Sienna was standing in the middle of the ancient stone-built arena. Her long golden hair twirled in the wind, her blue tiger-like eyes scanned the wild crowd. The turquoise silken dress hugged her curvy body lightly. The two beasts were locked in a vicious fight. Two blood brothers who wanted to claim her! The serious Lord with a sword behind his waist was holding her right hand high." You will belong to the winner, they will fight to the death for the right to mate with you!"

Sienna bit her lips."Kind burly tiger or a rude handsome snake? How does it come to this?"

Well, it all started with:

"Freedom!!!" the beautiful curvy woman in her twenties opened her arms happily as she walked on the sun eloped beach. The ocean waves were singing the most beautiful song and the soft wind was twirling her long golden hair, which shone on the sun as a rare treasure.

This day was so precious to her. Every day was so special because she was finally free!!! She ditched her abusive narcissistic boyfriend and she was celebrating it with a holiday on her own!

"Finally I can enjoy everything again!"She smiled into the sun."I can do whatever I want!" she giggled crazily."Sienna, you did so well!" she patted herself on the shoulder satisfied with her reality. She was healing her soul and this was exactly what she needed...Ocean, which will help her breathe and give her inspiration...

Sienna was an artist and fashion designer. She was very crafty and loved to read. But her favourite was to design and sew dresses. She was currently working on designing a new line of dresses for the upcoming big fashion show. Life felt good and freedom just made it better!

She wandered in between the rocks on the secluded area of the beach, the tide was unusually low today, and it gave her a chance to explore. Sienna noticed the rock formation, with the entrance in it, it was normally under the water and Sienna was excited to see what it looked like from inside!

She peeked in and saw rays of light coming from the sky through the rocky openings, making it look dreamy, the pool of seawater was still inside the rocky grotto. "Wow, fit for a mermaid!"Sienna smiled and took a few photos on her phone."This would be an amazing background for a photo shot!" her creative mind started to race in excitement.

Suddenly she saw something sparkle inside the pool."What is it?" she thought curiously and dropped her bag on a dry rock. She lifted her light chiffon dress and went through the water to check it out. She picked up a quartz crystal as big as her palm! It was looking like a nest of towers with little lines inside of it!

"So beautiful," Sienna said as she held it against the light and watched the rainbow light coming out of the crystal, " Where are you from ?"She asked. Sometimes she used to speak to herself and did not mind it, most artists did it anyway! But the crystal heard her somehow because the light in the crystal became more intense, so strong that it coloured the walls of the smallish grotto in rainbow hues. Then an unexpected strong flash of white light made Sienna close her eyes. She held the crystal to her chest instinctively as she felt the gush of wind and then everything went quiet for a moment...

"Wow, what was that?"Sienna opened her eyes carefully but she did not recognize the cave anymore, it was cold and dark! She gasped and looked around. It had stony formations of the mountain caves!!! The slight ray of light caught her glimpse, so she followed it to the opening of the cave. Sienna looked down in shock."Where did the forest come from? What? How did this happen?" Sienna looked at the crystal in her hand. "It must be this crystal."She thought." It changed its colour to black!!! What is this thing?" she asked herself feeling shaken. "Can you take me back, please?"She put it against the light again, but the black crystal started to droll, only black dust was staining her white hands.

Sienna tossed the dust into the wind. "So weird. "she shook her head. She climbed down from the cave carefully. It was quite difficult in her long dress and sandals.

She stood at the bottom of the rocky cave formation. There was a huge forest in front of her. "Ok, let's take a breath. How do I get home from here? It looks like that crystal brought me here, so if I find another crystal like that I might be able to come back. I need to find some help. Hopefully whoever lives here, will be nice." she sighed.

Sienna stared into the forest. She saw a stream of crystal clear water. "Let's follow the water." she thought, "It always leads somewhere, hopefully." she started walking down the path.

The forest was full of noises, the birds were singing and flying around, and the big canopies of leaves were hanging down. The stream had pebble stones around its edges, so Sienna kept walking on those, there was no way she could pass through that dense forest. It was quite tricky as the stones kept sliding as she stepped on them, so it was quite an exhausting walk.

Sienna walked for around an hour. Then she stopped to wash her face and drink some of the water. It looked clean enough. Then she sat down to rest a bit. It was hot and moist in that forest. It reminded her of her trip to New Zealand. She loved the forest smell. "Hopefully I will not meet any dangerous animals, I hope it is as safe as New Zealand." she thought a bit worriedly.

Suddenly she felt really strange like someone was watching her, she turned around, but saw nothing, she shook her head, but still felt some presence. She started to feel really uncomfortable, so she stood up and started to walk down the stream. She turned her head often but did not see anything, so she calmed down.

The stream was looking more like a river now; it was getting wilder and bigger with the big stones cutting through the water. The droplets of water were glistening in the air and Sienna watched it in a daze. But when she turned around to check again she froze; there was a huge white ape behind her watching quietly. It was looking like that strange yeti-type wild ape bigger than a gorilla; it was not from her world, she was certain. Sienna loved to read books about animals and never saw anything like this! The ape had a silvery chain on his neck, " Probably it belongs to someone." Sienna thought.

