Chapter 4 (The victors ball)
Blossoms POV:
I walk into the dining hall with my father and Brick. I see Princess storming out of the room and a beat up Buttercup and Butch. (It's a very lovely scene. I hope Princess doesn't come to dinner.) I walk down to my regular seat at the table on the right side of my father, King Henry.
"Blossom; do you know where Bubbles is?" King Henry asked me as Brick pulled out my chair for me to sit in.
"She's probably still out doing her challenge. When I left this morning she was still in bed."
"If that's where Bubbles is, Boomer is probably there too." Brick sits next to me as Buttercup and Butch sit in front of us. Robin, our servant, and one of my best friends, starts to give us our drinks.
"Butch, sometime you have to teach me that technique you used." Buttercup turns to look at Butch.
"Sorry Sunshine, but it's a family trade."
"Fine," Buttercup huffs as she crosses her arms across her chest.
"So, girls, assuming because the boys are here. May I assume? They passed." King Henry asks us.
"Yes Father, Brick has passed." I say casually.
"You should know by the cuts and bruises Butch and I have, he passed."
"Ok, just wanted to make sure." King Henry says putting his napkin in his lap.
"Dinner is served." One of the servants says. Our servants come out and put three trays on the table. The first containing a cooked boar, the second containing seasoned vegetables, and the third containing cheesecake (most likely for Bubbles, even though she isn't here. If Bubbles doesn't get dessert, let's just say we needed to hire a new chef.)
"Boys, get out your best clothes." King Henry states. The boys look at him confused. I sigh, (He passes the challenge but doesn't know that he now has a victor's ball to go to.)
"You boys have to go to a victor's ball tomorrow." I state and the boys still looked confused.
"A victor's ball is a dance that whoever is victorious in their task has in honor of them. You boys were victorious in your challenges so you get a victor's ball. Mostly the balls are in honor of war heroes, but there are exceptions." I explain to them.
"Like when Bubbles finally passed her science exam." Buttercup says under her breath. She and Butch start laughing.
"Also like the time you finally got out of your diapers when you were seven." I scoff. She immediately stops laughing and gives me one of her famous death stares. Butch starts laughing even harder, he looks like he's gonna fall out of his chair.
Bang...
I was right. Butch is still on the ground laughing. Brick face palms himself and looks at me embarrassed.
"Also like the time you couldn't fight for your life with a sword. Then you finally beat Bubbles, just barley, and then Dad throws a ball in your honor. I mean I was able to defeat General Ken when I was six! You couldn't even beat Bubbles and you were thirteen!" Buttercup yells at me across the table. Brick looks over at me laughing and I get red. Buttercup is smirking at me and Butch is still on the ground. (Is he crying?)
"Dude, get up," Buttercup pulls Butch up from the ground, his eyes are red and his face is a light purple.
"Didn't know anyone could laugh that hard," Buttercup picks up her forks and start to eat.
"He can laugh harder, I remember one time he actually passed out from laughing so hard. He had to be given CPR to wake him up." Brick says the last part very fast.
"Who gave it to him?" I ask curious. Butch blushes extremely hard.
"I don't know, all I know is she has neon green eyes that light up in the moon light making her look like a cat." Butch says with a dreamy look on his face.
"Ah, looks like Butch has a crush!" Buttercup says in squeaky voice. Butch looks away.
We all finish eating and Brick walks me to my room.
"Good night princess." Brick says before bowing and walking away.
Butch's POV:
I'm still out of breath from laughing so much. Buttercup starts laughing beside me as I walk her to her room.
"What's so funny?" I ask as we walk down the moonlit hallway.
"Your face!"
"That was offensive." I put my hand on my heart pretending to be offended.
"Sorry, it's just your face looks like your blushing."
"Well Sunshine, we're at your room. See you tomorrow."
Bubbles POV:
My ladies in waiting run in and throw me out of bed. I look up to see Megan, my head servant (Who is also my best friend,), standing above me with a huge grin on her face.
"So, is he cute?" She asks as she pulls me up on my feet.
"Is who cute?" I rub my head wondering what she's talking about.
"Sir Boomer of course! I heard through the grapevine that he carried you into your room last night." Megan sits with me on my bed and grabs my hand while maids rush around us arguing about which dress I'm wearing tonight. Megan's red hair bounces with excitement.
"SO, you still haven't answered my question, IS HE CUTE!?" Megan gets excited really easy. (She's gripping my hand so tight, it's gonna fall off soon, I know it.)
"Yeah, I guess." Megan let's go of my hand (Thank the Lord) then she wraps her arms around my neck in a hug. (Oh crap)
"I'm so happy for you!" Megan squeezes me even tighter.
"What do you mean 'I'm so happy for you'?" I manage to croak out. Then Megan lets me go and twirls around my room. Apparently Megan didn't hear me because she just keeps rambling on.
"I mean, it's about time you get a boyfriend!"
"Boyfriend?"
