The Throne of Arbediin

Chapter Two

“Wake up… Please wake up.”

A voice of a man, asking Aileen to wake up from her slumber. She refused to do so, she’s too tired, she tolerates all of the things that life has been given to her. The abused, the poverty, the lack of life in general.

“Please, you must open your eyes, we already give you everything that we can.”

Then she’s realizing, she does have a life, even though it wasn’t perfect, it was decent life at least. She tries so hard to open her eyes, and then a burst of colorful light is in her view. Aileen gasping for air and get up in a hurry from her bed. She looks everywhere and realized that she’s not in her room, the room is so beautiful, with a canopy bed, a beautiful dresser, and a window with a balcony.

The door opens lightly, it’s the four of them, looking at her with a curious face. Her eyes get larger because of what’s in front of her, the four of them adorned some kind of clothing like what you wear in a Victorian era, and their ears, it’s pointy, like a being from a fantasy world.

“Where am I?” she’s asking.

The four of them kneeling in front of her. “We are so happy we can finally see you again, Naura Amyra.”

Aileen wonders why they are kneeling and calls her some names. She’s back off a bit, trying to wrap everything in her head and then she’s a glance at the mirror. She was startled, the face that took her back in the mirror is not her face, but some beautiful young girl with pointy ears and long purple hair, with golden eyes.

She touches the mirror and convinces herself that it was in fact her reflection, she touches her face, an unfamiliar face. Aileen touches her face while directly looking into the mirror, a totally different face looking straight at her, purple hair, gleaming misty golden eyes, a heart shape lip, with a small nose, not to mention a pointy ear.

The four pairs of eyes look at her carefully, they just wait for any reaction from her. She turns to look at Aiden with pleading eyes.

“Seriously, what happened to me??, This is not my body?”

“Yes, we will explain everything to you, but I think you might be want to freshen up and get some decent clothes.”

She realized there was something odd and finally look again into the mirror, this time she looks at her entire body.

She’s wearing a see-through nightdress, without any underwear. Aileen then screams and vacates everyone from the room, while Fenrir complains that she has to be realizing it a bit earlier.

Aileen locks the door, she can feel her heart beating faster, it’s been a long time since men looking at her body, not to mention there were four of them. She’s panicking and trying to calm her nerves down. She thinks that a cold shower will help to calm her nerves, she checks the bathroom, a very luxurious and big bathtub with a jet, and a modern shower with a glass paneling with a place to sit, she checks the amenities, a fragrant soap, with shampoo and conditioner, there’s even a bunch of variety of bath foam and bath salts.

“Wow, luxurious indeed, they even have a different room for a toilet.” She’s talking to herself while admiring her surroundings.

She finished her shower, and pick rather plain but high-quality garments in the bunch. She looks at the mirror again, still not believing her transformation, a beautiful creature is staring back at her, her purple hair still damp, but her lush lip with that beautiful eyes so mesmerizing to look at.

She takes her time to finally open her room and goes out into a hall, there’s a middle terrace with a stunning view of a garden with a natural pool with a waterfall. She takes her time to see the view, when she finally sees the four of them at the patio, lounging while discussing something.

Caleb is the one who saw her first, he tells her to go downstairs to talk with all of them. Aileen goes downstairs but she’s nervous about the whole situation. She sits at one of the patio chairs, while Emir hands to her some ice tea, she takes the ice tea and then drinks it, she’s aware that all of them waiting for some kind of reaction or maybe a question from her.

“Okay, I was refreshing a lot, and as you may see, I wear something decent, so can you please answer my question now? What happened to me?”

The four of them look at each other and then Aiden is the one who finally breaks the silence. “You died.”

All of them were surprisingly shocked at how brazen Aiden told Aileen the fact. Fenrir even stands up to Aiden to protest about his approach.

“Dude, what the hell?”

Aiden just stares at Aileen who’s now in immeasurable expression.

“How?” Aileen asks Aiden again with so much calmness in her voice.

