Jackson Rose Circle (Series Idea)

Somerville, Illinois

Businessman Chad Brooks is transferred to Somerville to run the new branch of the company he works for.
Soon after his arrival in Somerville, Chad moves into the house his boss Matthew Krantz in Jackson Rose Circle has rented for him.
Little does he know, the house is directly across the driveway from the local women’s homeless shelter.
The following day, Chad began working at the new company branch under his management. To help him, Matthew had hired an assistant for Chad. Her name is Shayna McBride – Matthew’s niece.

—
After the death of her father and her mother’s betrayal, Lisette Dunseth is forced to go to a homeless shelter – the same homeless shelter across the driveway from Chad’s house.
Though she was twenty one and fresh out of business college, Lisette has no job nor any kind of transportation for that matter.
But one of the requirements of staying at that homeless shelter is to get a job and give the woman in charge of the shelter all of their pay. That is one requirement Lisette vows to never comply to and comes up with a plan to avoid losing all of her hard earned money when she does get a job.

One of the shelter’s major rules is no communication with any of the neighbors with the excuse homeless women are not welcomed in the neighborhood.

Life at the women’s homeless shelter isn’t easy. All of the young women residents are to get up at 6 a.m., have breakfast, do a chore and leave the shelter by 8 a.m. except for the young women who has volunteered to work at the shelter for free.

The young women who leaves the shelter are not allowed to return to the shelter until 5 p.m., have supper, and retire to their beds.

Every night between 7 and 9 p.m., all of the young women are to take a shower and be in bed by 9 p.m. even though the lights don’t go off until 10:30 p.m.

Nobody knows that the newest young woman Lisette has an allergy that can easily place her in the hospital at any given time – Lisette is allergic to extreme heat and has occasionally collapsed in public.

One hot morning just after an unsuccessful job interview at a company a few doors from Chad’s company, Lisette gets overheated and managed to get to a small shade in front of a company windo2w before collapsing onto the sidewalk. Despite her being on a shade, the concrete was still hot. Not hot enough to burn her skin, but hot just the same.

Elsewhere

Tessa Trotter Ross, the British wife of the Jackson Rose Circle estate owner and developer Wallace Rose, sets her plan to rid their estate of the women’s homeless shelter.

Though she had come to know a few of the young women residing at the shelter, Tessa knows among those young women are troublemakers and at least one thief. Tessa also knows there are a lot of decent young women residing there.

Wallace Rose, the British owner and developer of the Jackson Rose Circle estate, has been receiving complaints about the homeless shelter residents and is in the process of getting the shelter to permanently close and move elsewhere.

There’s a problem, the woman in charge of the women’s homeless shelter Cheryl Oxley is the hot headed and arrogant daughter of Mayor Herbert Oxley and socialite Meredith Prentice Oxley and who has no intention of complying with any orders or d closing her shelter. Cheryl grew up spoiled and has always gotten her way.

Unbeknownst to Cheryl nor any of the residents, one of the young women residing at the shelter is an undercover journalist working for a major news publication who’s there to obtain enough evidence of Cheryl’s illegal dealings and expose them to the world. To help her in her quest, the young woman who goes by the name of Cari Young becomes friends with Lisette.

Meanwhile

Chad and Shayna witnesses Lisette’s collapse on the sidewalk outside their company and rushes outside to help her.

Once Lisette is back on her feet, Chad and Shayna helped her inside to a cushioned chair. Shayna got her a bottle of cold water while Chad talks to Lisette.

During their conversation and hearing Lisette’s situation, Chad decides to offer Lisette the receptionist job at his company. Lisette accepts his offer on one condition – he pays her a small portion of her pay on cash and put the rest in a secret bank account she could use later on. Against his better judgment, Chad agrees and allows Lisette to start working there that same day. Lisette officially begins her receptionist job at the Krantz Company and takes her place behind the reception desk.

