The Exiled Princess

A long time ago, the world was divided into six realms: 

The Realm of Corruption, Destruction, which is infested by plagues where humans live, also known as Earth.

 The Realm of Darkness, Madness, and absolute Boredom, known to humans as Hell or The Underworld.

 There's also The Realm of Equality, and Freedom, known to humanity as Heaven.

The Realm of life, Wonder, and Mystery, known to the Mortal Races - that pass through an Annual Aging Process - as The Unknown.

The Realm of Mystic, Unseen, and Legend-told Aristika, also known as The Gathering of The Ancient.

And, The Realm of Peace and Desire, known to the Humans as Lost City.

There was a rule set up by the Rulers of each kingdom which was the agreement that they wouldn't enter another kingdom's domain without being invited. So... A council was created which was formed by The Devil, The Goddess of all creation, The Red Queen, The Black King, The White Queen, The Merciful King of The Ocean, The Descendant of Mother Nature, and The Council of Kings in the Human domain.

Each ruler sent a diplomat to discuss their issues and talk about innovative ideas to improve their countries. It was held in a library in an unknown location which was kept a secret for millenniums.

In the Kingdom of Aristika which was the home of dragons and dragonkin, it had a Council of the Royalty of every Race. One of them was the Red Queen. She was a fearsome, beautiful, and courageous fire dragon.

After fifty years in human age, she gave birth to a beautiful redhaired girl. No one in the kingdom knew how she had given birth to a human-like creature. And after the girl's father died, one year later after she was born, The Queen was forced to raise her dragonkin daughter in secret. The kingdom wouldn't respect her as their queen if they found out about her child, and she didn't want her people to kill her daughter to make sure she could still be The Queen.

On the girl's tenth birthday, the queen of the fire dragons, entered in contact with the one of the Kings of the Human territory. After a few days, the time had come for the hidden princess to go to one of the human's villages, the queen asked one of the princess' soldiers to go with and protect her.

Leaving the Mountains, they walked and walked, day and night. The soldier who went with her, is a female dragonkin, she was the only survivor of her village after the demon's massacre in the White Queen's domain, a few centuries ago in human years. After losing her family, she fled to the Red Queen's domain hoping to be able to start a new life in a more peaceful country.

The Dragon Council are made up of siblings, although they were born from a different mother. After hearing the request of her younger sister, she let the survivor to enter the Queen's Private Academy which is one of the best academies in the Aristika domain. All her classmates and the other students were from a noble family. As a commoner from another domain, she was excluded from parties, projects, and social activities. Having to deal with all this pressure and rejection, the Red Queen decided to adopt her.

Although, it was considered a shameful thing for a royal to adopt and raise a plebian. So, the Queen decided to put her to work as a private guard of the royal family. When the princess was born, she was given the task of taking care of the princess. Although after the years went by, they became more attached to each other, they were as close as sisters.

… After two days of walking, they decided to take a break. The land was an ocean of green. Found between the mountains which inhabited the Council of The Ancients, and the great wall that inhabited the Kingdom of Alderich the VI – king of the Northern Human Domain – was an immense flower field which extended for a couple of miles. They sat at the field, the windy breeze was soft and tingled their bodies with its cool breath. They laid down on that flowery field. The sweet, fresh, and delicate aroma of the mixed bouquet of flowers, passed by as they relaxed below the stary night sky.

The sky was a tone of navy blue, a white carpet filled of stars were the only that illuminated the field. At night, the animals, search for shelters, no one would think of sleeping in those fields at night due to the tale passed down by the human families.

A cloak of silence came wavering the two girls, slowly shutting their eyes until absolute darkness was the only thing they could see.

Once every six months, something happens in that mysterious field. So, the moment in which the full moon appeared as a new drawing in that black board covered in white dots, a black mist appeared in the heart of the field. Five humanoid creatures came out of that creepy mist. A few minutes later, a strangely masculine deep voice called out from within that mist.

