{--The Wedding of Queen Titania and Lord Kaori--}

[Desperanza]

Welcome, to the wedding of Titania and Kaori...


It was indeed a wedding of a century. That of the marriage between the Queen of Fairies, and the Lord of Dragons. Queen Titania and Lord Kaori to be married together in ceremony and celebration before the Celeste Falls just outside of Ellsinora. The morning had buzzed, busy and now, with the late afternoon sun rolling around and sunset approaching, the ceremony was preparing to take place as the celebration would lead on into the night after their words of matrimony in the shades of the setting sun. The place was alight with sprites flitting about and flora littered every seeming inch of the area. There were fine wooden chairs for any and all guests that may arrive and the forest was lit softly with glowing lights upon a path that would bring all guests to the scene of the wedding and later, where they would celebrate in the outskirts of Kiyer among the trees with music and provisions for all to attend.

The landscape was breathtaking, as always. For even without the wide expanse of flowers in every kind layered and grown around the falls and the forest itself, Celeste Falls was a dazzling sight in and of itself. The sprites had managed to light the trees softly with tiny twinkling lights that dazzled the branches and leaves and streamers created carefully from thinned and died parchment in shades of pink, greens, and ivory. The back of the chair was strewn in jade silks folded into charming bows and there was laid a silk ivory strip down the center of the chairs that lined either side of the aisle. Roses bloomed about the falls and orchids lined the edge of the tide pool where ivory and pink lilies nestled on pads within the crystal clear water. Lilac and Lavender scented the air as it sprouted further out among the trees, lining the walk way that led to the scene of the wedding itself. The celebration clearing had also been adorned with floral as well and it was a place where later a few musicians would show to fuel the celebration behind the wedding.

The Queen, now nearly half way through her fifth month of pregnancy, was quite obviously showing by this point. Her swollen stomach was well rounded beneath the silk and lace that draped her form with room still to grow for she still had time before her little one was to be born. She stood hidden within her own realm for now as sprites flurried about, finishing the last of the preparations for the Queen. She had been dressed in a gown of intricate lace, her skin showing with a soft glow from beneath the lace along her arms for the rest of her body had first been draped in a sweeping ivory gown beneath the lace cover to shield her body from view and yet to allow the ivory lace to shine. It was sewn in intricate, swirling patterns that represented much of nature from the sun to the moon and the floral that was painted in nearly every crevice outside of the falls.

Despite the fact that the Queen was never nervous, the fact that she was indeed the Queen of the Sprites had always given her strength and confidence and she never feared any other but now, with her palms settled over her swollen belly, she worried. She was truly nervous for all eyes to be upon her and her love. She was not nervous to be married to the Lord of Dragons, she was nervous as to what the people would think of the child that grew steadily within her. She had encouraged this wedding for the sake of her child. She did not want anyone to have any reason to doubt that her child was to be respected just as any other and just as highly as she herself. She did not view her child as a half breed and she expected no other to, either. Never the less, she calmed herself with a soft sigh as she straightened and turned to face the young female sprite whom had been working at her back, folding her hair into intricate and swirling braids that in turn folded into one and laced down her back. Smiling gently, the Queen thanked the sprite before moving on with a soft sigh.

The Queen did not apply any form of make up or color to her face or skin for she had no need. The radiance and glow about her was brighter and crisper then ever and the shade of gold only enticed her natural beauty, even within her current state. She was now just as beautiful as she always had been and with the lace that covered her body with the sweeping skirt that danced around her ankles and the lace that lined her arms straight out to the back of her hands, she emanated a wild and tamed beauty yet to be matched. At once, she was indeed ready for her own wedding. Ignoring the urge to step out from the falls and to greet her guests, she instead settled upon her throne and closed her eyes, imagining just how many people might be waiting there outside of the falls for the appearance of the Queen. She was no Queen of humans, so would they care? She knew of the excitement that buzzed about her own people for all had looked forward to this event for some time, ever since the official announcement which had from there spread to every corner of the mountains, and of Ellsinora. With her eyes closed she allowed her worries to filter through, and to fade away. Soon. Soon she would be facing her fiancée and would be in turn facing a life with the Lord Dragon. Her gift to the dragon was safely secured within a small hollow box, protected by one of her own warrior sprites of which she would reveal in due time and until then the trinket would remain hidden and kept from view.

