A few months passed by. It was two days before Christmas. Little Jacob was outside dueling with one of the guards. I felt that with him being a prince he would have to know how to fight. I knew it would come in handy for him one day. Even if the situation never came up where he had to use any of those skills, he would at least know them to teach to anyone else that might need to know what to do. It would be valuable information he could teach his children one day. I couldn't teach him. There were too many things for me to do. After all the slaughtering Donovan did, I had to take care of two kingdoms by myself. One day, I was in my study signing papers. Some of them were laws and others were some last-minute adjustments the lords of the other kingdom needed for signing over the rights to their kingdom to me. As I was concentrating on my work, little Jacob entered and said, "Sayaka. It's snowing and you promised to go outside and make snow angels with me and build a snowman." I didn't look up. I just said, "I'm sorry Jacob but I can't. I'm too busy. I still have a lot of work to do. A queen's work is never over. Go and ask Peter or Sam to do that with you." Jacob is only 9 years old and still didn't fully understand how busy things can be for older people. So, understandably, he got mad and said "No Sayaka! You always say that! I don't want to play with Sam or Peter! I want you to play with me! You never play with me anymore!" I was irritated because he was interrupting important work that needed to be done. I looked up and slammed my hands on the desk. My eyes turned blood red. "Who do you think you're talking to?! I'm the queen of this kingdom!! You will respect me!!!!" I yelled at him. Jacob got scared. He ran out and started crying. I got up, closed the door then walked towards my mini bar and poured myself some rum. After I poured the glass I looked up and saw myself in the mirror. I surprised myself. I ran out of my study looking for Jacob. I looked in his room, but he wasn't there. I came across Peter and asked if he had seen Jacob. He said "Yes. I saw him running towards the stables. He looked a bit upset about something. I think he was crying." I ran towards the stables. There he was. Sitting in a bed of hay, crying. I walked to him and sat next to him. "Jacob." I said in a normal voice. "I'm sorry I yelled at you. I just have a lot of work I need done. I don't always have time to play with you or spend time doing things with you. I don't even have time to spend with Peter or Sam all the time. I know you don't understand it because you're young, but I just don't always have the time. You will understand someday though. Will you forgive me?" I asked him. He turned to face me. "Yeah, but I still want to play with you. I love playing in the snow. Can we play when you aren't busy?" He said with a pouty face. "Okay. Just give me a few hours to sign some important papers and do a few things that need to be done today and I'll play with you. Okay?" I told him. "Yaay!!" He said with excitement as he hugged me then ran off towards the castle garden. I went back up towards my study and finished all the important papers of the day. Later, we were running in the snow throwing snowballs at each other and building snowmen.
Two days had passed, and it was Christmas Eve. I was in my study finishing some work. I decided to take a bit of a break. Since Christmas was coming up and there was a party, I had to go to later in the day I decided to unwind and take a warm bath. I thought I might as well since I had a little bit of time to kill before I had to get ready. It felt nice because it almost seemed like it was taking a lot of the stress away. It was a good reason not to do all the paperwork. It wasn't for a few more hours until I had to get ready so I took as long as I could. I didn't want to feel like I was rushing anything. "As they say, a queen is never late. Everyone else is just early." I said to myself with my eyes closed soaking in the bath filled with scented bubbles.
