"The flame becomes her"

The portal room is not the same as her memory had told her it was for it seemed scarier in the memory, the fires on the wall in front of her were frighting yet now she feels connected t0 them and it does leave her confused but she doesn't question that. She remembers being so frightened of this place yet back then the fire Queen was not the one that stands now. She was frightened of everything and new to magic. That she is no more. The torches are lit and are brightly glowing in a faint summer grass green color.

The bricks on the wall suddenly start to come loose fly into a bright white light that has formed between the two torches. Shivers run down her spine when she remembers the last time this was done. Hades takes her hand to comfort her while Luna and Thalia stand a bit back, allowing the King and Queen to be first yet Luna goes before Thalia for she is still the King's sister and she is a Princess in her own right while Thalia is still just a maid and she is also a Demon which does make her the lowest life form.

"Where will we be when we get there?" Arabella asks as the howling winds starts to puck up and want to pull them inside the portal. Her fire eyes look up at the man that she has fallen in love with and the love will forever be strong. He looks down at her with a smirk. "Where does the Queen wish to be?" He asks her and she lets out a soft giggle. "My old house" She says and then her eyes turn to the white light in front of her. The wind is pulling at her yet unlike last time it isn't as harsh or as aggressive.

"Then that is where we shall go" He tells her and with a light pull the two of them begin walking into the light with Luna and Thalia behind them. The light is bright in her eyes yet not once does she close them as they continue walking and soon she starts to feel her feet walk on something that is not dirt ground and she looks down to see them walking in the white snow. Arabella's lips curl up in a smile as she breathes in the fresh air.

Slowly the bright light starts to fade away and they stand in front of Arabella's childhood house, not much it may be yet that was her whole world a couple of months ago and it meant everything to her. Now she has her kingdom and her family and friends and the man that she loves but most importantly the Underworld is now her home. The smile never goes away from her face as she stands there and looks at the wooden house with happiness as she had believed she would never see that house again in her life and she wants to enjoy every second that she has.

The ground is covered in snow as many weeks have passed and winter has begun to show but where both Hades and Arabella stand the snow begins to melt under their feet and their feet touch the grass below. Every step that Arabella takes to the house the snow melts and becomes nothing as the water vaporizes in the air. She goes inside the house and she's met with the scent of her home and she breathes it in. Everything is as she remembered it have been and it brings tears to her eyes to see this place.

Sanding outside Thalia and Luna wait, knowing that this is a moment for Hades and Arabella, Luna though does look nervous to be in the human world again as she does not want to hurt anyone, unless she has to. "I did not know I had missed this house so much" She whispers as she turns around to face him with tears in her eyes. Being there makes her emotional and brings back the memories that took place in this very house that she is in and it are memories that she does not want to lose and she knows she will cherish them forever.

Hades has always wanted what is best for her and this place has always been lower than she deserves he cannot disrespect it. "Often we forget what we had lost when gained something else yet once the realization sinks in the sadness does too and perhaps guilt" He tells her and walks over her to pull her into a hug. "Now, do you wish to change your clothing and make yourself presentable for it will not take long before we shall stand in front of your father and looking the part of his daughter is what we must think of" He tells her.

She nods her head, as this is her fear as well as his. That her father does not recognize her as his daughter and will most likely disown her and want her to go away when all she wants is to have a father as she has never had one. Two brothers are not the same as having a father and she wishes that she has a father to be there for her, even if it is later in life. At least it would be later rather than never as she has always believed that she would never meet her father in her life.

"I shall send your maid" He says as he breaks the hug and walks out the door. A couple of seconds later, Thalia enters and she smiles at the girl. "What will you want to wear?" She asks her and the happiness is in her eyes. Thalia has not been to the human world in a long time and like the girl before her, she has missed this place and she has missed smelling the fresh air and missed feeling the cold from then snow and cold in general as Hell is not known for being cold.

