"You did wonderful." Shiori praised me.

"Yeah, now if only the audience had payed attention to me, not you." I said bluntly.

"I can't help it if I''m irresistable." Shiori teased.

My eye twitched and I said, "You could chug three gallons of chocolate milk."

Shiori laughed and said, "If anyone here needs milk, it's you."

"Are you calling me flat?!" I yelled at Shiori as I stopped walking. It was late afternoon and the sun was starting to set. I had just finished my violin recital and Shiori had played piano back up. We were walking past the lake on the way home and I was still in my recital dress. It was plain black and had three layers of ruffles at the bottom once it was past the waist, but on the right side, the bottom of the dress went up, so my right leg was shone. On the top, it tied around my neck, but besides that, it was strapless. It seemed too plain to me, so I wore my spike belt with it. It got rid of some of the plainness and gave it a bit of an edge.

We had been walking beside the river when I had stopped. "That's just crossing the line Shiori." I said as I crossed my arms with my violin case in my hand.

Shori smiled and said,"What? And punching the coach wasn't?"

I yelled, "Urusai!" At him and lunged to punch her. She sidestepped and I fell into the river.

"How's the weather down there?" Shiori jokingly called to me.

"There's a hundred percent chance of you getting your ass kicked!" I yelled at her. It was then that I noticed the water was starting to spin. I turned and saw a whirlpool, then said, "Not again!"

The water quickly pulled me down, and the next thing I knew, I was in a large pond of somesort that was covered by thick fog.

"Ah! My violin!" I said as I started reaching into the water to find it. I finally found the handle to the case and pulled it out and opened it. The violin was untouched by any water. I let out a sigh of relief, then closed the case and looked at my surroundings.

"You'd think I'd end up somewhere that had people..." I mumbled to myself. It was then I noticed three figures standing by the edge in the water.

"Hey!" I yelled to them. They turned to look at me. It was then that I realized they were guys... and that I had been transported to a bath. A guy's bath... "I blushed, then closed my eyes and said, "Gomenesai! Could you please tell me-"

"Heika?" I heard one of them ask.

I looked at them just in time to see two of the three men running towards me.

"Heika! We've waited so long to meet you!" The blonde one said.

"Eh!?" I said as I quickly evaded their grasp, then covered my eyes again since they were, er, naked?

"Put some pants on!" I yelled at them. With my trained sense of hearing, I could hear they were getting ready to lunge at me again.

"Heika!" I suddenly heard Gunter's voice say.

"Gunter?" I said unsurely, I didn't dare uncover my eyes.

"Is that Gunter-sama?" I heard one of the men who tried to attack me say.

"Her majesty is cute, but Gunter-sama is gorgeous!" The other man said. I would've been angry at them for the insult, but since they converged onto Gunter, I decided to let it slip.

"You wimp! Only you would appear in a guy's bath!" I heard Wolfram's voice yell at me. I turned and saw him standing on the ledge of the bath with Conrad standing behind him holding a towel. I walked over to Wolfram and pinched his left cheek and pulled on it.

"It-te-te-te-te!" Wolfram said as he tried pushing my hand away. He suddenly stopped noticing the pain I was causing his cheek when he noticed my violin case. "What's that?" He asked.

I let go of his cheek and said, "Huh? You mean my violin?"

"Vio-lin?" Wolfram said with a dumb founded expression. Conrad even looked confused.

"You know, a violin. Strings and wood and music and all that." I said waving my hands around to emphasize my point.

"What in the world are you talking about?" It was then that Wolfram noticed what I was wearing. "And why the hell are you wearing that dress?!?" He yelled.

"It's my violin recital dress!" I yelled at him.

He looked completely lost again and said, "Recital?"

My eye twitched and I stepped to the right of him. He looked at me confused, and I just smiled and gave him a huge pat on the back, causing him to fall into the bath. I then grabbed the towel from Conrad and said, "Arigatou."

"This isn't Blood Pledge Castle, is it?" I stated.

"You're correct your majesty, this is Voltaire castle." Conrad said with a smile.

"Conrad, you're my godfather, call me Yuuri." I said to him as I dried off my hair. "Voltaire, eh? That means it's Gwendal's castle..." I said to myself.

"What the hell did you do that for!?" I heard Wolfram yell at me. I turned around and saw he was standing behind me, completely soaked. I threw the towel over his head and pushed him back in.

I then realized Gunter was still trying to escape from the two gay guys. "Shouldn't we help Gunter?" I asked.

