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Warning…. God, no way to warn about his. Just, don't think there are any triggers, so enjoy.
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Jade sat in her room, fuming, trying to understand how she wound up in this situation. Her eyes scanned the far extents of her room, far beyond the wallboard that was supposed to mark the boarders. Deep into the room, past dimensional boundaries, into worlds her friends never once understood, or so she thought. 'How?' she again wondered, glancing down at the circle that bound her.
Her half brother, younger by a good six years, hesitatingly entered to her room. She suspected he'd knocked, but was preoccupied enough to have missed a gentile rapping, or even a howitzer going off just outside her room.
"Jade?" Brice asked, his far too human eyes glancing nervously around the room. Years of interacting with her had taught him several things, like her tendency of wallow in her misery, or the fact that this room was larger then the house itself. Senses developed over time felt The limits of the space, and he knew how far gone she was. "Not gonna sit outside and worry. Not now, not after I got to know the real you."
There was a comfort in that statement, because he knew, as dark as her origins may have been, the real Jade was a caring sister who usually looked out for her siblings. Usually, when she wasn't locking herself in the bathroom to freak them out, making them worry about the Gothic girls health and well being. Ocean eyes glanced over to her brother, and for a moment, she let it pass as she tried to remember her human life. Beck, and her friends, and the things she used to live for, before she turned twenty five and inherited the full extent of that part of her heritage. Before Beck fled, unable to accept the dark princess he'd been dating, thinking the challenge was enough to keep him interested, discovered she really was a dark princess.
Brice was smiling. No longer the child he once was, but instead a solid and handsome young man, now he stood his ground when in the past, he'd have slipped away. Yes, there was loads about her that were scary, but given how she felt about her family, he was safer here then many places. "I was wondering, why you hiding in here?"
"I've been bound." Jade griped, glancing at her left hand. A hand striped of all accouterments, save for simple golden circle placed upon her finger next to her left pinky. "Stupid Vega."
"Okaaaay…" Brice said, moving cautiously towards his sister. He'd discovered, over the years, from long before she's inherited her new realm, that many of the things that chose to follow her were both horrific and hard to notice. Best to be careful, watch where he stepped, lease he find out just how nasty a three foot tall winged figure could be.
Closer, he looked down at her hand, and again wondered about her. "Um, sis, that's an engagement ring."
"Like I said, bound." Jade emphasized. "Vega was there, telling me about this show she was doing, watching me grow sick with envy, and then, out of the blue, there's this ring on my finger." She blinked, trying to push her thoughts without accidentally summoning something.
"It's an engagement ring." Brice repeated. "You've known each other about a decade, right? As in, ten years, almost half your life, and she decided to ask you to marry her?"
"Kinda, I think." Jade looked confused. "But it's more then just a ring. I've been bound. As in, all that power, bound. I can't…" Words fled as she tried to figure out what she was supposed to have done that would have caused Tori to have bound her. "I'm limited. I have to be careful, cause all my power…"
"Would cause the city to burn." Brice finished for her. "That's what you told me, just a few months ago, when you had me help you bind your own powers."
"Only I was in control." Jade snapped. "I could undo that binding. No, this, it's almost the trick that mom's other father was trying to circumvent when he contributed to her, then me. We're limited."
"So you're not getting married?" The boy asked.
"This," She held up her hand, pointing at the offending ring, "it requires a sacrifice. Always assumed that involved some bloodletting, but Vega realized they didn't need that so much as, well, a sacrifice. Giving of herself to bind me."
"For how long?" He wondered.
"If she succeeds in turning me Faie, then forever?" Jade guessed. "A whole empire, across half a dozen dimensions, all turned from their original, hellish purpose to the realms of the faie. How did I let that happen?"
"Aren't there other…" He tried.
"With the binding comes a potential power boost." Jade said, exasperated. "Already, there's civil war withing the realms." Blue eyes looked far beyond the confines of her room. "Course, there already were, cause that's the nature of grandpa. Always at war, always forcing those he breeds into existence to fight to hold onto what they have, using them as tools, never letting them have anything they lack the strength to hold. And now, he's on the defensive, and I don't know the kind of force he'll bring to bear against me now."
"Is there anything we can do?" Brice asked.
"Not unless you somehow know the lyrics to the song of creation." Jade said. "And for the record, no one knows. No one but the Fairy lords, and they keep that chiz to themselves."
"Uh…" He thought he understood her before. "Uh…"
"They have the power, from the song, of the glamour. The ability to change realty around them." Jade explained. "All my studies confirmed they do, but they're a dying breed. Eternal, from before man walked this world, they started dying from the different wars, as well as the slow eroding of time, and didn't breed the kinds of replacements they needed. Only a half handful of them left now, so how did Vega manage to make a deal with them?"
Brice smiled. "Would explain how she got the ring on your finger." He chuckled. "Hay, you're gonna live, so I'm happy. Hell, I'm even happy for you, even if it means marrying this girl you've had an almost irrational dislike for since you became friends, explain that to me. But, and this is important, if these fairy lords are doing what you say, then you're the prize, miss demon princess, cause they might be able to make a lord out of you. The extra's, the half dozen dimensions you may have when this is over, that's just icing. So, you continued to sit here, in your room, and wallow in your gloom over what sounds like it may even be good news… Do you love her?" His eyes screamed of hope.
"I will." Jade confessed. "Had the potential., and now, thanks to this, I will, and for the second time in my life, outside forces are changing my destiny." Her head fell. "My plans."
"But it opens up some of those plans you had to abandon, right?" he wondered.
"Yes." She relented.
"Then I'll leave you to your wallowing." Brice backed out. Once out, he hesitated for a moment, before he rushed down to the kitchen.
He stopped at his room, next to the garage, and rushed to the computer, needing to look a few dozen things up. "How is she?" The pixie hiding there asked.
"Does she really need to get married?" Brice wondered.
"We needed a sacrifice to bind her, change her." The fairy admitted. "Miss Vega was more then willing to sacrifice her future for our cause. Not a bad trade, a dozen men using her, before she found anyone worth having, for a single dark princess who will be a better wife then any husband she might find."
"So, this war…?" He hesitated.
"We've already won what we want." The pixie assured him. "But this war, it'll keep this realm safe for the next thousand years. We have every intent to win. Further, we have resources, allies, who will do great damage to the dark lords forces before we unleash the full power of the song, sung by a chorus a thousand strong." The small man smiled. "You'll get your reward, as will everyone else we'll need to keep her Seelie. And miss Vega, she'll just have to settle for almost all her dreams coming true..." A dark chuckle. "Just, not sure how to make a sugar castle..."
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Thoughts? Like, what kind of magic sugar castle?
I have no idea when I wrote this. But I'm actually trying to go through my backlog, so from time to time, Tales of the woods will grow.