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Little Princess Qotia scratched her head in confusion.
She couldn't find her big brother anywhere.
The absence of her big loving brother, had gone unnoticed because the excitement of finally getting a familiar like her big brother, mommy and daddy had clouded her young five-year-old mind.
On that day, when she was taken to the very heart of the country where it was said, to how it all started from, countless years ago, she was greeted with a big underwater tree and on, one of it branches was the being known to all Oclelations, as creator.
The person was absolutely beautiful and it was unclear if the person was male or was a female with a real small breasts, a halo was hovering over their head and there was a faint glow around the being.
Just one look told her that this was the person, that always seemed to be at the back of everybody's minds. Anyone would have been freaked out, if they had discovered a presence in the back of their mind, watching through their own eyes and experience what they are experience but Qotia was an Oclelation and as an Oclelation, she was taught that she shouldn't fear it but welcome it, embrace it as part of her heritage.
She was told that the creator was the one who created her mommy and daddy and that meant, if they weren't born than she wouldn't have been born either, she had been taught to be very polite whenever in their being's presence.
The being looked down, with a look of amusement as if it know, how nervous she was too be here.
She was shocked to find both of her parents, who she had seen people only bowing to them with respect and not the other way around, now bowing down respectfully to the being despite their massive social standing in the world.
If you can get a King and Queen to bow down to you and show you that level of respect without m shouting threats or giving you death glares than you know, you must be god.
And it might sound crazy but the creator presence kind of off reminded her of her big brother, it was warm and comfortable and yet very powerful and commanding, demanding nothing but respect.
The first memory she had of seeing her big brother for the first time left her gapping in awe and it was no different in this situation and because, she was born of Royal Blood, she got to meet the creator that made the world she know and loved, personally, instead of get her familiar indirectly like most people.
All over the tree were pods everywhere, that glowed and the being asked her to stretch out her senses and trust them in picking the animal that was right for her.
It was weird, she couldn't see any mouth moving but she could hear it in her mind, the voice she heard was neither male or female instead it was toneless giving no gender away.
Little Qotia did as she was told and stretched out her senses, she was shocked to hear a soft melody reach her ears that only she could hear and followed the sound to a bright and glowing multi-coloured pod.
And without fear, she touched it.
A crack appeared and she thought she had done something wrong until light shot of the pod and she had to shield her eyes and when she opened them again.
She was shocked to see a small kitten that greatly resembled an old Egyptian style cat, except for it had tiny black wings.
"Good, choice, little princess." The being said, again speaking telepathically before asking Qotia to give a name to complete the bonding ritual and for some reason, she could tell the feline was a female.
Athene, that's what she decided to call her familiar. In that moment, it felt like, she had received a part of her soul that she didn't know was missing back and passed out.
When she came to, she was in her bed and on her chest was the very same cat looking her over curiously, like she was a never before discovered species and licked her nose wondering if she was food, she didn't have teeth yet so she did no damage, which made her let out a giggle feeling herself being tickled on the nose.
Athene, she discovered was a very curious cat, she always seemed so eager to learn about the world like she was.
And then her familiar discovered how important the human she was bonded with was and things went downhill from there.
The cat preferred to spend all her days being pampered and fluffed by servants than going outside to discover the big world.
The excitement of having a familiar quickly wore thin after that.
Which lead her to remember her big brother.
Now that she thought about it, she hadn't seen her big brother in weeks, he wasn't there when she obtained her familiar which was odd since it was supposed to be an unmissable moment and was said to be a once in a life time, opportunity and said to her mother, one day.
"Mommy, where is big brother?"
And for some reason, her mother shot her father a certain look and the man himself wouldn't met any of their eyes.
Qotia got the feeling that her daddy did something very bad.
She had her daddy sleep outside of her parents' bedroom when she couldn't sleep one night.
Meanwhile half way across the world, in luxurious hotel in Japan, a certain silver haired person picked up the phone and said.
"Of course, were not busy on that day so we are more than happy to help"
'Oclela' day had come for a certain café.
Ch 10: It all comes together.
"I feel so free!" Ishii yelled, in a grass skirt and was clearly shaking what his mama came him as he wiggled his hips to invisible music and what was worse, was that he wasn't wearing any underwear.
"Ishii, please but on some shorts" Tabu just had to say for all of them, they didn't want that shaking in their face, he too was also dressed in a grass skirt without shoes on and around his neck were sea shells.
"But I feel so free" Ishii wined.
"Well-being free and putting our customers off are two different things" Murata said, while Uso snapped a picture, wanting to post this later online.
The whole café seemed to have gone tropical, as their normal chair were swapped with wooden one's, the music in the background made you want to up and move and get into a conga line in the middle of the very café.
