Last time:

'There is just one problem, how do we tell Lily?'

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'I'm coming with you!' yelled an annoyed Lily.

'No your not, you have to continue on with the expedition!' James fought back, while packing his things and preparing Wilfred for the long ride ahead of him.

Sirius beside him, doing the same thing, kept quite, he wanted to keep his head, not have it bitten off by Lily.

'The expedition is shot! They know what we are doing! The Xarks ambushed us, and it is only a matter of time before they succeed and kill us all!' she argued extremely loudly.

James winced at the noise level.

'Lily, use your inside voice, your hurting my ears.' He tried to reason with her.

'I am using my inside voice, and as long as you insist on leaving us behind I will hurt your ears as much as I want.' Replied Lily in her "inside voice" that was still very loud.

'LA LA LA LA LAAAAA!!' Lily screamed.

The men all winced and held their hands to their ears, some even whimpered.

'Lily please, your being unreasonable!' James attempted to reason with her.

'LA LA LA LAAA, I-AM-ONLY-GOING-TO-STOP-WHEN-JAMES-TAKES-US-WITH-HIM, LA LA LA LA LA LAAAA!!' she sounded.

The men all started pleading while rolling on the ground in pain.

James knew that he had no choice, he had to take her with him, if he didn't he would loose his hearing. Permanently. And the men did deserve a break, and Lily would be helpful seeming as she was a Princess, she did have power' James thought to himself as he winced at Lily's screeching voice.

'FINE!!' James yelled

'Lily! I said you can come, just please stop!'

Lily ceased screaming and turned to James and said in a sickly sweet voice

'I knew you would come around' before walking off to pack her things.

James turned to the men now lying on the ground still in slight pain.

'Erm, well go and pack, we leave before sundown' before walking off rubbing his ears.

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Galloping full pelt, down dirt roads and between trees.

Three hours later the horses were knackered and even Nelly, who was built for agile, long distant running was out of sweating even though the temperature was still around 0 degrees.

They were heading for Bruina, the realms main city.

Bruina was very different to Naralee, not just in the senery and weather, but the amount of people living there.

The city was huge AN: think Lord of the rings Gondor (bruina), verse Rohan (Naralee). Naralee had a castle, but it was only the size of a couple of standard peasants huts and the main town itself was only small.

Bruina was humongous in comparison. The city was at least 20 times bigger then Naralee and the castle was 40 times bigger then Lily's home.

As they rode across the plains, a horn sounded and a flag rose.

Marking that the Prince had returned.

Lily felt slightly jealous, all she got when she came home was an extra piece of chocolate in her desert, let alone her very own flag.

The city resembled a tear cake, many layers upon layers.

When the front doors opened (and yes, they were large as well) the group of about 55 was greeted by a hoard of peasants all laying flowers and rugs down for them to ride over.

James was taking all of this in his stride, he was smiling politely and waving.

The Bruina men did not take much notice of the peasants until they saw one of their loved ones which they blew kisses to or waved at.

However, the Naralee warriors were all flabbergasted, nothing like this had ever happened to them and they were in shock, glancing around at the faces and the large city.

Lily was one of them.

She was riding next to Sirius and getting a lot of weird looks from the crowd. Making her feel uncomfortable.

Sirius however was flirting with every girl he passed that was over the age of 15.

Winking and smirking, looking them up and down, then moving on to the next, making them all believe they had a chance with him.

Lily couldn't really blame them, I mean he was attractive, but not her type.

James is your type though came her inner voice.

'Shut up stupid inner voice, I don't need you right now!' she thought angrily.

At that moment they had reached the top on the tear shape city, and now faced a gate, James, who was up the front talked to a man behind the door, and it swung open.

Sirius turned to Lily and said:

'Tighter security, round the clock guards since the king was poisoned, though not much use when the real culprit is behind that gate.' He explained grim faced.

Lily and Sirius were at the back of the congregation but as soon as they had walked through the gate James joined them, obviously waiting for them.

They were now in a courtyard type garden there was a large path right down the middle, but with tiny little other ones running off the sides into the garden, like a maze.

