Amaranta – Captive of Elf’s King

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The queen of Fairies came through the mirror, as he was warned by Ivein. Who would think, what horror she brings with her? Angus immediately regretted that he called her, but it was no longer possible to put such a guest. The mirror exploded like the doors to hell, the countless monsters came after the fairy. They resembled her live train stretching for miles behind the castle. The army that grew up under the gate extended a length further than the entire length of the forest, before that frightening local residents. Now all superstitious fears moved the border.

“I did not cause you to war!”Angus tried to correct the mistake, but his knights had already been filmed with swords from monsters who flooded all corridors and galleries.

Medea Shai wrote off an offended view.

“This is not a war! But my subjects insulted something here,” she sniffed to the air, as if sickling blood. “There is some kind of favorites that you want to sacrifice. Her blood is barely overwhelming, as anger and the rage of my suite will be exhausted. And this silly war between us will end with  peace.

It is seductive! Just need to complete one condition so that the monsters calmed down. But here is one no hope - he swore not to shed innocent blood.

“Here we do not bring more sacrifices. The time of worship of the b****y ancient gods have long passed.”

"But if you don't bow befor me, then there will be no one living in the morning. One night will be enough to my troops to make this place at all deserted. Whether it is not better to give up someone alone than to give all to s*******r at once, as if the cattle.”

And in this she is right! Angus with an annoyance biting his lips to the blood.

“Do not do without a victim?”

“And this says the man whose knights are now dying dozens, defending the castle?”

Angus did not know what to say.

“By the way, where is your dear wife? It is ridiculous to enter into some kind of agreements with you, earlier than I see and her. You're not idling the master of the castle to solve everything alone. In the kingdom of fairies, for example, the time impact reigned the matriarchy. Fairies know a lot of mortal in life. Our men partners always obey us. So call Amaranta. We will agree with her about the victim.

Angus did not catch the trick. But he was surprised where the Amaranth was. It seems that she remained in a married bedroom while he spent a simple rite on the call of the Queen of Fairies at the mirror in a closed office. Initially, the mirror began to resemble a wonderful gloomy landscape with black fields and black roses, and then a magnificent winged lady came to the frame, and a gloomy landscape behind her back was filled with the bumping of arms of countless monsters. A gem, designed to offer an externally left guest, Medea Shai took it away from him, barely stepped over a mirror frame, but did not become kinder. Maybe it was necessary to offer her several stones at once? Or even better a whole box with jewels. She is still the Queen! So, it is possible to drop it only the most luxurious gift.

Patterned black wings whipped Anguus in the face. He even had blood from the nose. Medea Shai went around the circles, shaking off from her train various malicious magic creatures, which were crawling around the castle.

"It's rich, but no one brought about the order," she wrinkled the spout at the form of a burnt hole in the tapestry. Probably, servants accidentally burned them with candles or Spark led himself as hooligan.

"Lacks a caring female hand," the queen of Fairies said. The hostess with the control of the castle is definitely not cope. Do you want to replace her?”

She shook fluffy eyelashes, looking at Angus. He is dumbfounded. With her eyelashes, she slipped spiders.

They are a fabric bizarre black cob, first seemed to be lace on a red dress, crawled along the shoulders, depicting flies and moles, and sometimes they gathered in the likeness of a multi-layer necklace. Solid magic, only he was disgusted from it. Union with radiant Dagda was much more pleasant than this fairy that came from the darkness.

She behaved freely, as if she was a hostess of the castle and all the surroundings. Probably such powerful creatures, everywhere feel like at home. So why didn't Dagga never behave like that? Elves have another etiquette than fairies. Or Medea Shai has some special rights?

“I wait!” she reminded, impatiently scratching the nails the table. From under her nails, she crashed ash chips. Her nails are cut as iron? Otherwise, where did the ashes and ash come from her touches?

Okay, if she wants to see Amaranta, then you need to call it. The bell for challenge the servants threw someone's clawed paw. Do you have to tear a throat to bring the servants? There is such noise that you need to scream loudly. However, the bell is also hardly helped against the roar of cannonads. So let the clawing creature take it to himself.

"If you were a single, you would like me more," Meanwhile, Medea Shai noticed. “In general, I adore virgins. Their blood willingly absorb the sacrificial stone lying on the junction with the underground kingdom. On the way there with innocent and naive knights so nice to play love. But the widower will also arrange me. For me, would you like to become a widower today at night?”

What are the unkind hints! Angus did not know how to react to such words. Okay, you can write off everything for jokes. Surely, the queen of fairies in the company with people do not mind to joke. In addition, her eyes so smashfully glittered, as if two playful demon were settled in them.

‘By the way, about Rodolite. As far as I understood, you are the official trustee of this city.”

Angus nodded.

“I really had to taste a local doll workshop. Because of it, I decided to patron this city herself.

