The counterparts wish book one

by Lakiin Householder

It all begins with connection And for Lily Dreammaker that is everything to her It saves her life and others. To what’s the forbidden wish forbidden power? This is her story. This a different take on the fairytale princess type of story I hope that you enjoy this different take on a Timecrest story of a fairytale adventure not all of that is fairytale, but some of it is I will thro

21. Chapter 18 The library of wonder

I don't on time crust, all right, belong to sneaky Crab also don't own the swan princess that story belongs to their respective owners all right then there's our disclaimer telling you who I don't know in this story the only people I own in the story or my OC characters all right that's enough now Time to get back to the event of the story OK?

in this part of the story, the characters are heading off back to Swan Lake to go to the library and look up things from their past. They're going back to Swan Lake to the Swan Lake Castle library. The reason this chapter is called The Library of Wonder is that the siblings wonder about their past and wonder of all the books in the library instead of Tomes asking for Odette to read them to her read them to them because they can't read human books all right the story is mostly probably this chapter is probably mostly filler, but I am so OK because it's a very important filler. After all, sometimes there is important filler to fill in more details of your past. Don't you think I agree?

we returned to Swan Lake after a nice, long sleep and sweet dreams. We weren't ready to set up the place in our new kingdom yet but we would soon return to the main castle so that we could go to the library and use Dad's library we even asked her permission to use the library and she said it was fine as long as you're not as long as you're careful with the books and I asked her if she could read the books to us because one I'm blind and I couldn't read into the Elysian cannot read human books they can't. I thought they were human not completely. They grew up reading tones, and they didn't read words they read glyphs you know pictures oh that explains everything settled it all right then I will help as much as I can with the translations then good come this way to the library come this way to the Royal library where every book is kept especially here about Swan Lake sounds good to me let us begin in our search. You know you should update your library I added, I mean adding braille books that could be helpful but I mean update to amor am automatic system you mean with electronics yes like a computer log I never thought of that it might help settle death bringing the bringing it to the 21st-century. That sounds like a plan. When you all are in a role, you can do that you can bring it into the 21st century.

Valencienne's eyes grew wide as they looked around the room, except for Scarlet obviously because she was blind but everyone else looked around Ash and Luther as well they looked around and then noticed that they had seen so many books in one place the same tones like this, but not this many human books, as they said, they picked up each book and looked at each one even though the one we were looking for was the family tree every other book wasn't important at the moment, but they wanted to insist to look at every book in the library. They had never seen so many books.

Ashli even says this is a grand library bigger than the one in Timecrest. I agreed with him. I agreed with Ashli's statement on this. It would be a great library for you because every library like this in the human role is this size this one's bigger because it's a royal library, but other libraries are similar and are not as big, but they're quite as big, what are we looking for? You'll know when you find it Odette says you'll know which book you're looking for when you find it can we read as many as we like of course reading these books is free so you can read any of these books everyone was happy that they knew they could read any books in this library. Their eyes filled with wonder if they looked around the place. Scarlet was at a disadvantage being blind, though she couldn't read anything, which made her sad Roger was happy though reading books, instead of Tomes was short enough for his short attention span, where he wouldn't have to read so many at one time, and so many shortly even though they were human, he was fine with it because he was in the human world now I think I found it. I heard Alisha call out he did Odette said I did. I think this is it.

I also found another helpful book. I heard a C call out the history of Rothbart. It says he said, reading it the history of Rothbart and the forbidden arts. You might want to read that as well said Odette. It'll be very helpful to you, especially when it comes to learning about what the forbidden arts are. Also, do you want to know some background on our villain or our enemy, that be a good one for me to read what Luther says, it's good, we need to learn more about this enemy or I need to find out how evil he is still learning about him and his history we come very much and handy through us. I know a lot about Ralph's part, but I don't know a lot about his past either Odette's father never told me, and neither did Derek unfortunately, or anyone else even derricks mother Neubert I didn't know much either. Unfortunately, she's dead so she won't be able to give us much information anyway if she was alive do you think she might if I tried to conquer her spirit set a lease you can do that I'm a necromancer she says I have the power to speak and see the dead. That is a pretty creepy skill. It might be handy against Rothbart you might have a point there and the bogeyman. Oh yes, I forgot he's your other enemy all right then well I'll leave you to it you're not gonna help. No, I think one of you is good at reading books. She looks over at Luther you son my grandson we down the list she says laughing you look like you studied books before I had my robot model one read me a lot of books when I was a kid all right then I think that you will be very helpful in helping them then more than me, my eyes are so old now on the tired said Odette and reading back all this would bring back bad memories for me happy reading and don't be afraid to ask me any questions if you need any answered OK OK they said I looked at all the books as well. There were lots of different kinds of books