Aiden approaches her and then gets down in front of her so he can see her on the same level.

“You protected me, the creature, we call it Qadar, manage to wound you badly, so there’s nothing we can do about it.” Aiden looks at her directly when she’s just giving him an empty look, he explains more of the situation. “While we couldn’t safe your body, we could at least safe your soul, the four of us manage to do a binding ritual to transfer your soul into a new body.”

“So, this person, is the new body that you created for me?”

Caleb finally spoke, he sat on one of the chairs beside Aileen. “Not exactly, this “new body” actually an elven that we have guarding for almost our entire lives, the elven that we all admired and look up into as the brave one, our Amyra, who sadly died one hundred years ago.”

“One hundred years ago? Wait, hold up, how old are you guys? And what is an Amyra?”

This time Emir is the one that talking, he stands at the table while pouring himself a drink. “We preserve the body, we have the technique, Aiden and Caleb are one thousand years old, while myself and Fenrir are a hundred years younger than both of them.” He sips his drink and then continues the explanation. “Amyra is a title for an elven princess who can bear a crown of our kingdom to become a Malyka one day.”

“I guess the long lives of an elven wasn’t just a fairy tale, so if Amyra is a crown princess title, I assume Malyka is the title for a queen?”

“Yes, Exactly.” It was Fenrir, He just sat beside Caleb and stare at her.

Aileen then stands up from her chair and goes away into the pond, she stares at her reflection in the pond, a new face, an elven face staring back at her. Mesmerized by her own reflection while her hand touches the water surface, the four of them just let her receive all of the information.

They stare at Aileen like they cannot believe that their beloved Amyra is now sitting at the pond, staring at the glistening water.

“Aiden, we have to tell her the whole truth.” It was Caleb, they were whispering so Aileen couldn’t hear the conversation.

“Not right now, there were so much more that we need to tell her, let her get used to some of the information for now.”

Fenrir sighed hardly. “Are you sure that’s wise, she’s an intelligent woman, even though she’s a bit timid and unapproachable?”

“Of course, she will eventually learn the whole truth, let us give her some time to process all of it, okay?”

“Whatever you said, boss.” Emir delivered mocking remarks towards Aiden and goes to accompany Aileen to the pond.

“Look, whatever you’re planning right now, make sure that she will never have to feel that we hide something from her.” Caleb warns Aiden and then goes away with Fenrir, both of them seem a bit angry about the whole hiding some info.

Aiden just gave a long sigh and walk towards Emir and Aileen, he thinks that they have to call her Amyra from now on, his Amyra, who lead a thousand armies into the battlefield without any cowering, our Amyra, with her loud laugh and brazen attitude, this Amyra is different, she’s more gentle and feminine and seems like a fragile being compared to their Amyra.

Aileen looks at the approaching Aiden, she asks both of them while her gaze fixes at one of the beautiful fish at the pond. “Where’s my body now?” She now looks at Aiden. “My old body.”

“On the way into the cemetery, they are going to bury you today, in like two hours from now.”

“If you want to go, we will accompany you, but that’s if you want to see it?” Emir asks her wholeheartedly.

“Yes, please, I think, I need to get some closure.”

“Emir, call Caleb and Fenrir, let us meet at the cemetery.” Aiden talks to Emir who then goes away to grab his phone and his mantle.

Aileen and Aiden walk together into the car, Emir already there in the driver's seat.

“Wait, before we go.” Aiden grabs her hand and puts his hand into Aileen's head and chanting some words. “Biraqy.”

A misty blue light shines into them, she feels a change is happening in her body. She touches her ears, it wasn’t pointy anymore, she looks at Aiden, his appearance also changing.

“It’s a glamor spell, so all of the odd attributes of an elven will be unnoticeable to humans.”

Aileen stare at her reflection it’s still the same face, but the misty golden eyes are now brown golden eyes, humanize ears, and deep purple hair that is almost black, totally a look for a normal human being, still beautiful to look at, she notices her height difference as well, her old body was a petite 160 cm, while this elven body is in a 175 cm height.

