The Earth Prince

It was unreal. After all of those years waiting to meet her, we were in the same place together.

“Tell me about yourself,” Celeste said as we walked side by side through the garden courtyard.

A week had passed since the corsus attack, and Makya had assured me that Star no longer infected my body, but, it didn’t ease my worries.

Celeste was everything to me, and I could not risk her life.

The nightmares of Star and what it would do to Celeste haunted me. For a moment, I contemplated telling her all that happened, but fear of somehow alerting Star of my whereabouts just by speaking its name kept me silent.

I shifted my thoughts to the beautiful young woman beside me. In a red gown, she was a vision, one I never wanted to forget, so I studied her—the curves of her hips, the mounds of her full bosom, the perfection of her face.

“I was born in Kyushu,” I said, rubbing my jaw. “Its a small kingdom, but beautiful. It’s mostly mountains, with some active volcanoes, but none close to the villages. There are these cherry blossoms that bloom every spring and the people would celebrate with grand balls and festivals.

Ancient temples of worship stood amongst the forests in all corners of the kingdom. White rushing rivers my father and I would raft through whenever we pleased. And, rice fields that stretched for miles. You’ve never seen anything like it, my dear Celeste.”

She smiled at me, and my heart melted. How could one fall for someone so hard that they’d just met hours ago? I did not have an answer, but I deducted that it was fate—a theory that had no proof or an quantifiable evidence.

“Sounds lovely,” she said.

I returned the smile. “It was.” Then, my smile faded. “Until it was discovered that my mother was a faerie, and I was born of human and magic-born blood. The people revolted. After centuries upon centuries of kindness and peace, that simple detail made them turn against the royal family.”

She took my hand into hers, but kept silent. Such grace and manners. I gave her hand a squeeze and went on.

“My parents were killed, and I only escaped because a palace servant took pity upon me and smuggled me out of the kingdom in a crate marked to have rice.”

Celeste stopped, and turned to me.

My breaths came out ragged as she wiped tears from my cheeks. I didn’t even know I had began to cry, and roughly ran my sleeve across my face, embarrassed.

She took my face between her hands and gazed into my eyes.

“Its all right, Maxim,” she said. “My parents were killed right in front of me as well. I know the pain you feel. If you think about it, we are more alike than any of the other Elementals. We are bound by our suffering and those awful memories.”

I couldn’t help myself. I kissed her then, so passionately and forcefully that I barely recognized myself or my actions. Her lips were soft as rose petals, and mine burned against hers until I wasn’t sure if I was breathing my air or hers.

Was it the power that connected us, or something else?

I didn’t care. I grabbed her by the hips and carried her to the stone wall that reached high into the clouds. We were alone, and the sweet sounds of night filled the warm air as I devoured her mouth.

She didn’t resist. Her hands laced into my hair, tugging in a delicious mixture of need and excitement as I took her bottom lip between my teeth and traced it with my tongue.

There was no resisting the yearning that burned in my heart for her, or the filling of blood in my manhood. She’d awakened a side of me I never knew existed.

Like an animal, I licked at her white throat and slid my hands up her skirts. Her soft flesh was warm beneath my palms, her bottom round, yet firm.

When she wrapped her legs around my waist, I tore her from the wall and guided her to the soft grass.

“The guards,” she breathed into my ear. “They’ll see us.”

My fingers found their way to such delicious wetness that I couldn’t wait to taste it the way I’d tasted her mouth.

“I care not,” I said, and her giggle rang in the night air as I slid my fingers into her hot core and stroked her until those enchanting blue eyes of hers rolled back and she cried out my name.