"My face is the only face you'll be seeing from this day on little Princess. Your lands are mine now." King Avalon said, a smug grin taking over his pudgy face.
"I will make you pay for what you've done. I will not be locked in here forever." I said, as I slammed my hand against the bars where his face was, "I will make sure you burn when I get out of here."
"Big promises for such a little girl. How old are you now? 20 years?" He asked putting on a thinking face, "I have 3 years until I can marry you and make your lands mine. Officially." He said the last word as if that was going to make it come true for him.
"I will not let you lay any fingers on me. I will never marry you." I said practically screaming at his retreating back.
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My time is almost up, I realized as I relived the memory of how I got in this hell. I have a couple weeks before I turn 23 and my Lands become his. I can't let this happen. I thought as I looked out the small window, overlooking the snowy hills that I once played in as a child. I was supposed to be the protector of the Demon Realm. Make sure they don't cross to us and we don't come to them. My land had the last portal and nobody knew where it was but me and I was sworn to protect it.
"Beelzebub, if you can hear me please." I started saying the chant one of the maids gave to me a long time ago.
'If he comes to you, he can help you regain control again.' She said slipping me the paper with my dinner. Before she could finish her sentence, the guards shot her down in front of me. Little did I know then, that she was a spy sent from one of my colonies to help me.
"I will do anything you ask of me. If you help me take back what is rightfully mine I will do whatever you want." I whispered as my eyes shut. I waited a couple minutes but nothing happened just like all the times I asked him for his help.
"Please!" I cried as I curled up on my bed. "I have no time left. I will do anything." I cried myself to sleep begging for help that I knew wasn't going to come.
'Anything you say?' A deep voice asked curiously in the darkness, 'What I want I'm afraid you can't give to me unless we are married.'
"Beelzebub," I said standing up, darkness surrounding me. I tried to look around for where the voice came from but I couldn't even see my hands, "Then I'll marry you. I don't care what it takes. I need to save my Kingdom." I said as the tears pricked at my eyes. Was this really happening?
"Oh sweet little Princess." He cooed as I heard footsteps coming up behind me. Cold hands coming to a rest on my shoulders, "You have no idea of how valuable you are to us, do you." He said as his breath tickled my ear, he smelled of something sweet, but I couldn't put my finger on what it was.
"Please," I said as I moved to turn around but his hands kept me in place, "I've been trying to reach you for the last 3 years. I can't marry him, he knows about who my Mother is. And he will only use me to open a portal to your world and take over." I said quietly as tears spilled on my cheeks.
"Don't cry little bird." He said as he walked to stand in front of me, but I still couldn't see him, "I will make a deal with you. But you will have to marry me in order for me to help you." He said as he took my hand in his and gave me an item, a silver necklace with a ruby pendant, "Hold this and call my name 2 times and I will take you to my lands. There we will be able to talk more of this." He said as everything became blurry.
"Wait," I said sitting up in bed. I looked around and I was still in the cell. A sinking feeling hit me and I realized it was just a dream. Tears sprang to my eyes until I stood up and something clattered to the floor.
The necklace with the Ruby pendant. I gasped as I picked it up, he's real. I realized as I let out a laugh for the first time in years.
I was finally free, at least I thought.