My Punishment

~FLASHBACK~

"Is that stone, Amethyst?", Asterin ran asking towards a blonde hair girl. That blonde hair girl picked up a stone from the river and kept looking at it with a confused face.

"I don't know what is it", she mumbled.

"You're a witch and you must know everything about gemstones. This is the seventh gemstone we have found so far", Asterin continued giving her information while staring at gemstone. "Amethyst has been thought to have many attributes throughout history, and all of them are good. The stone was thought to control evil thoughts, quicken intelligence, make a shrewd man in the business, preserve soldiers from battle wounds, aid the warrior to victory, help the hunter in search of his game, protect the wearer from contagious diseases, and put demons to flight if the figure of a bear is inscribed on the jewel"

The blonde hair girl kept nodding, she kept her hands on hands and head down for the respect of the princess. Asterin then took the gemstone from her hand and disappeared in the air.

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"Help me", Serin looked up with teary eyes and asked for help. Asterin came out from her thoughts and stood up.

She walked towards Serin slowly and sat down on her knees to Serin's level. She took Serin's hand in her hand and lightly rubbed the bracelet with her thumb. Serin looked up at Asterin with a puzzled look, she was puzzled by why the girl standing before her was staring the stone with a frown face, Serin though she likes it.

"My grandma gave it to me", Serin said. "A few hours ago on a hill, before I came here"

"From where she got this?", Asterin crooked her eyebrows in confusion.

"I don't know", Serin mumbled. "She just came towards me and put it into my hands. I can't even remove it"

"Who are you?", Asterin asked. "You don't look to me like a citizen of Artemis"

"Of course, I'm from another world. I don't know too- how I came here, and I- I want to go back to my home. I miss my family, I promise- I will behave well with them", Serin began sobbing hard. Asterin thought something for few minutes before making her stand and sit on the bed.

"Sleep, for now, I will help you tomorrow", Asterin pulled up a blanket and placed on Serin. "Have a sweet dream"

Asterin blew on Serin's eyes, making her go into a deep sleep. She made sure to give her beautiful dreams too.

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"What you did to that human girl Damen?", Asterin stormed inside the work cabin of Damen. "She is innocent, how can you treat her like that?"

"Of course I don't have powers like you to read someone's mind. I imagined her being Edurne", he muttered. Asterin chuckled and within the blink of his eyes, she was standing right before him.

"I will not forgive you if you try to harm her again", She glared at him. "We're going back to your castle. Get ready"

"And what about that girl? She doesn't smell like us. Anyone can recognize that she is a human", he interrogates. "What then? Winter came and went, Edurne's voice was heard by everyone, everything happened after that girl came here. They will think the same as me and blame her. How many mouths will you shut?"

"Like King, like people", Asterin smirked. " She is my responsibility, I will take care of it. Now go and get ready, WE ARE LATE"

Asterin left the work cabin, banging the door hard behind her, leaving Damen dumbfounded. He clenched his jaw and decided to go to Serin's room. He wanted to know what she said to her sister that made her angry.

Damen unlocked her room and walked inside. Serin was sitting across the bed, looking out of the window. "Asterin visited you? Right? What you said to her?", he showered questions on her but she didn't react a little too.

"What is your problem, how dare you ignore me even after everything?", He walked towards her and hold her shoulders, making her turn back facing towards him. Serin was in her deep thoughts, she was not in her senses. " Goodness gracious me", she said. Damen's action frightened her and she pushed him back on the floor, making his head hit the floor hard.

"Oops! Are you okay?", she gasped.

"What the hell was that?", He whined while standing up and rubbed his head. "What you think of me? I'm older than you for Artemis knows how many years, also I'm the prince. You should respect me and what you do is only back answering, ignoring and harming me, a prince, I must say"

"It is not my problem if you came like this behind me, you scared the shit out of me", Serin mumbled. "Being a prince you must have manners before coming inside a girls room, you should knock the door first", she kept her head down, looking at the floor as it was more attractive than prince charming Damen, on whom the females of the whole pack are flat.

"I- I apologize for that", he bowed to her. "I did not mean to disturb your privacy but" He stopped, standing back erect and making her chin up to have a clear look of her face.

"What did you say to that girl who visited you earlier?", he glared at her, his sharp eyes were piercing deep into hers.

"What do you think you are doing?", Serin shoved his hands and pushed him back. "It is between her and me. I won't tell you anything" She yelled.

"You-", his angry demon inside him began to awake again, but was cut off by Asterin. She pulled him back with her magic while standing near the door that his head hit the wall making him hurt again. " Ahhh", he whined, rubbing his head.

"Why are you close to her?", she walked towards him. "You have no right to touch other girls in front of my eyes", she made his chin up with her forefinger and thumb.

"Wh- what?", he asked almost in a whisper voice. "Shhhh, we are late. Are you ready?", she placed her forefinger on his lips and he nodded.

"Good then, Serin?", she called out her name and turned back to look at her. "Yes?" Serin answered almost like a question.

