A/N: Hello again! Thank you so much for all the attention this story has been getting. I wasn't sure it would since this was so sudden.

A heads up, I am a university student so for periods of time I have a MASSIVE LOAD OF STUDYING to do, like now for example.

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Today was the day of Princess Yona's banquette to celebrate her 16th birthday. It would be a fine day and everybody at Hiryuu castle in Kouka were playing their part to get ready for the festivities. It had gone five days since the King had told Yona about her not being able to marry Lord Soo-Won and she seemed to have gotten on fine.

Lord Soo-Won, Princess Yona, Hak and myself had been enjoying our time together. It was fairly rare that all four of us got to spend time together. I think Hak and Princess Yona especially enjoyed it. Lord Soo-Won was so dear to them. Since Lord Soo-Won had a much higher standing than me and I didn't meet him that often I always had a hard time relaxing around him. Though I think that was more my own insecurities than him trying to make it so. I doubt he wanted me to feel this way. Either way the four of us had looked forward to today's festivities and were planning to enjoy it to the fullest.

In the middle of the festivities Hak walked up to me.

"Can you sense something is wrong?" he asked me simply.

"No, not really, but I've always been far more blind and naïve then you," I responded. "Do you believe that something bad will happen?" I asked.

"Have you seen Soo-Won?" he asked instead of answering my question.

"I think I saw him and Princess Yona going outside," I answered. "Will you answer my question now? You are making me worry." I continued, looking at the crowd, only to realize I was left alone. Well, seems I am not important enough.

I waited a while giving them some time to speak before eventually leaving the, very pleasant, banquette to find Hak. I saw him….

"Ey, Hak!" I yelled annoyed. "You are making me worry, what is going on?"

"We have increased the amount of guards, Soo-Won heard Princess Yona say something so he is with her and I'm guarding," Hak stated. My heartbeat sped up, so something was possibly going on then?

"Then I will guard with you," I said and sat down. If something was going down I wanted to be there for Hak, even though he could defend himself better than I ever could.

We patrolled, guarding our position, as the sun started to go to rest. The darkness grew around us as we sat there in silence. It wasn't awkward though, we were more concentrated.

"Things are too quite," Hak eventually said.

"General Hak, Ane! You must be tired from your patrol," Min-Soo called as he reached us a bottle.

"As always you are so considerate, Min-Soo," Hak said and smiled.

"Yes, we are lucky to have you here," I agreed.

"Are you sure you two shouldn't be with the princess?" Min-Soo asked.

"Oh, we couldn't interfere," I said with a smile and Hak nodded in agreement. Lord Soo-Won and Princess Yona would be perfectly safe together.

"The princes is with Lord Soo-Won," Hak explained.

"Then the princess feelings have finally reached Lord Soo-Won?" Min-Soo asked ecstatically.

"Who knows? But I'm sure it's a matter of time," Hak said.

"He has to know though…" I pondered. "Princess Yona isn't exactly discreet, he has to have figured it out by now," I continued, or at least he should have, right?

"I'm not so sure," Hak disagreed.

"You know them pretty well, don't you?" Min-Soo asked us.

"I've watched them for a long time," Hak said and seemed to be thinking of something. I didn't quite know what though. "I just… Well, how do I put it? I want them both to be happy," he added. Oh, so that's what he was thinking of.

"Mhm," I agreed.

Suddenly Hak got up and rushed off.

What? What happened? I stood up and looked around. Why was it so empty? Why was no one here but us? I ran off in the same direction as Hak only to see him fighting guards, that had Princess Yona tied in a rope.

I felt my anger rise within me. She was like a little sister. No one does that to her.

I ran and somersaulted into the group of guards. I spunn around quickly to gain speed and strength and kicked one of the guards. Hak that worked much more effectively than me got rid of the rest. I squatted next to Princess Yona.

"Princess," I said carefully without touching her. I got a feeling that a carefull approach would be best. Where was Soo-Won?

There were more guards but for now I wanted to focus on Princess Yona and make sure she was okay.

"What is the meaning of this, Lord Soo-Won" Hak asked with a dark look in his eyes.

Lord Soo-Won? Was her responsible for this? I turned around to see him, with blood on his face. What was happening? I couldn't understand at all. It had to be a misunderstanding, right? But when I looked at him I could tell that it wasn't the Soo-Won I grew up knowing.

I put a protective hand around Princess Yona's shoulders. Apparently, I did have the courage to protect someone else, even if it was dangerous for myself.

"I knew Lord Soo-Won was here tonight so I was trying to stay out of your way. The guard that was all supposed to be on watch are all gathered here. Not to mention there are people I don't recognize. What is going on here, huh, Lord Soo-Won?" Hak continued.

"Hak? Ane?" Princess Yona asked softly. She sounded so broken that it broke my heart.

Hak turned around and squatted next to us.

"I'm sorry for leaving your side, Princess Yona," Hak said genuinely.

"Hak, Ane, are you on my side?" she asked, she looked like she was about to cry.

"Always, Princess Yona," I said quietly and she looked at me.

"The King told me to protect you. No matter what happens I will obey his orders," Hak said and stood up, ready to fight.