lifted his eyelids open to see that he was having hallucinations. He saw a beautiful woman lying on top of him. She gave him a look of curiosity and moved a few strands of hair from his face. He held onto his breath in shock and desperately wanted to believe that she was in actual fact there. He reached up hesitantly to touch her face to find that his hand was caressing her flushed cheeks. He couldn't believe it as he ran his hand through her dark brown hair, watching as it fell beautifully over her face once more. She closed her eyes peacefully, only to reveal to him a few moments' later large green emeralds that gazed into his eyes transfixing him.

He was so shocked that he suddenly sat up abruptly gasping for air. He was sweating all over. He turned to face the Enchantress's dog form sleeping peacefully a few metres away form him. He eyed her cautiously before rolling over onto his side and falling back to sleep.

The Enchantress's eyes suddenly flashed open and a look of mischievousness glistened in her eyes.

A/N: Okay I hope this satisfy's most people. Enjoy. Read and Review please.

Yunie Tidus