The Royal siblings, and their way of life

     It was a cloudy, stormy day, with thunder and rain echoing on the battlefield. The dead body count only got higher as thousands of people seemed to be fighting day and night.

It was a slaughter for anyone participating. Magic casters rained fireballs taking countless lives. There were bodies surrounding one person.

 In the center were hooded men praying, but Above them was a dark haired lady with a somewhat mystical appearance. Her white eyes glowed shining light on the entire battlefield.

     “May we praise the great one!”

     People chanted and praised her as if she was an omnipotent goddess. She began to speak.

     “On that fateful day when thunder, fire, and wind unite is the day the great one will appear once again.”

     Just like that a young girl had woken up. She sweated from head to toe as she breathed heavily.

     “That's the 7th time now…”

She sat up trying to understand the dream she had just had. The young girl lazily stood up and walked like she was half drunk, most likely from the dream from earlier.

The eye patch she wore even to bed was taken off, revealing her white eye. Even though she had this eye on her left side, on her right side was just a normal black eye.

     “What does it all mean…”

The world, although peaceful, has seen its fair share of battles. People wonder if things will get easier or harder as the years go on.

Through the use of Exotere people have waged wars to see who can truly become the world's greatest just out of greed.

     “I've never been outside these castle walls all my life. I wonder what it's like out there, are there other kingdoms like this one? More importantly where is—”

     “Rise and shine Princess Alice!” the loud girl shouted out in excitement.

Alice jolted up at the sudden arrival of the girl, surprised, but at the same time she saw it coming.

The loud girl is named Marcella. She's a maid and Alice’s only personal maid. She's been there all her life, even when they were both 4 years old. All the members of the royal family have that one retainer they've known all their lives.

     “Could you not be so loud? It's still early in the morning!”

     “Hahaha I'm sorry princess, I just love mornings, don't you?”

Alice sighed “I mean I guess so?”

Marcella froze for a moment with a face that was like Bruh

     “You always get like this when you have those dreams. Geez I know it's your birthday but can wait until you have your first period.”

     “H-Hey how do you know I haven't had that yet?”

Alice’s temper was getting high from the back and forth they were having, or maybe it was just because she was embarrassed.

     “Hehe, so what was it like this time?” Marcella asked.

“It was a little different, they were praising her this time.”

“That's certainly strange… you said she had the same eye as you right?” Marcella pondered.

As they were talking Alice put back on her eye patch.

     “She did, but why doesn't she have some of my white hair? The people praising her were calling her the ‘great one’ also. Before I would only hear the prophecy.”.

Marcella pondered after finishing up wiping her sweat with the towel. 

     “Hmmm ‘The great one’ huh? Why does that sound so familiar? Oh well, we've already talked to your father about it and even he didn't know. Anyways come on, Princess let's get you changed.”

After about 10 minutes Marcella helped Alice get changed, her attire was now instead a fancy white dress with black heels.

     “Ahhh! YOU LOOK SO CUTE PRINCESS!”

Marcella gushed out of excitement, but Alice secretly was starting to like it.

     “I mean… I guess it's pretty… it's really hard to move around in it though.”

“Your father secretly bought this without you knowing for the banquet. So do you like it?

Alice sighed but tried to hide the blush from Marcella, although Marcella could see it anyways.

     “My birthday, huh… don't you wish we could celebrate our birthdays once a year instead of every 4 years?”

“Not really? Wouldn't that be too much for one person to do it every year.”

     “I suppose you're right, Marcella.”

“Speaking of, Flare went to wake up your brother, but he wasn't there.”

     Alice sighed, staring directly out a nearby window. “Knowing him he's probably training again. He needs to rest once in a while. So reckless.”

In the training hall there was a young boy practicing swordplay all alone.

     However he wasn't as alone as he thought

 There stood a long haired redhead watching him in the distance.

She snickered playfully. She casted quietly allowing her to teleport behind him while he's vulnerable.

She focused Exotere into her fingertip conjuring a flame. As it was about to make contact with the base of his neck the flame that was as little as a lighter disappeared.

She was disappointed at the outcome.

     He sighed “What is it, Flare?” 

 “You're no fun Youm…” Flare rolled her eyes while pouting in frustration.

 “Father is gonna get mad if you don't call me prince.”

 “Prince or no Prince, you'll still be the same Youm I'll play tricks on.”

     Flare moved in front of his direction, but whenever she'd get in front of him he would turn his back on her.

     “Honestly your form is all wrong, you need to turn your elbow and go BOOM! And a POW! With a JAB.”

     “How would you know how my father's swordsmanship is supposed to be?”

“I know more than you think I do~ but really, you're thinking too much about it, sometimes you just gotta do it, you know.”

Youm pondered for a while. Her explanation is ass but maybe I can give it a try.

He raised his sword slightly, shifted his foot and pulled back his arm before exerting all the force he had into an explosive jab “A jab!”

While still in motion he turned around and made a horizontal slash. “Then a pow!”

With the finally he spun around and slammed the wooden sword onto the ground “And a BOOM!”

     Youm was sweating from the triple attack he did. He turned his head quickly to Flare who was clapping her hands in celebration.

     “Wow, that was amazing! But it wasn't what I meant. Also you have amazing physical strength but you weren't using your mark as you should.”

