This is not a regular tale, this is not a bed time story, this is not a fiction, this is my story. Who would have thought that I will become like this, a slave, a rift-raft, a street rat, a nothing.
I was once the best in the realm, everyone know my name, everyone adored me, all my per's wanted to be me and all the women wished they were me.
My name is kora, or was I should say. I was the princess of all seven realms, loved by all and praised by all. My father put me incharge of the well being of all the young and old women in Lucia after the death of my beloved mother. It wasn't easy for me and dad but there was job to be done and an empty sit to fill. Who else but the princess of Lucia to take over after their deceased queen. I couldn't mourn my mother properly cause of the duties of the realm.
I had to grow up and take responsibility and also take care of father.
But it didn't end well, I watched as my sweet and loving father turned to a bitter and merciless father to me and a tyrant on the people.
I cope with it all and prayed to Gaia to bring back my father to me, daily, I prayed and waited for him to change but it never happened.
The council saw the kings behavior as a danger to the people and the realm and some council members started a coup to over throw the king out of his sit. The king found out about this conspiracy and declared them traitors of the realm. I watched as my own father order an execution of seven out of fourteen council members. They were all beheaded and their heads was hanged on a spike and left to rot while their body was feed to the kings wolfs.
I want to put an end to all this insanity, so I planned to talk to my father. I met him in his room with some sluts all over him, I couldn't stand the sight of it and immediately felt like throwing up. When my father saw me he didn't even act the least suppried or felt any remorse for his act. He ordered the women all out saying, next time ladies, I think my daughter wants my attention.
I watched my father with pure disgust. Ever since mum died, I always try not to blem him or hate him for his actions but after what I just saw, I have changed my point of view of him. He is not even respecting my mum anymore, having the guts to bring those dirty sluts to their room and doing alll kinds of things on the bed.
No, this can't be my father. We need to talk father, I said and he got up in all his glory and walked to the bathroom room. WHAT? I think am hallucinating, has he lost all his shame already. I turned crimson red, don't get me wrong, I wasn't aroused or blushing, I was fuming in anger and if you look closely enough, u might see smokes coming out of my nose.
Normally I would have storm out of the room, but I guess my determination to stress out the impending calamity in the kingdom was stronger than the anger of seeing my father's nakedness.
After putting on his robe he offered me a sit but I wasn't intending to sit, am fuming inside so spare me the courtesy.
First and foremost, I want to speak to you as your daughter and not your subject or council member, what is going on dad, am lost here, you have changed entirety, I no longer know you anymore, from the loveing and worm hearted father and king to this shameless and inconsiderate tyrant.
Before I could continue I herd his loud voice thundering over the room, "watch your tongue kora, you are addressing your king" then I totally lost it, my king? I replied with evidence of anger and frustration in my voice, "I am talking to my father and I demand to know why he has turned to this tyrant of a king. We were all doing great untill mum died, and I know the weight that fell on your shoulders as the king so I tried my best to help take that weight off you but instead of you getting better you became worst than before, how could you sit on the throne and let your people suffer, when was the last time you walked out of this castle walls, do you know the weak are becoming weaker and the poor are becoming poorer while the rich are becoming more richer, feeding off the poor and enslaving them.
You even opened up the slave market again, it's been generations since that, and grandfather made sure to stop that tyrancy so how could you be like this, I know you miss mum and the rest but I do too, I miss her everyday, she completed this family and without her we will always be incomplete but unfortunately there is nothing we can do for her now cause she is dead so we have to move on"
Move on? He said it slowly, I see you have now come of age, lecturing your father on how he should run his kingdom, raising your voice at your king and insulting the memory of your grandfather and mother, do you know you can be punished for such insulence.
What! I shouted, but he cut in again, get ready kora, u will be married to the king of Deamonia in one week,
My heart dropped to my stomach, you want to marry me off to some demon prince just because I asked you to stop your tyrancy and return to the normal father you were.