Throughout the day, Chad couldn’t help but notice how professional their receptionist truly is and the way Lisette communicated with his new Clients clearly told Chad that Lisette personally knows every one of them. Even his hot headed Client Clint Shepherd who thinks women has no business working outside the house couldn’t help but admit Lisette seems right at home at her job there especially after being put in his rightful place by her.

Elsewhere

Tessa sets up a women’s meeting with the wives of the residential businessmen at her two-story tan manor that sits directly in the center of the estate and for which the rest of the estate has been built around.

Among the attendees are Ava Davis Meyer, Cari’s mother, and Lisette’s rich aunt Ellen Walters.

During that meeting, Tessa made it perfectly clear the homeless shelter has got to go. No ifs or buts about it. While admitting most of the young women residing there are decent, there are other young women residing there who are trouble-makers and even a few thieves. The worst of all of the young women is Cheryl herself. Cheryl has been extorting money from the young women residing there and that has to stop.

The rest of the meeting is spent discussing ideas on how to rid their neighborhood of the homeless shelter while saving the young women who’s being exploited by a selfish and arrogantly spoiled young woman who has yet met her match.

In the conference room of his office building, Wallace is having a meeting with the businessmen in his neighborhood and the husbands of the wives at Tessa’s meets discussing ridding their neighborhood of the said women’s homeless shelter for good. Among them were Lisette’s Uncle Thomas Walters and Cari’s father Gary Davis Meyer.

During the meeting, Wallace presents his shelter eviction petition and all of the businessmen except two signs the petition. The two who doesn’t sign the petition are Jeremy VanHyning & George Harpole.

Jeremy VanHyning is a hot shot real estate broker who’s making money off the homeless shelter and Cheryl’s sugar daddy.

George Harpole is the rich lawyer Cheryl has hired to keep her out of the courts by bribing and blackmailing the opposing lawyers.

The rest of the businessmen knows something has to be done and fast, but also has to find a way of helping the decent young women while seeing to it that the young women who are causing trouble and the thieves among them get their just desserts.

Later That Day

At the Rose Manor, Wallace and Tessa discusses the meetings they had earlier with their neighbors and the results of their meetings. But they both know convincing the town mayor to allow the homeless shelter his daughter runs to permanently close it.

After work and closing for the day, Chad decides to give Lisette a ride back to the homeless shelter across the driveway from his house, but was shocked by the cold and cruel reception Lisette receives the minute she gets out of his car.

End of Episode 1:

Welcome

Hello! My name is Judy Kaye Thompson and I am the author of this website and numerous others.
I just wanna take the time to welcome you to my literary world.

For the record, I am an old fashioned storyteller and not a sex writer like most authors of today. Yes, some of my stories will contain sex scenes but only in appropriate places and not from page 1 to page whatever.

I have been a storyteller for over 40 years now. Though I have yet to officially publish any books, I’m hoping I’ll be able to do that with my current book serial Ancient Love Fate Strong.

If any of you are reading my book serial and is interested in becoming a Story Reviewer (Beta Reader) of mine, feel free to send me an email at: judythompson818@hotmail.com for more information.

If not, feel free to read and enjoy the stories I have on here.

Sincere Yours,
Judy Kaye Thompson
Author

Human Roses

Human Roses is the story of three Female AIs (Harmony and her younger sisters April and Fawna) living as fully Human women.

In this episode, Harmony and her sisters go on an adventure to discover what it is actually like to be humans coexisting among natural born humans. While at the same time trying to find the hidden cave of Zaira: the Queen of Life in hopes of their AI to Human transformation being completed.

Not only do they experience lots of adventures, they also discover what it truly means to be fully human.

Author

HARMONY

Hello!

My name is Harmony Rose Hamilton. The story you are about to read is mine and how I became known as a Human Rose.

I am writing my story in journal form so you can get a good idea of what my daily life as a Human Rose is like.

While my story might sound like that of a native human being, I can assure you all my story is not. For mine is a bit out of this world unique.

