An important note in the A/N. Please read.

Chapter 11: The Dungeon Tower

"It's almost evening. Are you nervous?" Cora asked as soon as we left the corridor entering another hall.

"I don't know. A bit. Should I be? I mean the wedding is in five days time. I haven't met with Zen since the last time we saw each other in his office, which was even prohibited. And now the Queen wants me to meet with her. Cora for goodness sake, do you seriously think I wouldn't be nervous?" I asked back, unconfidently. "I'm sorry." I apologized after realizing I just shouted.

"Don't worry, Miss. You'll be fine. And it's okay. I understand your worries and nervousness." Cora said with a cheering voice.

I have always wonder, what I did to deserve such a female servant friend. Cora is a young woman with perfect features. Deep colored hair and very smooth eye gaze. She can be seriously terrifying when she wants to be though. I smiled at her.

"Dinner time is almost. I need to head back." Cora informed. I quickly nodded and headed to the dining hall. It's really boring eating all alone. Zen had made sure I felt better, by telling me not to worry cause after the wedding we're going to spend most of the time together. I blushed faintly remembering his comforting words.

After eating all alone, as always, I went back to my sleeping chambers. I quickly refreshed my hygiene. Looking into the mirror the last time, I gave a deep sigh. I made my way to one of the halls, waiting patiently for the Queen. I haven't met with the Queen really much, except at the public council meeting, which we didn't really talk that much to each other.

One minute late. I heard Queens aren't supposed to be late. That they are always to be early. Far away I heard noises of heels and it was approaching fastly. I turned to see who it was. It was the Queen.

"Sorry, I'm late. I had something very important to do and I didn't know time was already ticking." The Queen apologized, panting lightly.

I quickly gave a courtesy and said waving my hands in the air, "Your Majesty. I don't think there's anything to apologize for. Seriously."

She gave me a small smile. "I think it's better if we get going." She suddenly said.

"Okay," I replied and we started walking. "So um where are we going?" I asked realizing I don't know where we're heading to.

"To the dungeon tower."

She simply said. I quite didn't understand what was going on. Dungeon? Tower? Now I'm overly confused. But who am I to question the Queen. I just followed her lead.

After minutes of walking, we reached our stop. Out of nowhere, she was holding different types of keys. She searched through the keys, after finding it, she opened a wide large door. The sound of the opening door gave me chills in the spine. It sounded like -a dungeon.

"Come on in." She gestured towards inside. From where I was standing the room was pitch black. I swallowed hard and followed her once again. She closed the door. This is creeping me out. I shut my eyes remembering Zen. And started thinking if I wouldn't see him anymore. Suddenly I felt light under my closed eyelids. I slowly opened my eye seeing guards holding different candlelights.

"Your Majesty." One of them said. From the look of it, he is their leader. These guards are different from the guards inside the castle. These men look older, more masculine and their weapons were all kinds of. Even their uniforms are different. They all bowed their heads. I turned to look at the Queen and she looked back at me and said, "Let's go."

We started walking down long, endless stairs. My legs were starting to hurt. I raised my head only to see statues. They looked like Kings and Queens and every one of them has a crown or tiara on their head. My focused left the statues as the Queen said,

"We will take it from here."

The guards nodded their heads. Some scattered and others went to their standing positions. The Queen and I finally reached our destination, that's what she said. In front of us was a large golden door. She took her keys again, but this key was larger than all of them. She gently opened the door.

I slowly started walking inside, following her. Then another gate then another gate. Each gate had a human statue with a single gem in the middle. Opening the last door, she asked, "Are you ready?" I nodded.

The room was so shiny I had to put my hands on my eyes. I stepped into the room, only to see jewels, gemstones, you name it.

"Oh my goodness," I said breathlessly.

The Queen turned around and said slowly, "Welcome. Welcome, to the Royal Royal Jewel Room."

I batted my eyes countlessly, pinched my cheeks, rubbed my face. This is reality. I was speechless. But wait, this isn't a dungeon.

"Um, Your Majesty," I said getting her attention from an opal necklace. "-You said, we were going to a dungeon tower."

"It's just a nickname for the Royal Jewelry. Just in case any intruder was to hear our conversation, they would have known where the jewelries are hiding." She satisfied me gently.

"The tower?"

"We're in a tower right now. You may see neither outside nor inside, but this is a tower." She explained.

"The route to this place is a labyrinth. To be honest, we got lost on our way here. The guards you saw when we entered, are called the tower guards. They make sure all the jewelry in this room is safe. That's why they're older -longed trusted, more masculine -trained for any attack, their weapons different -just in case the attacker uses anything armament. So far not everybody gets to be here because you might not know when someone is following you. Not even all the head of council know this place." she continued.

"But if the head of the council doesn't even know this place then what am I doing here?" I asked.

She smiled and walked towards another jewelry, a chrysocolla tiara. "It's no reason. The King wants you to get your own crowning. That's why we're here."

I almost fainted. My own crowning? "But, but, I wasn't told of any crowning or anything like that. I was just told of my new titles that's all."

"His Majesty, unfortunately, had forgotten to tell you. You are going to get your own crowning -your own coronation," she emphasized the last words.

My own coronation? "But why?" I questioned.

"Because you're going to be a Grand Princess. It would be a shame, if the Grand princess's tiara wouldn't be on your head, after centuries." she walked slowly towards me. "After signing your wedding certificate, then you would be crowned."

I nodded my head slowly. She was still walking g towards me.

"Look, that tiara over there, behind you, will be yours after the wedding."

I turned so slowly. My eyes widened in surprise. The most beautiful jewel I have ever seen. It looks so priceless. I walked slowly to it. "Beautiful."

Authoress' Note

Hei Guys!

So now Y'all know what the Dungeon Tower really is, you can now ease up.

One major super huge question: Do you know the surname of Haki?

Because I'm super confused

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed:)