The dining hall was in the main palace. There you will find a lot of maids and guards, some wore deep blue attires while others wore a lighter shade. The colour differentiates their ranks in the palace, deep blue for a high rank and light blue for a low rank.
"Greetings, My Princes" The two guards in front the main palace door greeted in unison.
"Thank you" Aziel said to them and walked in while Adan just nodded to them in acknowledgement.
As soon as the two handsome princes walked in, all the palace maids, who were hurrying towards different directions in the palace, stopped and said "Good morning Prince Adan! Good morning Prince Aziel!"
Adan grimaced at how loud they were but said nothing about it. "Good morning to you too, pretty ladies" Aziel smiled widely, he always enjoys the maids greeting.
The maids' cheeks turned red as they hurried away to continue their morning chores.
"If you keep calling them pretty, you'll give them the wrong idea" Adan shook his head and walked to the stair.
"But brother, they are pretty. Besides you saw their faces, they like it"
"It's pointless to argue with you"
They passed more hallways as they climbed up the stairs, more greetings were heard and finally they arrived at the dining hall entrance. The guards in front of the door greeted the twins as they walked in.
The dining hall was quite huge, it had over a dozen windows and guards were in front of each! The table was quite long and in the middle of the room with multiple chairs around it. The room screamed royalty!
The Emperor and Empress were already seated on their respective seats. "Good morning Father and Mother" The two princes greeted their parents in unison and walked to their seats.
"Good morning my sons" The Empress said with a bright smile on her face.
"Good morning Prince Aziel" said the Emperor, acknowledging only the second prince. Aziel gave Adan a sympathetic look while Adan just ignored it. This isn't the first time something like this has happened and it probably won't be the last.
As the brothers sat down, a cute feminine voice came from the door "Brother Adan!" and she ran towards him and hugged him. For the first time he smiled and hugged her back, she was his little sister.
"Yamuna, what did I say about running in the halls?" The Empress scolded, the emperor just looked at the hugging pair with a glint of disapproval in his eyes.
"Sorry Mother" the princess pulled away from the hug and sat on the chair next to Adan "Good morning Father and Mother, Good morning Brother Adan and Brother Aziel"
"Good morning but you haven't given me my hug yet" Aziel said with a fake frown on his face.
"You don't get any" Yamuna stuck out her tongue.
Adan already started eating, ignoring his siblings bicker. He just wanted to eat and leave before anything happened.
"Father, you woke us up so early today and the maids kept saying you have an announcement to make" Yamuna complained while looking at her father with big blue eyes.
"They were right, I wanted to tell the news to my family before I told the empire." Emperor Mykel said with little to no emotion in his voice and in his icy blue eyes "As you all know, The AXOA Academy accepts two hundred and fifty top students from each empire every year. For the past four decades after I graduated no one from the water empire's royal family has been admitted into the school because no heir was born then
" But this year it will be different, my son will soon turn eighteen and have a chance to get an admission and I am sure he will get in" He was referring to Prince Aziel.
Adan noticed this and stood up from his seat "Father, Mother, I shall be excusing myself"
"You are not excused, so sit!" His father said then the temperature in the room dropped, the sun was shining through the window but the room was freezing even the guards shivered.
Before Adan could even react, an ice fist was heading straight for his chest with full speed. They seemed to have appeared out of thin air. His father still remained on his chair not moving a muscle but you could see that he was controlling the fist.
Aziel immediately put a water shield to protect his brother but it shattered like glass as soon as the fist touched it.
Boom!
Adan was forced back on his chair and coughed blood. The ice fist disappeared and the temperature of the room went back to normal. Empress Inga couldn't do anything even if she wanted to, Yamuna was worried but she wasn't scared. She had seen this happen before and sometimes the aftermath is worse than this.
The Emperor then turned and looked at Aziel "Next time don't interfere or you won't like it" His eyes were completely cold. Aziel wanted to say something but he saw Adan shake his head and decided against it.
Adan coughed blood again then cleaned his mouth "I'm sorry, Father"
Emperor Mykel scoffed and said "Meet me in my chamber by noon". With that said he stood up and walked out of the hall.
After he left, Adan's mother quickly stood up and joined her hands together. She had a greenish blue glow on her skin. Then the water in the air around had the same colour and flowed towards Adan, healing him slowly.
This is one of the water techniques, it's used for healing, it's called Vitality of Water.
"I'm sorry, my son. There was nothing I could do" she sobbed
Adan didn't respond, he wasn't scared because he had expected it. He only felt more pity for himself.
Why am I so weak? Why? Why? Why?! Adan thought as he stared at the wall in front of him with pain and anger in his eyes. He stood up abruptly and also walked out of the hall, slamming the door behind him.
An awkward silence and a low sob was left behind in the dining hall. This is how the royal family's breakfast ends.