And don worry, there will be more Ro/Antonio, Louis/Corrine, Liana/Jeremy, Alexa/Ian and a Gisela/Spencer moments coming soon.
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Chapter 5: The Duel
At a round table, Czar Vladimir, King Peter, King Louis, Prince Antonio and Czarevitch Conrad were all getting ready to tall about the threat upon Conrad and Yessenia.
"Beside inviting you here for my son's wedding, I would like to talk about a threat that surfaced for the past year. Its gotten worse every month." Vladimir told the kings and prince.
"How can we help?" Peter asked.
"Well, its why I called Louis, Corinne, Aramina, Viveca and Renée are the best musketeers around, and we need them to help stand guard of Duchess Yessenia of Romania and also since they're part time maids, I thought they could also see what the other maids were whispering about."
"I'm sure Corrine and the other girls will not have much problem with that." Louis told the czar.
"We think its Russia or Germany, both want our kingdom and will do anything to get it. That's the other resin I called you, we need a strong alliance with kingdoms that will ensure our win. And not to add any pressure on any of you to join. I mainly want my family here to see your son get married." Vladimir told them as he gathered up the threats.
"I'll be happy to help, Russia and Germany aren't friends with France, and they'd think nothing of it when we join." Louis told Vladimir a matter-of-factly.
"Thanks, we could use all the help we get. That's why Conrad is marrying Duchess Yessenia of Romania, Romania will always have our back, like we did when Hungary tried to take it over." Vladimir explained.
"I'll be glad to lend some man power when it comes time." Peter told the czar as he told him thanks.
"Why are you so sure its from Germany and Russia?" Asked Antonio.
"Father thinks that they are showing a sigh of power and don't try and make an another alliance, because it wont work." Conrad explained.
"Or we could weigh the bigger possibility," Peter said when he got everyone focused. "They could be sabotaging the wedding because they don't want it to go though or want all of you gone so someone can rule."
"That's plausible." Louis said. "But it could be someone close to you."
"Maybe, but this is all speculation, so nothing here, leaves this room, got it?" Vladimir asked they all said yes. "But you can tell your significant others, as long as they don't tell anyone and do it in a private place!"
"If it is someone close, then we have a huge problem!" Conrad said.
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Ro was out for a short walk, pondering what was the answer to the riddle, when she saw Gisela in a short dress with boots walking to the emerald green field. Ro ran up to her.
"Gisela?" Ro asked as Gisela stopped.
"Oh, hello Ro, what can I do for you?" Gisela asked Ro.
"When you gave me the dress, which thanks by the way, it struck me, Prussia is in Europe, which its mostly very cold. Why is it here hot, which is very strange?" Ro asked as Gisela sighed.
"Shockingly its not usually this hot here, the highest it usually gets is 60s early 70s, but some people around town are saying ita due to a climate change, or whatever. I believe someone is behind this. For four years now we've had extremely hot summers and extremely cold winters, I mean below 50 degrees! Not normal!" Gisela explained to Ro.
"That is bad, so what make you think its something else?"
"Well, one time when I was in the library I came upon a book, and it read that there is a very powerful evil man that if he doesn't get his way, he used a huge magnifying glass to make it hotter than it normally is to show his power and he's not messing around."
"Do you believe it?"
"Maybe, when I told my family they thought I was joking and as a seven-year-old, I was very serious about it. But I guess over the years I've come to question what is real and what's not." Gisela sighed as she messed with the end of her dress.
"Gisela? Why do you have boots on?" Ro asked as Gisela looked at the blonde.
"I'm having a fencing battle with Corrine."
"Do you think you'll win?"
"Maybe, I know I've been at it since i was old enough to walk. But we each have our own strongholds and weaknesses."
"Can I come watch?"
"Sure! And Tika, Azul and Sagi are already there, I don't know why though?"
Gisela and Ro walked to the field, where Corrine and the others, including Liana, Alexa, Ian and Jeremy were all watching with Yessenia and Luciana and Henry. Tika, Azul, Sagi, Ralph and Kina were there to and Lily, Sparkles and Miette.
