Morning's soft golden light blankets the streets and old European looking buildings. We're walking through the city and oh my gosh are the buildings artsy! They look so renaissance with their sculpted designs. The fashion does too. Cobblestones line the streets, and small sycamores line the sidewalk neatly and perfectly.

We walk to a park past a small orange tree and a few rosebushes. Oh Ashley looks excited, she blinks twice widening her mouth in a big oval pointing at a statue, "Woah what, is, that!" Yelling the word that with more energy. It's a statue of a Yordle wearing enormous batwings, really nice hair, vampire fangs, and a really cool outfit. It's surrounded by tiny little hedges.

Tristana looks up to her saying, "That's one of our gods. He summoned a big wave of dark energy to help us win a war long ago."

Ashley cranes her neck, "Wow those wings are so cool! Where can I buy a pair like that?"

Jacob is going to take a picture but Winston stops him. Winston slowly shakes his head then Jacob asks, "Aww why can't we take pictures? It's because we'll look like tourists isn't it?"

Winston laughs, "Oh please I'm the only gorilla and you're the only humans here. But seriously the muggle world cannot learn about other dimensions. Imagine what the wrong people would do if they ever found this place."

Ashley looks at different yordles then says to me, "I'm so not used to being tall! Say you know that scene where Judy Hopps says a bunny can call another bunny cute but others really shouldn't? Well I'm so used to being a bunny but to me yordles are bunnies so like, would calling them cute make them feel like babies?"

I shrug. I'm an average size 13 year old boy so I don't really think I'd understand. "I wouldn't."

Shauna agrees, "Yeah if you have to ask then don't. You wouldn't be complimenting someone like you but making someone way smaller feel like they aren't being taken seriously."

We hear a loud noise and oh my gosh that guy fell! His lime green blood glows on his arm through his shirt.

Mercy flies to him with her staff.

His eyes widen and hugs Mercy. His wide yordle mouth turns up, "Oh my gosh that was so nice of you!" He looks in his compact mirror, "No way! It's like I never fell in the first place! Thanks you guys are the best!"

Judith raises her arms squinting, "Yay Mercy!"

McCree tries kissing Mercy's cheek but she turns away from him.

"I'm still mad at you."

Tristana points to a really excited strawberry blonde yordle wearing a light pink tanktop with bubblegum pink knee length shorts who's running right towards us, "Look it's Princess Maddie!"

Her eyes and mouth widen, clearly happy to see us. She's so adorable! Since my sister hates that word I won't call her that.

She shakes out hands, "Hey, I'm Maddie." She looks over to Tristana, "Tristie! Why didn't you tell me you were friends with a bunch of humans, metal fairy, and a gorilla?" She taps her finger on her chin. "So where are they even from?

Tristana smiles, "Oh, they came from…say where did you guys come from?"

Winston tells her, "A wormhole I made which lead to a cave but you can't use it because you need my patented quantum photogenic formula to use it."

Tristana scratches her head, "Anyway they helped me and Teemo fight a group of pig people."

Princess Maddie gasps, "Those pig people? I sure hope they don't try stealing any more of our land! You guys can come with me to the castle if you want." She clasps her hands squealing I'm really happy she's our friend too. "This is gonna be so fun! We can all get to know each other. And I can bake for us, trust me I'm good!"

Tristana smiles rolling her eyes.

The gate is painted black and curves, with lots of pretty stone on the posts, and bushes with magenta and light peach oleanders in places and red roses in others. There's a waterfall in the middle of the cobblestone walkway, firebush happily basking in the sun. The palace is gorgeous, candles illuminate the hallway, deep red curtains and carpets with gold trim line the halls. The ceilings are high, and servants clean the railings and wipe the floors. It feels like a Disney movie and I'm just waiting for all the Yordles to just break out into song then we'd join them. I bet if that happened then Trang would pull out his phone and use his projection laser bass. Sure it's not the real thing but…hey when do Disney songs even use guitars anyway?

We walk to a playroom with wall to wall red carpet, bookcases, lots of plushies, a tea set, dolls, the sunlight pours through the windows, shadows of birds line the rose pink walls.

