" No, no! I won't go to Vaasa!" Isabelle shouted. The two elfs behind her, Caelis and Caelin, were sneering, but the woman in front of her was not.
" You are going, queen Isabelle of the lost dragons, but you are not going alone. Aurian will accompany you."
" My queen, my people need me."
" No, they don't. The war is over. You need to find the lost kind of the human-air wizards."
" But why? There's probably no one of his kind anymore."
" Like there was no one of the dragons left? Please, Isabelle, it is crucial you find him."
The beautiful elfish queen walked of the stairs, towards Isabelle. The stairs and all the rest of the elfish village was created by the use of elfish magic, based on the element earth. It was made by the forest with the help of that magic. Humans didn't like it, because it was way to high.
In the highest tree lived the king and his wife. It was here that the conversation took place. Isabelle, half elf and half dragon, was not tall. She was thin and looked a little bit fragile, but her enemies would disagree of this. Her face was beautiful with dark, brown eyes and light brown hair, middle length.
Her ears were pointy, though less then a normal elf. Also, her posture was still too strong for an elf. The dragon lady she was called, because her grandmother had been a dragon and her grandfather an elf. But long, long time ago there had been a marriage between a dragonlady and a human-air wizard. That was her line, though partially, because the line had been broken in two. Isabelle's line and the line of that lost king she had to find. According to the elfs, she must marry with this king in order to stop the war again forever.
But the problem was, there was no war. So why the hell did she have to marry him?
She hated this. She wanted to choose with who she married. But there was no way to stop the elfs. If they wanted her to go, then she went. If they wanted her to marry, then she married.
What, of course was very odd for a dark elf. But not for Isabelle. Though she was a dark elf, she had left her people a few years ago for the woodelfs.
Because she was a witch, her people still respected her. Some of them even believed it was part of a plan to destroy the woodelfs. Of course that wasn't true. The woodelf were for Isabelle like a big family. And like every normal living being, Isabelle would never hurt her family.
Isabelle was born with strong gifts of magic. Even as a child, simple spells like frost or levitating objects came naturally. It came clear for everyone that she was a witch, a strong witch. Her parents decided to sent her to the temple. (This means that they leave their child and that it becomes an orphan). The priest had discovered that the magic she had was not only elfish, but also something else. Something they could not define.
At the age of 16, she was already adivisor of the kind of the dark elfs. She was adopted by the royal family, what gave her the name 'Princess of Alasteriel'.
Isabelle was open-minded and had a sharp tongue. That tongue had brought her in danger when she had asked why the dark elfs were so much the same as the woodelfs.
She had lost her postion of advisor because of this, but her people still loved and respected her. She stayed princess, because the kind cared for her.
But Isabelle was stubborn and had searched for the answer. Because she had not found any answers at the dark elf's library, she decided to go to the woodelfs.
To her surprise they had welcomed her and there she had found out what the other part of her magic was: dragon magic.
That explained why she could control the element earth (elfish) and the element fire (dragon magic). She had learned everything about her bloodline, her past and … her future.
According to the queen of the woodelfs, the enemy the four people (humans, elfs, dragons and air wizards) had fought, was back. The war would start, according to her. Isabelle didn't believe in that war. There were to much wizards, sorcerers, magicians, witches. A smart creature would not emerge into battle with this.
" Isabelle, princess of Alasteriel, you must find him. We don't have the power to resist the enemy."
" I can resist him, on my own. I have summoned a dragon…"
" NO! You don't have enough power. Only with the combined forces of nature, earth, fire, wind and water, you can win this!"
Isabelle stepped back, overwhelmed. Elfs were normally calm, elfs did not shout towards each other.
The queen breathed heavily and looked at the ground.
" Trust me, I know what I'm doing."
The bloodline had to be restored.
Isabelle sighed. Her magic was part of the key to save not only the elfs, but every little thing that lived. The world she lived on, Alasteriel, was connected to another world. The world with the land Vaasa. There she would find "her king', who was also part of that key.
" A normal being would not go to that place. It's dangerous!"
" He will, the place is his."
There was a brief silence and then the queen said softly:
" Why don't you go to your room, to prepare yourself?"
The dark elf witch shook her head, but still walked to her room.
There she talked to her best friend Aurian, who would accompany her. Auran was a human sorceress. She could wield the element water, just like her husband Anvar, who was a sorcerer too. They were the only humans who were friendly towards Isabelle. But Anvar was helping the elfs with another mission, so he couldn't go with them.
" What do you think? Will you succeed?" Aurian asked.
Isabelle sneered.
" I have to, otherwise I can't come back."
Aurian smiled too.
" It looks like we're back in the old days: fighting orcs, making friendship, and falling in love."
" There's nothing wrong with a little bit of adventure, Aurian!" Isabelle said. She smiled, grabbed her bag and walked out of the room.
" A little adventure? What about the fate of the world?"
" I don't care as long as that king is good looking. Then it will be much more bearable for me!"
And with a big sneer she stepped through the portal.
