Lusty and Lust

The princess was born in one of the most beautiful mornings the kingdom had ever seen. It was as if nature was celebrating her coming into being from the infinite potential of existence and into constantly manifesting reality, celebrating the new potential light that came with her being into the world ready to shine upon anything that without her, would remain obscure forever in the abyss of potential. And as nature celebrated, so did the king and queen. With the princess, their love through which they built their kingdom manifested into life, it was the happiest day of their life.

As the princess grew up and developed her personality, the king and the queen made sure to give her the tools that they regarded essential for the princess to be happy through an existence full of love. The king taught her to open up her heart to others and thus love all forms of being besides her own. The queen filled in the gap of the king's teachings and so she taught her to appreciate and love her self, the princess's, own being.

The palace was a place of harmony where all kinds of love manifested daily, it was a place safe from hostility. It was a safe place from the dragons that once found by a human, would stick to them and begin an endless battle over choice.

One day, as the princess was wandering around the forest behind the castle, she went into the woods looking to satisfy the curiosity that a peculiar sound she had never heard before had awakened within her. There comes a moment for everyone, when a parallel being to their own is born and an unbreakable bond between them manifests when they meet and ties them forever. There, in the woods, that moment took place in the princess's life. She witnessed the coming into being of a dragon, and so she knew, that that dragon was now her responsibility. She wondered how to take care of her new companion, and so the tools the king and queen had given her suddenly got meaning. It was obvious what she needed to do, she had to love her dragon like all forms of being that make part of the world. But she forgot that love does not mean solely taking care of someone, it is also limiting their actions so that they don't hurt the people around them, and in this case, she overlooked the danger in which she was.

The princess visited her dragon everyday ever since in the woods and so taking care of him, slowly but surely, they were bonding. One day it occurred to her that someone may want to join her and play with her dragon, but the boy she brought, was terrified of her dragon and so became terrified of her.

Although the princess did reflect on the fear of the boy and saw the potential threat that her dragon might be, she she continued bonding through caring for him unconditionally. And so, she looked again for a friend to play with them.

-What’s his name? - asked the boy after playing with the princess and her dragon.

-His name?...- asked the princess doubting the love she was attempting to manifest- I... haven't given him one yet- the game had not been to her liking at all, it was fun yes, but she felt horribly empty when it was over - I guess I'll call him Lusty-.

-When can I come again? - asked the boy anxiously.

-Never... Never again- said the princess emotionless.

-but you called me here!we had fun didn't we?! Is this not what you wanted?!- shouted the boy furiously at the princess.

- Yes! I did! It was fun! But this is not what I wanted...- responded the girl to the boy's anger running away in tears from the boy, from Lusty and ultimately, from herself.

The game had left a wound that would become a scar on the princess's soul. Nevertheless, she kept looking for a way to care for Lusty, casually bringing friends to play with them.

One day, the princess met a girl that she immediately came to despise. They would fall into long and even aggressive debates until eventually they became friends. The princess's friend told her about her brother and about the kingdom he wanted to build, about how he would make the girl he would love the happiest of all and treat her like the queen he wanted for his kingdom, she told her what a white knight he was. The princess immediately thought that if someone could help her with her dragon, it would be a white knight, after all, it's up to a knight to deal with dragons.

- Hi, I'm a friend of your sister's and she told me that you bare a scar much like mine and so I would like to ask you about it, may I? - asked the princess.

- Why most certainly, I got it from my dragon since I lacked control over him, but now he is a good boy and helps me advance towards my goal- answered the boy.

The boy had met his dragon a long time ago and thanks to what his father death brought upon him by his own dragon, the boy had understood to be cautious of his dragon. Nevertheless, he didn't know how to deal with him, and it was only through a wound that the boy understood that the way to care for his dragon was mastering him otherwise he would be mastered by it leading both of them to misery.

The relationship of the boy and the princess became of one conversation that manifested in many ways. No matter how hard the boy tried, he could not get across to the princess the danger she was in of becoming the slave of her dragon and losing her will. He tried to show her even succumbing to her dragon hoping she would see the misery it brings, the emptiness of life without will, but she did not see it. Eventually he tried to master her dragon for her leading her dragon to take her far away from him. It was then when the boy knew, like she with Lusty, slowly but surely he had come to love her. He loved the princess with all of his heart. And so he embarked on a journey to find her to try and save her from her dragon... from her self.

After a long year that he thought were ten years of looking, searching and researching; he finally found the princess who for the first time in his life had given him the clearest of images of his goal, of his palace, of his kingdom, of his purpose. But when he found her... It was too late. The princess had completely succumbed to her dragon, when he saw her he only managed to utter a few words when he realised how deep into the woods she had gone... What was about to happen was reflected in her eyes. He painfully watched her slowly start to disappear into the dimension where slaves reside.

- Alizaaaaaaa!!!- cried the white knight desperately reaching to her hand. She tried to hold on to his but when they met they were already in too different a dimension to feel each other's touch. The princess looked at him with those eyes full of love that led her away from him forever as she slowly disappeared.

- "Had she not loved all forms of being so much, she would have made lusty her subordinate and she would still be here"- thought the boy dressed as a white knight crying in agony.

- I failed... she's gone... she's gone she's gone she's gone SHE'S GONE!!! ALIZAAAAAA!!!!!... Aliza...- cried Jack in agony as he fell on his knees and buried his face in his hands.

- Won't you take me to her? - asked Jack his dragon when he stopped crying.

- I can't, that is not your will. You have become too heavy for me to digest master- answered Lust putting his head on the shoulder of his master.

- Besides, it was never up to you. She made her choice, you may have ignored it but I didn't, she chose to ride Lusty a year ago. She chose to fly away from you on his back- said Lust angry to see his master in such pain.

- How about I eat YOU than? - asked Jack while getting up in hopeless persistence.

- You can't, you love me too much, you love your people too much, and you now have a responsibility that you can't forsake. Not even for her, you know that master, she is not the only one who could have been saved- said Lust relieved to see his master back on his feet.

- She needed a tenacious judge to show her the threat of Lusty, but that judge can only be her. It was never up to me, but boy I wish I could have kept that beautiful light to enlighten my kingdom- said Jack scarcely regretful while mounting Lust.

- That attachment will haunt you for a long time... Where shall I take us master?-

- Back to the lab, I need to continue the map of being-

- What about finding a queen?-

-When I see a potential light I'll let you know-