Chapter 1 ~ New Adventures

"Ahh! What a beautiful day to pick some flowers!" Anthea happily exclaimed, picking up assorted flowers and placing them into her basket.

"Hey Anthea, did you hear that the prince, Prince Nicolas, is gonna be living in our village?!"

"Yeah.. you've told me that like two weeks ago, Celestia.." Anthea sighed.

Anthea always listens to Celestia rambling about the prince, but neither of them had actually seen what he really looks like, besides the family portrait where he was just an infant. Which makes Anthea wonder why Celestia is so in love with him, when even she doesn't know what he looks like?

"Uh hey? Anthea? You kinda zoned out there.."

"Oh I'm sorry, what were you saying?"

"Eh it's fine, anyways I was saying that what if-"

Celestia stopped dead in her words, and her mouth hanged open. Anthea turned around and saw an exquisite carriage, with a handsome young man driving it.

"Oh my gawd Anthea!!! I think that's him!!" Celestia dropped her flower basket and ran towards the carriage.

"C-celestia! Wait up!" Anthea followed behind her, who's fixing her hair as she runs. The carriage suddenly stops by an alleyway, and Celestia came tumbling after, curtsying politely. "Your high majesty! It is a pleasure to meet you-" Celestia looked up and.. it was a black haired boy, with snow white eyes, and his clothes were all black and scratched up. He scoffed at her and walked into a dark alleyway. "That's.. a handsome but terrifying prince." Celestia whispered to Anthea behind her. "Uh Celestia.. I don't think that's the prince..we need to get going before Madame Avelyn scolds us again." Anthea tugs on Celestia's sleeve, and they both walk back to the flower field. And a few blocks away, Anthea saw the boy come out of the alleyway from the corner of her eye. He casually walked away from the beautiful carriage, and a small old man walked out the shadows, and tore the carriage to pieces, carefully taking the carved gold designs and placing it in a big black bag. Anthea gasped and ran quicker, Celestia tripping behind her. "Hey! What's the hurry Anthea! Wait...up!!!"

Anthea took a left turn, a completely opposite route to the flower field. Celestia closely followed behind her, confused. "Celestia wait here," Anthea said, stopping by the Copper station, "I need to report something to the cops.."

"Anthea! Noo please don't report me I didn't mean to call someone else 'your highness' !!" Anthea looked at the worried and panting Celestia, with a dead serious face. "No Celestia, I'll be reporting someone else." Anthea confidently walked into the Copper, seeing cops working on their desks. She went to a chubby bearded man's desk, and sat on the chair. "Oh, Anthea!It's rare to see you here, what can I do for ya?" He giddly said, eating a sprinkle donut. "I found the guy who steals gold crusted items", Anthea whispered, "I witnessed him a few minutes ago, this time he stole a carriage." The man looked at her with an unsure face, "But we already caught him?" he pointed at a skinny man behind bars, smile that reaches his ears. "What? Does that look like a theif to you? I swear that this person I saw is the real theif!" Anthea argued. "Ok ok Anthea, I'll send out a team to keep a look out in the area. Just don't get yourself too involved in this" The man said, mouth full. Anthea sighed and left. "What did you report?" Celestia asked, walking behind a distressed Anthea.

"Remember that guy you thought was the prince? Well it seems like he illegally sold the carriage, he probably stole it or somethin.."

"Oh.. ok, well we need to get going, we might not be able to make enough flower crowns for the party!"

"What party?"

"Eh? Did I not tell you that? It's Madame Avelyn's birthday today and we will be celebrating tonight, she made us make flower crowns for the guests."

"Oh.. that explains why.."

"Hey Celestia!! Over here! Could you help me with this basket?" A woman shouted from a beautiful cottage house. "Of course Madame Giry! Anthea just go ahead, I'll catch up with you later!" They both say goodbye and head to opposite directions. "Oh Celestia.. Always leaving me with the hard work.." and just as Anthea was about to make a turn, someone grabbed her from behind, covering her eyes and mouth. She could feel like they went somewhere high, then inside a room. The person removed their hands from her eyes, and turned away. Anthea recognized the person by his clothes, it was the carriage theif! Anthea looked for something to defend herself with, and grabbed a flower pot. The boy turned around, and was met with a flower pot smashed into his head. But to Anthea's surprise, he didn't flinch, nor did he fall unconscious, he just stood there, staring at her with his red eyes. He grabbed her hands and pretended to tie an invisible rope around it. Anthea thought he was mentally ill, and pretended to 'break free' but something was actually holding her hands in place.

"I didn't want to do that to you..but you gave me no choice." They boy said in a deep voice.

"What do you want? You mad because I reported you to the cops or what?" Anthea boldly said.

"That's a good theory, but that's not why I took you here." He sat down on a worn out couch. "My apologies, I should've introduced myself, the name's Davalin. And I'm a jynx."

Anthea looked at him in shock, "A jynxed? Like the cursed people with powers?"

"Ouch..I don't like to think of us as 'cursed', let's just say...unfortunate, and yes we have powers" Davalin smiled at her.

"So you haven't answered my question yet..why did you bring me here?"

"It's simple, you have a powerful charm."

"What do you mean?"

"A charm, it's like the opposite of the Jynxed curse, if you'd like, I could teach you how and what your charm is, and the truth this kingdom is trying to hide from us"

Anthea paused, she read a little about the Jynxed people before, but now there's charms? And what truth?

"Could it be that..it was the reason for dad's death?" Anthea asked Davalin with hopefull eyes.

"It is the main reason."

"Ok..then I'm in.."

"Good"

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