"Ariana, which part of the ocean are you from?" Aqua asked the rmaid curiously.
"West," Ariana replied as they walked down the hallway close to the banquet hall.
"That's like the far end is it not?" Water Princess asked back. "I have never been to that place before, what is it like there?"
"It is nothing new, but a whole different place and landscape compared to this place. Its dessert and sea. And I was born in the middle if it. We have different water currents, so the life is different.
"That sounds interesting," Aqua hyped the conversation on going with the rmaid. "How did you end up in the Underwater Realm?" She asked. "Am curious that's why,"
"Have you not heard the fact that love drives people crazy to do unimaginable things?" She asked Aqua back, as she explained.
"Wow, seriously?" Aqua was surprised. She dropped her jaw and then shut them imdiately. "I can't believe this,"
"I know," Ariana smiled. She took Aqua over to the coral reefs at the end of the palace's veranda leading to a pavilion like area.
"So you left ho, swam all the down here, to the Water Realm for the sake of the person living here?"
"Kind of," Ariana said and turned away.
"That's..." but Ariana stopped Aaua from speaking.
"It would be nice if we drop the topic," the rmaid said to the Water Princess. Aqua felt bad and srooped talking but she has to know more at any cost. Aqua tapped on the shoulders of Ariana.
"Look at ," she said and smiled. Aqua's eyes turned green and she Locked her eyes with Ariana and intertwined her mory into Ariana's trying to reach the depths of Ariana's mind. Ariana stood there still, her eyes open and taken over by the princess. She had no mory of what was being done to her and things taken away from her mory. Aqua used a restricted spell on Ariana which would give Aqua a greater punishnt again apart from getting kicked out. It did not look like a smooth life this young lady had led. Aqua felt bad for her.
The never ending dessert, hot and, covered with different cactus palnts. The little teenage girl often ca to shore to relax and stay away from the duties assigned, for a little period of ti.
On a sunny scorching hot day, when she sa ca out of the sea, to the shores, a wonder was what she witnessed at that particular mont of ti. She was shocked and she shut her eyes tight imdiately, seeing a cloud of fire landing on the dessert. A minute later when she opened her, there she a saw boy her age standing in front of her. She scread and jumped back at the sea, she revealed the fact that she is a rmaid to him. It was not supposed to happen. He stood there equally surprised to see her real form too.
"I.. we.. we did not see anything of each other okay?" He managed to ask her.
She did not say anything at first, looking at him, observing him. His pale face, his long brown hair, his bronze eyes, his height, his muscular arm and thighs. He looked amiable, she liked it but she wondered who he is and what kind of bird flies with fire. He extended his arms, asking her to take it towards the water. She kept looking at him and held her hands. She got out of the water and her tail disappeared, walking with her legs. Her red her wet and lying on her face. He pulled her towards him quickly before the waves hit him and moved further away from the water.
"What are you doing?" She asked him moving away from him taking her hands off his.
"I can't touch water for now," he said and let her go.
"Are you a?" She stopped in the middle.
"Hmm yes, only Phoenix left in the Universe," he said without caring to hide it since she had already seen his form. "And you are a rmaid, one which the world is supposed to not know for now,"
"Kind of," she looked at him. They couldn't help but laugh at each other. "Ok let's keep this a secret alright?" She asked him. He extended his hands again to shake hands and seal the deal.
"Done," and they both shook hands. They sat there on the beach, looking at the waves for a while in complete silence. They had no idea what to speak with each other. He looked extrely tired and pale.
"Are you okay?" She asked him.
"No," he did not deny the fact. She knew how she running late for her work but she decided to stay.
"What happened?"
"A little tired, that's all," he said to her.
"Why? Where you at work or sothing?" She sounded concerned.
He looked at her and smiled. Her red hair had dried sitting under the sun. Her deep set of eyes looked warm just like her words. He kept smiling with his cold pale lips. He had never seen a pretty girl in his life before. She suddenly moved closer and touched his forehead to check his temperature. He was caught off guard and had his heart pounding loud. Her face close to his. This was first ti he has ever been close to a lady. He looked at her from close. Her lting eyes. And her red lip. He swallowed hard and quickly looked away.
"You're sweating hard, you have temperature too, maybe we should wait and see," she said and moved back to her space. He did not et her eyes, avoiding them.
"This is how I am," he said looking away at the sea. She waited more for his words. "This is how my body reacts when I take my true form, like I shouldn't, tiring severely, forcing to quit," he sounded hurt deeply.
"Your core must have been effected, did you et with an accident or sothing?" She asked him.
"I cannot rember," he replied.
"Where are you from? Where is your family?" She kept asking more.
"I have none, and I don't know where am from," he said to the truth rmaid. To her it sounded like he t with an accident and lost his mory and powers. She concluded that way. "You will be alright soon," she consoled him and patted his shoulders.
"You live here?" He asked her pushing the topic away.
"Yes, under here," she said. "Have you swum before?" She asked him.
"No I cannot swim while am in the true form, the others tis yes a little, not in the ocean," he said drawing on the stand with a stick he got. She looked at the shapes he had drawn and kept talking to him. He looked pretty lonely and she felt bad for him, seeing the lonely figures he had drawn.
She got up then, since it she had a very less ti to finish her work. She had to make a delivery in the nearby town. Choosing to rest a while on her way made her end up seeing a rare person and she felt happy about it. "I better leave," she said and bid farewell.
"Which direction are you heading to?" He asked her.
"East, to the nearby town," she said as she walked away. He ran behind her.
"Count in," he said. He did not wish to lose the company he had got.
"No problem," she said and kept walking.
"No that would take a long ti," he said stopping her. Holding her shoulders. "You can trust on this," he said and took her hands once again. She looked at him and the next mont she was surrounded by people. She was thrilled. She had always heard about heavenly beings apparating. But this was her first experience. "Like it?" He asked her raising his brows with his alluring eyes looking at hers, smiling. She nodded her head.
"This would save a lot of ti and get back ho on ti," she jumped and walked towards a clay house where she was asked to deliver a book. She did that in ten minutes and walked back to the point he was waiting her.
"What's your na?" She asked him.
"You can call Feng," he said.
"Am Ariana," she introduced herself and smiled at him. His tiredness was wearing off slowly, his face gaining the color back. "What a great day to be here!" She said and took him to a hotel to dine together. She led him holding his hands playfully and he walked behind her staring at her as she dragged him. People stared at her often for the bright color of her hair. But she never gave them anything and moved forward as she wished. Her green dress and her purple purple dangling down her hip. He enjoyed it all that day. The feeling he had never felt before. "Is this what it feels like to be around people?" He wondered and sat before her as she ordered food for both of them. It is then he saw soone standing behind her, staring at the two of them. Feng'er grew anxious. He stood up imdiately.
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