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Prologue: Trapped in Destiny
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"Prince Taichi would you hold still!!" The nursemaid cried in frustration as the young eight-year-old squirmed under her grasp. He sat and pouted a bit before starting to wriggle around again. The maid growled and threw down the brush, giving up on the tangle of brown hair. She straitened his tunic and turned him around to face her, uncrossing his pouting arms and placing a gold circlet on his messy hair.
Gazing at him, his lip stuck out pouting she sighed threw up her arms in annoyance. She click a deep crimson cape over his shoulder, fastened a small sword belt to his waist and then grabbed his small hand in hers, walking out into the hall. The pasted through the hall with only the maids grumbled complaints breaking the silence of the small princes sulking. She stopped before the door and gave him a skeptical look and she knelt down onto one knee.
"Now prince, can you please, please just try to get along with this princess? This is your last one before your father gives up! No one wants another occasion like Princess Chanliane and the spiders. You nearly caused a war for goodness sake!" She gave the small boy a glare as he starting snickering at the memory. Sighing she stood up and rubbed her temples. "Just- try to be polite for once please? The Takenouchi Kingdom would not be a good enemy... Why do I even bother? Just.. don't kill her."
"Fine..." Taichi rolled his eyes and found himself being pushed into the room. He crossed his arms in annoyance and March over to his seat, beside the King's, who was now glaring at him in a warning. Taichi resisted the urge to stick his tongue out at his father and slumped in his seat defiantly.
"Don't even think of ruining this one young man." His mother, the queen hissed at him and had a glare to match her husbands. His younger sister, Hikari age five, looked at him with a pity face, understanding how much her big brother was dreading these engagements. His father growled as he saw his son's defiant gaze and looked at him with furrowed eyebrows.
"Taichi, remember." His father growled quietly, looking at his small son with some kind of mix between anger, frustration, and desperation. "This is our last Royal. You will be friendly. Don't even think about scaring this one away, or I'll have you locked in studies for the rest of your childhood years." Taichi glared over at his father and slumped more, muttering a bitter 'fine.'
His father sighed and looked up at the ceiling as if saying 'Why me?'...
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Just outside the front door to the large throne room, a young girl stood, with an expression nearly identical to the young prince's. Eight year old Princess Sora Takenouchi and her mother stood face to face, glaring at each other with determination.
"Sora." Her mother gritted out through clenched teeth. "I said it once, I'll say it again. No you cannot wear your sword!!! Now give it here, or I take away your riding privileges for a month!!!" Sora spluttered slightly in anger then finally threw the small sword she had been holding into her mother's arms. Her mother sighed gratefully and gave the sword to a bodyguard, who took it with a strait face, used to this kind of argument.
"I still don't understand why I have to meet this id-" Seeing her mothers look she wisely changed her words, "Prince. I'm only eight. I don't see why I'm even being considered for a marriage."
"I don't see why either, with your reputation. I don't want another situation like the Prince of Anmora, do you understand me?!" Her mother growled with a look that promised punishment and lots of it. Sora rolled her eyes and nodded, turning toward the door. "Now walk." Sora and her mother started toward the room and the doors opened before them, showing an enormous room.
It was well lit with diamond chandeliers, and marble walls and floors except for a velvet carpet leading up to four golden thrones, two reaching the ceiling, two smaller ones. On the large middle thrones sat a regal looking King and Queen, decked out in gold and velvet. On one of the smaller throne sat a young petite girl looking bored and distracted with mouse brown hair and curious brown eyes. And on the last throne looking incredibly bored and sulky sat the eight-year-old prince, dark brown wild hair, and deep brown eyes. Sora glared defiantly back at the young prince with crimson eyes.
"Announcing Queen of Takenouchi and the young Princess Sora of Takenouchi!" Called the crier, "Introducing to the arrivals the King and Queen of Kamiya, the young Princess Hikari of Kamiya, and finally the young Prince Taichi Crown Prince of Kamiya!"
With the formal introductions done, and the show of power completed the Queen of Takenouchi curtsied and nudged Sora to do the same, causing the young girl to paste on a completely fake smile and copy her mother clumsily. Her mother flinched visibly as Sora's white flowing silk dress ripped at the hem as she stood. No one noticed luckily, but it always amazed the Queen that the young girl who was so graceful in climbing trees and riding her horse, could be so clumsy in a dress and proper feminine attire.
Unfortunately it was at that moment that Sora notice the item belted to Prince Taichi's waist, and hissed softly in anger. Pulling at her mother's sleeve, she glared angrily.