After about forty-five minutes I got up and out of my tub, dried off and headed towards my walk-in closet full of dresses and other outfits, along with a few weapons I liked to keep in there if anything was to happen and I needed them close by. When I was looking through all the things I could wear, I saw the dress I wore the day I went to Prince James's celebration for coming back home all those years ago. I had the servants come in and help me put it on. We first started with the underwear, the corset then the dress. I knew I could use my powers to put it on, but I didn't feel like using it because I wanted to save my strength for the party. I wanted to dance and have a good time with everyone there. Plus, I was almost always on my guard. I always had a thought in the back of my head that something would happen. Someone would come in and try to do something since that seemed to be a common theme. I always wanted to be as ready as possible so that I could attack and defend myself, the castle and the people in it if that was to happen. I had to have the dress adjusted a bit to fit me since I got wings. I was surprised it was able to fit good with it being readjusted around my wings. There had to be a few ribbons and strings added for support, but it still looked nice and fit very well. The servants walked out of my room and went on to do their duties. They left the door open, but I didn't realize it. I walked over to my vanity that had my party makeup in it and started to put it on. Sam walked up to the doorframe and knocked on the door. "Yes?" I said without turning around. "Prince James is here to speak with you." Sam replied. I paused for a moment. I didn't feel like talking with him. "What is it he wants to talk to me about?" I asked. "He didn't say. He just said he wanted to talk to you." Sam replied. "Okay, we'll let him in." I said as I was putting on my earrings. "Yes, your majesty." Replied Sam, James walked in then cleared his throat to let me know he had entered the room. "Alright, make it quick. What is it that you want to talk to me about? Is it important? And will it take long?" I asked him. "Is it alright if the door is closed? I would like this conversation to be private. If you don't mind, of course?" He asked me. "Don't worry he does not have any weapons of any kind your majesty. I checked." Sam said right away. "Okay. You may close the door Sam. But don't lock it." I said still facing my vanity while putting makeup on. "Yes, your majesty." Sam replied as he closed the door. I turned around, with only the foundation on my face done, and said. "So, what is it you want to talk to me about that is so important?" When I turned around, I saw that James was half naked. Due to him being in the dungeon, we had only given him a few pairs of raggedy pants to wear. He was given three meals a day but nothing special. He used his time down there to exercise. It was to pass by the time. It worked out very well in his favor because he was very toned. He had become very muscular. He looked as strong and buff as an Irish sailor always at the helm and doing the work his captain asked him to do. His shoulders had seemed to become broader and neck to be thicker. Even his jawline seemed to be stronger in some way. I admit that in all the years I had known him I had never seen him look more attractive than in that moment. I had always loved him and always found him to be very handsome, but he seemed to have improved himself in many ways.
He kept his arms at his side so I knew that he wasn't hiding anything and so that I knew that he wouldn't harm me. When I saw that, I noticed that his hands seemed a bit more muscular. Because he didn't have a belt, his pants sagged a little bit and I saw his V-line. It seemed to attract me even more towards him. It was a bit difficult, but I managed to hold my composure. It was a good thing I had at least had my foundation on otherwise he would see me lightly blush from seeing all the muscles on his body along with the outline of a certain body part I couldn't help but notice dangling down. He caught my attention by saying, "Don't worry. I know you have a party to attend in a few hours. I just wanted to take a minute or two of your time to tell you that," He paused for a moment then continued, "Well more or less ask you if you will go on a picnic with me and my little brother. I want to spend time with him. I know you have grown fond of him and he has come to like you a lot as well. So, I was wondering if we could have some sort of family time together. At least for him." He asked me. I looked down at his muscular body. I gazed on him for a moment to make it look like I was thinking about an answer when I was thinking of letting him just ravage me on the bed, he was standing just a few feet in front of me. I looked back up at him and said, "Alright. But there is something I want you to do for me." "What is it?" He said right away. "I need you to take those raggedy pants off." I paused. "Right now. But slowly." I continued. He had a confused look on his face. "I'll do it, but you don't have to worry. I won't hurt you." He replied. "I know." I said back, trying not to run over and climb on top of him. He slowly pulled his pants down as I told him to. When they had reached the floor, lying around his ankles, I saw that the outline did not disappoint me. "Remove it from your ankles and put it by the door." I told him. He still had a bit of a confusing look on his face not understanding what it was I was wanting him to do. I slowly walked up to him and put my right hand on his goods, slowly caressing it. "Does this feel good?" I asked him. He was shocked when I came up to him and touched him like that, but he didn't try and stop me. "Yes. It feels amazing." He was slowly starting to get an erection. I used my powers to undo the laces of my corset. I spread my legs a bit, lifted my dress and grabbed his hand and put it over my Dragon's lair and had him start to rub it with his fingers. He went along with it and it felt good. "Oh, my goodness Saya. You're so beautiful." He said. I started to squeeze his dong and thrusting my hand up and down, faster and faster as it started to feel even better for me as he was rubbing me. "Why are you doing this?" He asked me. "Do you want it to stop?" I asked. "No. I want it to keep going. I want more." Then he lifted me up, carried me to the bed, lifted the dress out of the way and tore the underwear off me in the area covering my Dragon's lair. He held me by my waist so I wouldn't get away and thrusted his hard doing inside of me as hard and fast as he could. It felt amazing. I couldn't help myself from moaning. For some reason he loved the sound I was making, and it made him cum so fast that he