Chapter 2 An angry Princess

" Father.... You don't expect me to marry into that place" Yvonne protested as she followed her father to the court room, she has no choice and couldn't even change the mind of the King but she had to try, she would rather live the life of an unmarried princess than a princess who married to the Kingdom of Restropia.

"Enough with this! Take her to her room" The King said to Crystal as the door to the court room was opened and he went in, no woman was allowed in there.

Quezaca was bleeding within him, the table has turned on him now.... Oh.. did he make fun of Restropia among his peers and now they were the only one that could bring back the pride of his nation with this little proposal offer.

He loathed that he had I do this but he had no choice, the high chief and nobles of his kingdom were becoming impatient that no wedding has been set in place for the Princess.

No one wanted his daughter and that alone hurt him deeply, it was painful.

Yvonne threw tantrums in her room as she hate when things doesn't go her way, she of all people should know that her father wasn't given much choice than to marry her off to Restropia but to think her husband will take over from her father when he dies was what hurt her the most, how can a small kingdom have so much power.

Yvonne lift up her gown as she went under her bed to bring out an old box, she pulled not out and laid it on her bed.

Opening it, she removed all the jewelries that had covered a rifle, she took it out as Crystal eyes widened, she didn't know the princess had a deadly weapon hidden in the midst of precious jewels.

"My princess.... Where did you get that?" She asked after rushing to lock the door so as to stop anyone from coming in. "You are a lady and aren't suppose to carry a thing like that those are for our strong men"

" Strong men?" Yvonne shook her head then cock the gun, " Anybody can handle this, it is not a must you are a man" Yvonne said, she went to her wardrobe and brought out gunpowder, put it in a bag as well as the gun in her hand. I need to practice my shooting range, so please tell my father that I have gone to feed loolie" she said.

Before Crystal could stop her the fat but flexible princess lay down a rope and used it to climb down stealthily. Crystal did follow her and caught up with her at the stable where she was trying to take out her horse, Thunder.

"My princess" Crystal tapped on Yvonne's shoulder which made her jump in fear. "I'm sorry my princess, I just wanted to give you this" it was a long red hood.

Yvonne smiled, " Thank you.... Do you want to come along?" She asked her and Crystal nodded, what use will she be if she stayed back, the king will even be more suspicious about his daughter's whereabout.

The stable which had been empty made it easier for Yvonne to ride out her horse from there and followed a path which was unknown to Crystal herself and left the palace into the woods.

Inside the woods, an explorer who had just landed on the soil of Aurelia stopped by to feed his horse before he continues to his homeland which he had mainly set out to get there before dusk.

He relaxed on the tree to sleep.

Yvonne and her maid, Crystal stopped at the princess favorite place to practice her shooting range. Unknown to them they weren't alone not only was the explorer there but a group of farmers heading to their farmlands passing by, the farmers knew of Crystal's tale as one of them said, "isn't that the prostitute on westlane?"

The others agreed and laughed as they walked by her.

At that time Yvonne was busy setting up bottles so she could target and shoot at it, she wasn't aware that her maid was been mocked at. When she later saw Crystal standing there frozen, she tried asking what was wrong but Crystal couldn't speak.

Her eyes went to the farmers who had gone a bit far from where they were and went on after them. Not knowing the root cause, Yvonne spat out bitter words at them, words that if heard someone who doesn't know the entire story will hate her for like the explorer for example.

He had woken up to the young lady spitting out rude words to the farmers, he hated her boldness immediately and her entire being.

Yvonne later left them after her success in threatening them with rifle and killing words, get went back to praticing her range.

Meanwhile, the explorer got ready to take his leave from Aurelia and so did Yvonne after she told Crystal to wait for er so she could pick out some wild herbs for her dad at the slim road not far from the woods.

She took off her robe so that the guards protecting the slim road would let her pass. The slim road which was known to be very muddy but grows the only healing tea for her father of which she prepared herself.

She came down from her horse to carefully pick the herbs and searched every nook and cranny for it even on the risky road path.

The explorer who was in a hurry to leave, rode his horse quickly and unknowingly splashed mud water on Yvonne.

Yvonne brushed off the mud stain on her gown as she angrily set off to challenge the horse rider, chasing after him with her favorite horse, Thunder, she caught up with him.

"I order you to stop!" She yelled. He who she had chased for the past minutes controlled his horse to make a stop, he climbed down his horse and tied it around a tree, taking a walk to where her horse stood as she looked down at him.

He forced out his sparkling smile that charm every girl's heart that he meet, thinking such charm would work on the lady on the horse, surprises he was yet to find.

"Is there any problem my lady" he said smiling before offering to get her off her horse since he has been sitting there for a while now. Octavio was unaware of the fact that the fat lady he was yet to despise was his crown princess.

He smiled again as he seemed to be winning her over, he didn't care one bit about her size besides his flirty charm was for all sizes.

"My gown.... It's dirty" she said, pointing to where the stain lie not explaining how it was Octavio's concern.

"I'm sorry, did I do something wrong?" He asked, taking a step back so she could get down from her horse by herself.

"Yes... You and that filthy horse of yours stained my dress, you should know that you aren't supposed to ride your horse quickly in that tiny road even as you are a noble" she said, clearly taking it that he dresses well so that places him above commoners and the fact he had access to the slim road from before shows that he was no ordinary person. "As your Princess I would like to show mercy if you apologise to me" she said proudly, she does take pride in letting people know her status while using it to torment them.

Octavio laughed he recognized her now, the rude lady from before to think he would've really apologise for what he did wrong especially to a lady like her who doesn't even care about people's feelings.

He snubbed her presence and went on to untie his horse leaving the princess to watch the dust..... Such disrespect!