Loque Bella is a waitress who is transported back into time to a kingdom called Hampshen; where she finds herself the youngest of a farmer's four daughters and set to marry the queen's son Prince Callum, but there is so much more to her life than just that and it all begins to unfold when on her wedding day a fayagan, the most feared creature in all the kingdoms, crashes the event and kidnaps her.
View MoreIt was Friday night and Loque Bella was working her usual 01 to 06 shift. It was around 03 in the morning and the diner was empty; the only people there were her and the cook who was in the kitchen watching a football game on the small TV mounted in the corner on the wall, whilst she was sitting behind the counter flipping through a fashion magazine, wishing she looked as beautiful as the women in it. Loque Bella was stunning but she never saw it and she definitely never felt it. The large thick frame glasses she wore on her face made her feel unattractive and the fact that she couldn't afford make up to make herself look even a little better didn't help either.
Just then the door swung open and hitting the bell at the top, Loque Bella lifted her head and there was a woman walking in. She was about sixty years old and was wearing a wholly blanket over her long brown dress; she looked somewhat homeless. Her name was Gorette.
"Good morning?" Loque Bella said closing the magazine.
"Good morning child," Gorette responded; her voice hoarse like she hadn't had a drink of water in days.
"How can I help you?" she asked coming out from behind the counter to meet her.
"May I please sit down?"
"Of course," she said and Gorette sat down in one of the booths, giving out a heavy sigh.
"Uh that's better."
"What can I get you?"
"I . . . I don't have any money. What do you have that is free?" Gorette asked.
"A cup of coffee."
"Great I will have that."
"Are you not hungry?" Loque Bella asked.
"Oh my darling, you have no idea how hungry I am. I haven't eaten in days but I have not even a single coin on me. I can't afford to buy anything."
"Right, let me get you that coffee."
"Thank you dear," Gorette said and Loque Bella went to prepare her a big cup of coffee; pouring some milk into it and even adding a few tiny marshmallows. She then put it on a tray and delivered it to her and looking down at the tray Gorette's face lit a little up. "Uh what is this?"
"You said you were hungry so I cut you a pie of apple pie."
"No darling, I have no money I can't afford this, you have to take it back."
"It's on the house," Loque Bella said.
"What?"
"It's on the house."
"Oh my dear, that is so so kind of you. I'm sorry hungry. Thank you so much."
"You're welcome," Loque Bella said and Gorette immediately dug in. "If you need anything else just let me know o.k., I'm by the counter," she then said and walked way.
"Wait." Loque Bella stopped and turned back to her.
"Yes."
"Would you mind sitting down and keeping me company?"
"Uh . . . Not at all sure," she said and sat down opposite her.
"Do you want a bite of my pie?"
"Oh no it's fine, I just ate thank you."
"Right," Gorette said and ate on; as Loque Bella watched her for a bit and then turned her head to the window to look outside at the full moon. A faint smile grew on her face as she looked on and got lost in its gorgeous yellow light. "I love it too," she then said and Loque Bella turned to her.
"Sorry?"
"The moon . . . I love it too."
"It's just so beautiful. Every time I look at it it just brings this weird happiness inside of me, like . . . Like it's speaking to me you know," Loque Bella said.
"What does it say?"
"No it's stupid," she said chuckling.
"Go on tell me, I would love to hear it."
"You promise you won't laugh?"
"I promise," Gorette said.
"It tells me that one day I will find a place where I truly belong. That I won't be this nobody for the rest of my life and that I will finally find the happiness that I have been looking for my whole life."
"Oh darling, that's so beautiful."
"You don't think it's weird that I get all that just by looking at the moon?"
"Not at all; if you can hear the moon speaking to you then you must be very special."
"Or just really weird, it's a thin line," Loque Bella said and they laughed.
"What is your name child?"
"Loque Bella."
"Oh what a lovely name, what does it mean?" Gorette asked.
"I have no idea." They chuckled. "All I know is that my mother, whoever she was, left a request in a letter that whoever adopted me should name me Loque Bella."
"Your mother gave you away?"
"Yes she did. Right when I was born," she said.
"Oh sweetheart, I am so sorry."
"Yeah."
"I'm sure she did what was best for you," Gorette said.
"So they told me," she said and silence swept for a moment.
"Did you find a good foster home?"
"I did; I got adopted by the Henry's and they were so nice. They gave me everything I needed and they never missed a chance to tell me they loved me; life was good, I couldn't have dreamed of it being any better. But then one night, an accident happened and my whole world went dark. I lost my guardians and I lost everything that made my life the special thing it was. And just like that everything changed. They told me that if anything happened to them that I'd be taken care of but it seems someone greased the lawyers because when the will came out, my name was nowhere in it. I got kicked out of my own home with not so much as change to pay for the bus. It's been five years and I have been fending for myself ever since."
"Oh my darling I am so sorry," Gorette said.
"I used to hear talks about them not liking me and not considering me family but I didn't think they would go as far as writing me out of the will and abandoning me. No one hugged me, no one wished me well, no one even walked me out to make sure I made it to the bus stop o.k. they just stood there and watch me leave and that was it."
"That is such a sad story," she said, with a hand to her chest even.
"It's alright, that's life right. Sometimes it knocks you down and sometimes it really knocks you down but whatever, you just dust yourself off and you keep going."
"Such a brave girl. I know the Henry's are looking down on you and are so proud of who you've become."
"Are they really? There's nothing to my life," Loque Bella said tearing up.
