(Violet's Pov)
-Five Years Ago-
I was marching with the other Knights in training, the rain was pouring hard on us and the mud was making us sink into the ground further and further. We were a bit bunched up together which made the ground worse but we weren't allowed to speak on this matter. It was stupid it's always so stupid but I couldn't speak up.
"ALDON!" I hear and I stand up tall as the others move away and the grand cross comes up to me and glares at me.
"YES SIR?!" I yelled over the rain so he could hear me and I looked to him a bit as he glared at me.
"YOU MIND TELLING ME WHY THE HELL YOUR CLOTHES ARE DIRTY RIGHT NOW?!" I looked at him as he asked this very stupid question and I felt eyes on me.
"Because we're-."
"I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" He yelled in my face and backed up a bit.
"BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE MUD WHILE IT IS RAINING!" I yelled out and he laughed at this.
"SO... What do you think we should do?" He asked and I looked at him wondering I he was serous on this.
"WE SHOULD SET UP CAMP IN A STABLE AREA FOR NOW GET RESTED AFTER CLEANING UP AND MARCH IN THE MORNING SIR!" I yelled and he laughed.
"YOU HEARD HER BOYS SET UP CAMP IN A STABLE AREA!" The Grand Cross yelled and we all began to get to work. I was in the middle of pitching up my tent before one of the men came by and shoved me a bit.
"You must be real stupid." He said and I looked to him.
"How so?" I asked.
"The enemy wouldn't think to set up camp, they'd keep going." He said and I looked to him.
"I mean, you are right but the Grand Cross didn't say anything on this matter, plus we're three days ahead of our training." I say and the boy smirks.
"I'm Marlon." He says as he holds his hand out to me and I shake his hand.
"Violet." I introduced myself.
"I'm Louis." The other boy says and I nod and shake his hand as well.
"You don't seem much like you want to be a Knight." I say as I looked to Louis.
"No, I'm the poet, I just follow and write down stuff to keep your spirits up, that and I'm a fast runner so if I need to deliver a letter, I'm your guy." He tells me and I nod at this information.
"So, what are you doing here?" Marlon asked as I tied up the end of my tent to the proper poll.
"I want to keep someone safe, and I was a stable worker, not really exciting if you ask me." I explained as I think of Clementine and I sighed a bit as I remember how sad she looked when I left to train.
"Isn't that why we are all here?" Marlon asked and I nod.
"Yes, but I have someone special back home... an old friend that I want to help out." I tell him and he nods.
"Same, I have a girl back home, her name is Brody." He says and I nod.
"I wish I had a girl." Louis says and I chuckled.
"You will one day." I tell him as I pat his back.
"How'd you get in by the way?" Marlon asked.
"The New King helped me join, I'm actually friends with his daughter." I say and their jaws drop.
"Wait, you are friends with Princess Clementine?" Louis asked and I nodded at this.
"I was friends with her before she became a princess we lived in the same orphanage when we were younger though she doesn't really remember because she was far too young, she would visit me in the stables though once her father took her in so we've been friends a long time." I tell them as we take a seat in my tent and I grab a small painting that Clem gave me of herself and I showed them.
"Wow, so you get special treatment hu?" Louis says and I shake my head.
"No, not at all, I told the King not to tell them that he wanted me to join, so I wouldn't be treated any different.
"Well regardless, I think we are going to be great friends." Louis says and I nod as we all just took a break and relaxed.
-Five Years Later-
I woke up to the sound of knocking on the door and I quickly sat up which also woke Clementine in the process. There was another set of knocks and I rubbed my face a bit as I got up and opened the door a bit to see Javier and Gabe.
"What do you have to say Gabe?" Javier said pissed as he smacked the boy in the back of the head and I stood a bit taller as I looked to Gabe as he glared at me.
"She wouldn-."
"Boy you shut up unless you are to apologize, you know damn well that Knights aren't allowed to draw their weapons at a royal member." Javier says pissed and I looked between the two.
"Look even if he was to apologize, I wouldn't accept it, he scared Clem and his sister and has already embarrassed your family enough." I say.
"No, his father taught him better and he needs to apologize for what he has done, we do not tolerate that kind of behavior at all in this family." Javier says and I feel Clementine behind me as she placed her hand on my shoulder and showed herself to the older man.
"Javier it's ok if Gabe doesn't want to apologize that's fine, but my father has to know what he did to the Grand Cross, I do apologize in advance." Clem says.