came inside of me. When he was done, he looked up at me and said, "I'm sorry my queen. It felt so good, I couldn't stop." That's okay. It felt really good for me too." I replied. We both got up. He put his torn-up pants back on and I used my powers to tie the strings of my corset back together again. I left my underwear alone since I knew no one could see it torn up under my dress. We smiled at each other. As James was reaching for the door to open it, he said, "Sayaka. I'm sorry about that day. The day you left all those years ago. I tried facing my father, but something happened. I don't remember much of what happened. I do remember trying to face him, but I can't figure out what it was that happened to everyone, or the castle. I should have gone after you. I don't know why I didn't, but I wish I did. Things would be a lot different. We probably wouldn't be in this war. Even if the war happened anyway, I should have been here by your side to help you." "I'll figure something out. Maybe Peter can help out with solving what happened that night." I replied. Then James turned the knob, opened the door and went back to the dungeon with Sam. I closed the door as I walked back to my vanity and finished putting my makeup on. When I was done with my makeup, I walked out my room and headed down the hallway to the ballroom. Peter was walking towards me and said, "There you are. You're early. Not everyone is here yet." He said as he started to walk to the right of me. "That's okay. I'll just sit down somewhere or mingle with a few people before the party starts." I replied. When everyone had arrived, I walked over to the throne room. I made a hand gesture signaling the horn players and announcer and pointed in the direction to the throne room. The horns made a load noise to get everyone's attention. "Attention all!" The announcer shouted. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at him. "The queen has an announcement to make. Please head to the throne room." He continued in the same volume. Then everyone headed to the throne room. I waited for everyone to gather together as I sat on my throne. "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for coming to the Christmas party. I hope that all of you have been having a good time tonight so far. What it was that I wanted to announce to all of you is that I have recently added a new member to my ever-growing family. His name is Jacob." Jacob was at the edge of the crowd of people. I extended my arm. "Come here." I said with a smile. He walked over towards me and stood to the right of me. He turned to face the crowd. "This is Jacob. He is the son of King James III. He will be staying with me here at the castle. Even though he is not my son, I will treat him as if he is." I continued. Everyone looked around at each other mingling in whispers. "I hope that everyone will accept him as much as I have. He will need to go to school soon. I want him to have a normal life. Something he was not given before. I know it will be hard to accept him because of what the king did but it's not Jacob's fault what his father did. He did not know what it was his father was doing." I explained. Then one of the tree sprites came up, smiled at me and Jacob and turned to face the crowd. "I accept him. He will be accepted in my realm. The tree sprites will be more than willing to teach him to love the earth and see what it's like to live off the land." I smiled and said, "Jacob will then spend spring in the realm of the tree sprites, learning all he can from your people." Then the tree sprite turned back around to face Jacob and me, bowed then walked back into the crowd. Then a Centaur walked forward from the crowd. He bowed and said, "I am Grisul. Jacob can come to my realm and learn things like, reading, math and history." "Very well." I said. "Jacob will go to the realm of the Centaurs in the summer." I announced. Everyone clapped in happiness. Then Grisul bowed and walked back into the crowd. "Is there anyone else that will be willing to teach Jacob the things he needs to know for when he grows up?" I looked around and no one had stepped forward. I will send letters to each remaining realm asking for such help. Thank you to those who had come forward." I announced. It was about midnight and the party was over. Everyone had left. I was in my room sitting in front on my mirror messing with a few strands of my hair thinking about the dream I had with Dante and my parents. I put on my robe and walked out to the garden. I sat down on one of the cement benches where all the Moonflowers were. I picked one out and smelled it. Peter was walking around the corner with some papers in a book he was me. He was holding a note book trying to read some of his notes he had made. He looked up for a moment so he could see where he was going so, he wouldn't trip. When He looked up, he saw me in the garden. He closed his book and walked over to me. "Hello. What are you doing up so late? Aren't you tired?" He asked. I turned to him and said, "I could ask you the same question." "Sorry, I didn't mean to pry into your business. I'll leave you alone." He replied as he turned to walk back the other way. I smiled and patted the empty space on the bench next to me and said, "Come sit next to me." He turned around and sat on the bench. "I came out to say Merry Christmas to my parents. Plus, there was a dream I had a while ago and I couldn't stop thinking about it. It was a dream that happened right here in the garden. I'm still trying to make sense of some parts of it." He smiled and said, "That's nice of you. But try not to think too hard about it. If you think too hard on it then it will distract from what really needs to get done. Besides, I was going over my notes and books and found some solutions that will help us win this war. It will help us get more allies as well. But it will make us have to postpone Jacob's schooling for a few years. Unless we can get it done sooner than expected. Either way his schooling will have to wait." I turned more towards Peter and with excitement I said, "That's great Peter. What did you figure out?" "Well I've been doing research on some of the realms the past few months. When I saw both the Tree Spirit and the Centaur willing to do schooling for Jacob it helped confirm that those realms are loyal to those that will make sure the destruction of their realm will not happen. If we go over to them and tell them that we need their help, then we could get much better reinforcements and win this war faster. It seems that we can't get anything done. So, if we go over to those realms then we can just have them help us. We just need to go over to them and simply ask for their help. They have no reason not to help us." He replied.
