Tris Hood - Divergent Medieval Times AU FanFiction - Tris Hood
Chapter 4 - A Princess Arrival
Summary: This story is set in an alternative world, around the 14th century. Prince Tobias, son of Queen Evelyn and King Marcus of Eaton use to have a proper kingdom, however a bunch of ogres living in the Dark Forest are causing trouble around the villages. Firstly it wasn't too serious, only a couple of deaths for month, but now the situation is out of control. The Royal family already tried to send their best soldiers to kill the beasts, but none of them returned alive, so they only have one last hope Robin Hood and his group.
And that was the moment when Prince Tobias thanked God for the Ogres problems. Without them he would never had met Tris.
After hours of discussing different strategies the soon to be companions in battle left the training room with a complete plan for their hunt, rain started to fall from the skies. Making big, dirty mud puddles. While the men and the Prince hurried to get inside the castle, Zeke and Uriah shared a playful glance and nodded to each other, silently planning to throw Tris in one of the puddles.
They counted to three and while one grabbed her arms, the other grabbed her legs. "NO! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING? PUT ME DOWN! RIGHT THIS INSTANT!" Tris shouted when she was raised off the ground.
The shouting drew the Prince's attention, and when he saw the scene of Tris being attacked his blood started the boil inside of his veins, an anger and a need to protect that he didn't felt before rose in his person, but he calmed himself when he realized that the occurring was a harmless game.
Uriah and Zeke were laughing hard at Tris's expense "You want us to put you down?" Zeke asked with a smirk. "Oh, Zeke. I think we should obey her." Uriah said with sarcastic fear. So they let go of her and Tris fell on the mud puddle. Zeke and Uriah fell on the dirty ground and rolled with laughter. "Y-you should have seen your face!" Zeke says between the laughter while Uriah just nods. "Oh! What about this?!" Tris shouts and throws a mud ball on Zeke's face and another of Uriah's. Soon enough they are in a real mud battle. Fighting and playing like young peasants. Nothing they were not.
Prince Tobias watched the playful fight from his bedroom's window. Wondering how it would be like, he never really had fun like this. Not that he didn't want to, but he was the Prince, he had to show grace, responsibility and strength for his kingdom. Stupid games were not allowed for him, so all he could do was watch from a fair distance and smile at the sight.
While the Hood family were having their fun, King and Queen were arguing once again. Queen Evelyn was complaining in King's Marcus' ear about the 'stupid and irresponsible children' that he had payed to help, what had been a 'mindless and unreasonable idea' and how these children would 'affect the moral and the dignity of their Royalty.' And King Marcus, as usual, was ignoring everything his Queen said.
However, today was a special day. Princess Lynn of Vaten and her ladies would come to a brief visit to the castle. Knowing that, the three servants, Bud, Will and Christina ran out to the castle, passing it's big and luxurious walls, to the rain where the Hood family was playing with the mud to announce the news for them. When the Hood family saw the servants, they did not act any different, pushing them to the mud, inviting without the need of words to their three new friends to participate the war.
Prince Tobias was watching the scene from his chamber window, with a dreamy expression and glowing eyes, laughing at the irresponsibility of the six.
"TRIS! AH! STOP IT! WE... WE HAVE TO..." Christina was trying to say something but with mud being shot at her, the situation became much more difficult. After a while of trying to tell the Hoods that a princess was coming, they finally left the rain and went to their respective rooms.
Christina guided Tris to her bedroom and as the young woman passed through the fancy castle's halls and rooms, covered in mud, dirtying the floor as they walked and earning glares from the servants and disapproval glances from the few nobles that were still in the castle. Ignoring all of them, the ladies arrived at Tris's chambers.
In the middle of the room there was a white tub, with details in dark blue and a golden base, gold Tris thought. It certainly a masterpiece, it was the kind of thing you looked at and you would not be sure to either admire it for being so beautiful, or to condemn and look at it with disgust - think about how many people you could feed with the money you would get from that tub.