So sit back, relax and enjoy a good out of this world story.

Yours truly,

Harmony Rose Hamilton

—

Wednesday April 1, 2076. It is officially the very first day of my life as a fully human woman and a beautiful one at that I might add. Queen Macia certainly has out did herself when she created me.

For the record, I’m not entirely a full human just yet, but I will be, well, according to Queen Macia anyway, I will be a full human once I’ve completed the last phase of my AI to Human transformation, but to do that, I must first complete my first quest as a full human.

What’s the quest?

Legend has it that there is a hidden cave somewhere in the Midwest in which Zaira: Queen of Life exists. It is her who will make me fully human so I can have babies just like natural born human women can.  And to be able to raise them as fully human children.

I know what you’re thinking … How on Earth can a human create another human without going through the pregnancy thing?

Well, for starters, I was not born a human. I was actually born an AI (Artificial Intelligence) and then through a combination of human and alien technology and an alien chip, I was turned fully human. Almost fully human anyway. I still got one last phase to go through before I become fully human.

What is the last phase of my transformation I must go through before I become fully human?

You see, when Queen Macia made me human, she did not have a way of giving me a reproductive system so I can have human babies just like natural born human women can. Therefore cannot complete my fully human transformation.

This brings me to my first quest as a full human. My quest is to seek out the cave hidden somewhere in the Midwest belonging to Zaira: the Queen of Life and seek her help. According to Queen Macia, if anyone can give me a reproductive system, it will be her.

Who is Zaira: Queen of Life?

According to Queen Macia, Zaira is the Mother Nature of Life along with her alter ego Hope: the Goddess of Forever can either resurrect humans or complete the transformation of an AI to fully human.

But who is Queen Macia?

Queen Macia has actually created fully human babies from baby AIs. That is how her daughters Princess Lacina and Princess Kyra now teenagers came into existence. But as the years past, the reproductive system she had used was destroyed in one of the many starship battles her starship had to endure.

As for Queen Macia herself, she was born a fully human baby female with fully human parents and a fully human younger sister. All of whom still live here on Earth while Queen Macia mainly lives on a starship in outer space.

A bit more about Queen Macia later.

What are the male version of AI Humans called? Human Stallions.

Hello, Fellow Humans,

My name is Harmony Rose Hamilton and this is my story – journal style.  So let me pick up where I left off.

While most humans were born either in a hospital or in a home, I was born in a science lab on a starship. Right off hand I don’t recall the starship’s name. Oh well, maybe I’ll remember it tomorrow. Yawnnnnn! I guess I’m what humans would call tired and I need to get some sleep.

As humans would say, Nighty-night, folks.

Thursday April 2, 2076.

Good morning, Everyone!

Before I get into my story, let me tell you what a Human Rose is.

What is a Human Rose?

A Human Rose is an AI female turned fully human female. Does this mean I get to live a human life from childbirth to old age?

No it doesn’t. What it does mean is I get to start my human life as a young adult of eighteen; and then my life goes on from there.

Are there any male AI Humans? Yes, there are. Currently there are two human AIs. Only they’re not called Human Stallions or Human Roses, they are called Scanthians. There are a few female Scanthians also. Now I remember the name of Queen Macia’s starship, it is called Scanthian.

My grandfather is Adam, not the Biblical Adam, but a male Human AI Queen Macia had name Adam. The other human AI is my cousin Lieutenant Commander and Starship Engineer Kevin Riley. More about them later.

Now on with my story…

Lorenza Cannon

Lorenza Marie Cannon was born and raised on the family farm on the outskirts of Juliet, Missouri. The oldest of three children: two boys and a girl born to Daniel and Amanda Whitman – Cannon.

Although she could not sing or play an instrument, the young girl longed to be part of the country music scene. Enough so that when she learned how to write, Lorenza kept a diary in which she jotted down her country music dreams, which later in her young life has become the source of inspiration for her debut novel simply entitled Nashville.

