10th Princess

Authors Note: Well. Sorry. Its been a rather long... long... long time since I last updated this. I really hope people won't be too mad. I was in my first year of college, and finals happened, then after finals I was tired. And well, you know how it goes.

Thanks for sticking around though. 3

Priestly woke up in a strange bed, in a strange room. She sat up really quickly, then her head started spinning, a lot, and she laid back down closing her eyes to try and get rid of the spinning feeling. She tried to remember why she would be waking up in a strange bed, inside a strange room.

"Oh right." She said aloud as she remembered the Mirror, and King Wendell. She smiled a little while she pictured his face, the stopped herself from smiling. She probably only thought he was cute cause he was a King, and she wasn't going to be the type of girl to fall in love with a person because of their status. She frowned and sat up.

Looking around the room she smiled slowly standing to her feet, out of habit she brushed any dust on her off. She was still in her old outfit, which was always a good thing. If someone had changed her while she was passed out, someone would be dead by the end of the night. Priestly moved over to the door and opened it to find Kristoph standing outside her door taking watch.

"Good... well, Its good to see you again." Priestly smiled at him.

"Good Evening Priestly." He smiled back at her. "King Wendell would like to see you again, once you are ready to see him. He's got you a more suitable change of clothing in your room, and he had a bath prepared for you when you are ready." Priestly nodded at Kristoph and went back into her room, closing the door she walked over to the wardrobe, where she found a rather beautiful pale green dress with spaghetti straps, and flowing to the ground, just barely even touching the ground, it looking like it would fit perfectly. She moved into the other room and quickly took a bath, and put her hair up after the bath into a half up, half down style, her bangs still hanging down. She looked amazing in that dress, but she frowned. Not amazing enough for a king. She shook that thought out of her head as she headed for the door.

"Okay Kristoph. I am ready to see the King." She told him, blushing slightly as Kristoph seemed to be awestruck by her look. She didn't think she looked well enough to get a look like that from a guy.

"Okay Ma'am. Just follow me." He told her, as he started to walk down the hallway. Priestly followed him, butterflies taking over her stomach as she realized she would have to talk to King Wendell again. She was always nervous around cute guys. She shook her head, demanding those thoughts leave her head. For all she knew he was married. All kings where.

The finally made it to the familiar hallway, Wendell was in his study, once again. Or he stayed there, Priestly didn't know for sure. Kristoph knocked on the door, and Priestly hid behind him, calming her blush down. She felt like a school girl all over again.

"Come in." Priestly could hear Wendell's voice. Kristoph opened the door, and moved out of the way, so Priestly was standing there. "Ahh Priestly. Its good to see you are up again. I hope you are feeling well." He said to her, she almost thought he was looking at her like Kristoph had earlier, awestruck. However, she let that thought fade.

"Much better. Thank you." She told him with a smile on her face. Kristoph closed the door as Priestly moved closer to Wendell, standing on the other side of the desk from him.

"I just wanted to tell you, and warn you of a few things." Wendell gave a small smile to her. She raised a brow as he went on talking. "Firstly, I talked to Virginia and Wolf, and it seems you all will be here for a long while till we can find a way to get that mirror replaced." He took a breath, looking for a sign of questioning, or confusion in her eyes. She waited for the rest of the news before she said anything. "Secondly, in just the past week many Princess have shown up here, and will be staying here for a while. I figured I should warn you that dinners maybe loud, since we will all be eating in the dinning hall. You'll sit near Tony, Virginia, Wolf and I. So you won't be stuck next to the princess'."

"Okay." She gave a small nod, avoiding the question of why there are so many princess' staying here. She would rather find that out later then finding out right now.

"In fact, it should be dinner time right now." Wendell told her, thinking. She was a little lost in his blue eyes, but she stopped herself, once again. She followed him out the door and down the stairs for dinner, her stomach making a small growling noise, she prayed Wendell wouldn't have heard that. Remembering she hadn't eaten for a rather long time.

As She followed Wendell down the stairs and to the Dinning hall, he pointed her to her seat between a plumpish looking older man and another oldish looking man. The first one looked to be n his 40's, the second already had white hair, and dressed like an advisor or something, the first one only wore a suit that Priestly recognized from the 10th Kingdom.

"Why hello there." The younger one smiled at her, and she smiled back. He looked her up and down, and she blushed a bright red as she sat down.

"Hullo. I am Priestly." She told him, giving him a polite smile.

-Wendell's POV-

Wendell looked at Priestly from the corner of his eye. The lady sitting next to him today kept talking about how the dress she was wearing was made by some famous designer in her kingdom, something Wendell didn't care for anymore, he would have cared somewhat before his new change in opinion. However, for some reason, he was drawn to Priestly.

Maybe it was that cute dress on her, simple, yet she made it look elegant. It brought out her Green eyes. Her hair was perfectly between formal and casual. They way she blushed when she noticed someone looking at her made him smile a bit. The girl next to him continued to talk about the stuff he didn't care about. He hated the idea of dinning with a different princess every night.

He knew the importance of finding a suitable Queen. After his step-mother, he also realized the caution in picking the right one. He wasn't prepared for this, no had he expected to have to find one. Somewhere in his mind, he somewhat wished Priestly was a princess, but he shook that thought of his head. He probably only thought she was cute since she was exotic in a way. Not from his world. He felt the same way for Virginia for a little while, before he realized his feelings for her was more of a sibling type relation.

