ROYALS || Katsuki Bakugo x Reader ~ Royal AU*

Chapter 3 || The Arrival

The kingdom of Kelna was surprisingly quite beautiful. Even amongst my sorrows during my long carriage voyage towards the kingdom, I couldn't help but take a peek at the gorgeous scenery that lay before me.

The kingdom was much further up North compared to my own, therefore making the weather there much colder than I was used to.

Most of the kingdom from at least what I could see, was covered in a beautiful layer of sparkling snow. It glistened in the sunlight that shone upon it, but the strangest thing to me was that there were many flowers blooming in the ground that lay below me.

The flowers growing there weren't the ones that I had seemingly expected to see however because these flowers had a stem made up of entirely ice, with the actual flower part being made up of gorgeous, navy, petals that formed into a snowflake shape.

It was the strangest,  but most alluring thing I that I had ever seen, and I couldn't help but smile as I looked at the thousands of flowers that I was passing on my journey, towards the Kelna Castle.

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Arriving at the Castle a couple of hours later, I was surprisingly in a better mood than I had anticipated to be in. The place was huge, and practically glistened as the moon's rays hit the building, signaling that night had now fallen upon us.

I took a few more seconds to further observe the place before me before stepping out, until I was interrupted by the cold breeze that hit my arm from the carriage door being opened.

I quickly focused my gaze up from observing the castle, towards the young man that was standing there before me with a large smile plastered onto his face.

"Your Majesty," he bowed, taking one of my hands to gently help escort me out of the carriage.

"I am Tenya, Iida, the castle Stewart, and I speak on behalf of us all when I say that we are thrilled to have you here!" he stated formally, before smiling once more.

"Aw! Why thank you sir, it is truly a pleasure to be here as well!" I replied genuinely, ignoring the fact that I had literally been in tears over coming here, earlier this morning.

Even though I wasn't happy to be here for marriage, I still couldn't hide the fact that I was a little excited to explore the new kingdom I had just stepped foot on. After all, I did love a good adventure, and the Stewart seemed very nice, so maybe everyone else here was too!

Little did I know, that I was so awfully wrong.

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As I now walked down the long hallways of the palace after entering, with Tenya by my side escorting me to the Grand Hall, I couldn't help but gaze upon the new enviornment.

The castle was different from my own back in Velvador. For the walls were much thicker, most likely to keep the place warm, and the floor marbling was made out of a shiny glass material, resembling the appearance of ice. It was all so magical looking, as well as the chandeliers that resembled icicles hanging from the ceiling above, lighting up the dark castle halls.

Perhaps, this won't be as bad as I had expected! I thought to myself, as Tenya led me into what I assumed to be the great hall, where I then saw the blonde man that I had seen from the portrait given to me by my mother, now sitting before me.

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Bakugo's POV*

I sat on my large throne, slouching hard, with an apparent frown on my face. I didn't even bother to look excited to see her, and honestly I couldn't give a damn.