Gisela walked up to them with Ro.
"Hey Ian, Jeremy I thought you'd be with the big boys?" Asked Gisela as she crossed her arms.
"Well, we aren't a king or prince, so it'd be kind of redundant to be there!" Ian told her.
"I'd rather watch a fencing match them talk about whatever!" Jeremy added.
"Well, prepare to watch someone lose!" Gisela told them.
Ro sat down on the grass with Liana, Alexa, Melody, Aramina, Viveca, Renée, Yessenia and Luciana and Henry after they all got acquainted.
"Are you ready?" Corrine asked.
"As I'll ever be!" Replied Gisela.
Corrine pulled her sword from under her dress and dropped into an engarde position. "Where's your sword?"
Gisela raised her eyebrow and reached up to her bun and pulled out a small blue hair pen. She gave it a flick and out came a long sword and handle. "I have mine hidden to!"
The others were flabbergasted. They could not believe what just happened.
"Wow, I didn't know she also carried a counseled weapon!" Gasped Aramina.
"She's always thinking she can do better than everyone else." Scoffed Yessenia as she spun her engagement ring around on her finger.
"Its just like what's in the books." Sighed Luciana.
Aramina looked at Luciana. "You read?" She asked.
Luciana nodded. "Yes all the time! And you?"
"Oh yes, I love to read, all the time."
"And they have a huge library here, its full of all kinds books, have you? I've been there all day yesterday."
"No, not yet, after this do you want to go?"
"Sure, I was planning on it anyway."
Gisela and Corrine started to fence. Both were very good. People were cheering for the both of them. Swords were clashing against one another and Corrine was able to get it out of her hand.
Gisela was shocked. "Wow, your good."
"I know, I'm unbeatable." Corrine said matter-of-factly.
"2 out of 2?" Gisela asked Corrine
"Okay, just prepare to lose again!"
"You know, the sun was in my eyes."
"Sure."
They started again for the second time. Swords were clashing up on each other. Cheers and giggles were heard. This time Gisela got the sword out of her hand.
Corrine looked at her as she smiled. "That was a one time thing!"
Gisela shrugged her shoulders. "Like it said the sun was in my eyes." She said nonchalantly.
"How about we just call it even?" Asked Ian.
"Okay, I'm fine with it as long as Corrine is fine?" Asked Gisela as she held out her hand.
"Okay, I guess." Corrine shook hands Gisela. "Truce?"
"Yeah, Truce."
"Oh boy, that was epic." Jeremy told the blondes.
"Wow, your both good. Maybe you can join the musketeers?" Renée ask Gisela, slightly joking.
"Nice try, but no. I'm fine with where I'm at. And maybe I'll visit Paris some time?" Gisela told them.
"Oh, Gisela you did wonderful!" Yessenia mockingly told her with a fake smile.
"Cut it Yessenia, what problem do you have with me?" Gisela asked putting her sword back up in her bun.
"Look, I have nothing against you, just your personality I don't really like." Yessenia said then walked off not giving anyone a chance to talk.
"Is she always like that?" Melody asked walking up to Gisela and Corrine.
"Surprisingly yes." Gisela sighed. "But this is one of her bad days, she has both good and bad. You hope to get on her good side."
"She's not that bad." Ian told them. "Bertha, now she was bad."
"Especially when we were late." Jeremy added.
"She'll get nicer with time passes by." Viveca told Gisela as she sighed.
"Anyway, lets talk about something else!" Gisela told them as they all sat down on the grass.
"So, what's it like living here?" Asked Alexa as she picked up Lily.
"Fine I guess, snow in the winter and sun in the summer. About it! Nothing extra special." Gisela replied. "What about you, what has happened in your lives?"
Corinne, Aramina, Renée and Viveca told her about Corrine came to Paris, meeting the Aramina, Renée and Viveca, and saving Louis.