The Queen had fallen into somewhat of a thoughtful silence. Her eyes which had taken on a shade of gold for the occasion remained closed for quite some time before she could hear the at first soft tinkling of sound and of music that drifted towards her, steadily growing louder and seeming to beckon her to arrive at her own event. She could not hear much more over the rolling hills that were tucked behind the falls, the world that she had woven and created within her own hands rested there and beyond where her guests would be seated, waiting for the Queen of Fairies to arrive for her own wedding. Waiting for Queen Titania to show herself from within the realm of her own creation, the Fairy Realm.

[Taske]

Kaori stood, he had arrived at the falls to days before giving him enough time to change into his human form and rest to his full strength. He stood before the falls, the fairy magic flowing from the entrance, enough magic for him to hold onto his form. He was dresses in nice black silks, in one of those fancy tuxedos the human nobles are always seen to ware. Titania had presented it to him and he had put it on, but he felt trapped, he was not used to covering his whole body and his beastliness was just about to pop out. But he contained it, he knew just how important it was for him to look his best in the guests eyes, and he would, he was a noble Dragon after all was he not?

He sighed as another fairy fluttered by him with even more flora within its hands. As he passed the fairy smiled at the dragon and handed the dragon one deep red rose. With a smile the sprite fluttered on leaving Kaori with the flower in hand. The dragon looked at it, not knowing what he was suppose to do with it. He fingered the petals, which where soft like velvet, and then about the steam just below a thorn. He smiled then, wow did that flower remind him of his mate and himself. She was the softest thing in the world and he the thorn that was vicious and seemed to draw blood on anyone who dared to lay hands on him. He brushed the petals one more time and stuffed the flower in the pocket on the front of his jacket, he wanted it closed to his heart, where it belongs.

With that Kaori turned from the front of the falls and turned to the reception area where all the chars and podium was placed. The area was empty other then the fairies fluttering about with flowers in hand doing this and that. It was a lovely place, with flora and jewels strung about. It was as lovely as his bride was to be.

Kaori moved down the isles, his heart pounding and his hands fighting. He wasn't fully prepared for this, he was a dragon and was not used to being on the spot, but he was going to get through this in a dignified manner befitting a dragon of his rank.

The dragon stuck his hands within his trousers pockets then and started fiddling with the box within. He had made it with his dragons fire a week before and he was going to present it to her afterwords. He puffed smoke out of his nose waiting for the big moment.



Thera was getting bigger, her lengthy body growing longer, but even with all that size She was still far from full grown. She padded by a few giggling fairies and snorted, with the wedding under way the fairies just seemed to get sillier and sillier, and Thera just didn't get it. Her kind yes mated for life, but she never understood the need to get married as humans did but Kaori her uncle was going through with it like a human, which Thera did understand why, he was doing right by his lady, and doing as she wished. But that does not mean she had to understand whole situation.

Thera padded to her mothers house and stuck her head into her room and smiled at the site of her. She was in lovely white silks made from fairy magic. The dragon came into the room and started fiddling with the trinkets sprung about, her quick fingers messing about, ready to break anything. But she snorted and placed the thing back gentility. She already made a pact with herself and with Titania, after she had broken many other things, to be careful of the queens things, but the dragon could not help it, she wanted to know how things worked and how things broke, it just was how she was.

She looked away from the trinket and to her mother and padded to her. "Momma are you ready? Uncle Kaori is already out greeting guests." She smiled up at her, her eyes filled with controlled mischief, oh she wanted to crash this wedding so bad, but, that can wait for a different one, she guessed.