"No there is no need for you to apologize Clementine, and I did think you would inform your father of the event that took place, I have also sent a letter sending in my apology for how my idiot of a nephew acted in front of you and his own sister." Javier says and I nod a bit at this as Gabe just leaves and Javier stays as he looked to me.
"Do you need a doctor?" He asked and I shook my head.
"No, thank you for the offer but I got patched up before we came back." I tell him.
"I do have to ask, my nephew said something about you saying 'You can't kill what is already dead' did you speak those words?" He asked.
"He must have imagined those words in his rage I couldn't speak from the shock of being stabbed." I lie to him and he nods then takes his leave and I closed the door and looked to Clem as she looked to me.
"You ok?" I asked.
"Let me check your wound." She says and I sighed a bit and sat in the chair as she went and grabbed some bandages and medicine. I watched as she lifted up my shirt a bit and removed the bloody bandages and I watch as she patches up the wound after putting some medicine on it. I watch her as she gets up and looked to me then she throws the old bandages away and I stand up as she comes up to me and I look at her.
"You sure you don't need a doctor?" She asked and I nodded a bit to this.
"Yes, I am sure I do not need a doctor, thank you." I tell her an she nods as we go back to the bed and I lay down a bit as I look up at the ceiling, I feel Clementine lay her head on my chest again and I breath in a bit and place my hand on her back.
"I was dreaming about when I was away at training five years ago." I say out loud and she moved her head to look at me.
"You did?" She asked and I nodded.
"Yea... it was when I met Marlon and Louis." I tell her.
"Oh really?" She asked and I nodded.
"Yea... I don't know why I had that dream though, I guess I just wanted to remember that day in my dreams." I say out of random.
"Was it a good memory?" She asked and I think a bit.
"I guess, it's when I first made friends while training, Louis was nice, and Marlon was ok I guess." I think a bit as I looked down to her.
"What was your best memory?" She asked and I chuckled.
"When I met you." I tell her and she hits my chest gently and I chuckled more at this.
"Well, it's true though." I tell her.
"Really?" She asked and I nodded.
"I don't have good memories with my family and if I did, I don't remember them, training with the other Knights was hell I mean some things were ok but it was hell on earth, battles of course aren't fun and blah blah blah." I mumbled as I looked to her.
"But when you and I became friends in the orphanage it was one of the best days in my life." I tell her truthfully as I rubbed her back more.
"I don't think we will be getting any sleep soon." She says and I nod a bit.
"It's still dark out though." I mumbled as I lay my head back a bit.
"Well, that's what happens when people wake others up, they lose sleep." She says and I smiled a bit and rubbed her back again and closed my eyes.
"I might be able to sleep but I'm not to sure." I say as I keep my eyes closed.
"When we get back home let's just sleep in." She says with a yawn and I smiled a bit more.
"Yea, lets do that." I yawned and I finally fell asleep. I have no clue how long I got any sleep but I was once again woken up by a knock and Clementine wakes up and moved her head off my chest as I yawned and got up and went to the door and looked to see Mariana.
"Afternoon you two." She says and I shake my head a bit and looked at her.
"Afternoon?" I asked and she looked to me.
"Ok I lied it's morning." She says and I laughed a bit and nodded.
"Sorry to wake you two up, my mother wanted us all to have breakfast together and since you are guests, she wanted you two to join as well." She says and I nod and yawn a bit.
"Yea, sorry we were just woken up to early last night and... Still tired." I muttered a bit tired.
"I can ask my mom to have a family breakfast tomorrow so you two can sleep." She says a bit concerned and I shake my head.
"No, No, it's all good we're up now so... it's ok, we will be down in a bit, I do apologize for us being late." I say and she nods a bit at this as she leaves and I closed the door to see Clem already up and getting dressed and I come up to her and I kissed her neck a bit.
"Morning." I say as I placed my hands on her stomach and she placed her hands over mine.
"Hmm, to early." She mumbled a bit and I smiled a bit as I kissed her cheek.
"Well, Mariana's mother wanted everyone to have breakfast together, so it would be rude if we didn't." I say to her quietly and I moved away a bit as she got back to changing. I went to change my clothes. After a while I got my sword and we went to the dinning hall, Mariana and Clem sat next to each other and I sat next to Clementine. Gabe sat across from Clem while Javier sat a the head of the table and their mother was on his left next to Gabe.
