She was known to be the ruler of many beast, inventor of many magical things, emerging from the east, stepping into the civilized world with strange power, granting her to be immediately highlighted as the high priest of a rich kingdom that held status of the most powerful person in the country. Irritating women nor men, killing plans were her tests throughout the day, but she she untouchable. Yet, her rare beauty with black coal eyes, and reddished cheek had secured many hearts constructing an endless fights, each day but she only took love for granted , no matter how many people were offering her various of treasure seeking for her pleasure, unfortunately she only cares about equality as peace for the world.
"I've saw many things that you haven't see, those little things you call as success, isn't much, to create peace you must understand loathe...not love!" she did said that but, no one knew the pieces of her heart that had trashed into pieces only for a the sake of love,
"they said I have no emotions, I cannot understand pains, how I wish to show them how heartless this world can be towards a child like me, to love is to hate, to live is to be evil,..great things never came with happiness..i didn't say we must not torn apart everything... there's things to be cherished, even so we must prepared..didn't we? " though she never married, Catalina had sheltering many children that had became orphans due to unstopping war.
A lovely kid he was, never raised his voice while talking to Catalina, never care about things she gave or did not, was one who didn't have ambition..suddenly wished to become someone powerful, greater enough to defeat the hands that had hugged him through despair
"I've seen darkness in your heart my child, I'm afraid you'd sunk deeper, believe me this magis is good," Catalina patted the boy on his head, looking over his face with a watery eyes, sadly the boy refused to looked her in the eyes, those black eyes could see through everything down to someone else's heart till mind.
"I love you..." Catalina step outside of his chamber leaving the boy speechless, with her last words "no matter how many times you try to kill me, I deared you my love" -
Feared by nations, rejection was not really an option, for all kinds of evil things she did she was loved, as she she never bored to entertain the poor with a bright smile bothering royals whom wished to conquer the world. On one peaceful evening, the news declaring her death all of sudden had uproaring anger and ruckus for they didn't believed she had died in such pathetic way, burnt to death by flying arrows? None sense!
"she must be kill by some one she cares for!"
"why did the hate her so much?..though she is nobody but she was our queen.. I cannot believe she had left us," those sorrowfull years had come to an end, the existence of Catalina had buried down into ashes as the world had became more civilized, even so her killer is still alive throughout the years laughingArrogantly conveying false story upon such great woman, " a hero had became a villain, the queen had became a traitor..the fairies, becomes a demon.." until one day, he had stopped smiling, but trembling every day, for a cursed his mother had chanted on him,
"you will never defeat me my child.. I will always be there.. In flesh? Nor mist.. Or a breeze..my eyes, stick to you.. I'm becoming two, hmm.. waiting to see you, child.." - her sweet voice could be hear in a close distance whenever he closes his eyes, the proud man, was petrified, regretting staying alive.
Niran was a kind fairy tribe that she met accidentally in the woods when she was compiling herbs for the palace when a young fairy in a toddler size came out from the sky hitting an oak tree with his wing and scratched his knees. She was not shocked, she was not scare either, seeing a kid with a wings in qamar forest is not something she should discuss with. However, te odd feeling surpassed her intelligent mind, 'how can the kid did not have anything on his body, as she clearly see he had injured his knee trying to balancing himself on the gound.
"kid!" catalina shouted, and amazed for a second time, how come he is beautiful than a woman herself? It's body was far more precious compare to a field of gold and diamonds, his wings was glittering in lights, the skin from top till the tip of the toe was shimmering a radiant beautiful gold as if his body was made from the element itself. she thought his eyes was merely a hazel brownend - shamely, her misatake niran's eyes was an atonishing golden eyes inhaling sunlight while refelcting them in the darkness, for that she call them
''the one who shines in the darkness''
"where are you from? Where are your parents?" catalina grabbed his hand forbided him to go,
"i'm not a kid i'm 80 years old.'' he replied with a cute voice but did not angry to why the woman refused to let him go,
"my apologize sir, you were so small i thought you was lost in your way and wish to help" The niran was call Mirage because he could create such things to fool around. Because Catalina refused in letting go of his hand, he flew both of them crossing over the border passing through cold mist from near mountains,
"interesting.. someone lived here" Catalina was freezing death for a 10 minutes rides with mirage, above from the sky she had saw many things she had never seen before especially an odd willow trees that showing up leaves made up from gold but still in green colour and covers a certain place she knew well,
Catalina was not sure wheter to fit in their place and collect many informations about their magis, because they were so kind and naive. While she is a demon whom tried to be friendly and would kill them in the end. Despite her saying that, she stayed for a year.
"can i stay? '' she asked, the tribe agreed, she was so happy, later she knew the similarities of their tribe, to never age and to never dies, out of boredom, the young witch took out some experiment seeking to what can kill them, and she did, catalina was very amazed, to how things turn out, sadly, she did not broke its charm, now was filled with guilts and sorrow, she had lose her loved one, "i.. I'm sorry" catalina was not denying love, in fact, she was nurturing them to get rid of the darkness in her heart, but she was scared to let it go, she told Mirage- love is a strong word, but if you felt them, you cannot let it go even of you want to. Comparing to their ages, those fairies was still a child and fooling around, the rare things humans wish to store was their toys,
Due to her unquestionable 3 weeks of dissappearance, catalina was surpired hearing the enemies was getting closer in killing their beloved king whom only 15 years old, as expected she won the war. Tiring task, Even so, she was missing her cute friends daily, insuring the retreats of enemies, she began to beg thw king for a holiday, but he disapproved her,
"your sudden dissappearance was the one that wrecking this castle walls, we can't live without you" enough of begging, she was set for 2 days off from duty, so made a decision to see her cute friends. She was missing them that brought 10 baskets of apples in a carriage as a gift,
one the horseback, she cannot stop smoking imagining Mirage amd her friends fighting over the apples, and on how did those fairies was stealing her apples the entire time and asked for for more.
