Welcome back everybody! So I guess I left a few of you on the edge of your seats last time, but I noticed that I got ALOT more reviews right after it. Hm, curious. I may just be leaving a few move cliff hangers in the future. Sorry about not posting sooner, enjoying the holidays a little too much. Anyway, here is your chapter!

SOUL

I leant against the cool, brick wall casually, my cloak hiding my white hair and my ruby red eyes. These features were not common in this kingdom, and I was not about to go showing off my assets. My motto if you got it, flaunt it" didn't exactly work well in this situation. You see, I was in the middle of Lucem, looking for a particular blonde haired princess. My motives? Questionable, since I had no idea what I wanted with her either.

Although I had already found the royal sweetheart, I wasn't about to go up to her and speak with her - seeing as she had some company and as did I.

"Yahoo! This place is so bright!" He screamed, his cloak revealing his blue, spiked hair. It wasn't like it mattered although. He was born in this kingdom and had wandered in our kingdom a very long time ago - becoming my personal guard at my wish.

"Calm down Black*Star, we need to keep a low profile." I whispered harshly, trying to take my attention away from the dark haired scum that was trying to persuade her into marriage. I could still hear their voices vaguely inside that alleyway.

"Marriage? But we're both so young..." She trailed off, and if I knew that tone of voice then she was trying to make up an excuse.

"Your parent's want you to be wed, as do mine. If we get married, there's no chance Aeterna will stand a chance! Just think about how united our kingdoms will become, we can even announce it at the ball." He persuaded. Wait a minute, ball? So there was a ball coming up. It was just my chance to whisk little miss royalty away and ruin this fool's chance with her once and for all.

"Kid, I don't know. Can we talk about this later?" I heard a grumble of agreement and soon the black cloaked man rushed out of the alleyway, leaving her behind. Turning to walk into the alleyway, my eyes brightened at the sight of her. She wasn't wearing very much make-up, but it suited her the way it looked, natural. She was wearing a pastel colored dress, one that may of been pushing her breasts up just enough to give a hint of cleavage - interesting. A devilish smile twisting at my lips, her eyes widened in surprise as she took my figure in.

"You!" She announced, almost immediately agonizing me. A chuckle escaped from my lips, and I casually leaned against the wall, letting the hood of my cloak fall back. Black*Star was standing guard anyway; he would tell me if he saw anything.

As if on cue, he hollered into the air, whistling. But that wasn't the call of danger, that was the call of Black*Star seeing something he liked. Sighing, I ran a hand through my spiked hair, letting my eyes rake over her once more. Dolled up like this, it looked good on her, it would look even better if she wasn't squirming uncomfortably although.

"Why are you here? You're trespassing on our territory!" She spoke haughtily, raising her nose up at me.

"Oh, how wrong you are. I've come to have a meeting with your father. I just happened to spot a scrawny little princess on the way to the castle." I smirked, chuckling at her enraged reaction.

"W-well I-! Hmph." Grumbling, she brushed past me, purposely bumping my shoulder as she exited the alleyway.

"That wasn't very lady-like!" I called after her, to only here a scream of annoyance in response. Oh, how this girl amused me. Pulling my hood back up, I slowly followed her out of the alleyway, glancing over at Black*Star silently. With a nod of my head, we raced to the castle once again.

The kingdom was made up of five sections, four of those sections surrounding one in particular - the palace. Each section held different people, beliefs, jobs and social standards, like four different cities surrounding their capital. Each section held roughly the same amount of people and guards, and each section held a treasure important to the kingdom's palace; whether it be a monument, or a simple golden necklace. They hid five of their most vauled treasures throughout their own kingdom, but that wasn't what we were after.

We were in the third section, the most beautiful and closet section to the palace - also where the princess was most commonly found by her citizens and friends. This section represented beauty, the second represented wealth, the first represented passion and the fourth section represented love. All were equally amazing, which was exactly why people begged to live in Lucem and not Aeterna.

Finally coming to the palace, we were suddenly stopped by two burly looking guards.

"Halt! Who goes there?" One spoke, his gun leaning against his shoulder properly.

"We're here on business. But you don't need to know that." I shot them a toothy grin, revealing my sharp fangs. The two stepped back in surprise and awe, before Black*Star Sliced the two in half. Business, this is what we called it in Aeterna - but here, this may as well be called assassination.

"The great Black*Star strikes again! Those guards had nothing on me!" He shouted, running inside the castle alongside me.

Yes, we had been assigned to assassinate the King of Lucem - because it wasn't like anyone liked him, not too mention there was a lot more at stake than one would think. Rushing past fleets of guards, Black*Star threw me my lucky gun. My blue haired friend slowed down a bit, shooting me a grin of his own before stopping to take care of the guards. I wasn't worried about him, oh no, who I was worried about was the princess. If she even stepped foot in this castle there would be a possibility of Black*Star accidentally killing her, and we couldn't afford any mistakes in this little mission.

I could hear the screams of pain ringing through the castle, it pained me to do this, but if I didn't - Aeterna would surely fall. It was time for the new era, and time for the king of Lucem to finally pass on to the next life.

It wasn't long until guards surrounded me, all of them beginning to think that they actually had a chance against the prince of Aeterna, but that was the thing, they didn't. No one had a chance against me, no one except my elder brother and Black*Star. Gun raised, I was able to dodge most of their attacks, killing them all and getting away with only a gunshot to the shoulder and a few "scratches" here and there. I wasn't invincible, but I wasn't weak either.

I continued down the long hallway, only stopping when my blood eyes set on the red haired King. He stepped back in surprise, not wanting to believe it at first, before bolting it down the hallway. Knowing exactly where I was going, I chased him in a corner, and finally raised my gun to his head.

"Game over, your Majesty. Regards from Aeterna." And that's when the sound of gunshot rang through the halls.

This one is VERY short, but I will be giving you a SUPER long one next chapter. I wanted this one to remain vague and mysterious - I needed to leave you guys in the dark. If this wasn't short, I wouldn't have been able to put this in the way I wanted it to be. I will most likely edit this a bit later and please keep in mind I did not edit this one. Hope you liked it, and please Review/Comment your thoughts! I love to hear what you're thinking and will be posting another response to all of your reviews the next chapter.