Here is the next chapter! Hope you'll enjoy it.
Disclaimer: No, I do NOT own FT.
A little black haired girl lay at bed in a large room, staring at the ceiling. Her plan to escape this hell hole had failed yet again. Curse that Sebastian for always foiling her plans to escape. He's always going on about 'following orders' or the 'request of the king or prince'. It was getting really annoying. Doesn't he get tired of chasing her around all the time? Why doesn't he just give up and let her go? The prince could just find someone else to do be . . . she gets sick just thinking about it. Why did it have to be her? They kept saying she was chosen, that she was special. But what if she doesn't want to be special? What if she just wants to be an ordinary girl? Doesn't anybody care what she thinks? Well, for the short period of time she has spent there, it doesn't seem like it.
But she almost did escape the other day, if only she didn't bump into . . . that person. She had been so scared and confused that she ran back to the castle without thinking. 'I'm such an idiot . . .' she thought.
She wondered if she ever will be able to escape. Will she be locked away in this castle forever? Forced to be with that cruel and evil prince and his much more evil father? And most of all, would she be forced to accept the prince and his offer? Will she never be able to see the people she loves the most, especially . . . him. She missed them so much, despite the terrible memories she's had with them. Tears started to form in the corner of her eyes. But she blinked them away when she heard a knock at the door.
"Adora-chan?" a female voice called for her.
"Addei-san?" Adora asked.
The door opened and a pretty, mature-looking woman with long wavy purple hair and bloody red eyes entered. She wore a dark blue dress that reached her knees and high heeled black boots. Normally she would wear more formal attire, but the king had ordered her to stop wearing such clothes because it was hard to fight in them.
Addei was part of the SSS or the Seven Sinful Souls, the king's body guards.
The Seven Sinful Souls represent the Seven Deadly Sins. Addei represents Pride, Aeschylus represents Envy, Mia represents Greed, Galan represents Sloth, Kiyomi represents lust, Hyosuke represents Wrath, and finally, Kazuki represents Gluttony. They all match with what they represent very much, which means Addei has a very high self-esteem. But they get along, nonetheless. In fact, she got along with all seven of them. But not with all the other servants, nor with the king or prince.
"Adora-chan, I heard you tried to sneak out again, yesterday." Addei said, entering the room. she only grumbled.
"Yeah well, Sebastian stopped me," she told her. "Again."
Addei sighed. "Adora-chan, you should know by now that it's hopeless. You've got to accept your fate."
"No." She dead-panned. "Why can't any of you accept the fact that I'm not accepting such a fate which is forced upon me?"
"You really are hopeless." the woman shook her head. "Just be thankful. The situation you're in right now could be worse."
Adora was silent as she silently remembered her terrible past. But before her tears could fall, Addei unintentionally stopped them.
"Think about it, Adora!" she told her. "The prince will give you anything! Fame, fortune, power! And all you'll have to do is agree! Just say yes!"
"But he can't give me happiness." she retorted.
"Yes he can!"
"Money can't buy happiness!" Adora told her. getting a little annoyed.
"Alright, fine. It can't. But! Wouldn't you rather cry in a mansion?" At this, the little girl groaned. "A castle even?"
"Tears are tears, Addei. And you can't change that."
"I told you to add a honorific to my name!" she scolded her, since Adora forgot to add '-san'.
"I thought I was a princess!"
"That has nothing to do with this!" the little girl groaned once again.
"Say what you want, I'm not changing my mind." she said as she laid face down on the bed.
Addei suddenly realized something. She was supposed to urge her to accept. But now, she just made the little girl upset. Oh, what was she going to do?
'Shit!' she thought, thinking of a way to turn the tables.
"Psst! Addei!" she heard a whisper and turned to the door to see Kiyomi and Mia, lust and greed. She tiptoed outside the room to talk to them.
Kiyomi was a pretty girl with long light blue hair and the same bloody red eyes she had. She wore nothing but a robe and slippers. Mia, on the other hand, was a small girl with blonde hair that was tied up into a pony tail and bloody red eyes. She wore a long and beautiful sundress with high heels and several jewelleries. The SSS only had three girls and the other four were guys. The only thing they all had in common was that they all had red eyes and were all above 20 years of age.
"So? How's the princess?" Kiyomi asked, but she shook her head and the two groaned.
"She didn't even think twice about it?" Mia asked.
"No, it really looks like she has no plan in changing her mind." Addei told them.
"Well you have to try again, Addie!" Kiyomi encouraged her.
"Don't call me that! It's Addei! Addei!" she scolded her as the blue haired girl just pouted.
"Don't think about unnecessary things right now, Addie!" Kiyomi stuck her tongue out.
"Yeah! Eyes on the prize!" Mia said.
'I wonder if they realize that I can hear every word they're saying.' Adora thought to herself as she continued to eavesdrop on their conversation.
"Addei! Go back in there and try again." she heard Mia say.
"I'm telling you, she's not gonna change her mind!" Addei told her.
"Before you quit, try!" Kiyomi said.
"I already tried, dammit!"
"Like I said, try again!" Mia's voice had the hint of annoyance.
"Oh yeah? Why don't you try changing her mind?"
"Fine I think I will!"
"Go on!"
"I will!"
"I'm waiting."
"Well then, here I go!" Mia immediately barged in the room.
"Adora! Whether you like it or not you have to say yes!" she blurted out.
"That's your way of persuading her?" a vein popped out of Addei's head.
"Oh yeah? Why?" Adora cocked an eyebrow at them.
"Because!" Kiyomi said entering the room.
"Oh, now you guys are taking Addei's side?"
