Isabelle
I can’t believe I’m alone traveling with a guy. While August was taking me back home he said he was on a journey to the Bluelands and my mother asked me why he seemed in a rush, so I explained that he was going to the Bluelands. My mom, being on the overprotective side, asked if he had any supervision or adults with him, and I replied,
“Nope, he is completely independent, and I think that's very nice and I would want a little independence as well. Mom, although I’m a princess of the Blackhearts and daughter of the king, it would be nice being alone sometimes, by now, it would be nicer going with him.”
“Then why don’t you? If you come back home every month safely, I could trust you better and you would get what you want, it’s a win-win.” So I got dragged into his journey and here I am now, traveling alone, with a boy. He kept making me think what we would do once we got to the Bluelands, would we take a bath there? I heard they have great springs, but if he’s willing to walk nine miles for this place it must be urgent. We walked for around 45 minutes but August looked wasted as if he walked 45 hours, the night was also rushing us so we stopped for the night, August immediately fell asleep muttering to himself, “If I snap I’ll get sent to that place again.” I wanted to ask what that “place” was but I just went to sleep. I woke up just to find August still muttering the same words, except this time he was sleep talking. What a weird and extraordinary boy, I thought. He woke up with a jolt, and he already seemed energized enough to walk ninety miles not just nine, of course, that didn’t happen though.
August
I kept looking at my fingers to see what would happen if I snapped them right now, Isabelle looked over and she seemed curious about my finger. “I don’t know how I got it but one day I just did.” It looked like she understood as if something like this has happened to her before, I kept walking towards up the river which is how I got to the Bluelands in my alternative dimension, only 5 more miles to go. During our trip, Isabelle hated that we had to splash over the mud to get across, and sometimes I wonder if all princesses are like this or just girls in general. After many hours of walking, we actually made it to Bluelands village gate before nightfall. I didn’t see Bu when we got there but all of the other people greeted us, it turns out that they don’t get many visitors so when they do they treat them with kindness and we were offered food and baths. Isabelle went to go wash herself up while I feasted on their bread and meat and I noticed how they looked like they had an infinite amount of meat. “How come you have that much meat you never eat all of it?”
“This meat is for visitors, we have our own in the storage room.”
“Wheres the storage room?”
“I can’t say…” Something was off about how they acted. I eventually got up to look for their storage room only to find that it was non-existent, I needed to warn Isabelle, but the people caught up to me and they trapped me in a cage with much more advanced earth than I could use. Then I realized I was bait, they wanted Isabelle, and just because she was royalty everyone was going for her neck, they sent a rather slim guy to tell her I was captured but the only problem with their cages was that there not advanced enough. I slipped through the back and hid behind one of the buildings, it wouldn’t be too long until they figured out I was gone, I ran full speed towards the oasis passing the slim guy and I saw Isabelle get out of a random building next to it. I found her and told her to go back into the building, This is something only I can do, I thought but they came with murderous intent and from the looks of it, suicide probably would’ve been the better option rather than facing these buff men. They came charging at me and I tried my best to hold them off by using a bunch of spikes from the ground but their bodies were tough, so they just kept running like nothing even hit them at all. By now I had accepted fate and I held out my arms in defeat, thinking that I could at least stall them, but these men were buff but no brains, they didn’t understand that surrendering was a thing because they just kept charging so instead of standing like this I used the skill of taunting. I called them names but it wouldn’t mean anything from an outsider so I did my best impression of Weng Bu, and that got their attention. They were all confused when one guy said,
“But the village leader is on leave right now.” Weng Bu is the village leader?! This wasn’t the time to get distracted, in my impression of Bu I said,
“I have returned and I wish my own people would at least turn around to look at me.” They all turned as expected and I used this time to get inside the house and told Isabelle, “You have to get moving these guys are crazy, I tried knocking them out and at one point I even tried killing them but they just kept running like the crazy men they are.” The people started back towards the house but I said to them, “Are you really going to kidnap a girl for money? I knew my people back then and they were better than this.”
“But sir, we need this money, we don’t even have enough to buy food again, all we have is the meat we froze from back then.” That’s Isabelle decided to march out and she told them all,
“I don’t want to hear any more of this! Have fun feeling what it’s like to be in hell, where you belong.” She started spewing out powerful purple flames at them.
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