Post by SouperAsylum on May 28, 2015 1:47:40 GMT -7
Her hair was a lovely shade of pale pink with brighter pink highlights. It brushed the floor as she walked. A princess never cuts her hair after all. The prettiest girl in the kingdom of Froesthus on the planet of Ideenia was waited on, hand and foot as obliging, helping maidens made her look as beautiful as possible, although a fairy doesn't generally need make up. They always look flawless regardless of what they wear. Her skin glowed and her eyes were kind with a smile to match.
At least... in the eye of the public. A princess must be perfect after all. Especially the High Princess of Ideenia. Her wings must be immaculate. Her dress must sparkle along with the rest her. Everything about her must radiate all that is good in the universe. And at her side when she turns of age (500 in Indeenia-the planet of fairies,) must be a handsome, sparkling husband as well.
"Ouch!" Clow exclaimed, as her first maiden, Mahali, shoved pins into her head.
"Oh don't give me that!" Mahali was like a mother to Clow, since her mother had passed away when she was only a child. "Your head has been through worse!" Clow laughed at this.
"I suppose that's true." She stared into the mirror at face she rarely got to see. A face that wasn't covered in some sort of jeweled pattern and make up. Or sometimes glittery or gold paint. This face, was her. Clow. Raw Clow. She touched her cheek and traced her finger along her bottom lip, watching her expression change in the mirror from neutral to a little sad. Mahali stopped the hair torture process to put her hands around Clow's shoulders lovingly.
"You really are the prettiest girl in the kingdom. Even the planet in my opinion." Clow blushed as pink as her natural highlights. Water brimmed at the edges of Mahali's eyes. "You look just like her you know."
"My mother...?" Clow's voice got very quiet
"You've got her spirit too. She lives in you," At the Mahali began to finish her hair and move on to make up. Clow was to be seen today by the King and Prince of another kingdom on a different planet, so her make up and dress was to be extra fancy.
A man burst into the room, talking furiously into a small, flashing metal comm. He seemed to be yelling at somebody about being late on something, and he would fire them if anything else were to go wrong. He hung up the comm took a quick breath in and out and then put a huge smile on his face. “Clow! My favorite girl to come see!”
“Fasi! I was beginning to wonder when you would show up!” Clow exclaimed, a smile creeping up on her face as well. His were really quite infectious. Fasi, a man that towered over the others, had lost his wings in an event that he doesn’t talk about. He also dresses more fabulously than any other in the kingdom. His hair was white and cut in a sleek mohawk with shaved sides. Today he donned a shiney, tourqouise suit with a light pink tie.
“Good to see you Fasi,” Mahali said, impatiently,” but you’re late. Where is the dress you have designed?”
“I have it right here!” He clapped his hands and held his hand out towards the door, palm up. With a smirk, he drew his fingers in one by one. A gorgeous dress flew into the room, slowly until it stayed floating in front of the three of them.
The dress was tan and beautiful chocolaty brown, gold mixed in here and there, shorter in the front than the back with a ruffled skirt and a corset top with an upturned collar, outlined with gold. Clow stared at the dress in a dream like state.
“Fasi… gorgeous as always!” Clow beamed. “I can’t wait to put it on!”
“Oh I just knew you would love it! and wait! You haven’t even seen the shoes!” He held up a pair of brown tie up boots with shimmery gold trim and pointy gold heels.
“Perfect!”
“Okay! Now! Let’s get those make up accents done.”
Mahali had done the basic make up on her already, but Fasi usually did the jewels because he made the dresses. By the end of the whole ordeal, Clow was dressed in the gown. Her eyes were surrounded by swirling golden glitter and jeweled patterns, leading from the corner of her eyes around the sides and down to her cheek bones.
“Ready! You are perfection my dear!” Fasi yelled giddily. Mahali had left the room some time ago to deal with something else in the palace. He guided her towards the full mirror. She looked at all that had been done, examining it. He mind flashed back to the memory of herself from that morning. Raw Clow. Now, she looked like a completely different person. She smiled at Fasi.
