A/N: Kat here again, Cricket Pixie was busy with school all week so I offered to edit this chapter. The first part is alil awkward because I didn't have the first part of chapter. Sooo I had to write from memory. Like I said before this is written at 6:00 am EST and about 9 or 10 PM Australian time. So if there are mistakes please tell me in a review. Thanks everyone who reviewed!!
The rest of the conversation between the princess and the squire was quiet and somewhat meaningless. Shaylee looked up at the moon and gasped slightly.
"Bryant I have to go…It was good to finally talk to you decently" she gave him a quick smiled and ran over to a stone wall, she whispered something, a door appeared and with a quick wave goodbye she slipped in and the door disappeared.
Bryant grinned tiredly and went off to his room.
**The Next Morn**
Bryant stifled a yawn as he strode into the dining hall. Under all the shoulders of the other pages and squires he saw a blonde head moving, trying to push into the line. "Christopher!" he called out trying to catch the shorter boys' attention.
Christopher turned to the voice that had called him, he grinned and walked up to him. "Hello Bryant"
"Why are you always so happy in the morning? Actually, I don't really need to know..." Bryant rubbed his forehead. "I've got to talk to you about something."
"Let me guess, you want me to help you talk to the princess? Did I leave anything out?" he asked as they sat down at a table that Aylssa sat at. "Oh yes it better be soon because all the squires are leaving in a month"
Bryant frowned "how did you know?" he shot an accusing glance at Aylssa "Did you tell him?"
"Who me?" Aylssa smiled mischievously.
"Yes you. That cat has corrupted your mind." he sighed and sat down
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"No she hasn't!" She growled.
Christopher laughed. "Okay so how is mission BryantLovesThePrincess coming along?" he said as quickly as possible.
"It hasn't started yet." He said after he elbowed Christopher
Aylssa smirked and looked Bryant straight in the eyes. "You talked to her last night!" she accused.
"That wasn't starting it, starting it...that was just getting the idea..." Bryant said, trying to make himself not seem like a complete fool
This made both of Bryant's friends rolled their eyes. "So what did you and princess talk about?" Christopher asked,
"Nothing..." Bryant said, biting into a peach he nicked off a passing pages' plate.
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Aylssa scoffed. "Yah, nothing" she said as she ate some bread and drew a hand threw her hair.
Bryant raised his eyebrows "Honestly...just about how much I continue to talk even if I were under water.."
"You've done that too, remember when I threw you into that lake and held you under water, you kept talking!" Christopher laughed.
Bryant wrinkled his nose "Shut up," he laughed "don't tell her that...she'll be scared off!"
"She's eating her royal food with her parents, not with us" Aylssa said quietly. A tinge of jealously in her voice.
"Fine fine..." Bryant said offhandedly, picking at a bruise on his peach
"How are going to do this exactly? Waltz up to the king and ask if we can go talk to his daughter? the only heir to the thrown?" Christopher asked, but his eyes were drawn, as well as Aylssa's up to the front of the room.
"Wha-" Bryant said, startled by his friends' lack of attention
There in the front of the Dining Hall sat the King and Queen, the Training master, the king Champion and the chief healer.
"Uth-oh..something HAS to be wrong.." Christopher whispered.
Bryant nodded and tried to hear
Aylssa sat up straight and watched her father. What could be going she asked herself.
Cleon cleared his voice to talk
Aylssa watched her father intently.
"As you know the ball last night was a huge success. But also it was a night of great disturbance." He looked around and narrowed his eyes
"It is in my deepest regrets that I have to inform you all that the Princess Shaylee has been kidnapped, most likely in the times of the ball beinging and ending." Cleon said sedately
Christopher gawked. "Uth-oh.."
Bryant whacked his forehead with his hand.
"Anyone with information, or if anyone saw anything, please come and speak to one of us" Cleon motioned to the others around him "sometime today. Thank you."
"Bryant we have to go talk to them" she whispered urgently.
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Bryant bit his lip, racking his brain "yeah, ok..." he said
As breakfast ended the two friends walked up to their parents and the king and queen.
Aylssa took deep breaths. "you have to tell them everything"
Bryant began to back away slightly "I can't..."
"You have to"
he groaned "fine, fine"
Aylssa grinned and pushed him forward, then soon arrived in front The King and Queen and ECT.
Bryant put on what he thought was his most winning smile "Mother dear, I have to talk to you about the Princess."
Aylssa stood up straight and put her arms behind her back.
"I talked to her last night, after you dismissed us, that was all, and then she left."
"Where'd she go after you talked?" The king asked.
Bryant shook his head as he talked "I do not know, she said she was going back to her chambers, I think."
"How did she leave?"
"she just got up and left cause it was late, she wasn't mad or anything."
King Roald raised his eyebrow. "I'm asking how did she leave? Did she go through a door or something to that extent?"
Bryant looked a little flustered "she went through a door, we were in the courtyard....it was late, I can't remember everything!"
