To the Wicked World

Dinner/talk

As Anastasia took her shower, she walked out to her room just in a robe. Phillips, was sitting on her couch on his phone. When she walked in, he looked up for a moment.

"I can leave?" He said.

"No, you can stay. I'll get dressed in the bathroom. Or you can just keep your eyes straight forward not look at me." She said. "I mean, you've seen me naked before."

"Ana, that was a mistake. I didn't know you were in here naked at that time."

"And its fine. I have nothing to hide. Plus I see the looks you give me some I'm comfortable with you in here."

"What looks princess?"

"The f**k you looks." She said making Phillips choke on his spit.

"Excuse me, princess?"

"I'm not dumb." She said as she slide on her bootie shorts and strapless bra. Then walked over in front of him. "I see how you stare at me." She said again with her hand on her hip. "You can't say I'm not pretty can you?" She said as she turned around to look in her mirror.

"Your more than pretty." Phillips murmured.

"What was that?" She asked not really hearing him.

"Nothing." He said first. "Your pretty, you just know how much pretty you are." He said then went back to his phone.

"So, if Riley didn't show up, you would want to court me?" She said walking back to her closet not looking at her guardian.

Philips didn't answer because he knew the answer to that question. He would want to everything to her. Wishing she was his mate more than his princess. After a few moments, she came back towards her mirror in a long golden-brown gown with a slit on the right side that goes to her hip. It was a birthday gift from the dragon queen a few years back. Phillips's mother, of course thought that Phillips and Anastasia would be mates after he fully became her guardian. Even though they've been friends since she was born.

When he looked up, he saw what she was wearing and his eyes almost popped out of his eyes. He got up and walked behind her and stared into the mirror to look at her. He could see his eyes changing colors from his inner animal taking over but he had everything under control.

"Is that the dress my mother gave you?" He asked her.

"Yes it is. I thought tonight would be nice to finally wear it for my mate." She said.

He was a little hurt but she didn't know the truth behind the dress. No one did but him and his mother. He was hurt but he was greatful that he finally got to see her in it.

"Is there a problem, Philly." She asked using her nickname for him.

"No, why would you ask that?"

"Because your eyes. They keep changing colors. Is your beast trying to get out?" She asked. "Is your beast wanting to do something to me?"

He looked away for a moment then turned her around pushing her against her dresser. His beast took over and started ravishing her. She let out a small moan making Phillips stop doing what he was doing.

"Princess, I'm sorry." He said walking back from her.

"Don't be. I knew you've had a crush on me for decades. Even before you were my guardian. I hoped when I turned 16 you were my mate but since you became my guardian, I knew that you couldn't be my mate."

"Wait you knew? How? Why did you say anything?" He asked.

"Yes, since the day you saved me from Charles fire blast on the Dragonnet that was f*****g with me and my stuff. Charles didn't see me and you fly to me and blocked his shot. My father was pissed at Charles for like a month."

"You were like 8 years old, a child."

"Yes, but I wasn't really 8 years old. I was like 80 years old then. I'm about to be 160 years old in just a few weeks. You guys see me as a child but I'm not a child. Your like almost 200 years old."

"I've never saw you as a child, Ana. I saw you as a woman and always wanted you but can't have you. Now you have a mate down the hall, waiting for you. Just hope he treats you right."

"I can always reject him and take you as my mate if that's what you want just say it." Anastasia has said turning around to look in the mirror to do her make-up.

"No, we can't be together. I wouldn't be able to live if you did that just for me. How would I battle if we were mates. I would be all over the place trying to make sure you were safe. I can't. We can't. Take him as your mate. I'll always be here for you as your guardian." He said then walked over to her and placed her hand on his heart. "And as a friend." He said then kissed her forehead.

After he had kissed her forehead he walked towards the door. As he opened the door, Frank was standing outside the door with a sad look on bus face that only Phillips saw.

"Princess, dinner will be done in 10 minutes." Frank had said.

"Thank you Frankie." She said using his nickname.

When Phillip walked out and closed the door. He was about to walk towards his room when Frank had grabbed his arm.

"What are you doing? You know we can't have feelings for the princess."

"I know, god your f*****g vampire hearing. Just drop it." Phillips told Frank.

"Are you sure because you have that look on your face that says otherwise?"

"Frank," he said at first then pushed him against the wall. "I've had feelings for her before I was guardian. I missed my chance and I will sacrifice that feeling to keep her safe from harm." He told him as he let go of Frank. As he walks away, "and plus she has a mate now. An elf with human in him."

"Do you not think he will keep her safe?" Frank asked catching up with him.

"I don't know. But we will see." Phillips said as he got to his door. "We'll see. If he don't, I'll kill him myself."

"Your not the only one." Frank said then turned away.

