Rico and Christa had finally arrived in Nanos, the capital of Glath, one of the fourteen kingdoms in Glathon, which belonged to the umends (the human race). As they were walking to the castle, a familiar face appeared and hugged Christa, who stumbled from the surprise.
"Liza, it's you."
She exclaimed while returning the hug.
"Of course it makes me feel silly. Who else has hugged you like that?"
She asked.
"Daniel would have done the same too, you know."
She answered back.
Eliza Wester is the princess of Eclair, one of the four Umend kingdoms. She is twenty years old, her usual appearance is her strawberry blonde hair mixed with black hair at the edges of her packed in a high ponytail while wearing her big black framed lenses, reading glasses, and having her signature clothes, a short-sleeved plain white shirt, black trousers and her black high heels, having porcelain toned skin soft facial features, which matched her personality and looks.
She has been a writer from the age of 13. The book that started her career was 'So I Can Fall'. Just after the 130 book release requests for the book came higher each day, she decided to become a full writer, publishing better books each year than the last. Rico was starting to get annoyed by the scene in front of him, so he walked towards them and placed his hands on her shirt sleeve and gently dragged her away from Eliza, who silently protested against him for ruining the moment.
"Hey, why are you dragging me? I was in a moment with Liza. Why did you have to disturb us?"
She said, confused. "Listen, we only came here because their jerk we call a king is calling us for whatever called for the decrease in liume jewels. And I know how you act around Eliza. So can you blame me?"
He asked her, while being very close to her face. He could hear her heart beat.
"Um.. Because we are part of the council who have to help the fellow citizens of Glath, our country, whether we like it or not, besides, we swore loyalty to our country and Liza is my best friend, she has to either bring out the best or worst out of me."
She stated with a cheeky smile, he gave up on trying to talk to her, since he saw no flaw in her logic.
"Well you know what, just forget this, let's get this over with, let's start going."
He scratched his neck, indicating he wasn't in the mood to argue, as she proved him wrong. She nodded back with a satisfied smirk and continued walking to the royal castle, as she walked beside him.
'They still haven't changed one bit from since when we were kids. Wait, did they just ignore me again and just leave me on my own? Those inconsiderate people.'
Eliza thought, as she saw them walk away, making her very pissed off.
"Hey you two, where do you think you're going without me? You can't just leave me alone."
She shouted, awaiting their response, but it was too late. They had already left her a long time ago.
A voice was heard from her left side of her body who put his hand across her shoulders, "Eliza Wester, don't you know it's bad for a royal, especially a princess, to curse in public, aren't you supposed to keep those kinds of thoughts to yourselves?" A man asked her in a teasing tone. She turned her head backwards to see Seth, her elder brother. She removed his hands off from her.
"I can be decent when I feel like it, Seth. Besides, who is the flirt between both of us? That is right, it's you."
She retorted, making Seth slightly scoff at her comment, as she was the one with the collection of same-s*x romance books with a lot of r-rated scenes.
"Decent, my foot." He muttered. He felt a hand on his left shoulder. He looked back and regretted looking back. It was his best friend and his sister's fiancé.
"Jake, it's not what it looks like." He said, quickly trying to defend himself as he preferred to not lose his reputation in front of him.
"Seth, I will give you one second for you to run, one." Jake said, as he glared at him, he didn't have to finish his sentence to make the former run away, as he left instantly, leaving Jake and Eliza alone together on the sidewalk.
"Works everytime. Well, whatever I need to meet the king." Eliza replied, as the image of Jake quickly disappeared. The appearance of Jake was merely an illusion to get rid of Seth. She started walking towards the direction of the palace.
Seth Wester, the crown prince of Eclair, the elder brother of Lisa, specializes in swordsmanship due to his strong constitution, known as the biggest flirt in the kingdom. He is engaged, but it is still for annoying people, his curly dark brown reaching his shoulder, his bangs slightly covering his onyx eyes, he is a knight of his country and an advisor to the king of Glath. He normally wears a blue and gold schemed shirt with a red stash diagonally across the shirt with a few minor decorations attached to the shirt and black trousers, his duel swords kept in their cases on his hips and black shoes.
They had all finally arrived to discuss the issue of the Liume jewels. Well, some of them and the others were still doing missions.
In a silver colored room, the guests sat in their positions, the maids surrounded the room, the first seat at the end of the table was for the king, while the second seat was for Christa, who was twirling her dagger. Over the table was Rico, who had boredom written on his face, Liza sat right next to Christa who was busy talking about Lisa's next book, then Seth was in front of her annoying her like a good brother would do. The other two seats were still empty.
Bam.
The door was opened, walking in a man wearing a red-striped and white star-pattern shirt wearing a golden crown with short straight silver hair, swept to the left side as the rest of his hair. His emerald green eyes walked into his room with his knights. Trumpets were blown, an advisor made an announcement.
"Announcing the arrival of His Royal Majesty, King Clover Furlorn, the leader of the future."
He raised his hands, silencing the advisor, everyone stood up and bowed, showing their respect to the king, and he commanded them to sit down. Clover went up to Christa and hugged her, whispering to her.
"It's good to see you, little sister."
"It's good to see you too, big brother." She hugged him back.
The others didn't reply, as they watched the exchange between the two siblings. They stopped hugging, and she went back to her seat. He walked up to the front of the table and put his hands on the table, gaining everyone's attention.
"Okay, we are here to discuss the scarcity of Liume jewels."
Liume jewels are a special type of material that is made by putting in or gaining lime from the surrounding environment. They gather specific Liume from either water, air, fire and earth, which is why they can be found in those four conditions which are artificial. The natural ones are the ones that are made without any interference by any other species, so they are quite rare.