Hey yall. If any of you are having a hard time with picturing the prince, if you seen the anime Inuyasha, his whole upper half is like that. Eyes are a little more shark like but still enough human to see the golden iris. For the princess, a bigger blond and blue eyed version of Kagome. and the way you pronounce the princes's name is like the spice Saffron but with an e. And Nephyria is Nef-ear-ia.
"Nephyria? What... How... Eh?" Sephyron struggling to find words to even talk to the land princess. Nephyria giggling to herself as she watches the mer prince struggle with words and clearly being shocked as to see her dressed as a man. Giving him the universal sign of follow me by waving her hand towards her as she heads off to a iceberg that can be used as a sitting area. Once they got to the iceberg she wrote in the snow what she did.
Once the prince understood what had happened, he wanted to start a different topic. But couldn't find any to talk with her. He was lost in her dazzling blue eyes. Blushing Sephyron started to just draw in the snow. Random doodling with no meaning behind it. Nephyria looked at what he was drawing and found it was a beautiful drawing of her. "What is that?" Nephyria writes. Sephyron blushes and writes "Just a doodle. Of you." A doodle? That looked more like a portrait that her parents would hire an artist to do. "It's beautiful. But are you sure it's a doodle?" Nephyria wrote. Simply nodding his head, Sephyron was blushing and trying to hide his face from the beauty that was sitting next to him.
They continued to talk like this for a few more hours and Nephyria found her self falling asleep and told the prince that she was going home to go to bed. "It's getting very late at night and it is possibly already morning. I'll talk to you soon as I possibly can ok my prince?" Nephyria wrote. Nodding and finding himself falling asleep as well the two went back to their homes.
Waking up a few hours later from his meeting with the princess. Sephyron had to get up and get ready to work in court today. There was a court meeting about such trivial things such as taxes and how the coral is doing. Yes it is going to be a duty of his one day, but it was so boring that he almost wanted to sleep right through it. After getting up and ready for the day. "Father, do I have to sit through this? I fall asleep so often it's hard to stay awake during these meetings." Sephyron asked in almost a child like manner.
The king simply chuckled and told Sephyron something that he knew his son isn't expecting to hear. "I still find these meeting boring and almost fall asleep myself. But your mother keeps me awake for the more important parts such as wars and things like that. But when it comes to the taxes and tiny details like that, I find myself sleeping! And I'm the king who should be interested in all things in my kingdom. Including the taxes." After saying that to Sephyron the king continued to head to the throne room and felt that Sephyron had stopped and was falling behind from hearing his father tell him such a big secret. "Sephyron, aren't you coming?" the king asked. Snapping out of his confusion, Sephyron swam to catch up with his father.
Many hours later after the the court meeting, Sephyron was amazed that he stayed awake for most of the meeting. His father was right. The more heavy duty topics were more interesting and thought provoking. The taxes and how the local corals were doing were the topics that were putting him and his father to sleep. But the topic that held his entire attention was the one about the humans that were hunting not just the local dignitaries but the riffraff and everyone in between. He was going to have to ask Nephyria about that tonight.
Waking up the next morn and finding Bilka sitting and waiting for her to wake up. "You're up now. Your parents wish to talk to you now." Worried a little, Nephyria asks, "What is it?" Bilka heasitates to tell her best friend about it bust she does so because the princess asked. "It's about your wedding to Prince Wyatt.""HIM!? My parents know we hate each other. And the kingdom has prospered for many years now. Why should I be married to him?" Nephyria asked.
Fuming and ran to go see her parents in the throne room. "Father, Mother. Why must I marry Prince Wyatt? We hate each other and I see no reason for their land or for a peace treaty!" Nephyria pleaded. Prince Wyatt, should be called King Wyatt but he has no queen and needs one to become king, had lead many raids against Nephyria's kingdom and murdered and burnt down half of her kingdom and Bilka's family were victims to Wyatt's rampage. "Please I beg of you, do not make me marry him. He's self-absorbed and a murderer and has no intentions for good things to happen in his kingdom, and if there was a merger of the kingdoms, a mighty famine will stalk the land and kill more people then the sword." Nephyria pleaded with tears streaming own her cheeks and drops to her knees weeping and was sitting at the foot of the thrones. "Nephyria, we know you despise Prince Wyatt, but we are running out of crops and Prince Wyatt's land is very futile and you know that we need grain and vegetables. Even though he destroyed that small village from us that was a border village, he added salt to the soil and that has made it futile and we need those crops." Queen Jantea explained. "No. No. No. Please no! I Beg of you please NO" Nephyria cries and gets up and runs out of the throne room weeping. Both the king and queen look at each other and sigh, hating what they did and what they didn't say to their daughter.