"Why does he get a sword and not me!!!" She spat angrily, though luckily not loud enough for the other Royal's to hear. The Queen turned red and grabbed Sora's shoulder tightening her grip enough to make Sora flinch.
"He is aloud one because he is a Prince and you are a Princess. A female, and girls are not supposed to have swords!" She hissed quietly, blushing madly under the other Queen and King's curious gaze. "Now behave at least until you are away from the other Royalty please." Sora squeaked and nodded as her mother's nails dug into her shoulder.
Sora's Mother straitened and smiled at the curious adults. Dipping into a curtsy again the Queen began to speak to the others. Sora stood there smiling sweetly like a nice little doll and blinked innocently at the Royalty.
"King and Queen of Kamiya, I thank you for your hospitality and I apologize for my husbands absence. He had previous business he could not put aside I'm afraid and I have come in his place to work out the arrangements and to introduce my daughter." Queen Takenouchi said with great flourish, a well practiced speech. The other parents answered back with a smile and stood up the children following to greet the Queen on eye level. The King of Kamiya bowed and The Queen curtsied to Sora's mother.
"I thank you for responding to our proposition and am truthfully sorry your husband could not attend. But it of no matter, I'm sure we will come to a reasonable arrangement without his presence. Let us go to more comfortable room to discuss our plans." The King said regally, and gestured to a small door to the left. "Prince Taichi can show Princess Sora around and they can get better acquainted." All the parents sent their respectable children a warning look, which was responded with an innocent look back. The Kamiya Queen noticed the small Hikari yawning deeply and she waved a waiting maid over.
"Maid, please take little princess Hikari to her nursery, she looks a bit sleepy." The Queen ordered and the maid picked Hikari up and carried her away, Hikari waving back at her brother as she left.
"Now Taichi, why don't you go and show Sora around the palace while we talk?" The Kamiyan King said, a warning evident within his brown eyes. There was an identical look within Sora's mother's eyes.
"Yes father." Tai answered sullenly, and walked toward the doors, Sora following slowly behind him. All the adults sighed deeply as they left and walked into the room to talk about marriage plans.
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As soon as Sora and Taichi were out of their parents sight Taichi turned around, glaring hotly at the young princess and crossed his arms.
"Now let's get something straight Princess." Taichi snapped pushing her shoulder and still glaring, "I don't like you, I want you gone and I'm not going to help you with girly stuff." Sora glared angrily back and pushed him to the ground in rage.
"You jerk! Who ever said I wanted your help! And who the hell in their right mind would want to marry a pig like you!!" Sora spat in rage, tempted to kick the small boy. Taichi growled and leapt to his feet.
"I would punch you for that comment, if it wasn't impolite to hit a lady." Tai growled at her looked like he wanted to rip her to shreds. Sora, at that comment, promptly punched him in the face, giving him a bloody nose, and then kneeing him in the gut knocking the wind out of him. He fell onto the ground groaning as Sora leapt on him, pounding her fists into him over and over until some guards rushed over and pulled her off.
It might have ended there, but then the parents, disturbed by the noise rushed out of the main chamber. Upon seeing the small red head girl waving her fists wildly and swearing, and the boy responding in the same manner, with the guards holding back the two flailing children. The King turned bright red and dropped his head into his hands, but the Queens had a different expression. After looking shocked for a moment, Queen Takenouchi and Queen Kamiya got brilliant grins on their faces and turn to each other in glee.
"They're perfect for each other!" Sora's mother cried, as Taichi's mother nodded along, while the embarrassed King just looked completely lost. The two children stopped struggling in shock causing the guards to sigh in relief and release the small Princess and Prince. For a moment they just stood there gaping at their ecstatic mothers before Sora started turning red in anger.
"WHAT?!?!?!?!" Sora shrieked, crimson eyes flaming in rage, "There in no way in any of the qwasuple countries there are am I ever going to like that pig!!!!!!!!"
"You!!?!!? I'm the one who should be complaining!!!!! I get stuck with a idiotic girl with no brains what so ever who's ugly, fat, and couldn't punch if her life depended- OOF!!!!!!" Sora charged Taichi at his words and punched him in the gut, causing him to fall over and Sora, once again, to jump on him and start pummeling him. The guards sighed and attempted to pull the two small members of the two Royal Families apart again.
"Well... at least they're not shy..." muttered the King as he stared confused at the two women laughing gleefully and the little girl beating his young son to a pulp.
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