Arabella thinks for a moment before she knows what she wants to wear. "I wish for you to go into the village" Arabella tells her, only hoping that the gown she saw before she was taken to the Underworld and that is the gown that she wants to wear. Might not be as grand as the dresses she got in Hell yet it will have to do as she has to look like she is from the human world yet still royal. Thalia nods her head as Arabella tells her what to buy and soon she leaves for the village.

Walking into her old bedroom with a smile on her face as she knows that it was on her birthday that this all took place, she was in this very room that she connected with herself and Hades. That night is one that she will never be able to forget. "I would have given everything to live in a place like this" Luna speaks behind her as she has entered her bedroom as Arabella sits on her slightly broken bed and feels how uncomfortable it is.

Truly a miracle how she was able to sleep there in the first place, but that was all she knew. A slightly broken bed and thin covers and uncomfortable was what she had all her life and it was all that she thought it was but after being in the Underworld and sleeping on the softest bed that she has ever been on, it does change the way that she thinks of things. "The prison did not even have a bed like that, I was forced to sleep on the floor if I wanted to sleep at all" She sadly says as she sits on the bed beside Arabella.

Looking at her friend with sadness as she has suffered in that way and it makes her feel for Luna, feel what she has felt all those years that she was in prison. "Never again will you ever have to endure that" Arabella tells her as she takes her hands and holds them tight. That promise that she made to Luna in the cave and to herself still stands and she will honor that promise for as long as she lives. Smiling at the midnight haired girl she sighs.

"How did you survive?" She asks, perhaps she doesn't want to know how Luna was able to survive for ten thousand years in a prison like she was in but somehow she did. Scoffing Luna looks up at her with a smile on her face and happiness in her violet eyes, not once does she look like the things that she been through can hurt her now. "I did my part for the world. That is what kept me going" She answers her question, though it was not a clear answer as Arabella raises her eyebrows at a puzzled look comes across her face.

"I am afraid that I do not understand" She says to Luna who only giggles at her confusion and turns her body to face Arabella. "That prison was built for me to not be able to escape yet it was also created in the way that I can use my magic on the world like it is supposed to. Arabella, have I ever told you what it is I am meant for?" Luna asks her and she is quick to lightly shake her head as she can't remember Luna explaining her magic for her or what she does.

Though, Arabella has come to the conclusion that Luna is somehow connected to the shadows and darkness but still unsure. "When you have met your father, then I shall tell you all about it, yet for now we shall need to get you ready. I believe she is returning from the village with exactly what you asked for and we must hurry" Luna tells her as the two of them stand up and as if she knew, Thalia walks inside the bedroom, holding the gown that Arabella had asked her to buy and it puts a smile on all three girls as they start to prepare the Queen.

Soon Arabella stands in front of the old and dirty mirror in her bedroom and she looks at herself with a smile, seeing that she does look perfect and it makes her happy. Her heart is beating fast but not only of happiness but also because she is about to meet her father. She wears a golden gown with a Queen Anne neckline and cape sleeves. It hugs her features around the waist and the skirt goes gown to her feet where she wears golden heels. Around her neck she has the necklace that she connects best, she does not know that the necklace is more important than she knows.

Her hair has been brushed and put up in a bun that makes it look graceful and the fire color stands out with the golden crown that she wears with ruby stones decorating it and it matches her necklace and the red stone. Her eyes also do stand out with their firey shapes and color. Looking at herself she will never get used to the fact that she is the Queen if fire and the Queen of the Underworld, this is who she is and will always be.

"I feel ready" She whispers to herself but Luna and Thalia did hear her and together the three of them walk out of the house where Hades had gotten them a horse carriage, the best that he could get (threatened to send someone to Hell). "Your carriage awaits, my Queen" He says as he puts one of his hands out for her to take. Laughing, Arabella takes his hand and he helps her into the carriage and then he goes in after her and then Luna before Thalia and soon the three of them are on the road.

The road there was long yet it only took a couple of hours but in the meantime the four of them entertained themselves in chatting and spoke about many things and when Thalia used to view the King as the most horrible man to ever exist, she's surprised in just how changed he is. But for the better, Hades changed for Arabella and she changed for him. She notices that they balance each other in ways that nothing else can. Arabella is able to keep his anger at bay with her kindness while he brings the best in her with his flirting and together they bring the love out in both of them.

