Friends/enemies
I woke up by Conrad who said I had overslept. I flew out of bed as fast as I could, pushed Conrad out and dressed. I walked fast and ate breakfast as fast as I could. Conrad and I hurried out and there was a soldier with two horses.
What is this, why is Shinou here too?
You are going to ride to shool today.
A-alright.
I jumped on shinou and Conrad on his horse and we went as fast as the horses could carry us down the path to come in time for school. When Conrad an I came to the school there stood Anton and a few other kids outside looking my way,
Is that your horse Yuri, said Anton?
Yes, this is Shinou. I jumped down.
School starts soon we have to go, said Anton.
Conrad said bye and took Shinou and went up the hill again. We went to class and it felt like it was going on forever. After a while we had a break. When I went out Clinton was there ans pulled me to a place where noone else was.
So you want to play cool coming with your own horse, huh!
No I learned how to ride a horse yesterday and I overslept so it was the fastest way.
But you think you are better than everyone else!
No, I said. Why doesn´t he understand?
Now you are up for a beating, i´m gonna show who´s boss!
Many kids had started to see what happened and stood in a circle and just looked at us.
He was just about to hit when I avoided his hand wih made him angry. He had a little weak magic that he used and made a fireball of it and threw it at me. I let him hit me so that I could try to absorb the power so that noone else around gets hurt but I was a little reckless and I got a little hurt, but I healed muself a little.
So you can heal yourself?
Yes I learned it not so long ago.
Clinton tried one more time but I absorbed it all this time and it pissed him off. So he was going to have a fist fight instead and charged at me but I got him down one the ground. I released him 1 second later and he flew up like a mad bull and got irritated too.
Why are you doing this I haven´t done anything wrong, I said?
You rich people irritate me because you think you are smarter and more powerful than everyone else!
No that´s not true, at least i´m not like that.
You are like that don´t try to hide it!
Why would I have to hide it?
I know the king and if you don´t do as I say I will tell him, said Clinton and looked proud with what he just said.
I know that, I said. ´cause logically he does... He know me
Then you should do as I say and let me hit you or he´ll punish you!
No he isn´t mean I think he is a kind person, I said.
Noooo you don´t know him he is a mean person who kills everyone in his way.
No I... he would never do that I have known him for a long time and he would never do that.
Do you know him?
I´ve known him longer than anyone else has.
Liar, said Clinton and got a bit uneasy so he attacked me again.
I tried to get him down so he would stop so I hit him a little in the stomach, but it was a little harder than I thought but he stood up anyway and pulled his sword. He threw a woodsword to me so that he would have the advantage with a better sword. I didn´t want to but he gave me no choice. I was better than him because my mom was a good teacher even tough she took it too seriously. I got the sword away from his hand and it flew up in the air and I catched it.
Can we stop no class is starting soon, I said.
I am going to win over you sometime, Clinton said and ran away too his class!
You are pretty good at swordfighting, sade Anton and the others around me wanted to know how I learned it.
I learned it from my mom.
YOUR MOM!But women don´t fight, said Anton surprised.
Yes my was the best.
Was?, said Anton.
She died a year ago.
Sorry I brought it up.
It´s nothing I mean it was a year ago... We have to get to class now come on!
We got to look at our grades we had and I was the best in class, I got the highest grades. And the school ended just like that, But Conrad was late and I didn´t knew he was a person who gets late. Clinton jumped out of nowhere and tried to knock me down but my reflexes were to fast and I got him down. I let him go.
What is happening, said Conrad?
Nothing, I said.
Yuri we have to go back to the castle it´s an emergency.
We jumped fast on our horses and got as fast as we could to the castle.
What is it for an emergency, I said as we jumped down from our horses by the castle?
Come quick, said Gunter an into my office and he sat down on my chair.
It´s an emergency. Gunter said.
What is it, I said.
The choronation is in two days, said Gunter!
WHAT! But I don´t know what to do on a choronation, i´m not prepared and what about school? I said.
You have to skip school of course because after the choronation you can´t go to school anymore, ´cause you can only do things that´s about the people and we are gonna go trough what´s gonna happen on the choronation. Wolfram said.
Ok I understand that I have to quit school but I have to befriend Clinton first.
The one that attacked you when I came, Conrad asked me with a serious look on his face.
Yes he doesn´t like people wit a higher rank and he thinks we don´t care about people with a lower rank, I just want to be friends with him.
OK but it has to be before the choronation and why do you want to be friends with him if he attacks you, Conrad said.
Even if he uses magic or attacks me it is because of a misunderstanding and I am going to try to tell him that, and if I become his friend I have more friends, I said and smiled.
Oh, Conrad said.
But we have to fix everything for the choronation first, Gunter said.
But your Majesty has to learn what to do so that you don´t embarrass yourself, Wolfram said.
Yes, but you can call me Yuri!, I said. They still cal me majesty/highness!
But that is just a fake name you are worthy to be called majesty, Gunter stubbornly said.
But I want you to call me by that name because your majesty sounds kind of ugly, I said and looked at them.
How can you say it sounds ugly, Gunter said and almost fainted.
Call me that please, it´s my first name ever and I kind of like it.
Alright, if that´s your wish, Gunter.
After Gunter finally gave in and said he would call me Yuri he said we should work on how the choronation works.
You are going to have nice clothes and ride down from the castle and then you go off by a special building and there will be some important people there.
What important people?
They are the ones who will accept you as king, Wolfram said and walked to me. When he came to me he put his hand to me and as a reflex I took his arm and threw him on the ground. I didn´t know I would do that.
