On the other side of the mirror

As soon as the doors of the castle opened, there, Syaima’ and I saw a fair and beautiful lady sitting on her throne.

“Asim!” Said the lady on the throne.

“Queen Aleesya…” Said Asim as he bowed. Syaima’ and I followed.

“Who are those two ladies behind you?” Asked Queen Aleesya.

“This is Nuha and this is Syaima’.” Said Asim.

“Why, welcome! Welcome!” Said Queen Aleesya.

“It’s an honour to meet you Queen Aleesya.” I said.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you girls too.” She said with a lovely smile.

“Asim, why don’t you show them around the castle?” Asked Queen Aleesya.

“It will be my pleasure.” Said Asim as he bowed.

“Come on ladies. Follow me.” He continued as he walked. Syaima’ and I followed behind him.

“Bye girls!” Said Queen Aleesya.

“Bye!” Syaima’ and I said.

“She’s awfully friendly.” Said Syaima’.

“Indeed she is.” I said.

“Here, we have Queen Aleesya’s flying horse stable.” Said Asim as he pointed to a stable where there were horses with wings.

“Oh so cute!” I exclaimed jubilantly as I ran to hug one of the horses.

“This one’s the cutest.” Said Syaima’ as she pointed to a red and orange horse with maroon wings.

“I like this one.” I said as I pointed to a navy blue horse which had ocean blue wings.

“Which one is the queen’s one?” Syaima’ asked Asim.

“I’m glad you asked.” Said Asim as he smiled, “Follow me.” He continued as he walked.

Syaima’ and I squealed of excitement as we followed behind him.

Asim stopped in front of a field which had fences around it.

“I don’t see no horses with wings.” I said.

Asim smiled, and said, “Look above you.”

I looked up. What I saw made me gasped.

A cotton candy coloured horse with red wings was flying above me.

“It’s beautiful.” Said Syaima’ as she enjoyed the sight of the majestic horse.

“Queen Aleesya lets only her horse fly in an open field.” Said Asim.

“You can tell that this is her favourite horse.” Said Syaima’.

“Yeah no kidding…” I said as I was still looking at the elegant horse.

“Follow me to the next place ladies.” Said Asim as he walked away from the field. We both followed.

Asim took us too many other places in the castle such as the maze room, the land of candy, the animal room and many more.

As we were walking back to the main entrance, Syaima’ and I chatted away.

“I liked riddle field the best.” I told her.

“That was a living nightmare. We had to figure out the riddles in order to be able to get out of the field. Luckily you were there.” Said Syaima’.

“Surprisingly, Asim didn’t know how to answer any of them.” I said as I giggled.

Asim who overheard us said, “I wanted to give you guys a chance to play around in the field.”

“Yeah right.” Syaima’ said as we both laughed.

As we were laughing, a sound of an alarm went on.

Syaima’ and I stopped laughing at once. We saw the look on Asim’s face; it didn’t look like good news.

“What’s going on?” I asked Asim.

“No time to explain! Just run and follow me!” He answered in a shouting way as he ran. Without another word, Syaima’ and I too ran.

To be continued in: On the other side of the mirror 2

Magic mirror 2

“Wow.” I said.

“What? What?” Syaima’ asked excitedly.

We found ourselves in a forest. Where the trees were filled with many coloured trees. There were blue trees, pink trees, red trees and many more. And the forest wasn’t dark. It was peaceful.

“Where are we?” Syaima’ asked curiously.

“You two are in the rainbow forest.” Said a voice. Syaima’ and I turned around. There was a tall young man dressed in an archer suit on a branch of a tree. He jumped down.

“Who are you?” I asked the young man.

“I’m Asim. The head knight of all knights in this kingdom. Call me Asim” He said as he bowed.

I smiled and giggled then giggled.

“You two are not from here aren’t you?” Asim asked.

“Yeah we’re not.” Said Syaima’.

“Come on then. Follow me. I’ll bring you to the queen of this kingdom.” Said Asim.

“Clap, Clap!” Went his hands.

