Despite what was happening in the palace, the temple of the ancestors was quieter than a field after a battle. Everyone was deceased, still, and not making a sound, until there was the loud bang of a gong.

"Wake up!" The spirit that represented the royal family, Denki Kaminari shouted. Denki was a shapeshifter, usually taking his human form. As he walked through the room, banging the gong, old emperors and empress consort awoke from their graves. The ancestors were tired and angry. 

"The hell do you want Denki?"

"It's wake up hour? Are you dumb? I'm gong duty so I'm automatically supposed to wake you up. I thought royalty was supposed to be smarter than this." Denki muttered. He was angry that he had been like this for at least three hundred years. He was born as a teenager and never aged so he ended up looking like a fifteen year old for eternity.

"Give me a massage."

"My head hurts!"

"Wake up Nana!"

He was not waking up Nana anytime soon. That woman was sweeter than... whatever humans ate, but she was smothering. She acted just like a grandma you hadn't seen in four years, surprised that you had grown so much. 

(Me plucking out every black haired person I know and don't want to reappear in the story.)

"Momo yelled at her father in front of the entire army. How disgraceful!" Iida shouted. He made a motion with his hand, most likely a physical tick.

"I can't believe she did that." Yui mumbled. She probably didn't care because the consort lacked emotions. She had died from poisoning when she was twenty one, her only son becoming Emperor at the age of three. At the moment, all the ancestors were chatting and talking about how wrong Momo's actions were.

"She spoke her mind, nothing else happened!" Denki spoke up.

"She stepped out of line! Her job was to sit there and listen!" Iida shouted.

"Whatever." Denki rolled his eyes, making it obvious he didn't care about the emperor's words.

"It isn't such a big deal." Yui yawned. She was terribly sleepy and uninterested in the conversation.

"It is! It's a horrible thing!"

The banter between the ancestors continued.

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Shoto watched the princess be escorted out of the room. She had spoken out of turn and the emperor was obviously irritated but kept his  tone low and kind. She angrily left but didn't make much of a scene. He respected her for that.

His own father spoke to the emperor with such a casual tone, it was as if they were best friends. His father dragged him to the emperor as well, making Shoto blink in confusion. One of those weird, slow blinks you do when you're like 'excuse me, why the hell did you touch me' to your enemy.

"My son shall train the new recruits while I fend off the rebellion from Shiketsu. He is top of his class and a good mentor to his elder siblings. He'll be a perfect teacher."

"Very good, I want all conscription notices out by tomorrow night. I expect you to win General."

"Will do your highness." Enji bowed. The meeting came to an end and the troops left.

Murielle slowly walked up the steps, trying to see her child. She had to speak to her about this. Her behavior was understandable but unacceptable. Of course she felt the same but her husband had the ultimate say at the end of the day.

Entering Momo's room, Murielle saw Momo was wiping her makeup off, only ruining the clothes and smearing it around her face. (We don't got Mulan's famous makeup remover.) Momo was crying and it made the smear even worse.

"Baby, Whats wrong?"

"Father shouldn't have to do this! So many lives will be lost!"

"The general's son will be training the new recruits."

"Great. The boy who is always late is training my people."

"You have to remember, they are fighting to protect our people as well. And the general's son is a very good teacher. We should leave our faith in him." Murielle smiled, keeping her happy tone. (Y'all might be convinced I work for Disney. I'm giving Murielle a bit of a personality and we can't have that, can we?)

Momo raised her voice, "why should I?! He can hardly be on time! He must be very lazy! I don't trust him!"

"Do not raise your voice with me. He lacks punctuality but he makes up for it in strength."

"I apologize."

"It's ok child. I understand you're very passionate about this but you need to be cooperative."

"I understand."

Momo didn't understand. She was filled with rage underneath all of the flesh, fat, and bone. Rage from the fact no one was listening to her. Her voice was either too little to understand, or no one wanted to understand.

This was wrong and she was going to put a stop to it.

(I think I have to make it obvious but-

I'm hungry and all these chapters are going to be less than 1000 unless I wanna write.

Here's your chapter.

My ANGEL CHILD KOMARI was going to be an ancestor of Momo but Mic is alive and it got very messy so she's alive and i have a small plan for my ships :). And a certain someone is gonna appear. He's hot, and he's blonde :). That's your hint cuz I doubt he'll actually be here-)