Another Chapter, this one I really pulled out all of the stops with references. I hope that most readers will actually get them, if not then you should really search for them and look them up yourself you'd be missing out if you didn't get them.

Julius sat on a couch that was inside of Bernard Fe Atlee's main office inside of his mansion. Bernard was staring intently at the genius upstart, Prince Julius and his maid that was standing behind the couch where her master was sitting.

"I'm sorry Lord Julius," Bernard spoke from behind his crossed fingers that were partially hiding his face reminding Julius of Gendo from Evangelion minus the glasses. "But why are you coming to me with such a request," he sounded confused. "Does the Palace not have an airship that you could borrow?"

"Yes," Julius closed his eyes and smirked. "But my mother would find out and I know that she'd stop me…" he sighed. "That woman has become more overprotective over the years and I don't really know why…"

Erica coughed into her fist behind him. "It's probably due to all of the new inventions that you've made along with the ability to look at other people's statuses." She glanced down at the top of his head while he rubbed it. "Not to mention all of the new spells that you and your fiancée have come up with. The Academy and the Magic Guild have been in a total uproar. They've been hounding your mother to let you teach at both of their schools…"

"Wait," Julius stiffened while he turned to stare at Erica who turned her head when his eyes met hers. "What do you mean teach? I haven't even enrolled in the academy yet! I have another three years before I can attend and they are asking me to teach people who are much older than me?" He sounded worried and scared to both Bernard and Erica's ears.

Julius sighed. "Never mind all of that…" Julius took a deep breath and pretended that Erica hadn't said anything. "Lord Bernard would you let Erica and I to borrow one of your airships, I promise to return it before sunset!" He gave Bernard pupydog eyes and even added a very pitiful pout.

Bernard lowered his gloved hands leaned back in his chair and sighed. "I will…"

Bernard was cut off when Clarice entered the room, "Daddy the new engines are too hard to tune, do you think we could possible reduce the output slightly…" She had a pile of papers in her hand and was looking over the top one while she walked toward her father's desk. She noticed several extra people in the room. She dropped the papers and went wide eyed when she realized who it was that was sitting on her father's couch. "Prince Julius, what are you doing here?" She cried while she crouched down to pick up the papers that she dropped.

"I came here to ask to borrow an airship ," Julius replied while getting up off the couch to help the older girl gather up the scattered papers. "He's being… difficult… to say the least." Julius gave Bernard a cold stare while handing the stack of papers that he picked up back to Clarice.

Clarice blushed a bit when she took the papers from Julius's hand and placing them under the ones that she had retrieved. "Daddy," she eyed her father while she straightening up. "Can't we accommodate Prince Julius? I know that we have two airships that he could use, though one of them does need a bit of work…" She glanced at Julius and then at her father who was pressing his fingers to his forehead and sighing.

"Clarice," Bernard spoke with calm authority. "I can't simply let Prince Julius take one of our airships and head off to who knows where with it..." He gave Julius a half hearted apologetic shrug. "I'm sorry your majesty, but I would need authorization from the Palace in order to allow you to borrow one…"

"But daddy," Clarice stomped over, slammed her bundle of paperwork down on his desk and slapped her own palm down on top of it. "This is the Genius Prince we're talking about, not my idiot fiancée or one of the other three stooges!"

Julius was a bit shocked when Clarice called the trio of idiots with the term that he coined for them. Jilk, Brad, Chris and Greg, he thought of the three major pains. I still can't believe that Chris has actually turned into Shemp, so I guess there are four stooges now. Julius sighed.

"That doesn't matter," Bernard glanced at Julius before giving his daughter a pitiful look. "All of the nobles have been ordered by the Queen herself that we prevent Julius from doing anything idiotic…" his eyes turned to the blue haired boy who had returned to his seat on the couch and was now frowning. "That includes taking an airship without authorization."

"Let me guess," Julius shook his head. "I'm much too valuable to the kingdom, now that I've regained my past memories," he slumped and shook his head. "If I was still that shitty prince then mother wouldn't care so much about what I do… fuck…" he vigorously rubbed his hair completely disheveling it. "I'm starting to feel like Princess Buttercup after she was captured by that scummy Prince Humperdink…"

"Who," Bernard, Clarice and Erica all asked confused.

"Oh, come on," Julius got up off the couch and yelled. "Don't tell me that you don't even know The Princess Bride? That movie was a total classic! I must have watched it at least fifty times, my buddies and I would always quote lines from it! Hello my name is Indigo Montoya! You killed my father…prepare to die! Or, you keep saying that word but I do not think it means what you think it means! Not to mention Have fun storming the castle! Really what is wrong with you people?" He glared at all of the occupants in the room. "They made T-shirts and posters with those lines on them, not to mention all of the memes…"

"I am sorry Prince Julius," Erica walked around the couch to place a reassuring hand on his shoulder. "But we have never heard of this... Princess Bride that you're talking about…"

"And that is really sad," Julius was about in tears. "I mean come on Star Wars, Star Trek, The Sandlot, all of the TGIF shows! The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, well ok so the first five seasons on H.B.O were awesome, but the rest were trash," he folded his arms and nodded before perking back up again. "The Goonies, now I know that you've heard at least one or two lines from that movie…" his very eager gleaming eyes made Erica's eye twitch before she shook her head. "Come on, 'Hey you guyyyysssss!' really nothing," he was even more depressed when all he saw was a bunch of blank, or confused looks on their faces. He slowly slumped back down on the couch and covered his face with both hands. "I miss Mark, or Alex we could go the entire shift just talking in movie quotes."

