Who Am I?

Chapter three

"Girrrrrllll, you have five minutes to get up and pick an outfit before you have to be downstairs with that. What's his name again?" Brandon said jerking me out of my sleep, as I got up Brandon showed me three different outfits. I grabbed the first one I saw, a black and white tie dyed tank top with an open back that said 'good vibes', a pair if cut off black shorts where the black and white camo pockets eere longer then the shorts, and my favorite pair if orange and tan boots that referenced my favorite movies and TV show and says "Just a good ol' girl' on the back and a big '01' on the front.

I threw on the clothes and ran out the door. I ran down the maze-like hallway and as I ran, I noticed the beautiful mural of dragons on the walls around me, they looked like they were dancing and moving with me as I ran. I was so focused on watching yhr dragons move with me I didn't realize there was someone else in the hallway, and ran right into them. "Are you alright ma'am?" He asked while helping me off the ground. His rough hands were delict as he held my hand a little to long, "Why such a hurry?" he asked again, but my mind was focused on something else. He seemed so familiar to me, like I could trust my life and all my secrets with him to protect and keep safe. His light blue/green eyes looked like they had the same questions I was asking myself. "What realm are you from?" He asked yet another question, I was about ti answer his questions when I heard an all too familiar dramatic voice scream at me down the hallway. "SWEETY PIE, SUNSHINE! YOU FORGOT ABOUT YOUR HAIR!" I watched the man's face change to confusion, and I turned around and saw Brandon barreling down the hallway like an escaped patient waving a hairbrush in the air.

When he got to me, he forced me onto a small bench in the hallway and did my hair. The man stood and watched, "Are you one of the honorables?" This time I didn't leave his question unanswered. "My name is Sunny, all I know is I'm supposed to meet Scott downstairs now, he came to my room an hour ago and told me to meet him in an hour, an hour ago." I said then added, "Could you tell me how to get there?" He smiled, "Nice to meet you Sunny, I am Prince Jon, I am heading downstairs now if you can follow me." He said heading in the direction I was coming from. His chestnut brown hair was messy on his head as we walked, I noticed the outfit he was wearing, he was dressed as a knight like the man that was with Scott earlier today in the garden. "I'm sorry for running into you Prince Jon." I said a little nervous and embarrassed I ran into a prince the first time I left my room here. I literally ran right into him; how stupid could I be? He laughed while saying, "You are fine Sunny, you looked like you were deep in thought. It happens to everyone." The rest of the walk there was silent.

As we got to the double doors at the end of the hall, I walked ahead to get a better look at them. I reached out to touch the gold metal on the door and to my suprise it wasn't cold but warm, I studied the 3D picture of the dragon and the Phoenix, they looked as if they was going to pop out of the metal and grab me. As I looked in awe at the doors, I heard Prince Jon say, "This castle was one of the first buildings they built out of all the realms, this door is one of the original doors from when it was built."

"What's with the dragons and Phoenix all over the place?" I asked not looking away from the door.

"The dragon and the Phoenix were the first ones to settle in this realm, the realm if fire." He answered.

"Is there more than one realm on Earth?" I asked a bit confused at what he said.

"What? No, they had eight children and as they git older, they started their own realms. The realm of fire which is the one we are in now is the kingdom realm, The real of Earth which is the one I'm assuming you are from, The realm of water, The realm of the seasons which you can walk through all the yearly seasons in one day four of the children started that realm together, The spirit realm for the dead that did good in life, and The realm of darkness for the damned. Didn't know I was giving a history lesson today." He laughed, while opening yhe doors and gestured me to walk through.

I saw Scott as soon as I walked through and walked towards him, "You're early!" He looked shocked as he studied my outfit. "You said an hour?" I couldn't understand why he said I was early, did time not run the same here as it did where I am from? "What are you wearing!?" He shouted, "I had five minutes to wake up and head down here! This is the first outfit I saw that Brandon laid out for me; this is a normal outfit for me." I snapped back at him. He pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed. "I never understood the clothes you people from The realm of Earth choose to wear, he can't pick any more of your outfits. From now on I will."

"The hell you will!" Brandon shouted. "I had three outfits picked out for her one being a beautiful dress, I got her up thirty minutes before she needed to be down here. She decided to sit in the hallway and talk to Prince handsome!" He added. Scott's face showed he was still a bit uncomfortable around Brandon after what happened earlier, which only made me laugh. After a few minutes of uncomfortable silence, I decided to ask Scott about what Prince Jon had said about the dragons. "Scott can I ask you a question?"