Youm blushed out of embarrassment from that display.

He huffed scratching the back of his head. “Yeah but it's hard to harness the power of my mark. It's like I can't get it out for some reason.”

     “Hmmm… it could be that your mark is out of balance.” Flare questioned.

“I’m practically markless if I can't use it…” Youm was unhappy with the news.

Flare also looked unhappy, but Youm knew little of the reason why.

     “Yeah… The people who are born without a mark are unlucky, if only it wasn't like that anymore.” Flare wished out loud 

     “Hmmm…” Youm pondered.

Flare wanted to know what Youm was thinking, but she figured she would ask another time.

     “Oh right I almost forgot to tell you but you need to get ready! The princesses birthday is today!”

She took some used towels the prince had while he was training and rushed out of the training hall.

     “Yeah I'm coming… Alright I guess I'll try one more time on that move.”

     The sun settled and it was almost time for the party. Meanwhile on the upper levels of the castle there was an office where a bearded man sat.

He was doing paperwork, taking care of plans for his daughter's party.

There came in a tall gentleman, he was a butler at the castle.

     “Sir Boumen, the preparations are underway as you commanded.”

Boumen sat up and put on his coat.

“Great work Bran. Also have the scouts come back yet?”

     “Yes sir, there were signs of campfire 7 miles from the palace.”

“Tell them to keep searching nearby that area."

They walked around throughout the castle as the maids behind them were getting stuff ready.

You could tell this was gonna be a big event for the princess of a nation.

On their way down the hall they bumped into Alice.

     Alice’s small, yet beautiful white dress was captivating for the king. It matched her strands of white hair and white eyes.

 “Oh Alice, you look stunning!”

Alice's maid, Marcella was grinning from ear to ear. She's nudge at Alice’s shoulder seeing her blushing.

“Don't get all flustered now princess~”

     Alice was annoyed by Marcella’s playfulness and silently hit her.

     “Oof!” Marcella puffed out

“Thank you Father, it's much appreciated.”

She would hold the bottom of her dress doing a courtesy bow.

     A short time had passed and the banquet was finally underway.

 Allies from surrounding areas all around the country came to attend.

They came in their fancy carriages heading towards the palace.

Youm, and Flare were waiting for Alice’s preparations to get done.

     “Does it always take girls this long to prepare? It's been half an hour now.”

     Youm sighed as his arms were crossed, tapping his finger on his elbow in anticipation.

“Oh c'mon Prince, you should know by now that's how ladies are, besides I believe my sis is actually the one taking too long. You know how she gets when it comes to appearances.” Flare said.

     “Yeah you make a good point…” Youm replied.

 They both felt that it would be best to wait a few more minutes after that.

In Alice’s room there were stacks of dresses and clothes.

     “Princess, what do you think about this one? Oh but this dress shows off your curves, ohhh yeah there's also the black dress that matches with your hair or what about—”

     “Marcella!, what about the one I had on before? Why are we trying out all these different clothes anyways?”

     “You know how indecisive I can get. Okay fine! Let's just do what you had this afternoon.”

     Just as they had settled on an outfit Alice looked outside the window. Alice’s white eye glowed—

It expanded her vision, making her see tents miles away from the city, as well as an army of men heading in one direction that was the palace.

     Alice stood up pointing in the direction she was looking at.

“Marcella, do you see that?”

Marcella squinted her eyes looking in the direction Alice pointed out.

“No? Is something the matter?” Marcella looked confused.

 “There's people heading here, I have to warn father!”

     Alice ran towards the door, but Marcella stopped her, grabbing her arm in the process.

“Wait, there's a lot of people here, what if it causes a commotion.”

     “B-But there's thousands of them, way too far for anyone to see!”

Alice exclaimed, shaking off her grip on her arm rushing towards her father's office.

     It was hard for her to run from the heels but that didn't matter to her, she just wanted to tell her father the danger that lurked.

“Hey! Alice, where are you going?!” It was her brother who said that this time,

She'd run by him but didn't notice due to her being in a rush.

“To warn Father!” She yelled out in fear.

Youm instantly went to Marcella for answers

     “Marcella what happened when we weren't looking?”

“I-I don't know she just started talking about an army coming towards us, but there's nothing there.”

Marcella pointed towards the window saying that as Youm looked at Flare.

“We're gonna chase after her, c'mon!”

     Flare and Marcella nodded and they all chased after Alice.

     On Alice’s side, she kept running, suddenly her consciousness faded into a dark pitch black.

“What… is this?“ She questioned.

As soon as Alice said that, a dark figure appeared behind her, unbeknownst to her.

The dark figure let out a cunning chuckle before speaking, 

     “This is a realm I created.“

Surprised, Alice immediately looked behind her in the 

direction of the dark figure, and backed away quickly.

     To her surprise, what's revealed is a rather strangely odd woman. Long and sleek purple hair that appeared to be in her mid 30’s.

“Who are you?” Alice asked.

But you could hear the caution and exclamation in her voice.

The strange woman smirked before bowing afterwards.

The strange woman stood back up before giving her a slight smile.

“I am the time deity, but you may call me godmother. It’s a pleasure meeting you, child. “ 

And so the story continues.