"Wait," they all looked to Bernard who had a very strange smirk on his face. "Prince Julius you mentioned The Lord of the Rings didn't you?"

Julius nodded his head making the man smile wide. "My ancestor," Bernard got up from his desk to walk over to the bookshelf that lined the wall behind the chair, even Clarice was wondering what he was up to. Bernard gabbed one of the books on the shelf and pulled it down. The two shelves separated.

"A secret room," Julius's eyes sparkled with excitement. "This is the first time I've actually seen one!"

Bernard noticed that his daughter had gone slack jawed and her eyes were wide open. He chuckled. I still haven't told her about this room yet, I was going to wait until after she graduated, but I know that I've seen that title on one of the old relic books, that was the only thing that our ancestors deciphered. Perhaps Julius can actually read it, Bernard thought, he shook his head in order to prevent Clarice, or Julius from fallowing him down into the revealed stairwell. Bernard returned a few minutes later with a very tattered edition of J.R.R Tolkin's book.

"So, some of the classics actually survived," Julius spoke softly when Bernard handed him the book with a smile on his face.

"You look like you're about to cry," Bernard patted his shoulder. "Prince Julius, please don't get tears on my book, it is very, very old you know."

"Oh," Julius wiped his face with the back of his sleeve, "You have no idea… this was written by J.R.R Tolkin shortly after world war one."

There was a gasp heard from Clarice and Erica but a gruff hum, from Bernard.

"We only have pieces of the ancient history, but I didn't know that even the ancient ones had a global war."

"Two," Julius gently rubbed his fingers over the title on the beat up cover of Tolkin's book. "Actually."

"What," Bernard even gasped at that. "Two world wars!"

Julius nodded, "Did you not know that the three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever," Julius smirked while he tilted his head to the side. "That was a quote from a girl by the name of Mariemaia Khushrenada… it still holds true even today." He frowned while he again rubbed his fingers over the book's title. "It is good to see that not all things have come to an end or have been lost to the ravages of time," Julius handed the book back to Bernard who took it from him with a frown.

"Can you actually read what is says"— Bernard asked while trying to get Julius to accept the book again. —"and is that another quote from another person of the past, Prince Julius?"

"No"— he shook his head. —"that was something that I've learned after a lifetime of observation. To your first question, yes," Julius held out his hand to prevent Bernard from "I can read the English language, I am probably the only one who understands it…"

"So Prince Julius," Clarice had a very excited and eager expression on her face. "What kind of ancient spell book is The Lord of the Rings?"

Julius laughed. "It's not a spell book, though there are spells referenced in it." He shook his head. "It was a story that represented an allegory of the Great War… no more, no less. I am afraid that your book is nothing more than a work of fiction."

Both Bernard and Clarice seemed very disappointed and even a bit discouraged when Julius told them that their book wasn't what they thought it was. Bernard looked very depressed when he took the book back down into the hidden room. The bookshelves closed up while the demure man lumbered back to sit behind his desk. "I am afraid that I cannot lend you an airship Prince Julius, but if you're ever free sometime I will let you look over the other books and relics inside of our vault, perhaps you will find a true treasure and not just some old literature…" he gave the Prince and his maid a halfhearted smile before dismissing them with a wave.

Julius gave Bernard a slight bow in thanks before closing the double doors to the man's office.

"What now my lord," Eric asked a bit worried. "Are we to forgo the mission?"

Julius shook his head while he walked beside Erica down the hallway. "No, we'll just have to find another noble to borrow an airship from," Julius smirk made Erica go wide eyed with concern. "Perhaps we should try a noble who doesn't like the royal family… one that wouldn't mind if the upstart crown prince goes missing…"

"Please don't say such things Prince Julius," Erica stopped, grabbed his arm in order to scold him. "You mean a lot too many people, if you were ever killed then…" She trailed off, my heart would break, she thought.

"I hate to tell you this Erica," Julius reached up and patted the frowning woman's head. "but my life, your life all life will come to an end…" Julius's smile made Erica's face darken. "Every new beginning is some other beginning's end," Julius sing songed. "I don't remember all of the words to that song, but there was something about putting a heart in a blender I think?" he shrugged, while Erica was aghast and appalled by the words to the song. Julius turned and started walking again, he even began whistling the tune to the song. While they continued Julius had apparently recalled more lines from the song because he started singing again.

"I would choke on the rinds, but the lack thereof would leave me empty inside, swallow my doubt turn it inside out, find nothing but faith in nothing…" Julius started whistling again.