Sienna straighten up and gulped. Her body was strong; she liked boxing and martial arts, but she did not consider herself a match for a huge ape. She read they can be as strong as ten men!!! And besides that ape had so much bigger teeth than her!!! She glanced at it and turned her head, she did not dare smile or look into its eyes, because she did not want to provoke it. "You don't show your teeth to wild animals!"She heard the voice in her head. Sienna did not like monkeys and apes at all, she knew they could be strong and injure people, especially the big ones. She turned her head slowly to check on it but the ape was not there again. Sienna sighed in relief but crouched down and picked a palm-size stone. She held it in her hands and began to walk again.

She was checking behind her often but suddenly the leaves of the forest opened and a few men with spears appeared right in front of her! They were tall and burly with large muscular chests, blond long hair, and deep grey eyes. Their skin was tanned with blond hair on it. They looked very similar to each other and reminded Sienna of Nordic warriors. Their faces were painted with long blue stripes. They wore light dark blue silken-looking wide trousers, with a colourful scarf belt and lots of trinkets around them.

Sienna counted seven of them and froze..." I'm dead! It is too many of them. I have no chance. Let's not provoke them." she thought. Her heart was pounding wildly. She dropped the stone from her hand to the ground. The warriors surrounded her and did not look very friendly at all, she just stood straight looking at them. Sienna hoped they would consider her beautiful and not kill her...

One of them suddenly came to her. He was very tall and muscular, he was handsome, but his face looked a bit cruel, his eyes stared at Sienna like he wanted to eat her! Sienna raised her head and looked into his eyes. The man gazed into her eyes a bit, then he offered her his hand.

Sienna reached for his hand slowly looking into his eyes. He grabbed her hand halfway and lifted it up. The other warriors cheered. "I hope I did not just get married," Sienna thought. He held her hand tight. Then he put it down and pulled Sienna to follow him." Come, "he said in English.

" What?" Then Sienna noticed is not actually English but she somewhat understood it the same as English. She felt shaken. His hand was warm and strong, it kind of tried to dominate her somehow. He kept glancing at her with that hunger in his eyes. Sienna knew what it meant, she saw that glance in men's eyes before. Sienna did not feel like he was someone to mess with, but she did not want to go with him really. He looked too cruel, wild and barbaric. Her heart was beating loudly.

She took a deep breath and smiled" I'm called Sienna...Who are you? "

The man looked at her."Ramse, the prince and general of the Ape warriors. I'm taking you as my woman." he looked at her blue eyes and full lips. He could feel his heart pounce! He had never seen such beautiful eyes, they were almond-shaped and little flicked which reminded him of the tiger. He could not help but stare at her. Her lips were full and pink and looked so sweet he just wanted to lick them. Her curvy body was enticing his imagination and he was so keen to touch it and feel the softness of her fair skin under his fingers.

"Ok, that is interesting," Sienna thought."At least he is not killing me but..."

"Can you tell me what that means?" Sienna asked," I'm from far away, so I'm not sure what exactly you want from me?" she asked innocently, a little bit dumb and puckering her lips slightly...she knew he gazed at them! And yes, sometimes she was sneaky. She was clever and educated but liked to pretend to be dumb for the fun of it! She was able to hold conversations with almost anyone, so she decided to use her skills to squeeze as much information from him as she could...

 "You will cook, clean and bear my children and take care of my house!" he said firmly. "Is she mad? "Ramse thought but got distracted staring at her pink lips.

"I'm not good at cooking or cleaning," she said sadly bowing her head." That is why I do not have a husband you know?" she fluttered her eyelashes as she tried to look innocently dumb.

" What do you do then?"He looked at her surprised. Her eyes were so mesmerizing to him that he wanted to watch her more...

"I sew dresses, do arts, draw. I'm an artist. Women in my world don't need to have a husband if they don't want to." Sienna said.

"I can let you sew dresses, that is a good skill, but all women need to do housework for their men. I have someone to teach you." he nodded.

"I think I'm really unable to do it properly," Sienna said hopelessly. 

"Don't try to be stubborn!" he warned her," Females who do not listen get beaten. It will not look nice on your pretty white skin," he said.

Sienna looked at him abruptly and pulled her hand." You will beat me?" her blue tiger-like eyes lit up wildly. 

"No, the elder women do that, they raise young females to listen", Ramse said plainly. "We just tie them up to a post and they beat them with a stick," he said."All our females listen very well."

"You will watch me get beaten?"Sienna asked coldly. Her blue eyes projected strength suddenly. They shone wildly when she was upset!

He looked at her surprised." If you do as I say you will be not beaten, so stop asking so stupidly."Ramse started to lose patience but the sudden strength in her eyes made him captivated even more...She was so interesting to him!

Sienna's facial expression turned to a stone."I need to get out of here or I'm dead meat." She thought frantically. She was not able to get her head around cleaning and cooking, it was not like she was not able to do it, it was just never perfect, and so she felt bad doing it for other people. She even got beaten for it in her life before. She did not want to experience it again, so she was on high alert.