In school, Lorenza excelled in Math, English and Speech. Enough so that she could easily have a successful career in the world of journalism.

Right after high school graduation, Lorenza boarded a bus to Nashville and soon settled in a small three room apartment above a local bar with a part time waitress job in the bar.

It is during this time when Lorenza got the opportunity to use her journalism skills. As a result, Lorenza got the chance to meet a couple of favorite country singers along with the bar’s newest two country singers Rachel Marsten and Bobby Coultas.

Rachel Marsten

Rachel Jayne Marsten was born and raised in Illiad, Illinois, to Ray and Samantha Bankcroft – Marsten. She is the second to the youngest of four girls.

From the earliest she could remember, Rachel loved singing and dancing. Every chance she got, Rachel would sing her favorite songs with little dance moves.

In grade and junior high school, Rachel participated in every play she could especially when it involved singing.

During high school, Rachel and a few of her friends formed a band and began playing at the local café. Rachel and her band Iliad became a sensation. Then tragedy struck the band, three members: sisters Gloria and Nikki Frank and Chely Butler while on a road trip was killed in a head on collision with a drunk driver. That left Rachel and her friend and bandmate Lynda Strickland.

Rachel and Lynda was a huge success as a duo, but their success was short lived, Lynda fell seriously ill and passed away. That left only Rachel. Rachel knew if she did not leave town, she will be next in line to die.

To ease the pain of losing her band mates and the realization that she will be next, Rachel learned how to play the guitar and wrote a country ballad and made a demo. She also had a few great photos taken.

Upon the day she got her own car, Rachel said goodbye to her family and headed for Nashville in hope of making it big as a country singer.

Once in Nashville reality set in and despite having a great demo, Rachel couldn’t get anyone in the music industry to even listen to her demo.

Rachel was about to give up when a chance opportunity came along. At a local café, Rachel got the chance to sing a song with the café’s country band The Kentucky Girls who had been looking for a lead singer was having an audition contest one night and Rachel successfully won the contest.

The rest they say is history.

Bobby Coultas

Bobby Joe Coultas was born in Richland, Kentucky but raised in Iceland, Kentucky. He is the youngest of four boys and one girl born to Dean and Ruthann Suttles – Coultas.

Father was a farmer who often plays guitar at the local tavern while mother was a housewife and a part time cook at the tavern. Often Bobby will sing while father plays guitar. Neither one was professional but very popular among the town folk.

While older brothers Gavin and Caleb and younger sister Raquel weren’t interested in performing even though they certainly had the talent, Bobby was and he too had the talent.

But Bobby also had a flaw that could easily hinder his singing career – he suffers from Agoraphobia – the fear of crowds.

During his school years, Bobby wasn’t exactly a good student, but he did manage to pass every class and graduate high school.

It was during his senior year, Bobby formed the country band Ikeland. While he also liked rock and roll, his favorite music was country.

For more months, Bobby’s band was riding high as they performed in all the local bars they could get into.

Then one night, Bobby’s agoraphobia hit him hard during a live performance. His band was so embarrassed by Bobby’s strange behavior, they kicked him out of the band although Bobby was the one who had started the band in the first place.

Although his band mates knew about his agoraphobia and had even witnessed an episode or two, they didn’t actually believe he truly had it. They thought it was just a joke and blew it off as such.

Nashville The Characters

Nashville characters:

Newcomers … Aspiring author Lorenza Cannon, Rachel Marsten and Bobby Coultas

Couples … Shelby Baumgart and Raymond Burrell, Cheryl Richardson and Gerald O’Day, Lisa Fisher and Heath Buchanan, and Jake Darrenger and MiKayla Brizadine

Rachel’s Bands: The Kentucky Girls

Bobby’s Band: The Ikeland Boys

Other Characters: Nightclub owner Orson Banner and his fiance Maria Harlowe

Nashville The Story

Nashville is the story of three newcomers who tries to make it big in the capital city of country music.

