The Magick of the Dragon Princess - Chapter 4

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Chapter Four: A Morning to Remember

“What time is it?” The dragon girl said. With a big yawn and her eyes still closed, she got up to look at the position of the sun. Walking over to where her hole in her tower usually is, but it wasn't there. Rubbing her eyes then opening them, “What is this? A window with different colors of glass?” The girl had never seen such a beautiful window in her life.
She turned around to see the rest of the room. Right in front of her there was a beautiful golden luxury bed, and a huge bedroom and furniture to match. The girl had read about it in books at the eerie bookstore, but never thought she would see one. She thought, “This has to be a dream.” So, the dragon girl closed her eyes and pinched herself. But she still was in the gorgeous room. Suddenly, she heard a weird whispering sound coming from the round bedside table.
She turned her head to see a card that wasn't there before, it said Happy Birthday on the front. The girl went to grab it and look at what kind of greetings it had inside. She picked up the card and opened it, but there was no message. Even though the girl had never received a card in her life, but that was okay, it's the thought that counts. She looked inside the card again, but this time some writing appeared like magic, it was gold and sparkly. It wrote on its own saying, “Dear little one, if you walk towards the closet with the diamond doorknob you will find a bathroom.” The girl thought, “a card is telling me what to do, okay?”
She walked to the door with the diamond handle, but instead of finding a bathroom she found a huge closet full of sapphires, rubies, and diamond encrusted jewelry and accessories made of precious metals. But what was weird, there were no clothes, she thought to herself, “Wow, there sure is a lot of room in this closet, I wonder what other surprises there are for me?” She looked back at the card, it said, “Sorry, wrong room. If you look towards your right, on the wall you'll see a golden hanger that looks like a winged lady, take your claws and pull it down.” So, she did, suddenly the wall opened, she peeked her head through the door, and she saw the bathroom. The girl stepped inside. The floor was white marble with streaks of what looked like a shiny opalescent stone. The tub was huge with solid gold bath knobs, and it smelt very flowery.
She looked at the card it said, “I don't know how long since you've taken a bath, so take your time, have some fun, and get clean. There's another surprise in your bedroom after you're done.” The dragon girl removed her raggedy patchwork clothes and got in the tub. She had a tuff time trying to hold the soap, but everything worked out just fine. The fog of the hot bath filled the room, the girl said, “man, that felt so good, I've never taken a shower like this...ever!” The fog soon cleared up, she noticed that her clothes were gone, but something was left in their place. It was a beautiful violet silk robe with the letter J.
“Hmm, that's weird I don't know anybody with that initial.” She put on the robe and saw another door appear out of nowhere, so she opened it and there was the bedroom. “I could have sworn there was no second door,” the girl walked backwards from the bathroom it shut itself and disappeared. Taking a few steps back, she bumped into what seemed like a tall woman. She turned around and shouted, “What the heck are you?” What the girl saw was hard to believe. Seeing an oriental woman with an upper body of a human, but the lower half of her body was like a spider.
The girl didn't know what to do, all she could think was, “She's going to eat me!” The spider lady said, “If you're thinking I'm going to eat you think again. I only eat males, well... royal spider men of course.” “So, you're not going to eat me?” Said the young dragon. “Heavens no princess!” “Princess!”
Shouted the girl. "Oh no, I probably said too much,” said the spider woman. “Everything will be explained later today, I promise. Now, let me get your measurements.” "So, you are going to eat me,” questioned the girl. “No sweetie, I'm a seamstress queen. Quite literally, I am royalty, the name is Fanga... Queen Fanga of the fourth kingdom. Empress of Songspun Castle.”
As the spider queen was taking the girls measurements, she said, “My, you're quite the skinny one, aren't you? Those royal humans really must have almost starved you to death.” “I bet your hungry, I myself am parched.” Yes, the girl was hungry, and she wondered what she was going to eat that day. She also thought, “why is this happening?” “This is all too weird.” “Okay, were all finished up here,” said Queen Fanga.
“I'm just going to go downstairs and start designing your clothes, see you later.” The dragon girl started to say, “But, but...” “Don't say another word. I'm doing this out of the kindness of my heart, and this is my birthday present to you. Oops, said too much... sorry.” The queen then disappeared into a cobalt-blue smoke. Before the girl knew it, there was a knocking outside her door.”
“Who, who is it,” she stuttered. “It's breakfast time Princess Jennibelle,” said the lady behind the door. “Come downstairs and your father and mother have a big surprise for you. Looking in the mirror she said to herself, “This has to be a dream, this can't be real, or I am dead?” The girl pinched herself repeatedly to the point her arms were hurting. “This is no dream. This is really happening.”
Her belly started to rumble very loudly. The young dragon went outside her bedroom and saw the stairs. She rushed down them to see a long hallway and in through that hallway was a huge extended beautiful table with lots of chairs and golden candelabras. The table cloth was a lush silk with a Celtic knot table runner. “Where do I sit?” The girl said under her breath. “I guess I will set right here?”
