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"The Common Noble"

'Castle tour'

After Gary left I picked the amulet back up and sighed, I placed the amulet under my shirt and pulled the blanket off of me, I saw that I wasn't wearing my clothes anymore. I opened my chest and box and pulled out a spare set of clothes and closed the box, chest and curtain, so that I could change in peace. I changed clothes and then turned them into the formal gear I was wearing a few days ago, but this time they were blue with white trim, it had a diamond as a cufflink, my necklace hid under the collar.

There were small diamonds and sapphires decorating the fabric. I reopened the chest and box, and pulled out a comb and combed my hair. When my hair was perfect I placed the comb into one of my front pockets and closed the box and chest. Last of all I used the spell that shrank the chest to make it smaller put the handle through the necklace string, to make it easier to carry.

I opened the curtain and saw Matilda sitting on the bed next to mine waiting for me, she gasped in awe when she saw me. I sighed and said, "I over did it, didn't I?" Shinkokami laughed and said from the doorway, "Well that depends were you trying to impress somebody, or do you just like spending money." I replied, "I have a lot of money, but I don't need to spend it on clothes, I can just use magic to change the look of it." She asked, "Really?" I nodded and said, "its not hard," she smiled and said, "well, you might want to change the look of your clothes, or young Matilda's over there, because compared to her your over dressed."

I smiled at Matilda and snapped my fingers, all of a sudden the jewels that decorated my clothes vanished, except for the cufflinks, and Matilda's dress changed slightly. She was wearing a dark pink dress decorated with what looked like embroidery but was really very small pink diamonds put into intricate designs, while her clothes changed the necklace that she was wearing came out from under her dress to settle on top of the beautiful dress to add the finishing touch.

She stared at herself in a small mirror and gasped, I smiled and said, "Now you out dress me, The Commoner, and it doesn't restrain any movement." Shinkokami looked at the dress in awe and said, "If I tried to buy that dress anywhere it would cost me one hundred thousand Gold Nobles." I smiled and said, "well I can make you one as well, but I can only make an outfit change shape for about two days before it takes back its original shape." She smiled and said, "Maybe on Matilda's birthday in four days you can make the royals their clothes?" I smiled and said, "We will see in four days, but first I will have to meet each person to make their clothes, I know that your color is blue but I don't know Roald's yet, or the kings."

She nodded and said, "Then I will arrange the meetings in a few days, now you kids go have fun." We nodded and run down the hallway. The first place on the tour we went to was the pages mess hall, where we ate with the pages and I got to know several of them and their trivial problems. By the way the pages treated Matilda they saw her often, she showed off her new dress and told them that I had given it to her. A few of the squires at the table farthest from us whistled and said something that I shall not repeat.

We moved on reluctantly as the pages went to their class work, the next thing she showed me was the pages training yard, than the halls of the pages, and squires, and then the hall that guests stay in, she told me, in about two days this hall will be full of nobles trying to get special treatment for coming to me birthday.

She led me to where my family would be staying, we went inside and she showed me to my room, I pulled the chest off of my necklace and placed it at the base of my bed. It expanded until it was as big as the foot board; than I scratched a spell into the lock to make sure that Brova couldn't touch it. At this moment the room was empty except for a bed and a dresser. Once the chest was there I let Matilda lead me to a different eating hall.

We ate lunch with George and Alanna, the lioness, and talked about simple things. When we finished lunch we wandered through the hallways of the castle and just talked, getting to know one another, I told her about the fire, she told me about a brother who had died in a war. We talked about good times and bad times, and I started telling about my visions. When I described the man in gold armor she immediately said that it was Mythros.

I didn't deny it I just accepted it. We went down a side hallway and Matilda said, "I've never been down here before," I looked around and saw a few small wisps of energy and said, "We have to get out of here" she nodded, I grabbed her hand and we ran through the halls turning trying to find a way out, all of a sudden we ran into a room. There were crypts everywhere, Matilda said, "This is the hall of the dead, were all royalty is buried." I looked around and saw a small glowing thing in the distance and started walking, Matilda kept hold of my hand as we walked toward it.

