"I here by announce the successful birth of the young soon to be King, Harlequin!" After this announcement the Kingdom went wild. The current King stood by and held the baby above the crowd.
King Gloxinia: The prince has been born! The ruler that will lead our ripe future has been birthed.
Crowd: WOOOOOO
A feast to celebrate the young Kings birth. One other Kingdom gathered to celebrate, Liones.
King gloxinia: Thanks for coming, your majesty.
King ???: No need for formalities.. It's alright, I'm happy to be here.
King Gloxinia: King Drole should also be joining us here, I hope you don't mind.
King ???: Ofcourse I don't mind.
The feast began and King Drole showed up. After a while the news about the Prince had died down and the Kingdom was at peace. The young Prince had gotten into all sorts of mischief with his other friends, the guards son Helbram.
Harlequin had escaped once with Helbram to explore the Kingdoms capital. He was soon caught and punished by the King.
King: Harlequin you cannot go explore the capital, it's dangerous for a prince like you. It's even dangerous for me, you understand?
Harlequin: But, it's nice and fun in the capital. I thought it would be fine because Helbram lives in the capital-
King: This has nothing to do with Helbram.
Harlequin looked down as he was sat on his knees. He desperately wanted to adventure out into the world.
King: If you keep behaving like this it will be hard to find a wife suitable for you to wed-
Harlequin: What?
King: *sigh* In your close future, you will be wed to an important woman in politics, to closer bond our countries. Understood?
Harlequin: I don't want to. I won't ever fall in love.. I-I don't want to be wedded to some.. Some Woman?
Harlequin got up and ran off to his room
King: Harlequin- *sigh* what a pain. Gerheade, check in on him.
Gerheade: Yes, your majesty.
King: I-.. You can drop the formalities, you're my sister after all.
Gerheade: I.. I cannot.
Gloxinia smiled as he watched his sister rush off after Harlequin. She found his royal quarters and knocked on the door.
Gerheade: Young prince.. *knocks again* Young prince.. I'm coming in.
Gerheade opened the door to see a giant lump under the bedsheets of Harlequins bed.
Harlequin: Go away..
Gerheade: I'm afraid I've been ordered to check on you, young prince.
Harlequin took the covers off of him to show his tear stained, red, cheeks. He sniffed and frowned at Gerheade.
Gerheade walked over to him and sat down next to him.
Gerheade: Are you really all that upset about a forced marriage?
Harlequin: It's not just that.. But.. I want to explore the kingdom, but Gloxinia won't allow me to.
Gerheade: Young prince.. One day, when you're King, you can wonder all the lands you wish to walk on. That's the power you'll be able to hold. But for now you're a weak, small boy. You have to train if you wish to do what you want.
Harlequin looked down, he twiddled his thumbs. Gerheade rubbed his back in reassurance.
Gerheade: Alright?
Harlequin: O-Okay..
Gerheade: Now you must get ready, you've got your lesson right now.
Harlequin jumped up and smiled. He grabbed his pillow and ran out. Gerheade sat there and smiled.
Gerheade thoughts: No matter what, Young prince, I will always be here guiding you, by your side.
*After training*
Tutor: Woah *panting* You are extremely good with that spear.
Harlequin: Will I beat you some day??
Tutor: Most definitely. As soon as you awaken your full potential.
Harlequin: When can I do that?
Tutor: I'm not sure. But you can't go looking for it, it'll find you. So you must wait for your time to come, alright Prince?
Harlequin: Y-Yes.
The training period ended and Harlequin began training with his spear. He practiced levitating it with his mind and hand. Time passed on a couple years till one day
King Gloxinia: Why are you late?
Guard: I-I'm so sorry, Your majesty.
Harlequin saw and stood behind Gloxinia. Gloxinia smiled and looked at Harlequin, resting his hand on Harlequins head, although it was hard because King was much taller.
King Gloxinia: What kind of excuse will you tell me now?
Guard: I'm sorry I'm late.. *sobs* it's entirely my fault, your majesty.
Harlequin: Where's Helbram?
A silence. Gloxinia waited for the answer.
Guard: I'm afraid.. He's gone missing.
Harlequin: Then we need to go find him-
Gloxinia: This doesn't concern you, Prince.
Gloxinia held Harlequin back. Harlequin was upset again.
Harlequin: But-
King Gloxinia: No. We'll leave this up to them. Now, you understand you cannot go unpunished, being late isn't acceptable.
Guard: Y-Yes your majesty.
King Gloxinia: You'll be on the Night Shift for this week. That is all.
Guard: Thank you for being so kind, sir.
(Usually it would be worse than this obviously. Gloxinia is friends with this guard, but can't show that in public. They both like to go drinking at the bar)
Harlequin: You can't punish him. He's done nothing wrong-
King Gloxinia: You'll learn one day, the rules of this world don't always go in your favour.
Harlequin felt injustice. He ran up to his bedroom and secretly began changing clothes. Again Gerheade had to go check on him. She knocked once and Harlequin jumped.
Gerheade: Prince?-
Harlequin: I'm getting changed! Don't come in!
Harlequin quickly put on his shoes and ran to the window. Gerheade was quite flustered by this so waited outside for a few minutes.
Gerheade: A-Are you done, prince?
No response.
Gerheade: Uhm.. *clears throat* Prince.. Are you done?
Again no response. Gerheade decided to slowly open up the door to find no one inside. A small breeze was felt and Gerheade quickly looked to the window to see it wide open. She was petrified. The prince had run away.
Meanwhile Harlequin began running through a forest in search of Helbram.
Harlequin thoughts: I just know.. That he's there. He has to be...
Harlequin looked at the giant wall that kept him from going outside. He took chastiefol and focused. He jumped onto the pillow and it began flying over the wall. He hopped off the other side and wandered through the woods.
Gerheade: YOUR MAJESTY! YOUR MAJESTY! The prince.. *panting* The prince has runaway.
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Kiane, Great Britannia
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