Sorry for the wait... Chapter 3 is here! Enjoy!

The next day, Ryoma woke up, he was hearing a lot of yelling from all of the toddlers down stairs. Corrin was still in his crib sleeping, Niles was downstairs yelling at Leo and Takumi because they were drawing pictures of him on the wall. Ryoma saw this and tried to go back up stairs to get Xander about it but Takumi signaled Odin to dump water on the stairs. The water ran down the stairs as Ryoma slipped and bumped his chin on the stairs. Leo was laughing so hard that he bumped into Hinoka. She threw a marker at him.

"Watch it!" She hissed.

"Sorry..." Leo looked down at his feet. Takumi was running upstairs to tell Xander what Ryoma was doing to the walls when he clearly was the one that drew all over them along with Roy and Leo. Marth only watched with Kaden from downstairs. They were sneaking around the kitchen taking cookies that Flora and Elise made for the celebration that day. Azama was supposed to be there, but he had sick people to heal. Xander and Ryoma were supposed to visit him to ask about the want that Elise found.

When Takumi reached Xander's room he jumped on him. Xander jolted up and realized that it was only Leo's rival. He let out a long sigh and then he asked Takumi what he wanted.

"What do you need, Takumi?" Xander asked, looking a bit dazed.

"Well... Ryoma drew all over the walls down stairs and he made a mess on the stairs. He poured water on them so that we all could trip!" Takumi sounded upset, like he was going to cry. Xander quickly got out of bed and saw that water was all over the stairs and Odin was trying to walk down them. Xander picked up Odin and got over to Ryoma. Ryoma was holding both Roy and Leo and they had markers in their hands. Xander looked over a Takumi and squinted his eyes. He looked a bit stern.

"What is really going on here?" He asked Takumi. Takumi chuckled.

"Well..." Takumi politely rolled his eyes at Xander.

"No, enough with this whole, well thing!" Xander was furious at the mess.

Flora and Elise were trying to clean up the kitchen, they even saw Kaden and Marth eating the cookies they made.

"No!" Flora took the cookies from them. Marth's eyes started to tear up and so did Kaden's.

"Um... Don't cry..." Elise picked up Marth while Flora picked up Kaden. They rocked them back and forth. Marth yawned and so did Kaden.

They both heard Takumi yelling, Leo and Roy were yelling too.

"We didn't mean to draw on the walls! We were just bored!" Takumi explained.

"Yeah, but blaming Ryoma? Your own brother! You should know better!" Xander placed Takumi on his knees and pulled down his pants. Takumi knew it was coming. Leo was going to be spanked by Ryoma and Roy wasn't going to get any punishments because he really wasn't doing much of it as the other two were.

"Please don't hit me in the butt Xander I'm sorry!" Takumi started crying.

"Yeah! We won't do it again!" Leo cried too.

"Well? Should we?" Ryoma turned and asked Xander before their whips touched their asses.

"Hmmm... Fine..." He pulled Takumi's pants back up.

Ryoma did the same with Leo.

"Okay, you both will not get spanked, but the next time you lie and try to blame Ryoma about the markers again, you will be spanked." Xander placed Takumi down as the little toddler ran off in fear and hid behind a pillar. Leo did the same.

"What happened, why didn't Xander believe us this time Leo? What did you do?" Takumi was a bit upset at Leo.

Leo sighed and looked at Takumi for a while until he finally spoke.

"Okay, so while you went up stairs after having Odin trip Ryoma, he got up and saw that Roy and I were drawing on the walls and he picked us up while we held onto the markers." Leo explained, he gave Takumi a long look and then he peeked from behind the pillar to see that Odin was being carried upstairs. Xander was furious at him for pouring water on the stairs.

"Xander! Ryoma poured water on the stairs! It wasn't even me!" Odin was in tears.

"Tell it to the judge you little brat!" Xander growled.

Flora and Elise followed Ryoma and Xander upstairs.

"We are both sorry about his morning, we woke up and the little ones were just being messy..." Flora bowed down with Marth in her arms.

"No no... Don't worry about it. Toddlers will be toddlers..." Xander sighed and told Odin to sit in the corner and stare at the wall. Odin argued at first and then he calmed down and stared at the wall while sitting down. He didn't say anything else. Xander nodded and grinned a bit.

"Ryoma, I'm sorry for beating you up..." Xander felt guilt tug at his shoulders finally.

"No harm done..." Ryoma grumbled a bit, he was very frustrated at the fact that they all had to deal with toddlers until the problem could be solved.

"You know, maybe we should take them to school." Elise came up with an idea.

"Like enroll them in schools for learning? But what's the point in that? We just need to turn them back into adults!" Xander replied, he wasn't so happy about that idea at all.

"Well, do you want them to make more messes? Sakua and Hinata are good toddlers but even at that, we cannot risk them ruining the castle while we are gone 24/7." Flora explained the situation.