"I've heard so much about Sir Boomer! Did you know He is called the Knight in Shining Armor? Oh Bubbles, this is perfect! I mean you're both the youngest and kindest of all you siblings! Not to mention that you like alike! It's like a match made in Heaven!" Before Megan could go on I interrupted.
"Who said anything about Boomer being my boyfriend?"
"No one actually said anything. I just thought, I mean you need one eventually, and by what I've heard of him he's perfect for you." Megan slows down and three maids rush up in front of us.
"Which dress Princess?" The maids ran up with three dresses in their hands. One dress was a light pink sleek dress. The second dress was dark blue that went to her knees. The last one was a feathery white one that was above her knees, but it had long sleeves.
"Thank you for the help, but, I already have one picked out." I walk over to where my wardrobe is; I open the door and pick out a light blue sparkly dress. It is strapless and in a heart shape. There is a white ribbon that ties across my waist. Under the ribbon the dress puffs out like a princess dress. There was a translucent layer over top of the bottom half of the dress. The maids oh and ah at the dress and then I dismiss them to carry on with their chores.
I always am the first to get ready for a ball. I braided my long golden hair to the left where it draped over my shoulder. I put on my dress and then fixed my make-up. (Now I have to help my sisters, I hope Buttercup doesn't make a fuss out of it like last time.)
Buttercup's POV:
(Uhh….) Bubbles is killing me right now! Why doesn't she understand? Make-up and I don't belong in the same sentence. I know I just used a sentence with make-up and I in it but you get the point! Blossom is reading her book on the porch; I think its called Romeo and Juliet. It's some Greek tragedy that a guy named William Shakespeare wrote. Blossom is wearing a long rose pink dress that flows to her feet. The dress has long pink translucent sleeves and a dark pink ribbon to go around her waist that matches the one in her hair. She has her hair up in an "elegant pony tail" as she calls it, and the pink ribbon is tied around her ponytail.
Bubbles looks like her little princess self. Perfect little body, perfect hair, and all that. She hooked me up to a chair and is now putting a bunch of crap on my face. Unlike my sisters I'm keeping my hair down. I have a strapless neon green dress that flows down to my feet. At the bottom of the dress the neon green fades into black. (Ouch!)
"Bubbles, you poked my eye with that bat crap!" I shove Bubbles away from me so I can rub this crap off my eye.
"It's called mascara not bat crap!" Bubbles pushes me back down as I try to get up. She takes out a brush and yanks on my hair. (This is why I hate balls.)
Finally we all are ready. We are waiting to walk in when the squire announces us.
"Princesses Buttercup, Blossom, and Bubbles," I walk out along side my sisters, I look down the stairs to see the three boys waiting for us at the bottom. Boomer has on a white tux. His shirt and tie are a dark blue color, I see his eyes widen when he sees my sister. I better have a talk with him so he doesn't try anything. He sees me giving him the death glare and he looks down at his feet blushing madly. Brick has his hair down and a black tux on with a blood red shirt and tie. I see him drooling over my other sister. (What is wrong with these boys? I'm gonna have to straighten them out before they start to be around my sisters. I promise if they try to touch either of my sisters I will kill them no questions asked.) I see Butch lastly. His spiked hair down kinda covering one of his eyes, he has on a black tux with a forest green tie and a white shirt. He isn't even looks up at us as we walk down. He looks up and catches my eye and turns around. (I can't tell what he's doing, I can't see his face.)
We finally get to the bottom of the steps and each of the boys take our hands. Boomer and Bubbles are blushing like crazy, and Blossom and Brick both have their controlled faces that I say always looks like their constipated. Butch takes my hand and looks over at our siblings and rolls his eyes. Soft, slow, music starts to play. (Gosh, I hate slow-dancing! My dad makes me do it anyway.) I look at Butch and he doesn't seem too happy about the music either. The boys look over to my dad who nods his head signaling for the boys to ask us to dance.
"May I have this dance?" Butch asks me.
"Yes, I'm kinda forced to do it anyway." He laughs and leads me to the center of the cream and gold ballroom. (Tacky colors I know, but it actually looks better than it sounds.) I recognize the song that's playing; it's actually one of my favorites. It's called Caledonia.
"I don't know if you can see the strangeness that has come over me." I start to sing along with the song as Butch and I dance around the floor. Butch looks at me with a confused face.
"What never seen a girl sing to one of her favorite songs?" I ask as he twirls me around.
"Actually, no I haven't. Don't stop though."
"Let me tell you that I love you that I think about you all the time. Caledonia you're calling me, now I'm going home. And if I should become a strange, know that it would make me more than sad. Caledonia's been everything I've ever had..." I start humming along to the rest of the song and close my eyes imagining my Caledonia. The rolling hills of Ireland, the flowery fields and flowing rivers, the crushing waves against the stony cliffs and quiet forest that is fluttering with life, which is my Caledonia, my kingdom. I couldn't imagine ever leaving it.
