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A long and empty tunnel of dark stone swallowed up the enclosed prisoner hallway underneath the main castle within the Land of Scotta where a row of exposed and naked lamps on top of the matching ceiling illuminated her forward footpath. She wore a lavender tinted outfit consisting of numerous speckled splats of brightly red tinted blood proteins, which was not her blood, on the sleeveless top and the high collar that protected her naked throat muscles from harm. The short circular skirt matched her sleeveless top in both lavender tint and red stained blood proteins also, coming from the same dead victim. She swiftly strolled ahead in a pair of thigh-high matching boots, wearing a black colored ratty and torn long cloak that dragged behind a few inches from her clicking boot heels over the dirty floor. Her eyelashes cut side to side into each prison cell looking for _that_ captive. She toted a lavender tinted scepter that was cradled inside the elbow crook of her fighting arm.

A prison guard who was a representative from the Land of Scotta swiftly followed behind the edge of her black cloak with a sour frown in silence.

She spotted the captive inside the prison cell and stopped, standing in place with a stern face without spinning around to see the sour-faced prison guard. The guard had stopped a few inches from the edge of her cloak with a low grunt and did not speak a single word. She said with a smooth timber. "I wanna inspect _that_ prisoner inside _that_ cell block."

The guard exhaled with annoyance and then scooted around the edge of her black cloak, stopping beside the control panel that existed on each prisoner cell block for the safety of the guard and the security of the prisoner. He reached up and slapped the red tinted button with a low grunt.

The prisoner door slid open.

She spun around with a stern to face an open archway swiftly moving inside the tiny room. The room was a perfect square-shape of matching dark gray stone on the floor, the ceiling, and each wall without a single window to see the bright sunshine or escape from the prisoner hallway.

A small upright lump of black tint posed on top of the dirty floor that exhibited a ratty thin blanket which covered the prisoner, who continued to crouch on the dirty stone and huddled inside the forward wall corner without movement or speech.

She stopped with a sigh and then knelt down in front of the prisoner, reaching out, flicking off the upper portion of the blanket with a smile.

I continued to huddle inside the wall corner blinking both of my eyelashes from the row of harsh overhead bright lamps while focusing on the face of my new visitor, which wasn't a prison guard.

She leaned over into the semi-dirty face of the girl with a smile in silence.

I gasped in alarm with a soft whisper at the familiar face. "You...you look like me." I possessed a head of black tinted long curly head that really needed some good shampooing after leaning into the dirty wall inside my prison cell. I displayed a pair of aqua tinted eyeballs that continued to stare with confusion at the female which was an exact reflection mirror of my face. I exhibited a peachy-pale skin tone which itched from the dirt inside the nasty black tinted blanket. I was tall with a set of slender body muscles.

She nodded with a smile. "I am your twin sister Thea..."

"I...I am named Thea."

She softly chuckled with a wink at her twin sister. "That's both wonderful and convenience for me! I'm here to rescue you from..."

"How...how is this possible?" I gasped in shock. "How do you know about me?"

She chuckled. "But first, you must look exactly like me."

I frowned. "I do."

She nodded in silence and reached down, sliding out an object from the pocket of the cloak next to her wicked grin, flicking the wrist bone in a circle. The object produced a shiny knife blade underneath the row of naked bulbs inside the single prison within her cupped hand. With lightning speed, her hand with the blade leaned over and then sliced a curved design into the smooth naked cheekbone on her twin sister Thea.

I gasped in alarm and then slapped a dirty hand over the face wound with a low grunt of pain.

She leaned over and slapped the free hand over the mouth of her twin sister, where a cascade of individual blood proteins dropped down from the vicious cheekbone cut over the hand of Thea and the jaw line of her twin sister. She whispered with a worried brow into the same face, "Shush, Sister! The prison guard must not hear your distress. Now, we're ready to leave the prison cell and the Land of Scotta. You look good, just like me."

I exhaled with a puff of pain on my cheekbone and studied my newly discovered twin sister. She possessed an old scar in the color of pink tint on the bottom curve of her left cheekbone, where I, now, possessed the same fresh scar. Thus, we both looked exactly alike.

She slowly stood upright with a worried brow and then leaned down with a set of rushed words in soft timber into the bloody cheekbone of her twin sister. "Let me help you to stand and then bend over, acting like you're sick to your stomach."

I released the face wound, feeling nervous, and then swiftly stood upright from the floor, still wearing the nasty smelling black tinted blanket over my hair roots with a sour frown into her smile. She and I were the same height and about the same weight with a head of long black tined curly hair that wiggled side to side at the edge of the fanny and a pair of blue eyeballs. I whispered with a sour frown. "That isn't going to work."

She winked. "I know that. But do it anyway!" She swiftly swirled both of them around to face the open archway.

I slightly folded down at the waistline and moved ahead with my sister in silence, performing a fake cough, cupping the bloody wound on my cheekbone, feeling the wet blood in my open palm.

The prison guard stood in place in front of the control panel and stared at the two female with a confused brow. "Hey!"

She reached down into the pocket of the black cloak and pulled a tiny object that fit into her cupped palm tossing it into the side wall of the prison cell. The object hit the stone wall with a soft ting and then immediately ejected a puff of white smoke into the air. The tiny sliver object dropped down through the drifting white smoke and then landed down on top of the stone with a tiny ping. She swiftly moved ahead with her twin sister covering the tiny object on the floor, shouting out loud with alarm. "There's smoke in here. The prison cell is on fire. Get the other prisoners out of the cell blocks! I got this one."

"Release that prisoner!" The stationary guard gasped in alarm and stared at the drifting tiny plume of white smoke, spinning around with a worried brow, reaching up and smashed the orange tinted button on the prisoner's control panel.

She scooted out the prison cell with her twin sister and rapidly turned to face the entrance archway, reaching down into the black cloak, grabbing a different tiny object. She lifted up and tossed the silver tinted object into the side wall as it entered into another prison cell.

The prisoner stood next to the prison bars with a worried brow and watched the two females while seeing the slight hand movement of the female in the lavender outfit. He followed the tiny object as it hit down on the floor inside his prison cell, releasing a puff of white smoke also. He back stepped and waved both arms in the air, "Hey, you! Hey, guard! She tossed a hand-bomb in here at me. Hey, you! Get me outta of here now! There's a hand bomb in here with me! Help me! Help! Help over here..."

The stationary solo prison guard continued to stare at the entrance archway while watching a team of running guards. Then he spun around with force and accidently slammed into the female prisoner. The prisoner swiftly tumbled backward and shuffled away from the twin sister, losing the dirty black tinted blanket, landing on top of the dirty floor and revealed her pretty features to the eyeballs of the guard.

The guard was stunned in silence while staring in confusion at two females that looked alike in appearance. "What's this? You, two look like a set of twins."

"Run, Sister!" Thea continued to stand and dropped back the hood on the ratty cloak with a lady sneer, grabbing the lavender tinted scepter with one hand and jumped into the air, slamming her body into the stunned guard. The guard and Thea collided and then danced upright in several completed circles with a set of snarls.

I slowly stood upright from the floor with the blanket and dashed ahead with fear and worry for my sister and my person, slipping around the dancing couple, moving ahead toward the open archway. The plan was to escape with my sister to some other place.

During the circular dance with the prison guard, Thea slid a free hand down into another hidden pocket on her black tinted cloak and grabbed, lifting up three tiny silver tinted objects in a cupped hand. She tossed each one into the adjoining prison cell as each object landed with a ting and produced a plume of white smoke. "Twirl, Thea!" She swirled around to face her twin sister and then tossed the lavender tinted scepter into the air with a growl while fighting with the prison guard.

I stopped with a gasp and spun around, reaching out with both arms and captured the flying scepter. My body continued to complete the circle and then smashed my upright body into the huddle of running prison guards. Each guard stumbled away from the dancing female prisoner in shock and confusion. Some of the stunned guards dropped down and landed on top of the floor with a set of ugly words. Some of the guards titled sideways and then halted in place staring ahead at the second female in the lavender outfit.

She continued to fight with the single prison guard and shouted out loud. "Run, Thea!"

I continued the twirl and completed a second circle with a tilted body of pain, fear, and dizziness holding the dirty blanket and the smooth scepter, advancing alone toward the open archway that led into the open street of the town. I had lived in the Land of Scotta my entire life without knowing that I had a twin sister. I reached the open archway feeling the bright sunshine and the warm temperatures, spinning around to see my twin sister with a gasp of alarm.

Near the open prison cell, the other sister, who was also named Thea in the pretty lavender outfit, rested on top of the dirty floor with a set of loud grunts. The solo prison guard had overpowered her smaller body and then rested on top of her back spine without releasing her body. Some of the upright guards from the open archway had advanced and the body slammed down on top their fellow prison guard, also, entrapping Thea in the lavender outfit.

I stood inside the archway of bright sunshine with the ratty blanket and the shiny scepter while sobbing with a set of fearful tears for my only living relative that I hadn't known existed until a few moments ago.

Near the open prison cell, Thea couldn't move but stared at her twin sister, who had been finally found and permanently freed. She lifted up an arm within the pile of guard bodies and then wiggled a set of fingers with a smile, a head nod, and a set of tears in silence to her twin sister. A signal to leave the prison cell now!

The three tiny objects that had come from Thea's black cloak exploded into a set of numerous metal parts coming from each tiny bomb in three separate loud booms. Each set of prison bars, each side wall, and the poor trapped prisoner inside each prison cell exploded into numerous pieces also. The prisoner hallway rumbled with a roar and then the floor shivered with angry underneath the feet of prisoner Thea. The stone ceiling shook violently and then released down a pile of massive loose flowing boulders that crashed down over the floor and on top of the huddle of prison guards and the other twin sister Thea in the lavender outfit.

Thea smashed a face down into the broken stone and then wiggled a bloody hand down into the hidden pocket of the cloak and grabbed, sliding out, rolling a cupped palm of additional numerous hand bombs. Each hand bomb slowly rolled ahead across part of the smooth floor and part of the broken floor immediately exploding into numerous metal bits. Each bit soared through the air and slammed into a set of numerous body parts of each prison guard as well as penetrating one eyeball on Thea.

Her face swiftly smashed down onto the smooth stone in silence death.

At the open archway, I continued to stare in horror at my dead twin sister and sobbed with tears for my permanent loss.

Then, the prisoner hallway floor rumbled again and the ceiling shook in violence. An array of more loose stone boulders fell down and then landed on top of each dead or dying body on the hard stone floor, inside the prisoner cells, and finally over injured Thea in the lavender outfit.

I spun around with tears and swiftly raced out the open archway with my new freedom, moving through the crowd on the street without confusion, sadness, and puzzlement.

1:01 pm

Open street setting

Cool temperatures and warm sunlight with blue sky and white clouds

In front of a grounded black tinted non-describe airship, a tall and skinny seventeen-year-old young male stood in place with a set of crossed arm, wearing a naked chest of dark tone, a tan colored turban, a pair of dull tinted tan colored sandals, and a pair of matching loose-fitting matching knee-length trousers with a sour frown. He spotted the female as she dashed away from the opening. He shouted out loud. "There, you are! Thea, come over here to me!"

I slowly stumbled forward with the crowd coming from the opening of the prisoner hallway in safety while wearing the dirty prison blanket over my dirty body, holding the lavender tinted scepter between my bloody hands with a pair of blurry eyeballs of tears.

The skinny male slowly moved ahead with a sour frown and then collided into the female, hugging her body with a smile. "I was worried, Thea. But, now, I'm not. Where have you been, Thea?" He pulled back with a worried brow and stared at her tears in silence.

"I...she..." I stood in place and stared at him with a face of tears and worry, thumbing back over to the entrance of the prison cell.

His eyelids darted up to see the opening of the prisoner hallway and as he was familiar with the layout of the city street in the Land of Scotta. He huffed in annoyance and looked back down at her red tinted face. "O! I see clearly now. You were annoying all the sealed and entrapped prisoners here at the Land of Scotta inside their bolted cages, again. I told you not to do that, girlfriend," he sniggered with amusement.

The loud boom echoed throughout over each city street and up into the puffy clouds first before the second floor on the red tinted stone royal castle collapsed down and then crashed inside the underground prisoner hallway killing the rest of the alive and entrapped prisoners without mercy.

"Time to go! Someone got really mad, after the fight event." The young male cuddled Thea with a smile and then swiftly twirled them around, dashing ahead toward the grounded airship and stopped while hugging her for protection. He reached out and pressed the button with his finger print providing safety of thief from his person and Thea. The rear door slid open. He gently shoved her into the rear seat of vanilla tinted bench seat with a chuckle. "In ya go, girlfriend! I'll be swift and get us home before suppertime."

I folded down at the waistline with sobs and then slowly slid across the soft material with a heavy heart in silence, stopping in the middle of the bench seat, staring at the front cabin, where the pilot sat and steered the airship. The interior of the airship held two compartments, the steering section and the passenger part. The steering section comprised one thickly padded oversized vanilla tinted chair for the pilot with a horizontal black tinted console of numerous colorful buttons, levers, and switches above a curved wind shield for visual flight. There was a visual monitor which was powered off in the center of the console to see another person, place, or property from inside the airship during cloud travel.

The rear of the airship contained a long bench that cradled the sides and the rear of the air craft for comfort without a viewing glass window which prevented a flying object from slamming into the side cabin and the passenger for safety.

I had never been seated inside a luxury airship like this one before and reached down, touching the smooth bench seat of soft material with a sad face and a heavy heart. I wished that my dead twin sister had survived the escape plan and then had explained my or our or her origins.

The young male back stepped from the open door and swiftly scooted around the rear bumper of the airship, sliding down into the pilot chair, reaching out and pressed an array of button.

All the side doors on the airship closed shut with a soft hiss.

Inside the pilot chair, he lifted the airship up from the designated parking spot into the air and then soared into a lane of slow-moving traffic with a smile. "Are you going to detail the fight match to me, Thea? Since, I couldn't attend, like usual."

"I..." continued to sit in the middle of the bench seat and reached up, wiping off the tears with a heavy heart. "No. I..."

"Why do I bother asking?" He exhaled with a sour frown and continued to fly the airship through the sky traffic, leaving the Land of Scotta. "You always tell me the word, no. Fine! I'll see the taped recording back at home, like always. So, relax and enjoy the ride, Thea!"

I leaned back into the rear seat with a heavy heart and a confused mind closing my eyelashes in silence worry as the airship swiftly soared through the white puffs of clouds toward my new unidentified home, without my newly discovered twin sister.

Land of Tross

Center building location

Airship parking space setting

3:03 pm

Hot temperatures and sunbeams

The airship smoothly landed on top of the smooth surface with a soft thud. The young male pilot reached over with a smile and pressed the button. All the doors of the ship slid open. He shouted out loud before exiting the cabin. "Time to awaken, girlfriend! We're back home."

I continued to sit on top of the soft bench seat and slowly stirred awake from a short nap with more confusion and a heavy heart while remembering the set of violent events about an hour ago.

Yeah, my body can tell time.

The short nap had recharged my energy and activated my mind into caution. I stared out the dirty windshield. The new city held a skyline of candy pink hue with a set of mint green tinted clouds, where bright waves of yellow sunshine beamed down onto the landscape. The airship parked inside a common docking lot with other silver tinted airships that faced a tall and lonely glass building.

Outside on top of the red tinted hard surface, the young male pilot scooted around the rear bumper of the airship and stopped, standing in front of the open archway, leaning down with a smile and an open palm. He assisted Thea to stand upright from the bench seat onto the hard ground surface, cuddling her into his shoulder with a smile in silence.

I continued to stand in place and felt his heated nakedness brushing against my body with a set of mixed and confusion emotions. I had never touched another male that was my age, especially one without a shirt.

He slowly moved ahead with Thea and away from the ground airship, swiftly entering a curved archway within an extremely tall building of solid glass and wore a worried brow in silence.

I had to shade my eyelashes from the bright sunlight coming off the tall building of glass, which had to be the home of my twin sister Thea.

He moved ahead with Thea down a long hallway of two solid glass windows that showed an interior court yard of row of colored flowers inside a manicured blue tinted lawn. The other window displayed green tined dirt with numerous small groves of golden colored mushroom shaped shade trees.

The young pilot continued to move ahead with a worried brow. "Girlfriend, I'm worried. You...you seem both weak and fragile than normal from this round."

"I...I..." continued to move ahead and then gasped in shock.

Ahead in the middle of the hallway that consisted of two wall of solid glass, a tight huddle of young females stood and stared at Thea, wearing a variety of different types of clothing. Some females were dressed in a colorful ankle-length gown. Some of the females displayed a colorful short skirt, a matching sleeveless vest with a pair of matching knee boots. And some of the females exhibited a colorful jumpsuit with a different colored belt around the waistline.

Behind the tight huddle of young females, a single row of young males was dressed in the same outfit consisting of a short-sleeved green tinted shirt, a pair of green tinted trousers, and a pair of matching green tinted knee boots. Each male carried a silver tinted scepter that had been clipped onto the waistline but wore a variety of different skin tones, hair styles, and eye color.

In front of the tight huddle of young females, a single tall and slender young male stood alone and stared with a smile at Thea.

The young male and the huddle of females continued to smile and stand in place blocking the footpath inside the empty hallway of solid glass from Thea. The male wore a sculptured upper torso underneath a white long-sleeved shirt, a pair of tight black tinted trousers that were tucked down into a pair of polished black tinted knee boots. A shiny green tinted scepter had been clipped onto his fitted waistline. He possessed a head of shoulder length wavy black tinted hair, a jaw line of dusted black tinted whiskers, a pair of green tinted eyes, and a tone of pale tinted skin looking healthier, hot, and available. He lifted a palm near his smile, staring at Thea, saying to the huddle of girls. "Young females, go away and leave me, now, please!"

The huddle of females sounded with a soft moan of disappointment and then each one slowly swung around, departing from the back spine of male, moving down an empty hallway in a loose row, except for a young female in a long green dress.

The young pilot and I stopped in place as we could not scoot around the male and huddle of shuffling females. The young pilot released Thea with a snigger and then quickly slid away, stopping and stood next to the solid window while staring at the young male.

The young male advanced ahead with a smile and then stopped, leaning down, hugging the body of Thea and pulled back with a wink. Then he leaned down again and kissed her lips.

I gasped in sour breath feeling the touch of his soft lips on top of my chapped lips, staring with a pair of open eyelashes at each one of his pale tinted cheekbones. I closed my eyeballs and parted my lips, tasting his essence of honey inside my mouth with a soft moan of pleasure.

This was the first time that I had kissed a male of my age, who really belonged to my dead twin sister. But I was not feeling guilty but heated.

He continued to stand and pulled Thea tighter into his body enveloping his lips around her mouth while smelling the stench of her bad body odor without fleeing or flinching in disgust.

His facial whiskers were course around my jaw line while scratching into my cheekbone cut. I gasped in pain for a second and then felt pleasure again. His pair of hands was slender and soft on top of my naked arms. I rotated my chapped lips around his soft tongue with a slight giggle of warmth and fun smelling his body of sweet vanilla scent into each nose hole.

He leaned down deeply into her lips and played tongue tag with her, sounding with a set of moans. Then he jerked back with a smile and a chuckle, seeing her dirty face. "I love you, Empress! You have succeeded again. I'm so proud. But I wished that you would bathe before hugging onto my good-smelling body," he continued to caress her naked arms with a laugh and a smile.

I gasped in embarrassment as I was not a royal person but a simple house servant in the Land of Scotta.

The young male airship pilot advanced ahead from the glass window with a sneer and then stopped, reaching out, slapping a hand on the naked arm of Thea with a laugh. "Behavior, Lord Erat!"

The young male, who was really named Lord Erato, looked up with a sneer to see the young pilot. "I only warn once, Tofool!"

The young pilot laughed with a grin. "My name is Tofur, Erat!"

The unnamed and remaining young black haired and pale skinned female continued to stand and smile, posing slightly diagonally behind the back spine of Lord Erato, watching him with her eyeballs. She knelt down in a green tinted gown and bowed a chin to see the floor, lifting up both arms even with the floor, presenting an open black tinted box. The open box held a pinky ring in golden tint with an emerald stone. "Lord Erato, I present this elegantly pinky ring with my love. Please, marry me!"

Lord Erato smiled at Thea while talking to the young girl behind his back spine. "No! I will not marry you, girl. Go away, permanently!"

She softly gasped in alarm and dropped down the box with the ring on top of the smooth floor with a sad face and a heavy heart. The floor exhibited the green tinted dirt through the clear glass. She reached down into the hidden pocket of the gown and pulled out a tiny spray bottle, lifting the bottle near the lips and opened the mouth. She sprayed out the mist into her mouth and closed the lips while feeling the cool mint flavor on her tongue. Then she swiftly collapsed sideways and fell down onto the glass floor without breathing a set of air molecules and as her face started to turn into a blue tinted of death.

I looked down with a worried brow and stared down at the unconscious girl.

He wiggled the hand near the smile, staring at Thea, talking to the row of quiet man-servants. "Get rid of that now!"

The row of stationary man-servants swiftly advanced ahead in a semi-crooked line and then stopped, squatting down about the same time, gathering up each limb of the dead girl and lifted the dead body into the air with a set of heavy grunts. They slowly toted her dead body ahead down the glass hallway and passed Erato, Thea, and Tofur, moving toward the open archway on the front entrance of the tall building in silence.

I covered my mouth with a sad gasp and stared down at the dead girl, who had been rejected by Lord Erato in the hand of marriage. I had so many fearful and scared questions that I needed to ask my dead twin sister, but maybe, my biological set of parents could answer for me.

Tofur gently tugged forward on the arm of Thea with a smile at Erato. "Thea, you must leave now and get ready for the upcoming meeting within the hour. You are not allowed to miss the meeting for any reason and that includes you, also, Lord Erat," he swiftly shuffled around upright Erato with a laugh and moved ahead with a smile with Thea like an assigned guard.

I slowly shuffled beside Tofur in silence and held onto his naked arm feeling a bag of mixed emotions of worry, caution, numbness, and terror, staring down at the glass floor.

In the middle of the empty hallway, a tight huddle of young males and females blocked the footpath again. Behind the huddle of young persons, there was a solid line of upright stationary females, who were all dressed in the same uniform consisting of an orange tinted short-sleeved shirt, a pair of orange tinted pants tucked down into a pair of orange tinted keen boots. A golden tinted scepter had been clipped onto the fitted waistline of each female. Each female exhibited a varied set of different skin tones, heights, weights, hair styles, and colored eyeballs.

In front of the loose huddle of both young females and males, an extremely tall and muscular young eighteen-year-old male wore a bright smile, a pair of blue eyes, a tone of dark tinted skin, a bald skull, and a red tinted goatee. He was dressed in a brown tinted sleeveless vest without a shirt and with a set of ripped biceps and triceps, a pair of matching tight trousers that were tucked down into a pair of unpolished knee boots. A red tinted scepter hung on the fitted waistline. He lifted a palm near his smile. "Please leave me, young people!"

The huddle of males and females softly moaned and then slowly turned around, moving away from the upright stationary tall male, except for one young male in an orange jacket and matching trousers.

Tofur and I slowly advanced ahead and then stopped, staring at the male. Tofur again released her arm and quickly shuffled to the side glass window, standing out the way with a snigger and a grin.

The male advanced ahead and then stopped, kneeling down in front of Thea with a smile, reaching out and touched her pair of dirty hands with a nod. "My empress has returned safety. I'm so happy," he leaned over and then halted with a worried brow, "Awe, my poor empress! You have re-opened the healed scar on the left cheekbone. The fight was vicious. I can mend that ugly wound for you, Empress," he released her hands and reached down the side pocket of the vest, grabbing, pulling a set of maroon tinted tiny leaves. He crumbled the leaves into both open palms with a smile, looking up to see her face with a nod. He lifted one finger pad with the maroon stain from the set of crushed leaves, smearing the cheekbone cut with a gently touch.

I gasped in pleasure. His finger pad touch was both gently and tender. The crushed leaves felt cool on the raw skin, where my twin sister had marked my face with her permanent matching scar.

He pulled back with a wink and a smile. "Does my empress feel better?"

I giggled with a silly grin, "Yeah!"

He leaned over and smeared the maroon stain with the same finger onto the other cheekbone that was not injured, pulling back with a smile. "Now, my empress possesses a set of two rosy apple tinted cheekbones that match so lovely. The leaf stain of maroon will leave for about three days, but it is the healing properties that change the tint from maroon into pink. You like cute, my empress."

I smiled. "Thanks!"

He stood upright with a grin and slapped both palms down onto the trouser wiping off the stain with a smile, leaning over and gently grabbed her arms. He leaned down and kissed her lips with a pair of chapped lips.

I leaned into the rough kiss with a soft moan of contentment. His goatee whiskers felt silky soft against my tender skin. His pair of large hands gently caressed my naked arms and then shifted down, landing on my back spine while making my body tingle with girly emotions of delight.

My nose holes smelled a woody pine scent coming from his tall muscular semi-naked body and as my tongue tasted a ting of citrus on his lips.

He gently pulled back with a wink from her face and continued to career both of her arms. "Thank you, my empress!"

I gasped in shock at his gentlemanly manners and then nodded with a smile when I compared my emotions to Lord Erato.

Tofur rolled the eyeballs and then stared at the male swiftly moving ahead from the side window and stopped, reaching out, grabbing her arm with a smile and a nod to the teen male. He back stepped and then forcefully removed Thea from the cupped hands of male with a laugh, stopping a few feet from the teen male. "See you later at the meeting, too, Nasty Chump..."

"My name is Nastchill, ya little fur-face," the tall teen male turned and sneered at Tofur.

"Tofur, my name is repeated and repeated over and over and over again and again for my amusement as Tofur," he laughed.

The single male wore an orange jacket and a pair of matching trousers and continued to diagonally stand with a smirk slightly behind the back spine of Prince Nastchill, kneeling down on one leg, presenting an open box to the back spine of Nastchill. The box held a golden wrist bracelet with a ruby stone. "Prince Nastchill, will you do me the honor and marry me, today?"

Nastchill sneered while staring at Thea, without seeing the young male. "No. I will not do the honor of marriage. Be gone from me, now, permanently!"

The male exhaled with a huff of disappointment and reached down into the pocket of the trousers, pulling out a tiny green tinted pill. He opened the mouth and then placed the tiny pill onto the tongue, closing the mouth and then swallowed. His body shook side to side and as both hands slapped onto the chest. He tumbled sideways and fell down landing on top of the floor in a silence death.

I slapped a dirty hand over my open mouth with a loud gasp of horror, staring down at the dead male on top of the floor.

"Removed that thing from my sight!" Nastchill did not bother to see the dead male and flipped a hand into the air with a sneer while signaling the row of stationary and quiet female-servants.

The row of females advanced ahead with a stern face in silence and stopped, squatting down, lifting up the dead body from the floor and into the air between a set of biceps and loud grunts. They silenced moved ahead and passed Nastchill, Thea, and Tofur toting the dead body toward the open archway of the building.

Tofur shuffled ahead and away from Nastchill with a stern face. "Let's go, Thea! Don't be late to the meeting, Nasty Chump," he swiftly moved ahead with a laugh down an empty hallway.

I moved ahead with Tofur and looked back over my collar bone with a stern face.

Nastchill moved ahead and away from Thea in silence toward the open archway without attacking servant Tofur. His team of female-servants had exited the open archway while toting the dead male body, moving ahead toward another place in heavy grunts.

Inside the hallway, Tofur stopped and stood at the end of the hallway which was decorated in a solid wall of glass window.

I stopped with Tofur and turned back to face a solid wall of glass window with a smile. "This is..."

"It is." He reached up and touched the glass.

The wall smoothly slid to the side revealing an empty carriage of solid glass also. He moved ahead inside the glass carriage with a stern face.

Glass elevator carriage setting

"We're wasting time, Thea. Get inside!" He spun around with a sigh and faced the long hallway of glass without seeing the back spine of Nastchill.

I continued to stand in place and pointed at the glass carriage with a confuse brow. "But it is..."

He reached out and grabbed her arm, pulling Thea into the same carriage. The single door slid closed shut in silence. The carriage vaulted up toward the heavens in high speed.

I shuffled ahead and halted at the square shaped glass window inside the glass elevator with a smile studying the new terrain.

The landmass was flat that extended for miles and miles within my acute vision as I continued to ride upward inside a flying glass elevator.

My stomach sailed up and stuck inside my tight throat as it tickled my esophagus. I was not afraid but excited. I seemed to pass the personality and appearance test like my dead twin sister Thea. Now, I had to figure out what my purpose was here in the Land of Tross and why my twin sister tragically died while freeing me from my captivity of a working girl.

The landmass was split into two types of terrain which parted down the middle of the landscape. One side of the landscape appeared in flat layer of solid light blue tinted grass with a set of numerous short rows of colorful flowers that outlined a single winding green tinted walkway that touched each tall and slender glass building. The opposite side of the split landscape held a solid sheet of green tinted dirt with a set of scattered huddles of short golden tinted trees that curved around a single winding lavender tinted walkway, where a set of short glass buildings stood. There were numerous men, women, children, and pets strolling on the walkway and the grounds looking happy and content.

The skyline held a faint tint of pink hue that glistened within the bright rays of sunshine, where each cloud burst glowed in dull mint green hue.

I gasped in beauty at the pretty scenery. "Does it rain here?"

Tofur frowned at the closed elevator glass door which displayed each floor level as the elevator swiftly moved upward from the ground floor. He only saw a blur of shimmery faint color tones. A naked person could stand directly in front of their protective glass door on their personal floor level of the common elevator shunt as the elevator jolted upward and then bypassed the naked person. Then, each elevator passenger would only see a blur of color, not the silly naked individual.

He frowned at the next floor level of blurred tone. "What?"

The carriage smoothly halted. The single solid wall of glass slid open.

He moved ahead with a sour frown into the bedroom chamber of Empress Thea.

I spun around away from the solid wall of glass with a smile and slowly moved ahead with a gasp of beauty exiting the glass carriage and then stopped. I spun around and stared at the glass carriage. The door of solid glass closed shut. The carriage silently ascended upward. I smiled at the unique design with a smooth timber. I spun back around with a wicked smile to see the room.

18th floor level

Bed chamber setting of Empress Thea

The room encompassed the entire eighteenth floor creating a wide rectangular shape with two sides of twenty feet in height of solid walls that met in the middle of a flat ceiling. Each side wall or the ceiling did not present a single lamp of powered light. A single ray of bright sunlight shone through an individual peak of painted particles coming through the wall where each tiny bit of sunlight greatly illuminated the entire room with visual light.

Each side wall was constructed of solid glass. On each side glass wall, a single gigantic portrait had been etched out of glittery colorful paint particles.

I veered toward one of the side walls with a smile and stopped in front of first individual portrait, reaching out, touching the paint and felt only the glass and as my eyeballs saw a glittery twenty feet tall gigantic wall portrait.

The shimmery portrait contained my dead twin sister Thea. She stood alone upright on top of a flat mountain peak of golden sand holding a sword in a two-fisted gripe above her black curly hair roots with a smirk while staring down at each invited guest who had purposefully or accidentally wandered into her private bedroom chamber for a social or non-social call. She wore the same lavender outfit from the prisoner hallway and in her death, consisting of a sleeveless top and a high collar that protected her naked throat muscles. The short circular skirt matched her sleeveless top in lavender tint and a pair of thigh-high matching boots, without the long black colored ratty cloak. Her long curly black tinted slightly waved side to side as each sunbeam shifted making her alive again on the wall portrait. Her pair of aqua colored eyeballs bore down on each invited or uninvited guest. Her lavender tinted scepter glowed like a prism of colors through the real sunlight beams.

I gasped in shock at the posed scepter in the wall portrait and looked down, feeling the smooth silky finish on the shiny lavender tinted scepter, where my dead twin sister Thea had tossed to me, before her death. I twisted the smooth weapon in both hands and whispered for my eardrums only, "This is her sword. The scepter hides a sword blade as a weapon of protection."

Tofur stopped with a huff and then swiftly twirled around with a sour frown staring at Thea and her set of ugly brown ratty attire. "Why are dressed like a poor peasant, Thea? You look hideous. Where did you acquire that ugly loose-fitting one-piece jumpsuit of ratty dark brown that badly clashes with your beautiful black hair roots? And where did you get those pair of scruffy ugly dark brown knee boots also? Where are your other lovely clothes?"

I looked back up and studied the first shimmery portrait of my dead twin sister. We looked exactly alike in height and weight and all body features. I softly sobbed holding back the tears at the brief introduction of my twin sister, who had died to release me from my imprisonment.

I didn't understand my new situation or location in her home land, but I was very grateful. I wanted to be alone and sob with my great victory and my permanent loss at the moment. However, the young pilot Tofur was watching with his set of keen vision and sharp neurons my every facial and hand movement like a spying servant.

My twin sister must a princess of this pretty landscape as I had met two other handsome and hunky prince males that ignited my set of girly hormones into the edge of my young adulthood at the age of seventeen years old.

But I felt both happy and sad while staring at the painted portrait of her, not me, with our shared terrible set of events a few hours ago. However, I will continue on with my live in the same name and the same body likeness for my dead twin sister Thea. She had found my person and then released me with a special purpose.

Thus, I will continue to hide my true self and my sad feelings for the moment, until I have figured out who I am and where I am and what I am. So, I will not waste the opportunity of both freedom and luxury that had been given to me by my dead twin sister. And I will find out who she was and why she did it also.

I continued to stare and smile at the single portrait of my dead sister Thea. "You said it first, Tofool. I had been visiting each prisoner underneath the castle. Thus, I must present my person like a prisoner also. Or the prison guards might have suspected me otherwise."

He sneered at her nose profile. "I don't like it when you use my wrong name. Tofur, my name is repeated and repeated over and over and over again and again as Tofur. Why are you glaring at each wall portrait, Thea? You are acting like you haven't seen that painting before. What is the matter with your neurons or your emotions or your mind or your 'something' that I cannot see?"

I looked down with a smile and twisted the shiny lavender tinted metal on the smooth cylinder device within my palms trying to unlock the hidden blade.

The scepter measured in length coming from the edge of the wrist bone down into the crook of my elbow, which was a perfect match within my interior forearm. My dead twin sister and I was a perfect match also. On one end of the cylinder, there was a hollow outlined symbol of a sideways number figure eight. I continued to turn and pet the smooth metal in different directions trying to open the closed tip of the scepter. "I'm enjoying a moment of vanity." My hand moved down and then touched the symbol of a sideways figure eight, twisting the delicate metal.

The other end, a tiny flap slid open with a soft ting, releasing a long sharp blade over the air waves. I gasped in shock and then giggled at the real weapon. I had never held a real fighting weapon, only the handle of an electric cleaning tool.

"Why are you acting...?" He gasped in shock and then back stepped with a sour frown. "Why are you playing with that deadly sharp blade? Don't you know this? Of course, you do. You're not supposed to banish a weapon anywhere inside the Center. Slip it back into the cylinder cone, right now, Thea! What's wrong with you today?" He continued to stare with mystery at her odd behavior.

"Nothing!" I slowly lifted the weapon with one hand while feeling the heavy metal of the scepter, drawing the other hand into a two-fist gripe at the symbol, which acted like a handle, with a gasp of alarm. I slowly whipped the twelve inches of blade and the lavender tinted cylinder around the air waves for fun while attacking each harmless beam of yellow tinted sunlight with a giggle. The weapon felt good in my hands. My small biceps of muscles flexed and worked the weapon above my hair roots and down below my kneecaps. "I'm having some fun, Tofool!"

He stomped a ratty sandal with a sneer. "Tofur, my name is repeated and repeated over and over and over again and again as Tofur."

I looked up with a wicked smirk to see Tofur and then swiftly slid over the empty floor toward the side wall with a giggle, cutting the blade of the weapon through the air waves for fun. Tofur back stepped with a hiss from the silly and dangerous Thea in silence. I stopped and stared at the side wall, where a second shimmery portrait gleamed through the individual beams of bright sunlight in every possible hue on the color wheel.

My dead twin sister Thea faced the hallway with a smile wearing an ankle-length yellow tinted ball gown of satin with a set of black and white horizontal lines on the bottom of the swirling skirt. She was twirling around in a dance move with the tall and slender black haired handsome Lord Erato on her naked arm as both smiled in happiness.

Erato wore the outfit of a long-sleeved white shirt, a pair of black tined trousers, a black tinted sleeveless vest, a pair of black tinted knee boot, and his green tinted scepter weapon on the fitted waistline.

The rest of the colorful and shimmery background displayed numerous paired young and older couples that twirled in a circle and danced at some type of happy celebration. The moment was beautiful that reflected a point of time in her life of happiness and fun.

My neurons were curious at the fun dance party, but my instincts were cautious about Tofur. The man-servant named Tofur continued to stare into my face while studying each one of my body motions in silence.

I reached down and twisted the symbol at the end of the cylinder. The blade sucked back down into the devise with a soft slurp. I tucked the scepter into the crook of my arm like a princess and slowly moved ahead with a smile like a queen and then stopped, staring at the next shimmery wall portrait like a newbie person. I didn't know what my new duties as an empress included, so I continued to pretend to act like an empress while wasting my time.

On the wall portrait, my dead twin sister Thea sat with a smile on top of an orange tinted blanket which rested on top of the blue tinted grass with another female. The female did not appear to resemble my dead sister Thea either. The female was very petite with a long back spine braid in blonde color, a pair of blue eyes, and a tone of dark skin. My sister Thea and the unnamed young female were eating the food at a picnic on the ground with laughter and smiles.

In the background of the portrait, there were other shimmery paired young and older couples with a colorful picnic basket and plates of various food items, where all rested on top of a colorful blanket in the blue tinted grass around rows of colored wildflowers.

The painter artist was very talented as each glittery painted particle shimmered within the bright sunlight like the picture was alive and moving in motion.

I was so intensely curious with the newest solo happy event of a picnic, but I could not ask any questions to the spying servant Tofur.

I slowly strolled ahead another twelve feet with a fake smile like a princess. Each shimmery colorful portrait measured twenty feet high up into the edge of the flat glass ceiling by twelve feet across into the next portrait, without interfering with the next glittery painted scenery.

The next wall portrait, a black tinted horse stood sideways in pose, where my dead twin sister, of course, sat sideways on the bare back spine of the tall and handsome steed. She wore a smooth wide dark red tinted skirt showing off a pale tinted naked neck and the collar bones. One hand held the scepter in shiny lavender hue which was posed lengthwise down on top of the skirt. Her other free hand gracefully stroked the black tinted hairline near the earlobe exhibiting a casual pose, instead of a painted portrait. She wore a relaxed face with a pair of dancing aqua eyeballs without a smile.

The upper background was graced with a faintly pink tinted skyline and a string of mint green fluffy clouds high on a cool bright sunny day that was located above her curly black hair roots. The bottom of the portrait showed a set of four legs on the black tinted horse standing in dark brown dirt with sets of scattered tiny wildflowers.

I smiled at the shimmery painting and reached up, touching my hairline at the exact spot, gasping with alarm at the wall portrait and then quickly spun around with a stern face, swiftly dashing across the hallway and skidded to a stop, seeing the third shimmery portrait on the opposite wall.

My dead twin sister sat on top a gray tinted rock surface and then slightly bent forward at the waistline, wearing the lavender outfit of a sleeveless top, a circular skirt, and a pair of matching thigh-high boots. The upper background showed a red angry skyline with a set of back tinted clouds and dancing yellow bolts of lightning. The bottom of the portrait displayed a flat soil of yellow tinted sands that had been marred with individual tiny splatter of red tinted stains.

One hand held her lavender tinted scepter with the blade extended down towards the yellow sand. The other hand gently touched a new bloody wound on the left cheekbone.

I gasped in alarm and pointed at the portrait, "She...Sheese! I have a scar on my face there in that portrait."

He clapped with a laugh and a nod. "Now, I can show-off my weird teenly behavior pattern, too," he stopped clapping with a stern face and stared at the portrait. "Yes, you acquired your cheekbone scar, after your second battle match. You were so sad, mad, angry, and upset. See? I can act weird, odd, crazy and loco, too."

"I'm crying in this solo portrait. Why am I crying?"

He exhaled, "Geez! I just told you, Thea. You had acquired your face scar after your second battle match."

I pointed at the portrait on the glass wall. "No! Why is this portrait symbolizing my sadness and tears? Isn't a portrait supposed to be happy and joyous at all time? Isn't a portrait supposed to recall all the fun and happy times of your life?" I exhaled with a puff of sadness. I had never had a happy moment within my short life of eighteen years old. I had previously served and serviced as a common and overworked house maid inside a grand house, since I could walk, without talking to the family of wealth.

Inside the bed chamber of Thea, Tofur exhaled with a huff of puzzlement and stared at her nose profile. "You're acting so strange, Thea. You had requested the painter to paint that thing on your empty space of the glass side wall at your moment of grief and sadness and injury wound and vulnerability."

I gasped in shock with a nod. "O! I see it now. This wall of shimmery paintings and all the other portraits is like a visual diary of my life," I spun around and studied each painting within my limited vision. The floor space was narrow but very, very long. I couldn't see the end of the hallway as the bright rays of light blocked my acute vision.

My dead twin sister had commissioned an artist to paint a moment of her life on the glass wall. The lovely creation was clever, beautiful, and heartbreaking.

I felt fortunate that she had left a reminder of her precious life at eighteen years old for me to admire and study.

On top of the glass floor inside the bed chamber of Thea, Tofur turned and frowned at the forward row of shimmery portraits, returning back to see her nose profile. "Yes, I guess so, if you view it like that. Why are you acting so weird, now, Thea?"

I side stepped and spun around with a gasp to see the presented portrait. I had viewed the first portrait which was coated near the single glass elevator at the end of the floor, where Thea stood on top of a golden tinted mountain peak with her scepter blade.

The new portrait exhibited a new dance party. My dead twin sister Thea danced closer into the nose bridge of Prince Nastchill within the middle of the dance floor and surrounded by the other dancing couples. She wore a pink tinted fluffy skirt of row of thick ruffles that prevented her lips from kissing on his lips as she smiled with laughter in the still painting.

The rest of the background displayed a set of other shimmery dancing couples at another fun gala event.

Nastchill wore his sleeveless vest without a shirt and the set of ripped muscles, a pair of brown tinted trousers had been tucked down into the matching knee bones and a smile. He enjoyed the dance also with Thea.

I felt happy viewing the art work with my dead sister and her dance partner. I reached up and touched my lips, tasting the lingering citrus tint from his soft tongue with a giggle.

He crossed the arms with a sour frown and stared at her nose profile. "Are you going to stand and admire your selfie self for the rest of the afternoon in front of that wall? I would like to remind that you stink and have suffocated all the fresh air molecules inside hour room?"

"All right!" I swiftly moved down to the next portrait while trying not to react with shock. I was the pretend Empress Thea also, but it was not my image on the glass wall.

The next portrait showed a round upright dark wooden short table with a tall white colored cake of four tiers on top of the flat surface. Each cake tier was surrounded with a set of tiny bright green colored candles that were lit into a tiny flame. My dead sister Thea stood beside the tall white colored cake while leaning down to the second tier of flaming candles with a pair of pouted lips. She wore a short dress of neon green and her hair long in black tint trailing down the back spine. She was shorter than the first portrait and looked a little younger. And she didn't wear the pink tinted scar on the curve of her left cheekbone, where that smooth and unharmed cheekbone had been exhibited in the portrait. Her lavender tinted scepter had been posed on top of the flat surface next to the cake.

I didn't analyze the painting too closely at the moment. I could do that this evening after the servant had retired to bed.

I continued to shuffle down the glass wall in a steady pace and quickly examined each portrait.

My dead twin sister, in pose, rode a blue tinted solar bicycle seat with a smile.

My dead twin sister, in pose, leaped from the ground to catch a flying brown tinted ball with a laugh.

My dead twin sister, in pose, played with a white tinted large curly haired dog at playtime with fun laughter.

My dead twin sister, in pose, squatted down on the brown dirt, gathering a set of colorful wildflowers with a smile.

My dead twin sister, in pose, as little girl sat inside a play swing which was made of green tree vine and yellow flowers with a wide grin.

My dead twin sister, in pose, as little girl sat inside a short wagon which was made of red metal with a smile.

I stopped and smiled at the last shimmery portrait of my dead twin sister. "O! I see clearly now..."

Tofur slowly moved backwards down the side of the glass wall and then stopped in place with a stern face, crossing the arms, studying her odd behavior. "Why do you continue to say that silly statement?"

I studied the shimmery wall portrait. My dead twin sister was two years old in age, if I had correctly calculated the chronological math in years.

On the shimmery wall portrait, she wore a pink short dress with a white ribbon and a girly bow around the rib cage while waving both her hands in the air and a big smile on her face at each new visitor that entered into her private bedchamber.

I giggled. "I don't know, but I do see clearly now. Each very, very long glass side wall with an individual shimmery portrait shows a point of fun time of happiness within my short teenage life. That seems so odd to me."

He sneered at her. "You act so odd to me, today, Thea."

I exhaled with a puff of different emotions of confusion, happiness, sadness, intrigue, and worry while turning with a fake smile to see beyond the ugly sneer on his face and the semi-naked body of Tofur. I had reached the end of the long hallway which consisted only of two parallel glass walls with an individual art work of glittery paint that measured twenty feet high by twelve feet long that contained only the image of my dead twin sister in pose of an activity. Each side wall did not house a mounted lamp or a piece of sitting furniture for some strange reason.

On the end of the hallway, there was a solid piece of glass coming down from the ceiling to the floor that also exposed the set of bright sun beams, but the tall window pointed toward the southern direction, not the western skyline.

In front of the solid glass window, there was a circular bed mattress, not of glass either, which was neatly covered with a white satin bedcover that easily reflected off the heated rays of sunlight with dozens of various colored sized pillows in short, tall, thick and thin pillows against the glass wall.

The last two shimmery portraits had been painted toward the edge of the side wall and then stopped at the wall corner without bleeding an ounce of glittering hue over and into the forward wall of smooth glass.

The forward glass window exhibited the same landscape during the upward ride inside the glass elevator carriage. The landscape had been split in half, where one side exhibited a flat lawn of blue tinted short grasslets and scattered rows of colorful wildflowers. The other side displayed the flat green tinted dirt with scattered groves of golden short trees that marginally covered the naked dirt with cool leaf shade.

Within the blue tinted lawn, on the side of the tall building, there had been built a flat red tinted hard surface, where a landing airship could park. At the moment, there were numerous parked airships in variety shades of metal of white, black, silver, gold, and copper, including the airship that had been used in my escape.

I moved ahead with a smile and stared down at the furry thing on the edge of the white colored bedcover.

The furry thing stood upright from its sleeping position with a hiss and then arched its back spine with a row of standing upright individual golden colored hair strands in angry or fright or selfishness.

I halted with a gasp of shock and stared at the furry cat. I recognized the mammal but I had never owned one.

Tofur spun around with a gasp and advanced ahead toward the bed mattress of white satin fabric with an angry brow while waving both arms sideways with a loud snarl back at the hissing cat. "Get away, Thing! Move off the bed cover, Thing! You're creating buckets of ugly sticky fur balls, ya silly Thing."

The cat turned and hissed at Tofur, leaping down from the bed mattress with a loud growl, dashing ahead toward the side wall.

I turned with a smile and followed the wiggling tail of furry golden tinted cat that headed toward the side wall. "The cat can stay..."

"Yeah!" He continued to sneer at the wiggling tail of the feline. "The cat can die. I hate the Thing."

I giggled. "What's the cat's name?"

"Thing!"

I giggled with amusement, "Really! What is the name of the feline? She does not seem friendly."

He continued to snarl at the wiggling tail of the cat. The cat stopped and stood in front of the side wall. Then the wall smoothly parted and slid to the side slot, exposing a hidden lavatory room. The cat performed a priss movement into the room without a sound. The mechanism on the door sensed the heat of the mammal and then closed the door for privacy. He continued to sneer at the closed lavatory door that was hidden into the glass wall. "Thing is the name. And Thing is not friendly to friend, foe, or food."

I frowned with a smile at the closed lavatory door on the side glass wall. "I believe a cat enjoys eating food like me."

He snarled at the closed door on the side glass wall, where the cat entered. "Thing only eats live food to kill it dead while spreading its blood and its sticky pink guts all over the glass floor inside your room, only."

I slowly moved ahead toward the bed mattress with an ugly yawn. "O!" I needed some immediate thinking and quiet time as well as long hours of deep slumber, after my surprising new travel adventures and a new dead twin sister, this early afternoon.

Tofur spun about to face her back spine with a sneer and scooted around Thea, stopping in front of her body with a sour frown. "Who are you, stranger?"

I scooted around him with a wicked smile, "Thea."

He spun around and followed behind her back spine waving both arms near a confused brow at Thea. "No! No! No! You say your name wrong."

I moved ahead with a smile and surveyed the glass wall. There was not a single sitting chair or long sofa for a visitor inside the chamber room, which really belonged to my dead twin sister. "My name is Thea."

He continued to follow behind her back spine. "No! No! No! You say to me, each and every time, I am Empress Thea. You have been saying that vocal line of words to me since you could talk. Who are you, stranger?"

I giggled. "Well, I have decided to only announce my true untitled name, now."

"No. No. No. You are not Thea."

I turned with a smile to see the side wall, where the hissing cat continued to pee inside the hidden lavatory space.

The shimmery portrait of my dead twin sister Thea displayed a solid white background without a single mint tinted cloud or a pink tinted skyline or a blade of blue tinted grass or a soil of green tinted dirt with smiling one-year-old Thea in a pink dress with a pair of bare feet, who stood upright in the middle of the painted space.

Then I giggled with a grin. The far edge of the art work that didn't bleed into the next portrait hid and held a sliding door that led into the hidden lavatory room.

I turned to face the opposite side wall with a smile.

The red tinted wagon held a sitting and smiling two-years-old Thea in a coral colored short dress and a pair of naked feet as the wagon stood alone in the middle of the glittery painted space. The upper and lower portion of the portrait contained white tinted paint without other objects while illuminating the floor with dancing sunbeams of light and heat.

So, it would make sense that the edge of the art work held a second hidden room which contained the clothing line of my dead twin sister Thea.

I had been imprisoned in a block cell this morning and continued to wear the ratty smelly one-piece brown tinted jumpsuit, needing a set of new fresh clean clothes, after my upcoming long hot shower.

I giggled with a grin at the side wall while searching for the structure seam within the glass wall that hid the wardrobe closet. "Yes. Yes. Yes. I am Thea."

He stopped with a smile and crossed both arms over the naked chest. "No. No. No. You did not slap the face of annoyant Erato."

I stood with a gasp a few feet from the bed mattress and spun around with a stern face to see Tofur. "I beg your pardon. Why would I do that to handsome Erato?"

He laughed with a nod. "I beg your pardon. Why didn't you do that to annoying Erato?"

I smiled. "I would never harm a..."

"You are not Thea," he jabbed a finger at her with a sneer.

I whispered softly with a stern face. "Yes, I can assure you that my name is Thea."

He pointed at the side wall, where the cat continued to pee inside the lavatory room. "Her cat does not recognize you. You didn't slap the face of annoying Lord Erato like her. You didn't know how to open her scepter. You didn't recognize her selfie wall paintings. You look like her, but you are not her. Who are you, stranger?"

I gasped in shock and worry with a soft voice. "Are you going to tattle on me?"

Tofur dropped the hand and slapped the naked leg, titling a chin to the side, humming with a sweet girly voice, "Hmm, no! You're my princess. You're my protector. So, what happened to real Empress Thea?"

I turned with a worried brow and quickly scanned each painted portrait that I could view with my limited vision without seeing an extra protruded devise coming out of the glass portraits. "Is this room safe from the tiny horde of flying mechanic spy insects and the like?"

The side wall parted in silence and slid the door into the side slot exposing the cat and the inners of a white tinted lavatory. The cat stood inside the archway and turned with a set of wiggling ears, staring at Thea. Then the feline moved ahead and turned to face the entrance wall, racing ahead over the glass floor in silence.

Tofur turned with a sneer to see the cat and then a loud gasp, spinning around to face the entrance wall also, racing after the wiggling tail of the feline. He caught up and then overtook the feline, reaching down, slamming the cat into the side wall. The cat hit and rested on the floor against eh wall with a soft huff. Tofur reached down into the trousers and pulled out a short knife, dashing ahead, and stopped with a growl. He leaned down and stabbed the sharp tip of the long knife into the beating heart of the dazzled and stationary golden tinted cat. The cat cried out in pain and then sudden death in silence.

I gasped in shock at the merciless killing of an innocent animal without shouting or yelling at Tofur.

He jerked up the tip of the knife from the fatal wound on the mammal as the single wound burst into a foundation of red blood proteins, covering the fur of the cat, the floor of the galls, and the foot of Tofur. He slid backwards from the dead on one leg and flung a naked foot into the air as each wet blood proteins flew off the skin and in the air landing on top of the glass floor. He stood upright with a sigh at the dead cat and spun around, racing back with a stern face to Thea, colliding into her face with a smile and a whisper. "Yes and yes. This is your private bedroom which is very safe and very secure. I personally slap down any and all flying metal objects which do not belong to me or to you or inside this room."

I sneered. "Why did you kill the cat?"

He snarled. "I will discuss that issue much later. Now, tell me! What happened to the real Empress Thea?"

I back stepped with a sigh and crossed my arms with a frown. "I don't trust you."

He nodded with a stern face. "I don't trust you more. So, tell me!"

I exhaled with a puff of sadness and worry, dropping my arms, slowly moving ahead and stopped, whispering into his nose bridge. "Thea is my twin sister..."

"Yes, that fact is obvious to any pair of naked eyeballs. You look and sound like her, except for the smell. She usually smells worse," he laughed.

I gasped. "What?"

"Forget my humorous funny wit! Where is Empress Thea, now?"

I exhaled. "My twin sister Empress Thea came to the prison cell..."

He gasped. "What was your person doing inside a prison?"

She exhaled. "That is a very long story for another place and time, much later, too. Empress Thea entered the prison in her cute lavender princess outfit and then released me," I sobbed and then held back the sad tears from the single horror and tragic event of this morning. "Then, Empress Thea fought with the solo prison guard and then she released a set of tiny objects from her black cloak. The tiny objects were a set of bombs. Then each bomb..."

"I understand, incompletely." He exhaled with a nod. "You are truly the twin of Empress Thea. Empress Thea is not known for her generosity or her kindness to man, woman, child, or mammal ever. That is how I was able to identify your person from her royal person, so quickly. And this situation is extremely usual."

"Why? What? How? Who? What's going to happen to me now? I need to find out about Empress Thea too. I need to know what's happening now and what's about to happen to me, now, also."

He nodded, "Hmm! I'm intrigue, as well. But, we should find out together."

"How can I trust you, Tofur?"

He smiled. "I am her...your personal serf or slave or secretary. Pick a work title?"

"I don't understand."

He laughed out loud with a nod. "I am not surprised. What is your real name?"

I nodded with a smile. "I'm really named as Thea, too."

He frowned, "Hmm! That's also extremely usual, too."

In the middle of the room, inside the bed chamber of Empress Thea, a single ray of bright purple hue appeared on top of the glass floor descending down from a tiny hidden device that was embedded inside the ceiling glass, forming into an outline of a purple tinted three-dimensional design of a Dragon's head with a long snort and a pair of slanted eye sockets without an individual eyeball that did not snort out a plume of colorful fire. The male voice from the holographic Dragon Head echoed into the bedroom. _"You are here. I've been wondering about you, my empress daughter Thea."_

Tofur reached out and grabbed her naked arm, spinning them around to face the gigantic hologram that occupied the vertical space between the ceiling and the floor. He leaned over with a fake smile and a whisper into her cheekbone. "That's your father!" He sniggered with amusement.

I gasped in shock at the rotating hologram of purple tint. My father was a dragon person or a person with a dragon head. I wondered about my twin sister and her personal sisterly feelings and motive for finding me. I shouted out loud at the rotating purple tinted dragon head, "Father!"

Tofur sniggered with a whisper. "You call him, Dad."

"Dad!" I repeated with my error and a fake smile.

Tofur continued to snigger with a whisper into her cheekbone. "He can't hear your words."

I stared at the purple tined dragon head with a stern face and a gasp. "What?"

The male voice on the hologram Dragon Head echoed throughout the room. _"Empress daughter Thea, you usually attend the Coil meeting after each one of your battle fights,"_ the male voice gasped. _"Ah! I see that your face scar had been reopened. The battle must have been a vicious fight,"_ the male voice laughed. _"I look forward to seeing it on the hologram net, this evening. I am so sorry, Thea. Do you require more rest, before the Coil meeting?"_

I shook my curls and shouted out loud with a stern face reaching up, gently touching the sore wound, which was swiftly healing with the leaf stain of pink hue, "No, Dad!"

The male voice coming out from the Dragon Head echoed throughout the room, _"Excellent choice! You are strong, my empress daughter Thea. I will see you in a few more minutes at the Coil."_

The hologram outline of the purple tinted Dragon Head retracted back into a single purple vertical line and then was sucked back up into the ceiling device, leaving the room quiet.

I gasped at the empty space in the middle of the room, "Geez! My biological real father is a dragon person."

Tofur laughed. "No."

"Then his head body part is a dragon body part."

He laughed. "No. It is all an optical and electronic and super-duper silly illusion for his fun and your misery."

"O!" I turned and frowned at Tofur. "I am not dumb, Tofool. I know that a talking hologram can talk to me without moving its lips or its mouth and then I can talk back to the talking hologram. Why did you lie and say that to me?"

He reached down and opened the front of his trousers, pulling out the device, wiggling the metal control near his smile, "You cannot talk back to a talking head, without this tiny tool."

I gasped in alarm with a sour frown. "Why do you keep my hologram voice control devise down inside your trousers?"

He smiled. "I do it for fun."

I crossed the arms with a worried brow. "Why are you helping me, again?"

"I do it to survive," he leaned over and grabbed her scepter with a giggle tossing the hologram talking device and her scepter on top of the neatly made bed covers. He reached over with a smile and grabbed her naked arm swiftly moving ahead toward down the long hallway, where the entrance wall was located that accessed the glass elevator. "We only have a few minutes to squeeze a life time of Empress Thea into your head, before the elevator stops on the proper floor for the Coil."

I swiftly moved ahead beside Tofur without admiring each glittery portrait of my dead twin sister on two rows of glass walls. I could admire each later, after returning back from this meeting. I reached down and wiggled a dirty unpolished fingernail into the torn hole on the side of my faded and torn ancient brown tinted jumpsuit with a sour frown. "First, I need my scepter weapon back. Second, I need to quickly take a hot bath and rapidly change into a set of proper clothing like Empress Thea."

He swiftly moved down the long hallway while dragging her body behind his feet. "Last, you don't carry about your scepter weapon during a nice lovely tour of the Center, which is both yours and mine permanent home. You only use it in a battle fight."

"But..."

He frowned. "There is no but, only do. Leave the scepter here in its home until you are request to participate in a battle fight."

I exhaled with confusion and slightly followed behind Tofur. I possessed numerous questions and tons of mixed feelings and emotions which I could not sort out right now. But I did try to address some of the bigger questions that bumped into my gray matter, before my bone skull cracked open. "Was my twin sister in a battle fight also? Is that why she was in the Land of Scotta?"

He stopped in front of the entrance wall and reached out, touching the solid wall of glass that hid the elevator shaft which was made of glass also. "Yes and yes!"

I stopped and stood beside Tofur with a set of mixed emotions, feelings, thoughts, and skin itches throughout my dirty body. I didn't understand my new life, but I definitely understood my old life, a common house maid. Now, I had discovered that my dead twin sister was an empress within the kingdom that I also resided.

I had numerous questions and needed numerous answers, but first, I had to fit into the royal throne room or whatever it was called here at Center. I trusted Tofur as I had no other choice or option or opportunities. Then, I would become a good friend with all of my teen peers, where my dead twin sister didn't accomplish that task for some odd reason. I would figure out what happened to her and what happened to me. And finally, I would confront my biological parents with the lie, the shame, and the dishonor that I had served as a common house maid while my dead twin sister was the luckier one.

I was not jealous of my twin sister. I didn't know that I had a twin sister. But she must have found out about me, which was a mystery also.

I exhaled with a puff of frustration and puzzlement staring through the glass wall at the clouds, the bright sunlight, the skyline, and some of the taller glass buildings with a stern face and a heavy heart. The Land of Tross was a beautiful place. I envied my dead twin sister and then exhaled with worry regarding my jumbled deep inner mental thoughts.

Tofur rubbed on her arm with a nod. "No. Empress Thea always arrived back to the Center in her torn and bloody princess outfit from each battle fight and then sat down inside a chair within the Coil meeting. Every pair of eyeballs would notice, if you wore spiffy and shiny with a set of clean clothes. So, you look great for the Coil meeting!"

I exhaled with confusion and puzzlement, staring through the glass wall. "This is really weird. I go and then see my parents with dirty clothes and a dirty head of hair." I continued to stare ahead through the glass and stared at the pink tinted skyline, the mint green clouds, and the weird unnatural landscape while pondering other mental thoughts. I didn't live in a royal mansion within the Land of Scotta, but I did know that an elevator worked on body heat as it shifted up and down inside the shaft without a set of button or controls. I exhaled with worry and stared at the pink tinted skyline. "I have tons of questions. Why is the skyline pink? Where are the clouds colored in mint green? What is a Coil?"

4:04 pm

Glass elevator carriage setting

Hot temperatures with sunlight and pink sky and mint green clouds

The elevator door slid open in silence and revealed an empty glass carriage.

Tofur shoved her into the glass carriage and faced the pink tinted skyline, the mint green clouds, and the landscape of blue grass and glass buildings with a worried brow. "Let's go and meet the folks! I didn't have time to address each one of your questions. But I can give a quick summary. There are currently nineteen nations within the kingdom, which is growing with more nations for some reason. That's why you have been fighting each nation, so we can collect more nations within the growing kingdom for some reason."

The door closed in silence.

I frowned at the skyline and the clouds. "Isn't the number nineteen an unlucky symbol?"

He laughed with a smile. "Don't know. Your biological father and mother are the rulers of the Land of Tross. Tross is the largest landmass within the kingdom with the most money and the least good table manners, and the fewest natives. And Tross is the center place of the entire kingdom with numerous tall and shiny glass-constructed shopping buildings that is filled with tons of various merchandise, hence the name of our building for the royals is called the Center. And the Land of Tross is ruled by your father, who talks through a purple tinted three-dimensional holographic dragon's head with eye sockets, pointy ears, and a long snort but without the bells and whistles. And do not ask me why that happens. He started that silly communication blog, after you were born. I guess the man and his wife are really horrible ugly. And then, the rest of the rulers joined him for fun and giggles that lives and thrives here in the warm heat for convenience. Let's start with you! You are named Thea. Your father is named Thamar. Your mother is named Tidall. Now, you only hang with the children that come from each of other captured or tormented or sucked up nations as you all are the new elite minor league ruling class, sorta.

"You have meet Prince Nastchill. He's the nasty dude without hair strands plus facial whiskers of red tint, but I bet he has tons of hair roots, so no one actually knows his true hair color on top of his skull. The facial beard and the skull hair do not necessarily match a guy's p..."

"Tofur!"

He laughed. "Do not match a guy's partial face fuss. However, the facial hair and hair strands always matches on a girl, thou," he laughed. "Nastchill is dark, tall, and nasty with his scepter that glows in both dark blood red tinted metal and sometimes dark blood red proteins during a battle fight. His mother is named Nof. His father is named Neftoa. He hails from the Land of Naam, where lives a range of extremely high mountains and extremely low valleys that produce a gang of extremely nasty people which are used sometimes as the army for the Center."

I gasped in alarm. "The kingdom has an army of fighting warriors. Why does the kingdom need an army of soldiers to kill people? I don't understand. Where is the Land of Naam located within the kingdom?"

"Look it up on the world map later, girlfriend! I don't have time right now to give out every single kingdom detail or secrets," he laughed. "Princess Muppin is a tall and sexy chick with a head of long dark auburn hair and a pair of pale green eyeballs, who wears a long gala ball gown everywhere she walks and a tiny matching gem stone tiara everywhere she parks. She comes from the Land of Mattathee, where fertile land grows all types of eating crop food. Her mom is named Mosera. Her father is named Milcom."

I stared and smiled at the fluffy clouds through the rear glass on the elevator. "Could she be a good friend of Empress Thea, maybe?"

He continued to stare with a stern face through the rear glass on the elevator at the bright sunlight and drifting clouds. "Thea had no friends. Duke Joed, he is a short and plump teen male with a mop of stringy blonde hair that strays down into his pair of fat lips, when eating food all the time." She gagged with a cough, covering her mouth with disgust. Tofur laughed at the fluffy clouds. "Duke Joed comes from the Land of Jeroboom. Boom! The lid slams shut, where a mule has run freely into the stove pot. They raise, work, and eat all the mules. His father is named Jibsam. His mom is named Jakim."

4:20 pm

50th floor level location

Black tinted glass floor setting

The glass carriage stopped. The single glass door slid open revealing a new floor level.

The floor was made of shiny black tinted glass enclosing two side walls, leading down a long empty hallway toward a matching end wall of solid black glass also.

Inside the carriage, I spun around with a gasp of beauty, staring down the new hallway. "O wow!" I slowly moved ahead out from the elevator and then stepped onto the shiny black glass floor with a grin.

Tofur swiftly spun around from the rear glass wall inside the carriage and moved ahead, shoving the back spine of Thea with a stern face, grabbing her arm and swiftly led her down the long corridor with a stern face. "Hurry up! Listen up! I have more information to share with you, Thea."

I moved down the hallway with Tofur and smiled at each side wall of glass. "What floor level is this?"

Each side wall measured thirty feet in height with an individual art piece every twenty feet across. The first art piece exhibited a gigantic landscape that encompassed the twenty foot of black glass which glittered in three sections. The bottom held a horizontal field of waves of yellow color in fury. The top portion represented a red tinted angry skyline against the black tinted glass. On one side of the twenty feet shimmery portrait, two individual wore a one-piece suit of shimmery silver glitter and raise an individual in silver tinted glittery scepter with the blade extended towards the red angry skyline. The two figures stood upright inside a background of matching silver glitter paint as each figure shook and shifted with movement through the set of glittery paint in beauty.

He continued to dash down the hallway with Thea and stared at the opposite end with a stern face. "If you can't read the numeric button on the elevator wall, then I can't remember them. So, I don't know either."

I halted in front of the second wall portrait with a gasp and tilted a chin with a smile at the art work.

Both of the two side walls had been constructed in black glass which was opposite of my private bedroom chamber in natural clear glass. On top of each black tinted glass wall, the talented painter had used a set of lighter tones of color for the portrait to shine and shimmery through the darkness of the glass material.

I looked up with a smile to see the ceiling material and then squirted my eyelashes from the very bright sunbeams of the late afternoon.

The ceiling had been constructed of clear glass only, where each individual sunbeam poured down from the solar sun and then bombard each glittery particle of paint making each individual portrait come alive with movement, but it was an illusion. The pieces of glitter were shivering and shaking in place from the rays of sunlight.

The second shimmery portrait like the first was gigantic giant-sized portrait compared to a life-sized format in glittering light tinted colors that covered the entire black glass. The portrait was evenly split in three sections also. The top portion was strikingly yellow tinted skyline and rolls of green waves on the bottom. In-between, there were two individuals kneeling down, wearing a shimmery silver tinted jumpsuit with a silver tinted scepter, pointing down to the green waves.

I smiled. "This is so beautiful. Is that a portrait of a battle field?" The two individuals were clearly a man and a female due to the construction of the jumpsuit but each skull was only a round silver tinted orb without a pair of eyeballs, a nose hole, a set of earlobes, a pair of lips, or a set of cheekbones. I pointed at the portrait. "The people or persons or royals or couple does not show an individual or the facial features. The entire skull and face is only a silver tinted orb or circle or rounded object and it is detached and a few inches above a traditional outline of a human body. What does that mean when the head is detached from the body? Are they dead? What does it translate into, Tofur? This twin skull design is similar to the first portrait in shimmery colors. Why is that, Tofur?"

He moved ahead with a huff of annoyance while dragging her by the arm with a stern face. "Yeah!"

I raced beside his body and continued to smile at each passing shimmery portrait. "Wait! Tell me about each portrait! Tell me more about the skull design! The painter is talented. I wanna know."

He continued to race ahead with a stern face while dragging her by the arm. "I don't have time to tell you. You don't have time to hear it. We don't have time to waste here. You need to know all of this information before going into the Coil meeting as the new and fake Empress Thea." He exhaled. "Countess Glitza is average height like you with a head of long black hair, a pair of gray eyeballs, and a tone of dark skin. She hails from the Land of Gildallie, which is miles and miles of flat and dry and heated plain in brown dirt tone that yields an array of raw gem stones. Her mom is named Gittam. Her dad is named Guni. Tzar..."

I continued to dash beside Tofur and briefly studied each passing portrait with a smile. "Wait! I'm beginning to understand. Every royal teen and the associated set of parents start with the same alphabetic letter for convenience," giggling.

He continued to run ahead with Thea and said with a sour frown, staring at the end of the hallway. "Tzar Aqualia is a kinda weird guy along with his wear attire. He is very tall in height and very large of muscle, a tone of pale skin, a bald head, and a clean shaven face with a pair of pale eyeballs that scare you into screaming back to your mama," he chuckled. "Anyways, you get to meet him here inside the Coil also. He comes from the Land of Alush where a tall range of numerous mountains contain heated and hot volcanoes live and erupt, all the time. The flowing heated lava is captured and then used to build everyday sets of cooking appliances and flying machines. His mother is named Aven. His father is named Afek.

"Count Huzz, he is a very tall and an extremely large but handsome male teen that could be classified as a giant with a head of cropped light red hair and a pair of violet eyeballs on a face of pale skin. He hails from the Land of Hyzo, where all the livestock is raised and grazed and then eaten by all the other natives within the kingdom. His mother is named Holon. His father is named Hydar."

The third portrait exhibited a pale blue skyline and a flat landscape of green tinted dirt with a male and female standing in one of the corners. Each one wore a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching scepter with a rounded orb as a bone skull within a matching background of shimmery silver.

Tofur continued to dash with Thea down the long hallway of black glass with a stern face.

"Viscountess Arodi is a pretty female. I think," he laughed. "Arodi possesses a head of cropped black hair, a tone of pale skin, and a pair of violet eyeballs. She is average height and weight. I think. She comes from the Land of Arfad that is very unique. The entire landscape is a range of short mountains made from solid hard limestone rock in numerous colors and tones. The rock is chipped and mined for the creation of furniture and other household items. Her mother is named Amasa. Her father is named Arkite.

"Baroness Cilicee a petite girl with a nice laugh, a head of amber curly hair, a pair of amber eyeballs, and a tone of amber skin color. She comes from the Land of Colon, where everyone travels from home to enjoy some fun times. The landscape is composed of green tinted grassy or white colored snowy rolling hills and low down green tinted fresh ponds for swimming, skiing, hiking, and enjoying forestland. Her mother is Charran. Her father is named Camon.

"Lady Olivet is a short and fat teen female with a pair of green eyeballs, a tone of pale skin, and a bob of blonde hair with a sweet tooth. She loves trays and trays of warm chocolate cookies. She hails from the Land of Onam, where groves of light green tinted olive trees and other colorful fruit trees grow, thrive, and are harvested for the natives of the kingdom. Her mom is named Oechree. Her father is named Oeo."

"Baron Pekod, he's a really cool and quiet guy. He's an average height and slender teen male with a head of brown tinted dreadlocks, a pair of brown eyes, and a tone of dark skin coming from the Land of Penina which is really an ocean island with fishes, sharks, and other sea animals. His mother is named Parapette. His father is named Punon."

The fourth portrait exhibited an orange angry skyline and smooth brown tinted soil on the bottom of the shimmery portrait. A male and a female knelt on the side corner in a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching scepter with a rounded orb head within a matching background.

"Tzaress Ittai is also a very weird girl, too. She is very tall and very muscular in body with cropped hair of blonde, a tone of dark skin, a pair of blue eyes, and you will see inside the Coil. She comes from the Land of Ikoloth which is a lush jungle of wild animals. The people eat the meat of the animals and wear the fur as a set of clothing. Her mother is named Iru. Her father is named Iddo.

"Duchess Fera is a dark haired and dark skinned beauty of average height and weight. She comes from the Land Flocci, where the land is flat and made of ice and snow, very cold. Her mother is named Flameola. Her father is named Fico."

The fifth portrait exhibited a rough green tinted skyline on the top portion and rough rolls of green tinted soil on the bottom section of the art work. A male and a female stood on the side of the art work wearing a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching scepter with a rounded orb of silver tint for a head within a matching background.

I continued to run beside Tofur and realized that each shimmery portrait contained a male and a female that each held a shiny scepter. I concluded that each portrait represented one of the nations within the kingdom. I felt disappointment that face had not been painted into each portrait, so I could see my real biological parents for the first time. I wondered if my mom looked like me and my dead twin sister. Or maybe, I favored my father.

The sixth portrait exhibited a smooth purple colored skyline and a rough landscape of red tinted soil. A male and a female knelt on the side of the art work in a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching scepter with a rounded orb of silver as the head within a matching background.

He raced ahead with a stern face holding the hand of Thea. "Viscount Dimon is a very tall male with a lean frame of muscles with a plume of black hair standing upright on top of his head where the rest of the bone skull is shaven clean. He possesses a tone of olive skin and a pair of brown eyes. His mother is named Dalfon. His father is named Dekar. He comes from the Land of Dimna, where the land is very low and filled with wet marshes. The people wrestle with an individual or a group of vicious yellow tinted alligators that hide inside the shallow yellow tinted wet marshes and then eat them for fun. Yeah!" he chuckled.

"O dear!" I dashed beside Tofur and continued to stare at each art work with a smile.

Tofur stared ahead at the end of the hallway. "Queen Bakeria is truly tall and gorgeous girl with a head of white platinum colored curly hair and a face and a body of dark, dark skin tone, coming from the Land of Bocardo, which consists of dark blue waters in the form of rivers and ponds, and lakes, where all the fish meals come from also. Her mother is named Berseletta. Her father is named Baculus.

The seventh portrait exhibited a smooth blue skyline and a smooth landscape of blue soil. A male and a female stood in the middle of the portrait wearing a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching scepter with a rounded orb of silver as the head within a matching background.

"Marquee Kidron is funny teen male. He is average height with a head of long red hair, a tone of pink tinted skin, and a pair of violet eyeballs. His mother is named Kitron. His father is named Kemar. She comes from the Land of Korbright, where the hills flow up and down which is made of solid rock in the color of purple. The people travel around to the different towns on a pair of roller blades. He is very talented with the pair of skates also. The land doesn't produce any natural minerals or merchandise, only show of talented roller skaters that entertain other nations.

"Governess Lael is a petite and pretty female with a head of long brown hair with additional colors a tone of pale skin, and a pair of green eyeballs. Her mother is named Loami. Her father I named Lolike. She comes from the Land of Lesdam which is located on the far, far northern end of the kingdom, where only ground of white tinted and cold ice particles lives. The entire nation is one tiny village that only provides one outdoor activity of ice skating on top of the frozen ground for fun and imports all the food stuff, warm clothes, and other life and day essentials," laughing.

The eighth portrait exhibited a black angry skyline and a smooth landscape of smooth golden tinted soil. A male and a female couple in the middle of the portrait wore a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching scepter with a rounded orb of silver as the head within a matching background.

"Earl Zeamon is a tall and skinny guy with a head of oily black straight hair, a pair of dark eyes, and a tone of dark skin coming from the Land of Zeebad, which shows a nasty silver and gold landscape of dangerous chemicals that manufactures all of the flying land and air and sea vehicles. His mother is named Zedot. His father is named Zebull.

"And finally and not fine, you met Lord Erato. He's average height and a body of slender muscles with a shoulder length black tined hair and an ugly face of nasty black whiskers..."

"Someone is jealous!" I continued to dash with a smile down the long hallway with Tofur and quickly studied the next portrait.

The ninth portrait exhibited angry red storm clouds on top of the art work and rough waves of red tinted soil, where a male and a female stood on the side wearing a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching scepter with an orb skull of silver within a matching background.

Tofur continued to run with a sour frown. "And Erat has a pair of green eyeballs that matches his green tinted scepter, which he can't work but only twirl in one hand which then drops down..."

"Stop it!" I reached over and slapped his arm with a laugh.

He laughed. "Erat hails from the Land of Elidan where the land is flat and dry and crystal white and produces nothing but sand. The sand is used to produce all of the glass buildings here in the Land of Tross. His mother is named Eshton. His father is named Elpaul." Tofur exhaled with a smile. "Now, you know all the names of the teen royals. Lord Erato, his name is said as E-rrrat-o. You must roll the letter of R while pronouncing his silly name."

The solid black glass wall appeared again without a new portrait as the glass extended forward and formed the end wall inside the hallway. I stop with a gasp in the middle of an empty hallway and then covered my face with a sissy whine of worry and fear. "I can't do this."

He stopped with a chuckle and back stepped, leaning over with a nod, removing her hands and said with a smile. "It's much easier than sweating in the sun."

I exhaled with worry. "That's easy for you to remember and say and do and go and be! I'm so nervous. Wonder if...wonder if, I mess up again and say something wrong into the face of the right person. Or worse, I can some royal person the wrong name."

"Honey, no one calls the royal person their right name, only the right title. The title is everything. Princess, only. Duchess, only. Queen, there. Prince, here."

I nodded with a giggle. "O! That's too easy! I'm still nervous. Give me some points to become the real Thea!"

He nodded with a smile. "Thea is a silent person, sometimes. Then, she is a violent person, sometimes. Then, she is a nice person, sometimes. Then, she is a nasty person, sometimes."

I exhaled with worry. "You are not helping me, here, Tofool!"

He frowned. "Tofur, my name is repeated and repeated over and over again and again as Tofur. Sometimes, her mood quickly changes for some reason that's unknown and unexplained to me, to Erato, to Nastchill, to Muppin..."

"I don't know these people. I don't know those names. I'm so scared and worried that I'll mess up. Then, I'll be caught and captured as the fake empress. Then, you'll get into trouble as a..."

"Look!" He stopped with a smile and turned, swinging her to face his smile. "You will do fine, Thea. Just go with the flow of your girly emotions. You and Empress Thea are...were...still are a set of twin sisters," Tofur exhaled. "No one can take that away from you. No one can deny the truth here. Twins always act and feel and do the same thing. Empress Thea used all her resources and last moments of her precious life to find you. So, you must be something special or she would have tried. Don't waste your chance at a new life! Empress Thea is not here, but here," he reached out with a smile and touched her chest, where the heart was located. He nodded with a smile and pulled back the hand, grabbing both of her biceps, slightly shaking her confidence back and forth. "You are part of her. She is part of you. You can do this. Anyways, this is only a boring meeting with the rulers and their snobby rude...I mean...ruling children. I never attend, because I can't go inside on this floor with the other royal children. But I'll be seated on one of the lower levels watching the action. Go and get 'em, honey!" He turned Thea to face the archway with a giggle and then shoved her forward, watching her stumble ahead with a smile in silence.

4:40 pm

Coil room setting

The forward wall at the end of the long hallway consisted of only solid black glass that twinkled in tiny bursts of pinks, reds, greens, and orange hues coming from the array of bright beams of sunlight and did not exhibit an individual shimmery portrait in-between the single archway. The archway was an open square shaped design, where three individuals could stroll inside in a row.

I exhaled with a puff of worry and fear and then slowly moved ahead with a fluttering stomach, a stern face, and a worried heart while each foot stomp felt like a heavy rock. I strolled into the room and stood inside the open archway with a gasp.

The interior room on the floor had been designed as a complete circle or a flat disc of dark tinted glass in black which blocked both the upper floor and the lower floor viewing activities and housed a different set of audience members, such like, the parents of the children on the upper level and the natives on the level floor as Tofur had mentioned during my swift tour of the floor level.

In the middle of the room, there was a circle of empty space that stored a set of invisible air waves that sailed up towards the flat rooftop and then back down towards the ground floor for some type of special purpose.

In front of the curved wall, a set of individual chaise lounge chairs were spaced about ten feet apart, not glowing in dull red smooth fabric.

Thinking about it, it made sense. There were only nineteen nations within the kingdom, so each teen occupied a chaise lounge chair for the Coil meeting. I had forgotten to ask again about the Coil name description, in case that I was quizzed. But it was too clear inside my neurons.

The entire space appeared like a cylinder-design, thus the people and air waves coiled around the structure making it a clever name.

I strolled inside a few feet and then turned with a smile to face the side wall slowly advancing toward the first red tinted chaise lounge chair. There were nineteen nations within the kingdom. Land of the Tross was the first nation. I didn't know the order or even the location of each nation on the world globe, but I did know that each nation housed a royal kid.

I slowly moved ahead underneath a row of dull artificial overhead lamps and stared with a smile at the pink tinted nose profile and flowing side of red haired on the sitting female, who continued to lounge on top of the first chaise lounge chair in matching red hue. I whispered for my eardrums only. "Muppin is a princess."

Muppin, she was a tall and sexy female with a bright smile and a head of red hair, a tone of pink skin, wearing an ankle-length pale blue gala dress, a pair of matching sandals, and a tiny matching pale blue tiara on top of her strands. She stared ahead across the room at the other teens on the opposite side of the curvy black tinted glass wall. She lifted up a palm near her eardrum with a smile, seeing the movement of Empress Thea coming from the side vision without standing upright from the chair or moving her eyelashes away from the afternoon greeting while flirting with Erato on the other side of the room.

I moved ahead and reached down, slapping her open palm with a loud pop and a soft giggle, strolling ahead with my friendly greeting, "Hey, Princess!"

"Welcome back, Empress!" Muppin continued to smile at the teens across the room.

Now, I had been officially accepted as the pretend Empress Thea.

I immediately liked Muppin, and maybe Muppin had a good friendly relationship with my dead twin sister also.

Inside the same piece of furniture, there was a second attached lounge chaise chair that contained Governess Lael. She was a petite and pretty female with a slick ponytail of long, long brown hair with a mixture of additional fun colors of pink, purple, lavender over her skull and on the ponytail, a tone of pale skin, and a pair of green eyeballs. She came from the Land of Lesdam which was located on the far, far northern end of the kingdom, where the ground was covered in white tinted and cold ice particles. The entire nation was one tiny village that only provided the outdoor activity of ice skating on top of the frozen ground for fun and also imported all types of food stuff, warm clothes, and other life essentials.

Lael wore a shorty short circular skirt of pink tint, a sleeveless shirt of matching pink tint underneath a pair of naked legs that was attached to a pair of roller blades in rainbow colors. She also possessed elbow and knee pads in the same rainbow hues that matched her pair of roller blades.

"Prime, Empress!" she lifted up a folded fist above her ponytail with a grin and a giggle of happiness.

I moved ahead with a smile but could not recall her name or her title, gently bumping my folded fist into her hand with a giggle, tossing the arm in the air above my hair roots with a chuckle. I continued to stroll ahead toward a set of empty lounge chairs, passing the empty chairs and moved ahead toward another set of paired chaise lounge chairs with a giggle.

I had made hopefully two friends among the new group of teens.

The next chaise lounge chair contained a tall and large teen male with a portable table over his lap that contained a tray of food, wearing a purple and white long dress that exposed a pair of blue shoes. Count Huzz was a handsome male teen with a head of cropped light red hair and a pair of violet eyeballs on a face of pale skin, coming from the Land of Hyzo, where all the livestock was raised and grazed and then eaten by all the other natives within the kingdom.

I couldn't recall his title or his name either. My short introduction into the world of teens had been very swift from Tofur. I reached down and gently tapped his collar bone with a smile. "Good afternoon!"

Huzz continued to sit and eat while mumbling a short set of incoherent words through the set of chewed food without lifting up a palm for a fun-slap or a fist for a fun-punch, staring down at the plate of food with a pair of dancing eyeballs.

Huzz didn't seem to notice that I was not the real empress, because inside the attached second lounge chair, there was another teen.

Marquee Kidron was average height and weight wearing a naked chest, a silly pointy hat of bright mint green, where his long red tinted hair touched each breast nipple. He possessed a tone of pink tinted skin and a pair of violet eyeballs, wearing a pair of skin-tight pants in vertical strips of pink, mint green, lavender, and yellow that extended down to a pair of roller skates. He came from the Land of Korbright, where the hills flow up and down which is made of solid rock in the color of purple. The people traveled around to a different town on a pair of roller blades. The land did not produce a natural mineral or a piece of man-made merchandise, only show of talented roller skaters that entertain other nations. Kidron leaned over the shared armrest with his buddy Huzz with a loud chuckle and then swiftly stole a piece of food item off the plate of Huzz, sitting back, eating the food with an open mouth and a giggling smile.

Huzz lifted a hand and swiped away the invader while missing the limb, frowning in annoyance, staring down at the plate of food.

Then, the other court prince Marquee Kidron swallowed the food item and then reached over, stealing another piece of food with a giggle for fun.

I continued ahead with a laugh of amusement, slowly moving around the disc-shaped floor with a grin and approached next single lounge chaise chair that contained Earl Zeamon.

Earl Zeamon was a tall and skinny guy with a head of oily black straight hair, a pair of dark eyes, and a tone of dark skin wearing a tight-fitting outfit of solid gray with a short long-sleeved jacket and a pair of matching trousers that extended toward a pair of ankle boots in the same hue. He continued to sit and stare ahead at the other teen with a grin and a chuckle, lifting up a folded fist near his earlobe, "Chill, Empress!"

I quickly recalled his proper title coming from the detailed description of my servant Tofur. "Hello, Earl!" I reached over and gently tapped my folded fist into his stationary fist with a smile. He quickly accepted me as fake new Empress Thea. I moved ahead with a grin and curved around the disc-shaped floor while passing a few empty lounge chaise chairs and advanced toward a two-seater chaise lounge chair.

A short and plump cute male teen, Duke Joed exhibited a mop of stringy blonde hair that fell down over his continuous chewing lips, where his eyeballs of brown could not be seen. He wore a short outfit that exposed a pair of pale legs and naked foot. His torso was covered in a long white tinted napkin to catch the food particles and protect the yellow matching jacket.

He saw Thea and then lifted up his dirty fork with a piece of dark meat near his eardrum.

I continued to stroll ahead with a fake smile and a worried gasp in shock at the bold salute. I didn't know if I should reach out and steal the meat or slap his arm for a silly greeting. I had to decide quickly while pretending to act like my twin dead sister.

I couldn't remember the name of the teen male, so I smiled. "Thanks!" I reached out and grabbed the meat with a fake smile and a giggle, hand slinging the greasy food below even with my kneecaps, hitting it against the curvy wall beside my nose profile and behind the lounge chair on the disc-shaped floor. I was not eating a piece of meat that I didn't know the animal breed or coming from a foreign hand.

Joed did not yell or debate about my slick move, so I was okay with that new teen male.

Inside the second lounge chaise chair, Lady Olivet sat beside Duke Joed chewing on a plate of food also. She was a short and plump teen female with a pair of green eyeballs, a tone of pale skin, and a bob of blonde hair, wearing a matching short yellow tinted outfit that exposed a pair of skinny legs and a pair of naked feet. A long white tinted napkin covered her matching yellow tinted jacket to catch the food particles and protect the jacket, also.

Olivet lifted up a naked hand with colored food stains near her earlobe that held a cookie.

I scooted ahead with breaking my stride and grabbed the cookie with a fake smile while touching her greasy hand. "Thanks!" I couldn't remember the name of the petite female either and flung the cookie against a new part of the curved wall with a soft giggle. I was quite certain that my dead twin sister would have done the same as the teen female didn't scream at my reaction. So, I must be cool with them also and then continued my stroll with a smile.

