Chapter 9

Ally POV

I see Austin panicking. I laughed.

"What's so funny ?" Austin asked , narrowing his eyes at me.I raised both of my hands

"Nothing, it's just that you look so scared." I stopped to laugh , and continued , " Relax ! Ethan knows what he is doing. " I assure him. He looks at me and nods.

Soon after , Ethan drove into an secret underground passage in the small hill. We drove through a long tunnel and at last, reach the back door of the kingdom. I take a look at it. No guards ! Phew !

"Guys ! The coast is clear ! " I tell them. Ethan looks relieved while Austin looks confused .

"Clear from what?" he asks.

"Well, clear from Aria ! That means that we are not losing!" I said.

"Yet. Remember , Princess Ally , Aria is strong , and is coming back stronger.

" Ethan says. Mr. Negative !

"Well, thanks for pointing that out , Mr. Negative !" I replied sarcastically.

"Your welcome ." he mumbles. It's not that he doesn't catch the sarcasm, trust me , he does. But when a princess says 'thank you' , you have to reply 'your welcome'. It's quite an awesome rule, actually.

"Ethan, Ally was being sarcastic !" Austin says . Oh yeah , he doesn't know about the rule.

"No , Austin, he does know that. But it's kinda like a rule that when a princess , prince, king or queen say 'thank you', you have to say 'your welcome. " I inform him .

"Oh... " then there is a mischievous smile on his face . Uh oh , I though .

"Why thank you , Ethan ! " he says with a sly smile. I can't help but start laughing . Ethan, on the other hand , looks annoyed. He does that when he's stress. Like now.

"Are you serious ?! Ugh... Fine. Bully your poor poor poor bodyguard. Your welcome. " Ethan replies but saying the last line in a fake cheery voice. We all busted out laughing.

Just then both of our kingdoms come into sight ... Ahhh ... Beautiful yet modern.

Austin POV

Just then , I saw two palaces. They looked awesome. Like not too formal , but you know it's a palace , yet modern at the same time ! I look at them carefully.

The one in front of us is pinkish orange , and is very big. They are many balconies on it, all in orange with classy yet modern looking chairs. The design was like a Disney castle, only the walls were painted and everything looked modern. It had a garden in top , with lots of flowers and a walkway. In the middle of the sky garden , there was a pure white grand piano. It looked like a humongous mansion in Los Angeles.

I looked at the one beside it. It was painted orangey - yellow. It was as big as the previous one. This one had a big balcony in the middle and four more beside it. All of them are yellow, my favorite colour. The roof was open too, only it had more of a field than a garden. It was a grass field. It had some football goals and two basketball nets. This one looked liked a humongous mansion in New York.

In between the two palaces was a orange coloured sky bridge connecting both of the palaces. It was actually partly see through ! How cool is that ! I don't know why, probably because of the sky garden and the sky field , but I had a feeling that the pinkish orange one was Ally's , and the orangey yellow one was mine.

"The pink one is mine , and the yellow one is yours ." Ally told me . Aha ! So I was right ! Point one for Austin !

"Okay , let's not waste any more time ! Let's go !" Ethan hurried us. Bossy !
We walked into Ally's castle. I followed them to a room with light blue walls. It had a crystal light in the middle and a big meeting table in the middle. There was already two guys , two women and some bodyguards inside. Once the women in the yellow dress saw me, she walked towards me and held my face. What ?

Ally POV

Aww, , or Mimi , and Austin are having a mother son moment. Although Austin looks kind of alarmed ...

"Austin, this is your mother ." he looks at me , then at his mother , at me , then his mother , and finally understands.

"Um, hi ?" he says . I gave him a 'Seriously ?! That's all you can say ?!' look , but he just shrugged . Our fathers cleared their throats . Obviously , they want to get down to business.

"Allison and Ethan , well done. You have completed your mission. Prince Austin is back ." my dad says. "Yes, now we can carry out our plan." Austin's dad, , or Mike continues.

"As you all know, in this area , a smaller country is cannot attack a bigger country. Aria is currently bigger than us , individually . But, if our countries combine, we are much bigger them . And the only was for two countries to merge peacefully , is by marriage. " my dad says. Oh No.