There, where the jewelry workshops and bakeries were promising, but she didn't even give up.

“I love big dolls into human growth. They are much helpful than people.”

“They are buying extremely rarely coming merchants. One Lord, who made such a purchase, then complained that it is impossible to manage with a doll. He studied her mechanisms. In the city they are used only for street performances.”

“I can use them for everything. Oh, believe me! I can do from them and the army,”she stretched out her hand and touched the strand of his hair. “Usually I prefer blondes. I did not think that someday I would like a brunette. But you are so pretty!”

Medea Shai was displeased, as she saw Amaranta.

“And here is a doll!”

"This is my wife, not a doll," Angus kepi silence when Amaranta stood up before the mirror.

Is all this game of mirror reflections, candles and shadows? Why a live woman in a white-blue dress suddenly froze like a monophonic sculpture? Where all the shades were moved: white foam of lace, green border, glitter of a ruby ​​headset? The whole figure of Amaranta became one color - gold.

And is it Amaranta, is it at all? Or a statue of yellow copper, very resembling gold? It would be too expensive to make the entire figure of gold.

“Dummy,” Medea Shai looked at the statue displeasedly.

"I don't know where she came from here," Angus was justified. “I never bought such doll from the masters of Rodolite. Did someone send it as a gift.”

And where, interesting, is Amaranta? A minute ago he exactly saw her in the corridor, hurrying to his room. Probably it seemed to him. There are too many mirrors here. They create different illusions.

"Amaranta is not in the castle," Medea Shai concluded, touched the statue. “It is a symbol of k********g of your spouse by elves.”

“Nonsense!” Angus almost laughed in the face of Fairies’ Queen, although it was impolite. “ I have an agreement with elves.”

“Me too. Nevertheless, they violate it every time they want. And then they gave ridiculous excuses.”

“But it is impossible to break the magic contract. Magic will hit the violator.”

“For this rule there are many reservations. The elves are very clever.”

Angus lost heart.

It recently seemed to me recently that Amaranta was too closed. I even thought that someone captivated her consciousness.”

"It was the first sign," Medea Shai victoriously slammed her hands. “You immediately needed to put them in place. In secret, I will tell you that the wives of mortal men for the elves are irrevocable temptation. It was necessary to keep Amaranta under the lock and not to show her for anyone! Although it is a pity that these creatures even through the locking wells know how to leak. It's too great in them the desire to wander. The mortal beauty is for them a delicious morcel, but they don't even look at my fairies.

“But the king of elves doesn’t love mortal women. I came close to him. If he just wished, I would give him any of my vassals’ daughters.”

“In no case! He would wish to take her as a hostage. Elves are not so fools to associate themselves with someone's marriage, and they are extremely arrogant. They can be called for about only power methods. And then they will return your wife and her former live mind.”

“But how? Who is stronger than they?”

“I, for example. You can have the union with me, and we will declare the war together.”

“To begin with, I must make sure that they are really to blame.”

“Have you not previously convinced?”

“I have not checked all the halls of the castle. Suddenly Amaranta hid somewhere. There are caches here, and the noise of hostilities frightened any lady.”

“Only not me! I love noise and screams. But Amaranta is not exactly here. I know. A copy of her confused a little.

Medea Shai sighed cheekly.

“It is here, but if there is no Amaranta here, then it is meaningless to attack.”

She whispered something, and the noise fast stopped. Aggressive guests stopped to destroy all around.

The monsters retreated!” a squire burst with joyful screams.

Having noticed Medea ​​Shai, the young man was frightened. Although the queen of fairies was a beauty, but the necklace of spiders and the darkness in the view can scare anyone.

And she had an oval gemstone in her forehead - Corundum. Gentle skin around it walked cracks, like broken porcelain.

Probably, a stone in the forehead is some kind of special distinctive sign of her power, Angus thought. Corundum resembled the third and all-seeing eye on the face of Medea Shai.

"Horses for your master and his suit," she told the squire.

He, not even asking the count, rushed to execute an order, as hypnotized.

“Where should I go?”

“For Amaranta.”

“But suddenly she is at home?”

“Nonsense!”  Medea Shai laughed, looking at the statue. "You and the portrait of your wife on the wall from her do not distinguish yourself. But you were lucky that I am with you. I accompantspend you to the place where your wife is now. And if we find her there in the arms of the elf, then you will be obliged to become my ally, and not Dagda’s.”

“Let’s go! "Angus still decided to send servants to search the whole castle before taking such a dubious offer.

The Emerald Dragon took her to the arch at the junction of the world and began to decline in flight. Who would have thought that her way was lying here again. Only this time the sounds of war didn’t come from the arch, but wonderful musical trills. White and red roses are extremely fragrant. Inside the arch was sitting a horned creature and played on the reed. It beckoned her with his clawed hand. She is to step inside the arch. It meant to be lost in a different world forever and never again find ways back to people. Better to wait. If there is no other salvation from chase, she will have to go through the arch in the magic world. But until the pursuit of her back is not heard.

