Chapter 6:

Author's Note: I FINALLY DID IT! IT TOOK ME A YEAR AND 4 MONTHS BUT I FINALLY DIDI IT! XD Sorry for the year-long hiatus guys, I do that sometimes -_-' Anyway, I should be more active from now on! Here ya go! Enjoy!

After that day, Galacta Knight started to train the child in sword combat, and a daily routine was set up for her. Every day, she woke up, trained, rested, trained again, and then was escorted to her room by Galacta Knight and was instructed to sleep. She received sustenance during her breaks, which was also when the wolf puppy would come to her room. The child would tell the pup about the day's events and whatever else was on her mind. Over time, most of the smaller wounds she received from the WolfWrath attack healed, but she gained a few more from training with Galacta Knight.

In that time, a spark of rebellion grew in her mind. She soon grew tired of the incredibly vigorous and strict training, poor food, and little rest, and multiple times she was punished for outright refusing to train or do certain tasks. Now, she was impatient with Nightmare and his constant reassurance that things would soon be better, and most times he doubted what he said, at least the part about things getting better soon, were true. He claimed that she was the heir to his throne, but although she hadn't heard about princes or princesses, she thought that an heir should be treated better that how she was. Although she didn't have any more pain spasms, she always felt uneasy around Nightmare and wanted to get away from him. Often, she fantasized about escape, and it was often a topic that she discussed with the pup, but in a hushed voice out of fear for being overheard by Galacta Knight or Nightmare.

Over time, the girl started seeing a few more creatures around the structure, and occasionally she saw the wolves again and learned that they were called WolfWraths; they were supposedly one of the strongest breeds of demon beasts. She was told that only a single wolf had the potential to wipe out the entire Star Warrior army. She often wondered about the Star Warriors, a supposed enemy that she was told needed to be stopped, and she was told very little about them. The only information she knew about them was that they were Nightmare's demon beast rebels and the rebels of the planets that used to be in his control. What did Nightmare Enterprises do that angered them so much? Somehow, the child felt that she would find out soon enough.

One day, after her last training session of the day, Galacta Knight didn't escort her back to her room and was instructed to go to her room by herself because he claimed that Nightmare and he had some business that needed to be discussed immediatly. "Business, huh?" The girl thought. "Seems suspisious…Why don't they want me to hear it? I'm supposed to be the 'heir to the throne' or whatever, right? Don't I get a say in things? Are they planning to do something involving me that I wouldn't like? I guess there's one way to find out…" At first, she acted like she complied with Galacta's command and walked down the hallway leading to her room, but after she was out of his sight, she activated her invisibility powers, went back down the hallway, and followed Galacta Knight.

She stayed far behind him, leaving him only barely in her sight so he wouldn't sense her presence. Galacta Knight was indeed heading for Nightmare's living quarters, she recognized the now familiar twists and turns of the hallways he was taking (by this point in time, she memorized the way to and from most places in the structure). Soon, they reached the quarters, the large door opened, and Galacta Knight walked in. The girl briefly contemplated following Galacta Knight into the room, but before she could make up her mind, the doors shut. They didn't slam, but they shut a little too quickly, in a way that was a little too suspicious.

It was like they were trying to keep something concealed within the room, and didn't want others outside to gain knowledge of it.

She ran up to the doors as quietly and as quickly as she possibly could. Once at the doors, she made sure that she was as quiet as the long deceased and didn't utter a single noise as she listened for conversation inside. Within minutes, she got her wish.

"Customer Service spoke to me today… he said that he'd gotten into contact with one of our regular customers." She heard Nightmare say, his voice somewhat muffled by the door.

"Excellent!" Galacta Knight exclaimed in a semi-cheerful tone, however, the girl guessed by Nightmare's previous tone of voice that things weren't going as well as Galacta imagined.

"It would be," Nightmare continued, "but this customer was the same one that ordered demon beasts to try to defeat the Star Warrior that defeated me."

"That doesn't matter! Continue selling them as normal! Show the galaxy – no, the universe – that Nightmare will not be defeated by a single measly hit with the Star Rod-"

"Under more favorable circumstances that would be precisely what I'd do, however, the fool told them that we'd be ready to start sending them in a month." To the girl, it seemed that he pronounced "fool" with not only an air of bitterness, but with a surprising hint of despair.

"Sir, you've been making demon beasts for weeks now!"

"Yes, but as you know, although the Star Rod did not kill me, it did damage me; and as of now, my powers haven't fully recovered. Therefore, I haven't been able to make demon beats as strong as they used to, of course with exception of the… princess… but she was a long term project, and she was mostly complete by the time we were attacked. Some of these weaker ones, this 'test batch' if you will, are riddled with defects. The WolfWraths we managed to salvage didn't come out unscathed either, some of them went brain dead from a variety of reasons shortly after we relocated here, and many were physically and mentally disfigured. Some of their genes must have been mutated as well, because some of them mated and some of the pups were born albinos. "

The girl couldn't hear anything from within the room for a few moments, but then she heard the knight emit a faintly audible, frustrated sigh. Shortly after this, he spoke again, somewhat slowly. "They're still demon beasts. Just send one of them to this customer."

"He won't be satisfied. In the past, none of the demon beasts that were sent were able to defeat the Star Warrior, if they couldn't, these won't, and he'll figure out. No matter how dim-witted he is, he'll figure out, and we cannot risk losing this customer at any cost."

"Then what are we supposed to do?" Galacta snapped.

"We send the princess."

"What?!" Galacta Knight screamed, a flash of light suddenly being visible from underneath the door, whether it was from Galacta Knight knocking over a lamp in anger or if it was a burst of Galacta's or Nightmare's power, the child didn't know. "Are you insane?! She's not nearly trained enough yet!" This and more yelling was heard inside the room, which greatly frightened the child, and worried the knight would storm out of the room and see her, she quickly ran back to her room.

…

In the weeks that followed, the girl's training became far more severe. Her only rest was sleep, and even that was slowly being taken away to make more time for training. Galacta became far stricter as well, not accepting the smallest mistake out of his pupil. None of what the girl overheard in the room that night was even mentioned to her in conversation, and every day she became more and more fed up with her whole situation. All of this caused stress to often overwhelm her and for her temper to grow shorter and shorter. Sometimes when she was left alone, she would look for vulnerable spots in the facility or think of methods of escape. To her dismay, she couldn't seem to find any way for her to escape without being caught. Eventually, she gave up looking all together and decided to stay until further notice.

After a month had passed since the child first overheard the discussion, Galacta Knight finally spoke to her about it one day before her training.

"Alright, girl, recently Nightmare has gotten back in contact with some of his old customers for the first time since after his fall," he said. The girl thought it strange that he said the word "customers" with an unusual bitterness. "Are you paying attention?!"

With this, she was startled somewhat more awake (she had gotten a poor sleep the night before, like she had for the past few weeks as Galacta made her train more and more), curious at what the knight was going to say next. "Yeah…" she mumbled, sleep still present in her voice.

"Good," he responded. "because due to growing problems on a particular planet, it seems that you might have a few assassinations to preform."

Author's Note: YAAYYY DONE! X3 Once again, I'll try to be more active from now on, especially since I have the next chapter all planned out! See ya!