"Shoot." He answered.

"Are dragons real?" I asked shyly.

"Who even are you? If you don't know if dragons are real, why are you even here?" I heard a voice say from behind me. "I don't even know where here is!" I shouted as I turned to face where the voice came from. It was a woman standing next to a man, they both looked identical. White hair, hers was in a braided bun on top of her head and his long by his face, both had bright blue eyes, and dark lips, their skin almost as white as snow, both had all white clothes, hers a short knitted dress, and his was a white suit. "My point. Why are you here? I don't remember seeing you when all the realms met up to pick who was going to be chosen. Plus, you don't even know where you are, what are you the help?" She smirked. All the anger I felt over my grandmas death came boiling back to the top and I snapped. "HE!" I yelled whole pointing at Scott, "Showed up at the hospital right before my grandma died, said I was dead! Disappeared, showed up hours later with my dead grandma! Told me it was time for me to come home! Next thing I know I wake up in my bedroom which I should add is exactly like my room as home but find out it's not! I'm here against my will trying yo di what he asks because I don't know if I'm going to be murdered! So, rethink saying anything else out of the way right now because I'm probably going ti smack that God awful smirk off that pale white face of yours!" She rolled her eyes as Prince Jon said, "Against her will?" He started walking icer to Scott.

"Not at all, she is the granddaughter of grandma Peggy's best friend Lois, she had asked me to watch over her and she also happens to be Ryan's first love." Scott whispered to him I don't think I was supose to hear him, but I did.

More people started tj come into the room, but I couldn't stop thinking about what Scott said to Prince Jon. I smacked him in the back of the head and asked, "Who's first love?"

"Prince Jon, I think this rag doll over here should be removed from the castle!" The girl that started on me earlier had said. "Not now snow, were about to start." He replied. "Well my father told me that if anyone hits one of the three princes they get removed from the castle." She smirked at me. "Prince huh?" I said looking at Scott. "He isn't no prince." I laughed, "If she didn't hit Prince Scott then I was going to, so he should consider himself lucky this time." He said blankly staring at the piece of paper in front of him. I looked over as Brandon started to bow, "I'm so sorry for calling you whiskey, you're definitely a fine wine. "He said while looking Scott up and down causing me to laugh.

The room fell quiet for what seemed like hours before Prince Jon asked all the chosen girls to step forward with their support. Snow stepped up with the man that was with her earlier, and so did everyone else. I looked at Brandon when Scott grabbed my arm and stepped up with me. "You're a prince why did you step up with me? I wasn't chosen to be here." I said pulling my arm away from him. "You were chosen years ago, if you wouldn't have faked your death this whole ceremony wouldn't even be happening right now. It will probably be over the second he notices who you are anyways." He said while staring ahead if him. I didn't even have time to respond before Prince Jon started talking.

"In order to help pick the best queen we have a tradition here in the kingdom realm. As you all may know there are trials, what you don't know was the first trial is today. The first trial is dragons, as you may have heard dragons have not gone extinct, we in fact have one now. All dragons have a way of telling if you ha e good intentions or bad with the future king, if the dragon don't trust you neither do we. That does not mean you are out if the trials. Do not fear the dragon for it will not kill you, the goal is to get it ti trust you by letting you touch its snout. If your intentions are bad the dragon will put up a wall of fire between you and it so you cannot get past, if your intentions are pure it will out a ring of blue fire around you and put its head down so you can touch it. Good luck to all of you it is time to start."

Everyone started to file out of the room, Scott told me to hang in the back and wait. We were the last ones out the door, we walked around the castle and into the woods. It wasn't long until we would see the big open field, Jon kept walking until we were about two hundred feet away from three people already there, who I could only imagine to be the other Prince, the queen and their guard. Prince Jon turned around and said, "This is as far as you can go, I am going to see who is first." He walked up to the three people ahead of us and the heald out a flag with the picture of earth on it, Scott held my arm and shook his head no. A woman in green started walking towards them with her support she git to them bowed, before walking down with Prince Jon to the dragon. I could barly see anything but a small line of red, which continued with the next two girls. They held up one last flag with the fire symbol on it, Scott pushed me forward towards the others.