Hot water was filling the bath. Tris couldn't even remember when was the last time she had a hot bath; normally she would just bath in the cold waters of a lake when the temperatures were suitable. The last time she had a bath was five days from today - she had to took a bath before coming to visit the castle.
Christina helped her to undress, her heavy clothes sliding of her skin until they hit the ground with a low muffled sound. Her muscles were tense as she entered the bath, but after mere seconds Tris could feel her muscles relaxing as the warm water engulfed her. She let out a sigh, making Christina chuckle silently "Feeling like a princess?" She asked with a knowing smile.
"More like a Queen." Tris answered without opening her eyes, peculiarly she didn't even realize they were closed.
As Tris tried to rub the dirt out of her body, Christina was cleaning herself and her dress with a humid piece of textile while telling Tris about the Princess arrival. Tris, who was only half listening, hummed a quiet song she learned as a child. "Tris?" Christina suddenly called in a hushed tone.
"Hm?" Was Tris answer as she slowly opened her eyes to look at her friend.
"How do you live?" She asked while taking a small strove to sit next to the bath.
"What do you mean?" Tris frowned.
"I mean... You are Robin Hood. Known for being a thief and for having the ability of running from every guard that dared to chase you. I do not mean this as an offence, but you steal quite a lot. I was curious if you keep the money, if you live luxuriously, like a rich lady."
Sitting up straight still in tub Tris shook her head "No, we do not keep the money. We take what is unfairly distributed and give to the ones that need. For a princess, it may be just a collar, but for a common civilian it possibly means food for months, for a slave it means freedom. We do not take from the poor."
A smiled curled on Christina's face as she nodded.
King and Queen were sitting in the throne room while Prince Tobias stood next to his father, some steps lower, waiting for the princess to arrive. The royal announcer entered the room by the large and high doors and announced princess Lynn arrival. She came and two ladies followed her, Lady Shauna and Lady Marlene.
The King welcomed them with a small party - small if you lived in the Royal Court, because for the Hood family this was a massive party - people were dancing and Zeke and Uriah were waiting for Tris to arrive. But before she did, King Marcus called them.
"Yes? Your Majesty." Zeke said as they walked to encounter the King.
King Marcus gave the boys a fake smile and said "This is Princess Lynn, Princess Lynn these are Robin Hood companions." The Hood boys bowed slightly, but couldn't take their eyes off the Princess Lynn ladies. "But..." King Marcus said capturing the boys attention once more "Where is Robin Hood herself?"
Princess Lynn and her ladies frowned. Herself?
"We were waiting for her, when..." Uriah said but stopped in the middle of the phrase when a blonde figure in a dress came in the room. "If you could excuse us for a moment." Zeke said and he and Uriah went to where the girl was.
When they came closer they realized that it was Tris and linked their arms with hers.
"You look lovely today, Lady Beatrice." Zeke said mockingly.
"And you look handsome today, Lord Ezekiel." She answered. And the three of them laughed at their old names.
"King Marcus wishes to see you." Uriah said.
"Very well then." Tris said while walking to the King that waited with an impatient look. "Yes, your majesty?"
"May I present you Princess Lynn and her ladies, Shauna and Marlene." King Marcus said and Tris bowed her head towards the Princess.
A grin was plastered on the Princess face when she found out that Hood, Hood, the most wanted thief was a woman. "I would like a word with you Lady Hood, in private." Princess Lynn said respectfully, what shocked them all, King, Queen, Prince and even the Hoods, except for her ladies. Her ladies were quite aware of how happy their Princess could be when a woman was in charge. "Shauna, Marlene. You are dismissed, have fun tonight."
Lady Shauna and Lady Marlene smiled at the Princess and at the Hood boys, and turned to the party's direction. Soon followed by the young gentlemen that were dismissed by Tris.
As the young women left for a quieter place to discuss, Prince Tobias was watching the scene from a distance. Holding a silver wine calyx and leaning against the wall, he sighed. He was falling for the girl. He was falling for Robin Hood. He was falling for Tris.
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