While two of them are aspiring country singers, the third one is an aspiring novelist who plans on using country music as the theme of her debut novel providing she can get any of the country icons to let her inside their secret world.

Three strangers who’s about to meet and who’s lives are gonna become entwined in a deadly trap that had been set for one of them.

Main Characters:

Bobby Coultas

Rachel Marsten

Maria Hargett

Chateau Nexus

THE CELLPHONE  CONNECTION

ROBERTA GOLDBERG drove south on Mackery Road in Nevada as she headed for the tiny country town of Rickette, Nevada.

There, Roberta eased into Rickette, drove through the tiny town and pulled into the driveway of a country house.

Roberta parked in front of the two-story country house and got out of her car.

She walked around her car and up to the front door. Roberta knocked on the front door.

Minutes later, a handsome teen-age boy answered the front door.

“Are you Chester?” Roberta inquired.

“I am,” Chester confirmed. “Are you Roberta Goldberg?”

“I am,” Roberta confirmed.

“Do you have the money?”

“Do you have the cellphone I ordered?”

“Yes.”

“Give me the phone and I’ll give you the money.”

Chester went to the phone stand, picked up a unique looking cellphone and returned to the front door.

Roberta handed Chester the money. In return, Chester handed her the unique looking cellphone.

“Thanks, Chester.” Roberta smiled.

“You’re welcome, Roberta.” Chester smiled back.

Roberta left the house, walked back around her car and got into it. She shut the car door, carefully hid the cellphone in the magical pouch of her purse, started the car, made a U-Turn in the driveway and pulled out into the street.

She drove through Rickette and headed back onto the Mackery Road.

Several miles along the road, Roberta pulled over to the shoulder and stopped. She retrieved the unique looking cellphone from out of her purse, turned it on and checked the text messages.

Most of the text messages were the usual type of messages. Messages ordinary Humans would send to each other.

Then Roberta found them, the messages she had been waiting to receive for the past decade or two. There were four of them.

Message 1:  My daughter, we are coming to Earth to get you and your brothers to bring you all home to Chateau Nexus.

Message 2: I am sending you these text messages as Humans call them, so you’ll be expecting us. We’ll be there in two Earth months.

Message 3: Whatever you do, my daughter, do not allow this cellphone out of your sight. One thing we have learned from our earlier visit is that the Earth’s US Government will stop at nothing to keep you and your seven brothers from ever leaving Earth. That is why you have a Human body and not a Nexus body.

Message 4: So long, my daughter, I will be in touch. Mom and I love you, my daughter, and your seven brothers.

Roberta checked the picture section. Sure enough, there were pictures of her home planet Chateau Nexus. Chateau Nexus was just as breathtakingly beautiful as possible.

She put her new cellphone into the magical pouch of her purse, pulled out onto the road and continued onto Mackery.

About halfway there, two Policemen stop her.

Officer One got out of the police car and approached the car. Roberta rolled down the car window. Officer One leaned down to the window.

“Yes, Officer?” Roberta asked.

“We have a report that you had stolen a cellphone from a Chester Nardek.” Officer One said.

“I did no such thing.” Roberta protested.

“Step out of the car.” Officer One gestured.

Officer Two got out of the police car and joined them.

“Search her car while I search her.” Officer One suggested.

Officer Two searched Roberta’s car and her purse and found no cellphone.

Officer One searched Roberta and also found no cellphone.

“Okay, lady, what did you do with it?” Officer Two questioned.

“Nothing. I don’t have Mr. Nardek’s cellphone.” Roberta protested.

The Policemen share a question look.

“Alright, Miss, we’ll let you go. THIS TIME.” Officer Two finally said.

The Policemen returned to their car and got in.

Roberta got back into her car and shut the car door. She started the car and pulled out onto the road as she continued driving.

The Policemen follow her.

Roberta saw the police car following her and not wanting them to know where she was heading, she took them on a wild goose chase through the Nevada Desert.

