The dragon emperor's daughter

I - Who am i?

Who am i...

That's a funny question i don't get asked much. 

My name is Hero, i'm a high school senior and i am invisible... Well, no, not really, but it sure as hell feels like it, i am an absolute faliure, my grades are low, i'm no good at sports either and i don't really do people, i don't look good either so i'm a complete loner... Maybe if i just dissapeared, things wuld be better... Well, that won't take long at all apparently, i am almost at my weight goal and then i'll weight a whole one year old, then i'm pretty sure no one will ever see me... Huh... Weirdly engouth i feel sleepy... A nap won't change much, i don't get math anyway, i lean into the table and close my eyes, feeling a chilling cold wrap my whole body...

 I wake up in a jump and look arownd, something... Something happent... I look arownd the best i can, my body doesn't awnser properly but i can tell i'm much lighter than before, and i... Am in a crib? A... Very pink crib on that note... Pink and white and gold... Ooh, there's a butterfly rattle hanging from the celling! How cute... So girly too, what's this? Am i in a girl's crib? Why tho? How did i end up here!

 - Ah! Her royal higness is awake? - I get a bit startled, looking at the maid who just went into my room, she had a bottle on her - Does the princess want her breakfast?

 She is... Talking to me? Princess? Whatever does this crazy woman mean? I am a male, and i'm sure that i'm not a princess, what's going on?!... That maid offers me a golden bottle and the sparkling is the first thing i can see, it's so pretty, i like the golden shimmer, it's so... Royal... I'm a prince? A princess? Whatever happened to me? Is this just a dream? Did i just... Die like that?... I guess my questions will all be awnsered in time, i can't just ask anyway... Huh, that's strawberry milk... Am i supposed to be having strawberry milk like that? I can't be old engouth to be having this, but it is absolutely delicious...

And like this, time passed before i culd tell, and soon, it was my first birthday.

 I uderstood very soon my situation by the maidens taking care of me, they talk a whole lot... I am a princess, a girl named Scylla, who is also the crown princess even tho i do have a brother, my father visibly favors me even tho we never really met, but i guess he just culdn't meet me before, today is the first time he can actually meet me and i'll have a party at the castle, i hope he doesn't make a show of it, i'm too young to have a big party... One of the maids pick me up and i just go along with it as they change me into a fluffy pink frilly dress, ew... But i don't get to pick, i'm just an one year old princess anyway... My head maiden is called Elize, she takes care of me most of the time and cradles me when i cry, she's a very sweet lady, kind of reminds me of my mom... I don't know the name of my mother in this world, i never met her, she died after giving birth to me the crown princess, my father the king is known as a merciless man even tho he is seen as a hero for the commoners... I heard the maids talking about how he killed every single living soul on this palace where i live now, all to be sure i'd be absolutely safe...

 Oh, yeah, i do not live on the main palace and for what i've heard here is safer than the main palace as we are in a deep forest maze where it is rather easy to get lost, there is also a beautiful garden just outside the garden where the maids take me for walks when it is sunny, i love the pretty flowers and the warm sunlight, and it's a good change from the closed palace walls, i'll run a lot in here when i am older... I walk and talk already, but they won't let me or even take their eyes off of me so i can run just a little bit... So i have no choice but follow the rules diligently untill they trust me engouth to take their eyes off of me, then i'll be able to go about my buisness however i want. I still need to concentrate on my steps to manage not falling and this dress is very much long and annoying so Elize is carrying me on her arms so i won't fall with it, it wuld be a shame to ruin this white dress... I wonder if i am a cute child, i haven't seen myself at all yet, but i bet i must be the cutest little thing, or at least that's what the maids always say to me...

 I am taken trough the forest kept as a maze by my head maid and two others i don't really know, they stop still in front of a very simple, but very regal looking palace surrownded by a garden of yellow and red roses carefully trimmed and cared for, we follow along the path paved with stone bricks that led into the palace and my eyes went straight to the man standing on the castle's entrance, God, he's absolutely ripped! Is that guy even for real?? He... He must be a guard or something right??

 - Your royal higness... - Elize bowed to that man, wait... Oh my God is this my dad?! No way, this man looks like he just came out of the craft room of a master sculptor obsessed with perfection! And he's got the sickest dragon wings hanging on him too, do i have those?? I wanna... - This is her higness, princess Scylla De Altansarnai, first princess of the kingdoom of Alìma and heir to the crown.