"Uh uh don't you dare say that about yourself, nothing to your life, you're alive, that's something."
"Yes but look at my life, I'm a waitress who gets paid scraps. I live in a worn out one room apartment because I get paid scraps. I can't get a better job because I didn't finish high school; this is my life and this is all it will ever be."
"What if I told you you could be so much more?"
"Listen lady I like you but I am not selling my soul to you," she said and they chuckled. "Things are bad but things are not that bad." They chuckled on.
"Worry not your soul is safe."
"Thank you."
"But it is lost," Gorette said.
"Tell me about it; every day I wake up feeling empty, like there is so much more to my life but I have absolutely no idea how to access it. Like there's a huge part of me missing and I don't know where that part of me is."
"I do."
"You do what?" Loque Bella asked.
"I know where that missing part of you is."
"Really?"
"Oh yes," Gorette responded.
"Where is it?"
"Not where my darling . . . When," she said and Loque Bella just sat there looking at her with a wondered look on her face. Did she just say when? What was she going on about?
Back in the snowy forest of Monteg, Prince Callum was sitting on the ground holding Loque Bella's cold and beginning to freeze corpse in his arms with both he and Mr. Braun were crying."Let her be your highness, she's gone," Mr. Braun said."No she's not. She can't be gone. I . . . I love her, she can't be gone," Prince Callum said."I am so sorry.""She was the one Mr. Braun. You how sometimes you know things just by looking at them?""I do yes," Mr. Braun said."When I looked at her I knew she was the one. I just knew it. Looking into her eyes I saw my whole future in it and now that future will never be.""Your highness I am so sorry.""There has to be something we can do," Prince Callum said. "There has to be a way for us to bring her back.""Your highness please you are making this very hard on yourself.""She can't be gone Mr. Braun. She can't. I love her and I need her," he said and looked down at Loque Be
The creature flew out of its nest and seeing its massive size, Loque Bella shrunk to the size of a pea. It was a giant pterodactyl with the feathers of a snowy owl; squawking and flapping its large wings."Oh my goodness oh no," Loque Bella said looking at it fly on. It then turned and began flying towards her and seeing it coming straight for her, her heart dropped right out of her chest.She screamed and began climbing, as fast as she could, as behind her the creature homed in on her.Its sharp beak was aimed at her and was going to stab her right through the back had she not let go and fallen a few vines down just in the nick of time.The creature like lightning turned its body to the side and flew on as Loque Bella saw it go and continued climbing."Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh!" she said as she climbed; Gorra had nothing but terrible words to say about the pterotus and it was out to get her. Not good.It turned in the air and flew d
It was a couple of hours after midnight and the full moon still shining its bright light, Loque Bella in her moon essence form flew through the night sky in the direction of the Harborage of Embellishment. She had left Marius behind and it was a decision that cut her up. It reminded her of the heart ache that came to her when she saw Prince Mangus dead and what he put himself through just to ensure her safety and that just made her leaving Marius behind even more painful. The desert was dangerous and he was out there by himself, what had she done? With what they had faced, she couldn't believe that she had left him but she had to. Leaving meant he could have her portion of food and water which would give him another day but still that was not good enough; hunger and thirst were not the only things that could kill him out there, there were the creatures also. And what if one of them attacked him? They barely survived going up against them the two of them what more by himself?
A new day came and Loque Bella and Marius continued making their way through hot bareness to the Harborage of Embellishment.Walking on suddenly Marius stopped and turned his head to the side."What?" Loque Bella asked."Did you hear that?" he asked."Hear what?""I think I just heard thunder.""Thunder," she said and looked up. "That's not possible there's not a single cloud in the sky.""It didn't come from the sky.""Then where did it come from?" she asked and Marius ran to his left and began climbing the large dune. "What are you doing?"He climbed on and when he reached the top his blood ran cold."Oh my goodness," he said."What? Marius what is it?" Loque Bella asked and ran up the very dune to see what he was looking at. She reached the top, with him just standing there with a blank expression on his face, and when she saw what had gotten him so spooked, the same expression came over her face.
The sun rose over the dunes and brought forth a new day and walking on across the hotness Loque Bella and Marius carried on; now with only one bag with the things they needed to survive.There was a large dune in front of them and when they climbed it hoping to see something in the distance that would give them relief, it gave them the opposite feeling; they both gave out heavy sighs and threw their heads down, there was nothing out there but dunes, dunes and more dunes."Goodness gracious, I don't know how much more of this I can take. I am so tired," Loque Bella said heavily breathing, with her fur cloak stained with dried up blood and washed in dirt to keep the blood from being smelled by any nearby predators."We'll get there don't worry," Marius said with his bag on his back."Get where? We don't even know where we're going.""Yes we do. The Harborage of Embellishment.""Yes but we don't even know if it's out here," she said."Of
Marius crouched on through the tunnel following the bloody drag marks and finally came to the end of it. The tunnel came out into a large open area and standing up straight he then took off his bag and secured it in a secluded corner and began looking around for Loque Bella.He was about to shout out her name when just then he heard a squeal coming from the darkness; a squeal that made him hide the oil lamp under his cloak and hit the ground.There were large rocks and bolders scattered across the area and these were what Marius used to hide himself from the creature; popping his oil lamp in and out from underneath his cloak to see where he was going and not lose track of the bloody drag marks."Loque Bella," he whispered out to her but the only thing that responded was the creature that gave out another squeal. Quickly he hid the oil lamp and sat quiet as somewhere in the area the creature ran around; with the sound of its many legs hitting the ground like a sm
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