Long Note: Alright, "Beyond the Foxes Eyes" has gotten underway and so here's my next fic. Hopefully this first note won't be that long. First and foremost, this fic DOES NOT take place in the Star Fox timeline. I'd appreciate if you kept that in mind. Since it doesn't take place in the timeline it's an AU fic. Second, try not to flame. I know this fic won't please anyone but if it doesn't at least tell me why it sucks (I wouldn't stop writing it anyway…). Lastly, if you read "The Vulpine Prince" keep in mind that this isn't a sequel to that fic. It takes place in a very similar AU but it has no connection to "The Vulpine Prince" in anyway.

Now for a better summary. This fic has a large royalty bases to it. Krystal is the princess of Cerina and she is now to be married off to a wealthy prince. But as the tradition goes, she HAS to marry a prince. That's not the only thing but her father chooses for her! Her father wants her to marry a wealthy prince… but Krystal finds interest in a certain thief that she meets on the streets! Again, it was inspired by a Disney movie but doesn't follow it as closely. I'm also using original characters (Shane and Mia as many of you know but Shannon and Jade are going to be in here too) and since I know NOTHING about Krystal whatsoever (parents and all that stuff) they're original characters too. Anyway… read, review (please), but most importantly, enjoy the fic!

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters of Starfox, Nintendo and/or Rare do. Any relation to my original characters in anyway is entirely coincidental

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Chapter 1: Prologue-Prince Charming…

Cerina was a beautiful city where the buildings were mostly made of adobe. All the buildings except the palace, that is. The palace was made out of a golden brown marble that was so beautiful even the King was envious.

Clear blue skies, rich fresh air, and friendly furs made Cerina one of the greatest kingdoms to live in. No fur was displeased with the King. The king was a blue fox with white belly fur that extended into his inner thighs. A white muzzle and dazzling blue eyes made many swoon at his magnificence. Who could HATE the King of Cerina?

The Queen was a beautiful blue vixen with the most enchanting emerald eyes anyone had seen. The males loved her for her beauty; the females envied her for marrying such a gorgeous looking fox. Her belly fur was a nice smooth white but it only went so far. Her muzzle was still blue and perhaps that's why you could always decipher who she was.

Being a King and Queen had its ups and downs. You got all the food you wanted, a jester to come in and make you laugh. Most noticeable was the luxury of a hot spring in the courtyard. There was also a fine artist who could always depict what kind of mood the King or Queen was in. Dinners were always fun and the furs of the kingdom were always friendly.

But then there were the responsibilities of being a King and Queen. You had to make sure that all the peasants were fed properly and that you didn't start a war with a neighboring Kingdom. You had to be sure not to let your Kingdom slide into ruin. You also needed to be sure that you were always safe. While Cerina was a nice place to live, that didn't mean murder didn't happen. There had already been several assassination attempts on the King's life. Even the guest you invited to dinner had to be searched. When introducing yourself to the King you always shook his guards first, and the guard would always shake your hand by the sleeve to make sure you didn't have any daggers.

And then you had the good and bad mixed together. The children. The father always hoped for a boy, to carry on the family name. Instead, the King got Krystal. A lovely gift. While she wasn't a boy, she was certainly gorgeous. She had her mother's eyes and her father's muzzle.

But every blessing has a curse. Krystal was eventually going to grow up, and that meant that she was EVENTUALLY going to get married! To a mother, the thought was heartwarming, to the father… a nightmare.

The tradition in Cerina was that the Prince usually gets to choose his Princess. This was the first time in years… decades… maybe even centuries that a GIRL had to be the successor of the throne. That tradition was different. The girls HAD to marry a Prince and the father HAD to choose for them. It was always believed the father could find the best male suitable to marry his daughter.

With the young vixen this didn't settle. Not only that but for the Princess things seemed rather dim. Her parents never allowed her to leave the palace and for that she didn't really KNOW how to act around people. In fact, she'd been cooped up in the palace for nearly all her life. She only got to go outside if it was into the courtyard's hot springs area.

This wasn't the worst of her troubles. She wanted to CHOOSE her groom. Father's never know who is right for their daughter! Krystal always told herself 'I'm sure he can find a nice…caring…sweet fur…' then that thought was always diminished when the words 'Yeah, right!' came to mind.

She was expected to get along with just any old Prince that came from any old Kingdom right? She'd never MET anyone outside the palace right? So what choice did she really have?

Well, the worst had come. The twenty-year-old vixen was faced with whom her father had found. What was worse, the fur wasn't even a vulpine. It was bad enough that she couldn't choose, but it was worse that she had to be 'given', as she called it, to a fur that wasn't even of her species.

She was in her room when she got the news from her father, "Krystal," he had spoken loudly and clearly as he stood in her doorway that one faithful morning, "I've found you a groom. He comes from the neighboring Kingdom of Corneria. A nice wolf who would be happy to meet you. His name is Wolf O' Donnell."

'Great!' Krystal had thought when she heard the news… a wolf!

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A/N: A nice stopping point for the moment. It's only a prologue and my prologues are usually short (only an intro you know). The next chapter begins with our thief… So this got off to a slow start but I wanted to introduce tradition and all that stuff.