A/N: OMG now I officially hate computers.
Phoenix: Yeah..
Iggy: Why?
Me: Cause the other day, I was writing this chapter, and suddenly the computer turned off and the chapter didn't save.
Phoenix: Yeah, and the chapter had almost 3,000 words.
Me: Crappy computers..
Iggy: Ohh. Well I hate computers because I'm blind.
Phoenix: Well, look on the bright side..
Iggy: What do you not get about me being blind?
Me: You can see things when they're white, right? Then just look at the white side!
Phoenix: YEAH! But no worries, you're not blind in this story.
Iggy: YES! I'm no-ot blind! YES!
Me: One of you guys asked me who the GOA is.
Phoenix: Guess..
Me: 3..2..1.. IT'S MEE!
Phoenix: Way to ruin the surprise, girl.
Me: Hmph!
Iggy: If you're the GOA, then who am I?
Me: Read, and you'll find out.
Iggy: I'M BLIND! B-L-I-N-D! BLIND, as in I can't SEE! God, please save me from these people.. And thanks for reviewing, you guys kept me from getting killed! Now these insane people fortunately DOESN'T own Maximum Ride.. Thankfully i'm not owned by DarkBloodyAngelOfAbyss! She's evil, ya know?
Me: *Pops out of nowhere with evil eyes* What did you say?
Which Prince?
Chapter 4
"No."
"What?" Catori looked at me wide eyes.
"I said no." I looked her in the eyes. "I never really signed up for this, to meet royalty that I've never even heard of." (A/N: Look, FanGirly-loves-FanGirling98, now Max has her rant! The only reason she does it now is because she was just really surprised in the beginning. )
"But-"
"N-O. No. I don't even know where I am!"
"You're in the country of Fiora."
Fiora?"And where the the hell is Fiora? I haven't even heard of a place called Fiora!"
She looked at me with understanding eyes. "We rarely let anyone know know about us, and if someone does, the king and queen makes them swear to keep it a secret, unless said person wants something bad to happen to them." Catori took a deep breath. "Since not a lot of people know, nobody ever puts our country on a map."
I glared at her. "I still don't want to meet everyone." I mean, seriously. Who would want to meet a bunch of princes whose worlds revolve around themselves? Certainly not me. "And I'm not taking your shirt. I'm going to sleep."
I stood up, dropped the shirt on her bed, and headed out. As I vaguely remember, my room was down the hall, and I had to take a left, and my room was on the right. I opened the door, and found that my memory was right. Flopping on the bed and taking my computer, I searched "Fiora".
All I got was a musician, restaurants and a couple of business companies and stores. Cat was right, they never put it on a map or anything.
I sighed and closed my computer, setting it on a random table.
Just when I actually thought I could get away with not going to meet royalty, Catori barged in, and ran over to me and pulled me off the bed.
"Hey! Let me go!"
She gave me a look, saying she wouldn't. I struggled to get to my feet just as we turned right and I stumbled. "You are coming to the main hall with me."
We ran down the stairs, and she stopped before we got to the main hall. She let go, and stood back to examine me. Cat adjusted my shirt then nodded.
"Follow my lead." She walked in, and bowed to the two people sitting in chairs on the platform. I bowed too, and when the king said, "You may rise.", we straightened our backs.
The King held out a hand to Catori, and she went up the couple of steps, and stood on the right side of the King. On his left side was the Queen, who smiled at me.
"Hello, Max." The King said, already knowing my name. "Come closer, we won't bite." I slowly walked forward, closer to the platform, but not too close.
For the first time, I noticed two lines of people. On the right side, not the King's right side, for him it would be his left, were boys lined up side by side. They weren't on the platform, and they weren't really right in front of the King, but to the side. Each of their eyes followed my each and every move while they examined me.
On the left side was another line of people, not on the platform and not directly in front of the Queen. Their eyes followed me too. I recognized Niki and Miki in the line.
Both lines were on either side of the red carpet, where I stood.
"I'm King James Nightray, and I've been told that you have already met the Queen."
"Yes-" Catori sent me a glare. "-King James." I added, making it sound smooth and all planned.
"Oh, you can just call me James."
The Queen looked at me. "And call me Anne."
James looked at the line of guys lined up on his side. "Oy!" Their heads swiveled from me to him. "Where is Angel?"
Catori whispered something in his ear.
"Sorry. Niki! Miki! Do me a favor and wake her up and bring her here, please." They nodded and dashed off towards the stairs. "Thank you!" he yelled after them.
"Alright, lets get the introductions over with. These," he held his hand out again, but this time toward thee line of people in front of him, "are the princes. Introduce yourselves, boys!"
The King signaled for me to go and stand in front of them, and I did.
"I'm Dylan." The first one stepped forward and kissed my hand. He looked like a movie star, with perfect dark blond hair that almost looked brown and turquoise eyes. He was tall too.
The next one stepped up, smiling as he touched my hand. "I'm Sam." He had dirty blonde hair and brown eyes.
This prince had tousled dark brown hair and brown eyes, "Hi, I'm Ari." He greeted. He seemed nice.
A boy in his late teens smirked, and said "Sup? I'm Iggy." before shaking my hand. Extremely tall, he had strawberry blonde hair and pale blue eyes.
"Fang." Was all the next one said. He gripped my hand then let go, moving back to his spot. He had black longish hair that almost covered his eyes and really cool obsidian eyes. He too was tall, but not as tall as Iggy. I got the impression that this guy probably didn't talk a lot.
