Babel Novel
190
Wiyzh-Sybylle Landia
Imperial Ceremony hall.
9:00 am.
The venue was a gigantic hall built with numerous gleaming gemstones, all having different shades of white, regardless of shape and quality. Surrounding the hall at a reasonable distance from each other were a few golden statues of various fairytale beasts.
Numerous shrubs with white or silver flowers could be seen in the large area. If one flew above the hall, he’d see that the flowers surrounding the venue in specific spots actually formed the symbol of love- a heart.
There were also some large trees of different heights possessing rose gold trunks, white leaves and silver bell-shaped fruits at random spots, adding to the beauty of the environment. Several beautiful and colourful little effervescent birds were singing in harmony on the branches of those trees, blessing the ears of whoever heard their wonderful melody.
White and golden butterflies made from light magic could be seen fluttering their wings around the area. The weather was also in a good mood today, and the breeze seemed to be in a festive mood, as it zestfully exhilarated many who were arriving.
24 lofty pillars in two rows made of gold stood splendiferously outside the hall, 12 feet apart from each other vertically and horizontally 50 feet apart. The pillars on each row had hanging silk banners. The pillars on the right had black banners with eburnean fringes while those on the left had white banners with purple fringes.
The first banner on the right had an image of a golden sceptre and the symbol of a certified wizard- a ritzy hat. The second pillar on the right had a beautiful peacock fan on its black banner.
The 3rd to the 10th pillars contained words of love from the groom to his bride; The romantic words were written in beautiful calligraphy and resplendent colors.
3rd banner, turquoise: “You’re the light angel who lit my path. The best tamer assigned by the goddess to me, Lavana.”
4th banner, taffy pink: “When I knew you were my soulmate, I realized that… I’m a lucky man.”
5th banner, seafoam green: “I fell hard for you, Lavana- the woman who successfully made me nervous about what to say for the first time the day I laid my eyes on your gorgeous self.”
6th banner, peach: “Your first words and touch made my heart run a race that had me internally shouting in excitement.”
7th banner, tea rose: “When you accepted me as a mate with all my flaws, I nearly went barmy with happiness,”
8th banner, butter yellow: “Knowing today, we’d be officially recognized as a couple, even though we’ve been one in the Goddess’ eyes from the start.”
9th banner, lavender: “I can’t wait to go past planting a kiss on your ever-tempting lips. Today, I have a wonderful goal in mind.”
10th banner, fuschia: “Ten children with the bride!”
The 11th black banner on the right, which was a little longer than the previous ten had the words, ‘His Royal Highness, The First Prince and mighty young sorcerer of the land!’ These words were written in a gleaming silver.
The last, but not least banner was several inches longer than the 11th one and had the name ‘Phoenix Sullivan Atlantes’ engraved boldly on it beautifully in gold ink in a vertical line.
The first pillar on the left row had on its banner an open, magnificent, pink shimmering scallop seashell with a fairly big lucent white pearl resting inside. The banner on the second pillar had the snazzy image of a luminous blue ice spear with an ice chain loosely twined around it.
The third to 10th banners had words of affection from the bride written in jim-dandy calligraphy and gleaming colours.
3rd banner, chestnut colour: “When I set my eyes on you for the first time, Straight away I drooled, afraid to blink.”
4th banner, admiral blue: “Subsequently, incredulity and fear gripped me. I thought I wasn’t worthy to carry your shoes; I felt like a nondescript ant before you.”
5th banner, indigo: “But when you called me beautiful and cupped my face in your palms, the pessimistic thoughts grew wings and flew away.”
6th banner, hunter green: “When you accepted me for who I am, my joy knew no bounds. Many times, I had the urge to pinch myself, to be sure I wasn’t dreaming.”
7th banner, pink: “Finally, today, is the long-awaited day.”
8th banner, gold: “We’ll announce our blessed union to the world, that we are never to be separated. Not even death can interfere with our love.”
9th banner, crimson: “Your bride isn’t perfect, my love. Yes, I know waves of crisis will surely come.”
10th banner, jade black: But with love as a surfboard, we will turn the troubles into stirring adventures that’ll make foes green with envy.
On the 11th banner were the words ‘Mermaid royal, Lavana’ written in violet ink and striking cursive calligraphy.
The last banner on the left had the back of a red-haired female dressed in a shiny blue flowy dress.
Various guests walked between these pillars chatting excitedly with some of the kids marvelling at the sights. Many were also taking a look at the words of the banners, showing their admiration for the words or the impressive calligraphy.
At the entrance of the ginormous structure, were two golden statues of a non-descript couple whose wiz robes were billowing; their hands were reaching out to each other.
