A/N: Ta! After a long wait I have put up another chapter! I hope you people like it! Oh and Aerena thanks for the web site! It's been a ton of help and I finally got the Italics down!

*revised April 12 2003*

Legend of Albert
Albert watched as the ground passed beneath the carriage. He had never been outside of Bale before. It was so strange to be on a flat landscape. No mountains, no hills just flat land, dirt, rocks and grass. Then every so often he would see an old tree sticking out of the ground.

His father had given him the right to name the horses. The larger white horses had been dubbed Epona and Rosmerta, and the blackies gotten Sirona and Nanto. When his father had asked where the names came from, he had responed books.

"Your going to be the brightest King since Mogon, Albert!" Carlo had said to him. All of those around him nodded happily.

Albert had smiled and blushed slightly at the kind words.

***

They were but one day from the Royal Capital of Tiberona. Feltz was said to be even more beautiful that Bale, for all of the homes were made out of a pure white stone. Then the castle had two large and graceful towers that appeared to be leaning due to their height.

Albert had read all the books he could about the city before they left. How people talked, what they ate. But what intrigued him most was that the people had beliefs, not in a single god, but in the thousands of stars and all other heavenly bodies. They loved and worshipped the stars so much that they had created charts of every one, and even learned how to use the stars to see into a person's future.

Carlo however had given him the most interesting piece of information yet. The princess Emille of Tiberona was but three short months younger than him. "What is she like father?" He asked.

"I wouldn't know. It's been years since I was last in Tiberona. However I do know that her mother is a beautiful creature. Melinda has blue eyes and blond hair, almost as beautiful as yours. She was the daughter of a rich merchant in Lohan. He bought her a title of royalty and married Zior not long after."

Albert nodded taking in the information and stock pilling it away.

"You'd best be nice to the young lady Albert, she might end up your wife!" Carlo said with a good laugh.

By the next day's morning Albert could smell the sea. The salty air reminding him of home, however the dry feel did not. He sighed as the beautiful white towers came into view. He hadn't been expecting to see them from so far away, but then they were said to be the highest human made towers in the world.

"What do you think? Has Zior got things well set up for him here or what?" Carlo chuckled.

Albert nodded lost in thoughts of amazement for the land.

***

With the sun just setting behind the castle when Albert took his first step into the Room of the Sun, Albert got his first look at Emille and her mother, Melinda. They were both very beautiful, however he couldn't say much for the man who sat between them. He was a little short, fat and had very piggish eyes. "Welcome Carlo! Welcome!" He boomed. However his cheerful attitude quickly diminished his bad looks.

"Zior, my friend! Has life treated you well?" Carlo asked, with a pleased smile.

"Never stopped! Is your brother with you Carlo? Or did you leave him behind again?" Albert smiled, but said nothing. After all Doel was by far a less pleasing person to be around.

"He left on his own adventure!" Carlo said trying to hide his displeasure at being asked.

"Ah! I'm sure your tired and hungry, the maids will show you round!" Zior said with another good laugh.

As a maid turned to take Albert to his own room, Emille caught his eye and smiled.

***

It seem like hours till the feast was started to Albert. However the wait was nothing compared to the prayer before dinner. A man named Fester had been asked to recite The Holy Script of the Stars. Only after the man had finished were they so much as allowed to look at the food. It wasn't that Albert didn't enjoy learning about this Script, it was just that ones stomach can not always be as patient as asked.

Once the meal had commenced Albert was hurried on to the Ball room. Which was really the Room of the Sun with decorations, but no one cared. It was there that he finally got to meet the kind Princess Emille.

"Your Albert correct?" She asked politely approaching him.

He nodded, "It is nice to meet you Princess Emille."

"Thank you, Would you care to meet some of my friends?"

"Of course," he responded following the young girl out of the room and into the hallway...

A/N: Okay, I know they are only six or so.... but comon! They have been raised as royalty! So they've been trained to talk right and all... Anyway, review and tell me what you think!