• The water was dazzling

    Sapphire blue in the dark starry night. The moonlight made it glow, a reflection of the night sky. The river ran up to the castle, my castle. I looked up and saw it towering over the forest like a grand painting. The breeze was faint, but rustled the leaves behind me making the silent night eerie. A flowery scent traveled from the forest, filling up my lungs of something beautiful.

    The water looked cold, but the air around me was warm but not sweltering. The water would be refreshing and take the pains from my aching body. Being a fairy was hard work, epically when your a later bloomer and your wings didn't grow until the age of 18. The normal age was 12.

    A big surprise for my cousin, who took over queen when my mother was kidnapped years ago. But that’s why it was so important for me to grow my wings. I was the heir, and a heir without wings would be the biggest scandal.

    It was a sigh of relief for everyone when my back suddenly exploded. Dripping red beauties erupted from my back. When the blood dripped off and the searing hot pain stopped I saw them; clear silver wings.

    I was happy when I got them, but now then I started my training I was always tired, drained and soar.

    I looked up at the castle, and sighed. I'd have to be back soon, or I'd miss the party... my party.

    Cara, queen of Cayden and my cousin was throwing me a party because I'd just finished my training and was now a member of the Cayden Knights. All the fairies in the kingdom were invited and so were the humans, from the old world... my old world. It was a year ago that we came out of the closest and let ourselves been seen when we came over. And today was the first day we brought them over. They weren't very important humans just a bunch of no name actors and actresses that Cara agreed to let shoot there new film in the castle.

    Leave it to Cara to give someone a leg up.

    I inhaled the night air one last night before I took my silky robe off. My skin was left bare and Goosebumps erupted on my skin. The robe laid on the ground around my feet. I walked up to the river's edge and dipped my foot in off the bank. It sent a cold shudder up my body like a snake slithering up my spine.

    Being half fairy, half human, I was the only fairy with the ability to keep my wings under the skin, invisible. That were they were now, hidden from the night sky.

    I inhaled the air and held it in my lungs. Then I stretched up and dove in the icy water of the rivers water. When I came up and let out the breath that I held in for so long, my lungs screamed of the cold.

    I swam for a little while, not wanting to go up and entertain the guests that waited up at the castle for me. I wasn't interested in that.

    I sensed someone coming from the path that led up to the castle, the same path everyone used to bathe here in the lake except me, I liked to hike around the river. It was a younger girl, one of the castles servants.

    "Miss Ivy?" She whispered not seeing me here in the river. Cara must have told her to get me, she was the only one who really knew me.

    "I am here!" I called out and swam closer to the bank she would only be able to see my naked silhotte in the moonlight. "Cara sent you?"

    "Oh yes Miss Ivy, she did." She said, here head popping forward to strain to see me. "She wanted you to come up and dress, your guests are starting to arrive."

    "I'll come." I sighed, Cara'd be mad if she waited any longer. "Thank you missus."

    " Oh it's only I Miss, Fay, your humble servant." I watched Fay's silhotte bow down, then turn around and head up the path to the castle.

    I swam to the other side of the river bank, noting that amazing feeling of the water on my naked body. I dunked my head and let the water fall down my back and shoulder blades as I emerged into the warm summer air. Then I pulled myself up out of the water, feeling the pricked of my skin as it hardened into Goosebumps. I reached down where my robe laid just inches away from me and pulled it up over my shoulders. I put the hood up, allowed it to warm my ears.

    I turned around to take one last look at the river when I heard a snicker coming from the other side of the river. I paused grabbing my waist only to remember that my dagger was not on me. I was alert though and that’s all that mattered if I wanted to win.

    I took a step forward letting my back slowly split open until I saw bright blue eyes, the brightest of all the colours. Then young man those eyes belonged to was pushed out of a bush and started at me with wide eyes and embarrassment spread across his face.

    Human boys... a whole group of them! Peeking toms! I scowled loud enough for them to hear me then wrapped my body tighter in the robe. I shook my head and then turned into the forest, in darkness...