Story Online: Queen Wenagabe is Miss December - Wendy Chui
Queen Wenagabe is Miss December - Wendy Chui



"Oh you wretch! You're casting a sleeping spell on me! Away from me!" Queen Wenagabe shoos Dion off. She shakes her head and wobbles to the nearest tree. Dion stares at the queen. She has a beautiful pair of petite silver-plated wings on her hair! The wings are dusted with tiny diamonds and her glittery silver gown with fluffy bottom makes her stand out against the muddy green of the forest. She has got a pair of glass slippers too! She's like a glowing fairy in the forest. Pretty!

"Alright, alright, what is it that you want?" Queen Wenagabe leans against an oak tree, knowing that Dion is making mental notes on her appearance. She has, after all, mind-reading powers. Little Dion gulps. He doesn't know how to answer such beauty. The only other beautiful woman he knows is his mk'phar.

Finding it strange that this little boy is staring with mouth agape, Queen Wenagabe flares daintily.

"I am a busy woman, young boy! If you have no request, then I must be on my way. Good bye!" Queen Wenagabe grabs her fluffy gown and hops along a beaten path that suddenly appears from among the swamp. Wait, it isn't a swamp anymore! It's a pretty pond with strange but pretty flowers! Glares of sunlight peek through the tall trees surrounding them. Wait, there isn't any sun a minute ago! The muddy forest has suddenly transformed into a friendly garden. What in the world is happening?

Dion, still in a state of awe, lost the Queen. She has simply hopped out of sight.

"Oh, he mustn't catch up with me! I hope my spell of illusion got him," mutters Queen Wenagabe under her breath. Reaching the other side of her world, the Gaebiland, she stops to catch her breath. Vapors of cool air forms with each pant she puffs. This is the southern part of Gaebiland, where winter is the only season all year round. A chilly wind blows at the Queen. She shudders. A tinge of christmas red shows on her fluffy gown. "Oh no!" Queen Wenagabe needs to find fire to warm herself soon, or else she will turn into Miss December, a meer mortal woman with no powers; A spell set upon her by a certain grey lord when he forces her kingdom into darkness and cold. In the extreme coldness, many of her Northern Gaebis couldn't survive and so did her parents. But because of her mortal blood (injected into her when she was a baby to save her if her magic dies), her life is not in danger but her magic will die.

Queen Wenagabe digs her hands into the pure white snow on the ground and pulls out a pair of fluffy gloves magically worn on her hands. Queen Wenagabe hugs herself. She hasn't visited this part of her country before. She wonders if any of her people can actually stand the weather enough to live there. But her father and mother has warned her not to go there for fear that the cold will make her powerless. But if she does go there for whatever reasons, she must find the snow princess as quick as she can.

The snow princess, they said, was an orphan girl her parents found by a frozen lake in Southern Gaebiland. No one knew where she came from nor how she ended up beside the lake. Southern Gaebiland was first attacked by the grey lord back in the 1st century. Many of the Southern Gaebis died in the battle and a powerful winter spell was cast on this part of the country. It was during the battle that her parents found the child. Feeling pitiful for the child, her parents took her back and looked after her back in the castle until she was 3. During her stay in the castle, she was said to have turned Queen Wenagabe's mother's favourite pearl into rock ice. And once, a nanny tried to feed her milk, she breathed cold air into the bottle and froze up all the milk. When she was older, she accidentally turn her pet dog into ice. It was then her parents decided to send her back to Southern Gaebiland, where she can properly develop her powers. They sensed that she must have been struck by the power of grey lord but miraculously survived and gained the power of winter. Therefore, she was aptly named the snow princess. She was a really nice girl, they said, just that she was too cold to interact with other Gaebis. The air that she breathed out was enough to freeze anything. But the snow princess had always wanted to be in the normal part of Gaebiland, where summer was the favourite part of the year and all gaebis celebrate it with lots of parties.

Rumour has it that she is trying to make a fire pill so that the air she breathes out doesn't freeze up everything. The fire pill will warm the stomach until vomit out by the owner.

"The fire pill will warm your stomach and keep your magic!" Queen Wenagabe remembers her nanny's words. The red on her gown is showing more now. Her magic is dying! "Oh no... my eyelids are getting heavy! Shucks! I need to sleep now!" Queen Wenagabe falls onto the soft bed of snow, slowly drifting into slumber. She now wears a gown of red velvet with white fluffs all around the edge of her robe.

The story goes on... @ Thursday, November 23, 2006 10:19 PM