"You snuck into a masquerade ball with out no one noticing ..." Gisela said as Liana finished.
"And gave them ridicules names, all to save the king from his cousin?" Liana said as they all laughed.
"Okay, for normal people who hear this it sounds like: For Lady Barbeque its Barbecue, Duchess Ivana Party is I wanna party, Happy Birthday and Head of Lettuce." Alexa laughed with everyone.
"I would have loved to be a fly on the wall for that. To see the others faces! That would be a scene!" Gisela laughed.
"Wow, that's funny!" Giggled Ro.
"And I quote "Still believe a girl doesn't possess the proper skills" was a great quote! That should be used all the time!" Liana stated as the other nodded.
"But its very true. He didn't believe,but I ended up kicking his butt!" Corrine said matter-of-factly.
"Yes, and do for get what Vivi said to Treville, "believe us now"!" Aramina added in as Viveca shrugged.
"They didn't before and now they did." Viveca replied.
"Your really lucky to have not been caught and thrown in jail!" Ian told the musketeers.
"I guess, but even if we did, I would have still did it not matter what cost. Louis' live was in danger!" Corrine told them.
"Wait, your on a first name basis, in starts of the king, or his highness, you say Louis." Alexa brought up.
"Alexa there engaged to be married, of course they're on a first name basis." Liana told her best friend.
"Oh, I didn't know that."
"Are you happy?" Asked Luciana.
"Yeah, I am." Corrine sighed with a certain dreaminess in her eyes.
"That was very brave." Ro told them.
"And what you did was also brave, Ro." Corrine told her. "And what's your story?"
Ro told them about how she grew up on the island, to be taking back to civilization by Antonio, to find out he was engaged, and that Ariana wanted to get rid of her so Luciana could marry him. But Ariana's plains were foiled by Ro and her animal family. And Luciana stood by Ro, when her mother told her not ... well you know they story, right? Right.
"That's must have been scary ..." Renée was cut off my Viveca.
"Oh my, an old sail that was washed up you wore! A major fashion don't!" Viveca gasped on horror about the dress Ro had on when she was on her island.
"Viveca, that was the only thing she had to wear! What you would do if you were in her shoes?" Asked Aramina.
"I would at least make something out of vines or leaves!" Viveca replied.
"No one is half as fashionable as you."
"That's true."
"I didn't care what I was wearing. Who was going to see me on a deserted island." Ro told the girls.
"Not knowing where you came from, must have been hard." Ian told the blonde.
"Can't get upset about what you never remember having!"Ro replied to him.
"She's right on that one cus." Gisela told Ian, who just shrugged.
"How did you feel when you first met Antonio's parents?" Asked Liana.
"Shy. Embarrassed about what I was wearing. Hurt that they hated me. And up set that Antonio was already engaged. I though I was intruding on their lives!"Ro admitted to them.
"That would be my thoughts too!" Renée said.
"But what keep you going?" Asked Corrine.
Ro sighed. "I guess finding my family." She told her.
"That will drive anyone to be better and beat the odds." Gisela told her. "Sometime I wish I didn't know my family, but in the end, you gotta love them."
"And even though Antonio wasn't my beau, I found Henry." Luciana told them as Henry put his arm around her.
"So, Aramina, Renée, Viveca do you have a love interest?" Gisela asked as the girls looked at each other.
"Well, Pierre and I are friends and been together for a while, but it's nothing serious." Aramina shrugged at Renée, Corrine and Viveca fell out in laughter. "What?"
"Oh PUH-lease!" Corrine exclaimed to the redhead musketeer.
"You talk about him all the time!" Renée added in.
"And you sleep with a picture of him by your bed at night!" Viveca added after Renée went.
"I don't, I haven't found mister right." Viveca said as Renée agreed.
"You'll find someone?" Corrine said.
"If we told Mum that we helped to girls defeat a flying serpent and a girl came out the a mirror, she'd look at us crazy!" Jeremy exclaimed as Ian laughed.