Priestly smiled at Tony as he started to talk about how he saved Wendell and the Kingdom, Virginia kept looking at Priestly and shaking her head, as if saying 'No that really did not happen.' Priestly still thought it was a good story, however, she would have to ask Virginia for the real story some other time. Virginia and Wolf surprisingly where not angry or upset about staying longer. It seemed like they wanted a prolonged vacation from their resturaunt anyways. Apparently they had a baby, a little son they nick named Wolfy. Although they lived in the 10th Kingdom, like Priestly, they had a half wolf son.

"A bouncy castle?" Priestly asked as Tony got to the point of the story where Wendell asked him to stay in the kingdom. She couldn't help but giggle a little bit at his description of why Wendell asked him to stay. Her went on a long rant about how to make a bouncy castle, and Virginia rolled her eyes. Eliciting a giggle from Priestly once again.

"Oh and what is so funny?" Tony asked, and Priestly and Virginia both started laughing now. They where in a giggling mood. Maybe it was that hyperness you get from not eating for a while then eating a good home cooked meal. Or that hyperness of making a friend without even actually talking to that person, like insta-friend connection or something.

Priestly ate her food carefully following the way the others ate, so she wouldn't eat the wrong way. She ate some form of noodles with chicken and cheese sauce. It was way better than her own cooking, although Priestly wouldn't admit that to anyone out loud. She ate a little faster then she should of, but she kept herself from chowing down on her food like a teenage boy.

Once Dinner was over, Priestly was soon becoming tired. However, she refused to go to bed before sunset, seeing as that would ruin her schedule for sleeping and she would awaken sometime in the middle of the night. As dinner ended, Priestly left the dinning room, after she excused herself of course. The only two people in there really was just Wendell and the Lady he was sitting with. She didn't seem like a queen to Priestly, but who knew for sure anyways. Wendell didn't seem to interested in her, then again she talked the entire time, Priestly avoided that conversation not wanting to embarrass herself.

As she went out of the dinning hall, she roamed around the Castle a bit, trying to find a courtyard. After about half an hour, and almost giving up her search, she finally found one.

She could tell that sunset was coming soon, and decided to stay in the courtyard so she could watch it. She moved over by the rather large tree, avoiding sitting on the ground like she normally would as she looked up. The sky was a beautiful orange color, fading into a darker color as the sun slowly disappeared.

"Hello." She heard a man's voice behind her. Priestly put her hands up against her heart for a second as she was scared at the sudden noise. She turned around and let out a soft sigh, seeing a man she recognized from dinner. He was dressed in red and gold, Priestly decided that making a Gryffindor joke would be a little much, since Harry Potter probably didnt exist in this world.

"Hello. I'm Priestly." Priestly smiled and gave a small curtsey.

"I am Prince Jasper." He told her, moving closer so she could see his tan features, and dark brown hair. It was straight, and a little long just about ear length. He had deep blue eyes, and perfect skin, and stood taller then Priestly by a lot. He looked really good. "I love coming out here at night to watch the sunset. Each one is completely different." He told her, smiling. Priestly smiled back and turned to look at the sky.

"It's hard to see the sunset so clear where I live. Large buildings block the way,and its never any quiet there. I much prefer this sunset over those." She told him, as he moved standing next to her. She felt herself blush, knowing he was looking at her. She avoided looking at him though.

Priestly, please stay away from him. Wendell thought, he had managed to get away from Princess Leanna after excusing himself he went up to his room to think for a bit. However, going to a window he noticed Priestly and Japser down in the courtyard. He was happy she seemed more intent on watching the sky.

"I knew I should have never let that man stay, he flirts with every single lady in this castle." Wendell mumbled to himself why he paced next to the window looking outside. He then shook his head and pulled himself away from the window. "What I am I doing? She just got here, I barely know her and I am getting over-protective of her. She can hit on, or be with whoever she wants." Wendell told himself as he got ready for bed.

Priestly sighed as the sun finally set, and looked at Jasper with a smile on her face. "That was beautiful. I wish I had more nights like this in my home. Oh! You can even see the stars here, how wonderful." Priestly then let out a quiet yawn.

"Shall I escort you to your room, so I know you made it there safely?" Prince Jasper asked, Priestly gave him a small smile.

"Sure!" She told him as they started to walk towards her room. They talked a bit as they walked, she could tell Jasper was offering his hand or arm to hold on to, but Priestly ignored that and walked on. Once they got in front of her room she looked up at him with a smile on her face. "Thank you so much for talking with me tonight. It really was a pleasure to meet you." She told him.

Jasper looked as if he was ready to lean down to kiss Priestly, but she opened the door behind her and stood in her doorway, her smile a bit smaller now.

"The pleasure was all mine." He said, taking her hand and kissing it. Priestly blushed a bright red as she turned into her room and closed the door. She got ready for bed as her mind raced a bit, wondering what Wendell was doing, then wondering what Jasper was doing. She shook both thoughts from her head as she changed into a night gown that was left for her, and managed to finally close her eyes and fall asleep.