79. Evil overloaded

All the brides, except Enerva, groomed Akshara into the ugliest person with their vengeful flames in their hearts. They made her wear the torn dress which was previously ruined by Nora. They even painted her face with bright shades to make her look like a personification of the witch.
“Make way for our little witch, whose beauty been trapped the crown prince.” Avika, the ash hair bride told Akshara.
Ravina, the brunette bride mocked Akshara, “Go to him in this costume, then he will run away from you.”
“Not run, he has large wings. He will fly away from you on seeing your beauty.” Zerena, the bride with blonde hair giggled at Akshara.
“Even after treating her with special grooming, she looks even more attractive. Should I mark her face with never-heal-wound?” D'Rona spitted her evilness in every word thinking to burn Akshara alive with her angry flames.
Akshara was ruined physically and mentally in her wrong choice of earning friendship with an evil-minded princess. she stood like a statue bearing everything only for Dev and thinking of Dev gave her some strength to persuade all the humiliations.
Nora called, “Indy? (Indigo came on her command) Close the door after the brides. Do you understand what I mean?”
“How would I not understand you better than anyone?” Indigo nodded positively eyeing Akshara.
“What are you blabbering?” Nora asked her and didn’t mind Indigo since the brides were rushing towards the throne room.
The dragon guards arrived in the east wing to escort the brides to the throne room. Akshara waited until all the brides left and rushed to the fabrics to makeover her present nicely in front of Dev wiping her tears of humiliation previously gained from the princess of the allied kingdoms of Ayruzglow.
Akshara looked at the leftover fabrics and touched the white fabric thinking about his silver hair of Dev. “Wearing white satin would match his silver hair. Huh (she chuckled) old man, oops, the old dragon.” She talked to herself in an attempt of impressing him.
Her crazy little dirty mind pictures every moment with him, her mind taken to the memory of their intimate times. She blushed heavily thinking about his cold touch on her warm body.
“No matter what I wear, he likes to rip it off. Then, what’s the point of outfitting me to impress him?” Akshara asked her reflection in the mirror while embracing herself and thinking of Dev.
Nora who was shadowing behind the door was about to explode in her anger on hearing her blushing talks of Akshara. “Indy, what did she say now?”
“My lady, she said, ‘whatever she wears our crown prince will rip off her clothes” Indigo repeated the words of Akshara with some enthusiasm filled.
Nora slapped her, “Do you think I am deaf? I heard her (she gritted her teeth) does she mean, she and Dev, dungeon girl and Dev mated?”
Indigo replied while rubbing her cheeks with a shrunken face, “If not they mated, why would our crown prince would rip her clothes off? For not just to see her naked body I hope.”
Nora breathed fire and her chest heaved in rapid inhale and exhales. Indigo added some logic to her words just to cool Nora before she could make any drastic move, “But my lady, if they mated, then as prophecy, the spirit of dragon would be made the flames shower. Our crown prince’s dragon is white and blue. So it would shower blue or white flames. Nothing happened ever like that.”
“What are you blabbering, Indy?” Nora was furious knowing the fact that what might have happened between Dev and Akshara.
Indigo continued, “I heard from my grandmother that when our queen and king mated, it was a golden shower from the sky since our king was a golden dragon. I am sure, they are not.” she pointed to Akshara.
“They aren’t mated yet, then she is just provoking me. I am going to kill her now.” Nora spilt her heating words and marched towards Akshara. She grabbed the white fabric from her hand and tore it into pieces.
“Fit yourself in these dresses. Dev must be excited to see his chosen bride in a ripped and crippled dress.” Nora told her and left the place to join the parade to the throne room.
Akshara busted into tears. Nora was soaked in happiness on seeing Akshara in tears. Indigo followed Nora blindly but showed her pity over Akshara. Enerva patted her shoulder, “Axe, don’t worry. you don’t need to impress him like others. You have already gained his heart. Your presence will make him merrier.”
“Hum, princess, you sound like you aren’t interested in bride selection for him?” Akshara asked her.
Enerva smiled at her, “Yes, I don’t come to marry your crown prince. I come to represent my kingdom and even if he chooses me, I am planning to reject him. Now I got one more reason to reject him, it’s you.”
Enerva left the chamber and headed to the throne room Indigo waited until Nora’s head disappear and she rushed towards Akshara to console her, “Hey, Queen knew about five brides but the fabrics are seven. So, Queen is expecting my lady to join them.”
Akshara replied sobbing, “I did my work of decorating your lady. Is this how you repay your gratitude?”
“No, you don’t understand, Queen knew that our crown prince brought a girl with him from Frozen Crescent. Something might have happened in the court of Las Oajar. That’s why she opened the gate for allied countries' brides. She also knew about Nora’s feelings over the crown prince.”
“So, does your queen doesn’t know to count? She has sent seven bridal dresses for six brides.” Akshara sobbed.
“The last one is for you. To make it fair to everyone, our majestic queen has opened the castle gates for other brides along with my lady and you. Make use of it.” Indigo tried to reason the act of the queen to Akshara.
“Your lady and the brides ruined these dresses, what am I to do now?”
“I don’t know but our crown prince will be expecting you in the parade. Don’t disappoint him.”
“Huh, (sighed) who are you loyal to?”
“I am loyal to my lady Lenora but you have a much-respected position in my heart,” Indigo told her and whispered something in her ears. Akshara nodded with tears and barely smiled at her.
After Indigo left, Akshara think of Dev, “Are you that much to be petrified of like these people picturizing you? But you are always my sweet Devil.”
Akshara picked the torn dresses from the floor to make something to fit her and to be present to her groom waiting to be met for months. She rushed to the dungeon to make her outfit from the trash.