They were silent for the whole drive into the cemetery, Aileen cannot think of a single word to break the silence, just like the other two men on the front seat.

When they finally arrive, Fenrir and Caleb are waiting by the front of their car, both of them looking so strikingly handsome, Fenrir adorned a black leather jacket with his Ray-ban, Caleb with his long navy mantle. Aiden and Emir weren’t that shabby either, Aiden wearing a long navy mantle similar to what Caleb is wearing, he put on some fancy sunglasses, Emir also put on sunglasses, he prefers to wear a short black mantle rather than the long one.

Caleb gave me a fur black coat with elegant black millinery, the front of the hat has a thin veil, they were prepared so well, Aileen suspiciously thought that they know she wants to attend her funeral.

They walk together into the cemetery, Aileen saw a few people, she already imagines there will be a few of them, Aileen while she’s the most polite and nice person around, she’s not a woman that likes to mingle a lot. Only Aileen, Emir, and Fenrir attend the funeral, Aiden and Caleb have to hide because some of Aileen's workmates have already seen their faces.

While Aiden and Caleb hiding in a large tree, the three of them standing behind some of Aileen's close friends, from there She can see Daniel and Sarah, they are crying while holding each other hands. She can hear a conversation happen between two of their old friends from college.

“Poor thing got kidnapped and then abandoned in some cabin.”

“Really, oh my God, that was horrible.”

“Her body was torn apart by some kind of animal, even the police were baffled.”

“She doesn’t even have a husband or children.”

“She was a nice person though, if only she wasn’t a silent type, she might be having children by now, too bad, she died alone.”

“lonely even in her death, just look the attendees, most of them are women, the closest men she got was only her gay best friend over there, I think his name is Dane or something.”

The last comment really hurts Aileen, she excuses herself even before the casket is lowered fully to the ground.

“Dang, these women are savages?” Fenrir whispering into Emir.

“You told me, even I was so surprised, I mean, these vultures are her friends? No wonder she becomes a secluded woman.”

The funeral finally ended, Daniel and Sarah as the family representatives are giving farewells to all of the attendees, Fenrir goes in line in front of Aileen's college friends, he goes to give his condolences to Daniel and Sarah.

“Thank you for coming.” Daniel stops mid sentences when he saw Fenrir. “I’m sorry, I don’t believe that we've ever met, I mean, I was Aileen's best friend, I knew all of her friends.”

All of the remaining people at the funeral are now looking at Fenrir, Aileen's college friends even stare with some admiration at this mysterious handsome fellow.

“Yes, I was her Ex-husband.”

Everyone there including Daniel and Sarah was in shock when they heard Fenrir's confession, Fenrir goes away smiling and almost laughing. He was so satisfied to see the looks on her cruel friends, he obviously lied to make her bully friends in shock.

Emir goes into front of the crowd as well, he shakes Daniel's hand, who apparently still in shock about Fenrir’s confession.

“I… I’m sorry, thank you for coming, how do you know Aileen?” Daniel composes himself in front of Emir, the bullies still stick around, talking to Sarah, maybe to grab some gossip about the late Aileen “husband”.

Emir fakes a cry, with some crocodile tears falling from his eyes, the bullies now gave their attention to these exotic handsome men.

“Yes, I… I was Aileen's boyfriend.” He was answering Daniel's question while acting like a mourning boyfriend and wiping his tears from his face.

Daniel and Sarah now cannot contain their shock anymore, the bullies now whispering to each other, they stare at Emir so hard.

“What? Aileen never told us anything about you.” It was Sarah who’s talking now.

“It’s because I’m a journalist, I rarely home, we are getting serious though.”

“I see.”

He then goes to wipe his tears more. “If only I came home earlier, my poor baby.”

He excuses himself and goes away from the crowd, he goes out from the cemetery into the parking lot where Aileen, Fenrir, Caleb, and Aiden were waiting for him.

