Kadupul

" But Alisha people say that forest is dangerous. They say she's still there , the one who killed Daksh. She still live somewhere deep inside the jungle. Do you really wanna go??" Riya asks me. Scared of the stories. " Those are just stories riya. Don't worry. I'm gonna be fine. And moreover I'm going there to train myself not to Rome inside the forest . Right ???". I reassure her. She agrees to me but is still terrified of the stories that goes around our kingdom. " Are you done packing?? " My mom Tina shouts from the kitchen. She's making me some side dishes to take with me. She thinks I won't get proper food in the camp. Typical mother. But she's right though. I will miss home cooked food. "Yes mumma.. alomost done " . I yell back. " You better do it fast . Your friends are here to take you". She informs. My friends are waiting for me outside my house with their already packed stuff. Oh sorry I didn't introduced myself. I'm Alisha Sharma and this little girl over here is my little sister riya. We live in the bestest kingdom of this era and coincidentally the name is kingdom itself. We're the largest in the whole world. Hence with the biggest and strongest army. Maybe that's the reason why fairies gave us the honour to protect the fairy potion. Nobody really knows what it does and how powerful it is because no-one ever saw it. Not even the king himself but yeah he is in-charge of its protection from the demons. Like wasn't it obvious , right ?. So yeah as obvious as it sounds, it's the truth. Like everything else, our world is also divided into positive and negative. Therefore fairies and kingdoms and the other is demons and hell but it's the people who decides where they wanna live. Fairies own the kingdoms and demon the hell. Then there are kings and queens in both the places, vampires, werewolves, witches warlocks in both the places. And yeah hell's a place on earth. Just to be clear. I'll tell you everything later but for what I'm packing today is a training camp. One of the many reasons why I love this place is because whenever a girl or a guy is turned 16 , he or she has a choice to learn how to fight and I turned 16 last year. Our king wants every one of us trained, not for the war or something. It's for our own protection , so that whether it's a guy or a girl they won't need someone else to protect them. They can themselves protect them and their loved ones and I think this is great. I take my bags and the dishes my mom prepared. Say my good bye to my mom dad and my little sister. God I'm gonna miss them but I needed to leave and it's just gonna be 6 months. It's okay right?. "You're not gonna cry right??" Jess tease me and Sophie smiles. I roll my eyes, brush my hair with my fingers backword and then smile at them. These two idiots are gonna be the only people From home whom I'm gonna stay with for the rest 6 months. " I'm gonna miss home" I say turning back to see my mom and dad standing at the front door looking at me smiling and with proud because not everyone choose to go at this training. "Same" Jess and Sophie say at the same time and then smile. We pick our bags once again and head towards the carriages which was sent by the royal management team to pick us up. And my god , I wish you could see how beautiful they are. It's exactly like those Cinderella carriages but are big in size. Pink and purple color , flowers all over it including the cute horses. Right now I seriously feel Like Cinderella in my plain grey gown. " I match with the carriage color". Sophie says looking at her pink gown and we all laugh. " Good evening ladies. I'm at your service for today's journey and you'll safely make it to the training camp and that too on time. Now you may sit inside". The carriage guard opens the door for us and we sit inside and he goes to sit with the charioteer and the carriage starts moving. It's not just beautiful from the outside, inside is much more like the fairies themselves made these carriages. All the shining colours , flowers that we never saw before and the small mirrors placed exactly at the same distance. After hours , we reached somewhere and the carriage stops. All three of us were sleeping but Jess realized we stopped and shook is both in an attempt to wake us up, and we after her trying for quite some time , wakes up. Strange that the guard never asked us to come out if we have reached at the camp. So Sophie looked through the small window on behind my back which is towards the front of the carriage and where the guard is suppose to be. She never found anyone out. Obviously. We got scared but instead of screaming and panicking, I go the doors handle and silently unlocks it and pushed it outwards. We got out and there was no one around but the big bulky trees of all kind. In normal situation we would have loved the scene, because it was too beautiful to be true but it's scary when you're all alone in the middle of a forest which is known to be haunted by an powerful huntress. Speaking of the huntress, no one really knows her story, they just know she killed the demon Daksh years ago , maybe centuries ago but nobody actually knows why. 'branch snaps' We look towards the sound and see an Rabbit running from something but there was no one . Maybe it's how rabbits are because we just saw them in the royal castle's garden. But we all agreed to go towards the Direction the rabbit came from so we moved towards it and saw the guard charioteer looking at something or someone from behind a barrier. Why would their be a barrier in middle of nowhere???. We got close to them and nearly scared them by being so quite. " You're awake" the guard say and smile. " I thought you're sleeping so I didn't wake you up but we had to wait here because of the barrier put up by those werewolves, learning to fight". He added pointing at the werewolves. There were almost 20 werewolves . Adults, young, kids . Every age. I have heard stories of werewolves choosing different parts of the forest to train their kids and young ones about fighting, catching scents and everything wolfy. All of them were in their wolf form and didn't care in the world about the path they're blocking. You know the best thing about this forest is that there are no roads, whoever goes through the forest makes his own path and that's the reason why there wolves didn't know they were blocking ours but it's fun watching them. After what seemed like hours, we crossed them and reached the camp according to the guard. He shouted before the carriage even stopped. We took our things, the guard opened the