On top of their twin set of chaise lounge chairs, a long portal golden tinted table extended over both of the chairs and each pair of their naked legs. One tray held dark meat and colored vegetables. A second tray held a lumpy pile of colorful fruit. And a third tray was piled high with a stack of chocolate cookies.

I halted with a gasp and then remembered the name of the two teens that looked cute while eating and dressing together. They must working towards a marriage ceremony, one day.

Olivet hailed from the Land of Onam, where groves of fruit trees grew, thrived, and were harvested for food. Duke Joed came from the Land of Jeroboom, where the people raised, worked, and ate the natural animal, the mule.

I softly gagged at the terrible mental thought. The dark meat came from a dead mule. Then I covered my mouth, slowly moving ahead toward a set of empty lounge chairs. I continued my steady pace and approached another set that held two chaise lounge chairs which were attached at the side. Then I stopped with a gasp.

The first lounge chair contained Countess Glitza, whom I had never met but recognized immediately coming from the detailed description that had been provided by Tofur.

Glitza was average height like me with a head of long black hair, a pair of gray eyeballs, a tone of dark skin and looked breathtaking beautiful, even with her permanently curled lips, left side.

I remembered also. Glitza came from the Land of Gildallie where miles and miles exhibited flat and dry and heated plains in brown dirt tone that yielded an array of raw gem stones.

Glitza displayed a tight-fitting jumpsuit of orange tint that covered her entire body, but each arm sleeve held a set of vertical positioned glittery individual colorful gem stone going from the edge of her neck across each collar bone and then descending down all the way to the top of her hand and a pair of thigh-high boots that exhibited pointy stones on the side going down to each boot heel like the jumpsuit.

Wow! Her jumpsuit was also a vicious weapon as each individual gem stone had been sculptured into a tiny pointy object that could bleed a large mammal with long fangs and sharp claws.

Glitza stared ahead without a smile in silence tapping a set of manicured claws, no, fingernails of bright green hue on top of armrest. She didn't bother to see or talk or grunt at Thea, but she felt a presence on the side of her cheekbone.

I exhaled with a puff of nervousness as I thought that I was the empress and the tough girl on the royal street city within Center. Glitza didn't like my dead twin Thea for some reason. But I had quickly puzzled out that it probably had to do with one sexy wet kiss from cute and handsome Erato and a second warm and wet kiss from hunky and handsome Nastchill. So, my dead twin sister and I were just alike in appearance and two boyfriends. I decided to stay away from Glitza's gem stone weapons for the rest of my life.

I continued to march ahead with a fake smile with my nice social attitude toward the black hair roots on Glitza. "Good afternoon, Countess!"

As I had predicted, Glitza didn't not comment or scream or stir or growl at me.

Beside Glitza inside the second chaise lounge chair, the body of Viscountess Arodi possessed a head of cropped black hair, a tone of pale skin that was covered in tattooed black weird symbols, and row of earrings that started at the earlobe and went to the crest of the ear. Each nose had been pieced and a top of the lip, right side.

I wondered if each painful looking body piercing hurt as the vision hurt my eyeballs.

She wore a long black gown that covered her entire body while disguising her entire body. The exposed body parts including both of her hands and her naked toes held an assortment of finger rings and toes rings of silver tint. She hailed from the Land of Arfad, where a range of short mountains which was made from solid hard limestone rock in numerous colors and tones was used to create furniture and other household items.

Arodi lifted a folded fist with a finger of rings above her hair roots in the air and stared across the room at the other teens. "Hello, Empress!"

I moved ahead and could not recall her name or her title, gingerly reaching out, gently tapping into the naked skin of her fist and missed each ring, "Hey there!" I pulled back my fist and looked down checking for bloody cut exhaling with relief. I strolled ahead with a smile to the next set of chair lounge chairs.

In the first chaise lounge chair, Queen Bakeria was a very tall and very beautiful female, wearing a light green tinted jumpsuit with a pair of matching ankle boots, sitting inside the second chaise lounge chair. She lifted up an open palm above her curly white platinum hair strands with a smile, "Hey, Empress!"

I couldn't remember her royal title or her royal name, so I faked a smile, "Hello!" I gently slapped her upright palm with a giggle. Bakeria was a very tall and very gorgeous girl with a face and a body of dark, dark skin tone, staring down at a plate of cooked fish and hailed from the Land of Bocardo which consisted of water in the form of rivers and ponds, and lakes. She seemed friendly to me, so maybe, I did have more friends than Tofur knew.

Beside the first chaise lounge chair that held Bakeria, Viscount Dimon occupied the next seat. He was a very tall male with a lean frame of muscles with a plume of black hair standing upright on top of his head where the rest of the bone skull is shaven clean. He possessed a naked chest of olive skin and a pair of brown eyes while staring down at the plate of smelly aquatic food stuff, without grunting or speaking to Thea. He wore a pair of skin-tight brown tinted trousers with a pair of matching knee boots. He hailed from the Land of Dimna, where the land was very low and filled with a series of wet marshes. The people wrestle with a yellow tinted alligator that matched and hid inside a shallow marsh and then ate them for food and fun.

I continued to stare with a fake smile at his nose profile in silence and swiftly moved ahead, approaching a unique piece of furniture, where three persons lounged together inside an individual lounge chaise chair which was attached together like a long sofa piece. I exhaled with a puff of frustration as I could not remember any of their names or their titles. My summary report about Center and my peer of teens coming from Tofur had been too short and too quick.

Inside the first chair, a petite girl laughed out loud and leaned over, touching the naked chest on a slender and dark skinned male that lounged between two other chairs. Inside the third lounge chaise chair, a tall female reached over, grabbing, and slapped away the both hands on the petite girl with a sneer of jealousy.

The first lounge chaise chair, Baroness Cilicee was a petite girl with a nice laugh, a head of red curly hair, a pair of amber eyeballs, and a tone of amber skin color. She came from the Land of Colon, where everyone travels from home to enjoy some fun times. The landscape is composed of grassy or snowy rolling hills and low down green tinted fresh ponds for swimming, skiing, hiking, and enjoying forestland. She wore a pair of bare feet with a long sleeveless dress in patterns of strips consisting of red, blue, and pink hue. She continued to reach over and tickle the naked chest of the teen male with hardy laughter as he continued to laugh out loud and wiggle side to side in happy torment while the tall female sneered and continued to slap back the petite hands of Cilicee from the sexy teen male.

Cilicee sat back and then leaned backward lifting up an open palm over the back rest of her chaise lounge chair of red tint, saying with a smile to Thea, "Hey, Empress!"

I moved ahead with a laugh and then gently slapped the open palm of Cilicee with a smile. There! I have another new friend here at the Center.

Tucked inside the middle chaise lounge chair, Baron Pekod laughed out loud with fun and possessed an average height and slender body frame, a head of brown tinted dreadlocks, a pair of brown eyes, and a tone of dark skin coming from the Land of Penina, which was really an ocean island with a set of fish, sharks, and other sea animals. He wore a pair of naked feet, a long set of walking shorts in the hue of brown that matched his skin tone, and a naked chest while giggling from the numerous tender touches of petite red haired Cilicee. He leaned back into the chair and lifted both of his arms above his brown tinted dreadlocks, extending both palms into the air with a smile. "Welcome back, Empress!"

I moved ahead with a grin and slapped both of his open palms with a giggle, prancing ahead with happiness of a new friend.

Inside the third chaise lounge chaise, Duchess Fera was a dark haired and dark skinned beauty of average height and weight coming from the Land of Flocci, where the land was flat and made of ice and snow, very cold. She wore a short sleeveless sundress of peach and a pair of naked feet, reaching over to slap the hands from Cilicee with a sneer and then tickled the naked chest of Pekod with a giggle. She leaned over to the side and then extended the outer arm in a sideways move from the chair toward Thea, saying with smile, "Greetings, Empress!"

I leaned down with a grin and gently tapped on her sideways open palm without causing a broken arm, skipping ahead with a giggle, following the curve of the black tinted glass wall toward another three-seater chaise lounge chair.

And then I halted with a gasp of fear.

Inside the first chaise lounge chair, Tzaress Ittai sat beside an empty chaise lounge chair while shouting in angry. She was very tall and very muscular in body with cropped hair of blonde, a tone of dark skin, a pair of blue eyes, and a pair of sideburns going down the side of her face in red tint and a lip moustache in red color also. She came from the Land of Ikoloth which was a lush jungle of wild animals. The people ate the meat of the animals and wore the fur as a set of clothing. She didn't wear a pelt of animal fur instead she wore a set of blue tinted tights over her butthole and a matching outer bra over each big breast. On her left shoulder going down to her middle finger, she possessed a piece of body armor in bright tinted blue metal that covered her entire left arm. And her long armor-covered arm was slamming and grinding into another metal arm in bright green tint creating a sound of metal pain and as the other court prince Tzar Aqualia growled in snarls of fury into her face.

I covered both of my eardrums hearing the loud scratching noises that had my nerve endings sing off-key.

No one sat inside the middle chair lounge chair without bravery and then dying.

Inside the third seat, Tzar Aqualia sneered and slammed his right arm that was plated in bright green tinted metal into her blue colored plated arm. He was a very tall in height and very large of muscle, a tone of pale skin, a bald head, and a clean shaven face with a pair of pale eyeballs

He came from the Land of Alush, where numerous heated and hot volcanoes live and erupt all the time. The flowing heated lava is captured and then used to build everything day appliances and flying machines.

Each teen continued to sit and fight with the metal arm in a series of sneers and growls alone inside the three-seater chaise lounge chair.

I turned with a puzzled brow to each teen. The rest of the other teens ignored the fighting pair. So, I stared at the fighting pair one more time in confusion and then swiftly raced ahead near the curvy wall and out of fight range with my eardrums covered along the black tinted glass wall with a soft whisper and a stunned brow. "She is a very weird girl. He is a very weird guy." I scooted away from the war and removed my eardrums with a grin and a giggle, strolling calmly around the rest of the curvy wall.

Now, I had greeted ten teens while making friends with seven of them. I think. There were two more teens left to slap a hand or a handsome face, depending upon my new circumstances.

I slowly paced over the black glass and stared at the last two teens and then stopped with a wicked smile, standing in front of an empty lounge chair, turning to stare at Erato first.

Erato possessed a head of shoulder length wavy black tinted hair, a jaw line of dusted black tinted whiskers, a pair of green tinted eyes, and a tone of pale tinted skin. He wore a sculptured upper torso of pale skin, without a shirt, a pair of tight black tinted trousers, and a pair of naked feet that wiggled up and down on top of the red tinted chaise lounge chair while looking healthy, hot, and available to my eyeballs and my neurons.

Erato smiled at her. "You're late and last and lost as usual, Thea!"

I nodded with a smile to Erato in silence and then parked both hands on my hips, turning to the occupied lounge chaise chair with a giggle.

The piece of furniture had been designed to seat three individual persons in a row between an individual armrest. Erato sat on one end. Nastchill occupied the other end. The middle chair was empty.

Nastchill was an extremely tall and muscular young seventeen years old male with a bright smile, a pair of blue eyes, and a tone of dark tinted skin, a bald skull, and a red tinted goatee. He was dressed in only a set of naked ripped biceps and triceps, without his sleeveless vest, a pair of matching brown tinted trousers, and a pair of naked feet also that rotated side to side over the lounge chair. He smiled at her, "Hey, Thea!"

On the end of the three-seater lounge chaise piece of furniture in-between the center chair, Erato reached over and patted the armrest on the empty middle chaise lounge chair with a nod and a smile. "Your royal seat awaits, Thea."

On the other end of the three-seater chaise lounge, Nastchill reached over and slapped the hand off the empty armrest with a sour frown. "And the royal pain in the seat is leaving."

I scooted ahead and stopped with a giggle, spinning around with a smile, rounding a fanny toward the edge of the empty lounge chaise chair.

Erato laughed with a grin. "Don't sit!"

"What?" I stood upright with fright and swiftly spun around with a gasp to see an empty lounge chair.

"Take off those pair of nasty-looking boots, Thea! You know the rules." Nastchill wiggled a pair of naked feet with a smile.

I nodded with a stern face as I faked my way through the Coil meeting, "O yeah! The rules, I must follow the rules." I sat down on top of the clean floor with a giggle and lifted up one leg near my face, removing each boot with a smile.

Erato continued to sit and stare with a frown at Thea. "Take off the pair smelly socks too. I wished you would have bathed, before crawling over here to cuddle with me," laughing.

Nastchill continued to sit and smile down at Thea, reaching over, patting the arm rest on her empty lounge chair. "Shut it, Erat! Come and sit down beside me, Thea!"

I removed the pair of smelly socks and dropped the two items next to the nasty pair of scruffy boots, standing upright with a smile, staring with a giggle at my naked feet. My free toes enjoyed the cool glass floor and the cold air inside the room. I spun around and slid backwards into the rear of the lounge chair, and stopped with a giggle, reaching down, feeling the soft material that wasn't plastic or metal or animal hide but something different. I wiggled my naked toes in the air on top of the lounge part of chair with a smile and stared across the width of the circular room.

The other teens engaged in a private conversation of soft words or ate a plate of food or continued to annoy each other. The three-seater chaise lounge chair with Tzar Aqualia and Tzaress Ittai continued to hit each other with a metal arm while fighting over something that I could not comprehend.

In the middle room inside the empty space of air molecules, a circular glass platform appeared and then curved around the empty space extending into each direction, covering the air and formed an enclosed platform of clear glass.

A vertical line of purple hue beamed up from the ground floor and halted, forming a purple tinted outline of a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The Dragon Head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the dragon's head. A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud into onto each floor level including the second floor room, where the teens were sitting. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea from the Land of Tross and I am happy to announce today that the kingdom has added the Land of Scotta..."_

On the second level with the teens of the rulers, Lord Erato continued to sit inside his chaise lounge chair and leaned over with a smile, grabbing her hand, almost kissing the pink tinted powder on her smooth cheekbone. "Thea, your father should program the purple tinted dragon head hologram to shoot out a flare of black tinted flames coming out from each nose holes for his evil fun," he lifted and then kissed her naked hand with his soft lips.

I turned with a smile and a sigh to see black haired and handsome Lord Erato in silence.

Nastchill leaned over the arm rest with a grin and touched her other hand, saying into her wounded cheekbone scar that contained the healing leaves of pink tint, "Bad idea, Erat! Thea, your father should program his dragon head hologram to shoot out a single blast of neon tinted green flare from each eyeball. That would really make the audience member jump outta of their seat," he lifted up near a smile and kissed her naked hand with his pair of chapped lips.

I turned with a smile and a giggle to see the kissing lips of Nastchill on my naked dirty hand.

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Scotta..."_

Erato continued to caress her hand and stared with a sour frown at the talking dragon head with the bow on one of its ear points. "I have a headache."

Nastchill continued to caress her other hand and stared with a smile at the talking dragon hand with the bow on the ear point also. "Welcome it to all!"

I enjoyed the boy attention, the dual hand-holding, and the gentle caressing of my fingers by each handsome teen male, starting with a puzzled brow at the rotating purple tinted dragon's head with the bow on one of its pointy ears that spoke with a female timber. "So, I guess that's my mother. My mother wears a hologram dragon head's too. She doesn't really look like me," giggling.

Erato released her hand with a laugh. "She has a cute bow that's wrapped around one of her pointy ears. That adds a nice girly touch on each female hologram which distinguishes the male baritone from the girly soprano," smiling.

Nastchill released her hand with a sour frown and stared at the Dragon Head hologram with the bow on one of its pointy ears. "Each ruler likes to mask their true facial features for some reason. I feel like I'm sitting in the middle of a wild kingdom, not a meeting."

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colored plume of fire from the open mouth or the two nose holes.

A male voice echoed the words throughout the room from the rotating dinosaur head. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

"How many talking heads are there?" I frowned at the brown tined hologram of a Tyrannosaurus Rex Head that rotated around inside the inner chamber of air.

Erato leaned over with a smile and sweet breathed into her smooth and non-wounded cheekbone, tossing his arm around the edge of her chaise lounge chair, while staring at the same hologram, "Too many!"

Nastchill leaned with a smile and sweet breathed into her wounded cheekbone, tossing his around the other edge of her chaise lounge chair while staring at the same hologram. "Every single ruler from every single nation gets to spit out a line of words tonight, before we leave and go have some fun."

I felt two sets of warm and sweet breath on each side of my face while staring with a sour frown of annoyance at the rotating brown tinted Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram inside the super-duper Coil meeting. "That's it!"

Erato continued to lean into her cheekbone and into her personal space while staring at the hologram with a laugh. "This is it. Are you ready, Nastchill?"

"Yup!" Nastchill continued to lean into her wounded cheekbone and the other side of her personal space while staring at the same hologram with a smile.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus rex's head hologram.

" _Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

On the end of the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Erato continued to smile and leaned down into her collar bone while sweet breathing into her pink tinted powder on her smooth cheekbone, staring at the hologram with a chuckle. "Are you ready, my darling Thea?"

I felt numerous short puff of sweet breathes on each one of my cheekbones and an individual muscular from each male around the back rest of my lounge chair as each manly arm leaned down and cuddled my upper body into a tight hug, where I could not wiggle out and then escape away from the two taller male teens. "What?" I continued to wiggle and struggle side to side with a set of loud grunts of confusion without escaping from the teenly hug of two hunky males. "No! What are you, two going to do? I'm getting hot and heated."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. It stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the pointy snout.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating shimmery Mongoose Head hologram inside her room. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son_ Viscount Dimon _who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

On the end of the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Erato continued to hug into the side body of Thea with a chuckle while staring with a wicked grin at the rotating giraffe head. "Are you ready, Erato? Yes, I am."

I yelled in worry and wiggled side to side with fear as my upper body was covered with an extended muscular male arm, where each male leaned into each one of my cheekbones for some weird reason. Now, I was not objecting to the male attention, but I was staring to sweat with annoyance and my personal body heat. I continued to wiggle side to side without escaping from the chair and the two teen meals. Both of my arms had penned down into their bodies. I shouted out loud. "Wait! What are you going to do, Erato?"

In the middle of the floor, the Mongoose Head hologram swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram with a bow tied onto one of its rounded ear points. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from its pointy snout.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating mongoose head with the bow. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son_ Viscount Dimon _who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

Erato reached up with a soft chuckle and touched the lever that dangling down from the glass ceiling, jerking the single brown tinted handle down to his nose profile, holding his breathe.

A hidden compartment inside the glass ceiling smoothly slid open. A tub of cold water slowly turned upside down and then dropped down splashing over each dry hair roots of three teen bodies.

I was trapped inside the three-seater chaise lounge chair and also penned between the two muscular and their individual strong arms. Then the cold water hit my entire body, soaking my hair, face, collar bone, arms, waistline, legs, and finally the naked feet. I screamed in angry and fun continuing to sit inside the soft material of the chaise lounge chair between the two wet and laughing teen males. "No! Great! Ugh! I'm wet with water." My hair and entire body was soaked in cold fresh water.

The other teens continued to sit inside an individual or one of the paired lounge chairs pointing at the row of three wet and silly teens Erato, Nastchill, and Thea with a smile and a laugh.

Erato released the body Thea and sat back into his wet chair, reaching up, wiping off the water from both eyelids with a smile. "That's the point!" He wore a wet naked chest, a pair of wet black tinted trousers, and a pair of wet naked feet while wiggling them side to side over the soft part of the lounge chair and air-drying the wet skin.

I reached up and wiped the cold water off my face with a sneer, sitting in the chair with a head of wet hair. My curly hair draped over my aqua colored eyeballs. My ugly ratty jumpsuit was soaked in fresh water and started to smell coming from sweat, dirt, and now fresh water as I could not change the ugly piece of clothing. "What's the point, again, Erato?" My feet were naked and wet. I tossed both of my legs into the air while flinging off the water drops from the skin.

Erato blinked both eyelids with laugh and looked down, wiping off all the numerous tiny water puddles in the chair, between his legs, and on his naked chest with a smile, "To have some fun, during the boring Coil meeting, what's your probe, tonight, Thea?"

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Mongoose Head hologram with the bow on one of its rounded ears swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of bright yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Giraffe Head. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the long snout.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Giraffe Head hologram. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Baroness Cilicee who comes from the Land of Colon. Cilicee also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

Nastchill continued to smile and sling off the numerous tiny water puddles from his large body and his wet seat with a chuckle. "Erato is so insensitive tonight like a bully bull boy. Thea hurt her face. Can't you see the pink wound without your pair of eyeglasses, Erat? Her scar has reopened. She feels sore and grumpy," he removed the standing water puddles on the seat with a chuckle but continued to wear a wet naked chest, a pair of wet trousers while wiggling the wet feet and drying off the wet drops on top of the sofa part of the lounge chair.

I stroked water down from my wet long hair strands which covered my eyelashes while hearing the talking Giraffe Head hologram, "Yeah! I feel sore and grumpy."

On each floor and also the second floor lever, in the open archway, two rows of individuals entered the teen room and then split in half. Each individual varied in height but appeared with a slender body of lean muscles possessing a tone of dark skin, a head of dark hair, and a pair of dark eyes, slowly strolling ahead in a set of peach colored walking shorts and a pair of naked feet. Each female wore a sleeveless white shirt. Each male wore a naked chest.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Giraffe Head hologram stopped talking and then morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of bright yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Giraffe Head hologram with a bow tied onto one of its rounded ears. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the long snout.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Giraffe Head with the bow on one of its ears. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Baroness Cilicee who comes from the Land of Colon. Cilicee also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

I continued to sit inside the wet chair and the wet clothes, flipping the wet hair up and away from my eyeballs with a puzzled brow, staring at the lines of new people that appeared like a group of servants. "What's happening in here? Who are they?" I smiled.

Nastchill reached down and pulled the object from the pocket of the wet trousers with a chuckle. "See? Thea really did hurt her neurons. She can't remember what we do inside the Coil meeting."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Giraffe Head hologram with the bow on one of its rounded ears stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pale blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Monkey Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or shift sideways.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Monkey Head hologram. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter_ Countess Glitza _who comes from the Land of Gildallie. Glitza also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

I stared at the shimmery Monkey Head with a giggle.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Monkey Head hologram with the bow on the fang stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pale blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of white hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Eagle hologram body with a set of flying wings. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the air space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Eagle body hologram. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Duchess Fera_ _who comes from the_ Land of Flocci _. Fera also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

One row of individuals moved around each side of the curvy wall, where an individual stopped and waited on an individual teen inside the chaise lounge chair like a servant.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Eagle body with a pair of outstretched non-flying wings stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of white hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of white hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Duchess Fera_ _who comes from the_ Land of Flocci _. Fera also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

At the first two-seater chaise lounge chair, a pair of individual stopped and presented a small tray with a tall tumbler of brown tinted liquid to both Muppin and Lael.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Eagle hologram with a pair of wings and a bow on the leg stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of white hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery single Flower hologram with four matching petals. The flower hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Flower hologram. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Princess Muppin_ _who comes from the_ Land of Mattathee _. Muppin also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

I continued to sweep away water drops and the numerous tiny water puddles from the chair and my body while staring with a smile at the new people. "What's happening in here? Who are they?"

Nastchill reached down and pulled out an object from the pocket of the wet trousers with a chuckle. "See? Thea really did hurt her neurons. She can't remember what we do inside the Coil meeting."

The rows of individuals thinned out as each new member stopped in front of a sitting royal teen, leaning down, providing a small tray with a beverage into a naked hand or on top of a portable table at each chaise lounge chair.

On the three-seated chaise lounge chair, Nastchill leaned over and sweet breathed with a smile into her wounded cheekbone. "Lift up your leg!"

I continued to stare each new member with a puzzled brow and then scanned the small tray that held a single tall tumbler of brown liquid in the hands of each member also. "Why for?"

Erato stared at each new member with a smile also. "She's moody tonight."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Flower with four petals and a long stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery of a single Flower hologram with four matching petals and a long stem, where the stem wore a tied bow. The flower hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Flower with four matching petals and a long stem, where the stem wore a tied bow. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Princess Muppin_ _who comes from the_ Land of Mattathee _. Muppin also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

I turned and stared at the talking flower hologram. "O! That's weird. There's a talking flower with four pink tinted petals on a long pink tinted stem. I never saw a hologram of a talking flower. This is so strange. Whose father is that?"

Erato stared at each new member and the talking flower hologram with a smile. "All of this is strange. But, each new girl is pretty."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Flower with the four petals and a bow on the long stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery tall Shade Tree hologram. The tree did not shift or wiggle.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Shade Tree. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Duke Joed_ _who comes from the_ Land of Jeroboom _. Joed also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

"I'm going to cut off your ugly set of wet clothes from your wet body with my dry knife," Nastchill wiggled the sharp knife near his laugh.

I gasped with horror and then turned with a worried brow to see Nastchill. "What? Why? Who? Where are you going to cut off my wet and smelly clothing?"

Nastchill sat back and continued to hold the knife near his laugh pointing down at her lower leg with other fingers. "I'm going to remove the bottom of your wet pants leg. You'll feel better. I promise."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Shade Tree stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of dark green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery hologram Shade Tree with a bow tied around the trunk. The tree did not shift or move inside the air space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Shade Tree with the tied bow. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Duke Joed_ _who comes from the_ Land of Jeroboom _. Joed also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

I looked down with a giggle and lifted up my leg from the chaise lounge, where the fabric was still soaked in water. I greatly desired the removal of the wet fabric that was performing a stinging itch on my wet and naked leg.

Nastchill leaned down with a grin and reached out, grabbing the top of the wet fabric, quickly slicing the tip of the sharp knife into fabric, not her leg. The pant leg ripped at her kneecap as she lifted the leg higher into the air. He continued to cut and then rip the wet fabric finally removing the bottom part of her jumpsuit, tossing the ruined fabric onto the glass floor. He reached down and softly tickled her naked flesh with a free hand and a chuckle of delight while storing the knife back down into the pocket. Then he used both hands to tickle her naked wet leg.

I giggled with amusement and softly moaned in pleasure with his firm touch on my naked wet leg.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Shade Tree hologram with the bow wrapped around the trunk stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of dark green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of black tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Ladybug hologram with four short legs. The Ladybug hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Ladybug hologram body with four short legs. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Lord Erato_ _who comes from the_ Land of Elidan _. Erato also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

Three of the new members, all females, approached the last set of furniture, the three-seater chaise lounge chair and stopped in front of Erato, Thea, and Nastchill.

Nastchill stopped the tickling maneuver on Thea and sat back, flirting with a smile and a wink to each new female.

I gasped in shock at the nasty behavior of Nastchill without a verbal reprimand in silence.

Erato reached down and grabbed the handle on the portal table, lifting up, dragging the metal across his lap. Nastchill copied Erato's movement and dragged the handle on the other half of the portal table across his lap. The two metal pieces met and then latched with a soft click in place forming a solid metal table in front of the Thea.

Each female leaned down toward the table surface as each teen male grunted in animal sounds and then softly hooted.

I reached over and playfully slapped each naked bicep with a soft giggle of amusement.

Erato watched the big breasts on the tiny shirt of the female with a loud grunt.

I reached over and slapped his bicep again for fun with a smile.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Ladybug hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of black hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of black tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Ladybug with a set of four short legs, where a bow was tied onto one of the straight non-wiggling legs. The Ladybug hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Ladybug of four short legs, where a bot was tied onto one of the straight non-wiggling legs. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Lord Erato_ _who comes from the_ Land of Elidan _. Erato also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

Each female placed a tall tumbler of brown tinted liquid on top of the portal metal table in front of Erato, Thea, and Nastchill, standing upright with a smile, back stepping from the three-seater chaise lounge chair. Then each female scooted around the furniture and moved ahead, standing in front of the curvy wall while scanning the room in silence.

The other males and females duplicated the same movement and finally stood in front of the curvy black tinted glass window in silence.

Erato reached down and grabbed, lifting the tumbler, drinking the beverage in a few gulps. He dropped down the empty tumbler burping out loud with a laugh.

I smiled at silly Erato and reached over, touching the tumbler of brown liquid, lifting it to my nose holes first to smell. I gasped in alarm. I recognized the odor of the beverage. "I don't understand this. How is this tumbler of liquid a new beverage? It's an old beverage to me," I sipped and swallowed the familiar scent while tasting the familiar flavor, licking my lips with a satisfaction, drinking the rest of the liquid. I placed the empty tumbler on top of the portal metal table with a giggle.

"What does that mean, Thea? I've never seen this type of beverage before as it has been presented for the first time here tonight at the Coil meeting." Nastchill stared at the beverage without touching the tumbler.

"Drink up, Nasty Chump! I ain't dead, yet." Erato reached over with a chuckle and grabbed the empty tumbler that belonged to Thea and his empty tumbler, slipping both of the glass objects over the table, placing on top of the floor with a smile.

Nastchill reached out and touched the tumbler, bringing the glass to his lips, sipping down the beverage. He removed the glass and then burped out loud with a nod and a smile. "It's tasty," he leaned down and gently placed the tumbler on top of the glass floor, standing upright with a smile. He removed the other half of the portal table in front of Thea and his lap, sliding it back down into the provided slot, standing upright with a smile.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Ladybug hologram with the bow on one of the short legs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of black hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Umbrella hologram. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Umbrella. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter_ Olivet _who comes from the_ Land of Onam _. Olivet also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

Erato whipped out his personal knife from the pocket of his wet trousers with a smile and leaned over, staring down at the other wet leg on Thea. "Lift up your other leg, Thea!"

I turned with a gasp to see a knife in the cupped hand of Erato and then lifted up my leg with the wet clothing with a laugh. He reached down and cut off the wet fabric at the kneecap, reaching out, ripping off the wet dirty fabric until the naked lower leg was exposed. He stored the knife back into the pocket with a smile and then leaned over with a chuckle, ticking her leg with a set of soft fingers.

I stretched out my leg allowing his soft finger pads to massage the wet skin, giggling with pleasure again.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Umbrella stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Umbrella with the single bow tied onto the upright handle. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Umbrella hologram with the single bow on the upright handle. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter_ Olivet _who comes from the_ Land of Onam _. Olivet also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

He pulled out the knife from the pocket for a second time. "Lift up your arm, Thea!" Nastchill leaned over with a laugh and wiggled the knife near his smile.

I turned with a smile and then gasped at Nastchill with his knife again, dropping down my wet leg from Erato. "What are you doing with the knife? You already cut off the wet pants leg. What are cutting off of me now?"

Erato sat back with a smile.

Nastchill leaned down and lifted up the fabric on the wet long-sleeved top on her ratty and smelly jumpsuit with a smile. "I'm cutting off the wet fabric at the elbow and exposing your forearm. You'll feel better. I promise..."

"I don't know..."

"I do know," he swiftly sliced a hole through her wet fabric and then continued to cut and rip until the arm sleeve dropped down onto the seat. He reached down and grabbed, tossing the ruin fabric onto the floor with a chuckle.

I lifted my exposed arm up and down in the air while drying the wet limb with a smile of amusement. "Now, I really look weird."

Nastchill stored the knife back into the pocket and reached over with a smile, massaging her arm with a set of rough hands.

His big hands engulfed my long skinny forearm that was cold and damp with his manly heat as I giggled from his rough touch. I could feel the smooth calluses on each on his fingers caressing my skin. I had never been touched like this before and it felt warm and secure. I wanted to crawl over the armrest and cuddle into his naked chest, purring with happiness.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Umbrella with the bow on the upright handle stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of mint green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Cricket Head hologram with two non-wiggling antennas. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Cricket Head. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Queen Bakeria_ _who comes from the_ Land of Bocardo _. Bakeria also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

In the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Lord Erato pulled out his knife from the pocket for a second time with a grin and leaned over into her cheekbone sweet breathing the words with a whisper. "Lift up your arm, Thea!" He wiggled the knife near his smile.

I turned with a gasp to see Erato and his knife again as Nastchill continued to caress my naked forearm with a smile and a pair of rough hands. "What...what's going on here? Why are you holding the knife? You already cut off the wet pants leg. What are cutting off next on me?"

He reached over and lifted up the wet sleeve on her other arm with a chuckle. "I'm matching each one of Nasty Chump's manly move sleeve by sleeve. See? Do you see? Do ya get it? See the sleeve!" He leaned over and quickly sliced off the wet fabric at the elbow exposing her wet forearm. He stored the knife and grabbed her arm, gently rubbing up and down on the wet and cold limb with a smile. "How does that feel?"

I softly moaned in girly paradise. Each one of my cold arms was slowly warming up along with my heated face and my fluttering heart. I liked this boyfriend attention.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Cricket Head with the two antennas stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of mint green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of mint green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Cricket Head hologram with two non-wiggling antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Cricket Head with two non-wiggling antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Queen Bakeria_ _who comes from the_ Land of Bocardo _. Bakeria also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

In the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Nastchill released one hand from her arm and then reached up, gently touched the healing wound on her cheekbone. "How did you hurt your face, Thea?"

Erato continued to massage her arm with a sneer. "She fought in the battle arena, Nasty Chump, even I know that."

He continued to stare at her cheekbone wound while caressing her forearm with a worried brow. "No! I watched the battle fight recording this afternoon. Thea didn't get harmed inside the fight arena."

I gasped with nervousness as I was not the empress inside the battle fight this afternoon. It was my dead twin sister. I stared with a fake smile at the rotating dark green tinted shade tree hologram without commenting.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram of a Cricket Head with two antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow, stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of mint green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery eight-legged Spider body. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating eight-legged Spider hologram body. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son_ Pekod _who comes from the_ Land of Penina _. Pekod also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

In the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Nastchill leaned over and gently touched the pink tinted face wound on Thea with a worried brow. "Thea, she was fighting inside the prisoner cells. In there, she got injured, isn't that right, Empress?"

I gasped with worry and stared into the middle of the empty space, viewing the black tinted rotating lady bug without hearing the words, coming from the hidden face of the ruler. I didn't know which ruler was speaking.

Erato turned and frowned at the smooth cheekbone on Thea. "Why do you do that, Thea? Why do you insist upon bringing back each and every prisoner here to Tross? That's what the military soldiers do."

Nastchill continued to sweet breath on her cheekbone and leaned over, tenderly kissing the side of her nose bridge without harming the wound. She giggled with joy from his soft lips. He pulled back with a smile and a soft timber. "Tross doesn't possess an army of warriors, Erat!"

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery eight-legged Spider body hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery eight-legged Spider hologram body, where one leg wore a bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating eight-legged Spider body, where one leg wore a tied bow. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son_ Pekod _who comes from the_ Land of Penina _. Pekod also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

I continued to stare at the rotating black tinted lady bug hologram while listening to the debate between Erato and Nastchill while pondering the need for an army within the kingdom. I didn't know that the kingdom existed and the kingdom possessed an army. And I didn't know that I had a set of biological parents either.

Nastchill leaned down over her left breast and stared with a sneer at Erato. "Yeah, it does, Erat. Mr. Dragon Head hologram has been recruiting a set of soldiers coming from the newly added nations like Land of..."

"No!" Erato pulled back from the smooth cheekbone of Thea and leaned over her right breast frowning with his words at Nastchill. "That's not right..."

Nastchill continued to lean over the breast of Thea with a snarl. "That is right."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery eight-legged Spider body hologram with a single bow tied on one leg stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of lavender hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Seahorse hologram. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Seahorse. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Earl_ Zeamon _who comes from the_ Land of Zeebad _. Zeamon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

In the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Nastchill sat upright with a smile and then leaned over the armrest of his chair, grabbing a small tied sack from the floor, sitting upright with a smile, placing the cloth sack between his legs. He opened and then reached inside the open sack, pulling out an object, staring at the item with a sigh. He leaned over and grabbed her left hand with a chuckle placing the object onto her index finger.

I felt the raw hand touch of handsome and hunky Prince Nastchill and turned with a smile seeing the new object. "What's that?"

Erato laughed out loud with a nod and sat upright with a smile, leaning over his armrest to see a small tied sack on top of the floor beside his chaise lounge chair also, grabbing the sack and sat upright inside the back rest of the chair with a smile. "See there? Thea doesn't even know what that is. So, remove it off her person, before I do the honor with my honorable teen might!"

I gasped in alarm and continued to stare down at my index finger. Nastchill adjusted the object with a smile and a soft hum. I smiled. "No! I love it. Don't remove it, Nastchill! What is the meaning?"

Nastchill continued to fiddle with the object on her left index finger. "This is a special vine, a love vine. It comes from a tiny love plant vine in my home, the Land of Naam, where you rip the vine off and then give it to your girl for love and compassionate and passion and love." He tied the thin green plant vine around her left index finger, gently touching the tiny flower of lavender hue with a smile. "The tiny flower is named flower..."

"Well, that's really original, Nasty Chump." Erato placed the sack between his legs with a chuckle and opened the strings, reaching inside, pulling out an object, staring at the item with a smile.

Nastchill continued to stare and smile down at the green tinted vine ring with the delicate lavender flower on the left hand of Thea. "The flower is colored in lavender which means charming. This is my vine ring that represents my love and my charm to you, Thea."

I reached down and gently touched the vine ring without disturbing the delicate lavender flower with a smile, "Awe! Thank you!"

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Seahorse hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of lavender hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Seahorse hologram with a single lavender bow around the tail. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Seahorse hologram with a single lavender bow around the tail. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Earl_ Zeamon _who comes from the_ Land of Zeebad _. Zeamon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

Inside the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Erato leaned over and grabbed her right hand with a chuckle, placing the object onto her index finger. "This is my gem stone ring that represents more love and more charm coming from me to you, only, Thea." He wiggled a golden tint thin-sized ring onto the index finger of her right hand with a smile.

I turned with a gasp to see the shiny ring on my index finger that contained a single gem stone of lavender tint and then smiled with happiness. "Wow! The gem stone ring of lavender is so beautiful."

"The pretty lavender stone glows and shines just like you, Thea! Hear that? I got the words, wow and beautiful, in the same sentence, Nasty Chump," Erato laughed with a nod and caressed her right palm without touching the ring on her index finger.

Nastchill gasped in alarm and released her left hand, looking down with a smile, rambling inside his tiny sack between his legs, pulling out a new object. He leaned over and grabbed her left hand, tying a new green tinted vine ring on her middle finger with a chuckle. "This vine ring contains a yellow tiny flower which displays my loyalty to only you, Thea."

I turned and admired the new vine ring with a smile. "The ring is very precious. Thank you, Nastchill!"

Erato gasped in alarm with a sneer and then turned with a sour frown, looking down, rambling down into his cloth sack between his legs, pulling out a new gem stone ring with a nod. He reached over and grabbed her right hand, scooting the ring onto her middle finger with a smile. "The stone is colored in yellow but means and carries and possesses one hundred percent of all my loyalty and joy to you, only, Thea."

I turned with a gasp and smiled down at the second ring with a yellow song "O my goodness! This is lovely also."

"Do you hear that? I got two words, goodness and lovely, which beats out precious any day of the week," Erato laughed with a nod and caressed her right hand with a wicked grin.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Seahorse with a single bow around the throat stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Fashion Shoe. _"Welcome to all! What in the scepter is this thing around my face? It is colored in the hue of pink. I don't understand. Dear wife, what is this thing? I didn't understand the..."_

In the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Nastchill gasped in alarm and released her left hand, looking down with a smile, rambling inside the tiny sack, pulling out a new object. He leaned over and grabbed her left hand, tying a new green tinted vine ring onto her ring finger with a chuckle. "The tiny flower color is pink on the new vine ring was expresses one hundred percent of my sweetness only for you, Thea."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled Fashion shoe that belonged to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space. A female voice echoed coming from the rotating shoe that belong to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. _"Dear, husband! This is the Coil meeting. Don't worry about the projected hologram of pink in the format of a shoe that covers your face. You are still unattractive!"_

I turned and admired the new vine ring with a smile. "O! Thank you. Thank you. My new vine ring is very, very pretty."

Erato gasped in alarm with a snarl and then turned with a sour frown, looking down, rambling down into his cloth sack between his legs, pulling out a new gem stone ring with a nod. He reached over and grabbed her right hand, scooting the ring onto her ring finger with a grin. "I have a gem tone of pink too that nicely fits onto your ring finger which means and carries and possesses one hundred and ten percent of all my sweetness for your sweetness, Thea."

I turned with a gasp and smiled down at the new gem stone thin-sized ring in golden tint with a tiny single pink tinted stone. "Wonderful! My new ring is so wonderful."

Erato laughed with a nod. "I got the word, wonderful, Nasty Chump."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared out from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of golden hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Crown hologram that belonged to a king. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed from the rotating Crown hologram. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Aqualia and my prince son Ittai that hail from the Land of Alush. Aqualia and Ittai also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

Nastchill gasped in alarm and released her left hand, looking down with a smile, rambling inside the tiny sack, pulling out a new object. He leaned over and grabbed her left hand, tying a new green tinted vine ring on her pinky finger with a chuckle. "This vine ring contains a tiny blue tinted flower which represents one hundred and ten percent of my trust to only you, Thea."

I turned and admired the new vine ring with a smile. "I love the color of blue. The vine ring fits perfectly on my pinky finger. Delightful. Thank you, Nastchill."

Erato gasped in alarm with a sneer and then turned with a sour frown, looking down, rambling down into his cloth sack between his legs, pulling out a new gem stone ring with a nod. He reached over and grabbed her right hand, scooting the new gem stone thin-sized golden tinted ring with a tiny blue stone onto her pinky finger with a grin. "Your new gem stone ring displays a blue stone that means and carries and possesses two hundred percent of all my trust in your trust in you, only, Thea."

I turned with a gasp and smiled down at the new golden tinted ring with a blue stone. "O my goodness! My ring finger is lovely also."

"Did you hear that? I got two words, goodness and lovely, which beats out precious any day of the week," Erato laughed with a nod and caressed her right hand with a wicked grin.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Crown hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of golden hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of golden hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Crown hologram with a single bow that was tied around one of the points that belonged to a queen. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Crown, where a single bow had been tied around one of the points of the crown that belonged to a queen. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Aqualia and my prince son Ittai, who both come from the Land of Alush. Aqualia and Ittai also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

Nastchill gasped in alarm and released her left hand, looking down with a smile, rambling inside the tiny sack, pulling out a new object. He leaned over and grabbed her left hand, tying a new green tinted vine ring onto her thumb with a chuckle. "A thumb vine ring is very, very special as this ring fits only the thumb and the delicate tiny white tinted flower represent all of precious innocence, Thea."

I turned with a gasp and admired the new vine ring with a smile. "That's the sweetest set of words that I have ever heard, Nastchill. O! The vine ring is so elegant on my thumb. Thank you, Nastchill."

"Hey! Hey! I got your innocence covered, here, too," Erato gasped in alarm with a growl and then turned with a sour frown, looking down, rambling down into his cloth sack between his legs, pulling out a new gem stone ring with a pearl stone with a nod. He reached over and grabbed her right hand, scooting the new pearl ring onto her thumb with a grin. "There! I got a thumb ring gem stone with a pearl stone only for you and your innocence, Thea. I love innocence, too."

I turned with a gasp and smiled down at the new tiny pearl ring. "How rad! This is lovely also."

Erato laughed with a nod. "I got a rad out of that one, Nastchill. Top that, doggie-do!"

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Crown hologram with a single bow that was tied around one of the points that belonged to a queen stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of golden hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of silver hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Scepter. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Scepter. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by both my_ prince son Nastchill _who comes from the_ Land of Naam _. Nastchill also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

"I will. I can. I am." Nastchill gasped in alarm and released her left hand, looking down with a smile, rambling inside the tiny sack, pulling out a new object from the sack.

I continued to hold the hand of Erato and admired all the different types of finger rings with a giggle and a grin while enjoying the attention from two cute teen males. Or Erato continued to caress my right hand with a set of tender finger pads. I stared down with a puzzled brow to see my two hands and pondered a new location for a new vine ring on my right hand or my left hand. I hoped that Nastchill did not ask me to remove one of the precious gem stone, because cute and handsome Erato will become very upset, very mad, and very jealous. Anyways, all of my eight fingers and two thumbs contained an individual lovely ring.

Nastchill leaned down and reached out, tapping a finger on her right kneecap with a chuckle. "Lift up your leg, Thea. Gimme your left foot. Place your pretty foot here on top of our shared armrest," laughing.

I looked up with a gasp from my two hands and then slowly lifted up my left leg with a laugh, easing the right foot onto the armrest with a giggle. "All right!"

Erato released her right hand with a gasp. "What in the scepter are you going to do with her leg, Nastchill?"

Nastchill reached out and grabbed her left foot, gently tying a new green tinted vine ring onto her big toe with a laugh and a smile. "Her big toe is now decorated with my vine ring, which fits perfectly, just like me and you, Thea. Now, I've addressed our silly query, Erat. The delicate tiny purple tinted flower means power. Now, you have the power to kick his a..."

"Ask me if I care, Nasty Chump," Erato gasped in alarm with a growl and then turned away from the face of Nastchill with a sour frown, looking down, rambling down into his cloth sack between his legs, pulling out a new gem stone ring with a nod.

I stared with a smile at the big toe that wore a green tinted vine ring with a purple tiny flower and then wiggled all of my toes with a laugh. "The big toe vine ring tickles my foot. This is so gnarly. Thank you, Nastchill!"

Nastchill sat back with a chuckle and then leaned over with a smile into her wounded cheekbone. "I can tickle lots of different body parts on you, Thea."

"Hey, Thea! Gimme your right foot! I got a gift for you, also," Erato leaned over into the shared armrest between Thea and him with a smile.

I looked over with a gasp after looking at my left naked and decorate foot and then slowly lifted up my right leg with a laugh, bending the right kneecap, easing the right foot onto the armrest with a giggle.

Erato reached out and grabbed her right foot, gently wiggling a new gem stone toe ring down onto her big toe with a laugh, sitting back with a smile. "Now, her other big toe looks more elegant? Ain't that right, Thea? The stone is purple and it possesses all of my power and all of your power combining all of our power together which is all and more powerful over Nasty Chump any day of the week or night or rainstorm or sunburst," laughing.

My knees were bent and as I wiggled both of my feet in the air that wore an individual ring toe on the big toe, laughing out loud. "Each toe ring tickles my foot. I'm so happy and excited with my new finger and toe rings."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery silver tinted Scepter hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of silver hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Scepter hologram with a single bow tied on one end of the cylinder. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Scepter hologram with the single bow on one end of the cylinder. _"Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Nastchill who comes from the Land of Naam. Nastchill also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

Nastchill looked down with a sour frown and rattled the sack between his legs. "That's not good enough for my eardrums. She didn't say any elegant adjective for my cute vine toe ring. I can do better than that," he pulled out a new object from the sack with a grin and a nod.

I gasped in alarm and stared at my wiggling toes with honestly. "I mean I find both of the toe rings beautiful.

Erato laughed at her wiggling toes. "Now, we're only back to being the word, beautiful. I was hoping for more, empress."

Nastchill looked up with a smile and then reached over with a chuckle, touching her wiggling foot. "Hold still for me! I have another ring toe with a tiny coral flower on it which means the word, cool. Me and you are, now, cool," he wiggled the vine ring down over her second toe with a chuckle, sitting back with a smile at her two feet.

I giggled from the hand to toe sensation and admired the second toe ring, working the toes back and forth while laughter. Each toe ring tickled the tender flesh between the bones.

"Okay. I'm satisfied. I got a hardy laugh from Thea." Nastchill nodded with a smile and reached down, carefully holding her left hand with an array of vine rings without damaging each delicate flower.

"What a minute! I'll get more than a hardy manly laugh from my new gift to Thea," Erato looked down with a smile and rattled the cloth sack between his legs, pulling out a new gem stone ring with a nod. He leaned over and grabbed her right feet, wiggling the golden tinted toe ring with a coral stone onto her second toe, sitting back with a smile. "Now, that's beautiful."

I continued to bend both kneecaps into my chest and displayed both naked feet in the air on top of each shared armrest with a giggle while looking up to see the other teens while each hologram appeared and say something and then disappeared from the center space inside the room. Some of the teens were watching Erato, Thea, and Nastchill with a set of chuckles. Some of the teens were eating with a set of fingers. Some of the teens were talking to each other with a set of smile.

I looked down to see my right foot and the second gem stone ring toe with the coral setting wiggling my right foot with a giggle. "It still tickles my toes, but the gem stone ring toe is..."

"Is what? What is it? What is your adjective?" Erato smiled down at the gem stone ring toe on her second toe.

I exhaled with nervousness of the ring competition. "Uh! It is...is gorgeous."

"Yeah!" Erato tossed both arms into the air with a laugh. "I got the word, gorgeous. You got the word, tickle."

I bit my lip with worry and turned in silence to see the nose profile of Nastchill.

In the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Nastchill shook his bald head with a soft growl and looked down with a sour frown into the cloth sack diving down a hand in the soft cloth, shaking the bag. He jerked out a new vine tone ring and leaned down, slipping the ring onto her third toe bone with a smile. "Now, this is a great vine toe ring with a tiny flower in red hue. Do you know what the color of red means for a boy and a girl, Thea?" he sat back with a smile and turned with a nod, winking at her.

"No. Nope. Naw. Never. Ever," Erato leaned over and covered her eyelashes. "Don't answer him. Don't look at him. Don't listen to him. Don't believe him. You must believe in me." Thea giggled with the silliness of the male competition. He quickly removed his hands and sat back into the chair, looking down into his cloth sack, diving down a hand in the contents. The cloth sack rattled with tiny tings. He pulled out a new toe ring with a smile.

I turned with a gasp to see the ring. "O my goodness!"

He leaned over and grabbed her right feet, wiggling the golden tinted toe ring with a red ruby stone onto her third toe, sitting back with a smile. "Now, you're my love, because the red ruby gem stone means love for me and you."

I continued to bend both kneecaps into my chest and displayed both naked feet in the air on top of each shared armrest with a giggle, wiggling my toes. I stared at the third toe with ruby ring with a grin. "It still tickles."

"Tickles!" Erato tossed both arms into the air with a smile. "Is that the 'bestest' adjective within your smart neurons at describing my exotic set of gem stone rings, Thea?"

"Yeah, it is. Because my precious set of vine rings are soft, not hard. Elegant, not hard. And pretty, not hard," Nastchill laughed out loud and leaned over, gently kissing her wounded cheekbone.

I turned slightly pink tinted with his gently kiss.

Erato looked down with a sour frown and rattled the sack, placing a hand down into the sack. "This is only the beginning."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Scepter with a single bow on the end of the cylinder stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of red tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery image of a Devil Head with two horns. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Devil Head. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by both my_ prince son Marquise Kidron _who comes from the_ Land of Korbright _. Kidron also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

Nastchill pulled back from the tender kiss and sat upright, reaching down, pulling out a new ring toe, before Erato. "Here! I got the magical ring toe right here," he leaned over and grabbed her left foot wiggling the green tinted vine toe ring with an orange stone onto her fourth toe, sitting back with a smile. "The color of peach expresses gratitude with my little tiny flower on my precious little toe ring. And I am so grateful for you, Thea," he leaned over and gently kissed her wounded cheekbone, pulling back with a smile. "Wow!"

"Hey! Hey! I'm here. I'm sitting right here. I'm not invisible, Thea," Erato wiggled side to side and leaned over, kissing the rear of her skull, pulling back with a sour frown. "Yuck! Turn back to see me! I got a kiss, too."

I turned with a wink to see Erato. "Only after you provide me a fourth ring toe like my love Nastchill did. Then I'll kiss your face."

"Nasty Chump!" Erato looked down a sour frown and a matching tone into the cloth sack. "Nasty Chump, you kept saying his name wrong. It's Nasty Chump," he pulled out a new toe ring with a smile, leaning over, wiggling the ring onto her fourth toe with a chuckle. "Now, you possess a gem stone of peach on your pretty foot, Gimme a kiss!" He leaned forward with a set of pouted lips.

I leaned over with a laugh and then gently kissed his soft lips with a soft moan.

Nastchill leaned over and grabbed her bicep, jerking Thea from the lips of Erato with a sour frown. Thea sat back into her chair with a laugh wiggling her decorated hands and both foot. He waved both arms in the air with a worried brow. "Okay. Okay. That's the war game now! I can play that war game, too," he looked down into the sack and quickly pulled out a new toe ring with a smile.

I sat back into the chair with a smile and continued to bend both kneecaps near my chest while wiggling both of my decorated naked feet in the air with a giggle of amusement.

Nastchill leaned over and grabbed her left foot tying the green tinted vine toe ring with a green tinted flower onto her pinky bone tone, sitting back with a smile. "Now, you're lovely and my love. The color of green represents vitality. Now, gimme a kiss to revitalize my love emotions to the maximum effect of my body!"

I stared down at the pinky toe ring of green vine with the delicate green tinted flower and then turned with a giggle, leaning down, kissing his chapped lips with a soft groan of delight while shaking both of my feet in the air for fun.

Erato gasped in shock at her two wiggling feet. "Stop wiggling your toe bones! Enough of that silly behavior, empress! Look! I'm sitting right here, ya'll. I see and hear everything like kissing the lips on Nasty Chump. I got a pinky toe ring, too, for my love, Thea. I wanna kiss from my love, Thea, too," he looked down with a worried brow into the cloth sack and rattled the rest of the contents with a set of tiny tings, finding the item, pulling out a new golden tinted tiny ring near his smile.

I pulled back from the sweet kiss of Nastchill and continued to wiggle my feet for fun, turning to stare down at the new item from Erato.

Erato leaned down and grabbed her wiggling right foot, scooting the tiny golden tinted ring with a green stone over her pinky toe with a smile. "Now, we are all even. I got my kiss, too," he turned with a smile to see her nose profile.

I looked down at the pretty emerald gem stone toe ring on my pinky toe with a smile and turned with a giggle, leaning over, kissing his soft lips with a soft moan of passion.

Nastchill gasped in alarm. "No. No. No. I got something better than an emerald stone ring," He looked down into the cloth sack with a smile.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery red tinted Devil Head with two horns stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of red tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery image of a Devil Head with two horns, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Devil Head, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow. " _Welcome to all! I am honored by both my_ prince son Marquise Kidron _who comes from the_ Land of Korbright _. Kidron also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."_

I pulled back from the simple kiss and sat back into the chair with a smile. My kneecaps stayed bent into my chest and as I wiggled both of my decorated naked feet in the air with a giggle of amusement.

Nastchill pulled out a new piece of green tinted vine near a smile and leaned down, tying the bigger vine onto her left ankle bone, gently slapping her leg with a chuckle. He sat back with a smile and admired her newly decorated foot and ankle with a nod. "That is an ankle vine bracelet with a row of golden tiny flowers. The color of gold means the word, glamorous. Thea's my Glam Babe."
I leaned over and planted a wet kiss on the chapped lips of Nastchill with a soft growl of passion, enjoying his warm hands and his naked chest.

On the opposite side of Thea, Erato lifted up a palm in the air with a loud grunt and looked down with a smile, reaching down into the cloth sack with the free hand. "What a moment! Hold the scepter! I got a golden object, here, too," he pulled out a golden ankle bracelet with a chuckle.

I released the kiss and then turned away from Nastchill with a gasp to see the shiny ankle bracelet with a smile.

Erato leaned down with a smile and clipped the ankle bracelet onto her right ankle bone with a chuckle, sitting back and turned with a wink to see Thea. "Now, am I the one with the gold? Or am I the one with all the gold? Or I am the golden one..."

"...that got lost on the way to the market for a bottle of beer." Nastchill laughed out loud with a grin.

I continued to stare with a smile down at the ankle bracelet of shiny gold on my body. I never possessed a set of gem stones. I had worked for a wealthy family, where each one wore a set of gem stones for a special occasion.

Nastchill leaned over the armrest with a smile and gently tapped her nose bridge with his finger pad, dropping the hand back down onto her kneecap. "Hey! Where's my kiss?"

I turned with a smile and leaned over, kissing the chapped lips again with a soft moan, pulling back with a wink for my assortment of precious vine rings. Then I turned with a grin and leaned over, kissing the soft lips of Erato with a soft growl, pulling back with a wink at him too for my assortment of gem stone rings.

The Devil Head hologram with two horns, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow, swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of red hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space in the middle of the room.

A vertical line of bright and shiny purple hue beamed down from the cathedral ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Dragon Head. _"Welcome to all! The Coil meeting has almost ended. And I would like to express my thanks to the newest members within our kingdom that comes from the Land of the..."_

I pulled back from kissing Erato and licked my lips with his sweet taste, sitting back into the chair with a smile. My kneecaps were still bent into my chest and as I wiggled both of my bejeweled naked feet in the air with a giggle of amusement. I continued to admire the golden ankle bracelet with a smile.

Inside the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Nastchill looked down into the cloth sack with a chuckle and pulled out a new piece of green tinted vine near his smile, leaning down, tying the bigger vine jewelry piece onto her left wrist bone, gently slapping her arm with a chuckle. He sat back with a smile and admired her wrist bone. "That is the last of my gifts to you, Thea. That's a wrist band with a row of silver tiny flowers. The color of silver means the word, sleek..."

"Slick!" Erato looked down with a laugh into the cloth sack. "Yeah, that's the other name for Nasty Champ," he pulled out a silver tinted wrist bracelet with a chuckle.

I leaned over and kissed Nastchill for the precious vine wrist bracelet and then released the kiss turning away from Nastchill with a gasp to see the new shiny writs bracelet with a gasp.

Erato leaned down with a smile and clipped the wrist bracelet onto her right wrist bone with a chuckle, sitting back and turned with a wink to see Thea. "Now, am I the...?"

"...biggest loser of the kingdom. Yeah, you are. Yeah, you rule. Yeah, you will be forever." Nastchill laughed out loud with a nod.

I leaned over with a smile and kissed the lips of Erato with a soft moan of delight, pulling back with a giggle.

Erato winked at Thea and then looked down with a smile, reaching down into the cloth sack, searching the contents with a chuckle.

I sat back with a giggle and stared at each finger toe, ring toe, ankle bracelet, and wrist bracelet with a smile, thinking that my new life was not too bad. I was clueless of how I had really gotten here with the smarts and the secrets of my dead twin sister. But I was determined to meet my biological parents for the first time with a smile and then inquiry about our twin births with a sad face.

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. " _Welcome to all! The Coil meeting has concluded with the final phase of the meeting which includes the newest members within our kingdom, the Land of the Scotta..."_

Nastchill leaned over his armrest with a smile and reached down to the floor, grabbing the new object, sitting back with a smile. He leaned over the shared armrest with Thea and gently slipped the flower behind her left earlobe with a chuckle and a nod. "Now, you are complete. The flower is colored in orange which means, enthusiasm. I am enthusiastic to be here with..."

"Hey!" Erato leaned over his armrest with a grin and reached down to the floor grabbing up the single orange flower, sitting back with a chuckle. "Look over here! I also have found an orange tinted flower that comes from my enthusiastic heart only for you, Thea," he leaned over and gently placed the stem of the flower behind her right earlobe with a chuckle, "Gimme a kiss now!"

I turned with a smile and leaned over, kissing the soft lips of Erato with a soft moan, pulling back with a wink for my pretty orange flower. Then I turned with a grin and leaned over, kissing the chapped lips of Nastchill with a soft growl, pulling back with another wink for my second beautiful orange flower.

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A vertical line of purple hue beamed down from the ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud into onto each floor level, including the second floor room, where the teens were sitting. " _Now, the time has arrived for each person to vote for the newest members to enter our kingdom that come from the Land of Scotta. Please press the button with your desire! Please, all of the newest members within our kingdom move away from the glass wall and stop, standing in the middle of the center platform on each level, right now. Go! Get moving now! Hurry! Hurry!"_

Then, the Dragon Head swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space in the middle of the Coil meeting room.

On each floor level, including the second floor level with the teens, each individual who had served a new beverage to each native had been standing against the black tinted curved wall. After hearing the vocal announcement coming from the mysterious devil face hologram, each individual gingerly moved away from the wall and stopped, standing in a loose huddle inside the center of the room. The center of the room was a circular disc, where each talking hologram appeared and then disappeared.

Nastchill leaned over the shared armrest with a smile and stared into her wounded cheekbone. "How do you feel, now, Thea?"

I continued to stare down at each finger ring, toe ring, ankle bracelet, and wrist bracelet with a giggle and a grin "I'm stunned, bedazzled, dazzled, delighted, elegant, foxy, glittering, colorful, happy, gorgeous, alluring, and beautiful..."

Erato leaned over the other shared armrest with Thea and smiled into her smooth cheekbone. "That you are, Empress!"

On the upper, middle, and lower floor level, inside each center room, a black tinted glass wall lowered down and formed around the huddle of individuals that came from the Land of Scotta, enclosing the people inside the tight space. Each person stood upright with a smile scanning the enclosed space.

On the second floor level, inside the three-seater chaise lounge chair, I exhaled with a puff of happiness and looked up with a gasp staring at the huddle of individual that served as a group of servants, tilting my chin. "Ya know, these people look very familiar to me for some reason."

Nastchill turned with a puzzled brow and studied the huddle of people that stood inside the enclosed space. "Not to me! I don't recognize or know any of these unfamiliar people. Why would you say that, Thea? Why would you recognize any of these people?"

Erato smiled at the huddle of people, who were trapped inside the tiny room in the middle of the floor. "Thea, she hurt her head, this afternoon, during the battle fight. She's seeing things and remembering stuff that doesn't exist."

"I didn't know why I think that I find the individuals familiar. I just do." I faked a smile and continued to stare at the huddle of people. "What are they doing inside that tiny room in the middle of the floor?"

Erato reached down and tapped a finger on top of his armrest with a smile. "We must vote, if they should be part of our great kingdom."

"That's nice. I wanna vote for them to be part of our kingdom," I looked down with a puzzled brow, caressing the smooth the armrest, searching for a button on the chaise lounge chair. "How do I vote for the newest members to enter our kingdom?"

Erato stared with a smile at the huddle of people inside the enclosed space in the middle of the room. "Do you see? Thea did hurt her head, this afternoon, too. She can't remember nothing but handsome me," laughing.

"And, me, too!" Nastchill leaned over and grabbed her wiggling hand, lifting it up in the air and then kissed her finger with a low growl of lust. She giggled with amusement. He jerked her finger from his lips with a grin and then placed her finger pad down on top of the red button which was positioned at the top of the arm rest. "Press this button."

"O!" I looked up with a gasp and stared with a worried brow at the huddle of new members, who were trapped inside the tiny room in the middle of the floor. "I remembered, now, the sweet and bitter taste of the new beverage. I remembered that taste. I like that beverage."

Erato smiled at the huddle of individual inside the tiny room. "How is that possible, Thea? I like the beverage, also. But I had tasted the beverage for the first time today."

I pointed with my free hand and a smile at the huddle of people inside the trapped tiny room. "Because, the people come from the Land of Scotta, where the beverage comes from too."

Nastchill slapped her hand down over the red tinted button on top of her armrest with chuckle of happiness. Then both Erato and Nastchill reached over with a smirk and pressed their individual red tinted button on their individual armrest with the rest of the audience.

Inside the center space, the curvy wall of the room turned bright red and the popped with a loud noise. Then the curvy wall turned back into black hue.

I gasped in fright. "What was that awful loud sound?"

The glass platform sucked backward and then stored inside the horizontal slot with a loud slurp. The huddle of new representations coming from the Land of Scotia did not stand inside the center room anymore. All of their upright individual bodies had vanished inside the air space, without a fearful scream of terror.

Erato stared at the black glass inside the tiny room with a laugh and a nod, "The members from the Land of Scotta!"

I gasped in alarm. "But I..."

Nastchill leaned over the shared armrest with Thea with a smile. "Yeah, I'm finished, here, too. Can we leave now? I wanna..."

I covered my mouth with a gasp of horror and continued to stare into the empty space, without the huddle of individual coming from the Land of Scotta, which was my real home.

In the middle of the floor, a new vertical line of purple tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space. A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Dragon Head. _"Welcome to all! I have great news. We are accepting a new nation into the kingdom this evening. My empress daughter Thea will lead a court team of two teens including Countess Glitza and Earl Zeamon to the Land of the Shamguard. The court team will be departing immediately from the Land of Tross. The Coil meeting has concluded and is dismissed until tomorrow morning."_

Then, the Dragon Head swiftly morphed back into a vertical line and disappeared from the center space of air molecules.

In the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Erato leaned over the shared armrest with a chuckle into the smooth cheekbone of Thea. "What do you think, Empress? You're the lucky court princess tonight."

Nastchill leaned over the other shared armrest with a smile into the wounded cheekbone of Thea. "Hmm! She's speechless like usual."

In the three-seater chaise lounge chair, Erato sat back and then stood upright with a clap and a smile, quickly dashing ahead with a chuckle on a pair of naked feet and a pair of wet trousers, "Time to go! Get moving, Thea! We have another nation to conquer while world-building the kingdom," he scooted around the curvy wall with some of the other upright teens while slapping a hand or a collar bone of each teen. They left the second level room of the Coil meeting.

Nastchill slid off the chaise lounge chair with a smile and swiftly dashed behind the back spine of Erato on a set of wet trousers and a pair of naked feet, also, "Time to get a good seat inside the theater room for the new battle fight. You need to go, Thea!"

Inside the three-seater chaise lounge chair, I continued to sit in awe and stared into the empty air space, where a huddle of innocent people used to stand.

The second floor level meeting room quickly emptied out leaving only the empress.

I slowly stood upright from the three-seater chaise lounge chair and wobbled side to side with a gasp while wearing a left foot of vine rings and a right foot of gem stone rings. Some of the delicate tiny flowers dropped off the ring vines and then landed onto the floor in silence death. I slowly moved ahead toward the open archway with a stern face and a heavy heart. I decided to leave the set of ripped off clothing pieces and the pair of scruffy boots as I was not a housemaid anymore and too stunned with the old meeting and the new announcement of a battle fight that included my scepter and my body.

An array of small buzzing floor machines entered the room cleaning up the mess of food crumbs, and trash items.

6:06 pm

50th floor level

Hallway entrance setting

Hot temperatures with bright sunshine and pink skyline and mint green clouds

Inside the second floor hallway at the open archway, I slowly limped ahead with a stern face in silence while pondering my brief new life here in the Land of Tross.

Inside the hallway, Tofur stood near the last art work and then dashed ahead, waving both arms in the air, shouting out loud in worry, "Finally, Thea! There, you are! Come on! Come on! We need to scoot along! I heard that there is a new battle fight this evening as issued by your father. Let's move!"

I slowly limped ahead wearing the finger and toes rings, moving down the long hallway while trailing a set of tiny delicate colorful flowers in my wake and wore a worried brow. "I can't do this."

He slowly moved beside Thea and then turned with a puzzled brow examining her body from head to toe. "What's wrong with you? You need to move faster. O! What are those things growing on your foot? Is that toe fungus? Girlfriend, that's the worsest case of toe fungi that I have ever seen. You got green tinted fungi growing on each toe on your left foot. You can prevent that nasty-looking stuff by bathing the body with soap and water. Did you take a bath last night?" He leaned over with a worried brow and cuddled Thea slowly moving down the long corridor with a whisper into her non-injured cheekbone. "You have no choice, Thea."

I frowned at the glass floor with deep worry, concern, desperation, and panic. "I'm not my dead twin sister."

"I know that. You know that. But no one else knows that. You passed your first test, the Coil meeting, without a death strike from one of the other court teens. This is a major accomplishment. All the other court royals have accepted you as the other Empress Thea. You secret is a still deep and dark and secret. You're ready for the next step. And you are a duplicate of your dead twin sister. You share her strengths and her..."

"...weaknesses," I slowly limped ahead and frowned down at the glass floor that contained bits of dirt.

He exhaled with a worried brow and continued down the hallway toward the glass wall, where the glass elevator was hidden. "Yeah, every person has strengths, guts, weaknesses, and poops. You're doing a good job, so far, Thea."

"I can't do this."

He looked down with a grin at her foot that was covered in gem stone ring toes and vine ring toes. "Not with all those ugly green colored vine things on your foot and your hand! What happened to your hand and your feet? Is that a runaway plant monster inside the children's meeting room?" He stopped with a laugh at the end of the hallway with her and reached out, touching the glass wall.

The glass door side open and revealed the glass carriage.

He gently shoved Thea into the carriage beside him with a smile. "In ya go, girlfriend!"

I limped inside and stopped, standing in front of the forward glass wall, seeing the objects with my eyeballs, not my neurons.

He continued to cuddle Thea with a smile. "Did you eat a plate of food inside the Coil?"  
I exhaled at the landscape of Tross. "No."

Tofur cringed. "O! I forgot to order you a plate of hot and tasty food during the Coil. Sorry! My bad!" He released her shoulder blade and reached down, opening the front of the loose fitting trousers, dropping a hand into his trouser. He pulled out a horizontal food bar which was wrapped, of course. He un-wrapped the food bar with a smile and placed it near her closed lips. "Here ya go! You need energy for the battle fight. This food bar contains lots of proteins, sugar, fats, and life-saving other stuff that I can't remember. Eat up!"

I reached up and grabbed the good smelling food bar. My stomach was growling and half-empty. My mind was clicking in worry but my body was ordering food. And I needed the energy if I had to battle with another person. I bit into the food and slowly chewed while chopping the hard substance into tiny particles that my stomach could absorb without a stomach ache.

The carriage continued to descend down through the other floor levels without stopping.

Tofur moved closer into her cheekbone again with a stern face. "Now, before the battle fight, you pray for rain."

I continued to slowly chew the food staring into the landscape, searching my emotions. I wanna escape from Tofur, the battle fight, and the building immediately with fear, fright, worry, and concern. However, I didn't have an airship ride to leave with my impromptu escape and I greatly desired to see my biological parents for the first time within my short teenly life.

He chuckled. "Before the battle fight, I fly you in the airship to the Land of Shamguard. Yes, I am glad that you asked that question. Yes, I can answer that question. I don't know the location of the Land of Shamguard, because the nation has never been accepted into our kingdom. Good! I'm glad that you understand," chuckling.

I continued to slowly chew the food while surveying the landscape, pondering my feelings. Being a house maid wasn't so bad. I had to fight for food and share a bed with four other, sometimes, smelly teenagers. But I did arise the next morning without a wound and wit a hot breakfast to start my work.

He smiled. "Yes, I'm so happy that you have posed that second question to me. Yes, I can address it for you. The two other court teens Glitza and Zeamon will ride inside a separate airship, not with us. Now, I do really like to drool over Countess Glitza, not ugly Zeamon. He gives me the creepettes," chuckling.

I swallowed the food and then ate another bit of the food bar while observing each object outside the glass window in the sky and on the ground, examining my active thoughts. I was shocked to find that I had a twin sister, who had come and then rescued me. Then I was pleased that I had a blood relative and became freed from the prison cell. Then I was saddened at the loss of my blood relative and mad with my biological parents.

He grinned. "Yes, I'm thrilled that you have thought of and vocally expressed that smart-hole third question. Yes, I willingly and happily can answer that very good question. There are set of cold beverages inside your room, well, they are stored inside the lavatory room. But, don't worry! The cat didn't urine on the metal bottles of cold beverages. There is a keeper door that holds all the cold bottles for human consumption, except I did consume the last cherry flavored juice. But, I can go and get you another cherry flavored juice, if you greatly desire it, Thea," chuckling.

I swallowed the food and then crunched into the hard food, chewing while observing each object outside the glass window in the sky and on the ground, examining my active thoughts. I was shocked to find that I had a twin sister, who had come and then rescued me. Then I was pleased that I had a blood relative and became freed from the prison cell. Then I was saddened at the loss of my blood relative and mad with my unknown and unseen biological parents.

He flipped a hand into the air with a smile and stared out the glass window as the carriage continued to descend down to the proper floor. "Yes, I'm so delight that you are asking me another smart-hole question. Yes, I'm also thrilled to provide you with more private, personal, professional, royal and non-royal information. Yes, I had stolen a basket of nicely wrapped food items coming from the downstairs eating place. But, let's not mention this thievery to anyone. Okay? Okay! And I have stowed the basket of fresh food items inside your or mine or our airship, since we're a team of something. So, you will possess a happy and full tummy by the time we arrive and park at the Land of Shamguard for the battle fight," chuckling.

I swallowed the last of the food bar while staring at each object through the glass window, pondering my deep emotions. I felt like screaming, crying, and fleeing away from the Center for my safety. I wasn't a warrior but a worker. However, I was a healthy and fit teenager who had scraped and shared and stolen every bit of food, sleep, and fun for the past seventeen years without the benefit of a friend and a relative. Now, I had been given a great opportunity for a different and new life. Thus, I will accept and challenge anyone that blocks my new freedom.

The carriage slowed the speed and then halted in place. The glass door slid open, revealing the bedchamber floor of Empress Thea.

Tofur leaned over and cuddled Thea, slowly spinning them around to face the floor level. "We're back home! Get moving! We need to rush and then leave Center. The battle fight will not start without the winning court teens. Do you want a cold beverage to wash down the hard food bar?" He laughed.

6:20 pm

18th floor level location

Bedchamber setting fake empress Thea

I slowly limped off the glass carriage deck first, since one foot still contained the set of tiny bows of green vines that came from handsome and sweet Prince Nastchill. I lifted a foot in the air and then slapped on the one of the tiny bow-shaped green tinted vine rings in frustration, dropping the foot down, slowly limping again. "I can't remove the cute tiny things from my toes."

Tofur followed behind the back spine of Thea with a smile and pulled up beside her nose profile with a giggle. You look cute."

I continued to limp again and lift my foot slapping down at each vine ring in frustration. "Both Erato and Nastchill told me the same thing. I enjoyed the Coil meeting, but I didn't get something."

He slowly moved beside her with a smile. "The room is an enclosed cylinder or cone as the air waves coil around the curvy wall. Coil is the name of the air flow, not the meeting. Some smart-hole ruler used the name and then it stuck to the pink tongue of the other rulers. Thus, it was adapted to the Coil meeting."

I continued to limp ahead without stopping to slap the vine rings with a smile "Thanks for sharing the information. I was going to get around to asking about that mysterious word. Now, what happened to the huddle of prisoners inside the center of the room? Were there prisoners on upper floor servicing each rule like the royal teens? Did you see the prisoners also? Were there a set of prisoners on the bottom level serving you and the other citizens of Tross?"

He stopped with a gasp and turned with a worried brow to see Thea, "Uh! Do you really wanna know an answer to that question?"

I stopped with a gasp and turned with a worried brow to see Tofur. "O no! I do know the answer to my posed question. That! This! What is the place or this palace, a horror house?"

He exhaled with a nod. "My answer is an affirmative to your last question."

I covered my face with both hands swallowing the sobs, holding back the tears of sadness and angry at the Center and the current rulers. I looked up with a confused brow and a cracked voice to see Tofur. "Those young men and women and children, there were children serving me and the other teens on the second level." He nodded in silence with a sad face" I gasped in horror. "They were only people, not prisoners."

He nodded. "They are always treated the same way, after a battle fight here at Tross."

I gasped in horror. "What, they? Who, they? What are you talking about?"

He reached out and grabbed, pulling her arm, turning to face the end of the hallway. "You must get ready to leave for your assigned battle fight, Thea. Dragon Head will not understand or comprehend your delay beside the parked airship in front of the Center building. Empress Thea obeyed all his vocal commands. Empress Thea would never be late or sassy or prissy or talk back..."

"My twin sister didn't think, thus she didn't rebel," I limped again with a sour frown and an angry heart.

He stopped and stared with a sad face at her back spine. "Yes, she found you. Yes, she rebelled in her own way. Yes, she found something more. Yes, she acted on her own free will. Yes, she is dead from her own free will. I'm so sorry that you are in here in her place and her palace of horror, but she had a specific loving sisterly purpose and a drive and a goal in finding you. I...I look forward to knowing that answer. I...I hope that you can share some of my thoughts also."

I spun around with a gasp and nodded with a worried brow to Tofur. "I'm so sorry, Tofur. I do. I do share your exact same mental thoughts, Tofur. I apologize. This princess thing is surreal and really scary to me. I...I am part of her. She is part of me. I...I can do something good, not bad here. I think. I...I will find out about her and me. I...I promise you and me that."

"Good!" He nodded with a smile. "Let's take your journey one step at a time! First, we need to remove your cute vine rings, so you can walk in a straight line."

I gasped in shock with his wise advice and then laughed out loud with a nod, slowly limping ahead to the bed frame, slowly twisting around and sat down on top of the bed mattress. I slowly removed each gem stone ring finger first with ease, placing each beautiful jewelry item on top of the white tinted bedcovers.

Tofur followed behind her and then veered to the side wall and stopped, standing in front of the shimmery art work of dead twin sister Thea.

The wall portrait displayed a solid white background without a single mint tinted cloud or a pink tinted skyline or a blade of blue tinted grass or a soil of green tinted dirt with smiling one-year-old Thea in a pink dress with a pair of bare feet, who stood upright in the middle of the painted space.

He reached up and touched the glass with a smile. The glass door slid open and revealed the same white colored lavatory space. He leaned inside and slapped the side glass wall. A new door slid open and revealed a deep wash sink that contained an array of upright metal bottle necks that were bathed in ice cubes. He reached down and grabbed a purple tinted bottle neck which contained tons of sugary liquid, back stepping from the open archway, spinning around with the bottle and a smile.

The glass door slid shut behind his back spine in silence.

Tofur moved ahead with the metal bottle and stopped with a grin, handing the beverage to Thea.

Thea looked up with a smile and accepted the cold beverage, lifting the top, drinking the cool liquid and then lowered the mouth of the metal bottle with a loud burp and a giggle.

Tofur stood in place with a smile and reached down, pulling out a tiny square shaped copper tinted tool box from the front of his trousers with a laugh. Thea frowned and then sipped more of the cool beverage with a loud gulp. He squatted down and sitting with both legs crossed, placing the tiny tool box on top of the glass floor and then opened the lid, pulling a tiny pair of clippers, leaning over into her body. She presented her left hand with the set of vine rings. He started cutting off each tiny vine ring on her finger in silence.

"What is my purpose or the purpose here in the Land of Tross? I'm still confused about my empress role."

He carefully clipped off each vine ring from her hand. "You are the empress of the kingdom, because your biological parents came here first and set up the kingdom as the first empress and emperor. Or, something like that! So, since you're the empress, which is the highest royal title of the land, you must lead and attend all the fight battles, as ordered by your father, aka, the Dragon Head hologram. Or, something like that! Then, your dead twin sister would travel with the selected team of court royals to the new nation and fight with a select new nation team of talented warriors..."

"What?"

He laughed. "Or something like that. Don't worry! You lead the court team of talented scepter wanders. Each court princess and prince has tons of bloody fight experience..."

"What?"

He looked down with a smile and started to clip off each ring toe. "Girlfriend, the court team has been scepter fighting to acquire new people and new property for Dragon Head going on years and years and years now. The other court princesses and princes are very, very good warriors, to boot. Actually, I think all of this land acquisition started a long time ago. Yes, it was five years ago. When each court prince or princess turned thirteen years old, then each court royal was required to participate."

"Did my dead twin sister participate in the battle fight at the age of thirteen years old also?" I sipped and swallowed the cold beverage washing down the food bar.

"Yes, I was scared to death. I am her protection..."

"The scepter weapon is her protection," I laughed and then sipped and swallowed the beverage.

He smiled and clipped off the ring toe from the fourth toe. "Yes, I am her companion..."

"The cat is her companion," I smiled down at his tan colored turban.

"I'm bigger and better than _that_ dead cat, now," he laughed and clipped off the green tinted vine ring on her pinky toe.

I gasped in pain. "Ouch! Watch the clippers on the tender flesh, Tofool!"

"Tofur! I am repeated and repeated over and over and over again and again as Tofur."

I smiled, "All right, Tofur! Why does my father need more land property? The kingdom looks big enough, to me, right now." I sipped and swallowed the cool beverage.

"Nothing is big enough for a fool!" He reached up and clipped off the green tinted vine ankle bracelet from her leg with a laugh. "Royal attitude or royal arrogance or royal assets, pick a royal noun?"

I laughed with a smile, "All right! I'm a slow learner in becoming Empress Thea. Is the kingdom at war with another nation to accept this battle fight?"

"No."

"Is the kingdom mad at another nation to accept this battle fight?"

"No."

"Is the kingdom...?"

He finished clipping off each toe ring and started on the ankle bracelet with a sour frown. "My answer and your answer and their answer and the kingdom answer is no.

I exhaled with a puff of annoyance at Tofur. "Usually, if a mighty kingdom wants to conquer or control a weaker nation, they sent in the military to perform that task without..."

"Not here, girlfriend! But that's a valid point. You are the military here. The Land of Tross does not have an army of paid soldiers. So, Dragon Head sends into the court teens, which are all trained since birth to wand a scepter. Hence, a glittery scepter has been a show case piece for a princess or a prince for eons, since the birth of a tiny royal newborn."

"All right! I understand that simple concept." I exhaled with worry. "Inside this battle fight, is anyone harmed or hurt or injured during the actual fight?" I sipped and swallowed the cool beverage.

He looked up with a puzzled brow to see Thea. "Do you know the meaning of the word, fight?"

I nodded with a smile. "Yes."

He grinned. "Good! They all die."

I gasped. "What?"

"All the team mates from the other nations that Empress Thea and her royal company have fought, so far, have all died during each battle fight. That's the rule of the battle fight. Only one team wins without death and only one team dies in death. The end!" He laughed. "Okay. I'm done removing off each one of those nasty vines. Next time, tell Nasty Chump to tie the plant vines around his own fingers, his toes, and his single brain cell, instead of your pretty feet and hands. That stuff is nasty and sticky and gummy and sticking to my finger pads," he dropped the clippers onto the glass floor and started yanking off the green plant vines from both naked fingers with a sour frown and a soft string of ugly words.

I smiled down at my naked feet and then wiggled the freed toes. "The vines were soft and sweet. "I like..."

"Don't tell me!" He looked up with a gasp and a worried brow. "Don't tell me! No! Do not tell me! That's none of my business. It's only your affair or your business or your thing," Tofur dropped the clippers down to the floor and then covered the turban with both green tined vine-covered hands, shaking his head, staring at Thea. "La, la, la, la, la, la. Do not tell me!"

"All right! All right! I will never tell you my thoughts or my secrets or my feelings, again." I stared with a puzzled brow at the odd behavior of Tofur and finishing sipping and swallowed the last drop of the cool beverage with a loud burp. I placed the empty metal bottle down onto the glass floor with care.

He looked down with a smile and continued to jerk off each dried plant vine from a naked finger with a sour frown.

I exhaled with worry and stared down at his tan colored turban. "Has any of the court royals ever become injured or died in the battle fight?"

"No."

"No!"

"No."

I gasped. "No! Don't you find that strange that none of our court royals don't die or aren't dead or isn't gone from the planet?"

"No. I find the plant vine sticky and goofy and have spread all over my nice manicure."

"Does each and every team mate from the new nation become injured or hurt also?"

He stood upright from the floor and continued to jerk off the dried plant vines from all finger pads. "No. They all just lie down and die. I just told you that a few minutes ago. This is the purpose of the battle fight. That's part of the battle fight rule. One team dies, one team lives. O la la and then lottie dah, dah!"

I slowly stood upright from the edge of the neat bedcover with a gasp at his turban as his head continued to stare down at his pair of dirty hands. "I find all of this very odd. Our court team of princesses and princes lives and the other nation team of 'some other bodies' dies."

"The end, always," he back stepped with a chuckle from Thea and stopped a few feet staring down with a sour frown at his dirty hands with the dried plant vines. "No, I don't. You're new here inside the Land of Tross. You will learn and grow, like someone. Now, it's time for you to go and change into her official court princess uniform!"

I exhaled with a puff of fear, worry, and nervousness. "I don't know..."

He looked up with a stern face to see Thea and shook his turban. "You do know. I do know. They don't know. Thea, if you do not lead the court team into the battle fight, then they will all know also."

I hissed. "I could die."

He laughed. "You will not."

I gasped, "How come?"

He winked with a smile and struggled with the plant vines on both hands. "I wanna live too."

I frowned. "I don't understand."

He exhaled with a nod and a stern face. "If they find out about you and your deep dark selfish secret, then they find out about me and my deep dark selfless secret too. And you told me that you would promise to live and then find out all the secrets about your dead twin sister. You can't do both or neither, if you're dead."

I exhaled with a puff of worry and concern and anxious but the life of Tofur was now my responsibility, whether I wanted it or not. I turned with a stern face and scanned the glass wall. "Where's the wardrobe closet?"

He looked down with a sour frown and jerked on the dried plant vines over the fingers. "You saw the live cat enter into the hidden door of the bathroom on the side glass wall. On the opposite side wall, near the edge of the art work with tiny two-year-old dead twin sister Thea and her little red colored wagon, there is another hidden door that leads into her wardrobe closet. Go to the glass wall and touch it with your matching sweaty finger pads. The heat of your body, like her body, will open the door."

I exhaled with a puff of worry and terrible responsibility, spinning around with a stern face to see the side glass wall and the gigantic art work of color, advancing quickly and stopped. I lifted up both palms and scanned the smooth glass with all the finger pads. The hidden door slowly cracked open with a slight hiss revealing the wardrobe closet.

I slowly moved inside with a stern face and a gasp of puzzlement. "This palace place is really weird." The wardrobe door slid shut in silence.

The room was designed in a square shape with three solid walls of black tinted glass. One of the side walls had been constructed of clear glass only, where the low sunset rays were burning through the clear glass and then brightened up the dark wardrobe room. The ceiling was composed of black tinted glass without a set of artificial lamps for visual light.

I stopped with a gasp and stood a few feet from the open archway, slowly twirling in a circle on top of the black tinted glass with a puzzled brow.

The three black tinted glass windows contained nothing but glass. There wasn't a standing set of built-in closet furniture or drawers holding numerous pieces of clothing items.

The clear glass window on the side wall of the wardrobe room held solid slab of glass only and bright rays of sunshine.

"This is an odd princess fairy tale life," I continued to twirl around a circle while inspecting the wardrobe room for a second time and then halted in front of a black tinted metal rack with a gasp. The lonely free-standing metal rack contained a line of personal clothes. Each outfit had been neatly arranged on an individual hanger containing a sleeveless lavender tinted blouse with a high collar, a matching circular short skirt, a pair of undergarment in matching lavender, and finally a pair of matching thigh-high boots.

I didn't have the time to properly bath but the tub of splashing fresh water inside the Coil meeting had done a good job of washing off some of the sweat and stench from my dirty body. I still smelled bad within my nose holes, but I had a new royal mission, a battle fight.

I quickly stripped off the ruined and ratty one-piece jumpsuit down into nudity dropping the dirty garment onto the floor. I reached out and grabbed one hanger that contained a complete outfit, quickly dressing with a puzzled brow. The wardrobe room didn't contain any additional pieces of other colorful garments for a male or a female but show a row of six individual lavender outfits on a single clothing rack.

I could not locate a single glittery dancing gown or a pair of high heeled matching dancing sandals or a warm bathrobe or a pair of sleeping pajamas, which I had thought to be so odd, but here I was pretending to be an empress, which was even odder.

I dressed in the matching lavender tinted sleeveless top and the circular skirt, dropping down on top of the glass floor, very carefully. The floor was cold and smooth, placing a thigh-high boot over each clean sock, slowly standing upright from the floor, pressing down the skirt. The fabric was thick and course for an upcoming battle fight but any sharp tip on a blade could penetrate the pretty outfit and still kill my pumping heart dead.

I slowly spun around in a completed circle with a worried brow and then halted facing the entrance wall inside the wardrobe room. "Where is the reflection mirror to see my outfit?" I scanned the room with three solid black walls and a clear window view of the other side of the building that showed blue grass, green dirt, and golden trees, pink sky, and mint green clouds. "Why are the clouds green? Usually, the grass is green. The clouds are white. I don't know or understand or comprehend this place or this palace or this person."

I moved ahead toward the closed door in the wardrobe room and stopped with a sigh, reaching out, pressing the finger pads onto the smooth glass. The glass door slid open in silence revealing the bed chamber suite.