As Frank walked away, he thought about what Phillips told him about his love for Anastasia. Was it enough to let her go and let it be just a job to protect her. We will see.

As Anastasia was just finishing up with her hair, she slid on her heels. Once she was done with everything, she walked out of her room then head to the room that Riley was in. Even without knowing which room he was in, she was hoping she would take a chance. She knew who stayed in the rooms in this hall. And there were only a couple rooms that no one stayed in. So she had to try and see if he was in those.

When she got to the rooms that were vacant, she was about to knock on the 1st door that she was at until it had opened. It was the right door and she smiled.

Riley had came out in a dashing suit. Made him look like a king himself.

"Princess." He said then bowed. "You look gorgeous."

"Why thank you." She said blushing. "I came to walk you down to the dining hall."

"Oh thank you. I thought I would be walking myself down there. Your vampire guardian had told me I had 10 minutes til dinner was done."

"Yes, same to me." She had said.

As she stepped back some so he could come out and shut his door. After he shut his door, he offered his arm to Anastasia, which she had took, then head down the stairs to the dining hall. When they reached the last step, everyone that was around had stop and looked at their beautiful princess and her mate.

They all whispered saying how pretty she was and how handsome he had looked. Like he was fit to be their king.

As then finally reached the dining hall, they went to the front where Anastasia's parents were at. They were sitting at their table with their guards standing near them. As the queen seen her daughter, she stood up and walked towards her. She had fixed a few strands of hair and placed them behind her ear.

"Beautiful." She had told her.

"Thank you mother."

"Your more beautiful my dear queen." Her father had said coming near them. "That is where out daughter gets her good looks from."

"Dear, stop it." The queen had said blushing.

"Riley is it?" The king had asked.

"Yes, your highness." Then bowed.

"Don't need to bow since your my daughter's mate."

"Sorry, sir." He said then stops back up straight.

"You look dashing, Riley. Don't you think Anastasia?" The queen had asked.

"Yes, yes he does." Anastasia had said blushing some.

"Let's take our seats." the king had brought up. "Riley, you can seat next to Anastasia with us."

"Yes, sir. Thank you." Riley said as he walked Anastasia up to her seat next to her parents.

As they took their seats, everyone started coming in and taking their seats as well. The former queens and kings with their children seat to the right of the queen and the other creatures that lived in the castle were on the left side of the king. Then came the guardians of the princess sat in the middle at the round table. So they can get up fast just in case a fight is broken out.

The round table, the former queen of centuries back had gotten when king Arthur was alive. He passed it down to her when he died, since that was his first love and she helped him in half the wars that he was in. His people were pissed about it but he didn't care. He was the king after all. It was a gift.

As the king and queen stood up, the king looked at everyone and talk about their days. How its ending with a great night. That his baby girl has found her mate.

He looked at Riley for a moment then his daughter then his own mate. After a few moments, he had snapped his fingers and the staff came in where everyone's food. Even with his help of magic to help being everything in.

"Let's eat!" He called out.

Once he had said that, everyone had dug in their food that was in front of their faces. Riley was messing around feeding Anastasia with some of his food. Where it was making her giggle, catching some people's attention. Her parents watched them and smiled. And they wasn't the only ones that was watching hard. Phillips was eyeing them pretty hard that, his beast was trying to come out. Frank had stepped on his foot getting his attention to calm down.

"Calm down. She's his now." Frank had mindlinked Phillips.

"I know. Its just hard until they mark each other." Phillips told Frank.

Frank nodded then went back to his food. Phillips done the same but every once and awhile he would look up. As everything was going good, a group of witches had came in and walked towards the king. The guardians were watching with a few others.

"My lord, we found a few spots that are weak. We are willing to use a powerful spell to make it stronger with a few elf's help." One of the witches has said.

"Dear, what do you think? Its your fairies magic that keeps the shield up and going."

Anastasia looked at them as they talked about it. So when Riley came through it was weak.

"Father, Riley and I could help and come with a powerful spell and fix it." Anastasia has brought up.

"I can half fix it." Riley said. "I'm not fully in my elf magic but I can help."

"Lee, gather all the witches, elves and Ciri will gather all the fairies." Geralt had said.

"Yes, my lord."

After they had talked they left the hall and everyone went back to eating. Frank turned to look at the king thinking how they shield got weak. When he got one eating, he turned to look over at William.

"Will, come with me." Frank said.

"What's wrong?" Oliver asked.

"The witches said the shield is weak in some spots. Geralt is having all the witches, elves, fairies father up in a little bit to fix it. But William and I are going to go look around to see why that is the problem. Adam, keep a close eye on Riley and Anastasia. Oliver you know what to if she goes outside." Frank said. The rest nodded their heads and frank and William got up and walked out the hall.

Anastasia saw Frank and William get up and walked out. She looked over at the others and Adam and Oliver was looking at her for a moment then looked over at the rest of the guardians and was talking.

