In the Summer Kingdom
Bella
Static in place as I watch the scene unfold in front of me. Shouts and sounds of swords clashing amidst the rough fighting. An invasion, in the palace! I remain unresponsive as I am abruptly whisked away to the royal hideout.
"I found the princess. "
I heard a deep, and hoarse voice the same, time behind me. Making a slip I looked back, noticing men coming in our direction, but they were not soldiers, but invaders who were chasing us with blood in their eyes.
Dread overwhelmed me, and consequently I stumbled into the wreckage of the castle, falling.
"Princess." said the soldier helping me up.
" I'm fine."
" Move on, that I will stay to stop them."
"I'm not going without you." pronounce, at that point I am pulled hard being placed on a man's shoulder.
"Let go of the princess."
I listened to the soldier speak, but long afterwards only sound of swords filled the room.
"Let me go." I say trying to get rid of the invader.
"Quiet, princess. You are our triumph the king will do everything we order to get his heiress back." he communicated triumphant for his achievement of having me.
"He will never do that, the kingdom comes first for him." I say the truth.
"If he doesn't do what we ask, you die in front of everyone."
My body shook at his cold statement, the tears were already coming down non-stop.
"He's with the princess."
In the midst of crying, I felt a distant voice speak, but it was all quick. I felt my body being thrown to the ground, all my bones throbbing with pain.
" Princess run as fast as I could." one soldier warned, as another struggled with the invader.
I ran as fast as I could, but stopped, looking back. Seeing the soldier being killed without mercy. I walk in desperation, my whole body aching, as I walk awkwardly down the hallway, but feel my body being pulled into a room abruptly.
"Let me go." I say, struggling.
"Calm down princess, it's me, Jake."
"Jake." she pronounces hugging him.
"I'm scared."
"Rest assured, the invasion is already at an end. I'm going back into battle, don't go anywhere."
I agreed, keeping myself hidden, waiting for the chaos to pass. With my hands in my ears, not to hear the torment outside. The hours passed, and no matter how hard I tried to stay awake, I couldn't, and gave in to sleep.
"Princess." I feel my body being moved, gently. Slowly I open my eyes, seeing Esmeralda.
"Esmeralda." I say quickly hugging her, realizing that I was in my room.
"Calm down, everything is okay now."
"How is everything okay? What happened?"
"Everything is back in order, and the castle is in the state it was in before."
"How can that it happens ?
"All the servants spent the night working, and the battle was only in the southern part and a small area."
" Did many soldiers die?"
"Not much, you don't need to worry about that, now get up, lunch is almost ready."
I didn't say a single word, I made everything monotonous by worrying about my subjects."
"They will have a luncheon, with nobles from another kingdom. The king has communicated that no one is to report what happened yesterday." communicated Esmeralda as she opened the door.
I left the four of them, walking to the living room, I found everything, sitting at the table, as soon as I entered I received a look of repression from my mother, because of the delay. They acted as if nothing had happened, everything there was as I had anticipated: my father was sitting, talking business with the king.
We walked around the castle all day, I realized that my mother did not take the queen, to the battle site. I left her in the living room and headed for the garden, the day was ending and giving way to dusk, the most appropriate time to breathe and enjoy the beautiful stars and the great beauty of the moon.
This place brings me a sense of freedom, because of the fresh air, and because hardly anyone sees it here. I like being alone like this, I walk through the vastness among the many flowers until I reach a big tree, seeing its red fruit, which makes me want to try it.
Carefully so that my dress doesn't get caught in the branches, I climb up and pluck the fruit, and taste it from above. But a movement in front of the castle, makes me come down from the tree, but on the way I slip, I close my eyes waiting for the fall, but I feel safe in the air. I open my eyes seeing a boy I have never seen before in my life, but I can tell he is royalty by his clothes.
"You have to be careful, it's not proper for a maiden to disappear into a tree," he says, setting me down.
"Don't tell me what is appropriate for me, my lord!" I pronounced, heading for the castle.
I left the boy standing in place.
I headed towards the palace, straight to my room, and after closing the door, I became aware of my mother's presence.
"Where were you?" she questioned.
"In the garden," I replied.
I didn't know why she was there, if she hadn't been in my room for a long time.
"I will cut to the chase, the kingdom is in crisis, and you will have to marry the crown prince of the spring kingdom." She pronounced.
I stopped what I was doing, looking at her to see if it was really what my ears were hearing.
"What did you say." she questioned.
"That he is getting married on his birthday. He is the son of the king and queen who are staying at our castle."
"I'm not getting married." I said determinedly.
"Yes you will, there is no other way to save the kingdom." said my mother approaching me.
"I will not marry!" I communicated in an altered voice.
"Don't you dare raise your voice to me!" She slapped my face.
"How can you have the nerve?" I asked with my hand on my face, tears were already falling.
It's unbelievable, that she had done it.
"Don't think about doing anything absurd." she said as she left.
My body trembles with fear, I can't let her decide my life. I am running away, I quickly grabbed a coin purse, my hand on the doorknob, my fate is in my hands.
But I stopped to remember what happened last night, my marriage would be a way to keep everything safe, from the other kingdoms that could take advantage of the poor financial condition. To invade and take the kingdom for themselves.
But I don't want to sacrifice myself, I'm aimless.
