faes sighed in relief when she noticed sky was fine and safe now. she ignored the stares they were getting and went to sky who was watching her with a big happy smile and her curious eyes. faes smiled as she came in front of sky and got on her knees so that she can get to same level of height as her.
"i am so proud of you baby! you look so cute and beautiful that i cant take my eyes of you!" faes said as she hugged sky. sky giggled and hugged her back tightly as if saying she was happy with what faes said.
"can you walk? i can carry you if you want" faes asked
sky shook her head and smiled taking her hand. faes understood that sky wanted to walk on her own and faes stood up smiling and held sky's hand. she turned around only finding that everyone was staring at them with wide eyes and unbelievable expressions of worship.
faes found it amusing as she led sky to where the royal family was standing. sky can surprisingly walk nicely on her own as they came and stood in front of the royal family. faes cleared her throat to bring them out of the trance while still smiling in amusement.
"that was unexpected and unbelievable!" king ladon said and shook his head.
"never mind that!" he sighed and stood straight.
"princess sky had gotten the ancient spirit's blessing and had morphed successfully in her human form. princess faes had also gotten the blessing of ancient spirits along with princess sky. they both are fine and stronger than before!" the king announced bringing everyone out of the trance they were in.
"hail princess sky! hail princess faes!" someone shouted and then the same thing began to echo around the room.
faes smiled along with sky who was already beaming as she nodded her thanks at the nobles though her smiled was found creepy and evil by few nobles who helped richard previously. richard himself was sweating in fear as faes smiled at them. he knew that faes had understood his intention and was now wary of him. he wont be able to create trouble and those people will make him suffer if he didn't!
the king motioned for silence and the room was once again silenced.
"the ceremony is completed though there seem to be some problems as princess faes suddenly got involved in the trial. it was not supposed to happen but we all witnessed something that was not only unexpected but also held great risk." the king said and turned to faes frowning slightly. he still didn't understand what was wrong and why was faes involved with the ceremony,
"your majesty sky and i are connected by a soul contract hence i think as she is still an infant i was pulled in the ceremony. i also think it was because someone tempered with the sacred ritual items used to make the magic circled and made it so that the mana collected for the ritual is stronger and more than necessary. the ancient spirits must have sensed it and hence took advantage of our soul contract and pulled me in the ceremony in order to save princess sky" faes made up an excuse to save her trouble of explaining why she was absorbing the mana and was pulled in the ceremony and also hinted that the sacred items and magic circle were tempered so that sky was harmed.
everyone heard what faes said and suddenly came to a realisation. they didn't realised but it was true that the amount of mana gathered was more than necessary and might have caused princess sky to die! it was good that the ancient spirits were generous and took help of princess faes and saved their younger princess but it was still a miracle that both the princesses came out passing the trial safely and even stronger than before!
"if that's the case then this matter is going to be investigated until the culprit is found. the ancient spirits are really wise to use the link between the princess this way they saved both of princesses lives!" queen nuri said as faes smiled 'if only they knew that it was her who initiated the process of getting involved' she thought but then again faes was neither going to tell them nor going to let the culprit go who wanted to cause harm to sky and her. and faes knew that the ancient spirits who were also the dead royal dragons or ancestors of sky wont mind her using their names as an excuse to save herself.
"your majesty i would like to propose that we postpone the ball being held in order to let both the princess rest!" one of the higher nobles said. he truly cared for the princesses and after what he just witnessed even he needed rest much less the princesses.
"your majesty i refuse the proposal of postponing the ball! all the guest have gathered and are waiting to be introduced to their princesses for the past few hours! if they are told that they cant meet the princesses then they will be offended and might cause trouble" richard spoke. if he went to the royal ball then he might get another chance to cause trouble for the princesses.
other nobles expressed their own thoughts and the king had to stop them from turning this place into a battlefield as they were turning aggressive the more they talk.
"princess faes princess sky what do you want to do? do you want to attend the ball or go and rest?" king ladon asked.
"sky what do you say?" faes asked sky. she wasn't tired and can still attend the ball but sky was different!
sky smiled excited as she nodded. sky still cant talk because even though she looked to be two years old she was still two to three months old and she wasn't used to her new body yet. faes smiled understanding what sky wants and turned to ladon
"we will attend the ball your majesty" faes said ending the discussion.
"then we will be arriving at the ball in few minutes. the events that happened in this room are important and you all have beared witness of the sacred ritual. the incident will be investigated and i want a report soon. you are all excused for now!" the king announced.
the nobles excused themselves to leave the room and go fix themselves before joining their family on the ball. the storms were powerful enough to send them flying and their clothes and hair were a mess by now. though the royal family was fine and still looked like they just came out a magazine.
after the nobles have all left faes smile dropped as she faced nuri pouting.
"aunt nuri please help me how do i make this wings and tail vanish?!" faes asked. now that she had time she noticed the wings and tail which felt weird to her! she was a human for god's sake!
her exclamation made the others still in the room chuckle. they were all aware of her real identity and knew she would be feeling weird but it was still funny for them.
"just will them to shrink back inside your body" nuri chuckled.
faes did as nuri said and willed the wings and tail to shrink and vanish. she didn't feel the pain this time and sighed when they vanished. she checked her dress and found that the tail had not left a hole to her surprise. watching faes check for hole where her tail had vanished secretly nuri cuckled again and whispered "there wont a hole in your clothes when you call your wings and tail out or will them to vanish. its one of the blessings the spirits give" she explained making faes turn red embarrassed but still nodded.
she was relieved that she doesn't need to change her clothes every time she called her wings or tail.
while nuri was teaching faes about her wings and tail others were surrounding sky teaching her the same thing.
after sky was able to make her wings and tail vanish and appear a few times they were done. sky also got her own royal tiara. it was made of gold and was beautiful. after sky got her hair done by emma and got the tiara fixed so that it won't fall off and faes had her own touch up along with the other royal family they were ready for the ball. faes and sky got their own royal capes. the they were made from fur which was silvery white in color with the royal insignia on its pin that held it fixed on their shoulders.
once they were ready they went towards the place where the ball was being held.