I strolled ahead through the open archway with a worried brow and stopped a few feet from the wardrobe room. The wardrobe glass door slid shut in silence.

I reached down with a worried brow and grabbed the lavender tinted scepter with the hidden blade that I would need in the battle fight, this evening. I clipped the outline of a figure eight symbol onto a tiny loop hole at the waistline of the skirt while allowing the scepter to bang against my pelvis bone with slight pain but tolerable.

Tofur had finished removing all the green goo from both hands and advanced ahead with a chuckle, reaching out, grabbing her arm with a smile. He spun around with a smile and with Thea swiftly dashing back down the long hallway toward the glass wall, "Time to go! We don't want to keep everyone waiting. Empress Thea is always on time."

"Have you ever been inside the wardrobe closet? There isn't a mirror." I rushed down the hallway staring with a stern face at the side wall of art pieces.

"No. Look! You need to jump around, spin around, and twirl around in that new outfit. Empress Thea was used to wearing the clothing, when she fought in the battle arena. You are not. A pair of thigh-high boots will feel totally different on your thighs walking over a floor than a regular pair of shoes."

"The wardrobe closet is empty of clothing that's why I asked. I'm used to wearing a pair of boots."

"But you didn't usually wear a circular skirt for fighting. You need to shake your groove while you rush ahead to the airship. The airship is parked outside on the parking lot."

"There are not any clothes inside the wardrobe closet behind that hidden door?" I continued to rush down the hallway hearing his words, staring at the wall art.

He exhaled. "Do it! And there's a rack of clothes inside the wardrobe closet. You're wearing clothes that came out of the wardrobe closet, girlfriend. Are you feeling okay?"

I continued to rush beside Tofur and stared at each wall art. "Do what? I know that these clothes came out of the wardrobe closet, but there isn't a reflection mirror. I mean to clarify that there are not any other types of clothes in a different color or a different style. Why is that, Tofur?"

He frowned. "You gotta ask your dead twin sister. I don't know. Maybe, she loved this color and this style. Now, swirl around in your new outfit of lavender, right now!"

"Okay. All right!" I stepped ahead with a grin and lifted up a leg, turning in a complete circle with a giggle. The scepter flew away for the waistline inside the attached loop in an elegant airborne flight too. I advanced beside Tofur, shaking my groove.

"Good job, girlfriend! Keep dancing ahead and moving toward the glass!"

I continued to dance toward the glass wall kicking one leg up in the air with a giggle, stepped ahead, and then kicked the other leg up in the air with a smile. I twirled around in a circle and advanced ahead beside Tofur while maintaining the fast pace.

Tofur stopped with a smile and stood in front of the glass wall, reaching out, touching the glass with a chuckle at her cute dance performance.

I stopped and stood in place without heavy breathes, dancing side to side with a happy hum of silliness, shaking my groove using my hips and my arms. Then I wrapped my arms around my chest and twirled in a completed circle again with a smile. Tofur was correct. The feel of each thigh-boot was both heavy and harder on each leg with the extra material.

The glass door slid open and revealed an empty glass carriage.

6:45 pm

Glass elevator carriage setting

Hot temperatures with dull sunlight and pink skyline and mint green clouds

I wondered about the location of the other court teen royals, who did not stand and occupy the only glass carriage inside the tall building which was named Center for some weird reason, but I had left last strolling out from the Coil meeting. The other court teen royals had returned back to their individual bedroom chambers for the supper meal and a good seat inside the theater house for the upcoming battle fight.

On top of the black tinted floor, in front of the open elevator doors, I danced side to side and entered inside the carriage, tossing my arms in the air and stopped, swirling in a circle in place with a giggle, watching the blur of mint green clouds, peeks of pink tinted skyline, and a pieces of blue tinted grass, golden tinted trees.

I was starting to feel a little better about the upcoming fight but still scared and worried. I had confidence in my fighting abilities and greatly desired to find out about my dead twin sister and my missed princess life. Actually, I felt a little angry that I had been abandoned at birth as a newborn infant by my parents, where I had been raised as a common house maid with a pair of dishpan hands, while my dead twin sister had been treated as a royal princess with a servant. But my twin sister was dead and unable to tattle all her secrets into my eardrum. So, I was determined to find out about my lost life and see my biological parents for the first time over the deathly threat of a battle fight.

Tonight, I would see my biological parents there at the Land of Shamguard or see my dead twin sister there in the Promised Land.

The glass carriage swiftly descended down to the ground floor and then slowly halted in place. The door slid open and revealed the clear and clean glass floor.

Tofur moved ahead over the floor with a smile in silence.

I completed the final twirl and then halted with a slight dizzy headache and a goofy smile, exhaling with a puff of sour breath, blinking out the visual star patterns from both eyeballs. I slowly danced ahead out from the carriage and kicked each leg high into the air with a giggle.

Tofur continued to move beside Thea in silence.

7:07 pm

Ground floor level

Entrance hallway of clear glass

Hot temperatures with dull sunshine and pink skyline and mint green clouds

I stepped ahead onto the floor and then lifted the leg up into the air, bending at the kneecap, twirling over the smooth glass floor with ease. I didn't know that I could carry such upright balance. I continued to complete a circle and then kick a leg high into the air with a giggle advancing down the hallway.

Tofur provided a piece of smart advice.

I felt more comfortable in the strange lavender tinted outfit and the pair of beautiful thigh-high boots, completing the next dancing circle down the hallway and then slammed the boot toe into the naked chest of Nastchill.

Tofur stopped the walk with a tongue of roaring laughter at Nastchill.

I stood in place. Nastchill stood in place also and reached out, capturing, holding her leg. I gasped in alarm. "O!"

Nastchill was an extremely tall and muscular at seventeen years old with a pair of blue eyes, a tone of dark tinted skin, a bald skull, and a red tinted goatee. He was dressed in a brown tinted sleeveless vest without a shirt and with a set of ripped biceps and triceps, a pair of matching tight trousers that were tucked down into a pair of unpolished and scruffy brown tinted knee boots. A red tinted scepter hung on the fitted waistline. He grunted for drama with a wicked grin, releasing her leg, "That's a new move! I really don't like it," he lifted up a palm but continued to wink and flirt with Thea. "Leave me, young people, please!"

In the middle of the empty hallway, a tight huddle of young males and females stood a few feet behind the back spine of Nastchill while blocked the footpath of a person.

Behind the huddle of young persons, there was a solid line of upright stationary females, who were all dressed in the same uniform consisting of an orange tinted short-sleeved shirt, a pair of orange tinted pants tucked down into a pair of orange tinted knee boots. A golden tinted scepter had been clipped onto the fitted waistline of each female. Each female exhibited a varied set of different skin tones, heights, weights, hair styles, and colored eyeballs.

The huddle of both males and females softly moaned out loud and then slowly turned around, moving away from Nastchill, except for one young unnamed brown haired and blue eyed female.

Nastchill leaned down and smiled into the nose bridge of Thea, gently kissing her lips for a few second while rubbing a pair of rough hands over her back spine.

I softly growled in passion as his big rough hands caressed up and down my entire body while creating a set of lusty emotions within my mind and my heart. I tasted his citrus tongue that banged against my closed lips with pleasure as I giggled with my teenly revenge of defiance without opening my mouth.

He pulled backward with a wink and a smile. "I love you and wish you the greatest luck, Thea! I'll be watching on the glass screen..."

"How is that possible?" I gasped in alarm at his statement. I didn't possess enough knowledge about each court teen or the building layout. "Where will you be watching me?"

An unnamed brown-haired and blue-eyed female continued to stand in a long orange colored tea length gown and then knelt down onto the floor with a smirk, extending both arms, holding an open box in both palms that contained an ankle bracelet with a red ruby stone at the back spine of Nastchill. "Prince Nastchill, I...I wanna marry you, now, today?"

Nastchill sneered while staring at Thea, without seeing the young unnamed female. "No! I don't wanna marry you. Get away from me, right now, permanently!"

The unnamed brown-haired and blue-eyed female exhaled with a huff of disappointment and reached down into the pocket of her sleeveless blouse, pulling out a tiny white colored flower. She placed the tiny flower into both of her nose holes and then deeply sniffed with a soft groan, dropping the flower down onto the glass floor. She wobbled side to side on both of her kneecaps and then tumbled sideways with a pair of closed eyelashes, landing on top of the floor in a silence death.

I slapped a hand over my open mouth with a loud gasp of horror, staring down at the dead female on top of the glass floor.

"Dispose of that thing, immediately!" Nastchill did not bother to see the dead female and flipped a hand into the air with a sneer while signaling the row of stationary and quiet female-servants.

The row of females advanced ahead with a stern face in silence and stopped, squatting down, lifting up the dead body from the floor into the air between a set of biceps and loud grunts. They slowly twisted around and then moved ahead toward the open archway.

Tofur rolled the eyeballs and reached out, grabbing her arm with a smile. "See ya never, Nasty Chump. Time to go, Thea!" He moved ahead and scooted around the court prince with a soft chuckle while dragging Thea toward the entrance archway.

They swiftly moved ahead in silence and then slowed the pace, staring at the next crowd of people.

Ahead in the middle of the hallway between two walls of solid glass, a tight huddle of young females stood and stared at Thea, wearing a variety of different types of clothing. Some females were dressed in a colorful ankle-length gown. Some of the females displayed a colorful short skirt, a matching sleeveless vest with a pair of matching knee boots. And some of the females exhibited a colorful jumpsuit with a different colored belt around the waistline.

Behind the tight huddle of young females, a single row of young males was dressed in the same outfit consisting of a short-sleeved green tinted shirt, a pair of green tinted trousers, and a pair of matching green tinted knee boots. Each male carried a silver tinted scepter that had been clipped onto the waistline but wore a variety of different skin tones, hair styles, and eye color.

In front of the tight huddle of young females, Erato stood in place and smiled at Thea. He wore a sculptured upper torso underneath a white long-sleeved shirt, a pair of tight black tinted trousers that were tucked down into a pair of polished black tinted knee boots. A shiny green tinted scepter had been clipped onto his fitted waistline. He possessed a head of shoulder length wavy black tinted hair, a jaw line of dusted black tinted whiskers, a pair of green tinted eyes, and a tone of pale tinted skin looking very fine. He lifted a palm near his smile, staring at Thea, saying to the huddle of girls. "Young females, please, leave me now!"

The huddle of females sounded with a soft moan of disappointment and then each one slowly swung around, departing away from the back spine of Erato moving ahead toward the open archway in a loose row of bodies, except for a young blonde-haired and green-eyed pale-skinned female in a green tinted jumpsuit.

Tofur released Thea with a snigger and stopped in place, sliding to the side glass wall out of the lip movement while watching the teenly action between the court couple, of course.

Erato swiftly advanced ahead with a smile and then stopped, leaning down, hugging the body of Thea and pulled back with a wink. Then he leaned down again and kissed her lips.

His lips were soft. His body smelled of sweet vanilla. I closed my eyelashes and parted my lips, tasting his essence of honey inside my mouth with a soft growl of pleasure.

This was not the first time that I had kissed a male of my age. I liked the sweet kisses and the newly sensations of heat, passion, pleasure and lust.

Erato continued to stand and pulled Thea tighter into his body enveloping his lips around her mouth while smelling the stench of her bad body odor, without fleeing or flinching in disgust.

His set of rough facial whiskers was course around my jaw line while scratching into my cheekbone cut. I gasped in pain for a second and then felt pleasure again. His pair of hands was slender and soft on top of my naked arms. I rotated my chapped lips around his soft tongue with a slight giggle of warmth and fun smelling his body of sweet vanilla scent into each nose hole.

He leaned down deeply into her lips and played tongue tag with her, sounding with a set of moans. Then he jerked back with a smile and a chuckle, seeing her dirty face. "Awe! I don't love your smelly stench. I thought I asked you to take a bath, like always," chuckling.

I..." didn't know what to say.

He smiled. "I love you, Thea! Great luck and a greater swiftly set of whacks with your scepter blade in the battle fight!"

I coughed out loud with a mouth spat coming back into reality, hearing those dangerous words. "I..." didn't know what to say.

The young blonde-haired and green-eyed pale-skinned female in a green tinted jumpsuit continued to stand with a smile posing slightly diagonally behind the back spine of Erato, watching him with her eyeballs. She knelt down on one kneecaps and bowed a chin to see the floor, lifting up both arms even with the floor, presenting an open black tinted box. The open box held a golden tinted ring with a green stone. "Lord Erato, I ask for your available hand in marriage. I give you this beautiful emerald stone ring to show my eternal love."

Erato smiled at Thea while talking to the young unnamed female behind his back spine. "No! I will not accept your hand in marriage. Go away, permanently!"

She softly gasped in alarm and dropped the box with the ring down on top of the smooth floor with a sad face and a heavy heart. The bottom of floor exhibited the green tinted dirt through the clear glass. She reached down into the hidden pocket of the jumpsuit and pulled out a tiny bottle of liquid, lifting the bottle near her lips and opened the mouth. She drunk the liquid down her throat and closed the lips while feeling the cool peppermint flavor on her tongue. Then her body shook side to side and then tilted sideways, dropping down with a pair of closed eyelashes, landing on top of the glass floor in a silence death.

I looked down with a gasp at the dead girl and then returned back with a sad face to see Erato while eye witnessing the single suicidal horrible event four times within two days.

He lifted up and wiggled the hand near the smile, staring at Thea, talking to the row of quiet man-servants. "Remove that thing now!"

The row of stationary man-servants swiftly advanced ahead in a semi-crooked line and then stopped, squatting down about the same time, gathering up each limb of the dead girl and lifted the dead body into the air with a set of heavy grunts. They slowly spun around from the back spine of Erato and toted the dead body, moving ahead down toward the open archway of the building, exiting the building.

Tofur advanced ahead and stopped, leaning over, grabbed her arm with a smile. "Ditto, Erat! Time to get going right now! Before you miss all the messy bloodshed at the battle fight, Thea!" He scooted around Erato with a nod and swiftly moved ahead with a laugh while dragged quiet Thea toward the open archway.

They exited into the dull sunlight and moved ahead over the nicely paved red tinted sidewalk in silence.

7:20 pm

Center Building

Parking lot location

Airship cabin setting

Hot temperatures with dull sunlight and pink skyline with mint green clouds

Tofur swiftly dashed ahead with a grin while leaving Thea behind at the archway and then he stopped, standing in front of the pilot door. He reached down and touched the door that had been imprinted with his sweat and his finger pads for safety and security.

All of the doors slid open on the ground aircraft.

I slowly strolled ahead toward the grounded airship, where four doors were open. I stopped and ducked my skull, sliding down into the tiny hard metal bench inside the front cabin with a worried brow. I waved both of my hands and my feet in the air and around my body, looking down at the floor of the airship. The bot cleaning equipment did not good job cleaning up the dirty dust bunnies inside the ship.

Tofur leaned down into the pilot cabin with a sigh and stared into the front cabin with a confused brow, looking at the nose profile of Thea. "You ride..."

"Get inside and close the door!" I continued to stare with a sour frown down at the clean floor waving both arms around my hair roots, screaming at Tofur. "Get moving! Right now! I'm boss here. I'm the empress of whatever here! Get moving, Tofool!"

He slid down with a deep sigh and wiggled around the soft material in the pilot chair, reaching out, pressing the button. All the doors closed. "Are you...?" Both of his arms reached out and pressed new set of buttons and levers. The parked airship slowly lifted up from the parking spot at Center.

I continued to stare and frown down at the metal floor while waving both of my arms, shifting both of my feet with extreme nervousness. "Yes, I wiggle my limbs when I'm nervous. Yes, I talk a lot when I'm worried. Yes, I get angry when I scared. Yes, I'm only a simply teen with deep thoughts and swift actions. I have thousands and millions of unanswered questions right now inside my mind besides this stupid battle match, which is scaring me to death," I looked up with worried brow to see the skyline with a series of deep breathes, turning to see his nose profile with a stern face. "Why did you kill _that_ cat?"

The airship slowly paced ahead through the empty air waves, without any other airship traffic near the Center building. He steered the ship in a northwestern direction toward the Land of Shamguard while laughing out loud. "I do know. And I don't think I have to tattle my mental thoughts to you, Thea. You act just like your sister."

"Did my own biological mother spy on her daughter and my twin sister?"

He steered the ship with a smile. "Your father spies on the both of us, because I'm assigned to you, since birth."

I gasped with concern. "Is your life in danger like mine?"

He shook the turban side to side with a grin. "Your life is not in danger. My life is not in danger. But your father likes to control everything, including his life, his daughter, his wife, his subjects, and his Land of Tross, and his other lands of the other names, which are too many for me to recall."

I exhaled with a nod still waving my arms in excitement. "I see clearly now. Empress Thea worried our father about something."

He grinned, "Hmm! That's an excellent observation coming from your dead twin sister whom I miss. Yes, Empress Thea might have worried Dragon Head about something."

I exhaled with annoyance "Why do my father and my mother both appear in a hologram with an outline of a fictitious dragon creature?"

He laughed. "What fun is that not?"

I laughed with a nod of nervousness, "All right! I missed that silly amusement. My father is employing his control thing."

He continued to pilot the ship with a stern face. "Do you wanna talk about the battle fight?"

I shook my curls and rubbed the smooth scepter with nervousness. "No, I do not, not right now. I have other major questions. What's the sexy attraction of Erato? Strike that!" I exhaled. "I understand the sexy attraction of Erato."

He continued to pilot the ship with a smile. "Do you like Erato?"

"I..."

He gasped with a worried brow. "Don't tell me! No! Do not tell me! That's none of my business. It's only your affair or your business or your thing," Tofur released the steering wheel and covered the turban with both hands, shaking his head, staring into the windshield. "La, la, la, la, la, la. Do not tell me!" The airship swiftly dropped down from the steady pacing speed with a loud swish.

I reached down and grabbed the edge of the metal bench in fear with a shout loud and a lady sneer. "I won't! Grab the wheel of the ship! The ship's falling down to the ground, Tofool. We're going to die. Control the ship, fool!"

He removed both hands from the turban with a grin and grabbed the steering wheel, pressing a button. The airship slowly lifted higher into the air and then resumed a steady pacing speed to the land of Shamguard. He steered the ship with a smile, "Yes, girlfriend!"

I exhaled with numerous puff of air molecules and angry before speaking. "Okay! I'm fine now. I think. Okay!" I inhaled numerous puffs of air molecules with a calmer mind and a set of raw nerve endings that was bruising my back spine. "Okay. Where were my mental thoughts going here, before the non-crash of the airship?"

"The ship wasn't even close to the ground. Give it rest, girlfriend!" He laughed.

I exhaled with a puff of annoyance. "Okay. That dead female must have loved Erato and wanted to marry him. Why did she kill her own body with a suicidal liquid, after his marriage rejection? I have never seen the lethal products, a suicidal liquid or a suicidal pill or a suicidal flower or a suicidal spray, but I have heard of all these objects."

He smiled. "Don't you wanna marry a handsome and cute hunky court prince?"

"I..."

He gasped in alarm. "Don't tell me. No! Do not tell me! That's none of my business. It's..."

"I won't." I sneered. "Don't get too excited. Steer the ship toward Shamguard. I wanna live at least for the next hour. Okay! Calm down, Tofur! You're acting like you're the one going into the battle fight..."

"Well, I am. I'm your protection and your companion and your servant and your..."

"All right! All right! Good enough!" I exhaled with a puff of annoyance

He steered the ship with a grin. "I have thousands and millions of questions to ask, you, too. Tell me about non-empress Thea!"

I nodded with a stern face and turned to face the windshield. "That's fair question. I'm a common house maid for a wealthy family in the Land of Scotta. As long as I can remember, I had worked there at that family house. As long as I can recall, I saw the same face of an old woman, who cared for me as a little baby and as a young walking toddler and then as a talking child. When I was able to walk and talk, I had received an easy work duty as a young house maid such like, sorta playing with the other children and the house pets, including the wealthy family kids and picking up all the toys off the floor, storing them into numerous toy binds. As I reached into elementary school age, I received a set of harder duties, such like, washing the dishes, making the beds, and cleaning up certain rooms in the house, until nighttime. As I reached into my pre-teens, I was given more difficult work jobs, such like, cleaning the yard and the horse stalls. As I reached teenage, I graduated up into feeding the horses and taking care of the children..."

"Can you read and write?"

"No."

"Hmm! You fake it good, Thea. You talk with an elegant manner like a princess."

"I watch. I listen. I learn. I speak all the same words and then imitate that person. So I'm a good actress."

"Good! A good actress is needed here, too."

I exhaled. "Tell me your life story, so far, Tofur!"

He continued to steer the ship with a smile. "I remembered, as far back as I could, the face of my mother, who looks like me. As I grew older and taller and stronger, I was presented a series of work jobs which required me leaving my mother during the daylight hours. But at nighttime during suppertime and the rest of the night, I returned back into her warm arms. During the daylight, I was paired with you..."

"Me!"

He grinned with a nod. "I was about five years old, when I was paired with your dead twin sister. We did a set of fun activities together, such like, riding the horses, playing in the meadows, and running around the Center while having fun like two little kids. Every day, I left my mother in the early mornings and stayed with you all day, eating our meals together, learning to read and write, having kiddie fun. Then, at nighttime, you and I were parted and I came back to see my mother, sleeping in my own warm bed mattress. Then it all repeated the next day..."

"Have you ever met my biological mother? Is she called the queen or the empress?"

"No."

I gasped. "No! Isn't that strange for you, Tofur?"

He steered the ship with a grin. "No. I'm a servant, which is kind and kin to a house maid. Did you eat the morning breakfast meal or the evening suppertime meal with the lady of the house as a house maid?"

I turned and frowned at his nose profile. "Well, of course not, Tofur!" I laughed with a smile, "O yeah! You and I are really equal, Tofur."

He continued to steer and smile into the windshield. "Yes, we are."

I turned with a stern face and stared out the windshield with a deep sigh. "Tell me about each court teen! I saw inside the Coil meeting room that some of the court teens sitting and paired together. Are they a couple like a romantic boyfriend and girlfriend or boyfriend and boyfriend or girlfriend and girlfriend?"

"Yes and yes and yes," he steered the ship with a chuckle. "Some of the paired royals have proclaimed romance and love with each other, especially beauty Queen Bakeria and her crazy court prince, Viscount Dimon. Do not stand or laugh or talk or burp between them for any reason!"

I gasped with frustration, "What about...uh? Geez! I can't remember any of their names or their titles. I'm puzzled and fascinated about the single violent story between the male and female teen cyborgs."

"Aren't we all?" He laughed. "But I captured the falling molecules of heated scoop, ripping it from the air, just for you, Thea. Tzar Aqualia and Tzaress Ittai, yes, it is a very funny story. After your father, purple tinted Dragon Head hologram conquered her nation, she came here as a court princess and lived a really normal face at the age of thirteen years old. Then, Dragon Head conquered his nation and then Aqualia came here to live in Tross too, where he looked like he does now with that silly metal arm that grew, when he grew taller and bigger and wider. That boy is the equivalent of a short mountain range. Then, fourteen-year-old Ittai fell in love with fourteen-year-old Aqualia, immediately. Then she created and wore her own metal arm on the opposite arm. Did you notice that?"

"Yeah."

"Ittai did that on purpose, so she can continue to arm wrestle with love on the metal arm of Aqualia, foreverly," he smiled. "It's imaginative and amusing and dangerous. Stay about from Tzar Aqualia, Thea! Ever since then, Aqualia and Ittai have been paired as fighting warriors, not wounded lovers," laughing.

"I have never heard the royal title of Tzaress."

He smiled. "Ittai made it up. All the teen rulers are allowed to make up their own teen ruler name but it cannot be the same ruler title."

I nodded with a stern face, "All right! Are there any other royal couples to avoid today, tomorrow, and the rest of my life, if I survive this battle fight today?"

He steered the ship with a laugh. "My personal advice, you only stick a hand or a kiss or a whatever on Erato or Nastchill."

I smiled with a nod. "All right, I can do. What about...?" I exhaled with a puff of worry. The landscape had changed from white clouds into blue sky. "Let's see! I covered the dead cat, cute Erato, hunky Nastchill, suicidal dead girls and guy, court couples, dead sister, unknown parents, new kingdom, live me..."

He frowned. "What are you asking? I don't understand."

I exhaled with a puff of worry. "I'm running through a mental list of questions that hovers between my numerous brain cells. My mind wants to know the answers, even if my heart doesn't."

He frowned. "Why were you in prison?"

"I...I am...was a house maid, but I also was responsible for the young children..."

"Geez! Did you slap a child?"

"No."

"Dang! Did you slap a teen?"

"No."

"O! So, you slapped the lady of the house with a good right hook..."

"No. I slapped one of the other maids for stealing my box of crackers. I hid them in my secret spot. She found and then ate them all. I was so mad and angry that I slapped her face. She tattled on me to the head house maid. Then I was jailed for my naughty deed. Now, that simple offense of face slapping is minor compared to this upcoming battle fight with a real scepter weapon."

He grinned. "So, that wasn't your first time inside a prison cell?"

"No."

"Well, you're a roughie and toughie female now for the upcoming battle fight. I have confidence in you and your hiding skills," he continued to steer the ship with a laugh.

I gasped. "What?"

He laughed with a nod. "Don't you still wanna kiss the nasty whiskers of Erato or the ugly goatee on Nastchill?"

I continued to sit and stare into the windshield exhaling with a puff of annoyance. I didn't want to address that posed sexy boyfriend question with immediate fear and fret that Tofur would freak out again and might lose control of the ship, this time.

He continued to steer with a smile. "Of course, you do. So, you need to stay hidden during the upcoming battle fight there in the Land of Shamguard."

I gasped in alarm. "Did my dead twin sister do that, hide out during a battle fight, also?"

8:22 pm

Land of Shamguard location

Blue skyline and white clouds with bright sunshine

A set of soft beeps indicated the correct geographical location of the Land of Shamguard. He tilted the airship downward coming out from the massive wet and white tinted cloud cover and then exposed the skyline of blue tint. The landscape was covered in an array of numerous green tinted streams of light that came upward from the ground.

He continued to steer the airship and harmfully flew through each individual green tinted stream of light with smile. "You are not your dead twin sister. She is dead. You are alive."

I turned with a gasp and stared down at the landscape, the green streams of light with confusion, "Geez! Did you take a wrong turn somewhere among the clouds, Tofur? What is this weird-looking place? Where are we located? What materials are we flying through? Why is the landscape covered in green air? Is it safe to land here? Am I going to die before I reach the battle arena?"

He continued to steer the airship through each wavering but stationary green tinted stream of light with smile. "Don't know."

I exhaled with a puff of frustration. "My last and final question of the day, I promise!"

He reduced the air speed, then halted in the air waves, and hovered the ship, floating behind the last airship while waiting to land down on top of a green tinted docking lot, where a series of airship were parked. "I really doubt it, since it's only late afternoon of bright sunlight and you're not inside your bed asleep."

I studied the landscape of Shamguard with a worried brow. "I see the Land of Shamguard below that stretches for miles and miles and miles through the viewing window. Each building is a smoothly rounded structure in dull colored green tint. The flat land is dull green tinted also. The breathable air is dull green tinted too. What does the nation produce or export into our kingdom?"

"Don't know!"

"What will the Shamguard teammates look like? What are their strengths or weaknesses?"

"Don't know!"

I exhaled with worry. "What would my dead twin sister do in this situation?"

"Don't know!"

I exhaled with worry, "Geez! I'm going into a new battle fight with my precious life while blind, deaf, and dumb."

He steered ahead during his turn and then halted, hovering over an empty parking spot on top of an elevated platform of green tint, landing the airship down on the platform with a soft thud. He reached over and pressed a series of button and levers, securing the ship from thievery and damage. He smiled, "No, not really! You're not dumb, a little clumsy with the scepter weapon, since you're a newbie."

I continued to survey the weird landscape with a hiss, "Tofool!"

He frowned, "Tofur! My name is repeated and repeated over and over and over again and again as Tofur."

On top of the small metal bench, I continued to scan the weird landscape with a stern face. "Okay! All right! I'm calming down my worry into my desperation. What other war or fight or life-saving advice can you give me, before the battle fight?"

He slammed the button with a smile. The four doors slid open in silence. "You and the court teens share all of the same information about the Land of Shamguard and the battle fight."

On the front passenger side of the parked airship, I swiftly slid off the hard metal bench and landed on top of the green tinted pavement with a loud scream. Each flat sole of my boot became instantly heated with a pain. I jumped back down onto the metal bench and lifted both boots into the air near my chest and as my eyeballs studied the pavement. "Why's the dirt green? What's happening here? My soles started burning like fire. The pavement is heated and dangerous for my delicate feet. How am I supposed to get inside the battle arena from the grounded airship?"

"O! You're that eager to die before nightfall," Tofur continued to sit inside the pilot seat and turned with a smile to survey the landscape. "Hmm! The entire flat and smooth dirt is really a solid sheet of pure metal. The wiggling numerous streams of green tinted waves, each one a reflection of metal dust coming up from the miles and miles of the unbroken landscape. The Shamguardians are a group of metal wanders. A metal product is hard and shiny and eats up the heat coming from all of those heated and hot bright sunrays."

I continued to sit on top of the hard bench and stared through the waves of green mist while seeing a very large building in the distance. "How am I supposed to get into the battle arena? I must not miss the battle fight. What will my parents think of me?"

In the distance, coming out from a wide entrance point on an extremely wide and tall rounded green tinted structure, an individual copper tinted metal flying scooter carried a tiny robot. The black tinted robot pilot consisted of a very large round shaped and squat body with an elongated wrinkled hose as a head with a vertical array of four almond-shaped individual electronic retinas that glowed in bright blue color that was positioned individually down the throat of the wrinkled copper tinted hose. A pair of red tinted lips has been built into the top of the rounded body.

Tofur spun around inside the pilot seat and survey the landscape with a giggle and a grin. "O goody-goody! How fascinating here! The Land of Shamguard builds and exports individual robots. This is why the dirt is really metal and not real earth soil. Each nasty and poisonous chemical of metal leaks out from every robot manufacture factory and then kills the grass, the trees, the flowers, the plants, and the wildlife, but not the people. The people live and thrive inside each one of those green tinted rounded building structures. This is so exciting for me. I love coming to each one of the battle fights."

"Tofool!" I continued to sit and stared with a growl in frustration, annoyance and worry without laughing or gawking at the weird-looking robot machine.

The copper tinted flying scooter reduced speed and then stopped, floating above the green metal ground and hovered at the open door next to Thea.

Tofur leaned over with a laugh and shoved the back spine of Thea. "This is elegant our joy ride into the battle arena for the battle fight. Jump onto the rear platform from your seat and stood behind the yellow tinted rail that blocks Metal Head from attacking your face," he laughed. "The pilot robot will steer around our parked airship and then stop, picking me up too. I'll stand behind your back spine, Thea. Go, Thea! We're running outta of time."

I took a deep breath of courage and held my sour air molecules, leaping up into the air from the bench sit and then landed on my kneecaps on top of the smooth metal, sliding a few inches with a low grunt of human pain. Well, I needed to get used to the human pain as I was about to fight for my precious life. I slowly stood upright with a soft snarl and reached out, grabbing onto a solid yellow tinted horizontal metal rail with both cupped palms, parting the feet securely.

The robot sensed that the first passenger was secure and slowly steered ahead, scooting around the front bumper of the airship and then stopped, floating beside the open door.

Tofur leaped up in the air form the pilot seat with a giggle and a loud scream of excitement. "Yeah!" he landed on top of the smooth floor and flew a few more inches ahead over the flat metal reaching out, grabbing one of Thea's legs and then halted. He slowly stood upright and cuddled into her back spine with a soft giggle of more excitement. "This is great. This is fun. This is wonderful. This is..."

The scooter jolted forward with high speed toward the tall green tinted rounded building, where the rooftop almost touched the white clouds between the high streams of green vapors coming up from the steaming green metal pavement that served as the flat ground. Each passenger jerked backwards with a loud yell and then halted in place without failing down on top of the metal deck of the scooter.

Tofur shoved Thea ahead toward the metal railing with a laugh of fun amusement.

I sneered at the back of the squat robot of black hue. "Will I be fighting against a robot in the battle fight?"

He leaned down and softly whispered into her eardrum with a smile. "No. That's unfair and dishonest. You're a body of water and fat. A robot is a body of hard metal. You can't win against a ton of heated metal and a swifter machine. This new nation wants to become a part of the kingdom, not a piece of the kingdom."

I gasped with concern and turned with a worried brow while surveying the weird landscape. As far as my eyeballs could see, it was solid green tint. The flat ground, the row of low bushes, the grove of tall shade trees with tree branches of individual leaves, the row of flowers, all the objects were fossilized and stuff and hard solid dull green metal. The leaking deadly chemicals had spilled out form each factory pipe and flowed over the ground, and finally flooded the entire landmass plus all the ground vegetation, and every single man-made building structure, also.

In the far distance, there were a few pockets of small and medium-sized buildings with a set of rounded edges that formed a smooth rooftop. I did not see any more flying scooters in the air waves. So, Tofur and I were late for the main event of death and the last team to arrive inside the battle arena.

I exhaled with a whisper of worry that invaded the eardrums of Tofur. "Okay. If I don't fight against a robot of metal and hardness, the robot maker of flesh and bone will possess a set of great big muscles from lifting and hauling around planks of metal which is used to create the robots."

"No." He softly chuckled into her eardrum. "A robot maker of flesh and bone possesses a bag of soft muscles and lots of fat. The robot lifts and hauls each pallid of heavy metal and also operates the robot machines that create the new set of robots. A robot maker of flesh and bone is very smart while keeping all the robot machines and all the working robots running inside each manufacturing robot factory operational and successful with output. A robot maker will be an easy kill. Don't worry! You can do this, Thea."

I exhaled with a whispered sign of worry for my eardrums only. "I don't wanna do this."

8:45 pm

Entrance archway battle arena location

Hallway setting

In the air, the flying scooter reduced the speed and flew in a steady height through a rounded archway between the vapors of raising green tinted metal dust streams, entering into a new crowded hallway.

The new hallway measured in height over one hundred feet while curving into a rounded ceiling with a wide of equal distance of one hundred feet across also. The corridor was colored in dull green tinted metal also and held four stacked semi-crooked lines that reached upward and then halted a few feet from the curved ceiling. There were four stacked lanes on each side of the long wall. Inside each lane, an individual flying scooter sailed in an opposite direction. Each flying scooter held one standing individual or a couple of standing individuals or a group of sitting individuals inside a row of metal benches in the rear of the soaring machine.

Each individual exhibited a variety of skin tones from white pale to dark hue, an individual hair style from long hair strands to a cropped skull and all possessed a plump body of fat and soft muscles.

My assigned scooter traveled inside the bottom or first flying lane which was closer to the floor base and as I continued to stand on top of the scooter deck and peeked around the squat body of the pilot robot, giggling at the common feature on each visual Shamguard native like my servant Tofur had predicted. I whispered with a smile. "Yes, a robot maker is made of soft muscles and fat."

Tofur continued to cuddle the back spine of Thea while leaning over to each side, studying each Shamguardian, also. "Hmm! The battle fighters from Shamguard will be easy to defeat and then kill making our court team win the battle match, again, tonight. I don't see any type of scepter weapon on any of the passing smiling natives. So, only the battle fighters will possess and use a scepter blade. This is all good for me and you to know and abuse."

I continued to scan each native and gasped in shock. "Tofur, is there a deep secret about a metal that I need to know here?" I found it intriguing that not one of the Shamguard natives would stop and introduce their person to Tofur or me. It was obvious that we were the strangers here. However, the two separate rows of individual flying scooters with a group of passengers continued to soar above the metal floor of green tint and in the air. The floor also emitted a stream of green tinted vapor waves but the heavy traffic of flying scooters swept the green mist backwards toward each side wall or trapped the green mist down below the speeding flat deck on each scooter. The bottom floor appeared like a wiggling carpet of dull green hue from the green mist.

On top of the scooter deck, Tofur leaned over with a whisper and a smile into her cheekbone while examining each passing native. "Yes, you are a lucky girl that I'm a learneth man. A metal loses its solid form over time. For example, the metal of iron will turn into red tint which is rust. A metal product of potassium burns in seconds.

I exhaled with confusion and continued to scan each passing native with a stern face. "How does this new information help me here, Tofur?"

He smiled. "Your personal empress scepter blade is made from the hardest mineral in the world. Their scepter blade is made from the common metal that each robot wears. Your blade will heat when soaring in the air from the specific metal grade, and then will sizzle any other scepter blade into a pile of heated ashes with ease. Then, you'll win the battle fight. Yeah!"

"Yeah!" I whispered for my eardrums only.

The scooter reduced speed, then slowed, and finally halted inside the bottom traveling lane of four. Each scooter had to stop and then maneuver around the halted scooter without a vicious shout out to the pilot robot or Thea or Tofur. The scooter eased around the scooter with Thea and Tofur and then continued to merrily sail down the busy travel pathway in silence.

The assigned scooter waited for an empty spot within the opposite traffic lane and then quickly turned to face the side wall, halting with a jolt, before hitting the green tinted metal wall that wiggled with an array of dull green colored mist vapors. Tofur fell forward into the back spine of Thea with a scream and then Thea fell across the metal railing with a low grunt. Both of them bounced side to side coming from the rough stop with a loud set of grunts.

8:55 pm

Side wall setting

Tofur slowly stood upright and then reached down with a smile, grabbing onto the waistline of Thea, assisting her to stand upright from the railing and on top of the deck floor.

I continued to hold onto the railing for the next surprising stomach punch jolt with a set of heavy breathes, turning with a painful twist on my neck muscles and a puzzled brow, surveying each scooter and every native inside the travel lane and on the same side wall.

The opposite side wall inside the travel hallway displayed a smooth solid wall of green tint, where the waves of green vapors wiggled in creepy mode up and down the wall.

Some of the flying scooters abruptly halted inside the traveling lane and then swiftly turned to face the same side wall, jolting into a quick stop while jerking each individual side to side in shock also. The other flying scooters continued down a travel lane, without an individual or with a group of people.

My neck started aching in pain, so I spun around to face Tofur and continued to stare at each native and every scooter with a puzzled brow. "This place is so weird. No native seems to notice us. We definitely stand out in the crowd of plump Shamguard natives. I don't get it. Why isn't anyone stopping and talking with us? Isn't there a greeting committee for the group of battle fighters? Are my parents here? Do I every get to see my parents? What do they really look like? Do I look like my father or my mother or a combination of both? Do you know that answer, Tofur?"

Tofur turned with a smile and studied each scooter and every native also. "This is a battle fight. I would guess the group of passionate native Shamguardians are located on top of a slick and sleek green tinted metal bleacher eating a variety of food items and drinking up tons of cool brew inside the battle arena. Yes, your set of parents are intermingled somewhere within the shiny metal colored bleaches with the group of other 'taters' like a pot of cooking vegetables without wearing the silly twin Dragon Heads."

I smiled. "Ah! They wanna get a good seat at my upcoming death kill."

He laughed, "Nonsense! They're having a good time and drinking a cold mug of mashed potatoes."

"Ah! I understand the reference to 'taters,' as their new set of nicknames."

He grinned, "Yeah! You can't drink while wearing a hologram mask. You might get fried and electrified and then turn red-faced," laughing.

"You're very witty."

"...and cute and clever, to boot! The battle fight is timed, unless the ruler of Shamguard decides to end it sooner. The battle fight will end once one team of teenly life forms is dead, not breathing while turning into a pretty blue tint of death."

I growled. "Yeah, I know that. But I like your description of death. You can write that on tomb stone. On the average time limit, how long is a battle fight?"

"Usually about an hour, some of the opponents are really hard to kill."

I exhaled. "Yeah, I didn't know that."

He turned and smiled into the nose bridge of Thea. "How are you feeling, Thea?"

I looked down with a stern face and as both of my naked hands slapped down and then roamed over my upright body, feeling the thick, course fabric on my new outfit in pretty lavender hue while fidgeting both of my legs back and forth with a cracked voice down at the scooter deck floor. "I'm nervous, worried, angry, mad, concerned, unhappy..."

He grinned with a nod. "Well, you look pretty and cool for a newbie princess fighter. However, you're not cute like my chick Cilicee, elegant like my darling Fera, glamorous like my babe Glitza, and not sexy like my girl Muppin."

I looked up and giggled into his face. "Did you have the hots for Muppin? I didn't think..."

"Wrong!" He smiled. "I can look and I can think, but I cannot produce. I am your servant without my accoutrements."

I looked over his semi-naked dark skin slender body without a shirt and his pair of loose fitting trousers that didn't cover his shins or his ankle bones with a puzzled brow. "I don't see a scepter weapon," I looked back with a puzzled brow to see his grin. "Are you allowed to carry a scepter weapon? I thought only a fighter carried a scepter weapon like Erato, Nastchill, and me."

He leaned over with a grin and a weapon into her smile. "My other accoutrement that is usually attached and had once protruded out from my body. The body part is gone. So, I have lots of extra space to carry around numerous hard objects, which makes me happy all the time," laughing.

I back stepped with a gasp and automatically looked down at his trousers, returning upward to see his smile. "You are not a male."

He nodded with a grin. "I was born a male and then I became not a male a few months after my birth. It is a sacrifice that was made by my parents in order to serve you as a servant. Or I would have been put to death."

"I'm so sorry..."

"Now! Now!" he moved ahead with a stern face and cuddled her with a soft whisper into her cheekbone. "I asked you not to apology for anything also. Empress Thea did not apology for nothing as she had been raised as a princess, since birth. You must learn to keep your mouth shut and talk only with your matching pair of eyeballs like Empress Thea. Do you understand me?"

I rolled my eyeballs and then looked back at Tofur in silence with a sour frown.

He smiled with a nod. "A perfect reflection of Empress Thea! Girlfriend, you and she are just alike. Are you ready to fight and then win?"

I exhaled with worry and fear in a whisper. "I can fight. I've been fisting and verbally fighting with the other house maids, since I was a little girl living in a strange house with a set of strangers and mean house maids. No one can understand the depths of vile behavior coming from an uneducated person. Yes, I can fight. Yes, I can do that. Yes, I'm scared. This is a different type of fighting. I've never used a weapon, only my hands and my fingernails and any other hard objects, on the hand, on the wall, and on the floor," giggling.

He whispered with a smile. "Well, I have a secret to share about the battle fight. Let Earl Zeamon do the fighting for you, girlfriend!"

"What?" I gasped in a whispered alarm. "Why would I do that, first? Why would Earl Zeamon do that for me, second? I am the empress here, third. I thought an Empress was bigger and badder and better than a lowly Earl."

He softly giggled with a whisper into her nose bridge. "Ugly Erat and Nasty Chump, they're not toying with you for fun and games. You are the empress of the kingdom, the next royal in line to rule everything and everybody and every weird blade of blue tinted grass at Tross. Who would paint the grass in the color of blue? The grass is colored green for healthy and yellow for dead and brown for..."

"Is there a point to your impromptu love lecture?"

He smiled with a whisper. "Yes, my point, you are the grand prize here in the Land of Shamguard and also there in the Land of Tross. You will select your new emperor groom within five more days, when you turn eighteen years old and then marry that guy, without delay..."

"Five!" I gasped in alarm.

He smiled. "Yes, in five more days, you will select and marry your selected emperor."

I exhaled. "What is today, tonight, right now?"

"Today is the start of the new week, Monday. Isn't your birthday the same as Empress Thea's? O no! Are you born on a different day, by chance or by mistake or by a miracle?"

"I am born on the same day with her, since we are twins. I will turn eighteen years old in five more days, which is Saturday."

"That's a relief. Ya scared me there for a moment!" He nodded with a soft giggle. "Court princes, silly Erato and nasty Nastchill are in the running for your kisses and tied in the lead as first emperor, based on old Empress Thea's nightly whispers and her cold black heart. However, you can select any male among the teen court princes or princesses. So, tall and skinny Earl Zeamon thinks he has a chance, ya know, if he accidently runs into your body and then purposefully defends your precious blood during the current battle fight, right here, right now within the Land of Shamguard. So, let him do it, to you, girlfriend," laughing.

I exhaled. "I don't know about this or that or him. Does this situation happen each and every time within the arena of the battle fight for my dead twin sister Thea, too? Why didn't Erato or Nastchill, who loves me, kindly volunteer and come with me into here inside the battle arena, tonight?"

He softly giggled with a smile, "No, of course not, Thea! That formula only works in a fun filled fairy tale. This is a dangerous deadly demon tale. Empress Thea, sometimes, is teamed with a set of teen court princesses. O man! Or O woman, in this case! You, females are worse than a jealous feline in heat. And the selection of the fight team is decided by your father, only. I believe that he is testing you and your empress skills as the new upcoming new teen ruler of the kingdom. Yes?"

I hissed, "Geez! Now, you tell me this, right now, before I start the fight. My psyche can't take any more surprises, Tofool."

He winked with a chuckle. "I think you should implement my new fighting strategy, first, foremost, and immediately, Empress."

I gasped in alarm at his smile. "What? What is your other secret, Tofool?"

"You're great, Empress Thea! You are the grand prize, the number one court royal princess."

"Geez! The number one team is always the first to be taken down or out or finally deflated, defeated and dead."

He continued to smile. "You're great, Empress Thea!"

I exhaled with a sour frown. "So, Glitza wants to be number one princess for her life, not mine."

He nodded with a stern face and a whisper into her nose bridge. "Yes, you must run away from Glitza. Her scepter skills are exceptionally good along with her slick cat-like body moves. She has been fighting for a long time and she is glamorous teen, too. I like her."

I frowned. "You're supposed to root for me."

He nodded with a grin. "I do root for you, but I like her."

I grabbed my stomach and my forehead at the same time with a sour frown. "Ugh! I'm getting a headache and a stomach ache."

9:00 pm

Tunnel hole setting

The assigned flying scooter for Thea and Tofur slowly twisted sideways and then stopped, sliding flush with an open portal entrance that had been constructed inside the side wall of green tint. The creepy green tinted vapors wiggled up and flowed across the opening or sometimes entered the opening.

I swiftly wobbled side to side and then fell forward into the open arms of Tofur, hugging onto his naked chest during the sudden movement of the moving scooter. The scooter stopped. I pulled back with a smile and then spun around staring into an open tunnel. I squatted down on both kneecaps while staring through the waves of green mist, examining the portal opening with a puzzled brow. "That, that's a great big square shaped hole that has been built into this side wall here inside the building. I guess a person could crawl through on the palms and the kneecaps, if a person desired to do that. I think."

Tofur continued to stand upright with a smile and then squatted down next to Thea, pointing through the wiggling green tinted vapors into the hole. "That's a portal opening or a tunnel hole or a passage into the battle arena."

I exhaled with worry and stared into the dark tunnel hole. "How do you know that?"

He pointed to the side wall with a smile. "Look down each side of this wall. There is posed an open tunnel every ten feet. Every flying scooter is dodging danger and slapping into this side wall only. The opposite side wall is only a solid wall of metal, without a tunnel hole entrance point. That side wall is the exterior of this very tall and very green colored building. But this side wall leads directly into the interior of the building. Look at the other scooters. Inside each scooter, a native or a group of natives are stepping off the deck of the scooter and then walking inside a different type of tunnel opening which must be built for a life-sized person. I can't see directly into the next tunnel but the open hole is tall and wide for a row of three people. Do you see and understand? Our scooter has stopped sideways in front of a tunnel hole that's both short and narrow for one person, you."

I gasped in alarm and exhaled with worry and as my stomach fluttered in invisible and pretend butterflies. I leaned backward and as my eyeballs darted to the same side wall, examining one of the closer tunnel holes. I verified the accuracy physical description of the tunnel hole coming from Tofur and carried an upset stomach and a heavy heart of worry. I leaned forward and stared into the tunnel hole that led into the battle arena for the upcoming battle fight feeling numb, fear, fright, horror, terror, and worry.

One the side wall, each tunnel portal had been constructed underneath the tall rows of bleachers, where a native could stroll directly into the main arena.

Now, I understood the lack of a greeting committee. The robot had been programmed to bring the scooter directly here for the battle fight. There wasn't any type of reception party or an individual handshake or group colorful picture, only the vicious death fight.

On the deck of the stationary scooter, the pilot robot dropped down from the steering wheel and stopped, hovering beside the cheekbone of Thea. The bot reached over with the tip of the wrinkled hose and twisted the hose showing off the four vertical blue tinted glowing retinas, staring at Thea, touching the side wall near the tunnel hole. It moved a set of red tinted square shaped lips, singing with a sweet harmony musical tone.

I turned with a gasp and stared at the wrinkled hose with a set of four vertical eyeballs. "Is that really the warning buzzer of a vicious fight, where I will die?"

He leaned over and whispered with a smile into her eardrum. "It's a set of lovely harp music for a good fighting time."

The wrinkled hose on the black tinted squat pilot robot said a monotone timber. "Go inside, battle fighter!"

On top of the deck of the scooter, I continued to squat on top of my kneecaps and exhaled with a puff of fear and worry, staring into the deep tunnel hole, "Yeah. That's me."

Tofur hugged her back spine with a whisper and a smile into her eardrum. "I'll stay right here. I don't wanna lose our travel ride. You go and do your groove thing and then came back through the same tunnel and land right back here on top of our scooter deck with me. I'm be waiting right here to celebrate your victory, Thea. I can't go inside and flirt with the pretty girls either."

I leaned over and slowly crawled through the smooth mouth of the tunnel climbing into an enclosed space of green tint while feeling dizzy and nervous. I whispered. "I'm nervous and scared and afraid..."

He leaned inside the tunnel and shoved her fanny through the dark tunnel with a heavy grunt and a whisper with a smile. "Good! You'll survive. Don't think about anything but only react to everything! Get in there right now! I'm giving you all my love, my worry, and my luck, Thea!"

9:05 pm

Tunnel crawl space setting of Thea

I slowly crawled over a smooth metal tunnel floor of dull green tint, seeing an opening of bright light. My palms felt sweaty. My hairline poured out volumes of sweat balls from the enclosed tunnel that lacked a breeze of cool air. My kneecaps arched in bone pain from the hard and slick surface. I reached the opening and then stopped with a set of heavy breathes of fear, pain, worry, terror, studying the new environment with a set of raw nerves endings.

The enclosed battle arena exhibited a rectangular design of two long walls and two short walls. The ceiling measured about one hundred feet in height which was made of green tinted metal. The arena proper was an artificial setting for the battle fight. The interior space was designed like a forest of trees and bushes and flowers without the bright sunshine and then decorated in woody scenery of pretty neon colors.

For some reason, I actually had pondered I would be transported into a real world of dry dirt or wet marshes or moist trees.

Yeah, I was wrong, again!

At the mouth of my open tunnel, I scooted around on top of my fanny and then dropped down both legs over the edge of the curvy metal tunnel. The distance down to the soil was less than two feet for a perfect leap out from the exit portal. I slid down and then landed in a crouch pose with a stern face and a set of heavy breathes of fear and excitement.

Tofur was correct. If I felt fright, fear, and failure, then I would survive with my instinct, grit, and guts intact on my biological body.

I swiftly crawled ahead on my boot heels with caution and nervousness as I continued to survey the woodlands of colors, stopping a few inches in front of a short row of pretty bushes that glowed in the tones of pink, yellow, purple and blue tint.

The row of colorful bushes shook side to side in visual movement and then released the creature. I gasped in alarm and stared down at the moving object with a loud hiss, "Dang! A snake! Good bye, my new friend!" I slid the scepter down into my fighting hand and twisted the symbol producing the sharp blade. I stabbed the tip of the blade down into the slithering snake with a soft sneer and then gasped in shock.

The red and black colored wiggling snake did not die or hiss in pain but disappeared from my eyeballs into nothingness without leaving a pile of dust bunnies.

I continued to crouch down behind the row of colorful bushes and looked up with a puzzled brow slowly surveying the usually colorful forest of tall shade trees, rows of short colorful bushes, and patches of scattered wildflowers with a set of acute eyeballs and sharp neurons. I took away my pumped up adrenal and then calmed my active neurons and tense raw nerve endings, but I had figured it out with a wicked grin, "Holograms. The entire woodland scenery is made from a set of scattered and beautiful colorful holograms," I looked down at the pretty row of colorful bushes with a smile which appeared like a standard plant bush with a unique glittering hue of bright colors. I reached out and touched one purple tinted leaf while feeling a tiny tinkle. The entire row of bushes disappeared into nothingness.

My torso dropped down and fell forward from Earth's gravity and then landed down on my stomach on top of the hard surface, squashing a plot of purple tinted grass, sounding with a loud grunt in both shock and intrigue. The plot of purple tinted grass disappeared underneath the heat and the weight of my body also. I felt a tinkle electricity course through my skin.

I looked up with a gasp to see the forward woodlands without seeing a live person while exposing my entire body for a swift attack of injury or death. I quickly lifted up on all fours, swiftly crawled ahead, and stopped, crouching behind a larger plant bush of silver, blue, lavender, and yellow tinted leaves hiding for protection, without touching the colorful hologram. My eyeballs stared through the colorful leaves of the bushes without seeing through the hologram into the next colorful holographic object. I frowned, "How intriguing! Usually, a hologram is only an outline of an image like the Dragon Head coming from my mysterious and unknown biological father, during the silly Coil meeting. This hologram is thick and full and colorful blocking my eyeballs at the next object. But the hologram is only an electronic image, not solid material but solid matter. Yeah, that makes sense to me," giggling.

I looked back over a collar bone to see the side of the wall inside the arena. The entrance wall with an open hole was covered in an array of dangling vines coming down from the metal ceiling of green tint that held an assortment of colored flowers like a real flower garden. The dangling vines projected as a hologram also.

I returned back and scanned the woodlands in front of my face.

The row of bushes shook side to side and then released another snake in the colors of peach and white hue. The wiggling snake slithered ahead like a real snake over the purple tinted grass without making the hologram grass disappear, running its forked extended tongue in the air and then the tip of the tongue hit into the real boot toe on Thea. Then, the snake and the row of large colorful bushes disappeared into nothingness.

I screamed out loud in shock and swiftly stood upright in fear, dashing ahead toward a thick grove of shade trees, squatting beside the tree trunk of lavender while blending into the scenery. I inhaled and exhaled with sour breathes of fear, fright, worry, and nervousness.

Each hologram tree was very tall and shaded with an array of colorful medium-sized leaves in the hues of maroon, pink, blue, green, orange, gold, brown, silver, and gray that hid the ceiling metal from eye view.

I dared not purposefully or accidentally touch the holographic lavender painted thick trunk of the fake shade tree, else it would disappear and then expose my crouched body. I exhaled with a set of deep breathes while calming my raw nerve endings, thinking through the situation. My limbs slightly shook in fear and excitement. My eyeballs scanned each hologram image with worry and then halted with fear and as my heart stopped and then restarted with nervousness.

In the far wall corner of the fight area, each tree, low bush, and every wildflower patch disappeared into nothingness while revealing an upright body, Countess Glitza.

She wore a tight-fitting body suit in the color purple that did not blend into the holographic forest on her tall and slender body that nicely complimented her long sleek black tinted hair that swung side to side in beauty. She slowly moved ahead with a soft sneer and whipped her dark blue tinted scepter that gleamed underneath the artificial rows of lamp from the ceiling, slicing the blade side to side with a two-fisted gripe. Each tree, low bush, and tiny flower petal swiftly disappeared from her advancing footpath into nothingness. She continued to search for one of the hidden Shamguard tens in her logical fashion for blood and glory.

On the opposite side of the arena, beside the lavender tinted tree trunk, I gently eased backward from her eyesight and hid my crouched body behind the diameter of thick tree, pondering my current scary situation.

The fight arena was long rectangular shape. There were three Tross teens here. So, there must be an equal number of three Shamguard teens also. So this must made the battle fight both equal and fair.

Inside the busy travel hallway of the arena building, my servant Tofur had told me to wait it out and seek the generous aid of Earl Zeamon within the vicious bloody fight, but I didn't see his upright body within the colorful woodlands at the moment for my princessly rescue.

Yeah, I liked Tofur and his ideas best.

Inside the battle arena, I had been positioned and purposefully separated from my fellow team mate Glitza.

Within the holographic forest, Glitza was slowly moving away from the far wall corner on the opposite side inside the arena, so she had dropped down from a different tunnel opening on the shorter side wall.

If I had jumped down from an opening that was located on the longer side wall of the rectangular space and had been positioned on the opposite side of the arena near here, then I had to protect and occupy the other half of the fight space.

To logical cover the wide space, my team mate Zeamon must have jumped out from an opening on the parallel wall across the floor from my entrance point.

I slowly leaned over the lavender tinted tree trunk without touching the hologram tree, because the tree would disappear into nothingness and then exposed my real person. My eyeballs scanned the hologram colorful forest first, without seeing any vanishing objects.

So, my team mate Earl Zeamon had been fighting longer than I and liked to work at death kill in a sheath fighter skill mode. Or he was hiding behind a different hologram tree like me.

I slowly leaned back and hid my crouched body behind the lavender tree trunk, exhaling with a puff of worry. I faced the shorter side wall and squirted the eyelashes examining the entire length of wall which brightened in dangling hologram rows of vine flowers also.

"I don't see it." I slowly turned to view the long wall with a stern face. "I see it there." I pinpointed my entrance tunnel mouth.

My eyeballs darted back to the shorter side wall for a second time and did not view another square shaped man-made opening which was similar to my tunnel portal of green tinted metal, which had nicely disguised the hole among the pretty holographic forest.

So, it was logical to assume that the short side of the rectangular did not dump out a new Shamguard enemy.

If I had been dumped out from the long wall, and Glitza had been dumped out from the short side wall, and Zeamon had been dumped out from the opposite long wall, and the other short wall had not been used, then I gasped in alarm with my terrible conclusion.

I looked back over my collar bone, viewing my entrance wall, scanning down the entire long wall site. I saw an array of beautifully holographic dangling colored flowers and then stopped and stared at the far wall corner on my side of the arena.

I did not see any movement within the grove of fake colorful tall trees or the numerous rows of colored low-lying fake bushes. Not one single tree or bush or flower petal was disappearing into nothingness. Thus, my assigned enemy was hiding like me. Or my assigned enemy was on the prow in sheath fighting mode, unlike Glitza.

I immediately understood the wonderful advantage of the home battle arena with my deeply scarred fear.

I looked back to see the short wall in front of my scared face with the rectangular designed arena that stood in the close distance and then exhaled with a puff of worry. Sooner or later, my assigned Shamguard teen or two or three would be coming for me. In the meantime, I'll stay put here and stay calm right next to the fake hologram shade tree. My lavender outfit blended nicely with the pretty matching lavender color on the tree trunk.

A person would have to stand beside the tree to notice my body and moving around a hologram forest, a person could easily track my footprints.

I closed my eyelashes and inhaled deep breathes while calming my nerves, without moving a limb.

If my assigned Shamguard teen had jumped down from the tunnel on the long wall, then my assigned Shamguard teen would know that the short wall held three more open tunnels.

The short wall contained two open tunnel mouths for my team mate Glitza and her assigned Shamguard teen.

So, my assigned Shamguard teen would hide and then slowly move in sheath mode and then rendezvous with a second Shamguard team mate and finally both Shamguard teens would charge and attack my team mate Glitza.

Beside the hologram shade tree of lavender tinted tree bark, I opened my eyelashes with a gasp. I should go and help Glitza. She was only one person, without my assistance.

I did not move from my cozy spot after recalling the frightening words of Tofur. He told me to stay clear of Glitza and her scepter blade talents.

Yeah, and I plan to do that, also.

If Earl Zeamon was on the move from his tunnel exit in sheath mode, then he would be scooting around the colorful hologram forest in a crouched pose, missing the rows of low plants and wildflowers. So he could go and assist Countess Glitza.

However, my trustful servant Tofur had wisely advised that I was the grand prize here as the empress of the land. So, Earl Zeamon could be moving in sheath mode coming to protect me.

There! I had decided to stay put and observe the consequences.

I closed my eyelashes with a stern face and held my breath while listening to any type of sound coming from the hologram forest.

However, a hologram doesn't make a sound.

My eardrums didn't pick up any noise coming from behind my rear skull. Glitza might be too far behind my butthole for my eardrums to hear her sneer and the swishing whacks of her scepter as the blade strike didn't make a sound into each hologram image either.

No matter! I decided to stay put and wait it out.

The flying object swiftly dropped down from a red tinted tree limb in silence landing on top of my black tinted hair roots. I felt the jolt of electricity and then jerked sideways away from the tree in fear landing on my side, falling down onto my back spine. I lifted up my scepter in fright but didn't see the object. The falling object had hit my hair and then vanished into nothingness.

My eyeballs caught the swift movement on the top off upper orange tinted tree limb. Three pale blue furry tiny holographic monkeys chased after each other on top of the tree limb without sound as a hologram did not speak.

I gasped in alarm and carefully watched the row of playful monkeys. The three monkeys stopped in place and then turned to see Thea, jumping up and down on top of the tree limb with excitement. I gasped in worry and swiftly scooted backward over the smooth floor and away from the tree. Each plot of purple grass disappeared from my body heat.

The first monkey leaped into the air and then dropped down towards the tree roots while waving both arms at Thea saying 'hi' or 'die' or 'bye.'

I whipped my scepter in front of my face and hit the soaring monkey. The monkey disappeared into nothingness. His pals, the two other monkeys leaped into the air coming off an orange tinted tree limb and then sailed down through the air toward Thea while waving both their pale blue arms in silence. The sight was really creepy and beautiful at the same time.

I slapped the figure eight symbol at the end of the scepter which extended the sharp blade from its hiding place for more height and then sliced the blade side to side in the air waves in front of my ground body. I slowly scooted away from the tree that held more playful pale blue tinted holographic monkeys.

The first flying monkey hit the tip of the wavering blade and then disappeared into nothingness.

I continued to swipe the blade side to side in the air as the blade tip pierced the second monkey. The monkey disappeared into nothingness.

I continued to scoot backward with a worried brow and flung the blade tip through the naked air waves, watching the playful monkey on each tree limb. The tip of the blade hit one tiny pink tinted leaf on the lower yellow tinted tree limb that hung over my legs feeling a tiny jolt of electricity.

The entire shade tree of lavender tint with an assortment of numerous colored tree limbs with millions of tiny colorful leaves disappeared into nothing. Thus, my big protection hologram object was gone and I was exposed naked on top of the bare floor green tinted to all of my Shamguard enemies.

I slammed into a row of colorful low plants and then felt the tinkle of energy.

"No." I rolled over onto my knees and then swiftly stood upright from the hard surface covering an open mouth from the series of soft screams of terror, but I couldn't stop the flow of hot tears of worry. I rapidly dashed ahead toward the shorter side wall which was perpendicular to the longer entrance wall and quickly moved away from the bare spot on the floor while escaping with my life.

I elegantly darted side to side carefully dodging each row of bushes, each patch of wildflowers, a few slithering snakes, each tall tree while stomping out a visual footpath over the purple tinted grass with great worry.

The purple tinted hologram grass disappeared into nothingness revealing my fleeing pathway but I could not stop running ahead and away from the naked spot on the floor with great fear.

And then, I finally stopped in place.

I released a sweaty hand from my parted lips while breathing in a set of fresh oxygen molecules, before I passed out into unconsciousness.

I hid upright behind a tall tree with a thick tree trunk of white hue that blocked my body hopefully from a watchful pair of acute eyeballs that had not seen my fight with the silly monkeys.

I continued to stand in place and breathed in shallow molecules of fear, calming my mind, my heart, and my soul. My face poured out with sweat balls inside the nicely air-conditioned indoor environment. I exhaled with a finally sour breathed and then slowly leaned over without touching the dang tree and peaked around the tree trunk, gathering new battle knowledge.

Glitza had cleared away all the hologram images into nothingness on about one-third on the floor space coming from the shorter side wall and then had sharply angled her march from a forward pathway to the longer wall while still whacking each holographic tree, bush, and flower from her boot toes. She had figured out that her assigned Shamguard teen was hiding like her fellow two Tross team mates with ultimate girly fright. But she was not mad, but glad. Her parents were watching her grand court princess performance inside the fight arena, where Glitza would be brilliant and triumph, again.

She continued to move forward and slapped at the edge of each hologram image that resembled a tree, a bush, and a flower while locating her assigned enemy.

On the opposite end of the fight arena, in front of the white tinted tree trunk, I slowly leaned back and faced the tree bark, without breathing on the pretty hologram. I slowly stood upright with care and held my breath, back stepping a few inches from the massive shade tree of different colors, stopping in place.

I pondered my new battle strategy.

Glitza had turned and marched toward the longer wall while searching for the two hidden Shamguard enemies.

It was clearly a strategic move for both Glitza and the two hidden Shamguard enemies. She looked for a fight. They hid from the fight. Thus, they were meant to rumble, tonight.

I faced the wide white tinted trunk on the shade tree, where one of my eyeballs could barely see the forward movement of Glitza toward the side wall while clearing more of the holograms.

If my eyeball could see the object in the distance, then the object could see me.

I slowly turned to the side and faced the long wall, exhaling with a puff of worry and fear.

Tofur said that the battle fight lasted one hour. I didn't know that current time. But I had been hiding out for at least thirty minutes and I smelled like thirty minutes of sweat.

My new battle strategy was to stay put or stand standing for another thirty minutes. By that time, Glitza would have found the two Shamguard teens and my team mate Zeamon would be on the prowl looking for Shamguard blood, too.

So, I would day dream the nightmare away the next twenty-nine minutes of my valuable time. I held my scepter in a fighting arm while readying for a noisy advancing footfall near my hologram shade tree.

I closed my eyelashes and calmed my rapid heartbeat while listening to the sounds of the forest. Well, I tried to hear the sound of any type of heavy foot falls that came from a real angry person that might be stumbling over the hard surface on top of the smooth metal floor. "I'm going to die. I'm going to die. Stay calm!"

A hologram image did not produce a single audible sound, only displayed an array of single or multiple color. It was only an image of electricity for communication purposes.

However, the Shamguard robot makers were brilliant and had morphed a shallow hologram into a forest of colorful beauty and dangerous, if you were a court princess like me.

I heard only silence within my eardrums while pondering intrigue and mystery. I opened my eyelashes and slightly smiled. The pretty twinkling images of the hologram surrounded my upright body.

I stood a few inches sideways beside a white tinted tree trunk that provided a range of extended individual tree limbs in an assortment of hues in the color of orange, blue, red, green, purple, yellow. On each colored tree limbs, each leaf exhibited a different hue of color also consisting of pinks, reds, pale blue, pale green, yellow, orange, black, and brown. The tree almost touched the metal ceiling, but it could not, as it was a hologram.

I continued to stand in place in silence and faced the longer opposite wall which was across from my long entrance wall. My entrance wall with the opening of the man-made tunnel hole stared at my back spine in both silence and beauty.

The opposite long wall resembled the rest of the three walls with an array of dangling long vines in an array of colorful flowers that shimmered from the bolt of tiny electricity in the hologram, not the rows of artificial lamps.

My body did not move from the tree and as my eyeballs darted to the shorter side wall, scanning the hologram for knowledge and security. There was not another hollow tunnel mouth on the shorter side wall. I slowly sighed in relief. My logical had been sound. The shorter side wall had not been used to dump out a real person inside the fight arena as it continued to glow in holographic beauty of dangling flower vines.

My body did not shift from the stationary spot and as my pair of eyeballs darted down to see the holographic floor. Purple tinted short grass covered the rest of the floor, where my set of foot prints had been disturbed the pretty image. Ahead of my upright body, the floor was a smooth carpet of purple hue that stretched ahead toward the long wall containing an array of colorful low bushes, tall shade trees, and patches of ground wildflowers.

Within the grove of trees, a family of solid pale tinted blue furry monkeys with a black nose and a pair of black lips played without a care as each creature was only a hologram image without feelings, sounds, and fangs. Each monkey jumped down on the ground and then slapped on a flower. Then each monkey spun around and dashed ahead, leaping back upon the tree limb, hugging another monkey for fun.

My eyeballs slowly darted backwards while examining the purple grass for a second time and then stopped, seeing each patch of colorful wildflowers that glistened from the tiny electricity bolts in the hologram.

So far, there was not a sign of danger near my upright and stationary body. I exhaled with relief.

But the placid scenery clearly displayed a lovely romantic place for a fun picnic meal with a nice court prince.

I smiled at the fake beauty and then thought of tall and slender handsome Lord Erato while pleasantly day dreaming and wasting my idol time away with twenty-three minutes of fight time inside the battle arena.

I had met and greeted Erato first after my shocking arrival at the Center. He immediately had leaned down and kissed my face, while thinking I had been my dead and departed twin sister, since I had looked like her.

My mind recreated his handsome face inside my standing day dream.

Excuse the pun!

His smile was gentle. His lips were soft and warm. His hands were soft and tender. His face of whiskers was rough on my smooth face of pale skin. His course hair tickled my neck. His body smelled of vanilla. His tongue tasted of honey. He gifted me with a set of gem stones. My body felt tingly and excitement when Erato touched me. And Erato told me, or my twin sister, that he loved me.

My active and happy mind recreated the hunky image of Prince Nastchill next.

I had met Nastchill, after my introduction of Erato, inside the same glass hallway a few minutes later. Nastchill immediately had leaned down and kissed my face, while thinking I had been my dead and departed twin sister, since I had looked like her.

His smile was wicked. His lips were chapped. His hands were big and rough. His goatee was soft to my wounded scar. His body smelled of wood. His tongue tasted of citrus. He gifted me with a set of vine rings. My body felt warm and secure like a blanket inside his naked chest. And Nastchill told me, or my twin sister, that he loved me.

So, my twin sister had chosen Erato or Nastchill to become her potential wedded emperor husband.

Now, my twin sister had died. So, I stood in her place literally and would get to select either Lord Erato or Prince Nastchill definitely, but I didn't know which teen to pick for my eternal love of life permanently.

However, I had five whole sunny days and sweet nights to decide, before my eighteenth birthday, which boy to marry.

I continued to stand upright with both eyelashes closed beside the white tinted hologram shade tree inside the battle arena and smiled while feeling the warmth and passion of my silly day dreams. My kneecaps slightly buckled downward from the heavy weight of upright standing. My chin dropped down into the chest. My mouth parted open and drooled wet saliva for an anticipating kiss. My hand flicked side to side in wet sweat of passion as the heavy scepter weapon shifted downward from my cupped palm.

I gasped in alert and then opened both of my eyelashes, jerking my body back into an upright and warrior pose, exhaling with a set of shallow breaths while feeling confused with my new environment. My palm firmly griped the sliding scepter weapon.

My eyeballs darted to the side and viewed the hologram tree in glowing white tint from the numerous electrons and as my neurons noted no physical change. My eardrums heard no sound.

Then my eyeballs darted to the forward wall in front of my nose bridge, which was one of the long walls within the rectangular design arena. The long wall had not changed but the hologram monkey family had moved to a new holographic tree having more play fun.

Then my eyeballs darted to the shorter side wall that stared into my nose profile. The short wall remained the same in shimmery dangling flowers vines without movement.

Then my eyeballs shifted downward and examined the arena floor seeing the glowing rows of colorful bushes, flowers, and a few wiggling snakes that merrily continued to project within the hologram field.

Then my eyeballs slowly darted over to view my boot toes that were surrounded by naked green tinted metal, where my foot prints had stomped out the purple grass. The remaining plot of the fake holographic purple grass had been undisturbed.

I exhaled with a puff of relief and had wasted more time inside the battle arena. My servant Tofur had told me that the battle fight lasted only one hour. The time period was close to the deadline.

I exhaled with a puff of worry and closed my eyelashes calming an active mind and a swift-beating heart. I opened my eyelashes and held my breath slowly leaning forward, peeking around the solid image of the white tinted hologram tree with a gasp of shock.

On the far side of the battle arena, the wall corner was naked and exposed the green tinted metal which was the floor foundation for the hologram projector.

My team mate Countess Glitza had wiped out all the holographic images comprising all of the tall shade trees, the short bushes, and the row of flowers leaving behind a naked floor. She had zig-zagged across the wide floor and moved away from her wall corner whacking a new foot pathway with her scepter blade.

I did not see my team mate Earl Zeamon near Glitza or the naked portion of the exposed wall. And I was clueless to his current location, but he might have been hiding behind a row of low bushes instead.

So, the three Shamguard teens had advanced away from the shorter wall and were hiding along the long wall among the colorful holographic forest scenery.

My eardrums had not received a faint whisper or a loud yell of human pain coming from one of my team mates or one of the Shamguard teens. That meant, the battle fight was heading further down into the undisturbed portion of the rectangular designed arena proper. That meant, the battle fight was slowly coming directly towards me.

I gasped in alarm and then jerked backwards out of sight from a pair of acute eyeballs, hiding behind the solid hologram tree image, exhaling in a set of heavy breathes of fear and fright. The battle fight was advancing closer. I had no choice now. The Shamguard teens were moving towards my fixed and safe position. I must fight and defend my person, protecting my deep dark secret, pretending to be the real Empress Thea. My lost life would also endanger Tofur. I didn't understand his relationship with my dead twin sister but he missed her and had been her companion for seventeen years.

I exhaled with a growl of worry, fear, annoyance, and frustration scanning each wall again, redirecting my mental thoughts of fury and angry.

This was not a picnic sight, but a war zone in pretty holographic colors.

When I survive and I will survive, I had fought for breathes and food since my birth. I will seek out my parents and expose my true person as well as becoming enraged and yelling out loud a series of personal questions. But that was my new plan for later tonight, after I had returned back to the Land of Tross.

Inside the battle arena, beside the holographic tree, I exhaled with hiss and closed my eyelashes, slowly squatting down toward the level floor, placing both arms around the bend legs to calm my set of shaking legs feeling both angry and fear. My palms were sweating from fright. My throat was dry and tight. My forehead was sweating in worry. My mind was active in thoughts. My eardrums listened out for any type of sound within the holographic forest again.

A loud girly scream erupted throughout the interior of the arena.

I jumped awake and opened my eyelashes, seeing the long side wall, without movement, but the continuous play fun from the hologram monkey family members on each colorful tree limb.

I slowly stood upright with fright and then re-closed my eyelashes while holding my breath and listened.

A faint sound became a set of louder movements as the unknown single teen swiftly moved closer with a pair of louder footfalls drowning out each one of my eardrums. I exhaled the sour breath for fear of fainting and then falling down onto the floor, where I would swiftly be discovered by the advancing teen with good or bad intentions to my body.

I griped the scepter with a sweaty palm and then released the weapon, slipping it down to the sideway figure eight symbol, flicking the wrist bone sideways. The blade tip slowly protruded through the air waves and pointed downward toward the floor without accidentally harming my own healthy body. I exhaled with a set of deep breathes trying to calm a racing heart and a frightened mind.

The advancing path with a set of echoing footfalls rushed ahead toward the shorter wall.

I continued to stand in place and exhaled with deep breath purging the scarred fear, griping the sweaty handle of the scepter for the upcoming bloody fight with the Shamguard teen.

Obviously, my team mates Glitza and Zeamon were dead along with the two other Shamguard teens. So I was the only live member of the court team from the land of Tross. Thus, I had to survive to win the battle fight. If I lose the battle fight and die, then I didn't know what would happen in the Land of Tross.

A tall shadow swiftly dashed ahead and run through the hologram shade tree and as the tree and surrounding fake plants vanished into nothingness. The tall shadow slammed into the side body of Thea sending an array of tiny tingles throughout both of the bodies from the trailing electrons of the holographic tree.

The shadow and I collided and then fell backward, dropping down on top of the purple tinted grass which was really the hard floor as I released my cupped hand. My personal scepter flew out from my set of wiggling fingers and then twirled over the hard floor into a stop which was beyond my finger pads also. However, my mind was dizzy in slightly pain and as I gagged and then coughed up mouth spittle from the rough impact landing down onto the hard floor.

The shadow of black oily hair and a pale face leaned down into her face with a smile and a chuckle, "Sorry, Empress! I got carried away with your beauty during my rescue run coming through that beautiful hologram tree. I didn't want you to get harmed. Are you hurt? Did I hurt one of your ribs inside your rib cage? Ow! I'm so sorry. Why were you hiding behind that holographic tree? That was a good plan. But, you really are a good soft landing spot for my body," chuckling.

I continued to rest on top of the hard surface with a dizzy mind and puffs of shallow breathes while hearing his tenor voice. The shadow continued to chuckle into her nose bridge. I softly grunted out a single response with a set of shallow breathes for a set of incoherent communication as the shadow represented Earl Zeamon, who continued to lie on top of her body with a silly grin and soft chuckle.

Glitza swiftly appeared next and stood upright beside the grounded couple of Thea and Zeamon, slamming an arm downward toward the floor.

Zeamon turned with a smile to see Glitza and lifted up, blocking her attack with his forearm. She hit his arm and then jerked backward with a gasp, standing in place with a puzzle brow, staring down at Zeamon.

"Ow, ya fat cow!" Zeamon slowly stood upright from the ground body of Thea, after he had body slammed into the upright empress for protection while dropping both of them down hard onto the floor. He spun around with a chuckle to see Glitza, rubbing the torn fabric and the small blooding wound on the forearm with a smile, "That hurt, witch! What are doing here, Glitza?"

She back stepped with a sneer and then looked down with a frown to see Thea. "That's my question for you. What are you doing over here on the floor with Thea, Zeamon?"

He smiled with a nod. "I'm trying..."

"....to kill the enemy, too. Me, too!" Glitza laughed.

He rubbed the wound with a grin. "Well, you need a new pair of eyeballs. I'm not one of the dead the Shamguard teens. What did you use that cut into my wounded arm, Glitza?"

I exhaled with a puff of pain and annoyance while hearing the cheery, sort confusing, silly personal conversation between a chuckling Zeamon and a sneering Glitza. I slowly rolled over onto both kneecaps with a loud grunt and then carefully stood upright from the floor with a set of shallow breaths of angry, slowly turning about with an angry brow in silence. My mind was still dizzy. My mental words and thoughts were incoherent as my brain cells were filled with pain receptors.

Glitza reached over with a grin and pointed down to one of her long sleeves with a laugh. "Each sleeve of my jumpsuit is specially designed for death to you and life to me. Each sleeve is lined with vertical line of colorful precious tiny gems tones that have been etched into an individual mini-razor point. If I hit you with my forearm of gem stones, then the set of mini-razors points will cut and then bleed your exposed skin. You should learn to stay away from my jumpsuit, boy."

He laughed. "Yeah, I just learned, princess."

I exhaled with a puff of confusion and angry at the faces of Glitza and Zeamon. "What...what happened?"

He spun around with a smile and a wink to see Thea. "The battle fight is done here in the Land of Shamguard. We win it all! The three Shamguard teens are no more. Now, the Land of Shamguard will be accepted into the kingdom. Now, it's time to go back home to Tross! Do you remember where your tunnel port is located within the arena, Thea? The tunnel port is on one of the walls. My tunnel portal is located on one of the long wall. Do you know which wall you jumped down into the battle arena?"

"Yeah!" I didn't nod but softly whispered, rubbing my face, purging the headache.

Glitza spun around with a sneer and slowly moved ahead back toward her personal tunnel entrance portal on the shorter wall. "Good! Get going! It is time to leave the land of Shamguard."

Zeamon nodded in silence to Thea and then swung around with a smile, swiftly racing back toward the opposite wall, disappearing around the remaining holographic colorful forest.

I stood in place with deep confusion, a lot of frustration, and a bit of regret. I didn't assist with one of the fatal kill jobs on a Shamguard teen as Zeamon had referenced. He and Glitza performed the nasty death job. I scanned the remaining battle arena with a puff of confusion.

One-third of the floor had been exposed and exhibited the naked green metal including the shorter wall.

On the shorter wall, half of the side wall and the floor had been exposed and glowed in green metal. The other half of the arena continued to glow in a colorful holographic art work, consisting of groves of tall shade trees plus short rows of colorful plants and wildflowers.

The middle portion, two-thirds of the battle arena had been whacked away by a foot or a hand from one or more teens, exposing the green tinted naked metal floor as each holographic image vanished into nothingness. There was a footpath that led toward the last one-third portion of the battle arena.

The last one-third portion of the battle arena, where I continued to stand and stare in puzzlement, continued to glow with each untouched hologram images, except for a naked spot with the missing white tinted shade tree.

Something felt wrong!

In the far distance, Countess Glitza raced ahead and followed the naked metal floor, without slamming into one of the holographic images with a hand or her scepter blade. Each hologram image contained a set of tiny electrons that formatted the solid colored fake object. The larger the hologram image, the more painful the tiny tinkle of electrons on the exposed fleshy skin of a human. So, she avoided all of the hologram images and rushed toward her personal tunnel portal, where a flying scooter and a Shamguard robot pilot would be waiting for her arrival, taking Glitza back to her personal airship. Then she would return back to the Land of Tross unharmed and victorious as one of the members on the court team.

On the long wall, Zeamon continued to rush ahead but dashed in-between each fake hologram while maintaining his sneaky court prince sheath mode. Half of the long wall had been exposed and exhibited the green tinted metal, where it intersected with the wall corner, except for a patch of glowing hologram grove of trees and low plants in front of the long wall.

I could not see Zeamon in the far distance, so he must have reached and then entered through his personal tunnel portal, scooting out to meet the Shamguard robot pilot. Then he would arrive at his personal airship and then leave the Land of Shamguard for Tross.

I slowly twirled around with confusion to see my old environment.

The lower half of the long wall near my posed position, where Zeamon had entered into the battle arena, was still untouched and the hologram pale blue monkey family members continued run up and down on each colorful tree branch.

On the opposite long wall, where I had entered the battle arena, the upper half of the wall had been exposed and exhibited the green tinted metal, starting at the middle section moving up towards the far wall corner, except for a small continuous plot of holographic forest that lied a few feet away from the wall corner and then faced the long wall.

On the opposite shorter wall, where no other teen had been dumped down into the battle arena, the holographic dangling flower vines and the grove of shade trees continued to glisten through the tiny electrons of light and heat.

I covered my mouth with a gasp and then slowly completed the circle. My eyeballs stared at the first tiny plot of glowing holographic forest, where two dead Shamguard teens rested and hidden in the silence peace of death. My eyeballs could not see the spilled red blood or the scattered broken bones. My team mate Glitza was a very good soldier from the Land of Tross.

My eyeballs darted to the opposite side of the arena and stared at a second tiny plot of glowing holographic forest, where one dead Shamguard teen lied and hidden in silence death also. My eyeballs could not see the spilled red blood or the scattered broken bones either. My team mate Zeamon was a very good soldier, also.

I covered my face with angry, sadness, and worry while wiping off the sweat and dirt, slowly turning to face the long wall, where my personal tunnel portal stood and glowed between the dangling rows of flower vines. "I don't see any bleachers. Tofur said that there were rows and rows of green tinted bleachers that contained Shamguard natives and my parents. Where is the audience of people? Why can't I see the people? Unless, the people of audience could only see me inside the battle arena, but how is that possible? I can't see through the solid hologram images inside the battle field. Why wasn't I harmed or dead like the Shamguard teens? What's going on here? I don't understand. I need answers. And I know where to get my answers too."

I dropped down my hands and slapped the dirty skirt, slowly strolling ahead with an angry mind and then stopped, climbing back up into the enclosed tunnel. I swiftly crawled ahead toward the bright light whispering for my eardrums only. "I know my next move I must see my parents. I must talk with my parents. Tell them about the real Empress Thea! Then I can stop all the battle fights. I'm not doing this anymore. I can't do this. I can't continue on as the fake Empress Thea. I'm halting this masquerade, foreverly."

10:12 pm

Tunnel crawl space setting of Thea

Cold temperatures with moonlight beams and bright stars

Inside the busy travel hallway, Tofur stood upright on top of the deck in the same stationary scooter and leaned down into the tunnel mouth with a worried brow, extending both his arms with smile. "Good! You're alive and well! I was so worried." He reached in and grabbed her bent elbows, man-pulling Thea through the rounded mouth of the tunnel, assisting her to stand upright in front of his smile. He hugged her in love and worry finally back stepping from her body with a gasp. "Are you harmed? Are you injured? I'm so sorry. I thought you were safe in there. Did Zeamon refuse to battle for you? I can talk to him. Well, Nastchill will talk a lot more nastier to Zeamon than I would be. Do you need a medical bot for your injury?"

I exhaled with a puff of angry and determination. "I can't do this anymore. I must stop this pretending. I must see my parents. I wanna find my parents right now. My parents are here."

He exhaled with a huff of worry and then softly whispered into her crying face. "You should not go and see your parents."

I sneered with a set of rolling tears of angry, "Why not, Tofool?"

He turned with a worried brow and scanned the busy and overcrowded hallway.

Before the battle event, there were four stacked semi-crooked lines on each side of the hallway that reached upward and then halted a few feet from the curved ceiling. Now, there were seven stacked of semi-crooked lines on each side of the hallway that reached upward toward the curved ceiling.

From each tall and wide tunnel portal, continuous rows of natives slowly exited out from the battle arena, loading into an individual flying scooter and then flew away from the portal, when a new scooter halted in the same place to collect more rows of departing natives.

Inside each lane, an individual flying scooter sailed in an opposite direction. Each flying scooter held one standing individual or a couple of standing individuals or a group of sitting individuals inside a row of metal benches in the rear of the deck of the soaring machine.

Each individual exhibited a variety of skin tones from white pale to dark hue, an individual hair style from long hair strands to a cropped skull and all possessed a plump body of fat and soft muscles.

I continued to stand on top of the scooter deck and stared into the puzzled brow of Tofur, turning with a confused face to new and old travel lanes of flying scooters and all the Shamguard natives with a gasp. "What's this? Where did all those people come from? I didn't see a face or a scream of any Shamguard natives inside the battle arena during the fight. It was only a hologram forest setting. I don't understand any of this. Where are my parents? I wanna find my parents, right now."

He returned back with a worried brow to see Thea, "Hmm! That's not a good idea, right now!"

I returned back with a gasp and a worried brow, flooding my face with tears of regret, worry, angry, sadness, whispering into his nose profile. "The all Shamguard natives saw my solo empress performance," I gasped with concern. "My parents saw my solo empress performance too. I tried. I couldn't. I really failed, didn't I? I really didn't kill anyone, did I? I don't think that I can harm anyone..."

"Shh! Don't confess any of your sins here in the open and near a pair of listening eardrums!" He examined her outfit, "Hmm! If you didn't kill anyone, why is your clothing covered in red tinted blood stains?"

"Uh! What?" I looked down to see the red stain over the pretty lavender hue with a gasp. "Ugh!"

He leaned over with a smile and a whisper into her nose bridge. "Look! You're experiencing battle memory loss or something like that. You can't remember the bad thing that you just did like kill a person inside the battle arena during the fight. It gets easier, I think. You got blood all over your outfit from your death kill. You did a good job..."

"No! I..." sobbed with tears of worry, regret, and sadness.

He smiled into her face. "The battle fight is over now, Thea. You are alive. They are not. You did well and you won. They did not. Now, it's time to go back home to Tross."

" _Tofur!"_ the voice shouted out loud through the loud noise inside the hallway.

Tofur back stepped from Thea and then spun around with a smile. "Hey!"

I exhaled with a puff of mixed feelings and stared at the stationary scooter that floated perpendicular to my scooter.

The copper tinted scooter was driven a robot pilot which resembled all the other robot pilots with the wrinkled hose of four eyeballs and a pair of red lips that was attached to a squat black tinted and round-shaped metal body. Behind the metal squat and rounded body on the robot pilot, one individual stood behind the robot. The second individual stood behind the first individual like the pair was a couple. However, their physical appearance was the same as the pair was a set of biological twins.

The pair stood in the same tall in height like Tofur and possessed a naked chest of dark tone, a tan colored turban that covered the entire bone skull and the hidden hair roots like Tofur, also. Each one wore a pair of dull tinted tan colored sandals and a pair of matching loose-fitting matching tan colored knee-length trousers like Tofur.