Down the main path lead to some large steps, they seemed to go on forever, but when Lily looked up she found that they stopped at large wooden doors engraved delicately.

The place took Lily breath away and blew her mind.

Everything everywhere had so much detail, so much love and care pored into it, she found it hard to believe that anything foul could be amiss here.

Glancing around with her mouth hanging open she twirled round on the spot a couple of times to get in the full picture of this place.

If she had something like this back home she would spend all of her time in it.

James noticed Lily's wonderment in the area and he smiled.

'It's amazing isn't it, my fore fathers made this place as a retreat for their descendants, and I assure you I do, you could get lost in this place if you didn't know it well.' He told her while glancing around in admiration for the place.

Lily simply nodded in agreement as she was still taking in the sights.

James chuckled a little before Sirius cutting in announced that it was time to go in.

By in he meant, into the main hall where the court would be awaiting their arrival.

James stopped laughing and became serious AN: no pun intended and looked at Lily.

'Are you ready?' he questioned her while placing a finger under her chin making her look at him 'They are going to be very critical of you, and maybe even mean, but I assure you if they go too far I will not allow it. They may be the court, but they have no power against me.' He told her with his eyes boring into hers.

Lily felt her chin burn where he was touching her and her eyes delve deep into his, she felt familiar feelings rise up, but she squashed them down again by looking away quickly and nodded.

James' hand fell to his side and had a disappointed look to him.

'Oh shit! You shouldn't have done that! Your going to scare her away again!' he insulted himself, his hand was now burning where he had touched her.

Taking a deep breath he walked over to the warriors and Sirius's scouts and dismissed them, telling them to 'have fun' with a roguish grin on his face, but to be expecting to be called back for duty soon.

Lily told her Naralee warriors to take care of themselves and to have fun too, though she did not have the smile that James had implying something completely different as to what she meant.

She hugged Franky and Dom tightly and told them she would be alright.

She had made sure that they would have the best accommodation and assured each other that they would see each other soon.

After saying goodbye, the three of them, James, Lily and Sirius, proceeded up the steps.

There was a lot of them, and it took ages to climb them all, but they were all very fit so no one such as broke a sweat.

Lily had learned that Sirius was actually a very high general in Bruina, not just the Princes best friend, he was also from a very respected family, but they were suspected, and according to Sirius deeply involved with the Dark Lord Riddle.

Sirius had rebelled and the King and Queen had taken him in at the age of 7, much to the disgust of Sirius's parents.

James and Sirius had been best friends since.

Standing in front of the large wooden doors, they stood there, staring at the delicate carvings.

Lily spoke.

'James, I have been thinking, if the court really is corrupt they will not take lightly to a Naralee captain being here, as well as a princess. A princess is harmless enough, but when she has a mind of her own and can fight as well. Then she becomes a threat.' Turning to face James she continued with a sour face at what she was about to say.

'I think I should be a Princess for this visit, just to make sure things run smoothly for you. And once everything is back to normal I will show the real me.' She concluded.

James and Sirius looked at each other and had a silence conversation with their eyes.

They finally turned to Lily and James spoke.

'Are you sure Lily? It would help me, but I don't want you to do something that you don't want to.'

'It is fine, this is more important, I can handle being a Princess for awhile.'

And at that James lead her in through a door to the left.

Half an hour later, Lily emerged wearing a floor length dress cut off the shoulder and exposing only just a little bit of cleavage. There was a floral pattern on the skirt part, and a ribbon tied round the waist. The bodice part of the dress was just a plain pink, but with lace trimming.

Her hair was curled and half was pinned up in and elegant twist, and the rest was flowing down her shoulders.

James couldn't stop staring.

And at one point Sirius thought he was drooling.

'So, are we finally ready to go in yet?' Sirius questioned mockingly.

Lily poked her tongue out at him, but then straightened her posture and placed her hands on top of each other in perfect princess delicacy.

James tapped on the door three times and waited.

The doors swung open.

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hey guys, thankyou so much for all of the reviews! But I am sorry to inform you, its not a bad thing, but the story changes a bit now, its less killing Xarks, more saving the realms sorta thing. So I hope you guys like it, and keep sending in reviews, like I have said before, they make me write faster!!

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