Hey this is my 1st fic. So b kind it's you regular fantasy/ fairy tale with a twist hope you read and enjoy Don't copy please or use any of the text without my permission (but then why would anybody want to) Stealing not v. nice.
prologue for zara keep smilin hun
Chapter1 is for lozi and sidda
Prologue; a misty memoryDanica silently jumped down from the tree she had been sitting in. A playful grin crossed her face; she was in for a bit of fun. She sharpened her hearing. The horses were getting closer. She crouched down like a tiger ready to pounce. No one dared ride horses through 'her forest'. She could hear laughter now polluting the gentle song of the trees and the forest. Any second now she would be able to see them. There were eight horses she knew. She chuckled to herself; it wasn't fare really but nobody interrupted her alone time. The travellers came into view seven young men were riding with a boy of about ten. She decided she'd settle for scaring him.
A cool sea breeze wafted in through the open door to Danie's cabin she rolled over and fell with a loud thump to the floor. She woke up and shook her head to erase the inviting memories of her past. Hesitantly she stood up, 'thank the goddess Dione' she thought. Her mistress Princess Harika was still asleep. She carefully glided across the cabin making sure her feet were off the floor as not to make a sound she looked in the mirror. Danie let out a startled cry. The face staring back at her wasn't hers. Of course she knew her hair had had grown longer and was now just past her shoulders but her eyes she gasped were not grey anymore like her ancestors but green. She carefully placed a hand down the loose cotton shirt she was wearing and pulled out a small gold chain with a glowing pendent attached. She concentrated scrunching up her young face and the mass of red tangles that framed her little face straightened out and plated themselves into neat cornrows. For a fleeting moment her eyes flashed grey. Then they returned to the alien green. She grabbed a bandana off the floor and tied it round her head to cover her ears. She was ready now for a long day of slave labour.
Lindie shifted in his saddle warily, he felt as if he was being watched. He hated forests they seemed unnatural to him.' It's the kind of place the weirds used to live' he thought. His horse suddenly decided to liven up, it had been rather skittish since they had entered the forest. Suddenly he heard his guards cry out and he felt a pair of small arms encircle his waist and pull him off his horse onto the forest ground. The next few moments were a blur but when lindie sat up he saw his guards all tied to tress by long tendrils of ivy. He laughed. A young girl held out her small hand to help him up. He gasped she was so small and delicate yet she had managed to overcome all seven of his guards, How? She was younger than him he guessed by about two years. She grinned her small perfect pearly white teeth showing. Suddenly lindie heard distant shouting the girl looked scared, her small arms were suddenly round his neck and then she crouched down and jumped catlike into a tree. Her index finger lay against her lip. He nodded to say that he understood.
Lindie awoke hearing a loud knocking at his bedroom door. I'm up he shouted in a very UN princley like manner. He banished all images of an imp like face framed with boyish short fire like hair and staring grey eyes. He couldn't remember something but he could feel the mists clearing he'd just have to wait.
Chapter 1; a new land
Danie laughed as she hung over the ships side gazing at the grey strip of land that was just starting to rise on the horizon maybe on dry land she would be able to find a way of avoiding her mistress. Whack. Danie nearly fell over the edge when Harika clobbered her around the head.
" What was that for" she asked while rubbing her head
Harika just turned her stubby nose in the air and walked away. A nearby sailor laughed.
" You be careful when around her little moonbeam, her jealousy will someday destroy her and if your not careful you too."
" What?" and then she gasped " Little moonbeam, your one of us" she accused.
A vacant look crossed over his old weather beaten face.
" I was" he replied " A very long time ago" he winked at her and then carried on with the task he was already doing. Danie sighed. A scream echoed in her ears alongside the rattling of her mothers' last breath a single tear fell down her cheek and her eyes flashed grey before she turned to go and find her owner.
Lindie sighed
"I don't want to get married I'm only thirteen."
His father laughed.
" You wont have to walk down the isle this week don't worry, its just a betrothal. You wont have to marry her for another six years or so."
