The Prince and The Pauper

Chapter 11 – Loyalty and Betrayal

Prince Kenji was stunned. "Father...don't."

King Arashi held the sword closer to the pauper girls neck, she struggled in response. "You marry Princess Mizuki. And I let her go. Unharmed."

Princess Mizuki took a sword from a guard and threw it to Prince Kenji. He caught it. King Arashi looked at the two.

"Don't try any tricks with me." The King murmured darkly, holding the sword to the point where it was against Kazumi's skin, "Or the girl dies."

Prince Kenji swatted the sword away from Kazumi's neck with his own. King Arashi looked furiously at his son.

Mizuki grabbed the sword off the ground before the king could get to it. "Out of luck."

The king spat at her. "Worthless people..."

Kazumi punched the king in the face. He stumbled back. "That's for hurting Mizuki." She punched him in the face again. He stumbled back once more. "That's for hurting Kenji." She kicked him in the (insert whistle here) and he fell to the ground with a thud. "And that's for killing my father."

By Prince Kenji's order, the guards took the king away and he would be held accounted for by murdering Kazumi's father and the Queen herself.

Princess Mizuki walked up to Kazumi, who was standing at the end of aisle. "Are you ready to get married Kazumi?"

Kazumi smiled a little as she looked toward Prince Kenji, who was smiling at her as well from the other end of the aisle.

"Yes," Kazumi turned to face the princess, "Yes I am Mizuki."

Mizuki held out her hand to the pauper girl. "Then lets walk down the aisle together. Were best friends after all."

Kazumi smiled and took Mizuki's hand. "Yes. Yes we are."

Mizuki smiled back and the two best friends walked down the aisle together.

As Kazumi and Mizuki both walked down the aisle, Prince Kenji stood at the end, waiting for his true love to walk down the aisle and become his wife.

Kazumi and Mizuki reached the end of the aisle and Mizuki took her place behind Kazumi, who was wearing the same wedding dress she had made for the princess.

Prince Kenji took Kazumi's hand and faced the pope, or whatever he was called, and they were now ready to get married.

"Do you, Kazumi, take Prince Kenji to be your husband till death do you part?" The pope, or whatever he was called, asked the white haired girl.

Kazumi smiled. "I do."

The pope faced Prince Kenji. "And do you, Prince Kenji, take Kazumi to be your wedded wife till death do you part?"

Prince Kenji looked toward the girl at his side and smiled. "I do."

The pope took a step back from the couple. "Then, by the power vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride."

Prince Kenji and Kazumi both looked toward each other. They stared heavenly for a moment. And then, just as their many kisses, they kissed each other passionately.

Princess Mizuki smiled as the crowd cheered. She too cheered for the newly wedded couple.

Kazumi turned around to face Mizuki after her and Kenji broke apart. "Now, you are a princess Kazumi." Mizuki said.

The new princess smiled. She was overjoyed at that moment. Everything she had wanted in life. A husband who loved her, a best friend that stuck by her, and the wish to be a princess.

They all came true.

~ The End ~