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Chapter 7 - The meeting

All four teamates gathered in the mansion.

It was a beautiful place, it's walls painted white and pillars made entirely out of gold.

At the two sides of the mansion, opposite the door, two golden stairs with soft, cushion steps are placed. They both lead to a door, where behind it, is most likely the rest of the house. Below the stairs, there is a round table with five chairs around it. Like every thing else in the house, they were golden.

'The house smells just like outside,' Lucy thought, 'But even better, I suspect the tiny bags of powder hung on the chandelier. The powder is from the Spectrum flowers. The enhanced smell is from the tea in the bags. The entire building is completely furnished, not a single scratch anywhere as expected of the princesses home. Well, that might change with the four of us here, we break a lot of things.'

Lucy opens her eyes and looks at the rest of the crew, seated by her left is Retsu, and opposite her are Tetsu and John.

'I mean,' Lucy thought, 'I can admit, we can be a little uncultured, but... Why is the princess sitting on the table?'

She looked at Ulti,the princess, sitting casually on the table, raising her leg and resting her arm on it.

"Okay you rascals," Ulti said, "Let's get down to business..."

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Still seated on the the table, Ulti said, "Your mission was find the Silverine Gecko Artefact in the East Bunkies to protect me! (She slams her hand on the table, leaving a large crater in it) but you failed! You always do!"

'I gare it when she switches personalities,' John said, 'Even Lucy is scared of her when Princess Ulti gets mad.'

"When will you guys just stop making things hard for me!" Ulti yelled, "You have one job; Protect the princess from danger, and you get one week off every month."

"It's their fault," Lucy, Tetsu and John yelled.

Ulti slightly looked at Retsu, who was picking his nose, her fire turned blue and then red again.

"What are you doing?!" She yelled at Retsu.

"You know I'd do anything to protect you," Retsu said, "Sacrifice my life even, though I can't die."

She then clenched her fist on the table, squeezing the upper layer of the gold.

"Th... that's not funny," Ulti said, "I'm not laughing."

Confusion was written all over their faces, the rest of the team apart from Retsu and Ulti had their eyes wide open.

'You know it's a bad joke,' Lucy thought.

'But she thinks it's funny,' John thought.

'And that's just pathetic,' Tetsu thought.

"Shut up!" She yelled, smashing her two hands onto the table.

'No one is talking,' They all thought.

"As I was saying," Ulti continued, "Our clan is considered the lowest, that's why we have such a common material as gold to be our designs."

"Uhm, princess," Lucy said, "Gold is only common in this sector of the city."

"Whatever," Ulti said, "We need to up our game. The other princesses are so pretty, they get high class mages, while I'm stuck with you, I have only one mage, while Nirisia has fourteen. And my mage isn't so good at all. I mean, most mages have cool and nostalgic names ('I don't think that word usage is correct', Lucy thought) Like Windberry or Goldensheep. Can you guess the name of my mage? James! Such a blah name."

"Calm down princess," Lucy said, "You look a little too upset."

"A little?" She asked, turning her head to Lucy, her eyes wide open in a frightening glare, "I'm not a little too upset. You people are driving me crazy. Maybe soon, you'll start a war with the Nether!"

Retsu eyed Lucy, Lucy eyed Tetsu, Tetsu eyed John.

"Princess!" Jack said.

"Uhm, where is he?" John said.

They all looked up and saw him.

"What is it?" She said.

"The drums of Quardi City are ringing, a royal meeting," he said, "Look outside."

She stood on the table and looked out the window at the side of the house.

"It's just a wall," Ulti said.

"That's the compound fence," Jack said.

"Oh no, we have no time to waste," Ulti said.

Lucy bowed and said, "Will you get dressed? Your highne..."

But Ulti jumped down the table and ran frantically to the door, kicking it open.

In unision, the whole team thought, 'The perfect princess for us.'

The rest of them ran to her. They followed her to the back of the house.

As they got there, they saw something covered in a cloth.

Ulti walked to it and dragged the cloth off.

What was under it; A car.

"Aaaaaah," Tetsu screamed, "Can I drive it?"

He said, running to the car.

"No," Ulti replied.

"Play with it?"

"No!"

"Touch it?"

"No!"

"Lick it?"

"Gross, would be fun to see, But no!"

Tetsu collapsed to the ground and opened his mouth wide, drooling.

"Get in the car!" Ulti shouted.