Deep CRAVINGS

Milena!..."

"You really don't have to leave. Not now, not soon." Madam Rio begged with tears in her eyes and Milena sobbed.

"I have no choice mama. I want to be free."

"But... aren't you still free here? I mean, we allow you to go out, to see the outside a little." The middle aged woman argued.

"Freedom. Not only to go out, hang out or see the outside. I want to go to school. I will be clocking nineteen soon and I don't have any certificate at all. I still want to work, do so many things." Milena explained and Madam Rio shook her head, not wanting to let go.

"Please, let me... Please!" She begged and she reluctantly released her, bade her goodbye.

***

It's not easy living in an orphanage at all, right from birth.

What's worse is no one wants to adopt me. They just suddenly scream by seeing the dragon - dark shaped necklace on my neck.

I removed it a time like that but I went through hell with this very severe headache and bleeding from the forehead, nose, ears and mouth.

Madam Rio has been a very nice woman. According to her, I was placed in a baby crib and placed carefully under a tree beside one ice cream shop - How ironical!

They should have just placed me in the thrash bin or immediately they gave birth to me and I wasn't what they expected, I should have been killed.

If they don't want have their hands dirty, they should have poisoned my food instead. What a lame story I have!

The orphanage is actually good and okay but no friends. I have such a bad fate that I am weird to everybody. No one wants to associate with me.

****

She dragged her two big bags that contained all of her clothes, shoes, slippers, foodstuffs, body cream, chewing gums, mirror and many other lady's things.

Looking back at the orphanage one more time, she suddenly misses her only friend that she made just a year ago.

That girl is really something!

"I love you Lena" - Maany would always block her while working or walking, always stalking her every single time.

She suddenly feels bad for not informing her only friend about her departure. Aiya! - she breathe out in relief.

'At least, she won't be living the life I lived' She thought.

****

'Wow!!' She mouthed, looking at the neat tarred road of the street.

Big and gigantic buildings, arranged and spaced shops, show centres....

"I love people minding their businesses" She smiled watching as people did their thing, not even minding her walking presence at all.

She suddenly collided with someone. So tall with her high heels, obviously. "Are you fucking blind?" The lady yelled at her.

Milena gasped. "I'm so sorry. I didn't know you were coming. Please, don't be crossed." She pleaded and the lady huffed.

"And you must be dumb to even plead." Milena's eyes widened.

'Dumb??'

"But I've already apologized. You don't need to insult me." Milena rolled her eyes.

"I'm Diana. You can't cross with me and go Scot free. Now, clean my shoes!" She ordered.

Right there, Milena slapped her!

"Miss, you should know how to talk and when to. You don't just run your blabbermouth just because you are rich." She made to walk away, dragging her bags with her but Diana pulled her back with her hair.

Milena almost screamed. "What the fuck! You dare talk to me that way? huh?" She pulled Milena's hair the more.

Milena smirked. She turned around, making her come directly to her face, smacked her butts with her own sandals and pushed her.

People watched from their shops but still didn't interfere. Interesting! No one would get to save her.

Diana angrily marched to her car with her red face. "You would regret this. I promise you!" And the driver rode away.

She walked to the one of the locked store and sat on the available chair in front of it, dragging her bags to her side. Who knows if there are thieves around.

Her eyes roamed around the street as she knocked into the door of her dreams.

She imagined going to high school, making many friends and coming to work in one of companies in the street - she smiled.

'I will try to make it come to pass' She nodded satisfactoryly.

"Someone should help me open my sweet." A little girl cried as she tried tearing the paper of her chocolate bar.

Milena sighted the girl and signalled for her to come closer. " What's wrong Barbie?" She asked, scanning the girl from head to toe.

The little girl looked up. "How do you know my name?" She eyed Milena, finding it weird.

Milena arched her brows. "I don't know? Maybe you look like one." She chuckled.

"I can't seem to get the bar out of the paper." Barbie burst into tears again, remembering why she was with the weird aunty.

Milena took the bar, tore the paper and handed the full bar of chocolate to her. "Here you go."

She hurriedly collected and chewed hungrily. "You really like chocolate huh?" Milena asked and she nodded.

Barbie's left ear suddenly pecked up like when a cat or dog hears some invisible noises. Milena looked at her, strangely.

She could swear she saw the girl's ear peck up. 'What was that? How can a human's ear peck up like that?'

Two black tinted cars parked at their front almost immediately.

"Wow.... fucking fine cars!" She exclaimed.

Entering the car halfway, she looked at Milena sharply, looking directly into her blue eyes. "See you soon Enamel." She mouthed.