"Julius," Erica glared at him. "That song is horrific, why would you ever sing something like that… or even listen to something like that?"

Julius shrugged. "They played it on the radio all the time in the nineties… Oh I remember another song!" Erica liked the lyrics to the new song much better than the one he was previously singing, but it was still disturbing for her to listen to him. "Court is in session, the verdict is in, no appeal on the docket today Just my own sin, the walls are cold and pale the cage made of steel, screams fill the room so I drop and kneel, silence now the sound my breath the only motion around, demons cluttering around… and I forgot the rest…" Julius closed his eyes and hummed the tune in hopes that he'd remember the rest of the song, his eyes snapped open again. "Creed," he turned to Erica and yelled. "The band was called Creed and the song was titled My Own Prison, damn, how could I have forgotten that?"

"Please, Prince Julius," Erica placed her hand on his shoulder to stop him. "If you're going to continue singing such disgusting songs at least don't do it while I'm around…"

"Fine," Erica has no taste in music, Julius thought while he slumped a bit, but then perked back up again. "Can I at least hum it?"

Erica sighed. "If you must," this time it was her turn to slump while she even shook her head when Julius started walking again and started humming a different tune.

"Prince Julius," Erica grew very curious after Julius hummed six different tunes and had started a seventh. "Just how many songs do you remember from your previous life?"

"Hmm," Julius closed his eyes and stopped halfway down the steps to the Atlee's mansion. "I don't know," he reopened his eyes and looked to the cloudy sky above. "I remember, quite a few of Metallica's songs, along with more from both AC/DC and Skillet. I remember a few from Poison. A very few of Pat Benatar's, Stevie Nix's... Oh! I of course know several famous hits from Fleetwood Mac. Then there's ELO or the Electric Light Orchestra, News Boys, Disturbed…" Julius turned to look at his dumbfounded secretary. "Lots!" he gave her a very broad grin.

"And do you think that you could reproduce all of the songs that you remember?" Erica asked with a gleam in her eyes, I wonder if he knows any songs that I might like, she thought. "I mean hypothetically?"

Julius sighed and shook his head. "I can remember the tunes and some of the lyrics, but I don't remember all of them so… it would be difficult," he frowned. "and though I considered myself to be an audiophile in my previous life I've been much too busy with learning magic and recreating the weapons from my memories…" Julius and Erica both let out lengthy sighs. Reproducing music is just not in the cards, they both thought.

Julius and Erica turned to look toward one of the bushes on their left while they made their way toward the entrance of the Atlee's compound. The bush was very unusual because it kept saying 'pst,' to them over and over again. When they got closer to the bush, it started talking to them. "I have been told by my mistress that you are in need of transportation," the bush said.

Julius smirked and Erica closed her eyes and smiled. "Yes mister bush," Julius replied. "You have heard right, my secretary and I are looking for a small airship to use, why?" Julius placed his hands on his hips and eyed the suspicious bush suspiciously making Erica giggle, though she tried hard not to do so very loudly.

"Are you telling me mister bush, that you have an airship that we could borrow?" Julius's face was almost inside the bush he had gotten so close to it, this made Erica giggle a bit louder so she covered her mouth. Julius ignored his secretary's antics while he continued to interrogate the suspicious bush.

"I believe that I have an airship available that you could use," the bush rustled a bit. "But it will need some repairs to be airworthy."

Julius stiffened and crossed his arms, menacingly which only caused Erica to fully burst out laughing. Julius rolled his eyes. "I think I can manage a few minor repairs," he smiled rather evilly. "I even know a few people that can help me if need be."

"Yes," the bush rustled again. "The men in the workshop do know their stuff…"

"Oh," Julius narrowed his eyes at the suspicious bush again. "I'm shocked that a mere bush was so well informed."

The bush coughed. "I believe that you're familiar with proverb, the trees have eyes? That goes for bushes too."

"Uh, huh," Julius sounded very unconvinced. "Well a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush," Julius quipped right back. "Even if it's a bush that talks, now if you were a singing bush like from the Three Amigos then, then I'd be very impressed."

The bush actually laughed a bit, but then coughed. "Yes, well the airship will be delivered to that location by the day's end… my mistress has guaranteed it!"

"I didn't think that bushes had mistresses," Erica sounded confused and she even rested her fist on her cheek in contemplation. "What will the gardener say when he finds out?"

"He'll probably," Julius eyed the suspicious bush. "Either cut it down to size," he held an invisible pair of clippers in his hands before saying 'snip' and closing said invisible clippers. "Or, burn it!" Julius said with a very evil smirk on his face

"Oh, my," Erica spoke in such a way that she sounded like she actually cared about the bush's wellbeing. "I suppose that we can't look a gift bush in the branch, Prince Julius, now can we?"

Julius groaned at Erica's butchering of that proverb. "Erica, the gag was going really well until you said that…"

The bush really started rustling, and then it broke out laughing.

Julius shook his head before turning around and heading for the exit of the estate leaving the bush to its business. Erica had a full blown pout on her face the entire walk back to the palace.