The queen and the mystical being

Chapter eight

Princess Ivie:

"Today was meant to be the happiest day of my life. I'm getting married!"

"Then why am I feeling like my once happy life is turning into my worst nightmare? After the meeting with my father, I cried all through the night until I didn't have the strength to cry anymore."

"Everything is going wrong. First, my father is dying and I can't do anything about it. What's worse is he has been suffering all this while without my knowledge. What kind of a daughter am I? I couldn't differentiate between a healthy and a sick person yet I call myself a physician; physician my foot!" I spat bitterly.

"My Princess, you need to stop crying. You keep ruining your makeup" My maid Rose pleaded with me.

"I understand the situation of things but your father needs you to be strong." She continued.

"Strong indeed!" I said to myself.

Everyone believes it's easy to just move past this nightmare.

How? I questioned as tears kept pouring down my cheeks. How do I cope with losing my father? What will become of me when he's no longer in this world and as if that's not bad enough I'm getting married to a man I don't even know aside from the bad reports I have heard about him.

Rose stopped attending to my hair and moved to stand in front of me.

"Have you ever wondered why the King kept his illness away from everyone?" She asked but I just kept mute trying to understand where she was heading to with the question.

"My princess, it was for your own protection! The King has no heir hence the secret, for if anyone finds out that he's unfit to rule, his enemies will rise up to destroy him and take his throne from him and they will do with you however they wish. My Princess, we all need you to be strong so you can fulfill his wish of keeping the Bini kingdom from wicked men." She urged.

It dawned on me that I have been angry with my father for keeping his illness away from me and I couldn't also stand the fact that he will die without any help. I even went to see the royal physician the previous night after my father broke the news to me to know if there's anything that can be done but he confirmed that it's beyond his medical expertise. I was also mad with the marriage agreement without my consent but I never stopped to see reasons with my father and how these whole thing has been eating him up from the inside.

I cleaned the tears still rolling down my cheeks. I asked Rose to continued with the makeup and she just stared at me as if to ask me if I'm sure and so I nodded to encourage her to continue with my makeup.

"Rose?" I called out

"Yes my princess"

"I trust you not just as my maid or friend but as my family. I will need you now more than ever, do you promise to always stand with me and protect my interests?" I asked

"By the gods, I promise" she said to me smiling ear to ear.

"Dress me up to be the most beautiful bride the people have ever seen in this kingdom" I told her with full pride and confidence and she bowed her head in obedience.

"I rose, will make you the most beautiful woman that anyone has ever seen and you shall be the desire of every man and shall be the envy of every woman. Let's bring in the stylist and we shall begin." She said

I just nodded my head to give her the go ahead then she left my room. My father has done his best in taking care of me and the family interest. Now, I shall take it from here and if that means marrying the son of my father's enemy to survive, then I shall do it.

UKI ( the mystical being) POV:

For hundreds of years, I lived on earth with my family, running from the war at home. We kept our distance from humans not until the day the deadly Karkars knew of the passage that led to the human world and they planned on taking over earth. After what they did to our home, they were still not satisfied. Those bloody thirsty demons!

My father has always been the keeper of both worlds but when a war broke out, he brought us here so has to secure the passage. But eventually, they found out and threatened to take over.

We planned to warn humans of the oncoming war but it was too late as they were already on the move. it was too quick as we thought they were still occupied with the war at home.

I still remember how my parents died. They sacrificed their lives protecting the human world and they ended up sealing the passage. I lost my family and I also lost the chance of going back home.

Here I am, stuck in the human world with no family! I still remember how my siblings and I used to hunt together, the happiness we shared together. These are just memories now. I sometimes wondered why they decided to leave me alone in this lonely world.

Ever since the death of my family, I still kept the family ritual to never involve myself with the affairs of men not until the day a war occured and the intruders came through the forest. I saw the crowned prince of the Bini kingdom killed by one of the intruders and they were about doing same to the second prince. I tried withholding myself from interfering but the intruders were not winning with skills but they came with witches and so I couldn't stay and watch them unjustly destroy this kingdom.

I interfered for the first time. I saved the second prince who later became the king of Bini kingdom.

King Erun is the only friend I have in this world. Only two persons know of my existence on earth. The king and the personal servant of the late crowned prince who swore to keep my existence a secret. Ever since that day, the King became my only living friend and now he's about to leave this world which saddens me deeply. I want to help him, but I have never used my magic to heal any human before hence I'm unsure of the outcome. He made me promise to look after his daughter when he's gone and of course I couldn't say no to the only friend I have.

Today is the day the king gives his daughter out in marriage and I want to be there, at least see my dear friend and also see the daughter as well, so I will be able to recognise her. I will be leaving the forest today after so many years. I still plan on keeping my identity a secret even from the Princess. I will only watch her from afar in other not to create unnecessary chaos in her life.

I'm only doing this for my friend!