The smell of flowers welcomed Pierce and Seal as they walked to the garden. The flowers have exceptional fragrance that almost stick onto Seal's dress. She can't help but to admire the beautiful garden. It's as if there is a hidden flower paradise in the castle. Seal can't blame herself if she accidentally picked one rose and extract it as a perfume.
"It's brother Kane's property. He likes flowers," Pierce said.
'It isn't obvious,' Seal sarcastically said on the back of her mind. Remembering how the first prince has a weird attitude towards flowers.
She roamed her eyes on the garden. Aside from flowers, there are different bonsais and plants there. And what's weirder is that, there are pink butterflies surrounding the plants. One flower caught her attention. The flower flickered when struck by light. It isn't just ordinary flowers. The flowers are bearing some golden coins.
"Are they real gold?" Seal asked Pierce with her eyes open-wide.
"Uh-huh. Brother Kane grew them to give to the poor family outside the Kingdom," he answered.
Seal felt amazed by what Pierce said. She never imagine a prince like Kane, who likes pink a lot, is helping those poor people in the Kingdom. She think that he is princely and probably selfish and spoiled. Maybe he has a good side but for only those who are good in sight.
'He is sure to be a great king.'
"Kane will be a great king," she deducted. On her side, Pierce plaster a sad smile.
"We know that he will be. Though, he doesn't wanted to be one. All he want is to have a simple life. It maybe a crazy plan for a crown prince but Kane prefers to be a simple prince. He won't take the place after father," Pierce said.
"What about Landon or Nyle? They can be a great king too," Seal tried to cheer him up
"Landon wants to be a warrior but not a King. He is responsible but he doesn't want to handle responsibilities. He wants to fights physically like what he just call hobby. And Brother Nyle, he's smart enough to be a king but he wanted to study to be part of the council."
Seal shut her mouth. Morie is too playful to be a king as well as Quintus. But who is she to judge? She just knew them for three days. Pierce can be a king too but I think he's too mysterious. Though Pierce is the one with her most of the time, she doesn't know anything except he's Landon's twin and the youngest prince of Song.
'You don't know anything about Ocean, too. He's the fourth prince and the vampire that marked you.' something in her mind whispered.
"Does it mean that I'm going to be Ocean's wife because he marked me?" Seal asked in wonder.
"Nope. You will need him but the mark can fade as long as you don't have communication with him. But as the mark fades, you will fade to. So basically, you need him to survive but that doesn't mean he's your husband," Pierce explained.
'Does it mean that he can have any woman in his life even if he already had me?' Seal asked herself.
Seal felt something in her chest. Unconsciously, she put her hand in her chest because she feels like her heart is being squeezed.
"You wanna visit other kingdom after the conversion?" Pierce asked, getting her back to her senses. She brushed a way the thought and nodded. She must enjoy the days in this world.
"I'll let fourth brother know so that he can accompany you once he came back from the dungeon," Pierce said while wiggling his eyebrows. This boy may look innocent but he's really not. Seal felt like Pierce is planning something with her relationship with Ocean.
Something with her relationship with Ocean snap in her kind. Seal doesn't want to waste her time so she asked Pierce about the most important thing she is curious about.
"Was that really Ocean's attitude towards people… err, vampires?" she asked. She didn't know what to call them. They aren't humans after all.
"What kind of attitude? Being cold?" Pierce assured and Sealina nodded.
He put his hand under his chin as if he was thinking. "Well, my brother is not that cold way back then. He was cool and a caring brother to us. But he became distant and reckless when Isa—"
Pierce didn't finish what he is about to say when the door or the garden opened revealing brother Landon's poker face. He looked at Pierce with a weird expression, more likely ignoring Seal.
"Enough time for the chitchat seventh brother. Our fourth brother's best friend from Paladin Kingdom is coming to take a look on our brother's girl," Landon said with his stern look. And Landon being himself, he turned his back at them after talking.
"Who's who?" Seal asked pertaining to the best friend of Ocean.
"That's just brother Ocean's best friend to death. He must've heard of Ocean's girl. You know, some insecure people over there. Insecure people share one rule. What our fourth brother have, they must have it, too. So let's go and hide from the prince," Pierce her with his eyes shining brightly. And that creeps her out.
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While Pierce and Seal are finding some place for her to hide, the five other brothers are inside the living hall talking about their incoming visitor.
"I am really amazed by Prince Brie. He really has a radar for beautiful girls. And the thing is, it's Ocean's girl. He really wanted to die early. He got the nerve to come here," Kane said while sniffing his pink rose.
"Well, after Ocean beat him in a drinking contest last week and got many votes in the handsome poll, he will really got a nerve to take revenge. Just like us, he must be interested to our future sister Sealina, too," said Quintus.
Morie, on the other hand, said on the back of his mind, 'I'm not interested to sister Sealina. I'm afraid brother Ocean will kill me for that.'
The chitchat of the Song princes when a familiar scent of sweet nectar entered the noses of the five siblings. The annoying and deathly scent of Prince Brie from the Paladin Castle.
"He got his annoying purple butterflies again?" Kane asked. Landon rolled his eyes at his eldest brother. Kane hates Brie's butterflies because they want to bond with Kane's pink ones and poison his lovely flowers.
"Welcome me, my brothers," Brie boastfully said as he entered the room with his purple butterflies flying around him. Each flap of their wings spread the addicting scent of the prince for the neighboring kingdom.
Brie roamed his eyes searching for a girl but failed to see her. He whispered some words to command his butterflies to search for the girl.
"Still no welcome hug? Should I cry already?" Brie joked.
"You're not welcome here, Prince Brie. We're not brothers," Landon said with his annoyed voice.
Brie plaster an annoying smile on his lips. "You're so bad towards me, brother Landon. Anyway, where's my best brother Ocean? Heard he got a girl?"
"He's coming over to knock you down again. Don't you dare lay your eyes at our sister Sealina or you'll be killed," Quintus glared.
Instead of being scared, Brie didn't stopped annoying the Song brothers. "Interesting. Sealina's her name? I bet she's as alluring as her title," said Brie while imagining how Ocean's girl look like.
After Prince Brie finished his sentence, the door flew open revealing beautiful Seal with Pierce behind her. He looked like a boy lost in a game.
'Just like my brother Ocean, Seal is hard-headed. She doesn't want to hide but wanted to see the evil best friend of our fourth brother.' Pierce thought.
Brie's eyes lit while looking at Sealina's beautiful face. Well, if ever Seal isn't marked and she's not Ocean's girl, she probably can attract any male beings.
The prince from Paladin started to approach her but before the last step close to her, a iced sword is aligned under his neck.
"Don't you dare make a stupid move or else it will be me who will to bring you to hell," Landon said who is at Brie's side.
Brie smiled. Seal looked at Brie's eyes. She doesn't know why but something in the prince's presence is attracting her. Without breaking the eye contact, Brie held Seal's hand and took it to his lips. Sealina's body stiffened as if she was possessed by something that is making her numb.
She can hear the flapping of the wings of the butterflies from the prince's back. Everything went fast and all that she knew is that the Song princes are cursing and her body is covered by butterflies. She can't move even if she tried to. She wanted to scream for help.
'Ocean...'
"He's going to kidnapped her. Ocean will definitely kill us," Morie said in panic though he's can't move from his position because of the purple smoke that prevents them from moving.
Not really long when they heard the door explode and a familiar cold voice echoed in the room.
"Get your hands off of my girl."