Upon ditching the Policemen at the Area 51 trespassing road, Roberta headed for her new home town of Mackery, Nevada.

Finally, Roberta made it to her new home. She retrieved her purse, got out of her car and walked into her Larkarta Drive house.

Inside, she closed the front door and walked into the living room.

Roberta crossed to the large, brown sofa and flopped down on it. She looked about the living room at the many portraits of her Nexusian family – her parents…the planet’s Chief Warrior and Chief Warrioress and her seven all older brothers – two are Starship Captains, four Warriors and one Galaxy Bounty Hunter.

She retrieved the unique looking cellphone from out if her purse and checked the text messages. No new ones so far.

Hunt For the Darkness Realm Beast

Perched high on a black shire horse just inside the Sevaille Castle wall, Jayne Dothan was being handed a crystal sword, which she inserted into the sword holster that was strapped diagonally across her back, and a crystal pistol she placed firmly into a holster strapped around her waist from King Sevaille. Atop her head was a crystal tiara.

Jayne was donned in a white mini dress and white sandals with her long black hair pulled back in a long braid.

“Are you sure you want to go through with this?” King Sevaille asked.

“You said yourself, Your Majesty,” Jayne answered. “Only way I can stay here is to hunt down the Darkness Realm Beast and kill it.”

“That I did say.” King Sevaille confirmed. “Any questions?”

“Just one.” Jayne answered.

“What is it?” King Sevaille asked.

“How far is the Darkness Realm from here?” Jayne asked.

“At least one sunrise from here.” King Sevaille replied.

“I don’t suppose I could have anyone come with me.” Jayne spoke up.

“Sorry, Jayne, this is one mission you have to complete entirely on your own.” King Sevaille said. “No more talk, young lady, it’s time for you to get going.” He looked at the gate keepers and added, “Open the gate.”

The gate keepers opened the castle gate. Jayne made a slight clicking sound with her mouth and Sire took off in a gallop. The gate closed behind her.

Sire with Jayne on his back galloped off towards the Darkness Realm.

Although the Darkness Realm was a day’s journey, Jayne could clearly see it from as far off as the castle.

After all, all she had to do was look straight ahead in the distance and she could clearly see the Darkness Realm waiting for her.

Jayne travelled the rest of the day both on horseback and on foot.

Shortly thereafter, Jayne and Sire reached the lake. While Sire got him a drink from the lake, Jayne sat on the grassy shore and rested.

As she sat there resting, a giant T-Rex approached the lake. At first, Jayne was nervous but the T-Rex simply looked at her and then leaned down, got a drink, raised up and took off.

Jayne looked over at Sire and was surprised to see that the horse hadn’t run off. 

“That’s strange.” Jayne said out loud. “Very strange.”

Jayne looked into the sky and saw the sun was starting to set. She got up from the ground, walked over to Sire & mounted him. They continued on their journey to the Darkness Realm.

Just as they reached the farthest hill top, Jayne heard a man holler, “Hey, human, wait up!”

Sire stopped and turned around so his rider could see who was hollering at her.

Jayne looked at the bottom of the hill and saw Prince Vaille riding towards her on another shire stallion – the one they call Hercules.

Jayne stayed put and watched as the handsome, dark haired man donned in royalty garb rode up the hill to her.

The minute he reached the hill top, Prince Vaille stopped Hercules beside Sire.

“What do I owe this honorable visit, Your Majesty?” Jayne inquired halfway bowing.

“I’m here to help you get through the night.” Prince Vaille confessed.

“Thought that wasn’t allowed.”

“It isn’t.”

“Why do it?”

“I wanted to get to know you a little better.”

“Won’t your father be upset if he found you here with me?”

“He already knows.” King Sevaille said, landing next to Hercules.

“And?” Jayne questioned.

“Although I do not approve of this, I do understand my son’s need to keep you company through your first night here.” King Sevaille said. “But he is to come home at sunrise.”

“That’s fine.” Jayne said.

