Chapter 4: Unexpected Guests
"Ugh! How dare he! I'm gonna kill him!" Lucy growled as she swung her sword against one of the posters of her bed.
"I see you're not handling this well" said Amelia as she walked through the grand doors of Lucy's room.
"I'm guessing by the fact that you know what happened, so does the whole castle?" Lucy grumbled.
"Didn't you have a crush on him when you were younger? I wonder what ever happened to that?" said Amelia suppressing a smile.
"What? No! Of course not. He's annoying, loud and obnoxious. Who could ever want that! Besides even if I had those feelings, which I don't, he'd never stay with someone over a week. He has too much trouble being faithful." said Lucy. Amelia was unsure wheather or not Lucy's red face was do to her blushing or anger.
"Seems like you have a lot to say in that matter." said Amelia
"He's a pompous ass sometimes, but he's also my best friend. There's no one who knows him better then I, but that doesn't mean I have feelings for him Amelia." said Lucy.
"Of course your majesty" said Amelia with a grin "Now we must get you dressed for the arrival of the Anvard ambassadors".
Lucy would've continued the conversation had Amelia not changed the subject. "Right, what has that demented women picked out for me?" said Lucy dreadfully.
"Oh calm yourself, it's rather beautiful. Probably the most ladylike thing you've worn in months" said Amelia.
Lucy nodded in agreement, but just grumbled as Amelia disappeared into Lucy's endless closet.
"Why can't I just wear something I already have?" said Lucy.
"Because we must look our best for the ambassadors and you've ruined quite a few dressed, so that doesn't leave us with many options" said Amelia.
Lucy looked at Amelia as if she was a lunatic and said "Have you seen the size of that closet, it's so cluttered, I'm surprised you can find things in there".
Amelia thought on this, "I suppose we could start construction for a closet upgrade".
Lucy just shook her head
"Found it!" Lucy heard Amelia squeal from the closet. "Oh it's darling, but very modest of course. Princess Danny wouldn't let anyone near it until you put it on. She didn't want anything to happen to it" Amelia explained
Amelia walked out with the gown on her arm. The green dress was beautiful, but had a very reserved look to it. "Now go and try it on" Amelia demanded.
Lucy obliged and went behind the dressing curtain before she called for Amelia's help with the corset.
When the were done Lucy walked out from behind the curtain and in front of the mirror. The dress made her look so graceful, but fragile, that's another reason why she hated dresses. The dark green material covered her shoulders and arms, the only skin showing was near the base of her neck, wrists and hands. Lucy loved it. She usually liked these kinds of dresses, the reserved ones, because they weren't flashy. She felt like if she were to wear showy dresses, people might loose respect for her. She slipped into her extremely unconfortable silver heels and went back to the place she had been standing before.
Amelia then stepped behind her and began to work on her hair. She braided her hair to one side then put it in a bun. Lucy looked once more in the mirror, put her glittering sliver crown on and walked out of the room.
"Where is she?" said Peter
"She should have been here over an hour ago to help with preparations." said Caspian pacing in front of the grand castle doors.
The two boys had made up after Peter had given Caspian a good punch to the gut. Although it didn't actually hurt Caspian, he was just feigning pain.
"I'm sure she's just avoiding us as best she can. Although I'd still beware Caspian, she probably is gonna get revenge." said Edmund.
"She does have a mean right hook" said Caspian looking as though he had experienced it before.
"They're carriage is pulling up to the castle gates, where is that women!" said Edmund.
"I'm here!" yelled Lucy rushing into the room.
"Looking ever so modest aren't you" said Caspian in a teasing way.
Lucy stepped over and socked Caspian in the arm.
"Ow!" yelled Caspian.
"Shut it" said Lucy looking ready to bite Caspian's head clean off.
Just as the argument came to a halt, trumpets began to play. The doors of the palace opened to reveal the ambassadors. There were some soldiers, two middle aged men and a women around the age of Caspian and Peter.
"Welcome" said Peter
One of the two middle aged men had salt and pepper hair with brown eyes that were so dark, they could have been mistaken for black. He had fair skin that looked calloused and wore the Anvard colors, purple and black.
The other had brown hair with hazel eyes. He had a bit more of a tan then the other and looked to have softer skin. He too wore his country's colors.
The first middle aged man spoke "Hello King Peter, I'm Lord William III" , he stuck out his hand to shake Peter's. He then stepped aside to show us his companions, " This is my fellow ambassador Lord Fredrick. And this is Princess Anastasia of Anvard".
The Princess had silky, braided, black hair with a warm, chocolate brown eyes. She was wearing a dark purple dress with a black shawl on. The dress went from right before her breasts, showing quite a bit of cleavage, all the way to the floor. It had near see through lace that ran up to cling to her neck.
"I wasn't expecting for you to be on this trip Princess" said Peter bowing.
"I wasn't expecting to come your majesty, until I heard we were going to go to Narnia. It's such a beautiful place, King Peter the Great" said Anastasia in a high pitched voice that annoyed Lucy.
"Well we're glad you could come, and no need for formality" said Peter
Anastasia blushed a bit and curtsied saying "Of course, Peter"
"And I'm Caspian"
Anastasia looked over as Caspian took her hand and kisssed it. Her eyes roamed Caspian's body, leaving Lucy disgusted and seething at the interaction.
"Well, hello Caspian" said Anastasia with lust hidden in her eyes.
Edmund then stepped forward after greeting Lord William and Lord Fredrick. "I'm Edmund, I do hope you enjoy your stay with us."
"I do believe I will" said Anastasia.
"We have a chamber maid to take your coat and lead you to your room when your ready. I though you might want to freshen up before the feat tonight" said Edmund.
"Oh, yes I would, very thought full" said Anastasia as she took off her coat. She walked over to Lucy and held out her coat waiting for her to take it.
There was a long silence in the room until Lucy cleared her throat, drawing Anastasia's attention.
"Charolette would you take princess Anastasia's coat." said Lucy.
Anastasia looked confused.
"I'm Queen Lucy" said Lucy emphasizing the title Queen.
"Oh, yes, I've heard about you" said Anastasia with a fake smile that made her look as though she had smelt something bad.
Although Lucy seemed to be the only one to notice.
Anastasia had turned back to group of boys and was about to start talking in her annoying voice again until Lucy got annoyed in her lack of respect.
"Charolette, why don't you escort Princess Anastasia to her to her chambers, I'm sure she needs to freshen up now" said Lucy with no emotion
Charolette looked over to Anastasia and said " Your room is this way your highness". She then turned and began to go in the direction that her chambers must be in, which just so happened to be in the same direction as Lucy's.
Lucy then had two servant lead the ambassadors to there rooms. After she was done she turned back to the group of Kings.
"Go clean up for dinner". They just pretended like they didn't hear her. "Now!" she shouted.
They then began to walk in the direction of their rooms grumbling on about how demanding she was.
Once she was alone, she facepalmed. Not only had the princess who was staying with them for the next few months showed a ginormous amount of disrespect to her, but she also could see that she had a thing for Caspian.
"This is gonna be a fun dinner" said Lucy, making her way to Danny's room to tell her all about their respectful new guest.
Sorry it took so long to update, I've just been so busy. I'll try and update sooner, but I hope you like this chapter. It took forever to do and I worked really hard on it!! Review please and I really hope you guys like it.
