the beggining of chapter One!

Chapter One: A kidnapping!

Aleda awoke in the middle of the night, a feeling of dread filled her. She looked around to find that Callisto was gone. She could not believe that despite what she had told Callisto, she still went to find the portal. She flew as quickly as she could to the portal, pulling out her wand as she stepped into the park. She hid behind a tree when she saw Callisto. Callisto was not alone. A Fury held her up on its shoulder. Furies were originally part of the fairy clans.

Long ago, the fairies and furies were all one people. That is until the Fairy King's son decided he hated how his father ran things. So he as well as a few of his followers decided to try to overthrow his father. However The Fairy King had known of the plan and the traitors were caught, their powers were stripped away, and they were banished from the Fairy Kingdom. Because the traitors kept trying to return home, the King turned all of them human sized, and changed the way they looked so that they were grotesque and monster like.

Aleda knew how dangerous Furies could be, having lost friends and family to wars with the furies. She had to stay back to survive, and to find out what was going on. She followed the fury into the portal to Ariland, staying back just enough so she could stay hidden from sight of the Fury. After what seemed like an hour of travelling, the fury led it's way to the Ariland castle. It had gone in through a back doorway, which led to a long corridor of rooms. She hid back behind a potted plant as the Fury turned around for a second, then followed on as it went into a room, and came back out just a moment later. It then went into the room opposite the room he had left Callisto.

Aleda snuck into the room Callisto was in to check on her, then flew back out and peered through the keyhole of the room on the opposite side from the room Callisto was in. She heard the Fury talking in it's growling lion like roars "I did the job, now where is my payment!" It said. A voice both very masculine, yet had a feminine feel to it said quietly "Now now Lorcan, calm down, you just got here have a drink! Tell me about her! Is she perfect like the prophecy says?!"

The Fury replied angrily, "Ask herself, what do I look like? Her life story. And I am not Lorcan, that is my king you imbecile. Now I did my job, where is my payment?" "Fine, fine, here!" Aleda saw a man stand and pull a small brown bag out of his cloak. "Prince Narcisco?" She whispered. He emptied the bags contents onto the floor, and the Fury quickly scrambled to pick up the gold coins that had fallen out of the bag. Narcisco laughed "Why thank you for bowing to me!" He pulled a wand out of his cloak "however, I must dispose of you now. I can't risk you telling anyone of bringing the girl back."

"NO!" croaked the fury as a blood red light filled the room, protruding from the wand. Aleda quickly flew back to Callisto, the blood red light still shining through the keyhole, and the cries of the fury still ringing in her ears.