"Don't worry Yuuri, he'll be just fine." Conrad said. Wolfram then popped up in front of me and glared. An idea struck me so I put my hands around my mouth and yelled, "Hey! You two that are clinging to Gunter! Look who's here!" I then pointed down to Wolfram and the gay guys stared at him, then converged on him.

"It's Wolfram! The cute fiery tempered Wolfram!" The white haired gay guy said.

"Hey!" Wolfram yelled as he tried getting them off.

Gunter walked out of the bath and came over beside me and said, "Thank you, but shouldn't we help?..."

"I don't care. Besides, I don't want to be in the men's bath any longer." I said.

I then turned and walked out of the room with my violin case in hand.

I escaped from Gunter and Conrad and started exploring the castle. I saw a soldier running down the hall with a letter in his hand. He then turned down a hall so I decided to follow him. He went into a room and closed the doors behind him. "Damn." I said. I then looked up and saw that this castle also had wood beams. I smiled and jumped up to one, then crawled along it until I was in the room the soldier had entered.

When I got in, the soldier was standing at attention and Gwendal was sitting behind a desk in front of him.

"You may leave." Gwendal said to the soldier.

"Yes sir!" The soldier said, then left the room.

"First the queen disappears and then this..." I heard Gwendal mumble to himself.

I dropped down from the beams and onto his desk and asked, "What happened?"

Gwendal was surprised by my sudden entrance and fell backwards in his chair.

He stood up and slammed his hands on the desk, "When did you get back?!"

"Just a lil while ago." I said. "Well? What did the soldier tell you? I want to know!"

Gwendal's eye twitched, so I put on my puppy dog face. From what I could tell, he was a real sucker for cute things. He stared at me, then sighed and said, "We just learned the location of Morgif."

"Morgif? Is that a person or something?" I asked.

"No! Morgif is a demon sword." Gwendal said.

"Eh? Well if it's a demon sword, than why were you upset by the news?" I asked.

"Because only the Maou can wield him and I didn't know you were here." Gwendal said.

"Wait, you said 'him', not it." I noticed.

"Yes, that is because the demon sword is a guy." Gwendal said. Great, things here have genders.

I then stepped off his desk and was about to leave his room when he noticed my violin case.

"What's that?" Gwendal asked.

"Does no one here know what a violin is?!" I exclaimed. Just then, Conrad and Wolfram opened his office doors and I stormed past them.

"Hey!" Wolfram yelled as he chased after me.

It was now night, and after a lot of confusion, and a lot of me repeating, 'I will not start war!', It was decided that Conrad and I would go to Bandarbia to retrieve Morgif. Apparently, Morgif is a very powerful sword, and if we have it, other countries would think twice about attacking us. I sighed as I threw my legs over the side of the bed. Wolfram stirred some and I just glared at him. Just because he COULD sleep in the same bed as me didn't mean he HAD to. I walked over to a table where I had set my violin case and picked it up and left the room. I had a feeling that if I had left it and Wolfram woke up, he would undoubtably look at it and probably pick it up, drop it, and break it. I silently walked out of the guest room I was staying at and started exploring the castle. One way or another, I ended up in the courtyard and saw that it was a clear night with a full moon.

I looked at the landscape and thought it was beautiful. There were circles of stones, and in them, were flowers of a variety of colors and shapes. There were flowers that looked like a cross between Roses and daffodils, then there were roses that looked like a mix between lilies and forget-me-nots. I stood in the middle of the garden and thought that it would be a perfect place to practice the violin. I opened my violin case and opened a compartment on the lid that held one of those fold out music stands and set it up. I then searched through the few sheets of music I had and decided on The Devil's Trill (Vanessa Mae Version) I then picked up my violin and did a few warm-ups, then looked at the music and started to play.

Wolfram slowly awoke, only to find his fiancee was not there. "Damn it." He whispered to himself. He was about to go tell Conrad and Gwendal, but then he heard a strange sound.

It seemed haunting, yet light. It seemed like it was beckoning him to go closer. He followed the sound to the courtyard and saw Yuuri standing in the middle of it with strange object that she seemed to be making the noise come from. Wolfram listened to the sound till she stopped playing and was sad that he couldn't listen to the sound anymore.

"I know you're there." Yuuri said to him.

"What was that that you were doing just a few moments ago?" Wolfram asked.

"That, my confused friend, is what I call, music." Yuuri said with a grin.

Too... tired... to... write... anymore... for... today...

Till next time! (Let's hope the writing PSSAs don't kill me {They just had to be bitches and add a third essay})