Skylar Alliyah's POV
"We need to take the core back," he answered me.
"What?"
"Only palace people know that the Princess is here. They thought the Princess was outside this world, they thought she was on earth," he said while facing the window. "They thought she was you," he said as he turns back to look at me.
"What do you mean?" I asked and forced myself to get up.
"The Queen's servant which is your mother, made everyone think that the princess is you who was outside Armania." I didn't say anything and let him continue. "For us to be able to protect the true princess without the demons chasing her. She made them look for you instead of the Princess and brought the princess back here for us to hide her."
Is this place called Armania?
Did she put my life in danger just to protect the princess? What if I died? I still can't believe my ears but I let him continue the story to be able to understand everything before I react.
"But the demons knew that the coronation is coming so we must find you before they could find you."
"Why not just let me die?" I asked.
"Because we still need you." he faced me. "During the coronation, we want you to be in the Princess's place to lure the demons in the palace and say that we found you first. It will threaten them and make them think we are going to have more power because of the coronation and the gift from the gods will be passed to the queen. They'll come here and we'll catch their master to know where the core is."
"You're risking my life for the core?" I asked.
"Yes, you're an Armanian too. Your mother is an Armanian and your father is from the earth." My eyes fell down on my hands. What? "You have to help us with this," he said. It almost sounded like an order.
"I'm sorry but can you just take me back to earth?" I asked him.
"The demons might be searching for you there."
Did I just know my mother and found out that she's from another world? Is this even true?
"Remember that they killed your mother." He said and left the room.
I don't have the luxury to think about him leaving me alone so I thought about what he said earlier. They killed my mom and wait-- they also killed his father. But why am still hesitating about helping them? I have a doubt but I couldn't say it. I don't know what it is but I just don"t feel good about it. "What's stopping me?"
I spent a few moments inside the room alone and thought of what is that thing stopping me from helping them but I don't know what it is.
"Have you decided?" Someone suddenly went into the room. It's a lady wearing a white dress. 'Pretty' that's what I thought after seeing her. She has goddess-like features. Her hair is blonde and she's wearing a flower crown. She went inside and I can't do anything but stare at her walking towards me. "I'm Cira Eldora." she said and went to me. I looked at her as she went closer. "I am here to check on you."
"Why do you have to check on me?" I asked.
"I just want to ask if you have decided to help us." she smiled sweetly.
"Why me?" I asked. "Cause I don't really understand why I have to do it. You can just find someone to pretend as the princess."
"It has to be you because they thought the real Princess is you and not the Princess inside this palace." she smiled. But I still think it's not necessary at all.
"You could just use another person to act as the princess instead of me. So why does it have to be me?" I asked her.
"It's because there are ways to find out it was not you and we cannot risk it," she said. She sounded a lot softer than the guy earlier. While we were talking, she never miss making me feel understood. I was hypnotized by her kindness. "I want to tell you that your mom risked her life to protect the Princess and that is what we are all doing right now. Please, we need your help with this."
Why would I risk my life for this? I still can't forget the fact that she risked my life before for the princess. Is she that special to be protected like this? Why not just bring someone to pretend as the princess? they don't know me anyway.
"Yes, she is." My eyes widened when she answered the question in my mind. She can read my mind? "Yes. The princess has to be protected because she'll soon possess the gifts from Gods that would help us all out of this mess," she answered softly. "I can read minds."
"But--" I stopped myself and just looked at her. Could there be other people like her? Is it really true that they can do these things?
"Yes, it's true." she smiled again. OMG. "We need your help."
Suddenly, the door opened again and another person came in. Cira turned her head a little to the side before looking at me again as if the guy was nothing to be cared about. His hair is black with bright red highlights.
"Is this that girl?" he asked. I suddenly felt so scared of him.
"You're scaring her Blaze," said Cira. The guy named Blaze looked at me and smirked.
"Don't tell me you're not going to help us with this? We risked our lives going out Armania just to save you from demons. HE SCOFFED. I looked at him, he looks like he was the most dangerous person I have ever met. "Let me burn her if she won't help us" My eyes widened.
"Blaze." A cold voice from behind suddenly started talking. Blaze just looked at him and still glared at me even if he was being warned by that guy that took me here. The door suddenly opened loudly and two people went in.
"Is she helping us?" the girl asked as soon as she entered the room.
"No." blaze answered as if I told him my answer.
"Oh." the guy who just came in said and closed the door.
"I am helping you," I said faintly. I don't even know where that came from.
I spent hours thinking of why I couldn't seem to just agree with it and after not being able to answer my own question, I gave up.
"Are you sure?" Cira asked while smiling. I looked at everyone and nodded silently. I looked back at Blaze but he is still glaring at me so I looked away. Angry piece of a fireball.
"Hi, Cole Brooke is my name." he hands me his hand, and I took it to shake hands with him. He's tall and very muscular. I think among these three guys right here, he's the biggest. I looked up at him and smiled.
"Noo! don't be shy about him!" a girl attacked me from behind. She placed her hands on my shoulder as if we were very close. She's pretty but she's like the boyish type. her hair is braided and she's not wearing a dress like Cira. She's wearing a dirty white top, a light brown bottom, and brown boots. "I'm Amaya. We're twins," she said pointing at Cole.
"I see," I said faintly. My eyes compared them right away. They kinda look alike.
