A/N: So this is kinda like the prequel to 'A female musketeer with a secret' they are short stories that will be told in narrator's view, Sara's POV and Arthur's POV. I hope you enjoy it and don't worry it won't be boring stories about nothing, Sara and Arthur will be put endanger. It will also consist of Sara's flashbacks in more detail, eg the first night of the kidnapping attempt and the fight in the woods where Arthur was wounded.
The castle echoed the screams of young Queen Christina. Her sandy brown hair wet with sweat. Her green eyes shut in agony. Her husband the newly crowned king was patting her hand and encouraging her. His father had sadly become deadly ill and his wife could not run the kingdom on her own. The king was named Stewart and he had curly dark brown hair, his deep blue eyes were focused on his twenty three year old wife. He himself was twenty five.
Finally Christina gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, "Well this is queer her eyes, they are two different colours." The midwife exclaimed passing the blonde child to her mum. "She has her father's blue eye and the mother's green."
"I love it, it makes her special, our special Seraphina Elizabeth Jewel" the green cooed.
"I do too, our beautiful precious jewel, she is the most precious gem" her father agreed.
Seraphina was smaller than the average new-born baby, who resulted in a lot of problems; she was easily weakened by illnesses, and needed a lot of care.
Seraphina would never be a normal girl. She could never see the outside world because she was the only heir to the Jewelinam throne, if she died the royal family would be removed and a new one would take their place. Many would seek to kidnap or kill the young princess.
The king and queen took every precaution; some would say they were the most protective parents in the world. Her food would be tasted before she ate or drank anything in case it was poisoned. She was an amazing dancer and singer, horse rider and archer. But archer was for fun, Seraphina longed to be one of the men. She wanted to fight and be a royal knight of Jewelina.
Her hopes would come true, with no son; Stewart thought Sara should defend herself, but without letting the queen know. She was a natural.
"Now Seraphina, hold the sword up and step forward" the little five year old princess did as she was told but fell upon her bum "Sara honey, you okay?" her worried father asked.
"Again" the little stubborn princess cried.
The little princess started again, jabbing the dummy with her fake sword, this time she did not lose her balance. "I did it! I did it!" she cheered.
So from the age of five the princess learned how to wield every weapon, in the armoury. Although when she was twelve years old, Stewart had witness the princess getting hurt when she practised with the boys from the Knight of the Jewel academy, one of the boys; a tall 15 blonde with green eyes (ARTHURJ) cut the princess accidently on her arm with his sword.
The princess in shock of seeing her blood being absorbed by the fabric of her dress, tripped backwards on to the floor with a soft thud. "Ouch" she muttered. "You're a princess, have more grace then this, these boys will one day protect me, I have to act like I am capable of ruling." She said to herself.
"I am so sorry, your highness I did not mean anything by it. It was an accident I swear. I would never try to harm the royal family it was just a reaction, please don't chop of my head" the boy pleaded. She's the princes idiot you can't hurt her Arthur thought as he helped the girl to her feet
"Chop of your head, for cutting my arm?" the princess asked, blushing because of the boy helping her up. "It was an accident, and it was a good move but next time, if you use the left side of the sword you'll get a better cut, see" she placed her hand on the boys and guided him in a slow movement; he carried out the same movement he did before but used the left side.
"My father would not kill you for using a great defensive move, I wasn't paying attention and you used that to your advantage. It okay, seriously im fine, it's not like to actually caused a deadly move did it" she hoped that her face wasn't as red as she thought it was.
"I guess not" he admitted, he had left a spark when she touched his hand but it was probably nothing. He shoved it off "though I'm sorry I hurt you, princess, thank you for the advice I hope we will meet again. The young knights had been taught to say goodbye by kissing the maiden's hand he was leaving, like a true gentlemen. He bowed, gently took her hand and brushed his lips against her knuckles.
He smirked when he saw the princess's face it was pleasantly surprised, and also very red. He guessed his was as well. "Until we meet again, Princess Seraphina"
The other boys wolf whistled and patted the blonde boy on the back, congratulating him on being the only boy in their year to meet the princess and most of all kiss her goodbye, which she accepted. Another boy in their year had done the same to Sara's 15 year old cousin Duchess Camille, which resulted in the princess slapping him across the face and storming off. The boy had said nothing or done anything to give him the honour of kissing her hand. He had seen many Knights kiss her hand, so he didn't see why he was different.
Camille was an every kind person and would often agree to be kissed on the hand for the pleasure of the trainee knights. Although she was a responsible and strong morale girl, you must greet her and talk to her first.
Those Knights greeted her first and asked permission, he did not. The boy was humiliated. Camille was sorry for the boy as she had embarrassed him in front of his friends so she gave the boy a small kiss on the forehead. He was now every popular at school because he'd been kissed by a royal.
The young blonde boy felt every guilty about hurting the princess, from that day forward he promised to protect the princess after his mistake. (Isn't he sweet?)
It was then that the king decided to end her training. She was disappointed by this, as she had loved her father-daughter time together. The captain (Charles Barnes) noticing the princess's sudden sadness had asked her what was wrong.
"It's my father, he ended our fighting classes, and I really enjoyed them"
The captain had seen the princess's potential thought to himself maybe I could train her. He discussed his idea with the king and after some persuasion the king gave in.
"Please your majesty, your daughter is a natural she should explore the talent"
"She got hurt last time, I don't want to see her hurt again"
"Sir, you can't protect her from everything in the world"
"I know. But she's my little girl; I will try to protect her forever"
"So is that a 'yes'"
"Yes, I guess I won't worry about her getting injured by my blade, but hear me captain if you injure her, you will have me to deal with."
"Sire, I will treat her like my daughter no harm will come to the princess"
After that Seraphina trained with the captain one-on-one. She was amazing she disarmed the captain after a few sessions with her sword. So they preceded using Fans, Ribbons and the bow and arrow. She mastered these weapons pretty quickly although her favourite was the sword, it never failed her.
A/N: So this is just an example of what the chapters will be like. But they will become more exciting I think one chapter will equal one story. I will add a lot of Sathur Moment's okay. I know you like those. I hide some in hear already. He. He.
Bye, until the next chapter,
Princess Geekelle
XOXOXO
