A Princess's Destiny

            Flying through the grey fog, a dragon roared. D’Nyelli hesitated and looked up in the cloudy sky. She couldn’t see anything through the dense fog.

“D’Nyelli!!! Where are you? Answer me!” yelled a familiar voice. She cringed at the sound of that awful voice. She silently stepped backward into the shadows beneath the forest canopy.

“Ah ha! I see you. You know that I can find you anywhere if I want to,” teased Dari’U as he appeared behind her. D’Nyelli turned around and said quietly, “I am trying to have some self time, you know.” He rolled his eyes to the sky and grabbed her arm. Resentful of his stubborn insistence to monopolize her private time, she pulled out of his grasp and walked a few steps away. “Look, I am not ready for anything serious in my life right now. I just prefer to lay low for a while. God! You should know how I feel after all this time I worked so hard. Can’t you accept that??!” demanded she.

“No I can’t. We are meant to be together and you know that.”

She stared at him in disbelief and fear. She knew that he really believed what he said and determined to let him down gently. A roar suddenly rose up in the stifling air, startling both of the fairies. Dari’U turned joyful as he saw a glittering dark blue dragon strolling up to him.

“Ama’Ni! What are you doing here? I am so glad to see you!” he asked curiously. “Dar’Iu, bad newsss. Tri’Ck needsss you right away. Ssssomething bad happened. Here to take you to him now,” Ama’Ni hissed softly. “All right, let me say something to D’Nyelli…” During his distraction, she slipped away into the darkness. He cursed fluently. He got on Ama’Ni’s back as they rose up into the air.

"Hey, don't you think it would be time for you to marry?" A'Mandi said softly behind D'Nyelli in the darkness. D'Nyelli turned her head to where her sister was standing. She sighed resignedly. "I am not ready to be married anytime soon. You know that i just want to be a full-time Hunter for a while yet as long as I can," she responded heatedly, "I know it is my responsibility to find a worthy man to be my king, honestly if I felt he was the one, I would marry him right away. But Dari'U is not that man." A chuckle came out of the striking-looking woman with long fiery hair and silver eyes approaching D'Nyelli. "I know that. Everyone know that except him, but be careful with him. I sense something dangerous from him. i just don't want him to hurt you," A'Mandi warned sternly. A laugh burst out of D'Nyelli, "Do you think he will hurt me? After all, I have been a Hunter, a damn good one, for many years. And he has only turned 10. I feel old now." "D'Nyelli!! You know that we age really fast and our hormones overwhelms all of us. Now you are way past the age when the aging process is slowed down to one year every 50 mortal years. Dari'U may be only 10 in fairy years, but he is 20 in the mortal world. That is the age when he finally stopped growing so fast. He may be whacked out of his mind. Just be careful. This age is the most dangerous for the males. Our most dangerous age was 5. Now our mother will retire in a few years and it is time for you to look around to start the ball rolling for you to be ready to become our Queen," scolded A'Mandi. "I just wish it was you, not me. You are the kind of woman, loving, gentle, wonderful Queen this country needs, not me the Hunter who hunts down evil in many forms to destory it. It only makes me tougher, meaner, less like you. I just don't feel like I should be the Queen," D'Nyelli confided insecurely. A'Mandi looked at her in shock.

"D'Nyelli, I can tell that you believe this, but I assure you, you are the kind of Queen this country needs so badly. Our mother has been the gentle Queen this country needed for so long to soothe its wounds from the war. Now it is time for it to defend itself with a brilliant Queen with a mind for defense. Don't you see that? If I become the Queen, things would have gone on as same as it has when our mother was the Queen. I believe that every Queen should be different everytime a Queen changes from time to time to keep the kingdom survive! I only hope that you will realize this by the time our mother retires. I love you dearly, have loved you since we shared a womb," A'Mandi argued quietly.

D'Nyelli stared at her beautiful sister with tears in her eyes. A'Mandi stared back steadily. They rushed to each other and hugged firecely.