HOW COULD YOU IDIOT!, Wolfram shouted and got up in an instant.
Dont´t call me an IDIOT, I shouted back and slapped his face.
Everyone looked at me and I wondered why they were looking like the world just ended.
Why id you do that, take it back. Wolfram insisted but I refused.
Well if someone slaps you on the cheek it means you are proposing, Conrad explained.
But that shouldn´t count I threw him to the ground first!
You can´t change our words, Conrad said.
But Wolfram could refuse!
Yes but he can´t brcause of his pride, Conrad said.
It can´t be happening. I just accientally proposed and he doesn´t refuse because of his pride.
…...
Gunter teaches me more about choronation. It´s already night and I can´t sleep becvause i´m to nervous about the choronation and finding a way to befriend Clinton. I go up from bed and start singing a song that makes me calm down. Then Wolfram came in ´cause he heard something and stares at me.
You sing good, continue.
Ok, I said and continued. When I was done singing I felt better.
What are you doing here? I asked
I am your fiance now, so i´m here.
But you can´t be here when i´m going to bed OUT!
Ok! Wolfram said and walked fast out.
I fell asleep worried because Wolfram might take the proposal too serious and he thinks it´s two guys, I wonder what he´ll say if he finds out i´m a girl. But I won´t tell anyone because they would probably think the king task is too hard for me because i´m a girl.
…...
It´s morning and I skipped breakfast and rode with Conrad to school because I wasn´t that hungry. Then when we had a break in school I searched for Clinton to settle things ith him and befriend him.
- Clinton, why do not you rich and noble men, I said.
- They think they can do anything because they're rich, Clinton said.
- But can not we just be friends I don´t care about rank, I said.
- No, I do not believe you, said Clinton.
- But I think that you can not judge all rich to be like that, 'I said.
- Well all rich people are alike, Clinton said.
- No, they're not, I said.
- Well you think you're tough because you can buy anything expensive, Clinton said.
- No, the most precious thing you can´t buy is friendship, I said.
- N-no you can pay people to be your friends, Clinton said.
- No, and if people do it then it's still not friendship right? I said.
- No, maybe not, Clinton said.
- Everyone wants to have friends, I mean you are the first friends I've had, I said.
- Why do you want to be my friend if I'm mean to you, said Clinton.
- There will always be fights you just have to solve it, I said.
- Ok, Clinton said. He starts to want to be my friend a bit now but he is still not completely convinced.
- Please be my friend, I asked.
- Do you promise that you will never be mean even if your noble friends do not like me, Clinton said.
- Yes I would if I had had noble friends but I have not because I chose to go to this school, I said.
Clinton was a bit shocked because he thought that I would have 100 friends due to my rank and where I live. We became friends even though he hesitated a bit but we were not anyways. But the lesson started soon but I could not really pay attention to that soon they'll of course find out who I am and if they find out, I think they think they can not be my friends, which I obviously do not want to be the only in the palace that is in my age is Wolfram. It felt like the school ran out so fast to all of a sudden I was standing outside the school and waited for Conrad who was late due to the coronation to be prepared. He came finally with Shinou and I jumped on. Then I saw Clinton and said goodbye to him and he said goodbye back to me. Then we rode back to the castle but we took it more calmly and I looked around while we rode up the trail. The view was really nice, I had not noticed it before. Then after a while so we came. Gunter ran up to me we could practice the coronation and at the same time, he would teach me about the kingdom.
- Once you have been crowned so you can finally do something about the people, said Gunter.
- What do you mean to do anything about them? I said, surprised.
- We're going to war against the people, said Gunter.
- What! but we can not do that, I said.
- Why do not they're totally different from us, 'said Gunter.
- But they're also living beings, I said.
- But they are evil, said Gunter.
- But they look just like we do, the only difference is that they do not belong to this Kingdom or have magic, I mean where is the difference between a human and a demon both look the same, 'I said.
- People are stupid creatures and humans are humans and demons are demons there is an entirely different matter, said Gunter. Conrad came in to hear the quarrel.
- What's the matter, said Conrad.
- Simon thinks we should kill the humans, I said.
- But they're against us, 'said Conrad.
- But in that case, I want to make peace because I'm not gonna create wars ´cause without them i´ll hurt less people, I said.
- I do not know if everyone will agree and the people will be afraid of you or attack they will not come to meet you with open arms, 'said Conrad.
- But it takes time to trust someone you've been at war with, I said.
- Ok, you will of course be the king so that's for you to decide, said Gunter.
- I actually think it sounds like a good idea to try to make peace, but if something should happen to you, I will personally draw my sword, so they get a taste of my anger, 'said Conrad.
- You can also use magic, I said.
- No, I'm a human being, but my mother is from this kingdom so I'm half and I chose to be on the demons side, said Conrad.
- Wow I had not been able to think that, 'I said.
- Maybe not, but it's true, 'said Conrad.
- I believe you, but then you should be good with swords, I said.
- I'm the best, 'said Conrad.
- Wow that is impressive, canyou help me so that I learn to handle a sword better?, I said.
- Yes, but it will of course be another day, said Conrad.
- Yes of course, I said.
But we ended up talking for today and I learned a lot but if it is anything, it is that I will ensure that we create an alliance with the people so that they do not become afraid that we can use magic and so they do not become afraid of knowing who I am. I went to bed because I was tired after a long day and I was not hungry again today so I ate nothing. I fell asleep quickly and I know it will be difficult to tell my classmates, but I think I should tell them, and a positive thing is that i wont´t have to wear the contact lenses and the wig anymore.