The birds chirped outside, flying up and down, left and right past the towers of the palace, some drinking from a fountain in the middle of the queen’s garden.
A golden retriever with a collar that has a small blue bow tied on the front.
The sun shone brightly onto the palace, making it sparkle and shimmer under the warm cover.
The rooms within the palace were not left untouched, my room for one was so hot that the heat alone was enough to be my silent morning alarm clock.
I woke up in a daze, still fully under the sheets, I pulled the blankets off of my head, groaning as some of the heat left my body.
Eyes droopy, and sensitive to the little light peeking through the casement curtains, i gently rubbed the sleep out of my eyes while sitting up-right, then sighed and got out of bed, fixed it up, opened windows curtains and windows included, letting all the fresh air in.
I looked at the small table in my room to see a tray with a big metal food cover.
I opened it to see carefully made pancakes, the top one had “good morning” cooked into it, Peach Juice in a glass with ice cubes dancing idly on the very top next to the plate, and a note just below the glass.
I opened the note, “Morning, please come to the garden after breakfast, the queen and king will be waiting for your attendance”
There was no signature or anything just those words, no explanation on how they entered my room, im easily woken up by sound so it felt odd to me.
With that, I put the note on the table and covered the food again then went to brush my teeth and shower, thereafter enjoyed the breakfast and dressed up in a floral dress and sandals, the heat beckoning me to not wear heavy clothes.
Just as i was about to leave the room, i thought about the previous night and walked to the balcony to look over at the other tower.
“Hello? Eburhardt?!” I cried out, and got no reply, the curtains were closed too.
I called out 3 more times and still no response.
With that i went back to what i was doing and left to go to meet up with everybody at the queen’s garden.
Down at the garden tables were set and guests talked while enjoying sweet pastries served by the frequently roaming servants who came every few seconds.
None of the royals were around including Jason and Mike, Valery hogged servants gobbling up all the food she could.
Just as she was finishing a serving dish full of macaroons with a waiter holding the dish looking uncomfortable.
I gently tapped her shoulder, “even back at school I’ve never seen you this into food” she turned to look at me and hurriedly swallowed her macaroon mouthful, the servant used her moment of distraction to slip away into the crowd.
Do not compare school lunch slop to these!!!” She said, gesturing to 3 macaroons she had in her hands, “Look at them!!!
They even look too cute to eat!!!
And cute food is almost always delicious!!
Im gonna eat till i get fat while we’re here, ill lose the weight back home where food is ‘normal’ and bland, im gonna try every new thing i can get my hands on!!
And these pink cookies are amazing!!!” she said, a blissful smile on her face.
She ate the macaroons and turned back around to face the servant who was long gone.
“Awwww my servant buddy left” she whined, “he left a while ago and those pink cookies are called macaroons” i laughed, she pouted and just as she was about to say something she was interrupted by the commanding voice of the queen.
“My honoured guests! Welcome to our garden party”, she stood next to the King while the princes and princesses stood in the same order they sat in at dinner.
“Today we are going to show you the differences between our world and your world.” Some guards appeared from thin air, some wearing the uniform of the people who guided us back the other day and others just wearing colorful clothes or casual ones, others looking ragged and unprepared for any formal settings.
Some students screamed, others ooe’d and ahh’d while teachers were mostly freaked out.
“These are some of our best mages and sorcerers, i feel they’re the ones who can show what we are truly all about!” she roared, “Enjoy the show!!”
Just as she finished, the men and women wearing guard uniforms took steps backward, while the rest took steps forward.
A man with long blue hair chanted some words and pointed a stick in his hand towards the sky, fireworks erupted, strangely visible even in the daytime.
A boy with golden blond hair flew up into the air, yelling in joy “yeeaaaahhhh!!! Watch me fly!!!!!” He was flying to fast, and a golden streak trailed behind him, wearing a simple green shirt and blue pants, with red flipflops.
He broke into a split and spun around till only a yellow beam of light could be seen going in circular motions.
Then suddenly the beam shimmered and shined still a big burst of light erupted, another mage, a lady, pointed her want in the sky and sprayed out a large amount of water that rained down in a drizzle down to us, soon enough, a beautiful double rainbow appeared and the boy stopped spinning and dived back down onto the ground.
Everyone gasped in aww, “ta-da!!!” He cheered and bowed to the crowd, we all clapped.
“That was so cool! So they do magic tricks?” Valery inquired,
“No little charcoal” said a deep voice behind us, we turned to see a guy who looked about our age, with purple hair with blue eyes and next to him a dark skinned teen with dark brown hair and green eyes.
“Step aside weaklings!” said the purple haired boy.
He pointed his wand to the sky and a beam of purple light shot into the sky then soon teddy bears rained down onto us, disappearing as soon as they touched the ground.
The boy’s eyes narrowed as he glared at her, “You talk smack for someone who can be deleted from existence with the wave of a wand, charcoal” he hissed.
“My first threat in this world. Can’t believe your that threatened by me that you can be this easily triggered, go use one of your teddies to soothe that temper of yours, your insecurity is showing~” she retorted.
“You little-“,”Thats enough, she is one of the queen’s honoured guests, we mustn’t antagonize her or any other guest.” Said the dark skinned boy.
The purple haired boy seethed in anger but remained quiet and nodded reluctantly.
He turned to Valery, “i apologize for the way i behaved. Please enjoy the rest of your day and hopefully my actions will be forgiven and forgotten” he bowed
“Sure, but give me a teddy bear” Valery said with a grin, “Val” i said in objection.
She looked at me,”what?
As he said i gotta enjoy my day, and a teddy will cheer me up.” She looked back to him, “make sure its a big teddy, but not too big.
And i want it magical and useful.
And that can self clean and not get damaged with age” she demanded.
The purple haired boy groaned and looked to his comrade looking for at least a defense to the ridiculous words he had heard.
His friend shrugged and nodded for him to do it.
“Tch, fine!” the guy said a few magic words “neloral ronik fauna!” He said waving his wand in the air.
Just like that a normal sized teddy bear appeared in the sky and fell down into Valery’s hands.
“Hm? Cool, its kinda cute” she said, looking at the brown bear with a purple bow at the center of his stomach.
“So, what does it do?” She asked, “hmph, find out for yourself, i did my part!” He groaned and walked off in a huff, the other boy following behind him.
“Sheesh he’s rude. Also, i asked for a big bear, this one is so tiny, can’t even be a good magician person sheesh.” Val complained.
I heaved a sigh and i shook my head at her antics.
To be continued…