Finding The Beautiful Princess Cenia Renae

Chapter 1

"I can't believe it's my 13th birthday today." Cenia Renae thought. "Well I shouldn't dwell on it or the witch will cast some nasty spell on me for dawdling." She quickly went about her normal morning routine and then hurried to the kitchen to make sure breakfast was done before the witch woke up. She had to get up extra early this morning because the witch requested eggs and bacon and biscuits for breakfast which ment having to gather eggs from the chicken coop and grind the grain and then chop wood for the stove.

She went out to see if there was any wood left from yesterday just to get the fire started but, there wasn't a single stick of wood as a matter of fact there wasn't even any blocks of wood and she remembered going out yesterday evening and gathering some small blocks of wood. "Oh well", she thought and headed away from the cabin into the barely lit woods to find another small log to chop into blocks and bring back.

As she was walking through the woods she heard a noise she hadn't heard before and she didn't think it sounded dangerous. So her curiosity got the best of her and she decided to see what it was. She walked a few feet in and what she saw she couldn't believe at first. "A real live unicorn" she said in a whisper, "I thought they all went extinct at least that's what the witch kept saying when some of her potions required unicorn hair or tears. So she decided that she wouldn't say anything to the witch about the unicorn and went back to collecting firewood.

By time she finished putting the newly chopped wood in the stove and started on mixing the ingredients the witch woke up. " Where is my breakfast!" hollered the witch. " You know my breakfast is supposed to be sitting on the table before I come out of my room!" Cenia Renae put the biscuits in the oven and politely turned to the witch and said, "Sorry Madame, the wood I gathered last night disappeared and I had to go gather more won't happen again." Damn right it won't happen again!" yelled the witch and she grabbed her magic staff and held it towards Cenia Renae and sent out a electric bolt that had her cringing on the floor. " You'll think twice about being late with breakfast again now won't you?" the witch said in a sarcastic tone and then walked into her potions lab.

When she recovered from the torture of the spell she shakily got up and continued cooking breakfast.

Once breakfast was done she put it on the table and with the dinnerware and a napkin and knocked on the potion lab door to signal it was done and went on to putting on a stew on for supper. She picked out a decent piece of meat and put in some water with some herbs from the garden and then put it over the fire to start cooking and then went about the rest of her chores starting with the witches room. She stripped the sheets off the bed, put clean ones on and gathered all the dirty laundry that was scattered everywhere and put them in a laundry basket. Then she started dusting everything and straightening up the shelves. It also smelt really bad so she took some incense sticks out and put in bottle to make it smell a little better.

She opened the door and stood there while the witch inspected her work.

Then she was on to the laundry she had to boil the water grab the wash board and basin from the small shed and then retrieve the lye soap. She scrubbed and scrubbed for hours but still only about halfway through the laundry because the witch wore enough clothes in a day to clothe a dozen people and she got horrible stains on every last one of them. She decided it had to be about lunchtime so she went in and Made the witch a grilled cheese sandwich and then knocked on the potion lab door to signal lunch was done. Then she went to the cupboard to see what there was for leftovers but there wasn't anything but a small piece of bread so she ate it real quick and went back to work on the laundry.

Once she was finished with the laundry she went to the garden to pick some vegetables from the garden to put in the stew and then she went inside and started cutting them up and putting them in the pot on the fire with the meat. The witch came out of the potions lab to run errands as soon as she finished with the stew. So she went to clean the potions lab.

The cleaning seemed to be going as normal. She cleaned all the bottles and wiped down all the tables, dusted and straitened the book shelves and swept and mopped the floor. Taking a last look to make sure she didn't miss anything something caught her eye. Under one of the bookshelves there was a book sticking out a little so she walked over to pick it up and put it on the shelf but, something happened as soon as she touched the book.

As soon as she touched the book she felt a tingling sensation up her arm and the book started glowing. She didn't know what that ment and knew she didn't have time to figure it out so she stashed the book under her shirt and went and stashed it under her mattress until she was dismissed for bed.

She then went to the kitchen and got a bowl out of the cupboard and fixed a bowl of stew and set it on the table for the witch who should be back any minute. Then she went to see if the laundry was dry yet and grab what was and bring it in. While she was sitting there folding the laundry she couldn't help but think back to the book and she thought, "Thank goodness the witch taught me to read so I could help her retrieve stuff for her in the potions lab.

Once she was finished folding and putting up the laundry the witch told her she could have a small portion of stew and then retire for the evening. She was never so excited to be going to bed so early and with the witch being generous enough to allow her to eat. She hurried and scarfed down her food and ran to her room. She got her small candle out and pulled the book from under her mattress to take a look at it. It was a spell book it titled, "Royal Witch Spell book". She thought it was an interesting title and was wondering why it chose her she wasn't a royal was she?