Chapter 3: Land of Krenshai

Chapter 3 Land of Krenshai

 

 

My eyes shoot open quickly. I’m lying on grass. I get up and have no headache at all surprisingly. I remember everything clearly, getting choked to pass out should’ve gave me a headache, big time.

I have a more substantial question; where the frick am I?

Everything around me is too beautiful for any movie or TV show.

The sky is a Turquoise slash pinkish color (which normally isn’t my favorite), it reminds me of a children’s coloring. The meadow is filled with flowers I haven’t even seen before; they’re blue with endless amounts of colored speckles on the petals and the middle. The further part is unexplainable.

I suddenly get a dose of anxiety in my stomach.

What about my parents?! Do they know I’m missing? Am I even missing?

“Enjoying the view?” I hear a familiar voice call from  behind.

I spin on my heel�"yes, I can to that on grass now�"the boy from my dreams is looking at me.

I nod my head. “Yes, it’s quite…beautiful.”

He shrugs his shoulders. “It’s nothing really. Once you’re used to it, you barely notice it.”

“Wow, you’ve must’ve been here a long time, because I don’t see how you could get sick of this.” I looked around the plantation as I talked.

He again shrugs his shoulders. “My name is Zakai. It’s Hebrew.” Like I cared what kind of a name his was.

“I’m�"” He interrupted me rudely.

“Tara. Yeah, I know you already.” I hate know it all’s. They’re annoying.

I nodded my head, not wanting to say anything rude because I didn’t want to mess with these people, they’re psychopaths.

“We are not. We are just different from human-race.” Zakai didn’t look mad nor upset.

“What?” I asked, not knowing how he could’ve possibly known that I thought that.

“Mind reading. Everyone can do it in Krenshai, when you are a Krenshianian unless you are a gifted human, which in this case, you are.” I scrunched my eyebrows.

“Just get me out of here. I don’t like it, it’s creepy and weird. I want to go home and spend time with my family. Plus it’s Christmas Eve, we should be spending time with them right now.” I seemed to be talking to myself more than Zakai. It was Christmas Eve, and I did want to spend time with my family.

“You cannot. You need to serve here until you have completed the main tasks.” Someone was a little too pushy.

I shook my head. “No. I can’t. I want to go home and see my family.” It’s not that I was stubborn. It’s just for the fact that it’s weird to be here with people I don’t know in some imaginary land.

“You can either do this the easy way or the hard way and if you’re going to stand here and protest, then it is going to be the hard way.” Zakai notified.

“Please just show me how to get out of here.” I begged, gaping at his boyish beauty.

He closed his eyes, put his hand into a fist�"I thought I was going to get punched so a flinched�"but he put it on his head looking ridiculous. When I blinked, there were a bunch of other men around me, dressed in armor, holding guns, not swords like I’d expect, but guns. Pointing at my head like I was a criminal.

I put my hands on my head, acting like I was in those Die Hard movies, except I wasn’t Bruce Willis, I was the terrorist, at least I wasn’t falling off a building or getting beat up by Bruce Willis.

The next I knew, I had a sharp pain in my arm. I didn’t feel any blood draw or any liquid drip down my arm, my eyes just began to get droopy. I was really sick of passing out.

I wanted to call these people names that were not in a PG movie, but I couldn’t find the strength to do so.

 

 

I’m in the meadow�"the one I had entered earlier in my dream and in Krenshai�"Zakai is with me. Holding my hand gently, but Treigh is there too, standing spitting distance from us. “Don’t trust him.” Zakai muttered in my ear. I look at him, confused. “Why?” I questioned, though I don’t know why, Treigh looks suspicious enough. “This man you see in front of you, is a back stabber. He has tried to kill Tricanova to reform her to be his wife and his queen to take over Krenshai. We’ve held him in our jail, but since he has gone to create his own world, we cannot hold him. He searches for you, always searches for you. Every day. Since you were born.” Zakai whispers. Treigh smiles and laughs. “Haha, you are correct. That is all that has happened. I plan to do more destruction and I plan to take over Krenshai, along with my brother. I hope you will join us. You can be my queen instead of Tricanova, she is useless to me now, but…you, you will be held by me forever and guarded and drowned in riches. As I said previously, you will have ownership.” As Treigh talks about what I get, I laugh and smile at his charm. I walk away from Zakai, but Zakai grabs my shoulder. “No. Don’t.” He sounds like he’s begging. I struggle away from him. Treigh holds out his hand and I grab onto it. “I promised you riches and ownership that is what you will gain. As soon as you become my consort. You will get it all. I promise you.” Treigh says.

Someone shakes me awake from my nightmare. As if I’d ever go with that old Treigh! He said I was incompetent; I would never love somebody who doesn’t like me for who I was. Also, why would I be his consort if I’m only 15?!

It’s Zakai, looking at me. “Yes?” I say, angered.

“Are you ready to meet the queen?” Zakai asks.

I shake my head. “I’m not meeting your stupid queen, I told you already, I want to go home!” I scolded.

Zakai laughs. “But I told you…you can’t. You are far too special to be sent home, and it’s too late for us to “send you home” as you put it. You would tell people about our land and about what you saw. Not only wouldn’t they believe you, but you would violate our rules, and those rules can’t simply be broken, unless you want to face death. Which I doubt you do, because you are young and want to live your life.”

I laughed. “I want to live my life on Earth, where I belong, because that’s where I was born. And what’s up with this talk about me being special, it’s not even true. I’m just a normal 15 year old girl, looking for a normal 15 year old life. Not spending it on fairytale land where the “princes” and “princesses” live. And kings and queens. And by the way, is there a dragon we need to slay too?! Besides that point, I’m wondering if this is a dream that I can’t wake up from�"” again Zakai interrupts me.

“Please be quiet. I’ve been trying to be nice, but I can’t. I simply can’t, when you blabber on your old life, and things that I don’t care about. I mean, I was taken from my old life 200 years ago and yet I don’t complain and didn’t complain as much as you are right now.” He says I blabber on about useless things. Jeesh take a look at yourself, “Zakai”.

“Yes, but I don’t blabber on as much as you do.” He said, scratching his chin.

“Quit reading my mind.” I demanded.

“I can’t help it, it’s just worth reading. You have many fun things to read in that brain of yours.” He laughs fascinated.

“Now come along, we’re visiting Tricanova. She’s going to be quite intrigued that you’re in her presence. She saw you coming a long time ago and now that you are here, with us. Tricanova can retire from her Queen position and you can take over.” Zakai informed.