"Yes kora, Yes, you called me a tyrant so for your punishment, I will use you to straighten my empire and bond with the supernatural realm"
You see yourself as the voice of the people right, so be the martyr you so dream of and bind the supernatural realm to the human realm. Make yourself useful for me dear daughter and stop running your mouth on things you will never understand, and he is not a prince, he is a king, the strongest king in all the supernatural realms that has ruled for over five centuries and maintain peace and balance, but recently the peace between the human and supernatural realm is fading away so we have to do something about it or the humans will be hunted once again like in the days of the old.
I felt so heart broken listening to my father, my own father was sending me away to be the wife of some demon king.
CHAPTER 2
NO!!, I refuse to do what you ask of me, you are indirectly sentencing your daughter, your only child to die, No human and I mean No human has ever crossed into the supernatural realm and lived to tell the tale and you want to do what, send a sacrificial lamb to their king?
Don't make this difficult on yourself kora, you will do excatly as I have instructed you and that is final my father roared.
I looked into his eye and tears fell from my eye, I wont! I shouted back at him, mum will never approve this, NEVER!
But unfortunately she is not here to stop me or help you kora so deal with it. You want to be a Martyr, this is how martyrs are born, die for your people and who knows they might make a statue of you and build a temple and worship you as their goddess roared my father again.
I storm out of the room and ran to the royal crypt, I needed to get away and the only safe place for me was the crypt.
I sat at my mother's tombstone and cryed my heart out, reporting my father to mum.
As I was crying I felt a presence in the crypt, something out of this world so I lifted my head slowly and for the first time in four years since her dead, I saw her. Mum I called softly and she smiled at me, she opend up her arms and I ran towards her, but only touched whips of smoke, I was surprised at first, but deep down I was happy, she called me slowly "kora, my love"
I stood there, my tears blurring my sight so I wiped it off, I wanted to see her face, she looked so young, excatly the way she was before her untimely death. I called here again and she said "am so sorry for leaving you so early, am sorry for the pain you are going through now, I wish there was a way I can take it all away. I miss you so much my little angel". My tears won't stop flowing, and I respond, I miss you too mummy, dad is... Before I could finish she shush me saying, "I know baby, I know it all, but listen to me very carefully my dear, that is not your father" what? I was stunned, what do you mean mum, I wish I have time to explain everything to you dear but the road from here will be bumpy. The creature you see is not your father but a shape shifter. You Must not return to the castle or he will luck you up. Leave the kingdom kora, run, hide and never reveal your true identity to anyone she said
Now here image was getting more faint like the breeze was carrying her away,
I don't understand mother, what do you mean he is a shape shifter, I shouted."you still have the lucket I gave you on your sixteen birthday", she asked me and I replied yes
"Go to the dark trees and find the priestest of Gaia, she will explain everything, I love you my angel".
Those were the last words she said to me.
CHAPTER 3
Don't go mum, I cried so hard hoping she will come back, just like before she didn't.
I woke up to the sounds of wolf howling in the distance, I immediately remembered what mum said, run, hide and never reveal your real identity to anyone. I jumped into action but my vitorain style princess gown was obstructing my progress so I tore the down part off with my bare hands and kept running, the king had sent his wolf after me, to return me to the castle or better still finish me off in silence since am not his child, then the realization downed on me, if he is not my father then were is father?
There is no time to pounder on the matter but I promise I will find out the truth, I will return and kill that shape shifter of a creature, but before that I need to survive the wolfs so I kept running. I don't know were I am or were I came from or were am going to, all I know was that I need to keep going.
I saw a big tree with a large trunk so I slide under it and rested for a while and letter falling asleep since I didn't here the sounds of the wolfs again.
It was evening when I woke up again to the sounds of my own stomach. I remembered I haven't eaten since yesterday's breakfast. I began pondering if the wolfs had given up on me since I haven't seen or heard anything. Tears rolled out of my eyes and I remember my mum and what she told me. I looked at the emerald green necklace my mum gave me on my sixteenth birthday, the pendant was a locket that I have tried to open for two years but it never bodge. The dark trees, that is in the supernatural realm. You must be wondering how I know the location of the dark trees but when you are the princess, it gives you the authority and freedom to stroll in and out of the royal library and I am a book worm, so I have rade and theorically know a little about the supernatural world, I know about the priestest of Gaia that resides in the dark trees. But why would mum ask me to go there, how will she help me, and how will I locate here without a map. This is a suicide mission I told myself. As I was dwelling in my own thought I heard the howl again and I know immediately that I need to move else I get cought.
