116 Planning for Wedding

Althea

I was sleeping. Tired from the usual couple does to get to know each other. The princess duties with the lord, the lunch, the picnic and the dinner. Yet I'm happy. We also dance on the hall with a portable speaker that he brought from the Outsideworld. The song that is playing was the song that he sang a while ago.

He was so sweet and he kisses me a lot. Showing this affection to everyone. My brothers arrived together with my sisters and Andrew that are from the Psychē.

I suddenly felt cold, exposed. And when I open my eyes, I saw him, the man who always hunt me. He smiled at me deviously. I wanted to scream, yet I couldn't. I try to scream from my lungs but I couldn't. I try to resist from him but I am frozen.

I gasped as tear fall from my eyes as I felt his teeth on my breast. The painful cold of his teeth on my nipples, and his manhood trusting inside me, so painful. I silently pray for anyone who could hear me. Please someone help me.

"It's alright, love." His whisper makes me shudder. The only person that comes to my mind was Lancelot. Where are you when I need you? "You'll be with me soon."

All I do was to cry. If this was a dream I wanted to wake up again. Please, Lancelot. Help me.

"Althea." I open my eyes again to see my father looking all devious. "Althea!"

I gasped and sat up. I felt a soft bed on me. I immediately rush off from bed. And found myself at the corner of my room. I look at Lancelot standing beside my bed and my brother on the door.

"You alright?" Nicholas asked me. I found myself panting. My chest is hurting. Lancelot walk briskly to me and embrace me. I breathed. I inhale his scent that makes the ache on my chest fades away, slowly.

"I'm here." I started sobbing and clench his thin shirt. I heard my brother left and suddenly, Adhiti came with a glass of water.

Lancelot and I are already sitting on the floor. I didn't mind that it was cold. My upper dress was wet from the cold sweat. Adhiti sat down with me and gave me the glass. I took it shakily. It was a cold glass. I sipped on it and a cold fresh water runs down from my throat. It makes me feel better.

"How about you sleep with Lancelot? I'll tell the helpers to bring few of your things to the new room." I nodded. My hand still shaking as I took another sip. She took my shaking hand and smiled.

"It's okay. He won't bother you anymore." Does she knows what happened to me? "I'm a Goddess and your Queen, I know all about you. As long as I am here, you are safe."

"Thank you." She stand.

"Be strong Althea, those things might shatter you." She left me thinking.

Lancelot took a new dress for me as he carried me to his room. He make me sit on the chair and give me the warmest fur blanket. He increase logs on the chamber and make himself busy to make me comfortable. He settled a long sofa and joined it with another.

The dream was real. He will come back to me. They will hunt me down since I'm one of the apprentice of the God. I let out an exhale as I sipped on the water again. I gazed my eyes outside. The light of the blue moon was so bright. The God of the night was born.

"I can sleep beside you." I look up at him and he took my glass. "That would do right?"

"Please."

"Do you want me to undress you?" he tease me. I chuckled and stood.

"I can do that on my own." I did went behind the dressing wall. I remove my wet dress and slipped into another. I went to him and wrapped my arms around him. He give it back instantly. I breathed, it's the best that I ever had in my life. Comfort from someone's embrace.

"Do you want to sleep now?"

"Let's stay like this for a while." I close my eyes and he did let me. The warmth of his big body runs to my skin. Making me all protective from every danger. I feel lighter whenever I am with him.

I pull him to the bed that he made and turn back from him. I wanted his arms around me from my behind. He did gave it to me. I lean on him and felt his hard body behind me. I feel so small, so soft and so comfortable on his body and arms that is pressed on me.

"Who put me there?" I ask. I am confused on how I get on my bed.

"I don't know. I came there to say good night but you are sleeping on the bed. I try to wake you up but you are drown on your sleep. So I lighten your whole room and those black shadows was around you." I stifle an air and hold his hand that is rested on my stomach.

"How can we make them away?"

"I don't know. But I promise that they won't bother you ever again."

"If we make love would they leave?"

"I don't know. But I'm sure they are luring on you and on the King. The King is the Queen's life in this world. We have to protect him as well. This is why I came here not just to court you. I heard about the shadows living here from my dream."

"Glad you came." I felt his warm soft kiss on my ear.

"I will be always there to save you, love." I close my eyes and sleep.

