Seeing Kilpi move towards the waves on the beach, I have the feeling that now would be a good time to finally say it, the moment that I have been waiting for some time now. Reacting to my stares, the girl in front of me turns her head a little to face me. Looking with her fiery orange-red eyes she sees that there is something I want to say. Suddenly a wind came from the open ocean and pulled her waist long scarlet red hair towards me just enough to reach me. The salty ocean smell mixed together with the sweet spicy fragrance of tangerine and chili, reaching my nose at the same time. I closed my eyes to grasp my surroundings and muster my strength. “This is it”.
I open my eyes and I see the girl has also resolved herself. I crouch down my left knee on the warm sand, look up at her and pull forward a mana tool in the form of a silver-white ring. Her eyes show her surprise look, and before she manages to control herself, I say. “Aine, our relationship is now more than two and a half years and I know, that you know, I love you even deeper than the deepest of my core. So, I ask you, do you love me enough to spend the rest of my life, together with me as my wife?”
She does not answer immediately and turn her head slightly to make it seem she will find the answer somewhere in the jungle behind me. As the silence is growing the more anguish I am feeling. I know that it has not even gone a second, but in some way, I want to know right now. I started to think what went wrong or does she not love me after all, in my moment of panic, I happened to blurt out. “If you want time to-”
Interrupted by the small sound of the girl, she whispered. “Yes.”
Standing up not believing my ears, I try to confirm by looking at her face. Even with her skin being dark redbrown, you can clearly see her blushing red cheeks trying to hide behind the fluttering scarlet hair. While her head keeps nodding and her voice getting stronger and louder. “Yes, yes, yes, yes! How many times do I haft to say it?”
Her question stupefied me, apparently my face could not keep up with her answer and that’s why she kept saying yes and started to become angry. Before I know it my body throws itself against hers, and with my hands connecting behind her back I pull her body against mine almost as hard as I can. As her anger resigning, she put her hands behind me and pushes me even closer. We stand like that for almost an eternity, or at least it felt liked it, and when we separate, we awkwardly turn our heads towards the sea and start waving with one of our hands to wave goodbye to little Kilpi the tortoise, but our other hands is connected with each other in an embrace.
2 months later.
Finally back to the capital in the Kingdom of Sudvur. During the journey, I and Aine never separated, although we were stuck on a boat almost all the time, she had also changed from her fire form to her wooden form during the journey. This form is her biggest, not in that way! With her body that takes second place in areas all over her body, compared to her other forms, with only her length as a shared second place with her ice form, you will understand what I mean by biggest. As we get off the boat, holding hands and one of her fingers is now occupied by a silver-white ring, with her waist long dark leafgreen hair moves together with the incoming ocean winds that keeps getting in front of her face. As I noticed this I helped by stroking her hair behind her elf-like ears with my available hand, making a charming smile back towards me for my help.
Getting to the piers end, I made us stop near the entrance to the capital and grabbed her other hand. I had made the resolve to ask the question that I found probably harder to ask than my proposal. Taking one last big breath before I asked. “I know this will be a very hard favor to grant, but I really want to marry all of you, so when there is one form you have never let me be near once, except for the first time we met, that’s why I now ask of you to have that form during the wedding day.”
Pleading into her distinctive heterochromatic eyes, with her left eye being a colour of a ripe red apple and her right eye with the colour of peaches, they in some way contrast to her dark barkbrown skin making them stand out more. I know that what I asked has in some way gotten to the taboo area in our relationship and by confirming that is her reaction. You could see that in her face how much she was against it and wanted to refuse as soon she knew what my question meant.
Ok, maybe some explanation is in order first. Beside her “cycle” elements as I call them, there exist more elements that she can take the form of that she does not need to follow the “cycle” with. The elemental shifters do not only differ in their “humanoid” forms appearance, but they also have different specific and amount of elements, for example Aine is one of the few that have over ten elemental forms, with her nature element power manifest in two different forms making her have 11 elemental forms. Beside she also can take the rare form of the magic element and according to her it is only hereditary. In this form she becomes the same height as me and her hair and eyes get the colour of amethysts, also this form gives her ears the same shape and size as the elves and a fair skin-colour on her body with an amethyst coloured crystal in the middle of her forehead. Still that is one of her “mood” elementals, what I call these forms because she can turn into them anytime when she wants, another is her metal form. This is her tallest form by a small margin to the next tallest forms, with a grey-silver hair that are like needles on the hair end, it is because her hair in this form is composed of steel. With a body more like a warrior, she still does have some womanly charms excluding her chest area which is not completely flat, she has a light skin tone with a tint of grey and possess the hard skin like her earth and ice form. You would notice her resolute in her grey-silver coloured eyes that she is ready to strike in case of any threats and her behavior in her magic form being more composed and calculating. Well her third mood elemental form was the one I met first and this form also happens to look like the girl of my dreams.
