Chapter 2
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After finally getting out of the death hug from their father Seychelles and Mathieu lingered around in the foyer looking for entertainment.
"Brother, I am bored in here." Looking out of a window she sighed wishing she could go beyond the walls of the castle. "I want to go play outside in the courtyard, will you join me?"
Mathieu took his little sisters hand and led her outside to play.
"Okay Seychelles, play as long as you like, but don't go to far into the large court yard." Hinting at some foreshadowing Prince Mathieu turned his back and began to chase and catch butterflies, for this is what real princes do.
Heading towards the back of the court yard, because little kids are mischievous like that, Seychelles came to a stop at the tall cement wall that surrounded the castle.
I don't know why father and brother are so protective of me, I hardly ever go anywhere.
"I wonder what's on the other side…Father never let's me leave the kingdom…" Seychelles ran her hand along the side of the wall as she walked along and began to daydream about what was possibly on the other side.
Sadly, it is true, yes Seychelles was a sheltered princess, the only time she'd ever went beyond the castle wall was a long time ago when she accidentally fell asleep in an empty bread basket and was dumped out with the trash while in it. Fortunately for her, when some poor old and hungry English beggar went through the trash looking for food, he thought he hit the jackpot when he saw Seychelles light chocolate skin in the basket, mistaking her for bread. But alas, she was a baby and eating babies is wrong….unless your into cannibalism… then it would be considered okay, but whoa, we're off subject now. Anyways, the English man decided to keep the baby, even though he was poor, and brought her to his hermit cottage into woods. It was exactly one week later the English man was arrested for the kidnapping of baby Princess Seychelles. At the end of his rope, and poor food supply, he tried to sell/trade her for food in a farmer's market in the kingdom, and it didn't go to well, I mean, it would have gone well if he hadn't tried to sell her for 420 francis coins, normally babies are 12 . In the end Seychelles was returned to the castle and put under severe kingdom watch, the most anal of them all, for a while. Thankfully, she doesn't remember any of it and continues to think of herself as a locked away princess that has never left the castle, not even to join in a sing-a-long with the forest animals .
Walking along the wall Seychelles looked up and saw a shining bleu light between two trees. From a distance she tried to look through but it was too blurry and the trees were so densly packed she couldn't look through them either.
"Either this will progress the story or kill me instantly..." Seychelles thought as she stared at the light. "No, it's probably just another secret area where papa takes ladies and I'm not allowed..."
Seychelles turned around and began to head towards the castle when she looked down and saw something wrapped around her leg, a vine. Looking back to vine had come out of the light and was now pulling her back toards it.
Seychelles now thought of the only option princesses had when they're in any type of danger, faint and wait for a prince to save you, that or scream, and then wait for a prince to save you. After the savior arives and saves you, both of you will ride off into a sunset and be married. Not really liking any of those choices since the only Prince around was her brother, and it would be a cold day in hell before that marriage happend, Seychelles began to claw at the vine and pull away. After sucessfully tearing the vine Seychelles looked up triupmhantly only to see an onsluaght of green vines wrap around her and began to pull her into the light.
"Oh, it had friends...Help!"
After a bright flash Seychelles was on the ground, looking up she watched the light dissapear and the vines knit together to close the gap of its emptyniess between the trees.
"O...kay..." Looking around Seychelles saw she was still in the forest, only now she was stuck in a circle of overlapping trees looking at an abandon fountain.
Seychelles got up and went towards the fountain, looking over at her reflection in the sparkling still water she wondered how water had gotten in the thing maybe there was an exit to the castle or something becuase this was wierd.
"Wow…I didn't know I was so…blonde and…ugly."
A huge pair of blue eyes stared back from the water.
"Who you callin' ugly? " Lifting up out of the water a boy with glasses stared back at the girl.
"I'll have you know I'm one of the most beautiful creatures in this dump you call a royal garden."
Shocked by the boy coming up from the water Seychelles, stared at the vibrant bleu fish tail attached to the boy's end, slowly she backed away.
"Holy fish?…are you a mermaid?" She said from a safe distance.
"Heck no! I'm Alfred the merman I'm not a pansy like Feliks! "
Alfred crossed his arms and laid down on the edge of the fountain observing the girl.
"Who's Feliks?"
"Feliks? He's an annoying girly fairy."
"Oooh, fairies are so~ pretty." Seychelles recalled the ones that her father had showed her and talked about in her bed time books, being small, dainty, and sexy…whatever that word meant.
"No, Fairies are dumb and mostly blonde, Mermen on the other hand are the masculine, cool, amazing, sexy, captivating creatures of the sea." Alfred lifted up and began to flex for the little girl but she was too busy using context clues to figure out what "sexy" meant.
"...Now, on to the three wishes you get from me."
"Wishes… why, you're magically inclined!" She ran up to the fountain to take a better look at the creature, well he did look kind of magical.
"Okay, chill on the big words and let me explain. Every so often sexy merman, such as myself, are sent to humans to practice their magic on, I mean, grant wishes.
