Escaping Corruption (Seasons 1-3)

13 - Flash to the past

-Forty-six years prior-

The academy bell ring. Signalling the first lunchbreak.

Students load the courtyard. One girl, a magicat, enters with her clique.

The group includes Princess Angella, Prince Seaverin, Princess Scorilena and a few others. The leader, was Princess C'yra D'riluth.

As the group sat eating their lunches, a sudden flash of pink hit C'yra. The colour spread, and the end result was all her fur was a bright hot pink.

The other students freeze as she turns her glower to the cause.

The new boy. Amato Henclithe.

His elder brother, Tainkai snickered at his misfortune. C'yra approached the boys with an unreadable expression.

'Is something wrong! why'd the party stop, people?' Amato joked.

'That was worse then Justice beivers music' She muttered.

He looked her up and down, then spun around and strutted away.

As she stormed after him, he sent a boomerang flying, tripping her up, which led to her lying face first in a puddle of mud.

From that day on, her reputation had been reduced to smithereens.

Queen Avena and the King had become harsher and stricter with her.

And gradually, she became completely alone. With her entire life depending on nothing but perfect test scores, perfect posture, and perfect everything.

But one day it all came crashing down.

The test scores for their English test they had done the previous week came out.

16%.

She argued with the teacher, publicly, about it. But it was now set in stone.

She hid in the supply closet, to breakdown. She would there would be grave punishment for such an awful mark. She could be executed, or worse, disowned.

She hid in the closet until she heard the door open and shut. Then there was someone sitting beside her.

'I'm sorry'

Amato Henclithe.

'What? Came to humiliate me some more?' She hissed, baring her fangs.

'I didn't know how badly a small trick could go wrong. I'm sorry.'

'You're apologising '

'Exactly '

'...'

'I... am sorry...?'

'I do not forgive you'

'I don't expect you to.'

There is silence.

Amato gets up to leave, but turns to her slowly once more.

They nod at each other slowly.

And then he leaves.

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The school formal was approaching fast.

C'yra was excited.

She was going with the most popular boy in her school, Riggs Leocade.

And she had a beautiful dress for it.

It was a lavender blouse underneath a dark purple sleeveless shirt and a matching skirt.

She made sure her eyeliner was perfect, and giggled to herself when she realised it was time to go.

But when she arrived, Riggs wasn't where he had said he'd meet her.

So she went looking for him.

She found him by the outdoor fountain with his gang of playboys.

'Hello!' She smiled brightly.

'What are you doing here, D'riluth.' Riggs sneered.

C'yras smile wavered.

'Weren't we...?'

Thats when it clicked.

'Honestly! Did you really think I'd go with a disabled princess!' He laughs. 'Oh please, maybe I might've before you proved your stupidity in class when you started getting below 20% in tests!'

Everyone in the courtyard laughs with him.

C'yras heart pounds in her panic. She taps her foot nervously. She hums to make herself focus on something.

Suddenly, she was shoved out of the way, and the culprit caught her.

A spilt bucket of ice water lay on the ground where she had been a moment before.

S!owly, C'yra looked a her defender.

Amato.

'Amato?! B-but you?!?! You played me like a fiddle' Riggs gaped.

'Fiddles are elegant and hard to play. You're more like a cheap, second-hand kazoo from the drug store.' Amato shrugged.

C'yra laughed into his chest.

After a few moments of roasting Riggs, Amato let her go with nothing more then a nod of thanks.

But C'yra smiled to herself as she walked.

This was a start.

Later that same night, When formal titles were called out, C'yra was shocked to learn that she was Queen and Amato the king.

Therefore, they had to dance together in front of everyone.

Amato held out his hand and smiled smugly.

'Care for a dance?'

'Your so on, Ato.'

She smirked.

That night, they spent the rest of it together.

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Months past, and they became closer each day.

and it wasn't long before feelings developed, and their years at the academy were coming to an end.

C'yra had to confess soon.

They sat beneath a yew tree growing in the park.

Their was a moment of silence before C'yra swallows nervously and turned to him.

he was confused

'Amato....'

'Yes..?'

'I....Holy shit, I'm in love with you' her eyes widened as the words came tumbling out of her own mouth.

he was blank for a moment.

'The feelings are mutual, C'yra'

she laughed, and fell against him.

'So what does that make us?'

'Dumbasses, I suppose?'

'Nah, we're more eejits then anything ' She said, nodding.

And that was the beginning.