I was lost and separated from my group in the middle of a dungeon, this was one of the worst things that can happen during a dungeon quest and the worst would be stumbling in on the dungeon leader while being naked and unprepared for it. Through my lost wandering I found a small room filled with broken furniture, in a quick glance I saw something shine in the middle of the mess of furniture, while I hesitated, I tried to figure out if there could be traps in the mess and decided there could not be any traps inside the mess. Although I should have thought about the mess as a whole, maybe being the trap itself. When I reached the middle of the room where I saw it had shone, I saw a sword standing there with its tip of the blade being stuck firmly in the floor. It was a beautiful curved blade, which is commonly used in the eastern human realm, it had a pattern of flower petals going along the blade. I became intrigued by it and took the light pink coloured hilt and pulled it out of the floor, as I did the floor started to shine activating a mana circle. I jumped toward the room´s entrance, where I had entered, but before I manage to escape through the open entrance, the mana circle activated. It was like all my energy and power just got sucked out of me and I collapsed on the floor, while I tried to move and speak, I only manage to make feeble sound with my throat. I could not perceive the time so I did not know how long I been like this, I could only feel my last life energy being drained from me. How I wished someone would come and save this foolish person, even better if it was my adventure group but as a rule if separated everyone should as fast as possible get to the gathering spot, the spot that was agreed beforehand. As my conscience started to fade also, I made a last hopeful wish that I would survive… and there she was, she looked exactly like the angel of my dreams, with a long darker shade of purple hair and darker tanned skin colour, she said something and her hand came closer. Believing that the angel would take me to the afterlife I tried to reach her hand but my body did not listen, thinking that my body tried to keep me away from my angel, I miraculous found some energy in the body, I then gathered it all subconsciously in my arm trying to reach her hand.
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Without knowing why the bed was so hard, I opened my eyes to see the rock ceiling of a dungeon, getting even more confused I tried to recall the most recent memory I had. Remembering that we were doing a dungeon quest and we got separated, then I remembered the trap and my dream girl came and saved me, at that I tried to get up but my body did not move on bit. Suddenly a woman´s voice entered my ears. “Your body won´t respond for a quite some time, it is trying to gather and produce back your life energy.”
At least managing to turn my eyes I see a purple silhouette in the corner of my eye, trying to move my mouth to ask who she was failed immediately with only making unrecognizing noise with my throat.
“Don´t do anything.”
She responded to my groan. Turning around she started to get closer with something in her hands, as I got surprised by that she was really the dream girl that had reached out her hand, she sat beside me and gently lifted my head to pour what contained in the small bowl she held. “Here drink this water with herbs.”
While feeling the water run down my throat without any hindering, I looked at her face, by thinking I must be dreaming, she was identical to the girl I had dreams about, this was to surreal. Noticing my stare her eyes focused on mine, being entranced by the dark green eyes with some specks of lighter shades in them, I could not leave my sight from them. When she noticed that she had given me all of the water, she put my head down again. As I fell into slumber when she stood up and walked away from me.
When I finally manage to move my body like normal, I pushed up myself and looked toward the woman who was sitting on a rock, I picked up the curved sword, that had become the reason all this happened, and walked towards her. Turning her head to face me she notices the sword laying on my hands, I kneeled and tried to be as humble as possible while presenting her the sword. “I can´t express how grateful I am for saving me and taking care of me, that´s why you can have the sword as a gift as my thanks.”
With a little raspy voice I manage to say all that, while she showed a complicated expression whether she should accept or not and to make my point across I said as steadfast as I could. “Please!”
With little choice she nodded and accepted the sword, noticing that she had gloves on her hands, we both stood up. I observed that she was a little taller than me when we stood next to each other. We had agreed that we would leave the dungeon together to be on the safe side. Well we soon found the exit and we parted ways. Or that was how it was supposed to happened, because instead of parting from each other I decided to follow her in the shadows. After having shadowing her for a week, sometimes I lost her but I in some lucky way I manage to find her shortly after, and this time she tried to really shake me off. Well I lost her when she left the village she was staying at, so I started to walk towards the nearest forest to hunt because I thought that I had lost her for good this time. To my surprise when I got close to a glade I saw her stand on the opposite side of it while standing still. I soon saw something amazing, she changed completely to a different person that had waist long snow white hair instead of her former dark purple hair and she also became taller. That moment became the biggest turning point in my life because of what I had observed, it made me determined that this woman is the love of my life.
Back to the present I intended to use the trick again. By showing my determined mind I used a steadfast voice, noticing my eyes she knew what I was going to say. “Please!”
Seeing that her mind was wavering but not nearly enough, I added. “You only need to be in that form for the ceremony, you won´t need to be in that form longer than that.”
Watching her last defenses shatter because she knew I will be stubborn till she will agree, she caves in and nods to accept my suggesting.
Author Input: Good day to you all, after have read it couple of times now I have made some word additions and subtracting. If you remembered the second chapter, this here is the continuation from there and now the story will progress forward instead of staying in the past. In the middle of writing this I noticed that I had never mentioned her hair being straight and as a sidenote if you haven´t catch up that her hair is always little longer than her waist in all her forms. Well when I began to write this story I had decided that she would possess all of the elements in that world, but I changed it while writing this chapter that her elements wasn’t all of them and that she had a high amount of forms instead, I also decided that an average elemental shifter has about 6-8 forms. There were two more things that changed while I wrote this chapter; first was the sword he gave her, I was originally thinking to give her that sword later as a wedding gift, but apparently I used it to become the reason that they meet. The second is that I´m withholding the information of the form that looks like his dream girl, I had originally planned to give you that info during this chapter but the important information, that would say the elemental and his relationship with it during the two years they been together, disappeared during me writing this, maybe I was too tired to mention it. Well instead it becomes more like a cliffhanger(?) or something in that style. Now before this input becomes longer than my chapter, what do you think about him being stubborn about things she doesn’t want to do and is there some more elements that she doesn’t have that you wanted her to have, ps. light and darkness doesn’t count in this world as an element. Hope you enjoyed/liked this chapter also and if you remember my chapter four´s input I will post chapter six next week before I move to my relatives.