"Prince Uriel! Come back this instant!"

"No!" The small prince took a sharp left turn as he ran from his nurse. He ran as fast as his little three year old legs could take him. He looked back and saw his teenage nurse turn the corner.

"Uriel!" The girl caught up with the prince and swiftly picked him up from the ground. He began to kick her in order to be released but the girl held on.

"L-leme go!"

"No Uriel. You can't see your mother now. She's.....busy" What happened next, the nurse was totally unprepared for. Uriel bit her. "Ah! You little brat!" Uriel just smiled and fell on the floor. He proceeded to lay himself down and he closed his eyes. The girl stamped her foot. "Fine! Play dead, but it just means that you're not going any where." She nodded her head and crossed her arms.

Uriel raised his head and blinked his big blue eyes at her. "I wan my mah...." The prince began to talk when he was only nine months old and he still really pronounce words with the letter t in them.

"Oh Uriel....you can't see her, she's with Carlotta right now. Soon you'll have a brother or a sister, you know." The truth was, the Queen had gone into labor just an hour ago and Uriel had been looking for her since then. Uriel shook his head.

"I don wanna brother!" The prince complained as she helped him up. The nurse dusted him off.

"Maybe you'll get a sister. Now come on, let's go see if Chef Louis will let Alexandre play with you." Uriel's face lit up like a light and his smile was just as bright. Alexandre was his best friend.

"Okay!"

"Bonjour Kasy!" Chef Louis exclaimed as he held his son up high to put the last candle onto a cake. "Good afternoon Prince Uriel" Uriel smiled at the chef's accent. He always said his name funny. Alexandre turned his head and smiled.

"Hi Uriel!" When the chef put him down Alex waved madly at his friend and Uriel did the same.

"Hi Alex! Do you wanna play?" Alex turned to his father.

"Papa je peux jouer avec le prince Uriel?"

"Oui vous pouvez" Alex turned back to the prince with a smile.

"My dad says yes."

"Come on!" Uriel grabbed Alex's arm and pulled him out of the Kitchen. Kasy smiled and shook her head.

"The Prince is going to be the death of me."

"Oh don't say that. Ze Prince is only a child. It's is to be expected". The young nurse rubbed her arm where Uriel bit her.

"That's true...Louis?"

"Oui?"

"What will happen to Uriel.....if his sibling is a boy....a healthy one?" Louis looked at her suddenly, with sad looking eyes.

"I don't......Je ne sais pas..."

"Do you think the Kingdom will be taken away from him?" Louis turned his head and continued to look at the cake he and his son made together.

"Ze people.....zey don't like sick Kings.....Zey need a strong leader." Kasy sighed and lifted herself onto a table and began to kick her legs back and forth.

"It's all he talks to me about you know. Ruling the Kingdom, making it better for everyone.....he's got some great ideas too, for a three year old........It's all he has. Well that and Alex." Louis smiled at this. Alexandre and Uriel only knew each other for only five months and they're the greatest of friends. "So...uh...what's the cake for?"

"It is to celebrate ze new baby of course! Alexandre helped me too, what a little protege!" Louis looked so proud that Kasy had to laugh. Ah proud fathers.....

"Échec et mat à nouveau, Alex. You are improving though." Uriel stated as he finished off the game of chess. Alex pouted.

"No fair! You win all the time!" He said with a small voice. Then he smiled. "You are gettin better with your fwench too!" Uriel taught Alex chess and Alex taught Uriel french It was the coolest deal a three year old could make with another three year old at the time.

"Yeah....." Alex watched as Uriel's face turned to the only window in the room. It was a small window, of course, because it was Uriel's room. His first room had no windows at all, and his room now had one small window, yet Uriel loved to look out it. It was all he was allowed to do. Look, not touch. Look at the outside, the fresh air, the plants, the animals, the ocean, but he was not allowed to touch. As Uriel stared out the window he began to twist around the trident shaped pendant that hung around his neck since he could remember, and he had a faraway look.

"Uriel, are you 'kay?" Alex asked with concern. Uriel glanced in his friend's direction for a quick second.

"Je vais bien"

"No."

"'Kay."

"'Kay? What's wong?" Uriel turned to look at Alex again.

"I know the smell of the sea. Smells...."

"Salé?"

"Yeah....Salé.....Mah smells like that.....some days....My grandpa lives there....that's what mah told me.....I wanna go see the ocean" Alexandre looked at his friend with sad eyes. He knew that for some reason, Uriel could not go outside.