With a smile on my face I said. "Okay. That sounds like a good plan. We'll start heading over there as soon as we can. I'll start packing to leave when I wake up tomorrow morning." "Okay. Awesome. I'll do that same." Peter replied. Then got up and walked back towards the direction he came from. "This is great." I thought to myself. "We can finally finish this war and I can finally be with my James. All the work that we both put in would be worth it. We can both be together, and we don't have to worry about him getting hurt anymore. I'm tired of people trying to take him away from me all the time. After this we can finally finish the rest of our lives together and rule together. Just like we both wanted to from the very beginning. Once this war is over, we can live out a normal royal life with James. We will have children together to pass on our legacy. And with little Jacob as their uncle and Peter as their personal magician and mentor to help teach them what to know and how to do things, the kingdom will be restored and back to what it's supposed to be." I was so excited. I was so happy that when I had got up into my room and got into bed, I fell asleep right away. A couple of months passed by Peter started acting different towards me and Jacob. Then one day Jacob ran to my room crying I got up and he said "Sayaka is its true what Peter said?" I looked at Jacob and said, "what did Peter say to you?" Jacob calmed down a little for me to understand him he said, "Peter said that it's my father's fault that you and James stopped loving each other, is it true?" I got up from my bed went into my closet and got dressed and I grabbed Jacob by the hand, and we walked outside looking for Peter he was drinking so we went towards him "how dare you tell a child that it was his father's fault that I and James couldn't see each other again." And peter being so drunk said "well your highness its true isn't it, if were telling secrets then I should tell your people that you're a slut sleeping with anyone with a penis." I got so mad I clenched my fists and I slapped Peter and I ordered the guards to put Peter in the dungeon for the night until he is sober and able to talk. The next morning, I was awoken with hugs and kisses from Jacob I opened one eye and said, "what is it Jacob it's too early to get up go back to sleep." Jacob got mad and he pulled my covers off me and said, "come on Sayaka I have a surprise for you…please?" so I gave up and I got up and said, "ok Jacob I'm up so now go and wait outside the room so I can get dressed." Jacob left the room and I got dressed and in less than 10 minutes I was ready when I opened the door Jacob grabbed my arm and we started to run towards the garden and I said "where are we going Jacob?" then Jacob pointed towards the whipping willow tree, so I went inside and there was James with a picnic basket and everything, I didn't want to be rude so I sat with James and Jacob we were eating a baguette with fancy cheese and a bottle of red wine and juice. As I was drinking the wine which was my favorite James said "Sayaka I want to tell you something that I meant to tell you that day I came back from the war." I just nodded and kept on drinking the wine. So, James looked at me and said "Sayaka Marie Dracul…I love you…. would you marry me." I started to cough looked at James and said "what? What did you just say?" with a smile he said, "I love you would you marry me?" I was so confused I didn't know what to do so I said, "can I think about it this came out of nowhere." James kissed me and said, "yes think about it then give me your answer." I nodded I got up I thanked James and Jacob for the picnic and walked away I went to the library and kept on thinking on James question. When Sam came in and said "Sayaka he's awake. Peter wants to speak to you." I nodded and said, "alright I'll be there." I walked towards the dungeon and I ordered the guards to open the cell door I walked in and Peter saw me he was on his knees and said "please Sayaka I'm so sorry please forgive me?" I looked at Peter and said, "I'm not the one you should ask for forgiveness." I turned around to leave and Peter tried to grab me he had a steak in his hand, and I said, "I was going to forgive you but after this I won't you are exiled from this kingdom Peter." I ordered the guards to pack up all his stuff and give him a ride to the border and before they left, I said "Peter you are exiled from this kingdom if I see you back here you will suffer the Baldassare death. Everyone gasped when I said that and Peter said, "what is the Baldassare death?" I smiled and said "the Baldassare death is being burned to alive." Peter gasped and the guards put him on the carriage and rode off I was so mad I took off my cape and flew to the top of the castle and opened