"Okay, Squire Bryant and Aylssa you may go" The King dismissed them with a wave of his hand.
Bryant bowed.
Aylssa hoped that her father didn't call her as she bowed and started to walk out.
"Aylssa."
Kel motioned to Cleon and he thought better of what he was going to say. "Actually, don't worry Alyssa. It's fine."
She turned and gave her father a smile. "Yes Father"
"It's all right dear, I was just going to remind you when your punishment time is. I'm sure you remember. That is all."
The smiled drifted away and she sighed. "Yes father" she said with less energy.
"come on Alyssa," Bryant said "we better get a move on."
Aylssa nodded and walked out of the Dining Hall.
"so," Bryant said turning to Alyssa and to Christopher who had meekly followed them again "what class do we have first?"
"Christopher?" Aylssa asked. She had no clue even though she had a small inkling.
"We have Thom's magic class first"
"Then Mathematics"
"Oh great..." Bryant said unenthusiastically
"Oh did Bryant never find out what the homework was?"
"We had homework?" he said, eyes wide, trying to look innocent
"Yes, I reminded you last night"
"Ooops." He shrugged "Oh well."
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Aylssa laughed, Christopher made his way up to Thom's room.
"I'll talk to you later Alyssa!" Bryant said, dashing off after Christopher
Aylssa made her way up the stairs casually and got to the room around the same time as the two boys.
"we meet again." Bryant said
"Yep" the three entered together and sat in the middle of the class.
Thom stood in front of the class, his red hair flopped into his eyes.
He looked at the entire class with his mystical purple eyes. "Okay everyone hand in their homework" he said, his voice was calm and held a hint of amusement.
Aylssa handed her paper up/
Bryant looked down and stared at his desk.
"Bryant?" Thom called.
"Well, you see Master Thom, I didn't do it..."
"And why is that?"
"Didn't do it?"
"No Sir," Bryant mumbled, then straightened "I was too distracted by all the noise of the ball."
"Is my class that boring? that you can get distracted so easily?"
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"It's not your class, Sir, I just didn't have any free time."
"But I looked like Squire Aylssa did it, and seeing that last night you both left the ball early, I thought I'd get homework from you"
"Aylssa always does her work," Bryant shrugged "I'm not nearly that diligent."
Thom nodded and looked at Aylssa then Bryant. "Bryant, you have 1 week in the stables"
Bryant groaned quietly, but nodded "Of course sir."
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Aylssa sniggered softly.
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He stuck his tongue out at her. 'I'll get her back later.' he thought before he turned his attention back to Thom
Thom taught a lively lesson that day, he'd taught the healers how to roughly secure a broken arm with a small spell and a few other small tricks. The class was soon over, Thom dismissed everyone. Christopher, Aylssa and Bryant being the last students out.
"We better move guys," Bryant said "we've got enough punishment work for now..."
"I don't have any punishments" Christopher stated, but that earned a punch in the stomach from Aylssa. "stop bragging" she advised
"exactly," Bryant said and elbowed his shorter friend "we'll just have to get some for you then goody goody."
"Not possible" he squeaked, he was just regaining his breath.
"Why not?" Bryant challenged "You can't suck up to every teacher!"
"It's impossible" Aylssa said.
"When's the last time I got stable duty, or had to work at the armory?" Christopher asked.
Aylssa stood there baffled. "I..I..can't remember"
"Have you ever?..."
"Nope"
Bryant shook his head. "You're unbelievable...we're squires! We were once pages...I think you'd be the only one in the history of the chivalry system to not BE punished!"
Christopher grinned.
"Anyway, where *are* we headed? I'm just following smarty here..."
"Mathematics"
Aylssa groaned. "My WORST class.."
"Nooooo," Bryant said and whacked his forehead "I swear that priest has it in for me...I'm never going to see anything other than the stables and the armory..."
"Now you know how I feel every time I take the wrath of my father for you"
"You don't' do it all the time..." Bryant said, lying through his teeth "well, I don't ask you to anyway..."
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She sighed, she wouldn't win. They arrived in the class and sat down in the back.
The old priest looked over his seeing glasses tiredly "Oh no," he said under his breath as he saw Bryant walk in "this is going to be a long lesson."
Christopher sat there intently, paranoia pulling at his conuious. He had a feeling his "friends" would try to get him in trouble.
"Well, my learned students, shall we recap on yesterdays work?" the priest said standing up to pace around the front of the room.
Aylssa kept her eyes lowered. -Please don't call on me - she thought rapidly.
Priest Jiram grinned, purposely looking for students who were trying to look like they weren't there "Alyssa, could you please inform us of the major problem of yesterdays class?"
"Uh.." she tried to remember. "I don't know.."
"Really? Well perhaps your friend beside you there could tell me," Jiram said gesturing to Christopher
"Finding the square route of 3728"
DISCLAIMER- we do not own any TP chars. The only chars owned by us or Aylssa, Bryant, Christopher and Shaylee and the Priest dude.