" She'll be all childish and ugly and I wont love her and she'll ruin my life."
At that his fathers face turned red and his voice became a deadly whisper.
"Now listen hear boy," he raged, "her father is a king with lots of land and power, marrying her is for political gain and security. It has nothing to do with love."
At that lindie was dismissed with a wave and he hurried out of the door.
"Poor you." Lal whispered as they passed through the doors" I cant imagine a loveless marriage, I love Cas to bits and she returns my sentiments in abundance."
Lindie rolled his eyes at his guard and pulled a face.
"When are they arriving?" he cautiously asked.
His guard tensed and turned to face him.
" Her ship is due to arrive tomorrow morning."
He watched as the prince's face changed rapidly conveying a mix of emotions anger, shock and hate?
"It's been a long day, I wish to retire," he told Lal
Lal stopped and stared "its not even midday yet you've only been awake three hours." He stated
"Just leave me alone alright," shouted linden running off in the direction of his chambers.
Danie sighed as she brushed Harika's long dark hair.
"He's so rich and handsome," Harika stated "And he's going to be all mine."
"I don't mean to sound rude but I think you're to young to get married." Danie stuttered this comment where had all here self-confidence disappeared to she wondered.
"It's non of your business slave," Harika snapped back " but I won't marry him for another five or six years."
Danie suddenly yawned as a weird sense of drowsiness fell upon her. She silently fought to keep her eyelids open. She placed the hairbrush down and cautiously slipped away onto the above deck and as if by magic Harika didn't notice her slipping away. Up on deck she curled up catlike and fell into a deep sleep.
Danica curled her body up around the tree trunk blending into the surroundings. The boy down bellow smiled up at her his midnight black hair ruffled slightly in the cool spring breeze. Just then seven young women entered the clearing and stopped at the sight of the seven young guards pinned to the trees.
"Danica, stop playing games and come out from were ever you are hiding."
She stayed hidden and so had the boy. She lost control and laughed at that and the boy started laughing and the silvery ripples of laughter cut through the tense air. Danica smiled but doubt was tugging at a far corner of her mind. Maybe she shouldn't have given him her pendent she had subconsciously in some magic way formed a bond between them a bond that didn't have the right to exist.
Danica awoke refreshed but still had the feeling that she shouldn't have fallen asleep then and an alien emotion of anger was running wild around her body and she new in an instant that it wasn't her emotion. It was impossible for her to feel anger until now even after all she had been through she could never bring her self to be angry it went against all her morals and ancestry for her to be experiencing this emotion and she didn't like it.
Lindie gasped. Seven flawless women stood in front of were he was hidden. Their hair was cropped short like the girls and they where dressed in similar attire to the girl light green and silver tunic and cropped trousers with a loose belt full of foreign weapons. They seemed shocked at the appearance of his guards and started shouting something in annoyance in another language. Strange lindie thought 'wasn't this island meant to be deserted' suddenly he heard laughter and he found himself compelled to laugh too. He suddenly felt an alien weight around his neck. Looking down he saw a fine silver chain and inset in a silver crescent was a small diamond looking gem. He stepped out from where he was hiding and the girl jumped down from the tree. The women looked down upon lindie in horror and grabbed the girl's arm and then disappeared into thin air. A green light flashed and the guards where set free.
Lindie awoke later on a golden sandy beach with no recollection of how he got there or how his guards had received so many bruises.
Lindie lay awake on his bed he felt refreshed and not so angry as if somehow magically the load had been lightened shared out maybe. His stomach growled and he looked over to where the sun was setting he'd been asleep longer than he had thought he was. Tomorrow would be a new day and he would be ready for whatever fate decided to throw at him. Cautiously as if in a daze he walked over to his dresser and pulled open a draw pressing down in the corner he opened a secret compartment. He carefully pulled out the pendent that was lying in it and fastened it around his neck where it hung as if it had always there and the weight wasn't noticeable and he didn't notice as the jewel began to glow, a pale blue light been emitted.
