Alex put her hands on her hips and leaned to the side as she watched a grin come across Lord Kai's face. Prince Max walked up the small set of stairs that Alex was waiting on and cleared his throat.

" Alex, Lord Kai will be your boss. As long as you work for the gaurds you will have to listen to what he tells you to do. No matter how much you want to defie his comands. Understand?" He asked waiting for her answer.

It never came. Alls she did was glare at Kai and he smirked back at her. She then became very uncomfortable as she remembered what she was wearing.

" Question, do I have to wear this fucking skirt? It's way to short and it's very uncomfortable. And don't give me the excuse ' Your a servant, your supposed to be uncomfortable. This is your punishment.' Give me a proper answer." Alex freaked, not taking her eyes off Kai.

Max sighed. " It's the uniform. Sorry Alex, rules are rules." He protested with his hands in front of him, as if waiting for Alex to punch him.

Alex toke her eyes of Kai finally and looked at Max lightly and with a smirk on her face. " Scared of me are you? At least some people get the point after they get the first taste. But that funny thing is I never touched you." She paused and glared at Kai again who returned the favor. " I hit this son of a bitch and the fucker returned the favor by trying to safurcate me. I understand perfectly with the rules Prince Max, but I rufuse to wear this skirt. I don't care if I get beaten to death. I will not wear this skirt. Work it up with your father if you must, cause if you don't I will. And you guys aren't going to like what I have to say."

Prince Max sighed and left the room, leaving Alex to continue to stare at Kai.

Kai smirked at her. " Well now, what should I get you to do first. I have to put you to good use."

Alex growled under her breath and glared at him more and crossed her arms on her chest, waiting for Kai to put her to work.

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Amber wipped the sweat from her forhead and continued to turn the dirt over and over again with a small shovel.

/{/ This is a lot harder then I thought. I never do this stuff at home. \}\ She thought to herself.

Roxin was walking around critizeing every single sevant that they were not doing the job right. Her favorite target was Amber. Since she was new, Roxin loved to critize her and oviously injoyed every moment of it. Amber felt tears stream down her face and Roxin toke this as a sign that she was getting weak and that her taunting was getting to Amber.

/{/ What a weak child. Pathetic. King Johnny will hear from me, sending me a girl that can barely stop crying, and she makes very slow progress. \}\ Roxin thought to herself as she saw Amber burst out a fresh stream of tears.

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Ray wasen't having much luck either. Since he was tardy, along with another boy, the two had to do all the dishes. (For those who don't think that's a punishment, remember the cooks have to feed everbody in the WHOLE castle. Think about it)

/{/ What is she doing here? \}\ Ray thought as she saw a firmiliar face walk into the room.

Alex smiled at him. " Doing dishies I see." She laughed a bit then went silent again, still smiling.

Ray wipped his hands on a cloth and walked over to her. " What are you doing here? Your going to get in trouble for not being at your post. Your gonig to get me in trouble because your dectracting me from my job."

Alex frowned. " I'm here because of my post. Lord Kai sent me to pick up something. So if you talk to me, your only helping me out. Neither of us will get in trouble."

" What are you here to pick up?" Ray asked putting the cloth down and crossing his arms over his chest.

Alex sighed and rolled her eyes. " He sent me down the get a barrel of rum. He said that I could use the challenge, but I think he's just trying to piss me off. And it's working really good too. So can you help me out or not?"

Ray nodded. " Follow me."

Ray lead her to a back room that was filled with about a thousand barrels. Filled with fruits and rum, according to Ray anyways. ray picked up a medium sized barrel and gave it to Alex. It might have been a smaller barrel then Alex had expected, but it was heavy. She wasen't about to show that to anybody. Not even Ray. She thanked Ray and wished him good luck with his dishies. ray rolled his eyes and went back to work as Alex left chuckling.

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Amber fell to the ground. She was so tierd. She couldn't do this job anymore. She knew that Roxin would point her finger at Amber and told her to get back to work if she knew what was good for her. Amber didn't care. She had to take a short break. Suddenly she heard a snap and felt a sharp pain shoot through her back. Roxin was standing behind her with a whip in hand.