One of those times she wish she had vampire or wolf hearing. But it's okay, as long as she don't know, she don't have to worry.

After they ate dinner, staff came in and took their plates and brought in dessert and more wine. After all that, Riley and Anastasia was feeling tired. Anastasia had a long day, from training to fighting, it was all catching up to her. And for Riley, he was human and like all humans do, they get tired after getting their bellies full.

"Riley, do you wanna take a walk with me in the garden?" Anastasia asked.

Catching a look from her father.

"Why yes, M'lady." Riley said standing up to help Anastasia out of her chair.

"Anastasia, better be the garden. I don't want you out and about close to the shield. Not until we fix it." Her father had brought up.

"Yes, father." She said then hooked her arm through Riley's arm.

As they walked around their table to walk down the hall to leave. When they reached the round table, they had stopped.

"Adam, Oliver follow." Anastasia ordered them looked the two dragons, you two are done for tonight. Go rest those pretty faces of yours."

"Yes, princess." Charles said smiling then looked over at his good friend Phillips. He had a look in his eyes that he didn't want to leave his princess alone but he nodded then went back to his food. "Phillips, we can play a game of chess before bed."

"That's fine." Phillips said.

Ana nodded then looked at the two she had ordered to follow. They got up and walked behind them. Once they walked out the hall, Oliver shifted not caring about wearing that monkey suit anymore. Adam just chuckled at his friend when he did.

When they reached the garden, Anastasia went close to the fountain and sat down on it and watched the little fairies and Dragonnet play in the water. Riley was amazed by it.

When Anastasia touched the water and flowers started forming on the water. They were pretty.

"Water lilies." Ana said out loud. "I can make anything come alive with just a finger and a thought of magic."

"Watch it, she likes to show off." Adam said getting a glare from Ana.

"Oh like this?" She said then pointed her finger at Adam and done a little flower spell.

Flowers were growing all over Adam. Ana and Riley started laughing at that. Oliver was laughing in a wolf type of laugh. Adam so much wasn't laughing. He didn't like when she done this to him.

"Yes, like that. God I hate when you do this to me."

"Least I didn't do this." She said then done what she wasn't gonna do. She waved her hand in a wave formation then water landed on Adam's head making Oliver roll on the ground laughing so hard. "Oops I did do it."

"Dry me off and take these flowers off of me!" Adam hissed.

"Okay, fine."

Anastasia made the flowers die and then did a tornado like wave on a finger and blow dried Adam off dry.

Adam smiled when he saw her was flower free and dried. Then he sat down next to where Oliver was still rolling around laughing.

"That's wicked cool, Anastasia."

"Yeah, it is. But if I don't watch it, I can make it dangerous."

"Oh, well if you train hard enough don't lose control of it." Riley said.

"Yeah, Charles is helping me with that. To be honest I'm the only fairy that can do all of the summons. Some of the other fairies they can just do one or two."

As they talked about each other Adam had fallen asleep next to Oliver which was half asleep. He was trying to stay awake.

When the sun was coming down, Riley had leaned over and kissed Anastasia shocking her mostly. Oliver rose up, knocking Adam off of him, making him wake up. When Adam saw Oliver half up he looked around until he saw Riley kissing Anastasia. He pushed Oliver's head to give them some privacy. Oliver huffed at Adam for doing so. All Adam did was chuckled at his friend.

When the sun was fully down, Adam stood up and hugged himself a little.

"Princess, I don't want to stop what you two are doing but its getting a little chilly out here. I think it's time to head inside." Adam had said then looked over at the fountain. "Even the pest left." Anastasia looked behind her and Riley and saw that Adam was right.

"Yeah, sure." Anastasia had said. "Well I guess this good night fellas."

"Yes, good night." Adam had said as he pushed Oliver to move.

"Let me walk you to your room at least." Riley had offer.

Oliver barked at what he had said. Getting a glare from Anastasia. Probably had a lot things going through her head on what the wolf was thinking since he couldn't talk nor was he mind linking her or Adam.

As the two guardians went their way, Anastasia and Riley went theirs. Riley walked Ana up to her room like a gentleman should. Once they got to her room, she opened the door and walked in but before she shut the door, they talked for a few more minutes.

"May I see you tomorrow?" Riley asked. "Maybe have lunch together or even breakfast?"

"Yeah, sure. Maybe lunch will do, I have training in the morning."

"Okay then. Well goodnight, sleep tight." Riley said then leaned down and kissed Anastasia on the lips before walking down to his own room.

Once the kiss was over, she shut her door and went to her bed. She fell on it feeling all amazed what had happened. Riley had kissed her, after watching the sunset and having a nice long talk. She wondered if they were gonna work or not. But it was the first of a great start.