Ch. 4
"This is our war Puck! Stop goofing around, we have to take this seriously!" Sabrina shouted as Puck chased her around with his wooden sword.
"I am taking this seriously! I'm teaching you how to fight!" he said as he slashed at her with his sword.
"Fine but this isn't how you correctly sword fight!" she screamed and picked up the ends of her dress an ran. He slashed at her arm again, and the sword this time made contact with her skin. "Ow!" she growled then quickly grabbed a dagger from the weapon table. Running towards Puck she punched him in the face and grabbed the collar of his shirt. She held the dagger in the air threateningly. "We stop this now, or someone is gonna get hurt." she seethed then dropped Puck and put the dagger back with the other weapons and this time taking two gleaming swords. She handed one to Puck. "I used to watch the knights from my balcony for hours." she said and showed Puck positions and how to move. Puck, already used to fighting with a sword caught on quick. Their lesson got real competitive and they raced around the castle slashing at eachother with the swords. They eventually stopped when Sabrina was cut on the arm pretty bad. Besides being nicked a few times this one was particularly bad.
"I'm so sorry Sabrina!" Puck said and leaned down to inspect her arm, he ripped open the sleeve to see, it was a bad cut indeed.
"Gah!" Sabrina said and clutched her arm. "It's ok Puck, it doesn't hurt that bad, let's keep fighting!" she said and picked up the sword.
"Sabrina, I dont think thats a good ide-" but Puck was cut off as he heard heels clicking down the hallway, it was his mother. He grimaced as she approached them.
"What is the meaning of this!" she raged as she stared at Sabrina's bleeding arm.
"Uh, well we were uh… just preparing for war! Ya know?" he said sheepishly.
"Come on Sabrina, let's bring you to a doctor." Tatiana said and helped her up.
They went to a Faerie hospital and a nurse used some magical salave to heal her wound.
"You should be good as new," she said cheerily.
"Thank you so much for your time," the queen replied and left with the two teens. "You two will not be swordfighting for a long time, how could you possibly think it was ok to use real sharp swords, you could have been killed! Accidents happen you know, we're lucky it was only a cut, what if you had taken her whole arm off Puck!" she scolded.
"Sorry mother," he said as they walked back to the castle. Pucks hand found Sabrina's and his fingers intertwined with hers. Sabrina smiled up at him and they continued their stroll home.
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After dinner that night Puck led Sabrina quietly up a set of old spiral stairs. "This is my most favorite place in the kingdom. I usually come here when I'm in trouble though, cause nobody knows about it. It's in the older part of the kingdom." he told her and pushed open a wood door above their heads and they climbed up into the room above. It was a tower with some old chairs and a large window that revealed a beautiful sunset.
"Puck It's beautiful," Sabrina said as she took a seat on the large window sill. A cool breeze blew in through the window and played with her hair. Sabrina closed her eyes to focus on the breeze blowing at her face, and to breath in the fresh air. She opened her eyes and gazed out at the beautiful horizon in front of them. Puck went over to sit by her and they sat there in silence for a few moments before Puck got up and stood on the window sill. He reached down and took Sabrina's hand,
"Wanna go for a fly?" he asked her. Sabrina stared at him as if he had just grown and extra head.
"Um I don't know…Last time-"
"Come one Sabrina, you can trust me this time" he said and smiled down at her sweetly. Sabrina got up and stood on the window sill with him. Puck scooped her up in his arms then leaped off the tower, wings erupting from his back at the last second. Sabrina screamed at Puck for nearly giving her a heart attack and they flew off into the sunset.
When Puck landed, it was on a completely different window sill, her own. He set her down on the sill and she climbed into her room. Puck hovered in midair outside, "Night Sabrina." he said and yawned.
"Goodnight Puck." she replied and watched as Puck's silver silhouette turned to leave. She slipped into her bed and stared out the open window. Staring out at the night sky she thought she saw the moon smiling down on her and then fell fast asleep.
The next morning Sabrina woke up to see the sun shining down on her through her window. She would have to remember to close the curtain next time. Not wanting to get up she used her pillow to shield her eyes from the sun's rays. Suddenly she heard the door creak open. She lifted her pillow slightly to peek out and see what was going on without letting whoever know she was awake. What she saw shocked her and she had to use all her willpower to hold in her gasp. Puck was there hanging up streamers, and a banner that read Happy Birthday!
Wait what? Happy birthday? Oh! She nearly face palmed as she remembered. How in the world did I forget my own birthday, it's good someone remembered. Jeez how in the world did I pull that off. She thought to herself. She smiled under her pillow and then when he was turned around she launched into attach. Throwing her pillow square at his head. Unfortunately for her attach, Puck turned around at the last second and caught it.
"How did you do that!" she said, impressed. He merely just pointed to his ears.
"I can hear a lot of things you humans can't with these, Happy Birthday Sabrina," he said cheerfully and she ran up and hugged him.
"Thank you! I'm really glad you're here," she told him, and Puck hugged her back.
"Puck?"
"Yeah?" he asked.
