• Chapter 1: my beginning

    My name is Blade, im a princess of a planet called Aqua. I am the second eldest in a family of six girls counting me. I didn’t always know that I was a princess, Let me explain first with my birth up until now.
    Okay, I wasn’t born the way most little girls...or boys for that matter were. I was born with a burden of sorts not a deformity or something like that. More like a demon, yeah that’s right I said a demon. Here is how it started, my mom went into labor with me at 11:45 a.m and finally started to push me out at 11:45 p.m. While she was trying to push me out, items started to fly around the room. The items wound up hitting the multiple nurses in the room.
    At midnight she had finally pushed me out, blood was everywhere, five nurses were knocked out from the items that were flying around the room. To top everything off there was a weird aura surrounding my little body. The struggle nearly killed my mother, but she acted like she didn’t care that she almost died. She just held me tight saying “you’re a sweet little baby, aren’t you?”
    By the age of three I was always at my mothers side, while my sisters (the ones that were born) were with my father. Every servant had to obey my every command or they would be executed. When I was five all my sisters but one were born. Just one more month and my youngest sister Jordan would be born. To celebrate we went to a village that I can’t remember the name of , it was a village of sand so for the sake of a name I’ll call it sand village. Well anyway the village is on the land part of Aqua. My mother really wasn’t as interested in the festivities as she was worried about me. It kind of bothered me that she paid more attention to me than worrying about my unborn baby sister. Maybe it was the fact that I was a little bit special because of my demon. But I guess I wont know unless I ask her one day.







    It just so happened that on this day the villagers, of the sand village were having a ceremony to honor the water goddess of Aqua. When my family and I arrived at the gate to the village, trumpets sounded and the gates gradually opened. My eyes grew as wide as saucers at what I saw. There were hundreds of shops, selling all kinds of things and they were open outside! And there was thousands of people walking around, and a bunch of games to play. All of these things were new to me especially since I was barely allowed out of the underwater castle.
    I turned around to my mother and said as sweetly as I could. “Please mommy may I go play and buy things.” she nodded her head yes and gave me a small pouch of sapphire and emerald coins. That is the currency on Aqua. My smile grew even wider than it was. I said “thank you” and turned to my older sister Max. I said “come on” and I grabbed her hand, and dragged her off. All I heard her say was “Blade! Stop pulling.”. I turned back to look at my mom for a second, and saw that she gestured for a bodyguard to follow us. He was a new recruit so I didn’t know much about him, not even his name.
    First Max and I got something to drink, at a stand that was selling bottles of water. As we were walking around, everyone that we passed would bow and say hi to Max. For a while it puzzled me, that no one who passed us recognized me. But then I figured that it was because my mom never took me out of the castle that was underwater. Actually now that I think about it I was never allowed to be seen or known as a princess of Aqua. I mean people knew that there was a princess named Blade, but they had never seen me before.
    After a while of standing around and talking about what we were going to do. Max and I finally started to walk over to were the petting zoo was. Another thing I noticed as we walked around, was that our guard wasn’t guarding us very well. He had actually disappeared from our site, and it didn’t seem like he was trying to find us.
    While we were petting the animals, some random kid that was bigger than Max and me came up and started picking on us. He smack Max’s water bottle out of her hand and tripped me. “Hey stop being a big meanie. You big meanie!” Max yelled at him. “You little brats can’t tell me what to do.” then he took our heads and knocked them together. Then he walked away like nothing happened. It made me really mad that he thought that he could just pick on us.