I gasped in shock while meeting another set of servants like Tofur and listened to the private conservation.

The first individual smiled with a nod at Tofur and then Thea. "Is everything okay with you and Thea, Tofur? Do you need our assistance? Usually, your airship is the first to leave the battle arena. Is something wrong here? Is your airship working properly? The heated metal tinted ground can cause a malfunction on one or more of the mechanisms of any airship."

Tofur smiled with a nod. "No, Mom! We're fine. We'll be leaving Shamguard very soon."

The second individual, who looked like the first individual, smiled with nod to Tofur and then to Thea. "All right, son! We're heading out to the airship and returning back to Tross also. See you later this evening back at home. Bye, Thea!"

"Bye!" I croaked out the word in shock.

A few moments ago, I had been feeling sorry for my life first as a common house maid and now currently as a confused empress. Now, I quickly tucked my set of raw emotions of jealousy and pity back down into my stomach lining while staring at the biological parents of Tofur.

The second individual clearly spoke with a male timber, wearing a tan colored turban over his bone skull which hid his hair roots, a naked chest, a set of tan colored loose-fitting trousers, and a pair of ratty sandals like his son Tofur.

The first individual clearly spoke with a female timber, wearing a tan colored turban over her bone skull which hid her hair roots, a set of tan colored loose-fitting trouser, a pair of ratty sandals, and a naked chest also, like her husband and her son. However, she was a female species, but her two female breasts had been surgical removed, where the fatty tissue and each nipple of both breasts had been sliced cleanly off her chest making her appear like a male which appeared like her son Tofur and her husband.

At our first introduction, inside the private bed chamber on Tross, my servant Tofur had told me that he didn't possess his set of masculine private body parts. So, it made sense that every female servant would not possess her set of feminine body parts, either.

The royal servant Tofur along with his parents had lived a unique and terrible life within the Land of Tross, since a child.

I wanted to scream out loud with the Tross servant ritual and then cry with sad tears for my new friend Tofur, who had served a servant and a friend, so far.

Tofur had not turned the fake empress Thea into the Tross authorities or her biological parents, when he had discovered the truth of a dead twin sister and a live duplicate. However, Tofur might have been hiding his fears and his worries down inside the pit of his stomach lining with that bold and brave action also.

I didn't understand all of the intricacies and atrocities within each professional or social or servitude roles of life inside the Land of Tross, but I was slowly learning and firmly determining to stay put and continue to be the pretend Empress of Tross.

I had been given an opportunity of chance or luck or miracle and I was taking full advantage of the sweet gift that had come with a high price, the death of my twin sister.

In five more days, I would celebrate my eighteenth birthday and become the new empress of Tross. Then, I would take my royal reign and change all the rules that would help people, not harm people.

On top of the scooter deck, inside the busy hallway within the Land of Shamguard, I continued to stand behind the back spine of my servant Tofur and stared with a stern face at the parents of Tofur, wiping off the tears of pity and sadness while filling my emotions with determination and promise.

Tofur spun around with a smile to see Thea. "Look! We need to go and get back home, before someone suspects that you are the fake, not the real Empress Thea. She always vacated the new nation first and foremost, before the rest of the court team and the other court rulers. I don't want anyone to become suspicious. Are you feeling a little better?"

I nodded with a fake smile and a firm mind to Tofur. "Yes, I'm feeling much better. Thank you! And, yes, of course, I completely agree with you that we must leave the Land of Shamguard. Our Tross damage is done here. We need to scoot back home," I exhaled with a puff of mixed emotions down inside my sub-consciousness.

He smiled with a nod and leaned over, hugging her body, pulling with a giggle like a girl. "All right, then! Let's go back home! Assume the pose! Stand behind the rear of the robot for safety. I'm stand behind you."

I spun around with a sigh and advanced ahead, stopping and stood in front the yellow hand railing. I reached out and grabbed the bar for safety as the scooter pilot flew very fast which was okay as I wanted to return back home to Tross immediately.

Tofur moved ahead with a grin and stopped, cuddling her back spine for protection and safety also. He shouted to the robot pilot. "Scooter, take us back to our airship, please!"

The robot pilot maneuvered the stationary scooter away from the green tinted side wall inside the busy hallway and then slowly rolled into one of the travel lanes moving through the busy vehicles, exiting from the battle arena into the warm night sky within the Land of Shamguard.

The green vapors nicely hid within the darkness of the late night, but I could still feel the warm mist hit my face racing over the weird metal landscape of Shamguard.

The robot pilot quickly stopped and then hovered next to the pilot door of the Tross airship.

Tofur reached down and touched the door metal with a smile. All the doors opened for entrance into the ship. He slid down and scooted into the pilot seat, starting the cold engine.

I released the railing bar and slowly scooted sideways, falling down into the rear seat like an empress. I was too mentally and physically exhausted of debate or argue or converse with Tofur. I needed some down time to process each sad and happy event form a long day. I dropped down and stretched my body over the soft fabric on the bench seat, closing my eyelashes, falling into a catnap.

The airship lifted up and then soared into the clouds and night sky by pilot Tofur.

11:11 pm

Land of Tross

Warm temperatures and moonlight rays

with mint green clouds and bright stars

Center building location

Entrance lobby setting

Tofur landed the airship in front of the open archway at the Center building with a smile, without killing the engine. He reached over and pressed the button. Each door slid open. He shouted out loud from his pilot chair. "We're home, Thea! Get out! I wanna go home, too. Good night, Thea! I'll see you for our shared breakfast meal."

I feel the warm air hit my cool body and still continued to rest over the soft fabric of the seat, exhaling with a puff of sour breath, wiggling a body and sat upright with a stern face to see the forward windshield on the airship. The entire landscape of Tross was dark during the nighttime, but the blue tinted manicured lawn glowed underneath each moonlight ray. The skyline was dark with an array of scattered bright stars and rolls of mint green clouds that glittered through each beam from a full moon.

I slid off the bench seat with a low grunt and then stood beside the open door of the airship with a groggy voice. "Bye, Tofur!"

"Later, empress!" he reached over and pressed the button. All the doors slid shut. He slowly rolled the airship away Thea and the building, slowly pacing over the red tinted pavement, disappearing into the night. He flew the airship back to the building, where he resided with his servant parents.

I exhaled with a puff of exhaustion and stood in place, staring into the dark landscape with puzzlement and confusion. My posed questions had not been answered today but had developed into more questions which might be addressed tomorrow.

I spun around to see an open archway on the Center building. There was not a sliding glass door or a locking latch to secure the tall building. I moved ahead with a set of puffs and stared down at the floor, seeing the green tinted dirt underneath through the glass which was also odd.

I looked up with a stern face to see an empty hallway that ended in front of the glass wall and then stopped with a gasp of intrigue.

Neither boyfriends Erato or Nastchill were not present inside the ground hallway for a midnight kiss. Well, Erato, Nastchill, and I were also seventeen years old within the eyeballs of our parents. So, Erato and Nastchill were located inside their private bedchamber suit asleep for the evening.

I strolled ahead and turned with a stern face to see the landscape at night. Each bright moonlight beams illuminated the blue grass and the green dirt, which looked more strange to me, also.

I reached the end of the empty hallway and stopped, standing in front of the glass wall that displayed another portion inside the tall building, where the blue and green soil met but did not mingle. I reached up and touched the glass wall.

The wall slid sideways and revealed an empty carriage.

I entered the carriage and stopped, standing at the glass wall, closing my eyelashes with exhaustion.

The door slid close behind my back spine. Then, the carriage quickly soared up to the eighteenth floor and then halted. The side door slid open, revealing the long hallway.

I swung around with an ugly yawn and slowly exited the carriage with a second ugly yawn into my new bed chamber suite.

18th floor level location

Bed chamber setting of fake Empress Thea

I slowly stumbled ahead over the black tinted smooth glass floor through my new bed chamber without staring at each beautiful art work on the side walls. I was tired and exhausted, mentally and physically.

I reached the end of hallway and strolled to the side of the bed mattress, ripping off the bedcovers, exposing a set of matching white tinted bed linens. I slapped the dirty outfit with a puff of annoyance. I had not found a pair of sleeping pajamas inside the wardrobe closet this afternoon, so I cleverly improvised. I quickly stripped off the dirty outfit and then dropped each item down onto the floor along with my scepter on top of the soft pile of dirty clothes.

I slid down into the bed mattress with a giggle in the nude and laid back, resting on top of the cool bed linens, covering up my nudity with a blank mind and an ugly yawn.

I had survived the battle fight with the unseen and unnamed members from the Land of Shamguard. I should be ashamed that I had not contributed to my own selfish well-being but I wasn't.

I prayed that another new battle fight might not develop within another five days or nights, before I turned eighteen years old and accepted my reign as the new Empress of Tross.

I closed my eyelashes and exhaled with a puff of mixed feelings, including worry, determination, sadness, fear, and relief, slightly wigging side to side with an active mind. However, the location of the bed mattress in front of the clear glass window had captured all the daylight sunrays and the night time moonbeams.

I lifted up and then gently slapped both palms over my closed eyelashes with a huff of annoyance while blocking out each bright ray coming from a full moon through the rear and sides glass walls.

My clever technique was not working.

I removed both of my hands and stared ahead, seeing an array of tiny dancing beams of moonlight with a puff of more annoyance. "I can't go to sleep in the bright moonlight."

Each moonlight ray beamed down on top of the white tinted bed linens, reflected back off the white fabric and finally soared each moonlight beam back into the glass ceiling. The technique illuminated the dark room into a semi-state of dull light which also blinded my retinas.

My eyeballs naturally followed the reflected light looking upward to see the high ceiling of glass and as I gasped in shock. The moonlight rays had illuminated a set of hidden and shimmery art work that had been painted on top of the glass ceiling that I had missed this afternoon.

The bright beams of sunlight had disguised the set of new art work within my vision. But, again, I did not usually stare up into the ceiling for fun, either.

In front of my eyeballs, the first shimmy ceiling portrait showed a small child. The child was my dead twin sister Thea as a smiling one-year-old child, standing in the middle of a white tinted background, wearing a pink tinted short dress and a pair of naked feet. The moonlight beams shifted the glittery painted particles into motion as the painted child slightly wiggled side to side like she was laughing with happiness.

I smiled at the gigantic likeness of my dead twin sister at the age of one-year-old and wondered if I had looked the same, happy and cute. Of course, a single photograph or portrait or a painting of my personal and private childhood memories did not exist here in the Land of Tross or the Land of Scotta.

I gasped in shock and as my eyeballs darted to the side shimmery wall, where the exact gigantic wall portrait of my twin sister Empress Thea at the age of one-year-old also stood.

On the side wall that held the hidden lavatory, my dead twin sister Thea stood behind a solid white background, without a single mint tinted cloud or a pink tinted skyline or a blade of blue tinted grass or a soil of green tinted dirt as she smiled in a pink short tinted dress with a pair of bare feet in the middle of the painted space.

I turned with a smile to face the opposite side wall.

On the opposite side wall that held the hidden wardrobe closet that didn't contain any clothes, a red tinted wagon held a sitting and smiling two-years-old twin sister Empress Thea in a coral colored short dress and a pair of naked feet as the wagon stood alone in the middle of the glittery painted space. The upper and lower portion of the portrait contained white tinted paint without any other objects without illuminating the floor.

I flipped back with a puzzled brow to see the side wall portrait that matched the ceiling painting almost color and style with a soft whisper. "That's strange! The ceiling and wall portrait exactly match. What for? That's a waste of both talent and paint," giggling. I returned back to examine the ceiling portrait and then gasped in alarm.

On the ceiling portrait, in the crook of Thea's right elbow, there was tiny ball of golden tint. The golden ball was a curled up tiny furry kitten.

I burst into tears of sadness. The golden tinted mature adult cat had been with my dear dead twin sister for seventeen long years, before her crazy servant Tofur had reacted and then violently murdered the helpless mammal with his insane mental thought of an animal spy.

I covered my face and sobbed with worry, concern, sadness, angry, frustration, annoyance and other emotions that I could not readily identify.

I was trying to fit into the court as an empress. I was trying to deal with the deaths of some many innocent people. I was trying to avoid my own death coming from another scepter blade.

However, I hated this weird place and this horror palace and this fake person. I wanted to go back home to the Land of Scotta, where I had lived a simple but hard life as a house maid, without danger and heartache and loss.

I sobbed with tears of pain and regret inside her bed mattress, her bed chamber room, her home building, and her home land, which was not mine.

Day Two

Land of Tross

Center Building location

Warm temperatures, moonlight beams, and bright stars

18th floor level

Bed chamber setting of fake Empress Thea

02:02:02 (early morn)

I sat upright on top of the comfortable but unfamiliar bed mattress, scanning the unfamiliar room, narrowing my eyelashes through the darkness from the room and in-between the bright moonlights on the floor. I gasped in alarm with a soft whisper at the unfamiliar room. "Yeah, I am me, not Empress Thea, my dead sister. That was yesterday. I faced my twin sister in death. Then she died, not me. She looked exactly like me. She possessed a head of black tinted long curly head and a pair of aqua tinted eyeballs and exhibited a dark skin tone. She was tall with a set of slender body muscles like me. She told me, I am your twin sister Thea," I wiped off the encrusted tears and dried snot from coming earlier, exhaling with uncertainty of my future.

"Inside the prison cell in the Land of Scottie, my twin sister had reached down, sliding out an object from the pocket of her black cloak next to her wicked grin, flicking the wrist bone in a circle. The object produced a shiny knife blade underneath the row of naked bulbs inside the single prison within her cupped hand. With lightning speed, her hand with the blade leaned over and then sliced a curved design into the smooth naked cheekbone on me," I reached up and gently caressed the new scar from my loving twin sister Thea, exhaling with sadness.

"She had possessed an old scar in the color of pink tint on the bottom curve of her left cheekbone, where I do now. Thus, we both looked exactly alike. Why did she mark me like her? Is there something I am supposed to do here inside our birth land? That's kinda hard, since I wasn't born here. I was abandoned there in the Land of Scottie. Why was I taken from my birth lands? Can the kingdom only possess one princess? That must be the answer. Yes, that has to be the only answer. So, my twin sister Thea had sacrificed herself for me to become the new ruler of Tross. No. That doesn't make any sense. My sister was trying to rescue and then escape with me. She wanted to live too. I could tell. I could feel it. Yeah, I felt her hidden body emotions. We are twins and sisters and the same blood. Then she encountered the rude and mean guard. Okay. She encountered the broken tiles coming from the broken ceiling that killed her healthy body," I exhaled with depressed.

I released the face wound, feeling nervous, exhaling with worry and then slid off the bed mattress that contained the soft white tinted bed linens with a sad face. I stood upright on top the floor, reaching over, dragging off the top bed linen, wrapping the soft fabric around my naked body. I lowered my chin down onto my naked chest, exhaling with more worry, pondering the events from yesterday.

I had survived the battle fight with the unseen and unnamed members from the Land of Shamguard. I should be ashamed that I had not contributed to my own selfish well-being, but I wasn't.

I softly whispered with determination. "I survived. They didn't. I am here to survive. My dead twin sister found me after seventeen years of my short and hard life for me to survive something. I hope the other battle fights are done and finished and over. I can't continue to slip by when other people die," I closed my eyelashes and exhaled with a puff of mixed feelings, including worry, determination, sadness, fear, and relief, slightly wigging side to side with an active mind.

The location of the bed mattress in front of the clear glass window had captured all the daylight sunrays and the night time moon beams.

I lifted up and then gently slapped both palms over my closed eyelashes with a huff of annoyance while blocking out each bright ray coming from a full moon through the rear and sides glass walls.

The individual brightly tinted moonlight ray beamed down through the clear glass windows that reached up toward the ceiling, rolling over the black tinted smooth glass floor towards the end of the long corridor inside my new bed chamber.

I removed both of my hands and stared ahead, seeing an array of tiny dancing beams of moonlight with a puff of more annoyance, without staring at each beautiful art work on the side walls. I was still un-rested, tired, and exhausted both mentally and physically.

Each moonlight ray beamed down on top of the white tinted bed linens, then reflected back off the white fabric, and finally sailed back up into the glass ceiling. The technique illuminated the dark room into a semi-state of dull light which also blinded both of my retinas.

My eyeballs naturally followed the reflected light looking upward to see the high ceiling of glass and as I remembered the new set of art work pieces. The moonlight rays had illuminated a set of hidden and shimmery art work that had been painted on top of the glass ceiling. The bright beams of sunlight had disguised the set of new art work within my vision. But, again, I did not usually stare up into the ceiling for fun, either.

In front of my eyeballs, the first white shimmy ceiling portrait showed a small child.

The child was my dead twin sister Thea as a smiling one-year-old toddler standing in the middle of a white tinted background, wearing a pink tinted short dress and a pair of naked feet. The moonlight beams shifted the glittery painted particles into animated motion as the painted toddler slightly wiggled side to side like she was laughing with happiness.

I sighed with puzzlement at the gigantic likeness of my dead twin sister at the age of one year old and then wondered if I had looked the same way both happy and cute. Of course, a single photograph or portrait or painting did not exist that displayed any of my personal and private childhood memories as I had lived as a work servant within the Land of Scotta.

My eyeballs darted to the side shimmery wall, where a gigantic wall portrait of my twin sister Empress Thea stood in the same manner. She stood behind a solid white background without a single mint tinted cloud or a pink tinted skyline or a blade of blue tinted grass or a soil of green tinted dirt and smiled in a short pink tinted dress with a pair of bare feet in the middle of the painted space. The dull portrait hid a single lavatory.

I turned with a sigh to face the opposite side wall.

A hidden wardrobe closet that didn't contain any additional work or play or dance or sleep clothes stood behind this painted wall. The painted wall displayed a red tinted wagon and a sitting and smiling two-year-old twin sister Empress Thea in a coral colored short dress and a pair of naked feet as the wagon stood alone in the middle of the glittery painted space. The upper and lower portion of the portrait contained white tinted paint without any other objects that did not shine from the moonlight.

I flipped back with a puzzled brow to see the side wall portrait that matched the ceiling painting in both color and style with a soft whisper. "I remembered that the ceiling and the side wall portrait matched for some reason, last night. I guess the court princes and princesses liked to paint themselves on the walls for fun and vanity and selfishness while the patch of poor peasants on Scotta liked to draw circles in the dirt for pretend plates of food."

I returned back to examine the ceiling portrait. On the ceiling portrait, in the crook of Thea's right elbow, there was tiny ball of golden tint. The golden ball was a curled up tiny furry kitten.

I burst into tears of sadness. The golden tinted mature adult cat had been with my dear dead twin sister for seventeen long years, before her crazy servant Tofur had reacted and then violently murdered the helpless mammal with his insane mental thought of an animal spy.

There was no such thing as an animal spy.

I wiped off the wet tears with a deep sigh and then shouted out loud. "You saw this last night. Don't cry and sob and wail again! You need to figure out why you are here and why my twin sister is not," I exhaled with confusion. "I need to meet my biological parents. I need to hear their really sad story." I covered my wet swollen and sad face and then sobbed with worry, concern, sadness, angry, frustration, annoyance and other teenly emotions that I could not readily identify.

I flipped up my face, feeling the heat from my hot tears, wiping off the wetness and exhaled with bravery of my new life. I wanted to stay inside the warm bed and cry about my old life, the loss of my twin sister, and the future upcoming new adventure, maybe a future marriage, without her presence, until my old age. This was my destiny here in the Land of Tross.

Then my teenly emotions flopped the other way and as I sneered.

I greatly desired to meet my birth parents for the first time which created millions of questions inside my active mind.

I slowly shuffled ahead inside the wrapped bed linen while dragging the tail end on the soft fabric over the dirty floor, following the numerous rays of the bright moonlight. The set of rays illuminated the floor, then bounced upward, and finally reflected off the ceiling tiles that glittered from the black paint, displaying a new piece of art work.

I halted with a gasp and stared up into the black painted ceiling with both mystery and intrigue.

The second piece of art work featured a white shimmery background inside the black painted ceiling.

The row of actual ceiling tiles had been painted in black hue. On top of each black tile, a long and wide square has been outlined in white shimmery paint. Within the white shimmery outline, a new individual art piece had been painted with an individual figure, where the entire portrait glittered from the nighttime rays of dull and soft moonlight beams, not the bright sunlight rays of the morning.

This design was very clever by the painter.

The new individual portrait displayed a white tinted and shimmy background without a single mint tinted cloud or a pink tinted skyline or a blade of blue tinted grass or a soil of green tinted dirt with an upright standing young toddler also. The toddler was my dead sister Thea, of course. She wore a bright smile and a head of long black tinted curls around both of her cheekbones, displaying a short purple tinted sundress and a pair of naked feet. She stood in the middle of the portrait, lifting the right foot upward in the air. Both of her arms were expanded and then stationary in the air beside her collar bone, even with the floor.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones.

Either arm displayed the rest of the body or a face.

I whispered for my eardrums only. "Tofur told me. Thea was a silent person, sometimes. Then she was a violent person, sometimes. Then, she was a nice person, sometimes. Then, she was a nasty person, sometimes. Now, I can very clearly see here. Thea was also a vain person, all the time. Her entire room including each wall and the ceiling is covered in individual shimmery portraits of her selfie. I wonder if the entire floor tiles hold some type of picture that is only seen during a full moon or some other weird weather event, like a tornado or an earthquake."

I moved ahead with a sigh of annoyance and then halted with a gasp and as I continued to stare into the black ceiling, seeing at the third piece of painted art work.

The white background shimmered in the dull moonlight. My dead twin sister stood beside a low table in the color of pink tinted wood without holding onto the smooth edge, wearing a short yellow tinted sundress with a pair of naked feet. She smiled for the painter, wearing her black curls around each earlobe.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones without showing the rest of the body or a face.

I stumbled ahead with confusion and still wore the wrapped bed linen, stopping and stared at the ceiling at the fourth piece of art work.

The white background shimmered in the dull moonlight. My dead twin sister stood beside a low table in the color of pink tinted wood without holding onto the smooth edge, wearing a short yellow tinted sundress with a pair of naked feet. She smiled for the painter, wearing her black curls around each earlobe.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones without showing the rest of the body or a face.

I slowly struggled ahead in the wrapped bed linen and then halted with a gasp. "Each ceiling drawings is a visual depiction of my twin sister which represents each month of her birth, such like, eleven months old and ten months old," I leaned down and grabbed the tail end of the bed linen, standing upright, rolling the fabric through both of my arms. I slowly back stepped to the first piece of art work that had been crafted in glittering colors on top of the ceiling.

In front of my eyeballs, the first white shimmy ceiling portrait showed a small child.

The child was my dead twin sister Thea as a smiling one-year-old toddler standing in the middle of a white tinted background, wearing a pink tinted short dress and a pair of naked feet, cuddling the golden tinted sleepy kitten in the crook of her arm.

I whispered for my eardrums only. "My twin sister is a one-year-old toddler here inside the shimmy picture. A one-year-old toddler is independent and mobile, moving or running around each furniture piece. Well, sometimes, a one-year-old toddler will climb up and then stand on each furniture piece. I remembered a long time ago. One of the children within the noble family stood on top of the dining room table, yelling out loud and waving both arms in the air for his mother. His mother was too busy talking with her social friends. The one-year-old child jumped into the air, coming off the dining room table surface and then landed in my arms. Well, the toddler landed on top of me as I slid over the floor and caught the child. So, my sister is showing off her princess independent and toddler mobility also at the age of one years old or twelve months. So, there must be eleven more portraits of my sister up there on the ceiling that leads all the way back toward the glass elevator door. This is a fantastic presentation of her infant childhood. Maybe, that's why she painted them, so I could see that her infant features are exactly like mine,"

I produced an ugly yawn without covering my mouth and slowly moved ahead, stopping at the second shimmery portrait, restudying the art work.

The new individual portrait displayed a white tinted and shimmy background without a single mint tinted cloud or a pink tinted skyline or a blade of blue tinted grass or a soil of green tinted dirt with an upright standing young toddler also. The toddler was my dead sister Thea, of course. She wore a bright smile and a head of long black tinted curls around both of her cheekbones, displaying a short purple tinted sundress and a pair of naked feet. She stood in the middle of the portrait, lifting the right foot upward in the air. Both of her arms were expanded and then stationary in the air beside her collar bone, even with the floor.

I gasped in shock. "Thea is walking as a toddler. A toddler will learn to walk around eleven months old or twelve months old. So, she must be eleven months old. She was walking at eleven months old. And I see it now. I can't believe that I missed it. That...that arm coming from the edge of the portrait belongs to one of my biological parents. Well, I can't believe it. I do possess a set of parents here in the Land of Tross that exhibits the same dark skin, like me. Listening to Tofur! He would disagree and he doesn't want me to meet my parents. Why is that? I must inquire with his reasoning tomorrow. Yes, I must do that. Maybe, one of the ceiling art works shows the face of my parents. Do you look like my mother or my father? I'm so excited. And my dead twin sister is eleven months old and started walking around the house. My dead sister started walking at eleven months old. Did I walk upright at eleven months old? I don't know. No one knows. I could ask the older nanny at my old employer, but she might be dead now. It does not matter. My dead sister and I are a set of twins. So, if she started walking at eleven months, then I did also."

I shuffled ahead with a smile and then halted, restudying the third art work on the ceiling.

The white background shimmered in the dull moonlight. My dead twin sister stood beside a low table in the color of pink tinted wood without holding onto the smooth edge, wearing a short yellow tinted sundress with a pair of naked feet. She smiled for the painter, wearing her black curls around each earlobe.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones without showing the rest of the body or a face.

I smiled. "Thea is ten months old here. I guess I looked just like that as a ten-month-old toddler also. This is kinda like reliving my own toddler days through a series of life-sized pictures. This is so nice for me to recall my own childhood. Thea is standing upright without the aid of a motherly hand. A ten-month-old toddler can stand alone without assistance from her or his parents. I should know. I've been babysitting a room of children, since I was eight years old while serving as a live-in and permanent house servant. I lived with a same noble family that enjoyed children and produced a ton of kids. Yeah, Thea is ten months old here. So, the next shimmery piece of art work represents her nine months old royal birth."

I shuffled again with a smile and restudied the second art piece.

The background was shimmy white. My dead twin sister Thea sat in the middle of the portrait inside a baby high chair with a matching tray of pink tinted wood, eating a piece of green fruit with one hand, a bright smile of two teeth, and a head of black curls around each one of her ear tips.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones without showing the rest of the body or a face.

She wore an aqua tinted short dress with a red tinted baby bid that held a golden tiara as the symbol of her status here in the Land of Tross. Her dark tinted legs were straddled down inside the high child. One leg had been posed as a flying kick in the air with a naked foot.

I bounced up and down on top of the floor with excitement as my hands continued to hold the bed linen around my naked body. "I missed it the first time but not the second time. My parents are painted in here. No wonder, my dead sister didn't see them at each mealtime. They are right here in my private bedroom to view all the time. I mean, my parents are the ruler of the kingdom and must be very, very busy. Now, I understand each beautiful but strange pieces of art work on top of a black tinted ceiling, which is not seen during the sunlight but glitters during the nighttime moon rays. My dead sister had those art pieces painted for me to remember that we are twins and that we did the same thing at the same time. I'm so sad. My dead sister was very nice and thoughtful regarding me, even thou, I didn't know of her existence. I wonder how she found it about me. I must inquire from Tofur or another new source here within the building. Maybe, Tofur's mother can direct my query to another person in secret. I met her last night. She seemed to be nice and she was nice to me. I must do that before I approach my parents for the first time. My parents might have an individual heart attack, if they discover me first without finding out that my twin sister is dead. And my twin sister is nine months old in that portrait. A toddler at nine months old can hold onto a piece of food and then shove it into the open mouth while making a mess on her face, the eating tray, and the floor. I know that too. I had to feed each toddler and then clean both ends of each toddler's naked body during their bath time. Then I had to clean up the food mess on the floor and each baby's high chair. Yeah, that was the good old days!"

I slowly moved ahead with a grin and then halted, staring at the fifth art work.

The background was shimmy white again that nicely gathered and then reflected each moonlight beam illuminating the portrait.

My dead twin sister Thea sat in the middle of the portrait on the top of the floor in a pale blue dress with a pair of naked feet, holding a tiny baby mallet in bright green hue, banging on top of a toy drum in the color of bright orange, wearing a smile. Her curls were short and plastered down on top of her head.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones without showing the rest of the body or a face.

I whispered for my eardrums only. "Thea is eight months old here, griping an object firmly in one hand and banging on the toy drum, probably with lot of noise. An eight-month-old baby can crawl, cruise, and experiment within its environment including play toys and each furniture leg on the dining room table and the chairs. I remembered each child that I had to babysit within the noble family. Each child liked to sit upright and slam a mallet into all types of objects, including my naked feet. But it didn't really hurt me."

I slowly shuffled ahead with a smile and then halted, staring at the sixth art work. I could see more shimmy outlines ahead of my person but I didn't want to spoil the next set of surprises.

This portrait displayed the same shimmy white background that was nicely illuminating by the moonlight rays.

My dead twin sister Thea rested on top of her stomach in the middle of the portrait in a short red dress with a pair of naked feet, reaching out for a toy. The toy was a small black tinted mouse with a long gray tail. Her mouth was open like she was laughing at the toy and her head of black tight curls was short.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones without showing the rest of the body or a face.

I whispered for my eardrums only. "Thea is seven months old in this picture. She is crawling on the floor and sees the object that she wants to touch. Then she reaches for the object. This is great exercise to develop her eye and her hand coordination. A seven-month-old baby likes to crawl over the floor but usually slithers over the floor when their eyeballs meet the desired object, which is usually a toy. But sometimes, the toddler enjoys reaching for that single dirty shoe that has also been placed on top of the floor, instead of the pretty toy just to feel the different texture. I had to clear out the playroom storing dirty pairs of shoes and other dirty items that a baby could touch and then place inside the mouth with a tiny baby hand."

I slowly struggled ahead wrapped in the tight bed linen and then halted, staring with a smile up at the eighth ceiling.

This portrait displayed the same shimmy white background and displayed my dead twin sister Thea.

She rested on top of her fanny displaying a short dress in peach hue, extending both arms in the air with a pair of bare feet while wearing a bright smile. She showed off the first two small white tinted enamel teeth on her bottom row of her mouth.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones without showing the rest of the body or a face.

I whispered for my eardrums only. "Thea is six months old here. She has a set of two bottom tooth which is used to bite your hand, if not careful, and to eat solid pieces of food, such like, fruit and soft vegetables. I bet that I started eating at the age of six months old also. Now, I enjoy eating all the time."

I slowly moved ahead with a smile and then halted, staring at the ninth portrait on the ceiling.

The ceiling portrait displayed the same shimmy white background that was nicely illuminated by the moonlight rays.

My dead twin sister Thea rested on top of her fanny displaying a short dress in bright blue hue, extending both arms down on the floor and wore a pair of bare feet, without a mouth of teeth in her sweet smile.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones without showing the rest of the body or a face.

I whispered for my eardrums only, "Awe! So cute! I was cute like that too. Thea is five months old in this picture. She is propping her body upright and sitting on top of her diaper. Awe! She looks so cute and sweet! I bet that I was cute and sweet also. A baby at this age is nice and not mobile. I remembered that I could move around the baby without worrying about the infant getting into trouble."

I slowly scooted ahead with a giggle and then halted, staring at the ninth portrait.  
The ceiling portrait displayed the same shimmy white background which was nicely illuminated by numerous beams of moonlight rays.

My dead twin sister Thea rested on top of her back spine displaying a very short shirt in bright lavender hue, curling both arms underneath her armpits and wore a pair of bare feet, without a mouth of teeth in her sweet smile. Her black curls hair appeared as tiny curls on the top of her skull. Her dark skin glows from baby newness.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones without showing the rest of the body or a face.

I whispered for my eardrums only. "This picture is so sweet. Thea is three months old here. She is learning to roll over from her stomach to her back spine and then vice versa, both a baby fun activity and a new baby development. So, she developed like a normal infant. I guess that I had exhibited the same traits. I only wished that someone could tell me about my childhood also."

I slowly struggled ahead while dragging some of the long tail end on the dirty bed linen behind my feet and then halted, staring up at the tenth portrait.

The ceiling portrait displayed the same shimmy white background which was nicely illuminated by numerous beams of moonlight rays.

My dead twin sister Thea rested on top of her back spine again displaying a very short shirt in bright blue hue, reaching up with an arm and wore a pair of bare feet, without a mouth of teeth in her sweet smile. Her black curls hair appeared as tiny curls on the top of her skull. Her dark skin glows from baby newness.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones without showing the rest of the body or a face.

I whispered for my eardrums only. "This is so precious. Thea is two months old. At two months old, a baby rest on a back spine and then stretches out to reach an interesting object, which is usually the bottle or a soft noisy rattle. If you shake the noisy rattle, the baby will produce a toothless smile or a worried cry or a soft coo or a wet diaper or simply watch the action with a stern face. At two months old, the baby will learn to smile, where each corner on the mouth swings upward. A smile is so precious on a baby. I smiled also at two months old. I wonder who enjoyed my smile, thou."

I slowly moved ahead and then tugged on the loose tail end, stopping and stood, staring up at the eleventh portrait.

The ceiling portrait displayed the same shimmy white background which was nicely illuminated by numerous beams of moonlight rays.

My dead twin sister Thea rested on top of her back spine again displaying a very short shirt in bright blue hue, reaching up with an arm and wore a pair of bare feet, without a mouth of teeth in her sweet smile. Her black curls hair appeared as tiny curls on the top of her skull. Her dark skin glows from baby newness.

An individual dark skinned arm reached out from each side of the picture and held a royal scepter, where the tip of the scepter gently touched each one of her collar bones without showing the rest of the body or a face.

I whispered for my eardrums only, "Awe! This portrait is so cute and tiny. Thea is one month old. She lies on her back spine, kicking both of her naked legs into air, wearing only a pink tinted diaper. She has a pair of matching pink tinted booties on each naked foot. She is so cute. And she is having fun and wears a big baby grin. Or maybe, it is gas from her tiny tummy."

I slowly moved ahead and reached the end of hallway, looking up at the last painted mural on top of the ceiling.

The ceiling portrait displayed the same shimmy white background which was nicely illuminated by numerous beams of moonlight rays.

My dead twin sister Thea had been a couple of hours old as a royal newborn infant. She rested on her back spine on top of a white bed linen sheet and was covered in a pink tinted blanket, sleeping inside a tiny white tinted baby crib with an outline of a shimmery golden tinted tiara on front of the white tinted head board. Both of her tiny arms and legs were bounded in soft pink as she was safe and secure for the night.

I whispered for my eardrums with a puzzled brow, "Awe! Thea is a few hours old on the day of her birth. Her skin is still dull pink from the birth womb. Did I possess a crib as a baby too? Was I wrapped in a pink blanket as a newborn baby also? Of course, I don't remember. Of course, there aren't any colorful glossy pictures of me as a newborn baby slave. Why did my biological parent give me up as a newborn infant here in the Land of Tross? Was I born first or last of the twin pair? Where am I at this moment? Did my parents give me away to the noble family right after the birth? There is only baby inside the tiny crib. And that baby is not me. I don't know any of these answers," I sneered with vengeance. "But I will find out all of my answers. I'm staying right here to fight and then find out all the truth and the lies. I wanna meet my biological parents and confront them with those questions and hear those answers also. Yeah," I yawned ugly and then rubbed both my eyelids, saying softly. "Yeah, I wanna know the answers, too. I slowly spun around and faced the long hallway in the middle of the early morning with another ugly yawn.

I felt drained both mentally and physically again. I didn't want to truck down the long hallway back into the cold bed sheets. I slowly dropped down, landing on both kneecaps inside the soft bed linens with another ugly yawn of exhaustion, stretching over the cool floor with softly sobbing with tears of sadness.

07:07:07 (early morn)

The elevator door slid open.

Inside the carriage, a tall and skinny seventeen-year-old young male stood in place, holding a tray of steaming food items, wearing a naked chest of dark tone, a tan colored turban over a bald mound, a pair of dull tinted tan colored sandals, and a pair of matching loose-fitting matching knee-length trousers. He gasped in worry, spotting the curled up female on top of the black tinted floor.

Tofur rushed ahead, sliding over the smooth dark tile while holding the covered food tray in both hands and then gently collided into the ground body of Thea. He stared at her with worry, watching her face, gently dropping the food tray down beside Thea on top of the floor.

Her chest was moving up and in a breathing motion. She was sleeping quietly on top of the floor, not inside the bed.

He looked up with worry and then scanned the private chamber of Thea, without seeing any disturbance, which was normal.

No other person could enter into her chamber. The elevator control system only worked on DNA genes that triggered the opening of each private entranceway.

Tofur was the personal servant for Empress Thea. Thus he only had access into her private chamber at any time of day or night through his personal sweat molecules on the glass elevator. He would leave Thea each night and then return back home, retiring to his personal bed chamber with his biological family.

On top of the black tinted floor, beside a slumbering Thea, he finished scanning the enclosed hallway and felt satisfaction that no one had removed a slumbering Thea from her private bed while feeling concern for the fake empress.

The real Empress Thea had been raised in the royal family and quickly had been taught her royal duties, fighting in each new battle arena for both the land and people properties. Empress Thea had executed each battle fight with ease, grace, and success. Thus, she had been admired by the current adult and teen court kings, queens, princes, and princesses of each homeland.

He didn't understand her twin sister, the fake empress. The fake empress Thea currently slept on top of the floor like a hand servant.

On top of the black tinted floor, beside Thea, he reached over and then gently touched one of her folded arms with a soft whisper. "Thea, the morning has arrived here in your room. Thea, the time is early. You need to awaken. Do you want a tray of hot steaming breakfast items?"

I stirred from the warm touch on my arm and then blinked opened my eyelashes, seeing his smile. I smiled back and then slowly sat upright on my fanny still wearing the single white tinted bed linen, bending down at the waistline on top of the floor. "Yes, I would some breakfast."

He stared into her nose profile with worry. "What are you doing here sleeping on top of the floor? Is your personal set of bed linens filled with ticks or fleas or roaches or something else creepy crawly? Is there something that I need to know about? I sweat when I left you last night, the bed linens were nice and clean."

She chewed and then swallowed the food with a smile, pointing the empty fork at the ceiling, seeing only the set of black solid tiles, which did not display any of the glittering murals from this early morning. "There is a set of painted pictures on the ceiling. I was studying them last night. Then I was too tired to walk back down the long, long corridor and slip back down into the bed mattress. So, I fell asleep here this morning."

"No." He looked up with a confused brow and studied the black tiles. "No. The ceiling is made of solid black tiles which are made to fend off the array of heated sunshine here in the Land of Tross. I don't see any or one visual picture up there on top of the ceiling, Thea," he returned back and frowned at her nose profile. "Are you feeling okay? I am worried about you, kiddo."

I chewed and then swallowed the food with a smile, pointing the empty fork at the ceiling again. "Yes, there are a set of pictures which are painted onto the ceiling like the portrait that are painted onto each side wall. Who painted all these portraits? The moonlight showed each portrait to me last night," I ate and the chewed the good food.

He frowned up at the black tinted ceiling. "No. I don't see a single picture up there on the ceiling. All the ceiling tiles are black paint and they cannot be painted again. You can't paint on black paint. What else did the moonlight rays reveal into your mind, Thea? Are your teeth sharper and pointer than normal this morning?" He laughed.

I chewed and then swallowed the food with a puzzled brow, staring up at the black tinted ceiling. I did not see the pictures during the bright daylight either. "No. I saw a row of life-size pictures that have been painted on top of the black ceiling tiles that was illuminated from the moonlight rays."

He looked down with a worried brow and stared into her nose profile. "You saw with your active and sleepy mind, during your sleeping walk phase, a row of mental pictures. Your sister did not sleep walk. I never found her here near the elevator in a curled up pose on top of the floor and wrapped in her bed linen sheet. And to address your set posed questions, because I am here to answer all of your questions. One of the many talented painters had painted all the side walls here inside her room over a period of months."

I chewed and then swallowed the food with a puzzled brow. "When did she order all the portraits?"

He turned and stared at one of the side walls with a stern face, "Hmm! I believe she was seventeen years old. Yes, I remember clearly. She was about to turn seventeen years old and requested the side wall painted for her birthday present." He looked back at Thea. "You twin sister was very much loved by her parents. Her parents always tossed a gigantic birthday party for their daughter."

I turned and smiled at one of the pretty painted side walls. "That's nice!"

He slowly stood upright from the floor and then leaned down, reaching out, grabbing the food tray from her lap. Thea had eaten a hardy meal which indicated to Tofur that she was exploring her feelings as the new empress in the Land of Tross rather than nervous about an upcoming battle fights. He stood upright again with a stern face, holding the tray of food, staring down at Thea. "Yeah. Yeah. It was nice. Now, we're wasting time, Thea. Get up from the floor and go and get dressed! We need to go." He spun around with a sigh and faced the long corridor, moving ahead, toting the used food tray with a sour frown.

I continued to sit down on the floor with a smile and tossed both arms in the air. We were going to attend the Coil meeting this morning, since I had won the battle fight without sacrifice. I really didn't want to attend the Coil meeting and see the execution of Shamguard hostages inside the hologram pit. "Why? Where are we going? I'm an empress. I can do anything that that I desire. I desire to tour..."

He moved ahead with a sour frown, toting the food tray toward an upright glass table and then stopped, placing the food tray on top of the hard surface. "You're a working teenage empress here in the Land of Tross, until you turn eighteen years old which is tomorrow at midnight. You are desired inside the Coil room right now," he scooted around the table and moved ahead toward the end of the long corridor, where the single bed mattress lived surrounded by a row of clear glass windows.

I wiggled side to side on top of the floor with a giggle, without getting up from the cool floor. "O! I need to get dressed first."

He continued to move ahead with a sour frown. "I know that. I assume that you are naked underneath that bed linen. So, get go up and get dressed, Thea. I don't want Dragon Head calling and inquiring about your lateness into the Coil meeting again. The scary hologram freaks my naked feet out," he laughed.

I slowly stood upright from the floor and then carefully strolled ahead still wearing the dirty white tinted bed linen sheet with a smile. I had a new empress plan that will implement today inside the Coil meeting. I scooted over the smooth tiles with a smile. "Why isn't there a side table next to the bed mattress for a plate of food or a glass of water inside her private bedroom?"

"A plate of food would attract bugs. A glass of water would break over the glass tiles."

I continued to stroll ahead with a smile. "O! Why isn't there a sitting chair for a visitor here inside her private bedroom?"

"She didn't ever invite a guest up here inside her private bedroom."

"O! Why didn't you eat breakfast with me?"

"I ate with my parents this morning before coming here," he stopped and stood beside the ugly bed, leaning down, making the messy bed.

"O!" I stopped in front of the messy bed mattress and then turned with a smile to see the side wall that held the hidden lavatory space. "I gotta go and do my new thing."

"You, go and do that, but rush it. The Coil does not wait for you."

I moved ahead with a chuckle and then stopped, reaching out, touching the smooth surface. The shimmery portrait of my dead twin sister Thea displayed a solid white background without a single mint tinted cloud or a pink tinted skyline or a blade of blue tinted grass or a soil of green tinted dirt with smiling one-year-old Thea in a pink dress with a pair of bare feet, who stood upright in the middle of the painted space.

The far edge of the art work that didn't bleed into the next portrait hid either but held a hidden sliding door that led into the hidden lavatory room.

The door opened. I moved inside with a giggle wearing the bed linen over my nakedness to clean up my dirty body. The lavatory door closed shut.

Outside the lavatory door, he continued to make the messy bed with a sour frown, stretching the fabric over the smooth mattress, finally showing a neat bedcover. He needed to grab the dirty bed linen and clean it before Thea returned back from the Coil meeting.

He leaned over and grabbed her scepter with a giggle, holding the smooth metal in both hands with a grin. He looked at the shimmery wall, where the fake second empress Thea performed her private business. He returned back to see the shiny scepter and pressed the trigger button.

The slot swiftly slid open. A long blade in glittering silver hue extended into the air and then stopped at full length.

He looked back at the shimmy wall portrait, where the fake second empress Thea continued to perform her private business and then returned back to see the silver blade. He whipped the blade side to side watching the tiny twinkles from the metal with a smile. The blade was light weight but very sharp.

A prince or a princess could easily cut open an artery vein on the arm or the leg or the throat within a split second, killing the opponent quickly and without mercy.

The lavatory door slid open without revealing Thea.

Beside the bed mattress at the forward window, he tossed her scepter down onto the neatly made bed covers, wearing a fake smile, turning to see Thea.

Inside the lavatory archway, I faced the opposite side wall portrait that displayed my dead twin sister with a smile, wearing the dirty bed linen over my clean body and then moved ahead with a smile.

On the side wall, the red tinted wagon held a sitting and smiling two-year-old Thea in a coral colored short dress and a pair of naked feet as the wagon stood alone in the middle of the glittery painted space. The upper and lower portion of the portrait contained white tinted paint without other objects while illuminating the floor with dancing sunbeams of light and heat.

I stopped in front of the wall portrait and reached out, touching the wall with my index finger pad. The hidden wardrobe slowly cracked open with a slight hiss, revealing the wardrobe closet.

I slowly moved inside with a stern face. The wardrobe door slid shut in silence behind the tail end of the bed linen sheet.

The room was designed in a square with three solid walls of black tinted glass. One of the side walls had been constructed of clear glass only, where the low sunset rays were burning through the clear glass and then brightened up the dark wardrobe room. The ceiling was composed of black tinted glass without a set of artificial lamps for visual light.

The three black tinted glass windows contained nothing but glass. There wasn't a standing set of built-in closet furniture or drawers holding numerous pieces of clothing items.

The clear glass window on the side wall of the wardrobe room held solid slab of glass only and bright rays of sunshine.

I moved ahead and then stopped in front of a black tinted metal rack. The lonely free-standing metal rack contained a line of personal clothes. Each outfit had been neatly arranged on an individual hanger containing a sleeveless lavender tinted blouse with a high collar, a matching circular short skirt, a pair of undergarment in matching lavender, and finally a pair of matching thigh-high boots.

I dropped the wet dirty bed linen onto the floor while exposing my nudity, giggling from the cold air flow inside the tiny room. I reached out and grabbed the first hanger that contained a complete outfit.

The wardrobe room didn't contain any additional pieces of other colorful garments for a male or a female but showed a row of three individual lavender outfits on a single clothing rack.

There was not displayed a single glittery dancing gown or a pair of high heeled matching dancing sandals or a warm bathrobe or a pair of sleeping pajamas.

I thought the wardrobe closet without a set of clothing was odd, but here I was pretending to be an empress, who was going to become the permanent empress which was odder.

I brought the rack of clothing closer to my face and then laughed out loud. "There are only three individual lavender outfits left on the poor empty steel-plated rack. O! My poor sister Thea has been wearing the color of lavender, since the age of something years old. I bet she was sick of this pretty pastel color. However, I'm turning eighteen years old in two more days. Then, maybe, I can select another royal color. I'm not really fond of lavender but the color looks nice with my black hair."

I quickly dressed in the matching lavender tinted sleeveless top and the circular skirt, dropping down on top of the glass floor, very carefully. The floor was cold and smooth, placing a thigh-high boot over each clean sock, slowly standing upright from the floor, pressing down the skirt. The fabric was thick and course for an upcoming battle fight but any sharp tip on a blade could penetrate the pretty outfit and still kill my pumping heart dead.

I swiftly spun around with a stern face and marched back to the hidden door.

I didn't bother looking out the clear window view on the other side of the building that displayed the blue grass, the green dirt, and the grove of golden trees, the pretty pink sky, and the weird mint green clouds. I didn't know or understand or comprehend this place or this palace or this person.

I moved ahead towards the closed door in the wardrobe room and stopped with a smile, reaching out, pressing my middle finger pad onto the smooth glass. The glass door slid open in silence revealing the bed chamber suite.

I strolled ahead through the open archway with a smile and stopped a few feet from the wardrobe room, in front of Tofur. The wardrobe glass door slid shut in silence.

He smiled at Thea. "Now, you look presentable..."

"Let's rush!" I turned with a giggle and raced ahead without Tofur. I felt good about my new day as the new teen empress in the Land of Tross. "I'm in a hurry today."

He turned to face the back spine on Thea with a gasp and then raced ahead toward the elevator door.

The elevator carriage had not moved away from Thea's entrance portal, which meant everyone was present alright at the Coil meeting.

I entered first into the elevator carriage and stopped, standing at the rear glass window. He entered next with a worried brow.

Glass elevator carriage setting

The single door slid closed shut in silence. Tofur spun around in silence and reached out, pressing the button for the 50th floor with a stern face, staring through the glass elevator into Thea's room. The carriage vaulted up toward the heavens at high speed.

I studied the same colorful and funny-looking terrain in the Land of Tross in silence. Outside the window, the landmass was flat which extended for miles and miles within my acute vision and as I continued to ride upwards inside a flying glass elevator that reflected the bright sunlight and some heat. The Center Building possessed an excellent air-conditioning system of cool air molecules which kept a person from sweating.

My stomach sailed upward and then stuck inside my tight throat as it tickled my esophagus. I was not afraid but excited as I possessed the same personality and appearance like my dead twin sister Thea.

Now, I had figured out my purpose taking over as the new ruler in the Land of Tross, in place of my dead twin sister. But I was still clueless about my separation from my dead twin sister and the reason from my set of biological parents. Maybe, I would find those answers today inside the Coil meeting room.

Outside the elevator window, the landmass was split into two types of terrain which parted down the middle of the landscape. One side of the landscape appeared in flat layer of solid light blue tinted grass with a set of numerous short rows of colorful flowers that outlined a single winding green tinted walkway that touched each tall and slender glass building. The opposite side of the split landscape held a solid sheet of green tinted dirt with a set of scattered huddles of short golden tinted trees that curved around a single winding lavender tinted walkway, where a set of short glass buildings stood. There were numerous men, women, children, and pets strolling on the walkway and the grounds looking happy and content.

The skyline held a faint tint of pink hue that glistened within the bright rays of sunshine, where each cloud burst glowed in dull mint green hue.

I smiled in beauty at the pretty scenery. "Why is the skyline colored pale green here? I have never seen an entire lawn of blue grass. Why is entire ground covered in green dirt? Where I come from the skyline is always pale blue and the dirt is always reddish brown."

Beside Thea, Tofur continued to stand and stared at the closed glass elevator door which swiftly displayed each floor level as the elevator quickly moved upward from the 18th floor toward the finally destination. He only saw a blur of shimmery faint color tones.

A naked person could stand directly in front of their protective glass door on their personal floor level of the common elevator shunt as the elevator jolted upward and then bypassed the naked person. Then, each elevator passenger would only see a blur of color, not the silly naked individual.

He continued to frown at the fleeing glass floors in silence.

The carriage smoothly halted. The single solid wall of glass slid open.

50th floor level

Hallway entrance location

Hot temperatures with bright sunshine and pink skyline and mint green clouds

08:08:08 (early am)

Coil Room setting

The glass carriage stopped. The single glass elevator door slid open revealing the new floor level. The floor displayed shiny black tinted glass enclosing two side walls, leading down a long empty hallway toward a matching end wall of solid black glass also.

Inside the carriage, I spun around with a sneer and moved ahead, exiting the carriage, staring ahead at the far wall.

Tofur continued to stand inside the glass carriage with a silly smile without movement, staring at the back spine on Thea.

Each side wall measured thirty feet in height with an individual art piece every twenty feet across. The first art piece exhibited a gigantic landscape that encompassed the twenty foot of black glass which glittered in three sections. The bottom held a horizontal field of waves of yellow color in fury. The top portion represented a red tinted angry skyline against the black tinted glass. On one side of the twenty feet shimmery portrait, two individual wore a one-piece suit of shimmery silver glitter and raise an individual in silver tinted glittery scepter with the blade extended towards the red angry skyline. The two figures stood upright inside a background of matching silver glitter paint as each figure shook and shifted with movement through the set of glittery paint in beauty.

I moved ahead with a soft growl without the warm semi-naked body on Tofur and then I back stepped back into the elevator carriage, reaching inside, grabbing the naked arm on Tofur.

He moved beside her with a soft yelp of surprise.

I continued a steady pace with a sneer at my new task this morning. "Move with me! I wanna get into the room and talk with the others."

He gasped in alarm. "What are you going to talk about inside the Coil meeting room, fake empress Thea? You, as her, never talk to the other court princes or princesses, except for Nasty Champ or E-rat. What are you planning to do, fake empress Thea?"

I swiftly strolled ahead and stared at the opposite end of hallway with a stern face. "Something great!"

Both of the two side walls had been constructed in black glass which was opposite of my private bedroom chamber in natural clear glass. On top of each black tinted glass wall, the talented painter had used a set of lighter tones of color for the portrait to shine and shimmery through the darkness of the glass material.

I looked up with a smile to see the ceiling material and then squirted my eyelashes from the very bright sunbeams of the late afternoon.

The ceiling had been constructed of clear glass only, where each individual sunbeam poured down from the solar sun and then bombard each glittery particle of paint making each individual portrait come alive with movement, but it was an illusion. The pieces of glitter were shivering and shaking in place from the rays of sunlight.

The second shimmery portrait like the first was gigantic giant-sized portrait compared to a life-sized format in glittering light tinted colors that covered the entire black glass. The portrait was evenly split in three sections also. The top portion was strikingly yellow tinted skyline and rolls of green waves on the bottom. In-between, there were two individuals kneeling down, wearing a shimmery silver tinted jumpsuit with a silver tinted scepter, pointing down to the green waves.

He continued to move with her and stared at her nose profile in silence.

I quickly dashed down an empty hallway without meeting one single teen for the morning meeting, turning to smile at each painted portrait. I returned back and stared at the end of the hallway.

The forward wall at the end of the long hallway consisted of only solid black glass that twinkled in tiny bursts of pinks, reds, greens, and orange hues coming from the array of bright beams of sunlight and did not exhibit an individual shimmery portrait in-between the single archway. The archway was an open square shaped design, where three individuals could stroll inside in a row.

I exhaled with a fury remembering the events yesterday and swiftly advanced ahead with a fluttering stomach, a stern face, and a worried heart while each foot stomp felt like a heavy rock. I strolled into the room and then stood inside the open archway with a deep sigh.

The room was the same color, structure and occupants.

The interior room on the floor had been designed as a complete circle or a flat disc of dark tinted glass in black which blocked both the upper floor and the lower floor viewing activities and housed a different set of audience members, such like, the parents of the children on the upper level and the natives on the level floor.

Tofur was heading down to the floor level for the early morning exhibition.

In the middle of the room, there was a circle of empty space that stored a set of invisible air waves which sailed up towards the flat rooftop and then back down towards the ground floor for some type of special purpose.

In front of the curved wall, a set of individual chaise lounge chairs were spaced about ten feet apart dull red smooth material.

There were nineteen nations within the kingdom, so each teen occupied a chaise lounge chair for the Coil meeting. The entire space appeared like a cylinder-like design. Thus, the people and air waves coiled around the structure, giving it a clever name.

I strolled inside a few feet and then halted between the archway and the open pit, staring at each court princess and prince underneath a row of dull artificial overhead lamps with a sour frown, announcing with a sour tone. "What's wrong with you, court princesses and princes?"

The room was silence.

I slowly moved ahead toward each chaise lounge chair while getting the attention of each court prince and princess that wore a puzzled brow.

The first chaise lounge chair in red hue contained Princess Muppin. She was a tall and sexy female with a bright smile and a head of red hair, a tone of pink skin, wearing an ankle-length pale blue gala dress, a pair of matching sandals, and a tiny matching pale blue tiara on top of her strands. She stared at Thea and then smiled. "I know that a teen focuses on your friends, not her family members. But what is your probe inside your butthole, this morning, Thea?"

Inside the same piece of furniture, there was a second attached lounge chaise chair that contained Governess Lael. She was a petite and pretty female with a slick ponytail of long, long brown hair with a mixture of additional fun colors of pink, purple, lavender over her skull and on the ponytail, a tone of pale skin, and a pair of green eyeballs. She came from the Land of Lesdam which was located on the far, far northern end of the kingdom, where the ground was covered in white tinted and cold ice particles. The entire nation was one tiny village that only provided the outdoor activity of ice skating on top of the frozen ground for fun and also imported all types of food stuff, warm clothes, and other life essentials.

Lael wore a shorty short circular skirt of pink tint, a sleeveless shirt of matching pink tint underneath a pair of naked legs that was attached to a pair of roller blades in rainbow colors. She also possessed elbow and knee pads in the same rainbow hues that matched her pair of roller blades. She looked up with a gasp to see Thea. "Ya know it is not uncommon for your parents to wonder about their teen's behavior, but I wonder about your mental state of mind, Thea."

The next chaise lounge chair contained a tall and large teen male with a portable table over his lap that contained a tray of food, wearing a purple and white long dress that exposed a pair of blue shoes. Count Huzz was a handsome male teen with a head of cropped light red hair and a pair of violet eyeballs on a face of pale skin, coming from the Land of Hyzo, where all the livestock was raised and grazed and then eaten by all the other natives within the kingdom.

Huzz continued to sit and eat while mumbling a short set of incoherent words through the set of chewed food without lifting up a palm for a fun-slap or a fist for a fun-punch, staring down at the plate of food with a pair of dancing eyeballs. "What's wrong with you, Thea?"

Marquee Kidron was average height and weight wearing a naked chest, a silly pointy hat of bright mint green, where his long red tinted hair touched each breast nipple. He possessed a tone of pink tinted skin and a pair of violet eyeballs, wearing a pair of skin-tight pants in vertical strips of pink, mint green, lavender, and yellow that extended down to a pair of roller skates. He came from the Land of Korbright, where the hills flow up and down which is made of solid rock in the color of purple.

The natives traveled around to a different town on a pair of roller blades. The land did not produce a natural mineral or a piece of man-made merchandise, only show of talented roller skaters that entertain other nations.

Kidron leaned over the shared armrest with his buddy Huzz with a loud chuckle and then swiftly stole a piece of food item off the plate of Huzz, sitting back, eating the food with an open mouth and a giggling smile.

Huzz lifted a hand and swiped away the invader while missing the limb, frowning in annoyance, staring down at the plate of food.

Then, the other court prince Marquee Kidron swallowed the food item and then reached over, stealing another piece of food with a giggle for fun. "Thea is behaving weird due to her head injury from last night. I told you before Thea hit her head during the battle fight, last night."

Earl Zeamon was a tall and skinny guy with a head of oily slick back black tinted straight hair, a pair of dark eyes, and a tone of dark skin wearing a tight-fitting outfit of solid gray with a short long-sleeved jacket and a pair of matching trousers that extended toward a pair of ankle boots in the same hue. He continued to sit and stare at Thea with a nod. "Thea has a mental illness which is finding showing its initial symptom. Don't you, Thea? Tell us the truth, Thea! We can help you, Thea."

A short and plump cute male teen, Duke Joed exhibited a mop of stringy blonde hair that fell down over his continuous chewing lips, where his eyeballs of brown could not be seen. He wore a short outfit that exposed a pair of pale legs and naked foot. His torso was covered in a long white tinted napkin to catch the food particles and protect the yellow matching jacket.

"No. Thea does not have a mental illness," he looked up and then lifted up his dirty fork with a piece of dark meat near his eardrum.

I continued to stroll ahead with a fake smile, reaching out, grabbing the dark meat with a fake smile, hand slinging the greasy food below even with my kneecaps, hitting it against the curvy wall beside my nose profile and behind the lounge chair on the disc-shaped floor. I was not eating a piece of meat that I didn't know the animal breed or coming from a foreign hand.

Joed did not yell or debate about her slick move, looking back down, stabbing another piece of meat and then chewed with a grin.

Inside the second lounge chaise chair, Lady Olivet sat beside Duke Joed chewing on a plate of food also. She was a short and plump teen female with a pair of green eyeballs, a tone of pale skin, and a bob of blonde hair, wearing a matching short yellow tinted outfit that exposed a pair of skinny legs and a pair of naked feet. A long white tinted napkin covered her matching yellow tinted jacket to catch the food particles and protect the jacket, also.

Olivet lifted up a naked hand that was coated in colorful food stains near her earlobe, holding out a cookie with a smile and a wink. "Thea's only moody. That's normal for a court princess."

I scooted ahead with breaking my stride and reached out, grabbing the cookie with a fake smile while touching her greasy hand. "Thanks!" I didn't have time to study up on each court princess and prince and still could not remember the name of the petite female either.

I moved ahead and then flung the cookie against a new part of the curved wall with a soft giggle like I did last night.

On top of their twin set of chaise lounge chairs, a long portal golden tinted table extended over both of the chairs and each pair of their naked legs. One tray held dark meat and colorful eggs. A second tray held a lumpy pile of colorful fruit. And a third tray was piled high with a stack of chocolate cookies.

Olivet hailed from the Land of Onam, where groves of fruit trees grew, thrived, and were harvested for food.

Duke Joed came from the Land of Jeroboom, where the people raised, worked, and ate the natural native mammal, the mule.

I slowly advanced ahead with a stern face, seeing the next set of court princes and princesses.

The first seat on the next lounge chair contained Countess Glitza. The teen royal was average height like me with a head of long black hair, a pair of gray eyeballs, a tone of dark skin and looked breathtaking beautiful, even with her permanently curled lips, left side.

She came from the Land of Gildallie where miles and miles exhibited flat and dry and heated plains in brown dirt tone that yielded an array of raw gem stones.

Glitza displayed a tight-fitting jumpsuit of orange tint that covered her entire body, but each arm sleeve held a set of vertical positioned glittery individual colorful gem stone going from the edge of her neck across each collar bone and then descending down all the way to the top of her hand and a pair of thigh-high boots that exhibited pointy stones on the side going down to each boot heel like the jumpsuit. Yeah, her tailored made royal jumpsuit was also a vicious weapon as each individual gem stone had been sculptured into a tiny pointy object that could bleed a large mammal with long fangs and sharp claws.

Glitza stared at Thea with a smirk flinging a set of manicured fingernails of bright green hue in the air with a laugh. "Thea is a true rebel with her true rebel behavior. I applaud her rebel behavior," but she did not clap but laughed out loud.

Beside Glitza inside the second chaise lounge chair, the body of Viscountess Arodi possessed a head of cropped black hair, a tone of pale skin that was covered in tattooed black weird symbols, and row of earrings that started at the earlobe and went to the crest of the ear. Each nose had been pieced and a top of the lip, right side.

She wore a long black gown that covered her entire body while disguising her entire body. The exposed body parts including both of her hands and her naked toes held an assortment of finger rings and toes rings of silver tint. She hailed from the Land of Arfad, where a range of short mountains which was made from solid hard limestone rock in numerous colors and tones was used to create furniture and other household items.

Arodi lifted a folded fist with a finger of rings and then slapped her chest with a low grunt of teenly pain. "Thea is a teenager and no different from me and you and you and you..."

I moved ahead and stared at the next set of royals in silence.

Inside the first seat of the next chaise lounge chair, Queen Bakeria was a very tall and very gorgeous girl with a face and a body of dark skin tone, curly white platinum hair strands, wearing a light green tinted jumpsuit with a pair of matching ankle boots, sitting inside the second chaise lounge chair. She continued to stare down at a plate of cooked fish, where both the fish and her person hailed from the Land of Bocardo which consisted of water in the form of rivers and ponds, and lakes.

She exhaled. Bakeria laughed "What came first, the chicken or the egg, Thea?" she laughed and stabbed the fish, eating it raw, chewing with an open at Thea.

He laughed out loud with a wink at Thea. "No one knows that answer including me or you or him or her or no one." Beside the first chaise lounge chair that held Bakeria, Viscount Dimon occupied the next seat.

He was a very tall male with a lean frame of muscles with a plume of black hair standing upright on top of his head where the rest of the bone skull is shaven clean. He possessed a naked chest of olive skin and a pair of brown eyes while staring down at the plate of smelly aquatic food stuff, without grunting or speaking to Thea. He wore a pair of skin-tight brown tinted trousers with a pair of matching knee boots.

He hailed from the Land of Dimna, where the land was very low and filled with a series of wet marshes. The people wrestle with a yellow tinted alligator that matched and hid inside a shallow marsh and then ate them for food and fun.

I continued ahead with a stern face approaching a unique piece of furniture, where three persons lounged together inside an individual lounge chaise chair, which was attached together for some strange reason.

Inside the first chair, a petite girl laughed out loud and leaned over, touching the naked chest on a slender and dark skinned male that lounged between two other chairs. Inside the third lounge chaise chair, a tall female reached over, grabbing, and slapped away the both hands on the petite girl with a sneer of jealousy.

The first lounge chaise chair, Baroness Cilicee was a petite girl with a nice laugh, a head of red curly hair, a pair of amber eyeballs, and a tone of amber skin color. She came from the Land of Colon, where everyone travels from home to enjoy some fun times. The landscape is composed of grassy or snowy rolling hills and low down green tinted fresh ponds for swimming, skiing, hiking, and enjoying forestland. She wore a pair of bare feet with a long sleeveless dress in patterns of strips consisting of red, blue, and pink hue. She continued to reach over and tickle the naked chest of the teen male with hardy laughter as he continued to laugh out loud and wiggle side to side in happy torment while the tall female sneered and continued to slap back the petite hands of Cilicee from the sexy teen male.

Cilicee sat back and then leaned forward, winking at Bakeria with a laugh. "Queen Bakeria is acting really weirder than Empress Thea, this morning. What's the probe up your butthole, beside a flock of fleas, Bakeria?" She laughed again.

Tucked inside the middle chaise lounge chair, Baron Pekod laughed out loud with fun and possessed an average height and slender body frame, a head of brown tinted dreadlocks, a pair of brown eyes, and a tone of dark skin coming from the Land of Penina, which was really an ocean island with a set of fish, sharks, and other sea animals. He wore a pair of naked feet, a long set of walking shorts in the hue of brown that matched his skin tone, and a naked chest while giggling from the numerous tender touches of petite red haired Cilicee. He leaned back into the chair and lifted both of his arms above his brown tinted dreadlocks, extending both palms into the air with a smile. "Good morning, Empress-girl! Thea is sassy. I like Thea's new abnormal behavior. Usually, she's so mellow and quiet."

I moved ahead with a grin and slapped both of his open palms with a giggle, prancing ahead with happiness of a new friend.

Inside the third chaise lounge chaise, Duchess Fera was a dark haired and dark skinned beauty of average height and weight coming from the Land of Flocci, where the land was flat and made of ice and snow, very cold. She wore a short sleeveless sundress of peach and a pair of naked feet, reaching over to slap the hands from Cilicee with a sneer and then tickled the naked chest of Pekod with a giggle. "What's the probe up your butthole, Bakeria?"

Cilicee leaned over and then slapped both of the flat hands on Fera away from her royal prince with a sneer.

I moved ahead with a stern face in silence.

Inside the first chaise lounge chair, Tzaress Ittai sat beside an empty chaise lounge chair while shouting in angry. She was very tall and very muscular in body with cropped hair of blonde, a tone of dark skin, a pair of blue eyes, and a pair of sideburns going down the side of her face in red tint and a lip moustache in red color also. She came from the Land of Ikoloth which was a lush jungle of wild animals. The people ate the meat of the animals and wore the fur as a set of clothing. She didn't wear a pelt of animal fur instead she wore a set of blue tinted tights over her butthole and a matching outer bra over each big breast.

On her left shoulder going down to her middle finger, she possessed a piece of body armor in bright tinted blue metal that covered her entire left arm. And her long armor-covered arm was slamming and grinding into another metal arm in bright green tint creating a sound of metal pain and as Ittai laughed with a smile at her brother. "Thea is discovering that she is not a perfect empress and has faults like me and you."

Tzar Aqualia growled in snarls of fury into the face of his sister.

I moved ahead with a stern face and then covered both of my eardrums hearing the loud scratching noises that had my nerve endings sing off-key.

No one sat inside the middle chair lounge chair without bravery and then dying.

Inside the third seat, Tzar Aqualia sneered and slammed his right arm that was plated in bright green tinted metal into her blue colored plated arm. He was a very tall in height and very large of muscle, a tone of pale skin, a bald head, and a clean shaven face with a pair of pale eyeballs

He came from the Land of Alush, where numerous heated and hot volcanoes live and erupt all the time. The flowing heated lava is captured and then used to build everything day appliances and flying machines.

Each teen continued to sit and fight with the metal arm in a series of sneers and growls alone inside the three-seater chaise lounge chair.

Aqualia laughed. "Thea is being selfish, me thinks." He fought with his sister.

I slowly paced over the black glass and stared at the last two teens and then stopped with a wicked smile, standing in front of an empty lounge chair, turning to stare at Erato first.

Erato possessed a head of shoulder length wavy black tinted hair, a jaw line of dusted black tinted whiskers, a pair of green tinted eyes, and a tone of pale tinted skin. He wore a sculptured upper torso of pale skin, without a shirt, a pair of tight black tinted trousers, and a pair of naked feet that wiggled up and down on top of the red tinted chaise lounge chair while looking healthy, hot, and available to my eyeballs and my neurons. He smiled at her. "Thea is selfless."

Nastchill was an extremely tall and muscular young seventeen years old male with a bright smile, a pair of blue eyes, and a tint of dark colored skin, a bald skull, and a red tinted goatee. He was dressed in only a set of naked ripped biceps and triceps, without his sleeveless vest, a pair of matching brown tinted trousers, and a pair of naked feet also that rotated side to side over the lounge chair. He smiled at her, "She's showing off her independence strike, finally."

I crossed both arms with a stern face and then looked down with gasp at the floor. Erato and Nastchill shared a double-seated chaise lounge chair. Then I pointed down at the floor with puzzlement. "Where...where is the three-seater lounge chaise there? What is going on here?"

Erato reached over with a chuckle and patted his armrest, smiling at Thea. "You're late and last and lost as usual, Thea!"

"Your royal seat a-waits, right here, Thea." Nastchill reached down and slapped the hand between his parted legs with a wink, patting the empty spot for her fanny.

I continued to point down at the occupied space in-between the double-seated lounge chair with a puzzled brow. "No. I have a seat between both of ya'll."

Erato turned and nodded to Nastchill. "Yeah, that's normal teen behavior for Thea and for you, Nasty Champ," laughing.

"Yeah, a royal seat right here with me." Nastchill winks at her. "Thea, she's trying out new things. Aren't ya, darling?"

"She's experiencing new heights in her sexually awareness and sexy body." Erato turned and winked at Thea.

Nastchill turned and then sneered at Erato. "Be careful there, boy! Thea is taken."  
"Yeah, she is taken by me!" Erato slapped a chest with a sneer.

Tzar Aqualia continued to sit and then shouted out loud with a laugh. "She's worried. I'm worried too."

Viscount Dimon continued to sit and then shouted out loud with a smile. "She's confused. I'm confused too."

Lady Olivet continued to sit and shouted out loud with a smile. "She's normal. I'm normal too."

Princess Muppin. Lady Olivet continued to sit and shouted out loud with a frown. "She's negative. I'm negative too."

Baroness Cilicee continued to sit and shouted out loud with a laugh. "She's defiant. I'm defiant too."

Countess Glitza continued to sit and shouted out loud with a smile. "She's breaks the rules. I like to break the rules too."

Duchess Fera continued to sit and then shouted out loud with a frown. "She's frustrated. I'm frustrated too."

Viscountess Arodi continued to sit and then shouted out loud with a frown. "She's arguing with her parents. I am arguing with my parents too."

Count Huzz continued to sit and then shouted out loud with a frown. "She's depressed. I am depressed too."

Duke Joed continued to sit and shouted out loud with a pout as abused food particles flew across the room. "She's have sleeping problems. I have sleeping problems too."

Governess Lael continued to sit and shouted out loud with a smile. "She's cute. I'm cute, to boot."

Baron Pekod continued to sit and shouted out loud with a smile. "She's developing a social relationship with her royal friends. I am trying to do that too."

Marquee Kidron continued to sit and shouted out loud with a smile. "She's dangerous. I'm dangerous too."

"She's having an identity crisis, unlike me," Queen Bakeria continued to sit and shouted out loud with a laugh.

I spun around with a gasp to see each court prince and princess with shock. "What?"

In the middle room inside the empty space of air molecules, a circular glass platform appeared and then curved around the empty space extending into each direction, covering the air and formed an enclosed platform of clear glass.

A vertical line of purple hue beamed up from the ground floor and halted, forming a purple tinted outline of a shimmery dragon's head. The dragon head outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the dragon's head without a flame of colorful snot balls or long flames.

A male voice echoed out from the holographic dragon head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud into onto each floor level including the second floor room, where the teens were sitting. _"Welcome to all! I am happy to announce today that the kingdom has added the Land of Shamguard..."_

"No!" I spun around to see the holographic Dragon Head which represented my royal father, exhaling with worry and fear. "No! Do not send any representations from the Land of Shamguard here. They are not welcomed here..."

Viscount Dimon continued to sit and shouted out loud with a smile, beating on each armrest. "They are welcomed here. Bring in the little girls and the little boys!"

I turned to see the voice of the court prince with a sneer. "Shut up, court prince!" I still couldn't remember each name of each court prince and princess.

Marquee Kidron continued to sit and shouted out loud with a smile, beating on each armrest also. "Bring in the little girls and the little boys!"

I turned to see the voice of the court prince with a sneer. "Shut up, court prince!"

Earl Zeamon continued to sit and shouted out loud with a smile, beating on each armrest. "Bring in the little girls and the little boys!

I turned to see the voice of the court prince with a sneer. "Shut up, court prince!"

Countess Glitza continued to sit and shouted out loud with a smile, beating on each armrest. "Bring in the little girls and the little boys!"

I turned to see the voice of the court prince with a sneer. "Shut up, court princess!"

Baron Pekod continued to sit and shouted out loud with a smile, beating on each armrest. "Bring in the little girls and the little boys!"

I turned to see the voice of the court prince with a sneer. "Shut up, court prince!"

Count Huzz continued to sit and shouted out loud with a smile, beating on each armrest. "Bring in the little girls and the little boys!"

I turned to see the voice of the court prince with a sneer. "Shut up, court prince!"

Erato frowned at the back spine of Thea. "He can't hear you, Thea."

I spun around with a gasp to see Erato. "What?"

" _Thea!"_ The purple tinted Dragon Head did not move inside the hologram portal and as his male echoed the words throughout the room.

"What?" I swung back around to see the purple tinted dragon head.

The male voice echoed from the Dragon Head throughout the room. _"Thea, you must leave for the next battle fight."_

I gasped in shock. "What?"

The male voice from the Dragon Head echoed again throughout the room. _"You will be accompanied with Tzaress Ittai and Tzar Aqualia from the Land of Ikoloth."_

"Yes! Finally, it's my turn!" Ittai slid off the seat and then stood on top of the floor, lifting both arms into the air with a loud cheer, striking the piece of body armor in bright tinted green metal that covered her entire left arm around the air waves.

"Yeah, that's us!" Her brother Aqualia slid off the seat and then stood on top of the floor, possessing a green tinted metal that covered his right arm, reaching over, slamming and grinding into another metal arm in bright blue tint creating a sound of metal pain

The two teens scooted away from the chaise lounge, exiting the Coil room while slamming and grinding each metal arm into each other.

I continued to stand and stare at the dragon head. "What?"

The Dragon Head echoed out loud with the male voice. _"I am so proud of Thea_. _My daughter, Empress Thea will lead a court team of two teens including Tzaress Ittai and Tzar Aqualia. The court team will be departing immediately. The Coil meeting will continue with all the usual morning festivals."_

"No!" I shook my curl with a sour frown and pointed at the dragon head. "No! You are sending me away, so I can't argue with..."

"You need to go, Thea!" Erato appeared and stood behind her back spine, shoving Thea toward the open archway, where Tzaress Ittai and Tzar Aqualia from the Land of Ikoloth had left.

I nodded with a stern face, "Yeah, right! I'm going now, but I'm coming right back. Yes, I'll come back and then we will have a face-to-face meeting, Mr. Purple-tinted Dragon Head," I scooted around the hologram with fury and continued to yell with annoyance. "I will conclude this event also later this afternoon." I turned from the rotating head of the purple dragon and then swiftly dashed through the open archway with fury.

I swiftly moved down the lonely hallway without staring at each amazing art work piece on each side wall, seeing in the distance.

The elevator door was closed. The hallway property was absent of Tofur.

"Thea!" The male voice shouted out loud.

I stopped with a sneer and then swung around with a gasp.

Zeamon dashed ahead from the teenly room with a smile and then collided into her stationary upright body with a snigger, wrapping both of naked lean arms around her shoulders. He spun them around in a completed circle and then halted in the same place, pulling back with a grin. He was a tall and skinny guy with a head of oily black straight hair, a pair of dark eyes, a clean shaven jaw line, and a tone of dark skin, wearing a tight-fitting outfit of solid gray with a short long-sleeved jacket and a pair of matching trousers that extended toward a pair of ankle boots in the same hue. "I wanted to offer my worry too. I want you to win the battle fight, this morning. You can do this."

I gasped in shock and continued to enjoy the hug from the cute teen, saying with a silly grin. "O! Thank you, Zeamon!" I did remember one court prince's name.

"No need for a thank you," he leaned over, kissing her open lips, rubbing his soft lips into her mouth.

I moaned with hotness from his teenly touch.

He pulled Thea closer into his slender body with a set of lean muscles and no body fat, still kissing her lips.

I felt the touch of his soft lips on top of my lips, staring with a pair of open eyelashes at each one of his dark skinned cheekbones. I closed my eyeballs and parted my lips, tasting his essence of strong peppermint inside my mouth with a soft moan of pleasure.

This teenly behavior was fun as I enjoyed the kiss from a new teen male, who really thought I was my dead twin sister.

I was not feeling guilty but heated.

He continued to stand and then pulled Thea tighter into his tall and slender body enveloping his lips around her mouth.

His facial skin was smooth and soft around my jaw line without scratching into my tender cheekbone cut. His pair of hands was large and soft on of on top of my naked arms.

I rotated my lips around his soft tongue with a slight giggle of fun, smelling his body of rich aroma of fresh cut juicy orange, lime, and lemon scents that bombarded each one of my nose holes. My body engulfed his warm, clean, and muscular smell.

His body scent projected fun and energetic male, looking for action.

He leaned down deeply into her lips and played tongue tag with her, sounding with a set of moans. Then he jerked back with a smile and a chuckle, seeing her dirty face. "I love you, Empress! I...I wanted you to know my feelings. I need that you will succeed again within my heart. I wished that I was coming with you..."

"You..."

He nodded with a smile. "Yes, I watched over you at the last battle fight. But don't worry! Aqualia is my best friend. He will watch over you also."

"I should..."

He shook his skull with a worried brow. "You should not. Please, do nothing! Let Aqualia do it all for you. He loves fighting and challenging the enemy. Promise me right now!"

I smiled. "Yes, I promise. Yes, I will."

He leaned down deeply into her lips and played tongue tag with her, sounding with a set of moans. Then he jerked back with a smile and a chuckle, seeing her smile. "Good. We understand each other. And we are good for each other. Please do remember that? I love you, Empress! I will see you return back tomorrow. You need to leave. The other teens headed out before and they are waiting for the battle fight."

"Yes. Yes. Yes," I slowly back stepped from his warm embrace with a smile and then ran backwards with a silly giggle, moving back towards the elevator doors, without waving at tall, slender Zeamon. He didn't know the truth but I was replacing my dead twin sister.

I slammed into the closed metal doors with a giggle.

Zeamon continued to stand in place with a smile and without a friendly wave to Thea. He had been secretly loving and admiring her. And he had to be careful as both Erato and Nastchill had also claimed Thea as their future royal mate.

However, Thea had to choose her mate on the day of her eighteenth birthday which was within two more solar days.

At the end of the long hallway, the elevator door slid open.

Glass elevator carriage setting

I stumbled inside an empty carriage while continuing to smile and stare at tall, slender, and cute Zeamon.

The door slid closed.

The other court teen royals were still sitting inside the teenly room, which didn't have a name, only a number on the 50th floor level. The poor residents from the Land of Shamguard were entering the room, where each one would act like a servant and then serve each arrogant court prince and princess. Then each foreign native would quickly die in a happy death of cluelessness.

I exhaled with sorrow for the upcoming death and then my teenly emotions switched into overdrive with the newest event, the kiss from Earl Zeamon.

On top of the glass floor, in front of the closed elevator doors, I danced side to side, tossing my arms in the air and then stopped, swirling in a circle in place with a giggle, watching the blur of mint green clouds, peeks of pink tinted skyline, and numerous side pieces of blue tinted grass, golden tinted trees.

I had the pick of three boyfriends to choose as my future mate. And I couldn't decide as my neurons recall each sweet, wet kiss.

Zeamon possessed a pair of cold and large hands.

Nastchill possessed a pair of rough and sweaty hands.

Erato possessed a pair of warm soft and slender hands.

Zeamon displayed a tall and slender body type.

Nastchill displayed a tall and heavy muscular body type.

Erato displayed a tall and lean muscular body type.

Zeamon smelled with a citrusy fragrance.

Nastchill smelled with a woody scent.

Erato smelled like a spicy smell.

Zeamon projected fun and energy.

Nastchill projected sexy and zesty.

Erato projected confidence and arrogance.

I continued to dance side to side, twirling in a complete set of circles inside the carriage floor alone and happy. I didn't know which teen male I wanted or liked or desired or admired or loved. They were all cute-looking and pure manly male and smelled good to my emotions and senses.

And I also felt better about the new upcoming battle fight but still scared and worried. I had more confidence in my fighting abilities and still greatly desired to find out about my dead twin sister and my missed princess life.

Actually, I wasn't as angry that I had been abandoned at birth as a newborn infant by my parents, where I had been raised as a common house maid with a pair of dishpan hands, while my dead twin sister had been treated as a royal princess with a servant. But my twin sister was dead and unable to tattle all her secrets into my eardrum. So, I was determined to find out about my lost life and see my biological parents for the first time, after the deathly threat of a battle fight, tonight.

The glass carriage continued to swiftly descend down toward my chamber room and then slowly halted in place.

I completed the final twirl and then halted with a slight dizzy headache and a goofy smile, exhaling with a puff of sour breath, blinking out the visual star patterns from both eyeballs.

18th floor level

Bed chamber setting of Empress Thea

The elevator carriage stopped. The door slid open, revealing her servant Tofur and her bedchamber.

Tofur entered ahead into the carriage with a worried brow.

The room encompassed the entire eighteenth floor suite creating a wide rectangular shape with two sides of twenty feet in height of solid walls that met in the middle of a flat ceiling. Each side wall or the ceiling did not present a single lamp of powered light. A single ray of bright sunlight shone through an individual peak of painted particles coming through the wall where each tiny bit of sunlight greatly illuminated the entire room with visual light.

Each side wall was constructed of solid glass. On each side glass wall, a single gigantic portrait had been etched out of glittery colorful paint particles.

I reached over and then slapped his naked chest with a poker face and a low grunt of mixed emotions again. Now, I was facing a new vicious and bloody battle fight. I strutted ahead with a pair of balled fists and moved down the long hallway with my bed chamber with a stern face and a worried heart, participating in another battle fight coming from the verbal command of my father, ignoring the individual art work pieces on each side of the wall.

I stopped in front of bedcover, reaching down, grabbing the scepter, feeling the smooth silky finish on the shiny lavender tinted scepter, where my dead twin sister Thea had tossed to me, before her untimely death. I twisted the smooth weapon in both hands and whispered for my eardrums only, "This is my sword now. The scepter hides a sword blade as a weapon of protection, now. I must protect myself in this battle fight."

I spun around with my acute eyesight, seeing Tofur inside the carriage and then dashed back down the corridor with a whisper for my eardrums only. "I can do this. I am the twin sister and a princess of this pretty landscape too. And I have two other handsome and hunky prince males that wait for me to return. Yeah, that's more than enough reason to come back home," I entered the carriage with a giggle and a grin.

The door slid shut. The carriage glided down to the first floor.

Tofur scooted over and leaned into her cheekbone with a worried brow. "You're a brave girl, Thea, speaking up and against your father, Mr. Dragon Head."

I gasped. "I thought my father couldn't hear my ranting and ravings inside the teen room."

"He can't. But I could see you down on the below level."

I frowned. "How can you see me?"

He bumped into her shoulder with a smile. "I like to spy on you."

I rotated my skull land then rolled my eyeballs, looking back with a stern face at Tofur, "Geez! You and the rest of the city dwellers here in the Land of Tross need to get a new life."

10:38:44 am

Ground floor level

Entrance hallway of clear glass

Hot temperatures with dull sunshine and pink skyline and mint green clouds

I stepped ahead onto the floor, wearing the comfortable and pretty lavender tinted outfit and the pair of beautiful thigh-high boots. Tofur moved beside Thea without speaking, watching the crowd of visitor inside the entrance hallway.

I stood in place with a gasp of alarm, staring at Nastchill. "How did you get down here, so fast?"

Nastchill stood in place also and reached out, touching her arms with a laugh. "I took the elevators from the fiftieth level, like you, empress."

I laughed at my silly question, "O yeah!"

Nastchill was an extremely tall and muscular at seventeen years old with a pair of blue eyes, a tone of dark tinted skin, a bald skull, and a red tinted goatee. He was dressed in a brown tinted sleeveless vest without a shirt and with a set of ripped biceps and triceps, a pair of matching tight trousers that were tucked down into a pair of unpolished and scruffy brown tinted knee boots. A red tinted scepter hung on the fitted waistline. He lifted up a palm but continued to wink and flirt with Thea. "Leave me, young people, please!"

In the middle of the empty hallway, a tight huddle of young males and females stood a few feet behind the back spine of Nastchill while blocked the footpath of an on-going person.

Behind the huddle of young persons, there was a solid line of upright stationary females, who were all dressed in the same uniform consisting of an orange tinted short-sleeved shirt, a pair of orange tinted pants tucked down into a pair of orange tinted knee boots. A golden tinted scepter had been clipped onto the fitted waistline of each female. Each female exhibited a varied set of different skin tones, heights, weights, hair styles, and colored eyeballs, wearing a stern face of determination.

The huddle of both males and females softly moaned out loud and then slowly turned around, moving away from Nastchill, except for one young unnamed black haired and dark eyed female.

Nastchill leaned down and smiled into the nose bridge of Thea, gently kissing her lips for a few second while rubbing a pair of rough hands over her back spine.

I softly growled in passion as his big rough hands caressed up and down my entire body while creating a set of lusty emotions within my mind and my heart. I moaned with hotness from his teenly touch.

He pulled Thea closer into his slender body with a set of hardy muscles and no body fat, still kissing her lips.

I felt the touch of his soft lips on top of my lips, staring with a pair of open eyelashes at each one of his dark skinned cheekbones. I closed my eyeballs and parted my lips, tasting his essence of sweet honey inside my mouth with a soft moan of pleasure.

This teenly behavior was fun as I enjoyed the kiss from a new teen male, who really thought I was my dead twin sister.

I was not feeling guilty but heated.

He continued to stand and then pulled Thea tighter into his tall and muscular body enveloping his lips around her mouth.

His set of facial whiskers was silky and smooth around my jaw line without scratching into my tender cheekbone cut. His pair of hands was large and rough on top of my naked arms.

I rotated my lips around his soft tongue with a slight giggle of fun, smelling his body of rich aroma of strong cedar, sharp sage, and pine scent that bombarded each one of my nose holes. My body engulfed his chaos and disorder smell.

Nastchill, he was a male who had arrived, after a hard fight to the top. I liked him. No. I loved him too. His body scent projected sexy and zesty teen like a vicious hunter looking for the next meal.

He pulled backward with a wink and a smile. "I love you, Thea! I give all of my greatest luck which is paired with your greatest luck, empress! I'll be watching on the glass screen this morning."