“You two had better find a safe place to spend the night, the sun is setting.” King Sevaille gestured, spreading his wings.

“I know a good place near here where we can stay tonight.” Prince Vaille admitted.

“Great.” Jayne said. “Lead the way.”

“See you in the morning, Father.” Prince Vaille said.

“You too, son. ” King Sevaille replied.

As King Sevaille flew off, Prince Vaille and Jayne took off on Hercules and Sire down the other side of the hill, through a small valley to an odd shaped mound in between two enormous trees.

There, Prince Vaille stopped Hercules and demounted the shire stallion.

“Why are you stopping here, Your Majesty?” Jayne asked.

“This is our resting place for the night.” Prince Vaille said.

“Okay.” Jayne sighed.

Jayne demounted Sire and followed the handsome prince into a well made cabin styled shelter. She was stunned by the fact that the shelter had a few of the necessities one would find in her own world. They cross to the sofa and sat down on it a short distance from each other.

“Interesting place you have here.” Jayne observed, walking about the shelter. “Why are we staying here tonight?”

“It’s too dangerous to stay out there at night.” Prince Vaille said.

“Why?” Jayne curiously asked.

“Don’t know if you have noticed but we co exist with dinosaurs here.” Prince Vaille explained.

“Now that you mentioned it, I do remember seeing a T-Rex getting a drink from the lake.” Jayne recalled. “Strangest thing though it didn’t attack me and I didn’t see the need to run.”

“Are you sure you’re not a light being?” Prince Vaille joked.

“I’m sure,” Jayne laughed. “But why stay inside if the dinosaurs are harmless?”

“They’re only harmless during the day.”

“Not at night?”

“Exactly.”

“I don’t follow.”

“Dinosaurs don’t see so well at night. Well, not these dinosaurs anyways.”

“If we sleep outside, they just might accidentally step on us.”

“Precisely.”

“What about the Darkness Realm?”

“What about it?”

“Don’t they go into the Darkness Realm?”

“Absolutely not.”

“Why not?”

“They fear the Darkness Realm.”

“I see.” Jayne sighed. “So where exactly am I supposed to sleep tonight?”

“You can sleep in the bedroom while I sleep out here.” Prince Vaille said.

“Okay.” Jayne answered.

Jayne started to get up but Prince Vaille pulled her back down. Jayne looked at him a bit puzzled.

“There’s a specific reason why I’m spending the night with you.” Prince Vaille spoke up.

“Why’s that, Your Majesty?” Jayne curiously asked.

“Why did you feel the need to stay with me tonight?” Jayne asked.

“I know you’ll be entering the Darkness Realm tomorrow.”

“That’s the whole idea of my trip.”

“Let me finish.”

Jayne nodded.

“The king isn’t the only person who had been inside the Darkness Realm, I also had been in there.”

“And?”

“You have a doppelganger.”

“I have a what?”

“A doppelganger.”

“What’s a doppelganger?”

“There is an evil entity existing within the Darkness Realm that can easily be mistaken for you.” Prince Vaille warned.

Jayne looked at him oddly.

“We both need to get up early in the morning,” Prince Vaille said, ignoring Jayne’s odd look. “We’d better call it a night.”

“Okay,” Jayne said. “Goodnight, Your Majesty.”

“Goodnight, Jayne.” Prince Vaille answered.

Jayne got onto her feet and went into the bedroom.

Prince Vaille laid down on the sofa.

In the bedroom, Jayne laid down on the bed and fell asleep.

”’

The next morning, Jayne woke to the delicious smell of eggs and bacon frying, Jayne got off the bed, straightened the blanket and walked into the living room.

As she entered, Jayne saw Prince Vaille setting a tray of fried eggs and bacon on toast sandwiches and two glasses of orange juice on the coffee table.

Jayne joined him at the sofa, Prince Vaille gestured for her to sit down. She did.

“Hungry, Jayne?” Prince Vaille asked.