"So, I heard about what Gabe had done." Their mother says.
"I tried to apologize Kate, but the knight wouldn't accept it." He says and I look at him as the cooks placed the breakfast in front of us.
"Thank you." Mariana, Clem and I say all together and the two girls giggled at this and I looked to Clem as she placed her hand on my leg.
"Well, if he apologized you should accept it." Kate says and I look to her and clear my throat a bit.
"I don't accept apologies that aren't real, and besides he stabbed me in front of a bunch of your people." I tell her and she looked at me.
"You don't seem to understand." Kate tried to say but Javier stopped her.
"Kate please." Javier says and I look to them.
"No, when he apologizes it should be accepted." She says and I look to her.
"Ma'am, we don't accept apologies from people who stab us and act as if it was nothing, had he gone higher it would have torn my stomach and I would be dead, and the King would not like that his guard was killed because one boy was pissed off." I explained to her and she looked at me as if I disrespected her.
"You listen-."
"Mom, stop, Gabe did something very wrong and Violet doesn't have to accept his apology." Mariana defends and I look to her then to her mom and I feel Clem's hand tightens a bit as she kept quiet on this and I look to all of them.
"What about a duel?" Gabe asked and I look at him.
"I don't take duels from a prince." I tell him.
"And why not?" Kate asked and I looked to her.
"Goes against all things I was taught, I am not allowed to draw my sword in a time of peace to a royal." I tell her.
"He is asking for a duel." She says a bit pissed.
"I am still not allowed to do that." I tell her and I feel Clem place her hand on my shoulder and I look at her.
"What if I threaten Clem." Gabe said and I looked to him.
"You touch her and This kingdom will be attacked for threatening the Kings only child." I threatened as I looked to him and he took out his dagger and I got up quickly and stood closer to Clementine and Mariana got up.
"Will you stop it, so what he doesn't deserve to have his apology accepted, what he did was wrong, now can we please just eat and go about our day?" She asked and I looked at Gabe as he put his dagger back and I felt something sharp hit my thigh a bit and I looked down a bit to see Clem had a dagger on her but she put it away before anyone could notice. I looked to him as he sat back down and I sat down as well, then we all ate and once done I took Clem back to the room and pulled the dagger from her dress and I looked at her.
"The hell is wrong with you?" I whispered pissed and she looked at me.
"I thought I would need it after what Gabe did last night." She says a bit shocked and I sighed a bit and handed it back to her.
"I am sorry I just... I don't want you getting hurt." I tell her and she nods as she placed the dagger back in her dress and I look at her.
"I'm sorry." She says and I shake my head.
"No, no it's ok." I muttered and I sighed as I hear a knock and I opened the door to see Mariana.
"I'm sorry but do you two want to head out?" she asked and I nod a bit.
"Yes please." I say and she nods as we all head out into the town and I sighed a bit as I rubbed my neck we spent a few hours out and I felt a tug on my shirt to see a messenger boy as he hands me a letter and I look to him then the letter to see a different seal that I don't know about. The boy just leaved without asking if I was the right person for the letter and I look to see my name on it. I opened the letter and read it.
'Grand Cross Violet, I have been given some information on the family you are currently staying with and I must inform you that the prince Gabe has other motives set in his mind, I suggest going into his room and checking his desk, here is a letter from the Delta and there might be some important information on it. From: A Concerned Citizen.' The note said and I looked to Minerva and Clem as they talked then back to the note and I put it in my pocket as I come up to them.
"Mariana was your brother given a letter at any point before we arrived?" I asked.
"Yes, but he said it was from a girl that confessed to him, why?" She asked.
"What did the Seal on the letter look like?" I asked.
"There was none... is something wrong?" She asked and I shook my head.
"No just... wondering why he would want to stab me and all." I say and she looked to me and I rubbed my neck at this.
"Oh, well we can head back if you need to as-." But I stopped her.
"No, no it's ok I was just being uh... paranoid is all." I say to her and she nods a bit at this and I looked to Clem who was looking at me a bit worried but I shook my head at this.
"Sorry um, let's just hang out." I say.
"Oh, the party is tonight by the way, Sarah will be there." Mariana says and Clem nods.
"She likes to read a lot." Clem says as we walked around a bit more and I decided to get Mariana a gift from me which was just some sweets she was looking at when we got into the town. It was about an hour later before we headed back to the Castle as the two talked.
