Princess Brittany Stephens and the Guardian

By Douglas Green

Brittany was a ten-year-old girl who lived with her mother in a small house up in the mountains. She was born and raised in the house where she lived since her father disappeared many years before. Brittany was a lonely little girl. She had no friends, and she had never seen any other kids near her home. She didn't even know if any other kids even existed. She spent most of her days playing down by the river.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Feb 4, 2019
• ISBN: 9781543961034

Douglas Green

Douglas Green is the author of the 2020 novel A Dog of Many Names. He runs the advice website AskShirelle.com, inspired by the first edition of The Teachings of Shirelle. He directed the 2000 film The Hiding Place before authoring books, and now spends his days working with teens and children as a psychotherapist in LA.

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Douglas Green

Princess Brittany Stephens and the Guardian

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Scotland: 992 AD

Brittany was a ten-year-old girl who lived with her mother in a small house up in the mountains. She was born and raised in the house where she lived since her father disappeared many years before. Brittany was a lonely little girl. She had no friends, and she had never seen any other kids near her home. She didn’t even know if any other kids even existed. She spent most of her days playing down by the river. She always wondered why there were no other kids around. Her mother told her all the other kids lived far away or they lived in the king’s castle behind the great wall. She made it clear that most of the kids were killed by the king because he feared for his crown. There were rumors that the Stephens family held the crown many years ago. She didn’t remember the exact year because it was many seasons before she was born. There were stories that were told to her as a little girl, and it was told to her mother and her mother before her. She told Brittany she thought the king was a Stephens by blood, but she was not sure. There was nothing written in the decree, and there were no witnesses.

For some reason, he promised to leave us alone, her mother said. He sent your father on a trip, and he has never returned, but we will continue to wait until he returns home.

I will wait with you, Mom, Brittany said.

I just miss him so much, her mother said.

I pray for him every day but I never get an answer, but I won’t give up. I will continue to pray for Dad’s safe return.

Please finish your breakfast and go outside and play. Try to get plenty of sun, her mother said with tears in her eyes.

Brittany got up from the table, hugged her mom and whispered in her ear, Everything will be all right because I can feel a change is coming. I’m going down to the river to play. She walked out the door and ran in the woods. She was a skinny little girl, but she had a lot of energy, and she loved to run. Whenever she ran, she never got tired very quickly. She wanted to grow up to be a warrior to fight against the king’s rule, but she never told her mother. She knew her mother would rule against such talk because it was dangerous to think that way. If the king ever got word that Brittany was thinking that way he would surely have her killed.

Brittany was playing near her home down by the Glasgow River. While digging in the dirt, she found a strange metallic box with a pendant in it on a chain buried in the ground near a large oak tree. It was in a strange looking metal box. She wiped off the dirt, walked over to the river and rinsed off the box. She struggled to open the container, and the pendant was covered in muck. She rinsed off the pendant, and she was expecting it to shine, but it was a dull rusty color. She didn’t care. Brittany wanted to keep it. She slid the pendant leather strap over her head and around her neck. She tucked it inside of her shirt close to her body, and it began to glow. It produced a bright light and sent a tingling sensation throughout her body. She started to get dizzy and fell to the ground fast asleep. While sleeping, she began dreaming and wished for a friend and a protector for her and her mother. She was always afraid of the king and his soldiers. Unknowns to her, she had just sent for a guardian from a mysterious other realm. She was born into a royal family bloodline, but she was living as a poor commoner among the other peasants in the kingdom.

She was a lost princess from hundreds of years ago. When she fell asleep she made a wish and transported her thirty-sixth generation great-grandson from across the galaxy and future timeline from the year 2080 back to the year 992 AD as she slumbered. She finally awakened; it was night and dark. She quickly jumped to her feet, brushed herself off and ran home as fast as she could staggering along the way. She ran fast knowing her mother would be worried about her. She finally arrived home as she exited the forest and quickly ran toward the house and entered as her mom sat angrily at the kitchen table.

Her mother yelled at her then asked her where she had been. "You know you are supposed to be home before dark. You know it is dangerous out there at