All the female's waitress, secretly loved wearing grass skirts and coconut bra's along with flowery necklaces and headband.
Maria had made due on her promise and had a very long talk with her grandpa about the spies he sent to check up on her and had pretty much told her own father to stuff it, when she came home after the shopping trip and was immediately bombarded with question of who she was with and if she had changed half way, to something more suitable.
Clearly not.
It was safe to say, neither her grandpa or her father would be meeting her eyes any time soon, due to shock.
"WE'RE HERE!" A cheerful voice called out, to reveal four individuals that made Tabu reel in shock for a couple of seconds before smoothing down his face before anyone could notice.
"Huh? The Oclela 4!?" Uso said, wiping out a pen and poster so fast that nobody saw her hands move and approached Isdes and said. "Can I have all of your autographs? I've been following you all online and have a big poster on my wall already!" letting out a surprising squeal at the end.
And she didn't mean to sound like an obsessive fangirl but what else did you expect when a celebrity walks through your door?
"Sure" Isdes said, smiling and Uso couldn't help but find him cute as he signed the picture and asked. "Anyone else want to sign this?"
"No thanks, my hand still has not recovered from all those posters, I signed yesterday." Aulis said, it was so troublesome, it was a good thing he was protected by bodyguards or he would have been killed by a crazed mob days ago.
And it shocking to be informed that it was apparently against the law to use a familiar or a sword in Japan or many other place in the world on regular people.
What completely bull.
In Oclela, swords and weaponry were perfectly legal with little to no drawbacks because it was considered a normal thing to have some form of fighting ability, they weren't born with the capacity to want to inflict fiscal harm on another Oclelation but outsider where a whole different story all together.
There was even a whole paragraph saying what he could and cannot do in this country, due to past history that was still horrifying to this day and Japan was still feeling because they were stupid enough to join in the war to try and claim the island.
"I'll sign" Gyemis said, taking the pen and signing, ignoring how Uso was gawking and looking at him like she wanted to touch his hair to confirm if it was indeed real, he couldn't count how many people had looked at him that way.
"No, thank you" Olnia said, he didn't want to see another picture for a couple of days at least.
Two out of four was still a good number, Uso could either keep the signed photograph or sell it on the internet for big bucks.
"The shipment for fresh fruits from Oclela came in yesterday" The owner said, "So if it's not too much to ask, if you could make some of your countries specialities so that we don't accidently poison the customers" because he had heard that some of the fruit had poisonous properties that wouldn't go down very well with someone who hadn't built a strong immune system against it by taking some quantities at a time like those born in the country, plus the imported fruit were all surprisingly expensive to order, so he wanted his money worth.
"Sure" Gyemis said, "Well be more than happy to help out with our expert knowledge" ignoring the way Tabu was looking at him that said 'Go home'.
Where they just here to taught him again?
"That's great so please wear these" The man said, presenting them their specially designed tropical uniforms.
They were all used so used to wearing something a lot more modern and of higher quality but who were they to complain when they could be close to the prince?
They all took one each and went inside the male changing rooms, they came out in tight swimming trunks and Shell necklaces.
Yes, this was defiantly for the ladies and for their fan base.
Both Murata and Uso fainted at the sight of their beautiful skin and lean muscles, each of them had a tone six pack.
Maria face was flushed bright red, she was sure, she would have passed out from the nosebleed if she hadn't already seen a better body and face than them, so in a way, it helped prepare her for them.
Ishii eyes shone with jealously, how the hell were their skin so smooth and perfect looking!? It was so unfair!
Tabu would have pounce on them if he didn't have the knowledge that they secretly worked for him and it would be so pathetically easy to get one of them if he were to go after one of them.
There was just no thrill in seducing people were taught to only obey without question.
"ALRIGHT, LET'S DO THIS!" Isdes said, pumping his fist in the air.
Trust Isdes to brighten your day even if you were having a terrible week and the doors were finally open.
A lot of people started coming in at once.
Girls found themselves having nosebleeds and flushing at the sight of their waiters for the day, who happened to be the famous 'Oclela 4'.
It was a change that was welcomed with vigour, even photographers and the media came to take pictures of the group as they worked, they were soon running from one table to the next trying to take everyone order despite the extra staff.
And for some reason, Maria kept giving Tabu this calculating look as if she was trying to figure something out the entire time.
Tabu hoped that nobody would bring a magazine that happened to have his father or mother in it because it won't be hard to make a connection, now that Maria had seen his face.
He sent all his guards a message informing than all to keep Maria from seeing any of his 'family' pictures because his identity was at stake.