Ashley looks around the room and she pokes her head forward blinking a couple of times. "Woah!" She squints and sounding super happy, "That is so cool!" She runs to the cute gerbil plush with a black robe and goth makeup. She grabs it hugging it smiling with its head on her cheek.

A corner of Abby's mouth turns, "Stop being so immature Ashley."

Ashley's shoulders slump. "Aww but she's so cool and cute."

Maddie walks in after getting ready. Her hair's done really nice and is wearing a frilly pink dress with a carnation pink middle layer and the biggest layer is bubblegum pink and has visible white lace on top and behind the carnation and bubblegum layers. She has puffy carnation and bubblegum pink sleeves. Her dress is really cute and gorgeous but it doesn't look practical at all for adventuring. She looks so happy to see us I hope we'll become really good friends.

We sit and Maddie smiles wide slapping her hands on her knees asking Ashley, "Let's get to know each other!"

Maddie's combing a doll's hair and its light blue dress and sky blue hair really don't match its skin painted orange. Maddie asks, "So what do you guys think?"

McCree slaps both hands over his mouth and his eyes are wide. He's rolling on the floor like he's trying not to tell a secret he desperately wants to tell someone.

Mercy pats his shoulder a couple times, "McCree, hon, you know you're telling her" she whispers, "it's bad anyway acting like that right?"

Maddie then says, "Oh I know the colors clash horribly I just wanted to see what you guys thought."

Ashley tells her about her cheer competitions, May's tryouts, and especially Isabella.

Ashley then finishes with, "So she told me Ella told the stage director, "No I don't wanna stand behind the sofa." And she has a character just to make fun of me! Like really?"

Carlos talks and ends with, "I had fun with Apex Legends for a bit but am taking a break from it." His voice brightens, "Well I do save the world by making fire with my mind!"

Jacob has a wow I have a great idea look on his face, "Say Shauna, you like to read, so anything we should know? I mean this is like a fairy tale fantasy setting. Like there's a princess right there."

Maddie waves.

Shauna then tells him, "But I only read good books meaning like realistic fiction. Why would I read about a knight or wizard when I can read something that teaches me about the world's problems and speaks to me?"

Ashley asks her, "But what about A Changeling's Story? It had fairies remember?"

Shauna then says, "Yeah when we were 8."

Tristana stands up, staring at a triceratops doll she's holding then back at us, "We saw fairies remember?"

Maddie stands up and pours us all fruit punch pretending it's tea. I really like it.

Carlos puts his hand under his shirt and me and everyone else glare at him. Ashley tells him sounding annoyed, "Please don't."

Carlos sounding disappointed, "Aww but I wanted to make everyone laugh."

Another Yordle with bright lavender hair and a mostly periwinkle dress with white lace peeking out from the top layer's violet frills. Her puffy shoulders are also periwinkle and violet.

She looks right at Maddie, in a bossy tone telling her, "There's a dress I need for tomorrow so can you wash it when you get the chance?"

Maddie gently pets a cat doll. Her tone changes to a bit annoyed and pouty, "That's one of my big sister Violet. Her and Zoe think they can just order me around all day just because I'm their little sister."

She sighs, looking out the window then stands up and stomps once then shrugs. "Whoever said you can't serve two masters never had two big sisters."

Maddie pours us cups of fruit punch with hints of prickly pear under all the cherry lime and strawberry, "She just doesn't understand." She looks down then says with a sad tone looking down then back up at us, "No one understands."

Maddie stands up and walks back and forth, "No one wants me to adventure, no one wants me having fun, no one wants me running anything, and perhaps worst of all no one eats whatever I bake!"

Violet interrupts with, "Because it's either cooked so long it's hard or soft and undercooked. Remember you need to get ready okay?" She leaves the door open a crack as she leaves.

Winston tells her, "I'm really sorry to hear that. I feel like they really care about you a lot."

She looks up to Winston, sighing, "You don't understand. They always treat me like a servant. But are they ever there for me whenever I wanna play? No."

Tristana ask us, "So what brings you guys here?"

Winston tells her all about Reaper killing me and Ashley's dad and how we need a certain mystical force that can only be found here.

