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Eyes trailed Momo and Nina as they walked through the trails of the town of Winlan. The stares ranging from curious onlookers to ill-minded criminals. Nina walked right in front of Momo while Momo who now had her coat wrapped around the blue-haired boy they met carrying him like a baby. They made their way to the palace of the wyndians. Most of the entrances were high up in the air but the palace made a way for those who couldn't fly. An elevator or lift of sorts guided by lasers. Many might think GENICs are very primitive but actually they learn very fast. In the span of time in which they gained self-awareness they also learned how to use military equipment like guns, communications equipment, as well as many other things.
Momo got on the platform and sat down as she laid the boy down. Nina sat beside her knowing the lift would take at least ten minutes due to how high the castle is and how slow the lift was.
"Lady Nina please go on ahead", Momo smiled as she asked Nina.
"No I wanna stay with you", Nina said as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Lady Nina I'm not asking you to leave me with him I'm asking you to please prepare a room for the boy", Momo answered.
"Oh okay then", Nina opened her wings to their largest span and looked back. "Are you sure you won't get bored?", Nina asked or more like pleaded with Momo.
"I'm sure", chuckled Momo as Nina flew off. She knew why Nina didn't wanna go on without her and she was praying that Nina would have the room ready before she was dragged to report to the king and queen. She look at the boy and sighed, "Just who are you?".
The lift finally stopped and Momo picked the boy up again. She walked towards the castle. When she reached the hall an attendant approached her.
"Ms. Momo princess Nina has already informed us of the boy, his room has already been prepared", the attendant bowed.
"Take me to his room", Momo ordered.
"Please let us take care of the boy Ms. Momo, princess Nina has already gone to see his majesty I'm sure your presence is also required", the attendant bowed again.
"Then please take good care of him.", Momo smiled as she imagined just how Nina was struggling to explain everything without her.
She walked to the thrown room. On her way she bumped into one of the most annoying people she ever knew.
Rei.
"Hey little lady how you doin'?", Rei asked smoothly.
"Sorry Rei pick-up lines don't work on me", Momo deadpanned as she walked on.
"Aww c'mon don't be like that I don't really get to see you much well at least not like this", Rei scanned her whole body and if you wanna know what he's talking about its because no one ever sees Momo without her coat and I mean nobody has ever seen her without her coat. She was now in a sleeveless undershirt which hugged her figure tightly. She wore pants with the same color as her coat of blue and her pants were quite loose but the ends were all tucked into her boots. She wore a leather strap that held her holster for her foldable cannon. The straps looked like suspenders(correct me if I'm wrong) which together with her tight undershirt accented her assets which would make anyman drool and would also be another reason why people mainly men were staring at them as they walked through the streets.
"Stop staring you perv", Momo walked on.
"Why should I", Rei asked annoyingly as he kept walking by Momo's side.
"Cause I'll sho-"
"Ms. Momo his highness and her majesty have been expecting you", a guard spoke. It seemed that due to the distraction that Rei provided she didn't notice that she had already reached the throne room.
"Thank you", Momo muttered as she walked through the huge double doors and left Rei behind.
"Ah Momo there you are", the king gently called to her as she approached the thrones.
"What is this I hear about you and Nina picking up young boys from out of nowhere and did we not tell you that you needed tto come home before noon?", the queen spoke. She was very overprotective of the princess and one would not be mistaken to never cross her.
"Milady I can explain", Momo bowed.
"Yes dear let the poor girls explain", the king tried soothing his wife.
"They better have a good one then", the queen huffed.
"Your highness I assume lady Nina has already explained most of what has happened?", Momo respectfully queried.
"Yes, she has though not quite clearly", the king said looking thoughtfullly at Nina.
'I figured as much', thought eyeing Nina.
'Why is everybody looking at me?', Nina thought as she started to sweat profusely anime style.
"Well sire me and princess Nina were caught up in a giant explosion caused by small meteors falling to our planet", Momo paused to let it sink in. "After recovering from it we decided to go back but I and lady Nina were suddenly urged to go investigate a certain spot where meteor crashed like it was calling out to us", Momo paused yet again and took a deep breath. "After reaching the crash site we perceived that the meteor that fell was not actually a meteor but in fact an escape pod", Momo explained. "After a brief encounter with the pod's defense systems we retrieved the contents which is the boy princess Nina told you about.", Momo finished explaining.
