a/n: Hellos everyone. This is my first time doing a fairytale like this so please help me out if you find anything wrong with it. Hope that everyone who reads this will enjoy and maybe even review? Well here goes nothing (takes a deep breath) enjoy the story!

Disclaimer: I own the story plot and all of the characters you will read about so please don't steal.

Desert's Heart

Prologue

"Grandma! Grandma! Tell us a story," shouted a hyper eight year old as he jumped on his bed. A small girl with chocolate colored hair and fiery hazel eyes jumped alongside her brother. "Story! Story," she shouted.

Their mother sat next to them and tried to calm them down, "I'm sorry children, but grandma has to go in an hour for her flight back home. She can only stay for a few more minutes." The two children showed their disapproval and Erica, the little girl, who was only four, started to bawl in disappointment.

An old lady with graying shoulder length hair and blue eyes that were lined with old age and laughter started to smile and laugh. She slowly made her way into the children's room and sat in an old rocking chair. Her white dress swirled lightly around her ankles and the children ran up to their grandmother looking at her with puppy dog eyes. She laughed even harder and turned to her daughter. "Christina dear, you know that I can't resist telling a good story. And to such a devoted crowd too!"

"But what about your flight? Surely you can't miss that?"

"Don't worry," she said waving her hand in the air with a dismissive gesture, "I can catch another plane in the morning. Those things come and go, but this." At this she stopped talking and stared at her grandchildren with love and adoration shining in her eyes. "Thismay never come again."

Christina sighed in resignation knowing that her mother was right. "All right, one story, and then it's off to bed with the both of you."

The two children nodded their heads vigorously knowing they had won the battle. They run up to their mother and bombarded her with hugs and thank-yous.

Christina laughed at hereager children and kissed them both good night before leaving the room.

Once gone the children sat in front of their grandma's chair and stared at her eagerly.

Catherine, which was the grandma's name, stared at the children and pulled out a sparkling diamond from her pocket. The two children's eyes widened at the sight of such a precious thing. "Do you know why these diamonds sparkle children?" They shook their heads in unison, their eyes still wide, causing her to laugh.

"Well I'll tell you. There is a battle of evil and good raging within the diamonds of the world. When their sparkle dims, either good or evil has triumphed and the battle becomes even fiercer. That is why some diamonds are of better quality than others. Long ago, a girl named Arianna locked the two forces deep inside of a magical crystal. The gods themselves gave this crystal to her and she was given help from her love Erik. The crystal shattered with the trapped power and transformed into our diamonds."

When the little boy named Michael had heard his grandma say love he had gagged. "Eeew! Is this going to be a love story?" he asked.

"Yes it is. Would you like to continue or stop?"

Before he could answer, his sister spoke up. " No, grandma. I want to hear story." Their grandma nodded her head and started to talk once more.

"This story takes place in Egypt and it's about Arianna and Erik. Arianna was an orphan that someone left on the steps of the Pharaoh's palace. People wondered why the Pharaoh and Queen took Arianna willingly into their household, but it was believed that she was an immortal child, one of the god born. This rumor was started because of the pendant that she wore when she was found. The symbol that was engraved into the pendant was a star and a pair of snakes twining themselves within it. A name was written below the symbol with a kind of crystalline gold material that no one on that earth had seen the like of and it translated into Arianna, tamer of the desert and winds. Child of the gods.

For this reason she was raised with the Pharaoh's children which consisted of two older boys and one young girl. The eldest son was about the age of 26, but he died in a chariot accident. The second son named Isalen was 25, and he was five years older than Arianna's 20. Tatiana, the youngest, was 18 and she could not be separated from Arianna for anything. Their bond was strong and ran deep, which would prove useful in the hard times to come. "

Catherine stopped talking to stare at Michael who was playing with a rubber band. "I suggest you stop before you-"

WHAP!

It backfired into his face making him cry in pain. "Now sit still, and no causing trouble!" He grumbled but let his grandma continue. "Now this is where the story starts with Arianna and Erik. Their love starting a chain of events that would hold the balance of Earth itself…"

a/n: So how was it? Please review for my sanity!