Welcome To Mystic
Author: sugarplum17

Disclaimer: The characters don’t belong to me, they’re from the show Roswell and I don’t own them or the rights to them. I do own bits and pieces of the plot, but what seems familiar to you is probably taken from Swan Lake/Swan Princess (Disney movie I think.)

Category/Coupling: AU/CC

Author’s Note(s): Alright so like I said this is slightly based on Swan Lake or is it Swan Princess? Either way, it’s not set in olden times or anything. It’s like they were born in the 1980's. Max and the others didn’t come out of the pods because they were born on Antar, and let me tell you, you guys will love what I have done with Tess. With this plot line, it is like guaranteed that she will not interfere! Maria, Liz, Alex and Kyle were all born on Earth. Liz is a Princess and Max is a Prince. That’s all I’m saying.



Part 1
Elizabeth Parker clutched her father’s hand as they stepped off of the ship and onto the richly colored planet. This was her first time visiting this place. As far as she could see it was beautiful. The colors were so rich and full, the sky was a deep, navy blue as they had landed at night. It was very much like her home as far as she could see, just much more vibrant in color.

“Come along Princess.” Her father said as he hoisted her up onto his hip. He was aware of the fact that a King shouldn’t carry his daughter in such a manor, but he didn’t really care. He never did this sort of thing on Earth at least not when they weren’t in the palace. It was too dangerous. But on Antar, he was safe and free. He was free to pick up his five-year-old daughter if he wanted to. Free to hold her up in the air and twirl her around without worrying about a sniper hiding somewhere waiting to strike.

“Are you nervous my sweet?” He asked her, nuzzling his nose into her soft little cheek. She barely nodded her head as she wrapped her arms around his neck. “Oh I know you are my dear, but you mustn’t be. These people are friends. You’ve met Avana, she is nice, is she not?”

His little girl’s face lit up at the mention of Queen Avana. “She’s beautiful daddy.” She whispered to him, cupping her tiny hands around her mouth as if it were her precious little secret. “I hope that when I am a Queen I can look just like her.”

“And what of Lady Vilandra?” He asked. A small smile playing on his lips. “What do you think of her? Is she beautiful as well?”

His brown haired little girl vigorously nodded her head, her precious doe eyes widening as they looked into his. “It must be something in the water.” She said seriously, making her father laugh. A common Earth expression, yet not one that he’d thought she’d heard before.

“Shall we my lord?” Asked a man carrying bags. Liz recognized him from the Palace, and her friend Alex’s father. She’d been sad when she had to leave him and Maria, even for a few days, but her father had wanted her to come along.

“Yes Charles, lead the way.” As he started walking with his daughter on his hip, he turned his head to her. “Now my sweet, we can only stay for a few short days, and if you like it here you may return next summer.”

“Yes papa.” She answered back her dark head pivoting from side to side and tipping backwards constantly. She was intently taking in her surroundings, memorizing everything about this place. The grass was so lush and green, even in the dark, she could tell. The sky was such a dark blue and the stars sparkled like nothing she had ever seen. Not far off in the distance she saw flowers blooming by a spring. She wanted to go and explore it, her little five year old mind was thinking of picking those flowers and handing them to Avana.

“Papa!” She hissed before excitedly clamping her hands over her mouth. “Look!”

“Do you know what that is my sweet?” He asked, turning his full attention to what she had spotted not far off in the distance. “That is a deer, my pet. We have those as well. This planet is very much like the one on which we live.”

“Did that deer come from home papa?” She whispered as she looked at it curiously.

“I think maybe it’s relatives might have.” He whispered back. “I gave the King of this planet a few deer a very long time ago.”

As the deer wandered closer, her eyes grew bigger. “Wow...” She said in awe as it bent it’s head to drink the water from the spring.

Being sheltered inside the castle walls she never got to see this sort of thing up close. Pictures, movies and books were her only window into the wilderness. She rarely saw animals in the vast fields that surrounded her home. She knew then that she was going to like this place. This place that her father had told her to call Antar.