A childhood time

"Oh, Brother! There you are!"

Lymsleia ran over the hall and struck the boy with blue-silvery hair. That boy caught her before she fell to the floor. The princess raised her head and looked at him wryly as she saw another girl that about the same age as the boy stood next to him.

"Why you kept hang out with Lyon? It's not fair!" she grumbled as she hugged the boy tightly "You know I need you!"

"Sorry, Lym. But Lyon just lived here and she's still not familiar with the palace…" replied the young prince.

"I'm sorry, Princess…" the Lyon girl bowed to Lym.

Lym only shrugged and grabbed her brother's left hand. "Fine, if you know what your guilt."

"Lym!" Prince Freyjadour pinched his little sister's head softly "Don't be so harsh to Lyon! She's practically our sister too!"

"I don't care," Lym pulled her only brother "You promised to play with me today! C'mon! Let's play hide and seek!"

"Um…Princess…the Prince has a sudden assignment to train his fighting skill today…sparring with me…" interrupted Lyon doubt.

"Whaaaaaat!? Father told you to!?"

Frey only nodded weakly. "I'm sorry, Lym…after tea time, okay? Please understand…" Frey shaved Lym's hair passionately and noticed that some lady-in-waiting came to their way "Look, Miss Celia and Miss Pamela here!"

The three children looked at the lady-in-waiting that ran to them. "Oh, Princess! You're here! Oh, good morning, Prince, Lady Lyon," the two maids bowed respectfully "Your Highness, the tutor that will teach you about art has come. You should meet him."

"Aww, geez…" Lymsleia grumbled and looked at her brother "Hold your promise, Brother!"

"I will. Study hard, okay?" Frey smirked. The two saw the maids brought Lymsleia away and gone at the corner. The silver haired boy looked at the black haired girl next to her, "I'm sorry about that."

"Don't worry. Her Highness only still jealous because she saw me as sister-rivalry," Lyon chuckled.

"She need to be more mature. She'll be the Queen and all…"

"And she need your affection too, Prince."

Frey laughed a little. "Oh, well, let's go. Father will get mad if we're not hurry."

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Tea time. Frey and Lyon finished their training. Ferid really meant to make Lyon as a good fighter, since she really had the potential at this. After they changed their sweaty clothes, they went to the porch where they usually have tea time together. Lym was there, with annoyed look.

"You're late, Brother," she grunted "But at least you come. That's good enough."

"I'm sorry," Frey only smirked.

The three having their tea time together. The maid poured the milk tea as Lym ordered and there were many cookies to be eaten. Frey listened to every Lym's story as he sometime give a respond, that sometime also inviting Lyon to join the conversation as well, though Lym tyrannically turned her out.

"Well, I have enough snacks," Lym smiled when she finished her 57th cookies "Let's play!"

"Wait, chew your meal first," said Frey, made the brunette girl sat on the chair a little longer "Then, it is hide and seek? Isn't the palace too big? I mean, it could take hours…"

"That's why I want you to! Beside, you have Lyon help you find me!"

"Alright, alright," Frey hopped off the chair and helped her sister get off too "Okay, you heard her, Lyon."

"Understood, Your Highness," Lyon get off the chair and the three walked together along the hall, left the maids to clean the table.

The spot for the tag is at the stair to the Closed Room. As promised, Frey and Lyon become the devil as Lym hiding. That young princess really good at this. Even Frey need to request help from the soldiers secretly while they're playing.

Lym snuck to the kitchen and enter an empty jar there. Nobody would think anyone while hid in there. And unfortunately, even the maids. They picked the jar and brought it to a carriage.

"This one is quite heavy!"

"Well, we need to send these jars to Lunas. It's an order from Her Majesty Queen Arshtat after all."

"Yeah. For Oracle Haswar, her cousin, right?"

Lym didn't get to know that conversation, though she know that the jars been shaken. But she didn't try to peek, since she's afraid if her brother will found her. While that, Frey and Lyon busy searching around the castle. They won't ask anyone yet, since it'll be unfair for Lym.

But after 3 hours passed, Frey and Lyon gave up. The dinner time almost came and they wonder if the little princess felt hungry.

"Lym! We gave up! You won!" screamed Frey, made every soldiers at the hall startled "C'mon! Please come out!"

"Princess!! Please come out! We gave up already!" added Lyon.

Ferid, Galleon and Zahhak came out of the Queen's Knight's headquarter. They looked each other before approached the two kids.

Ferid squatted in front of his children. "What's wrong? Why are you yelling at the hall?" he asked passionately.

"Oh, Father…we were playing hide and seek with Lym, but she won't come out," explained Frey worried "I have a bad feeling about this."

