Lightning Strikes Twice

Chapter 3: Royalty and Deadly

The three guards that showed up this morning at my home are all infront of me, leading the way; two properly armored fitting their job description meanwhile a man with a darker skin tone casually dressed is on the right of them. As if it were screaming for attention, this man's most noticeable feature being his missing left arm; the man slows his pace from the other two guards and fall behind to my side, in doing so I get a better look at the man. Silver hair, once again darker skin, canary yellow eyes and second most noticeable thing about him being his gun and its holster.

"Hey uh, you gonna keep staring at me or are ya gonna introduce yourself?"

"Oh sorry, you just seem so different than those other two; my name is Marsh Adow by the way, nice to meet you."

I say as I think hard about reaching out my right hand to shake his hoping not to seem careless. The man smirks and reaches to meet my hand and shake it.

"Rueilius Alfonz but you can call me Rue and that's probably because I'm not really a guard, the queen and I owe each other a lot so I work from within the castle doing whatever she needs me to."

"I see but, I don't understand why the queen would want to see me off all people."

"You're joking right?, there's no way no one didn't hear of your stunt last night let alone not the queen!"

Rue starts to laugh about my ignorance of what I did last night being so widespread, I become lost in thought over it. "Was what I did so big and flashy?, I just wanted to keep everyone safe.." Rue clicks his tongue as he looks up infront of himself, I look up as well. "We're here." he says.

"Ultia Castle."

As I am still guided, while walking through the castle halls my eyes run rampant examining every inch of the interior design in awe.

"Wooww it looks soo nice..."

"Yeah even the century old folks had some taste in interior design."

As we keep walking we finally reach a chamber with large doors, inside there are eight guards inside in total, four on each side and a woman standing infront of a throne. She's looking directly at me giving a welcoming smile, she's formally dressed with light green hair and true blue eyes, she's about Rue's height which is only a few inches taller than myself. She tilts her head still smiling at me "Welcome." she says, I smile back at her "Hello!" I say back cheerfully, immediately afterwards everyone except for us two kneel down.

"Huh?, what's goin-"

"She's the queen you moron!"

"Wha-"

I look back at her after looking at Rue for silently shouting at me to see her snickering while looking me straight in the eye as I feel my face going red again as I quickly drop on my knee looking down.

"S-sorry your m-majesty!"

"Oh come on now Rue, ease up a little he doesn't know I don't wear my crown often."

"He hasn't even introduced himself!"

"M-my name is M-mar-"

"No, stop and give your introduction when you're ready."

I stand up and take a moment to collect myself and take a breather to prepare what I want to say.