"Scis quid mihi liberos facere debeas! Hoc est experimentum videre quis vestrum rex proximus erit! Ite et huic misero mundo ferte dolorem!"[1]

The five figures decided to explore places due to their calling. As they, got further from the mysteriously dark fog, the fog slowly disappeared. These five, rather-young, teenagers were the sons of the notorious king who ruled the underworld: Belial. Belial ruled the wretched kingdom with the help of his wife, Lilith. Lilith was a black-haired creature who could easily be mistaken as a human. Although her cry was considered a scream. She used to appear at the Human realm at night close to rivers in which she liked to bathe underneath the moonlight. Some humans who saw that figure and started believing she was a witch, and some created a myth based on her... and called it The Banshee.

Belial was a few millenniums old. He was the only child of the founder of the Underworld. Under his rule, the Demons prospered and brought death to unharmful creatures, such as animals. He had quite an unpleasant sight. He was a mixture of different demon types. His face was as cold as a vampire, his arms were as strong as a troll, his nose was as pointy as a gnome. No one knew what exactly he was. The only thing that he was known for, for generations was his fearsome attitude and his armor. It is told that for every being he killed, the victim's face would generate in his armor 1 day later.

Belial had five sons. And as his father before him, he put a contest to see which of his sons would have the qualifications to be the successor of the throne. He had to make a choice between Belphegor, Leviathan, Lucifer, Amaymon, and Beelzebub…

…After they went their separate ways, Lucifer-who was wandering in that field- stumbled across two girls who were sleeping amid those flowers. He approximated little by little, the curiosity got bigger as he got near them. When suddenly, a leaf that was lying at the floor, was smashed by Lucifer's bare foot, making a light noise of something tearing up. In less than five seconds, one of the girls woke up. She had white hair, red eyes, whiteish skin color, and she was wearing a red dress that looked like it was torn.

The girl stood up and got into a fighting stance.

"Wer sind Sie? Was machen Sie wollen?"[2]

"Ignosce quid ais? Ubi in inferno venistis?"[3] asked Lucifer.

As much as they tried to talk and ask questions, they could not, due to their lack of knowledge. The Demon race spoke a language known as Latin, and the Draconic races, spoke a language formally known as Old German.

The girl approached the princess who was still sleeping.

"Raya, aufwachen oben, Dort ist ein komisch Kerl Hier. Er ist lieber alt, und ich glauben er Macht Sein ein demon."[4]

Raya woke up. She rubbed her hands on her eyes and stood up. Drunk in sleep, she could not stand properly, the world kept turning around her making her dizzy. She closed her eyes and her hands, took deep breaths, and calmed down. "What's wrong Khaldas?... Who is this man?"

"Hello, I am Lucifer. Nice to meet you."

"Lucifer? So... you are one of the sons of the King of that vile place?"

"Indeed. Although, he is a good person. He just tries to bring happiness to his people."

"By bringing calamity and chaos to the other kingdoms?"

"Uh... It might not be the best route to find happiness for our people, but I do think that my father is trying to avoid the endless suffering."

Time passed by as a hurricane. Lucifer got distracted by that beautiful creature which he has never seen before since he spent most of the time inside Inferno studying for the succession tests. He wanted to change the kingdom forever. He wanted to stop with the endless tormenting of the demon and the other races.

It was barely morning, the sun was about to rise and yet, the dark prince – black hair, yellow eyes, black scales, black horns, and black clothes – was still talking with the dragonkin girls...

"It is almost time!" The black fog suddenly appeared again. This time, a huge demonic being appeared from inside the fog. The Devil was a title given to the new King of the Underworld, at the day of the Coronation. For about one thousand years after the first ruler died in war against The Goddess of Creation and the other gods, His son Belial succeeded the throne when he was ten, as the oldest son of the late king.

Lucifer realized he was late, and quickly said goodbye and left. As the awakened sun approached that blue ocean in the sky, Khaldas and Raya headed toward the human village to fulfill their mission. They walked for a couple of kilometers reaching the village at evening.