my wings and roared so loud that the werewolves of lycanthrope howled. I flew down James saw me and Just smiled I ran towards him and jumped on him he caught me, and we kissed everyone gasped and James looked at me and said "Sayaka?" I nodded and said, "yes James my answer is yes I'll marry you." He was so happy he troweled me in the air and Jacob came out and started cheering. Three months later after Peter left, I was in my study signing peace treaties with other kingdoms. When Jacob came in and said "Sayaka it's here." I looked up and said, "what's here?" he looked at me and said, "your wedding dress its here." I looked at him and said "WHAT?" I ran out of my study and ran towards my room and there it is my wedding dress that Nana made for me it's perfect. Three weeks later James and I were in the garden drinking tea when one of the guards came running and said, "your highness we have a problem." I looked at the guard and said, "what's the problem?" he looked at me with fear and said, "it's Jacob he's gone." James and I got up and said, "gone what you mean gone?" he explained to me that they looked everywhere in the castle and in town, but no one saw him. Then I closed my eyes and called for Jacob and I saw Jacob was tied up and the person who took him it was Peter and he said to Jacob "I know you can see me Sayaka if you want him back come get him you and James come to the waterfall." I opened my eyes in anger I made a fist and smacked it on the table, and I said, "Dam it how dare he take Jacob." James looked at me and said "who Sayaka? Who has Jacob?" I looked into James's eyes and I said, "Peter has Jacob; he wants us to meet him at the waterfall." So, James agreed we went to the waterfall we got there no one was there yet I looked at James and said, "you remember the first time you chased me here James?" he smiled and said, "yes I remember my darling." When he said that he held me in his arms and looked into my eyes and kissed me so deeply. Then we hear someone coming we see Jacob tied up and with his eyes covered, right behind him was Peter I saw him, and I said, "what is the meaning of this Peter please let Jacob go he's just a child." Peter with a devilish smile said, "you want this human child back you could have had anyone, but you chose to be with the one person who started this stupid war." I looked at Peter I started to walk towards him, and he said, "don't take one more step or I'll make sure he forgets all of what has happened." So, I backed up because Peter was holding a pouch of forget-me powder, I looked at Peter I closed my eyes and sighed and then I opened my eyes and I said, "ok Peter what is it that you want?" Peter looked at me he said in anger "everything we went through, at first it was just sex then I fell in love with you I thought you felt the same, but I guess I was wrong." I felt bad for him, then I got on my knees and looked at Peter and said, "I'm sorry Peter I didn't feel the same." He took out a steak and I just froze James saw that I froze he went behind Peter and they started to fight I saw an opportunity and I went to untie Jacob he saw me and hugged me, I hugged him back and I looked at Jacob straight into his eyes and said "Jacob what I said about using your powers?" Jacob nodded and said "yes you told me never to use them. That's why you gave me this necklace." I nodded and looked at Jacob and said, "well take it off and save your brother from Peter, don't kill him just knock him out ok." Jacob nodded he took off his necklace and gave it to me to hold and Jacob was covered in a dark purple smoke and he grabbed Peter and found his pressure point and knocked unconscious. James was glad we all hugged, and I gave Jacob his necklace he put it back on and we turned to leave when Peter got up and said "Sayaka if I can't have you no one can." Peter threw the pouch of forget-me powder James and Jacob both pushed me I hit my head in a tree and I saw James and Jacob got hit with the powder the last thing I remember is that James and Jacob coming towards me before I blacked out. I woke up in my room I got up got dressed and walked out of my room and everyone I saw gasped then I saw this young man and he came towards me and hugged me and said "Sayaka your awake. I've missed you." He let me go I looked at him and I said, "who are you?" he looked at me and he said, "you don't remember me Sayaka it's me Jacob." I looked at him in surprise. I looked at Jacob and I said, "Jacob really...how old are you know?" he smiled and said, "I'm 25 years old…there is something I must tell you." I looked at Jacob and said, "what is it you wanted to talk to me about?" we walked towards the Garden and there I saw a tombstone with the name of King James IIII. I looked at Jacob and I started to cry I cried so much I fell asleep.