Disclaimer: I own these characters not. Only the ones you never heard of are mine.
AN: My second real attempt for this show. Be kind, be mean. review if you please.
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It was raining outside. Not the light, "lets sing and dance" rain but more of the cold, hard rain. The kind that stings the skin when it comes in contact. Howling winds and thunder included. The kind of rain you stay inside for. Well there was that orange clad nimrod who was dancing out in the wood but that is another story.
No this story is about a not-so-good, good guy. A different kind of hero. A warrior prince if you will. Xena herself couldn't tame this bad boy.
There is drama, humor, pain and some things so absurd your head will explode trying to figure it out. But we're getting ahead of things. Our story starts with a rainy day.
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Once upon a time there was a very bored princess. It was raining outside so she wasn't able to play. Her friends lived too far away to visit and her bother was busy ruling the corporate world.
So she began to mope and mope and mope and finally moping lead to sulking. Her mother was sick of her sulking around the house. Couldn't she find something to do?
"Why don't you read a book or watch TV?" Her wise mother suggested.
"I read all the books in the house and the satellite is out." Replied our heroine.
There had to be something to do . . .
"You could clean out the attic! I'm sure you'll find something to entertain yourself there."
The princess thought about this idea and agreed. So she scurried away to the attic.
The attic was musty and full of chests and covered furniture that she didn't know existed. There were several open boxes with markings that she could barely make out. Soon she spotted a beautiful red dress on a headless manikin and made her way to it
Our little princess is also terribly clumsy and fell on her face after two steps towards the manikin. She looked at what caused her fall.
A black leather book. It must have fell out of the box on the chair above. Slightly curious, she opened the book and began to read. It was a diary of some sort.
That alone wasn't what increased her curiosity and surprise. It was a diary her father wrote.
"I shouldn't read this. It's personal. It's wrong. But he probably forgot about it anyway."
The princess kept reading.
Mei'lik is doing it again. I can't be the only one who hears him. It's bad enough I have to have a roommate, but a singing one? This is more torturous than being beaten. In fact I'm starting to look forward to being beaten. At least then I will be unconscious and unable to hear his retched voice.
On more positive note, I am able to eat in the mess hall once again. Two weeks without food wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, however I hope that this is the last time I get this punishment.
Yet somehow I know tomorrow or the next day I will end up getting that sentence. Must learn to watch what I say. It was unfair only I was punished but I can't say I'm surprised.
I probably should go to sleep now since I have mission tomorrow morning. I will NOT screw up this time.
Well good night then.
" A singing roommate? Wow." The princess closed the book and searched for others identical. She was in luck. There were three others.
She gathered up all the books and left the attic. Her mother was right, she did find something to entertain herself.
The next day it was bright and the sun was inviting everyone out to play. But one young girl, our princess, declined the invite.
Her father's journals had intrigued her so much that she was starting to miss family meals. Her parents were concerned (her father would never admit to this though) and refused to believe that books about nothing (she had a sinking suspicion that if she told her mom the contents her father would find out and burn them) were as interesting as she claimed.
"You can't sit in you're room all day!" Her mother argued.
"All right then," our princess replied, " I'll read them in the living room."
Needless to say after that comment she was grounded. Her punishment you ask? To spend three hours a day outside. She was not to be allowed in beforehand whatsoever.
This was one of the oddest punishments that the princess has ever received.
The princess managed to escape her forced outing today and as her promise, she read her book in the living room. Her parents were out and her bother was still at work and wasn't going to be back for a long time.
Today's entry was rather interesting.
My training session today had an unfortunate and unexpected surprise. Mei'lik had followed me all day. Singing as usual. I told him I would blast him into the next dimension but he refused to stop. No he did stop; he then began to rhyme.
" The prince is convinced that I employ my rhymes to annoy him but I sure whished he would join in."
Just as I was about to kill the idiot he fell to the ground unconscious. Seems I wasn't the only one annoyed by his bizarre antics. I would have left him there and gone off to train with Nappa but my curiosity got the better of me.
I chose to stay and see who blasted him. It was a woman. A woman with power?
"I know this is a terrible way to start on my first day but after being kidnapped and witnessing my family being killed, I just needed an outlet. Lucky he was there huh?"
A humanoid. She is the only woman on the base and nurse.
Her name is Adais.
She won't live past the night.
"What are you doing?"