My eyes went to the guy who still hasn't introduced himself. He stood up straight and offered me his hand. "Alexander," he said shortly and shook my hand a little bit then let it go right away.
"I'm Sky," I said.
"Come on! I told you not to be embarrassed. You will make everything awkward!" Amaya teased me. "Come on! hug Cole!" my eyes widened when he pushed me to Cole. Hug? I stopped and not knowing what to do.
"Stop it. We need to discuss the plan right now." thank God Alexander interrupted.
"Hey, Amaya. Don't do that again." I heard Cira say to Amaya who just laughed the shit out of it. Her hand was heavy but I let them rest on my shoulder. After a while, she took it off and went to his brother.
"In my office, now." after Zach say that they all disappeared. My eyes widened and I don't know what to do again. They can all teleport? I looked at Alexander who came back. I looked at him because I don't know what to do. He sighed and walked towards me. He held out his hand and grabbed my hand and with just a blink of an eye, we were in another room.
Amazing. This is so Amazing.
The room looks like the room earlier. the walls, doors, and windows are the same but there is only a table inside. I think this is where they plan everything. There are chairs and a few cabinets in the corner. They all gathered in front of the big table and started with the plan for the coronation.
I can't believe that they just kidnapped me out of nowhere and now I am planning something with them. I looked at everyone, they are all serious about the plan. They are risking their lives for it and I should do so too. After this, I can go back home. I'm just going to pretend though.
I gulped for no reason.
"I know you're nervous." Cira suddenly went beside me with a smile. I smiled too.
"You can't blame me," I said honestly.
"It's okay, we will do everything we can to protect you," she said and left. I know that they'll do everything they can but that still doesn't give me assurance though. I might end up being killed in here or I can go back to earth and live a normal life again without these weird teleportation and mind readings.
It took us 3 hours to plan everything, the plan will happen in 7 days. We have seven days to let the demons know about the news that we are going to send and 7 days to prepare everything.
Those three hours passed smoothly. I have no problems talking to everyone except Blaze and Alexander, good thing is that I have Cira.
"You will stay inside the castle for the meantime," said Cira. Out of them all, I think Cira is the most friendly, she checks on me from time to time and she smiled brightly and talks softly at the same time. She's so sweet and looks very delicate. I nodded at her.
"Thank you," I said.
"We're done," said Alexander. he was about to say something but the door suddenly opened and a guy with a familiar face came in. I saw him in that dream. he's the same guy who came in when my mom died. "Arnold," said Alexander.
"What are you all doing here?" he asked us. "Oh, a new member of the group?" he smiled at me. His wrinkles appear every time he smiles. He's old, his eyes are small and he seems to be nice.
"She's a friend of mine." Amaya put his hand on my shoulder again.
"What are you doing?" he asked after smiling and looking at me.
"We are planning to take the core back," Amaya said proudly. The old man smiled.
"Really? So you're starting to move now. I heard from the officials but I didn't expect you to start this early." he said.
"Yes.." Amaya answered.
"Okay, I'll leave now. I am taking too much of your time."
"No, we're done," Alexander answered him. He stepped forward. "What do you need?"
"Nothing, I just want to check on you here. I'll get going now." he smiled and left.
"Arnold is getting older and older isn't he?" said Amaya and removing her hand from my shoulder and facing Alexander again. "What now?"
"We are going to hide Sky inside the castle first. You cannot go out without me," he said. I kinda felt pressured because of what he said. Why can't I just go out with Cira or Amaya? I don't like it but I nodded. "That's all for now. You can leave," he said and after a few seconds, I found out that it was just him and me inside the room. They travel so fast. They could teleport within a blink of an eye. He is doing something on the table and I stayed still looking at him. I'm afraid to move.
"You can sit there, give me a minute," he said without even looking at me. I turned around and sat on the chair facing him.
He's tall, he has this body that all guys would want to have. We talked for hours earlier but I only get to look at his face right now.
He looks like a prince, like in the movies that I have watched. His dark gray. It fits with his gray hair. His Pointed nose that matched his lips made everything perfect. I don't know why I only noticed it just now.
This kind of creature cannot be ignored. He's so beautiful.
"I can read minds too." I bit my lips and looked away. I have never felt so embarrassed of myself like this before. This is humiliating. I almost hit myself. Why did I do that? These guys are weird. What else can they do? Look through a girl's dress.
"I can do that if I want to." My eyes widened again. I looked at him and saw him smirking.
"Pervert." I said but he only smirked. He said that. Is it true? Should I really trust these people? He put down a book and looked at me. his smirk disappeared as if it didn't happen. he walked towards me again and grabbed my hand and then we appeared in the room again. I almost fell because I am in a sitting position when he grabbed me.
"Could you please tell me if you're going to do something like that?" I said and stood up straight. I sat on the bed.
"This will be your room for the meantime. There are clothes right there." he pointed to an old cabinet near the bed. "You can't go out, I'll visit you from time to time so tell me if you want to go out. You can't go out alone," he said. "No one should know that you're here."
"Okay," I answered. As if I was a lamb being ordered by a lion in exchange for being alive.
He left. And I was left all alone in this huge room entirely different from the room I used to sleep in. Even the air was weird and new to me.
As the night grew deeper and darker, anxiety kicked in and made me think if I did the right choice or not.
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