"Since the pod attacked you I'd say the boy is human", the queen spoke. "We should dispose of him immediately", the queen spoke as if it was the most natural thing to do.
"My queen the pod recognizes both GENICs and humans enemies so it's impossible for that pod to be from a human ship.", Momo reasoned.
"You do have a point there Momo but what if this boy is something dangerous? Like a spy from the humans", the queen tested.
"Well my queen you gave me a chance when I first came here why not the boy?", Momo asked courteously trying to prevent a disaster from occuring.
"Someone vouched for you then and you had proved your worth Momo but this boy...", the queen trailed off.
"Then I will vouch for him", Momo spoke.
"Your word is only taken into account if it contains issues concerning the princess for you are her guardian but in this issue you have absolutely no say in the matter.", the queen answered to Momo.
"Then I will vouch for him", Nina spoke up.
"Nina you are too young you don't know what you are doing", the queen spoke.
"But I will rule as queen someday why not let me start learning how?", Nina reasoned.
"Nina you cannot learn to make decisions only facts and the fact is that that boy maybe dangerous.", the queen spoke with authoritative finality.
"But..."
"ENOUGH!... Nina", the queen exploded.
"Dear...", a voice spoke up.
"?", the queen looked beside her, it was the king.
"I trust Nina's judgement and if you won't take her word for it please take mine", the king spoke gently.
"You're not seriously going to let that boy run free around the region are you?", the queen asked shocked and worried.
"Don't worry it's only a boy what harm can he do", the king reassured the queen.
"Alright, but if something happens to Nina I will have that boy thrown into the dungeons at the very least", the queen sighed in defeat.
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'Live...'
'...at least...'
'...for now...'
'...Ryu'
Rich emerald orbs snapped open as the teen aged boy sat bolt upright. His breathing was hard and heavy. With every breath his whole body shook. He ran his hands through his blue locks as he got up and looked around. He was lying down on a bed, beside it was a desk, a window could be located a ways to the right of the desk and directly in front of him or from where the bed was facing was the door. He noticed he was dressed in only a large blue coat. He got out of the bed and as he stood the door opened and there stood a maid carrying a pitcher of water and a basin as well as a piece of cloth.
"Oh you're awake please wait here as I call for the princess and ms.Momo", the maid laid down what she carried and stood there. There was an awkward silence and then.
Gggggrrrrrrr...
The maid gradually but clearly started to turn red and bowed saying, "I'm sorry you must be hungry so I'll bring you a meal before I get them". The maid hurried away as the boy walked towards the basin. He took the pitcher and poured some of its contents into the basin and he took the cloth to proceed in cleaning himself up.
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Momo and Nina walked back to the boy's room. As they neared the room the hall ways began to get more dense with the large number of maids when they were about ten meters away from the door they could no longer pass due to the number of the maids crowding around the door trying to sneak peeks on the resident of the room.
"I knew it wasn't a good idea to let the younger maids get anywhere near him.", Momo slapped her forehead as she said this and proceeded to jostle through the crowd. When Momo opened the door shrieks and screams rang through her ears.
"He really is handsome"
"Wonder if he's free"
"I saw him first"
Those were only some of the things Momo and Nina heard before they went deaf. Momo quickly shut the door and looked at the occupant of the room. He was eating a small meal of bread and stew as she and Nina approached him. He made eye contact with them and Momo finally knew why they thought he was handsome. Sure he had this youthful yet mature look going on and his long blue hair matched his face perfectly but the thing that struck them most were his eyes. She swore they were more hypnotic than Nina's psychic powers. She finally snapped out of it and so did Nina.
"What's your name?", Momo asked gently as she sat down on the bed. The boy looked at her then he looked down to his meal againand just went on eating.
"Okay this is gonna take some time", Nina whispered to herself but Momo heard and silently agreed with it.
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: Hope this pleases you guys.