Ria felt hurt. She knew she made a mistake but she did not ever think that snowflake would take such act against her. She sat on her bed without sleeping. Her knees tucked under her chin, tears flowing freely. She saw stars glowing so bright outside but her heart was wrapped in darkness. She felt betrayed. Even Melda did not come. She cried through all night and fell asleep exhausted when skies turned a bright golden orange and birds announced the arrival of a new day with crisp autumn breeze lead by fast flyers swapped past the pixie dust tree, rustling the leaves.
The queen and the lord had their breakfast and parted for the day to attend their daily duties. However, they have planned during the breakfast of building a small cottage or whatever house in the border as the keeper, who knew that queen was expecting, warned them that their babe would never be able to bear the harshness of deep parts in winter woods or the extreme temperatures of summer. The queen left the ice palace with her guard, Melda following at a respectful distance. But she was deep in thought of her friend Ria, and consoling her knowing what breakdown must have caused with the harsh words of minister of winter.
When she arrived at pixie dust tree with her highness, and dismissed for the day, she directly went to find Ria and comfort her. Melda only prayed that she would understand.
Snowflake wanted to speak with Ria, she knew Red's words were true. She would understand, and snowflake promised herself not to be harsh over her apprentice, anymore. She went to find her, and found a fairy with soaked cheeks and swollen red eyes, comforted by the dark, newly arrived fairy.
"Stiria, I want to speak with you, in private," she said eyeing her friend.
"Yes my lady" Ria muttered in a shaky voice, while Melda left without a word, closing the door behind them.
"I apologize for my behavior, Stiria. I wasn't in a condition to reason out your situation, you only made a mistake. I'm sorry" Snowflake took a direct approach to the situation.
Ria looked at her as if she had suddenly grown two heads, but soon she nodded. "I understand my lady that you are strained out as to bring winter successfully to mainland and I too apologize for ignoring my duties as the apprentice of you."
"Come on; let's have some breakfast together, I hope you haven't had yours yet." Snowflake almost pulled the astonished fairy, and Ria followed her wondering what have put her in a better mood suddenly.
Meanwhile far away in the dark hollow of dreamland…
Thunderbolts crashed over the barren wasteland, where a fortress made of black granite stones and black marble stood surrounded with dark clouds and grey sky. Hawks were circling over and the screech of ravens could be heard in distance. Poisonous fumes rose from the pits of bogs and marshes, leaving no life all over the place.
In the fortress, the dark queen of the nightmare fairies paced, her pale face showing no emotion, her dark, empty tunnel like eyes mirrored the clear rage in her heart; blood red lips parted slightly showing her pearl white teeth. She turned and hissed letting her midnight-colored tight floor length dress to swipe the floor away, her black curls to toss and to go slightly askew, her moth like, sleek black wings to flutter and her hands shooting black pixie dust showing her anger.
Her lieutenant recoiled in fear, as he knew the destruction that queen's rage could do. As his premonitions came true, a thunderbolt cracked and a lightning flashed illuminating the whole place for a second, making the wolves outside howl.
"How dare you to tell me that our attack fell fruitless against those worthless scums of dream fairies?" she spat, venom clear in her high-pitched voice, her hand rising to drain dust out of him.
"My…my lady, we have... We have a way" he stuttered, falling to his knees in fear.
She turned her head. "What?"
"My lady if we take the help of lord Mandrake of boggans*, we will be able to strike the dream-hollow successfully and overthrow queen Calliope*, and even to conquer the Neverland." He explained.
Queen Regina* stopped her pacing, a cold, deathly smile appearing in her lips. "That is a thing I like. I will be the ruler of magic, forever. It is my time now, Clarion, not yours" she let out a cold cruel laugh, which spreaded through the dark hollow, making thousands of more nightmares to the little children in the mainland.
*Queen Regina- she is not the one in the TV series, once upon a time, she is the queen of dark Magic and nightmares and my own creation, I only took the name of the character.( if you want to see one like her, see Morgana Pendragon in BBC TV series of Merlin)
* Lord Mandrake of Boggans- he is the main antagonist from movie Epic, so he belongs to blue-sky studios and twentieth century fox.
* queen Calliope- the name was changed from Clarisse to Calliope, suggested by my dear friend, Nerdherder 51, who pointed out this name, taken from greek mythology, would suit dream queen well. Thank you dear friend
Hey guyz, sorry for the delay *ducks off to avoid the rotten tomatoes thrown by readers* I had my own reasons and situations * stands up as throwing tomatoes stopped only to be hit by an orange* but hope you like it.
Tell me if you like new characters and new chapter. And I promise there will be more Milarion in next chapter.