Nobody was supposed to know that the Prince was in Japan, other than those inside the country and that was only the higher society that really got the details of what had happened to the prince.
He applauded them, with keeping Maria distracted when several people had brought magazines inside, showing his father adoring the front page and all the latest gossip on what was released to the outside world of what was happening in beautiful country.
It kind of disturbed him seeing so many women and teenagers ogling his own father like he was steak, when they know he was clearly married and had children even when there was a picture of him and his wife enjoying a romantic day out.
They all still had some hope that he would take them on as a second wife or mistress, he didn't think his mother would like the idea of having to shear her own husband with about fifty or so girls.
Well, that's what he got for making both his parents be-witchingly beautiful.
"Maria!" Isdes said, gaining Maria attention before she could see a magazine.
"Yes?" She said, turning around.
"I'm sorry I lied. I have no idea how to cook and I can't even make a shake to save my life, I caused more damage than good and got kicked out the kitchen" He said, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly as Maria eyes grow round.
"Wait so it's just Ishii in there now?" Maria said, the place was packed to the brim, there was no way, one person could feed so many people on his own and said. "Well I'm a bit free so, I can help" and with that she was gone.
But when she went through the doors, she paled at the mess that Isdes had left the kitchen in.
"That should keep her, there for the rest of the day" Isdes said, walking passed him.
"Good work" Tabu said.
And it did like he said, Isdes had created enough problems in the kitchen to keep Maria behind closed doors all the way until closing time and all the customers had finally left and they could all start cleaning the mess off the floor.
Maria came out of the kitchen looking completely exhausted, bits of food was stuck in her hair.
"'Oclela day' was a big success!" The owner said, counting greedily the money he had earned while all his workers looked like they were going to bend over and die any second.
"Your all must be crazy if you do this, every day!" Olnia couldn't help but say, it was so much harder than modelling, all they were told to do was get dressed and get in front of the camera and strike a pose.
"Well excuse me. Some of us, don't have the looks to pass as hot foreign models" Ishii shot back, clearly the sight of all four of them getting surrounded by girls when he couldn't even get one, had cut him deep. "WHY DIDN'T GOD MAKE ME HANDSOME OR SEXY!"
…wow. They all thought, this guy clearly got some serious issues.
"Well, we have to go" Gyemis said, "Our managers will be here soon ready to collect u—they're here" seeing a long limo parked out front.
"That was fast" Aulis said, with distain not that he wasn't happy to finally put his feet up and not move for several hours.
"Bye" Isdes said, waving at them.
All four of them walk out of the building and walked into the outstretched limo which had the door opened for them.
"I wonder what it feels like to ride in a limo" Murata said, with stars in her eyes, imagining the glamourous world of people who ride in limos. "It must be super glamourous"
Not really. Both Maria and Tabu thought at the same time, maybe the first time but after a while it gets really boring and you start to see it as a regular car.
"Well, I'm leaving" Ishii said, "Got to get home before my mom starts shouting the house down" and with that he left.
"I got to leave to, I need to buy ingredients for tonight" Uso said, getting her coat on and walking out into the darkness.
"I better go too" Murata said, "Bye" leaving in her school uniform.
"Tabu, you're not leaving yet?" Maria said, surprised to see him still here.
"I don't want to leave you alone to clean up the rest of the mess, what's an hour or so?" Tabu said, half telling the truth, what he really was after, was the loose change that got dropped throughout the whole day without their owners knowing.
He should have been suspicious when Maria didn't reply back or when he heard the sound of paper fluttering, but he was too focused on finding money that didn't have gum on it.
"….Tabu" Maria voice was like an echo after an extremely long silence.
"Yes, Maria" Tabu said, he had almost forgotten she was still there.
"Why do you look so much like King Raykatt?" She said.
His head wiped around so fast that he was surprised when he heard no crack from his spine.
He felt his breath hitch at the sight of Maria holding one of the magazines that he had tried to keep from her way from all day.
Maria had a questioning look on her face.
Before her eyes widened in realisation, putting all the clues together.
His face.
His accent.
His speech.
How he know things that no average person would know.
And finally his age and his name.
It wasn't hard to piece together the clues.
And it was at that moment, that he know, she know.
There was only one person in the entire world that could look so much like King Raykatt in this day and age.
Not even plastic surgery could replicate that face and it had been proven over a hundred times.
"Y-Your" Maria began.
His son, Tabu.
And scene!
Maria has put two and two together and is shocked that the person she had known for weeks was really a Prince in disguise and gets some much needed answers. Suddenly Tabu home life makes sense, she is sworn to secrecy about his true identity or face a media hell, having Paparazzi hunting her down for reasons other than being Lory Takarada granddaughter. Review/Fav and follow!