athanasia POV
lucas clicked his hand and the place changed completely.
after seeing such a sight my mouth was opened and my eyes widden.
it was so beautiful.
we were in the middel of countless flowers .
" lucas this is....magnificent..." I said mesmerized .
" you like it ?"
" yes I love it ..but where is this?" I said still shocked but.." the air seem a bit strange too.."
how should I put it? it felt like all of this was like a dream..
" it's normal...this is ..a world I create for you as a gift" lucas said his face completely calm
" I see a world you crea-wait what?!?"
did I hear wrong ? I must have heared wrong
" this is a world I create for you as a gift why ? you dont like it?" he asked and titled his head
" you! what are you exacly?! how can you tell me that you CREATE a WORLD like it was nothing?!?!" I asked surprised.
" well.this is just how much I'm strong . what do you think? do you love me more now?? " he grinned proud of himself.
I cant believe it ....this..is ...too crazy...
" I ...dont really know what to say..." I said at loss of words .
" even if I said ' world ' this is too much diffrent from our world . time is frozen " lucas explained .
" frozen ?" I asked .
" yes .everything is froze up .the flowers dont die , the wether is always the same .......since there is no changement I think its innapropriate to call it a ' world'" lucas explained while looking at the sundown.
" then if time is froze up here...does that mean that if we return to the real world not even a second has past?"
" yes....you stress yourself too much with your work...when you are tired come here and rest"
because he noticed that I was always tired of my duties ..he create this for me to rest without wasting any time .
I covered my face with my hands .
I really wanted to cry..
because I never thought I would meet someone who would love me to that point.
" hey what's wrong ? why are you covering your face? you dont like it?" lucas turned to me worried .
I removed my hands and smiled brightly.
" no I love it . thank you very much lucas "
seeing me lucas smiled gentely too.
" then Im happy .happy birthday my queen athanasia" he took my hand kissed it and then kissed my cheek gentely.
I blushed a bit .
I saw him lifting a finger and put a spell on my necklace.
" whenever you want to come here use that necklace of yours "
" thank you a lot"
" instead of a thanks I want something else" lucas stood up straight .
I titled my head .
" w-what is it?" I asked a bit nervous
" I want to hear 'the three words'" lucas got close and wispeared.
three words??
three..words...?? what words??
.........humm
seeing that I was thinking. he helped me .
" I said them to you before .in your ceremony of coronation"
...
.
.
.
..ahh! ...he meant......those words..
o-of course I can say them to him .after all Im sure of myself now ..
but...
"I.." I opened my mouth to say it.
he was looking straight at me wating for my reply
" I....you are handsome." ahhhh !!! I cant !!!
in the end.I changed my words.
a long silence fell down.
after a moment lucas sigh .
he clearly know I changed my words..
I blushed embarassed .
" well ..I kind of expected this." he sat down" here . sit. let's enjoy this agreable wether and then go back" he patted beside him.
ashamed .I sat down and leaned on lucas's shoulder for a while.
after a moment we returned to my room.
" sleep well .you have a long day tomorow right?" lucas told me smiling but I could see he was a bit disappointed .
he kissed my forhead and was ready to leave .
I held on his selves which made him looked at me.
" lucas..today ...I had the best birthday thanks to you..really.. it made me very happy .." I said showing emotion on my voice .
he smiled " Im glad" then he disappear as if he was never here.
end of athanasia POV
louic and jennete got into the carriage to go to their palace.
louic put the tired jennete on his laps because he was afraid she would fall down when the carriage moves.
jennete was soaked with blood and her face was really pale.
" I..m sorry.." she said slowly .her voice was tired .
" for?"
" well ,your cloths are touched because of blood and you're taking care of me...in the end I was just a burden today" she said a bit sad .
" Im not sure why you think that but today you were the most useful ..in any case Im the one who should be feeling down for not doing much and letting you in this state" he said calmly with his usual unintrested face .
but somhow ..jennete could tell that his voice was always ...gentel..
she smiled a bit" you were the one who captured that man so, there is no need for you to feel this way."
" then ,this is another reason for you to not feel down " he talked back
jennete smiled ." thank you".
" but I do want you to explain to me your power once you're recoverd "
" yes.." she said and closed her eyes then fall asleep.
louic watched her sleeping in his arms .
'I wonder ....why is it hard for me to see her like that...'he thought .
athanasia POV :
I woke up in the morning after a good night of sleep.
I dressed up for the meeting of today
then I looked at myself in the mirror and tried to say those words .
" I l...love....you" but I get embarassed easly and my face become red .
there is no way I can tell him this with this face .
once more .
" I ...love ..y...y..y..ou" ahhhhh I cannnnt
I tried to do it a few times but I decide to stop because of my maids who I heared them say
" is our princess okay? she've been saying that she love herself since morning"
" humm maybe because she found herself beautiful"
that's not it!!!
I sigh and left my room just to meet with him
it's a bit awkward .
" morning..did you sleep well?" contrary to me lucas was acting normaly
" ...y..yeahh"
" lets go eat .we have a meeting after right?"
I titled my head " we ?"
" I will come with you . you will need a magician in this meeting "
since its related to magic.yes.
having a magician as good as lucas is better than the other ones.