which starts with the one about Rothbart's first set Elise I think if we can learn about the sorcerer, we might be able to learn more about what we're up against sorcery is not the same type of magic as the magic of being a mage I said, it's a dangerous path to go down. We're not gonna read about how to be a sorcerer or the actual book on the forbidden arts set a lease I do not want to try that and I know none of us wants to take that kind of a dark path.

we just need to learn a little bit about his history. All right now let us read.

There are all kinds of good books there's even one called The History of Swan Lake Scarlet said how do you know what it says I didn't have to read it or see the picture, but I can sense the shape of the book but I can't tell all the details of the pictures or the words, but I knew by the sense of the shape of the book that it was shaped like a swan so yeah, I knew it would be a swan book. Let me see I said, let me see the book you're right, that's what it says the history of Swan Lake not just the lake itself but of the history of the story of Swan Lake not just a Valdet Odette but of the ballet as well a Swan Lake we could learn some things from that as well, that's a good idea

there are even books on the bogeyman that has everything in her library at least said looking at a book. Oh yeah, that would be helpful right we need to learn more about him. I wanna know if he was my husband. I said I don't know much about his history and I know he's not Pitch from the Rise of the Guardians so I know that much because his name would've been Pitch and not Alex but I'm thinking he's related to Pitch probably oh yeah that could be possible.

but I already know how to weaken him if he can get people not to believe in the bogeyman, we can weaken him a lot more that would be easy but Roth bar would be hard. Yes, I know and I think he is still alive because well doesn't say that he is dead, even though they said he died in the story he is still alive I think because Odette said so and he probably has a score to settle. The loser says yes I think so too and since you're the only one besides your dad living relative, he'll probably wanna settle a score with you. I said he probably wanted to curse me too. He probably does, and he probably still possesses the forbidden arts.

I have watched The Swan Princess, so I know a lot about Rothbart a little bit. I said a little knowledge would be helpful, but knowing his history about how he can retain the permitted arts would also be very helpful in learning more about the bogeyman is also helpful as well, let us read all of these books shall we? It'll help us understand things we already know how the villains in your in the Anna Lucia so we don't need to worry about them right now, even though there's doing large in the awakening world, yes obviously but we'll deal with that. We might have to deal with that first since we already know that threat that might be very helpful yes, we should defeat our villains first and then deal with these other new villains.

and becoming rulers, I said, and getting married, yes we should get that done as soon as possible. He said the sooner we get married the sooner we can move on here the sooner we can become rulers of Swan Lake the sooner I can take over. You were very smart and thinking of that first Lily. I know that I said, even though everyone was watching Eileen over and kissed him. The kiss was sweet like always no actual flirty flirting us in the library his arms did you around me for a moment, and helped me for a moment, you're still beautiful you're just flattering me now I mean it Lily. I love you.

' saved you and I don't think saving each other is over yet and I don't think we should get married later. I think we should get married as soon as possible I agree, but I don't think we should become coordinated as rulers until we resolve some things I do understand will tell Dad that we cannot become rulers until we resolve all of our billing issues, and if we can't, and we become rulers during some of it, that's fine, but as long as we can become rulers before I mean after we take care of Rothbart that would be nice, and after we do with our villains from Alencia yes our ventures yes sounds good to me. OK, you're making plans to set a lease yeah are you as Batora and Porsche?

I agree Ash said that we should not take any ruling action until we take care of all these villains so many villains I thought we were done, but I guess we're not. We need to take care of the waking world, and then take care of our dream world we need to say both are all right then we are off to save the world, at least for the ones we can and that is us. We also all establish the people of Valencia throughout Swan Lake and sweet dreams come on in the two kingdoms into one that's a good idea uniting both kingdoms and making them one and cleaning up everything so that everything would be clean. Sounds great

to save the human world set a lease, yeah, everyone put their hands together even though I did, I don't even know if I could even save the world but I had a little bit of magic so a little time magic at least from being a counterpart still left, and I still had some dream magic so I wasn't completely useless and I had the power to save my man again if anything happens to him all right let us take care of some business before we take care of Rothbart and the bogeyman, but we need to take care of the bogeyman along with the other Lindsay and villains first, then will take care of this new threat and I might take some time over some time it might but we'll see no, I feel calmer. We have a plan in place we won't become rulers until we take care of the bogeyman. At least that's true of the others well in Rothbart so let's take care of those first. It's a little one of the human world of the waking world, which I'm on my own for our villains from Alencia.