"So, I'm a test dummy." She said staring into the water.
"You said it, not me. I was sent to this crap fountain to grant lucky little you a few wishes, so what's it gonna be girly?" Alfred looked into the water then waved his hand over it making the image of a tailor appear.
"Well…I do want a new dress, but then I'd need new accessories, and shoes and jewelry and…" She twirled around in her blue frilly princess dress imagining new clothes.
"Okay, think bigger." Alfred rolled his sparkling bleu eyes, and yeah, they sparkle! Everyone knows all mythical creatures have sparkling eyes. An image of a princess riding a horse through a meadow projected in the air .
"Yes, YES! The new limited edition medieval collectable princess Barbie doll and horse!" Seychelles yelled as she watched the image gallop around.
"Come on! You can do better than that I know." The poor merman motioned towards engarvments in the fountain, an open door letting water pour out. "I finally get to grant a wish and she wants clothes and dolls, typical human girl."
"Well…um…" Seychelles looked to where the boyfish was pointing. "A bigger bathroom...that isn't connected to brother's room...?"
"No, dear god no! You can't read between the lines can you?A princess always want to venture outside the castle, where have you been all your life girly?"
"In the castle…" She answered, slightly confused. Oh so that's what those images were about...
"Exactly." Alfred wrapped his tail around the little girl's waist and lifted her in the air and over the fountain.
"What are you doing…some kind of ritual?"
"Um, no…. just hold your breath."
Seychelles breathed into her hands and held them together tightly. "I'm holding it! Now what?"
"….ugh god, that's not what I meant…Oh just forget it." Alfred dove into the fountain bringing Seychelles down with him.
"Wait! I'm not allowed to get this dress we-"
Woah…I thought this was a shallow fountain…. We're going down pretty deep….Why am I holding my breath….I feel dizzy…Did Mathieu eat the last cookie?
Speaking of Mathieu, who had just finished up catching pretty butterflies, was now walking around the courtyard looking for Seychelles. Don't worry, we will only follow him for a second or two because we know his search is pointless. Knowing she couldn't have gotten lost in there, even though it was huge, he told her to stay near the front and of course she is obedient, he scratched his head all confused like.
"Seychelles, where are you?" Mathieu asked aloud, then smiled as a memory from his past briefly invaded his already short scene. "What? Hey-
XxXflash backXxX
"Fine Seychelles! I'll play with you!" Agitated young Mathieu glared down at his little sister.
"Yay! Wha 'do we pway? Wha 'do we pway!"
"Hide and I seek. You hide, I'll seek…I guess."
"O K Maffdew." Baby Princess Seychelles skipped off to hide.
Young Mathieu counted to 10 and then went to look for his younger sister. After 4 or less minutes of deliberately walking in circles he gave up and went to play 'Dragon Slayers' with his elder sister Monaco, who had just gotten done packing for a trip. Hours later King Francis came to his children looking seriously upset.
"Mon petite have you seen your little sister?"
"No father." Monaco stabbed her brother with a fake sword and he fell over dead-ish like.
"Uh, I'm dying…and no…I havent seen her."
Oh no, Seychelles is lost, she will surely starve and die somewhere in this huge and large asset of a castle…oh well more inheritance for me.
Mathieu later regretted that statement for if Seychelles had really died, King Francis would have never stopped crying and god was that annoying. Seychelles this and Seychelles that, he had two perfectly healthy kids walking around, well actually now one kid because Monaco had left that day too, but the only thing he could concentrate on was the youngest.
Luckily a few days later, it was found out that Seychelles had been kidnapped by some creepy English guy with huge eyebrows. I mean that isn't lucky, but she was found alive so yes it is. She was brought safely back to the castle, told the king about her hide and seek adventure, then went to bed. The man was dealt with by father who stopped crying, thank god. Oh, and Mathieu was punished severely for lying, only half a maple pancake at breakfast.
XxXFlash back endXxX
"Wow, did I really say that?"
Mathieu regretted his younger attitude towards his sister and continued to look for her, being older, and slightly more responsible, he would do anything to protect his younger sibling.
"Mathieu cher, what are you doing outside, it's getting dark." From one of the smaller towers in the castle King Francis, in his bathrobe, looked down at his son.
"Oh…the usual…playing with Seychelles…just us two…out here…playing…together." Trying too hard to sound normal the king scoped the gardens from the tower.
"And…where is Seychelles, Mathieu?"
"Oh she's here….certainly not kidnapped or lost like last time you left her in my care…."
"Mathieu I-"
"OH LOOKY! She's over there, I'll get her and we'll be inside soon eh." Dashing off, for this is how princes run, Mathieu went to retrieve his imaginary sister.
King Francis sighed and went to go rinse the deep conditioning out of his hair, knowing Mathieu didn't lose his youngest daughter again because he was older and slightly more responsible the King decided to deep deep condition his hair for an extra silky shine.
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