Hello everyone. Here is chapter 10. I hope that you will enjoy it. :)

After everyone had their breakfast, Andrio followed princess Jewel and her mother, Queen Crystal, as they went out to the front of the castle where they were met by a male Yellow Macaw and he smiled at the two royals before showing them the ponies.

Princess Jewel looked at all of the ponies and she was impressed with them, but, she had difficulty choosing the one that she wanted as a companion while Andrio, silently, watched on before he noticed something very unusual and deeply disturbing.

He saw another pony being whipped by two Green Macaws and the sight horrified Andrio as he ran over to see if there is anything that he can do to help the poor thing, though, he wasn't sure on how someone like him could be of any help, but, he had to try, right?

"Umm, excuse me, sir, may I have your attention" said Andrio as he looked at the two male Green Macaws. "You do know, that whipping ponies is wrong, right?".

"Why should a young boy, like you care?" said one of the male Green Macaws as he chuckled. "Besides, this pony isn't moving, fast enough".

"That's because, you're still whipping it" said Andrio as he tried to make the Green macaw see sense. "The more you whip the poor pony, the more slower it will go".

"Shut up, kid, you can't tell us what to do" said the second male Green Macaw as he smirked. "Anyway, who are you going to tell, little boy?".

"Her majesty, the Queen, she will know about this" said Andrio as he gave a smirk of his own. "You will answer to her, for what you have done to this pony".

"Seriously?, you expect us to believe that, little boy?" said the first male Green Macaw as he laughed. "That's a nice joke, but, the time for talking is over, little boy".

After saying that, the first male Green Macaw grabbed Andrio before kicking him away with the sight being witnessed by princess Jewel and Queen Crystal, themselves, because they have been trying to find Andrio as he had suddenly disappeared from view, but, now, they saw him being kicked away.

The sight angered princess Jewel as she began to storm over to the two male Green Macaws, but, her mother beat her to them and she was having a serious word with them while Jewel went to check on Andrio to see if he is alright and she was glad to see that he wasn't seriously hurt.

"Andrio, I am so glad that you're ok" said Jewel as she hugged Andrio him. "What did those mean birds, do to you?".

"Well, they kicked me out, literally" said Andrio as he chuckled and returned the hug. "I saw them whipping a pony, the poor thing was being tortured".

"Really?, you saw a pony being whipped?" asked Jewel as she became surprised. "I need to see this pony, Andrio, take me to it".

Andrio nodded as he held princess Jewel's wing and led her to the pony that he saw being tortured, the sight of the poor thing made princess Jewel feel sorry for it as she began walking towards the pony while letting go of Andrio's wing at the same time, though, the pony is clearly frightened by Jewel's presence.

Princess Jewel made a soothing sound as she, gently, put her wings on the scared pony with Jewel's touch causing the pony to calm down and it nuzzled Jewel as a sign of accepting the princess as a friend, much to the happiness of both princess Jewel and Andrio as they knew that the pony is going to be ok.

Soon enough, Crystal bought the pony for her daughter and she watched with a smile on her face as princess Jewel rode her pony for the first time with the sight giving the Queen an idea as she went to buy another pony, but, this time it is for Andrio as an easier way of transport and allowing him to ride alongside princess Jewel.

"So, Jewel, what do you think of your pony?" asked Andrio as he gave a smile. "He definitely likes you, that's for sure".

"Yeah, he is something special, isn't he" said princess Jewel as she stroked her pony. "Well, I should give him a name and I know just the one...Edward".

"Edward?, that is a good name" said Andrio as he smiled at princess Jewel. "Well, my pony's name is Freya, named after the lady of the lake".

Princess Jewel smiled as she thought that it was a beautiful name for Andrio's pony and she decided to have some fun by challenging Andrio to a race back to the stables with Andrio accepting the challenge as he raced the princess back to the stables with the two of them laughing in enjoyment.

The two got to the stables where they dismounted their ponies before making their way back to princess Jewel's chambers, where they had fun by tickling each other as well as sharing princess Jewel's dinner together until something caught their attention which was a female Sorceress walking towards the castle.

It was clear that the presence of the female Sorceress was causing panic amongst King Eduardo's people as everyone was screaming and they desperately ran to their own houses in hopes of getting away from the threat that was walking towards them with every step that she took towards the castle.

The sight of his own people being in a panic caused King Eduardo to take action as he got his knights ready for the battle ahead and he was determined to protect his kingdom at all costs and he didn't want a sorceress ruling his kingdom as the mere thought of it only made him more determined to kill the female sorceress.