Xander pondered about the idea for a long time, he walked down stairs to see that all of the toddlers were taking a nap. Leo and Takumi were sleeping together peacefully. Takumi was on top of Leo. Marth, Ike and Roy were sleeping together as well, with Roy sleeping on top of Ike. He sighed and turned to face Flora and Elise.

"Fine, we will enroll them in a school until we reach Azama so that he could fix this all." Xander sighed at them. He then gave them a small smile.

"Yay!" They both cheered.


Later that day...

Xander was on his horse with the little ones.

"Why are you taking us to school?" Leo asked.

"Because you all cannot be here by yourselves anymore. Even Takumi..." Xander looked at Takumi. Takumi noticed this and looked away. He knew Xander was going to give him a lot of looks because of what he caused. He drew on the walls, he started a lot of shit with Leo and fought over things with Marth or Ike. Hinoka placed her small hand on his shoulder. This made Takumi smile. Niles and Odin were singing an annoying song on their way to school.

Xander was getting a bit annoyed but he let them sing, it was better than hearing them cry. Flora and Elise were left at the castle to take care of Corrin. Corrin couldn't go to school because he was a small baby.

Once they were across the forest, an area far from their castle, they were in front of a school. The name of the school was Prince Present Kindergarten. Xander thought the name of the school was a bit rushed, but it was a newly built school for toddlers and kids of ages 3 and up.

Xander had enrolled them by signing forms so the only step he had to do was bring the kids in. Takumi ran to the door and tried to open it but the handles were too high up. Xander opened the door for all of the toddlers and they ran inside like they were wild horses. Xander face palmed and walked in. A nice young lady wearing a cute dress was at the desk. She looked up at Xander.

"Hello there sir, are these the little ones?" She asked.

"Yes, they have been enrolled in one of the classes, I believe Ms Rodin's class." Xander explained. He was a bit tired of the little ones destroying the castle everyday now. He was going to be happy they were going to be watched at all times.

"Ok. Let me take the kids to her and you can go home. We will send someone out to get you when the kids are done with class." The nice young lady had the little toddlers follow her. Takumi turned to Xander and stuck his tongue out at him. He couldn't believe that he was going to be in school. He wanted to draw on walls so bad, maybe he could do it here...

"So you kids are going to be in Ms Rodin's class. She will be teaching you." The young lady spoke to them finally. She was a sweet lady and wanted them to be on their best behavior.

"Takumi, I'm not liking this one bit..." Leo growled.

"I know, but we have to act nice for her." Takumi sighed. They were in the classroom and the first thing they saw was toys! They all ran wild as Takumi found some markers and started drawing on the walls. The young lady kept on looking at Roy, she was too busy to notice what Takumi was doing. She left the classroom to get back to work at her desk. Leo was playing with a set of tiny figures while Hinoka and Hinata were chasing each other around the room. The teacher wasn't in yet. Niles and Odin were play fighting while Kaden and Marth were helping Roy build up a fort made of blocks. Sakua and Ike were playing with toy microphones they were trying to sing a song.

When the teacher came in she saw that all of the toddlers were going wild, she sighed and yelled out the word: STOP!

Everyone stopped what they were doing, except for Takumi, he was drawing a picture of Xander on the wall. Ms Rodin saw this and snatched the marker from him. Takumi whimpered a bit.

"Hey! I was drawing!" He cried a bit.

"Not on my walls! Now I have to get clean up services to wipe up that mess you drew on the wall!" She huffed.

"Can we play some more?" Roy asked.

"Well, not right now. Right now I want you all to sit down and I shall hand you out some activity sheets." Ms Rodin grabbed some paper and handed them out a sheet. It had some reading activities on them. She wanted them to work.

"We cannot read..." Kaden spoke finally.

"Yes, you can read! Do the work!" Ms Rodin called to him.

"Aww..." Kaden whined.

"Don't worry. When we finish this, I have an idea." Takumi whispered in his ear.

"Okay." Kaden grinned. Niles and Odin were drawing all over their work sheets while Marth and Roy were doing theirs. Ike and Sakua were singing while doing the work. Leo and Hinoka were goofing off as they started playing with the little legos in the room. Ms Rodin took away the toys from Leo and Hinoka. She told them to work and stop playing around.

Leo was a bit angry that he had to work. He's been to school. He didn't want to be in a school because of what Elise did to him. That wand she found was a big mistake. A big mistake that made them go through what they are going through right now. He wanted to escape from this school, he didn't have the time to work anymore.

"Teacher, can I use the bathroom? I have to pee!" Leo raised his little hand.

"Yes you may, but make sure you come back!" She warned him.

"I will come back!" Leo snickered. He ran down the hall and past the bathroom, he was going to run back to the castle and hang out with Elise and Flora. Xander and Ryoma were probably getting ready to go on their trip to Azama.