" I'm sorry, I told you I'm new here," she said carefully.

" Why are you here, then?" he looked at her firmly. He could see she was acting strange, but her beauty was worth it. He wanted to find out more about her...

" I'm looking for a big clear crystal, do you know where I can find one?"Sienna asked curiously.

"You can ask about it in the Crystal City," Ramse said." It is behind the big mountain and a desert, where the sun goes down," he said, "Behave well and I may take you there sometimes," he promised.

"Behave well?"Sienna asked really stupidly. 

" You will be staying with me, in my house," he said as he pointed down the river."There is a big waterfall down there, stay away from it. It is a land that no one can pass alive. It is ruled by Hissing Death," he said seriously as if warning a child. Sure, she was asking a bit dumb, but he did not need a woman more clever than him anyway. He looked at her with satisfaction and smiled. "I will show you to everyone in the village, and tonight you became my female. "he smirked at her.

"So the city lies at the West, where the sun goes down, if I follow the sun and the mountain peaks, I might be able to find it. To stay here like his female is no way." Sienna thought.

Then she noticed the necklace on his neck. She looked into his deep grey eyes and something struck her." Tell me why you are calling yourself an Ape prince?" she asked curiously.

Ramse stopped and looked at her." Because I can transform into a big ape, I saw you before, that was me," he said." It is our spirit animal, we can change into it when we want to."

"You really stared at me there. You scared me, "Sienna said worriedly.

"I know", he said with curled lips. He was watching her as she walked and could not turn his eyes from her. 

Sienna nodded as if thinking and looked at the river."It must be great to live next to the river." she said..."You must swim a lot."

"No, we don't like that. You can drown in the water easily...is not good," he shook his head. "Behind that mountain is my village." Ramse pointed and let go of Sienna's hand for a minute. He was confident because Sienna looked docile and was asking curious questions.

Sienna did not want to go to the village with Ramse. She did not want to be forced to stay with him and to be a servant wife. "I must run away and find the way to that city, where are the crystals which can send me home. "Sienna started thinking about how to escape as she walked holding his hand obediently. His warriors followed them closely, so it was not a chance yet...

They came almost to the waterfall. Sienna heard the noise of falling water, but before she could see it, they changed their direction! Ramse pulled her to walk into the jungle, the ground was wet and the weather hot. The huge muddy puddles were lining their way, she noticed the ape warriors were walking carefully, they did not want to get much mud on them...

"Your skin is so beautifully white," said Ramse," I will show you off to all when we come there...I will have the most beautiful female." he said proudly." I never saw a female with your blue eyes, we heard about them only in the legends." he nodded happily.

"Wait a little, please."Sienna smiled at him sweetly and took her hand from his gently to adjust her hair as she walked by his side.

" Be careful here, it is slippery, "he said to her almost caringly.

Sienna glanced at the enormous muddy puddle next to her." Aaa." she fell into it as if it was an accident! Then she tried to stand up, but the mud was slippery...so she completely messed up her hair and face, she looked like the person from a mud bath!

" Why did you do that?" Ramse looked at her with displeasure on his face.

"I just slipped, I'm so sorry." Sienna shook her head pitifully but was laughing inside."If I may go back to the river and wash please, I would not like to embarrass you entering the village in this state." she said remorsefully." What a clever girl I am," she thought," I go to the river and hide in their forbidden land and bye-bye apes and cruel man!"

"Ok, I will go with you, "Ramse nodded and pointed his warriors to the village. Sienna walked quickly towards the river. Ramse went right behind her. He was staring at her bum as she walked. The mud made her dress stick onto her and it looked so good to him! When Sienna came to the water, she just jumped in. "Please, don't look Ramse, I'm shy." she smiled gently.

"You will be mine tonight, there is no need to be shy," he rasped and kept staring at her bathing. Her chiffon dress started to clean in the water and was sticking to her body even more. Ramse looked at her full breasts, defined waist and wide hips..." She would be so good in my bed." he thought.

Sienna washed her hair and slowly went down to the middle of the river.

"Don't go too far!" Ramse shouted standing at the edge of the water.

"I'm going to wash my hair now," she called back with a smile, "I need to get a bit deeper."

Sienna could hear the waterfall but had no idea how big it was, there was a curve of stones, so she thought of hiding behind them and checking it out first. "I just hope Ramse can't swim." she bit her lips.

Sienna pretended to be washing her hair, the water was by her chin and the current was slightly moving her away...Ramse was watching her and Sienna smiled and waved at him. Then she noticed some warriors were coming back to Ramse. Ramse turned halfway to speak to them.

At this moment Sienna dipped under the water and swam to hide behind that big rock, she let the current take her to the edge of the waterfall, from another side of the river. It was looking good, and the pool seemed to be deep, so Sienna started climbing the slippery waterfall stones on the edge to go down.

She noticed there was a tiny opening and she saw there was a place behind the water. Suddenly she heard Ramse calling her name." Oh no, he must be looking for me already!" Sienna sighed and rather slipped under the falling water.