Milena could swear she saw her mouth move but didn't hear what she said. She was about asking when the car zoomed off.

***

Three Princes...

Three supernatural....

Three kingdoms....

Prince Flynn

Prince Jean

And Prince Carmen

Prince Jean is the second prince. Cold hearted, womanizer and a killing soul. Adopted by the first queen into the kingdom.

Prince Carmen is the last prince. Often called a baby. Behaves babyish, never joke with love, a flirt. Second son of the first queen of the kingdom.

Prince Flynn, the first prince born of the first queen of the kingdom. Dark hearted, a flirt and womanizer, a Mafia and a warm soul.

He holds his head as images kept on forming. He bit his lips to avoid screaming in pain as the trauma becomes worse with unseen images that keeps on destroying his head and his eyes from sleep.

***

Suddenly, people began to run Helter skelter. They ran to lock their shops, some locked down their companies, many rushed out like mad dogs, some shooed their selling animals into their compound, some began to lock their gates and Milena just stood watching dumbly in suprise.

'Does it want to rain? Rain can't make people behave this way or is earthquake coming? But I never heard of it in the news this morning' So many thoughts ran through in her head as people continued to dispatch.

"Won't you run idiot? They are coming" An old man half yelled at her and she immediately regained her senses but it was too late.

She tied the hem of her gown and running to one of the shops, she banged repeatedly but there was no answer. The second, the third...still no answer.

She was almost crying until an idea hit her mind. A cab will do!

The once packed street that was full of people was now void of even the tiniest insect.

Going to the main road, she waved her palms up and down, looking for a cab but the road looks like it has been deserted for long.

'Ughh...this is totally the work of the devil.' She concluded, going back to pick her bags when a car suddenly screeched to an halt.

Thinking it was a cab, she hurried there and suddenly, she collided with two men.

"Take her!" The one that seems to be their leader ordered.

She took some steps backwards as her mind screamed just one thing. 'Run'

She took to her heels, looking left and right but no where to go to. She doesn't even know anyone.

Running to one of the shops again, she banged more fiercely on the door but still, no one answered.

The men strode In short steps to her as she kept thinking of what to do, where to run to.

She however, regretted immediately. 'I shouldn't have left the orphanage, maybe not today.'

' Am I going to die this way? ' She asked herself as tears dropped from her eyes.

"No.. please! Where are you taking me?... don't come closer..at all" She hiccupped as all around her screamed danger.

One of the men grabbed her and she tried her best to break free by punching his chest repeatedly but it didn't even have any impact on his rigid body.

Suddenly, she felt her urge to look at him as her neck starts to itch slowly.

Her eyes locking with his, his eyes turned blue as his movement were being controlled.

Her body began to shake uncontrollably but she still broke free and ran.

The sorceress stared into the black pot she is cooking. "Enamel..." She mouthed, her mouth dropping in shock.

"What's wrong Naphtha?" Prince Flynn asked, sounding weak from last night.

She shook her head. " There is still no cure your Majesty." She declared

His eyes flew open. "What do you mean no cure?" He roared in anger.

"You fucking told me five years ago that there'd be a cure and I endured the pains till now only for you to say thrash?" He half yelled.

"I'm sorry my prince. With my findings fuve years ago, I was so certain that there'd be a cure but..."

"But what?" He asked, grunting from the pain.

"It's a different thing I saw in the vision pot." She said.

"Fucking tell me what you saw okay? I need a cure for this bullshit. It's making me run mad." He hissed in pain.

"I saw....a pathway leading to you. That pathway is.... written in blood!" She shuttered, avoiding the prince eyes.

"How the fuck does that concern me? I know my pathway is dark so that's not new but I need you to look into that damn pot of yours and find me a damn cure for this illness."

"My prince....but...the girl..."

"No buts!!" He ordered, coughing out blood.

***

What just happened now?

Why did...that man suddenly stop moving and his eyes... turned to my eye color?

Why was my neck itching and why was I shaking so badly? - All this questions roamed in her head as she headed into the woods.

She could still hear the footsteps of the bad guys following her deeper into the woods. Can't they just give up?

She continued running, going deeper and deeper - the moon shining brightly above her head.

' I'd have been running close to three hours now. Damn!' She hit her leg on the stone as something ruffled beneath her leg - dried leaves.

She had already torn half of her dress away. She rested at the bark of a big tree and touched her necklace.

A Dark red coloured dragon shaped Necklace. Where she got it from - she doesn't know. What it means - No idea.

So tired, a wave of sleep blew to her and she slept off, forgetting that some people are after her.

Far in her dream....