" I told you to get back to work. If you defie it again then you will get two whips. Everytime you defie the order I will add one more whip to it. Trust I will not forget the number." Roxin smirked.

Amber struggled to her feet and continued weakly at her work.

Amber thought weakly to herself. /{/ I wonder how Alex is doing. \}\

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Lord Kai frowned as he saw Alex enter the room carrying the barrel and making it look like it was as light as a feather. He motioned Alex over to were he was. She didn't see him but she had to ask him something anyways.

" Where do I put this Lord Kai?" She asked grimily.

He smirked at her. " Is it getting heavy? You should have thought twice before you stole that hier lomb. You wouldn't be here."

A bell rang and all the gaurds looked up the the see the bell being rung and they scrambled to get there chain mail and armor. They finally got there stuff on and were out the door leaving a smirking Kai and a pissed Alex.

" Not that I don't injoy your company though." Kai said as he pushed the chair back that he was sitting in and stood up.

Alex glanced at him and repeated her question. He pointed a finger to the old barrel that was now empty. She left his side without a word and replaced the old barrel with the new. Well at least she didn't have to put up with him, he had to leave with the rest of the gaurds, didn't he?

" Don't you have some place to go?" She asked rudely.

Kai smirked. " That's the training bell. Since I'm head gaurd, I don't need anymore training. Lord Bryan trains them, so we should be expecting a visiter soon."

Alex rolloed her eyes and turned on her heels. Kai saw her roll her eyes and spun her around, clenching Alex throat hard and once again began to sufercate her. Alex winced at the pain in her throat and she was thrown to the ground my Kai. She hit the stone wall and knocked her head against it, causing it to began to bleed. She stood up after a few seconds and glared at Kai. She would have went straight for an attack if the door didn't open and in come Lord Tala.

He too was not in his chain mail and armor. He was wearing a gold tunic like Kai and his red hair was matching the outfit to a tip. Tala walked over to Kai as Alex simply turned her head to examine the damage that she had caused. Nothing serious she noticed. Then she noticed that there was blood streaming down her arm and onto the floor.

" Good mourning Kai, how are you?" Tala asked smirking at the back of Alex.

Kai followed his gaze and spoke up. " Fine. Tala I'd like you to meet our new servant. Alex this is Lord Tala."

Alex spun around and set her element eyes and Tala. She smirked.

" Your the gaurd that I kicked because you wouldn't let go of Amber. Hope your felling better. I know I sure am." She said to Tala then shot a death glare at Lord Kai.

She turned around as she noticed that she had gotten under Tala's skin. She noticed yet again that the stream of blood didn't stop. In fact it was getting worse. She turned aropund to face the two gaurds and she bent down to examine how much blood she had lost. There was a fairly large puddle of warm red liquide that had spread it self from her feet to almost Kai's. Kai looked down to notice the blood puddle and walked over to Alex and grabbed her roughly by her bleeding arm.

" We can't have to bleeding all over the floor, now can we Tala?" He asked smirking at Tala.

Tala shock his head and laughed. " What did you do to her to make her bleed so much? Better question, what did she do to make you do that to her?"

Kai smirked and was about to answer him when Alex stood up, bringing him up with her and kneed him in the stomach. Kai leaned over in pain and dropped to the floor, landing right in Alex' puddle of blood. Alex smirked at his fallen figure and glanced at Tala.

" Why does that concern you, all's you need to know is that I did something to make him mad. Oviously that bastard can't control his temper. No matter." Alex beamed at him.

Tala looked shocked and glanced at Kai who was still in the puddle of blood and haden't moved yet. Alex turned to finish the job she had started, the rum barrel, when she got tackled and she was pinned to the ground. Tala was holding her arms to her back and pulled her to her feet. Kai had staggered to his feet finally and glanced at Alex, evily.

Alex glared right back at him. /{/ Come on, hit me, lets see what you got! \}\