Chapter 1

After the devastating and recent loss of Spades former King, Queen, and Jack, it was finally time for the selection of new rulers for the kingdom. The process was much more exciting than it would seem. The way that finding new royals was quite simple. Basically, there were two sapphire rings, one plated and crafted for in a more masculine way, and one more feminine. For the Jack, it was simply a golden watch pendant. When it was time for a new leader, the watch pendant would stick both of its hands up and lead to who would be the Jack. As for the King and Queen, it was a bit harder. As the rings got closer to the one that who would be chosen, the sapphire would begin to glow brighter and brighter.

Alfred Jones stood with his family in the commoners section of the Coronation Hall. It was always an exciting event to see the new royals to take the throne and be coronated and promise to take care of their kingdom to the best of their abilities.

Arthur Kirkland sat in a large plush chair with his father and four older brothers with the Lords and Ladies. Looking around boredly, he sighed as the event began.

"Hello ladies and gentleman!" A man from the Lords and Ladies of the castle announced, getting everyone's attention and quieting down the Coronation Hall. "Let us now take a moment of silence for our former royals."

The room bowed their heads in sorrow, and then raised their heads again once the rings and pendant were placed on the podium. Already, the rings were glowing faintly glowing, the Queen's more than the King's. With a white gloved hand, the Lord raised up the pendant slowly moving it across the room until the hands shot forward toward the one it had chosen. Walking down from the stage slowly, he followed the hands until he met up with a long haired Asian man. As he held out his hand for him, he bowed down to his new Jack.

Yao Wang was extremely honored, and he stood a bit taller. Taking the Lord's hand, he was led back up to the stage, trying not to show too much of his excitement. The Lord carefully placed the Pendant around his neck and then moved to the brighter glowing ring. Taking it around the room at almost at an agonizing pace, the Lord finally stopped at the Kirkland family.

Alastair Kirkland, being the oldest, sat up high in his chair, hoping the ring was meant for him. Being in a family of all men for 20 years, he figured this was his big chance to finally make something out of himself.

The Lord walked down the line of boys, passing each boy as the ring grew brighter and brighter until he stopped at the youngest Kirkland boy. Seeing that he wasn't paying attention, the Lord cleared his throat slightly to get his attention. Looking up at the Lord, Arthur's eyes grew to the size of saucers. He was the King? This was amazing! Carefully standing up, Arthur smiled and nodded toward the Lord. "My Queen," he bowed.

"Q-Queen?" Arthur stuttered, taking a step back. He was a man. Men weren't supposed to be Queens. Maybe in the other kingdoms, Hearts, Diamonds, and Clubs had men for Queens, but Spades had never had a man for a Queen. The room was oddly quiet as Arthur was lead to stand next to the new Jack and was given the beautiful ring to wear upon his finger.

Finally, the Lord picked up the King's ring and walked around the room, just as he had with the Queen's ring. This time stopping at the entrance of the commoners' section of the Hall.

Everyone was thinking the same thing about the coronation.

'This year's coronation was all wrong.'

'A male Queen, and a commoner to serve as their King?'

'What was going on?'

Taking a deep breath, the Lord stepped foot inside of the commoners' entrance walking down the aisle to the Jones family. Walking down the line for the Jones's, he stopped in front of the eldest Jones boy.

Alfred clumsily stood up before the Lord and the room erupted in applause as he was led up to the rest of the new royals.

The trio stood in front of the kingdom, all holding different expressions. Alfred was blushing like mad and grinning widely, not even trying to be modest about the honor of being King, Arthur was looking down, ashamed that he was chosen as the Queen, and Yao was smiling slightly, waving to the crowd slightly.

A/N: Thanks for reading everyone! I'll hopefully have the next chapter up as soon as I can! Please review because that motivates me intensely to update!