A/N: Decided to keep going with this story for now considering it is my most popular.
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Chapter two
The horns sounded on the morning of Princess Isabella's arrival as her beautiful carriage came to a stop in front of the palace steps. The King, Queen, and Prince waited to greet her. The Princess walked up the steps escorted by two men at arms, whose shields bore the mark of the country of Flowen, a distant country in the mountains of Telk.
"Welcome to Hartland Castle Princess Isabella, I am King Finn and this is Queen Denee, and let me introduce you to my son Elija, Crowned Prince of Hartland." I strode down the steps toward Isabella.
"Welcome to my home, and soon to be your home as well," I greeted her.
"I am very pleased to finally meet Prince Elija," She said.
"Please call me Eli," I said.
"Very well, Eli," she said smiling at him; Wow, he doesn't seem as bad as I thought he would be.
"Won't you come inside dear and have some breakfast you must be starving from your long journey," the Queen gestured toward the massive metal doors to the castle.
"Thank you very much," Isabella turned to her two men at arms, "Unpack my things and take them to my rooms." They bowed to her and walked toward the carriage. My father and I followed the women into the grand dining room, Denee and Finn sat at either end of the table and Isabella and I sat across from each other at the middle of the unusually long table.
"Breakfast is served," a chubby man said coming through the doors opposite the one I had just entered. The man held the door open for a dozen servants with rolling food laden carts. They placed the food on the table and by the time they were done the entire table was full with food. Isabella had a shocked looked on her face.
"Something wrong with the food Isabella," I asked, smiling.
"Oh, no, I mean, I have never seen this much food in my life, even at the fanciest balls at my castle in Flowen, I have never seen this much food."
"Well we do like to show off for our guests, but don't worry once you've been here long enough, and the guest title has worn off, you'll have much less food I can assure you," I said smiling even broader.
"Oh, I can't wait for that," she said smiling back.
Once all the food they could eat was gone, the King and Queen excused themselves to give Isabella and I some time to bond.
"So, how about we take a walk around the palace grounds and get to know each other, and then I can give you a personal tour of the castle and show you all the secret tunnels and towers," I suggested.
"Sounds delightful, shall we go," she asked, standing up.
"We shall," I said.
"We walked out of the dining hall and into the foyer of the castle. Shota was standing outside the doors of the dining hall. I gave her a nod, telling her that the plan was commencing. The doormen opened the doors for us, and we walked out into the beautiful sunlit morning.
"It's a beautiful day is it not Isabella," I asked.
"Since I must call you Eli, you shall call me Izzy," She said a mock smile on her face.
"Very well, Izzy, isn't it such a beautiful morning."
"Why yes, Eli, it is." We both laughed. I brought Izzy over to my favorite garden with a Gazebo in the middle. We sat on down next to one another, I took her hand in mine and asked,
"Izzy?"
"Yes?"
"Can I trust you," I looked into her eyes.
"Of course, what would make you think you couldn't?" I could tell she wasn't lying. I decided to fill her in on what was happening.
"And you need my help?"
"Yes, once we are married you will be the Queen of Hartland, you can't die either. You will escape with me to Talmont to warn Richard and Kahlan."
"Eli, there is something you must know."
"What is it?"
But before she could reply my uncle walked up, "Well, getting to know each other already?"
He shifted his gaze on Isabella, "Princess, your presence is needed in your chamber, something about the wrong pair of shoes."
She looked apologetically at me and then left with my uncle. I watched as they walk away, but something was odd. They appeared to be angry about something, and then Isabella pushed him away and walked into the castle.
I didn't like the look of that. Isabella hadn't even known his uncle for that long how could they be fighting already. I walked over to his uncle and asked what he and Isabella had been talking about.
"Oh, she was upset because they forgot to bring her favorite shoes on the trip."
"Oh, then I guess there is nothing to worry about." But there was, I had looked into my uncles eyes and I knew he was lying.
Later that night, I had to get Izzy the time and place of the meeting. So I walked to her chambers only to find two guards standing outside. I walked up to the door but before I could open it the guards stepped in front of me.
"And where do you think you going?"
"To visit my fiancé, now get out of my way."
"I'm afraid she asked not to be disturbed."
"I don't care let me through."
"Can't do that your highness."
I knew his only chance was to get Izzy out here so I decided to yell, "LET ME IN YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING GUARDS." As I had hoped, the chamber doors flew open to reveal the elegant figure of the princess.
"What in the name of the Creator is going on here," she addressed the guards.
"You told us not to let anyone enter."
"No, I told you not to let anymore cleaning maids enter. Now stand aside."
The guards moved aside and let me passed into the room.
"Idiots," and with that she slammed the door.
"What is it," she asked.
"We are having a meeting tonight at the top of the east tower at seven 'o clock sharp, come alone."
"I'll be there."
I left the room and headed for Shota to tell her the good news.
A/N: Please review I want to know what you think. I can take constructive criticism. More to come with this one.