This boy had bright blue eyes and short blond was just about an inch taller than me. "I'm Gazzy." He smiled wickedly, and I felt as if this boy had something to do with all the things Cat and had I encountered earlier.
I opened my mouth to say something, but one of the guys read my mind.
"Don't ask. You really just don't want to know."
Seeming as though I forgot to say something, I shoved my hand in my pocket, trying to remember. Oh, so thats what I forgot.
"I'm Max. Max Ride." I knew they all were asking questions about my name in their heads, and taking note that my name was Max. I'm sure I won't even remember at least one of these guy's names.
"Max, you've just met the princes," The Queen- I'm sorry, I mean Anne- spoke. "The people over here work for us. Introduce yourselves, if you may."
I forced my feet to walk over to the other side, I still felt the princes gazes burning multiple holes in me.
"I'm Rin." She was just a couple of inches shorter than me and had tanned skin and long black hair that went down to her waist. She looked me over with her brown eyes. "I'm the GOA." Rin crossed her arms and tapped her combat shoes, probably wishing that this could end and she could go back to what she was doing. (A/N: See, the GOA is me! But my hair isn't waist length..)
Wait a second. Catori said that the GOA was part of the 'Troublesome Trio' earlier. Probably realizing what I was thinking about, she smirked at me and gave me a tiny nod.
I met a couple more maids, the cooks, and the tailors. There were more, but I couldn't remember all of them.
"Sorry it took so long!" Miki and Niki yelled in unison, again. A little girl with golden curls bounded up the steps and to James.
"Daddy!" She squealed when he picked her up.
Just because of how he smiled and how he looked at Angel, I knew how much he loved her. "This is Angel, our youngest daughter." Her blue eyes were filled with happiness.
"Hi! What's your name?" she jumped off of her dad and stood in front of me.
I knelt down and let her see me properly. "I'm Max."
I noticed that he didn't say only, and that meant that there was another princess. "Is there another princess?" I asked.
Anne nodded. "Nudge. Right now she can't be here, she insisted on going to Paris and we let her visit. She'll be coming back in a couple of weeks."
I smiled.
"Come play with me!" She jumped up and down in excitement.
I just couldn't refuse; she was just too darn cute! "Sure."
"Angel, sweetie, lets eat before you go and play, alright?"
Her angelic smile grew wider. "Yay! Food!" She raced out of the main hall and most likely to the dining hall. Niki and Miki ran after her too.
"Alright then, lets eat!" James hopped up and went towards the dining hall.
"Hey, Martha, what's for lunch?" Rin asked.
She thought a moment. "I think the others cooked some turkey sandwiches and a bunch of other kinds of sandwiches.."
Rin nodded. "Thanks Martha."
She smiled, and went ahead.
I watched how confident she held her head up and walked.
"So, you're the GOA, right?"
She looked at me through the corners of her eyes. "Well, yeah, thats what I said."
Like Catori, Rin didn't look older than me. She seemed younger.
"How old are you?" I asked, wanting to make sure.
She sighed, stopped walking and turned towards me. "I'm fifteen." She put her hands on her hips.
I noticed she had kind of a boyish fashion sense too, like me. She wore a white spaghetti strap tank top and she had another set of spaghetti straps on her shoulders. Over that was a green jacket that was a size too big. The green army jacket had a bunch of military rankings and a bunch of patched on it. She had rolled up the sleeves to her elbows and she wore black shorts that went mid-thigh. On her feet were black combat boots that went up to a couple of inches below her knee. On her wrist was a black leather bracelet.
"Anything else you wanna know?"
This girl had an attitude. "How old is the royal advisor and the princes?"
"You mean Cat?" I nodded. "She's 16. Dylan and Sam are 21, Ari is 20, Fang and Iggy, they're 19, Gazzy's 17, Nudge is 16 and Angel is 6."
"You seem too young to be the GOA."
She gave me a "duh" look. "I'm 15, and yes, thats young, but I am the best with the stuff. Plus, being GOA has it's perks."
"Like what?" We started walking again.
She closed her eyes for a second. "Damn, what hole did you crawl out of?"
"I do not live in a hole." I growled.
"One,I get to boss people around. Two, whoever doesn't know me well enough, I can scare them off. Three, I get to use a bunch of weapons and stuff. Four, I get to train people too. And how old are you, Max?"
"I'm 17."
"Nice, perfect age to hook up with one of those princes."
When I processed what she said, I frowned. "I'm not hooking up with one of them."
"But it looks like you have the hots for either Dylan, Sam or Fang."
"I'm gonna killyou!" I started chasing her.
"You can't killme!"
Like I can't. I definitely can. "Wanna try me?" I yelled.
"Sure!"
A/N:
Me: Nice ending, Phoenix. Making Max want to kill me.
Phoenix: Thank you, thank you.
Iggy: Don't taunt her, Phoenix...
Me: Grrrrr...
Phoenix: Hahhahaha!
Me: R&R while I deal with this nuisance..
Iggy: R&R.. And can you guys please let me go back to Max? Can you kidnap another person? I don't wanna almost get killed again.. It's not that I don't like you guys, I do like you guys, but sometimes you're just violent..
Me & Phoenix: Here, take some bomb stuff. *Shoves stuff toward him*
R&R and tell me who you want me to kidnap next!