At the entrance gate, there was a rather-smiley woman waving at them. As they approached her, her appearance became increasingly visible. She looked like a normal human, although her red hair, her paled skin, her fashion style, and her knowledge showed she was at least a few centuries old.

That was an extremely rare situation. No human has ever been able to live for that long. The only races who were able to live for centuries were elves, spirits, dryads, demons, gods, and dragons. Unless... those fairytales were true.

The girls wondered who that woman might be...

"Hallo khaldas, Wie war das Ausflug?" [5] Asked the woman.

Khaldas wondered if the woman came from the line of a dragonkin family in the White Queen's domain. But she didn't have any draconic features.

"Excuse me, but who are you?" Asked Raya.

"Oh, scusa, Raya. Mi chiamo Agata." [6] The mysterious lady said.

A group of travelers passed by them. Their face was filled with visible signs of disgust, fear, and judgement. The thought of dragons and dragonkin made humans shiver in fear. They have a mischievous fog of fake, made-up nonsense about dragons and dragonkin. Humans are honestly despicable. For every race including HUMANS, there are good and bad. Light cannot exist without dark, and Dark cannot exist without light. It is a bond that creates in every creature's heart when they are born. But they can choose to be either good or evil. Not None, Not Both.

Humans in the other hand, have a defected nature. They are the weakest race in strength value, but they created a notion that they are a superior race and that All the other kinds are beneath them. They created a system inside their minds where they believe they are in the same level or above the Goddess of Creation, even though she was the one who made the planet Earth and decided on what she wanted to create. They should be grateful that their creator invented them and decided to stick around in live in this Planet.

The worst part about these miserable insects is that they created a law where their female is only worth to be used as a tool for procreation. These ideas are quite wrong. The idea of a perfect race, perfect color, and perfect gender. This plague of fake knowledge develops itself inside humans' mind when they are born.

…Those villagers were gone…

"Here is no place for us to talk," Said Agatha "Come to my place, you'll be safe there."

Agatha holds onto the dragonkin's arms, making them a little uncomfortable without knowing what was going on. Suddenly, a strong wind came by as a struck of lightning, Agatha's face, was relaxed and concentrated, her eyes were closed as if she were invoking that wild roaring wind that could tear a whole house apart. Her ginger hair was lifted to the air along with her and the girls. Those fearsome winds around them, made the people who pass by wonder and fear those winds. Blurring the inside of those sharp winds that could cut the trees in one blow, no one was able to see those girls. And with the mystery of why that killing cycle of wind appeared, Humans started calling that unsavory pressured windstorm as Tornado.

As they reached 20 meters above the ground, the raging winds disappeared as if it was never there, at least if Humans didn't have found a path made of two hundred fallen trees. When the wind disappeared, no one was there anymore…

…a couple minutes later a flow of wind rushed into a house trembling everything inside its living room.

"We are here! Please, make yourselves at home." Agatha said walking towards the couch.

"Um- Did we just teleport?" Asked Raya.

"Oh, yes. That was wind magic." Said Agatha.

"Wait, you're able to use wind magic? How? Only a few creatures in every country can use magic." Questioned Khaldas.

"Huh… I'm able to use the four main elemental magic. It was quite common a couple of years ago… 6000 A.C."

"6000 A.C?! We are in the year 6450 A.C" Khaldas was shocked.

A.C stands for: After Creation. The Goddess of Creation created the Earth about six thousand years ago. And this magic user was alive four hundred- and fifty-years ago. WAIT… THAT MUST MEAN-

"Are you Agatha, The Witch of Destruction?!"

"Argh! They still call me that? What a falsely described title! I was the one who protected the village from Demons a century ago, you know? And this is how they thank me. Witch of Destruction! I should have let those Demons invade the village and stamp their feet over those villagers. Ungrateful bastards. I just destroyed a couple houses because some satanic witches reflected my magic. But no- they would rather blame me for the invasion and every single other kind of hell they have been through!" Complained Agatha.