“Thank you, it’s very beautiful.” she said.
“Oh I just cannot believe that you are about to be meeting a likley marriage candidate!”
“ya.. me either.”
“Oh don’t look so glum! You’re the prettiest girl in the kingdom! it’s a celebration. The union of Ideenia and Pol is something to celebrate after all.” His words almost sounded dark somehow. Clow had always suspected that Fasi lost his wings in Pol when the war was still happening. Just then Mahali returned to the room. She gasped at the sight of Clow.
“Oh my. You are beautiful. Wonderful job Fasi! I think this is the best one yet,”
“I wanted it to be. This is an important occasion after all.”
“Yes it is!” Mahali cheered, “now! we must be getting to the station at once! We have to take a ship to Drae in about 15 minutes!
The private ship of the royal family was at the station that rest were at because they all had to be monitored by the Universe Protection Federation or UPF, which monitored every station in the universe. They were also the universal police.
Mahali and Clow were escorted to the station and boarded the ship and waited to take off. and Waited. and waited. Mahali nervously checked the time.
“What is going on?! We are going to be late for sure!” Then she went to check with the pilots. Clow shifted anxiously in her seat. Suddenly, the ship lurched without warning, throwing Clow and several other items in the ship to go flying towards the wall.
“What the..?!” She used her wings to take herself off the ground, when the ship lurched again and a horrible screeching sound was coming from somewhere inside. Clow Flew to the door and tried to open it, but it was no use. She began banging on it and screaming for help but before she knew it, the windows told her she was up in the stars. Had she been kidnapped?? What happened to Mahali? was she alright? Clow didn’t know what to do. She grabbed the phone that allowed you to talk to whoever was flying the ship and spoke into it, afraid of what she might find out.
“Hello? Whats happening? Mahali are you there?”
A sickeningly devious female voice answered back. “Have a safe journey Princess. Make yourself comfortable. Because it will only last so long.” Clow felt a sharp pain in her neck and then she fell to the floor unconscious.
Clow blinked her eyes drowsily. Everything that had happened hit her as stomach pain. Where am I? she thought. She looked around to find herself in some sort of hut made out of bamboo. She was lying on a bed. It was actually pretty comfortable.
“Oh good you’re awake!” a gruff male voice came from the doorway. Clow was afraid. Was he her kidnapper?
“You stay away from me!” She held up her hands. “I know magic! I’m very good at it. I’m warning you!”
The man, dressed in a ragged white shirt and brown trousers, put his hands in the air. “Woah woah calm down. I just found you lying out in some sort of wreck of metal. You were hurt, so I bandaged you up. My apprentice should be here any second, she’s probably more your age. Maybe you’ll bond or somethin. I’m just an old man.” he chuckled at this. Clow still hadn’t fully let her guard down. She heard a splash and looked out the window to see a girl with a fishtail clambering out of a nearby lake.
“I’ve gotta say,” the man spoke again to clear the silence as he addressed some sort of tools on a table, “I’ve never seen anything with wings quite like yours. specially no girls.” Clow looked at her wings as they sparkled various pinks and golds in the sunlight. She didn’t think about them much often, because they were just normal for fairies like her.
“Where are we?” Clow managed to say, “this place… it’s very hot and humid… but,” she looked out the window again, “it’s very pretty and green,” I’ve never heard of a place quite like this.
“we’re in the jungle. In Maris.”
“Maris… I’ve never heard of that planet...”
the man looked confused and laughed. “Planet? No no, Maris is the country. The planet is called Venus.”
“Venus? What…?” Am I really on a planet that hasn’t been discovered by the UPF? But how?
“You aren’t from around here are you?” The man said slowly, processing information similarly to how Clow was feeling. She didn’t get to answer, however, because the girl with the tail joined them in the hut… except… she didn’t have a tail anymore. A towel hung from her hand.
