Annabelle The Chosen Bride

1 The Birth of Annabelle
It's been nine months already and Drusilla had put to bed a bouncy baby girl, who looked gorgeous and beautiful in countenance. Philadelphia the great hunter, who has now become a father had loved his daughter and Drusilla always yearned to satisfy her with whatever she had asked for from her as a mother. Annabelle grew gradually and after over a decade she had become a beautiful teenager and an adolescent girl already and was being led into womanhood by her own mother.

She's being loved and pampered by her parents nevertheless, she had never allowed all of that to get into her head. Annabelle was a diligent teenager who liked to work carefully and tried to clean the whole compound. Her mother had cautioned her several times to take it easy on house chores as she could have left some of the house chores for her mother to do. Annabelle loved to help her parents and she was an obedient girl who often would go on errands everywhere she's being sent by her parents. She had never disobeyed her parents in whatsoever instructions she was given by her parents to follow as far as those instructions were important and importunate.

Her mother often told her of how she had suffered with her father to bear her as they hadn't gotten it easy at all. She's being told about the mystery surrounding how she was born and that she's been a gift from the gods and goddesses of Philopolis. Philopolis was being ruled by Poseidon's son called Telemacus.

Annabelle had grown into a curvy-shaped and beautiful lady. She had been both respectful and kind despite her beautiful countenance. The young maidens and virgins of her village had not and still have not learnt any didactic lessons on why they should be kind to strangers hence they kept being callous towards strangers and even towards themselves.

Annabelle's parents had died leaving behind her brother Hermes and Annabelle herself. And Hermes her only brother then had taken after his father to be a great hunter also anyhow, their parents had left for them so much wealth besides. They had kept using their inherited wealth to help the poor and needy until one day one of the gods visited them to promise them royalty in one of the most powerful kingdoms in Athens.

Their royalty had been connected to the Kingdom of Pergamos III and Poseidon I, whose father had been a great hunter of ancient times. Poseidon's and Annabelle's deceased father have had something in common in their lives---both had been great hunters of the land of their nativity in the past. Furthermore, they both had been good men whose lives had transformed many young men and old men alike throughout the district of the Kingdom of Athens.

Hermes had gone to woo his sweetheart Eros while Annabelle has always had the timeless hopes of being made a new Queen of one of the most powerful kingdoms in all of Greece some day. Annabelle was almost thirty years old and still she had kept her hopes alive until she was fully thirty years old. Hermes had succeeded in wooing his sunshine, Eros and the two had tied the knot in a holy matrimony.

Their marriage had been the talk of the town of Philopolis as well as in the neighbourhoods of Philopolis and was heard of by many Grecians in Greece. Now Telemachus rules in the stead of his father King Poseidon I, the great hunter of ancient times. He's being regarded by all his subjects and many from far and near had heard a lot about him. He was a powerful and wise King who had used his wisdom to amass wealth for his kingdom.

King Telemachus II, has come to feel that it's time for him to fall in love with a good and kind maiden precisely a virgin was his best choice. And interestingly, Annabelle is almost the age of King Telemachus II, however, she's not broken her virginity as she's not been married to any man yet. After a handful of months King Telemachus II, had sent his announcers to herald news of the search for a new Queen and the same would be chosen as his bride.

2 The Search For A New Queen
King Telemachus II, longs for a wife and gives out his criteria to his wise advisors to comb the nooks and crannies of Athens in search of a maiden who befits his criteria. More over, that maiden should be the one whom he had seen countless times in his dreams for he believed that, that lady had been chosen for him by the gods of their lands and of his forefathers.

The search for a maiden as the King's wife-to-be had begun and the wise men and magicians have had the chance of combing the whole of Athens for the King's best choice. Many old women had yearned for their daughters to be chosen however such a choice of a wife for their great King should meet certain criteria and should be the lady whom he had seen in his dreams.

They had searched everywhere and had brought different beautiful ladies who almost befitted the criteria however King Telemachus II, had rejected them. He tells his advisors to go again in search of more beautiful maidens and virgins for in three weeks the Kingdom of Athens will host a grand ceremony of maidens and virgins of which one of them must be handpicked and chosen by the King and also one who would befit the King's selective choice as shown him by the gods of our ancestors.

The day had approached and many of the maidens and virgins who had reached marital status were handpicked however the King was not pleased with any of them. Annabelle had been invited by her brother Hermes and she was feeling reluctant to attend this ceremony nonetheless, she thought of visiting for once to see how this ceremony would be organized. She had wished that she was one of them but, practically she wasn't. Little did she know that the gods were drawing her closer to her destiny in order to be chosen by King Telemachus II, as both his wife and the new Queen of the Kingdom. She had arrived and was part of all those who were spectating and witnessing this grand ceremony.

King Telemachus II, was seated on his royal golden stool and relaxed as he relaxed the gods bring to his memory a vivid picture of the maiden he's been seeing in his dreams all along. Annabelle had not dressed like those ladies who were being paraded and flaunted before their King for his choice of wife and so nobody would have thought that Annabelle qualified for such a wonderful occasion. The King whispers into the ears of one of his advisors and communicates with him about the description of the lady whom he had seen in his dreams of which he had described to this particular advisor about the said virgin who would be the King's bride.

3 Annabelle Becomes The New Queen
The King is stunned that Annabelle appeared to be the exact lady, woman and wife of his dreams and so he sends one of his messengers to beckon and get her for him. Already, King Telemachus II, had been told the actual name of the woman who would be his wife in his dreams by the gods. To the King's surprise the messengers came back telling the King that the maiden comes forward to him. When she gets close to the King, he then finds out about her name. She responds in a sweet and captivating voice giving out her name as Annabelle.

And the King not being able to control himself began shouting, "I have found my wife. I have found her. I have found Annabelle, whom the gods of our kingdoms had foretold and shown to me in my dreams". He continues to state: "Annabelle is the one whom the gods of our lands and of our forefathers had shown me for many years in my dreams". And the King declared her officially and traditionally as his wife and said, "Annabelle is the new Queen of the Kingdom of Athens" This was how Annabelle became the new Princess and Queen of the Kingdom of Athens and the King with his beautiful wife and bride Annabelle, had lived happily ever after in the Great Palace of the Kingdom of Athens.

The End.