[Jotari]

Black Star


She caught herself humming, actually humming. Something she had not done in months. But hiding in Kiyer was not so bad, and the Grellon had made it safely to Baneer. She had been here quietly for about a week now. The outlaw was preparing for a wedding, the wedding. To be honest, when she had heard, her jaw had dropped and she had laughed. Kaori certainly had not wasted any time, had he? But it was a good match, two powerful beings together in matrimony. Although Black Star was rather curious to see what the kids would look like. After all, fairies almost never got to cross with the other species. It was simply not possible. But she had decided that for once she was not going as a ruffian, but as the powerful being that she was.

The house door opened downstairs and then slammed. There was the patter of feet as a short skinny little fellow scurried toward her. He eagerly carried a bag, his face beaming with pride. " The mistress will look most pretty, yes she will. Slink will be there too, and he will get to watch all the pretty winged people, yes he will." Black Star took the bag he offered and motioned toward a tub of water, " Slink, you need to get cleaned up." Slink, the little loyal fellow, was in desperate need of a good wash. He was oily and slimy, like an eel. But the little fellow screeched and grabbed onto her leg, he was only about four foot tall, " Please good one, do not make Slink touch that slimy stuff. Soap is no good for Slinks. It makes Slink sick, mistress. It does, it does! Black Star sighed and simply grabbed him by the scruff. He kicked and screeched, but she dropped his in the water. As soon as he hit the water, he suddenly found great interest in sticking his head underwater and blowing bubbles. Black Star rolled her eyes and dropped soap on him, leaving him to hopefully look cleaner. Though he still had his clothes on, the munchkin.

She herself disappeared into the room she had claimed as her own and took a dress from the bag Slink had brought. Sighing with quiet delight, she traced a hand over the scarlet cloth black accents. It was Kaian in style, something she had managed to get recently. Slipping the clothes on, Black Star saw someone who she had not seen in a very long time. She saw Jahanarwa, herself. Loosing the slightly damp, recently washed hair from the hard braid, the outlaw queen slowly brushed her long hair, letting it fall in loose waves. The hair remained loose and long, though the dress was in a toga-like style. She had removed her heavy leather boots and instead wore leather sandals, also Kaian in style. Taking one last look at herself she turned and went to make sure that Slink was at least getting half-way clean.

Slink had attached himself like a loyal dog to her a few days ago. She had simply given him a crust of bread and now he followed her everywhere. Now he was trying to get out the window and streak across the rooftops. "Arg!" Slink squeaked and ran for his life, naked as the day he was born, across the room and started fervently putting on a clean shirt and pants. Black Star rolled her eyes and chuckled a bit. Someday, she would look back a the picture of Slink running naked across the room, and she would laugh until she cried. But Slink followed her out the door as they snuck out of Kiyer and toward Celeste Falls.

They made good time and the two quietly entered the area, cautiously. Black Star straightened her clothing, Slink suddenly made a great to-do about himself as well. "Must look good for the shiny birds." Black Star nodded, "Behave yourself, or I'll put you in a box and send you to Magrej." Slink looked scared and nodded obediently. He followed his leader as she walked toward Kaori, "Greetings Kaori, and many happy years to you and your bride." The outlaw queen was sincere, for once. She was determined that nothing would ruin this wedding, nothing at all.

[Desperanza]

The evening was crisp with a hint of moisture in the air and yet it would not rain tonight. The sky was clear with glittering stars to be seen from down below upon the ground. There was a slight breeze however to keep from stagnant air to growing about the area. With the trickle of people that were steadily making their way into the trees, the Princess smiled from her balcony where she stood. She had not chosen to come long as she had been spending more and more time in town with her lover though her home technically was the castle, she believed that home was where the heart was and she always knew that it was with Erech and no other and tonight it seemed that a marriage of hearts would indeed take place as she knew it would for her soon enough as well.