As we walked to them I bowed before them like the others did, when I looked up they all looked like they had seen a ghost. "Did I do something wrong?" I whispered to Scott. "Not that I am aware of." He said back, Prince Jon waved for us to follow him down to the dragon. Scott tried talking to me, but my nerves got the better of me, all these other girls were raised knowing dragons were real and raised for these trials. I was raised thinking they were a myth, and Earth was the only place with people on it. Jon had stopped as we met up with Snow and the man with her. "She didn't make it so someone like you won't either, you shouldn't even be here. Maybe the dragon will realize that and do us all a favor and kill you." The man said to me, "Maybe your sister didn't make it Winter because of how hateful you guys have been to someone you don't even know." Jon snapped at him, "Ignore them, the dragon will see your truest heart and decide. " He said looking at me. "Now start walking until you get in there. Don't be scared." He added before I started walking towards the dragon.

The closer I got to the dragon that was sitting there looking at me the more my nerves went away, and I started to calm down. I didn't understand it, but I felt connected to it. I walked in and put my hand up straight away, it stood up and walked over to me. It was a beautiful creature, the color of emerald green and eyes just a shade lighter. I couldn't even begin to describe how beautiful each scale was, before I knew it I was trapped in a rainbow wall of fire. I had lost like everyone else, Scott had so much faith I would win, and I let him down, but worst of all I had let my grandma down. 'Where is she?' I thought ti myself as I remembered my grandma wasn't dead. "GO PRIDE!" I heard Brandon yell from outside the wall, when I realized it wasn't a wall but a circle. 'I am so glad he got to come be with you.' I heard my grandmas voice in my head. "Grandma? where are you?" 'I am right here.' I heard her say again in my head as the dragon walked through the fire, "I don't see you!" I panicked, when the dragon lifted its huge claw and I heard her say again, 'Right here Moon Pie.' I froze, was she trying to tell me she was the dragon? "You?" I pointed at the huge dragon in front of me, "You're my grandma?" My voice cracked as I said it. As sweet as she could she replied, 'Yes!'

I couldn't hold myself back, I ran up to her and hugged her, dragon or not that was my grandma! 'Moon Pie I must earn you; you are not safe here. The only ones from the royal family you can trust are Scott and Queen Peggy, this ring will go down soon. Do not go into the garden, I love you.' She said again in my mind. "I love you too." I replied. The wall started going down, but I didn't want to let her go, and she didn't me either, her huge claw pulled me in tighter. I could hear gasps as the fire was completely gone now. Brandon walked in with Scott and said, "Come on Sunshine it's time to go back to the others." My grandma let go and walked over to him and put her head in his hand, he freaked out and took off running, Scott smirked. 'Nothing changed with him.' My grandma said in my head laughing which caused me to laugh as well as I walked with Scott back to the others.

The walk wasn't as far as I realized everyone was about 20 feet away staring at me. "So, nobody won she didn't touch the snout." Snow spat. "No, she did something better." The queen chimed in. "Something you could not do dear child of the seasons, the reason you did not pass was because you are a hateful person. Something it could pick up on." She added. "Her." I said.

"Her? How do you know it's a her?" Scott asked.

"She told me." I said with my head down.

"And she also has the rare gift of being able to talk to the dragons. Snow dear, I must lend my advice where it is needed. My grandson gets final say in who is the queen, these trials just show you are worthy, they do not make you the next queen. You do not win because you are beautiful just ask Ryan's dad. Which also brings me to my next but of advice, he does not like hateful people." She smiled at me and then hugged me and said, "Congratulations on winning the first trial my dear." I smiled back at her. "Something I did not tell you guys before the trials was there will be a ball tonight. The winner gets the honor to have the first dance with the Prince." Jon said while looking at me, I looked around and everyone's eyes were on me again. I saw who I now believe was Prince Ryan just looking at me like I would disappear if he looked away.

I quickly walked away from everyone, Scott and Brandon ran to catch up with me. "Where are you going?" Scott asked.

"To take a f*****g nap." I snapped

"Nope, she hangry. She said the F word." Brandon said.

"Have you eaten all day?" Scott asked.

"What time is the ball?" I turned to Scott and asked.

"A few hours around 11pm I think why?" He asked. I started walking faster and yelled back, "I'm going to take a nap!"