Royal Snow

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The sound of rushed foot steps could be heard throughout the courtyard as a tall, blonde haired, blue eyed man wearing expensive looking colorful clothes and a crown of flowers and vines on his head hurried to his destination. Normally he would have stopped to look at the lovely snow flowers that grew all year round in the snow kindom, as they were like nothing he would see in his kingdom of spring, but on this day he was in a hurry. So, he ignored the snow covered ground with light green stalks sticking out, and he ignored the light purple flowers that bloomed only in snow. He had to focus on his goal, especially since he was already late.

The blonde man walked straight up to a set of big, white, arch-like doors, and shoved them open to reveal a massive room with four white walls. The room had four round pillars of the same shade of white to support the heavy ceiling, windows along a whole wall showing off the garden of winter plants, and another set of doors similar to the ones he'd just walked through. Even with the size, the room was scarcely decorated, with a single circular table and four chairs, two of which were already occupied. As he approched the occupents stood to greet him.

"Ah, Barry, I was wondering when you'd get here." said a lovely lady with long brown hair and jade green eyes, wearing a long dress of varying shades of browns, oranges, reds, yellows, and greens. She, like the blonde man, wore a crown, only hers was made of twigs and leaves. The blonde, Barry, smiled as he walked towards the woman, opening his arms to embrace her.

"Ah, lovely Serina, it's always a pleasure. Have I missed anything?" He asked her once they'd pulled apart.

"Not yet, my friend."

"Not yet, but you're still late! Oh, but I bet you were too busy smelling the violets or some other frivolous nonsense like that, hmm?" Both Serina and Barry turned towards a tall, muscular man with red hair and equally red eyes.

"Kazar, I'm sure Barry has a good reason for his lateness." Serina said, trying to calm the angered ginger while also trying not to lose her temper. She turned to Barry with an expectent look. "Isn't that right?"

With a smile and a sigh "My lovly little Raina didn't seem to want me to leave her. You know how she just loves my attention, she just hates to see me go. I had to wait and sneak away during her nap." Serina nodded in understanding while Kazar 'humphed'.

"In my kingdom children are much better behaved." he said, earning a glare from Serina.

"Oh, is that so?"

"Well of course! Just look at my Barron! He's a-"

"Pompus pig like his daddy?"

"Better then a tree-hugging goody-two shoes like your daughter!"

"How dare you!" Shouted Serina. Just as she and Kazar were about to get into a heated fight Barry stepped between them.

"Friends, there is no need for this anger! This is a happy occasion! The land of snow is about to have its next hier! Come now, let's stop this argument and talk of happier things!" exclaimed Barry. While Serina and Kazar both noticably calmed down and relaxed themselves neither of them were about to give up and so they continued to glare at each other. "Say, what gender do you think the child will be?" Barry asked, trying to change the subject.

"Why, a boy of course!" Declared Kazar as he straghtened his fiery red robes and fixed his own crown so that the golden sun on it was right in the middle of his forehead.

"As if, it'll more likely be a girl." Stated Serina. Right as the two were about to get into another argument the doors on the other side of the room opened and all heads turned towards a woman with dark blue hair and pale blue eyes wearing a white dress. Barry smiled and walked towards her. Serina and Kazar shared one last glare before following.

"Keyara, how's Lilac? Did she give birth to a healthy baby?" Barry asked happily, to which Keyara quietly nodded. Barry was about to say more, but was interupted.

"Well, out with it! Is it a boy?" demanded Kazar.

"Or is it a girl?" asked Serina.

Keyara jumped, startled by the two yelling voices and began to look down at her feet. Kazar began to growl. "Well?" he repeated. Serina turned to him, once again glaring.

"Hush! Can't you see you're scaring her?"

"Me? You're the one that's scaring her!"

"Hush, both of you!" Barry said, drawing both their attention. Once they'd quieted down he nodded to himself. "That's better, now" he turned to Keyara and placed a hand under her chin to make her look up. "Keyara, would you kindly tell us whether this child is a boy or a girl?"

"It's both."

"What?" yelled Kazar. "That's imposible!"

"What are you saying?" asked Serina.

"There's a boy, and there's a girl. It's twins."