I know that I was dreaming when I close my eyes. It wasn't the dream from the bed. But it was a beautiful scene, full of flowers, beautiful sky, beautiful weather. My heart pounded as I saw the man coming down from his horse. He's tall, lean and strong. He smile at me, the smile that makes me flutter. The smile like Lancelot always gave me.

"Love," I know that it was someone that I love with my life. His touch was the same with Lancelot. Or was his soul is Lancelot? "I came late." He gave me the day lilies that he surely picked on his way.

"It's better than never."

"I know you would say that."

I gasped and found Lancelot beside me, his chin rested on my neck and his arms gripped around me. His breath hitches. I feel that his whole body is tensed. I hold his hand and he's groaning and murmuring something. What's happening?

"Lancelot?" I got startled when he sat up, looking all painful and looking all dismayed. He pull me to his arms and kisses me.

"I won't be late." His heart is palpating like he's been on fight. "I won't be late, love." I hold him.

"What happened?"

"I lost you once, I won't lose you again." Are we dreaming the same dream? I dream it. He's fighting over someone and I got killed. He lost me and I lost him as well. God, is this the reason why we are living again? Is this the reason why we met? Because we have been in love to each other back then? Because we are meant to love each other for eternity and to save people?

Lancelot and I visit the new born baby of Marissa. He was beautiful as the night. He's the God of the night that is reborn here down on earth to fulfill his task. The new Guardian bow at us and is always around Marissa and the child.

We have to fulfill our task to the Earth. But before that, we rested there for a while. I took few things, gather few armors with Lancelot that we will give to the students. Princess Almira ask us if she could come. She wanted to see the students and make sure that they are taken care of. Because the students of the mystical academy are our powerful future to bring light from this dark world.

We came there and we are greeted warmly. Few professors that had been from the insideworld bow at her and she simply smile at them and meet the students. She give speeches and tell them exactly what they are and why they have this special skills. They aren't an armor, they aren't swords but they are light that the Gods and Goddesses choose to protect this world.

There are food for us as we talk with the council, with Guinevere, Daven, Clarence, Gibson and others that are assigned for few things.

"Where would you like to have our wedding?" Lancelot ask out of the blue. We haven't had our wedding back then. He's talking about our past life. We were about to get married but he came a little late and we both lost each other.

"Anywhere." I intertwine my hand to his.

"Hey, so looking all good!" Clarence interrupt us. "I heard the new born," I gave him the bag that Marissa gave me to give her mother. "We are going there anyway. Princess Almira ask me to escort you all."

"Clarence, where is the best wedding option?" Lancelot suddenly asked and I nudge him.

"You guys are getting married?" Clarence look down on our intertwined hands. "You should've bought her ring?"

"Ring?"

"In here, when a man ask for a woman to get married there should be a ring as a proof to marry the woman." He pulls out his so called iPhone and type something. He show us videos from the stream. It's a man kneeling after the surprise for the woman just to ask her hand.

"He done a great job on bringing a band of knights and offering it to me and the Kingdom." I said.

Lancelot smile like a little child. "But he didn't present any ring." I added which makes him pouts. "With or without it, I'll marry you."

"Oh, that's so cheesy!" Gibson, the God of Death parted both of us and put his arms on our shoulders. "Clarence know someone for a perfect wedding." Clarence nodded.

"Where do you want to held your wedding?" Lancelot look at me asking to where or when. I shrugged and told him to choose where.

"We haven't discuss about it."

"There's a lot to worry than a wedding."

"We can just held a ritual then." Lancelot took my hand. I nodded. Nothing to extravagant. Ritual is enough for us.

We settled on the dining room that is only exclusive for us to discuss. Lancelot has been busy on the phone that Guinevere gave and I peek on it and he slid it away from me not to see it. I got curious why he become so busy over their technology.

"What was that?"

"It's nothing." He grins and sipped on his wine.

"Let's held our wedding tonight." I told and he almost choke. He cough, clearing his throat.

"Can't it be on the other day?"

"We don't have much time."

"Tomorrow night. Let's just have it tomorrow night."

"Why not tonight?" there's no delay. "Tomorrow, we don't know what we are going after to. We don't know what we are after to."

"What are you worried about?" Guinevere asked, bringing her goblet to her lips.