"Thank you!" I faked a smile without speaking anymore words as my teenly emotions worked in overdrive again.

An unnamed black-haired and black-eyed female continued to stand in a long red colored jumpsuit and then knelt down onto the floor with a smirk, extending both arms, holding an open box in both palms that contained an ankle bracelet with a red ruby stone at the back spine of Nastchill. "Prince Nastchill, I ask for your hand to marry me, today?"

Nastchill sneered while staring at Thea, without seeing the young unnamed female. "No! I will not marry you. Get away from me, right now, permanently!"

The unnamed black-haired and black-eyed female exhaled with a huff of disappointment and reached down into the pocket of her sleeveless blouse, pulling out a tiny white colored flower. She placed the tiny flower into both of her nose holes and then deeply sniffed with a soft groan, dropping the flower down onto the glass floor. She wobbled side to side on both of her kneecaps and then tumbled sideways with a pair of closed eyelashes, landing on top of the floor in a silence death.

I slapped a hand over my open mouth with a loud gasp of horror, staring down at the dead female on top of the glass floor.

"Come and take that thing away from me immediately!" Nastchill did not bother to see the dead female and flipped a hand into the air with a sneer while signaling the row of stationary and quiet female-servants.

The row of stationary female-servants swiftly advanced ahead in a semi-crooked line and then stopped, squatting down about the same time, gathering up each limb of the dead girl and lifted the dead body into the air with a set of heavy grunts. They slowly toted her dead body ahead down the glass hallway and passed Thea, Tofur, and Erato moving toward the open archway on the front entrance of the tall building in silence.

Tofur reached out and grabbed the arm on Thea. "Time for play. Time for fun. Time for someone else besides Nasty Champ," laughing.

Nastchill sneered at the naked back spine on Tofur. "I heard that, Tofool!"

"Good! You possess great hearing, Nasty Champ!" Tofur laughed.

A group of young females stood and stared at Thea, wearing a variety of different types of clothing. Some females were dressed in a colorful ankle-length gown. Some of the females displayed a colorful short skirt, a matching sleeveless vest with a pair of matching knee boots. And some of the females exhibited a colorful jumpsuit with a different colored belt around the waistline.

Behind the tight huddle of young females, a single row of young males was dressed in the same outfit consisting of a short-sleeved green tinted shirt, a pair of green tinted trousers, and a pair of matching green tinted knee boots. Each male carried a silver tinted scepter that had been clipped onto the waistline but wore a variety of different skin tones, hair styles, and eye color.

In front of the tight huddle of young females, tall, slender Erato stood alone and stared with a smile at Thea.

He and the huddle of females continued to smile and stand in place blocking the footpath inside the empty hallway of solid glass from Thea. He wore a sculptured upper torso underneath a white long-sleeved shirt, a pair of tight black tinted trousers that were tucked down into a pair of polished black tinted knee boots. A shiny green tinted scepter had been clipped onto his fitted waistline. He possessed a head of shoulder length wavy black tinted hair, a jaw line of dusted black tinted whiskers, a pair of green tinted eyes, and a tone of pale tinted skin looking healthier, hot, and available. He lifted a palm near his smile, staring at Thea, saying to the huddle of girls. "Young people, go away and leave me, now, please!"

The huddle of young males and females sounded with a soft moan of disappointment and then each one slowly swung around, departing from the back spine of male, moving down an empty hallway in a loose row, except for a young female in a long green dress.

Tofur spun around and then winked, waving at each young girl.

I stopped in place with a sour frown and stared at Erato

Erato advanced ahead with a smile and then stopped, leaning down, hugging the body of Thea and pulled back with a wink. Then he leaned down again and kissed her lips.

I gasped in sour breath feeling the touch of his soft lips on top of my chapped lips, staring with a pair of open eyelashes at each one of his pale tinted cheekbones. I closed my eyeballs and parted my lips, tasting his essence of honey inside my mouth with a soft moan of pleasure.

This was the first time that I had kissed a male of my age, who really belonged to my dead twin sister. But I was not feeling guilty but heated.

He continued to stand and pulled Thea tighter into his body enveloping his lips around her mouth while smelling the stench of her bad body odor without fleeing or flinching in disgust.

His facial whiskers were course around my jaw line while scratching into my semi-healed cheekbone cut. I gasped in pain for a second and then felt pleasure again. His pair of hands was slender and soft on top of my naked arms. I rotated my chapped lips around his soft tongue with a slight giggle of warmth and fun smelling his body of sweet vanilla scent into each nose hole.

He leaned down deeply into her lips and played tongue tag with her, sounding with a set of moans. Then he jerked back with a smile and a chuckle, seeing her smile. "I love you, Empress! You will succeed, again, Thea. I have no doubt. Go and make me proud!" he continued to caress her naked arms with a laugh and a smile.

I smiled. "Thank you! I feel brave and bold this morning."

Tofur scooted over and then halted, reaching out, grabbing her naked forearm with a sneer at Erato. "Let's go, Thea! Bye, Erat!"

Erat turned and then sneered at Tofur. "I only warn once, Tofool!"

Tofur shuffled ahead with a laugh and dragged Thea by the arm. "That's twice. You have warmed or warned or wanted me, Erat."

The unnamed and remaining young blonde haired and pale skinned female continued to stand and smile, posing slightly diagonally behind the back spine of Erato, watching him with her eyeballs. She knelt down in a green tinted gown and bowed a chin to see the floor, lifting up both arms even with the floor, presenting an open black tinted box. The open box held a pinky ring in golden tint with an emerald stone. "Lord Erato, I present this elegantly pinky ring with my love. Please, marry me!"

Lord Erato smiled at Thea while talking to the young girl behind his back spine. "No! I will not marry you, girl. Go away, permanently!"

She softly gasped in alarm and dropped down the box with the ring on top of the smooth floor with a sad face and a heavy heart. The floor exhibited the green tinted dirt through the clear glass. She reached down into the hidden pocket of the gown and pulled out a tiny spray bottle, lifting the bottle near the lips and opened the mouth. She sprayed out the mist into her mouth and closed the lips while feeling the cool mint flavor on her tongue. Then she swiftly collapsed sideways and fell down onto the glass floor without breathing a set of air molecules and as her face started to turn into a blue tinted of death.

I looked down with a worried brow and stared down at the dead girl.

He wiggled the hand near the smile, staring at Thea, talking to the row of quiet man-servants. "Get rid of that now!"

The row of stationary man-servants swiftly advanced ahead in a semi-crooked line and then stopped, squatting down about the same time, gathering up each limb of the dead girl and lifted the dead body into the air with a set of heavy grunts. They slowly toted her dead body ahead down the glass hallway and passed Erato, Thea, and Tofur, moving toward the open archway on the front entrance of the tall building in silence.

Tofur gently tugged forward on the arm of Thea with a smile at Erato. "Bye E-rat!" He swiftly shuffled around an upright Erato with a laugh and moved ahead with a smile with Thea like an assigned guard.

They swiftly moved ahead down the rest of the long hallway that held two solid glass windows which showed the interior court yard with rows of colored flowers inside a manicured blue tinted lawn. The other window displayed a plot of green tined dirt with numerous small groves of golden colored mushroom shaped shade trees.

Airship parking space setting

Hot temperatures and sunbeams

The automatic glass door slid open.

Tofur moved beside Thea and then dashed ahead, pressing the remote control device in one hand. All the doors of the ship slid open. He shouted out loud, before entering the cockpit. "Time to move, girlfriend! We're running late for the ball."

"Yeah!" I jogged ahead and then slid down on top of the passenger seat with a confused mind and a heavy heart.

The airship smoothly lifted up from the red tinted surface with a soft vroom.

My short encounter with my three boyfriends had recharged my energy and activated my mind into caution. I stared out the dirty windshield. The new city held a skyline of candy pink hue with a set of mint green tinted clouds, where bright waves of yellow sunshine beamed down onto the landscape.

The airship soared over the tall and lonely glass building which was called the Center building for some reason.

I lifted up a hand and then shaded my eyelashes from the bright sunlight coming off the tall building of glass without seeing the below ground surface of colorful dirt, grass and trees, leaning back into the passenger seat, exhaling with a deep sigh.

Tofur piloted the ship ahead with a worried brow, flying in a northern direction. "What's wrong, Thea?"

I stared into the windshield, examining the pink tinted skyline. "I don't know."

He continued to pilot the ship with a worried brow. "I do know."

I gasped in alarm and then turned to stare into his smooth dark tinted cheekbone with a worried brow. Tofur had seen me and Zeamon together. "What is it that you know, Tofur?"

He smiled. "Well, first, you're a teen. Second, you have a very distinct non-royal personality with your own set of mixed feelings and emotions like a teen. Third, you are experiencing a new range of emotions and feelings that you don't comprehend."

I frowned. "I don't understand any of your sentence structure."

He continued to pilot with a smile. "Look! This is all normal. You're trying to figure out who you are and who you should become. You are a teen and you wanna do what teen does."

I frowned. "What does a teen do? I don't know."

He laughed. "I don't know either."

I exhaled. "I did eyewitness some of the teens on my homeland of Scotta. They had fun and ki..."

"They killed each other too," he laughed. "Well, the Land of Scotta teens will be delighted to meet and then kill off some of the Land of Tross teens. Are the Scotta teens really good with a scepter wand? What do you think, girlfriend?"

I frowned. "They cared greatly about their family and their friends. The teens would serve a picnic lunch underneath the trees and share their lunch and their lips. The teens would ride and share a ground scoot, smashing their bodies together during the trip. The teens would stand underneath the bright moon rays and then kiss each other for long period of time," exhaling.

He smiled. "Wow! You are an expert on teens and the teenly behavior."

I smiled. "The teens performed some fun events. Of course, I didn't participate, only watched. I don't understand. Why didn't the other royal teens have some fun? Do they only fight in a battle arena? That sounds like torture, not fun. Do they visit with some the other natives or attend some other social events that do not require a scepter weapon?"

"I don't think so."

"That's strange! They're a group of teenagers. Teenagers like to do things that adults don't enjoy doing."

He laughed. "I don't understand either."

I frowned. "But...but you're a teen too."

He nodded. "I'm a teenager and a servant for the Land of Tross."

I gasped. "Yes, I forgot. I'm so sorry, Tofur."

He continued to pilot the airship with a stern face. "Why are you saying that? You aren't a servant for the Land of Tross."

I exhaled with a nod. "I was a servant for the Land of Scotta."

"That was a clearly mistake. You are a twin and an empress of the Land of Scotta. Now, that mistake has been rectified. Don't you feel better?"

"I feel nervousness, scared, and excited and happy and weird. I have never walked in the steps of an empress before. I didn't know that I had a twin sister, who was an empress. Who was she?"

He laughed. "Your twin sister was really fun."

"No!"

"Yes!

"No! She seemed so serious for the brief time that I met her."

He nodded. "She was very stern and serious about each battle fight and she won each event. She was a grand warrior for your parents."

I exhaled. "Was that all her short-term life offered? Fighting in each battle arena to gain a piece of land property."

"Yes and no."

I frowned. "Explain that statement!"

He laughed. "Your sister and I have fun together."

I gasped. "How...how is that possible? You are a servant. She was a court princess."

"She hated all the other court princes and princesses. She never associated with them."

I frowned. "Why is that? She was one of them."

He frowned. "I don't rightly know. But I rightly feel that she knew that she was different. It must be the psychic connection between twins like you."

I frowned. "Explain that statement too!"

He exhaled and continued to pilot the airship. "Your twin sister enjoyed the freedoms of a court princess, but she seemed to be always searching or seeking something."

I slapped her chest with a nod and a stern face. "Well, that something was me! She told me that information inside my prison cell that she had finally found me."

He smiled. "So, your twin sister must've known that she was a twin also and then set out to find you."

I shook her curls with a puzzled brow. "But...but I didn't know that I was a twin. I didn't feel any one single physical or psychic connection to anyone. I feel alone and lonely. And my old servant life was filled with cleaning up the baby vomit and reading the next set of academic lessons to instruct the children for school. I was really busy back then. However, my life was busy and simple, not dangerous and life-threatening like now. I feel so sad that she had died for me."

He smiled. "You should feel joy and proud and honored. Your twin sister didn't have to look and find you. She could have acted or reacted like the other court princes and princesses pretending to live a royal life, without troubles or problems. Your twin sister somehow found out about your existence. Honestly, I didn't know that she had a twin. The shared information was not shared with me from my parents either. I wonder if my parents know about you and your twin sister.

I gasped. "Is that a problem here? Am I a problem here? Wonder if, your parents figure it out? Wonder if, your parents discover me here?"

He exhaled. "No. My parents are pretty consistent with their daily routine and work tasks. They attend to the parents during the daylight hours. Then they go back home like me. My parents would know if something was not right or wrong or different. They would tell me also."

I smiled, "That...that's so nice. I envy your relationship with your parents. I sorta had a parent as small child. I kinda shared my employer female like a parent. She was ordering me around with her vocal commands but that was more attention than some of the other house servants. Some of the other house servants cleaned the toilets removing each dirty shit turd and all the yellow tinted pee stains on the floor that came from the young boys. Some of the other house servants cleaned the individual bedrooms. Some of the other yard servants maintained the lawn and the pretty gardens. So, I was destined to tend to the children and studied their academic books. I helped the children pass each grade."

He smiled. "Well, you seem to be the tender-heart sister within the twin pair. Your sister could be very vicious with the other court princes and princess, but she was kind to me. She and I had lots of fun as a pair of young children. We would go off with my parents in tow and then explore the land and the rivers and the trees."

"Awe! That sound like fun. I didn't have fun like that. Did you meet my parents?"

He frowned. "No. It is not allowed for a servant to engage with another adult royal."

I frowned. "That's too bad. Why didn't any of the other royal parents figure out the twins? Didn't my mother deliver the twins here?"

"You're supposed to be thinking about the battle fight."

"I'm thinking about my set of invisible family members first. Do the other royal parents know about me and my twin sister?"

"You need to concentrate on battle plan for the upcoming battle fight."

I frowned. "Hmm! I would guess not. No one seems to ask about a twin empress."

"You need a strategy to defeat your new foes."

I laughed. "Last time, Zeamon defeated my foes and then defeated my honor.

He gasped. "How do you know that?"

I nodded. "You saw the stream of the last battle fight. Zeamon was there watching over me."

"Yeah, he was there watching over his own interests. He wants to be emperor. You need to be very careful with him, Thea."

I giggled. "I am." I thought of Zeamon and his three precious words, I love you. I had three boyfriends now to choose for a mate at the age of eighteen years old. I just didn't know which one.

He gasped. "What?"

I smiled. "I mean. I will. So, Zeamon defeated my foes and defended his honor. Won't the sibling team do the same thing, like kind and brave and sincere Earl Zeamon?"

"Yeah."

I gasped. "Wait! Why are there a brother and sister fighting pair in the battle fight?"

"They are a brother and a sister that fight together."

I exhaled. "No! No! No! I mean. Why did their parents produce two children? I am one of two children. Why didn't my mother keep me? The parents of Aqualia and Ittai kept them to rule their native homeland together. Why didn't my parents keep me with my dead twin sister to rule our kingdom? Why? Why? Why was I abandoned from the pair?"

He smiled. "I can answer that set of complicated questions."

I gasped, "How so? How can you answer my questions?"

"One is a girl and one is a boy."

I frowned. "I don't understand. They'll share and rule their homeland as a biological sister and brother. My dead twin sister and I could have done that also here in the Land of Tross."

"One will rule their native homeland. One will marry and rule another homeland."

I gasped. "How is that possible? Why is that happening? My sister and I could have split the kingdom and then ruled it," gasping. "Is that the reason for my babyhood abandonment? Only one empress can rule the vast kingdom of Tross So, I was tossed out like smelly trash into the trashcan and then the first born twin could rule the kingdom. Is that the answer here, Tofur? I didn't live near the Land of Tross. I didn't possess knowledge of the Land of Tross. So, I had been robbed of my royal childhood, because of that silly one empress rule," I reached up and wiped the single tear of sadness from my eyeball, feeling sad and depressed with my life.

He exhaled. "Look! I don't know the true answer to that question either. But your logic is sound. We can explore that answer, after the battle fight. Right now, you should concentrate on your battle plan before we arrive at the new destination."

"No. I wanna learn more about the battle fights, before I don't come back, this time. I wanna know why I must fight and then survive over and over again inside some pretend battle field. You own me that one! My dead sister owned me that one too. But she can't tell me. You can."

He exhaled. "Greed is best fought with a scepter. Yes, I can do that. The point is to kill the foes and then claim all the lands and peoples, sucking them into our kingdom, which I am going to change as soon as I am the new ruling empress."

"No. A long, long time ago, the round of battle fights had been fought among the current court princesses and princes for a mate. One of the last battle fights almost killed the current royals. So, a few centuries ago by the first empress, a female, that figures. Let me say right and now and in isolation. A female is a true b..."

"Tofur!"

"Better man among the sissy men," he laughed. "So, the new round of battle fights picked on a weaker and smaller new homeland, where the entire court princes and princesses fought the opposing foes. And the court royals won all the time while acquiring both the land and the people. Then, the new round of battle fights had become boring after a while. The court added more princes and princesses. So, the new point of the battle fight became the event that eliminated all the court princes, which was sometimes death, for the new eighteen-year-old ruling empress, so she can choose the strongest and the smartest and the bravest."

I gasped. "So, Erato and Nastchill are both the strongest and the smartest and the bravest among the court princes."

"Now, you understand. They're leading the pack of princes, you could say."

"But I thought that I get to pick out my mate."

"You get the first pick. As I recall, you get to pick only one mate, not two or three. Then the other girls get a whack at their only one mate. Don't be so greedy, girlfriend!"

"Yes. Yes. Of course, I assumed that. So, the other princesses are evaluating the other princes too."

"Now, you understand. If you were only a lowly court princess, then you would desire the best prince, right after the empress had stolen the 'bestest' one. Ain't that right?"

I exhaled. "Stop being so condescending! Yes, I agree with you. Yes, I understand the point of each battle fight, but I could get killed also."

"You could not. The empress has always led each battle fight and she has always won. There has been not a time throughout history that she has lost or died."

"That's a mighty big legend to hold up."

"You have done a good job, so far."

"I have done nothing. I hid among the colorful holograms last battle fight.

"And you lived and won the battle fight."

I frowned. "Cheating is not the answer here."

He smiled. "Survival is the solution here."

I exhaled, "Touché! I wonder which court prince my parents would approve for me between all the court princes. Do my parents provide input or an opinion during my selection process?"

He grinned. "Love is not input or opinion, but an emotion. Do you possess that emotion?"

I possess lots of mixed up teenly emotions. One of my strongest emotions is to finally greet and meet my parents."

"Maybe, in a few days, you turn eighteen years old within three days. Then you will become the next empress in the Land of Tross."

I exhaled. "Are you so certain about that event?"

He smiled. "I'm very certain about that event. You will meet your parents in two more days. Your mother went through each battle fights at your age and then she survived and then won the empress tiara too. She is the current ruling empress in the Land of Tross."

She giggled. "I like the way you say, the Land of Tross. You talk so sophisticated. Where did you receive your schooling?"

"I was taught beside with your twin sister. All the servants are required to learn and speak properly."

"That's nice!"

"Why do you still feel abandoned or lonely? I'm here with you. You're not alone."

I exhaled. "I know. But my twin sister..."

"Yeah," he smiled. "She knew something about her twin sister and the she pursed that literally to the end...

"...the end of her life..."

He nodded. "Well, it's not the end of your life."

I gasped. "How do you know that? I'm going back into the battle arena for a second time with my rudimentary set of empress fighting skill. I'm a fake and a phony. How did my twin sister endure the anticipation and nervousness of each battle fight? What will the battle arena be like? No one tells me anything."

He laughed. "That's the point here. You must be scared and wanna survive the next battle fight. Or else, something bad will permanently happen to you."

"Well, I am."

He exhaled. "Look! Some people are born to be great. Other people are born to be boring. Other people are born to be ordinary. Whichever your assigned station in life, you must be the best or better than the other poor sucker."
I frowned. "Is this a lecture or a lesson?"

He nodded. "You possess excellent hearing also. And you understand a lot for a fake empress."

I nodded. "I understand fear and happy and sad and glad and confusion and puzzlement and promise."

He grinned. "Good! You're one hundred percent a teenager. And I like your positive outlook on surviving. Listen to your heart, not your mind! Don't look for a solution! Look to survive!"

I gasped in shock at his words staring through the windshield at the blue skyline. "What?"

"Stick to the rules!"

I gasped. "What, rules?"

"Yeah, these unwritten rules! Stick it to them!" He laughed. "Avoid confrontations!"

"What confrontation?"

"Do not show any hostility or violent movement?"

"What violent movement?"

"Do not threat!"

I gasped with worry. "What threat? Who's going to threaten me? Where are we going? What is the name of the new piece of property that my father has to own or have or use or abuse or whatever? When I am the real ruler, I'm giving back all the land properties to the people."

He continued to pilot high through the white cloud coverage. "Now, you are thinking and acting like your twin sister. She was going to be a great empress. This is the coldest place on the planet."

I leaned over and stared down through the window with puzzlement. The window displayed a set of fluttering white tinted clouds that completely covered the ground surface. "I can't see the landscape."

"Reach out and touch the window!"

I reached out and touched the window, jerking back my fingers, feeling the sting. I rubbed my aching naked finger meat, "Ouchie! The window is freezing cold on my naked finger meat. How cold is it here?"

"It is below freezing or below the number zero or below the negative number of one hundred!" He laughed.

I continued to stare down through the window at the clouds with a worried heart, "Geez! Am I going to die out there in the coldness? I am only a human life form, not a furry animal."

"No! There's always a battle arena that is covered from the natural elements of the selected land property."

I exhaled. "Why am I doing this again?"

"Your father ordered you here. You must do this thing until you turn eighteen years old in a couple of days. Then you can order your father outta of your lands." He slowed the speed on the airship with a laugh and then paced towards a flat platform that stood below the swiftly soaring white tinted cloud cover.

I stared down at the object from the skyline. "What is this, an artificial platform that stands above the ground?"

He parked the airship smoothly on top of the platform with a smile. "Now, look out each glass window! Tell me what you see!"

I turned to view each window and then gasped at the landscape. "This, this is not the ground soil. It, it is..." I exhaled. "I don't know what it is."

He turned and surveyed the landscape with a smile. "We are sitting prettily on top of a flat rock surface which is a flat mountain peak. The entire landscape is composed of mountains. But the mountain range is not a mountain range. A mountain range is also called a mountain barrier or a belt or a chain or a system, which is comprised of numerous tall and short geological features, such like mountain passes and valleys, which is composed of different terrains. There could be thrust sheets, uplifted blocks, folded mountains and volcanic landforms. And each mountain range displayed a variety of rock types. This mountain range is dotted on top of the ground surface with an array of individual black tinted mountains that only display the flat peak above the heavy fog of white hue. That is beautifully displayed way above the air waves or inside an airship.

"And the position of the mountain range also influences the current climate, such like, rain or snow. When the air currents move up and over the mountain peaks, the air cools and then produces either rain or snow. When the air currents descend on the leeward side of the mountain, it warms up and produces drier air as it has been stripped of its moisture.

"But, not here! Each individual mountain is sheared off on top of the peak into a flat surface, which is both smooth and hard. Each individual mountain is colored in dark, dull black hue."

I nodded. "The appearance of each individual black tinted flattened mountain peak stands majestically above the rolling white tinted fog. It looks a white sea of individual black rounded ship that does not move forward, but remains stationary."

He smiled. "The landscape is pretty. Normally, a mountain range is subject to the erosional force that comes from a flowing river that tears the solid rock up and down while creating a set of low hillsides and flat plains. Here, there is no erosional force from a river. Instead, the ground soil is made of more solid rock in the same black hue similar to each individual mountain."

I frowned. "But there is heavy wall of fog around each mountain which comes up from the wet ground. And the wall of fog comes from water or moisture in the air. How do you account for both the fog and the moisture?"

He pointed to the window with a smile. "Each individual mountain has been created to stand 10,000 feet above the ground surface. I don't know how. Do you see the white colored falling snowflakes coming down from the grayish-white clouds?"

I turned with a gasp and scanned each window with a smile. "Ah! A snow flake comes from the clouds. It is snowing. The snow is made of ice and water. The water feeds the fog."

"Yes, you are correct. You have studied well, Thea. The snow and its water properties feed off of each other, maintaining the sea of white fog that slowly rolls around each mountain. Now, it's time for the battle fight."

"What?"

He pointed a finger straight across her nose bridge with a smile. "I see a new air transport coming our way."

I turned with a gasp and stared at the moving object. "The air transport is made of solid glass. I can see through the clear glass windows and stare at the rolling white clouds and blizzard of snowflakes. Is that thing safe to ride? I don't like this."

He smiled at the transport. "Yes, the natives of this land live inside a glass house. The sun heats the glass and the moon warms the glass also. The ground surface is too harsh and hostile for the natives. And the flattened mountain peak is a sturdy and hard piece of nature that can support a delicate man-made structure of glass, where each native family lives in peace and warmth also. There is a string of barely visually chains or cords which holds upright each glass transport."

I frowned at the transport as and my eyeballs darted in the far distance. "Where is it coming from? I can't see anything but a flattened mountain peak that stands around a sea of white rolling fog. What is the battle arena going to be like? Last time, the battle arena was really a room with steel walls and a stationary colorful hologram inside. When you touched the hologram image, it dissolved into nothingness."

He frowned at the transport as it drew closer. "I don't know. The battle arena is always kept a secret from me."

"But isn't each battle arena presented with the same consistence of materials or matter or substance?"

"No. Remember here? Your parents are claiming these lands as their own. So, no one has ever visited here before. This is the first time."

I exhaled. "Yeah, this is the first time for war. I need to get promoted to empress, like now."

He winked. "I wish."

I turned and stared down at the pilot console. "How do you know that is our landing platform?"

He turned and pointed down at the pilot console with a smile. "My pilot console is blinking with a blue light. The blue light is the landing platform for landing. This airship electronically talks with the other computer. That's how I know. That's how the ship communicates with the controller here in the Land of Yawp."

I giggled. "What's a yawp? I have never heard the word."

He continued to sit inside the pilot seat in the parked airship without killing the engine. The vents provided the plumes of warm heat from the cold air. He swung around inside the pilot seat, reaching out, grabbing the item. He flipped the item in the air with a smile, over her black tined hair roots and landed it inside her lap. "Here! You must wear this colorful brightly tinted green colored cloak."

I reached down and touched the soft fabric on the green tinted cloak. "Why do I need to wear a cloak?"

"The air temperature here is below zero degrees of something. It is very, very cold outside."

I turned and gasped out the glass window. "Do...do I have to hike down from the mountain peak in my summertime clothes with a pair of fashion-styled thigh-high boots?"

He smiled. "No. The cloak is to cover-up your cute summertime clothing and your pair of sexy thigh-high boots. The cloak has made of thermal fabric that absorbs and stores your body heat, keeping you warm and toasty from the cold weather here in the Land of Yawp."

I returned back with a gasp to see Tofur. "I must fight in a long thick cloak. I have never fought in a long cloak. Is that normal for the battle fight?"

He laughed. "Nothing is normal, here, girlfriend."

I nodded with a laugh. "Yeah, you're so right! So, right!" Then I gasped with panic. "You said that the natives live on top of each mountain peak inside a glass structure. Then the battle arena must be a glass structure also."

He gasped. "O no!"

I nodded. "O yeah!"

He laughed. "O no! Then I'll be able to clearly see each busted nose bleed on the transparent glass wall coming from vicious Ittai."

I frowned. "That's not funny!"

He nodded with a grin. "Yeah, it's really funny, girlfriend! Enjoy the moment! Live your life!"

I exhaled. "I am living someone else's life but my original one."

He pointed at the glass with a smile. "Look out your window! The glass transport is almost here."

I frowned. "That's not funny either."

He dropped the hand down onto his leg with a smile. "Well, it's not funny, but it's true. Now, jump out from this airship quickly. Then get inside that new carriage more quickly. And win the battle fight, extremely quickly!"

I exhaled. "Yeah, win the battle fight with my battle fright!"

He frowned. "What?"

"Nothing!"

He reached over and then patted her arm with a smile. "Go and get outta of this airship now! Your ride is here. You don't wanna miss this bus."

I turned and looked at him with puzzlement. "Where are you going?"

He reached over and the patted the steering column with a smile. "I'm staying right here and waiting for you. Remember? Each battle fight is only sixty minutes long. Then, it's done."

I scooted toward the edge of the seat and then wiggled into the thick cloak, shifting over my semi-warm body with a sour frown. "Did you have to use that word, done?"

"It's over and done," he laughed.

I turned and frowned at the transport. "What do I do next?"

"I don't know. I'm not the empress that's going into battle."

I exhaled. "I don't know either."

He slid over and then leaned down into her cheekbone with a whisper. "Listen to me, Thea! Let Ittai and Aqualia do all of the battle fighting! They love to beat people up and bloody their face. You don't have to do anything."

I exhaled. "That's cheating again."

"That's surviving again."

"Everyone is going to see my cowardliness inside the battle fight."

He smiled. "Yeah, everyone saw your empress cowardliness, last time, too, inside the other battle fight. So, you got lost inside the arena."

"So, I got frightened and scared inside the arena."

He laughed, "Excellent, Thea! Ya got an excuse. Go and get outta of this airship. If you miss the battle fight, then it is an automatic death sentence."

I gasped with alarm. "Okay!" I reached down and then touched the handle, cracking open the door with a soft swish. "Yawp!" The cold wind bit into my naked cheekbones. My nose turned bright red from the cold air. My eyeballs blinked fast from the swift air currents.

The airship door nicely slid open and the halted inside the gigantic open archway on the glass carriage.

The glass carriage could swallow up the smaller airship, if Tofur had maneuvered the nose of the airship and then parked in a vertical formation over the glass floor.

Glass carriage sky ride setting

I ducked down from the arched metal frame on the airship and then folded down at the waistline, slowly strolling from the seat, stepping down into the smooth glass floor with a gasp of panic. The glass carriage was made of solid glass, exhibiting four side walls, a ceiling, and a floor that shined through the bright sunrays.

My eyeballs darted down to see the rolling sea of white fog that surrounded our selected mountain peak, without the benefit of solid ground. My heart almost started pumping. My pulse skipped a beat. I inhaled and then held a set of oxygen molecules that nourished my neurons without fainting and falling off the 10,000 feet mountain peak into my death.

I slowly strolled a few feet from the open archway and then halted, swinging around in the same folded pose while experiencing fear, worry, and nausea.

Inside the airship, semi-naked Tofur quickly shuffled over into the passenger seat and then quickly slammed the airship door shut, while waving with a wink at Thea.

Inside the glass carriage, the door slide sideways and then locked the passenger inside the glass prison. The carriage slowly traveled backwards from the airship, moving back toward some new structure.

I slowly stood upright like an empress and then exhaled all of my sour breath while watching Tofur. My airship and my friend Tofur slowly become a smaller object and also moved further away from my moving position. I slowly twirled around while deeply breathing from fright and fear, facing a lane of empty space. The strolling grayish-white tinted clouds floated above the glass ceiling inside my carriage.

The sea of rolling white fog flowed below the glass covered floor inside the carriage.

There was nothing ahead of my eyeballs but solid blue sky and a shower of white tinted snowflakes coming down from the grayish-white clouds.

I wanted to scream out loud from fright. I wanted to vomit over the sparkling glass floor from nervousness. Instead, I stood still and deeply inhaling and then exhaling, staring at the skyline and the falling snowflakes. I felt like a bird without a pair of wings or a home nest.

The glass carriage softly purred from the invisible engine. Then, I realized that the carriage did not possess a physical engine. The long string of a guiding cord was making the purring sound.

A hidden speaker sounded with a crack of static. Then the monotone voice of a female echoed inside the contained space. "You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak! You are safe. Do not remove your cloak!" The invisible body of the attached voice repeated the two statements over and over again.

Inside the glass carriage over the world and on top of a glass floor, I exhaled with annoyance. At least, there was one life form on the other side of the carriage trip. I shuffled the cloak closer around my hair roots, my cheekbones, and my rest of my body. The glass had absorbed the heated sunrays but it also absorbed the cold air which kinda made the interior of the glass cage very cool on my body. I stepped a boot forward, feeling the steady flow of the carriage.

The carriage didn't wobble or weave while floating through the calm air waves between the mountain peaks. Each white tinted snowflake fell straight down from each cloud, so there wasn't any type of air motion here at 10,000 feet. I guess that I was closer to the outer space rather than the planet right now.

I slowly strolled ahead one boot at a time on top of the smooth glass floor and didn't feel seasick. I felt happily elated with the mental thought of flying through the air without a pair of wings, and then I felt worried. In the far distance, the grayish-white clouds slowly parted, revealing a second glass carriage.

I could see another glass carriage in the close distance. I gasped in fear. The other glass carriage was floating on a direct flight course toward my carriage. I moved ahead and then halted, standing in front of the forward glass wall.

The hidden speaker sounded with the monotone voice of a female that echoed inside the contained space. "You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak! You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak!" The invisible body of the attached voice repeated the two statements over and over again.

My eyeballs quickly darted to the side glass wall and as I gasped in puzzlement. On the opposite side of the clouds, a few thousand feet from the first carriage, a second glass carriage floated in a parallel course with the first carriage. Then a few thousand feet from the second carriage, a third glass carriage.

I turned with a gasp and stared into the side wall, seeing a second carriage on my side of the calm air waves. A second glass carriage flew parallel with my carriage. And then beyond the second carriage, a third glass carriage flew in a straight line with the two other carriages.

I slapped my legs with a laugh as my neon green tined cloak shuffled around my body. I reached up and pulled the hoodie on the clock closer down into my naked face. The cold air bothered both of my cheekbones and turned my nose bright red with coldness.

The hidden speaker sounded with the monotone voice of a female that echoed inside the contained space. _"You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak! You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak!"_ The invisible body of the attached voice repeated the two statements over and over again.

Inside the glass carriage, I stared through the side and forward glass walls at the two parallel lines that contained three individual glass carriages. There were six separate glass carriages that carted six individual warriors for the upcoming battle fight for the Land of Yawp.

I laughed out loud with humor. The word, yawp, represented a yelp or a harsh cry for help. I was so grateful for schooling four difficult and different bratty kids as a servant. I had to study and learn all the school books too.

Inside the glass carriage on the side glass wall, I squirted my eyelashes and then narrowed my vision, studying each carriage that magical floated in the air waves.

The second carriage on my parallel course held a tall and wide life form that was covered in a neon orange colored cloak. That had to be court prince Aqualia.

The third carriage on the same parallel course held a tall and wide life form that was clothed in a neon violet colored cloak. That had to be his biological court princess sister Ittai.

On the opposite side of the clouds, the first glass carriage held an individual that wore a bright yellow tinted cloak. The second glass carriage held a life form that was covered in a bright blue cloak. Finally, the third glass carriage displayed a person that wore a bright red colored cloak.

I was too far away to distinguish the height, the weight, and the size each covered individual inside each carriage, so I would wait for the upcoming battle fight.

My eyeballs darted down toward the hard surface and as I gasped in shock. Below the two rows of numerous carriages, a flat black tinted mountain peak stood above the rolling white sea of fog. However, I didn't see a glass structure. But, the composition of transparency glass was easily disguised within the bright rays of sunshine.

My heart dropped down into my stomach. I was performing the battle fight inside a glass house. I reached up and then touched my nose bridge, feeling the cold skin, rubbing it with care. I hoped that I didn't broke or bust my nose on the glass either.

A broken nose always produced a set of black eye sockets. So, I would like really cute this afternoon in front of the other court princes and princesses, if I survived this morning.

My eyeballs darted back to the second carriage on my floating row. Court prince Aqualia had lifted an arm as the finger pointed in the distance. I turned and followed his finger and then gasped in shock.

On the opposite side of the clouds, inside the first glass carriage, the individual that wore an orange tinted cloak stood in front of the forward window, wiggling a body side to side, banging on the glass by moving both arms. And the individual had removed their orange colored cloak.

The hidden speaker sounded with the monotone voice of a female that echoed inside the contained space. _"You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak! You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak!"_ The invisible body of the attached voice repeated the two statements over and over again.

Inside my carriage, I stared through the forward wall and still could not distinguish the sex on the individual. However, the person possesses a tone of orange skin and without hair strands.

The cloud coverage swirled with violent windows. Then an airship in gray hue dropped down from the mist wearing an exterior cannon weapon, and then halted at a diagonal angle from the first glass carriage on the opposite row. A bright green laser ray discharged from the cannon and then hit the side of the first glass carriage that held an individual without the orange tinted cloak.

The glass carriage shattered into tiny pieces of sparking shards. The single individual swiftly dropped down through the air and then disappeared into the rolling sea of white fog without a scream of death.

The attack airship continued to hover in the same spot within the air waves like a deadly spider.

Inside my glass carriage, I gasped in alarm and then reached over, grabbing the edge of my green tinted cloak, wrapping my face and body with fear.

Inside my carriage, the hidden speaker sounded with the monotone voice of a female that echoed inside the contained space. _"You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak! You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak!"_ The invisible body of the attached voice repeated the two statements over and over again.

I didn't want the attacking airship to target my carriage and assumed that I didn't wear my cloak.

I slowly turned my neck to see Aqualia. Inside the second carriage, he had knelt down and then stared through the forward wall without movement while waiting for the ride to stop. Inside the third carriage, his sister was a ball of neon lavender on top of the floor inside her carriage also.

I slowly returned back and then stared ahead, kneeling down also, exhaling with worry.

Then, the carriage slowed the air speed on the guiding cord and then halted in the air.

I gasped in panic and then looked down, seeing only an extremely wide flattened black tinted mountain peak, where an entire building foundation could be constructed, made of solid hard rock. The battle fight was located on top of the mountain peak during a light shower of snowflakes within the freezing air waves. I exhaled and then inhaled in a set of shallow breathes while almost fainting from fear and nervousness.

Each glass carriage slowly descended down toward the flat surface and then halted with a soft thump on the hard rock.

Flat mountain peak setting

I swiftly stood upright from the glass floor with a gasp of worry, staring ahead at the forward wall and as my eyeballs pretended to roll off the edge of the boundless mountain peak. My eyeballs could not see another flattened black tinted mountain peak in the far distance and as my eyesight could see for three miles beyond my sitting pose inside my carriage.

I slowly circled around to see each side wall of smooth glass and could not see locate another flattened black tinted mountain peak within eyeball range, only a continuous rolling sea of white tinted fog that hovered a several feet below this wide and single black tinted mountain peak. Above this mountain peak, waves of grayish-white tinted clouds floated in an eastwardly direction while continue to drop down a set of tiny white tinted snowflakes.

My stationary carriage started to accumulate some of tiny snowflakes as each one stuck to the icy cold glass very quickly. The shower of tiny snowflakes on top of the glass carriage was beginning to annoy my raw nervous endings as each snowflake stuck and then the next snowflake hugged the first snowflake. A few seconds later, the entire rounded ceiling on my carriage had been covered in an array of tiny white tinted snowflakes, appearing like a painted ceiling.

The attack airship continued to hover in the same place, appearing like a tiny gray tinted spider among the swirling grayish-white clouds as the ceiling and then each side glass window slowed was covered in tiny white tinted snowflakes.

I growled. "I hate snowflakes." I scooted to the side glass and then halted, reaching out, touching the glass with my fingers and then jerked back my hand with a yell. "Ouch!" The glass window was cold but the shower of snowflakes continued to fall in happiness from the sky.

The destroyed glass carriage would have settled on the opposite end of the mountain peak in front of my carriage, if the individual had not perished, after falling down from the shattered glass floor, dropping down 10,000 feet and then splattered there on top of the hard ground within the rolling fog.

Inside my carriage, I exhaled with worry. "This is it! I'm here. The battle fight has started." the forward door didn't slide open for exiting the transport.

The hard surface loudly rumbled with mystery. I wobbled side to side in fear. Then, each carriage slowly dropped sunk down into the interior of the black tinted mountain. I screamed in fear, slipping sideways, falling down on the floor. The glass floor turned into solid white mist. I shouted out loud with fright. "What's happening here? What's going on here?"

Inside my carriage, the hidden speaker sounded with the monotone voice of a female that echoed inside the contained space. _"You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak! You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak!"_ The invisible body of the attached voice repeated the two statements over and over again.

My carriage continued to descend down into the dark stomach within the mountain. However, the sides of the walls immediately turned into white hue, not black color. I would expect the interior of the mountain to be colored in black hue like the peak.

I slowly crawled over the smooth floor and touched the side window, still wearing the cloak, sobbing with tears of worry. "What is this? The glass window is warm, not cold. Where am I going? Why is the glass turning white? What is it? I don't wanna die. I wanna fight. I wanna take my chance in the battle fight. Please, stop this!" I scooted sideways on my kneecaps still wearing the neon green tinted cloak. I was staring to sweat from panic and fear. I halted and reached out, touching the forward wall inside the carriage, feeling the cold, dry glass. The rest of the glass window on each side, the forward one, the rear one, the floor, and the ceiling, all swiftly turned white and then blocked my eyesight from the other glass carriages. I beat on the side wall with a worried brow. "No! No! No! I want out of this carriage right now. I wanna live. I'm going to die inside here. What's happening? Someone talk to me. Tell me what's happening here! I don't understand. Person in the speaker box, please say, something!"

Inside my carriage, the hidden speaker sounded with the monotone voice of a female that echoed inside the contained space. _"You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak! You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak!"_ The invisible body of the attached voice repeated the two statements over and over again.

I frowned. "Not that! No! No! No! I'm not safe here. I'm scared in here." I continued to beat on the hard glass. Each side wall, the ceiling and the floor was still colored in white hue.

Interior mountain setting

Then, my carriage halted with a smooth thud on top of a hard surface. I tumbled backwards with a loud scream, resting on my back spine, exhaling with a low grunt. The thick cloak protected my body from the hard glass floor collision. I inhaled with deep breathes of worry. Now, I was trapped inside my carriage for some reason.

Inside my carriage, the hidden speaker sounded with the monotone voice of a female that echoed inside the contained space. _"You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak! You are safe here! Do not remove your cloak!"_ The invisible body of the attached voice repeated the two statements over and over again.

I rolled over and then sat back on my kneecaps. Each glass window inside my carriage was covered in white smoke, blinding the outside view of my new environment. I shook my skull as the cloak shifted side to side. I scooted across the smooth glass floor and then halted in front of the rear glass window that had been opened for my entrance into the carriage. I reached out and slapped the glass with both of my dry hands. The rear glass window was dry and warm. I could not feel any type of substance on the interior wall.

However, the exterior side of the rear glass window was still covered in white smoke that produced a set of tiny water drops. I slowly swirled around on my kneecaps over the glass floor, surveying each side wall, the forward window, the ceiling, and then the floor.

Then, I laughed out loud, "Condensation! Condensation is the deposit of a liquid on a solid surface that is cooler than the adjacent gas. So, the interior wall of my carriage contains cold air from the cold weather when I entered the carriage from my airship. And each exterior window on my carriage contains heated air coming from warm weather here inside the interior of the mountain setting. So, where am I located? What is going to happen next? I wish someone would speak to me again. Can you hear me, some person from the Land of Yawp?"

On the forward window, a set of two doors silently cracked and then swung outward, producing an opening within the carriage, revealing a new dark tinted environment. The white smoke fluttered and then dissolved into numerous water drops that slowly drained down the glass widow, landing inside the carriage floor and on top of the new hard surface within the interior of the mountain.

Inside my carriage, the hidden speaker sounded with the monotone voice of a female that echoed inside the contained space. _"Remove your cloak! Exit the carriage! Remove your cloak!"_ The invisible body of the attached voice repeated the two statements over and over again.

I continued to sit on both of my kneecaps in shock and then turned with a gasp to see a dark environment that displayed through an opening inside my carriage.

Inside my carriage, the hidden speaker sounded with the monotone voice of a female that echoed inside the contained space. _"Remove your cloak! Exit the carriage! Remove your cloak!" "Remove your cloak! Exit the carriage! Remove your cloak!"_ The invisible body of the attached voice repeated the two statements over and over again.

"The battle fight is here!" I swiftly stood upright from the glass floor and then tossed off the heavy cloak, feeling both worry and fear. I dashed ahead through the opening, stepping onto the ground inside the mountain, sliding over a wet surface with a soft yell in fear.

My body continued to soar through the air waves and away from the safety of my carriage on its own and as each boot sole was glued down into a wet substance. Then my body smashed into a black tinted object, halting as I hugged the object with relief and worry, saying with a whisper. "Yawp! Talk about a crash course! What is this place? This is not a pretty colorful hologram. This place is real and hard and smelly."

I looked down with a stern face and examined the black tinted object. The object was shaped like a tall triangle. The base of the object was wide. The tip of the object was both sharp and pointy. The base of the object swirled in six inches of rows coming from the bottom, going all the way to the top. The object was made of solid rock in the color of black.

I slowly backward, well, trying to back step from the black tinted triangle object, smiling with a whisper. "Yawp! Talk about a petrified forest!"

I looked down with a gasp. My boot soles were implanted down in black tinted mud. I lifted on boot from the mud with great effort and a low grunt. The black wet mud clung to the single sole and also decorated the boot up to my ankle bone. I leaned into the triangle tree, examining the rest of my body. Small splatters of black tinted mud covered my clean lavender tinted outfit.

I exhaled with annoyance. "Yeah, a hot bath is needed after this little adventure." I dropped my foot down into the mud, splashing more mud stains onto my clothing.

I released my hands and then slowly back stepped from the triangle-shaped rock formation, slowly twirling around to survey my new environment. The triangle-shaped rock formation was part of a series of four separate objects that formed a semi-crooked line of solid black, trailing to the side of the mountain interior.

I faced the closest side within the interior of the mountain. The interior side wall had been roughly cut into a high wall of solid rock colored black. Numerous small and large pockets of white tinted mist clouds dotted against the solid black wall, making the scene beautiful like a painted portrait. Scattered throughout the black tinted rock wall, small and large individual jagged sharp spikes and pieces of rough rock fragments protruded out which could harm my delicate body.

I whispered with worry. "Yawp! I gotta remember that too."

As I slowly twirled in the same direction, the side of the wall intersected with the rear wall inside the mountain interior, similar to a large room. The rear wall looked exactly like the side wall with pockets of drifting white tinted mist clouds and an array of scattered and protruded spikes and rock fragments.

Another beautiful painted portrait!

At the intersection of the two rock walls, my glass carriage sparkled from the wet water drops and also safety stood upright within the wall corner, without touching the rough rock fragments.

I whispered with a smile. "So, this is my escape or my protection or my home for the next fifty-two minutes. How long have I been daydreaming here? I'm glad the battle fight lasts for sixty minutes. Well, the clock is ticking."

The rear wall intersected at another side wall on the opposite side of the mountain interior. My eyeballs saw another high wall of solid black rock, picking out some of the larger pockets of white tinted mist, without seeing the series of sharp spikes. But I bet rough rock fragments were embedded into the wall also.

I continued to slowly twirl around and then faced forward, viewing the true guts of the mountain interior. My eyeballs could see only a series of solid black objects through an array of both high and low-flying pockets of white mist also. Some objects were very tall almost touching the mountain ceiling. Some objects were very short, scooting along the hard surface. Some objects were both tall and wide that stretched beyond my eyesight. And some of the objects were both short and wide that covered most of the ground surface. The numerous pockets of white mist drifted in different directions and then danced around each black object, floating to another object like a roaming lover.

I looked up with a stern face to see the mounting ceiling. The same rough cut solid black rock sparkles with a set of sharp spikes without a single cloud of white mist.

I gasp with a whisper. "How is that not possible? Heat always rises." I looked down and faced one of the flowing white mists of clouds in front of sweaty face.

The air temperature inside the new mountain interior was both heated and hot. My body was covered in a sleeveless vest and a matching short skirt that exposed the naked skin on my arms and my upper thighs. My fashion thigh-high boots were thick leather that made my covered ankle bones and my feet sweat from the accumulated heat wave down here inside the mountain interior. My naked face and hair roots burst with numerous tiny balls of sweat perspiration.

I envied the nakedness on both Aqualia and his sister Ittai. They were uncomfortable also in this heat but their individual bodies could breathe fresh air and then sweat faster.

I smiled with a whisper. "Okay. Heat does not always rise all the time. The thermal motion present in the hot air causes the pocket of mist to shimmy its way upwards, displacing the cold air. The ceiling contains more cold air than the ground floor. However, there is also the element of gravity. Yeah, I love gravity. Gravity is pulling the pockets of white mist back down toward the ground surface. What to do next?"

I continued to slowly swirl and then faced the row of triangular rock trees with a deep sigh. The rock trees were covered in the white mist. I reached out and then touched the white mist, feeling the water drops, destroying or separating each molecule. Each surviving mist molecule floated ahead and then joined a new white mist cloud, drifting toward a new black object.

I whispered with puzzlement and rubbed my hand, feeling the wet warm water. "This water molecule is both light and wet. This is white steam, not thick fog. What else is down here with me beside my foes and my friends?"

The leaders in the Land of Yawp had cleverly dug out one of the big mountain peaks as the showcase battle arena. The rear wall had been conveniently cut out as a semi-smooth wall which held my carriage inside the wall corner, retrieving my body, dead or alive, back up onto the mountain peak.

Thus, I was trapped down here until the end of the battle fight.

I slowly twirled around and then faced the opposite black tinted rock wall corner on the other side of the mountain interior. "The destroyed glass carriage was supposed to have landed there inside the opposite wall corner. But it didn't." I slowly squatted down in the mud in front of the triangular tree formations with a worried brow and a whisper. "That means! The other four glass carriages must have landed inside the same interior mountain, like mine. But I'm down here with my fellow court prince and princess. Yeah, my new boyfriend Zeamon told me to let Aqualia do my battle fighting. And my trusted servant Tofur told me the same thing. Yes. Yes. Yes. What to do next?"

I slowly twisted around in the mud to face my glass carriage as and my boot soles enjoyed playing in the mud, making a set of swish sounds. I whispered with a smile. "Yes, I could go back inside and stay in the carriage waiting on the end of the battle fight like a coward. Yes, I am a coward. That's not a good idea! I would be sitting target inside the semi-enclosed carriage. My blood would paint lovely onto the pretty glass."

I slowly twisted around in the mud to face the row of triangular trees that were surrounded with pockets of white mist and as my individual boot soles continued to play in the mud, making a set of swish sounds. I waved my hand and then dissolved the white steam from my eyeballs. I whispered with a smile. "Yes, I go and find Aqualia. Zeamon had stay hidden and watched over me in the last battle fight, without my knowledge. I can't expect Aqualia to watch over me here between the hard boulders of rocks. I'll leave here and find Aqualia, watching him in battle."

I slowly stood upright from the mud, exhaling with worry, sliding sideways from the row of hard tall tree rocks without injuring my body. I waved the white mist from my face and then stepped forward unsuccessfully. I was stuck in the mud.

My twirling routine had dug the set of fashion spiked heels down even with the arched soles on both of my boots. I whispered with annoyance. "Way to go, Thea!"

I leaned forward toward the hard surface that didn't contain an upright boulder, only semi-flat ground of rock, grunting with force, pumping both of my arms back and forth. I created more force and energy, pulling my body forward out from the muddy ground. Both of my boots continued to play in the mud, making a set of swish sounds.

The left spiked heel lifted upward from the thick mud pack with a slurping sound and as I was finally freed from the muddy ground. I tumbled ahead with a soft yelp and then slid over the slick mud, flying through the air waves, colliding into a solid wall in the formation of a tall and rounded mound of black tinted rock.

I hugged the wet rock and then whispered into the rock with great annoyance. "Yeah, this is a grand plan!"

I slowly glided sideways through the slick wet and then moved away from the solid wall of rock, standing in an open clearing of pure mud. Ahead of my body, a maze of large and small black objects that represented individual large and small decorative natural formation of rock in the shapes of medium-sized triangular trees or short rounded low-lying pillows or large rounded mounds or curvy bridges with a hole in the middle of the rock. The individual pockets of white tinted mist danced side to side, sometimes blocking the view of the smaller and larger rock formation in the distance.

I struggled to step one foot forward with a grunt of girly force and then slowly glided ahead one boot toe at a time through the slick mud with a frown, like slowly skating over the black tinted soil while looking for a foe or a friend, seeing only the numerous and various shaped rock formations and many set of white mists of clouds.

The height of the mountain appears to be a half-a-mile high from the muddy surface. One mile is calculated as 5,280 feet in mathematical measurement. So, the ceiling mountain is 2,640 feet above my sweaty hair roots.

The length of the mountain appears to be half-a-mile also, which is also 2,640 feet away from my boot toes on the opposite wall.

The running foot speed-per-second for a healthy individual is measured at .06818 miles per hour of time.

At three miles per hour, the pair of feet on a healthy individual performs a pacing walk at 4.3999 seconds. A healthy individual can walk 1,000 feet on a flat surface in 233 seconds or three minutes and eight seconds, if the individual is not in a big hurry.

A swift foot speed on a healthy individual at eight miles per hour, the pair of healthy feet is fast running at 11.733 seconds. So a healthy individual can run the length of a 1,000 feet flat surface in 85 seconds or one minute and 42 seconds.

The length of the interior mountain surface is 2,640 feet. So, a healthy foe can run at 11.733 seconds the entire length on top of a dry surface in 225.00 seconds or three minutes and 75 seconds.

However, the interior mountain surface is both wet and sticky with thick black tinted mud, not dry dirt. So, a healthy foe will run much, much slower through the thick and heavy mud.

Thus, my healthy foe will be walking, not running.

At three miles per hour, the pair of feet on a healthy foe performs a pacing walk at 4.3999 seconds.

But my healthy foe will not be walking through the thick mud at three miles-per-hour. My healthy foe will be sloshing through the thick mud at a much lower foot speed.

At one mile-per-hour, the pair of feet on a healthy foe performs a pacing walk at 1.46693 seconds.

At one-half of a mile-per-hour, the pair of feet on a healthy foe performs a pacing walk at 0.73332 seconds.

At one-quarter of a mile-per-hour, the pair of feet on a healthy foe performs a pacing walk at 0.36666 seconds.

At one-eighth of a mile-per-hour, the pair of feet on a healthy foe performs a pacing walk at 0.18333 seconds.

At one-sixteenth of a mile-per-hour, the pair of feet on a healthy foe performs a pacing walk at 0.09167 seconds.

So, my healthy foe will slosh through the thick mud at a foot speed of 0.09167 seconds. Then my healthy foe will slosh the entire length on top of a wet muddy surface in 29798.9529 seconds or 496 minutes and 649 seconds or 8 hours and 28 seconds.

An airship travels at 135 miles per hour and can cross a 2,640 feet of wind in 19.55 seconds.

Inside the mountain interior, on top of the thick muddy surface, I continued to slosh forward and stared at each black tinted rock formation, whispering with a giggle. "I don't have an airship." I halted in place while exhaling with deep breaths of hard work. I reared back and then kicked forward at the flat mud soil with a boot toe and my frustration, losing my balance, dropping down onto my back spine and rested in the soft mud with a loud grunt.

I whispered to the mountain ceiling. "Wow!"

I slowly rolled to the side, pulling my body from the mud, slowly standing upright on my knees. My dark long hair strands, my face, my two naked arms, my two exposed legs, and my pretty lavender outfit was painted in black mud. I whispered with a giggle. "Well, I'm thoroughly disguised in mud now. And based on my new mathematical calculates, my healthy foe will finally arrive over eight hours. Or one of my fellow friends will beat my foe to me. The battle fight ends in around forty-eight minutes or." I turned and frowned at the new rock formation. A funny-looking tall and slender piece resembled a falling waterfall, where the flowing part of the fake waterfall had been broken off. The solid wall was colored in rough black rock and contained a sideways opening, just small enough for one person.

I whispered with a smile. "I'm safe right here."

I slowly glided sideways through the thick mud, slamming into a new mound of wet rock, hugging the rock formation. I slowly slid down towards the muddy ground and continued to kiss the wet rock with my nose bridge, squatting down in the mud, hiding behind the broken piece of the fake waterfall. I slowly twirled around to face a piece of the rock that blocked the rear wall, whispering with a nod of safety. "Here! I'll stay and pray until the end of the battle fight." I sat down in the mud with a large splat while feeling the warm liquid on each one of my naked legs with a smile.

I gently leaned my rear skull into the wet rock, exhaling with worry and exhaustion, surveying some of the rear wall from my parked angle.

My glass carriage was open and safe and ready to enter, after the bell finally tinged the ending of the battle fight. The numerous pockets of white mist fluttered up and down across the air waves and the walls. The rear wall didn't show a dark shadow. So, I was perfectly safe and cozy and lucky.

The destroyed glass carriage would have landed on the opposite side of my parked carriage. Then my new foe would have stalked and then fought with my person on this side of the mountain interior.

The second set of glass carriages had parked in the middle of the side wall. So, the two warriors were stalking and maybe fighting with each other.

My legs and fanny continued to squash inside the thick wet mud from my weight, making a set of squeaky noises. I closed my eyelashes, listening to the natural and unnatural sounds that echoed throughout the interior mountain setting.

The mountain interior was quiet.

I didn't hear any type of mammal sound or a fowl sound or an insect sound. I didn't believe a beast or an insect could survive and then thrive down here in the heat.

My face was sweaty and as balls of water poured over each eyelash. The heated air made my body tired and as the thick mud made my legs feel heavy and useless inside the warm soil.

In the distance, a faint scratch echoed off one of the rock faces.

I swiftly opened my eyelashes and then slightly leaned over around the piece of rock, staring at the entire space on the black tinted rear wall and as my eyeballs darted side to side, looking for a moving dark shadow. I didn't see any movement but the white tinted misty clouds slowly drifting up and down.

I lifted my hand and then reached over, grabbing my scepter weapon from the hook on the waistline of my skirt, slowly lifting the weapon in the air in front of my face. I pressed the trigger. A short blade protruded outward, glittering silver tones in the dull light. I slowly leaned over with my fighting hand and then halted in front of the rock face, slowly dropping down the tip of the blade. It slowly scraped across the rock face and then duplicated the same faint sound, where my eardrums had picked up the echo that rung throughout the interior of the mountain.

I exhaled with relief and then pressed the trigger. The sliver blade quickly sucked back down into the cone with a soft slurp. I gently placed my weapon down into the ruffle of my muddy skirt for a quick retrieve and peace of mind while holding onto the smooth handle.

The faint sound had been the blade of a scepter weapon coming from either Aqualia or his sister Ittai, which had been located on the far side of the mountain interior. The sound was an unnerving echo that called out his foe for a battle fight.

Zeamon was correct. His friend Aqualia enjoyed the battle fight too much. I enjoyed the mud too much, lounging inside the warm liquid.

On top of the mud, in front of the waterfall rock formation, I slowly leaned back into my sitting pose, exhaling with worry, closing my eyelashes, listening to the sounds. My eardrums could pick up any type of sloshing movement from the lifting and the stomping a boot sole down into the thick mud. So, I had plenty of time to react to a new foe coming from behind my rear skull.

A loud scream echoed throughout the enclosed cavern.

On top of the mud, in front of the waterfall rock formation, I opened my eyelashes with a slight smirk, staring at the block of black rock that nicely hid my face, not my muddy covered legs. Aqualia had found his foe and then eliminated his foe. Now, there was one more Yawpian left inside the mountain interior.

The first warrior team to die lost the battle fight. The other surviving members of the opposing team went back home with the victory.

On top of the mud, in front of the waterfall rock formation, I slowly wiggled back and forth getting comfortable in the mud, exhaling with worry, closing my eyelashes, listening to the sounds. My eardrums did not pick up any type of sloshing movement from the lifting and the stomping a boot sole down into the thick mud. No foe or friend was near my rock or my person.

I didn't hear another scream, yet.

I smirked in silence while thinking of vicious pair of siblings and then wiggled side to side in the mud. The air temperature was getting hotter. The longer I continued to sit in the wet thick mud, the heavier the drifting pockets of steam floated around the air waves. Mists of white steam floated through the opening and then collided into my sweaty face, ticking my nose holes and eyelids while depositing numerous wet droplets of heated water over my face. If the battle fight didn't end soon, I would eventually become a lumpy and wet mud statue here inside the mountain interior.

I wiggled again side to side, feeling the heat coming up from the mud, warming my naked wet legs, heating the leather in each thigh-high boot. I leaned into the wet rock, exhaling with annoyance, inhaling deep breaths of thick air molecules into my lungs. The air temperature had grown hotter.

A loud crackling sound in close proximity near my body echoed throughout the quiet cavern.

I snapped open my eyelashes and as my eyeballs darted side to side, searching for the annoying noise-maker. On the rear wall, part of the solid black tinted wall had broken away and then revealed a deep vertical open fusion that was tinted in bright orange color. I slowly wiggled out of my sitting pose inside the thick mud puddle and then slowly glided across the mud on my fanny, halting on top of the mud, still safety hidden behind the rock wall.

I leaned down and then dropped my hand down into the thick mud, wiggling the fingers through the soil, finally touching a layer of smooth hard rock and gasped in alarm. The mountain floor possessed a series of hot springs that rumbled underneath the hot mud and vibrated in my fingers.

I stared with a gasp of alarm at the natural occurring phenomenon inside the mountain interior. An orange tinted lava fountain had formed and was shooting up into the air thick sprays of heated orange tinted lava. The continuous ejection of lava sprays was coming from the broken solid wall that held a fifty-foot high vertical fissure.

The free flowing lava sprays dropped down, landed in the mud, sizzled in the water, and then fossilized the mud into a solid state. The lava sprays quickly separated and then formed a series of independent wide or narrow low-lying streams of orange tinted lava.

In the mud, behind the waterfall rock formation, I slowly stood upright from the mud and then turned to study the waterfall-looking black tinted formation. "The element of lava possesses a glassy sheen where it had been flash frozen in contact with the air or water. The waterfall-shaped black rock had once been a lava fountain also that had frozen in time. Then the curving piece of the frozen fountain broke off the edge. This was once a lava foundation too. A mountain is formed from a dead volcano. A dead volcano is a landform that has been built by repeated eruption of heated lava and blinding ash over time. This mountain peak is not dead, but alive. An active volcano can erupt at any time. This active volcano is erupting right now before my eyes."

The loud sound of crunching echoed throughout the air waves.

I turned with a gasp to see the wall corner that held my carriage.

One of the slow running lava streams easily cuts through the soft mud, creating a new orange glowing wet surface. The stream seared the mud and then headed toward the wall corner. The lave stream cut underneath the solid rock that held the bottom of my glass carriage. The hard rock underneath the carriage morphed into a lava bed of orange.

The poor glass carriage collided down into the orange tinted lava bed as the heated lava consumed the precious glass, melting the entire transport carriage down into the lava pit.

"Lava is molten rock. The source of the heat melts the rock by geothermal energy. That lava bed is liquid and heats to 2,192 degrees Fahrenheit. No! No! No! My personal glass carriage has been destroyed. That's my escape from the battle field. Part of the battle fight is surviving your foes and then finding the proper escape route from the battle arena, a double dangerous situation for me." The soft mud swiftly turned into a solid matter. I leaped into the air and held my breath as the heated mud burned both of my boot soles, jumping backward from the mud and then landed down in more heated mud.

Beside my nose profile, my hidden spot, the waterfall-shaped rock formation loudly crunched and then broke apart, slowly spewing out a new lava foundation.

Below my boot toes, the floor of the mountain shook and then rumbled like thunder.

"No! No! No!" I continued to leap into the air from the burning sensation on the bottom of my soles and then stared at each rock object. Each rock formation shivered and then shook, slowly cracking apart as a tiny stream of orange tinted lava slowly poured down from the broken fission, covering the rock, the hard surface and running ahead, forming a new lava stream.

I could hear a set of faint screams through the series of very loud cracking action from each broken rock formation coming from a participating warrior behind my back spine. I landed on my boot soles on top of the hard black rock surface and then spun around with a gasp.

The entire mountain interior was blowing apart, spraying tiny bits of heated rock fragments in the air. A few tiny heated rock pieces landed on my naked arm, burning the skin. One tiny rock bit landed on top of my hair roots. I flung a hand over my hair, swishing it off, yelling in fear. My hair burned and smelled like a dead animal.

I continued to race ahead for my life over the heated hard rock surface and then leaped into the air, flying over each tiny lava stream, feeling the heat, sweating in the white heated mist. I landed on top of solid rock, rushing ahead with heavy breathes of fear.

The floor of the mountain shook with violent rumblings.

I halted in place with fear.

Behind my back spine, the mountain floor swiftly erupted and then lifted upward into large pieces of the rock as a new tiny volcano quickly formed between the rear wall and my old hiding place. A plume of red colored ash ejected from the tiny cone and then decorated the air waves.

I held my nose and then breathed through my mouth, coughing out loud, shifting side to side from the shaking floor.

Each side wall inside the interior displayed a new gigantic lava fountain that spewed a river of orange sizzling lava fifty feet into the air. The flowing lava river dropped down and then seared the hard surface, forming numerous free flowing tiny and wide lava streams.

On top of the hard surface in the middle portion of the mountain interior, I could see one of the parked glittering glass carriages as it slowly descended down into a new lava bed of sizzling molten rock, disappearing from the surface and my eyesight.

I shuffled side to side and then whispered in fury. "That's another glass carriage gone! This is not good for my royal team. Can the carriage hold three people? Of course, it can. That's why there are only three warriors in the battle fight. So, we have to fight to survive and then fight over the carriage. Well, I'm fighting mad now."

The middle section within the mountain interior contained a series of tiny lava streams or a solid upright tall rock surface. Each lava fountain seemed to favor a side wall and the rear wall.

I continued to dance side to side on top of the warm rock surface while scouting a safe space. The forward wall was not erupting with a gigantic beautiful orange tinted lava fountain, only a tiny set of orange tinted lava streams. The last two intact glass carriages were parked inside each wall corner.

I whispered with a grin. "That's my new destination. My old carriage had sunk down into a lava pit. And my old hiding place had been turned into a fountain of danger." I moved ahead and then danced side to side on top of the solid but warm hard surface as the mountain floor continued to rumble like thunder and then shook apart, expanding the distance of each tiny lava streams. I did not see my friends or my foes either. I halted with a gasp. "No! Wait! Aqualia only killed one of the two Yawpians. There is still one alive. If I confront the person, then I can't kill him or her. I can't do it. I'm a coward." I continued to dance side to side from the shaking floor, turning to see each intact rock formation. Several feet from my stationary position, one of the rock formations stood in peace without a plume of heated white steam or underneath an orange tinted lava stream.

The mound of solid black rock formation held a secret opening with a solid vertical ledge inside the belly of the rock, where a clever person could hideout for hours.

I turned to face the new mound and then danced over the hard surface, scanning the open clearing. The mud had fossilized into a black tinted hard surface for running or walking. Each mountain wall continued to spew out orange tinted lava from the lava fountain in the air and then falling down onto the lava river. I still did not see my friend or my foes. I didn't know if that was good or bad. I had heard a set of loud screams but I was screaming so loud that it could have been my own voice.

The ceiling had turned into swirling white mist holding the clouds of moisture from the sizzling lava.

I swiftly ducked down and then slowly strolled underneath the solid rooftop on the rock formation, stopping in front of the black tinted ledge. I reached out and then gently touched the rock. The ledge was solid rock and warm and wet on my fingers. I slowly climbed up and then settled inside the middle of my cubby hole, exhaling with worry, sweating with perspiration.

I was sitting alone and then crouched down into the rear wall of the rock, scouting each open side of my hole. I still didn't see my friends or my foes. The rock formation barely moved from the rumbling sound of the floor.

The floor continued to shake. The lava streams continued to slowly spread and then flow over the hard surface.

Inside the belly of the new rock formation, I wiped off the stinging sweat from both eyelashes and continued to remain vigilant, scanning each side of the opening with fear and worry.

Then the mountain floor stopped shaking. Both the sizzling and hissing sounds slowly ceased coming from each flowing lava streams. The air waves filled with numerous plumes of white tinted steam as the cooler air froze the orange tinted lava in place.

Inside the belly of the new rock formation, I exhaled with relief, leaning back into the rear wall, closing my eyelashes with a loud grunt. This bad part was over. Now, I only had to listen out for one last ear-piercing scream coming from a dying Yawpian by the hand of Aqualia or his sister Ittai. Then, the battle fight would be finished and we all could ride the last glass carriage to the surface of the mountain peak. Then, we could all go back home to Tross.

I didn't know the time that was left on the battle fight clock, but the time was close to one hour. When the hour ended, the team with the lowest total of warriors would die by the hand of somebody. Tofur had secretly told me that information.

A loud scream echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

Inside the belly of the rock formation, I opened my eyelashes, staring the puffs of drifting white steam clouds and the glittering puddles of orange tinted lava, smiling with happiness, "Yeah! Thank you, Aqualia." I slowly slid sideways and then dropped down from the ledge, standing in place on top of solid rock, exhaling with relief. I lifted up and then stretched out my limbs one at a time, feeling the soreness, dropping down each limb and slapped my muddy body.

I looked down and then examined the immediately walking surface. The hard rock was mostly solid, but there were a few very tiny streams of flowing lava that spewed out white steams of mist.

I slowly moved ahead and then halted at the edge of the rock formation, still hiding my body for protection. I didn't want Aqualia to cut off my head with his scepter weapon. I carefully scanned the opening without seeing a friend or a foe or a spewing gigantic lava fountain. All the eruption had ceased. The clouds of steam mists slowly drifted up and down in the air waves around each newly created black tinted rock formation again like the event was common place.

The leaders in the Land of Yawp were very smart. This location was an idea hot spot for both violence and death.

I scooted around the rock to face the forward wall and then slowly moved ahead while abandoning my new hiding spot, feeling confident with the victory. The hard surface continued to spit out puff of hot steam from each tiny lava stream, but overall the ground had nicely formed a rough walking surface.

I continued to slowly stroll with peace of mind, wiping off the sweat of worry, not work. The burned rock formation also released steams of white mist. I realized the clouds of mist had been squeezed from each underground hot springs that ignited the active guts of the volcano. Each wall continued to release plumes of white steam also. Each new rock formation had quickly returned back into a peaceful black tinted statue.

On my walking journey toward the forward wall while scanning the new environment for my friends, the ground swiftly changed.

The hard surface quickly split and then parted into three types of elements, a smooth black tinted rock surface, a tiny stream of orange tinted lava, and then a medium-sized rounded puddle of gray matter.

I didn't bother to investigate the gray matter on the ground floor, strolling around each lava stream while carefully scanning each rock formation. I still didn't see my two friends or any dark shadows that could be my two friends.

I didn't really know either the tart or the sweet personalities with Aqualia or his sister Ittai. They could be a pair of jokers or a pair of fighters or a pair of royals. And I didn't hear any noise coming from my friends or the elements inside the mountain interior other than the hissing of the steam puddles.

I continued my stroll with a stern face and a serious attitude. I was ready to leave the Land of Yawp and then arrive back home, confronting my royal parents about the behavior of a royal empress and emperor. My eyeballs continued to dart side to side over the hard surface and each rock formation. I did not want a surprise or a scare.

A sharp whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I halted and then crouched down at the kneecaps in a low fighting stance, slowly swirling around in place while surveying each rock formation and open surface. I didn't see a shadow or my friends. I stopped and continued to crouch in place, calming down a racing heart. I slowly stood upright with a grin. The natural elements inside the mountain interior were talking to me.

I whispered with a smile. "And, yeah, I completely agreed. Time to leave!"

I slowly strolled ahead over the black tinted hard surface, swiftly stepping over each tiny lava stream, surveying each rock formation that didn't move or hiss and moved ahead toward the forward wall. I could not see the glass carriage yet. And I could not see my friends either.

I whispered with fury. "And they betta not have left me here either!"

A sharp whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I halted with a gasp and then crouched down at the kneecaps in a low fighting stance, swiftly twirling around in place while surveying each rock formation and each open surface. I didn't see a moving dark shadow or my friends. I stopped and then continued to crouch in place, calming down a racing heart.

I could not place the weird whistling noise. It might be an aftereffect from the eruption. Or it might be a one of my friends with a practical joke.

I swiftly stood upright and then raced ahead with a stern face toward the undamaged rear wall, finding the glass carriage. I was leaving without my friends, if they wanted to scare and intimidate me.

Then, my single eyeball saw the dull colored object near the side wall.

I skipped to a halt with a gasp.

On the side wall of solid black rock that continued to produce puffs of white steam and several feet from my stationary position, a rock formation stood in peace which was a tiny stream of lava and a medium-sized gray puddle of matter. On top of the gray puddle of matter, there was a right arm in green metal hue in a peaceful rest. The metal arm had matched the right tinted metal arm on Tzar Aqualia.

I spun around with a gasp and then dashed ahead, stopping in front of the tiny lava stream. The stream was harmless to my body but my eyeballs studied the metal arm. The green metal arm possessed a set of long and deep indentations and a series of white tinted scrapes that must have come from a vicious hand-to-hand fight.

I had to see more.

I gingerly stepped over the lava stream and then landed on top of the hard surface, squatting down, carefully studying the damaged metal arm, without touching it.

The dents were massive and deep. The white tinted scrapes had been slashed into the metal, scarring the steel, showing a set of red tainted paint.

I whispered with worry. "No! That's red tinted blood proteins across each white scrape." I leaned down and then studied the metal arm.

A whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I swiftly fell backward on my fanny from the gray puddle from the sound and the flipped around, surveying the clearing. I didn't see a moving shadow or my friends. I exhaled with worry and then quickly spun around my heels, staring down at the metal arm, whispering for my eardrums only. "Yes, that metal device belongs to Aqualia. He wore the green tinted metal arm. So, he has been killed here. No! That's no possible. I remembered hearing two separate screams. One scream came early before the volcanic eruptions that had to be one of the Yawpians. Aqualia got the foe. Then the second scream came after the eruptions had stopped. So, Aqualia had initiated the second ear-piercing scream. That means! There is one Yawpian and his sister Ittai, who are left alive. And of course, I'm alive. So, that's two against one, which favors me."

A whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I swiftly fell backward on my fanny from the metal arm again from the whistling sound and then flipped around on my fanny, surveying the clearing. I didn't see a moving shadow or my friends. I exhaled with worry and then quickly stood upright from the rock surface, leaping over the lava steam, dashing sideways. I scooted backwards and then stopped, squatting down, hiding behind a new rock formation, surveying the clearing. My heart raced with worry. My face sweated with nervousness. My pulse skipped a beat making my mind dizzy with fear.

I whispered with worry. "The whistling sound is either Ittai or the Yawpian calling me out from my hiding spot. So, neither one of them knows where I hid. And I don't know who is whistling to me." I exhaled and then inhaled, calming my raw nerves. "Okay. Stay here! The clock time is almost at one hour. Then the battle fight will end. It's two against one, in our favor. I'll live through this one also."

A whistling sound echoed again throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I swiftly fell forward and then landed on my bare hands, cutting my fingers on the hard surface from the whistling sound. I quickly stood upright from the rock surface, leaping over the lava steam, dashing ahead into the open clearing. I headed toward a new rock formation on the opposite side of the mountain interior. That particular whistling sound had been close to my back spine.

I spun around to face the clearing while surveying the arena for a shifting dark shadow or my friend Ittai. Her brother Aqualia was dead leaving behind only his green tinted metal arm. I scooted back from the clearing, then leaped backward over the tiny lava stream and finally stopped, squatting down on top of the hard surface, hiding beside the new rock formation, surveying the clearing. My heart raced with worry. My face sweated with nervousness. My pulse skipped a beat, making my mind dizzy with fear again.

I exhaled and then inhaled with a set of deep breathes, turning to survey my new surroundings. The rock formation was a semi-block of some type of tall geometric rock, without a shape, but formed rounded, not squared. On one side of the rock structure, a tiny narrow stream of orange colored lava gently flowed without disturbance. Behind my back spine, a small puddle of gray matter that didn't contain an object or a ghost print and it didn't touch the rock structure or the side mountain wall. The tall black tinted mountain side wall had been scarred numerous times with lava molten rock pieces.

I was alone, squatting down on the hard surface that was cradled between the tiny lava stream and the small gray puddle of something.

I continued to squat on top of the hard surface beside the tall rock formation and then returned back with a worried brow, carefully scouting out the middle portion within the mountain interior. The middle section was clear of rock formation, only a zig-zag pathway of solid rock that led down toward the forward wall.

The rear wall had been enclosed by massive amount of loose debris that created new rock formations and a river of frozen orange tinted lava. Massive clouds of white steams drifted up from the hard stone floor and then hovered in the cold air current, and then eventually floated in a different direction.

I returned back to see the forward wall. I didn't see a moving dark shadow or my friend Ittai or the glass carriage near that wall.

So, Ittai was chasing after the last remaining Yawpian and would perform that silly whistle through the air waves. The whistle didn't sound like any familiar bird sing within my eardrums. The whistle must be some type of secret code between her and brother.

I wondered if Ittai knew that her brother was dead.

I returned back and then studied the side wall, narrowing my eyeballs, studying the outline on each rock formation. There was a simple pattern flow, a tall rock formation against the tall black tinted wall beside a continuous stream of lava steam.

I glanced over my collar bone, seeing the same outline here on the opposite wall. I closed my eyelashes and then listened to the air waves, hearing the hiss of the misty clouds coming up from the sizzling lava stream.

I opened my eyelashes and then slowly stood upright from the hard rock surface, slowly back stepping around the gray puddle of matter, halting next to the rock and against the side wall.

My eyeballs darted to the side and as I gasped in shock. The same rock formation existed in front of my new hiding spot. I frowned with a whisper. "How is that possible? I don't know. I don't care."

I side stepped and then halted. The side wall had expanded down and then blocked the natural foot path. But I could crawl over the rounded stone with ease. I climbed over the black tinted smooth stone and then landed on top of the hard surface inside the next rock formation with a gasp.

Yes, it was the exactly same. And I couldn't explain it.

I slowly scooted around the puddle of gray matter without touching it. I didn't know if the gray matter was heated or dangerous to my body and then stopped. I squatted down and then leaned into the rock formation, hiding my body, surveying the middle portion of the mountain interior.

I didn't hear a cream of death or another new whistle wound.

Ittai was searching for the Yawpian or maybe, she was searching for a hiding Thea.

I whispered with confusion. "Why doesn't she come out and show herself now, to me? Then we can run ahead and get into the carriage, leaving this hot spot. The time is close to an hour. I don't understand," I reached up and then scratched my nose bridge, tickling the tender skin. A piece of dried black tinted mud dropped down from my nose and then bounced off my naked leg, landing down onto the hard surface.

I looked down with a gasp. My leather thigh-boots, my naked legs, and my short skirt, all were colored in black hue and covered in dried black mud.

I reached up and touched my hair roots with a smile. My long hair strands and the top of the hair roots were matted and covered in dried black tinted mud also.

I whispered with a grin. "My entire body exhibits a true disguise. Ittai can't see me with her naked eyes. I'm a walking black tinted rock formation. No wonder! She's using an old bird call. She's trying to find me and plan the escape. But, I am right here near the forward wall also. I'm very close to her also. I don't possess a slick whistle or bird call or a singing voice to tell her that I'm right here." I exhaled with annoyance and worry. "What time is it? It's very close to the striking hour. So, we need to meet and then leave outta of here. Okay. If she can't find me, then I must find her."

I stood upright from the hard surface and then spun around, carefully scooting around the gray puddle of matter, sliding between the edge of the rock formation and the side wall. The lump of stone was slightly rounded. I climbed on top and then squatted down in-between the back wall of the rock formation and the tall side wall in the mountain interior. I leaned my back into the wall and then slowly lifted up my face, using my eyeballs. I slowly scanned the middle portion of the mountain interior for the location or movement of Ittai.

The mountain interior was quiet.

I whispered with great disappointment. "No! I didn't see a moving dark shadow or my friend Ittai. Where is she?" I dropped back down with a gasp of annoyance and then slid back down, standing on top of the hard surface. I again climbed on top and then squatted down in-between the back wall of the rock formation and the tall side wall in the mountain interior. I wiggled down in-between the back wall of the rock formation and the tall side wall in the mountain interior. I lifted up my legs and then pressed them into my chest, raking off some of the dried mud onto the floor, closing my eyelashes, holding my breath. I needed to hear the whistle sound again, so I could pinpoint the accuracy direction from Ittai.

The mountain interior was quiet.

I exhaled the sour breath slowly and then gulfed more oxygen molecules while listening for the whistle sound.

A whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I exhaled the sour breath and then breathed normally with my eyelashes shut. The whistle sound originated on the opposite side wall closer to the forward wall.

I smiled with a whisper. "Yes, she is closer to the one of the parked glass carriage in the wall corner than me. That would make perfect sense for our escape outta of here. I need to shuttle down the side wall and meet her."

A whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I held my breath as my neurons quickly analyzed newest whistle sound that was echoing inside my memory banks. The newest whistle sound originated on the opposite side wall but it was further away from the forward wall.

I snapped open my eyelashes with a gasp and continued to sit on top of the lumpy stone, whispering with worry. "No! She's moving away from the glass carriage. That's the wrong direction. I have confused Ittai. She's searching for me. She must know that her brother is dead. She must believe that I'm dead too. Who in the world could live through an active volcano eruption?" I slid down the lumpy stone and the stood on top of the hard surface with a giggle. "Me!"

I couldn't move ahead and then reached out, climbing over the next lumpy stone that hugged the side wall, sliding down into a new rock formation, landing on my bare hands. I slowly stood upright with a gasp. The lumpy stone on the next rock formation was higher than the last one.

I climbed over the stone and then slid down on my belly, falling down onto the hard floor with a loud grunt. I whispered with fear. "No! No! No!" I stood upright from the floor and then squatted down, slowly scooting closer to the gray puddle of matter. I sobbed with tears and reached out, slapping the rock, jerking back my hand and then covered my mouth from the loud panic screams.

The gray puddle of matter displayed a blue tinted metal arm. The same metal arm, Ittai had worn on his right fighting arm, before we all left the Land of Tross, and before she entered down into the mountain interior.

The condition of the blue metal was badly indented with deep cracks, wearing a series of white tinted scrapes. Each scrape was decorated with her dried red tinted blood proteins.

Ittai was dead also. Her blue tined metal arm had been placed here like a death memorial similar to her brother Aqualia.

There had been three screams inside the mountain interior. One came from a dead Yawpian. One came from a dying Aqualia. And the finally scream had been a dying Ittai. I didn't know the correct order of death, but it didn't matter now.

I was alone.

I bowed my chin and sobbed with tears.

A new whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I continued to squat in front of the gray puddle and then looked up with a gasp to see the middle clearing, holding my breath as my neurons quickly analyzed newest whistle sound that was echoing inside my memory banks. The newest whistle sound had originated on the opposite side wall but it had been closer toward the forward wall.

A new whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I held my breath as my neurons quickly analyzed newest whistle sound that was echoing inside my memory banks. The newest whistle sound had originated on the opposite side wall but it had been further away from the forward wall.

The two Yawpians had survived the fighting skills of Aqualia and Ittai and all the volcanic eruptions. They were located on the opposite wall, working together down the side wall toward the rear wall while looking for Thea.

I wiped my eyeballs with the tears, whispering with fury. "I must survive here. It would be pointless, if I died right here. My twin sister died for me to survive and become the new empress of everything. I hate my father and I haven't even met him before," I gasped. "The ratio is two to one, not in my favor. The parked glass carriage, there must only be one left operationally working. That's why the two Yawpians are on that side wall. My side wall doesn't hold a parked glass carriage for the final escape. I must cross over and get to the other side and inside the carriage first. Wait! That doesn't matter now. I am the single survivor. My two warrior mates are dead. Where are their bodies? I didn't see a whole body, but I didn't hear a voice, only the stupid bird calls. They must be chopped into tiny body parts. And the lava stream could have eaten up all the body parts also. So, there are two Yawpians. I'm going to die here. Only the team with the most warriors wins the victory. If what if I kill one, then it is a tie. Who wins? It is the one who rides up inside the glass carriage. Yes, I must be the one inside the glass carriage, not the Yawpian. Yes. That's my new strategy here."

A new whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I held my breath as my neurons quickly analyzed newest whistle sound that was echoing inside my memory banks. The newest whistle sound had originated on the opposite side wall but it had been further away from the forward wall.

I whispered with worry. "Yes, ya'll go down the side wall. Then I will go toward the forward wall. And then we will never meet in the middle," giggling.

A new whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I held my breath as my neurons quickly analyzed newest whistle sound that was echoing inside my memory banks. The newest whistle sound had originated on the opposite side wall, but it had been further away from the forward wall again.

So, the two surviving and alive Yawpians were moving away from the forward wall and the glass carriage.

I slid backwards from the gray puddle and the blue tinted metal arm. I wanted to reach out and grab the metal arm, bringing it back with me to Land of Tross, but I couldn't run with that heavy object. I turned to face the side wall and then climbed on top of the lumpy stone, parking in-between a tight space of air. My scraped and cut kneecaps touched the tall rouge black tinted side wall, creating pain. My back spine kissed the rock formation, feeling wet moisture.

I closed my eyelashes and then deeply breathed, calming my racing heart and my active mind. I only needed to wait for the correct time to make an escape toward the single glass carriage as the two stupid Yawpians worked further down the side wall and away from the forward wall.

I planned to arrive first at the glass carriage which was opened for entrance like my destroyed glass carriage. Then I would kill one of the foes and finally ride up from the mountain interior to victory.

I wiggled side to side with nervousness and then quickly slipped off the wet rock, landing down onto my belly with a loud grunt. My outstretched arm reached out and then touched the gray puddle, creating a soft musical tone.

I lifted up my face with a gasp, seeing my naked arm on top of the gray puddle. I reached out and then picked up a piece of grain that was colored in gray hue, bringing the object closer into my face. The single piece of sand grain is very well-rounded and highly spherical and does not produce dust particles.

I whispered with a smile. "This is singing sand. The gray puddle is composed of numerous sand grains. The sand sings. That's the whistling echo, not a bird call which loudly sounds throughout the quiet mountain interior." I rolled the sand grain between my two finger meats producing a tiny ting of musical tone. "The sand grain is coated in dry salt. Salt comes from the volcanic ash. The dry salt on each sand grain produces a musical tone that same way rosin on the bow produces sound from a violin string. The natural phenomenon is not completely understood from a scientific point of view, but each sand grain similar in size, the uniformity, and the cleanness moves up and down in unison over the layer of grains below them, producing shear that created the whistling sound."

A new whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I continued to rest on top of the hard surface and then dropped the single grain of sand back down into the puddle of gray with worry, turning to see the middle section inside the mountain interior. The section was still cleared of moving dark shadows. I gasped with alarm. "The walking boot soles on each Yawpian is scuffing across the flat and level puddle of gray tinted sand grains, making the sand sing in a loud whistle."

I held my breath as my neurons quickly analyzed newest whistle sound that was echoing inside my memory banks. The newest whistle sound had originated on the opposite side wall, but it had been closer to the forward wall.

I whispered with concern. "They are moving back towards me and the forward wall. So, the time is very close to the appointed hour."

A new whistling sound echoed throughout the quiet mountain interior.

I held my breath as my neurons quickly analyzed newest whistle sound that was echoing inside my memory banks. The newest whistle sound had originated on my side wall and it had been closer to me and the forward wall.

I whispered with panic. "No! No! No! They have figured out that I am here, not over there. The rear wall has been blocked by set of heavy debris coming from the volcanic eruptions."

A bright flash illuminated on the upper portion on each side wall and the high ceiling in the solid color of dark red hue as a mathematical time clock appeared, showing 5:00:00 minutes. Then the clock stared counting backward down the last five minutes on the battle fight clock. A female voice pleasantly echoed throughout the battle arena, saying out loud with the flip of the numbers. "Five minutes. Forty-nine minutes and fifty-nine seconds. Forty-nine minutes and fifty-eight seconds. Forty-nine minutes and fifty-seven seconds..."

