Princess Noella

Once upon a time, behind the European mountains, there was a magical island called Fiorlandis. In that magical island people called Leaders lived in love and harmony. They were the rulers of the magical creatures that lived in Fiorlandis named Fiors.

The Leaders ruled the Fiors with love.

Each Leader had an enchanted pendant that balances the island’s power. They used the pendants’ power for good, and thus kept the love between the Fiors and the humans in Fiorlandis.

But at that time a boy named Jeheza, who lived at the island, did some bad things. He was not part of the Leaders bloodline, but he wanted his own pendant so badly. He wanted to have powers of his own, yet the pendant didn’t choose him. Jeheza grew up and was behaved cruelly towards the Fiors.

The Leaders gave him multiple opportunities, but he let them down again and again.

As he got older, Jeheza became strong and hateful.

One day he had done something so terrible that the Leaders realized they had no other option but to banish the corrupt Jeheza from the island.

When Jeheza heard the news, he was furious and destroyed a piece of the island in anger. The Leaders and the Fiors fought against him together and banished him out of the island. He promised them that one day he will return even stronger, take his revenge on them and seize all their pendants to himself.

That way he will become the most powerful sorcerer in the world and rule everyone.

Emanuelle, who was head of the Leaders at the time, decided to ensure that Jeheza will never find the way back to the magical island. The sorcerers cast a powerful spell to hide Fiorlandis, and placed the “island’s guards” outside it, in case that even the strongest spell wouldn’t work.

Years went by and the name Jeheza turned into a legend. No one knew what came his way.

Fiorlandis kept flourishing and prospering, and everyone lived there happily. Until one stormy night, a terrifying scream was heard in Fiorlnadis.

One of the islands’ guards ran towards the scared Fiors, “He’s back, Jeheza is back”, called the man.

Chaos spread in the island and everyone went wild in panic.

All Leaders and some of the Fiors went fighting. Jeheza sealed the island’s gates of all sides so no one could escape, most of all, no Leader with a pendant. They fought the evil sorcerer with all their powers, but he came back with forces unknown to them.

Jeheza began taking over the island and got to the Leaders one after the other,hunting them and taking their enchanted pendants.

In that period, Noel, son of Emanuelle, was head of the Leaders. Noel fought against Jeheza alongside his soldiers in order to protect Fiorlandis and his people as best as he could. At that same period, a beautiful baby girl with golden hair was born, her eyes yellow as honey. Her name was Noella.

Noella was the daughter of Noel and Ella, the island’s rulers.

She was only four months old when the war broke out. Ella realized she must save Noella, She couldn’t run away with her as Jeheza will follow her and that would of course jeopardize Noella.

So, she decided to call Paisley, her good friend and loyal servant and told him, “Paisley, we must save Noella. Jeheza will follow me, so you must watch over her, she is not safe in here. I know that not so far from here, there’s a kingdom with a childless queen, she would be delighted to have a child of her own. Noella will be safe with her. And if Jeheza finds her one day, she will have to defend herself, but by then she will have a whole, strong army behind her. Who knows, maybe she’ll save our home one day.”

The frightened Paisley voiced his concerns to Ella, “I’m afraid I will fail. I have never left Fiorlandis, it’s too big a responsibility. I have never even seen a palace; how would I find the way?”

Ella told him, “When you see it, you’ll know.”

He was still stressed, “but Jeheza closed all island exists. There’s no way out.”

Ella explained, “There’s a secret passage. Right here behind me. Only those with the magical map can find it and go through.”

“A magical map?”

She nodded and continued, “It’s a gift, passed down in my family for many generations and I now hand it to you, it will take you to the kingdom and bring you back here without being noticed.”

Ella saw that Paisley was still concerned and tried to calm him down, “Paisley, the reason I chose you is because I know you will take care of my Noella just like I would, there’s no one I trust more than I trust you. I know you’ll keep her safe, I’m sure she will be in good hands. You can do it, I trust you.”

She lifted Noella wrapped up in a blanket and said, “We trust you.”

Ella and Paisley looked at the baby and shed some tears, when suddenly they heard the sound of war coming their way.

Ella quickly put Noella in a basket and handed it over to Paisley along with the magical map and repeated once more, “Now run! Run as fast as you can! No one can know about her, this will be our secret so she could stay safe in there and may we all meet again.”

They both cried as the threatening sounds came even closer.

Ella opened the magical passage.

Paisley went into it with Noella and ran as fast as he could.

The night was stormy, and rain was falling as the noise of battle was burning in their wake.

With Noella covered in his arms, he ran for long hours. He was exhausted when he finally got to the kingdom that Ella told him the map would lead him to.

He got to the Norville kingdom and saw lights up.

Paisly quickly ran when he spotted a little house on the way. Above the house was a huge luminous sign with a glowing picture of a palace.

Tired, exhausted and not so clever at times Paisley was thrilled when he saw the palace Ella was taking about.

Paisley put Noella on the doorstep, knocked three times and ran to hide on the side of the house, making sure that everything is okay, when suddenly the door unlocked...

An old man opened the door and looked both sides, when he noticed a beautiful baby in a small basket. He lifted her up, and couldn’t believe his eyes as he put her inside the house in a haste, hiding her from the frosty night.

He sat on his bed, placed below his window.

Paisley looked at them all emotional and sobbing.

The old man held her and smiled.

“What is your name, little one?” He wondered.

Paisley whispered into the open window, “Noella, her name is Noella” and hid. The old man turned his head around to see who’s whispering, but he saw no one.

Then the old man noticed Noella had a necklace with a note attached to it. He read the note that said, “Her name is Noella, please don’t ever let that necklace leave her neck, it protects her from someone cruel who wishes to harm her. Please keep her safe, I hope she is in good hands.”

The old man looked at Noella after he finished reading the note and said to her, “Noella, you will be just fine little one, I promise.”

Paisley glanced at them from the windowsill when he heard guards on their night patrol coming closer. He realizes it’s time to go back.

He watched Noella, said goodbye with tears on his cheeks, then he whispered, “bye Noella”.

He ran off with the magical map and disappeared.

Paisley did not know that he entrusted Noella with an old man, a commoner, and not a king. Good old Levy who lived on his own and sewed for a living in his humble home.

In the meantime, in Fiorlandis, Jeheza destroyed everything.

He thought that he got to all the Leaders, but when he brought all pendants together, he realized that one pendant is missing, the one that unites them all together.

“It can’t be, I h—”