Butch's POV:
She closes her eyes as she hums along with the melody. Her voice is like an angel. I look her up and down seeing how much she looked like a fragile, little girl. Though on the inside she is as tuff as nails and stronger than most guys I know. She finally opened her lime green eyes at the end of the song.
"You dance better than most knights I know, well done." She praises me as I lead her to an entrance into the ballroom.
"Do you want to ditch this place and go somewhere fun?" I question, she looks up at me curiously.
Blossom's POV:
Brick leads me off the dance floor and over to where the snack table is.
"I need to go ask Boomer a question real quick, just wait there princess." With that Brick went off in pursuit of his brother.
"Hello Blossom," A nasally voice exhales behind me. I turn around to see a boy with sickly pale skin, greasy brown hair, and the most horrific looking yellow eyes. He has the body of a twig that can only be one person.
"Dash, so you finally have the nerve to come back after Buttercup kicked your butt at the tournament?" He stuck out his tongue like a kid as I turn around to face him.
"You look even more beautiful than last time I saw you." Dash took my hand and kissed it. I ripped my hand away from him. He laughed.
"May I have this dance?" Dash asked holding out his hand for me to take it.
"I would never dance with a jerk like you!" I huff at him and storm off looking for Brick. I feel someone grab me by my waist.
"If you don't want to dance then let's do something else," I feel Dash breathe on my neck and I start to gag. (Uh, does this guy ever brush his teeth? His breath smells like dog barf.) I start screaming and before I can get anything out Dash covers my mouth with his hand.
"Don't worry Blossom, this will be fun." He whispers in my ear. There's one thought that pops in my head. I'm can't believe I'm thinking this but,
I need Brick!
Bricks POV:
"Hey Booms," I see Boomer dancing with Bubbles on the edge of the dance floor. He looks at me and walks over to me with Bubbles still attached to his arm.
"Hey Brick, what do you want?" He asks.
"I just think we should leave before twelve so that the princesses can have some sleep for their lessons tomorrow." I inform. Boomer nods and takes Bubbles back to the dance floor. I look back to where Blossom was and I saw her talking to some greasy-haired, yellow eyed, freak. He grabs her waist and puts his hand on her mouth. He whispers in her ear. (I should go see what's going on.) The guy dragged Blossom away into the crowd. I follow. They go through one of the exits out of the ball room. I notice Blossom is struggling in the guys arms. (Oh crap, this guy is kidnapping her!) I charge in front of the guy that's holding Blossom. She sees me and looks like I was a hero coming in to save the day. (Well, I pretty much am.)
"Hey creep! Let the princess go!"
Here we go…
Bubbles POV:
After Boomer and I stop dancing I get swamped with boys asking if they could dance with me. I kindly say no to all of them and go off to look for my sisters. Buttercup usually is on her throne all night so I'll check there first. I make my way through the crowd and to the thrones. The only ones there are my father and Mitch. I walk up to Mitch.
"Hey Princess Blue, what do you need?" Mitch always calls Blossom and me by our colors. Buttercup he calls her BC.
"Hey Mitch, have you seen Blossom or Buttercup?"
"Pinky or BC, no I actually haven't seen them all night."
"K thanks anyway." I turn around to see Boomer sitting by himself and then a blond girl in dark blue coming over to him. (Wait I know who this is,)
"Brat, Stay away from my knight!" I march over to where Brat is now hanging on his neck.
"Oh this is your knight Bubbles? He's cute." Just hearing her voice again makes me wanna puke.
"What are you doing in my kingdom any way?" I huff as I yank Brat off of Boomer.
"Just hanging out, if you haven't noticed Bubbles, there's a truce between our kingdoms."
"Like it's gonna last."
"You don't think we can be friends?" Brat hugs me with a sarcastic grin on her face.
"Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends? Why can't we be friends?"
"Gir!" I scream as a small green animal was jumps in my arms.
"Wait, where's Bell?" I ask him as he dances around on the table we're at.
"Right here Bubs," I see Bell come out of the crowd of people, her white hair and white eyes and a beautiful goose feather gown. I run up and hug her leaving Brat and Boomer staring at the dancing Gir.
"It's so nice to see you again!" I squeal.
"It's good to see you too Bubs, but I have to be leaving again. Although this time I can't take Gir with me this time. I need someone to watch him.
"I would love to babysit Gir!"
"He's a ton of trouble and very nosey."
"Are you kidding? Gir is not trouble." Bang…
"Oh, this place about blow… blow… this place about to blow."I look up to see Gir swinging on the chandelier.
"No trouble, huh,"
"Gir, get down!" Bell yells and Gir jumps down into Bells arm.
"Don't worry; I'll take good care of him. Plus, my sisters can help."
"Alright, I have to go now. Goodbye Gir." Bell cuddles with Gir before she places him in my arms and leaves.
"Please don't leave me, I always say how I don't need you but it's always gonna come right back to this…" Gir sings.
"Don't worry Gir, me and my sisters will take care of you 'till Bell gets back." I comfort him as I walk back to Boomer. Brat already left with some random guy.