Summer KingdomBellaI lacked the courage to run away! I went back to bed and cried myself to sleep."Wake up, Bella, or you'll be late for lunch. And don't forget we have guests. " said Esmeralda, walking into my room. " There, Esmeralda, I'm already awake." I answer, getting out of bed."But you don't look it."" I don't want to leave the room." I pronounce. "You're a princess, you have to look presentable." I get dressed and tie up my hair. I leave following where the day's meals are served. I didn't say anything, and I didn't even look at my mother, still upset. But out of nowhere, my father stood up, drawing the attention of everyone at the table, and started talking."We are here to celebrate not only the arrival of my dear daughter Bella's birthday, which will be in two weeks, but also to celebrate Prince Anthony's engagement to my daughter and, taking advantage of her birthday party, the wedding will be held on the same date along with the coronation. Thus ending this grea
Winter KingdomCassian In two hours, I will marry Rosa, the princess of the Autumn Kingdom, I don't love her, but since we were children, we were already engaged, and now the time has come for us to get married, in those times we didn't have the freedom to decide the direction of our lives, we were used as toys. I could even face my father to choose my destiny, but the person I had never loved was already gone. It had been a year since my mother passed away, that was my worst day of my life, nothing else mattered to me or my life, but when I saw the situations that my people live, it gave me courage to be a good king. Today, besides my wedding, is also my coronation. I decided I wanted both ceremonies on the same day.I was in my room getting ready, in no mood, no matter how hard I had tried to fall in love with Rosa, in fact, I kept trying for real, I couldn't, my heart had broken. I am taken out of my thoughts with a knock on my bedroom door, I get ready and send in whoever it is.
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{ Winter Kingdom}BellaI am now a married woman.After the party was over, it was time to leave for my husband's castle.But first, in my place, the coronation of me and my husband took place.Now there is no going back, I am definitely queen of both kingdoms.But that wasn't all that was worrying me, when I arrive at my newest home, my first time will take place.A great wedding night." Bella, my child, do me a favor here, I need to talk to you, my dear." Said my mother, leading me to my room, I suppose it's about my night." What's up mom, why did you bring me here?My in-laws will be leaving soon."I said, already sitting on my bed." I want you to be obedient to your husband and your mother-in-law, even though you are the queen, you know nothing about the kingdom.So take your time to learn all about it." I advise myself. I left the room walking quickly, so that we could leave.In the waiting room everyone was there saying goo
{Winter Kingdom}BellaI woke up with a strong smell in my nose." I'm glad you are well. " said one of the maids.There were three maids and one man I did not know." Pleased, Your Majesty, I am the castle healer, I have just examined you."Do I have something serious, sir?Perhaps this illness has come to rid me of the hell that is my marriage." On the contrary, madam, it has nothing to do with illness, but with a blessing: you are pregnant.When he finished speaking, a joy suddenly filled me. This child has come so that everything in my life can be resolved.The healer left, in writing, everything I could eat or drink to help with the pregnancy and the care I must take, then left.There was no one I could celebrate with now, the maids had gone about their business, and my in-laws were on a trip and would not return for two days. I was anxious to tell Antony that soon he would hold
{Winter Kingdom}Pov: Cassian Today is two months since I got married and I can't stand my wife anymore, every hour she wants to hold party thinks this is a party house, our riches come from our people. I've run out of patience. Every hour there are arguments between us, and I am always grateful when she goes out for a walk.Today is the day to visit the village, to see if everything is in order there, I like to see for myself how the life of my people is going. I want everything good for them, because it's from their hard labor that my wealth comes, and there is no king without his subjects. – Cassiano, it's time to go to the villages," said my father. He always makes a point of reminding me of my duties. Although I am the king he still follows me every day, it seems that he still wanted to rule. I have already learned that he is still doing certain things without my permission, but I didn't say anything, I didn't have time to deal with my father. But to tell you the truth, he di
{ Spring Kingdom}Pov: Bella I can't believe it's been two months since I got married, I thought married life would be better than what I'm living I barely talk to Antony, and when we start to have a conversation he barely talks to me and less than a minute he's already off to settle the kingdoms affairs. I tried everything to make us a couple, or friends, but nothing worked. I couldn't spend the rest of my life trying to make something better between us if he didn't want it to. I didn't have the strength for him to see that if we were friends we could come to various agreements. If we don't get to love each other, I wouldn't mind him sneaking around with someone else so that no one would know. For me to be badmouthed, being treated well by him would already please me, it would make my life easier enough that I wouldn't be worried about loving him or making him love me so that we could live a wonderful life. Of course the time would come to have an heir, in a fraction of a second m
{Spring Kingdom}BellaAfter a few minutes I decided to get off the horse to approach, I passed carefully so as not to be seen by the guards, if this happened it would be a disaster, a great rate of starting a war would be all the more serious, besides now, I am only queen of two kingdoms, they would surely ask me what I was doing there, and they would surely communicate to their superiors about me, something that cannot happen, I have enough problems to solve, I need one more. I don't want to cause a war over a flower.As beautiful as the flower is, I didn't want it to stain its name with the blood of soldiers. I didn't want it to be the cause of destruction, nor of breaking the peace contact that was established between the four kingdoms. It is about 5:00 in the afternoon and I am still sitting here on a log looking at the beautiful tree with its flowers almost ready, I close my eyes when a strong wind blows past me, when I open my eyes there he is again the Iceman, he was looking