Further from them were wiz guards dressed in various striking robes, holding their sceptres in one hand while smiling or waving at each guest entering the venue, whether they were dressed richly or not.
Among the guests entering, a little girl with pepper-and-salt hair wearing a red dress was being held by a beautiful black-haired beauty dressed in a yellow gown. Upon turning her head to the right side of the entrance where 3 guards were standing, her curious face turned to that of excitement and without delay, she left her mother’s side and ran forward to one of the guards, her arms outstretched.
“Daddy! Daddy!” she called out cheerfully.
The particular guard she ran to had pepper-and-salt hair too and was wearing green wizard robes. He immediately let go of his golden sceptre which started hovering, then he stooped to hug his daughter, a sunny smile across his handsome face.
“Daddy!”
“Oh honey,” he called out softly while stroking his daughter’s hair.
The other guards also came closer and became friendly with their colleague’s cute daughter.
“So, this is your princess whom you always boasted about, huh?” a tall, slim, yellow-haired guard said while also stooping to lightly pinch the girl’s cheeks, “Oh my, so soft! With this kind of baby girl at home, no wonder you’re always in a rush to get home when your shift is over, Ainsley,”
The girl’s father chuckled, “Yeah. This is Lily, my precious daughter,” he introduced while urging her to shake hands with his colleagues.
Soon the mother of the girl came over and the guards all stood with the one who fathered the girl carrying her in his left arm.
“Harlyn darling,” the guard leaned forward to plant a kiss on his wife’s cheek and she smiled before returning a peck to his right cheek.
This got the colleagues cheering.
“You two are so good together,” a red-haired guard said smilingly.
“What about me?” the little girl asked with a pout.
“Ah, my bad.” he lightly slapped his mouth before continuing with a repentant look, “Forgive this uncle, okay?”
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“Aww! Thank you, Lily,”
“We’re going in now,” the wife said, attempting to take Lily from her father’s grasp but the little girl simply wound her arms around her daddy’s neck and looked back at her mom with a pout.
The woman sighed, “It’s a pity. Lily doesn’t like me anymore,”
“I love you, mommy. I just want to be with daddy now.” the little girl then buried her face on her dad’s shoulder.
“Alright, come join me later,” she blew a kiss at her husband before sashaying into the hall.
“Bro, your wife is…” the red-haired guard whistled.
“Are you serious right now?” Ainsley asked with a quirked brow.
“Yeah. I mean, you’ve got good taste. And look at the result of your love-this cutie in your arms. Now I wish to have a daughter as cute as this one,” the red-haired guard said dramatically, causing the girl’s father to shake her head.
“Lily, we’re going to sightsee for a while,”
“Yay!” the girl hollered and stopped hugging her father, turning her head to look at the guests. Some of them, especially the ladies threw compliments at the girl, even wishing to steal her if that was legal.
Soon the father and daughter duo left the area and began touring the palace while sitting on his flying sceptre.
A while later, they returned to the venue and both got off the sceptre before heading inside the building.
They came across a passageway adorned with pink flowers on both edges. On the brown ceiling were white floral-shaped lights. Then they saw up ahead the second entrance that led to their destination; it had a floral arch with sparkling silver flowers.
Leaving the passageway, they finally entered the hall where they could see hundreds of guests who had arrived earlier.
A festive mood was in the air. Everyone wore their best attire to this wedding because it was one of a kind. Their first prince who was recently known to be a sorcerer was getting married to a mermaid royal whose beauty was said to leave others in the dust.
There were some naughty rumours about the bride being taller than the groom by two heads. Some versions said she had pale blue skin. Some said the mermaid mate of their prince sang songs that could heal one’s injuries.
No one knew what was correct but they all agreed that Phoenix’s mate must be pretty at least. Everyone wanted to see what the stars of today would look like.
Most guests were social butterflies chatting with longtime friends or just acquaintances, kids could even go about admiring whatever caught their eye but they didn’t go far from their parents’ sight. Other guests on the minority side were introverts who were just here to make up the numbers and fulfil their curiosity.
Several curtain lights with resplendent colours did their best to beautify the hall. The walls featured red/pink drape banners, balloons of various beautiful colours and walls beautiful paintings of various flowers.
At the top, one could see beautiful chandeliers of various shapes and soft gleaming colours.
Up ahead were three hovering platforms, each with a different colour, height, length and width. One of them had a star shape, another had a circular shape and the last one had a square shape.
Only the platform in the middle had golden stairs. At the base of those stairs was a beautiful long, gleaming red carpet. All three platforms were a large distance from each other.
Guess one fun fact?
There were no seats for the guests!