"Uriel...." Alex found that he couldn't say anything. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.

"Come in!" Uriel called out in his little voice. He saw his doors open to reveal his dad. His father was smiling brightly and his eyes seemed to be laughing. Uriel's stomach had a sinking feeling in it. Whenever his father got this happy, something bad would happen to Uriel. Like the time he got really happy he was going to see some old friend somewhere, he and Ariel left Uriel in the palace alone to be handled by Kasy, not that it was really bad or anything, it was just that Uriel was not allowed to go with them and was locked up in the same boring palace. Or the time Eric got happy that his boat was fixed and wanted to take it out for a while and Uriel was not allowed to go.

"Uriel, do you want to see your new sibling?" Uriel noticed that his father didn't say 'see your new sister' or 'see your new brother' and that didn't really go well with the three year old's appetite. He slowly nodded though inside he was screaming 'NO!'

Eric crossed the room in a few strides and swiftly picked up his first son. He hugged him close and was happy. His life couldn't really be anymore perfect. He had another son and he was already so proud of his first son. Eric turned his attention to Alexandre. "Alexandre, would you like to come too?" Uriel sent a look of silent plea to Alex and the kid nodded. The small child took Eric's finger and let him guide him to his Queen and the new babe.

As soon as Uriel entered the room, he heard his mother's beautiful humming. Uriel still did not understand how that was possible. How could a sound be beautiful, if you couldn't see it? However, when his mother sung, he understood a bit. It filled your heart with such feelings and it was just pleasant to the ears. As he looked on, he saw his mother cradling a small bundle. She looked up with her ocean blue eyes and smiled at him. He forced a smile back. He loved his mother, really, but she and his father just had to have another kid.

He also saw that Carlotta was in the room wiping tears of joy from her eyes and Kasy looking extremely upset (Only Uriel could tell though), he saw that Grimsby was there too, smiling like a fool, and Max had his front paws on the bed, on which his mother lay.

"Hey Uriel.....Say hi to Orpheus, your little brother" Uriel was brought over, and placed onto his mother's lap, and he looked to the bundle named 'Orpheus'.

In the blanket was a baby, his hair was soft and a weird color. It was black but the light made it have green highlights. His eyes were wide open as he stared around his new world. when his emerald green eyes met Uriel's ocean blue eys, he gave a little giggle.

"Orpheus?" Uriel's voice was weak with fear. He sensed something about the babe.

This babe.....he was blessed. He was blessed with perfect health, somehow Uriel sensed it. How could this baby be blessed with such a wonderful gift while Uriel was cursed? Cursed to be imprisoned in the palace walls? How could fate be so cruel?

Orpheus reached a small hand out to Uriel, and the three year old did his best to resist the urge to draw back, and allowed the babe to grab his finger. The little babe continued to pull on his brother's finger, as if waiting to see what would happen.

"He's strong...."Uriel muttered as he watched his healthy brother pull his finger into his toothless mouth and he bit down. When Uriel pulled away, the baby began to cry and Uriel placed his finger back to quiet little Orpheus. "He's loud too"

Ariel just smiled at her two sons. Uriel seemed to be taking it rather well so far and Orpheus seemed to adore his older brother already.

Eric was beaming sunlight. He knew that Orpheus was going to be healthy and he was positive that Uriel was gong to get along well with him. Boy, was he wrong.

Kasy was heartbroken. What was going to happen to her little brat? What was going to happen to her little brother?

Carlotta was positively joyful. The King and Queen's first healthy baby! Who wouldn't be happy?

Grimsby was happy too. He just didn't like all the crying. Prince Uriel hadn't cried that much. Prince Uriel had never cried.

Alex watched the brothers interact with a concerned look. Something wasn't right, the look in Uriel's eyes. He looked angry, or sad, or maybe frustrated. Only Alex was able to tell what was wrong with his friend.

Max barked with happiness. One more member to the family! The more the merrier!

Uriel felt something stir in his heart as he looked at his little brother. It wasn't love, love was a warm and prickly feeling in his heart. This feeling was hard and cold. It was angry. It was hate.

My special words (or not)

Wow.....Uriel and Alex are the most intelligent three year olds I have ever met. How about you?

Oh by the way, the French in this chapter, was made by Google Translate, so I apologize if I got anything wrong.

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