"you never tasted this red fruit do you? next time i will planet this all over for you okay?" upon arrival, she thought she had lost, so she made a turn again and again, still arriving in the dark and rotten place,
''did they blocked the portal? " she left the carriage and step aside, confused "mirage?!" "hey! " a sudden misery causing her to cry, her knees was falling apart, trembling in fear
"no,.. "
"NO!! I must go back!" she back ignore the carriage and walk barefoot circuling the woods thinking she had made mistake, yes, she still in the same place.
Catalina was speechless, she sat on the ground for many hours, chuckles for a couple of times and began to cry with a giggles, why so?
All she saw was a pile of corpse in a complete darkness with most of it had rotten and buried down back to earth like a wilthered flower, she knew the fairies was dead, the tribe was no more, the wings was torn apart, the eyes, the splendid skin they had was no more, the bodies, was unrecognizeable.
"what have i done? " she mumbling by herself, "i should not have not come here,..they should have not die.. " Niran meant for for eternal, yes she is right, they supposed to live for hundred years and never dies, but those became a fatal just because of her curiousity, she made them lose their immortality,
"who did this? " Catalina wiped her tears and began to think. "I must kill them all! " she was in rage that her eyes turned completely dark. She kneel down when she came across a dead body with a silver ruby bracelet, it was Mirage,
"mi amore.. my son," she took off the bracelet and put on her wrist,
Iritated easily, contempted in madness and shame, she neglects her responsibility in supervising the palace making her nation almost conquered by the enemies, nothing she can do much, she just walked aimlessly comforting herself for 5 years, to avoid the awakening of a demon hidden inside. she choose to run away and resting in qamar, till she was kissed by a fairy called Jara, that had left 5 printed petals on her forehead imitating the magis core on the back of her long lost friend Niran.
The fairies was able to told her with a very soft and low voices due to their tumb sizes, that they can resurrect the Nirans for that was their task in the world, Jara told Catalina, to never sad.. niran died due to their naiveness and kind heart, they was killed because they carelessly had brought another human into their residents thinking that every human was kind as her,
"when a niran was born, a little Jara will be born as well and carries the same mark as they, because we are their twin,"
"every niran has a Jara as their healer, if they died, it is our job to keep them alive and resurrect them many times possible"
Catalina could not believe what she was listening back then, she thought she was hypnotizing with her own magis, after banging her head on the the tree, She eargerly told those fairies to do their task,
"how lucky we are for we had kept hidden when the humans strike, if we died, no one could resurrect them back, i wish to thank them back, but we can't" Catalina wrinkled hwr face, she was paler than before, she blinkend.
"are testing me? are you joking right now?" Catalina stomped her foot, got closer and she grabbed one of fairies by its wing.
"if you cannot do it!.. why did you come in the first place? you should have just hide.. run away!! or do this wings is useless?" Catalina pinch its wings before breaking them apart, threw them on the ground, before she raises her fingers towards another fairy
"How dare you!" A Jara named Venus shouted. Catalina was dragged away from the flocks, by a strong force and glued onto trees with veins stiching up her entire body. My magis? Catalina petrified.
"don't be so cruel woman... put your hands off, if we died.. they died as well, - don't ever think about harming us.. we're not weak! this tiny finger will be enough to destroy your beast," venus march foward, seeing Catalina eye to eye, for the first time ever, the young wizard was put to numb and startled, she was breathing so fast showing how scared she was, something from venus gave her unsteady feeling, those soul contained lust and greed of the world no one could imagine, she shooked her head then looking at another direction,
"Catalina..didn't want to be rude, you started it.. the way you hurt us was the same way those man torturing nirans..you are the same" said venus into her ear, touched catalina's chin, denying her touched, venus still can pull her head infronts,
"you have becoming human little fairy, i guess your tribe would not last longer after this," Catalina gasped, her eyes went bigger, while this little Jara onluy knew how to smile,
"i see you wants to change the world, but the World's changing you.. how unfortunate, your people only knew how to destroy..fallen fairies.. " venus was smirking and so others, Catalina bit her lips, she nearly cried, not by the woods, but on how she cannot loosing up the veins,
evertime she moves, those bloody veins with blue flowers on it won't budge. The flowers were mesmerizing, reflecting lights though the place are getting darker, "lights.. " She saw a tiny golden diamond deep inside its buds, and was portraying a heart rate with its shimmering lights, she stares at Venus,
"what you think is right, that is the core from mirage's back, he is alive in spirit.. if you want to save them, bring back their cores to us from your king"
Catalina soon realized, she was played, she was raising pigs and snakes, the animals whom greedy and envy about every single thing until it became theirs, she can't loved by her nation, in fact being used to get what their wants, "am I? "
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