The mountain floor rumbled with loud thunder.

"I have five minutes before the end of the hour. And I am still one person. There are two Yawpians here inside the cavern with me. I lost the battle fight without shedding my blood or their blood and then I am going to die." I continued to rest down on top of the hard floor and then felt the raising heat coming from the hard rock, warming my stomach muscles through the fabric. I swiftly stood upright from the floor, feeling the heat through my boot sole with a worried brow, dancing side to side with panic. "No! No! No! Please, do not erupt again, Mr. Volcano!"

I moved ahead and then climbed up onto top of the lumpy stone with worry, crouching behind the rock formation while still hiding from the two of the live Yawpians.

The rear wall loudly exploded into a new lava fountain, painting the hard rock with a river of orange tinted lava that echoed throughout the cavern. The floor violently shook opening up numerous new standing lava pools and wider lava streams.

I turned with a gasp to see the new rear wall, the beautiful lava fountain, and one of the live Yawpians. She stood short in height on top of the rock formation, wearing a bald head, a tone of yellow skin and a pair of naked feet.

I leaned back into the side wall while hiding my person from the Yawpian. The side wall was very heated in temperature. The volcanic pressure was building up for an explosion on the side wall as well.

"It's going to blow out too!" I climbed on top of the rock formation and then stood upright, balancing on my boot soles, while seeing both of the Yawpians, who duplicated my stationary stance. I turned to face the forward wall that still remained peacefully calm, without a lava fountain, and then I saw the single, intact, beautiful glass carriage that glittered underneath within dull natural light. The carriage was the only transport out form the mountain interior and also serviced the winner or winners of the battle fight.

I swung around with a gasp to see the closest Yawpian. She jumped off the rock and then landed on top of the next rock formation with ease in a pair of bare feet.

I turned to see the second Yawpian on the opposite wall. She stood on top of her rock formation but was further away from the glass carriage.

I returned back with panic and then slid down the rock, scampering over the smaller lumpy stone between the side wall and the rock formation. I couldn't remove my thigh-high fashion boots in time to save my life. I needed to reach the glass carriage first. When the battle clock hit 00:00:00 minutes/seconds/milliseconds, I planned to be the one standing on top of that smooth glass floor as the carriage swiftly launched up from the sizzling lava streams. Then the last two warriors would be outta of lucky and outta of time.

The leaders in the Land of Yawp were smart. This mountain interior was a death trap for a stupid court princess.

I swiftly climbed over each lumpy stone and then slid down onto my belly, clawing hand over hand toward the next lumpy stone, making pretty good progress. The lumpy stone was growing in height even with my tenth rib cage. I swiftly climbed the next one and then shuffled carefully over the top of the next rock formation, stopping to breath, turning to see my competition.

The closest Yawpian did a good job with her pair of naked feet, gracefully jumping in the air from each top and then landed steady on top of the next one, sticking her feet onto the dry rock while gaining speed on the court princess.

The other Yawpian did a good job with her pair of naked feet also while duplicating the same flying feat, but she had ventured out too far from the forward wall. The lava fountain on her side of the wall was ahead of her body. She was going to become trapped from the thick spray of lava streams. Then she would have to leap off the rock formation and then jump over each wide lava stream, swiftly moving toward the glass carriage on a pair of bare feet and on top of the heated rocks.

She wasn't my competition right now.

I swiftly spun around with a gasp and then dashed ahead, holding my breath, leaping into the air. I flew over the below rock surface, the growing lava stream and the disappearing puddle of gray sand.

The singing sing echoed with a set of loud whistles as the volcanic winds continued to shift each sand grain into each other, producing the pretty music.

Each old and new lava streams hissed with a series of musical tones in the air waves too as it widened and then consumed the rock floor.

Each new lava fountain sounded like thunder throughout the mountain interior as the flying lava hit the air waves and then landed down on top of the lava pool, slowly spreading over the floor.

I landed on top of the next rock formation with a heavy grunt on top of my kneecaps as each rock formation was getting closer but slicker with wet moisture. I stood upright with a heavy groan of pain and then dashed ahead, jumping into the air and then soared through the air.

I landed more on the far side, falling down over the next slick rock formation, twirling onto my back spine. I reached out and grabbed the rock, digging my fingernails into the surface, yelling in pain. Then, I halted, exhaling with fear, hearing the voice of the female.

" _Fifty-two seconds. Fifty-one seconds..."_

I scrambled upright from the rock surface with a loud grunt and then stood still, wobbling side to side on top of the wet rock formation with a gasp.

The second short, bald headed, yellow skin, and bared feet Yawpian had abandoned her rock jumping technique and then leaped down onto the floor surface. She was racing ahead on bare feet moving away from the quick-spreading orange tined lava river that was tearing up the hard rock. On each side wall, each newly developed lava fountain burped at the same time, ejecting a beautiful stream of gleaming orange tinted lava spray that flowed into the air. Then the two opposite sprays met in the middle and then crossed the bands, landing down in front of the running Yawpian. The two bands collided and then ignited into a colorful array of pinks, reds, coral, greens, and blues, soaring upward towards the ceiling. The gigantic tip hit the ceiling and then dropped back down creating a gigantic lava splash that covered the rest of the black tinted hard rock, deepening the lava river toward each end of the mountain interior.

The second short, bald headed, yellow skin, and bared feet Yawpian had completely disappeared from the hard surface. Her pretty skin and delicate bones had been quickly dissolved and then carried off in the molten lava spray.

I gasped in sorrow and then turned to see the closer Yawpian. She continued to jump in the air and then leaped off each rock formation with ease landing down on both her naked hands and naked feet like a frog. She was only three rock formation from my face, gaining speed.

I swung around to see the glittering and unharmed parked glass carriage in the far wall corner that was 400 feet away from my salvation.

The battle arena clock showed 00:56:13 minutes/seconds/millisecond and continued to count backward down to 00:00:00. The female voice pleasantly echoed throughout the battle arena, saying out loud with the flip of the numbers, "Forty-six seconds. Forty-five seconds..."

I gasped in fear. "Can I reach the carriage in forty-six seconds? Yawp, I can. Forty-four seconds. Forty-three seconds..."

A large spray of hot orange tinted lava landed next to my foot. I slid off the rock formation and then dropped down, reaching up, cupping my hand inside a single grid against the rock. I swung side to side above the ground surface that sizzled in a massive orange tinted lava pool of heated molten rock that boiled and bubbled with heat and white stream.

I slowly crawled over the side face of each rock formation finding each natural hand grid, moving around the rock and then reached up, climbing on top of a flat surface with a set of heavy grunts.

I stood upright with a gasp and then looked down with a worried brow. The row of remaining rock formations was extremely short and also was surrounded with a flowing orange tinted lava river, sizzling and hissing like a snake at my booted feet.

I spun around with a gasp. The single alive Yawpian danced on top of the naked heated rock, blowing on her pair of burning naked hands. The rock temperature was hotter than the solar rays as I could feel the burn through the thick soles of my boots. I was happy that I had decided to keep my foot ware.

I swung around with a worried brow and then swiftly ran across the remaining rock formations. The rock tops were closer together and had almost formed a solid bridge of black rock for ease of travel.

My eyeball caught the sideways motion and as I continued to run ahead over the flat rock stones, turning with a gasp to see the Yawpian female.

She was still alive, flipping through the air and then quickly landed on top of the heated rock on either her naked hands or her naked feet. Her series of flat rocks had been separated by a wide river of sizzling lava. However, she ran evenly with the court princess, racing toward the glass carriage also.

The first one to enter the glass carriage will win the battle fight and save her life. The other one will die inside the raging lava river that was rising and then consuming each wall.

Up ahead, the series of short rocks ended the natural foot pathway and then dropped down into the river of lava of death. On the other side of the flowing river of lava, a natural black tinted curvy stone bridge stood in peace without damage from the sizzling lava molten. The natural bridge ended on top of an elevated natural rock platform that leaned against the black tinted forward wall. The forward wall displayed an array of jagged spikes and protruded rock fragments like the other three walls, where the parked glass carriage stood in peace inside the wall corner and away from the dangerous lava river.

The Yawpian female flipped forward and then landed on her naked hands, holding the stationary pose while standing upright on her hands in the air for a few seconds. Then she fell backwards from the river of lava and then stumbled a few inches from the river, standing upright on her naked feet while examining the wide gap between the edge of the rock and the distance to the edge of the natural bridge.

I picked up speed, pumping both of my arms without stopping and then held my breath. I jumped from the edge of the rock and then leaped in the air, biting my tongue, bleeding onto my lips. I landed on my belly with a loud grunt of pain and a mouth of hot blood. I slowly crawled over the natural bridge, moving my feet away from the river of lava while digging my bloody fingernails into the stone.

I slowly stood upright with a deep sigh, spitting out blood from my lips and then swiftly raced ahead without looking back to see the Yawpian female. I dashed ahead in pain with loud moans, moving down the curvy, hitting the smooth hard rock and then turned to see the undamaged and sparkling parked glass carriage.

My excellent peripheral vision saw each flying gigantic wave of lava in the air. Each wave crashed back down and then smashed on top of each rock formation. The short and yellow skinned Yawpian female was not standing on top of her rock formation anymore.

I leaped onto the glass floor, sliding over the smooth surface, stopping a few feet in the middle of the cool floor with a loud grunt of pain. "Yawp!" My busted lips and my pair of wounded kneecaps bleed over the glass in red tint.

The double doors swiftly closed shut. The glass carriage swiftly lifted up from the boiling wet surface and then ascended upward toward a new opening.

I continued to rest on the floor and as my eyeballs continued to see the raving river of orange tinted lava.

The rising lava molten river consumed every stationary black tinted rock formation until the entire surface was painted in orange glow, swimming in waves of lava. The flowing lava river was tearing into each upright mountain wall of solid rock as well digging more jagged holes into the solid rock.

Mountain peak setting

The glass carriage cleared the new opening as each wall turned into white liquid steam from the interior condensation. Each white window was blinded my eyesight, but I did not care. The glass carriage smoothly halted in the air and then slowly sailed ahead, traveling back to my personal airship with my personal servant.

I continued to rest over the warm floor that was swiftly turning cold from the harsh icy winds. The cold glass felt good on my facial and body wounds as I continued to bleed over the glass.

One eyeball remained open and alert to any sudden dangerous, seeing the familiar sea of white fog that flowed over the 10,000 feet drop that traveled down to the ground surface.

I didn't see another flattened black tinted mountain peak. Within my mind, the other five glass carriages had been destroyed by the river of lava along with all the bones and numerous chopped dup body parts from the other five brave and loyal warriors. However, I was going home but alone this time.

I couldn't believe that the five deaths had occurred within an hour of time. Time was so precious. Life was so precious also. It felt like an eternity.

Day Two

Land of Yawp location

10,000 feet mountain peak

Blue sky and scattered clouds of bright sunshine

Glass carriage air ship setting with Thea

05:05 pm

The glass carriage smoothly halted like magic in the cold air currents without wobbling side to side while attached to the steady cable cord. The forward doors silently parted open, flooding the compartment with cold air and the face of Tofur.

Inside the Thea's airship, Tofur slid out from the passenger seat and then landed on his hands and kneecaps, slowly crawling over the smooth glass floor, moving ahead toward her in worry. He softly whispered, "Thea! Thea! Can you hear me? I know it's you. Are you breathing air? Are you dead?" He halted and then leaned down into her dirty and bloody cheekbone, feeling her sour breath, hearing her normal breathing.

I continued to rest on top of the glass floor and then exhaled with my last cold breath of wind. "Ugh!"

He smiled and then reached down, grabbing her dirty and bloody naked arm, jerking her body backward. He slowly dragged her body over each blood puddle, slowly moving back toward the airship. "Good! You're alive. I know you would live. You look terrible. But don't worry! I know what to do." He stopped and then crawled over her grounded body, straddling her back spine. "Now, you must stand upright with my assistant and then help me move your beaten body back into the warm airship. I can't carry you over the threshold, darling, since we ain't married," he leaned down and then grabbed her waistline, slowly lifting Thea upright from the bloody floor, standing both of them on top of the glass floor. He whispered into her eardrum. "I can hold you upright with my manly strength. But you must shuffle each foot ahead and move toward the back seat in the airship. Or we're stuck out here in the clouds forever," chuckling.

I slowly shuffled one foot at a time with a set of closed eyelashes while feeling both weak and dizzy in pain, reaching the edge of the glass floor. The cold weather hit my sweaty face with a violent punch. I blinked opened my eyelashes, seeing only air, gasping in shock and then quickly back paddled away from the airship. I felt the heated flesh of Tofur on my wet back spine.

He gently shoved Thea forward with a stern face. "No! You're okay, Thea! Move forward, not backward, girlfriend. Slide down into the back seat!"

I slowly moved ahead and then slowly ducked down feeling the dizziness again. I climbed into the back seat, flipping onto my back spine, exhaling in pain again. I felt like vomiting over the floor, not my face.

Tofur climbed inside and then sat down on the floor beside Thea inside the rear seat, reaching down toward the lower chest that was hidden inside the back of the passenger chair. He opened the drawer and then pulled out a heavy blanket in red tint, unfolding the item, placing over her injured body. "Did you feel nausea?"

"Yes."

"Did you feel tired?"

"Yes."

"Did you feel weak?"

"Yes."

"Did you feel...?"

"Yes, I feel terrible. What are you doing to me?" I gasped in pain from his rough touch and the heavy blanket.

He fiddled with the blanket and then covered her bloody face, saying with a stern face. "This is a true medical blanket that truly heals the body. On the interior fabric there is a series of small holes that hold heated and cooling medication gel. The gel will bust form each hole at a programmed time and then flood your entire body with relief. Just lie still and breathe naturally. Let the medical blanket do its job. You will feel better and look much, much better, too, before we arrive at Tross. Then you can kiss your two boyfriends with a pair of healed lips."

I mumbled underneath the blanket to Tofur. "Did my twin get injured like this?"

He frowned. "No more talking! Your lips will love you for it. Yes, she was badly wounded during her first set of battle fights. Your parents enrolled the battle fights for each court prince and princess at the age of fifteen years old. However, each court prince and princess had been training their battle skill, since the age of thirteen years old. The first set of battle fights were hard on each royal, but your twin pulled through like a champ and she was credited for winning each battle too that also acquired the land and the people property."

I mumbled underneath the blanket that blocked out the cold air and the bright sunlight. "Now, I feel really bad."

He reached over to the rear cloth on the passenger seat and then pressed the remote control devise. All the doors closed shut. The airship slowly lifted up from the flattened mountain peak and then halted in the air, swiftly soaring through the white tined cloud cover.

I felt the ship move forward as my set of sore muscles shifted into more pain. I tossed the blanket from my bloody lips. Tofur continued to sit on the floor and fiddled with the controls on the exterior part of the blanket. I gasped in pain. "What is happening here?"

"We're going home."

I frowned. "You are not piloting the ship."

He smiled. "Yes, I am. However, we are traveling at slower wind speed. I'm using remote control devise and piloting like a back seat driver," laughing.

I gasped. "How...how is that possible?"

"It is possible with the latest technology, girlfriend. Don't go and show off your ignorant, Thea! You are supposed to be more knowledgeable as the upcoming new empress."

I frowned in pain. "Ittai died in the battle fight. What are you doing?"

He continued to examine the blanket. "I know. This blanket records your vital signs and tells me if you have a broken limb or a concession or a tumor."

"Aqualia died in the battle fight too. Why did you ask me those questions?"

"I know that. About ten minutes before your glass carriage appeared above the clouds, their individual airship departed from the skyline, traveling back home. They should be home now. I needed to know if you were coherent or not. Then a different treatment plan would be required."

I exhaled in pain. "I feel bad. Did my twin lose a court prince or princess?"

"Never."

I gasped I pain. "Am I in trouble?"

"No. You survived as planned. They didn't as unplanned. The court prince and princess are famous for their fighting skills. This battle fight was a bust for them, not your father. You win the battle fight. The Land of Yawp is part of the growing kingdom."

I exhaled in pain. "This is so stupid and wasteful. I wanna quit the kingdom."

He frowned. Now! Now! You have one tough day of something terrible that I am sure. Then you will become eighteen years old. Then you will select your mate. Then you..."

"Did you see the battle fight?"

He smiled. "Yes, I did."

I gasped in pain. "How is that possible? I know the newest technology. I'm not supposed to ask but fake it."

"No. Actually, the battle fight was streamed live during the fight to all electronic devises throughout the world. Of course, the Land of Tross will see the live stream later this afternoon. However, I was sitting on top of the mountain peak admiring the flying birds..."

"A single bird or a flock of birds do not fly this high up near the atmosphere of outer space."

He frowned. "O! Then these objects must have been a series of falling stars. Anyways, my pilot console fired into action. I saw you during the fight and in the flood of lava. You performed a brave job, dashing over the river of lava, landing on top of the bridge. That bridge saved our life."

"Where are my parents?"

"They're back home with my parent having fun with each other or fighting over the electronic devise. Take your pick!"

I frowned. "Why are they here like the last battle fight?

He smiled. "I do believe that living on top of flat mountain peak in a glass house at 10,000 feet is an acquired taste."

I softly giggled and then hissed from the pain.

He dropped the blanket back over her face with a giggle, "Time to heal! Say Nighty-nite, girlfriend!"

I growled out loud. "N..." I fell asleep from the sedative on top of the back seat.

Land of Tross

Hot temperatures with dull sunshine and pink skyline and mint green clouds

Entrance hallway of clear glass

06:06 pm

The airship smoothly landed on top of the red tinted pavement.

I slid out from the back seat with a smile and then stood upright on top of the pavement without wobbling with dizziness, stretching each limb in the air without falling down. "I feel great."

Tofur frowned at her outfit. "You look really ugly."

I slapped my clean hands down over the spotty outfit with a giggle. "I know that. You saw me. I was covered in mud and looked like one of the black tinted rocks." I moved ahead toward the closed glass doors.

The door slid open.

He moved with a smile beside Thea. "That was clever to disguise your person. The other Yawpian couldn't find you."

I moved ahead with a snigger. "Yeah, I'm a clever empress."

I slowly shuffled beside Tofur in silence and held onto his naked arm feeling a bag of mixed emotions of worry, caution, numbness, and terror, staring down at the glass floor.

Tofur and I slowly advanced ahead and then stopped, staring at Erato. Tofur again released her arm and quickly shuffled to the side glass window, standing out the way with a snigger and a grin.

A group of young females stood and stared at Thea, wearing a variety of different types of clothing. Some females were dressed in a colorful ankle-length gown. Some of the females displayed a colorful short skirt, a matching sleeveless vest with a pair of matching knee boots. And some of the females exhibited a colorful jumpsuit with a different colored belt around the waistline.

Behind the tight huddle of young females, a single row of young males was dressed in the same outfit consisting of a short-sleeved green tinted shirt, a pair of green tinted trousers, and a pair of matching green tinted knee boots. Each male carried a silver tinted scepter that had been clipped onto the waistline but wore a variety of different skin tones, hair styles, and eye color.

In front of the tight huddle of young females, tall, slender Erato stood alone and stared with a smile at Thea.

He and the huddle of females continued to smile and stand in place blocking the footpath inside the empty hallway of solid glass from Thea. He wore a sculptured upper torso underneath a white long-sleeved shirt, a pair of tight black tinted trousers that were tucked down into a pair of polished black tinted knee boots. A shiny green tinted scepter had been clipped onto his fitted waistline. He possessed a head of shoulder length wavy black tinted hair, a jaw line of dusted black tinted whiskers, a pair of green tinted eyes, and a tone of pale tinted skin looking healthier, hot, and available. He lifted a palm near his smile, staring at Thea, saying to the huddle of girls. "Leave me now, young people, please!"

The huddle of young males and females sounded with a soft moan of disappointment and then each one slowly swung around, departing from the back spine of male, moving down an empty hallway in a loose row, except for a young male in a green jumpsuit.

I stared at Erato.

Erato advanced ahead with a smile and then stopped, leaning down, hugging the body of Thea and pulled back with a wink. Then he leaned down again and kissed her lips.

I gasped in sour breath feeling the touch of his soft lips on top of my chapped lips, staring with a pair of open eyelashes at each one of his pale tinted cheekbones. I closed my eyeballs and parted my lips, tasting his essence of honey inside my mouth with a soft moan of pleasure without feeling guilty for stealing my dead sister's beau.

He continued to stand and pulled Thea tighter into his body enveloping his lips around her mouth while smelling the stench of her bad body odor without fleeing or flinching in disgust.

His facial whiskers were course around my jaw line while scratching into my semi-healed cheekbone cut. I gasped in pain for a second and then felt pleasure again. His pair of hands was slender and soft on top of my naked arms. I rotated my chapped lips around his soft tongue with a slight giggle of warmth and fun smelling his body of sweet vanilla scent into each nose hole.

He leaned down deeply into her lips and played tongue tag with her, sounding with a set of moans. Then he jerked back with a smile and a chuckle, seeing her smile. "Another victory for my empress..."

"But..." I gasped in shock.

"I love you, Empress!" He continued to caress her naked arms with a smile.

I smiled. "Thank you!"

Tofur scooted over and then halted, reaching out, grabbing her naked forearm with a sneer at Erato. "We need to leave, Thea! Bye, Erato!"

Tofur shuffled ahead with a stern face.

The unnamed and remaining young blonde haired and pale skinned male continued to stand and smile, posing slightly diagonally behind the back spine of Erato, watching him with his eyeballs. He knelt down and bowed a chin to see the floor, lifting up both arms even with the floor, presenting an open black tinted box. The open box held a pinky ring in golden tint with an emerald stone. "Lord Erato, please, marry me!"

Erato smiled at Thea while talking to the young male behind his back spine. "No! Get away now!"

He softly gasped in alarm and dropped down the box with the ring on top of the smooth floor with a sad face and a heavy heart. The floor exhibited the green tinted dirt through the clear glass. He reached down into the hidden pocket of the jumpsuit and pulled out a tiny spray bottle, lifting the bottle near the lips and opened the mouth. He sprayed out the mist into his mouth and closed the lips while feeling the cool mint flavor on his tongue. Then he swiftly collapsed sideways and fell down onto the glass floor without breathing a set of air molecules.

I looked down with a worried brow and stared down at the dead male.

He wiggled the hand near the smile, staring at Thea, talking to the row of quiet man-servants. "Get that out of my face now!"

The row of stationary man-servants swiftly advanced ahead in a semi-crooked line and then stopped, squatting down about the same time, gathering up each limb of the dead male and lifted the dead body into the air with a set of heavy grunts. They slowly toted his dead body ahead down the glass hallway away from Erato, Thea, and Tofur, moving toward the open archway on the front entrance of the tall building in silence.

I scooted around Erato with a nod and a fake smile, stopping in front of Nastchill.

Nastchill kneel down in front of Thea with a smile, reaching out and touched her pair of dirty hands with a nod. "My empress has returned safety. I'm so happy," he leaned over and then halted with a worried brow, "And my empress looks much better. She is all pink and pretty. Your scar has healed well." He lifted one finger and touched her scarred cheekbone with a smile.

I gasped in pleasure. His finger pad touch was both gently and tender, where my dead twin sister had marked my face with her permanent matching scar.

I smiled. "Thanks!"

He leaned over and gently grabbed her arms, kissing her lips with a pair of chapped lips.

I deeply leaned into the rough kiss with a soft moan of contentment. His goatee whiskers felt silky soft against my tender skin. His pair of large hands gently caressed my naked arms and then shifted down, landing on my back spine while making my body tingle with girly emotions of delight.

My nose holes smelled a woody pine scent coming from his tall muscular semi-naked body and as my tongue tasted a ting of citrus on his lips.

He gently pulled back with a wink from her face and continued to career both of her arms. "Thank you, my empress!"

I gasped in shock at his gentlemanly manners and then nodded with a smile when I compared my emotions to Lord Erato.

Tofur rolled the eyeballs and then stared at the male swiftly moving ahead from the side window and stopped, reaching out, grabbing her arm with a smile and a nod to the teen male. He back stepped and then forcefully removed Thea from the cupped hands of male with a laugh, stopping a few feet from the teen male. "See you later at the meeting, too, Nasty Chump..."

"My name is Nastchill, ya little fur-face," the tall teen male turned and sneered at Tofur.

"Tofur, my name is repeated and repeated over and over and over again and again for my amusement as Tofur," he laughed.

The single male wore a red jacket and a pair of matching trousers and continued to diagonally stand with a smirk slightly behind the back spine of Prince Nastchill, kneeling down on one leg, presenting an open box to the back spine of Nastchill. The box held a golden wrist bracelet with a ruby stone. "Prince Nastchill, please marry me, today?"

Nastchill sneered while staring at Thea, without seeing the young male. "No. Get away from me, permanently!"

The male exhaled with a huff of disappointment and reached down into the pocket of the trousers, pulling out a tiny green tinted pill. He opened the mouth and then placed the tiny pill onto the tongue, closing the mouth and then swallowed. His body shook side to side and as both hands slapped onto the chest. He tumbled sideways and fell down landing on top of the floor in a silence death.

I turned and frowned down at the dead male body without shock.

"Removed it now!" Nastchill did not bother to see the dead male and flipped a hand into the air with a sneer while signaling the row of stationary and quiet female-servants.

The row of females advanced ahead with a stern face in silence and stopped, squatting down, lifting up the dead body from the floor and into the air between a set of biceps and loud grunts. They silenced moved ahead and passed Nastchill, Thea, and Tofur toting the dead body toward the open archway of the building.

Tofur shuffled ahead and away from Nastchill with a stern face. "You are required to attend the Coil meeting in a few minutes" he swiftly moved ahead with a laugh down an empty hallway.

I moved ahead with Tofur and looked back over my collar bone with a stern face.

Nastchill moved ahead and away from Thea in silence toward the open archway without attacking servant Tofur. His team of female-servants had exited the open archway while toting the dead male body, moving ahead toward another place in heavy grunts.

Tofur moved ahead without Thea down the rest of the hallway that held two solid glass windows which showed the interior court yard with rows of colored flowers inside a manicured blue tinted lawn. The other window displayed a plot of green tined dirt with numerous small groves of golden colored mushroom shaped shade trees.

I scooted around Nastchill with a sour frown and moved ahead, entering the open carriage without spinning around, seeing the bright sunlight on the landscape. The carriage door closed. The carriage swiftly lifted up the shunt.

Elevator glass carriage setting

06:15 pm

I frowned down at the weird landscape. "I can't get used to that self-destruction technique on each native, who opines for Erato."

He laughed. "I can't get used to Erat. I wish that he would self-destruct instead."

"How many natives have died from the rejection of Erato?"

He smiled. "I stopped counting after 1,002..."

"What?"  
"Erat and Nasty champs have been meeting and greeting Thea, your twin, inside the entrance hallway, since the age of thirteen years old. She had to leave the Center and then practice her scepter weapon for the upcoming battle fights and then accidentally again met them. Then she would accidentally meet them on the return trip."

I frowned. "That's really strange."

He laughed. "That's really love."

The carriage stopped. The elevator doors slide open.

Private chamber setting of empress Thea

06:16 pm

I moved ahead with Tofur.

He nodded with a smile. "She had developed a feeling for one of them. I didn't know which one. But they each had developed a feeling for her too.

I smiled. "Which one shall I pick, friend? Do I really need to pick a mate?"

He stopped in place and then stared with a worried brow at her back spine, "Yes, absolutely! It is very important that you decide which court prince to marry and then to mate."

I spun around with a smile and a wink. "I do believe that I have decided already."

He dashed ahead and clapped with a smile, "Who? Who is your new future emperor?"

I swung around and then moved ahead with a giggle. "That's my secret."

He chased after her with a gasp of shock. "No! I have waited to hear the name, since birth."

I continued to move ahead down the long hallway and then started stripping off each dirty boot. "I didn't know you, since birth. This is my secret," I dropped each boot onto the clean floor, working on the dirty skirt, dropping bits of dried mud over the floor.

He dashed behind her back spine while leaning down, grabbing each dirty item, cuddling it into his naked chest. "No! No! No! This is our secret. Come on and share with me, girlfriend!"

I ripped open the dirty vest with a smile and exposed my naked breasts to the lavatory door, stopping in front of the lavatory. I reached over and then pressed the button. "No! No! No! This is my secret." The lavatory door slid open. I continued to stand in the archway, ripping off the dirty skirt, dropping it outside the door, exposing my girly undergarments to my personal servant.

He stopped and then stood behind her back spine, seeing into the lavatory but missing her naked chest with a sour frown. "Well, since you are full of yourself and your knowledge. Get cleaned up! You have a Coil meeting"

Lavatory setting

06:18 pm

"I know that." I entered into the lavatory with a sneer and then side stepped, tossing the vest out the door to my personal servant. I liked being an empress.

The lavatory door closed shut.

I tapped the mechanism inside the shower stall, producing tons of hot water, stepping inside the running water. I carefully washed over each cut and developing bruise, grinding my teeth, moaning in pain. The medical blanket that contained the smoothing and warm liquid medications sealed each cut and wound, but my body had to heal on its own, which would take a couple of day.

Inside the shower stall, I continued to clean my dirty body while thinking about one more day of battle fights. I barely survived this one. I wondered if I would survive the next one. I wondered if my dead sister would have survived the next one also.

Outside the lavatory door, Tofur banged on the metal and then shouted out some incoherent words as my eardrums were full of water and my face formed a smile.

I had not been living as a fake empress in the pretty Land of Tross for long, but I did know that the Coil meeting came immediately after the last battle fight.

I washed off all the soapy suds and then cleaned my body, smelling the fragrance of lavender in the air. I shut off the water and then stepped out the shower staff, drying off my wet skin.

I wrapped my nakedness in a new dry towel, dropping the wet on top of the floor like a teen empress with a giggle, moving sideways and then stopped, facing the closed door.

I exhaled with both worry and determination. I planned to stop the upcoming numerous deaths from the Land of Yawp captures that would be serving lunch inside the Coil meeting to each teen. I just had to figure out a plot without getting killed or maimed by one or more of the court princes and princesses.

Maybe, I could enlist the feelings of love and compassion from my newest boyfriend Zeamon. He seemed more than willing to aid me.

I nodded with a smile and then reached out, touching the door with a dry finger. The metal didn't work on water. The lavatory door slid open.

I exited the room and then marched across the cool floor, heading into the wardrobe room, turning to see the clean floor, then the neat bedcover, and finally Tofur. He was kneeling down at the other end of the hallway cleaning up the bits and pieces of dried mud. I felt really bad for messing up the floor but I had created a great disguise that had saved my life as well.

I stopped and stood in front of the shimmy painted side wall, reaching out, pressing the metal with my index finger. The wardrobe door slid open.

Wardrobe room setting of empress Thea

06:22 pm

I entered through the archway a few feet. The door closed shut in silence and then locked her inside the room in privacy.

After two battle fields that had been occurred inside an enclosed large space, I didn't feel so claustrophobia in here.

The room was designed in a square shape with three solid walls of black tinted glass. One of the side walls had been constructed of clear glass only, where the bright afternoon sun rays were burning through the clear glass and then brightened up the dark wardrobe room. The ceiling was composed of black tinted glass without a set of artificial lamps for visual light.

The three black tinted glass windows contained nothing but glass. There wasn't a standing set of built-in closet furniture or rows of hidden drawers holding numerous pieces of clothing items. The clear glass window on the side wall of the wardrobe room held solid slab of glass only and bright rays of sunshine.

I moved ahead without bothering to inspect the wardrobe room for a ghost or an unwelcomed visitor and then halted in front of a black tinted metal rack.

A lonely free-standing metal rack contained a line of personal clothes for Empress Thea. Each outfit had been neatly arranged on an individual hanger containing a sleeveless lavender tinted vest with a high collar, a matching circular short skirt, a pair of undergarment in matching lavender hue also, and finally a pair of matching thigh-high boots.

I dropped the towel and then stood naked with a giggle. The air currents quickly warmed my body. I reached out and grabbed one hanger that contained a complete outfit, quickly dressing with a stern face.

My active mind was plotting out my next step to save the clueless natives form the Land of Yawp. The two females looked both delicate and weak when I compared them to the brute physical height from some of the court princesses, like gigantic Bakeria. I quickly needed to finish dressing and then quietly dashing away from my private chamber floor and my personal servant, finding my new boyfriend Zeamon. I had to deliver some private and sweet whispers into his eardrum this afternoon before the start of the Coil meeting with my father.

The wardrobe room didn't contain any additional pieces of other colorful garments for my body but show on the single clothing rack one individual lavender outfit.

I stared at the clothing rack with a gasp and then completely understood now.

The diminished array of previous matching lavender outfits had represented each day of her seventeenth year, since her birth. My dead twin sister had worn a new lavender outfit every day that counted down into she turned eighteen years old.

The clothing rack contained one single outfit in lavender. Tomorrow was not my birthday. My birthday was the day after tomorrow.

I caressed the clothes on the rack with a nod. "The kingdom does not waste materials or supplies. I will wear the same outfit tomorrow morning and then face the new challenge or challengers. Then there will be one outfit left, which I'll wear for the day of my birth, the birth of my day," I wiped out the single rolling tear with a sad face and a heavy heart. "I'm so sorry, dead twin sister Thea. I wished that you were here to celebrate our birthdays together. Now, you are dead. But I promise to fulfill your...our single dream, the ruler of Tross."

There was no need for a single glittery dancing gown or a pair of high heeled matching dancing sandals or a warm bathrobe or a pair of sleeping pajamas, which was odd but necessary for the teen Empress of Tross.

I was required to compete in a battle fight with a deadly weapon, not a dance competition with a pair of heeled sandals.

However, my life would abruptly change on the day of my eighteenth birthday. I would be crowned the ruler of Tross beside my new emperor husband. Then I would abolish the set of silly battle fights and start a new activity of dances, picnics, and strolls through the golden tinted shade trees for each native, including the royal teens.

I quickly dressed in the matching lavender tinted sleeveless top and the circular skirt, sitting down on top of the glass floor, very carefully. The floor was cold and smooth, placing a thigh-high boot over each clean sock, slowly standing upright from the floor, pressing down the skirt. The fabric was thick and course for an upcoming battle fight. However, I was not worry about a sharp tip on a blade penetrating the pretty outfit and then killing my pumping heart dead as I could defend my person.

I slowly spun around with a stern face and then faced the entrance wall, moving ahead with a reflection mirror to see my outfit, which was still odd for a girl. I turned and then scanned the room with three solid black walls and a clear window that offered the other side on the building that showed blue grass, green dirt, and golden trees, pink sky, and mint green clouds. "I still don't understand the color scheme of the ground and sky. Why are the clouds green? Usually, the grass is green. The clouds are white."

I moved ahead toward the closed door in the wardrobe room and then stopped with a sigh, reaching out, pressing the finger pads onto the smooth glass. The glass door slid open in silence revealing the bed chamber suite.

Private chamber setting of Thea

06:33 pm

I strolled ahead through the open archway with a stern face and then stopped beside the neatly made white tinted bedcover. The wardrobe glass door slid shut in silence.

I reached down with a gasp and grabbed the soft bedcover, jerking the fabric, messing up the neatness. "Where's my scepter weapon?" I leaned down and then shifted the bedcovers side to side, searching for my scepter.

Tofur slowly strolled from behind Thea, holding up her scepter near his frown. 'I told you before that a weapon is not allowed inside the Coil meeting," he stopped and then stood beside her nose profile.

I continued to mess the bedcovers while hunting for my scepter. I needed the weapon to defend the captured hostage from the Land of Yawp during the Coil meeting. Since a weapon was not allowed, I would have the empress advantage over all the other royal teens but the really nasty ones. That was where the hero role of Zeamon came into play. "Where is my scepter? I brought it back home with me. I am quite certain. I remembered the thing bruised my hip bone during my running feats and then my slamming an upright body into the rock face. And I got the developing black and blue tinted bruises to prove it." I stood upright with a sneer and stared at Tofur, jabbing a finger at him. "Now, I remember. You had removed it during my medical treatment in the back seat inside the airship. You take it..."

"Here!" He pulled out and wiggled the scepter near his smile. "I have treated both the weapon and the mistress. Lava molten rock is kinda acidic. That's why hard rock melts from the heat and the natural sulfur elements. I polished your scepter into a really good dull shine. The exterior metal is slightly dented and banged up. You really roughed up the weapon during your runs and your body slams," he extended the weapon to her.

I accepted the weapon that glittered underneath the bright sunlight and then examined the exterior metal with a stern face. "Thank you!" I twisted the cylinder around and around with an acute eyeball. Some of the metal possessed a set of small indentations from battered abuse. Around the outer edge of the slot, the tiny hole had slightly corroded into an ugly orange tinted, when some of the lava liquid had attached and then melted down the metal. I swung away Tofur and then faced the empty hallway, aiming the slot at the elevator doors, pressing the button. The blade swiftly protruded outward and then gleamed from the bright sunlight. I smiled. "The blade works. That's all important here."

He turned with a gasp to see the gleaming deadly blade. "Why do you need the blade to work? You didn't use the blade during a battle fight. You haven't used your weapon during a battle fight. You don't need to use your weapon during a battle fight."

I giggled with a nod and then wiggled the blade side to side. "So far, I haven't used my blade during a battle fight. But I might need to use my blade for an upcoming battle fight. I want the weapon working perfectly," I pressed the button. The blade sucked back down into the slot with a soft slurp. I reached down and then clipped the outline of a figure eight symbol onto a tiny loop hole at the waistline of the skirt while allowing the scepter to bang against my pelvis bone with slight pain but tolerable.

He looked down with a worried brow at the hanging scepter. "I told you before that a weapon is not allowed inside the Coil meeting."

I flipped a hand into the air with a laugh. "It's for show only. I did a good job in the battle field this morning. And I am the only survivor. I believe that my fellow teens would understand my need for protection."

He exhaled. "I don't understand your need for protection. You are home. I am here."

"Follow me, please!" I swiftly strolled ahead with a smile down the long hallway. He followed behind the back spine of Thea, shaking his bald head with a worried brow. Then they both halted with a gasp.

In the middle of her chamber, a vertical line of purple hue beamed down from the ceiling and then halted, forming a purple tinted outline of a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the dragon's head without a flame of colorful snot balls or long flames.

A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud to Thea. "Welcome back home, my empress daughter Thea!"

"Father, I'm on my way right now to the Coil meeting." I exhaled with annoyance. This was a bad time for a daughter-father chat. I needed to leave and find Zeamon before the meeting, explaining my brilliant empress plan.

The Dragon Head continued to rotate around inside the hologram and as the male voice echoed throughout the room. "My empress daughter Thea, I just finished watching the stream of action in the Land of Yawp. You were very impressive in the last battle fight."

"Thanks, Father!" I exhaled with annoyance. He could not hear my words.

The Dragon Head continued to rotate around and around and as the male voice echoes throughout the quiet room. "Your empress fighting skills had greatly improved, since your first day of battle. Do you remember, my empress daughter Thea?"

I didn't time for this ridicule conversation as I wiggled side to side with nervousness. "Yeah! Yeah! Thanks, Father!" I exhaled with annoyance. He could not hear my words.

The Dragon Head continued to rotate around and around and as the male voice echoes throughout the quiet room. "I would like to remind you that you will become eighteen years old the day after tomorrow. Then you must select a mate for your upcoming new empress reign."

I knew that as I wiggled side to side with impatience, "Yeah! Yeah! Thanks, Father!" I exhaled with annoyance. He could not hear my words.

The Dragon Head continued to rotate around and around and as the male voice echoes throughout the quiet room. "However, you are still seventeen years old and are still required to lead a battle fight."

I knew that too as I wiggled side to side with fury, "Yeah! Yeah! Thanks, Father!" I exhaled with annoyance. He could not hear my words.

The Dragon Head continued to rotate around and around and as the male voice echoes throughout the quiet room. "I look forward to seeing you at the Coil meeting, my empress daughter Thea." The hologram started to fade.

"Yeah! Yeah! Thanks, Father!" I raced ahead through the disappearing hologram with a sour frown.

Tofur dashed beside Thea with a worried brow. "What was that conversation about?"

I continued to run and then laughed. "A daughter and father thing, I guess."

He sneered. "He seemed to be threatening your person."

I smiled. "No. Each battle fight actually threatens my person."

I slammed into the closed elevator doors, banging my fist into the metal. "Open up right now, silly door! What take so long for the elevator door to open up here?"

He stopped a few feet before the closed doors, standing behind Thea, wearing a frown. "I told you before, in which you were not listening or comprehending or ignoring. The elevator carriage travels up and down the shaft and then stops at each level based on the person's DNA molecules. So, if a prince or princess is standing on the floor of the carriage and has pressed the button with his or her sweat, then elevator will not stop traveling up or down, until you also touch the metal door with our personal body sweat or sweet perfume. Are you wearing lavender scented perfume?"

I continued to bang on the door with a giggle. "Yes. I wanted to smell pretty for Erato."

He frowned. "Erat will not appreciate it.

"Nastchill will."

The carriage halted. The door slid open. The carriage was empty.

Elevator glass carriage setting

06:45 pm

The single door slid closed shut in silence. Tofur spun around in silence and reached out, pressing the button for the 50th floor with a stern face, staring through the glass elevator into Thea's room. The carriage vaulted up toward the heavens at high speed.

I studied the same colorful and funny-looking terrain in the Land of Tross in silence. Outside the window, the landmass was flat which extended for miles and miles within my acute vision and as I continued to ride upwards inside a flying glass elevator that reflected the bright sunlight and some heat. The Center Building possessed an excellent air-conditioning system of cool air molecules which kept a person from sweating.

My stomach sailed upward and then stuck inside my tight throat as it tickled my esophagus. I was not afraid but excited as I possessed the same personality and appearance like my dead twin sister Thea.

Now, I had figured out my purpose taking over as the new ruler in the Land of Tross, in place of my dead twin sister. But I was still clueless about my separation from my dead twin sister and the reason from my set of biological parents. Maybe, I would find those answers today inside the Coil meeting room.

Outside the elevator window, the landmass was split into two types of terrain which parted down the middle of the landscape. One side of the landscape appeared in flat layer of solid light blue tinted grass with a set of numerous short rows of colorful flowers that outlined a single winding green tinted walkway that touched each tall and slender glass building. The opposite side of the split landscape held a solid sheet of green tinted dirt with a set of scattered huddles of short golden tinted trees that curved around a single winding lavender tinted walkway, where a set of short glass buildings stood. There were numerous men, women, children, and pets strolling on the walkway and the grounds looking happy and content.

The skyline held a faint tint of pink hue that glistened within the bright rays of sunshine, where each cloud burst glowed in dull mint green hue.

I smiled in beauty at the pretty scenery. "Why is the skyline colored pale green here? I have never seen an entire lawn of blue grass. Why is entire ground covered in green dirt? Where I come from the skyline is always pale blue and the dirt is always reddish brown."

Beside Thea, Tofur continued to stand and stared at the closed glass elevator door which swiftly displayed each floor level as the elevator quickly moved upward from the 18th floor toward the finally destination. He only saw a blur of shimmery faint color tones.

A naked person could stand directly in front of their protective glass door on their personal floor level of the common elevator shunt as the elevator jolted upward and then bypassed the naked person. Then, each elevator passenger would only see a blur of color, not the silly naked individual.

He continued to frown at the fleeing glass floors in silence.

The carriage smoothly halted. The single solid wall of glass slid open.

Elevator glass setting of Thea and Tofur

I entered through the open archway and then halted, standing in front of the glass window with the bright sunlight and stared down at the pretty weird landscape in silence.

He followed her into the carriage and then stopped, standing beside her nose profile with a firm tone. "Why are you acting funny, Thea?"

I continued to stare at the weird landscape with a laugh. "You asked me that same question on my first day of employment as an empress."

He continued to stare into her nose profile with a stern face. "No. You are acting more funnier, right now. Did I give you too much medication? Some of the medication affects your brain cells."

"Nothing is affecting my brain cells. O! I was talking back to the rotating Dragon Head. I forgot that my father couldn't hear me. That's not insane. That's just silly." I continued to stare through the window with a smile. "I feel fine. And I have finally found my voice and my heart and my person here in the Land of Tross. I feel very comfortable here like I have always belonged here. Is that what I am supposed to feel, Tofur?"

"No. I'm not referencing that. You're a teen. A teen feels mixed emotions all the time. What are you planning to do, Thea?"

I smiled. "Why do you ask?"

"You look just like your twin sister when she wanted to cause trouble and then she did."

I turn with gasp to see his frown, "Really! Do you really mean to say that?"

He sneered at her face. "Yes, you are the other twin of the other half of a troublesome pair. What are you planning to do, Thea? Since you have arrived here, you disapprove of many things. I will remind here. You are only a guest..."

"I am not a guest," I giggled with a grin and then slapped my chest. "I am the empress. Now, I'm comfortable as the teen empress."

The carriage stopped. The door slid open.

50th floor level

Hallway entrance setting

Hot temperatures with dull sunshine and pink skyline and mint green clouds

07:07 pm

I spun around with a sneer and then moved ahead toward the archway. "I do not need your personal services any more for the day, Tofur. Go and have some teenly fun!" I exited the carriage and then swiftly dashed ahead toward the end of the hallway.

The floor was made of shiny black tinted glass enclosing two side walls, leading down a long empty hallway toward a matching end wall of solid black glass also.

Each side wall measured thirty feet in height with an individual art piece every twenty feet across.

Each art piece exhibited a gigantic landscape that encompassed the twenty foot of black glass which glittered in three sections. The bottom exhibited a horizontal field of colorful landscapes. The top portion represented a red tinted angry skyline against the black tinted glass.

Each painting had two figures stood upright inside a background as each figure magically shook and then shifted with movement through the set of glittery paint in beauty.

The ceiling had been constructed of clear glass only, where each individual sunbeam poured down from the solar sun and then bombard each glittery particle of paint making each individual portrait come alive with movement, but it was an illusion. The pieces of glitter were shivering and shaking in place from the rays of sunlight.

I ignored the unique paintings on each side of the wall. I must find Zeamon before the beginning of the Coil meeting and whisper my new plan to save the hostages from the Land of Yawp.

The elevator door closed shut with Tofur, who continued to stare with a confused brow at the back spine of Thea.

The forward wall at the end of the long hallway consisted of only solid black glass that twinkled in tiny bursts of pinks, reds, greens, and orange hues coming from the array of bright beams of sunlight and did not exhibit an individual shimmery portrait in-between the single archway. The archway was an open square shaped design, where three individuals could stroll inside in a row.

I swiftly raced down an empty hallway and then skidded to a halt, standing in front of the wall, straightening my outfit into neatness. This Coil meeting was going to be very depressing with the two deaths of a court prince and his sister court princess. I felt really bad that m ne friends were not here. But I couldn't save them. I was only a novice court princess now.

I side stepped and then faced the open archway with a fake smile, holding my brilliant plan in secret.

Coil meeting room

07:10 pm

I strolled through the archway and then halted with a gasp.

The room was the same color, the same structure, and almost the same number of occupants, but echoed with a loud sound of teen music.

The interior room on the floor had been designed as a complete circle or a flat disc of dark tinted glass in black which blocked both the upper floor and the lower floor viewing activities and housed a different set of audience members, such like, the parents of the children on the upper level and the natives on the level floor.

In the middle of the room, there was a circle of empty space that stored a set of invisible air waves that sailed up towards the flat rooftop and then back down towards the ground floor for some type of special purpose.

In front of the curved wall, a set of individual chaise lounge chairs were spaced about ten feet apart dull red smooth material.

There were nineteen nations within the kingdom, so each teen occupied a chaise lounge chair for the Coil meeting. The entire space appeared like a cylinder-like design. Thus, the people and air waves coiled around the structure, making it a clever name.

Each chaise lounge chair was occupied with a teen, where a series of large balls bounced through the air coming from a personal hand slap on each teen. Each teen was laughing out loud, calling out instructions with the direction of the smacked ball. Each ball was decorated with a face of a royal, which was more cartoonish but recognizable.

I gasped in shock, seeing a loud, cheery, and happy social teenly environment inside the Coil room, when two teens were dead, not buried here in the Land of Tross. I growled with fury for the obvious disrespect of the two young deaths.

I swiftly strutted ahead toward the first set of chaise lounge chairs with a heavy heart and a tight throat. I was so mad and upset that I could not speak an evil word toward the first stupid teen.

The first chaise lounge chair in red hue contained Princess Muppin. She was a tall and sexy female with a bright smile and a head of red hair, a tone of pink skin, wearing an ankle-length pale blue gala dress, a pair of matching sandals, and a tiny matching pale blue tiara on top of her strands. She stared at Thea with a smile, "Hey, Thea! Welcome back home!"

I did not answer or smile or grunt but continued my strut ahead with a sour frown, turning to scan the rest of the happy party.

Muppin reached up and then smashed the ball from her face with a laugh. "Someone is miffed off about her victory. Warning: Empress is in the house!"

Four individual large rubber made balls wore a solid black background with a facial outline of each teen court prince or princess. Each ball bounced around the tight room, hitting the ceiling or off the hand of a teen or off the floor or off the body of a teen.

Inside the same piece of furniture, there was a second attached lounge chaise chair that contained Governess Lael. She was a petite and pretty female with a slick ponytail of long, long brown hair with a mixture of additional fun colors of pink, purple, lavender over her skull and on the ponytail, a tone of pale skin, and a pair of green eyeballs. She came from the Land of Lesdam which was located on the far, far northern end of the kingdom, where the ground was covered in white tinted and cold ice particles. The entire nation was one tiny village that only provided the outdoor activity of ice skating on top of the frozen ground for fun and also imported all types of food stuff, warm clothes, and other life essentials.

Lael wore a shorty short circular skirt of pink tint, a sleeveless shirt of matching pink tint underneath a pair of naked legs that was attached to a pair of roller blades in rainbow colors. She also possessed elbow and knee pads in the same rainbow hues that matched her pair of roller blades. She looked up with a smirk to see Thea. "Arrogant and snobby Thea is back now!" She reached over and the smashed on of the balls toward the rear wall with a sour frown in silence.

I did not answer or smile or grunt but continued my strut ahead with a sour frown, turning to scan the rest of the happy party.

The next chaise lounge chair contained a tall and large teen male with a portable table over his lap that contained a tray of food, wearing a purple and white long dress that exposed a pair of blue shoes. Count Huzz was a handsome male teen with a head of cropped light red hair and a pair of violet eyeballs on a face of pale skin, coming from the Land of Hyzo, where all the livestock was raised and grazed and then eaten by all the other natives within the kingdom.

Huzz continued to sit and eat while mumbling a short set of incoherent words through the set of chewed food without lifting up a palm for a fun-slap or a fist for a fun-punch, staring down at the plate of food with a pair of dancing eyeballs. "Don't speak to me, Thea! That's typical Thea!"

I did not answer or smile or grunt but halted in place. A stream of balls bounced up and down over the floor, advancing in different directions, hitting the face or the hand of a different teen.

Marquee Kidron was average height and weight wearing a naked chest, a silly pointy hat of bright mint green, where his long red tinted hair touched each breast nipple. He possessed a tone of pink tinted skin and a pair of violet eyeballs, wearing a pair of skin-tight pants in vertical strips of pink, mint green, lavender, and yellow that extended down to a pair of roller skates. He came from the Land of Korbright, where the hills flow up and down which is made of solid rock in the color of purple.

The natives traveled around to a different town on a pair of roller blades. The land did not produce a natural mineral or a piece of man-made merchandise, only show of talented roller skaters that entertain other nations.

Kidron leaned over the shared armrest with his buddy Huzz with a loud chuckle and then swiftly stole a piece of food item off the plate of Huzz, sitting back, eating the food with an open mouth and a giggling smile.

Huzz lifted a hand and swiped away the invader while missing the limb, frowning in annoyance, staring down at the plate of food.

Then, the other court prince Marquee Kidron swallowed the food item and then reached over, stealing another piece of food with a giggle for fun, holding the food near a smile. He reached out and then hit two of the balls away from the face of him and Huzz, laughing with a grin. "The Ice Empress has entered the room!"

I continued my strut ahead with a sour frown in silence observing the social happy party.

"Hey, Thea!" Earl Zeamon was a tall and skinny guy with a head of oily black straight hair, a pair of dark eyes, and a tone of dark skin wearing a tight-fitting outfit of solid gray with a short long-sleeved jacket and a pair of matching trousers that extended toward a pair of ankle boots in the same hue. He continued to sit and stare at Thea with a nod.

I stopped with a gasp and then parted my lips without speaking. I had forgotten about my brilliant empress plot to save the capture Yawpians. I couldn't depend on the aid of Zeamon without revealing my plan in front of the other teens.

If my father had not delayed my exit from my chamber, then I would had arrived before the start of this silly teenage party, greeting Zeamon with my sweet words.

I continued my strut ahead with a sour frown in silence observing the social happy party.

A short and plump cute male teen, Duke Joed exhibited a mop of stringy blonde hair that fell down over his continuous chewing lips, where his eyeballs of brown could not be seen. He wore a short outfit that exposed a pair of pale legs and naked foot. His torso was covered in a long white tinted napkin to catch the food particles and protect the yellow matching jacket. He looked up and then lifted up his dirty fork with a piece of dark meat near his eardrum.

I continued to stroll ahead with a sour frown without grabbing the greasy food item

He chewed the meat and then mouth spat used food particles with a vicious laugh. "I know it to be all a lie. Her sweet and demure personality has dissolved back into her vain, arrogant, and aggressive selfie."

Inside the second lounge chaise chair, Lady Olivet sat beside Duke Joed chewing on a plate of food also. She was a short and plump teen female with a pair of green eyeballs, a tone of pale skin, and a bob of blonde hair, wearing a matching short yellow tinted outfit that exposed a pair of skinny legs and a pair of naked feet. A long white tinted napkin covered her matching yellow tinted jacket to catch the food particles and protect the jacket, also.

Olivet lifted up a naked hand that was coated in colorful food stains near her earlobe, holding out a cookie with a smile and a wink at Thea.

I scooted ahead with breaking my stride and did not reach out to grab the pre-offered cookie either.

On top of their twin set of chaise lounge chairs, a long portal golden tinted table extended over both of the chairs and each pair of their naked legs. One tray held dark meat and colorful eggs. A second tray held a lumpy pile of colorful fruit. And a third tray was piled high with a stack of chocolate cookies.

Olivet hailed from the Land of Onam, where groves of fruit trees grew, thrived, and were harvested for food.

Duke Joed came from the Land of Jeroboom, where the people raised, worked, and ate the natural native mammal, the mule.

Olivet giggled. "Whatever raises your bloomers, Thea!" She ate the cookie, chewing with an open of laughter.

I slowly advanced ahead with a stern face, seeing the next set of court princes and princesses.

The first seat on the next lounge chair contained Countess Glitza. The teen royal was average height like me with a head of long black hair, a pair of gray eyeballs, a tone of dark skin and looked breathtaking beautiful, even with her permanently curled lips, left side.

She came from the Land of Gildallie where miles and miles exhibited flat and dry and heated plains in brown dirt tone that yielded an array of raw gem stones.

Glitza displayed a tight-fitting jumpsuit of orange tint that covered her entire body, but each arm sleeve held a set of vertical positioned glittery individual colorful gem stone going from the edge of her neck across each collar bone and then descending down all the way to the top of her hand and a pair of thigh-high boots that exhibited pointy stones on the side going down to each boot heel like the jumpsuit. Yeah, her tailored made royal jumpsuit was also a vicious weapon as each individual gem stone had been sculptured into a tiny pointy object that could bleed a large mammal with long fangs and sharp claws.

Glitza stared at Thea with a smirk tossing the ball with a set of manicured fingernails of bright green hue in the air with a laugh. "Hit the ball back to me, Thea!" The ball sailed from the chair and then hit the side of Thea's head, ricocheting back toward the rear wall.

I stopped and then turned with a sneer to see Glitza. She laughed.

Beside Glitza inside the second chaise lounge chair, the body of Viscountess Arodi possessed a head of cropped black hair, a tone of pale skin that was covered in tattooed black weird symbols, and row of earrings that started at the earlobe and went to the crest of the ear. Each nose had been pieced and a top of the lip, right side.

She wore a long black gown that covered her entire body while disguising her entire body. The exposed body parts including both of her hands and her naked toes held an assortment of finger rings and toes rings of silver tint. She hailed from the Land of Arfad, where a range of short mountains which was made from solid hard limestone rock in numerous colors and tones was used to create furniture and other household items.

Arodi lifted up both hands and then grabbed the sailing ball with a laugh. "Thanks, Thea!" she fired the bouncing rubber ball back at Zeamon.

Inside the first seat of the next chaise lounge chair, Queen Bakeria was a very tall and very gorgeous girl with a face and a body of dark skin tone, curly white platinum hair strands, wearing a light green tinted jumpsuit with a pair of matching ankle boots, sitting inside the second chaise lounge chair. She stared with a smile at Thea. "Is anything out of place, empress?" She hailed from the Land of Bocardo which consisted of water in the form of rivers and ponds, and lakes.

"Watch out for the bounding ball!" He laughed out loud and reached up, batting three balls around the room. Beside the first chaise lounge chair that held Bakeria, Viscount Dimon occupied the next seat. He was a very tall male with a lean frame of muscles with a plume of black hair standing upright on top of his head where the rest of the bone skull is shaven clean. He possessed a naked chest of olive skin and a pair of brown eyes while staring down at the plate of smelly aquatic food stuff, without grunting or speaking to Thea. He wore a pair of skin-tight brown tinted trousers with a pair of matching knee boots.

He hailed from the Land of Dimna, where the land was very low and filled with a series of wet marshes. The people wrestle with a yellow tinted alligator that matched and hid inside a shallow marsh and then ate them for food and fun.

I continued ahead with a stern face approaching a unique piece of furniture, where three persons lounged together inside an individual lounge chaise chair, which was attached together for some strange reason.

Inside the first chair, a petite girl laughed out loud and leaned over, touching the naked chest on a slender and dark skinned male that lounged between two other chairs. Inside the third lounge chaise chair, a tall female reached over, grabbing, and slapped away the both hands on the petite girl with a sneer of jealousy.

The first lounge chaise chair, Baroness Cilicee was a petite girl with a nice laugh, a head of red curly hair, a pair of amber eyeballs, and a tone of amber skin color. She came from the Land of Colon, where everyone travels from home to enjoy some fun times. The landscape is composed of grassy or snowy rolling hills and low down green tinted fresh ponds for swimming, skiing, hiking, and enjoying forestland. She wore a pair of bare feet with a long sleeveless dress in patterns of strips consisting of red, blue, and pink hue. She continued to reach over and tickle the naked chest of the teen male with hardy laughter as he continued to laugh out loud and wiggle side to side in happy torment.

The tall female sneered and continued to slap back the petite hands of Cilicee from the sexy teen male.

Cilicee reached over and then played with his naked chest, instead one of the fun balls with a laugh, "Hey, Thea!"

Tucked inside the middle chaise lounge chair, Baron Pekod laughed out loud with fun and possessed an average height and slender body frame, a head of brown tinted dreadlocks, a pair of brown eyes, and a tone of dark skin coming from the Land of Penina, which was really an ocean island with a set of fish, sharks, and other sea animals. He wore a pair of naked feet, a long set of walking shorts in the hue of brown that matched his skin tone, and a naked chest while giggling from the numerous tender touches of petite red haired Cilicee. He leaned back into the chair and lifted both of his arms above his brown tinted dreadlocks, extending both palms into the air, taking turns slapping each sailing ball from his face or the face on each girl, saying with a smile to Thea, "Hey, Empress-girl!"

I moved ahead with a deep sigh of confusion.

Inside the third chaise lounge chaise, Duchess Fera was a dark haired and dark skinned beauty of average height and weight coming from the Land of Flocci, where the land was flat and made of ice and snow, very cold. She wore a short sleeveless sundress of peach and a pair of naked feet, reaching over to slap the hands from Cilicee with a sneer and then tickled the naked chest of Pekod with a giggle, "Hi, Thea!"

Cilicee leaned over and then slapped both of the flat hands on Fera away from her royal prince with a sneer.

I strolled ahead with a sour frown and then halted, turning to stare at the empty lounge chair which held a piece of body armor in bright tinted green metal that had covered the right fighting arm of Tzaress Ittai.

Tzaress Ittai was dead now. She had been a very tall and very muscular in body with cropped hair of blonde, a tone of dark skin, a pair of blue eyes, and a pair of sideburns going down the side of her face in red tint and a lip moustache in red color also. She had hailed from the Land of Ikoloth which was a lush jungle of wild animals, where her people had eaten the meat of the animals and wore the fur as a set of clothing. She had not dressed in a pelt of animal fur, instead she had worn a set of blue tinted tights over her butthole and a matching outer bra over each big breast.

On her left shoulder going down to her middle finger, she had possessed a piece of body armor in bright tinted green metal that covered her entire left arm, where another metal arm had slammed and then grinded into her metal arm in bright blue tint, creating a sound of metal pain and as her dead brother Tzar Ittai had laughed with a smile.

Nothing sat inside the middle seat of the three-person chaise lounge chair.

The last chaise lounge chair held a piece of body armor in bright tinted blue that had belonged to her dead brother Tzar Aqualia.

He had been a very tall in height and very large of muscle, a tone of pale skin, a bald head, and a clean shaven face with a pair of pale eyeballs. He had hailed from the Land of Ikoloth, where numerous heated and hot volcanoes live and erupt all the time. The flowing heated lava was captured and then used to build everything day appliances and flying machines.

I slowly moved ahead with a sad face and then covered both of my eardrums while pretending to hear a set of loud scratching noises that echoed along my nerve endings that sung off-key.

Erato possessed a head of shoulder length wavy black tinted hair, a jaw line of dusted black tinted whiskers, a pair of green tinted eyes, and a tone of pale tinted skin. He wore a sculptured upper torso of pale skin, without a shirt, a pair of tight black tinted trousers, and a pair of naked feet that wiggled up and down on top of the red tinted chaise lounge chair while looking healthy, hot, and available to every pair of eyeballs and neurons but Thea. He stared with a laugh at Thea. "What's the matter, Empress?"

I stopped and stood in the middle of the next chaise lounge chair, dropping both of my hands, crossing my arms, staring with a sour frown at cute Erato. Erato and Nastchill shared a double-seated chaise lounge chair. I sneered at Erato. "Where's my chair?"

Nastchill was an extremely tall and muscular young seventeen years old male with a bright smile, a pair of blue eyes, a tint of dark colored skin, a bald skull, and a red tinted goatee. He was dressed in only a set of naked ripped biceps and triceps, without his sleeveless vest, a pair of matching brown tinted trousers, and a pair of naked feet also that rotated side to side over the lounge chair. He laughed, "Uoo! She bit your head off, Erat! I'm so glad that she likes me," he reached up and then batted the flying ball from his face with a chuckle. The ball sailed over toward Joed.

Erato smiled. "What's wrong, Thea?"

I pointed down in-between the occupied space of the two cute guys with a sneer. "Where's my chair here inside the Coil meeting room?"

Erato pointed to the side wall with a smile. "Over there!"

I turned with a gasp to see a new chair. On the side wall, a single lounge chair stood alone and then isolated from the other furniture pieces. I spun around and then dashed ahead, stopping in front of the chair. Three of the flying balls sailed through air and then hit my back spine, ricocheting backward off my upright body, soaring into a different direction.

Each teen laughed out loud.

I balled my hands into fists and then spun around, sliding down into the comfortable chair, growling with fury at the ugly disrespect from each teen.

The other teens engaged in a private conversation of soft words or ate a plate of food or continued to annoy each other. The three-seater chaise lounge chair with the metal arms from dead Tzar Aqualia and Tzaress Ittai continued to sit quietly and alone.

In the middle room inside the empty space of air molecules, a circular glass platform appeared and then curved around the empty space extending into each direction, covering the air and formed an enclosed platform of clear glass.

A vertical line of purple hue beamed up from the ground floor and halted, forming a purple tinted outline of a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The Dragon Head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the dragon's head. A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud into onto each floor level including the second floor room, where the teens were sitting. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea from the Land of Tross and I am happy to announce today that the kingdom has added the Land of Yawp..."

I turned with a sour frown to see black haired and handsome Lord Erato in silence.

Erato continued to sit inside the two-seater chaise lounge chair and leaned over with a smile, slapping the arm on his buddy Nastchill for fun while laughing and whispering a set of soft words.

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Yawp..."

I turned to see the freaking black tinted ball hit my nose bridge, lifting both hands, too late. My nose bridge sent the rubber ball back over the air toward Kidron. Kidron chewed the food and lifted up both dirty food-stained smashing the ball back to Muppin with food particles between his front teeth.

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colored plume of fire from the open mouth or the two nose holes.

A male voice echoed the words throughout the room from the rotating dinosaur head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I continued to sit inside the solo chaise lounge chair and stare at each court prince. Pekod shared the middle seat with his two princess girls, Fera and Cilicee. Each girl reached over and caressed his chest and as the other female slapped the hand away with a sneer.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus rex's head hologram.

"Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

One of the airborne balls flew beside my earlobe, hitting the side wall, ricocheting back to Glitza. Glitz raised both hands with her glowing green tinted claws and hit the back toward Thea.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. It stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the pointy snout.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating shimmery Mongoose Head hologram inside her room. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Viscount Dimon who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I continued to sit and then tilted to the side away from the ball, sitting upright, sneering at Glitza. She laughed with a nod to Thea.

In the middle of the floor, the Mongoose Head hologram swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram with a bow tied onto one of its rounded ear points. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from its pointy snout.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating mongoose head with the bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Viscount Dimon who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I continued to sit and ignore each talking shimmery, holographic head piece, watching Joed and Olivet. Each one ate and the laughed with a mouth full of chewed food. I quickly turned to face the side wall of black glass, swallowing back down the bitter vile of chewed food inside my stomach. I exhaled and then inhaled with a set of deep breaths before vomiting over the floor and my dirty lavender outfit.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Mongoose Head hologram with the bow on one of its rounded ears swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of bright yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Giraffe Head. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the long snout.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Giraffe Head hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Baroness Cilicee who comes from the Land of Colon. Cilicee also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I continued to sit and ignore the talking shimmery, holographic head piece, watching Kidron and Huzz. They were stealing each other food, eating it and then laughing out loud for fun.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Giraffe Head hologram stopped talking and then morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of bright yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Giraffe Head hologram with a bow tied onto one of its rounded ears. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the long snout.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Giraffe Head with the bow on one of its ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Baroness Cilicee who comes from the Land of Colon. Cilicee also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Muppin sat inside her chaise lounge chair slapping the ball back and forth to teen.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Giraffe Head hologram with the bow on one of its rounded ears stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pale blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Monkey Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or shift sideways.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Monkey Head hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Countess Glitza who comes from the Land of Gildallie. Glitza also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I continued to sit and stare at some of the court princes. Erato and Nastchill pulled and shoved at each other while laughing out loud.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Monkey Head hologram with the bow on the fang stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pale blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of white hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Eagle hologram body with a set of flying wings. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the air space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Eagle body hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Duchess Fera who comes from the Land of Flocci. Fera also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

A set of two females from the Land of Yawp appeared and stopped in front of Thea, reaching out with the tray that held a set of small dishes with numerous pieces of dark colored food items.

I looked up and shook my curls without taking the small dish of brownies. I was not hunger and didn't feel like eating or supping or drinking. My mind concentrated on something else.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Eagle body with a pair of outstretched non-flying wings stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of white hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of white hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Duchess Fera who comes from the Land of Flocci. Fera also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

The female from the Land of Yawp back stepped with a nod from Thea and then spun around, advancing toward the double lounge chair with Erato and Nastchill.

Each female leaned down toward the table surface as each teen male grunted in animal sounds and then softly hooted.

Erato watched the pair of small breasts inside a tiny shirt on the Yawp female with a loud grunt. The flying ball appeared and slammed the side of his head, knocking his hand away from the tray of food. he looked up and sneered at the ball handler Glitza.

Glitza waved and giggled at Erato.

He looked down and grabbed the small dish of food, flipping a hand to the Yawp female servan away from his body, eating the sweet dessert, staring at Glitza.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Eagle body with a pair of outstretched non-flying wings stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of white hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of white hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Duchess Fera who comes from the Land of Flocci. Fera also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Each Yawp female servant moved around the Coil meeting room, leaning down, presenting a tray of small dishes of food. each court prince flirted with the pretty Yawp female. Each court princess reached over and slapped the hand on the court prince.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Eagle hologram with a pair of wings and a bow on the leg stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of white hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery single Flower hologram with four matching petals. The flower hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Flower hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Princess Muppin who comes from the Land of Mattathee. Muppin also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Each Yawp female servant finished serving the tray of food items to each court prince and princess, returning back, standing against the curved black tinted side wall behind the line of chaise lounge chairs.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Flower with four petals and a long stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery of a single Flower hologram with four matching petals and a long stem, where the stem wore a tied bow. The flower hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Flower with four matching petals and a long stem, where the stem wore a tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Princess Muppin who comes from the Land of Mattathee. Muppin also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Coming through the open archway, a line of Yawp male servants wore a naked chest and a pair of long blue jeans, moving inside, stopping in front of each court princess first with a tray of tumblers. Each tumbler contained a white tinted liquid.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Flower with the four petals and a bow on the long stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery tall Shade Tree hologram. The tree did not shift or wiggle.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Shade Tree. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Duke Joed who comes from the Land of Jeroboom. Joed also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Each court princess flirted with the cute Yawp male servant accepting a tumbler of white liquid as each court prince slapped the arm on each court princess.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Shade Tree stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of dark green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery hologram Shade Tree with a bow tied around the trunk. The tree did not shift or move inside the air space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Shade Tree with the tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Duke Joed who comes from the Land of Jeroboom. Joed also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

The cute male Yawp approached Thea with the food tray.

I waved the male Yawp off from my chair before he reached my booted feet.

The Yawp male scooted sideways and stood in front of Erato, offering one of the tumblers on top of the food tray. Erato reached out and grabbed two tumblers with each hand, laughing out loud, slurping down the first tumbler of white liquid and then burped out loud in disgust with a smile.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Shade Tree hologram with the bow wrapped around the trunk stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of dark green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of black tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Ladybug hologram with four short legs. The Ladybug hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Ladybug hologram body with four short legs. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Lord Erato who comes from the Land of Elidan. Erato also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

The Yawp male frowned at Erato and then leaned over to Nastchill.

Nastchill duplicated the disgusting move from Erato, gulping down the first tumbler of white liquid and then burped out loud in disgust with a smile.

Each cute Yawp male slid over and offered each court prince a tumbler on the tray. Each court prince accepted with a smile, slurping down the white liquid and then burped out loud in disgust with a laugh.

The Yawp male servant frowned at Nastchill and stood upright, spinning around to find a new court prince with a fake smile, leaving the nasty pair of Nastchill and Erato.

Erato finished the second tumbler of white liquid and then burped out loud, reaching over, fist-bumping with his buddy Nastchill, laughing out loud.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Ladybug hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of black hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of black tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Ladybug with a set of four short legs, where a bow was tied onto one of the straight non-wiggling legs. The Ladybug hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Ladybug of four short legs, where a bot was tied onto one of the straight non-wiggling legs. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Lord Erato who comes from the Land of Elidan. Erato also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Each cute Yawp male slid over and offered each court prince a tumbler on the tray. Each court prince accepted with a smile, slurping down the white liquid and then burped out loud in disgust with a laugh.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Ladybug hologram with the bow on one of the short legs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of black hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Umbrella hologram. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Umbrella. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Olivet who comes from the Land of Onam. Olivet also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

After each court prince and princess had consumed the dessert and beverage, the four black tined balls started flying around the Coil meeting room again.

The first ball slammed into the sour puss face on Thea.

I lifted my arms too late in front of my face and as the ball ricocheted off my forehead, sailing back toward Dimon.

Dimon lifted up both hands smashing the ball toward Zeamon.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Umbrella stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Umbrella with the single bow tied onto the upright handle. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Umbrella hologram with the single bow on the upright handle. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Olivet who comes from the Land of Onam. Olivet also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

On the line of chaise lounge chairs, Joed and Olivet bumped head and whispered while eating the new dessert and beverage.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Umbrella with the bow on the upright handle stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of mint green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Cricket Head hologram with two non-wiggling antennas. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Cricket Head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Queen Bakeria who comes from the Land of Bocardo. Bakeria also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

The ball slammed into the face of Kidron, flying back into the air. He reached up with a long arm and then smashed the ball forward flying it toward Erato.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Cricket Head with the two antennas stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of mint green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of mint green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Cricket Head hologram with two non-wiggling antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Cricket Head with two non-wiggling antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Queen Bakeria who comes from the Land of Bocardo. Bakeria also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I continued to sit and stare at some of the court princes and princesses.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram of a Cricket Head with two antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow, stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of mint green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery eight-legged Spider body. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating eight-legged Spider hologram body. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Pekod who comes from the Land of Penina. Pekod also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Pekod shared the middle seat with his two princess girls, Fera and Cilicee. Each girl reached over and caressed his chest and as the other female slapped the hand away with a sneer.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery eight-legged Spider body hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery eight-legged Spider hologram body, where one leg wore a bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

One of the flying balls landed inside the lap of Zeamon. He lifted the ball and pitched into the air, flying it towards Pekod. The ball hit the forehead on Pekod, ricocheted off, and then landed down into the lap on Lael.

Lael grabbed the ball and pitched it back into the air. The ball flew around the room to different court prince and princesses for more fun.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery eight-legged Spider body hologram with a single bow tied on one leg stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of lavender hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Seahorse hologram. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Seahorse. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Earl Zeamon who comes from the Land of Zeebad. Zeamon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

One of the airborne balls flew into my face and as I lifted both hands, slapping it back to Muppin with a growl of annoyance.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Seahorse hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of lavender hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Seahorse hologram with a single lavender bow around the tail. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Seahorse hologram with a single lavender bow around the tail. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Earl Zeamon who comes from the Land of Zeebad. Zeamon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Erato watched one of the flying balls and then lifted both hands, slapping the object back toward Glitza with a sneer. Glitza slammed it back to Erato with a lady growl. The ball bounced through the air back and forth between Erato and Glitza.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Seahorse with a single bow around the throat stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Fashion Shoe. "Welcome to all! What in the scepter is this thing around my face? It is colored in the hue of pink. I don't understand. Dear wife, what is this thing? I didn't understand the..."

Nastchill hit a second flying black tinted ball toward Bakeria. Bakeria leaned over and slapped the ball with a folded fist, launching it back to Nastchill. The ball soared through the air with perfect timing into a folded fist, bouncing back and forth between Bakeria and Nastchill.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled Fashion shoe that belonged to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space. A female voice echoed coming from the rotating shoe that belong to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. "Dear, husband! This is the Coil meeting. Don't worry about the projected hologram of pink in the format of a shoe that covers your face. You are still unattractive!"

Love birds Joed and Olivet continued to eat and laugh with a mouth full of chewed food while ignoring the antic of the other court princes and princesses.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared out from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of golden hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Crown hologram that belonged to a king. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed from the rotating Crown hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Aqualia and my prince son Ittai that hail from the Land of Ikoloth. Aqualia and Ittai also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Kidron and Huzz continued to steal each other food and slam the ball around the room for fun.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Crown hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of golden hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of golden hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Crown hologram with a single bow that was tied around one of the points that belonged to a queen. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Crown, where a single bow had been tied around one of the points of the crown that belonged to a queen. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Aqualia and my prince son Ittai, who both come from the Land of Ikoloth. Aqualia and Ittai also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Zeamon bounced one of the black tinted balls back to Muppin and Lael while playing nice until Erato and Nastchill.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Crown hologram with a single bow that was tied around one of the points that belonged to a queen stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of golden hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of silver hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Scepter. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Scepter. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Nastchill who comes from the Land of Naam. Nastchill also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Nastchill hit a second flying black tinted ball toward Bakeria. Bakeria leaned over and slapped the ball with a folded fist, launching it back to Nastchill. The ball soared through the air with perfect timing into a folded fist, bouncing back and forth between Bakeria and Nastchill.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery silver tinted Scepter hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of silver hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Scepter hologram with a single bow tied on one end of the cylinder. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Scepter hologram with the single bow on one end of the cylinder. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Nastchill who comes from the Land of Naam. Nastchill also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Erato watched one of the flying balls and then lifted both hands, slapping the object back toward Glitza with a sneer. Glitza slammed it back to Erato with a lady growl. The ball bounced through the air back and forth between Erato and Glitza.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Scepter with a single bow on the end of the cylinder stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of red tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery image of a Devil Head with two horns. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Devil Head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Marquise Kidron who comes from the Land of Korbright. Kidron also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I wiggled inside the chair with nervousness and continued to bat the ball away from my face while staring at each useless and greedy court prince and princess.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery red tinted Devil Head with two horns stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of red tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery image of a Devil Head with two horns, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Devil Head, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Marquise Kidron who comes from the Land of Korbright. Kidron also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I turned and stared at the empty two-seater chaise lounge chair which held a piece of body armor in bright tinted green metal and blue tinted metal that belonged to dead Tzaress Ittai and her brother Tzar Aqualia. I lifted both palms covering my eardrums and as my active mind recalled the sound of scratching metal pain from each artificial weapon on their arm.

The Devil Head hologram with two horns, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow, swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of red hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space in the middle of the room.

A vertical line of bright and shiny purple hue beamed down from the cathedral ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Dragon Head. "Welcome to all! The Coil meeting has almost ended. And I would like to express my thanks to the newest members within our kingdom that comes from the Land of the Yawp..."

I gasped in alarm and dropped both of my hands, slapping my legs that protruded on top of the chaise lounge chair. The Coil meeting had finally ended. I turned and stared at the side wall, where six representatives from the Land of Yawp stood in silence.

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! The Coil meeting has concluded with the final phase of the meeting which includes the newest members within our kingdom, the Land of the Yawp..."

Two of the black tinted balls slammed against one of the walls, hitting down onto the floor, rolling around until it halted.

However, Nastchill continued to pitch a ball back at Bakeria with a sneer. Bakeria intersected the ball with a growl, tossing it back to Nastchill.

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A vertical line of purple hue beamed down from the ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud into onto each floor level, including the second floor room, where the teens were sitting. "Now, the time has arrived for each person to vote for the newest members to enter our kingdom that come from the Land of Yawp. Please press the button with your desire! Please, all of the newest members within our kingdom move away from the glass wall and stop, standing in the middle of the center platform on each level, right now. Go! Get moving now! Hurry! Hurry!"

Dimon reached out and smashed the ball away from the folded fist on Bakeria, sneering with annoyance at her bad princess behavior. The last black tinted ball flew across the room and hit the side wall, falling down onto the floor, bouncing around until it stopped.

Then, the Dragon Head swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space in the middle of the Coil meeting room.

Inside the shared two-seater chaise lounge chair, Nastchill clapped with a smile and reached down, holding a finger over the button on his chair. "Vote! Vote! It's time to vote. I'm ready!"

Erato clapped with a smile and then held a finger over the button also on his chair. "Let's vote! Get this over with right now!"

The line of representatives from the Land of Yawp slowly moved ahead, stopped, stood in the middle section on the floor within an ugly semi-circle, facing each royal teen, waving with a hand for the goodbye mark.

I slid my legs to the side and scooted toward the end on top of my single chaise lounge chair. I exhaled with a puff of nervousness watching the group of Yawps inside the glass protection shield.

The Dragon Head hologram appeared again and rotated around in a circle inside the middle space within the Coil room. "Before we finish our business here in the Coil meeting room, I have one additional lovely royal announcement. My empress daughter Thea, she will be leading a new battle fight tomorrow morning. Now, please, proceed with the conclusion of the Coil meeting here."

On the upper, middle, and lower floor levels in the center of each room, a black tinted glass wall lowered down and surrounded the representatives from the Land of Yawp while enclosing the small group of people inside the tight space. Each person stood upright with a smile scanning the enclosed space.

The middle space in the Coil room is designated for one purpose, where a deadly beam of bright blue light would fall down from the arched ceiling and then disintegrate each life form, if another royal adult did not stop it.

On the side wall and away from the other royal teens, I swiftly scooted out from my lounge chair and then stood upright on top of floor with a smirk, reaching down, touching the bow symbol handle on my scepter, which was really a weapon with a sharp blade.

So far, I had never discharged my scepter's sharp blade and injured anyone, but an opportunity was presenting itself inside the Coil room.

The ceiling tile quickly slide open above skull and then swiftly rained down a tub of cold water over my dry hair roots and the rest of my upright dry body. Then four black tinted balls with a white outline of a happy smiley face with two circular eyeballs rapidly soared through the air toward its intended target, Empress Thea.

I could saw an set of approaching harmless rubber balls with a gasp and then instinctively reached up, folding both of my naked arms around my tender fleshy face. Each ball collided into my upright wet body in the face, the chest, the stomach, both kneecaps, both lower legs, and my left foot. Then I instinctively reacted again with violence, kicking each leg one at a time back and forth and then side to side, hitting each ball away from my wet upright body.

The set of individual rubber balls flew in an array of different directions.

Some of the teens continued to sit and then reached up, hitting and pitched the rubber ball toward another teen for fun.

Inside the middle portion of the floor, a blue light soared down from the ceiling and surrounded the people from the Land of Yawp, growing very bright and then sounded with a loud pop. Then the middle portion on the floor base was empty of people and colored light.

Inside each lounge seat, each teen sounded with cheers, claps, whistles, and yells at the terrible occurrence.

On top of the floor, I continued to stand in front of my wet lounge chair, wiping off a wet face and then opened my eyelashes, gasping at the middle portion on the floor which was empty and hollow again while feeling very sad with sorrow. The captured people from the Land of Yawp had vanished during my surprise rain shower, dying without my aid, during my temporary blindness.

Around the Coil room, the other royal teens slowly stood upright from each lounge chair and then turned to face the open archway, slowly exiting the room with a set of giggles, laughs, smiles, and chuckles of happiness regarding the deadly event on Yawp people and the funny joke on Empress Thea.

I continued to stand in place in front of the wet lounge chair wearing a wet body and a sour frown in silence.

Zeamon slowly stood upright from his lounge chair with a stern face and then carefully approached, stopping a few feet from Empress Thea, staring at her wet body. "You're a good sport."

I continued to stare at the empty hole in the middle of the Coil room with a stern face. "It's only water."

"Still, you took it well with all great fun. Are you mad at the other royal teens?"

"No. I'm only wet," I turned and faked a laugh with a fake smile.

He smiled. "The mean activity wasn't my idea. Erato, he thought of the gag. But he didn't say which particular ceiling tile had been rigged to open, until the tub of fresh cold water splashed down over you and your chair."

I exhaled with annoyance. "I see," I turned and stared out the open archway with a stern face. "I don't understand the royal behavior from each teen regarding the twin deaths of Ittai and Aqualia."

He nodded with a stern face. "They, the other teens were not there with you. You were there with Ittai and them. So, you are the only one, who is going to have a hard time with this terrible event. But you're strong and the leader of our people. That's why I love you, Thea."

I turned and chuckled at his silly statement. "Thanks for that statement. So, I guess. What about their parents?"

"Their parents are traveling to the Land of Yawp, right now, trying to find some bones to bury for a family funeral. I guess."

"Yeah, that would make sense and close the circle of life and death for their parents."

"And the other royal, each is only a teen. A teen never thinks logically, only illogically. Each teen has closed out the circle of death for a half-circle of life without thought or reason. "

I nodded with a stern face at the open archway. "Yeah, I guess so."

"Zeamon!" A loud female voice echoed throughout the Coil room coming up from the lower level.

Zeamon dashed ahead and then stopped, standing before the hole in the floor that was used to project each holographic image. He looked down with a smile, seeing his parents on the lower level. "Mom, Dad!"

"Please come downstairs for our appointment. We do not want to be late, honey." The voice of his mom echoed throughout the Coil room again from the lower level.

"Yes, Mom! I'm on my way." He back stepped from the hole opening on the floor and spun around, nodding with a smile to wet and bitter Empress Thea. "Bye, Thea! See you later!"

I nodded with a fake smile. "Bye, Zeamon! See ya later also."

He spun around with a smile and faced the open archway, dashing ahead, exiting the Coil room in silence.

I continued to stand in place for a few more minutes feeling lousy, sad, and numb without pain.

Death does not draw pain on a death body anymore.

I didn't want to converse with any other person right now. I was feeling sad about the lost souls and mad about my wet body.

I slowly exited the room as the last living body.

I quickly wondered if any of the dead soul would haunt the Coil room with a ghostly presence, one day. The dark and enclosed space inside the Coil room was a very good location for a wandering and lonely he-ghost. A ghost was real and really frightening.

Within the Land of Scotta, there was a noble family that occupied a haunted castle and as each person would see the floating white tinted object in the air. The noble family lived and thrived there. However, a servant would quit on the cold spot without getting paid and screaming out loud, after meeting the friendly ghost.

On top of the hallway, I marched down and dropped water droplets over the dirty floor. The set of robot cleaning machines slowly invaded the fiftieth Coil room, starting to clean up the messy floor and each dirty lounge chair like usual.

I slowly strolled down the long hallway with a sour frown while hopping side to side, tossing each arm and leg into the air. My ugly dance moves slung each dripping cold water droplet from a naked arm or a naked leg onto the dirty floor and each side wall, where the individual mural stood alone and silent.

The watery splashdown event had been funny for some teens. But the surprise teenly event had prevented me from saving another set of death souls, who are residing in heaven now.

I stopped with a sneer and then stood in front of the closed elevator doors, saying to the glass door. "When I become the new Empress of Tross, I'm ending all of this silly mess immediately. And I'm booting some of the specific royal teens out from my new royal court also when I become the new ruler. The gang of both booted and bothersome teen royal can form their own kingdom, without me." I reached up and slapped the glass with a sour frown.

The elevator door slid open exhibiting an empty carriage.

Elevator glass carriage setting

08:08 pm

Dull sunlight and warm temperatures

The sunset occurred at nine o'clock in the evening during the summertime season.

I entered the carriage and halted, standing and stared out the solid glass window, sneering with fury at everything, the same colorful and funny-looking terrain in the Land of Tross.

Outside the solid glass window that had been built from the soil up towards the rooftop, the landmass was flat which extended for miles and miles within my acute vision.

I continued to ride downward inside a flying glass elevator that reflected the bright sunlight and some heat. The Center Building possessed an excellent air-conditioning system of cool air molecules which kept a person from sweating.

My stomach sailed down and then stuck inside my stomach as I felt sick and nausea with my guilt for each dead soul from each claimed land over a victorious battle fight for the Kingdom of Tross.

I possessed the same appearance, maybe not the same social personality like my dead twin sister Thea.

My dead twin sister Thea had endured, challenged, reigned, and finally witnessed the same treatment of each group of hostages for years and years. She didn't do anything about it.

I had figured out her purpose which led to my solo purpose, the new ruler in the Land of Tross and then ruling in place of my dead twin sister. But I was still clueless about my separation from my dead twin sister and the reason of the separation coming from my set of biological parents.

Maybe, I would never find that singular answer today or tomorrow or any more tomorrow here in the Land of Tross.

Outside the elevator window, the landmass was split into two types of terrain which parted down the middle of the landscape.

One side of the landscape appeared in flat layer of solid light blue tinted grass with a set of numerous short rows of colorful flowers that outlined a single winding green tinted walkway that touched each tall and slender glass building. The opposite side of the split landscape held a solid sheet of green tinted dirt with a set of scattered huddles of short golden tinted trees that curved around a single winding lavender tinted walkway, where a set of short glass buildings stood. However, there was not present a single man or woman or teenager or child or infant or pet animal or stray animal strolling on the walkway or walking the grounds or sitting underneath the shade tree while appearing happy and content.

