The Element

~x~ Chapter Twenty-Nine ~x~ Sigh, I Guess It's Back to Hell -err- Mishnia ~x~

As we walked through the gates Mia was blabbering about how amazing everything looked, to me, this was the palace. We entered the hedge maze, which was there for security as well as beauty. I thought it was pointless to make it a security feature because; any divine being can use their powers to either figure out where the right exit was or slice through the maze, but it was beautiful none the less. The maze is thirty feet tall, covered in all sorts of flowers of every shape and color, was narrow, had many sharp turns, and forks in the road. I lead Mia through it, scanning the area for anyone else there. I stopped turned to Mia and asked ‘Can you change into your normal form?’ She blinked, perplexed ‘Normal… form…?’ I sighed. Great, she doesn’t even know how to change. I changed back her myself. Her hair shortened now hitting the middle of her back, now blood red, her eyes now sea blue, she grew slightly taller, her chest grew, and she apparently had perfect sight now because she took those things humans use to see with, I think they are called contacts, out of her eyes. She looked at herself, surprised ‘Woah. That’s strange; I never knew I had a disguise on.’ I smiled and continued to lead her out of the maze when I heard… her thoughts. ‘Ugh, so much to do, so little time. I wonder if I can get a pedicure in today. If I ever see Jessica again, I swear, I will kill her with my-’ She turned the corner and it was her… Sarah Alina Malloy. She is my littler sister. She is twenty-six years old and obsessed with our family being respected, pristine royalty, and the color pink. She is 5’6”, has bright pink hair, pulled into a bun, her eyes bright yellow, she was wearing all pink as usual. She looked up from her pink clipboard and seemed very scared and annoyed to see me. She spoke, venom weaved throughout her words; sounding pristine as usual “Jessica.” I replied, with the same venom in my voice “Sarah.” She stared at Mia and nodded towards her “Who is this? Humans are not allowed in the vicinity.” I scoffed, figuring screw it, she might as well know since everyone else was being told. “This is Mia, not some human.” Sarah was genuinely shocked. “W-what?!” Mia slid slightly closer to me, scared. Honestly I do not blame her; even though Sarah is the most social and controls light, she is still the scariest of us all. She walk towards Mia and stared her in the eyes “Mia… It’s Sarah! It’s great to see you again! Do you remember me? Your favorite sister?” Mia blinked, not knowing what to say. I cut in “That’s bull. You know damned well she would scream in your face every time you got close to her. She liked me better than any of you people. That’s why we bonded as one.” Sarah glared at me, a glare that made everyone else in the palace shut up and follow her every command, but made me laugh. Mia said, voice shaking “I am sorry but I don’t remember you.” She hit a nerve. I laughed even harder, tears welling in my eyes. Sarah stood right in front of me then slapped my face. That was it. I was going to castrate that bitch. We started to fight then Annabelle and Fern came running towards us screaming in unison “Stop, stop, stop! You are ruining the flowers!” They always did that, they had a bond and were twins. I pinned Sarah to the ground with my powers and muttered “Sorry about that.” They smiled, pretending to be happy to see me, while they were really terrified. “Jessica! It’s great to see you again. We’ve missed you.” I rolled my eyes and replied “Good to see you too.” I looked around at the flowers, some of them wilted and others were black and lifeless from our fight. “Nice flowers.” They frowned seeing what happened to them. Annabelle tried to revive the wilted ones while Fern removed the dead ones, replacing them with new sprouts. They glared at Sarah and me and said in unison “Next time you want to fight, please don’t do it in our garden.” Annabelle had long dark sky blue wavy hair that hit her thighs, powder blue eyes, and was wearing a blue sun dress and was wearing a sun hat with a blue ribbon tied to the base; she was about 5’4”. Fern was her exact copy except she had forest green hair, it was pulled into a ponytail, lime green eyes. Fern was wearing almost the exact same outfit except her sun dress was green and her sun hat had a green ribbon wrapped around the base of it instead of a blue one. They never wore shoes, anything artificial and rarely ate any animals, wanting to be one with the earth, claiming the earth would care for them. Mia smiled at them “That is so amazing. You care for this garden your selves?” they nodded “Yes ma’m. This is our pride and joy.” Annabelle said “I am Princess Annabelle-” Fern continued “and I am Princess Fern!” then in unison they continued “It’s nice to meet you; what’s your name?” She smiled “My name is Mia. It’s nice to meet you both.” They looked at each other then back at her then tackled her saying “Mia! We missed you!” This time they meant it. I smiled at the three laughing. Sarah shrieked “Someone get me out of this bitch’s possession!” I rolled my eyes and let her go. Sarah scrambled up and ran; trying to get out of the maze as fast as she could. I rolled my eyes then continued to lead Mia to the castle. Of course Fern and Annabelle followed close behind, watering and caring for the flowers. We reached the doors; I opened them, and walked through the main hall, ignoring everyone trying to talk to me. I walked to the kitchen and the cook, whom hated me as well, looked into my eyes and pulled on his best fake smile, which might have fooled me if I didn’t know better. “Princess Jessica; it’s wonderful to see you again.” I heard his thoughts ‘I bet the little leach is back so the king and queen will give her more money to waste on-’ I stopped reading his mind, not wanting to listen to him bitching about something that was not true. I spoke, voice silk “Would you mind making two more plates for food? My friend and I are famished.” He sighed “Very well Princess Jessica.” “Thank you.” I turned to leave then said, voice calm and silky “Oh and by the way… I have never asked my parents for money. You are mistaking me for my sister Sarah. Goodbye.” And with that, I closed the door behind me. Mia looked at me. I smiled “We’ll be eating soon.” All of the girls grinned and Mia’s stomach growled it’s approval. With that we walked to the dining room.