The snow in their way melts for them because of the heat that both Hades and Arabella give off and while normal humans would not see it, the ones that are in the carriage do know that it is the two of them. And while Luna and Thalia feel the cold it does not want to touch Arabella nor Hades as it has done her whole life as Arabella has always found it normal that she has never felt cold.

The fire eyed girl smiles when they come to a stop and she can feel it inside her, they have arrived. She looks outside the window and sees there the castle, the grand castle of the kingdom. The castle large yet hers is larger in sizer but this is one is built out stone on the outside where the wall is and the strongest points. "It's beautiful" She whispers to Hades as she looks at him to see him smiling at her. "And it is yours" He tells her which only brings her happiness even further than it was before.

Hades goes out of the carriage first and then he helps Arabella and she sighs when she stands there. Together they walk to the gate where they are let through. "Why do they not stop us?" Thalia asks behind them as she had notices how the guards did not stop them but had stopped everyone else that wishes to pass through the gate, making sure that none pass that could be a danger to the kingdom itself. Hades chuckles. "When one is royal, peasants bow" He only answers and those words are enough for her and for Arabella to understand for she too had wondered about it yet did not get a chance to ask.

Her fire eyes are looking everywhere to see the citadel where people are around, she would assume most of them are servants or other workers at the castle. When looking at them they truly do look like she did before she became the Queen, ordinary hard-working people. Seeing them makes her remember that she once used to dress in clothes that often had holes and were ripped, that she used to work until she was so exhausted that she would barely move her body, she's reminded of the fact that she used to be poor and it makes her feel for those people and wishes she could do something to help them.

Walking with her head high into the castle itself her eyes catch servants running around and guards walking the hallways. The Underworld is good on that it does not have many in the hallways and she does like that, she does not meet many and it has comfort her in strange ways. Though unlike the one in Hell the people are laughing and having fun. Giggling as they go on, she doesn't know where but Hades seems to know.

It is not until they stop in front of double doors where she can feel it inside her, this is the throne room and her father is just on the other side of those doors. it is truly happening, she's meeting her father for the first time. Arabella grows sick in her stomach for some reason and feels as if she is about to throw up at any given minute but has figured it to be nerves and perhaps a hint of fear yet the fire Queen reminds herself that she has been through more than this and it will be easy to her.

Luna takes her right hand and squeezes to help the girl that she had noticed is feeling fear and nervousness and perhaps to help herself along the way for being with these people makes her want to kill someone or inflict darkness. It is much harder being in the presence of humans than it is Demons. "I am here" She simply tells the fire haired Queen as the doors open and they are met with a throne room. Her fire eyes widen when she's met with the throne room itself.

It's not large like hers but it's decorated with banners in the ceiling and pillars. The floor is marbled with stones in black and white. People stand in the throne room and she would have to guess they are the council that the King has as they are dressed like nobles, though she would not know nobles for she has never met one as there are not a council nor nobles in the Underworld. Arabella doesn't know why she continues to compare the two places, perhaps because she doesn't know anything else and this supposed to be perfect to her.

Then her eyes catch him, her father, sitting on the throne. Her eyes only stare at him as his eyes stare back at her. Arctic blue eyes stare back, the same eyes that she used to have before the fire in her veins and magic changed them into ones of fire. His red hair is what stands out as the crowns sits on his head. If she is not his daughter than she does not know whose daughter she could be. She did get many things from her mother but her hair and eyes was not one of them for she got them from her father.

"Presenting, King Hades and Queen Arabella, Princess Luna" A man speaks to the King and the council, his voice loud yet soothing to hear, perhaps because she is nervous about it. Being presented as a Queen in front of her father and in front of humans is empowering to her and it makes her feel like a true Queen as they all slightly bow their heads in respect of them. "And what is your business in my kingdom?" Her father asks. Hades chuckles. "Here stands Queen Arabella, your daughter" He says to the King who sits on his high throne but his eyes are only on Arabella.