"HAHAHAHA!!" Shouted Natsu. "It's finally happened!! Now my subjects!! Bring me all your pie!!"7
The entire crowd looked at Natsu and put a finger to their lips. "SHHHHHH.....We're respecting the Princess."
"Princess..." said Gray looking left and right. "Where?"
Suddenly there were a huge blare of trumpets and a regimen of men in knight's armor marched through the pathway that the crowd had created. The soldiers then parted and saluted respectfully as a man approached the group.
The man was quite old, with small round glasses, squinty eyes, and black robes with the image of a golden dragon on the front. His head was completely bald, which allowed everyone to see the long thin white scar on the top of his head.
The man walked over until he reached Mikoto.
"Hello M'lady.....I am Constantine. Steward to the throne...And I bid you welcome....Princess Mikoto."
Mikoto stared for a minute before going. ".............geh?.......wait.......WHHHAAAAATT?!!!"3
"EHHHHH!!!?" said Elli and Happy.
"PRINCESS!!!!!!????" exclaimed the rest of the mages.
"Look.....er....I think this must be some kind of mistake." said Mikoto sweating a little. "I'm no princess.....I'm actually just a guild mage whose here to take a job the real princess offered...."
"Nonsense!" said Constantine. "Might I ask who your mother is?"
"Ummm...Misuzu Misaka?"
"Not that mother..." said Constantine, his eyes glinting. "I'm talking about the other one..."
"Thundaarix...........?" Said Mikoto feeling like this must be some weird dream of some sort.
"And there you have it!!" said Constantine. "You are the second known Dragon Born heir to the Queen of Thunder herself!! Hence.....you are royalty!!! Come my princess allow me to show you and your friends to....."2
"Hold it! Hold everything!!" shouted Natsu as he looked like his head was going to explode. "What does Mikoto's mom have to do with any of this!? What's going on here!?"
"This island was said to have been founded by a dragon of great legend....." said Lyon. "That must have been Thundaarix.....am I correct?"
"Yes..." said Constantine. "And Thundaarix's first Dragon Born child, Paul Ellendiel, founded the kingdom that would follow. Our good princess Hope Ellendiel is the last in a long line of Thundaarix's Dragon Born decendents.....and now, another one of Thundaarix's children has come to see her rich heritage..."
Constantine bowed low. "So, I will now show her majesty to her room!! Gaurds!"
The soldiers suddenly all crowded around the confused bewildered Mikoto and carried her away.
"H-hey! Stop!" shouted Mikoto. "I can walk you know!!!"
"Come back here!!" shouted Natsu angrilly. "That's our friend you're stealing!!"
"Aye! Get your own Railgun!!" shouted Happy, as the rest of Fairy Tail and the other guilds chased after the soldiers.
Constantine continued to smile as he watched the group get smaller in the distance.....when the crowd of townsfolk dissipated though. His expression changed to that of dark anger. He nodded at a gaurd who had stayed behind.
"Rufus....make absolute sure that our new....princess doesn't toe the line......and make sure you keep those guilds from Fiore within your sights......"1
Rufus nodded. "As you wish my lord."
"Oh and Rufus..."
"Yes my lord?".
"Make sure that our first princess doesn't send any more silly requests to foreign lands without my consent!"
Within the palace of Fulmen, the high tower.
"Let go of me!! HEY!!" Mikoto struggled as a bunch of hand maidens surrounded her and were trying to fit her into a dress. "I didn't say I was going to go all royal on you people!! Stop it!! I'm just a guild-"
"Please M'lady just bear with us..." said one hand maiden. "It's all in accordance with tradition."
"I don't care about the freaking tradition!" Said Mikoto."I just wanna see my friends right now, and get my head straight!!"
Finally after som huge struggling, and Mikoto kicking a few of the maids in the jaw, Mikoto was wearing a pleasent blue dress with an intricate gold dragon design and a bare shoulder top. It may have looked good.....but it definitely was not the kind of style Mikoto was into.2
"I feel like a freaking child's doll....." grumbled Mikoto.
"Oh my..." said one of the maidens pointing at the Fairy Tail insignia on Mikoto's right shoulderblade. Shall I remove that unsightly blemish M'lady?"
A few large sparks jumped threateningly out of Mikoto's bangs. "If any of you even dare remove the symbol of my pride and joy, I swear that I will zap you all to dust."
The maidens backed away uneasily. However, the head of the hand maidens, a stern looking women, shook her head.
"A lady like yourself need not have such disgusting blemishes on your person. You will remove it, or I will remove it for you."
Mikoto turned at the women, a livid demon-like expression in her eyes. "I don't think I made myself clear....this is the source of my pride and joy........if you even dare touch it....I'll introduce you to my special Railgun move."
The woman looked back at Mikoto with an equally livid expression. "And I don't think I've made myself clear either..........you will remove that unsightly symbol of those lower class mage dregs.......and if you don't...I'll remove it for you...."3
The woman touched a finger to Mikoto's forehead and immediately Mikoto's arms snapped up right behind her as if they were tied by some invisible rope, and she went completely stiff.
"Wh-What!!?" said Mikoto struggling against her nonexistant bonds. "What the heck did you do!!?"
"You don't think we didn't deal with similar situations when Princess Hope misbehaved did you?" said the woman. "Both of you have powers of dragons after all, these bonds were specially made for negating any source of electricity. Pama, if you will..."
One of the maids brought out a wand looking device Mikoto knew was supposed to remove any sort of magical marking.
"Crap!" Mikoto struggled some more, but she was still stiff as a board.
Suddenly the door burst open and Natsu jumped in, looking absolutely livid himself. "Trying to remove her guild mark eh....!? UNFORGIVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Natsu yelled out, flames shooting out of his mouth. All the hand maidens screamed and ran out of the room. The spell on Mikoto broke as the head maid also left.
Mikoto sighed with relief. "Thank goodness...how'd you find me?"
Natsu grinned. "Complete luck, everyone spread around the palace looking for you after they showed us to our rooms, I just came to this room and happened to hear them talk about taking your guild mark off.."
"How does the princess live like this?" grumbled Mikoto. "If she's a descendent of mom, then I'm surprised she hasn't done a Roar of The Thunder Dragon on all these freaking idiots."
"I tried that once.....but then they developed the bonds they just used on you..." said a voice.1
Mikoto and Natsu whirled around to find that a girl had just entered the room behind them.
"Hello." said the girl. "I am Hope Ellendial.....heir to the throne of Thundaarix......I am most glad that you have come.....Mikoto Misaka.."