" alright then..lets get going " I said getting a ride of the awkward air.
after eating breakfast ,we went to the garnette palace where the meeting is being held .
before discussing this matter with the nobels ,we need to first discuss it with the royal and noctem family.
then we will decide what we should do .
we arrived to the room.
the persons present were : felix ,claude ,duke noctem and assistant.
jennete must be resting or she would be a part of todays meeting.
" the more time pass ,the more things get annoying" claude said sighing.
well, I need to say that I agree with him on this.
I told about all that happend in my party.
claude start talking toward the duke:" I told you to get a ride of that poisoning matter duke"
the duke bow down a bit "I apologize your majesty but I got a ride of them not long ago .I dont think the one who caused that problem in the princess party is the same as those ones"
" yeah" lucas enters the discussion " there was a really difficult spell in the victims body even I couldn't annulled it"
" isn't it possible that it's the ones who transformed princess jennete into a monster ?" felix asked
" this is what I think too " duke said
" you mean carax?" I asked but lucas interrupt me
" impossible .that guy is not a powerful magician to be able to cast such a spell. " lucas said frowning.
silence fell in the room.
this is messed up.
we dont have any idea about whats happening.
duke noctem start talking again" at any case , the man that execute the plan said that the goal wasnt to kill princess athanasia but to make her sick .so, I dont think one of the nobels are behind this ."
claude asked how can we be sure that the man was saying the truth.
me and lucas explained jennete's power to him .
he was surprised that a 'pitiful girl' like jennete possess such scary power .
had she been an enemy or against us it would have caused a lot of trouble
" how is lady jennete duke noctem?" I asked the duke
" she is resting your highness, she was extremely tired after using her magic but the doctor said that her life is safe and sound " the duke answered my question calmly
" I see"
we end up the meeting deciding that we will keep this a secret from the nobels until we found the real culprit.
in the meantime, we will rise the security in the palace .
claude doesnt seem to be against me anymore.
we work together normally as the empror and crown princess .
once we finished that meeting we held another one with the nobels.
we were so busy that we didn't get any rest .
meeting after meeting until evening .
no actually ,even in evening I was busy with the paper work.
I sigh..
I'm tired ...the duty of the crown princess is hard..
my love life is hard too.
and above that the festival is near so we need to prepare for it .
well, I'm not scared no matter what happend we can find a way out ..
however ,
I looked at the stars from my window
,while Im dealing with paperwork ...the enemy is preparing something and the most terrifying thing is that I dont know who is that enemy....
" princess ." lily entered my room smiling
" lily...."
" you are working a lot princess"
" because problems don't end lily" I said smiling back
she pour me some tea .
" well,it may be rude but I feel that the princess shine the most when she is giving her all in her duty." she said with loving gaze
" thank you"
" when I see you like that it made me think that obelia's people are lucky to have you princess " she said smiling
" the one who should be grateful is me not them"
" hum?" she titled her head
" Im doing my best because their lifes are in my hand ..I need to protect them otherwise ,I would be a failure as the future empress"
" ....if you see it like that doesnt it mean that you're puting too much responsabilty on you princess?"
" the more I have great responsability ,the more I want to do my best lily" I smiled at her .
she smiled back
" I see..well then ..I too will do my best for you your highness" she bow down to me.
" thank you lily"
" the same goes for all of us" the butler enter my room
" we will all support you your highness"he said smiling " the ruby palace is your home and we will make sure to protect it for you "
" thank you butler but remember that its our home "
lily and the butler looked at le surprised of my words but end up smiling ..
yes..there are a lot of people who loves me ..
that's why I need to protect it no matter what.
someone pulled me by my neck and forced me to look up
I found those ruby eyes staring at me smiling
" is it my home too my queen?"
I laughed .
" of course " I said smiling" the ruby palace is not complete if our great magician is not here "
he smiled at me warmly and pulled me closer to him to hug me..
this warm feeling..I hope it will last forver until my last breath.
after a few months
time has past and today is the festival.
the day the three contrys will meet in obelia.
nothing happend ever since my birthday party.
I hope it will be the same for todays too.
jennete have recovered and she will come to the festival in the palace .
I heared duke noctem have become quite protective to her .
I laugh when I heared that.
to think that the expressionless duke would be acting like that.
at anycase I'm happy she is living well .
she is also of great help to me ,a lot of burdens were took off of me thanks to her .
helena has recovered in a week too.
I sincerly apologized to her
I thought she would hate me for what happend to her but surprisenly she is not angry.
she said she is happy that everything was solved without problems and that it wasnt my fault.
we kept meeting each other but I'm the one who goes visiting her not the other way so that nothing will happen again
humm I still didnt said to lucas that I love him .
Im planing to do it today but lucas doesnt seem to mind and treat me like always .
I put all the knights on guard today.
normally , everything would be fine.
but..my heart feel heavy.
I'm scared for no reason
I hope nothing happend.
end of athanasia POV
warren turned to his mans with the previous magician of the tower beside him.
" is everyone ready?"
" YEAH!!"
" then....LETS GET GOING"
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hiiiii ...
hummm should I apologize? hum yeah I think I should apologize 😅
I know its been a while since I update
but I couldnt write anything..
I wasnt in the mood at all .
I had no motivation and the fact that wmmp is not here doesnt help at all.
I also had the stress of my studies soo...
at any case I'm really sorry .
hope you're not angry.
well I will try to write the next chapter .
if wmmp come back it would help a lot .
but for now ,spoon isnt here so😭
glad that I saw you again
hope you liked the chapter .
I will see you in the next one😊