"O great now I'm stuck in prison with a girl. What's your name anyway? Girly?" said the red haired man.

"It's Cushla and don't call me girly or I'll I dunno" snapped Cushla as she turned to face more bars.

"I have never heard of that name before, it sounds stupid. I'll call you what I want to and when I want to" he said from behind her.

She turned around and raised her hand and slapped him 'gently' and then raises her hand again and slapped him faster with her backhand. That will teach him to mess with me, she thought.

"That will teach you to mess with me, prick!" she shouted and went to sit on the other side of their pen on what looked like a half rotten seat.

"My name is Tasuki, not prick and you're the one who got us here anyway" he grinned and poked out his tongue.

"No I um didn't. If you didn't try and save me you wouldn't be here, I don't know. Well since its your fault then you think of a way to get us out of here, smarty" she winked at him and grinned. Did these two just think this was a joke or something?

"Well why don't you just flash yourself to the guards, they might faint?" he whispered then let out a big laugh at the look on Cushla's face.

"Why don't you? They might be gay for all I know" she whispered, looking between Tasuki and the guards. They had gotten a lot of suspecting looks by now.

"Well I don't wish to show some men my body. Just because I don't like women, doesn't mean I'm fucking gay! I will tell you about my story of my mothers huge breasts and my sisters another time, but for now we have to get out of here and I have an idea that just might work" he whispered back in a hurry. Cushla's eyes widened and she stared at him for a moment.

"Well spit it out. What's the idea? As long as I'm not getting naked or anything." She whispered back, her eyes still widened. By this time they were sitting so close that the guards were nearly deciding to put them in different places.

"Well the Emperor is looking for a wife. He has a whole room of single women and he is going to look them all over in a few days, so I was thinking. Just pretend that you really love the Emperor and you wanted to be his wife so much that you ran into his carriage to see him because you just couldn't wait any longer!" he whispered trying to keep his face look serious, but she could tell he was grinning. She frowned at this.

"Fine, but only because I can't think of anything better. You are so going to pay if we get out of this!" she said and narrowed her eyes and walked over to the guards.

"Please let me see the Emperor. I just love him so much and I really want to go and see if I am pretty enough to be his beloved wife," she said as she pretended to cry she repeated the reason that Tasuki had given her as well.

"Very well, we will take you to the room were the Emperor keeps the trial women. First you must tell us why that man is here as well though," they said, looking her over as if she was some kind of weirdo.

"He is my brother, sir. He just was taking me to the palace because my father was scared of my safety" she said, wiping the tears from her eyes.

"Ok fine, you boy come over here." Said one of the guys. Tasuki did so in a most disgruntled way. The guard raised his eyebrow and began to speak again. "You want to go with your sister to the hall where they keep the women or do you just want to stay in one of the Emperors guest rooms?" he said, winking at Tasuki at the same time.

Well Tasuki should didn't want to be in a room full of giggling girls. He shaked his head and looked up at the guard. "I wish to stay in the guest room and tell him I want to stay there till he is finished with my sister." He said and frowned at the guard.

"That is no way to talk about the Emperor, you're lucky he is not here lad. Very well, follow me" he said in a serious voice and turned towards the door.

They followed him towards a huge door that reached the ceiling, it was golden and it had pictures of a bird printed all over it in red. It was beautiful, but not as beautiful as the room they entered. It was enormous and it had a curved roof that if you looked up, it also had the red bird on it. There were poles made up of gold supporting the building and if you looked around the room there were so many women in all different coloured dresses. Tasuki waved her goodbye and the doors closed behind her. Everybody froze and stared at her, about 100 other women were looking at her!!! This was scary she thought. Just then 2 maids came towards her and took her away.

When she got into the room the maids took her into, there was a range of dresses in front of her, all one of a kind. The maids pointed to them. She had to choose one, she guessed. She looked at them all, it was so hard to pick. She finally picked a dress. It was a long blue dress with flared long sleeves and it went down to her shoes, which now were golden laced up boots. Also on her dress, the top part of it was stitched up with golden tread. It was amazing. The maids sat her on a chair and began to do her hair. When they had finished, it was a neat bun at the back with a piece of hair flowing down to midback. She looked at beautiful as the other girls.

She walked out and a girl in a bright pink dress walked towards her. She narrowed her eyes and brushed her brown hair behind her back and looked at her with her brown eyes, she started to speak.

"I didn't think that the Emperor would accept such trash, stupid goldilocks" she said and narrowed her eyes.

Was this jealously? What was she playing at? Cushla thought. "Well if I'm trash what are you? Rat fleas? I guess he must not of looked you over probably and it is totally un-lady like to be bitching over fucking nothing, now if you excuse me. I have better things to do then talk to little whores like you" Cushla said and turned her back, the girl started to run towards her. Suddenly there was a flash of blue light and Grace just came dropping in, making the girl go flying.

"Grace!" Cushla yelled, but she couldn't get to her because there was a crowd around her asking about what she did and telling her that the girl, Liana was her name was simply just jealous and had said all these lies about her before. Cushla was so shocked that she forgot about Grace and when she did remember Grace was being taken to get changed. Cushla just began talking to them all about things and beauty; they thought she was lying about coming from somewhere else, so she quickly changed the subject.

When Grace came out she was in a sparkling red dress with short sleaves and her short black hair at been made shiny and her gazing brown eyes made the look, look complete. She looked at Cushla and then looked away and frowned, maybe she was angry about how Cushla didn't pay any attention when Grace 'dropped in'. Cushla decided to talk to her, she walked slowly over to Grace, being careful not to ruin her dress.

"Hey Grace" she looked at Grace, she had a tear in her eye. "Oh my god, What's wrong?"

"O you don't even care your just to busy with all your new friends to even care if I was here or not" she said and looked down.

"That's not true, I." a girl jumped between us.

"Yeah yeah yeah, stop whining because she's better then you. Come on Cushla, its nearly time for the Emperor to come" she said, taking Cushla's hand and pulling her away.