The bogeyman is the easiest to defeat so let's take a hair of him first. Besides, I need to take care of them because he's my villain as my ex-husband. He's also my competition there's no competition honey I said, taking his hand in mine you're all I want in this life in the next, you're more precious to me than anything even an Alencia and gold even more precious than I am not saying something OK let us take care of the royal wedding and taking care of two villains, then will take care of becoming rulers later or we can become rulers, yes, will take care of the rulers' thing after we take care of some villains, kicking some villain, but that is what we're gonna do kicking Dylan but OK we're done here in the library, for now, I'll take this I think I'll do it will be fine with it I think so and will be moving Ion here so we need to go back and get ion and bring it here to Swan Lake right and we can move the books there, of course, I hate to tear down this beautiful castle though we won't need to. We can put it behind us because it would be your ancestor's home. You know your ancestor's home your ancestors

Alvin Kent's brother is here so I won't need Ion. We can make it our little getaway just you and me Yep or we can make it a home for Ash later that would be great. Yeah, that could work. It can be his new home when Ashli gets older because here in the human world, 16 is still a minor, right Understand that.

let us go and get on and bring it back here and we don't need the unicorns. Why I can just teleport us there I mean your magic still works yes somewhat well just teleport. Get ion fly on over here but I am behind the castle here and then will be good to go and we will never have to leave, the buildings and things and sweet dreams can be torn down and rebuild his new houses as a new town part of Swan Lake mean like an empire and she scared of ruling an empire yes a little, but I think we can do it. It won't be like the older I promise I know it won't be. We have so many Olympians it would work sweet dreams. Also had a lot of extra small towns and Swan Lake so people could just take residence and also those places, that's very very well thought out now I am a planner I said that you are a princess prince I'm not gonna get used to this and took me a long time to get used to being master of time and wind and earth. Now I have to get used to a new title no longer is the council in the car in session, now I know this is your worst. Fear ruling an empire that we won't be king and queen for a while I said oh that will stay clean until she dies, then will get coordinated as the rulers of Swan Lake.

We left and got the castle and brought it in and put it behind the palace now that was done and now we had an extra home or an extra home set apart for Ash to live in later to have Ashli's own place rules about minors are weird here he said yeah I know but it's true minors are still minors and they can't do much without guardians and would be ashes guardians. You know that I realize that now it's not like Alencia has no children and Ashli's age Hass to be taken care of. Also will have to enroll Ashton in school. What is Six Ashes 16 Ashley needs to go to school.

it's just for two years and then Ash won't have to go to school anymore so will Roger since they're both 16 don't need to go to school at least for two years I agree, set a deck coming into the room where we were standing you're not in the library, we had some business to take care of, and bringing our other castle ion here bright, right, of course, and I like the idea of you building sweet dreams into another just another town, part of part of Swan Lake, and have some of your friends live there sounds great to me also I'd like the idea that you would want to put your younger sibling into school not mine yes I know not yours dear but I do like that idea because Ashli is a minor and so is Roger and so is Sarah so they could go to school and finish up their schooling also they can still save the world, but then also be part of the school system they're minors after all

And you don't have to become rulers right away, married maybe but you don't have to become king and queen for a while, because I'll stay clean for a good while until I die, and then you can be coordinated as rulers of this place but when she wants to retire, yes, dear, I would, but I don't have a chance, or choice really to not retire, settled yet Even though I've been queen for over hundreds of years you're so old I don't. I stay useful as much as possible because I am a book character which means a story character that means I could live a long time. I might not live for much longer though my life is almost coming to an end, dear, and I'm so happy that I have a successor to successors.

I think when I do die, this place will be in good hands, but I do want to see Roughfort get his comeuppance before I die he tortured me so much that I can't believe he is still alive for being a sorcerer. I guess he kept him alive longer than most people.

we also found some awesome books did you that's good why don't you all get finished up and I'll have tea ready sounds good having tea would be great right now I'm right I'll get the tea things it'll be tea and then dinner isn't always like that. It is settled yet. We always have tea at a certain time of day and then dinner.