"I need to change, I'm still in my nightgown" she said and laughed. "You can wait outside my door for me."
"Oh sorry! I'll just go then." he said and rushed outside the door to wait. Sabrina got out an indigo dress and put it on. The sleeves were her favorite, at the bottom they hung very wide, or were trumpet sleeves as they call them, and at the top it was slightly puffy. The dress also had a beautiful blue section in the middle and double lacing in the back and front. She examined herself in the mirror in pinned her hair up. She opened the door and left to go see puck who was waiting patiently in the hallway.
He looked up and stared at her in awe. "You look beautiful." he told her, making her blush. He ignored her embarrassment, and took out a small white box. He opened it and handed it to her. The box displayed a beautiful necklace with a diamond flower on it. Sabrina looked at it in shock,
"Puck, It's gorgeous I don't know what to say… Thank you!" she exclaimed. He grinned a her.
"May I?" he asked her politely. She nodded and placed the box in his hands. Gently removing the necklace he made his way around Sabrina and clasped the necklace around her neck.
They made their way downstairs and Puck led her into the dining room. "Ok, now close your eyes." he told Sabrina and took her inside. When she was told to open her eyes she found a room filled with birthday decorations and a whole kingdom of people.
"Surprise!" Daphne screamed as they walked in. Everyone grumbled under their breath.
"Daphne we were supposed to do it together…" Uncle Jake corrected.
"Sorry," she said sheepishly but quickly put her knuckle back in her mouth and squealed at Sabrina.
"Happy birthday Brina!" Uncle Jake shouted and quickly embraced her. When she finally broke free of his grasp she saw a huge cake on the dining room table that was beautifully decorated with frosting along with a huge stack of presents.
"Eeee." she squealed. And looked up at Puck excitedly. "We owed you, Sabrina, for so many years we never had the chance to celebrate your birthday, here's us making it up to you." Uncle Jake said excitedly and gestured to the brightly decorated room. Everyone grinned at her.
"Well, are we gonna eat cake or what?!" Puck exclaimed.
"Yes!" Sabrina burst. The cake was cut and everyone was handed a piece. They all sat down at the dining table which rarely had many people at it. The whole occasion was amazing.
"This is the best breakfast of all time!" Daphne shouted and shoved more cake into her mouth, causing laughter to erupt from around the table.
"Yesss" Sabrina agreed and finished her piece of cake.
After that they proceeded with the presents. Daphne sat Sabrina down on the throne in the throne room and handed her the gift she had gotten her. "Open it open it!" she beamed and put her knuckle in her mouth and bit down on it. Sabrina ripped the package open and smiled down on the present inside. She took it out of the rapping to admire it. It was a beautiful picture frame that her sister had obviously decorated, on the inside there was a picture of them together. The feeling of it in her hands just touched her heart.
"Thanks, Daph, I love it!" she told her.
Many other gifts were given, Sabrina received many beautiful dresses that she couldn't wait to try on. Art supplies such as paints and canvases. Including a sword! Snow had made it last minute, which was a gift in itself just to see her. Everyone scowled at the gift saying "princesses shouldn't be in sword fights or anything that isn't sophisticated." Snow said otherwise.
"It's always important to be armed! You go girl!" which made Sabrina laugh. Taking hold of the tang, she thrust the sword out of its scabbard and high over her head to examine it. The sword was stunning, maybe a little over a meter long. On both ends of the handle were gold designs, the blade was thin and razor sharp obviously made by a fine swordsman.
"Thank You, Snow, I'm sure this will come in handy from time to time!" Sabrina said and put the sword back in its scabbard.
Time seemed to fly by at the speed of light, and soon everyone had to bid their farewells, Sabrina thanked everyone for their wonderful gifts on the way out and gave many hugs to the close friends she would truly miss. "Thank you so much for coming to Snow it's been so long and I'm sure Billy was overjoyed to see you, it means a lot to me."
"No problem I'm glad I could come as well," she said and bid her farewell.
Sabrina turned around to find Puck standing in front of her. She smiled and began walking around the kingdom with him. "Did you enjoy yourself?" he asked her as they strolled around the castle.
"I had the best time! I don't suppose you had anything to do with this whole party?" she asked sneakily.
"Well, I'll admit I helped but I didn't plan it, the credit goes all to Jake." he said and smirked at her. "I just came to say goodbye real quick." he told her as his wings erupted from his back. "It's really getting late" he said.
"Yes, I suppose it is, well, thank you so much for coming," she replied, sounding a little disappointed as he turned to leave.
"Oh also one other thing…" he said pivoting on his foot to face her again. "Your officially of age now, princess." he declared. This time Sabrina actually smiled as the news dawned on her.
A/N: What did you guys think about chapter 4? I was thinking about a kiss for this chapter but in this kinda story I feel like I should save it for the end, IDK. leave a review to tell me what you think, I'm open to ideas for the next chapter! Seriously, I literally have no idea what I'm doing for the next chapter. Errr, I hate writers' block! Chapter 5 might take a while... sorry guys. Just wanted to give you a heads up.