When we got close enough to see what it was Matilda said, "That is the sword that Alanna, the lioness, used to kill Roger, for the second time." I approached it, when I crossed a black scorched line Matilda let go of my hand and said, "I won't enter that circle," I nodded and walked over to the glowing crystalline sword, and grabbed the handle. I placed my feet on either side and pulled, the sword popped out of the ground with ease. I felt a surge of anger coming from the sword; I drove it into the sword, made a shield around it and then used a very large amount of energy to purge the sword of the evil that still possessed it.

The energy purge worked and a great amount of orange energy exploded out of the sword and into the shield. A screaming sound came from the energy as it burned and died away, a face appeared in the smoke created from the burning and a voice said, "You are strong, stronger than me, but one day I will return…" I interrupted by saying, "No you won't" I opened another portal that led to the underworld and he was sucked into it. Matilda muttered, "He was still alive inside the sword, where did you send him?" I sighed and said, "I sent him into the underworld, the world where demons reside."

She remembered the portal that I opened before and asked, "Is that the same portal you opened in the battle with the demon?" I nodded and said, "The only difference is that last time it was an act of instinct plus most of my power, this time it was on purpose, I may have to do that again, but not yet." I sighed and said, "Do you think that Alanna will want it back?" Matilda thought about it for a moment then said, "We should tell her about it," I nodded then made a sheath for the sword and throw it over my shoulder.

We walked to a set of stairs and started to climb, we climbed the stairs for hours not knowing when it would end. At last after what felt like days we walked into a room, we went out the front door not caring what room we were in. We walked out and into a court yard, Matilda said, "I know where we are, follow me, I'm starving," she ran off toward the kitchen with me right behind. As we ran I used magic to fix our clothes that had gotten dirty and wrinkled. We came up to the kitchen door, and stopped to catch our breath; I pulled out my comb and fixed my hair. Matilda looked at me and asked, "What is that for?"

I smiled and offered it to her and said, "it's magic, while we walked up those stares things got in our hair, I already got it out of our clothes, but I'm not good with hair, this will get it out of your hair, and it will untangle your hair at the same time." She looked at it in wonder than accepted it and ran it through her hair a couple of times.

She handed the comb back to me and asked, "How do I look?" I replied, "You look beautiful," she smiled and opened the door and walked in. Gary was talking to one of the cooks and yelled, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, nobody's seen them for the last six hours, I told you to keep an eye on them!" the cook said, "The last anyone saw of them they were walking into the old castle ruins." Gary was about to yell again when I spoke up and said, "Who are you talking about?" Gary spun around and saw us standing there, looking as if we had been bathed and asked, "Where have you been?" I sighed and said, "We were wandering around and found ourselves in the crypts." I smiled and said, "I found this sword in the ground," he saw the sword in my hands recognizing it; he stopped, frozen in place. He no longer wanted to yell at us he just stared.

I smiled and said as I put the sword back over my shoulder, "We are hungry and would like to get something to eat, so if you would please, allow us to get some dinner?" He nodded and led us through a door into a dining hall, there were many people here, they were all sitting and waiting for someone. Gary led us to the head of the largest table, the ground slightly elevated above everything else; Matilda was hiding from my father by holding onto my shoulder farthest from him.

I whispered, "It's alright, he's just upset that we were missing." She nodded understanding, but not coming out of hiding until we got to our seats. We sat down in the seats that Gary told us to sit in and I put the sword under the table. Unknown to me, Alanna was staring at me, more at the sword than me, wondering where I had gotten it.

The meal started and the first dishes were presented. We ate quietly no one spoke, but we know that once the meal was over Matilda and I would get the talk… you know the one…

Well there's chapter 3, there are three parts to this chapter, going until Matilda's birthday, part two will be called 'the talk, and the sword' smiles, you can guess what it should be about, but guess again… HaHaHaHaHa.

Ta Ta For Now