7 Into the Woods

Everything has changed, I have never imagined my life would turn into something like this, Though I was fond of adventure since my childhood, now, I am scared, Scared to explore, or scared to face my destiny, that's hard to explain. I have grown in the royal family, where I have always been taught, the princess shall be in grace to become a queen, Gentle and kind to people and mankind, and shall always have the potentiality to settle her own family. Princesses do not go out and fight, Princesses shall not go out alone, And their King is the only one man in her life. I was engaged at a very young age, though I had never understood the meaning of love with Arjun, I accepted the fact that he shall be the one I would spend my rest of the life. Usually on my birthday, every year my parents celebrate it very huge, It is the day when I was officially allowed to go out of the palace with my parents and Arjun been there with me to see and meet the people of my kingdom, they use to give me lots of presents as much as they can give. It used to be a happy time. But this birthday has changed everything in my life. The person I use to think to spend my life with has turned to be someone who broke my heart. I fled from my own kingdom to seek the truth and lost somewhere I am not aware of, My kingdom got attacked and I was not sure if I could meet my mother, father, or Shaanti, or anyone ever again. And today I had no idea what happened, How did all that happen, and what was actually that about, Is Arjun really speaking the truth? Do I have any special powers I was not aware of? Is it why my parents never wanted me to go out much? But why? And how do I have these powers? how do I control them? And then suddenly I can see the man I saw yesterday, in his bright knight Armor, he walked towards me and stopped, he smiled and offered his hands, he said-" Trust me, will you?"

and then I woke up, I realized I was dreaming, all this was in my head, I looked around and I realized I was on the horse, I looked beside, I found him, With his dignity, he is carrying me off, For a minute, everything stopped around me, I remember what I saw in my dream he asked-" Trust me, will you?" Will I? I don't know? I don't even know him? Should I? But why does it feel so safe around him? Wait I remember I saw before I blacked out, He also has some magical powers he protected himself from my powers. Will he help me? Then it hit me, Where does he taking me to? I got all my nerves back and asked him to stop.

I said-" STOP!!!! where are you taking me?

He glared at me and didn't bother and continued to go further.

I said-" Wait, Where are you taking me? Tell me, Take me back to my kingdom now. Or else you saw I have powers I will use on you too.

He did not bother again to my words and kept moving, it was pissing me off, I Slide down from the horse, And took the sword which was kept on the left side of the horse, and hold onto him firmly. He smiled and finally, I got his attention. He smiled at me and said-" princess! No need for that, Keep it down, We don't want you to have any trouble"

I looked at him with a confused face I said-" What do you mean by I will be in trouble? Mr. You are not taking me seriously I see.

He kept walking with the horse towards the forest. This makes me so angry and anxious that why isn't he afraid of me? Is he taking me for granted? Do-Do I look weak? I need to look strong before him, to make sure, he is scared of me. I pulled up the sword again and with a confident face and hold it in front of him. He put down my sword and looked at me and said-" Princess If I had to kill you I would have done long back. Instead, you are here alive, Thanks to me.

I looked at him in utter shock and said-" Thanks to you? I don't even know you. I ran away from my kingdom in search of the truth and got trapped here!!! My fiancé turned to my enemy overnight!! I am lost in this dark forest, I don't know how I killed those people there!! You are kidnapping me and I should thank you? really? Tell me where are you taking me to? How are you? I demand the truth now!!!"

He stopped at once and looked at me with his cold face and said-" ran away? So you are the princess my mother is looking for? "

I replied in a confused face-" Your mother is looking for me? why? "

With his expressionless face, he said-" That I have to find out yet. Till then you are safe with me."

I don't know why I want to believe him, I fell for his every word, For some reason, He does not seem to be an unknown person, so without any further words I followed him, within some time, we reached the darkest part of the forest, there was the castle, Looks like his home, He took the other way in and we reached to a basement. He turned towards me-" This is where you will stay, help yourself. If you need anything... Don't bother me."

Well, that was rude of him, But he did help me But why? Well without thinking much, I told him-" Why are you helping me?"

He turned back and looked at my eyes he said in a hushed voice-" That is yet to find out princess, But until I get to know why my mother wants you, You stay here, I hope you will get everything here. And one more thing, do not leave this room at any cause, and for your safety, do not tell where you are from okay?

I said-" Okay but what if they ask me about where I am from?"

He turned around and said-" tell them you are prince Sanjay's guest, They will not bother you anymore."

I said-" Thank you for saving me,"

He said while he was leaving-" We will see about that.