Belial had sent his minions to gather food for their kingdom but some of the demons went rogue. It was said that a satanic witch told them about a human village near a broad field of flowers. The legends said that this witch wanted to test an experiment which caused a couple of male and female demons to rape women and men who lived in that village. After they invaded the village, Baron Elliot Richmond, the lord of the area where the village was found, sent his knights to defeat the witch and the demons. Eight months later in the human realm, six women who survived the incident, gave birth in the same day. Their babies were not quite normal though. Their skin was as pale as porcelain, the male babies' eyes were a tone of crimson while the female babies' eyes were a tone of purple. It creeped the villagers during the night, since the dark sky made it difficult for humans to see, but even so, these children's eyes lit in the dark.

When they reached three years old, their canine teeth developed a bit, being able to change from two sharp pointy teeth to a human's harmless teeth. When they were five, they started to crave human blood. They didn't eat anything else. During the night for an entire year, five bodies were found every week throughout the human's domain. Becoming feared by the society they lived in, they had two options, escape, or be hunted. They chose to flee and along the way, they were able to change their appetite to sucking blood-colored fruits and by drinking animal's blood. Vampires. Demonic beings who have human appearance and feed of human blood. This is what they decided these creatures are. In truth, they are just a subcategory of creatures created by the sexual relationship between a male demon and a female human.

The other subcategory of creatures created by the sexual relationship between a male human and a female demon were called Werewolves. During the day they are technically humans but when the moon comes out, they turn into wolf-like beasts. Also known as a shapeshifting demon. Although some human countries created a folklore referring to them as Wendigos. A human who becomes cannibal -humans that eat other humans, that just mean they are omnivorous, but they want to be dramatic - and develops a supernatural ability to run faster than normal humans, night vision and an animal-like form, as well as the ability to live longer than normal humans.

Since they are half human and half demon, they can live longer than a human but shorter than a demon.

…In the human version of the tale, the knights defeated the demons and the satanic witch. The satanic witch in this tale was none other the Agatha who received the title: The Witch of Destruction. And was banned from the kingdom during the reign of King Gustav the III – The great-great-great-grandfather of King Alderich the II – being determined to learn other cultures and other languages, she traveled around the world for centuries. In the year 6400 A.C the current king Alderich II, sent a letter to his secret wife: The Red Queen, inviting Agatha to live in his kingdom. Agatha accepted and moved back to the village she once lived, but this time, she was the right hand of the king, who once took care of his wife when she was sick. She was also awarded a two-story house with five rooms which was more spacious than the other houses in that village, for her selfless act of saving the village all those centuries ago. He was an inspiring man. Different from the cold-hearted humankind.

He also awarded her four hundred silver coins and Three hundred Copper coins as a way of undo the sin of the country for talking ill about their savior. In that kingdom, four hundred silver coins were the equivalent of fifty thousand British pounds and three hundred copper coins were the equivalent of six hundred British pounds. So, she had fifty thousand six hundred British pounds. Rich lady.

She did have to change her appearance though. Even though everyone who was alive then, have eventually died of oldness, she still had to be careful not to attract attention, since she made a deal with the king…

"Anyway, my name is Agatha. Yes, I'm a witch. No, I'm not evil… well, mostly. Yes, I'm more than 450 years old. No, I'm not an old hag. Yes, I'm a human. No, I'm not immortal. And yes, your mother, The Red Queen asked me to take care of you." Said Agatha predicting any question she could think of that the girls might ask.

They started living with that woman, who after a couple of weeks, seemed to be kinder and gentler, and slowly gained the girls' trust. The moon swam over by the currents of the river of stars, filled the sky in pure light and cool blow of the sky's wind... making it easier to sleep without having to deal with hot temperatures at night.

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[1] "You know what you have to do my children! This is a test to see which of you will be the next king! Go and bring pain to this miserable world!"

[2] "Who are you? what do you want?"

[3] "Excuse me, what are you saying? Where in hell are you from?"

[4] "Raya, wake up, there is a strange guy here. He is rather old, and I believe he might be a demon."

[5] "Hello Khaldas, how was the trip?"

[6] "Oh, sorry Raya. My name is Agatha."