"We are going back to the castle of the moon. You are coming with us. I know you do not have anything to get ready so just follow me, we will leave now", She said, Serin followed her back to the door.

"Wait", Damen shouted. "I need to talk to this human. Asterin, you can go first"

"Dare you to touch her again and I will send you to the black island. And I swear I can do it right now" She snickered. "Are they couples?", Serin thought in her mind. Damen glared at Asterin with his sharp gaze, signalling her to go out of the room or he will do something bad for real. Asterin left the room, banging the door behind her back as usual.

"Isn't she the one you were asking about to witches?", Serin asked.

"So you are also eavesdropping on me?", he asked crooking his eyebrows. "N-no. I was just passing by and- I- I heard you", she lied, making him smirk. Damen knows that she did not overhear him, he purposely ignored her asking that question to witches.

"A person disobeying the prince must be punished. Whether he is a citizen of Artemis or a human of another world", Damen glared at her. "And what about prince misbehaving with a girl?", Serin back answered him again.

"This mouth- I- I promise that I won't come near you if you promise the same to take your punishment seriously", he instructed her.

"And what is my punishment?"

"Except me, you will not talk to anyone. You will not open your mouth and try to communicate with anyone by any means. Neither the Forsters, neither Asterin, neither wolves, witches, no one. You will always give me respect and bow before me whenever I walk and stand by your way, no back answers. If I see you not following your punishment, then no one can save you from me. Even Goddess Artemis will not be able to save you then. Don't forget I've powered to see you from wherever I am"

Serin nodded and accepted the punishment. She bowed before him as he said and walked out of the room. Damen doesn't have any power to see anyone from anywhere, he lied to her. Looking at her getting nervous, a smirk formed on his lips.

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Asterin waved her wand on the tents and they all disappeared. Later the open space covered with tents was no more empty. Trees, plants and small pond covered the space with them. It no more looked as if it was an open space for tents, a few minutes ago. And this is only what magic is actually like, it can change anything impossible to possible.

They all began walking through the forest towards Castle. It was far away from the forest, but Asterin knows how to go there within minutes. She took everyone with her towards a waterfall, behind which there was a hidden cave. A magical secret cave to enter the pack.

Asterin and other witches together stood by the river, closing their eyes and with a yellow potion glass bottle, in the hands of each one of them. They then poured it into the river and opened their eyes. They took a few steps back and waited for the effect. Soon the flow of waterfall stopped, revealing the entrance of hidden cave behind it.

Everyone walked and jumped on the stones to cross the river and enter the cave. After a few minutes of walking into the dark cave, they all came into their pack through a large old tree-hole.

While they walked towards the castle through the pack, everyone gathered around them. They all were happy to see their prince after a long time. They all bowed before him in respect and cheered to welcome him.

Soon they reached the moon castle. It was beautifully painted white and also some of its parts were made with glass, crystals, and gemstones. Domes were made up of pure silver and minars were of white gemstones. Serin just kept admiring the castle with her dovy eyes.

Forster's decided to go back to their home but Damen refused them to go back. Serin was in their home, arrows shot on them from the sky and Suzan got kidnapped too. It was not safe to be at their home, so Damen decided to keep them in the castle and took Serin with him to show her room.

It was like a dream for Serin to see a heavenly beautiful castle in reality. She blinked her eyes when entered the corridors, large chandeliers made up of white crystals were hanged on the ceiling throughout the corridors of the castle. White carpet with silk embroidery on it was placed on the floor throughout the castle too.

While walking upstairs on the second floor, Serin's gaze caught an empty corridor with no rooms. She stopped and walked through the corridor, Damen followed her back in confusion, confusion for why was she walking towards that corridor.

At the end of the wide corridor, there was only one large silver door decorated with gemstones. Siren kept looking towards it with a maze.

"It is the room of our Goddess Artemis. It is locked from the past 200 years, I miss her. I hope she comes back soon", A tear rolled down his cheeks through his eyes. He wiped them and walked back out of the corridor. Serin took a last look of the door before following Damen. She wanted to ask him about Artemis, but she didn't want to annoy that arrogant prince anymore. She was sick of him.

Damen showed Serin her room and left immediately. Serin ignored him and excitedly entered her room. It was larger than her expectations, she felt like a queen. She threw herself on a very soft bed.

She opened the large wardrobe to change herself in different clothes but there were no clothes in it. When she closed the door, she jumped back looking at Asterin who was standing with clothes in her hands beside the wardrobe.

"I knocked for a few times, but you did not open it. I thought you were in trouble so I came inside. But I am glad that you are good", Asterin winked at Serin, making her jaw drop.

"Here take this clothes ", Asterin offered her dozens of different dresses. "I don't know your taste. But as far as I like it, I think you would like them too". Asterin then left the room leaving her behind, saying her one last thing, "Don't forget to tell me if you want any Jewellery too".

Following the rules of her punishment, Serin didn't utter a word before her and silently kept listening to Asterin.