After he left, Two maids came over and helped me change. Then I realized I hot few hurts from the fight we had. Also, I feel very weak. So after I changed up, I fell asleep. I woke up the next day in the morning and saw a princess in my room, looking around. I excused myself and come towards her, in fear who is she and why is she here? Prince said I must not reveal my true identity, I was thinking what to say, In that time, she came towards me with a proud smile and told me-" You must be the new toy of his highness, And you are wondering who am I? well my dear I am prince Sanjay's fiancé Princess Sayantika. Do not feel that you are in this palace that means he is thinking of any future with you. It's just for few days. So I am here to tell you, you must know your place and try not to think and hurt yourself. U must know he does not belong any heart"

I was listening to her in complete silence all this time and couldn't understand much, other than she was his fiancé, and he had many affairs and she was thinking I am another one of his conquests. I wanted to tell her this is all a lie, I do not want to involve even with someone like this, But I thought to keep silent, It is for the best, I just nodded my head in her reply.

She left telling me-" Enjoy your few days here"

After she left, I took a deep breath and looked from the window, It is nothing like Rajnagri. The sun does not fall on the ground much, it is weirdly cold around here and cloudy. It is dark and shady and scary. I wonder what kind of people live here in this dark forest. But it came to my mind, I must not think that much, rather I should see how I can escape from here. I know he told me he will get me back but I cannot utterly rely on some stranger. So I decided I would search my own ways. It was the time of the afternoon, mostly every maid outside my room are somewhere else, it looks like a good time to see around if I can escape. I took one of the maids' dress and cover my face with the cloth and took the west side, and start walking towards, and soon after some time I stopped hearing a voice, it seems a known voice. It looks like the Queen's chamber, It was big and with many guards and her voice, Sayantika's. they were talking about Rajnagri!!! I wonder why they are talking about my kingdom, Well Sanjay did tell me his mother wants me, but I didn't know why. So I decided to hear the conversation. I hide behind the big door, without being noticed by the guards and started listening.

The first voice said-" What have you bring news for me today my dear?

Sayantika said-" Her majesty, Prince bought a new girl today, I was coming from there.

The voice told her-" My dear, you are the future queen of this kingdom you must not get affected with these little things, tell me the news I wanted to hear.

sayantika replied-" Forgive me her majesty, I was a little selfish, Yes I managed to get information about the princess, After our soldiers attacked the kingdom, she fled to the same old man we were looking for, but before she reached him, she disappeared from there. But I reached to the old man on time and got his words, She is born on the 9th celestial birth realm. So she possesses powerful magical powers that she is not aware of, she possesses the power of life, water. One of the ancient blessings from the god's power. She was blessed and very powerful. But she does not know about her powers yet. But since it is her 17th birthday, she already had unlocked her destiny.

The voice turned into deep-" She must be powerful, but she is naive, and with such powers, I can become the most powerful devil on earth. "

Sayantika replied-" Her majesty I do not understand."

The voice said-" you don't have to, Tell Daniel to Kill every one of Rajnagri and bring me that girl as soon as possible."

I was shocked that I was trapped in the palace that attacked my kingdom, and wants to get my powers, They want to kill my people and me. How can I save them, I have magical powers but I don't know how to use them. No, I cannot just wait here. He fooled me, He knew from the start. He lied. I must return to save my people.

So without wasting much time, I came back to my room, and I was so scared and anxious I started panicking, What should I do? Just then Sanjay entered my room and in panic, I hold the sword to him-" Why did you bring me here? why do you want to attack my kingdom? What have they done to you? I beg you please let me go.

He in his confused state said-" what are you talking about?

He came towards me. I hold the sword firm and said-" Do not dare to lie. You have a fiancé, and I heard someone talking here today with your fiancé, you want my powers. But trust me, I don't know anything about my powers. I...

He looked at me firmly and come forth, the sword started hurting his chest and started bleeding but he kept his eyes on me, he said-" Is it bothering you, my fiancé?

I said-' What? No!!! Just let me go...

He said looking at my eyes-" princess, I do not want to harm you, And I did not know about your kingdom. Mother told me about this today, and trust me, I don't know maybe you don't know about me yet, But I do not want you to get harmed. I promise. U can trust me.

I said-" Trust you? Your fiancé said you don't have a heart, and mistook me as one of your mistresses. I...

He came towards me and said-" Princess, This is even the first time for me, but I promise you no one can hurt you. You are safe here. Tomorrow there is a party, so a good time for us to leave. stay ready. He left without any further word. And I trusted him once again and waited for tomorrow.