The dragon landed in a gray empty.

“Thank you!” Amaranta easily slipped from his back.

"He serves me since the queen of fairies has him driven," Dagda came from behind the arch.

“Did you send him for me?” It was necessary to immediately guess. “Did you know that the castle was attacked and did not intervene? Isn't it noted about your contract with Angus that you will defend the county in case of danger?”

“Only from enemies. Not from those whom he called himself. Other rules come into force here.”

"I don't understand," Amaranta looked at the dragon. He froze beautifully in the dark, illuminating the district. The flight was dizzying and pleasant. She even began to understand Medea ​​Shai, which fleed solely on the dragons instead of using her wings.

"It's even better for us," Duga instantly ended up and hugged her. His impossible fast movements could not be traced. “You can leave with me. In the world of people you do not hold anything anymore. And I can easily terminate the union with a person, who except me called for other forces, without even by calling the challenge to me.”

She did not want to throw Angus, but the king of the elves was near, shining as the summer sun and so attractive that it was impossible to take a look from him. And without intimacy with him and his kisses she does not want to live on.

Amaranth realized that she was already in captivity. No matter; She will leave him or not. Her consciousness and her heart were completely in his power. And how nice to be in captivity! She willingly hugged him back. When he is near, then you involuntarily think that for the sake of it you can easily throw everyone and that's it. No wonder elves are called wonderful beloved.

Amaranta launched her fingers into his silky curls, touched the lips of his golden eyebrows, eyelashes, cheeks. How to make it so that he is in her captivity. Let her be his prisoner, but she also wants to own him. Magic beloved is the biggest pleasure that can be.

“They are!”

The voice was exactly female, but not angry, rather triumphant. It doesn't look like an opponent's ball at all. Although it is the Black Fairy ahead of the cavalcades.

This is Angus and his retinue! Amaranta was afraid, but Duga pulled her to him tightly, giving to understand that he would no longer let her go. She did not want to leave him. It was just unpleasant that they were caught.

There was no face on Angus. He was pale like the dead man. A fairy that flies ahead of the detachment, was perfectly crowned. Red stone in her forehead sparkles like a disclosed eye of the dragon.

“Do not shoot!”

It was Angus, but Theobald, who rushed side by side with him, has already released an arrow from the crossbow. He was aiming in the king of elves, but it is difficult to shoot at the race. The arrow would land in Amaranta, if the dragon did not rose to the whole height and did not cover the couple in love, like a shield. From his emerald scales arrows bounced as from the shield.

“Turn her to me!” Angus went crazy from anger. “How could you! I trusted you!”

"It is not necessary to do from the Elf a god," Theobald said. He again aimed from the crossbow. The first miss was not embarrassed him. He could kill the lady instead of the enemy. And did not even feel the injection of conscience.

For Dagda the Dragon was not needed as a shield. He easily intercepted the brushed arrows with his hand and broke them on the fly. The riders were destroyed. Someone has already been lying around in the mud, relieved by a horse, someone got injuries from his own weapon, turned against the owner. It is pointless to fight with an elf.

A black fairy darted somewhere in the dark. Only Angus has not suffered. He bared a sword.

"Give her to me in a good way," he made the last attempt to negotiate. “I'm married to her, and not you. She's no fairy, nor witch, not even clairvoyant. For you, she is useless.”

"I will decide myself," the king of elves grabbed the waist of Amaranta stronger and pulled it to the arch.

“What is she for you? "Angus came to despair, noting that the landscape of a different world unfolds at the arch.

“What is she for you?” indifferently parried Dagda. He waved the wings slightly, raising his hostage over the ground. Now they do not get them both. The knights do not know how to fly.

“I somehow heard from one old wise ruler that for love killed. It was a discovery for him. He fought all his youth only from greed and suddenly made such a conclusion. Then the oracle told me the same thing. And then the Queen of Fairies. I did not understand all, and now I understand.

“Then, you must return Amaranta to me. After all, I love her. I loved her before you saw her at all. She was promoted to me long before you became my ally.”

Dagda shook the head negatively.

"I like you, Angus. And I always liked, but she was mine, since she climbed the ship, which sailed to Tuatu de Danan.

“Do not lie! She sailed to me, in the county.”

“Tuatu de Danan spread out from the shores of the sea up to the gray deserts. You live with your people on my lands, and you don't even know about it. I endured you from grace, but I can drive you away any moment. Remember this!”

Angus was going to throw his sword in the elf, but it was too late. Amaranta noted only that roses on the arch bleed when Dagda unceremoniously dragged her inside. The world of people stayed behind.