Night time, two guards just finished their duties and are coming to a tavern for a drink. The tavern called Moonbay is one of the oldest taverns in the city and most reputable. It doesn't look anything fancy being made out entirely of wood. It might the one of the oldest but it was never expansive to drink in there, and that's why they never bothered to make it look anything new. All of their customers are a staple in there and their fathers and forefathers have been drinking here and it became like a tradition.
Zac and Gill enter through the door in the tavern and it's lively as always. There are old wooden chairs and tables everywhere filled with people. At the counter there's a burly man standing and wiping some wooden tankards.
Zac and Gill just entered and are looking for a seat:
"Looks like we gonna have to stand and drink this time again Gill 'Sigh'"
"Looks like it man"
They approach the old counter
"Two ales John" Says Gill
"You got it" says the burly man who's name is John
"Have you heard the news Gill" asks Zac
"What news" responds Gill
"About the King adopting a son"
"Oh really, well it was to be expected since it became a tradition of our kingdom that every king adopts a son"
"True, although I wonder why, our kingdom is the only one who has a wierd tradition like that, all the other neighbouring kingdoms royals don't even want to be in the same room as commoners"
"Hehe our kingdom is better then theirs"
"Not really did you forget aboutthe seventh Prince, he despises commoners, 5 days ago he ordered one to be killed because he didn't move out of the carriages way fast enough, and the rest of his brothers and sisters and just a bit better"
"But our the king always adopts one commoner throughout his reign. I wonder how will the Royal blood treat him, will that boy have his life turned around for the better or worse."
" He is a commoner boy without parents even if they just give him some food and a place to stay his life will be better, I'm sure the king will protect him"
"Here's your ale " says John and passes them to Zac and Gill
"Oyy I hear you are talking about the King adopting a son, I heard he is young only 15, I wonder if he will have a chance to take the throne after the King chooses who is heir is going to be"
"What are you talking John, the other Princes will never allow that although he will have a title of Prince it's just for show because of the tradition" responds Gill and lightly chuckles
"Yea, Gill is right, its just for show, there's no chance he will be lucky if he survives long enough to see who the new king will be, now that the king adopted a son a new king will be chosen in a few years"
"Now that you mentioned it, what happened to the other adopted ones from generations before, you never hear from them" asks John. As he works at the counter he is used to talking to alot of customer and listening to rumors and some miscellaneous information.
"I don't know, how about you Gill" responds Zax
"I don't know either, they never say anything and it's not our business what happens inside the royal family as long we live a nice life"
"I guess your right, we commoners just want to spend our lives in peace hoping our Kingdom doesn't go to war"
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Inside a giant hall two guards are walking with a kid in between them. The guards look exactly the same, they wear shining silver heavy armor and carrying long shields in one arm and a silver spear in the other, a helmet covers their head only showing their eyes. On the breastplate and shield is a symbol of black crescent moon the symbol of their Targon kingdom. The boy between them is looks less then half their size has black hair and purple eyes, he is wearing some common noble clothes and around him is a white robe with the same moon symbol as the guards. The only ones the have the right to wear that symbol on their robes are the royal family and it shows their status.
As they are walking they arrive in front of this huge doorframe which is atleast 5 meters tall carved with alot of mystic symbols. There stand another two guards looking the same as the guards who arrived with the boy. As they see them approaching they open the giant door that look like should not be able to open with just 2 people pushing it. They enter inside the two guards close the door and return to their duty while the guards who came with the boy just stood at the side of the now closed door joining with the other guards in the room who stand around the room with only 2 meters separating them. The room where the boy entered is giant, while the door where just 5 metres in height, now from floor to the ceiling is atleast 15 meters. While from side to side its 30 meters. Every 2 meters near the wall there is a guard standing, still not moving at all looking like statues. In the room there are 14 people 9 males and 5 females in luxury clothes befitting of someone who is allowed to be in this room. At the end of the room their is a throne on it sitting a male looking around 50 years old with a silver robe. The throne looks like its made from pure silver but seeing how wealthy the room looks like it's probably not silver but some other unknown metal. As the boy approaches the other people he has to walk atleast 50 meters and keeps passing giant pillars standing at the sides every 10 meters, so their is 5 pillars at each side so wide that 3 of the guards with their arms spread out probably can't surround it. They look the same as the throne where the king is sitting full of mystic carvings on them that seem to give off some light. At the ceiling there are stones that give shine light because there are no windows in the throne room. As the boy approaches he looks at the people that are already there and here one of the males say:
"Father why do you have to adopt a filthy commoner into our family, I don't see the point of that stupid tradition, and why does he get to live in the forbidden mansion, even first brother isn't allowed in there, it makes no sense father"
The man sitting at the throne said nothing when he heard that comment but when he saw the boy approaching he furrowed his brows and yelled at his 7th son
"Timothy this is our tradition from the days of our founder how dare you question it!!"