I will get everyone I said the two of you probably need to catch up with a family and all yes dear go ahead I went back to the library and told everyone that we were going to have tea soon. Tea settle East sounds good I want to for some tea I know you would Elise oh, that says that they have teatime at about this time every day really sounds good to me and I won't even need to go to a tea shop. I can just have tea in the castle.

how is Luther taking it being Royale surprisingly well I said I'm surprised he hasn't gone crazy yet. It'll be even more nuts though cause I'm worried he might be a little nuts when he becomes king he's kind of a little worried though I said to Elise's house, so he's worried about ruling an empire, oh Portia said putting a hand on my shoulder. Well, you know Valder was an empire and you know how that turned out I told him we don't have to worry about that because we wouldn't be rulers like that at all, and would have a debt for a little while longer yet for at least a few more years at least.

we also decided that we're going to have the royal wedding first before anything else oh sounds good will probably need that to happen anyway also that will show what the bogeyman said, Portia. It might get him all upset and then that would make it would probably make it easier to trap him, also, it'll make him mad because I'll be off the market. I said yes who are the first villains will get to defeat They will defeat Rothbart later, and we can figure out how to defeat him.

and will take care of the actual well-become ruler rulers later like OK well we'll get our room crowning later write the coronation OK then let us go. Have tea now. Sounds good to me.

And we don't need to take the books out of the library because will be staying here. Oh, in the palace yes, sounds good. We can leave them here and come back to them. We left the library and met in the tea room. Elise was amazed by the tea room, it was different than the bin of the tea shop Tea was brought to us by servants which was even better. Roger thought he was in heaven, but I told him that we were not. Also, he couldn't stop bailing at Luther and me even though we told him to stop, we're not Royals I mean we are, but we don't enjoy that kind of treatment sorry but you to a royal you should get used to being bound to, but we're not one for from our feet we're not one for whatever that word is formalities yes, that word neither am I said Odette even though I've been queen for over a long long time I'm not either. I'm surprised I'm not dead.

I will also need to show you around the royal palace soon so you know where all the rooms are right now we're in the tea room and you know about the royal library. The only rooms that are off-limits right now are the king and queen quarters which are mine and my rooms and what used to be his derricks room and derricks mother's room which is my room now but I'll show you the guest rooms and the royal quarters for the prince and princesses sounds great so we get our royal apartments. Most of you do yes, sounds great. Tell Elise to sign are you OK dear? I'm not big on wanting to become Royal I was Royal once and I was locked in a room, a tower-like place a dark room you don't have to worry about that anymore dear, you get a nice room you could be part of the royal household.

also, you become the new Royal protectors of all of the dream rooms that's a big title too so all right I'll show you around the castle tomorrow. Let's get you to show you at least to your quarters and then will have dinner and then you can go to bed that's what we did for the next few hours. We went to find our new quarters, and then we ate dinner, and then we went to our beds and went to bed. We had a long day today tomorrow will get to be shown around the royal palace. I can't wait to see what our new house is going to our new living. Our new house is going to be like that.

good night I said to everyone and they told me good night. We went out to our separate rooms and went to sleep, not staying in ion for the first time saying a different castle was different for everyone and every other Elysian had their own houses along the lake and into sweet dreams, we had a lot to take care of and to make sure everything gets back to normal and make sure that the Alencia's get settled into the new homes as quickly as possible that's also it will be doing two. I'm also going to be teaching everyone how to be human which is going to be a big task for me but I don't think it'll be that hard I don't think, all right good night good night Lily

all right, here's a good shopping spot I think for this chapter I'm almost to the end I have one more chapter before we get to part I mean part three sorry. Oh and will be at the end of this book but I'm thinking about making a whole series of this one as well, at least up until the point where we defeat the bogeyman I'm also thinking about making Learning to be a human book of them especially when it comes to holidays and I think it would be fun to see how they work with different holidays as shorts throughout the year starting in with New Year's I'm not gonna start with Christmas. I'm gonna start with New Year's for 2024 because the book will also take place in the year 2024 and nurseries will go in between this series so this will be book one and will get to book 2 when I finish part three so counterparts wish to book one is almost coming to an end one more part after this one and then like I said, a whole new book will be made. I hope you all enjoy it.