Letting Aurina near fairytales and Earth lores might not have been the greatest idea.

i'd like to say i know where this came from but then i'd be lying

enjoy!

Fire Under My Feet

To say Auriana fell in love with Earth's fairy tales would be an understatement.

She browsed through a few of them back on Ephedia before they came to the humans' realm as part of her preparation. Later on she picked it back up again once they've set their base of sorts at Iris's place, but it was still just a way to get more comfortable with the planet and the culture.

The turning point came after their fight with the twins' monster that could make people fall in love and the consequences the magic brought with it - namely the 'true-love's kiss' fiasco that managed to break the spell both on Iris and the random couple that fell victim to the twins' scheming.

After all, if that turned out to be true what other lore of the humans could be true?

That was how she stumbled upon the so called 'red string of fate', a bond that connects soulmates with a single slip of scarlet thread, usually depicted tied around one's little finger. And this idea intrigued the red-head royalty - the idea of soulmates was not alien to Ephedian lore, but having such a physical representation for it was new. Thus she ended up spending hours in the library browsing through magic books and ancient tomes hoping to find any spell that might help her uncover the truth about this myth.

Sadly she found no spell she could use; on the other hand, fortunately, she was no stranger with coming up with new spells or magical tools. It had taken sometime and quite a few tries but she managed to create a spell combination that supposedly should have made such connections visible - at least for the caster of the magic, if no one else.

With the spell created, she had only one concern left; who to try it out on? She contemplated using it on herself, but if she wanted to be honest she was in no hurry to know who might (or might not) could be her other half - and anyways, Matt was out of town for some archaeological camp. Her next target would have been Talia but she quickly discarded the idea, she'd rather not chance the Xerian princess' ire in case she realised what Auriana was up to. That and the amount of attention the blunette gave to earth boys pretty much diminished her chances of success.

So, she went with the best chance she got - Iris. Afterall, if true-love's kiss worked than her and Nath being soulmates was probable and thus if the string was to be seen this scenario had the biggest probability. With this settled, Auriana began to plan.

The day of her plan came and she miscalculated. Not on a town-size scale mind you but definitely house-size scale. At least neither of the girls suspected that anything happened, or that the Voltan's had a hand in the matter. On a happier note, her spell worked. She inspected the intangible scarlet line swirling her little finger with a happy grin splitting her face, though the string became invisible after a half-meter or so which dulled her giddiness down a few notch.

Thankfully, her trepidation with the disappearing soulmate marking string ended with their first meeting of Nathaniel since her little experiment. At first she could not even see the scarlet lace on the teen, but as Iris got closer to the boy, his own string became visible and slowly connected to the Ephedian royal's own. It was quite hard to not squeal in delight, let alone tell everyone both what she'd seen and what she'd created - Talia would have skinned her alive. She kept looking at the redhead warily for the next hour either way, as she might or might not have had a ridiculously stupid grin splitting her face. Not that she minded. She was ecstatic and it was a wonder she could tone it down this much.

The problem started when the spell didn't diminish in a few days as Auriana originally suspected it should; then again she tended to underestimate her own magical power while creating new spells, so she wasn't overly concerned with the way things stood at the moment.

But then a week went by. And the twins attacked, a fight ensued and the Voltan princess couldn't unsee what she had witnessed nor she knew what to do with the acquired information. Because during the fight a blood red streak started to draw around the male twin's glove clad finger and once poison-green crystal sword collided with azure royal staff, Mephisto's string connected to Talia's.

"Oh, klapnyik."

look, it demanded to be written, okay?

and i have no idea how klapnyik is supposed to be written so i just went with my dub :p

want to make more for this but not sure how yet...