Maddie sits on her heels then froggie style. She tilts her head with her finger on her chin, "I know! The fairy queen Tiana can definitely help you guys. Her kingdom is a few hours away though and that's if you take a boat and walk through the forest and over a bridge."

A yordle with black glasses, short straight light blonde hair, azure robe and hat walks in with a serious look on her face. "Dinner is starting soon."

Maddie tells us, "She's prime minister Ava. She thinks I'm too immature to run a country but what does she know. And my sisters actually agree with her. She also doesn't like it whenever me and Tristana adventure together."

McCree hands Mercy a small box of chocolates, "Here, just to show you how sorry I am."

Mercy then says, "Remember when you said I didn't look good when I asked you how I looked in my new outfit?"

McCree looks at the floor like a kid who did something wrong, sounding like he just doesn't get it, "But that's because your shirt didn't compliment your cool undertones baby girl, come on it happens to the best of us. Remember when I wore sky blue with my warm undertones?"

Mercy crosses her arms, chin up looking away.

Princess Maddie whispers worriedly to Judith, "I don't like seeing couples fight like this."

Judith agrees, "They usually get along much better. I hope they'll patch things between them." Then she sighs with her chin resting on her hands.

Maddie pulls her seashell pink silk gloves up. "Winston! You're confusing me!" She says with a whine.

He laughs, "I see you can read minds. No offense but you can't possibly comprehend the science I'm thinking of. I'm the smartest living thing where I'm from you know. Well technically I'm from the moon but I live on Earth so yeah."

Oh crap, don't think about Melissa, don't think about Melissa.

Maddie smiles at me like she just found some great tea but she puts her hand on mine silently telling me don't worry my secret's safe with her.

Maddie looks sad now and she walks to Winston petting his arm. "Don't worry I'll help you save your bestie Tracer." She smooths the front of her skirt and looks up smiling. "I feel like she'd get along really well with Tristana."

Tristana looks over to her, "Who wouldn't?" she said in a playful tone.

Maddie's smile widens looking at Mercy, "Oh, my, gosh me too! I wanna end needless suffering and that's why I should rule but no the dumb rules say the prime minister rules when the queen's away or if something happens to her then my oldest sister is the boss then the next oldest. I swear it's like so many nobles just wanna see lower classes suffer because they think it's funny or like they deserve it just because somehow.

She looks at Carlos, "You're so lucky to have phones." Oh please not you too! Maddie starts talking faster and her eyes brighten, "Like I'd love to talk and play with friends when everyone around me talks about stuff I really don't care about. You know, talk about what I care about like they do. And yes you should take a picture of our sky and make a custom Snapchat sky filter."

I look at Carlos telling him, "The people in your world won't know it's real anyway."

A princess walks in. Her sparkly emerald green hair shining aqua where the light hits it especially strong. The same color as one of this planet's moons. Her dress is pretty frilly with emerald as a main color and mint green as a secondary.

She reminds Maddie, "Ava said Zoe was ready 10 minutes ago. I may hate toxic comparisons but real talk we should really be getting ready." Trying not to sound annoyed but you can just tell. Don't you hate feeling that way? Like they want you to feel pressured but acting like it's not a big deal?

Maddie rolls her head and eyes going ugh and puffs her cheeks. Then she shakes her head blinking a couple of times smoothing the skirt of her dress. "Of course, me and my guests are ready!"

I whisper to Maddie, "There'll be vegetarian options right?"

She looks up, "We have lots of great salads and you'll adore them so much." She puts the smallest yordle figure, one wearing a pink frilly dress on the toy throne. The sunlight pours in at just the right angle to make it look like she's wearing a crown.

She cranes her neck at us, "Mark my words, I will rule one of these days and when I do I'll throw a rocking party and all you guys will be invited! And you'll get to personally see me ban bedtime and homework."

We walk down the hallway together with Princess Maddie in front. The halls have tall ceilings and carnation pink walls and a black and white checkered floor with a red carpet.

Maddie says to Tristana, "Like I seriously don't get it. Would it really be the end of the world if a 13 year old girl ruled a country?