Chapter 8

Aurelia:

     The test came to an end the following week; Bethany had told me the plans of the empire. They felt I was just being rebellious and should give me some time. Guards were placed all-round the empire to watch for when I would come back. I still had two months to go before my first year would be over, Bethany had made them forget about the Academy so no one suspected I was here which was so good.

     We gathered by the notice board to see our results for our first test, I saw my name,

Aurelia Montez

Martial arts: 89%

Sword fighting: 89%

History: 90%

Archery: 99%

Wow, I did a great job for a first timer, I noticed everyone looking at me

‘you’re the Aurelia right?’ a girl said

‘yeah, I am’

‘congrats, you’re the highest in the form. I’m Mary, to be duchess of York’

‘nice to meet you, I am Aurelia’ she laughed

‘I know that already. I noticed you during archery test, you beat me with 10 points, I got 89 in archery’

‘that’s awesome’

‘fau…Aurelia, guess what’ liz said shaking me

‘what happened this time?’

‘she was the highest in swords fighting, hi Mary’ Claudia replied, I smiled

‘I told you archery wasn’t your thing’

‘but you did so well in archery, you’re so famous on campus now, you’ve broken your…I mean the queen’s record’ Louise said. I broke my Mother’s record, if only she knew. I met Bethany by the stables with a white horse, the horse bowed to me, I couldn’t miss that and the star on its head, it was Majesty, my horse, the last of the royal horses to exist. She was born the same day I was born so she became mine, I patted her mane, I missed her so much

‘how did you get Majesty out of the palace’

‘I made a deal with her, she comes with me and she sees you. She missed you fauna’

‘I missed her too’ Majesty horses were the most powerful horses according to history, my mother fought on a majesty horse. They were really fast, loyal and high jumpers, I’ve experienced that one before. Her colorful mane glistened in the afternoon sun ‘can I mount her’

‘she is yours, of course you can’ I smiled and mounted her, riding into the woods, the cool afternoon breeze touched my face making my hair fly in my face, I missed this, it was like I was home, riding the woods in the castle, I missed majesty so much. (while reading this, play touch the sky from brave)

    Later that evening, in the year one common room, Stephanie and I sat by the book shelf reading about history

‘her highnesses horse is beautiful, too bad she abandoned it all to rebel’ Patricia said

‘I will give anything to have a horse like hers’ Katrine, princess of Sweden said

‘it’s a royal horse your highness’

‘I know, I am royal, so I deserve it. I heard it’s the last of its kind. Queen Merida rode the mother during the war against the Asian empire’

‘it’s beautiful, I wonder if we’ll be allowed to ride it’

‘the horse belongs to her highness; princess fauna, and princess Bethany brought it to the Academy, I doubt we’ll be allowed, but I will give anything to ride it’ I scoffed hearing that, Majesty would never let any other person ride her except I and Mother

‘so because the horse is royalty does that means it has a tiara like you do’

‘my horse back home has its own tiara, fauna is a baby, so I am sure it has a tiara also’

‘her highnesses horse doesn’t have a tiara’ that was Stephanie, I looked at her wondering why she spoke, we agreed to ignore them

‘what? How dare you interrupt me’

‘I didn’t your highness, I told you the truth, you don’t go around telling people what you don’t know about. Majesty as the princess calls her is a royal horse indeed, she doesn’t need a tiara to show her royalty, she has a star on her head and a colorful mane which shows her royalty already so there is no need for a tiara, now stop telling false tales, people are trying to read’ Stephanie finished returning to her book, Katrine scowled at her before walking out of the room with Patricia following closely behind her. I laughed as she left

‘what was that about’ Stephanie smirked

‘even if they don’t know who you really are, but you’re in the room, she should have respect for a fellow princess’ Stephanie replied dropping the book on the table. ‘I’m tired, I’m going to the dorm, I need sleep’

‘be careful, I’m sure Katrina is planning your death already’

‘wouldn’t we all love to see how that ends up, I’ll see you later your majesty’ she said with a slight curtsy before walking away.

Katrina

‘did you hear that Patricia, she called her your majesty, she curtsied to her, who is she?’