door for us and we came out. And the view we had in front of us was undescribable. This isn't an camp we thought of. Back home people said that camp would be like as if there's a war ongoing. There would be tents, fighting courts, different weapons, trainers, guards and a kitchen with and dining hall. But thiss.... I mean, yes they're right. Everything they said was here but the tents weren't just tents , they're luxurious. The courts were more like an whole play ground with big trees and flowers around them. Weapons I have never seen before. And trainers , I thought trainers would be big, scary giants but instead they're the Princes of our kingdom. Our king had 7 sons. I don't know all of their names since they're not that familiar with us. They never came to see the people outside the palace and I don't blame them too , they have much more work to do like protecting all the seven entrances. But I know them because I have seen them in Different occasions. So them being here means there's no need to secure the entrance right now, there are no threats from the demons. This is gonna be memorable. the next day. "good morning everyone " Waldo starts. everyone replies back. " so without wasting anymore minute. let's start with the introductions" " Wyatt' pointing towards the second Prince who was...what should I say??? god himself?? have you ever imagined a guy with shoulder length hair, great physique, sexiest blue eyes??then you know what he looks like. "My brother wyatt here us gonna teach you history ". Ambrose " pointing towards the third prince who was already or maybe I imagined was looking at me or someone behind me. He isn't like the others , he is .... mysterious. his eyes deep blue like an ocean and lips as rose but the way his eyebrows were placed on his eyes were ..as if he carried the devil on his shoulders. He just had this aura around him that seemed black. "Edison" the fourth one. from what I've heard, he's the one who single handedly faught with some traitors few yrs back and he's still young. He seems responsible and courageous with perfect body and personality. "Ralph" the fifth. Long hair, sea green eyes, symmetrical face, and perfect smile. He's the most popular among ladies. His charm and the way he flirt can make any girl fall for him the moment he set his eyes own them. "Jasper" the sixth and the last one. He's the youngest but carries the burden of the biggest gate of the kingdom. He's the most loved and pampered and is the true copy of ralph , with perfect looks, height and physique. Overall ....each one of them is epitome of perfect man. Everybody clapped when the introduction was over. Including me. " Stop drooling over Jasper. ." Sophie poke me. I eye roll . "Says who can't stop looking at Ralph" Jess tease Sophie and I laugh. I laugh and something just.... happened. I don't know if I'm right or I'm imagining but I know.. That I laughed and all of the six Princes looked at me. I didn't laugh that loud that they could have heard me from that far but they somehow did. I panicked and looked down. but I felt as if They were confused themselves that they could hear me from there. Someone from the hall said something and I sensed that they aren't looking at me now so i looked up and met those deep blue eyes once again. Prince Ambrose was still looking at me with the intensity that he would eat me up in a minute. He shifted his weight on one leg and smirked at me. I guess at me. Great! It's just getting weird and weird. We're dispersed to go and change into something more appropriate to attend our first lesson that was about our eating plans and resting plans, technically we'll be given our timetable. Jess and Sophie were talking to some other girls in the hall while walking out and I was still thinking about what happened back there. Did they thought I laughed at them ? Or did I interrupted them while they were talking?. All this just doesn't make sense. I was literally so far from them, when the people behind me couldn't hear me then how the hell they did ?. I was in middle of my own thoughts when someone grabbed my hand and pulled me behind the wall. We were the last one to exit the hall so there was no one behind us who could have seen the person who pulled my hand, Jess and Sophie were busy talking that they didn't even noticed me. I had my eyes closed because i tried to free my hand but I couldn't so I just closed my eyes. I could sense that person is strongly built and have some kind of dominance over me. I tried to shout but he put his hand over my mouth and my body froze as if waves of current passed through my body , as if i was gonna melt, as if my blood rushed. This feeling was heavenly. Now I just wanted to see who this person was. I opened my eyes and saw an ocean filled eyes. It was him. The prince Ambrose himself. I looked at his face and I gulped, maybe in fear , maybe in amazement. I gathered my thoughts and the only thing I could think of was to get away from him because if someone would see us like this, the closeness we had, the way his hand was on my lips , I would be shunned. We have an beautiful kingdom and all but still there are rules that we can't break and there are still boundaries that we can't cross and being this close to a prince was one of them. So I tried to use my other hand to push him because the other one was still in prince Ambrose hand. As i tried, he held my other hand too and gave me time to catch a breath that I was holding since he put his hand on my mouth. I panicked because I really don't know what he was trying to do. I instantly regretted laughing few minutes back. I cursed myself mentally. Why did I have to ruin prince Waldo's introduction.why ??. " I'm sorry prince Ambrose. I didn't mean to laugh back there. I didn't even laugh on you , I just......oh god. I'm so sorry..... " I started my Apologizes but he didn't seem to be interested in my apology. I stop and look at him. and then I realised I can't look at him like that. he's for God sake the prince. so I just looked down. and I could see the smirk that formed on his face. he's enjoying this way too much. I still don't know why I'm here though and the problem is I can't ask him too. it's his kingdom technically and I'm no one to ask him what he's doing. he leave my hands that I didn't realized he was still holding. I don't know if it's his power and position that I'm behaving like this or is it just something else.... he lifts my chin with his finger so that our eyes could meet and u suddenly became conscious of my dark blue and normal eyes. " what's your name?"