It looked as if she was inside a tree and everywhere was dead silent.

"Hello....hello! Anyone here? Anybody??" Her voice echoed in the unknown place.

Suddenly, some group of fireflies started surrendering her.

'Fireflies? What are they doing?' She smiled as they rally round her.

Suddenly, they all vanished! - She woke in a panic.

"Gotcha!" They captured her as she screamed into the night.

'No! They can't catch me this way? they can't...' she said but before she could think of what to do, they sedated her with an handkerchief already.

After some hours....

The sun shone brightly from the curtain blocking her sight. Ughh...

"Arghh!...!" All of yesterday's memories flowed into her head as she groaned.

'So they successful brought me huh?' She asked no one in particular.

She scanned the whole room with her puffy eyes. Curtains closed, a table and a chair, the bed, a mirror and black paintings on the wall.

Who the hell paints a room in black color? That's lame...

She turned sideways and almost screamed seeing another figure on the bed. She looked at herself, seeing that her clothes are intact, she breathe in relief.

The figure remained motionless, not stirring at all. "Hello!... it's morning already." "Wakey wakey sleepy head" She poked her again, now she's sure the figure is a girl.

Gripped with fear that the lady might have died, she screamed out. "What the fuck is the screaming all about?" Rime came rushing in.

Her eyes scanned through the hot guy in front of her. "I... don't know, She isn't waking up." She managed to say.

He touched the crook of her neck with his four fingers and almost immediately, she sneezed.

Milena kept on looking at him. ' His face looks familiar somehow.' She thought, trying to remember the familiar face.

He left before she could say another word. The lady suddenly burst into tears, surprising Milena.

"Hey! what's wrong? Are you okay? Talk to me" She shook the girl but she just kept crying.

The door opened again. "No cries and that's your food." Rime left.

She stopped crying and drew the food closer. 'Is she really a foodie? Crying because she's hungry? She should have just talked' Milena huffed angrily.

She swallowed a mouthful of toasted bread. "I wasn't crying because of food." She stated, drinking the soda hurriedly.

Milena's mouth dropped open. Did she... how did she know...

She smiled, revealing her dimples. " Don't tell me you are not one?" Her face suddenly fell.

Milena arched her eyebrows. One of what?

"One of us, those with special powers and abilities. Like I read minds and can grow flowers." She smiled and Milena mouthed an 'ohh'

She suddenly stopped eating, her eyes focused on the dragon necklace as different thoughts runs through her head.

'What's with the weird look of everyone and this necklace?' She rolled her eyes.

"Enamel...." She mouthed.

"I'm sorry, what??" she asked and her face was replaced with a smile.

"My name is Brittany."

"Milena.... Milena Palau"

"I bet you are a supernatural."

"What? no! I don't think so. I don't have any special ability or powers, not even one." She shakes her head.

Brittany stare at her. "Remember. Try to remember..."

FLASHBACKS....

"Milena....!" Maany, Milena's only friend bursted into the room, jumping around.

"What is it now?" Milena roll her eyes.

"Guess!!..." She half screamed and Milena roll her eyes again.

"I'm very bad at guessing. Okay, you got admitted? You kissed your long time crush?"

"Oh... shut it Mil. I never like going to school. My crush doesn't even live in this area for fuck's sake." It's Maany's turn to roll her eyes.

"Cut the crap! What is it?"

"You getting adopted!" She giggled happily.

"That has happened so many times and I don't want to get adopted again. I'm fine this way." She hissed

"Come on, this is real. This one is fucking gonna work out."

***

"Mum, you have me, why do you wanna adopt her again?" The couple's only child ranted, obviously angry that she'd have a younger one.

If at all she is ever going to have a younger one, it should be a boy.

"Don't worry Clara, you need someone you could talk to when we go on long business trips." Her dad spoke gently to her.

Milena entered...

"Mama... I'm here" She greeted Madam Rio.

"Mil, these are your new parents. You just need to sign here and you are free to live the life you want. They promised so many things and here's their first born, your elder sister." Madam Rio explained in detail.

"But I don't want to get adopted." She said

"How rude!..." Clara stated angrily.

"Mum, let's get out of here. She's just a thrash and she can't even bear to leave the trash life." She huffed.

Milena gripped her shoulder and made her face her. "You can say anything but me being called trash."

"If you weren't also adopted by them, you wouldn't have the guts to say rubbish!" Milena shut her up.

'Hold on! how did I even know she was adopted. Never even seen her before.' - Milena thought.

"How...how did...you-" She didn't get to finish the sentence as her eyes came in contact with the dragon necklace.

