Chapter three; Indenture unknown, lovely

I would be sixteen tomarrow. A ball was going to be held in my honor. My father liked going big even at my request not to. The only part I had a choice in was what clothes to wear. It would be black because I was the Obsidian prince. I was actually pleased, but I would never let anyone know. I glanced at a dress and a mans outfit in the far corner of the sewing mistresses room. The dress was a lavender gown adorned with ameythist. The mans was a snowy silver with drops of onyx. It had a hood large enough to cover someones face. glancing around I slipped on the dress.

" Is it a hobby to try on other peoples dresses?" asked a very familiar voice. When I turned I saw the one person I didn't want to. It was my father.

" I knew when you were younger you would do this. I laughed about it, but now it's a disgrace! Get it off now!"

" I don't want to talk to you! Your forcing me to this asinine shit!"

I glared at my father.

" You always fought me, I thought I had that cured when my brother "kidnapped" you. I guess not." with a farwell grin he left. So it was my father who had scared my brother. Kaien after that had never been the same. " Father!" I whispered fiercely. " I will never forgive you."

I was amazed to see the creation Mistress Yei had made. It had long sleeves that spanned at the bottom. It consisted only of black and white. As I brushed my hair I could see I would look stunning. My hair fell into place, only a bit shorter than the bottom of the coat. I gave mistress Yei a bottle of the finest wine I could find. I knew that was a better gift than money because Mistress Yei was an alcoholic. I stepped out of the room and saw the next customer dozing against the wall. Snapping my fingers I awoke him. He lifted his hooded head and nodded.

She was very prettly dressed when she ambushed me outside my room. It was delena wearing a green and gold robe.

" Kaien, you have no idea how long I have been out here. My feet hurt like hell." I grinned

" I didn't ask you to be here, but if insist I will take you." she grabbed my arm and pulled me. At a certain point she stopped to catch her breath. " You- know- I-I- don't want to marry you." she began to huff.

"Though I want to be a friend. I can tell you need one." she gave me a little push and we entered the hall. As soon as I entered I could feel all eyes on me. When we reached the bottom, the whispering started once again. Only bits reached my ears but I didn't mind.

" well Kaien, I have someone you might want to see." Delena stepped aside to reveal a man wearing the beautiful suit I had seen the day before. When I reached his face, I began to laugh. " so you were a noble! You sly dog." he looked embarrassed as he reached into his pocket. Pulling slowly he brought up a ring. " Prince, this was made for you, it's steel from your old sword."

"amazing!" I looked at it closely and saw an inscription. Just as I was going to read it, a hand clasped over my eyes and mouth. It was slight and a little paler than most. I realized slowly who it was and bit. He yelped and began to back away.

"Shit, big brother!" I turned towards the speaker. It was my younger brother, Giren. He was pale, almost as much as me and had platinum colored hair.

" Giren.! don't do that, when you do I have no other choice than to bite you." I shrugged and smiled.

" Big brother." he whimpered

"your so nice Birkea. But you always hit me!"

" Brikea is seven , and you are fourteen, almost fifteen, you can handle it when I hurt you. don't worry when the time comes…….." I paused. The hem of the lavender dress was appearing. She was walking slowly down the staircase with elegance.I nudged my brother.

"Who is she?"

"You mean, you havent heard about her?" he gave me a look of disgust.

" really. how can you become emperor if you don't know about this kind of topic." he scowled at me as I smacked him. " just tell me, you dolt!" I ordered. He was getting on my nerves.

" Okay. Shes new to this area. She just came here two weeks ago. And the thing is shes got beautiful black hair, just like you."

"How come shes wearing a black veil?"

" they say she has a horrible scar on her right eye. They also say shes a witch, but I don't belive that. Probably - she just wants to seem alluring." I nodded and took it in. I ignored Giren, so he left with a wave , using the hand I bit. I watched him for a while and set off to find the two who had escaped.

" -She sure is beautiful."

" I heard she's a princess hiding from her father."

" she has a very pretty smile."

" I always believed that….."

"yes, I agree!"

as I walked along I could hear parts of others conversing. It amused me, they were not even trying to be couth. Showing how low blood they actually were.

The girl was standing against the wall. No one went near her. I trudged through crowd that wanted to speak to me. Finally I reached her. Extending a hand I asked her if she wanted to dance. I could barely hear her voice but I took it as a yes. Pulling her into my arms we began to spin. She leaned close to me and in surprisingly low voice she whispered. I stepped back.

"please excuse me, I must wash up." she didn't speak and I stepped away.

My mind reeled, "who was the last person I had danced with?" I couldn't remember anything as I stumbled through some hall. I felt a cool hand on my arm " Sorry." whispered a rather sweet voice as I bumped into the wall. I was groggy and my whole field of vison began to spin. Someone must of poisoned my food. If I didn't find my medicene surely I would die. Before I fell I looked around, a veil was in my eyesight. "Its not poison. it's a gift" whispered the sweet voice as I fell hard.

"Kiss me! Please Kaleen, kiss me on my lips. I want to rember your touch when I am all alone, when the heat of war licks at my chest. Kiss me.." a young man kneeled at the feet of a young woman. A white hood covered his face and his hair. But his voice was deep. The woman blushed as she looked away. " Kaleen I don't care about anything that happened. As far as I can tell you're okay, and I still love you. You are my Violet empress. I am your knight and future husband." the woman nodded.

I awoke in my bed ,my clothes off. Exposing my chest. A knock on the door resounded as I hurried to dress. Oblivious I threw on the first thing.

" Kaien!? Kaien!" opening the door, immediately I was hugged. Stepping back, I noticed a strand of silver hair. "Yes? Seyth. Any reason to stop by my rooms this late at night?" Seyth sighed. "Didn't you hear?"

"No, I just woke up. I took a nap after dancing."

"Kaien, that was almost three days ago." my mouth opened wide.

" The thing is, your father is dead! You are now the emperor." seyths eyes had tears in them.

" im just so happy you weren't with your father when it happened."

"seyth? What happened exactly?" He became excited.

"Some man ran into the room, looked at every one, he went to your father and stabbed him in the heart." seyth looked at me again and started laughing.

"Kaien, you little dog, you havent been asleep. Theres a woman in there! To busy to even come out." looking down at my self, I saw I was in a pale yellow dress.

" No, really, I have been asleep. This was just the first thing I saw." I yawned.

"Why don't you come in, standing must be bothersome." he sat down on the edge of the bed as I looked into the mirror. My face seemed more femmine. My body had curves, and if I didn't want Seyth to find out I needed to change. "Kaien?" ventured Seyth. "Please take the dress off. Its disturbing."

No one seemed to be around as I let my hair down. I stood bent in front of my brothers grave, looking at the words. It was my name on the stone. I wanted badly to be the one in the grave rotting. I began to choke out words between my tears "Brother…. I'm not sure what to do. Father has died, in a years time I will be the emperor. I have strange feelings. What should I do?" his reply was silence