"I do have to apologize but we will be leaving tomorrow, but I will be sure to come back and visit later on after the holiday." Clem explained and I looked to her as she looked to me and I nod at this as we go into the Castle and to Mariana's room.
"Violet mind giving us a little alone time, we need to talk about something in private." Mariana asked and I looked to her then to Clem who nods and I nod to her.
"I will be in our room than, I'll be back at what time?" I asked.
"Give us an hour?" Mariana asked and I looked to Clem to see if it was ok and she nods at this. I nod back as they closed the door and I rubbed my neck a bit at this then head to mine and Clem's room but as I touched the door, I think about the letter so I head out to where I think Gabe's room would be. I opened the door to see no one and I take a look to see a desk and I open up the drawers to look for anything. I was honestly hoping this boy wasn't smart enough to burn the letter like I did. I try to open one draw but I couldn't and saw that it was locked and I growled a bit at this and I looked around but couldn't find the key, so I have to head out and stay in the hall a bit before I head back to mine and Clem's room. I think for a while on where the key could be, or I could just go to Javier and ask him to have the drawer open, I mean if it's in concern for the safety of Clementine I would like to make sure no one here is associated with the Delta. I looked to see that the hour was almost up so I head back to Mariana's room and I knock on the door.
"Are you two good?" I asked but I hear nothing and I opened the door only to get splashed in the face with some water and I opened my eyes to see Clem holding her dagger and Mariana looking at me a bit scared and I wiped my face of the water and I looked to them.
"Sorry we heard voices and we just got scared." Marian says a bit panicked and I looked at her.
"Did you hear what they said?" I fully alert as I closed the door and looked to them.
"Something about getting the Princesses, I can't remember, they didn't sound like our normal guards, and I don't know." Mariana says panicked and I looked to both of them.
"Ok, we should go to Javier about this." I tell them and Mariana nods quickly and I watch as Clem placed her dagger back in hiding and I nod as I take them both out of the room. My hand on the hilt of my sword as we went to Javier's office to see him working before he looked to us.
"Hello girls." He says but stopped as he saw how scared Mariana was.
"What is going on?" Javier asked as he came up to us.
"Sir, I need access to your nephews' desk, I was given a letter saying something about the Delta and your Nephew and then there were guards talking about the princesses to the point it scared them." I tell him.
"Gabe wouldn't have anything to do with that kind of kingdom, he might be annoying but he wouldn't let his own sister get hurt." He says.
"Sir please, if I'm wrong, I am wrong, but if I a right then I need to escort Clementine out of here and it would be wise of you to let me bring Mariana as well just until we can get things figured out." I suggested.
"I don't think that would be-." I grabbed the note from my pocket and slammed it into his chest and he looked at me as he grabbed it.
"If you don't do this now, I will have to mark this kingdom as Delta affiliated because you don't want to just make sure." I tell him and he looked to me after he read the note and he rubbed his neck a bit as he nods and we head to Gabe's room where Javier knocked on the door and Gabe opened it.
"Gabe we need to look in your desk." Javier says and Gabe looked at us.
"Why?" He asked.
"Just... I got a letter saying you were basically working with the Delta, and I just want to make sure it isn't true." He says and Gabe looked to me then to his uncle.
"I'm not working with the Delta." He says and Javier sighed as he opened the door more and looked through the desk and tried to open the locked drawer.
"Gabe open it." He says.
"It's not locked." He says as he goes to it and it opened up and I looked to Javier then back to Gabe as he opened it and there was a letter with the Delta seal on it. I go up and grab it and looked to it then to Javier then opened the letter and read it out loud.
"Dear Gabe Garcia we would like to thank you for your current information on where the Princess and her Knight will be at this time, we would also like to thank you in your assistance in the Battles as well when you sent in you knights to help us in our cause, if there is a chance that you can get to the knight and kill them that would help us even more. Regards Lilly." I read and looked to both the men.
"I NEVER-."
"GABE WHAT THE HELL?!" Javier yelled.
"I AM NOT WORKING WITH THE DELTA!" Gabe yelled back and I looked to Clementine then to Javier.
"We are leaving, this place is going to be marked as Delta alliance." I inform him.
"Woah hold on if you do that then a war will break out with innocent people." Javier says.
