One of the best way prove how aware/focused a person is when a friend will wake the sleeping person and he/she will instantly, ferociously, leap up from a deep sleep and pull a knife/gun or kung-fu chokehold on his friend, before apologizing for almost killing him...this is usually a sign of severe violence-related PTSD but in my personal opinion it is a credential of Badassness.
Of course if you ignore the fact that I got hit by a massive fireball
I barely saw it happen. First the boy and the girl woke up with wide fearful eyes
They just screamed and blasted a giant ball of fire at my face
"U..uhh...eeeeyyyaaaaaa!!!!"
There no way a spell of that level can hurt me that much but the same didn't apply for my clothes
I screamed
The dolphin dragons spit on..I mean blasted me with a jet of water from their mouth dousing my burning clothes
The boy blinked a few times, let out a little half-yawn, and noticed us for the first time. "Who? Why are you..." He rambled trying to make sense of a half naked loli elf and three flying dragon dolphins
Glup !
Behind him his sister drank lemonade from a cup(made of solid hard caramel)
"..."
For the next few minutes they inhaled a lot of sugary items while I managed to polymorph a bush into a green dress
After they finished I approached them carefully and spoke
"How do you feel"
"...better "
"..than you benefactor"
"My name is Fae Ainhadt what's yours ?"
"Ainhadt !?"
"Yes my na-eppp" I created a force field to deflect the fireball they threw at me again
"YOU ARE DEFINITELY TRYING TO KILL US!!!!" THEY SHOUTED AT ME.
"WHY THE HELL WOULD I WANT TO KILL YOU AFTER TRYING SO HARD TO SAVE YOU!!!" I yelled back
There was silence interrupted only by crocking of chocolate Frogs (they can hop around like actual frogs, likely because they are 80% Croakoa and 20% magic)
"Ah! Sorry. I didn't... they try to kill me in my sleep. All the time. It's a habit, I'm sorry. Are you hurt?" The boy spoke out
"I have a bad feeling about this " I groaned
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(Later)
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their names were Siegurd Ainhadt and Urteal Ainhadt the fourth imperial prince and princess
turns out each time a prince dies or is assumed dead the numbering changes
these two were assumed to be dead hence I who was supposed to be the fifth princess was made the fourth princess instead
"So you are telling me that the emperor has as many children as possible and they compete for the throne until the winner remains. The surviving child becomes the sole emperor that can rule the continent"
"Yes" they replied in unison
Yep, I was born as the daughter of an emperor doesn't care about his children and was cold-blooded enough to slay his siblings..this is an ecosystem where only the strongest will survive. They kill each other and then hide. That is why,
"I am letting you both know right now I have no interest in the throne at all"
"..." they just looked at each other with complicated expression
"at least can you tell me what's the last thing you remeber" I asked mabye they saw something I did not and that could give me a clue on what was going on here
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Flashback
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It was a sunny day at the Imperial Capital when a certain prince Siegurd was at the reciving end of an angry princess Urteal's fireballs after he accidentally ate her strawberry icecream that was specially made for her by the third prince
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Um…More Recent Flashback
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"Are these really your thoughts on this?" Theudoric Ainhadt asked his aide who had come to protest at his plans with the soon to be fifth princess
Barret became angrier at the sight of the emperor's straight face
"It's really too much! What will you do if she dies!?"
Haa, the emperor sighed deeply.
"If she dies, it will be her fate."
"This..your grace please reconsider this...!"
"Then what do you seek to do Barret"
Barret took a deep breath as he looked at the emperor.
"I've decided."
He clenched his fists with a firm gaze.
"I'm going to protect her. I will protect her."
Then he bowed stiffly and left out of the room. Looking at Barret's back, the emperor sat forward and crossed his legs .
"It's fun." a black figure slowly emereged out of thin air
"Nudeth"
"You seem to dote on that little princess of yours"
"..."
"..."
the 4th Prince, Seigurd ,heard no more from the spot where he was hiding in the hallway.
This made Seigurd think. Who was the fifth princess to be able to make his majesty want to presonally escot her like that? or make Barret one of the six swords of the Empire want to protect her What the night chasm[1].
'I'll see for myself. And if she is as father says, I'll kill her.'
He giggled and left the hallway.
unfortunately he found out that he was banned from visiting his 'little sister'
seeing no other option he turned to his twin sister and her guardian a talented mage with a lot of underworld contacts but the assasins they attempted to hire turned down the offer
despreate to prevent the fifth princess from arriving the ended up meeting up with an assasin of dubious reputation..and they ended up trapped and knocked out in a pit somewhere and left to die before they were ironically rescued because of the fifth princess
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"we were tricked and left to perish...forgive me " they replied (in usion) averting their eyes from me
"I don't really like to interrupet your family affairs princess but we should leave before our enemies arrive " Silverwave pointed out
"That Lindwym talked !!" the twins shouted
"Yes, I can talk "
"Lyndwyms can't talk " Urteal protested
"Who do you think you are?! the expert scholar on lindwyms of course we can talk !"
"don't be rude " Tide smacked Silverwave with his fin?/wings? "Sorry about my sister she's been...edgy since the temple burned down to ashes"
"W-what !?" I blinked
"they attacked us with lava monsters and "
"No! how can a underwater temple even burn "
"That...that's actually a good question" Tide blinked at the logic
"What is going on here " Siegurd asked weakly while trying to make sense of well everything
"Right....look we are in a place called the land of sweets in the"
"The land of sweets!?"
"yes everything in this place is made of sugar,spice and all things nice and"
"everything...."
"yes.." I answered patiently
"Even those giant flying insects"
"!!!"
would be a monster and monsters are not normal.
Imagine a fly the size of a car with covered with chocolate,cake crumbs,cream and cotten candy and dripping pale brown slime Is there any word you'd use to describe those things besides monster?
Apparently my older siblings didn't think so even when 234 giant flies flew towards us
Urteal uprooted few jelly flower and ate one
Siegurd took one from his sister and ate it
I screamed and blasted lighting bolts at the flies
The three dolphin dragons blasted deadly waterbeams
With a cry the Calvary appeared to aid us ,
gingerbread men, gummy bares, and sugar sculptures
Armed to the teeth with weapons crafted from their own sugary essence, the sweets charged into battle. Gingerbread men wielded candy cane swords, gummy bears launched sticky bubblegum projectiles, and hot chocolate was spared by caramel candy men ,Soda bombs fizzed and exploded, leaving sticky residue
a war of epic proportions erupted between the sweets and the menacing giant flies.
The giant flies buzzed ominously, their wings beating like war drums. They swooped down with ferocious intent and complete ingnoring us (me my siblings and the three dolphins) by the way
gingerbread men fell in battle, their bodies crumbling beneath the relentless onslaught of the flies. With each strike, jam and cream flowed from their wounds,
Despite the carnage and chaos, the sweets fought valiantly the flies caused more damage to themselves than we did to them
they bit,snapped and rammed into each other while trying to feast on the sweets
suppose one fly would bring down a gigerbread man ten others will fight over him
within minutes we (with very little difficulty) destroyed the two hundred strong army
"maintain formation !look...."
I didn't pay mich heed to the bacground once I was done with the killing stuff I inspected on the fly before me jet black with red eyes
I knew just which enemy I was going up against
Bezzelbuz the lord of the flies
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