He was about to leave the school when someone picked him up. It was that young lady who took them to Ms Rodin's class. She was very calm about what Leo was doing.

"So where do you think you're going? You are certainly not going to leave are you?" She asked.

"Well, I needed some air, I have breathing issues." Leo lied.

"Aw... Poor thing... Fine, let's take you outside. I guess that smell of food from the lunch hall is getting to you." The young lady took Leo outside and let him take in the air. When she wasn't looking, Leo made a run for it, he ran deep into the forest and tried to find the castle. He tripped over a small rock and fell.

"Damn!" Leo cursed, he got up slowly and sat down next to a tree. The young lady would get someone to find him soon if he didn't keep running. He was also getting hungry as it was a bit too late for him to go back, if he started going back to the school, he would miss class and Xander might be already there to pick up Takumi and the others. Leo sighed and got back up, he walked down the path and started looking for something he could eat.


Mean while in Prince Present Kindergarten...

Takumi was waiting for Leo while he finished his reading activity sheet. Ms Rodin was getting really worried about Leo, she was about to leave the classroom and go to the bathroom to check on him, but the young lady ran into her.

"Oh my! Regan what happened?" Ms Rodin was worried about her.

"The little one with blonde hair is gone! He wanted to go outside to get fresh air because he has breathing issues! I turn away for one second and he's gone! It's like he ran off or someone took him!" Regan panicked. The nice young lady was looking everywhere for Leo.

"Ok. Calm down Regan, I'm sure Leo isn't too far..." She looked outside, she didn't see him.

"Everyone, stay here. I'm going to look for Leo." Ms Rodin walked outside of the school. She was looking near the playground area and then she looked a bit in the forest. Not knowing what could be out there, she turned back and went back inside of the school and told everyone the bad news.

"Everyone, Leo has gone missing. I don't know where he is, but he has gone missing." Ms Rodin didn't know what else to do.

"Can't you send out a search party?" Marth asked.

"We could but that would cost us money." Regan sighed.

"We can't let anything happen to Leo!" Hinoka was worried, she didn't like Leo as much, but she didn't want anything to happen to him either. She looked back at Takumi, she could tell that he was upset about Leo being gone.

"Where could he have gone?" Takumi asked himself.

"Takumi, it will be alright, I will send out the search party since we have no other options." Ms Rodin ran outside and got on her horse, she was going to get help from the guards of the castle near by.

Regan watched Ms Rodin ride away on her horse. Another teacher came out from one of the other classrooms and saw Ms Rodin leave.

"Hey? Isn't Ms Rodin off around 3 PM?" The male teacher asked.

"Well, we lost one of the students... He got lost." Regan replied.

"Oh no..." He turned away from her and thought.

"Are you okay Mr. Barton?" Regan asked.

"Yes, I'm fine, I just don't know how this happened..." Mr. Barton replied, he turned to the little ones.

"Sir, Leo did say he was going to the bathroom. Was he planning to escape?" Takumi asked.

"That could have been the case." Mr. Barton looked at Takumi and patted his head.

"Well, we need him to be found! Otherwise Xander will be furious! He might spank all of us for letting Leo run away from school!" Hinoka butted in on the conversation.

"Listen, let's all get you guys back to class and we can discuss this matter later." Mr. Barton was going to take over for Ms Rodin since he let his students out around 1 PM. Before they all got there, Takumi sat down and looked at the ground, he wanted to draw on the walls but if Leo was really missing, he couldn't find it in his heart to make a mess on the walls as usual.


Mean while...

Leo was running, he was getting lost, tired and hungry, he wasn't even near the castle. He wasn't even near any buildings, he got himself lost. If he would have stayed in school, he would have been okay. But now he was lost.

"Where am I?" Leo looked around, he didn't know where else to go as he sat down near a tree. Xander would be really upset that he is missing. Ryoma wouldn't probably care as he was getting a bit tired of them all. Including his own brother that would frame him for drawing on the walls.


Back at the castle...

Xander was waiting for Ryoma. He was getting packed for their journey up to the mountains to see Azama.

"I'm ready! Let's head out!" Ryoma called to Xander.

"Now now... Hold on. Elise, when the kids are ready to be picked up from school a man on a horse will come I believe. You and the rider will go to the school and pick up the toddlers. Flora, I need you to make sure that you tell everyone at the celebration that we are out for a while. The celebration must continue without us this year." Xander explained.

"I will do my best Xander." Flora bowed down.

"I will too." Elise also bowed down.

"Good. Come on Ryoma, let's go." Xander beckoned Ryoma over to him. They both left the castle. Flora and Elise waved to them. When Flora turned to her left, she noticed a woman on a horse was coming towards them, almost trampling her.

That person was...

To Be Continued...

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