"This note says your knights are working with them, that Gabe was ordered by them to get me killed, and you expect me to not think that there are Delta sympathizers in your kingdom? The best thing for you to do right now is let Mariana come with me and Clem till you get this figured out, but until then I have to mark this area as Delta because of his actions that make it seem so." I say and point to Gabe.
"I DON'T WORK FOR THEM; I WOULD NEVER HAVE CLEM HURT!" He yelled at me and I glared at him.
"YOU TRIED TO KILL ME LAST NIGHT SO SHUT YOUR MOUTH!" I yelled and I was a bit shocked at myself for it but I was pissed, I deserved to be pissed.
"Ok... ok Mariana you go to Macon Kingdom till we can get this sorted out, but please don't attack us." Javier says.
"I will have the kingdom marked, so you best better find out fast because the moment I hear news of an attack from your kingdom, hell will be upon you because of him." I say as I looked to Gabe and We walked out and I take the letter with me and I glare at the hallway as we went to get our things packed up. It wasn't long till I had both Mariana and Clem in the carriage and I looked to them as Mariana looked a bit distraught and I sighed a bit as Javier and Gabe tell them their good-bye's and I see that Kate is not to be found. I question it and make sure to take not of this as I get to the horses and we began to head in the direction of the Macon kingdom.
"I'm sorry." I say.
"For what?" I hear and I looked to the road a bit.
"That your birthday didn't go so well." I say to Mariana as I keep the horses at bay.
"Do you think my brother is really working for those people?" Mariana asked.
"I don't know but the thing is I have to keep Clementine safe, and since you were talked about by the knights I want to make sure you're ok as well... I will have a guard with you at all times to make sure you are watched." I say and I kept to the road and saw another carriage as it came in our direction.
"That's Sarah." Mariana says and I stopped the carriage so Mariana could speak to them.
"It would be best if you headed back home right now, something important came up and I can't be at my hoe till the matter is settled." She explained.
"Oh, I am sorry I hope things get sorted out." Sarah says.
"Wait, why don't we have your party at my home? It would be a shame to have your birthday completely ruined, plus we aren't that far, the horses could get rest up and Sarah along with the knight can sleep." Clementine offered and I looked to the other knight and then to Sarah.
"If that is what the Princesses desire, we must keep them happy." I say and we all agreed as we headed back to Clementine's kingdom. I think for a bit as I have to warn the king of this news but we can't attack Richmond, not yet.
"We have t tell my father." I hear Clementine say and I nod.
"Yea, but we can't attack Richmond not yet." I say as I keep watching the road.
"Wait you can't." Mariana says.
"Mariana, if your brother has anything to do with the Delta then he was putting you, Clem and anyone else in danger, then there is the fact that he was ordered to try and get rid of me that makes him look even more guilty." I say.
"Gabe may be a dumbass I know that but h wouldn't get anyone killed, he's to afraid to go to battles himself." She says.
"So, he let's others battle for him, look until we can get things sorted out we just need to keep our guards up, I just want to make sure you and Clem ae safe, and when we get to Macon, we need to inform her father of what happened last night and what we found today." I explained.
"How did you know the note was in his desk?" She asked.
"I received a letter while we were in town, it was from a concerned citizen and I just needed to make sure it was legit... so I snuck in his room and the one drawer was locked so I had no choice but to believe." I tell her and I keep looking at the road.
"I... I don't know what to think." She says.
"It's going to be ok; Violet will make sure everything is ok, I can make sure everything is ok." Clem informs her and I nod a bit at this. I kept riding even when night fell and I rubbed my face a bit. I knew by now the princesses were asleep so I just kept riding out to the castle. It wasn't a long time before we finally get to the castle, it was early in the morning and I set the horses in the stable and I rubbed my eyes a bit as me and the other knight got the princesses. I opened the door and saw Clementine waking up just a bit and I smiled at her as she looked to me and I look at Mariana as I helped them both out and I got them settled in her room with Sarah as well.
"I need to talk to your father." I tell Clem as she and I stood outside the room a bit.
"We can do that in the morning my dad is still asleep, trust me we can wake up early and deal with it tomorrow, you're tired I know you are." She says and I look to her.
"I'm sorry but I have to inform him now." I say and I looked to Sarah's knight as he nods and I take my leave and head to the Kings Office. I knock on the door a bit to hear someone respond.
"Come in." I hear and I opened the door to see Minerva.