"No, she's probably tell Father and he'd talk some since into us." Ian added.
"Are they coming to the wedding?" Gisela asked as Ian and Jeremy nodded.
"Oh yes. They're arrive on the day of the wedding." Ian told her.
"What about you Liana, Alexa and Melody? What happened to have you all together and met my cousins, I only have what they say." Gisela told Liana and Alexa.
"What did they say?" Liana asked as Gisela told them.
"They said you were being chased by a serpent and need rescuing. And they mainly helped defeat Lydia." Gisela told the girls, who look at Ian and Jeremy.
"Uh oh, I know that look! Mum always gave it to us when we were in trouble!" Ian said as he tapped Jeremy's arm.
"In our defense mate, it was our side of the story. We were only they when you needed saving!" Jeremy told the girls.
Liana and Alexa told them the real story. About how after giving a homeless lady a sandwich, they found and mirror, that had Melody trapped inside. After Lydia is her very best to get the mirror and the Diamond Castle, she failed and ended up turning to stone.
"Wow, that was brave. Alexa are you glad you helped saved the muses and Melody?" Asked Aramina.
"What did you guys think when you heard a voice coming from your basket?" Asked Henry.
"I was like "What is that?", because it was only Alexa and I." Liana told them. "And I thought it was Alexa playing a joke on me."
"I was just in shock about what I was hearing and then a girl in a mirror, I couldn't believe it!" Alexa told them.
"I loved to sing, but Lydia would hear my voice and get me to rake her to the Diamond Castle!" Melody told them. "But come to find out, Slyder could here it, any type of singing as long as I was seen on the mirror."
"That must be scary, knowing Lydia was after you! And then you, Melody broke the mirror yourself to protect the Diamond Castle!" Ro told the redheaded muse.
"It was, but I didn't care. As long as the Diamond Castle was protected is fine with me." Melody told them. "But I also knew Liana and Alexa would help, and they did!"
"Yes, and Melody taught us Believe, if she didn't, we didn't know it. Melody would gone forever, the muses would still be stone, and Lydia would reign over us." Liana said.
"And that would be terrible!" Alexa added.
"But you did! Friendship is what got you though!" Renée told Liana and Alexa.
"Yes, but I'll ever do that again!" Alexa said rubbing Lily's head.
Everyone started to laugh at her comment. 'Typical Alexa' as what Liana said as Alexa shrugged and came back with 'caring and sharing Liana'. They were having a great time.
(on to the animals)
"So, you lived on and island?" Asked an energetic Ralph.
"Yes, it was perfect, until we came to the castle, then I was like 'what was I missing!'." Azul said.
"Really! Was it fun!"
"Of course it was." Tika added shyly.
"That's good, nothing here extraordinary happens here!"
"Ralph, you always get into trouble where ever you go." Kina said as she turned to Miette. "So, your a musk-cat-teer?"
"Yes! I took care of Brutus!" Miette replied to Kina.
"That sounds fun, except you said he was a big dog that scared you at first?"
"Yes. He chased me. But soon I was unafraid of him."
They went on to talk about animal things and what have you not.
Then a tall black cloud came from the direction of the barn. They all jumped up.
"What's that?" Asked Ro.
"Looks like it's coming from the ... BARN!" Gasped Gisela. "Someone go get help!" She said as she ran off followed by everyone as Henry, Ian and Jeremy ran to get help ...
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Dum dum dum! Cliffhanger! Sorry it took sooooo long. I'm not the best at fighting scenes. So I could use tips and I don't have the slightest clue about fencing. And my moms been still limiting my electronic usage.
Oh and should I do a Barbie: A Perfect Christmas fan fiction next December? I live the songs so much and since its that time of year, even though I don't celebrate it, I would love to hear if you would like one?
Hi, I'm so happy because Dec. 21 is my birthday, I'll be seventeen! Yay! One year old to death (LOL) *coughs* one year old to go to college and be a fashion designer and a few of things as back up, those are my back up plains.
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