Suddenly, before she could take her seat she heard the weird whispering again. She looked up and there were cards with golden arrows pointing to the right. The girl got up and thought, “maybe this is not where I sit?” She followed the arrows. By the sixteenth one, she realized there were two large chairs that weren't there before. One was for a large male the other for a woman. There were also three medium chairs by the largest, and by the woman's there was a card.
It said, 'Happy Birthday.' The girl guessed, “maybe this is my chair?” She sat down and read the card. In gold letters it replied, “Look up!” The dragon girl looked up, and out came a crowd of people from two double doors that magically appeared out from a wall. All of them looked like her, not a lot, but very similar, “Oh my goodness, who are these people?” Out of nowhere a voice rang out, “they are your loyal subjects, and I'm your older brother Aiden.”
Another voice appeared and said, “not by a long shot, I'm the oldest. Hi, my name is Bryce.” “no way, I'm the oldest, nice to meet you again sis. I don't know if you remember me, but my name is Cullen.” “You're the oldest? Yeah, by nine seconds,” said Aiden. “Where are you?” The three dragons replied at the same time, “invisibility amulet.”
They argued and argued, with the girl just sitting there, listening and looking every which way to find these so-called invisible brothers of hers. It was weird how these creatures fought, it was also kind of humorous. Suddenly a strict and soothing voice shouted out from the hallway. “Enough bickering, and take off those amulets, you know how your father dislikes magical items that turn you invisible.” The girl turned around promptly, and there stood at the end of the staircase a beautiful garnet-red haired dragon woman. Her eyes were like greenish-blue crystal gems, and a smile that was calming and yet comforting. She was wearing a crown with gorgeous stones that looked like the moon.
Her dress looked like it was made from velvet and a corset that had the same stones as her crown. The dragon girl stood up and walked slowly towards the woman and said, “don't I know you from somewhere?” The woman replied, “in fact, you do, but right now the servants are ready to serve us breakfast.” Before the female creature could say anything else, there was a loud booming sound interrupting her. In the distance a deep voice rang out in the hallway, “I can't believe you did this to my hair!” Another voice rang out saying, “I am so sorry your highness. I must have conjured up the wrong spell? Please forgive me.”
“Of course, I do, you're my number one wizard. You're my only wizard. But, next time when I want purple balloons don't give me blue streaks in my hair.” From the hallway came a scaly, masculine being with long horns and a tail. He had pitch black hair with strands of blue, he looked kind of funny, with that 'hair don't' of his. I held my laugh's in, but the three dragon boys couldn't. The robust creature sat down and said, “So you think this is funny, huh?”
“Take off those ridiculous jewelry pieces, so we all can see you,” said the masculine creature. The dragon boys finally took off the talismans. The first dragon lad looked short and had scrawny muscles. The second dragon boy was tall and very big-boned and had strong body features. The third dragon lad wasn't big-boned and or lean, he just looked normal-sized. All of them started to giggle, the tall and full-bodied beast king gave a look of disappointment to his children. Immediately they stopped laughing.
The massive creature looked at me saying,” I bet your hungry, Jennibelle?” Paying no attention, only to the silverware wondering if all of this was real. “Jennibelle... earth to Jennibelle," said the large creature. “Honey, your father is calling your name,” said the woman beside me. “Wait, I have a name?” I shouted out. “Of course, you have a name!
Didn't that evil king tell you?” Questioned the woman. “No, all they called me was either it, beast, or freak. I didn't know I had a name?” The massive dragon irritated by what his daughter had said, he whispered under his breath, “so glad I brought my wizard with me to curse that family. They really deserved it.” Not knowing that I was listening to every word he was saying, I blurted out, “so what did you actually do to them...father?”
The robust dragon looked at me with a certain glare, and I could tell I would never have to worry about King Scorp or his family ever again. Suddenly, the servants brought out plates stacked high with bacon, pancakes, pastries, eggs and much more. I wasn't even paying attention until I smelt the aroma, I looked up to see the large amount of quantities of everything. I asked if there was anyone who was going to join us to help eat all this food. Immediately there was a load knocking at the front gates, the masculine creature asked one of his servants to go get whoever was at the door. The servant ran to open it, he gulped. Running back to the king, he whispered in his ear, “the guests are here your greatness,” said the servant.
“Their early,” said the dragon. “They're too early,” said the woman beside me. I didn't know who was outside the door, but both royal creatures left the table, along with the three dragon boys. “I'll just help myself to this food.” Before I knew it, I was stuffing my face, and my mouth couldn't hold it all. I was eating so much food, so fast I didn't even notice the people behind. They were staring at me in amazement.
I turned my head to see lots of different creatures, most of which looked like humans. My mother and father embarrassed by what I had done, they said to all the people who came in, “this is our daughter... Jennibelle. “Honey, what do you say?” I shook the claws of one of the creatures, with food covering my hands while talking to them and grossly burping at the same time. My father was so ashamed of me, shaking his head then sitting back down in his chair. I said with a small voice, “sorry?”

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