“I can eat.” Jayne admitted.

Prince Vaille handed Jayne her plate and then sat down on the sofa a short distance from her as he retrieved his plate.

Jayne ate her breakfast while Prince Vaille ate his.

Although breakfast tasted great to her, Jayne found it a bit odd that a man least of all a royal Prince would eat food from her world.

“How on earth did you get this and how did you know how to cook it?” Jayne curiously asked.

Prince Vaille looked at her and with laughter in his voice, he smiled, “You’re not the only one here with secrets.”

Jayne smiled and laughed.

They ate the rest of their breakfast, drunk their orange juice; and then did the dishes.

After a few minute rest, Prince Vaille announced, “It’s time to go, my lady.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.” Jayne answered.

Jayne and Prince Vaille left the house and mounted their horses.

“Good luck, Jayne.” Prince Vaille smiled.

“Thanks, Your Majesty.” Jayne replied.

Prince Vaille on Hercules rode off towards the castle. Jayne on Sire headed onto the Darkness Realm.

A short time later, Jayne on Sire stopped and turned back to Prince Vaille only to see him and Hercules vanish into thin air.

Jayne shrugged it off and turned back to the Darkness Realm.  She tapped Sire and continued on.

The sun moved across the sky as the day got hotter and hotter. For the first time since she had gotten there, Jayne finally noticed the unusual color of the sky. Rather than it being blue, the sky was the color of purple with gold clouds.

Soon, Jayne felt a refreshingly cool wind.

A few hours later, Jayne reached the Darkness Realm but as she tried to enter it, Sire stopped and refused to enter the Darkness Realm.

Jayne sighed and got down off Sire. She walked in front of the horse and smiled, “Okay, Sire, I can take a hint. You’re free to go.”

Sire neighed and galloped off back towards the castle.  As Jayne watched, the horse disappeared just like Prince Vaille and Hercules had done earlier.

“Okay, Jayne, darling, you’re on your own.” Jayne told herself.

Jayne sighed, turned around and entered the Darkness Realm.

Cautiously, Jayne began walking along a well beaten dirt path as she headed deep into the woods.

For the first several miles, everything seemed okay. Nothing out of the ordinary. So far, there had not been any signs of danger or anything evil lurking about.

Jayne continued walking as she went further and further deep inside the Darkness Realm.

Exhausted from the walk, Jayne decided it was time for her to sit and rest. At least for a short time.

Jayne was almost asleep when she heard a rustling sound coming from behind her. She jumped onto her feet, grabbed her crystal pistol and spun around to face whatever it was that made the rustling sound and found a beautiful young woman standing a short distance in front of her.

The woman slowly approached her with her hands up in the air.

“Who are you?” Jayne questioned, aiming the pistol at the young woman.

“Princess Issala.” Princess Issala announced. “You must be Jayne.”

“I am.” Jayne confirmed. “How do you know who I am?”

“My father told me you were on your way here.” Princess Issala confessed.

“Did King Sevaille send you here?”

“Yes.”

“Why?”

“He forgot to give you this map of the Darkness Realm.”

“Didn’t know there was a map.” Jayne said, putting the pistol away.

“It’s not a great map but I think you can tell where it leads you.” Princess Issala said, handing her the map.

Jayne unrolled the map, looked at the rolled up map and examined it. But was a bit disappointed, the map she had hold of was not of the forest but a map of an underground city.

“How am I supposed to use this to find the Darkness Realm Beast?” Jayne questioned.

“You don’t.” Princess Issala said. “You don’t use that map until you’ve reached the underground city.”

“How do I get to the under-ground city?”

“That you will have to find on your own.” Princess Issala announced. “I gotta go.”

“Thanks for the map, Princess Issala.”

“You’re welcome, Jayne.”

Princess Issala stepped in between the trees and vanished from sight.

Jayne sighed and took off walking deeper into the woods.

As she walked along the path, Jayne discovered the woods was getting darker and darker.