The atmosphere was beautiful and charming. The lights that lined the path to the ceremony twinkled softly in the night time air and she smiled lightly. Many of the women and children carried small lanterns within their hands. The small crafts were easy to hold and prevented people from getting burnt. It was a metal bowl of whale oil which was then lit on fire with a paper cover surrounding the area that flamed and the men that handed them out lit them before offering them to others. The small burning Chinese inspired lanterns were beautiful and flickered softly in the night air.

Alexa watched from her balcony for a while, taking comfort in the retreat of her room as she had been quite stressed around the castle lately it seemed that most of her relief was when she was by herself in her room or in town with Erech. Abigail was insufferable and she rather did not look forward to spending any time with her what so ever. She simply avoided the raven haired Princess for the most part. She already knew that Abbie had no plans of showing up at the wedding for which she was grateful, she didn’t want to show up with her. She was embarrassed by her sister and she was growing over her anger with Tryphena though she still found her actions foolish she didn’t want anything to happen to her younger sister, after all.

Now as she turned from the balcony she made her way back into her room, glancing into her reflection for a moment as she gauged her appearance. She had kept it simple and elegant tonight and she was wrapped in a simple, silken sky blue dress that was off the shoulder and came in silken wraps across the top of her chest and led downward, hugging her slender frame until her hips where it flared out slightly and hung loosely around her legs down to her ankles that were wrapped in simple, feminine sandals. Her hair had been pulled back at the edges and braided lightly into a small crown like state with the rest of her honey brunette hair tumbling down her back in gentle waves with a lily worked into the braid just above her ear. She had small diamond studs in her ears and a necklace about her neck with tiny diamonds littered here and there. It was in fact much simpler then her usual dresses that included a corset, and many more skirts and frocks.

She smiled, satisfied with her appearance. She was dazzling despite her best efforts to tone down the appearance that she usually took but none the less, she was satisfied. She turned from the mirror and made her way to the door once again, gathering a handful of rose water she bathed her hands in the rose scented water before lifting her hands to drip the water across her shoulders and chest and now the fine scent of rose and peony lifted into the air and she smiled as the water dried and she sighed softly, closing her eyes for a moment before she inhaled slowly and made her way from the room. She quickly skirted the stairs to the ground floor, attempting to get past Abigail without any trouble and so far so good. She hurried towards the doors, stopped briefly by the guards, “Wait Princess, we have word that you are not to be traveling out without protection.” Stated the guard at the door. Alexa was surprised, but she did not refuse. She simply offered a slight smile, “Thank you, Nordak, I will be meeting my husband to be in town but if you must, then let’s be on with it. I have a wedding to catch.” She replied with a light smile to the man who nodded with a twinkle to his eye to represent the slight smile that he wanted to allow. He gave a slight whistle and a guard came from down the hall.

There was the rustle of armor and he had his sword at his side. The soldier had dark eyes and was of about average height for a well sized man. The only thing she could see of him was a small portion of his face however but none the less, she offered a slight smile, “You must be my protector, for now.” She stated with a brief nod of greeting. “The name is Nikolai, m’am and yes. Shall we be on our way?” he replied and she nodded, making her way from the castle with the guard on her heels as she traveled out into the night.

With the whisper of silk about her legs, the Princess traveled forward into the streets of Kiyer, her eyes scanning the trickles of people that traveled through the streets and into the trees. She paused at the stall where the man was selling the paper lanterns and dropped a few coins into his hand in exchange for a white lantern before she turned and headed back for the trees once again, her pace steady as she made her way along the cobbled steps of the street. As she passed into the shadows of the trees, her gaze traveled among the people that traveled in the same direction as she and she smiled, her features were set in serene and simple happiness for tonight was beautiful and she expected nothing less than a beautiful and charming wedding from a fairy and a dragon. She looked forward to this even but even more, her own wedding that would arrive soon enough. With that thought, she grinned lightly, casting a glance to Nikolai who patrolled just behind her and who gave a curt nod to her glance before she looked ahead once more and continued her pace towards the ceremony.

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