Kelsey
After running through the rest of the forest we finally reached the town of Trealle, hopefully no one finds my eyes too weird here... can't really change that when I was born with it... Before going into town at all, we obviously shifted back. As we walked into the town, we got a lot of very confused looks from everyone.
'Do you think they know who we are already..?' I mentally asked my mate, getting anxious from all the stares.
'They already know me because of being from a neighboring kingdom. But I can't tell if they know you or not.' He answered, holding my hand for comfort. We finally reached the castle, and holy crap this building is HUGE. Jesus christ and I thought my HOUSE was big. Holy...
Anyway a guard stopped us by blocking our way inside and demanding, "Why are you here Prince Drake? Last I was told your family and kingdom were banned from here."
"We just have some business to discuss with the king and queen, that's all." Drake answered respectfully, sounding all prince like. The guard looked a little unimpressed but let us pass, I avoided eye contact to try and not let him see my eyes. We went to the first room we found, hoping and assuming it's the throne room and the king and queen were in it. Thankfully we were right and didn't have to search around the worlds largest castle. They looked super pissed off to see us however, which confused me a little. Maybe it's just because of the whole Drake and his family being banned thing...
The both of us bowed/curtsied respectfully to them and opened our mouths to say hi but the king interrupted by angrily demanding, "What are you doing here, Strider," distaste and hatred dripped from his words on my mates last name. This ticked me off but I kept my cool, quite literally.
"I am here with princess—" Drake started but was interrupted again by the queen, "everyone knows that name is banned from this kingdom when it is about Skylar, how dare you break our law! And what are you doing back stupid girl. We still haven't died yet so leave us at once you vile creature." Well.... I was now very offended.
I started defending myself, "Um.. Excuse me but I don't even know who you—"
"Shut up and leave already stupid girl! No one wants you here, so leave." The queen once again interrupted.
"I'm the rightful heir to the throne your stupid butt is sitting on lady, so how bout you shut up and leave." I sassed, proud of myself and not caring how I was talking to a king and queen. They started it after all.
'Kelsey what are you doing?!?!' Drake mentally scolded me. I gave him my best 'I don't care bout these bitches' face. 'You can't talk to them like that, they could still probably get you beheaded or something,' he continued.
"How dare you! Guards! Get this stupid girl and her banned friend out of here at once!" The king ordered.
"How dare you come show your face again Skylar. Stop coming back." The queen added angrily, glaring daggers at me. I was completely confused, I've never fricken been here before. Why's she talking as if she's met me? And seriously who the fuck is Skylar? I opened my mouth to ask but about six guards came to "escort" us out.
I glared back at her and growled, "I'll be back to take my rightful throne away from you." They both scoffed at me as we got shoved out of the castle. We stood where we landed and I crossed my arms and huffed, glaring into the castle. "What's she even mean by 'keep coming back' I'VE NEVER BEEN HERE BEFORE," I growled then ended up yelling at the door, not super loud but not a whisper yell either. My mate placed his hand gently on my back and guided me away from the castle and into town to explore it. There were a lot of shops in this town, like damn. It was really cool seeing the kinds of shops here since we have nothing like them back in our other world. There were armor shops, weapon ones, a flower booth that sold flowers and plant seeds, many different clothing shops, one that sold shoes, a jewelry place. All kinds of stuff that was similar to our modern stuff but completely different items held in-store. We looked at every single one and probably bought at least one thing from each, there were so many places to stop by. As we were leaving we got stopped by a girl who looked about my age.
She curtsied and greeted, "Hello Prince Drake, and hello princess. Back so soon to see your brother again?" I furrowed my brows in confusion at her, wondering what the hell she's talking about and why she whispered the word princess.
"Um..... I'm sorry, do I know you...? I don't have a brother, I'm an only child." I felt a tiny pang in my heart at remembering my dead little brother. Now she looked as utterly confused as I was. "Aren't you.... Oh nevermind, I must be confusing you for someone else then... Sorry to have wasted your time miss..." she said then curtsied once more and dashed away. Drake and I shared an incredibly confused look with each other before shrugging and heading back to his kingdom. Once out of sight we shifted and ran again, no one interrupting our path back. When we got close to his castle we shifted back and walked hand in hand to the castle.
"Well... That was a weird experience, why'd they hate us so much?" I said to my mate who could only shrug in response due to not having an answer, "and why did a lot of them all act like I've been there before? It makes no sense, I've never even heard of that place till today, let alone been there, so what the hell." I continued ranting until we reached his castle.
"Hey guys! Long time no see huh?" Kat greeted, obviously kidding. "How's your kingdom doin Kelsey?" she added, genuinely curious.
"Good I guess, everyone kept acting like I've been there before and as if I just left not that long ago and came back to see my brother." I answered, letting the frustration come out in my voice.
Kat gave me a puzzled expression and asked quietly and gently, "Isn't your brother dead....?" I nodded, pissed off that the random girl reminded me once again even though I remember every single day. "Then why would she say that? That's just plain rude if they all think they know you." Kat replied after thinking for a minute.
"Don't even get me started on how fucking rude the stupid 'king and queen' were." I growled, starting to pace.
"Please don't get her started, we don't need the kingdom burnt to a crisp." Drake piped up, watching me pace.
"They didn't even let us greet them and like introduce ourselves to them, though they already know you but you know what I mean. Then the queen went off bitching about how they aren't dead yet so I shouldn't be there and at the end she called me Skye. WHO THE FUCK IS SKYE AND WHY DO THEY HATE HER SO MUCH? SHE A GOD DAMN CRIMINAL OR SOMETHIN???" I ranted, my hands heating up.
Kat backed away a little knowing if she didn't she might get accidentally set on fire, Drake however got closer and said, "Calm down Kelsey, it's alright. We're gonna find out who she is and why they hate her, okay?" I started to calm down a little. My mate got closer and slowly reached out to rub my arms, not actually touching them yet. His gesture calmed me down more so my fire stopped growing and Drake lightly touched my arm to make sure, then pulled me into a comforting hug.
"Okay I know I'm not blazing mad anymore but I'm still fucking pissed." I muttered, hugging my mate back.
He rubbed my back reassuringly and replied, "I know babe." How dare he use that on me to get me to not be pissed anymore. My heart fluttered like the first time he called me that, he's only used it maybe once or twice since then. I pulled away from Drake and gave him an angry pout face, he chuckled at it and kissed me.
"Seriously guys!! I'm still fricken here you know!!" Kat exclaimed in disgust.
Drake pulled away to reply, "Would you rather us just fuck right here in front of you too?"
Her face fell and she screamed, "EEWWW!! NO!"
"Why's that so gross? You and Jason practically did that all the time, everywhere." Kat's face rapidly grew extremely red and she seemed at a loss for comebacks so she crossed her arms and huffed.
"Whatever. Stop bringing that up. It's pretty late now we should be going to bed." She stated, still very much so embarrassed. We chuckled at her and agreed, so the three of us headed inside and went to our rooms. Drake and I got changed then crawled into the giant fancy bed with super fluffy blankets and pillows. I snuggled deep into the fluffiness and closed my eyes, smiling contentedly. I heard my mate laugh at me then felt his arm go around me protectively, both of us soon falling into the darkness of sleep.