ONCE UPON A TIME there was a prince named Nickolas. He was the son of the kind king, Jonathan. Jonathan had two other sons of which were older then Nickolas. The king loved his sons much, but his love for his youngest outstood his love for Nickolas's brothers. His older brothers saw this and, therefore, could not stand their brother because of it. But jealousy always turned to hatred. Soon they could not stand the sight of him. The youngest loved his brothers and looked up to them no matter what, so he grew sad. As his sadness grew so did his brothers' hatred. The more Nickolas tried to be kind, the more his brothers hated his innocence.

The king, Jonathan, mistook their anger for restlessness and told the brothers to go on a hunt.The elder brother, Gareth, agreed to this until he was told that his father had meant all the brothers, not just him and Ronald, the middle brother. He thought that Jonathan was sending them as guards for his favorite son, Nickolas.

"Father," Gareth protested, "Why can't I just go with Ronald?" Jonathan waited until his sons calm and then answered, "Must this be an order? You and Nickolas ought to be friends. You shouldn't only be kind with Ronald."

"Father," Gareth said looking up at his father, "am I my brother's nursemaid?" "If you want be king, you must learn responsibility," Jonathan sighed. "Please do it, for my sake." So the three brothers were stuck on the road together. Nickolas tried to make conversation at the beginning, but had given up after a few hours of talking to himself. Now he just fell into quiet step with his brothers. The first day Ronald and Gareth had enjoyed themselves, but they of course would never admit it. Soon they started to despise him more they had ever before.

Ronald and Gareth spent the third night of the hunt developing a plan the get Nickolas out of the way. By midnight they finally agreed about the trap, set it up, and parted to their own tents. When they woke up they were in a wonderful mood and Nickolas thought that things were finally looking up. By midday he was also in a wonderful mood and when Gareth told him to go after a deer they had missed, he did.

When Nickolas had first entered the forest he was following a path. Hours later he was off it and was lost. He wandered though the deepest part of the forest, untill he happened upon a clearing in which there was a castle. Nickolas knew that his father had the only castle in the area and was surprised to see this one. As he walked up a beautiful lady, with raven black hair, wearing a midnight blue dress, greeted him. Nickolas' first thought was she was a forest sprite, but his thoughts changed as the lady curtsied to him and bid him good day. She quickly asked him to come in and he followed her. They sat down and the lady told him that her name was Elanna and she was the lady in command of the castle. Nickolas told his name and they talked and started to spend much time together.

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Author's Note- I'm a bit lazy and haven't finished the rest of my stories but this one was one a wrote about a year ago for Core so it's not great. It's kinda based on the White Cat so if you pick up some things, that's why. My spelling check isn't working so there might be some problems with that also.