chapter one continued...

Sorry it has been so long since I've added to the story, I have not been feeling so well. However I made this addition pretty long to sort of make up for it. Here is more of chapter one...



Aleda closed the door and whispered to Callisto. "Callisto! Wake up, we have to get out of here!" she cried quietly. Callisto stirred awake. "Wh...where are we?" she said after looking around. "I'll explain later! We have to get out of here!" She whispered. Callisto stood up and went to the window, while Aleda looked out into the hall through the keyhole. "The coast is clear. Open the window!" Callisto pushed on the window, but it wouldn't budge. "It must be locked!" she cried. She searched around it for a lock. "There's no lock!" Aleda flew over to the window. She tapped the window with her wand, and it quickly opened.

"Hurry!" she said as they heard shuffling outside the door. Both jumped out the window, without even looking where they were jumping. The gravity of that decision was realized when they realized that they were falling far down into rocky water.

Callisto closed her eyes and thought "We're going to die!...NO! We can't die!" Suddenly a flash of light shot all around them. Callisto and Aleda both had their eyes closed, afraid to look. That is, until they realized they were safe, and seemed to be on land. "You saved us Aleda!" Callisto said with more happiness than she thought she had the ability to have. "It wasn't me, I was too scared to think. Hell, I even have wings, I could have just flew out." she replied. "Well, then what just happened?" "You saved us!"

Callisto beamed. "Really? I did that?" she said excitedly. "Yes, we'll talk more about it soon. First we have to get out of here. We're just outside the castle, and I have somewhere I need to take you!" Aleda whispered.

They ran into the forest, Aleda leading the way. It seemed like they had been walking for hours, when Aleda landed onto a flower. "Let's rest here, they won't be able to find us, well as long as I make this area invisible." Aleda flicked her wand, and a bubble appeared around them. "There!" she said, with a note of accomplishment in her voice. "It's been awhile but I still got it!" She said as she did a little celebration dance. Callisto laughed at her.

Callisto's stomach let out a growl of hunger. "No worries! I have almost unlimited power, so what would you like to eat!" Aleda said as she brought her wand up. "Hmm...I know! How about some chicken and dumplings! Ooh! And some broccoli with cheese on top!" Callisto exclaimed. Aleda laughed and swished her wand so that a table with the most delicious looking food that she had ever seen. Callisto and Aleda plopped down on either side of the table, Aleda actually on the table, and they began to chow down. Callisto dropped her fork for a second, as she thought about what was going on.

"Where were we? and Who were my parents? What's going on?" Callisto asked. Aleda sighed. "I knew the day would come when I'd have to give you all the rest of the details. I just hoped it would be much later on. However, I will tell you."

Aleda swished her wand, and a cloud of smoke appeared before them. "Now I can only tell you what I remember. I'm much older than I look, and some memories are broken from the days before you were born. Besides, I don't really know all the details." Aleda flicked her wand again, and a scene appeared inside the fog, as though it were a tv screen.

"This is called a Disque De Simra. It is essentially the only way to view anothers memory without force, and pretty much the only way of doing it without causing damage." She flicked her wand again, and the Disque De Simra began to spin around them, faster and faster, until they were swooped up into a sort of Disque De Simra tornado. Callisto closed her eyes out of fear, but opened them when she realized she was no longer spinning.

They were standing in what looked like a throne room. A few people were on the other side of the room, frozen as if in a paused movie. A woman with dark black hair sat at the throne, a large crown with a star at the top sat atop her head. Standing to her right was a man with bright shiny red hair. He seemed to be a foot or two taller than Callisto, and he was very handsome. He wore a long red cloak with a gold belt around the waist. At first glance Callisto thought the man's ears were on fire, but a closer looked revealed that they were just earring of birds that had the appearance as though they were completely made up of fire. A matching talisman of the bird hung around his neck.

