'Clarion Call' - an Elemental Wedding story
Clarion takes a deep breath and smooths down the cloud-like layers of the white princess gown she's been dreaming of since she was a little girl looking through her mother's wedding album. Today is the day - the day she exchanges vows with Ramon. Loyal, loving, always-listening Ramon. Feeling her heart starting to beat faster, Clarion takes a deep breath - calm. She must be calm, she tells herself.
She shifts her gaze back to her reflection in the mirror and for a moment, she allows her mind to draft the first time she saw Ramon... He had just finished his elemental guard's training and was in the procession of new cards on the ceremonial march through the Elenthea's capital towards the great gates on the city's edge. She, on the other hand, had just finished a concert - stringed instruments, of course, as was her Elemental affinity - and was out of the city with her friends, celebrating the success of her performance. That was the first time she seen him - his white-blonde hair and brilliant turquoise eyes contrasting with the falcon green of his guard's uniform covering his tall, wiry frame.
A knock on the door brings Clarion back to the present as her younger sister Fern bounces into the dressing room, her vibrant coppery hair practically sparking with the elemental energy of her fiery half of her powers.
"Clar... you look like an angel," Fern breathes, clapping her hands excitedly.
Clarions smiles fondly at her sister as Fern comes over and adjusts the flower crown resting in Clarions curly golden hair, the copper-haired elemental's power flowing freely to thicken and brighten the flowers in her sister's wedding bouquet and crown. Fern's full Elemental affinity with the element Earth does after all grant her the helpful ability to grow quite literally anything on command - something that came in handy whilst creating the all the flower crowns, bouquets, and flower-falls for the wedding.
Clarion’s bright brown eyes meet her younger sister's vibrant green ones in the mirror and smiles at her.
"All ready?" Fern whispers, squeezing her sister’s hand tightly.
Clarion nods, her eyes sparkling as her own excitement grows - and she can feel her Elemental energy surging, wanting to reach out and create music on any stringed instrument within reach. Taking a deep breath and doing a final check of her fairy-like white princess gown in the mirror she nods at Fern.
“I’m ready”
The bright colours of the glass roof, the jewel-hummingbirds, and the flowing flowers-falls the tiny creatures are flitting about contrast brightly against the almost glowing white of Clarion’s gown as she walks gracefully on her father’s arm down the corridor towards the great ceremony hall. Calm, she must be calm, Clarion admonishes herself as the great doors slowly start opening. She focuses her Elemental energy and the stringed instruments in the hall beyond begin weaving an enchanting wedding melody played by the invisible influence of Clarion’s elemental power. An Elemental power that can create some of what is considered some of the Elemental realm Elenthea’s most beautiful stringed music.
Clarion glides into the ceremony hall on her father’s arm, the bright flowers in her hands a colourful splash against the cloudlike falls of her white gown. “Calm”, she tells herself as she steps through the doorway, focussing on keeping her elemental power steady as the music fills the air and everyone turns to look, “she must be cal-“
Clarion's gaze falls on Ramon standing in the front of the ceremony hall waiting for her in his smart forest-green ceremonial guard's cape and suit. His brilliant turquoise eyes seem to light up as he smiles, and no power in all of Elenthea or all the worlds beyond could stop Clarion's heart from picking up speed. She smiles at Roman in return and continues walking towards him - now nothing else matters. Not even her control over the wedding melody pouring from the stringed instruments in the hall, which brightened along with the beating of her heart...
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