Royal Love

The Introduction

Ballister had been in his chambers, he had just woken up and sent a butler to grab some warm tea, when suddenly he sees a redish pink bird fly on his balcony, he sits up from his bed, slowly approaching the bird
"Hey little birdie.. I'm not gonna hurt ya.. "
He said as he inched closer and closer until he was close enough to touch it
"Well you seem friendly! "
He said, rubbing the head of the bird, it let ballister touch it, it seemed like it trusted him
"Hm, do you have a name? "
He asked the bird, surprisingly he reviced an answer from the bird as it pointed around the room at objects. It took him awhile to figure out it had been trying to spell "nimona" but he only realised when the bird flew away once the butler walked in.
"Your majesty, your warm tea with a side of chocolate chip cookies, per request. "
The tilted his head
"I Only asked for a tea though? "
the butler placed the cup of tea and plate of cookies on a nightstand
"The queen had requested you ate something, she asked for it to be sweet, so as ordered, something sweet with tea. "
Ballister wasn't angry, he loved the cookies, it had been his favorite kind as well, but he excused the butler and suddenly, the bird came back. He looked over as he saw the pinkish redish bird, it looked like a cardinal, but if someone dyed it to be pink
"Hey little birdie! Would you like a cookie? "
He offered, surprisingly the bird ate it piece by piece
"I think I figured out your name, is it nimona? "
The bird looked excited as she flapped around, giving him the answer of yes as she ate another cookie crumb
"Well, I'll have to keep in mind that you also like cookies"
He said with a gentle smile before it was quickly interrupted by the butler again, but instead of bringing something, he had something to tell ballister
"Your majesty, the queen summons you to the throne room, she has something important to discuss with you.. "
The pinkish redish bird flew away, with multiple cookie crumbs flying out of its mouth
"Tell her I'm on my way, I just need to set something up"
He ordered, the butler left as ballister set the plate of cookies on the balcony for nimona before he quickly got out of his chambers and began making his way to the throne room, somehow tripping and stumbling onto something or someone while he had been looking at the paintings that were freshly put up and the paint had still been wet. He looked down to see who he had stumbled onto or on, he looked to see ambrosius goldenlion himself, gloreths descendant himself! In the flesh!
"Deepest apologies for bumping into like this goldenlion. "
he said getting off of him, but ambrosius quickly got up and stood up straight
"Your majesty, I apologize for not looking where I was heading to, I was actually coming to get you, the queen requested me to come and retreive you, would you like to walk with me back? "
Ballister looked at ambrosius, inspecting every bit of his face, the sweat, the nervousness, and the blush.
"Well, if I'm being granted the opportunity to be accompanied by you, goldenlion, I'll have to gladly take your request. "
He said, seeing a giant smile appear on his face, on the walk there, they had both held hands, Ballister had always watched the knights train, he always became impressed with how well ambrosius was at it so he would watch him. He always had a weird feeling in his stomach whenever he was around ambrosius, like if butterflies were fluttering around in his stomach, he hated the feeling, he never felt it before. Eventually they made their way to the throne room, ambrosius kneeled in front of the queen
"Good morning mother, you requested? "
Ballister said hugging valerin.
"Well, I have big news for you, bal. "
He became oddly intrigued with what she had for him.
"Since you will be turning 18 soon, you will need a guard, a knight with you at all times for protection, and I believe I have the perfect knight for this job"
His jaw dropped whe he heard that he will need a guard with him at all times, all he thought was "It better not be Todd. " though it was better than Todd, it was someone he was comfortable by, someone who gave him butterflies.
"Sir Goldenlion will be the perfect fit, I see you both get along, and with ambrosius being the descendent of gloreth, I believe he will do his best to protect my son, once he is officially knighted, he will be at your side at all times."
Ambrosius's eyes widened when he heard this, he was shocked that he had been given this opportunity, ballister was shocked that he was still getting a bodyguard, and it also being ambrosius
"Thank you mother"
Ballister replied to her, hugging her and kissing her cheek before he excused himself to the balcony, the same balcony he feeds the pinkish redish bird, the same balcony he watched the knights practice and train at.
He spaced out for a second, watching them train, then he suddenly heard yelling, fighting, arguing between ambrosius and Todd, nobody liked Todd, not even the queen, he listened in.
"--oyfriend! "
"He's -ot my -yfriend! "
He simply assumed Todd was trying to start a fight, over ambrosius getting the duty of being a guard, until he heard it begin to esculate

"Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! "
It had been chanted throughout the training grounds, he quickly looked to see ambrosius and Todd about to fight, but the director had tried to intervene, being too late and Todd had already thrown the first punch, in which ambrosius had quickly responded with a dodge after he had seen the director standing there, watching it all play out in front of her. Long story short, Todd gets in trouble, but after quickly running down many halls to get to where they were, ballister quickly cleared ambrosius's name, saving him from getting in trouble. There was a silence when the director left with Todd, bringing him to talk about he did, and blah blah blah, ballister didn't really like Todd and how many chances the Institute gave him, he thinks they should just kick him out, but due to Todd coming from a noble family, he can't be kicked out.
"Thanks.. For what happened with Todd, I really mean it! "
Ambrosius said, breaking the silence
"Your welcome, I can't let my soon to be guard get in trouble already because of idiot Todd"
They both laughed, bal felt the feeling in his stomach again, the feeling of butterflies fluttering around, was he in-love with his soon to be guard?