“What was that for?’ I asked.

“You’ll see.” He said as he gave us a smirk.

An elevator came down from the sky.

“How do we get to our destination using an elevator?” Syaima’ asked.

“You’ll see.” He said again as he again, gave us a smirk.

The doors of the elevator opened. “Ladies first.” He said.

“What a gentlemen.” I praised.

He gave us a smile.

“Take us to Queen Aleesya’s castle.” Said Asim to the elevator.

Without another word, the elevator got up into the sky, above the trees and flew off.

“Wow!” Said Syaima’ and I as we looked down and saw the view below us.

“Beautiful isn’t it? Below us is colour-river. Not only is it colourful but each colour has its own flavour! And yes, the water is clean enough to drink. Like the red river. It has the flavour of strawberries.” Explained Asim.

“Cool!” I said.

“Splendid!” Said Syaima’.

“By the way, I haven’t gotten your names.” Said Asim.

“Oh. She’s Syaima’ and I’m Nuha.” I said.  

Minutes later, the elevator stopped. Then, suddenly, it slowly went down.

“Why is it going down?” I asked.

“We’re at our destination.” Said Asim.

“You mean Queen Aleesya’s castle?” Asked Syaima’.

Asim nodded.

Syaima’ and I squealed. “How do you think she would look?” I asked Syaima’.

“I don’t know!” Said Syaima’.

“I bet she’s beautiful.” I said.

The doors of the elevator opened. Asim went out first then followed by Syaima’ and me. Asim walked while we followed him.

As we were walking, we saw giant statues of animals such as rabbits, eagles, tigers and many more.

“Why are there statues around this place?” I asked Asim.

“Legend has it that these giant animal statues used to be alive and roamed the earth. Then one day, they fell into magic-river. In that particular river, you can turn into a stone or anything!” Explained Asim.

“Amazing.” Syaima’ said.

When we reached the doors of the castle, Asim said, “Open o open doors of Queen Aleesya’s castle!”

And with that, the doors opened…

To be continued in: On the other side of the mirror. 

Magic mirror.

21st July 2015

"A bit more to the left. Oh, oh, just right." I said as I looked at the two men who were putting a mirror in my room. 

I smiled as I looked at my own reflection in the mirror. 

"Hi!" Said a voice. 

I turned right. There stood a a tall woman at my door. At that moment I said, "Syaima'! What a surprise!" As I went over to her and hugged her. 

"What are you doing here?" I asked her. 

"Just came over to take a look at your new house." She said. "Seems like it's going well." She continued. 

I smiled. 

"Miss, our job here is done. May we get our payment then leave?" Said the worker. 

"Oh okay." I told him as I gave him some cash. 

"Thank you." He said as he smiled. 

I smiled back. He left later. 

"Cute mirror." Said Syaima' as she took a look at the newly put mirror. 

I sat on the bed. She then followed. 

We started talking about our lives, how it was going. 

"Aleeya says that she's not letting me stay at her house. I don't want to interfere with Ameera as she lives with her family." Said Syaima'. 

"Want to live here?" I offered her. 

"Definitely!" She said. 

"Your paying half of the electric bill every month okay?" I asked her. 

"Okay... Wait, what?" She said. 

I laughed. Knowing that she wouldn't want to pay for the electric bill from the start. 

"Don't do this to me girl." Said Syaima' as she too laughed. 

"Just a little joke." I told her. 

As we were laughing, an unknown voice laughed softly.  

We both stopped laughing. 

"What was that?" Syaima' asked. 

"I don't know." I told her. 

"Here!" Said the voice again. 

We both tried tracking the voice. 

"In the mirror." Said the voice.

"I've seen too much ghost stories on mirrors." Said Syaima' as she covered her ears. 

I felt like laughing at her words but I couldn't for I too was scared. I touched the mirror. My hand went through it. 

"Wait whaaaaat???" Said Syaima'. 

"Come on!" I told her as I went into the mirror. We both went in the mirror; into the unknown.... 

To be continued in Magic mirror 2.