"Prince Sora, it is time to start a new day," a tall man announced. His hair slicked back, matching his onyx suit.

Sora woke up and sat up to look around his elaborate room. The ocean blue covers of his bed went with the snow white walls around him; one half of a wall was taken over by a window surrounded by silver. On another wall of the room stood a wide oak bookcase that contained many volumes of books, each title etched in gold. Sora's oak desk was at the foot of his bed, the papers were piled up on either side of his clothes.

"Would master like his breakfast in bed?" the man asked.

"No, thanks Kajuu. I'll come down to the dining hall when I'm ready," Sora took off the covers and walked over to the window, scratching his auburn hair. The kingdom of Destai stretched before him as far as his ocean blue eyes could see.

"Remember, sir. Today is your big day, your clothes are on your desk," Kajuu then exited the room and closed the door.

Sora looked over to see the bright sapphire blue fleur-de-lis showing over the snow white silk clothes and the elaborate sapphire blue cape. His silver crown, embedded with sapphire jewels laid on top of the stack of folded clothes. Sora walked over to his clothes and pushed aside his crown as he grabbed his shirt. As he was placing his silver crown onto his head he realized something, "Wait, what did he mean by 'big day'?"

Sora ran down the spiraling marble staircase of the castle and entered the dining hall. The fifty foot cherry table had servants in every seat and at the end were the silver thrones with blue cushions. The jester, wearing white and blue, was making jokes toward King Squall. King Squall had short brown hair with brown eyes. A scar went down his face between his eyes, a result of battle. Sitting beside him was Queen Yuna, who was giggling at the jester's jokes. Her auburn hair came down to her shoulders. Her eyes, mismatched in color, showed a deep care for people. They were both wearing the traditional colors of Destai, blue and white.

"Ah Sora, you have awakened," Squall cheerfully said as Sora walked up to them. "Are you ready for your big surprise?"

"What are you talking about?" Sora asked his father.

"Just wait a second dear," Yuna told Sora. "Your father will tell everyone in a moment."

Squall stood up and raised his hands, "Attention! I have an announcement to make!" Everyone in the hall became dead silent. "Today is a great day for my son, Sora." Squall placed his hand on Sora's shoulder, "For today he shall see his future wife!" Everyone in the hall cheered and started to celebrate for Sora. "Long live the Leonhart Family!" Sora was shocked to hear this, he turned to his father. "Why am I being wed?!"

"Because it is for the good of Destai," Squall replied smiling at everyone, "with this alliance trade between Destai and the other worlds will speed up ten fold because of the technological advances of Radiant Garden. Also, Destai will get a fair amount of money on the goods we export,"

"But I've never even met this girl! I don't even know what she's like!"

"Well, your mother and I didn't when we were being wed. After, we talked and found out we loved each other,"

"I want to do things my way!" Sora exclaimed, his face turning scarlet.

"Well, too bad. You're going to have to deal with it,"

Sora became angry and stomped back to his room upstairs.

Kajuu came into Sora's room and told him that his fiancée was downstairs waiting for him. Sora ran down the stairs and entered the dining hall where his parents and the others were waiting. Sora entered and saw three other people at the table. One was a man with spiky blonde hair. His eyes were an ocean blue color. The woman beside him also had blonde hair, but her emerald eyes could easily be seen. A small girl was sitting beside the woman. Her ocean blue eyes could be seen through the pale blonde hair. They all wore black clothes with a radiating ruby fleur-de-lis. Their gold crowns were engraved with rubies.

"Hi everyone," Sora said.

"Hello Sora," The man with the spiky blonde hair replied. "I'm Cloud Strife. This woman here is my wife, Rikku. And beside her," He paused and looked over to the little girl then back to Sora, "is your fiancée Namine."

"Hi," Namine replied meekly.

"Nice to meet you," Sora replied. Kajuu then came up behind Sora and pushed him into the chair beside Namine.

"Now, let us talk about the wedding," Squall started. "Do you want to do the tradition where the parents of the bride pay for everything? Or would you rather we all pay for it?"

At that time, Sora stood up from his seat and stormed out of the room. Squall stood up, "Where do you think you're going?"

"I'm going to my room!" Sora yelled going up the stairs.

Sora was lying on his bed staring at the ceiling wondering how he could get out of this. Sora got up from his bed and walked over to the window. The afternoon sun made everything look so peaceful, that's when Sora got an idea. He went over to his armoire and went through his clothes to look for something normal. He pulled out some brown clothes that use to be Kajuu's before he became their servant and put them on. He then snuck down the stairs. He could still hear his parents talking. He went out through the gigantic pearl front doors and snuck around the guards to the front gate. He went through the gaps of the front gate and was in the actual kingdom. He walked down the grassy hills that lead to town and breathed in the fresh air. When he finally reached the town he looked up at the wonderful old style buildings. A few feet away he saw some kids his age playing in the street with a black and white ball. Sora ran over to the boys, "What are you guys playing?" They all stopped and looked at him funny.

"Are you serious?" One of them asked his black hair getting in his brown eyes.

"You don't know what soccer is?" Another one with red hair asked.

Sora had an expression of shock on his face, "Oh sorry, I couldn't see the ball from where I was standing,"

"Well," the first one said, "do you want to join us?"

"Sure," Sora replied. So with that they started playing soccer together. As Sora was kicking the ball down the street he passed it to one of the boys and looked up. He saw the most beautiful girl walk by. She was wearing very dirty rags, but her features made her beautiful. Her crimson hair went with her lavender eyes. Suddenly Sora heard very familiar voices. "There he is!" Sora looked to see one of the castle guards pointing at him. Sora started to run the other way to escape them, but he was cut off by two other guards. They each took him by the arm and started to drag him to the castle. "No!" Sora yelled. "No! Let me go! I said, let me go!"