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Chapter Six: The Boy Yet To Be King

Chapter Six: The Boy Yet To Be King

Seeping through my small glass windows and brightening my room in hues of lightly colored gold and yellows. The sun rose with a vibrate glow to a cloudless sky; its blinding light forcing me to flip onto my stomach and crunch my overly large fluffy pillow over my head.

Today was my fifteenth birthday, and a day I knew that I was going to dread beyond belief.. For the time has finally come that I must set out on my trial.. A trial that every Royal male who one day will ascend the throne must take when they reach the age of fifteen.. To be completely honest, I’m not overly thrilled on having to go and take this ‘test’ as some call it, but frightened out of my flipping mind! Though I’ll have my two Guardians Delita and his younger sister Ellie with me, I still can’t help but be scared.. I know not what is to come. My father only tells me that ‘I will see when I get there, and when I get there I will know’.. What is THAT suppose to mean?

“Oh Prince! It’s wake up time!”

Great..

I stirred, but made no attempt to move. Even as Ellie hopped onto my bed and began bouncing up and down singing did I not budge. This must have brought a childish curiosity out of her as I could feel her long flowing black hair tickle the back of my neck; her skinny fingers wrapping around the outer edges of my pillow.

“Come on Prince, you alive under there? You’ll need to have a hearty breakfast before we set out on our Grand Adventure!”

Grand.. Adventure..? So my torture of possibly being eaten alive by some hideous monster, or having my flesh stripped away from my very bones while I’m still alive is going to be a GRAND ADVENTURE for her?

Sigh..

With my blankets being stripped off me, revealing my scrawny figure under royal red silk pajamas, Ellie pounced on me with such force that I lunged upward with a loud gasp.

“What are you doing Ellie!?” I scorned like a mother to a misbehaving child. “Are you trying to kill me!?

“There you are Prince!” The girl sang with unimaginable happiness, ignoring my scolding.. just like a child.. For someone who was two years older than I, she didn’t act her age; more like a seven year old rather than seventeen. I was told it had something to do with her brain, but I couldn’t really understand the explanation, so I just took it as it was.

“You know Prince, today is the day you become a man! It would be bad manners for you to be late.”

“I don’t really see a difference from this point till after I take this trial on whether I’ll be a ‘man’ or not. In all honesty I think this is going to be a big waste of time.. Nothing is going to change, and I’ll still be the same person then as I am now. The only difference is, is I have to take this dumb test..”

I didn’t like to do things out of my comfort zone. Call me a wimp, call me a chicken, I don’t care, I just don’t like things I don’t know much about. Like this test, I don’t know anything about it and that’s what upsets me. Maybe if I knew what kind of test this is going to be, and have some detail of what I’m up against, then I’d probably be fine with going through with it. But when they tell me that I’m going on a trial and not tell me ANYTHING about it.. well, I have a problem with that..

“Don’t be such a baby! You’ll have me and my brother by your side!”

“You mean, my brother and I, not me and my brother..”

“Yeah, yeah.. You’re such a perfectionists Prince, seriously!”

“No, you just don’t speak properly, sometimes you make up your own words and expect me to know what they mean..”