    So I took it within my powers, and threw a rock at his head. He screamed like a little girl, and ran back towards us. “Which one of you twerps did that?” he yelled. “You shouldn’t talk to royalty that way.” I yelled back at him. “ your not royalty.” he scoffed. “Yes we are!” I whined back. “Yeah royalty of the twerps is what you are.” he said laughing. “We aren’t twerps you dumbass!” Max yelled as she punched him in the face. “You brat!” he yelled picking her up by the collar of her shirt. “Let go of my sister” I demanded as I kicked him in the shin. He dropped her then went to punch me in the face. But I caught his fist and twisted it behind his back. He cried out as I held him and Max punched him. When we let him go I told him “I’m princess Blade and this is my sister princess Max and don’t forget it.” . He nodded like he understood then ran away.
    Then Max and I split what was left of the money we had, and went to two different stands to get presents for each other. I bought Max beautiful jewel to go on her head. It was a purple jewel with a pink trim around it. She also bought me something, she gave me a black spiked choker necklace and a black bracelet. we put our presents on then walked around some more.
    We only had a few coins left so we decided that we would get something that we could share. We were by a stand that was near a back alley of the village. As we looked at what they were selling Max said something I didn’t expect her to say. “Blade, if we never see each other again. We can use our presents, that we gave each other to remember that we love each other and will always find a way to find each other.” I was shocked that she had said something like that. But for some reason I new just how to answer. “your right, and if we do never see each other again we can always be reminded about each other so that we never forget.” Max looked at me with tears in her eyes and said “promise me Blade, promise that your right.” I smiled with tears filling my own eyes and said “I promise”.
    We stood in silence near for a while, holding each others hand near the stand. But the silence was broken when some guy came up to us and grabbed me. He tried to pull Max and I apart, but we held each others hands as tight as we could. The man yanked on me hard and my hand slipped out of Max’s grip. I screamed “ Max!” as he dragged me down the alley. “Blade!” is what I heard Max yell back.
    I could still see her as he dragged me further in the alley. I saw our mom walk up to her . It looked like she was asking her something. Max pointed in my direction. Our moms expression became angry, then I saw her raise her hand and smack Max in her face. The smack was so loud it seemed to have broke through all of the noise from the festival.
    The last thing I saw was my mother turn towards, were I was. Then the man dragged me around a corner , then another, and another. Until eventually we wound up in a section of the alley were there was many ways to escape. He then picked me up, and flung me over his shoulder like a bag of potatoes. I kicked and punched him as hard as I could but he didn’t seem phased. He was sort of buff and had a vice like grip, but that didn’t stop me from kicking and hitting him over and over again. “Put me down!” I screamed at him. He just continued to look around and contemplate about which way to go. He finally said “I’ll put you down all in good time princess.” after he spoke I realized that he was the “guard” that was supposed to guard me and Max.
    The way that I was slung over his shoulder I could see perfectly behind him, and you will never guess what I saw. I saw my mom running full speed towards were I was, and she was screaming “Gregg you put my daughter down now!”. he turned around really slowly and said “oh s**t!” as he saw my mom. Once she was up to us she kicked Gregg in the face and took me out of his arms. It happened so fast I barely knew what was going on. When I was able to see what happened, Gregg’s face was implanted into the brick wall that was behind him.
    My mom pulled me in front of her and, kneeled down so that she was at my level. She grabbed my arms and gently shook me while saying “don’t you ever leave my side again. Do you understand?” I nodded and said “yes mommy, I understand” she had I look of relief on her face. “You scared me so much that I slapped your sister.” she added as she got up. I failed to understand how it was my fault that she slapped Max, but I also fail to understand a lot of other things about my mother. But I still said “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make you worry about me.” she grabbed my hand and we walked away together.
    She held my hand loosely as we walked. We turned a corner then another and another, eventually we were at the stand were I was taken from. I saw Max, she was holding our dads hand and she was crying. She had a red mark on her cheek from were she was slapped. She tried to hide it so that I couldn’t see, but I could see it no matter how hard she tried to hide it. I also saw that she was wearing the jewel I gave her still, just as I was wearing the necklace and bracelet.





    “Did everything go well Ariel?” my dad asked. “Yes, no thanks to you.” my mom snapped at him. “Well, I had to go find our other daughters so that they didn’t get taken either.” he snapped back. “They are not nearly as important as she is!” my mom yelled at him, while pointing at me. “Why I would die if Blade were to be taken from me!” she added yelling even louder. My parents argued back and forth some more. While they were arguing I felt someone put a weird smelling cloth over my nose and mouth, than I blacked out. Apparently my parents were to wrapped up in there petty argument that they didn’t even notice that I was once again gone. I think that’s kind of ******** up, but you know that’s just my opinion.
    When I woke up it was to a different smell. This one was more familiar it smelt like either rabbit or squirrel, no wait I remember it was squirrel. Well anyway when I opened my eyes I saw that I was, in a two room house. The side I was in was apparently the living room/ bedroom side of the house. The two sides were separated by a thick dirty looking clothe. I was sitting up in the bed, and the sheets looked like they haven’t been changed in years.
    I got out of the bed and walked over to the clothe on the other side of the room. I went to grab the clothe when I heard a voice, it said “so the little princess is awake.” the voice belonged to Gregg. I angrily opened the clothe and stepped through to the other side of the house. I saw Gregg cooking the meat I had smelled earlier on the stove. “I can’t believe that you actually took me again. I hope you know that my mom will be here any minute, to kick your a** and take me home. And that you’ll be imprisoned for your crime.”I warned him.
    At first he looked kind of worried, but then he started to laugh. “That’s the beauty of it, your mother isn’t coming back for you. Matter of fact she actually left without noticing you were gone. So much for me getting my a** kicked, and being imprisoned.” then he started to laugh again. I started to get really angry, I wanted so bad to kill him right there. But I knew a five year old couldn’t beat a man three times her size. But then I got the thought that I could, cause I saw a knife on the counter that was between Gregg and I. As soon as he would turn back around I would make my move.






    Well after a minute or two, he turned around to check the meat. I quickly and quietly walked over to the counter, and grabbed the knife. Then I snuck up behind Gregg and went to stab him. That’s when he turned around, and caught my arm. “Tsk, tsk, princess. That wont work on me, you see I’ve been sticking around the castle watching you train for about a month now. I know all your tricks, so don’t tempt me to kill you.” he bent my wrist to one side, not enough to break it but enough to make me drop the knife.
    “I would hate to have to send your mother a corpse.” he said letting go of my hand and picking up the knife. “I have a demon and I’ll kill you with it!” I threatened him. He started to chuckle, I never got why every threat I said made him laugh. “I know about your little demon. But your far to weak to ever try and kill me with that. In fact your to weak in general, but I’ll change that and your demon will help me take over Aqua.” I was really mad know I spat in his face, and yelled . “I’m not weak! and I’ll never let you take over Aqua, I would die before I did that.” He slapped me in my face. “You are weak. You’re the type of person that needs to rely on others to survive! Your pathetic.” he yelled at me.
    “I don’t need any one! Not my mother, or Max I don’t need them there nothing but people that are in my way.” I yelled back. I got myself worked up I felt hot. It felt like the room started to spin. I couldn’t think or see straight. All of I sudden gravity seemed to take over, and I fell on the cold tile of the kitchen floor. My eyes rolled back in my head and everything was dark. I had blacked out again.