‘maybe it’s just a formality they use for each other’

‘Lady Stephanie is a duke’s daughter; she is not expected to bow to commoners. She is expected to only bow to dukes and duchesses then the king and queen and the prince and princesses, no one else. Something is not right here’

‘shouldn’t we just mind our business your highness’

‘I would love to but this is rather exciting, who is that so called Aurelia, she said she is not royalty but she gets curtsies’

‘so what is your plan’

‘I am yet to figure that one out’

‘she is a good archer; I have seen her with princess Bethany on few occasions’

‘do you think she is princess fauna, the Rothesay duchesses are close friends of the princess and she is always with them and now with princess Bethany, that is so suspicious don’t you think’

‘I’m sure they are just friends Katrina’

‘we can’t be too sure, and besides it would be a good way to get back at that rude duchess who doesn’t know her place in society’

‘what if we were just assuming things’

‘Patricia, this is not assumed, I know I am right, I can feel it’ I said and walked away, I had to go to the wall of fame, getting there, I went over to Scotland section, seeing the queen and then fauna beside her, I was trying to see the resemblance but nothing, there had to be something.

Zachary

Three weeks into third year, interhouse competition in martial arts, I hated this week with passion, Luke decided to fake being ill but chief found out too soon.

‘my head hurts’ Luke groaned from his bed

‘shut up’ I replied. The competitions were to begin in an hours’ time and Luke was about to begin his drama

‘Zac, I mean it, I can’t do this’

‘neither can I but I’m still doing it anyways, so stop nagging and let’s go’

‘it’s time already?’ he said putting on his sneakers and we left to the open field where everyone was gathered. I looked up, my mother was here so was the queen of Sweden, I tore my gaze from her as I noticed she was looking through the crowd for me and allowed luke pull me through the crowd. The competition began with us already having 20 points in the first 10minutes leading the other houses.

‘Aurelia Montez and prince Edward, it is now your turn’ I wanted to watch this one. Aurelia got to the open field giving Edward a curtsy, that duface didn’t deserve that curtsy especially from my girl. They began fighting with Aurelia defending herself from his punches before giving him some of her own which knocked him to the ground, the flames screamed in joy as she knocked him down, but that was what he wanted, I could see it, she thought it was over as she was about to leave, he pulled her back knocking her to the ground, she landed with a painful thud, I knew that pain trust me and Aurelia was down, and he was still hitting her, dude you are matched with a female, did he even know what this was about, as he continued hitting her I felt the urge to go out there and teach him a lesson but princess Bethany beat me to it giving him a punch across his cheek and a kick which sent him flying to hit the wooden board, it fell on him, that will teach him, then Bethany carried Aurelia out to the medics I was sure, the prides should so much pray I don’t get matched with one of them, I will so much repay the favor

‘did you see that Zac?’ luke said like I wasn’t watching

‘I saw it luke and they are going to pay for that, you’re up next, teach them a lesson’ I said just as Luke’s name was called, he was to fight lady Macbeth, that was so easy, Macbeth gave him a curtsy, he bowed to her showing his irritated face, I looked up to see mother laughing then our eyes met, she smiled at me, I scoffed, I looked back to see luke already had her tackled on the ground, like I said too easy, it was soon my turn, yeah captain fight, I was to fight the captain of the prides, princess  Mereleona. I looked at her

‘so we meet again your highness’ she said giving me a curtsy

‘should I pretend to be thrilled about this because I don’t want to be here, let’s get this thing over with’

‘don’t be too sad about your girl, it was just a few hits’ I’m sure my face spoke danger after she said that, she smirked

‘do you want a death wish or something’

‘I’m just trying to cheer you up Zakie boo’

‘you don’t want me to hurt you now do you?’ she smirked again

‘I’m sure I’m the one going to be doing the hurting’ she said throwing her fist at me which I dodged

‘really, that’s all for the great Mereleona, I thought so high of you darling’ she kicked at me, I held her leg and she fell, she jumped up again and began throwing punches at different direction which I dodged anyways, I wasn’t going to touch her, the competition was about self-control, she attempted to kick at my face, I held her feet once again and flipping her she fell on the ground and the timer rang, time over, flames had won again, I squatted beside her ‘for what you pretty prince whatshisname did to my girl, this isn’t over your highness’ I whispered to her and got up walking away from the open field to my cheering housemates.