“Took you long enough?” Fenrir teased him while grinning.

“Hey, I’m not going to let you defend our lovely Amyra alone.” Emir smile and gave a wink to Aileen.

Aiden and Caleb just shake their heads in disbelief because of their antics earlier.

Aiden looks at his watch “We should get back now, Amyra you should rest some more, you need more strength.”

“I feel okay, and please call me Aileen.”

“Sorry sweety, need to call you Amyra, I mean, you are her from now on.” Caleb gave her an apologetic look.

“Alright, but can we go to my old apartment, I need to pick some of my old stuff and my cat, he must be starving by now.”

All of them now look at each other, like discussing something on telepathy. Aiden explains the situation.

“Your stuff's already being donated by your two best friends, and your cat was taken by Daniel, he adopted him immediately.”

She gave a long sigh. “I see, well it can’t be helped then, I know Mr. Peanut will be happy living with Daniel, he’s a cat lover just like myself.”

Emir gives her a nudge. “We can always take your pet, I mean you can use my cover as your loving boyfriend, or maybe a mourn-loving husband over there.” He jokingly remarked his antics with Fenrir back at the funeral.

Aileen snorted and gave them a smile. “No, it’s fine, I still need to adjust myself about this whole body change situation.”

Fenrir hops onto his motorcycle, an expensive black Ducatti. “Message me about some private belongings that you want to keep, Emir, and I will go to your house to retrieve them for you.”

“You do that, for me?” Aileen's eyes sparkle with the hope that she will regain some of her precious items.

Emir chuckle and then kiss Aileen cheek, with a sound of dismay from others, including Aileen. “Anything for our Amyra.” He gets into his car, a red Lamborghini, and goes away following Fenrir.

Aiden curses a bit, Aileen still touching her cheek, her face now in an indescribable shade of red. Caleb just smiles and lets Aileen goes in while still in a daze about the whole kissing-on-cheek situation.

“You know I’m going to punch that bastard, right?”

“Oh, come on Aiden, it’s just a harmless kiss on a cheek, nothing vulgar or intimate.”

“Harmless for that walking p*nis! Not for her, she was a 35-year-old timid and shy woman.”

“Don’t be too protective of her, I know we need to give her some time to adjust, but I think she will be surprised us, even though she looks so fragile.”

Aiden raises his hand and just goes quietly into the car, Caleb sensing that this conversation isn’t over yet. He gave a long sigh and sit on the driver's seat.

Back at home, they let Aileen goes on to her room and recollect her thoughts, she already messaging Fenrir using Aiden's phone for all of the items that she wants to keep. She gave a long sigh and immediately gave in to the temptation of a nice and cozy nap in her bed.

Aiden and Caleb are in their office room, they are looking at some of the photo evidence of Aileen's case. After the soul transfer, they make sure Aileen's old body to be put in some of the secluded areas, they make sure even though it was secluded, there will be a human who will recover the body in no time, so they choose a cabin in the woods. The cabin though it was secluded it got some traffic from hikers when it was in season, and because of their meticulous planning, Aileen's old body has been discovered in a matter of hours.

Aiden gets a glance at every photo evidence, he looks at Caleb. “The police were working fast, Fenrir indeed scouted some good areas.”

“Leave it to the wolf to know a good place in a thick forest.” Caleb is smirking while looking at the forensic report.

Fenrir is standing in front of the office door, holding a huge garbage bag in his left hand. “Yeah, and this wolf just found some intriguing things on the new Amyra's house.”

He then throws the bag on the coffee table exposing the content inside. Caleb cursed while Emir joined them with a solemn look. Aiden still in his unsettling calmness, just stares at the content of the bag, it’s the head of a three-headed Qadar.

Emir looked at them all with a grim look. “it was an Assaqadar, attacked us in front of Aileen's old apartment.”

Aiden sits in his chair, his cupping his hand while giving a long sigh. “We have a bigger problem then.”

-End of Chapter two-