THE WARRIOR PRINCESS

Chapter 13

Chapter 13:

Aurelia

      We got to back to the academy, the chiefs were waiting at the front of the grand hall.

‘we’re back and we brought a gift for you, commander Brittany’ stella said with a mischievous smile

‘and what might that be princess Stella-Maris’ another chief replied

‘don’t address me by my full name I’ve made it clear countless times, it’s Stella’ stella replied

‘cut it out stella, you should have out grown that by now, they are allowed to address us however they want you know’ Andrew said walking past her

‘that is for you, prince Andrew, not for me. As I was saying, throw him out already, he is not going to stay in the carriage all day’ stella yelled at the guards who stood by the carriage, they bowed to her and dragged the man out, Brittany smiled on seeing him

‘I haven’t seen you in a long time, where have you been hiding’ commander Brittany said with a smile coming closer

‘you have not changed a bit, you are a commander now, impressive Brittany, you look beautiful as usual, but…’ he got shut up by Lucas punching him on the jaw and gripped him by his hair

‘gosh I’ve been wanting to do that, listen up, I’m only going to say this once, you’re in our territory now, my territory, no one compliments the ladies except me, got it’ the man smiled and Lucas punched him again which sent him bleeding to the floor

‘clean that up’ he said to a guard and walked away, Zac smiled and followed him

‘Your grace’ commander Brittany called, Lucas stopped and turned around to meet a smirking Brittany

‘what exactly do you mean by except you’

‘what you think I mean’ he replied coldly and kept walking with Zac patting his back, I smiled

‘I told you you’d fall for him immediately you see him’ stella said, I rolled my eyes and walked away

‘I didn’t fall for him Stella’

‘whatever’ Stella sang and walked away, I sighed and followed her.

   The archery competition was to start in an hour, I rode on Majesty into the woods to practice one last time before the competition. While packing up my arrows,

‘I see you’re getting ready for today’s contest’ I turned around to see prince Zachary on his black horse, I curtsied to him

‘yeah, I just thought I’d warm up a little, I felt rusty’

‘really. You were quite amazing earlier today, I must say, your shots were pretty good for a first year’ he said getting down from his horse

‘I’ve heard that a lot’

‘you remind me of queen Merida’ I froze hearing that name, I reminded him of my mother, we were related of course I’d have her traits.

‘I’ll take that as a compliment, so thanks’ he smiled

‘so, if you win today, how would you feel’

‘well, I dunno, good, fulfilled I guess. I’m competing against final years and if I do win then yeah, I can finally say I’ve accomplished something you know’ he smiled again

‘I remember as a boy, my father brought me to the academy to see my future here, I watched the archery and swords fighting competition, they were quite thrilling and I wanted to be there, participating like them’