"Well, just think about it will you?" Mia said. "He'll give you everything! Servants, clothes, land, castles, jewels, food, money, power!"
"Well, you can't have any men. But all the other things work too!" Kiyomi told her.
"And who knows? Maybe you'll even get a kingdom!"
"Yeah, right, after we take over Fiore." Addei told her.
"Oh, you guys really believe that it will be a success?" Adora asked them, then a tall man with spiky red hair and bloody red eyes barged into the room destroying the door. He wore a dark red t-shirt with a black leather jacket, black pants, and boots.
"You bet we are! I am gonna kick some ass there!" he said. The man was Hyosuke, wrath. "We're going to claim that country in the name of Visna!"
"Hyosuke-san! You destroyed the door! Now how am I supposed to lock you guys out?" Adora complained, but before she could continue . . .
"Hey, princess!" Kazuki entered the room with Galan and Aeschylus. They were Gluttony, Sloth, and Envy. Kazuki was a man who was a bit too short for his age. He had spiky dark brown hair. He wore and orange t-shirt, brown shorts, a white apron and brown boots. Galan, on the other hand, was a really tall and with silver hair that was down. He wore a baggy plain white t-shirt and baggy black pants and shoes. And Aeschylus was also a bit too short for his age, but was still taller than Kazuki. He had green spiky hair with long bangs and red eyes, though it sometimes glowed green when it was covered with his bangs.
"Princess, I've made some cookies for you." Kazuki told her.
"He never made me cookies." Aeschylus muttered.
"I'm so tired. Your room was so far away." Galan said collapsing into the floor.
Adora was stared at them for a moment. They were making such a huge ruckus. But she had her eye on something else. "Are those chocolate chips?" She asked pointing at the cookies on the tray Kazuki was holding.
There was a silence.
"Yes, would you want some?" Kazuki handed her the tray.
"Oh, sure." they said as they all crowded to Kazuki, wanting some cookies. Even Galan stood up to get some for himself.
"So, what were you guys talking about?" Hyosuke asked, eating Kazuki's cookies.
"It's about the offer." Mia told him.
"Yes, the prince's proposal." Addei told him.
"Oh, well have you changed your mind yet?" he asked Adora.
"Of course not." she answered.
"You know, you're so lucky." Aeschylus told her.
"See?" they said, except for Galan who was asleep.
"Guys please, do I have to repeat myself?" she asked.
"He's right. This is a very big decision she has to make." Kiyomi said.
"We know." Addei stood up. "Adora, we just want you to think about it!"
"You don't have to be grown up nor do you have to be a genius to think twice about that kind of thing. Only an idiot would do it." Adora said.
"Actually only an idiot wouldn't do it." Mia told her.
"See?" they said once again.
Adora just rolled her eyes. "By the way, aren't you guys the king's bodyguards?"
"Yeah, shouldn't you already know that?" Addei scoffed.
"Then what are you guys doing here when you should be beside the king guarding him?"
"Oh, well, this morning he suddenly shrieked for some reason and then said something about not taking it anymore and then he told us to leave him alone." Hyosuke told her. Adora sweat dropped.
"Huh? What?" he asked as he noticed the way she was looking at her.
"N-nothing."
"So, your changing you're mind?"
"No."
"Adora-chan~!" Kiyomi whined.
"Guys, you don't understand!" Adora said, almost in the verge of tears.
"Yes we do!" Addei told her. "It's because of him, isn't it?"
Adora stared at her; hurt filled her eyes as she stared at the older woman in front of her. The room was filled with silence, even Galan had woken up.
"You're still dreaming?" Hyosuke asked her.
"It's only been a while, but . . ." Aeschylus said, avoiding eye contact. They may be merciless and evil to most people, but they're very different to Adora. They treat her like their little sister.
"You should stop waiting." Mia told her.
"Stop giving yourself false hope." Kazuki said.
"Adora-chan, he's not coming." Addei told her, straight out. She felt anger build up inside of her and she stormed off the room. The others stared at her as she left.
"Someone had to tell her." Galan said.
Addei groaned. "Why did it have to be me?"
"Because!" Kiyomi said.
"Could you stop saying 'because' and give pe ople a real reason?"
"Look, we all didn't want to break the news to her and, well . . . break her heart." Hyosuke told her.
"I like it better when we didn't care about other people and we were just plain merciless." Addei sighed.
"Yeah, we're getting soft." Mia told them.
"Well then, who's gonna go cheer her up?"
"I'm the one who made her cry, so I can't comfort her." Addei told them.
"Why don't we just leave her alone for a while?" Kiyomi suggested and silence filled the room.
Adora ran down the halls and into the indoor garden. The plants there were beautiful but they were also poisonous, so she kept her distance. She stood there observing the plants as she remembered what Addei had told her.
He's not coming.
Tears started to form in her eyes again but now, there was no one to stop them, intentionally or unintentionally.
"You're wrong." she whispered to no one in particular. "He's going to come."
Tears rolled down to her cheek from her one eye. She lifted her hand and touched the eye patch covering her other eye as memories came flooding back to her. They were sad, painful, and horrible memories at first. But then she started remembering wonderful memories. Memories of her life, when she was happy and didn't have a care in the world.
"He's going to come and save me. I know it!" she whispered as she started sobbing.
Yeah, I know, it pretty much doesn't make any sense doesn't it? But don't worry, all answers will be answered in future chapters.
Anyway, in this chapter, The Seven Sinful Souls were introduced. I know they don't sound that bad, but you can't judge a book by it's cover. I think it says somewhere in there that they're only like this to Adora. They treat her like a little sister. That's all!
RnR !