I was running but I was not fast and when I looked behind I saw tourches and they were moving dangerously close to me so I tried to increase my pace but stumbled on a rock and dislocated my ankle. Am totally screwed now, I Yelp in pain and fell down. It was dark all around me I couldn't see clearly cause the only light that shown around me was the moon light so I barely make out a few trees. I can't stop now, I must not stop so I stood up and began hopping forward I ran into a draught and started sinking. This is it mum, I tried swimming out but I couldn't, my shoulders were very heavy and I couldn't lift my arms again. The mud was on my nake when I sighted a tree root not too far. All I have to do was get to the root, so I began moving forward, by now I was almost totally buried under the mud, only my eye saw above, I reached for the tree one last time but I didn't touch it so I was now submaged in the mud but I didn't give up I kept moving forward till I found another root under the mud and held onto it. I used it to drag myself forward till I got close enough to reach the other root that was puking out of the mud. I held it tight and draged myself out.when I was finally out, I saw the palace guards and the Wolf on the other side contemplating if to jumping and get to me. I wiped the mud on my face just in time to see the head of guards push one person in the mud and the young man tried to survive but didn't get my kind of luck, I felt pity for the young man, I wished I could help him but who knows he may betray me and take me back. I watch as the guard drowned in the mud and didn't make it out. The head guard said to me princess kora, the king request you to come back with us to the palace this instance. And I replied "swim and get me or you can go back and tell that shape shifter of a creature that I will come back and finish him off in due time that he shouldn't rush his death" . I stood up and drag my dislocated ankle and kept moving forward into the thick bush.
I found a tree and sat down and rested my back against it's large trunk. I was in so much pain, so much pain that I completely forgot about the rumbling sound in my stomach, then the darkness came and I succumb to the harmless world of sleep.
I felt something moving against my leg, crawling slowly around my leg and I slowly opened my eye, behold a big python snake was waund round my leg from my laps to my broken ankel. I almost passed out from the sight of it so I slowly and quietly lifted my hand to hold it's nake so I can prevent it from climbing further or worst biting me but the snake noticed my movement and was faster than me. It opened it's mouth and stick it's fangs in my left lap and immediately removed itself and ran away, I also stood up forgetting I had a broken ankel and sprinted for my dear life.
When I slowed down to catch my breath for a while I looked behind and saw one wolf in the distance, the wolf howl informing the rest of the pack of my were about so I kept running faster than before, but then I am only a human, not a supernatural with super speed and the fatigue of running for so long was catching up to me, then in a little distance away, I saw the boundary that marked the end of the human world.
Chapter 4
I don't know what will happen to me on the other side but I know what will happen to me if I let the palace guards get to me so I kept pressing forward. I was loosing it gradually and the darkness was here for me again, no, I can't sleep, if I do they will get to me, I am not going back, no. I forced myself to keep my eyes open just long enough to cross over and then I saw the head captain running towards me trying to stop me from crossing the boundary. He was too late cause I was standing two feet in the realms of the supernatural when he got to me. He tried crossing over too but was met with an invisible barrier.
Come bake princess kora, u won't make it far before the creatures of the night gets to you.
Yeah, I replied but I rather take my chances here than over there with you to be married off to the demon king I replied.
What makes you think he won't still get to you over that side, to be logical princess, no come comes back alive from the supernatural realm, the forest itself is alive and linked to the demon king, he will know a human crossed the treaty in no time and that means war on us here is that what you want?
The priestest of Gaia will hide me well I replied. Is that were you are going to princess? He asked and how come you are able to cross and we not be able to cross he asked again and before I could answer the black dots in my head began blinding my vision, the snake poison was taking it's effect. Princess kora!, the head guard called out my name but I used the last strength in me to move further into the forest.
When I could not see them or heard them anymore I sat down close to a small running water and helped my self before passing out.