"HI-YAAAAA" a girl of 6'2 with bright red hair, in a pixie cut, screamed knocking down her martial arts opponent, who also happens to be her teacher, leaving an echo of her screaming throughout the palace.

"Congratulations Princess, you are well on your way to achieving your black belt." The martial arts teacher said while struggling to stand up, her kick was very hard it was like the air inside him escaped, the girl helped him up, as she was not a mean girl to let him suffer. They both sat down on a bench to have a drink of water and to discuss the girl's improvement.

A few moments later a women, with her long black hair in a ponytail, comes running in with a gown and the young girl rolled her eyes as the women who has just ran in was her older sister, Melody.

"Johanna, you've got to hurry up, Dana and Christina are waiting for you in your room"

"For what?"

"Your ball" Melody rolled her eyes as she said that. Johanna wasn't the typical type of princess as she prefers being free and doing her own thing rather than being all royal and have to end up choosing a husband. She would rather sail around the world than be a queen.

Melody started pushing her towards her bedroom, it was quite a long walk from her training room to her bedroom as the training center is in the east wing and her room is in the west wing. She walked at a quick pace as she did not want to get caught by her mother, as her mother is very stressed about her ball tonight. As she continued her journey Johanna notice all the decorations being set up for her boy and she saw one person in particular helping set up, Anders.

Anders is a servant who has been working at the palace for a while, he mostly helped around the kitchen, Johanna felt strangely happy when she ever saw him she didn't know if it was his piercing blue eyes, his dirty blonde hair or his physical frame. She saw him once without his top on and at the time Johanna felt like her legs were jelly but she wouldn't say she liked him as she knew it wouldn't be accepted in her kingdom, even though she is not next in line for the throne her parents still want her to think for the kingdom.

Finally Johanna arrived at her bedroom at the highest point in the west wing tower. She had a king size bed, built into the wall, with turquoise sheets, a walk in wardrobe in the far corner of her room, a vanity mirror that could fill up a whole room and her walls had an ocean theme to them as her mum had a special connection to the ocean.

A girl with her black hair in a bun, who has green eyes and in a maid uniform came out the walk in wardrobe; it was her best friend Christina.

"I should warn you, Dana is in there."

"Yes I know, Melody told me." Johanna also had the same feelings she had for Anders for another servant named Dana. Dana was another servant only she hadn't been working that long, if you saw her you would think she's a princess of another kingdom, she had strong blue eyes and wavy hazelnut hair with it being dip dyed blond at the ends.

"Good evening Princess Johanna" Dana curtsied as Johanna walked in.

"Dana, if you're going to be a servant of mine, no titles"

"Sorry, Prince- I mean Johanna." Dana corrected herself, the three girls all laughed at her mistake as they all got along quite well. Johanna was better at hiding her feelings for Dana then Anders as she is quite good friends with Dana, which is fine with her, but as for her and Anders they are only Princess and servant.

Dana and Christina then have to bear with the struggling task of morphing Johanna's hourglass figure into a Barbie doll figure, with the power of a corset. Corsets were Johanna's worst enemies she hated them to piece she wish she could kill the person who invented by then she likes to think that the women of the time already did it for her.

Then in came trouble, her own mother, her mother dismissed the two maids, as she wanted to be alone with her youngest daughter.

You look lovely tonight."

"I look like a grape threw up on me." She said in disgust, she was wearing a long purple gown with a matching flower in her hair.

"Would you just be happy for once?"

"Why?"

"Because I don't want a husband," Johanna scoffed as she walked past her and looked out at the the ocean, "I want to be out there swimming free with granddad and my aunts and my cousins."

"You know, you're a lot like Melody" Ariel said smiling.

"Ugh and that as well, I do not want to be compared to Melody I'm my own person, you know."

"Johanna, for once in your life, you need to realize people are going to compare you to a lot of people."

"Oh yeah and how would you know? Huh, did people compare you to your sisters." Ariel said nothing "exactly." Johanna then saw some gold leaves floating into the sky above that came from the ocean but that doesn't make sense, leaves wouldn't float in the air if they came from the ocean.

Trumpets were then heard to signal the start of the ball. Johanna before she knew it was also transforming into gold leaves, which in a good way means she would never attend the ball.

"Oh no, you're not missing this." Ariel tried to grab her but she was too late Johanna was gone and all she could was scream her pain out because after all the work she's done for this ball was gone.