To the right of the queen, stood a woman just as tall as the man, if not taller. She had long blonde hair, that was braided into many small braids. the braids split off into a pony tail on each side of her head. She was quite beautiful, and Callisto felt as though she were staring into a mirror as she looked into the woman's face. The woman wore what looked like a very strong armor suit. It was a saphire blue color, and it looked as though she could wear it in battle, then head off to some kind of party soon after. On her left hand was a quite large saphire ring, with a shiny white band. A pair of saphires dangled from her ears, and an even larger saphire hung around her neck, all matching.

Callisto realized how strange it was to be staring at these people, as they stood or sat frozen in place, and she turned to Aleda. "So where are we?" she finally said. But Aleda didn't move. Callisto ran to her "Aleda!" she cried. She heard Aleda's laugh behind her. "That was me almost 20 years ago!" she said. Callisto shot her an angry look. "Ok, ok, ok!" Aleda said in an apologetic way.

"This is a couple of years ago. This really doesn't have alot to do with what happened to them, but I figured you would want to see what your parents looked like, before they were married." Aleda flicked her wand, and they stood in the same room, only the queen was standing in front of a woman in a beautiful white dress, and a man in a black cloak. "This is the day they were married" Aleda said, and she flicked her wand again. This time the people went into movement.

Her parents said heartfelt proclamations of love, and the queen pronounced them married, and as they kissed, the crowd around them cheered. Aleda flicked her wand again and they were still in the throne room, only this time, the queen held a baby girl in her hands, two little boys sat in front of her. Callisto's parents still stood beside the queen on each side, though they could not take their eyes off eachother, and her mom rubbed her stomach.

"This is where our story begins!" Aleda said, almost excitedly. She flicked her wand, and the scene began to play. Aleda from that time ran into the room. "Your majesty!" she exclaimed almost out of breath and she bowed. "It seems the Furies are at it again! They are storming the castle and we're having trouble holding them back!" she said. Callisto's mom stepped forward. "No Sunila!" said the queen and Callisto's father at the same time. The queen finished with "You are with child, you should not be fighting in your condition!" Sunila crossed her arms "It is my job Queen Denali!" she exclaimed. Both the queen and Callisto's father tried to argue but a look from Sunila told them they wouldn't win. "Very well then, go take care of it, but the minute you find yourself in danger, retreat!" the queen said, with a look that told Callisto that it was unlikely that Sunila would retreat, whether she was in danger or not.

As Sunila ran off out the door, the queen looked at Callisto's father, who seemed quite worried. "Nothing to worry about Phoenix, she is a good warrior, and she has never lost a battle. Even in her condition she will come back victorious!" Phoenix's spirits seemed to raise and he smiled. Aleda had still been in the room, seemingly waiting for orders. The queen bowed to her, which told her it was ok for her to go off and help Sunila. But as Aleda turned to leave, Phoenix fell to his knees in agony. He held his head and was screaming something about Sunila, and something about a baby.

Aleda turned back towards the screaming, but Phoenix had already gone quiet. Tears in his eyes, he stood. "What did you see Phoenix?" said the queen curiously. "My wife, dying in childbirth." he said, though it seemed there was something he was not mentioning. "Please excuse me your highness, I need to go and write of this prediction, and do some anti-fate excersizing." he said quickly before heading out of the room. "Aleda, your a good friend of Phoenix's please, go find out what it is that he has left out of the story!" the queen said as she tended to the baby in her arms.

Aleda and Callisto followed the past Aleda to a quite large house not far from the castle. Past Aleda knocked on the door, and Phoenix answered. "Come, I have important business to discuss with you" Phoenix said almost impatiently. Phoenix wrote on a scroll for a few minutes until finally it was filled, and he rolled it up. He wrote something on it, then handed it to Aleda.

"I am appointing you guardian of my unborn child. In case something should happen to my wife and myself." He said finally. Aleda replied "Is that what you saw in that vision?" His head dropped, and after a few quiet minutes he finally said "Yes, I saw my wife and myself dying. However, I have also seen my daughter fighting the queens successors. It is not clear who her successor is, but I have seen that my child will become queen, and that she will be the death of the royal family. At least that's what the vision seemed to be. I have not seen the whole vision yet. However, I am quite certain that my wife and myself will not see our child grow into adulthood." he said sadly.