The rest of them hear the sound of footsteps approaching and see a handsome male with black hair and purple eyes. Some of them seem surprised by he's looks, others though didn't seem to care. There are 13 people around the King, 7 of them are princes there are 5 princesses and one other old man, the kings advisor. When he approached he did a light bow to the king, almost all of them furrowed their brows because of this, the etiquette is to kneel in front of the king usually. The king seeing this hurriedly said
"This is your new adopted brother I already told him he doesn't need to kneel in front of me. Introduce yourselves"
They look into each others eyes though they are not willing to waste time on this they have to do it because father follows the tradition, and the first one to step out and introduce himself is a male looking around 30 years with silver hair and blue eyes he is taller then all the other people in the room and wears the same robe as all others.
"Hello young brother I'm Alistair, I'm the first Prince nice to meet you what's your name?"
He looks at him with indifference and says
"Lucifer"
Suprised by the indifference and a little angry but still hiding it skillfully behind his smile says
"Nice to meet you, welcome to the family"
The next one to step out and introduce themselves are the shortest of the males, the twins, they look the same with their handsome face but the hair and eyes are the same as the rest of them, it seems to run in the family.
"We are the 5th and 6th Prince Quinn and Quenn"
One of them says while the other keeps quiet.
Then the rest of them start introducing themselves
"Im Percy, the third prince"
"I'm Watson, the fourth Prince"
"I'm Charles nice to meet you"
The there is only one more male to introduce himself the seventh Prince, the adviser already met the boy before them with the king.
As he see he is the only male left he scoffs and says
"He isn't worthy for me to introduce myself to him, he is just a commoner not a noble blood"
The king moves his hand a bit and the adviser disappears from his side and arrives near the seventh Prince kicks him in the stomach, the Prince kneels on the floor and gasps for air then he disappears again and returns to the Kings side
"Thank you brother William, if he won't follow the tradition and be nice to his new brother then he will need more punishment then this"
The rest of them seem suprised but none of them voice anything since the only one who ever questions and disrespects the king is the seventh Prince, most of the time he goes unpunished but now he got punished and warned so easily showing how much does the king care about this, all of them make a mental note not to anger the king because of Lucifer, they know what punishment awaits for those that have been warned and still don't listen.
Now is the time for the ladies to introduce themselves
The smallest one steps first looking all cute in the robe that's a bit to big for her but she doesn't care and wears it.
"Hi I'm Melissa the 5th princess I'm 6 years old"
The next one to introduce herself is the most mature woman present with a beautiful face but her body can't be seen underneath the robe like the most
"I'm Viola I'm the first princess"
Then the next one is
"Hello I'm Anna I'm the third princess"
"I'm Ivy the second princes"
Then the last one introduces herself and says timidly
"Hello, nice to meet you, I'm Elsie the fourth princess.
Lucifer looks at her and see she is the only one with one eye blue and the other green, the rest have the same color of hair and eyes
Lucifer instead of the usual nod he gave to the rest says
" Nice to meet you"
The king seems surprised Lucifer showed indifference to the rest only returning the greeting to Elsie and starts thinking about it, but soon ignores it and says
"Alright evryone leave, except Lucifer I have something to talk to him"
Then everyone leaves, the seventh Prince still trying to catch his breath William must have hit him harder then it looks 2 guards come and carry him out as everyone else leaves
After evryone left the room even the guards who usually stay inside, the king stands up from his throne and kneels in front of the boy, if anyone saw him they would be shocked seeing the king of a nation kneel in front of a commoner
"Your excellency please forgive my son I will punish him it won't happen again"
Lucifer looks at him kneeling on the floor with indifference and says "It better not happen again, I will leave now that this is finaly over to my mansion don't disturb me"
And the boy leaves disappearing for the sight without making any noise, the king just stays in the same position not daring to get up for 5 minutes after Lucifer left, then he gets up with his back all sweaty, thinking this could have gone way worse, it seems he didn't want to bother and had something else on his mind that's why he left, was it because of Elsie, 'I wonder, no it can't be he wouldn't be so interested in a women he can have anyone he wants'. The king leaves the throne room going to his own room the change all these sweaty clothes.