What's Going On, Ryūketsu?

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"Your Highness, there's dinner ready down stairs. The others are waiting for you."

"I'm not coming!" I yelled.

"But Your Highness, the whole family has gathered to meet you." He walked into the room. I was hiding on top of the door so I jumped down and nerve-pinched him. He was holding a well-decorated box. I opened it seeing a brand new mini-kimono. "Oh god, this is pretty cute." I dragged him outside and locked the door behind me. "I'll try it on." I tried it on and looked into the mirror. Ok, why not? I walked downstairs looking around for some sort of dining room? I really don't know what it looks like.

"Are you lost?" I turned around seeing two men standing in front of a door.

"Oh, umm, well .... Yeah, I'm lost." I sighed. "Do you by any chance know where, umm... Where the dining room is?"

"Oh, it's right here." They pointed at the door they were about to pass through. I walked in first followed by the two behind me. "Have a seat." Takeshi ordered a butler to get something than he let out a sigh. "So, I'll introduce you to everyone." He pointed at the girls and said,"those two ladies there are Mizu and Mika. The two that came in with you were Reinhard and Jason."

Some one walked into the room and sat in front of me. I was curious so I looked at the person. He looked back at me. "Oh and that slacker is Kazuki."

"NO FREAKING WAY!" We both exclaimed as we pointed at each other's faces. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" The family stared at us with a puzzled face. I cleared out my throat and was about to speak when Takeshi interrupted. "Jan here is going to be Queen soon. If you weren't so irresponsible, you would've known." Kazuki was about to punch his brother in the face but looked back at me. He sat back down and crossed his arms in anger. We ate our dinner and everyone slowly left. Except Kazuki and I.

"And you didn't tell me." He laughed as the last one left.

"Well, you didn't tell me you were the first prince!" I yelled.

"I thought you knew!"

"Whatever. I'm not going to become queen." I stood at the door. "I'm not interested. You can take your crown for all I care." I didn't realise tears were falling from my eyes. "And I thought you were someone I could count on." I walked back to my room and slumped onto the bed. "How am I gonna get out of here?" I just kept thinking about how for a few hours and fell asleep.

"Jan, is that you?" I heard a knock on the door. I walked up towards the door. I opened it seeing Kazuki on the other side. "Oh, did I disturb your sleep?" I nodded my head since my eyes started to close. "You're already changed, I wanna show ya something."

"Unless it's my Imperial Arm, I'm not coming." I yawned. I fell onto the ground in front of the door way and started to sleep again.

"You can't sleep in front of the doorway!" He walked into my room and closed the door. He dragged me onto my bed and sighed as he waited for me to get up. "You can just go, you don't have time to wait for me." I pulled my blanket up.

"The whole kingdom thinks you're so responsible. I can't believe what I'm seeing here!" He paused then asked,"is it because you're Imperial Arm was taken from you?" I got up and yawned. I wiped away my tears and stretched out my arms. "Ryūketsu.... I'm useless without it." I snatched my pillow and threw it at him. "I'm just bored!" He yelled.

"Then get the hell out!" He got out and I locked the door behind him. I rubbed my eyes trying to get myself up but it was literally no use at all. I went back to bed forgetting there was someone waiting at the door. "If you're going to sleep again then I'm not gonna be able to show you where your Imperial Arm is." That made me curious, I was still sleepy so I opened the door and asked,"Ryūketsu?"

"Yup!"

I yawned,"but excuse me, I'm sleepy as hell."

"I might have something that's gonna help." I opened my eye seeing he had some sort of herb in his hand. "This herb only grows here, it helps boost your energy and keep you awake for the rest of the day." He held my hand and smiled,"I can cook, come on. I'll make you tea, you're gonna love it." I followed him downstairs but was too sleepy so I sat down at the step. "You can't be that sleepy."

"I'm a lousy person who doesn't sleep on time."

"What time did you sleep at night?" He asked.

"I just slept .... about 2 hours ago."

"You're kidding me, fine, get on my back." I jumped onto his back and started to sleep again. We got to the kitchen and he let me sit down as he started brewing the tea. "What was it like back home?" He asked. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. "I guess it was fun, I joined a group called the Jaegurs. Everyone's nice I guess, some are annoying and smell like fish."

"That sounds like fun."

"But still, I can't call it home." He turned towards me. "Already one of us have died." He didn't answer, he just kept to his own business. "He was annoying anyways." I whispered to myself. A teacup was placed in front of me making me look up. "Drink up! We need to go!" I took a sip and admired it straight away. "Wow, this is good!" I drank the whole cup and stood up.

"And you look wide awake." He walked towards the door and asked,"are you coming?" I nodded and followed him to a huge metallic door under the castle. There was a keyhole in the middle so Kazuki took out a key from his necklace and opened the lock. "What are you waiting for?" We walked in the darkness following the patch of light at the end of the tunnel. There I saw Ryūketsu wrapped tightly in a glass chamber. "That's it right? To tell you the truth, it was really hard to handle, 3 guards had to be sacrificed so it would be preserved properly. Blood is needed way too much." I walked towards it and placed my hand on the glass, I closed my eyes and saw the dangerbeast Ryūketsu was made from. "In a month from now, this place will be destroyed to pieces. Take me with you and escape the hell before it's too late." I heard it speak.

"I will, do your best to bring this castle down." I spoke mentally.

"As you wish, master."

"We're not alowed to be here so can we leave now?" He asked. We walked out and he locked the door. "Sorry for dragging you out here. Can you get back yourself?"

"Yeah, I guess I can. It's ok, I don't do anything all day anyways. Thanks for everything." I walked back to my room. I changed into my nightgown even though it was still light outside. I slumped onto the bed finding something hard underneath the blanket. I lifted the blanket up seeing a case. I opened it and was shocked of what I saw. Weapons? But .. Who? I fiddled with the bullets and checked some of them out then found something. I picked up the katana and held it tight. It reminds me, Ryūketsu. No, it was Kazuki for sure, I didn't see him bring it in but he definitely put this here. Thanks.

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