Her eyes widened as she suddenly grip her head in pain. She screamed so much that Madam Rio had to call the ambulance.

Meanwhile, Milena's hand were still on her shoulders. "What's wrong? Are you okay?" She asked, sounding pitiful.

As both girls eyes met, blood started coming out from Clara's nose. "Take...me...away from...her" She managed to say before she lost consciousness.

END OF FLASHBACKS...

"So, you see you are a supernatural?" Brittany asked, happily.

"No! I don't believe you and what's there to be happy about?" Milena looked at her strangely.

Brittany sighed. "I know it's hard when you don't even know your background."

"But think about it, why does something strange happen whenever someone maintan deep eye contact with you or most especially when they look at that necklace?" She asked, pointing to the dragon shaped Necklace.

Milena unconsciously touched it, thinking about the circumstances Brittany made.

'Come to think of it, they are actually true.'

"Is that why I landed here?" "Because every time this necklace is involved, badluck always follows."

"Hm... Partially. You will find out soon."

"Besides, why are you here?" She asked.

"My mother sells pigeon so I help her advertise. Yesterday, one of the pigeons flew past the road and I wanted to go catch it. I don't know but I ended up here." She explained and Milena sighed.

"How about you?"

"It's really a long story. I live in an orphanage so, yesterday, I decided to be free, to live on my own.... and then I ended up here." She sighed again. She suddenly misses the orphanage, Madam Rio and Maany.

Oh my Maany!!

"She's your friend right?"

"What? You better stop entering my mind." Milena glared at her.

"Sorry. I can't help it but I will try." She laughed

"You are no more in the orphanage so, I'm your friend now." She stated.

"You are crazy!"

"Where do you think we are?" She asked.

"France? Italy? Oh, Korea?" Milena smiled dreamingly.

"Shut up! We are in the RD Kingdom."

"What's the RD?"

"Red Dragon..."

A maid entered and placed the covered food on the glass table. "Your food is served my prince." She bowed and left the room.

He sighed, looking at the covered dish. ' I hope I will be able to eat this.' He thought aloud.

He couldn't sleep the night before as his head kept on aching him. Image kept on coming in and it isn't even clear at all.

The pains was so severe that he smoked all through the night.

His phone suddenly rang after trying to eat about four spoons of the food. "Boss, we have a problem." The caller said.

In two minutes, he was already out of the door. "Fucking wait for my signal, I'm on my way." He said, calmly

Twenty minutes later....

"What do you mean you don't have the money?" Flynn asked, impatiently.

"Boss, they took a turn on us. They collected the stuffs and turned the area upside down with guns." Ryder explained, almost panicking.

"Fuck Jedrek!" "You all need more training to beat the opponents we have nowadays. Training starts in two days..." He gave his command and Ryder nodded.

"And make sure to tell the others...tell-" He suddenly coughed out blood.

Ryder's eyes widened. " Boss!..." He almost screamed.

"Ride the fucking car, now!" He squeeze his face hard as beads of sweat formed on his head. Veins popping out from his head, hands and neck.

Ryder kicked start the car and started driving. "Boss, hold on!" He drove very fast, entering the almost deserted area where their mansion is.

"Guards!!!" Ryder half yelled and some of them rally round them as they carried the Prince inside.

Naptha stood at the far end in the Red dragon kingdom as the lines on her face became rigid. " It's near..." She sighed, seeing the first Prince blood trails on the floor leading into the main palace.

"Call the Royal Physician fast!" Prince Carmen screamed, seeing the condition of his brother.

They laid Prince Flynn on his bed as the physician took a look at him. " He was poisoned..." He released the bomb.

Prince Flynn was still sweating yet his body was growing cold. He grinded his teeth together as his body shook slowly.

'That food....' He thought.

" Doesn't it have a cure? His body is growing cold yet he is still sweating." Prince Carmen said, sobbing like a baby.

Just then, Diana ran inside. "Flynn, Flynn!" She hurried to his side and started touching his body.

"What happened to you? Why are you so cold?" She asked him but he just continued shaking and couldn't talk.

Tears welled up in her eyes. "Can't someone give me a fucking answer?!" She half yelled and Prince Jean rolled his eyes.

' Everything will be fine if he just dies right now.' He thought, smirking at the shaking Prince Flynn.

" He was poisoned and started vomiting blood while we were doing business." Ryder explained to the crying Diana.

"What of the antidote? Why isn't anyone treating him?" She asked.

The physician shook his head. " I don't know the cure." He sighed.

Diana glared at him. "What do you mean you don't know the cure? Aren't you a physician? A royal one at a that. Don't you fucking know your job?" She yelled at him.