Ferid staring at Galleon and Zahhak that gave him a concern look. He stood up and patted the hair of their children. "We'll make the soldier seek for her too. Don't worry, we'll find her," he said relaxing.

So, the Palace Guards all seek for the Princess. But even the time has reached dinner time, they still couldn't find her. Now Ferid really worried. Even Arshtat called for her daughter now.

"Lym! Come on, dear, it's almost dinner! Weren't you hungry?" she shouted.

"Don't tell me…she's kidnapped?" murmured Ferid.

"Dear, don't say something like that!" Arshtat glared at her husband, but then she noticed that both Frey and Lyon have a look that they wanted to cry on their cute face. The couple approached them and smiled. "You're not thinking it's your fault, didn't you?" asked Arshtat kind.

"She only too good at hiding. Don't worry," added Ferid.

"…Oh!" Lyon remembered something "Prince, does Princess like to hide in something?"

"Huh? Eh…sometimes she did hide in large vase at the hall…but we're seeking in there, right?" replied Frey.

"How if she's hid in oil jars? Today, Her Majesty sent some oil jars to Lunas…and some of the jars were empty."

Arshtat gasped. "Yes! She might be hiding there! Ferid, let's go to Lunas right away!" the silver haired queen grabbed her husband's arm.

"Calm down, honey," Ferid patted his wife's cheek "If you go as well, the citizen might be worried. Zahhak, let's go. Galleon, you stay here."

"Understood," replied the two elder Queen's Knight.

Ferid and Zahhak come out of the palace together with some knights. They rid their horses quietly so the citizen won't get curious. While that, the condition in the palace getting calm again. Arshtat sighed heavily, and then she noticed that Frey and Lyon missing too.

"Oh, gosh!"

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Lunas, night time. The soldiers waiting at the entrance of the holy land, while Ferid and Zahhak went to the Oracle Conclave. An elf greeted them and let them enter. They guided to the guest room, where the Oracle herself met them.

"Welcome, Ferid, Sir Zahhak," said Haswar kindly "I know what's happening. I'm a little surprised too…"

"So, you found Lym?" asked Ferid.

Haswar nodded and showing a little girl that sat at the corner of the room. Ferid gasped and smiling relieved as he approached her. "Lym, are you okay?"

The girl raised her head and then quickly fell to her father's chest to begin crying loudly. "Father…I'm scared!!" she cried. Ferid shave her head passionately. "It-It's must be because I'm so rude to Lyon…"

"What do you mean?"

"I'm…I'm so harsh to Lyon…I'm also harsh to Brother…since…since he's not getting right to the throne and all…the God m-might be hate me so he made me like this…"

"Lym!!"

The young princess raised her head and found two figures ran toward her. It's her brother and her adopted sister. They looked as pale as death. It seemed that they were riding on a horse that Ferid assigned for Lyon to practice with, since there's some dirt that meant the two sometimes fell down from the horse. Ferid released Lym so Frey could hug her too.

"Lym!! I'm so worried! You're okay, don't you? Anything hurt?" asked the prince hastily.

"B-B-Brother…I'm sorry…"

"You don't need to sorry…If just I could find you earlier, then you won't ended up here…Sorry to be incompetent, Lym…"

"N-No…I should say sorry…Uwaaaaaahhhh…"

The two siblings cried together. Lyon, on the other side, trying to endure her crying with her smile. Ferid, Haswar and Zahhak only smiled relieved to see this tearfully scenery. Finally, Lym getting more mature…

"Brother! There you are!"

The now 20 years old Prince Freyjadour turned around, only to get struck by his little sister again. The navy eyed girl next to him only chuckled to see this scenery.

"Brother! Let's play!" said the newly Queen Lymsleia.

"Your Majesty…" mumbled the young Queen's Knight.

"You're a Queen now, Lym…don't be so childish," sighed Frey.

"Ehehe! Just kidding!" Lym smirked and looked at Lyon, which is getting prettier as time passes "But I really wanted to play with you before you marry certain someone here…"

There's a slight blush on the current Commander of Queen's Knight. "I won't marry her yet…"

Queen Lymsleia chuckled. "Fine. I just remembered a childhood memories, and…"

"And…?"

"Thanks for your kindness all this time," she whispered quietly.

Frey frowned to her, "What? I can't hear you clearly…"

"No, forget it. I kind of shame to repeat it," Lymsleia smirked "Oh, well. Let's have some tea time. We should eat the snack that I imported from Grasslands before it expired!"

A/N: Another one-shot fic. Hell, I'm waiting for my P3 fic finished betaed, so I made many fics to spare. Reviews me! You can request the next chapter too, since it's kind of sidestories fic. Hehehe! Read another fics of mine, okay?