The skyline held a faint tint of pink hue that glistened within the bright rays of sunshine, where each cloud burst glowed in dull mint green hue.

I exhaled with fury and mumbled my confused questions with a sour frown the beauty of the pretty scenery. "Why is the skyline colored pale green here? I have never seen an entire lawn of blue grass. Why is entire ground covered in green dirt? Where I come from the skyline is always pale blue and the dirt is always reddish brown. Where are the Tross natives or pets or animals or vehicles or people?"

Behind Thea, the closed elevator door swiftly displayed the other floor levels as the glass elevator quickly moved downward toward her finally destination, the eighteenth floor.

A blur of shimmery faint color tones passed behind her back spine unnoted and unnoticed from the eyeballs on Thea.

A naked person could stand directly in front of their protective glass door on their personal floor level of the common elevator shunt as the elevator jolted upward and then bypassed the naked person. Then, each elevator passenger would only see a blur of color, not the silly naked individual.

The carriage smoothly halted. The single solid wall of glass slid open.

18th floor level location

Private chamber suite of Thea

08:14 pm

I spun around with a sour frown and marched out from the elevator carriage.

The door closed shut.

I continued to move down the smooth floor and then veered toward the tall table with two high stools, stopping and reached out, grabbing a tiny finger sandwich with something else. I didn't eat it, just grabbed it, squashing the food between a folded fist in angry. The lump of food greased my hand. I released my fist. The squashed food lump dropped down to the floor.

In the middle of the private chamber, her servant Tofur stood in place and stared at Thea, wearing a sour frown, crossing both arms in silence.

A purple line appeared and soared down from the ceiling, forming a purple tinted dragon Head. A male voice echoed throughout the room. "My empress daughter Thea, you are to lead a new

I continued to stand and stare at the Dragon Head. "I know that. You told all of us that inside the Coil room a few minutes ago today. Are you sick or something? I think you're losing it, Dad." I laughed at the rotating hologram with annoyance. My father couldn't hear my nasty or nice words, but I didn't care at the moment

The Dragon Head hologram disguise on her emperor father continued to rotate around in a circle and as the same male voice echoed the words throughout the room. "You need to rest your body and mediate with your mind for the next battle fight tomorrow, my empress daughter Thea. I didn't need to wish you luck as you have successfully brought victory to me with every battle campaign."

I faked a smile, "Yup! I can war campaign really good with the rest of them."

"Enjoy your evening, my empress daughter Thea!"

"Yup! I can do that too. Bye, Father!"

The rotating Dragon Head turned into a vertical line of purple hue and then sucked back up into the ceiling devise.

I looked up with a fake smile, "Thanks, Dad! I will continue to exhibit the manners of a good empress daughter." I moved ahead with a smile and stared at Tofur, stopping and faced the end of the hallway. I stared at the outside landscape which lacked people, pet, and normal looking property. I exhaled with a smile. "I'm so bored. There's no one to kill. There's no one to play. I'm bored out of my mind." I moved ahead and then stopped, staring through the glass window. "The day still has plenty of sunshine and hot weather. Nobody is outside. It's too hot. I guess. And I don't feel like getting on top of the bed mattress and resting and playing with..."

"Yes!" Tofur continued to stand and stared with a stern face at the nose profile on Thea. "You need to rest, Thea, like your father has ordered. There's a new battle fight tomorrow morning, very, very early."

I continued to smile down at the outdoor pretty and weird landscape. "I heard my father. Why are you still here with me, Tofur? When did you start obeying the royal commands of my father? I thought you only followed my royal empress commands"

He moved ahead and stopped, standing beside her nose profile, staring through the same glass window at the outside pretty landscape with a smile. "I'm ensuring that you do not take revenge on one of the court prince or princesses, this evening, during the nighttime hours. Are you mad about the cold water splashdown on top of your hair, your face, and your body?"

I turned and faked a smile in front of Tofur. "I'm not my dead twin sister, Tofur. I thought it was an original and funny display of royal silliness. The other teens enjoyed making a new splash at the newest Coil meeting. I liked the fun social teen event. We should do more original and funny display in the next Coil meeting," I faked a silly chuckle, even though I was very mad with fury. I could pretend to act like a real peasant too. I cleared my throat. "I don't have a set of clothes to wear for tomorrow."

He dropped both arms and gasped in shock. "What? What does that mean? I don't understand your confusing statement."

I continued to stare with a fake smile at him and pressed both wet hands down onto the wet outfit. "My clothes are wet. This is my last lavender colored empress outfit. Don't I get a special wardrobe for the special day of my birth? A girl is only born an empress one time in her life," I turned and then winked at his face. I dared him to enter into my wardrobe closet. Actually, I had gotten the impression that he could not do that. But I course I didn't know the true answer.

"I can see that your empress outfit is wet from the fun event inside the Coil room." He frowned.

I nodded. "My clothes and my body had gotten wet from the cold water splash down inside the Coil room. I don't have another set of clean clothes for the battle fight tomorrow morning, unless I get to go over there in my bold nakedness. Is nakedness acceptable as the new Tross Empress? I bet I'm win the next battle fight with both hands down or up or crossing over my naked breasts," laughing.

He grunted. "No. That is not acceptable for an empress in the Land of Tross. And no, you are not going naked to the next battle fight." He spun around with a sour frown, staring down at the pile of wet clothes, where Thea had stripped off each item, before entering the lavatory for a dry towel.

I slowly spun around with a smile to see the back spine on Tofur. My new brilliant plan was working also.

He veered toward the opposite side of the bedroom and then stopped in front of the hidden wardrobe closet.

I gasped in alarm. Tofur could not possibly have access into the empress wardrobe room.

He frowned at the pretty painted wall and then swiftly spun around with a stern face, moving ahead and then stopped, squatting down, gathering her wet clothes. "I'll take your set of wet clothes and have them laundered and then cleaned by tomorrow morning, before you leave for the next battle fight," he stood upright from the floor and then turned to face the long hallway with a sour face. "Now, the royal fun has ended for the long day, Thea. It's time for you to rest and recovery from your previous battle fight injuries, Empress. Tomorrow morning will come too soonest for me," he stopped and then stood in front of the closed elevator doors.

At the end of the long hallway that formed the middle of my private sleep chamber, I continued to stand in front the bed with a fake smile, watching Tofur.

At the other end of the hallway, the set of elevator doors slid open. He entered inside the carriage floor alone and then spun around, waving a silly hand at Thea from the end of the hallway, barely seeing her face.

I waved silly too, barely seeing his face.

The elevator doors closed shut.

I dashed ahead toward my wardrobe closet, opening the door with a sour frown and entered the enclosed room with a puzzled brow. "Something is wrong here. Yes, I do object and oppose and question many things here in the Land of Tross. I am the empress. Then I conveniently get wet with water and can't wear my clothes in the middle of the late afternoon with the bright blinding warm sunshine of summertime. And I can't leave my bedroom with a naked body to explore the new land, where I was birthed, but I didn't know that. I am the empress of Tross. I can't save the innocent people from the death of fun for my fun by my hand either. I am the Empress of Tross. Well, I have been told by everyone. But I can't see my set of royal biological parents with or without any appointment. That's crazy. This is insane. This entire kingdom is crazy and insane and weird and odd and strange."

I stopped and stared at the single rack of clothes in lavender hue. Three complete lavender outfits stared back at Thea. I reached out and quickly removed the cloth hanger at the next outfit, dressing in lavender again. I had fibbed to Tofur with a purpose.

I spun around and dashed ahead, slapping the wall, exiting out the wardrobe closet. I turned with a stern face and faced the long hallway, glancing sideways at the wardrobe room.

The wardrobe closet silently closed shut.

I was correct, only I could open and close the wardrobe closet that contained two new lavender outfits.

I swiftly jogged ahead down the long hallway with a stern face and then stopped, standing in front of the elevator door, banging on the metal with both fists and a sneer.

Glass elevator carriage setting

08:31 pm

Dull sunlight rays of pink, yellow, blue and orange with cool temperatures

The elevator glass door swiftly slid open.

I back stepped with a gasp in shock and then smiled. "Well, something's going right for me today."

I entered the carriage and then spun around with a laugh, reaching out, slapping the button for the fiftieth floor. Usually, Tofur handled the elevator controls for me. I usually acted like the empress.

The doors closed shut. Then the carriage swiftly lifted up toward the designated floor.

I exhaled. "I know something is wrong here. I need to figure it out before tomorrow morning's battle fight. I'm fearful that I might not live through that one," I spun around to face the glass window, looking down at the ground with a gasp.

On the top the green dirt, underneath the grove of short golden colored and pear-shaped trees, the green soil was covered in an array of colorful blankets. On top of each colorful blanket, there was a large brown tinted picnic basket. On top of each blanket in front of the picnic basket, there was a court prince sitting with a court princess. They had gathered together underneath the short trees, having a picnic basket dinner without Thea.

I leaned into the rear wall bad breathing into the glass, pulling back with a sour frown from the foggy piece of glass. I swiftly scooted sideway without leaning back down into the glass again. I gasped in shock. "What is this? What's going on down there on top of the green dirt? It looks like a teenly picnic with teens. It looks like fun. Well, finally, the rest of the royal teens do have fun here in the Land of Tross, but me. But why am I missing from the fun teenly party? Of course, I remember. My Dragon Head father appeared and then he ordered me to get rest for the next battle fight, tomorrow morning. But I feel fine. I wanna go and spend time with all of my new friends in...in a social setting, not a...a meeting session or a...a battle fight." I leaned down and fogged up the glass with my bad breathe and sad feeling.

I spun around with a gasp to see the elevator control panel. The elevator carriage was passing the thirty-fifth floor level.

"I must stop the carriage on the fiftieth floor first. Then I can ride the carriage back down to the bottom and join my friends."

I spun around back around with a smile to see ground level again, jumping up and down, waving both of my arms in the air with a laugh. "Hey ya'll! I'm up here. You are down there. I'm up here inside the elevator. Can you see me?" I stopped jumping around on top of the floor and then stared down at the ground with a confused brow. I turned and then stared into the bright sun, wrinkling my face, returning back to see the ground with a frown.

"They can't see me up here inside the glass elevator. But I can see them down on the ground. The sun is facing west. I'm facing north inside the elevator carriage. The sun is blinding the glass windows with beams of bright rays from their natural eyesight. I can't believe this.

They thought that I would miss this fun teenly social picnic outside my glass window on the eighteenth floor.

I smiled. "Well, I would have missed this social fun event, if I did not have a spare outfit to wear that wasn't hidden inside my private wardrobe closet. Why didn't Tofur mention the court picnic? O yeah! He's servant, not a prince. I should go down to the bottom floor and then exit the building, surprising my friends." I gasped in alarm.

"No! I'm not invited to the teen picnic for some reason," I sobbed with tears, wiping my clean face with sadness. "What would that reason be for not inviting me to the picnic party?" I laughed out loud as an insane teenager. "Well, I do possess the real answer. Thea was not a social and friendly girl. Thea was the girly leader in the battle fight, who really fought and killed. Thea was not liked by most of the royal teens, except for Erato, Nastchill, and, now, Zeamon. And I am the pretend Empress Thea. So, all of that nastiness applies to me. Now, I completely understand the cold water splashdown over my dry body. No one was preventing me from saving the life of each Yawpian. No one wanted me to attend the fun teen social party underneath the golden tree this afternoon." I sobbed with tears, staring down at the fun party.

Within the plot of green dirt, on top of a first red colored blanket, underneath the first short golden tree branches, tall and red haired Princess Muppin sat with petite and brown haired Governess Lael, who consumed food from the same picnic basket.

Underneath the second tree with higher tree branches, tall and red haired Count Huzz sat with pink skinned and pointy hat on Marquee Kidron, stealing the food with smiles.

At the next golden tree, tall and black haired Earl Zeamon sat alone and hunger consuming a single basket of food.

Underneath the fourth golden tinted tree with a row of low branches, short and plump Lady Olivet sat beside her boyfriend plump and blonde haired Duke Joed eating from the same brown tinted picnic basket while chatting, sometimes.

Underneath the fifth golden tree, Countess Glitza ate from the shared picnic basket beside Viscountess Arodi, who smiled and chatted while consuming each food item.

Underneath the sixth tree branches on the sixth tree, Queen Bakeria ate her food with her boyfriend Viscount Dimon occupied the next seat from the same picnic basket.

Petite and red haired Baroness Cilicee sat beside Baron Pekod, who lounged on the ground beside his second girlfriend black haired Duchess Fera chatting and consuming from the same food basket.

I gasped in shock and then covered my open mouth with a soft whisper while staring in shock at the two objects on top of the red tinted blanket. "O dear! That is odd!"

The next golden shade tree displayed two individual colored metal arms, alone, without a warm body. Dead and burned and buried Tzaress Ittai had possessed a blue tinted arm piece of metal. His biological sister, dead and buried Tzar Aqualia had possessed the red tinted arm piece in metal.

I exhaled with confusion. "I guess the adult and teen royals do recognize a royal funeral, but the royal funeral ritual process is really weird here."

Underneath the last occupied golden tree, Erato sat and elbowed Nastchill while eating and talking.

Inside the Center Building on top of the glass elevator carriage, I exhaled with more tears of depression. "There is no conspiracy theory here to kill me. There is no plan to steal my throne chair. No other teen wants my throne chair or me. What did my dead twin sister Thea do to the other court princes and princess?" I stomped my foot in angry with a sour frown. "I don't know. It's too late to figure it out why I am so hated here as the upcoming new ruler. Tomorrow is the last battle fight, if I live and win. Then, I win it all. Then, I become the new empress. Then, I am lonely," I sobbed with more tears. "Well, I do pick out my mate. Does Erato or Nastchill or Zeamon really love me? Or does he really love my dead sister Thea? I truly don't know that love answer."

The elevator carriage continued to fly upwards toward the final destination.

On top of the grass dirt, her servant Tofur appeared and then slowly jogged ahead from the Center building, joining the huddle of with Erato and Nastchill. He reached out and grabbed a plate of food, eating and nodding with the royal males like he was a good friend.

Inside the elevator carriage, I didn't lean into the glass and gasped in shock. "Tofur, he's down there in the green dirt with all of my royal friends too. Why can't I be there too? I can't believe that he's there with all of my royal friends also. I should be down there having fun too. Now, he's joining the fun picnic party, eating from the food basket with Nastchill," I gasped in shock and whispered for my eardrums only. "I thought Tofur hated Nasty Champ. What in the kingdom is going on here? I'm so confused and befuddled and dumbfounded with jealous and fury and anger."

I slid back and forth across the smooth floor and leaned against the glass window, fogging the window. I back stepped and then scooted sideways without leaning into the glass while spying on the court royals and my personal servant Tofur with intrigue and puzzlement.

I gasped in alarm. "I didn't tell the truth. I should always tell the truth. The truth will set you free. If I have told Tofur there was another clear outfit, then he would have told me about the picnic party. This is my own fault. I should always tell the truth. Now, I'll always tell the truth now. Then I can have some fun also and teach the teen royals that I am a fun girl, unlike my dead twin sister Thea."

Inside the glass elevator carriage, the bell chimed with a musical tone. The carriage halted. The door slid open in silence.

I continued to spy at each back spine on every royal. The group of teen royals was slowing walking on high heels and boot heels ahead toward a single building on the opposite of the property.

The single building was shorter than the Center Building and made of metal, instead of glass, where six floor levels illuminated with bright light.

I couldn't see any of interior rooms but something was happening there without my knowledge or participation.

I felt sad and alone, frowning down at the dirt that was slowly turning into black dirt. The sun was slowly sinking down into the horizon for a new evening of cooler air and bright stars in the dark skyline.

Then I gasped in alarm feeling the cool air on my back spine and spun around with a giggle, racing ahead, jumping up and down over the hard surface toward the open archway on the Coil room.

Coil meeting room setting

09:01 pm

nighttime with bright stars and moonlight

I continued to skip up and down over the hard surface and nodded with a giggle and a grin. "My parents were not down there eating food from a picnic basket, because I was not down there either. So, if they were not down there eating food from a picnic basket with me, then my parents are up here eating food from a picnic basket here inside the Coil room and waiting on my arrival. Yeah, my royal instincts are good."

I entered the Coil room to find my parents. They were here hanging around after the meeting, looking for me.

Of course, I and my clothes had been drowned with the tub of cold water. I sneered. "I'm getting E-rat back for that one, since I found out it was him that wetted my person with his wit." Then I halted with a smile.

The room looked the same without the royals and with rows of lounge chairs.

I moved ahead and then shouted out loud with a smile of glee, "Mother! Father! Are you are located in here? This is your empress daughter Thea. I wanted to see you. I have a teen..."

I stopped and then slapped my mouth with both hands, slowly encircling the Coil room, dropping down my hands. "No one is here." I moved ahead and then stopped, standing on the edge of the open pit, looking down through the open hole. There were many additional lower level floors that were empty without people or robots.

The room was quiet.

I could see a hologram transmitter down on the bottom floor. That was how the hologram projector ignited each silly colorful hologram coming up from the bottom ground.

I looked up with a sneer to see a single open barrel of sliver. That was the barrel of a laser gun that had killed numerous innocent hostages that had kindly visited the Land of Tross and then never left. I wished my scepter was a laser beam weapon. Then I could shoot it down.

I back stepped from the open hole in the floor and turned to scan the empty room, whispering for my eardrums only. "I can't tell the truth to my real parents. I'm a fake empress, not the real empress. I'm a twin, but I'm the wrong twin." I gasped with brilliance. "I need to find out how my dead twin sister found out about me, her live twin sister. Yes, I need to find out the truth, before I can find and explain to my parents." I exhaled with sadness about missing the teen social picnic party without telling everyone the truth about me.

I slowly moved ahead toward the open archway and scanned the room. The room was empty and hopefully not wired to record a silly audible chat from a fake empress.

Hallway setting

I swiftly raced down the long hallway with a giggle and then stopped, standing in front of the side wall. The sunset had disappeared and had been replaced with a skyline of bright stars and a glowing moon of bright rays.

Each open and used picnic basket and red tinted blanket stood alone underneath each golden tree through the moonlight rays, of course. The group of royal teens on top of the blue grass continued to move ahead toward the other building, strolling away from the trees, the Center Building, and a spying Empress Thea.

I gasped in alarm and then quickly back stepped from the glass window, sliding back into the glass carriage, leaning near the open archway out of sight.

The glass door slide shut in silence.

One or more of the royals would see my upright body inside the brightly lit glass carriage during the nighttime darkness. I wanted to return back to my private sleep chamber without causing any trouble as the fake empress.

I reached over and pressed the eighteenth button on the panel.

The carriage soared downward toward its final destination.

I squatted down in front of the closed doors and closed my eyelashes, so a pair of eyeballs couldn't see my body and I could not see their upright body either.

The carriage stopped. The elevator door slid open.

18th floor level location

Private chamber suite of Thea

09:09 pm

I screamed out loud and dropped down backwards onto the hard surface, landing on my elbows and my butthole, entering my private chamber unlike an empress.

I slowly stood upright from the floor with a giggle and spun around, swiftly jogging down the long hallway with a stern face and a new purpose. "Where did she find that shared or secret or hidden information that we were truly a pair of identical twins? I know. From a previous hologram announcement, it must have triggered her sisterly curiosity. Then that led her to the new knowledge. I can follow the same foot path."

I stopped and then stood in the middle of the room, which was directly below the hologram transmitter, talking to the air currents. "Hologram, show me the last announcement!"

A vertical line of purple hue beamed down from the ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud into onto each floor level including the second floor room, where the teens were sitting. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea from the Land of Tross and I am happy to announce today that the kingdom has added the Land of Yawp..."

"Good start of my empress search!" I jogged backward with a smile and watched the hologram, stopping at the front of the hallway.

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Yawp..."

I spun around to face the elevator doors, reaching up, searching the edge around the elevator and felt dirt. "This is pure glass. Nothing is here, but dust bunnies."

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colored plume of fire from the open mouth or the two nose holes.

A male voice echoed the words throughout the room from the rotating dinosaur head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I scooted along the side wall and touched the smooth material, stopping near the intersection wall and stared with a sad face down at the ground. "The court princes and princesses are moving away from the grove of short golden tinted trees with a set of parents. My parents are there somewhere in that massive huddle of bodies. But I can't recognize them. Everyone faces their child. Now, they seem to be heading north, not back here to the Center building. I guess they're going to attend another fun social party with their parents and without me."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus rex's head hologram.

"Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

"Been there and survived that one!" I giggled. "Hologram, show me the previous Coil room meeting announcement." I exhaled with disappointment. "If only I had not lied to Tofur, then I would be there too having some teenly fun. O well, I have learned my royal teen lesson." I slapped the wall with a sour frown. "This is pure glass again. Nothing is built here extra." I side stepped and checked the wall with both hands and a stern face.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A vertical line of purple hue beamed down from the ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud into onto each floor level including the second floor room, where the teens were sitting. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea from the Land of Tross and I am happy to announce today that the kingdom has added the Land of Shamguard..."

In front of the forward wall, I continued to listen to the voice of the hologram without seeing the ridicule holographic cartoon character rotate around my room, squatting down on the floor, touching the wall. "This is glass."

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Shamguard..."

I stood upright and then reared back my boot toe, halting with a gasp. "This is a very tall glass wall, which is made of glass. Glass can break also. What is behind this glass wall?"

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.
A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colored plume of fire from the open mouth or the two nose holes.

A male voice echoed the words throughout the room from the rotating dinosaur head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

"Been there and survived that one too!" I smiled. "Show me the next previous Coil meeting announcement!"

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A vertical line of purple hue beamed down from the ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud into onto each floor level including the second floor room, where the teens were sitting. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea from the Land of Tross and I am happy to announce today that the kingdom has added the Land of Scotta..."

On top of the smooth floor, I stared at the art work that shimmered from the sunlight. "The sunlight is behind this glass wall. This wall leads outside into the air currents. If I break the wall, then I'll be in major trouble."

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Scotta..."

On top of the floor, I looked up with a stern face to see the ceiling that was painted in black hue which didn't reflect the sunlight, only the moonlight at night. "Maybe, there's a hidden compartment from my dead twin sister Thea inside one of the ceiling tiles. No! I can't reach that high up without an airship. Thea couldn't have reached that high up either, without an airship."

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colored plume of fire from the open mouth or the two nose holes.

A male voice echoed the words throughout the room from the rotating dinosaur head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I snapped my fingers with my brilliant idea. "Yes, the table, of course! People are always passing notes underneath the table," I turned and faced the tall eating table with a smile.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus rex's head hologram.

"Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

"Been there and lived there! Show me the next previous Coil meeting announcement!" I dashed ahead from the side wall with a smile to the only piece of furniture, a tall squared-shaped table with only two stool chairs.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A vertical line of purple hue beamed down from the ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud inside her room. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea from the Land of Tross and I am happy to announce today that the kingdom has added the Land of Fumbea..."

I stopped and then squatted down on the floor, crawling underneath the table with a frown. "I can't believe this. The table is made with a glass top and four chrome legs. I see only glass. I bet my sister ate her food with her soft fingers here. And I didn't see a hidden compartment or a piece of taped letter or pouch of secret. Nothing's here either! She must not have trusted anyone."

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Fumbea..."

I crawled forward and moved away from the edge of the table, slowly standing upright from the floor with a puff of annoyance. "And Tofur doesn't know of a hidden compartment either. he would've tattled just to find and see the contents inside the hidden compartment. He doesn't know anything. She kept it a secret, only for her. Where is her hidden compartment or diary or book or tape or device or handwritten note?"

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colored plume of fire from the open mouth or the two nose holes.

A male voice echoed the words throughout the room from the rotating dinosaur head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I raced ahead through the hologram, sliding down over the floor, stopping in front of the bed mattress. "Yeah, teens love to hide their personal and individual items underneath bed frame. It is too low for your mother to go."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram.

"Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I squatted down and then rested on top of the clean glass floor, reaching toward the mattress. I hit the glass frame with a pain. "Ouch! The mattress is surrounded by a clear glass frame. I didn't know that. And I didn't notice that."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. It stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the pointy snout.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating shimmery Mongoose Head hologram inside her room. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Viscount Dimon who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I slowly scooted on my kneecaps around the bed and over the floor, slamming my fist into the hard glass frame, stopping at the headboard with a sour frown. "The glass frame is built down into the glass floor. This is one expensive building. Does it rain here? Does it produce a tornado here? I don't know. I have only lived here for three days and counting higher."

In the middle of the floor, the Mongoose Head hologram swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram with a bow tied onto one of its rounded ear points. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from its pointy snout.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating mongoose head with the bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Viscount Dimon who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I stood upright on top of the clean floor with a stern face and faced the forward glass window, reaching up and touched the warm glass in silence. The bright sunlight had bathed the material in heat. The nighttime rays will cool the glass back down.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Mongoose Head hologram with the bow on one of its rounded ears swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of bright yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Giraffe Head. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the long snout.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Giraffe Head hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Baroness Cilicee who comes from the Land of Colon. Cilicee also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I dropped my hands down onto my legs with a frown. "This is pure glass also. The glass walls cannot hold a secret."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Giraffe Head hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of bright yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Giraffe Head hologram with a bow tied onto one of its rounded ears. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the long snout.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Giraffe Head with the bow on one of its ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Baroness Cilicee who comes from the Land of Colon. Cilicee also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I spun around and then leaned down over the neat bedcover, messing up the bedcovers, ripping off the clean bed linens from the bed mattress.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Giraffe Head hologram with the bow on one of its rounded ears stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pale blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Monkey Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or shift sideways.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Monkey Head hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Countess Glitza who comes from the Land of Gildallie. Glitza also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I touched each soft spot on the mattress with a sour frown and the attacked each pillow, dropping the last pillow down on top of the messy bed with a puff of annoyance. "A mattress is a mattress. A pillow is a pillow. A linen sheet is a linen sheet. The fabric is real without a hidden pocket of secret information."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Monkey Head hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pale blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pale blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Monkey Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one fang held a tiny matching pale blue bow. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or shift sideways.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Monkey Head hologram with the bow on one fang. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Countess Glitza who comes from the Land of Gildallie. Glitza also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

"That leaves for me to explore my personal nasty lavatory. Yes, I do what I must do," I spun around with a smile and dashed ahead toward the side wall.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Monkey Head hologram with the bow on the fang stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pale blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of white hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Eagle hologram body with a set of flying wings. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the air space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Eagle body hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Duchess Fera who comes from the Land of Florrie. Fera also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I stopped and exhaled with annoyance, reaching up and touched the glass wall.

The lavatory door slid open in silence.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Eagle body with a pair of outstretched non-flying wings stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of white hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of white hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Duchess Fera who comes from the Land of Florrie. Fera also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I continued to stand and examine the interior of the lavatory with a stern face. "I only have one outfit. If there is a fire, then I need to dress. I strip down into my nudity and then enter in the bathroom, wrapping a towel around my naked body."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Eagle hologram with a pair of wings and a bow on the leg stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of white hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery single Flower hologram with four matching petals. The flower hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Flower hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Princess Muppin who comes from the Land of Mattathee. Muppin also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I exhaled with determination, kneeling down, crawling over the floor from the open archway.

The lavatory door slid shut in silence.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Flower with four petals and a long stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery of a single Flower hologram with four matching petals and a long stem, where the stem wore a tied bow. The flower hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Flower with four matching petals and a long stem, where the stem wore a tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Princess Muppin who comes from the Land of Mattathee. Muppin also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Inside the enclosed lavatory space, I slowly crawled over the clean floor and stopped, sitting on kneecaps under the wash sink, looking over to see each corner in silence and intrigue.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Flower with the four petals and a bow on the long stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery tall Shade Tree hologram. The tree did not shift or wiggle.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Shade Tree. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Duke Joed who comes from the Land of Jeroboom. Joed also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Inside the enclosed lavatory space, I crawled out and turned examining the edge of the floor.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Shade Tree stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of dark green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery hologram Shade Tree with a bow tied around the trunk. The tree did not shift or move inside the air space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Shade Tree with the tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Duke Joed who comes from the Land of Jeroboom. Joed also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Inside the enclosed lavatory space, I continued to crawl over the floor. "No wet spots on the floor or in the wall corners are in here. No dust is in here. No secret compartment in here. Each square-shaped wall is made of colored glass, including the shower stall and the glass made shelves. There is nothing in here that is secret for a secret. Now, that leaves the wardrobe closet. My mind is shouting out loud that there is nothing in there either. The room is made of shimmery glass walls also."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Shade Tree hologram with the bow wrapped around the trunk stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of dark green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of black tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Ladybug hologram with four short legs. The Ladybug hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Ladybug hologram body with four short legs. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Lord Erato who comes from the Land of Elidan. Erato also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I back stepped from the room and then dropped down the clean towel like a spoiled princess with a giggle.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Ladybug hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of black hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of black tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Ladybug with a set of four short legs, where a bow was tied onto one of the straight non-wiggling legs. The Ladybug hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Ladybug of four short legs, where a bot was tied onto one of the straight non-wiggling legs. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Lord Erato who comes from the Land of Elidan. Erato also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I spun around and then marched across the clean floor, stopping in front of the painted wall that shimmered in glittering colors showing my sister at one-year-old.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Ladybug hologram with the bow on one of the short legs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of black hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Umbrella hologram. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Umbrella. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Lady Olivet who comes from the Land of Onam. Olivet also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I rolled my eyeballs and then stared back at the closed door. "Why do I bother to search for the secret something in here? There's nothing in there, but three walls of glass and bright sunshine."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Umbrella stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Umbrella with the single bow tied onto the upright handle. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Umbrella hologram with the single bow on the upright handle. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Lady Olivet who comes from the Land of Onam. Olivet also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I lifted a hand with a smile, "The individual portrait! The message is hidden inside one or each one of the painted portrait. Yes. Yes. Yes. That's both brilliant and clever. Why go to all the trouble of painting a set of gigantic pieces of your person, if there wasn't a subtle message in there?"

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Umbrella with the bow on the upright handle stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of mint green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Cricket Head hologram with two non-wiggling antennas. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Cricket Head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Queen Bakeria who comes from the Land of Bocardo. Bakeria also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I turned to face the elevator doors with a smile and then jogged ahead down the long corridor back to the first art work.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Cricket Head with the two antennas stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of mint green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of mint green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Cricket Head hologram with two non-wiggling antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Cricket Head with two non-wiggling antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Queen Bakeria who comes from the Land of Bocardo. Bakeria also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram of a Cricket Head with two antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow, stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of mint green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery eight-legged Spider body. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating eight-legged Spider hologram body. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Baron Pekod who comes from the Land of Penina. Pekod also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I stopped and stood in front of the art work with a stern face.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery eight-legged Spider body hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery eight-legged Spider hologram body, where one leg wore a bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating eight-legged Spider body, where one leg wore a tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Baron Pekod who comes from the Land of Penina. Pekod also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I nodded with a smile and examined the art work. "So, she painted each side wall with an individual piece of shimmery art work to help me learn about her teenly past. And she hid a message in there. Hmm! I didn't see a written message of words. I don't see any words. I don't see a symbol, a mountain peak and blue skies. She is standing on top of a mountain peak. I just came from a mountain peak. Is the message about the people of Yawp? Tofur told me that no one knows which new land my father wants to conquer next. So, it can't be the Land of Yawp. And the Land of Yawp is cold and snow. This mountain peak is warm and sunny. So, the Land of Yawp has nothing to do with the portrait or me or her. We were born here in the Land of Tross," I exhaled with frustration.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery eight-legged Spider body hologram with a single bow tied on one leg stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of lavender hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Seahorse hologram. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Seahorse. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Earl Zeamon who comes from the Land of Zeebad. Zeamon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

"What is she doing or saying or telling me? I don't know here. I don't understand." I continued to stand in front of the mural on the side wall and then imitated her pose in silence.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Seahorse hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of lavender hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Seahorse hologram with a single lavender bow around the tail. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Seahorse hologram with a single lavender bow around the tail. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Earl Zeamon who comes from the Land of Zeebad. Zeamon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I raised both arms in the air while holding my scepter in one hand. "I'm standing like you. I feel great. That's it! I feel like an empress, like the most powerful person on the planet. Yeah, I think I got something. There is an emotional message here."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Seahorse with a single bow around the throat stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Fashion Shoe. "Welcome to all! What in the scepter is this thing around my face? It is colored in the hue of pink. I don't understand. Dear wife, what is this thing? I didn't understand the..."

In front of the wall portrait, I laughed and turned staring at the rotating Fashion Shoe in the hue of pink.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery high heeled shoe that belonged to a female stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled shoe that belonged to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space. A female voice echoed coming from the rotating shoe that belong to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. "Dear, husband! This is the Coil meeting. Don't worry about the projected hologram over your face. You are still unattractive!"

I continued to stand and laugh at the silly married royal couple verbal exchange, where the two people were disguised in an individual cartoon character fashion shoe while staring at the second portrait, "I feel brave at the age of sixteen years old."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of golden hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Crown hologram that belonged to a king. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Crown hologram that belonged to a king. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Aqualia and my prince son Ittai that hail from the Land of Ikoloth. Aqualia and Ittai also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

"And I feel sad. I received my facial scar at the age of fifteen years old."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Crown hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of golden hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of golden hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Crown hologram with a single bow that was tied around one of the points that belonged to a queen. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Crown, where a single bow had been tied around one of the points of the crown that belonged to a queen. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Aqualia and my prince son Ittai, who both come from the Land of Ikoloth. Aqualia and Ittai also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

"I feel confident before the facial scar on my cheekbone at the age of fourteen years. What does confidence, sadness, bravery, and power have for a teen with an absent twin sister. How did she figure out that we were twins? I still don't know or understand or comprehend. Nothing is coming inside my mind. I'm still missing something here."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Crown hologram with a single bow that was tied around one of the points that belonged to a queen stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of golden hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of silver hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Scepter. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Scepter. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Nastchill who comes from the Land of Naam. Nastchill also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I moved down to the next art work and stared with my mental thoughts at the wall portrait in silence.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery silver tinted Scepter hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of silver hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Scepter hologram with a single bow tied on one end of the cylinder. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Scepter hologram with the single bow on one end of the cylinder. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Nastchill who comes from the Land of Naam. Nastchill also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I shook my curls with a frown. "No! No! No! She is fourteen years old and just started kissing a boy. Tofur told me that she started practicing her fighting skills at the age of fourteen years old, when Erato and Nastchill stalked her before and after each practice session. She didn't understand the concept of the battle fights and death and boys and kisses either."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Scepter with a single bow on the end of the cylinder stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of red tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery image of a Devil Head with two horns, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Devil Head, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Marquise Kidron who comes from the Land of Korbright. Kidron also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I snapped my fingers with a smile. "That's it! The battle fights are the key here, where she figured out we were twins. Tofur told me that she started hunting through each prisoner ward, after each victorious battle fight. She knew that I was a prisoner that day in the Land of Scotta. And that is all that I know. How did she know that? I don't know. I'll probably never find out. But she might have known about me, right before the first battle fight. Tofur talks too much."

The Devil Head hologram with two horns, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow, swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of red hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space in the middle of the room.

A new vertical line of red tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery image of a Devil Head with two horns. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Devil Head hologram inside her room. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Marquise Kidron who comes from the Land of Korbright. Kidron also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I turned and faced the bed mattress with a smile. "Halt, Hologram. Now, Hologram, show me each hologram head piece from the first battle fight victory which occurred four years ago that had been led by fourteen year old Empress Thea! Yeah, Tofur talks too much. He told me that my dead sister Thea always visited the jail cells after each victory. Why would she do that? I don't know either."

The Devil Head hologram with two horns swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of red hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space in the middle of the room.

A vertical line of bright and shiny purple hue beamed down from the cathedral ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed out loud from the holographic Dragon Head without movement coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud inside her room. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea from the Land of Tross and I am happy to announce today that the kingdom has added the Land of Plagnot..."

I turned and frowned at the Dragon Head hologram. "Where is the Land of Plagnot? I don't know that place. I've never visited that place. I'm not connected with that place either. How did I get connected to that place? No! I'm not connected, because she didn't find me there. Okay. This has no meaning with my search. So! So! So! Where was I in my hunt for the truth?"

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The Dragon Head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating Dragon Head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Plagnot..."

I spun around and scanned my private bedroom, staring at the rear wall of glass. "I have not done a thorough search inside the wardrobe closet, because there's nothing in there, Thea. Yeah! But my mind wants to check every single physical surface and tiny dust bunny and my mind is annoying when it is not satisfied."

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Plagnot..."

I slowly moved ahead down the long hallway with a soft laugh, turning to see each pretty shimmery wall portrait and then halted while smiling at the side wall portrait.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram.

"Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I stood in front of the side wall that did not contain a pink tinted skyline or a blade of blue tinted grass or a plot of green tinted dirt but an upright smiling one-year-old dead twin sister Thea in a pink tinted dress with a pair of bare feet, who stood in the middle of the white tinted shimmy painted space.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. It stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the pointy snout.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating shimmery Mongoose Head hologram inside her room. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Viscount Dimon who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I reached out and pressed an index finger onto the glass.

The wardrobe closet door slid open in silence and revealed the enclosed room.

In the middle of the floor, the Mongoose Head hologram swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram with a bow tied onto one of its rounded ear points. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from its pointy snout.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating mongoose head with the girly bow on the one of its rounded ear points. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Viscount Dimon who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

Wardrobe closet setting

09:49 pm

I slowly moved ahead inside the enclosed wardrobe closet with a stern face.

The wardrobe door slid shut in silence.

The room was designed in a square shape box with three solid walls of black tinted glass. One of the side walls had been constructed of clear glass, only, where the low sunset rays were burning through the clear glass and then brightened up the dark wardrobe room. The ceiling was composed of black tinted glass without a set of artificial lamps for visual light.

I stopped a few feet from the open archway, slowly twirling in a circle on top of the black tinted glass with a puzzled brow.

The three black tinted glass windows contained nothing but glass. There wasn't a set of built-in closet furniture shelves or a free-standing four-drawer chest for holding numerous pieces of clothing items. And I could not locate a single glittery dancing gown or a pair of high heeled matching dancing sandals or a warm bathrobe or a pair of sleeping pajamas.

I had mental thought the atmosphere inside the wardrobe closet as an odd place again.

The clear glass window on the side wall of the wardrobe room held a solid slab of glass only and numerous bright rays of sunshine.

I completed the circle and halted in the same spot staring the lonely free-standing black tinted metal rack contained a line of personal clothes. Each outfit had been neatly arranged on an individual hanger containing a sleeveless lavender tinted blouse with a high collar, a matching circular short skirt, a pair of undergarment in matching lavender, and finally a pair of matching thigh-high boots.

I stopped and gasped. "Tofur does come inside my wardrobe closet. I'm so mad. Where are all of the other hangers for all the missing clothes? Someone has taken all of the empty hangers from the single clothing rack. And where is my brown ugly outfit that was on laying the floor also. Tofur hid the evidence for me. That was wise. Now, I am still fibbing about my person. And how does Tofur have access to my wardrobe closet." I shook my long curls with a sour frown and then turned to survey the internal wardrobe closet, whispering for my eardrums only. "Do you see, Thea? There's nothing in here but walls and air molecules. My dead sister couldn't have hidden anything in here. But I will frisk each wall for my fun, since E-rat ain't here for my pleasure," I turned with a laugh and moved ahead toward the smooth side wall of solid black hue without a window or a piece of furniture and stopped, I reached down on my tippy toes and then reached down both of my kneecaps searching for a secret panel with the edge of my meaty and sensitive finger pads.

I slowly scooted along the entrance wall and then turned into the side wall, tossing both of my hands into the air and then jerked backward, landing on my butthole. I stared at the bright clear glass that waffled in tiny twinkling streams of heat. "The sunny wall is heated with hotness from the bright sunlight. Okay. Why are the scattered clouds colored in green hue? Usually, the grass is green. The clouds are colored in white. I don't know or understand or comprehend this place or this palace or this person. Finally, there's nothing here from my dead twin sister."

I scooted over the floor on my butthole and then turned to see the forward wall inside the wardrobe closet with a deep sigh, sitting back on my kneecaps. I reached out and touched the cool black hue on the wall with a smile. I stood upright from the floor and reached up high, gently rubbing all of my meaty finger pads with a stern face. I slowly scooted across the floor and started my up and down movement again, skating the smooth wall surface for a secret panel with my finger pads.

I slowly turned to face the side wall of matching black hue and continued my up and down movement while searching for a secret panel without success. I slowly scooted around the wall corner and touched the other half of the entrance wall which had broken the smooth wall by the hidden electronic door. I continued to search for a secret panel with my finger pads without success and halted facing the electronic door that stood in my face,

I exhaled with annoyance and frustration. "Where is the reflection mirror? Why can't I see my face or my outfit here inside the wardrobe closet? I don't know. But there's nothing in here but four solid walls of glass," I reached up and held my finger at the solid wall of glass and then gasped. "The clothing rack," I shook my curls with a sour frown. "That's nothing there but clothes," I exhaled with annoyance. "Well, there could be something there. You should go and look at the metal rack," I frowned at the solid black tinted glass on the door while arguing with my silly psyche, "Fine!" I tossed my arms into the air and spun around with a sour frown facing the lonely free-standing metal rack that contained a line of pressed and clean clothes in lavender, "Fine! Fine!" I moved ahead and halted with a stern face, staring at the metal rack.

The wardrobe room didn't contain any additional pieces of other colorful garments for a male or a female but showed a lonely free-standing metal rack contained a line of personal clothes for Empress Thea. Each outfit had been neatly arranged on an individual hanger containing a sleeveless lavender tinted vest with a high collar, a matching circular short skirt, a pair of undergarment in matching lavender hue also, and finally a pair of matching thigh-high boots on top of the glass floor.

One of the lavender outfits would be worn on my birthday which was the day after tomorrow.

The set of lavender clothes this morning had been ruined by the volcanic ash. So I had dressed with the next lavender outfit for the Coil meeting, where I had become soaking wet with cold water during a secret splashdown event from nasty Erato on my person. So I had soiled the new lavender outfit that was for tomorrow's surprise battle fight.

So, I was wearing my original birthday party outfit tonight as the wet outfit was getting cleaned and pressed by my servant Tofur for my use tomorrow.

I nodded with a smile. "O! Now, I understand the need for an extra lavender outfit when a nasty wet splashdown of water occurs on your person in a surprise friendly battle with a nasty beau," I reached down and pressed the rouge fabric with a stern face. "Well, there's only one lavender outfit left on the clothes rack."

I reached out and grabbed the last clothes hanger that contained a complete outfit, dropping the hanger and clothes down onto the floor, reaching out, grabbing the free-standing metal rack with both cupped hands. I slowly lifted the rack in the air a few inches with a low grunt of surprise. The clothes rack was made of solid metal. I slowly dropped the rack back down onto the solid floor with a deep sigh, scooting around one of the end points on the rack, bending both of my kneecaps. I stared into a plug of matching solid with a sour frown. "The metal rack part is made of solid metal. There's not a secret hidden pocket compartment in here. Okay. My twin sister search has ended without a secret note from my dead twin sister," I looked down with a sour frown at the grounded lavender outfit.

"Maybe, there is a reason for the extra lavender outfit besides an extra outfit, in case of an indoor rain storm. The outfit might contain a handwritten note or a necklace locket with a picture or tiny message coming from my dead twin sister," I reached down and grabbed the outfit from the floor, slowly standing upright from the floor, pressing my single hand of fingers into the rough fabric. "There is nothing here inside the extra outfit of clothes. So, it is an extra outfit of clothes in case of an indoor rain storm. I was certain that there was a secret hand-written note here inside her private chamber room from my dead twin sister. Maybe, she didn't have time. Or maybe, she was afraid to leave behind a hand-written or electronic note, in case her nosy man-servant Tofur found it. Yeah, that must be it. So, I'm back to the beginning of my story, her story without an answer."

I replaced the hanger back into the metal rack and then spun around, moving ahead with a sour frown, accidentally kicking the clothes hanger with my boot toe. The clothes hanger sailed over the smooth floor a few feet and then rested in silence.

I moved ahead with a stern face and then halted in front of the white tinted clothes hanger, staring down at the object. "I should pick and place back onto the metal rack. No. Tofur can do that in the morning hours. I truly believe that he can access my wardrobe closet also. He can enter into the lavatory room which is both common and necessary as my working servant."

I moved ahead toward the closed wardrobe closet door and then halted with a gasp, spinning around to see the metal rack of one single outfit. "Wait! If Tofur enters into my wardrobe closet tomorrow and finds only one single lavender outfit, instead of two, then he will know that I went searching around the upper floor without his company. I didn't know if he is a spy yet. And I am supposed to be resting and sleeping in my bed, not scurrying like a mouse around the building as the other teen royals and their parents are partying at the other building, without me."

I spun around and dashed ahead, leaning down, scooping up the single clothes hanger and moved ahead toward the metal rack. I stopped and placed the empty clothes hanger onto the rack with a sour frown, "Geez! I'm not supposed to be wearing this newly cleaned and pressed lavender outfit either. My other lavender outfit for tomorrow's battle fight got all wet inside the Coil room from the splashdown. So Tofur is cleaning it and he will return it tomorrow morning to me. And I'm not supposed to be moving around the building alone," I exhaled with annoyance. "Well, my dead twin sister search has ended here inside the wardrobe closet. I will never find out how she found me. But my parents can provide a sad explanation to my eardrums, once I am crowned as the new Empress of Tross. Yeah, I can't wait to hear that excuse. I hope I don't get mad and exile them into the desert or someplace else. And I can't find a secret panel or a secret note or a secret something inside her private chamber. I guess I should go to bed. The time is close to nine o'clock and I must get up early for a new battle fight," I exhaled with annoyance and undressed, placing each piece of clothing back onto the single hanger.

I squatted down with a giggle as the cold air tickled my body. I clipped the pair of thigh-high boots onto the bottom rack on the single hanger and then slowly stood upright from the floor, wrapping both arms around my shivering body.

On top of the single rack, the last lavender outfit violently wiggled side to side and then tumbled down off the metal rack, dropping down onto the smooth black tinted floor, resting in sweet silence.

I frowned down at the fallen clothes, "Geez! I placed the hanger too close on the edge of the metal rack, instead inside the rack leg. I'm both a lousy detective and a wardrobe klutz tonight."

I reached down and touched, lifting up the last outfit in lavender, standing upright on top of the floor with a giggle as the cold air currents surrounded my body. I replaced the fallen clothes hanger back onto the single metal rack as hanger of clothes rocked back and forth.

I stared at the rocking clothes hanger with a sour frown. "Be still! You're not supposed to move side to side. You didn't rock back and forth before," I reached out and touched the cloth hanger with a cupped hand, stopping the motion. The last outfit didn't shuffle side to side. "Hmm! The particular clothes hanger feels heavier than the other hanger with the same amount of clothes. Why is that?"

I reached out and touched, grabbing the first hanger with a completed set of lavender clothes. Then I lifted the two exact white tinted clothes hangers with a completed set of lavender clothes into the air and balanced the two objects at an even height, studying each object. I gasped with a smile and continued to balance both objects in the air. "There is not something inside the exact set of lavender matching clothes. But there is something here inside the last clothes hanger. The last clothes hanger is heavier and firmer than the other soft and squeaky cloths hanger like there is something located inside internal of the clothes hanger."

I dropped both cloth hangers down to the floor falling with the clothing, and ripped off all the newly pressed lavender clothing from each cloth hanger. I lifted each hanger in the air with a gasp. The last clothes hanger was heavier and felt solid like there was some of a thin-like thing inside the interior of the cloth. I dropped the lighter white tinted clothes hanger down onto the floor and examined the heavier of two.

The cloth hanger displayed a curved hook of solid silver tinted metal without a visual dent or ding, where it was used to hang onto the metal rack with or without a set of clothes. The body of the hanger was made of a straight long solid soft white tinted fabric which was used to hold all the clothes.

I turned the hanger and examined each end point. "On end point appears to be nicely stitched in place with the smooth white tinted fabric and matching white tinted sewing string. The other end point appears un-nicely in place with a set of rough string white tinted stitching. Someone or Thea has torn out the end point on this particular soft clothes hanger and then has replaced it back for a reason or a purpose or a secret."

On top of the smooth floor, I bounced up and down with excitement. "I found it. I found it. There's a handwritten message which is located inside the un-nicely stitched part on this particular clothes hanger coming from my dead twin sister. Yes. Yes. Yes." I went to work with my fingernails and ripped off each un-nicely stitched string, opening the end point and shoved a hand into the cloths hanger with a gasp.

A set of loose rough white tinted cotton balls vomited out from the open end point first. I reached inside and felt with two fingers touching an ounce of smooth and cold solid metal inside the interior of the clothes hanger with a giggle. I pulled out the object with a smile and placed it on top of the smooth floor with a gasp. "There! There is something hidden inside the soft fabric." I slowed grabbed the first item, dragging it outside the pouch with a smile, "Awe! It's a..." I laughed. "O! This is not a hand-written note. It's a something."

The object was five inches long, slender, and hollow inside with an open end. The other side held a symbol of a golden bird. The symbol was made of solid and smooth material without a set of two eyeballs, a beak, or claws.

I frowned. "The symbol is a bird on top of a tiny silver tinted cylinder," I lifted the object up and down in the air. "It is light-weight, not heavy. This must be a...a tree ornament. No. This must be a wall ornament. No. This must be a...a whistle. O! This is musical whistle for something. Maybe, the secret panel inside the wardrobe room will slide open. Yeah, that's it!"

The circular object was made of a solid gold mineral measuring five inches in length. One end held a sharp pointy tip. The opposite end held a half-a-inch design in solid gold that appeared to be a symbol of an upright snake or the letter of S.

I pressed the cool golden cylinder into my lips and then blew hard without hearing a musical tone, removing the metal from my lips and examined the object with a puzzled brow. "It doesn't seem to work as a whistle. What else is this? Why is this object hidden inside a white tinted soft cloth hanger? Are there any additional non-whistle objects?"

I turned the hanger upside to face the floor and then violently shook the clothes hanger. An array of additional golden tinted whistles dropped down and then tinged one-at-a-time onto the smooth floor, falling down into a flat semi-circle.

I smiled. "Yes, there are more non-whistle objects." I reached down and touched each cool-feeling object with a gasp. "Did my dead twin sister steal all of the pretty objects for a reason?"

I slapped my leg with a smile. "Yes, she did. So, what is the reason here? I don't know the reason here. I don't know her reason or logic. But this is the key of discovering our history of twins together. Yes, I'm very certain. This is the key. This is the key to knowledge and knowing it all," I laughed and examined each object on the floor. "It looks like a musical whistle, but it doesn't work like a musical whistle. However, this object is the key to opening up something," I bounced up and down with excitement. "Yes. Yes. Yes. I have found her secret. One of the objects must open up a door or a closet or a chest or another place inside another room like a key. Inside that room, she found all the information about me and her as a pair of twins. Yes. Yes. Yes."

I picked up each golden tinted cylinder where each one was alike except for the head piece. I frowned with puzzlement and held the last cylinder near my eyeballs while my neurons churned in deep thoughts, "Hmm! I don't find the head piece on any of the cylinders with a dragon. So each scepter symbol does not coordinate with a holographic image inside the Coil meeting room. That's very strange to me. But I am new here as the fake empress in the Land of Tross. My dead twin sister Thea cannot answer that question for me either. I would ask Tofur, but he would lie, again. I don't understand why he is lying to me, but I will figure it out."

I frowned with confusion and continued to touch each golden tinted key. "But where is the secret room located here inside the Center Building that is opened up by one of these keys? I only come in and go outta of my private chamber room. And I have searched my entire private chamber room. There is not a hidden door or a hidden panel for a slot that fits a key. What else could it be? It must be important as my dead twin sister had hidden it inside the soft clothes hanger for me to find for some reason," I touched each key with a puzzled brow and then lifted up the cylinder with a distinct diamond shaped head piece with a smile.

"Hmm! I have seen this particular design or symbol diamond shape that resides on top of this key before." I looked up with a confused brow and stared into the ceiling, seeing only black tiles that didn't show a painted mural inside the wardrobe closet. The set of beautiful artwork only existed during the night from each beaming bright moonlight. I laughed at the black glass ceiling. "Each piece of glass has been painted, but the floor and the ceiling here inside the wardrobe closet and in the bathroom." I looked down and sunk my chin into my naked chest, closing my eyelashes, mentally thinking. "Where did I see this symbol of a key? I saw it somewhere. The end point is made in a diamond shape," I opened my eyelashes and smiled at the ceiling, looking down at the diamond shaped key. "Yes. Yes. Yes. I remember. I saw a set of weird symbols inside the Coil meeting room on the painted side wall. Of course, I have only visited the Coil meeting room or my bed chamber room, since my first day here in the Land of Tross. I haven't been any place else but here and there. I do believe I saw this diamond shaped symbol on the side wall in one of the painted murals."

I quickly stood upright from the floor and reached over, ripping off the same set of lavender colored clothing from the other soft white tinted clothes hanger, dressing quickly with a smile.

I reached down and gathered up each golden tinted key and then slowly spun around to face the entrance wall.

I swiftly dashed ahead toward the closed door and then stopped with a grin, reaching out, pressing a finger pad onto the smooth glass.

The glass door slid open in silence revealing the bed chamber suite.

I strolled ahead through the open archway with a smile and then turned, slowly moving down the long hallway toward the elevator doors with my new bootie, looking back over a collar bone.

The glass door on the wardrobe closet slid shut in silence.

I didn't want Tofur to return back into my private chamber room unexpectedly and find the wardrobe door open. He might enter and then snoop for fun or folly.

On top of the hallway, I slowly moved ahead toward the elevator carriage and stared down at each key with puzzlement. I immediately recognized the easy symbol of a geometric diamond shape. However, the other end points were unrecognizable. I lifted a new key and studied the end point with more puzzlement.

"This looks like...like a...a something. It looks like the letter S. The letter of S could represent an upright about-to-attack snake. I don't know. I can't figure out the golden tinted symbol on the end point." I replaced the first key back down into the pile and then selected a second key, studying the end point with confusion, "Hmm! I don't recognize the symbol on this end point on the second key either. This looks like...like a...a something. It looks like the letter of S also. The letter of S represents a snake also," I exhaled with frustration. "Each end point represents an upright snake. So, it must be a snake," I stopped with a laugh and reached up, touching the glass door in solid black hue.

The elevator door slid open in silence, revealing an empty carriage.

Elevator glass carriage setting

10:01 pm

Nighttime skyline with bright stars

I entered inside and reached over, slapping the fiftieth button on control panel and then stopped, standing at the rear wall, cuddling the pile of smooth keys with as tern face. I didn't see any of the other royal adults or teens. But across the lawn, the second building continued to burn the lights. My eyeballs could see not any moving activities among the artificial lights. The building was too far away for a pair of human eyes.

The carriage swiftly lifted upward as my stomach dropped downward into the pool of acids. I felt a little seasickness and then it subsided as my body swayed with the upward motion in the machine.

The carriage smoothly halted. The door slid open.

50th floor level

Coil hallway setting

Moonlight beams and starry skyline

10:03 pm

I spun around with a smile and moved ahead, still holding the pile of keys. I looked up with a smile to see the ceiling material and then squirted my eyelashes.

The ceiling had been constructed of clear glass only, where each individual sunbeam poured down from the solar sun and then bombard each glittery particle of paint making each individual portrait come alive with movement, but it was an illusion. The pieces of glitter were shivering and shaking in place from the rays of sunlight.

I stopped and turned to face the side wall, where the first mural stood and gasped in alarm. "O no!" I slowly spun around to face the rest of the side wall and then faced the opposite wall with a smile. "O no! The side wall of individual art pieces are missing. No!" I laughed out loud and looked up with a smile to see the ceiling.

The glass ceiling was painted in beams of bright sunshine rays that beamed down from the heavens and then illuminated the room.

"I see but don't feel the constant array in bright moonlight beams. We have that same illumination concept on the ceiling of every home within the Land of Scotia. However, the ceiling here is not painted like inside my private chamber room. And the side wall mural has disappeared from the lack of bright sunlight rays. O! The moonlight beam is not strong enough to illuminate the side walls like inside my private chamber. So, each wall is asleep," I laughed out loud with a nod. "Well, I'm done here for the night. It's getting later in the evening anyways."

I completed my swirl with too much flair and headed for the solid wall of glass, lifting a hand, spilling the keys. But I halted my face before receiving an ugly red tinted wound cut or a pretty colorful cheek bruise.

Some of the keys dropped down with gravity and then slammed onto the solid floor of glass, sounding with an individual tiny ting.

I squatted down and reached out with a smile, collecting each fallen key as an eyeball viewed a tiny hole in the side wall of solid black hue. "O! I see a tiny hole." I lifted up one of the keys that showed an end point with a sharp tip, laughing with a smile. "O! This is too easy. The sharp tip goes into the tiny hole."

I slowly jammed the sharp tip into the tiny hole of roundness without success and then gently dropped down that particular key. I tried a second key with a slightly different sharp tip and slowly jammed the end point into the tiny hole of roundness without success again. I laughed with a grin. "O! This is not easy. Each key must fit into a particular hole of roundness for some purpose. I wished all of the wall murals were illuminated. Then my key job would be easy." I scooted down the same black colored side wall and tried the same key into a different hole of roundness without success.

I traveled down to the sixth hole and slowly jammed the diamond shaped key into the hole of roundness with a gasp. "The diamond shaped key fit into this hole." I gently shoved the key into the hole and as the key fit beautifully.

The side wall slightly shook and then shimmied with movement measuring thirty feet in height and twenty feet in width.

I slid backward with a gasp and sat down on top of the floor.

The side wall mural illuminated with an array of bright vivid colors exhibiting a smooth pale blue skyline and a sea of rough waves in blue tinted soil. A tall and slender shaped male and female couple wore a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching scepter with a diamond shaped head piece within the background.

I leaned forward and stared at the tiny scepter that dangled from the waistline with a gasp. "The end point displayed a tiny diamond shape on top of the scepter. O! This wall mural matches the diamond shape on the golden tinted key. And then what happens?"

On the side wall, the wall mural spoke with a female voice, narrating the story. "The clan of Duchess had been established 2,000 year ago. The first Duchess from the Land of Flocci married her mate after an entrapment, then a duel, and finally a capture. The diamond figure head represents four points of her pursue: entrapment, duel, capture and then marriage..."

I laughed out loud from the funny statement and studied the wall mural.

"O! Each artwork piece can move and shake and shimmy in the darkness. I wonder if I moved in the daylight also. This mural becomes animated when the correct key slides into the rounded slot and then is turned sideways." I listened to the recorded voice and then squatted down on the clean smooth glass floor with a giggle and studied the head piece on the next cylinder key.

The golden tinted symbol was designed like a bird in flight. I couldn't tell if it was an eagle or a sparrow. The bird was golden colored without sound, eyeballs, and texture. I guess it could have been a tiny miniature of a golden eagle fowl.

I stood upright and side stepped back to the end of the wall, dropping down, inserting the end of the cylinder key into the tiny rounded hole. It fit perfectly. I slid backwards and watched the first wall mural shake and shine with light.

The first art piece exhibited a gigantic landscape that encompassed the twenty foot of black glass which glittered in three sections. The bottom held a horizontal field of bright orange color. The top portion represented a purple tinted angry skyline against the black tinted glass. On one side of the twenty feet shimmery portrait, two individual wore a one-piece suit of shimmery silver glitter and raise an individual in silver tinted glittery scepter and S-shaped head piece with the blade extended towards the purple angry skyline.

The two figures stood upright inside a background of matching silver glitter paint as each figure shook and shifted with movement through the set of glittery paint in beauty.

I tilted a chin with a smile at the glowing and moving piece of artwork.

"The two upright and stationary individuals are clearly a man and a female due to the construction of the solid colored jumpsuit clothing, but each skull is only a round silver tinted orb without a pair of eyeballs, a set of nose holes, a set of earlobes, a pair of lips or a set of cheekbones. The royal couple does not show an individual or the facial feature. The entire skull and face is only a silver tinted orb or circle or rounded object and it is a few inches above the human body. This twin skull design is similar to the first portrait in shimmery colors. Why are the faces empty or round or orb-shaped? I don't know. This artist might not be talented enough to draw a pretty or an ugly face," laughing.

The female voice narrated from the first wall mural out loud inside the hallway of the Coil meeting room. "The clan of Earl from the Land of Zeebad has been established 2,000 year ago. The first Earl married his sweetheart, who became the first Earlette. Then the Earlette changed the clan symbol from a silly land quacking duck into an upright hissing snake..."

I squatted down on the floor with a giggle and then stared at the twirling head piece on the cylinder key. The golden tinted symbol was designed like the letter or S. I couldn't tell if it was an eagle or a sparrow or a snake. The snake symbol was golden colored without sound, eyeballs, and texture. I guess it could have been a tiny miniature snake.

I looked down and stared at each cylinder. "So, each cylinder key is the symbol for each royal clan family, like my clan of Tross. The snake head piece on the scepter is the Earl clan. Geez! I can't remember who is who and what is what. Who is the Earl of something? I don't know. So, each key tells a short narrative about each royal family. That is a good clue. My dead twin sister Thea must have discovered the keys or stolen the keys or was presented the keys, where she figured out the clue that led back to me. Good! I'm getting warmer. I can feel it."

I gathered up the group of loose keys and stood upright, side stepping down to the second open hole, jamming one of the pointy ends into the round hole without success. I swirled around with a smile, facing the open elevator carriage.

The diamond shaped head piece on the golden tinted cylinder still was inserted into the hole of roundness but had finished the narrative. The snake shaped head piece on the golden key continued to narrate the royal storyline.

I slowly scooted down the same black tinted side wall and stopped in front of each tiny open hole and then inserted the third key without activating the hidden wall mural. I exhaled with annoyance at the black wall. "This is going to take me all day. And I have a battle fight early tomorrow morning."

I slowly scooted down to the last tiny open hole and held the third key when the hallway turned into a dull darkness again. The Land of Flocci narrative had stopped speaking and the golden key twinkled inside the tiny hole from the bright moonlight rays. I jammed a new cylinder into a new open hole when my eyeball caught a flash of light coming from the glass window at the end of the hallway.

I dropped down the keys down on the floor and then kneecapped onto the glass floor with a gasp of worry. I was out of my private chamber room. I didn't know if I was allowed to do that.

No other royal teen or adult was located inside the Center Building, not even my parents. I might be alone, but I didn't know that.

I slowly crawled over my belly button and two breasts over the clean floor getting my new lavender outfit dusty, moving toward the end of the hallway, where the glass elevator stood open and stationary. My eyeballs stared at the glowing light which burned in the darkness.

I stopped in front of the glass window and stared down onto the blue grass that was illuminated from the bright beams of moonlight, gasping in shock. Then a tiny light illuminated within the dull darkness.

I gasped in alarm and continued to hold the rest of the golden keys in silence. I slowly scanned the enclosed hallway without seeing an activated wall mural. My eyeballs darted back toward the glass carriage, seeing a tiny faint of light at the end of the hallway.

I gasped in alarm again and slowly stood upright from the floor. I dashed ahead and then stopped in front of the entrance wall, fogging the glass and stared down at the ground.

On the dark ground, a tiny light slowly moved across the dark ground.

I continued to stand in place and studied the tiny light, gasping in alarm.

On the dark ground, one of the teens was moving across the ground and held a light source that only illuminated the ground and then the light shined on the face.

In the Coil hallway, I gasped in alarm, "Erato! The light source is Erato. He is using a light source to move across the ground. O no! He's coming back from the fun party where I wasn't invited. He is retiring for the evening and returning back into his personal chamber room." I continued to stare down at the dark ground and watched Erato. I gasped in alarm again. "Erato is alone. I don't see another teen royal or royal adult." I softly chuckled. "I can talk to Erato alone. No. No. No. Yes. Yes. Yes. I can ask him some personal nosy questions. He might be knowledgeable about me and my twin sister. My dead twin sister really liked Erato. Yes. Yes. Yes."

I back stepped from the entrance wall of glass with a smirk and then swirled around, dashing ahead, leaning down. I jerked out the first golden key with the snake shape and then scooted across the floor, reaching down, jerking out the diamond shape golden key. "I can't leave hard physical evidence up here." I quickly crossed the smooth hallway and swiftly dashed ahead toward the opposite end of the hallway with heavy breathes of panic.

I wanted to greet and meet Erato at the glass entrance doors on the first floor while asking him some questions.

"Hurry! Rush! Move!" I slid over the floor and stopped, reaching out, grabbing the second key with the eagle symbol on the end point. I swiftly stood upright from the floor and spun around, racing back down the long hallway, exhaling with heavy breathes.

I dashed into the open carriage and slammed the eighteenth button, stopping in front of the rear windows, staring down at the ground.

Erato was moving on foot and was far enough away for the Central Building.

I mumbled my new plan. "Drop off the keys inside my chamber suite. Then meet him on the ground floor. I might find out more secret information about my dead twin sister that her servant Tofur did not want to release. Yes. Yes. Yes. And I don't see Tofur. He is home with his parents."

The carriage stopped. The glass door slid open.

18th floor level

Private chamber of Thea

10:19 pm

I spun around with a gasp and dashed out the carriage, running down the hallway, slamming into the tall eating table with a halt and a grunt. I reached out and gently placed the pile of keys on top of the hard glass surface without breaking the glass surface.

I back stepped with a giggle and spun around with a smile, wiping tiny bits of dirt off my new outfit, racing back into the elevator carriage and slapped the first floor.

I stopped at the rear window and stared down at the dark ground.

The elevator glass door closed. The elevator carriage slowly moved down toward the ground floor.

On the ground, Erato continued to stumble over the dark ground with the small light source.

Inside the carriage, I bounced up and down with giddiness, exhaling and then inhaling with deep breaths of nervousness.

The elevator carriage stopped on the ground floor. The elevator glass door slid open in silence.

I continued to stand and stared at Erato. He had moved around the side of the building.

Ground floor level setting

Two solid glass windows

Moonlight and parted clouds of mint green

10:22 pm

I spun around with a giggle and dashed out the elevator carriage, racing down the long hallway, clapping with joy. The two side walls showed the outside landscape that blazed in the bright moonlight featuring blue grass, green dirt, and the grove of golden short trees.

My eyeballs could see movement outside the glass window and as I ran faster ahead beating Erato to the entrance doors. I stopped and slammed into the doors.

Any type of body part or touch of body sweat made the glass door slid open.

Both entrance doors smoothly slid open in silence.

I jumped up and down with excitement on top of the glass floor in front of the open door feeling the light breeze while waiting on Erato. His body slowly moved down the side wall of glass, staring down at the green dirt.

The skyline was dark with a set of tiny mint green clouds that appeared in the color of silver, not black. The moonlight shined down onto the grass, the dirt, the building, the pavement and Lord Erato.

Erato possessed a head of shoulder length wavy black tinted hair, a jaw line of dusted black tinted whiskers, a pair of green tinted eyes, and a tone of pale tinted skin. He wore a sculptured upper torso of pale skin, without a shirt, a pair of tight black tinted trousers, and a pair of black tinted knee boots that was neatly tucked down into his pair of trousers.

He entered through the open doors while staring down at the glass floor.

I stopped bouncing up and down and stood upright in place, softly giggling with a smile.

He collided into Thea with a loud grunt.

I wrapped both arms around his naked chest with a moan, feeling his handsome, healthy, and hot body, saying with a soft whisper into his eardrum, "Hey, Erat!"

He leaned into her body with a loud grunt. "Hey."

I slowly spun us around to face the open carriage on the opposite side of the hallway, exhaling with a heavy grunt. Erato was a tall and heavy teen on my collar bone. I slowly moved down the smooth floor without any of his followers. I softly whispered into his eardrum with a smile. Do you need help into your room, Erato?"

He stared down at the floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut, "Shore."

I moved down the hallway with a smile and cuddled him into my rib cage, whispering into his eardrum. "Did you have fun at the party?"

"Shore."

"Did you have fun with the other royals?"

He continued to stare down at the floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut. "Shore."

I slowly moved ahead toward the open carriage. "Did you see all the other royal teens at the fun party?"

"Yeah."

I gasped in alarm. I was not there at the fun party but here inside the Central Building while playing around a pile of secret keys. So, Erato didn't miss me at the impromptu party.

I continued to move ahead and cuddled him into my rib cage, clearing a tight throat of pain and then exhaled with worry.

Erato was not his usual arrogant self. He must've had a good time at the fun party and consumed both food and drink, when I had not been able to attend and have a good time also. And I didn't wanna make him suspicious of my nosy teen behavior as I was not the real but fake Empress of Tross.

I moved into the open carriage and stopped a few feet, reaching over, halting my hand in front of the control panel. I didn't know the number on his private chamber suite, only my floor.

I smiled down at his cheekbone. "What floor number do I hit?"

He continued to stare down at the glass floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut, breathing in heavy sighs. "Eight."

I reached over and slapped the button with the number eight. The button did not illuminate with a green light. The green light indicated that the control panel was working and the elevator had been commanded to rise to the eighth floor. I slapped the number eight button again and still it did not light.

I frowned at the control panel with confusion. The elevator carriage did not move upward but sat in place. The control panel and the elevator carriage worked properly. I had ridden all night from my suite up to the fiftieth floor and then back down to the first floor.

I reached over and slapped each button but number eighteen and fifty. The control panel did not illuminate with a green light.

Erato slowly stood upright from her collar bone and then reached over, touching the button with the number eight, sloughing back down over her shoulder again. He stared down at the floor while blinking

The elevator glass doors slid shut. The elevator carriage climbed upward.

I whispered for my eardrums only. "O! I forget. The control panel is sensitive with touch. My touch can only activate the button with the numbers eighteen and fiftieth. Yeah, Tofur shared that information with me."

I turned and smile down into his cheekbone while the elevator carriage lifted upward. "Do you like Empress Thea?"

He continued to stare down at the floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut, exhaling in deep sighs, "Shore."

"Do you think Empress Thea will make a good ruler?"

"Shore."

"Do you think Empress Thea will make a good wife?"

"Shore."

"Do you think Empress Thea will become a good mother of children?"

"Shore."

"Do you wanna become the Emperor of Tross?"

"Shore."

I gasped in alarm and then smiled with joy. Erato really did love Empress Thea, the first and real one, not the new fake one. I wanted to know more about Empress Thea, thou.

I smiled down into the cheekbone. "Does...do you have a royal sibling, by chance or by luck or by gosh?"

"Nope."

"Does another royal teen have a royal sibling, by chance or by luck or by gosh?"

"Nope."

"Does Empress Thea have a sibling by chance?"

The carriage halted in silence.

I gasped in alarm.

The glass door slid open in silence behind a set of two back spines.

I slowly spun around and still cuddled Erato, seeing a dark private chamber room.

Private chamber room of Erato

10:25 pm

I slowly shuffled ahead out from the carriage and toted the heavy body of Erato, staring into his bedroom.

I felt giddy and then puzzled.

His private bedroom was a long hallway-shaped space like my private bedroom, except all four walls were made of solid clear glass.

I could see the moonlight rays beaming down from the skyline, the dark ground, the shadows of grove trees, and the other lighted building on the opposite of the manicured lawn.

The entrance wall held only the elevator carriage of glass.

The two side walls of glass held only two side wall of solid clear glass. There was not a single sitting chair or an eating table or a lounging loveseat for two people or a hanging piece of ugly or pretty art work or a mounted short or long shelf with an object or a picture of his parents.

At the end of the hallway, I could see a standing object, but I would too far away to identify the standing object with my naked eyeballs through the semi-darkness.

I slowly moved ahead with a stern face and continued to drag forward the heavy, sleepy body of Erato beside my rib cage, studying the room with more puzzlement. I looked up to see the ceiling. The glass on the ceiling was painted in solid black hue which didn't see a mural or a portrait like my room ceiling.

I slowly moved down the smooth glass, looking down at the floor which was painted in solid black like my room floor.

The glass door on the elevator carriage slid shut in silence.

My eyeball caught the swift rear motion and as I gasped in alarm. I gently dropped Erato down onto the smooth black tinted floor and then spun around with worry, racing back and stopped in front of the closed elevator door.

My heart rate increased and as my face poured out with sweat. I reached up and touched the glass.

With most certainty, I was the only human inside the Central Building. The rest of the other royal occupants were still partying at the fun event inside the other building. However, another royal could have come back here and then activated the elevator carriage for a ride back into their private royal chamber room. The elevator responded with a command or a finger touch from a royal or a servant. So, someone else was located here inside the Central Building beside Thea and Erato.

Inside Erato's private chamber room, I was trapped like a bug or a rat or a cat.

The elevator carriage didn't come to my sweat finger touch. The elevator glass door did not slide open with a new carriage.

I gasped in worry. I was here in another bedroom alone and with Erato, where I had broken numerous royal rules that I could not quote as I was the fake empress.

I reached up and beat on the glass door without yelling out loud. I had sense to know that the elevator did not respond to voice, only touch.

The elevator carriage didn't come with my sweaty hand touch. The elevator glass door did not slide open with a new carriage.

I whispered for my eardrums only. "No. No. No. I'm trapped here. I must leave. I must not be here. I must be inside my bedroom, not here." I leaned over and looked down into the glass window. I could not see anything or hear the motor of the carriage. "Not good! Bad sign! Trouble here!"

I back stepped with a deep sigh and wrapped both arms around my body with deep worry, staring through the glass wall up at the night and then down at the dark ground. I didn't see another faint light of a teen or adult. That was a very good sign that no other royal was coming back into the Central Building.

The other royals, except for Erato and someone else that activated the elevator carriage, was not inside the Central Building.

I continued to move backward and stared through the entrance walls at the bright moonlight, tripping over the hard object on the floor, falling on top of his naked chest with a gasp.

Erato was the hard object, who was asleep on top of the floor.

I slid off his heated body with a grunt and then spun around with a smile, squatting down, touching his body with a giggle for fun. He was definitely asleep. I reached over and grabbed his collar bone, sitting in a crouch, shoving his heavy body toward the bed mattress. He should sleep in the bed. I can sleep on the floor.

"Yeah, how am I going to explain that one when he awakes?"

I sounded with a set of heavy grunts while barely dragging his heavy body across the smooth floor, sweating from the heavy excision, standing upright with a gasp. My hands were sweaty from the physical exercise with his sweet smelling sweat, "His sweet sweat! His sweat will come up the glass carriage. Yes. Yes. Yes."

I turned to face the entrance wall and dashed ahead toward the closed elevator door, slamming both hands into glass with a heavy sigh. I leaned into the glass door without seeing or hearing the elevator carriage.

"I need more of his body parts, not just his sweet smelling sweat. Yes. Yes. Yes."

I back stepped with a giggle and spun around with a smile, swiftly racing back to Erato and stopped in front of his black tinted boot toes. I reached down and touched his ankle bones, slowly dragging backward his lower body over the smooth floor which was easier than pulling him forward toward his bed mattress. I slowly shuffled his heavy body side to side over the floor toward the closed glass elevator door with a set of heavy grunts and then stopped beside the side entrance wall out of the way of the elevator carriage.

I didn't want Erato to become injured when his personal royal servant arrived tomorrow morning while finding the teen on top of the floor like another royal teen.

I stand upright with a smile. "I wonder if he does this offer at night."

Erato was still asleep on top of the floor and snored through his two nose holes in a set of blissful dreams.

I reached down and grabbed his arm, maneuvering his hand toward the glass elevator door. His personal touch would command the glass elevator carriage to arrive in his personal suite and then open the glass door.

I looked up with a stern face and stared down at the bed mattress, looking back down at him. "Should I? Or shouldn't I?" I gently dropped his arm back down onto the floor and stood upright with a giggle, scooting around the hard object, racing ahead down the long hallway.

I reached his bed mattress that contained a solid black tinted set of bed linens, a pillow case, and a matching bedcover. I ripped off the bedcover and the pillow with a giggle. "He saw me. He had a good time at the party. But he will remember meeting me tonight. He just won't remember what we did together, which was nothing."

I raced back down the hallway and stopped, tossing the bedcover into the air, guiding it down over the lower body on Erato and placed the pillow behind his rear skull. I stood upright with a giggle. "There! He's tucked in for the night. Good night, sweet Erato! See ya'll tomorrow!"

I squatted down and grabbed his arm, extending the limb, touching the door with his finger, marking the glass with his sweat. I gently lowered his arm and then reached over, kissing his lips, pulling back with a giggle and a smile.

The glass door slid open in silence.

I stood upright from the floor and rushed backwards into the elevator carriage before it closed shut again.

Elevator glass carriage setting

10:32 pm

I reached over and hit the control panel, pressing the number eighteen for my private chamber floor, nodding with a smile, "Just in time!"

The elevator glass door closed. The elevator carriage slowly climbed upward toward the eighteenth floor.

I wiped off the accumulated sweat balls on my dirty face and then flung a dirty hand down toward the dirty floor. My sweat ball hit the side glass. I gasped in alarm and slowly turned to find that painted on sweat ball. I wondered if someone would notice the new smudge, "Maybe not!" I gasped in alarm again and stared down at the dark ground. "There's a new light source. So, each royal is slowly coming back from the fun party without me one-at-a-time." The light source exhibited part of the royal, "Nastchill! The new light source comes from my other royal boyfriend Nastchill. I gotta talk with him too. Erato was too tired to talk, so maybe Nastchill is too happy to talk with me," laughing. "Yeah, he'll talk with me." Inside the carriage, I bounced up and down with giddiness, exhaling and then inhaling with deep breaths of nervousness.

The elevator carriage stopped on the eighteenth floor. The glass door slid open in silence and revealed the bedroom chamber.

Inside the glass carriage, I reached over and slapped the first floor.

On the ground, Nastchill continued to stumble alone over the dark ground with the small light source.

Inside the carriage, I bounced up and down with giddiness, exhaling and then inhaling with deep breaths of nervousness. "This is the most fun since my arrival two days ago."

The elevator glass door closed. The elevator carriage swiftly moved downward toward the ground floor.

Inside the carriage, I continued to stand and stared at Erato. He had moved around the side of the building.

The elevator carriage stopped on the ground floor. The elevator glass door slid open in silence.

Ground floor level setting

10:34 pm

I spun around with a giggle and dashed out the elevator carriage, racing down the long hallway, clapping with joy. The two side walls showed the outside landscape that blazed in the bright moonlight featuring blue grass, green dirt, and the grove of golden short trees.

My eyeballs could see movement outside the glass window and as I ran faster ahead beating Nastchill to the entrance doors. I stopped and slammed into the doors.

Any type of body part or touch of body sweat made the glass door slid open.

Both entrance doors smoothly slid open in silence.

I jumped up and down with excitement on top of the glass floor in front of the open door feeling the light breeze while waiting on Nastchill. His body slowly moved down the side wall of glass, staring down at the green dirt.

The skyline was dark with a set of tiny mint green clouds that appeared in the color of silver, not black. The moonlight shined down onto the grass, the dirt, the building, the pavement and Prince Nastchill.

Nastchill was an extremely tall and muscular, seventeen-year-old teen male with a pair of drooling lips, a sour frown, a pair of blue eyes, a tone of dark colored skin, a bald skull, and a red tinted goatee. He was dressed in a set of naked ripped biceps and triceps, without a sleeveless vest, a pair of matching brown tinted trousers, and a pair of matching knee boots that were neatly tucked down into the trousers.

He entered through the open doors while staring down at the glass floor.

I stopped bouncing up and down and stood upright in place, softly giggling with a smile.

He collided into Thea with a loud grunt.

I wrapped both arms around his naked chest with a moan, feeling his handsome, healthy, and hot body, saying with a soft whisper into his eardrum, "Hi, Nastchill.  
He leaned into her body with a loud grunt. "Hi."

I slowly spun us around to face the open carriage on the opposite side of the hallway, exhaling with a heavy grunt. He was a tall and heavy teen on my collar bone. I slowly moved down the smooth floor without any of his followers. I softly whispered into his eardrum with a smile. Do you need help into your private bedroom, Nastchill?"

He stared down at the floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut, "Yeah."

I moved down the hallway with a smile and cuddled him into my rib cage, whispering into his eardrum. "Did you have fun at the party?"

"Yeah."

"Did you have fun with the other royals?"

He continued to stare down at the floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut. "Yeah."

I slowly moved ahead toward the open carriage. "Did you see all the other royal teens at the fun party?"

"Yeah."

I halted with concern and then gasped in alarm. I was not there at the fun party but here inside the Central Building while playing around a pile of secret keys. So, my other royal boyfriend Nastchill didn't miss me at the impromptu party.

I slowly continued to move ahead and cuddled him into my rib cage, clearing a tight throat of pain and then exhaled with worry.

Nastchill was not his happy self. He must've had a very good time at the fun party and consumed both food and drink, like his royal buddy Erato, where they were never apart. I did not attend the fun party and apparently I was not missed. But I didn't wanna make him suspicious of my nosy teen behavior as I was not the real but fake Empress of Tross.

I moved into the open carriage and stopped a few feet, reaching over, halting my hand in front of the control panel. I didn't know the number on his private chamber suite, only my floor.

I smiled down at his cheekbone. "What floor number do I hit?"

He continued to stare down at the glass floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut, breathing in heavy sighs. "Nine."

I did not make that mistake again. I slowly leaned over toward the control panel and guided his finger onto the button for number nine. The button illuminated with green light.

The elevator glass doors slid shut. The elevator carriage climbed upward.

I turned and smile down into his cheekbone while the elevator carriage lifted upward. "Do you like Empress Thea?"

He continued to stare down at the floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut, exhaling in deep sighs, "Yeah."

"Do you think Empress Thea will make a good ruler?"

"Yeah."

"Do you think Empress Thea will make a good wife?"

"Yeah."

"Do you think Empress Thea will become a good mother of children?"

"Yeah."

"Do you wanna become the Emperor of Tross?"

"Yeah."

I gasped in alarm and then smiled with joy. Nastchill also really did love Empress Thea, the first and real one, not the new fake one. I needed more information beside the word, yeah.

I smiled down into the cheekbone. "Do you have a royal sibling, by chance or by luck or by gosh?"

"Naw."

"Does another royal teen have a royal sibling, by chance or by luck or by gosh?"

"Naw."

"Does Empress Thea have a sibling by chance?"

The carriage halted in silence.

I gasped in alarm.

The glass door slid open in silence behind a set of two back spines.

I slowly spun around and still cuddled Nastchill seeing a dark private chamber room.

Private chamber room of Nastchill

10:37 pm

I slowly shuffled ahead out from the carriage and toted the heavy body of Nastchill staring into his bedroom with a gasp. "It's the same in here too."

His private bedroom was a long hallway-shaped space like my private bedroom, except all four walls were made of solid clear glass.

I could see the moonlight rays beaming down from the skyline, the dark ground, the shadows of grove trees, and the other lighted building on the opposite of the manicured lawn.

The entrance wall held only the elevator carriage of glass.

The two side walls of glass held only two side wall of solid clear glass. There was not a single sitting chair or an eating table or a lounging loveseat for two people or a hanging piece of ugly or pretty art work or a mounted short or long shelf with an object or a picture of his parents.

At the end of the hallway, I could see the bed mattress but I knew that was a bed mattress inside the semi-dark room.

I slowly moved ahead with a stern face and continued to drag forward the heavy, sleepy body of Nastchill beside my rib cage, studying the room with more puzzlement. I looked up to see the ceiling. The glass on the ceiling was painted in solid black hue which didn't see a mural or a portrait like my room ceiling.

"Boys, they are not imaginative!" I giggled and dropped the heavy upper body on Nastchill a few inches from the open carriage.

The carriage door closed.

I didn't panic with alarm this time and stood upright, dashing ahead toward his bed mattress, pulling off the covers for his body. I folded the pillow under his skull and the black tinted bedcover over the lower part on his body, leaning down over the floor, staring at him.

Nastchill was still asleep on top of the floor without snoring through his two nose holes in a set of blissful dreams.

I squatted down and grabbed his arm, extending the limb, touching the door with his finger, marking the glass with his sweat. I gently lowered his arm and then reached over, kissing his lips, pulling back with a giggle and a smile. "Good night, sweet prince! See ya'll tomorrow!"

The glass door slid open in silence.

I stood upright from the floor and rushed backwards into the elevator carriage before it closed shut again.

Elevator glass carriage setting

10:40 pm

I reached over and held my hand on the control panel with a smile. "Could there be another dark knight of tiny light?" I spun around with a smile and pressed the number one for the ground floor with a nod. "I see another dark knight, who is Zeamon."

The elevator glass door closed. The elevator carriage slowly climbed downward toward the ground floor.

I reached up and pressed my hair down my face, wiping off the other cologne remnants from the sweet lips on Erato and Nastchill. Inside the carriage, I bounced up and down with giddiness, exhaling and then inhaling with deep breaths of nervousness. "Now, I can test the last prince and see which one I wanna marry on my eighteenth birthday," chuckling.

The elevator carriage stopped on the ground floor. The glass door slid open in silence.

On the ground, Zeamon stared down at the green dirt and continued to stumble alone over the dark ground with the small light source.

Ground floor level setting

10:44 pm

I spun around with a giggle and dashed out the elevator carriage, racing down the long hallway, clapping with joy. The two side walls showed the outside landscape that blazed in the bright moonlight featuring blue grass, green dirt, and the grove of golden short trees.

My eyeballs could see movement outside the glass window and as I ran faster ahead beating Zeamon to the entrance doors. I stopped and slammed into the doors.

Any type of body part or touch of body sweat made the glass door slid open.

Both entrance doors smoothly slid open in silence.

I jumped up and down with excitement on top of the glass floor in front of the open door feeling the light breeze while waiting on Zeamon. His body slowly moved down the side wall of glass, staring down at the green dirt.

The skyline was dark with a set of tiny mint green clouds that appeared in the color of silver, not black. The moonlight shined down onto the grass, the dirt, the building, the pavement and Zeamon. He was a tall and skinny guy with a head of oily black straight hair, a pair of dark eyes, and a tone of dark skin coming from the Land of Zeebad, which showed a nasty silver and gold landscape of dangerous chemicals that manufactured all of the flying land and air and sea vehicles. His mother was named Zedot. His father was named Zebull.

He entered through the open doors while staring down at the glass floor.

I stopped bouncing up and down and stood upright in place, softly giggling with a smile.

He collided into Thea with a loud grunt.

I wrapped both arms around his naked chest with a moan, feeling his handsome, healthy, and hot body, saying with a soft whisper into his eardrum, "Hi, Zeamon."

He leaned into her body with a loud grunt. "Hello."

I slowly spun us around to face the open carriage on the opposite side of the hallway, exhaling with a heavy grunt. He was a tall and heavy teen on my collar bone. I slowly moved down the smooth floor without any of his followers. I softly whispered into his eardrum with a smile. Do you need help into your private bedroom, Zeamon?"

He stared down at the floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut, "Yes."

I moved down the hallway with a smile and cuddled him into my rib cage, whispering into his eardrum. "Did you have fun at the party?"

"Yes."

"Did you have fun with the other royals?"

He continued to stare down at the floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut. "Yes."

I slowly moved ahead toward the open carriage. "Did you see all the other royal teens at the fun party?"

"Yes."

I halted with concern and then gasped in alarm. I was not there at the fun party but here inside the Central Building while playing around a pile of secret keys. So, my other royal boyfriend Zeamon didn't miss me at the impromptu party.

I slowly continued to move ahead and cuddled him into my rib cage, clearing a tight throat of pain and then exhaled with worry.

Zeamon didn't seem to be his happy self. He must've had a very good time at the fun party and consumed both food and drink, like his royal buddies Nastchill and Erato, where they were never apart. I did not attend the fun party and apparently I was not missed. But I didn't wanna make him suspicious of my nosy teen behavior as I was not the real but fake Empress of Tross.

