The Inheritance

Chapter 1: The 16th Birthday

Chapter 1: The 16th Birthday

The kingdom was bustling and in a hurry. It was crowded and everyone was moving all over the place with preparations of the princess' birthday party at the palace. Women were coming out of stores with beautiful ball gowns in hand while the men were holding suits and tuxedoes from the tailor. Merchants, traders and messengers were moving about in the kingdom, trying to deliver things to and from the castle. The kingdom was decorated beautifully. The streets were covered in confetti.

Tables were set with a beautiful white table cloth with golden patters on the rim and center of the cloth. The silverware was beautiful and gleamed in the sunlight. The plates were clean. They were white with a blue rim on the edges of the plate and an image of a basket of apples in the middle of the plate.

The merchant with his carriage called, "We must hurry to the palace to deliver these flowers for the princess' sixteenth birthday." The merchant and his assistant got into the wooden carriage and whipped the horses' leach. The horses neighed ran towards the white brick bridge that connected the palace gates, in the plains, to the rest of the kingdom.

The wooden carriage arrived towards the black gates of the palace grounds. The high gates in front of the palace was connected to high cement walls that you could only see the little top part of the palace. The beautiful palace had yellow wall that rose stories above he ground on the grassy plain that surrounded its barriers.

One of the guards standing on the the side of the gate approached the carriage and said, "May I help you?" The merchant's assistant answered, "We're here to deliver flowers for decorating the palace for the princess' birthday." He handed the guard a card. The guard took the piece of parchment and looked at it. The guard turned to the other guards on the wall. The other guards nodded and suddenly the gate opened. When the guard on top of the wall saw the carriage pass into the castle grounds, he pulled a level to the right to close the gates.

The lawn of the palace was more beautiful than the grassy field that surrounded its outer walls. The bushes were trimmed nicely into many shapes and figures. There was a place where the cemented road that lead from the bridge to the castle gates then to the doors split in two around a large water fountain with an angel pointing a bow and arrow towards the sky and water coming out of the tip of the arrow. On the lawn was other statues of warriors in armor, both male and female wielding all sorts of weapons. The lawn was also like a forest full of trees that was around the palace and were also well trimmed. Before reaching the large, brown oak main palace doors, the carriage turned down a different path that led to the a side part of the palace. When the carriage arrive, some women approached the carriage. The merchant got out and walked to the back of the carriage with the women. He and his assistant picked up the flowers and handed them to the ladies. "Thank you for bringing these over," said one of the servants. The merchant nodded then got back in his carriage with his assistant. They whipped the horses' reign again and led the horses back the way they came from and out of the palace.
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Not too far from the palace, in the forest nearby, another person was exited for the princess' birthday party. In a large bunker, below the forest, a sorcerer was getting ready for the party along with his son. The sorcerer was wearing a black tuxedo with a cape on the side. His son was wearing the same. "Are you ready, my son?" called the sorcerer. His son approached him from the shadows of the dark hallway and answered, "Yes father," as he tucked on the tux. "Good." The sorcerer put a hand on his sons shirt collar and patted it. He tucked on his son's tie. "Today, the king will pay for exiling us from the kingdom with his and his daughter's life." The dark haired sorcerer turned around then looked at his son from the corner of his black eyes. As the father mumbled to himself, the son lowered his eye lids. The sorcerer walked up the stairs and his son followed out of the hideout. "You must remember our plan, Shoran. I will take the King and you will take that filthy princess. When they are out of the picture, I will then kill the queen." His blonde son with black eyes, as dark as the night, smirked then said, dryly, "Yes father."
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Back at the palace, in the princess' large bath, she was naked as her ladies in waiting washed her. "This is unexpected; you never allow us, your handmaidens, to bathe you."