Heading out to the warf Nephyria shouted to Sephyron underwater. "Sephyron! Please come here! Something terrible has happened!" Nephyria cried as she came up from the water and wept until Sephyron showed up. "What is it?" He asks worried from seeing her weep. "I'm being forced to marry a evil man! He doesn't even bother with his people, he only has them so he can torture them with promising food and giving almost none! He over fishes and doesn't care about any one or thing but himself!" And I'm going to speak with him sometime tomorrow! What am I going to do. I don't even wish to marry him!" Nephyria rants to her dear new friend and crush.
Not know what to say and do, all Sephyron can do is just let the princess cry and let it all out. "I was going to ask you why you were killing alot of my people but now I know it isn't even your kingdom. But this Wyatt's doing. I promise, I will talk with my parents and figure something out about this." Sephyron said. "Thank you Sephyron. You are a dear friend. What will I do without you?" Nephyria said as she bent down to kiss the prince. The prince not knowing what she is doing by leaning down to him, he asks. "What are you doing?" Snapping Nephyria out of her motion and caused her to sit up blushing. "Sorry. I didn't mean to do that. Please forgive me?" "Okay..." The prince says with an unsure tone of voice.
Later that night:
Sephyron went to his parents planning on telling them that he plans on marrying the girl of his dreams. "Mother! Father! I wish to speak with you!" The prince calls out as he is a few feet away from their room. "I wish to marry." WOOSH, BANG! His parents room door swings open and slams against the wall. "You do? Finally! Who is she? Have we met her? What family does she come from? Will she provide us with beautiful grandguppies?" The queen grilled her son with questions. Her husband came out right after she started firing off the questions. "Calm down my dear. I'm sure he will answer all of your questions. But one at a time and give him the chance to answer." "Thank you Father." Sephyron said. "First of all, no you haven't met her. Second, she is a princess. And that's the issue with the guppie part mother. She is human. But not the one hurting our people. She in fact told me who is. An evil prince is doing it and he is not from her kingdom."
"WHAT?! SHE ISN'T A MERMAID?!" Sephyron's mother asks as wells screams. Both Sephyron and and his father covered their ears. "I'm sorry mother. But she is the reason why I have been sleeping more during my days 'off'" "But... But..." Queen Aeverette stammered. "My dear. Let him marry her. She has captured his heart and he clearly has fallen for her. Just like I fell for you. However, it took me a very long time to convince you to marry me. I'm sure she has fallen for him as well." King Kilhalac said. "I'm sorry mother. But she is the love of my life and I wish to marry her. Just wait until you meet her mother. Please?" Sephyron asked his parents. King Kilhalac simply nodded. Queen Aeverette thought and wasn't nodding her head. Her lip was trembling and she was thinking deeply and wasn't sure if she was wanting to meet a human.
King Kilhalac nudged his wife.
Turning to look at him as to say what? He looked at her to say well, do you wish to disappoint your son? Bowing her head in defeat she returned her gaze to Sephyron and nodded.
Returning to the surface to talk to Nephyria, Sephyron explains everything to her. All she can do is simply nod and let him know that she plans on terminating the arranged marriage.
Few days later:
Nephyria woke up knowing very well what the day is. The day is when she and Wyatt meet and plan the wedding. "Bilka, please come here." Nephyria calls to her friend.
"Yes my lady?" Bilka asks.
"Time to get dressed. And I know which dress I shall wear." Getting out of bed, the princess walks over to her wardrobe and pulls out the most simplest dress she has that is rather big on her. "This one. It has enough room for me to hide a dagger in the sleeves and make it not noticeable that I'm hiding a dagger there. So, please. Help me with this and hide the dagger within my right sleeve." "But your parents planned that you would wear this dress." Bilka said as she pulled out one of her more extravagant dresses. A startling sapphire blue dress with golden trim. The dress that Nephyria picked was a simple gray dress that had little design on it but plenty ofroom to hide daggers and many other things. The sapphire dress was form fitting while the gray one was looser. Simply put, the gray one was perfect for assassinating the evil prince.
I'm evil. I will leave it like so. Next chapter you will meet Wyatt *evil laugh*. Just know, if you haven't seen Ice Age you won't get the physical discretion of Prince Wyatt. Good luck with waiting.
