Disclaimer: I don't own the main cast. Also I wrote this chapter inbetween Exams course changes, and so please forgive my if it's a little out of character.
Lina walked back into the stadium still bleeding lightly from her gashes, the crowd gawking at her. The mazuko was glaring at her. "What kept you?" He asked idly. "Oh just getting permission to kill your demonic ass." Lina told he nonchalantly and let lose a massive fireball. One word described the scene perfectly, and that word was "Crispy" Lina said taunting her opponent. He of course countered with a magical shield. Lina used flow break to dissolve and fried him with a Dynast bolt. With that the battle ended. And the spectators cheered "Firestorm." Repeatedly as she walked away, saddened that her next match wasn't until tomorrow. She walked back to the judging tent to clear up the little misconception that she could be quietly placed into the tamer R class without a fight.
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"Why do you think I'm a princess anyway?" Lina wondered. "Do you have two little moles on your forehead?" Brent asked her calmly. "Uh, yeah." Lina answered without thinking about it. "Royal birth mark." He told her. Lina started to heal the gashes on her shoulder and the slash on her chest. "You still haven't told me why I didn't know I was a princess." She remembers. "That's true Highness, but we'll tell you when we start on our journey home." One of them, Jaren, cajoles. "My name is Lina." She tells him. "No princess it's not. Your real name is Laramae, Iona, Nerissa, Ashley, Kelsi, Ula, Carman, Alexia, Trista, Andrea, Blaze, Oriana, Mirabel, Celina, Marcella, Derica, Jenica, Femi, Gwen, Virginia, Sapphire, Ivory, Nicolette, Victoria, Ena, Rori, Stara, Estefani. The first letters from your first four names were combined into an acronym L.I.N.A. and your last seven into I.N.V.E.R.S.E. And that's just without the titles and royal last name." He told her. "Hmm. Lets just stick with Lina for now." She replied with a shrug. "As you will princess." He responds placidly. "So if, if I really am a princess, why didn't I know? Why did I grow up with my mother, my father, and my sister? And why are you only looking for me now?" Lina demanded of any and all of her entourage. "The simple explanation is you were fostered with the Inverse family since the age of two." Brent explains. "And that's why your last seven names spell out inverse. It was something that was planed since the birth of your sister Lona, Una, Nova, Arinanna, Brigit, Phoebe, Odette, Minda, Kirsten, Hannah, Mimi, Erica, Sarah, Brae, Violet, Tonia, Isabella, Nina, Venetia, Echo, Shannon, Effie, or L.U.N.A. I.N.V.E.R.S.E. The Inverse family was chosen for their loyalty to the royal family the rank as the top class merchants on the continent and the fact that they often appear at court." Lina processed this information carefully. "And I was fostered why?" She asks after a slight pause. "It's a tradition dating back more than seventy generations, it's supposed to keep the future heirs grounded, and help them get a sense of what they need to fix. That's why the rulers of Zelfila are so loved by the people." Jaren tells her. "Yeah, yeah, back to this fostering thing." Lina prompts. "While the heir or any of the royal children are given to the secretly chosen family at the age of two and are left there live and learn, until their seventeenth birthday. At seventeen they are reintroduced to the lives they were born to live and eventually they take their places in the hierarchy. In your case princess we had to start looking for you at the age of thirteen, when you had been gone a year and we had no clue where you were, by the way happy belated seventeenth birthday Princess." Jaren concludes. Lina got a mental image of 'Happy birthday Laramae, Iona, Nerissa, Ashley, Kelsi, Ula, Carman, Alexia, Trista, Andrea, Blaze, Oriana, Mirabel, Celina, Marcella, Derica, Jenica, Femi, Gwen, Virginia, Sapphire, Ivory, Nicolette, Victoria, Ena, Rori, Stara, Estefani' crowded on to a birthday cake in iced letters. She shook the image out of her head as another thought came to her. "Wait a minute. You have Luna to play heir to the throne for you, so I can just keep on being Lina 'the all powerful' Inverse and keep my status for the competition." Lina told them and was just about to walk out of the tent when she was counter-argued. "Luna is staying on as a princess for now but has abdicated the throne in favor of her position as the Cepheid Knight. You Laramae, Iona, Nerissa, Astrid, Kelsi, Ula, Carman, Alexia, Trista, Andrea, Blaze, Oriana, Mirabel, Celina, Marcella, Derica, Jenica, Femi, Gwen, Virginia, Sapphire, Ivory, Nicolette, Victoria, Ena, Rori, Stara, Estefani are the heir to the throne." Brent told her. Lina felt as if she had been hit by a Very Large Dragon Slave. Lina stared to twitch her eyes rolled from side to side on their own. She steadied herself and fought down the urge to giggle inanely. "You know I don't have any more matches today, I think I'm going to go lie down." Lina told them all as she walked out the door wobbling slightly, her last thought was that life was now, officially complicated.
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