Her yelling voice made cold breeze blow at him as his body shivered. " Diana, calm down! The room is freezing already, Flynn is already cold. Do you want to add to his illness?" Prince Carmen shouted and Diana swallowed, glancing at Flynn.

"Flynn, wake up! Please, I still need you okay?" She continued to wipe her tears.

'Get Naptha!' Flynn wanted to say but he still couldn't talk, not even a whisper.

"There is a cure" Naptha announced, walking into the room.

As if she knew Flynn wanted her.

Everyone looked at her. " But it's very dangerous." She said.

"And how do you know that? We can't trust anyone you know?" Diana eyed her.

Naptha smiled. " It's not your decision to make. All we are concerned about is how to save Rejou." She said, looking at Flynn.

"He doesn't like to be called that name." Diana hissed.

"And you are not in position to question me."

"Tell us the cure Sorceress..." Prince Carmen asked.

"The cure is that he has to fuck someone." She stated and Prince Jean started laughing like a lunatic.

The others glared at him. "What the fuck is so funny dude?" Diana asked, angrily.

Diana smiled a little. "He has to fuck someone right? He can fuck me..." She said.

Naptha rolled her eyes. "The poison in his body would flow into the body of who ever he fucks." She dropped the bomb.

They all looked at Diana. " What? I aren't doing that..." She stated nervously.

'For him to look this way, how would I look like? I don't want to die now.'

"I knew you weren't useful"

"And this person has to be someone who is close to him now or will be close to him in future." Naptha explained and they all sighed.

"No one else is close to him except I and Diana." Prince Carmen sighed.

'I can't believe they think I'm not close to him' Naptha huffed.

"What do we do now? He shouldn't die." Diana rubbed his forehead.

"You aren't even ashamed. Just shut up." Prince Carmen snapped at her.

Naptha brought in her vision pot. "I think I know what to do." She said.

She started saying all kinds of spells as the water in the pot kept on bubbling.

She looked into the pot as her eyes widened. "Enamel?..." Her hands shook as her eyes rested on the dieing Flynn and took her eyes back to the pot.

"What's wrong? What did you see?" Prince Carmen asked, impatiently.

'Don't let it be me please.' Diana prayed silently.

'I can't possibly use the guardian angel for Rejou's poison to be transferred into and I can't let Flynn die. What to do? What to do?' Her eyes wandered around as her hands start to sweat profusely.

She staggered out without saying a word. "What do we do now?" Diana asked no one in particular.

"He has just three days and he will die." The physician said, packed his bags and also left the room.

***

Milena sighed for the up tenth time. "Are you okay?" Brittany asked, chewing on another apple.

She sighed again. "I don't know. I'm just restless, like something or someone is calling to me." She said.

Brittany smiled. "Have you had any vision yet?" She asked, cutting another slice of apple into her mouth.

Milena squints her eyes at her. "What do you mean? What vision?" She asked.

Brittany laughed and Milena looked at her weirdly. "Don't worry, you'll see it soon."

"Why are you behaving weirdly? Witch!" Milena hissed.

"I love you more baby." Brittany winked.

Milena stand and walked close to the mirror. 'What??'

"Brittany? Are you seeing what I'm seeing right now?" Her eyes widened more.

"Yeah, I mean no? What's up?"

"Will you stop chewing apple idiot?" Milena half yelled.

Brittany scoffed. "What?"

Milena directs her hands to her hair. "It has grown longer which is very weird."

Brittany rolled her eyes. "It's just one of the signs." She said and went back to eating her apple.

"What sign?" She asked again.

"Signs that you are the Enamel..."

"What the fuck is Enamel? I don't understand any of this..." She scattered her long hair.

Just then the door opened and Ryder comes in. "The sorceress needs you. You!" He points to Milena.

She suddenly held her head as images began to form strangely. She screamed in pain as the images flooded her head in a terrible rush.

"What's wrong with her?" Ryder questions.

"Let her be. She will come back to her senses very soon." Brittany continue to eat her apple.

Milena gasped for breath, her eyes bulging as the images formed in her head started to become clear.

***

A gathering...

Silence!....

Many people, they all sat round a single lighted candle. All silent, no voices but their lips were all moving.

A sorceress stands up and looks like she is evoking spirits as breeze blew off the candle light.

Suddenly, an arrow was shot and directed towards one of the Princes.

***

"Nooooooo!" She screamed as tears run down her eyes.

"What did you see? Mil? Tell me..." Brittany rushed to her having seen that the vision has ended.

Without any more word, she dashed out of the room.