I moved into the open carriage and stopped a few feet, reaching over, halting my hand in front of the control panel. I didn't know the number on his private chamber suite, only my floor.

I smiled down at his cheekbone. "What floor number do I hit?"

He continued to stare down at the glass floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut, breathing in heavy sighs. "Seven."

I did not make that mistake again. I slowly leaned over toward the control panel and guided his finger onto the button for number seven. The button illuminated with green light.

The elevator glass doors slid shut. The elevator carriage climbed upward.

I turned and smile down into his cheekbone while the elevator carriage lifted upward. "Do you like Empress Thea?"

He continued to stare down at the floor while blinking his eyelashes open and then shut, exhaling in deep sighs, "Yes."

"Do you think Empress Thea will make a good ruler?"

"Yes."

"Do you think Empress Thea will make a good wife?"

"Yes."

"Do you think Empress Thea will become a good mother of children?"

"Yes."

"Do you wanna become the Emperor of Tross?"

"Yes."

I gasped in alarm and then smiled with joy. Zeamon had a much more positive answer and really did love Empress Thea, the first and real one, not the new fake one. I needed more information beside the word, yes.

I smiled down into the cheekbone. "Do you have a royal sibling, by chance or by luck or by gosh?"

"No."

"Does another royal teen have a royal sibling, by chance or by luck or by gosh?"

"No."

"Does Empress Thea have a sibling by chance?"

The carriage halted in silence.

I gasped in alarm.

The glass door slid open in silence behind a set of two back spines.

I slowly spun around and still cuddled Zeamon seeing a dark private chamber room.

Private chamber room of Zeamon

10:48 pm

I slowly shuffled ahead out from the carriage and toted the heavy body of Zeamon staring into his bedroom with a gasp. "The same long dull colorful room which is similar to the private suite for Erato and Nastchill also. This boy needs a wife to decorate his place, which is me," giggling.

His private bedroom was a long hallway-shaped space like my private bedroom, except all four walls were made of solid clear glass.

I could see the moonlight rays beaming down from the skyline, the dark ground, the shadows of grove trees, and the other lighted building on the opposite of the manicured lawn.

The entrance wall held only the elevator carriage of glass.

The two side walls of glass held only two side wall of solid clear glass. There was not a single sitting chair or an eating table or a lounging loveseat for two people or a hanging piece of ugly or pretty art work or a mounted short or long shelf with an object or a picture of his parents.

At the end of the hallway, I could see the bed mattress but I knew that was a bed mattress inside the semi-dark room.

I slowly moved ahead with a stern face and continued to drag forward the heavy, sleepy body of Zeamon beside my rib cage, studying the room with more puzzlement. I looked up to see the ceiling. The glass on the ceiling was painted in solid black hue which didn't see a mural or a portrait like my room ceiling.

I giggled and dropped Nastchill a few inches from the open carriage.

The carriage door closed.

I didn't panic with alarm this time and stood upright, dashing ahead toward his bed mattress, pulling off the covers for his body. I folded the pillow under his skull and the black tinted bedcover over the lower part on his body, leaning down over the floor, staring at him.

Zeamon was still asleep on top of the floor without snoring through his two nose holes in a set of blissful dreams.

I squatted down and grabbed his arm, extending the limb, touching the door with his finger, marking the glass with his sweat. I gently lowered his arm and then reached over, kissing his lips, pulling back with a giggle and a smile. "Good night, sweet Zeamon! I hope you remember me in your dreams. See ya'll tomorrow!"

The glass door slid open in silence.

I stood upright from the floor and rushed backwards into the elevator carriage before it closed shut again. I reached over and pressed the eighteenth floor, dancing side to side with happiness.

The elevator door closed. The carriage swiftly climbed upward toward her suite.

I wrapped both arms around my body. I truly had found the answer that I was seeking, my future husband.

The elevator stopped on the eighteenth floor. The door opened.

I danced ahead and twirled around and around with happiness reaching my soft bed mattress, grabbing the bed linen and dragged the items off the bed. I moved ahead and rested on top of the floor, staring at each beautiful portrait of my dead twin sister, who was like me. I continued to slowly slide down the floor and stare at each moonlight art work of my sister's baby pictures until my moist eyeballs crusted over with dried tears of happiness and sadness, closing into a deep slumber.
Day Three

18th floor level location

Private chamber suite of Thea

01:01 pm

Bright sunshine and mint green clouds and pink skyline

The elevator door slid open.

Inside the carriage, a tall and skinny seventeen-year-old young male stood in place, holding a tray of steaming food items, wearing a naked chest of dark tone, a tan colored turban over a bald mound, a pair of dull tinted tan colored sandals, and a pair of matching loose-fitting matching knee-length trousers. He frowned with annoyance spotting the curled up female on top of the black tinted floor again.

Tofur slowly strutted ahead and then stops, standing on top of the smooth dark tile while holding a covered food tray in both hands, without colliding into a curled Thea. He continued to stare with a sour frown at Thea without dropping down onto the clean floor.

Her chest moved up and in a breathing motion. She was sleeping quietly on top of the floor, not inside the bed mattress again.

He looked up with frustration and then scanned the private chamber of Thea, without seeing any disturbance, which was normal, yet again.

No other person could enter into her chamber. The elevator control system only worked on DNA genes that triggered the opening of each private entranceway.

Tofur was the personal servant for Empress Thea. Thus he only had access into her private chamber at any time of day or night through his personal sweat molecules on the glass elevator. He would leave Thea each night and then return back home, retiring to his personal bed chamber with his biological family.

On top of the black tinted floor, standing above a slumbering Thea, he finished scanning the enclosed hallway and felt more annoyance that no one had removed a slumbering Thea from her private bed while feeling more frustration with the fake empress. He shouted out loud. "Get up, Thea! It's time to go!"

I wiggled side to side on top of the cool floor, resting on my back spine, rubbing both eyelids. I yawned and then sneezed out loud, slowly parting open my set of eyelashes and then quickly closed them. "Ugh! It's bright sunlight in here."

He frowned down at her face, "Because, it's an early afternoon after one pm in here."

I yawned and then gasped in shock, performing a second yawn, breathing in more air molecules, rubbing both of my eyelashes. "I missed the battle fight."

He exhaled. "It was cancelled."

I sat upright on my fanny and then yawned with a smile. "Good!"

He continued to hover over Thea with a stern face. "Then a new one came along."

I yawned and then frowned, rubbing the dirt off my face. "Bad!"

He slowly moved ahead and stopped, placing the food tray on top of the glass table with a stern face. "Get up and get dressed, Thea!"

I shuffled around the floor and grabbed the wrinkled outfit with my hand which was hidden inside the clean bed linens, slowly standing upright from the floor with a yawn and then a frown. "Okay. All right! I'm up and moving down the hallway, getting dressed. What land are we claiming this afternoon in the battle fight?"

He scooted into the high stool and reached out, removing the lid on the food tray, eating some of her breakfast food. "We are flying to the Land of Kaootu."

I continued to slowly pace down the long hallway with a series of yawns, trying to awaken from my long slumber, "Never heard of it!"

"I'm not surprised, Thea. Your education needs to be expanded, if you desire to sit upon the throne or thorn of Tross."

I continued to move ahead and buzzed my lips with annoyance while hearing his set of nasty comments this afternoon and then halted in front of the sparkling wall portrait that displayed my dead twin sister without lashing back to Tofur.

She and I were twins. I stared at the beautiful portrait, feeling sad and lonely. I had a sister, but I didn't anymore.

I reached up and touched the wall with an index finger.

The wardrobe closet silently slid open.

I entered the enclosed wardrobe room, toting the wrinkled outfit inside the folds of the dirty bed linens and moved ahead.

The door silently closed shut.

I stopped with a gasp in front of the single hanging rack of pressed clothes shouting out loud. "No!" I exhaled with annoyance. "My servant Tofur does come inside my wardrobe closet. I'm so mad. Where are all of the other empty hangers for all other the used lavender outfits? Someone has taken all of the empty hangers from the single clothing rack. Where is each pair of scuffed and scarred lavender high-thigh boots? I didn't notice the numerous used and dirty pairs of boots missing last night and the other night. Someone has taken all the ruined boots too. And where is my brown ugly outfit that was on laying the floor the other day also? Tofur, he has hidden all the physical evidence of my fake birth or arrival or whatever from my parents and the other royal teens. That was a very wise move. However, I'm still fibbing about my real person. And Tofur does have access into my wardrobe closet."

I moved ahead and touched the next hanger that held a new and clean lavender tinted outfit with a pair of polished lavender thigh-high boots, removing my hand. "No. I can wear the wrinkled lavender outfit, which I did last night. No. Tofur will ask why the new outfit is wrinkled. Then I will not have a good answer. I can't lie again and tell him that I had borrowed the lavender outfit for today's new hot battle adventure. Anyways, I have two new outfits left on the clothes rack."

I reached out again and grabbed the hanger, pulling the new lavender outfit off the rack with a puzzled brow. "Where is the old outfit that I had gotten wet yesterday during the Coil meeting? Tofur was going to clean and then bring it back to me." I gasped in alarm. "He did. Then he entered my personal wardrobe closet and saw the other two pressed lavender outfits on the single rack. Well, you can't miss them. They hang here all lonely and alone for the naked eyeballs. So, he does enter into my personal wardrobe closet for some reason. I'm so mad. If Tofur has lied about entering my wardrobe closet, then what else has he lied about to me? I don't know but I will find out, this afternoon."

I quickly dress in the new smooth lavender outfit and boots and then spin around with a sour of fighting fury. "I have another battle fight today, the day before my eighteenth birthday. I swear if I wasn't blessed with the other royal teens, then I would be pondering that someone was trying to kill me." I moved ahead and halted, slapping the metal door. As long as my sweat touched the smooth metal, the door slid open.

I strolled again and then halted, leaning down, grabbing my scepter weapon and clipped it onto the belt loop. I spin around with a stern face and marched back don the long hallway without viewing the side walls that contained a series of painted life-sized portrait with my dead twin sister.

At the glass eating table, Tofur continued to sit and finished eating her breakfast items on the tray, burping out loud, sliding off the high glass-covered stool. He moved beside Thea, turning with a smile to see her nose profile. "How are you feeling?"

I marched again toward the closed elevator door with a sneer. "Great!"

He chuckles. "You're in a really chipper mood this afternoon."

I marched again with a growl. "I'm ready to kill someone."

He gasped. "Ugh! That's sound good."

"That's sound great. Did you have the flying directions for the Land of Kaootu?"

"Of course," he smiled.

I stopped and stood in front of the elevator doors, reaching up, slamming the smooth metal. The elevator door slid open immediately.

Elevator carriage setting

01:11 pm

I entered inside with a stern face and stopped, standing at the rear wall of glass, staring down at the ground level in silence.

My eyeballs didn't really focus on the same colorful and funny-looking terrain in the Land of Tross and as my mind wondered and pondered a new battle fight while saving my hide again.

Outside the glass window, the landmass was flat which extended for miles and miles.

I continued to ride upwards inside a flying glass elevator that reflected the bright sunlight and some heat. The Center Building possessed an excellent air-conditioning system of cool air molecules which kept a person from sweating.

He entered beside Thea and then spun around, leaning forward, gently tapping the button for the ground floor a stern face in silence.

My stomach sailed upward and then stuck inside my tight throat as it tickled my esophagus. I was not afraid but excited as I possessed the same personality and appearance like my dead twin sister Thea.

Now, I had figured out my purpose taking over as the new ruler in the Land of Tross, in place of my dead twin sister. But I was still clueless about my separation from my dead twin sister and the reason from my set of biological parents. Maybe, I would find those answers today inside the Coil meeting room on the third day of my royal reign.

Outside the elevator window, the landmass was split into two types of terrain which parted down the middle of the landscape. One side of the landscape appeared in flat layer of solid light blue tinted grass with a set of numerous short rows of colorful flowers that outlined a single winding green tinted walkway that touched each tall and slender glass building. The opposite side of the split landscape held a solid sheet of green tinted dirt with a set of scattered huddles of short golden tinted trees that curved around a single winding lavender tinted walkway, where a set of short glass buildings stood. There were not numerous men, women, children, and pets strolling on the walkway and the grounds looking happy and content.

The skyline held a faint tint of pink hue that glistened within the bright rays of sunshine, where each cloud burst glowed in dull mint green hue.

Beside Thea, Tofur continued to stand and stare at the closed glass elevator door which swiftly displayed each floor level as the elevator quickly moved downward from the 18th floor toward the finally destination, ground level. He only saw a blur of shimmery faint color tones.

A naked person could stand directly in front of their protective glass door on their personal floor level of the common elevator shunt as the elevator jolted upward and then bypassed the naked person. Then, each elevator passenger would only see a blur of color, not the silly naked individual.

My mind immediately reacted and as my eyeballs focused on the grass. "I never see natives here."

He frowned at the vertical lines of glittering light reflecting off each glass floor. "What?"

"I never see one or two or a group of natives down there on the ground playing in the blue grass or eating underneath the golden trees. Why is that? What is the reason, Tofur?"

He spun around with a gasp and then moved ahead, standing by her nose profile, staring down at the ground level. "Well, there are natives here. Well, they are here. Well, they...they come outside much, much later. You are usually asleep or eating or dressing or..."

"...battling..."

"They come out after the heated day."

"I..." wanted to ask about the picnic party that I had witnessed late night but changed my mind. Then Tofur would have questioned me about my usual adventures late last night. I reached up and touched my lips, remembering the taste of each court prince in the different lip and tongue favors of mint, honey, and citrus.

Tofur continued to move down the long hallway and frowned at the blue grass in silence.

The carriage smoothly halted. The single solid wall of glass slid open.

Ground level setting

Two walls of glass

Green dirt and blue grass, mint green clouds, pink skyline

01:14 pm

Tofur moved ahead with a stern face and stopped, spinning around, standing beside the side glass wall, staring at Thea. He crossed his lean biceps over a flat chest with a sour frown in silence, watching the new upcoming teenly action.

I spun around with a gasp and then slowly exited from the glass carriage, stopping in front of Erato with a smile.

He possessed a head of shoulder length wavy black tinted hair, a jaw line of dusted black tinted whiskers, a pair of green tinted eyes, and a tone of pale tinted skin. He wore a sculptured upper torso of pale skin, with an open shirt, a pair of tight black tinted trousers, and a pair of black tinted knee boots that was neatly tucked down into his pair of trousers. But his clothing looked funny and smelled funnier like maybe Erato had been sleeping on the dirty floor inside his personal chamber.

I chuckled with a smile. "I just saw you..."

He cringed. "No. You did not."

I smiled. "Yes, I saw you..."

He leaned over and kissed her lips for a few long seconds, pulling back with a wink and a smile. "No. You did not see me this morning."

I giggled with a wink. "Okay. How are you doing, this afternoon, Erato?"

"I'm the fine one. I wish you good luck in the new battle fight. I'll be watching on the glass screen."

I exhaled with worry. "Thanks! Another day, another fight!"

He nodded with a fake smile. "You will make a profound Empress of Tross."

I nodded with a giggle. "I will at that."

Erato scooted around Thea and moved ahead with a sour frown, entering the elevator carriage.

The carriage door closed. Then the carriage lifted upward toward his personal chamber.

I dared not look back with a giggle to see his back spine and continued to move ahead, smiling at Nastchill.

Tofur spun around and then moved ahead with a stern face and stopped, spinning around, standing further down the same glass wall, staring at Thea. He crossed his lean biceps again over a flat chest with a sour frown in silence, watching the new upcoming teenly action.

I stopped and stood in front of Nastchill with a smile.

Nastchill was an extremely tall and muscular, seventeen-year-old teen male with a pair of drooling lips, a sour frown, a pair of blue eyes, a tone of dark colored skin, a bald skull, and a red tinted goatee. He was usually dressed in a set of naked ripped biceps and triceps with a sleeveless vest, a pair of matching brown tinted trousers, and a pair of matching knee boots that were neatly tucked down into the trousers. But today, his clothes were all wrinkled and stained like maybe he had been sleeping on the dirty floor.

I giggled in his face with my secret.

He reached up and gently touched her permanent pink tinted cheekbone scar with a smile. "How did you sleep, empress?"

I winked with a smile. "I dreamed about you. How did you sleep, prince?"

He leaned down at his wrinkled clothes and then exhaled with annoyance, looking up with a smile to see her grin. "And I happened to dream about you."

I nodded with a chuckle. "Well, that's very good for me!"

"And for me!" He nodded with a chuckle also.

"We need to go, Thea!" Tofur continued to stand at the side wall and frowned at the weird conversation.

"I love you, Empress!" He leaned over and hugged Thea, pulling back with a smile, planting a kiss on her lips. He hugged her body again and pulled back with a smile.

I continued to stand between his arms with a smile. "I need to go."

"I know."

"I need to go and fight."

He frowned. "I know."

I smiled. "I need to go and fight and come back."

"I know." He released Thea and pulled back with a smile.

I stepped back with a smile and spun around with a giggle. I liked touching him, "Later, Prince."

He smiled. "Good luck, Thea!"

Tofur continued to stand beside the glass wall that showed the blue grass and pink sky, rolling the eyeballs and then looked back at Thea, spinning around with a stern face, moving ahead toward the glass doors in the building. "Thea, it's time to go and battle something." He continued to swiftly dash ahead in silence with a stern face.

I scooted around Nastchill with a grin and a giggle, slowly moving ahead, following behind the back spine on Tofur.

Tofur swiftly exited the Center Building in silence and then headed toward the parked airship in front of the building as usual.

Inside the entrance hallway, I swiftly jogged down the rest of the glass floor without seeing the blue grass and green dirt and then finally exited the building and moved outside. The weather was cool and sunny. "Does it ever rain here?" I strolled ahead and then stopped, sliding down into the back seat in the airship, bouncing up and down on top of the smooth leather bench seat with a smile.

Airship setting of Thea and Tofur

Pale blue sky and white swirls of clouds

01:33 pm

Within the airship in the rear seat, I flipped around and stood on top of both kneecaps and palms, performing a series of body length sit-ups, a set of backward individual leg kicks toward the window without hitting the glass. I exhaled with vigor.

Inside the pilot chair, Tofur leaned forward and pressed the mechanic gears with a sour frown. "Why are sitting back there? Do I smell? O! You do smell bad. Do you ever take a bubble bath and clean your dirty skin? Since I have known you, you stay dirty, Thea. I'm glad that you are sensitive to my nostrils."

"I took a bath," I leaned over and extended an arm toward the door without touching the metal with a loud grunt. "I'm warming up my cold muscles."

He punched the level as the airship lifted off the ground, steering up into the mint green clouds. He laughed. "I would think that your body is hot enough now."

I leaned over to the other side and stretched out my arm and chest muscles. "No. My emotions are heated, not my body." I twisted around and rested on top of the long bench seat, pulling my upper body in the air.

He steered with a frown and stared out the windshield, since there was a rear view mirror to spy on Thea. "What are you doing now?"

"I'm performing a set of sit-ups which helps expand my lung for better breathing during my sprints." I exhaled with a heavy puff of air. "We're flying toward the southern hemisphere."

"The Land of Kaootu is located in the southern hemisphere."

I folded my body up and down exhaling out sour breaths of pain. "What is the Land of Kaootu like?"

Inside the pilot chair, Tofur steered the airship with a wicked grin. "Did you wanna know who else had been selected to accompany you into the battle field this very early morning to fight the natives from the Land of Kaootu?"

"Pekod," I exhaled with bad breath.

"No. What are you doing?"

"I told you before," I exhaled with bad breath again. "I'm warming up my muscles for the new battle fight." I flipped back over and landed on top of my back spine, performing more exercises. I lifted both legs into the air and crushed my stomach muscles toward my legs with a set of heavy breathes and heated sweat.

He frowned. "Why do I find you sleeping on the floor every morning?"

I exhaled with heavy breathing from the new exercise while giggling out loud. "It's a court princess thing."

"What?" He frowned and continued to pilot the airship.

"Kidron," I exhaled with more heavy breathing and then turned to face the rear seat, lifting my leg up and down in the air.

What?"

I turned to face the front seat, slowly lifting up and down the other leg with heavy breathes. "Joed."

"O! You're guessing who the court prince or princess is that will be accompanying you into battle. And you are wrong."

"Huzz." I dropped down on the seat and wiggled my entire body like a snake, ironing out the cool muscles with a set of heavy breathes and sweating inside my new outfit.

He continued to steer the ship with a smile, "Hmm. You are only saying the name of a court prince. Could there be a certain mental or internal reason there, empress?"

"I like the boys better than the girls." I giggled out loud and then dropped down onto the seat, inhaling air molecules.

"Then you will like to know that Zeamon has been selected to..."

"Zeamon!" I gasped in shock and sat upright, leaning a distorted face and an upper body over the front seat, staring out the windshield, "Zeamon! Zeamon! Zeamon! Why has Zeamon be selected again to fight in the battle? He came with me to a different battle fight, two days ago. That seems completely unfair. There's a semi-circle of other court princes and princesses besides using Zeamon again."

"I don't know why he had been selected to come with you into this new battle fight. Maybe, he possesses excellent court prince skills. Your father selects each court prince and princess team members."

"Why is my father doing this?"

"Why is it important to you?"

"Zeamon!" I exhaled with bad breath. "He...he has showed off his court prince skills to me already. Why wasn't one of the other cour princes selected like...like Erato?"

"E-rat has showed off his court prince skills already. But you were not the empress that had been paired with him for that battle fight and the court team won also. And most of the court prince and princesses have toured with you once or twice also. Lael is the third team member. Each battle fight has three members on the team."

I exhaled with worry. The airship had descended down below the scattered white cloud coverage. We were getting closer to the Land of Kaootu.

He continued to steer the ship closer down to the landscape and said with a smile. "O! You didn't hear me. Lael is the third team member on your court team, empress."

I exhaled with more worry while deeply inhaling to calm a racing heart from fear and exercise.

He grinned. "O! You are only worried about each court prince. I understand. I see. I get it."

I exhaled with annoyance. "How many lands have been claimed by my father?"

"Too many, I can't remember each name over the past three years."

I nodded with a stern face. "Well, when I'm the real empress, I'm halting this silly process."

"Good," he smiled. "We have arrived."

Land of Kaootu

Pale blue skyline and white clouds and bright sunshine

Dandelion field setting

02:44 pm

Inside the rear bench seat, I scooted over and sat beside the glass window, gasping in shock. "What is that down there?"

"We're traveling over a dandelion field."

"The field is filled with zillions and zillions and zillions of short and yellow tinted dandelions."

"A dandelion flow produces milk that contains latex. Latex is a natural rubber product from Mother Nature. Then entire landscape is covered in fields of dreams, in mean, dandelions."

I see scattered groups of dull red and green and yellow and blue short building.

That is each individual home for a Kaootuian and their family members," he hoots with a laugh. "I like saying the word, Kaootuian. It sounds like a cool hooting sound."

The field of yellow tinted short dandelion flowed into a square shaped flat landscape of bright purple short and star-shaped flowers. In the middle of the purple star-shaped flowers, a gigantic object stood tall reaching thirty feet into the air.

"What is inside the middle of the flat purple flowers?"

"I'm receiving a set of electronic instructions to land on top of last landing deck which is made of red and blue squares. Sit back and buckle into the rear seat. This is going to be a loud and sudden drop-off down onto the pretty platform."

I secured the buckle around my collar bone and my hip bone, holding onto the straps, grinding my teeth.

The airship halted with a fast stop and then hovered for the red and blue platform of even squares. Tofur gently landed the vehicle on top of platform and as the ship violently wobbled side to side.

I jerked side to side and as my stomach fluttered to match my sideways body position. "Wow! I'm seasick."

He laughed. "Weird! This pretty platform is not hard, but soft for some reason. Stay inside until the platform quit moving."

I continued to wobble side to side until the ship stilled.

"Okay. Now, the new signal from the controller here in the Land of Kaootu is telling me for you to get out."

I turned and stared out the side window. "What is that place?"

"Based on my visual eyesight without any academic information, it is your new battle field. Get out, Thea!"

"It looks like a playground, not a battle ground, to me."

He frowned. "Get out, Thea! Go and finish this battle field, so we can all go home and get some food and watch some of fun entertainment adventures of pretend, instead of real life. I don't like this piece of wobbly something, where my life stands," laughing.

I scooted over with a sour frown and grabbed the handle. "Okay. Okay." The rear door slid open and as the stinky smell invaded each nostril. I reached up and touched my nose. "Phew! It stinks here."

He frowned and held his nose holes also. "So, that is more the reason to exit from my airship with the fresh air and finish the battle fighting record speed. Get out and close the door, empress!"

I slid out of the smooth leather seat and stood upright on top of the squishy platform, squeaking out loud in shock. I wobbled side to side and slid down, landing on top of my kneecaps with a gasp. My eyeballs viewed a set of steps in alternating colors of red, blue, yellow and green. I slowly stand upright from the soft platform surface and then wobbled ahead with a worried brow. I reached out and touched each hand railing, jerking back both hands with a gasp, wobbling side to side while balancing my body on top of the squishy platform. The hand rail is soft and squishy, not hard and firm. "What is this place?"

I slowly spun around with a worried brow to see Tofur. He watched inside the pilot chair and motioned with a hand for her to go forward, finishing the battle fight.

Playground battle field setting

02:55 pm

I slowly swung around with a worried brow and reached out, touching the hand rail again, slowly climbing up each step. Each step felt soft and squishy also as the soft metal actually squeaked like a tiny white mouse. I reached the top and squirted my eyelashes at the tall object, an enclosed red tinted tower with four open windows without a glass pane. The tower held darkness from the dull sunlight.

I slowly entered into the tower that was tall enough to stand upright and stopped, staring down at a red colored dull object.

I squatted down and reached out, touching the object with one hand. The metal was also smooth and hard, sounding with a squeaky noise. I gasped in shock, reaching only my hand further down the smooth material. "This is a playground slide in the color of solid dull blue." I leaned over the top of the slide and scanned the new battle field arena with a smile. "And the battle field setting is also a duplicate of a child's playground setting in the colors of red, blue, green, and yellow. This is a silly battle field."

I jerked a face to see motion on the same wall, where my slide was mounted. "O! The battle fight begins. I just saw motion. The closest team mate slid down the slide. Well, I guess that I must do what I must."

I twisted around and placed both legs on top of the slide, slowly moving ahead, holding onto the solid metal railing with a fluttering stomach of invisible butterflies. I've not ridden down a playground slide, since the children were small and mobile at my employer's mansion. well, here's go something!"

I shoved my entire sitting body forward with a smile, quickly sliding down the playground slide, yelling out loud with the fun ride and lifted up both arms in the air. The slide slightly curved side to side, whipping my sitting body into each opposite side on the smooth metal, riding down with great speed for a human. The end of the slide presented quickly. I quickly continued slipping down the metal and the hit the solid floor with a soft swish, then a yell, and finally a plop down onto the soft surface with a squeaky sound.

I continued to sit on top of the soft surface while exhaling with a set of heavy breathes. "I'm to, too old for this much childish fun." I slowly stood upright on top of the soft surface and as each boot spiked heel sunk down into the soft material. I gasped in alarm. "I can't fight like this. I'm literally sinking down into the floor. I'm a sitting duck with a soaring scepter weapon."

I slowly lifted the first boot heel up in the air and out from the soft surface, hearing a soft slurp and held my boot in the air. The boot heel was not damaged. However, the poor yellow colored square was damaged with a tiny hole, bleeding up a dark liquid with a set of tiny gulps of noise. "Geez! I murdered the floor square."

I quickly stepped forward and then dropped my boot toe back down into a new soft spot, hearing a squishing sound, moaning with annoyance. I continued to make a set of tiny slurping sounds, slowly moving over the yellow square, turning the color into dark brown liquid. I reached the next square in red hue and murdered a new spot with my spiked boot heel, halting in place.

I scanned the new arena with a puzzled brow.

The battle field was a perfect square shape with four even walls that stood forty feet in height and hid the outside landscape, not the yellow sunlight or the white clouds or the blue sky. Each high wall held a different fun color.

The rear wall behind my back spine was colored in yellow. My personal playground slide was colored in blue. The side wall parallel to my left nostril was colored in red. The other side wall parallel to my right nostril was colored in blue. The forward wall was colored in green.

The base floor of the battle field alternated in a set of perfect squares in the patterned colored of red, blue, yellow, and green hues.

Thus, the entire playground battle field was made of prime playful tints of red, blue, yellow, and green. That indicated nothing related to a deadly fight or a suffering death for someone but Thea.

The rear wall behind my back spine contained three gigantic playground slides that soared high up toward forty feet in the pale blue skyline and was positioned in equal distance from each other.

One playground slide was posed at each wall corner and a third playground slide stood in the middle on the rear wall, where each member of my Tross royal court team had slid down into the battle field, somewhere. Between the three gigantic forty-foot playground slides, an assortment of playground equipment stood in silence and beauty.

The playground equipment pieces displayed a dome climber, a set of monkey bars, three row of swing sets, and a long bridge that connected two short towers.

On the opposite wall, the forward wall displayed a second set of three gigantic playground slides of matching forty feet that were parallel to the first set of three gigantic slides.

The three selected or crowned or stupid natives from the Land of Kaootu had ridden down each playground slide also and now the three natives were moving around the playground setting in silence, seeking out each Tross court royal.

On each side wall and the forward wall like the rear wall, where my playground slide stood, the same type of playground equipment pieces stood lonely and silence while waiting for a classroom of children. However, this was a battle field of warriors seeking defeat or victory.

In the center of the playground setting, two individual towers stood apart and a several feet from the wall in majestic grandeur. Flowing down in a crooked line, a set of gigantic slides in different color of red or blue or yellow or green snaked down toward the floor. Between each slide, an individual piece of playground equipment stood in silence also.

In between the pieces of playground equipment, a clutter of faked, oversized, and individual colored flowers stood on top of an individual matching stem that jaunted up from the soft floor like a pretty weird flower garden.

I looked back over my collar bone and stared at the bottom of the blue colored slide, following the curvy metal back up to the top, groaning with worry. "That is very high. It was fun coming down. I don't know about going back up. How am I supposed to get outta here?" I exhaled with concern. "I'll figure that out when I need to figure that out," I spun around with a stern face and then stepped forward, hearing the slurp of my spiked boot heel coming out form the soft material.

Then I heard a loud set of laughter and quickly placed both boot heels together, standing upright in place with a worried brow, scanning each playground piece of equipment and each oversized flower garden. But I didn't see any movement, only hearing my panic breathes.

The tall playground equipment nicely hid a moving body and the soft floor nicely disguised a set of heavy footfalls.

I continued to scan the landscape without seeing any movement, exhaling with worry. I slowly stepped forward, hearing the slurp from one boot heel and then the second boot hell, standing upright.

Then I heard a soft grinding sound in the far distance. I stayed in place and turned, scanning the landscape with more worry. I climbed very slowly on top of the yellow tinted bridge, standing upright in place, holding onto the convenience parallel long hand railing, looking down at the bridge material. I slowly tapped down on my spiked heels sounding with tiny pings of music. I giggled at the silly tone and then looked up viewing the new landscape. The bridge provided a better image of the entire battle field for my battle strategy also.

A pair of functional eyeballs can see for three miles in the distance.

I could see the forward wall of blue which was half-a-mile or 1,400 feet in the far distance. One thousand feet seemed like a short distance but not slurping on top of a pair of spiked fashion heels.

Between my yellow tinted walking bridge and the far distance forward wall, there were numerous playground equipment that seemed to be cluttered in groups. Each group displayed a slide, a swing set, a dome climber, a set of monkey bars, and a tower with a bridge.

I turned and scanned the side wall of red hue, seeing no movement but more playground equipment that was presented in the same clutter. I turned to scan the other side wall of blue hue, seeing no motion either but more playground equipment.

I slowly spun around to face the rear wall of yellow hue seeing no other motion or hearing a ting of sound but it displayed more playground equipment in the same clutter arrangement. I stared at my blue tinted slide that stood forty feet high and gleamed in the dull sunlight.

I whispered for my eardrums only. "Where is Zeamon? I feel alone here."

Above my hair roots, a flock of birds flew through the scattered clouds, squawking in happiness.

I quickly ducked down and squatted on top of the smooth bridge material from the surprise screams of each flying fowl in fright. I looked up and scanned the pale sky. the flock of birds merrily flew toward the village of short buildings.

I slowly stood upright and scanned the rear wall and playground equipment again, seeing the yellow tinted slide with a gasp of alarm, whispering for my eardrums only. "That other gigantic slide in yellow hue belonged to the native from the Land of Kaootu. What does a Kaootuian look like? I don't know. But he or she or it had slide down about the same time I did or after I did. He or she or it is here with me somewhere among the playground equipment. But where is the Kaootuian hiding?" I slowly spin around and scanned each piece of playground equipment, facing the tower that stood at the end of the bridge.

The tower was a square-shaped tiny building without a set of windows. The bottom half of the tower was covered where a Kaootuian could hide from the enemy also. The tower contained a roof with a single flying flag. The flag did not flutter but was straight and stiff, wearing a set of vertical lines in red, yellow, blue, and green colors.

A loud grinding sound echoed throughout the air waves.

I dropped down again and squatted on top the bridge, scanning each piece of equipment while hunting for the original maker of the sound. I did not see any movement or motion coming from a person.

I slowly stood upright and held the hand railing with a sigh of worry. This battle field environment was different from the last two. This one was much more creepy and scary. There wasn't a breeze, only flat air. the sunlight was dull and gray like it was going to rain but there were not any clouds in the skyline.

And there was not a single sound of a bird or a bee or a bug that sung or buzzed or flew in the air waves within the playground arena. It was like the playground environment was both dead and lifeless, a perfect battle site.

Based on the clutter of playground equipment, in the middle of the field, there were two extremely tall towers on opposite sides that held a single flag in the color of blue. The tower seemed to be a good spot to view all of my enemies and find all of my friends.

But I needed too transverse across the same soft floor on my spiked heels that make my process very slow from the silly slurping sounds. "I need to find a better pathway." I whispered for my eardrums only.

I returned back and stared at the red tinted tower. "You are my new home until I can find a better plan. Or until the battle fight time has expired." I slowly moved ahead with a stern face hearing a set of loud laughter. I swiftly ducked down and squatted on top of the bridge, scanning each piece of colorful playground equipment and the soft colorful floor while seeing no movement. "This place could give an old person a heart attack. Good thing, I'm young and healthy," chuckling.

I slowly stood upright from the bridge base and moved ahead with a worried brow, staring at the tower opening. A square-shaped hole had been cut through the side for entrance into the tower.

The bridge slightly tilted upward sharply heading into the tower opening.

I looked down to see the bridge floor and gritted my teeth. My pair of spiked heeled thigh-high fashion boots did not like the uphill climb on the slick material and as I grunted in heavy sounds, quickly shuffling both hands along the curved hand railing, trying to propel my body in a forward motion. However, my body quickly stumbled more backwards rather than forward.

A tall and slender shadow appeared and stood inside the tower opening, staring down at the black colored hair roots on Thea. The shadow leaped up from the opening and then soared through the air, screaming out loud a warning.

I looked up with a gasp to see the shadow and as the shadow slammed into my body.

The shadow and I tumbled backward with a set of loud screams, sliding back down the bridge floor and then halted on the edge of the bridge in a pile of wrapped arms and legs.

I opened my eyelashes and gritted my teeth while screaming with fury into the familiar smile. "Zeamon, what are you doing here? You scared me to death with your stupid stunt from the tower. Get off of me right now! We're in the middle of a battle fight."

He leaned over and kissed her lips for a few seconds while groaning with pleasure.

I enjoyed the kiss and held my breath, loving his soft touch.

Holding your breath will calm your nerves and then kill your heart, if you don't breathe.

I pulled back with a happy smile of surprise into his smile, "All right! You are forgiven. How long have you been hiding up there?"

He hugged her body with a chuckle. "I landed down into the playground yard before you. So, I saw you glide down the slide, march over the floor, and struggle to climb up this bridge. So, I'm been up there in the tower for numerous minutes."

I smiled. "Is the battle fight over with? Has the time expired? Can we leave?"

"No. The time has not expired. We can't leave. I have been watching you but looking for Lael."

I gasped with worry. "O no! Has she...?"

He frowned. "No. Absolutely not, she is alive somewhere in here. And she is a very good court princess with a set of excellent scepter skills. She is around here somewhere, probably hiding one of the natives from Kaootu. So, we will get inside the tower and then stay put. Lael can eliminate one or all of the natives. When the time limit expires, we win again."

I exhaled with worry. "That seems unfair for Lael. I should do my part as the empress of the court team."

He laughed. "It's unfair if we decide to interfere with Lael. She is a greedy warrior. So, we will stay put inside the tower and wait for the time limit to expire," he twisted out of the human pretzel and then stood upright on the floor, leaning down, lifting Thea to stand with a smile. He leaned over and kissed her lips for a few seconds while groaning with pleasure.

I pulled back with a smile and a soft whisper, staring into his dancing gray eyeballs.

A shadow flew through the air waves from the tower and then swiftly descended down, hitting Zeamon and Thea. The three bodies collided together and then landed down on top of the bridge floor in a pile of arms and legs.

Governess Lael was a petite and pretty female with a slick ponytail of long, long brown hair with a mixture of additional fun colors of pink, purple, lavender over her skull and on the ponytail, a tone of pale skin, and a pair of green eyeballs. She came from the Land of Lesdam which was located on the far, far northern end of the kingdom, where the ground was covered in white tinted and cold ice particles. The entire nation was one tiny village that only provided the outdoor activity of ice skating on top of the frozen ground for fun and also imported all types of food stuff, warm clothes, and other life essentials.

Lael wore a shorty short circular skirt of pink tint, a sleeveless shirt of matching pink tint underneath a pair of naked legs that was attached to a pair of roller blades in rainbow colors. She also possessed elbow and knee pads in the same rainbow hues that matched her pair of roller blades.

Zeamon wiggled side to side, sliding off the other two bodies, standing upright on top of the bridge and growled down at the shadow. "Lael, what in the fudge are you doing here?"

Lael continued to lounge on top of the bridge floor and part of Thea, wiggling side to side with laughter, frowning at Zeamon and then turned to smile at Thea. "I'm supposed to be here. Come on! We need to get up and move toward the larger tower, where..."

"Why should we do that?" He continued to frown down at Lael. "Why is that important right now?"

"The tall tower is taller and can view the entire battle field. We need to go and try finding each hidden native of Kaootu. That's our purpose here. Let's get up and go right now!" Lael slowly struggled to stand and wobbled side to side over the smooth bridge floor, holding onto the hand railing with a smile.

I continued to lounge over the bridge floor and then turned with a gasp, staring at her pair of roller skates on Lael.

Lael continued to roll side to side over the bridge with a giggle in place.

I frowned. "How can you move around in a pair of roller skates, Lael?"

Lael skated side to side to each hand railing with a smile. "Everyone wears a pair of skates where I live. It's as natural as breathing. Let's leave and move to the big tower!" She pulled her body with both hands over the hand railing, gliding up toward the tower opening, skating over the smooth bridge and then entered the tower opening.

I slowly stood upright and held onto the hand railing, watching the tower interior. The head of Lael skated around and around in a circle over the interior floor inside the tower. "What is she doing up there? I don't understand. Is she skating in a circle?"

Zeamon looked up with a sour frown and stared at the interior tower, seeing Lael also. "I don't know. I guess she's waiting on us. She's leading us toward the larger tower," he exhaled. "I guess we need to follow her. I don't want her injured or harmed. I'll get into major trouble with my parents," he reached out and grabbed Thea's hand, slowly climbing up the tilted bridge, moving ahead toward the same tower interior.

Tower interior setting

03:33 pm

Blue sky and white clouds of yellow sunshine

I struggled to climb up the tilted bridge with a set of heavy breathes but felt protected with Zeamon, reaching the opening and entered the tower house. I slipped to the side and leaned against the half-wall that held an unprotected window of air molecules, staying away from Lael. The eye view was amazing. I could clearly see each clutter of playground equipment much better and every colorful wall, but I still didn't see any movement or heard any sounds which was weirdly creepy.

In the center of the tower, Lael extended both arms even with the floor and continued to encircle the smooth floor inside the tower, wearing a smile.

Zeamon entered through the tower opening with a sour frown and then slipped to the side, standing beside Thea, wrapping an arm around her waistline while staring at Lael. "All right! We're up here, Lael. Now, what do you wanna do?"

Lael encircled the floor again with both arms extended even with the floor and then faced a second opening on the opposite side. "We continue our trek toward the bigger tower. Just follow me!" She skated ahead and then tucked both arms around her chest, crouching down at her kneecaps, sailing ahead toward the second opening in the opposite wall.

I gasped with alarm. "Wait, Lael! There is another opening inside the tower interior. You're heading directly toward it. You're going to..."

Lael exited the second opening with a scream of thrill and then rolled down a new slide, skating down the smooth material, grinding each roller on the pair of skates.

I covered both of my eardrums from the terrible grinding sound, watching Lael disappear from the tower.

Zeamon continued to lean against the opposite wall with a sour frown, watching Lael disappear from the tower also. "O! That's what she wants us to do," he reached up and grabbed the hand on Thea. "Come on! Let's get off this tower and follow her! Geez! This is supposed to be fun, not work."

We moved ahead and then stopped, standing in front of a second red tinted slide that was only ten floor high from the ground.

"You slide down first. I'll follow behind your back spine a few seconds later. Then we're trek over the floor toward the larger tower."

I pointed at the sky and target Lael. "Look at her! I can see Lael. She's using each slide to fly through the air waves and then land near the opening on each tower bridge. She's very talented with pair of roller skates."

"Excellent!" Zeamon continued to stand beside Thea and frowned at the flying body of Lael. "Then she can roll the native to death with her deadly pair of skates. Let's get moving before she gets too far ahead of us. I'll get into trouble, if I let her get too far ahead."

"What did you say?" I sat down on my fanny with a giggle and reached out, touching the hand railing, pushing off with a loud yell of fun. I slide down and landed on my spiked heels, sticking down into the soft floor. I stepped forward hearing the slurp of the spiked heel coming out from the soft floor and then slowly moved away from the bottom of the slide for safety.

Zeamon slide down without the shouts and wore a sour frown, standing upright on top of the soft floor. He swiftly moved ahead and then stopped, cuddling with Thea. "We walk on the floor unlike skater Lael. But we need to run and catch up with her. She is almost at the center tower. I hope that aren't any hiding Kaootuians at the larger tower."

"Me, too!" I slowly stepped forward hearing the slurp of my spiked heel from the tiny hole and then placed the same foot down on top of the soft floor, creating a second hole.

He moved ahead and released her arm with a gasp. "Hey! You're moving way too slowly with me."

"I get stuck here. I mean my heel keeps getting stuck down into the soft rubbery floor."

He spun around with a puzzled brow and watched her in forward motion.

I stepped forward hearing the slurp of the next spiked heel and then placed my foot down on top of the soft floor, creating a new hole.

He frowned with confusion at her feet. "What's wrong with you?"

I pointed down to the floor with a stern face. "It's not me. The soft floor likes to eat my boot heel and then it bleeds in dark liquid."

He squatted down and touched the floor with a smile. "This is a natural rubber plant plantation. Rubber is harvested in the form of latex from a rubber tree or plant. Latex is a sticky and milky substance that is collected in a fluid form in a vessel-like bowl in a process that is called tapping. This particular rubber plantation gets the product from the field of yellow tinted dandelions that each one of us saw during the airship ride. This is also a rubber floor on top of the smooth rock."

I frowned down at the floor which was comprised of large squares in alternating colors of dull red, blue, yellow and green. "How do you know that?"

"The color of the rubber product is really dull looking. And a rubber floor does not stain and is slip resistant as well as stable."

"I am not slipping but sticking down into the soft rubber floor," I slowly stepped ahead hearing the slurp of my spiked heel coming out of the tiny hole on top of the soft floor.

He moved ahead and spun around, wrapping an arm around her waistline, lifting Thea off the rubber floor and cuddled her into his rib cage with a low grunt. "We'll move with the buddy system. I'm carrying part of your weight. You help me by pushing off each piece of playground equipment with a foot which will propel me forward moving us toward the center tower. I can't carry you toward the tower. You weight too much. Do you understand?"

"Yes, I do. I reach out with my foot and touch each object, pushing us forward. I can do that much." I reached out with a foot and touched the pole on the swing set, waiting on his command.

"Push us off now!" He grunted with the extra weight and moved forward from the slide and toward the center tower.

I shoved my foot forward using the stationary swing pole as the leverage object.

They both slowly moved over the soft floor with the leverage procedure as Zeamon continued to grunt and sweat with the extra weight of Thea.

Center tower interior setting

03:56 pm

Lael rolled down the next slide and then tucked her arms around her chest, sailing off the edge of the slide, flying through the air waves in plain sight. She stood upright in the wind with a smile and extended both arms even with the ground during her flight with a giggle. She landed on top of the next bridge surface and wobbled side to side, pumping her legs with the skates forward, picking up faster speed. She rolled ahead on the new tilted bridge with a set of heavy breathes, moving up toward the tower opening.

She rolled through the opening and then slowly skated around the flat and smooth interior floor, exhaling with a set of heavy breathes, studying the new environment.

Lael had reached the center tower and glanced back during her skating to see Zeamon and Thea. They were slowly moving across the flat rubber floor, where Zeamon was slightly toting part of Thea's body.

Lael exhaled with worry. "Thea must be injured. So, now, it's up to me to lead the team and won the battle fight as the new court princess." She continued to encircle the flat smooth interior floor and turned to see the opposite center tower with a gasp. "I found the natives."

Each native still upright and then leaned over the open window frame, staring back at Lael. Each native wore a colorful helmet with a row of matching spiked points over a skull of long brown hair, displaying a tone of yellow tinted skin, and a piece of covered body armor on the upper chest in a different color. One native of body armor was decorated in red hue. The second one featured blue body armor. The third one displayed yellow colored body armor.

Inside the tower, Lael continued to skate in a circle and studied the new landscape. Each tower stood on the opposite wall in a parallel formation that was separated by an array of playground equipment pieces.

To get to the next tower, a native must climb through each playground equipment piece which was relatively easy, unless the enemy inside the tower possessed a scepter weapon to cut off the head of the native as he or she climbed up the slide.

Lael and her royal friends had the same problem trying to get and kill each native from Kaootu.

The three natives were scurrying around the interior tower floor trying to figure out a plan to attack Lael that didn't get them killed either.

On top of the ground floor, Zeamon stopped and exhaled with a set of heavy breathes, slowly placing Thea down on top of the rubber.

I can hike the next twenty feet to the edge of the bridge. You go on up into the tower interior and see what Lael is doing. I see her skating around inside the tower interior. Maybe, she has developed a new plan."

"All right!" He leaned down and kissed her lips for a few seconds, pulling back with a smile and a wink. "Will you be okay down here?"

I smiled. "Yeah, I'll yell for help, if I have trouble down here. Go on and see what the new plan is!"

He dashed ahead with a smile and climbed up onto the bridge, racing up over the tilted bridge and reached the opening with ease. Zeamon disappeared into the tower interior with the blue tinted flag.

I exhaled with annoyance and stepped forward, hearing the slurp of my spiked heel, leaving the old hole, murdering the new blue tinted rubber square. A few minutes later, I reached the bridge edge, slowly climbing up the smooth surface of hardened rubber, using the hand rails and moved up the tilted bridge and finally stood inside the opening inside the center tower building.

Zeamon continued to lean against the half-wall, crossing both arms without holding his scepter weapon and watched Lael in silence, wearing a sour frown.

Lael continued to skate with a smile around the smooth floor and glanced back to see Zeamon. "This is the only plan that I can conceive. What is your great plan, Zeamon?"

Zeamon did not move but sneered at Lael. "I don't like that plan, Lael. Thea is here now. Maybe, she can come up with another plan to defeat the three Kaootuians."

I moved inside, then slid across the side wall and stopped, standing beside Zeamon with a puzzled brow. "What is the current plan?"

Zeamon exhaled with annoyance. "Lael wants to..."

Lael completed a new circle and skated toward the half-wall that faced the opposite tower. The half-wall also displayed an opening with a new green tinted slide that led toward the soft rubber floor. She sailed around with a smile and tucked both arms underneath armpits, crouching down at the kneecaps, exiting through the new opening. She hit the top of the slide and then spread out both her arms and legs, soaring across the empty air waves like a bird. She flew toward the top of a new red tinted slide and hit the top portion, lowering her body into a vertical plane, gliding directly into the opposite tower interior.

Inside our tower, I gasped in alarm and pointed at Lael in silence.

Zeamon gasped in alarm also and quickly dashed away from Thea and stopped at the edge of the slide, without moving but stared at a flying Lael.

Through the empty air waves, Lael continued to fly in a horizontal pose and then entered through the open window on the other tower center, still gliding in a horizontal pose over the interior floor. The native in the red body armor reached out and grabbed onto the pair of roller skate at the feet on a flying Lael. However, the native was too weak and could not pull Lael down to crash-land on top of the hard surface inside the tower floor.

The Kaootuian native didn't release the wrapped arms from the pair of roller skates on the court princess. So, Lael and the Kaootuian native continued to fly across the floor and exited through the opposite side of the tower, sailing through the air waves. Then the two bodies dropped down toward the ground from gravity, disappearing out of sight.

Inside the first tower, I screamed out loud in fear and jabbed a finger at the second tower, "Lael! She made it to the opposite side and then flew into the tower interior and then she flew..." I exhaled with worry and dashed ahead, stopping beside Zeamon, staring into the other center tower with fear. "We gotta go and rescue her."

Zeamon did not move from the edge of the slide and stared at the two Kaootuians inside the second center tower. The two Kaootuians raced ahead and then leaned over the open window pane, looking down at the ground, screaming out loud with sadness also.

He exhaled with sadness. "Natural rubber degrades down and then is eaten up inside a liquid by bacteria."

I continued to watch the two Kaootuians as they danced around and screamed with sadness and pain for their native friend. I exhaled. "What does that mean? I don't understand. We must leave outta of here and go and rescue Lael."

He continued to stare into the interior on the opposite center tower. "When your spiked heel stomped down into the soft rubber floor, the pointy spike created a tiny hole. When you pulled out your spiked heel from the tiny hole, a dark liquid substance slowly oozed out from the hole was designed in dark star-shaped crystals. That dark liquid is called bacteria."

I exhaled with frustration and continued to stare inside the center tower. "What does bacteria have to do with rescuing Lael?"

He frowned. "We can't rescue a dead body."

I turned and sneered at his nose profile. "What are you not saying, Zeamon?"

He stared into the opposite center tower interior. "Lael had sailed from here and across the air like a bird while wearing her pair of roller blades. Then she flew into the interior of the opposite tower without stopping and dropped down through the air, sailing over the erected blue tinted guard wall and landed down in a pond or an ocean of bacteria. The purple star-shaped objects made up a sea of bacteria. The species of bacteria is one of the oldest life forms on the planet. The single celled species had been discovered inside a hydrothermal vent, where the scientists had estimated that it lived 4.280 billion years ago. The oceans formed 4.40 billion years ago. And the planet formed 4.54 billion years ago. The species of bacteria comes in a variety of shapes, such like, spherical, rod-like, spiral-shaped, tightly coiled and star-shaped. Some bacteria sizes cannot be seen by the naked eyeballs, but others can."

I frowned. "I have heard of the human species, plant species, insect species, and animal species, but bacteria as a species."

"The species of bacteria grows deep underneath the planet's crust within heavily nutrient-poor environments, where the bacteria species has the ability to acquire nutrients to grow, attaches to a surface for live, and swims through liquids to escape from its predators."

I placed both dirty hands into my face of sobs and tears. "What eats a species of bacteria?"

He exhaled, "Nothing really. The species of bacteria exists and will attach to a surface and then form a dense mat which is called a biofilm. The presence of a biofilm contains multiple species of bacteria forming a secondary structure which is much harder to kill than individual species of bacteria. That biofilm surrounded this playground setting which is really the battle field environment. This is why the leaders of the Kaootu placed a pretty colorful playground in the middle of a sea of bacteria."

I jabbed a finger at the opposite tower with a worried brow. "Look, Zeamon! Your science lesson is both sick and fascinating. But we need to go and rescue Lael."

He shook his oily skull with a frown. "Her human body has been contaminated and consumed by the flesh-eating bacteria. Lael is dead."

I gasped. "You mean that we can't escape from here and go through the sea of pretty purple colored glittering star-like surface."

He turned and smiled to Thea. "Yes, if you wanna die like Lael."

I shook my curls with a sad face. "No, I wanna live and fight for another day."

He smiled. "Good. So, I do, also."

I gasped in shock, dropping down my arm, slapping my leg with a soft pop. "O no! Look! Our next action is...is to surrender or leave the battle field right now. Tofur is waiting inside my airship. We can climb back up my playground slide and then climb down the staircase and enter my airship, leaving the Land of Kaootu."

He frowned. "No. We are here to fight in a battle fight like all the previous ones that we had won. And we don't have another choice or option. If we try to escape within the designated time period, the leader of Kaootu has orders to fire and kill each one of us. So, we can be killed or dying. So, we're stuck here inside the colorful playground battle field until the end of the designated hourly deadline."

"How much time is left on the clock?"

He turned and scanned the playground field, "Hmm! I would say about anything twenty more minutes. You and I ate up a lot of time while traversing over the rubber floor when I had to tote your heavy body."

I nodded and whipped both hands in the air near my worried brow. "Thank you for that. Okay. We stay alive and uncontaminated for twenty-one minutes and zero seconds."

He laughed with a nod. "I like the way your think, Thea."

I looked up with a smile. "Do you really?"

"Yes, I really do." He leaned down and quickly kissed her lips for a few seconds, pulling back with a wink and a smile.

I touched my lips, still feeling the warmth, smelling the cologne of vanilla mint.

He turned and gasped, pointing at the center tower. "Look over there! The Kaootuian native in the blue colored body armor is leaving the tower. I must leave and intercept that native, before he or she or it climbs over the playground equipment and then reaches us."

I laughed. "Let the fool come over here. This is our territorial tower to defend. We're two warriors to his one. Then we will really win the battle fight. Right now, we are even as two of our team mates have died."

He frowned. "No. You don't know how to fight. I must stop the fool before he gets here," he spun around with a stern face and dashed ahead, dropping down and landed on top of the slide, moving down on his stomach and yelled out loud with a laugh.

I gasped in alarm and spun around, racing toward the slide, stopping at the edge of the air molecules.

Zeamon landed down at the bottom and hit the soft floor with both hands, rolling ahead and then stopped on his back spine. he slowly rolled sideways and then stood upright from the rubber floor, whipping out his scepter weapon and crouched down, racing ahead and disappeared behind a clutter of playground equipment.

"O no! Don't leave me alone here, Zeamon. I'm coming with you. He's defending my life. I can fight, too," I turned and gasped inside the opposite tower.

The last Kaootuian spun around and moved toward the opposite side and away from his native friend, dropping down, moving down the slide and disappeared from the center. The native soared down toward the rubber floor.

I gasped in alarm. "O no! The last Kaootuian is going to surround Zeamon. Then, the both of them will kill Zeamon with ease. No. No. I can't like that happen. I can protect Zeamon too," I spun around with a sneer and raced ahead, dropping down on top of my fanny, sitting on top of the new slide that ended down on the floor beside the smooth walking bridge. I reached out and touched the hand railing, shoving my body forward, soaring down the slide and studied the floor.

The entire floor was colored in a dark tone, not a set of alternating patterned-squares of red, blue, yellow, and green.

I reached out and grabbed the railing, burning both of my palms and halted in the middle of the slide, studying the floor. "The floor is dark colored. What is that over the floor?" I gasped in alarm. "The dark ooze has covered the floor. O no! Each of my spiked heels has torn a hole into the soft rubber. Now, the dark colored species of bacteria has erupted from the stone and flooded the rubber floor. No. The species of bacteria is eating the rubber floor. I can't walk over deadly killing bacteria. I will get eaten up by the acids and then die. That's what happened with poor Lael." I exhaled with worry and turned to see the other slide.

The last Kaootuian had halted in the middle of the slide also, studying the floor too.

I twisted around and faced the top of the slide, slowly climbing on both of my naked kneecaps, moving up the slick material and exhaled with a heavy breathes. I turned to see the last Kaootuian.

The last Kaootuian stared at Thea and then spun around, moving back up the slide the same way.

I returned back and stared down at the slide, gritting my teeth, climbing back up a one-way slide to save Zeamon.

Above my hair roots, a flock of flying black birds squawked loudly and then dropped down playfully soaring through each open slot on each piece of playground equipment, flying directly over my skull. I dropped down and slammed a body into the slide, covering my hair roots with a sneer at the stupid fowl.

The flock of birds continued to loudly squawk and flew too low, hitting the naked face on the native Kaootuian. The native tumbled off the playground slide and dropped off falling down into the purple tinted bacteria sea. The native emerged from the liquid and then tried to swim out of the muck but quickly sunk back down into the liquid and was covered in the purple tinted bacteria as the bacteria acids sucked the skin and bones if the native Kaootuian.

The flock of birds continued to loudly squawk and flew ahead, leaving the battle field, soaring through the pale blue sky toward the villages.

I popped my head upright and turn with a gasp to see the flock of birds, softly cursing eh nasty fowl and then viewed an empty slide.

The last Kaootuian had finished climbing up the slide and was inside their tower interior.

I rushed up the slide and crawled over the lip of the slide, wiggling over the smooth floor, exhaling with exhaustion. I didn't have time to rest. I stood upright from the floor and stared into the other tower interior. The last Kaootuian was missing from the tower floor.

"O no! The last Kaootuian has slid down the slide and is looking for Zeamon. I'm coming Zeamon. Hold on! Keep fighting!" I raced ahead and dropped down, landing on my stomach with both of my arms outstretched above my skull. I soared down the playground slide with great speed and hit the bottom floor on both of my arms, tumbling into a roll and landed on my back spine with a loud grunt.

I rolled to the side and then slowly stood upright with a dizzy head, slowly shaking my head and clearing the double vision with difficulty. I slowly strolled ahead and whipped out my scepter weapon, holding with both cupped hand, searching for Zeamon.

The air was cool and the wind was flat. The sky was cloudless. The sun was dull. The mammals didn't thrive here. And the ground smelled of strong ammonia through the dissolving rubber floor.

I was not an educated person, but I had the unpleasant task of teaching six individual kids in the noble house from the class of kindergarten into high school graduation, so I had studied the science textbook in great depth.

Natural rubber possessed a strong, unpleasant odor.

So, the species of bacteria lived here on top of the stone, not this cute and colorful playground environment. The leaders of Kaootu were both smart and wise. They had built the battle field on top of a poisonous sea of ammonia.

If the human flesh touched raw ammonia, the flesh would dissolve into liquid tissue, killing the fool.

On the ground, I slowly moved ahead and pressed the button. The sharp blade extended into the air waves for a death kill or two. I didn't see any movement or hear any sound.

I wanted to shout out for Zeamon, but two of the Kaootuians were tracking him first.

I slowly moved ahead toward the playground slide that the last Kaootuian rode down from the center tower. The native would be close to the playground equipment and hunting Zeamon from that exit point.

I carefully stepped ahead on the ball of each foot without hearing the slurp sound from my spiked heel without giving away my fighting position and then halted with a gasp.

The purple tinted sea of bacteria had quickly encompassed the ground underneath the second tower while gleaming in the dull sunlight, eating the rubber floor fast and furious.

I laughed out loud with sick humor.

The last Kaootuian had ridden down the playground slide and landed into the sea of bacteria and probably severely burned his body, dying on the spot. I was not worried about the last Kaootuian. Now, I was worried about my court prince Zeamon.

I carefully back stepped from the growing sea of purple bacteria underneath the second center tower and turned to see the forty feet forward wall of green hue with a gasp.

On the floor, the sea of purple tinted bacteria was quickly approaching toward my stationary position while furious eating away the rubber floor.

I gasped in alarm but wasn't worry about court prince Zeamon. He had educated me about the sea of bacteria. I spun around with a grin and stared at the side wall of red hue. I clearly saw the center playground slide and the third playground slide that both Lael and Zeamon had ridden down into the battle field for the start of the battle fight.

Now, the two of the native Kaootuians were dead, leaving one. Two of my team mates were alive with the battle fight victory.

I didn't know how much time was left on the clock, but it was close to ending the battle fight.

Usually, the battle field would disintegrate upon itself as the time clock counted down to zero minutes and zero seconds.

I raced ahead on the ball of my foot toward the red tinted wall, where my airship was parked on the opposite end of the wall. However, Tofur would be searching for Thea to emerge from the battle field.

I swiftly scooted around or crossed through each piece of playground equipment as the sea of purple liquid chased after my boot heels, eating the rubber. I climbed the ladder and then soared down the playground slide, making better foot speed and then landed down on my spiked heels, sticking down into a yellow tinted rubber square.

On the opposite side of the battle field at the blue tinted wall, the sea of purple tinted bacteria had finished eating through each thick pole on the blue tinted center tower. The tower tilted and then tumbled forward with a loud pop, landing on top of the playground equipment pieces and part of the first blue tinted tower with a series of loud crashes.

I turned to see a huge pile of colorful rubber materials as the sea of purple bacteria slowly crawled over and then dissolved the rubber trash.

I stepped ahead hearing the slurp from one of spiked heels and landed down on my tipped toes, jerking the second spiked heel from the rubber floor with great speed, sliding down my entire body over the rubber floor that was still clean but smelly.

I gasped in alarm. My hand flew open and then released my scepter weapon as it flew a few feet from my face.

However, my nose bridge almost touched the edge of a glittering scepter weapon that displayed a smooth golden bird on the handle. I sobbed with tears. "No. No. It can't be. This was Zeamon's scepter weapon. No. No. He can't be dead. I'm here to protect him. He can't be dead." I swiftly stood upright from the rubber and stood on top of my tippy toes without sinking back down into the rubber floor. I leaned down and reached out for his weapon, wearing a sad face of sobs and tears.

The center forty-foot gigantic yellow tinted playground slide wobbled side to side with rubber pain and then collided backwards, breaking the red tinted wall with a loud crash. The broken red tinted wall exposed the outside landscape that glittered in purple tinted seat of bacteria for miles and miles.

I looked up with a gasp of worry to see the sea of bacteria and then sidestepped from the gigantic opening, running on my tippy toes over the clean rubber floor, veering toward the last gigantic slide on the dissolving the red tinted wall.

The last gigantic slide wobbled side to side and then tilted sideways, breaking down the green tinted wall intersection, exposing more of the sky and the land.

I halted with worry. "I'm not going to survive this. I'm doomed to die here with Zeamon. Well, so be it. Then I'll die right here too. I'm so sorry, my twin dead sister. I tried to be like you, a good empress. But I am not. I am only a house servant."

At the wall intersection, the intact gigantic playground slide dove down into the sea of purple tinted bacteria with a huge splash and then wobbled side to side over the liquid as the species of bacteria slowly ate through the red tinted rubber material.

A single airship dropped down from the blue skyline and then hovered at the edge of the broken red tinted playground slide. The rear door slid open.

In the air waves, inside the airship, Tofur yelled out loud and waved both hands, sitting on the edge of the passenger doorway, seeing Thea. "Thea, come here now. Get inside now, before the battle field implodes. Thea, I am right here. Come over here and get inside the ship, right now!"

Inside the battle field on top of the clean rubber floor, I gasped in alarm and stood in place, wearing a sad face of tears and sobs, seeing the commotion.

Tofur had halted the airship beside the broken playground slide over the smooth and calm sea of bacteria trying to save Thea.

Inside the battle field, I exhaled with numbness. I had won the battle fight again but lost two more court royals. I didn't feel like leaving but felt like dying with my new friends.

I slowly spun around and faced a sea of purple tinted bacteria that slowly crawled toward my stationary position.

The rest of the battle field was mound of purple liquid, where the bacterium was consuming the rest of the rubber on each piece of playground equipment. Somewhere in there, the dead bones and tissues of Zeamon and Lael were also consumed in a terrible death.

I slowly spun around with a gasp and faced Tofur.

He had climbed down from the safety of the airship and stood upright, wobbling side to side on top of the broken playground slide inside the sea of Bacteria.

Inside the battle field, I gasped in alarm and then swiftly dashed ahead with worry. Tofur could tumble off the broken slide and then die down into the sea of bacteria. I leaped into the air and stumbled over each piece of playground equipment while escaping the sea of bacteria that chased after my boot heels. I reached the edge of the slide and slowed stepped into the smooth hardened rubber, padding upright ahead on my tippy toes, reaching Tofur.

On top of the wobbling piece of playground slide in front of the open rear door, he reached out and grabbed her arm, flinging the body of Thea into the air, tossing her into the rear seat. She soared over the smooth leather and then hit the opposite door, landing down in the floor.

Tofur spun around with a growl and climbed back into the passage seat, sliding over into the pilot seat. He reached out and pressed a set of buttons. Each open door glided shut in silence, locking both of them safety inside the airship.

He pressed more buttons. The airship lifted up from the broken slid and flew upward toward the skyline. He frowned with sour tone, "Geez! What were you thinking down there inside the battle field, Thea? You could have been consumed by the eating sea of bacteria. However, I was safe and I was going to save you, whether you liked it or not. You are not your twin sister. I know the set of battle fights is wrong and they are hard and they are frightening. But you must survive all of them."

I closed my eyelashes and absorbed the physical and mental pain within my body and my mind, saying out loud for his eardrums. "Zeamon is dead."

Tofur continued to pilot the ship with a sour frown. "Lael is dead also. Their individual airship departed, after each pilot had been informed of the royal death, heading back to Tross. Are you going to answer my question about your silly empress behavior?"

I continued to close my eyelashes and gently waved my hand on top of the clean floor in the rear seat, pondering the teen deaths, saying out loud. "No."

He frowned. "The usual answer, I am not surprised."

Land of Tross

Bright sunshine, mint green clouds and pink skyline

Center Building location

Entrance glass door setting

06:06 pm

The airship smoothly landed and then parked in front of the glass doors. All the doors slide open in silence.

Tofur scooted out from the pilot chair and stood upright on top of the red tinted pavement in the bright afternoon sunlight, waiting on Thea.

I slowly sat upright on my fanny and scooted off the rear bench seat, standing upright on top of the pavement also, wearing a sad face. I slowly moved ahead and reached the glass doors first.

Tofur followed slightly behind Thea in silence.

Entrance hallway setting

06:11 pm

I slowly strolled down the glass hallway and looked down at the green dirt, where the glass building had been built over the colorful ground and then bumped into his muscular chest.

Erato wrapped both arms around Thea and stared down at her dirty black tinted hair roots, laughing with a smile. "Phew! You survived but smell..."

"That's it!" I swiftly back stepped and broke away from his hug, rearing back a fighting hand, slamming the blonde whiskers on his jaw line, saying with a growl. "Be quiet! I have had enough of your princely insults to my princess person. Either you like all of me or none of me." I scooted around Erato with a sneer and swiftly dashed ahead, moving ahead toward the group of young females. The group of young females scattered and then dashed away from an angry teen empress but one lonely female.

I continued forward toward the line of personal guards, who wore a red tinted outfit that matched Lord Erato. The line of guards swiftly parted and provided an empty aisle for an angry empress in silence.

Erato lifted a hand and rubbed the minor sting, spinning around with a smile, watching her priss away.

The solo female moved ahead and then squatted down on top of the floor, bowing a chin to Erato, lifting up a small box in the air. The small black tinted box contained a ruby finger ring. She smiled down at the floor. "Will you please marry me, Lord Erato?"

He stared and sneered at the back spine on Thea, saying to the young female. "No. Scat! Go away! Let me alone!"

The female dropped the box with the ring and reached down, plucking a flower from the wrist bone bracelet, sniffing the flower with a sad face. She tilted sideways and dropped down, falling down onto the glass floor with a pair of open eyelids in death.

"Get rid of that thing!" Erato pointed down at the dead girl and continued to stare at the back spine on Thea.

I stopped and stood in front of Prince Nastchill in silence.

He back stepped from Thea and lifted both palms near a wicked grin. "Are you going to slap my face too?"

I sneered. "Are you going to insult me as well?"

"No, empress! I only wanna wish to congratulation your victory at the battle fight. Make I kiss your hand?"

I lifted up and wiggled my fingers with a laugh. "It's a dirty hand."

He nodded with a smile. "That's okay with me."

"So, be it!"

He reached out and grabbed her dirty hand, slowing dipping a smile down toward the unclean skin, gently kissing the dirty tissue. He stood upright with a smile. "Thank you for allowing me to kiss our dirty body."

I jerked my dirty hand away from his clean palm, dropping the arm, slamming down onto my dirty clothes and nodded with a smile. "You are most welcome! Thanks for the kiss!" I scooted around Nastchill and advanced toward a group of young men and women.

The group of young people parted and provided a footpath through the crowd in silence.

I moved ahead with a stern face and entered the glass carriage, stopping in front of the rear glass window in silence.

Tofur followed behind Thea and then spun around, reaching out, pressing the button for the eighteenth floor level and said with a worried brow. "What was that about?"

The single elevator glass door silently shut. The elevator carriage silently soared upward from the ground level to the eighteenth floor.

I exhaled with frustration. "I am trying to act like my dead twin sister."

He stared into the elevator lights. "You should act like yourself."

I frowned down at the ground of blue grass and green dirt. "My self is not an empress."

"That doesn't matter. You are you. She was she. You should act like your real selfie and not try to imitate her evil ways. Why did you slap E-rat?"

I giggled. "You told me on my first day as the fake empress that my dead twin sister would slap his face when he made those nasty insults."

"Yes, she did. No, you didn't. You shouldn't change your teenly behavior now after three days. Someone is going to get suspicious and question your new actions."

I smiled. "I'm a teen. And I'm a girl. I change my mind all the time. I just don't exhibit my new feelings in a physical way, but I do believe that I will start doing that."

"You should not change your ways. You should worry about the other teens."

"I'm not worried. And I'm not worried about the other teens either."

The elevator stopped. The glass door slid open.

Private bedroom chamber setting of Thea

06:13 pm

Tofur moved ahead with a sour frown in silence. "You need to change your dirty clothes before leaving and going into the Coil meeting."

I spun around with a gasp and ran into the short and tiny cleaning machine with my dirty boot toes, back pedaling with a sneer. "What is this?" The machine scooted around Thea and stopped, parking inside the wall corner.

Inside the hallway, he continued to move ahead with a sour frown. "The machine is a cleaning bot that cleans up all your personal messes which are dry or wet inside your personal bedroom suite. Haven't you ever seen a cleaning machine before?"

I moved ahead and exited out from the carriage, strolling down the long hallway toward my bedroom, roaring with laughter.

The elevator glass closed shut. The elevator carriage descended down the ground level, where the cleaning machine would depart and finish its work.

He stopped and spun around with a gasp at her. "What is so funny, Thea?"

I moved ahead with a grin and a nod. "I have never seen an ugly cleaning machine. It looks funny."

He spun around with a sneer. "Remove your smelly clothes, before going into the Coil meeting. The meeting will be starting soonest."

I stopped and smiled. "I..."

He spun back around with a gasp to see Thea. "Are you not going to attend the Coil meeting this evening? You must go. It is one of the rules. You can't break the rule, Thea."

I slapped my dirty clothes with a grin while smelling the ammonia stench on the fabric coils. "I...I don't have a new outfit."

He frowned. "What are you talking about, Thea?"

I smiled with a nod. "I...I don't have any more ironed and pressed new clothes. Tomorrow is my birthday. I had possessed the exact number of lavender outfits until the day that I would reach eighteen years old, which is tomorrow. But then one of them has gotten wet during the splash down which occurred yesterday. Don't you remember, Tofur? Inside the Coil meeting room, E-rat had played a dirty trick on me and then I had gotten my outfit all wet during with the cold water."

He nodded. "Yes, I recall."

I smiled. "Well, you took away my wet outfit and left me hanging in here buck naked. I dared not wear the next day's outfit in case of dirtiness."

I wanted to ask about the cool evening picnic underneath the golden trees, when I was running around the elevator carriage, where I had seen all the court princes, princesses, and my trusted servant Tofur eating the food. But I dared not mention that I had seen them also.

He nodded with a stern face. "Yes, I did. So you are wearing the outfit that you are supposed to wear tomorrow on your birthday."

I reached down and pressed the smelly outfit with a pair of dirty hands and a nod. "Yes, this is really my birthday outfit that I am supposed to wear for tomorrow. So, if there is a clean outfit that I was supposed to wear for today, then I will wear that one into the Coil meeting this late evening and for my birthday tomorrow. Then I would have worn all the lavender outfits. I don't really like the color of lavender. Does that make sense to you?"

He tossed his arms in the air with a confused brow. "Nothing is making any sense to me. I'll run back and get your clean outfit. I did take it and I did clean it on yesterday. The outfit is located downstairs inside the laundry room. I'm sorry. You are correct." He passed Thea and dashed ahead toward entrance wall.

"And..." I spun around with a smile and viewed his back spine.

He stopped and then spun around with a gasp. "And? What is it now?"

I had confused Tofur. He was very upset and confused with me for some reason. So, I continued my new experiment. I frowned. "I lost my scepter weapon again."

He frowned. "No, you have it."

"No." I twirled around and lifted up both of my arms into the air, completing the circle, facing him with a stern face. "No. I dropped my scepter weapon while running away from the sea of bacteria inside the last battle field. But I really don't need the weapon anymore as it is a weapon, not a real scepter."

He frowned. "No. You left the weapon on the floor inside the airship. You rode in the rear seat. Don't you remember?"

"No. I dropped my weapon inside the battle field during the battle fight. I remember doing that. But it doesn't' matter. I don't need it anymore."

"Yes, you must have it for tomorrow."

I gasped, "What for? I'm going to be the new empress. I can make a new one or order someone to do it."

"No, you must have it for tomorrow."

"Is this another battle fight tomorrow?"

"No. Your scepter weapon is in the rear of the airship. I will go and fetch it for you and bring it back here."

"I can go and get it."

He frowned. "No. I will do that. I am your servant. You need to get a bath. You smell like ammonia."

I nodded with a smile. "O! All right! I will go and take a bath. Does my sister Thea happen to possess another scepter weapon? I can't image not having a second one in case of thief or loss," giggling.

He frowned. "No. She does not. I'll be back in a flash with your scepter weapon and your clean outfit in lavender, which is both needed for tomorrow. Tomorrow is an important day." He spun around with a sour frown and dashed ahead, stopping and tapped on the glass wall. The elevator glass wall slid open, revealing an empty carriage. He entered into the carriage and reached back, pressing the button without spinning around to see Thea.

The glass door closed. The carriage dropped down from the eighteenth floor leaving an empty wall of glass, where the dull sunset ray gleamed into the room.

Inside my bedroom suite, I stood in place with a smile. "Okay, Tofool! I change my teenly behavior. Everyone freaks out. I lose my scepter. Everyone freaks out. Am I the empress or not here? And I did lose my scepter weapon. I just hope that my sister Thea has a second one, somewhere. Tofur must know. He knows all kinds of secrets." I slowly spun around with a sad face, thinking about the teen deaths, moving down the long hallway and reached my bed frame. I ripped off the dirty clothes and stood naked, reaching out, ripping off the clean bed linen.

The bed linen smelled like the fragrance of vanilla and roses. The cleaning machine did a good job cleaning my private suite. I stood in place and continued to smell the nice fragrance. I didn't want to think of the teenly deaths or the upcoming depressing Coil meeting. I couldn't change anything tonight. But I would change everything tomorrow.

At the end of the hallway, the elevator glass door slid open. The elevator carriage revealed Tofur, without the cleaning machine.

Fifteen minutes later, her servant Tofur dashed out from the carriage and rushed down the hallway in silence, stopping and stood in front of the glass table first. He slid a steaming food tray on top of the glass with a stern face and then dashed ahead, stopping beside Thea. "Here!" He tossed the new outfit on top of the messy white bed covers. He gasped at her new outfit. "Why is your stinky female body not cleanly bathed, Thea? You still smell like ammonia. And now you have soiled your personal bed linens. The cleaning machine only comes up here, once per day. You must wait again tomorrow afternoon, before you receive a set of new and clean bed linens, Thea."

I turned and smiled at Tofur. "I'm sorry. I wanted out of the dirty cloths before I bathed. And you came back swiftly."

He smiled. "Swiftness is my service. I brought up your dinner tray and a new outfit of lavender. And I found your scepter weapon. It was on the floor of the airship in the rear seat. You just forget. You must stop displaying your set of silly heroic antics, empress. You are going to get injured or harmed."

I gasped in alarm and stared down at the presented scepter weapon. "What did you say?"

He thumbed the wall with the hidden lavatory with a smile. "I said that you need to get a bath and get dressed for the upcoming Coil meeting."

"I thought so," I looked down with a stern face and viewed the new pressed and cleaned outfit, reaching down, grabbing the new scepter weapon. I twisted it around in both palms. The outside ring near the handle displayed scattered brown tinted rust spots from the acidic volcanic lava during the battle field with the natives from the Land of Yawp.

He pointed down at the scepter with a smile. "Is that your scepter weapon, Thea?"

I continued to study the weapon with a smile. "Yes, it is. Thank for retrieving it, Tofur."

In the middle of her room, a purple tinted line dropped down from the ceiling hologram devise, forming a Dragon Head that slowly rotated in a complete circle and as the male voice echoed throughout the air waves. "My empress daughter Thea..."

Tofur spun around first with a gasp.

I spun around next with a gasp to see my father that always was represented by the holographic image of a purple tinted Dragon Head that didn't puff out a stream of colorful fiery flame or a series of colorful snot balls.

"Father," I yelled out loud even though the holographic could not hear my voice.

The Dragon Head continued to slowly rotate in a circle and as the male voice said. "I have an important royal announcement. The Coil meeting has been cancelled for the evening."

I shouted out loud with confusion. "Why is that?"

Tofur gasped. "Why is that? This is a highly unusual protocol for Dragon Head."

The Dragon Head continued to slowly rotate in a circle and as the male voice said. "The royal adults are very upset with the additional two young teen court prince and princess deaths this late afternoon at the battle field in the Land of Kaootu."

I nodded and shouted out loud at the Dragon head. "I am not surprise. I am stunned and upset too, Father."  
The Dragon Head continued to slowly rotate in a circle and as the male voice said. "Thus, the Coil meeting has been cancelled for the evening. I will see you tomorrow, my empress daughter Thea."

I nodded and shouted out loud. "Yes, you will, Father."

The Dragon Head turned back into a purple line and then vanished back into the holographic devise on the ceiling.

Tofur continued to stare with a worried brow down at the floor, where the Dragon Head had spun around. "There isn't a Coil meeting today. This is highly usual for your father, Thea."

I exhaled with sadness. "Is a death also highly usual? Yes. I feel so sad. And the parents of Zeamon and Lael must be terrible depressed and sad."

"Good night, Thea. I will see you tomorrow." He moved ahead toward the set of closed elevator doors with a worried brow.

"Good night, Tofur." I continued to stand in place and held the scepter weapon with a sad heart and a worried mind.

Tofur rushed down the hallway and entered the open carriage. The door closed shut. The carriage and Tofur left the eighteenth floor.

In front of my bed mattress, I continued to stand with a sad feeling, smelling the stinky ammonia that really reminded me of his untimely and tragedy death, this afternoon, at the playground battle field. I slipped my scepter weapon down into the cleaned pair of thigh-high boots and reached down, grabbing the new pressed and clean lavender outfit. I struggled with the twisted yarns of soft white tinted bed linens over the floor and found my naked feet, kicking the pile of stinky clothes toward the hidden wardrobe closet that stood behind the wall painting. I spun around and continued to kick the pile of dirty clothes and hit the side glass wall. I reached out and pressed an index finger onto the glass.

The wardrobe closet door slid open in silence and revealed the enclosed room.

Wardrobe closet setting

06:24 pm

I kicked the pile of stinky clothes inside the room as I did not want to smell the dirty items during my nightly slumber. I kicked one more time and sailed the dirty pile into the wall corner for its nighttime slumber with a giggle and moved ahead, stopping with a gasp.

The cleaning machine had removed the pile of wrinkled clothes and the wet thigh-high boots which was really the lavender outfit for today. But I had used my birthday outfit for today.

So, I held in my hand a new and pressed lavender outfit and a pair of matching lavender boots for my birthday tomorrow as I had dirtied the new lavender outfit this afternoon during the last battle fight.

I closed my eyelashes and whispered. "Please, be the last battle fight. My heart can't take any more teen deaths." I opened my eyelashes and looked down at the floor with a gasp.

And the cleaning machine had removed all the puffy white soft stuffing from the ripped opened cloth hanger off the glass floor. But there was one more pressed and clean lavender outfit still located on the single clothing hanger.

I frowned at the single outfit on the rack. "Why is there an extra lavender outfit?" I laughed. "In case, one of the cute lavender outfits gets dirty or lost, silly empress."

I moved ahead and placed the lavender outfit and the pair of boots on the clothing rake with a smile. "Now, I can choice the color of lavender or lavender for my birthday celebration tomorrow morning." I back stepped with a smile and then halted with a gasp.

The other lavender outfit was tilting toward the opposite side on the clothing rack for some reason. I reached out and grabbed the cloth hanger while feeling the unevenness of the weight. "What is wrong with this clothing hanger? The cleaning machine must have dented or bent it out of shape. Whatever!" I yawned with exhaustion and sadness. "I can wear the other lavender outfit tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." I lifted up and smelled the fabric on the older outfit with a smile. "It smells like vanilla and roses also. That must be the official fragrance for the Empress of Tross. Isn't that right, Thea? I wished you were here with me to answer my many questions."

I reached out and replaced the hanger with the older outfit in lavender back onto the rack. The hanger tilted to the other side for some reason, "Awe! The poor hanger is broken. Don't worry, babe. I'll get the cleaning machine to fix you up better tomorrow." I reached out and tapped on the clothing hanger. The hanger greatly tilted to the side and then fell off the single rack as the lavender outfit landed on top of the thigh-high boots.

"Geez! Everyone and everybody and everything is dying around me." I squatted down and reached out, lifting the outfit with the hanger near my face and felt the unevenness of the outfit. "What is wrong with the outfit? I removed the outfit and dropped it down onto the floor, holding the hanger, feeling the unevenness. "O! I know. This is the clothes hanger that I had murdered last night which had contained all the hidden silver tinted keys for some reason that had matched each painted mural on the fiftieth floor."

I shook the hanger up and down with a smile. "O! There is still a new surprise inside the cloth hanger. I must've missed it last night. Goody! I love surprises." I ripped the cloth fabric off the end and then rammed my naked hand inside, pulling out all the netting. Then my hand hit a smooth metal and as I smiled. "There is something else inside the hanger." I pulled out the object with a giggle. "Another key, I missed this one last night. I guess when the cleaning machine repacked and rearranged the cotton netting back into the murdered clothes hanger, the hidden cylinder key slid more towards the end of the hanger, making the outfit off balance on top of the single rack."

The newly missed golden tinted cylinder key looked like the other keys and displayed a flower petal as the head piece. The other end was rounded which fit into one of the rounded slots on the fiftieth floor.

"O! This key is symbolized by a flower petal. Let's see. One of the adult royals appears as a holographic flower petal also. Who was that? Which court prince or princess was that? I don't know. So, this must be the Noble House of something," laughing. "Geez! I can't remember all the houses or all the names of each court prince or princess. I'm a lousy empress. But I wanna hear the story of this key and all the other keys. I am going to be empress tomorrow. I should learn the other noble houses or nations before I except the new tiara. I wonder if I get to wear a fancy diamond tiara. I do carry around a lavender tinted scepter," laughing. "If my new crown is lavender covered, I will not accept it.

I stood upright from the wardrobe floor and dropped the bedcover down onto the clean floor, turning to face the wall corner with a smile, prancing toward the smelly pile of clothes. I would bath later as I did not have anything else to do this evening but sleep and eat.

I stopped and squatted down, grabbing each piece of fabric and then quickly dressed, exhaling with deep breathes. The clothes smelled horrible.

I spun around with a smile and dashed ahead toward the row of new thigh-high boots, stopping and squatted down. I reached down inside the last boot and pulled out the other golden tinted keys. I had hidden them there, so Tofur would not find my secret stash.

And the cleaning machine didn't care about other items, only piles of dirty stuff that were scattered all over the wardrobe floor.

I retrieved all the keys and then stood upright, looking down with a smile at my all of new secret gifts that had been hidden by my dead twin sister Thea for some reason. I spun around and dashed back to the wall, touching the glass.

The wardrobe closet door slid open.

I turned with a smile, then dashed down the hallway with my new adventure and ignored the dinner tray during the last light of the falling sunset, and halted in front of the glass window with a gasp.

Through the glass window, I could see down on the ground level.

The entire court of other princes and princesses were riding an individual solar bicycle around the blue grass during the last peak of dull sunlight. The sun was rapidly dropping down into the horizon, creating the pretty sunset and a cool night.

I felt so alone and sad. Zeamon had been so kind to me. Now, he was dead and gone, not buried.

Each court prince and princess didn't seem to notice that poor dead Zeamon was missing from the fun activity, tonight. I didn't want to attend the fun bike ride on top of the blue grass while missing poor dead Zeamon also.

I stood in place and sobbed with tears. I didn't understand the numb emotions coming from each court prince and princess. Four of their kin or kind had died over the past two days, but there had not been a royal funeral event to show respect for each deceased young royal.

In the Land of Scotia, a dead person received a grand farewell, departing this world.

Here, a dead person received nothing but an empty chaise lounge chair inside the Coil meeting room.

I moved ahead and then stopped, sliding down in the wall corner, spying on each court teen with a sad face and a sad heart, flooding the floor with my tears. I gently dropped down all the keys from both of my palms, hearing each tiny ting of musical song.

On top of the blue grass, each court prince or princess bobbed a skull with a smile and continued to ride on top of an individual fun looking solar powered bicycle. The royal gang was slowly riding toward the other side on the avenue, where the same glass building stood and shined with bright interior lamps throughout the dull sunlight also.

The teens had traveled to that building last night, also, after the fun picnic event that had been held underneath the golden trees, where I had not attended or been invited.

I guess my father had not allowed me to attend either the picnic meal or the bike ride. I was only seventeen years old and still a minor within his dragon-looking eyeballs.

Tomorrow, all of that would change. I will be eighteen years old and I could rule my own destiny as the new Empress of Tross.

On the ground, the group of solar bikes had reached their final destination as the last rays of sunset dropped down underneath the ground, producing an array of moonlight. My pair of eyeballs was acute, but I couldn't see each individual floor inside the far away building. But I could smell the food inside the tray, but I wasn't hungry.

I spun around and looked down with a sad face at the center of the floor. "Show me the Land of Kaootu battle fight!"

The ceiling holographic devise produced a solid red tinted line and then expanded into numerous colors, displaying the interior playground equipment pieces that comprised of the battle field in the Land of Kaootu.

I gasped in alarm and held my fluttering stomach of nerves and sadness. I didn't know if I wanted to see the battle fight again. I had been there. I had survived again and the my other friends had not.

The active hologram started playing while displaying a bird's eye view, not a floor view. Each warrior was a tiny dot in the hologram.

In the glass wall corner next to the glass carriage, I stared down at the floor as and my mind remembered each step on top of the soft rubber floor inside the battle field. I allowed the hologram to run and play without really watching the recorded action as I didn't have anything else to do.

I wondered what my dead twin sister Thea did during each one of her lonely evenings. Obviously, she didn't have any fun with male company from either Erato or Nastchill.

As a house servant in the Land of Scottie, I helped each teenager and pre-teenager with their individual homework assignments and then cleaned up my room and the living room for the next day's activities. Then I spent the evening checking their homework assignments and reviewing for the next day's academic lessons.

Here, in the Land of Tross, my dead twin sister had spent her lonely and non-boyfriend friendly evenings looking for her live and hidden twin sister.

I gasped in alarm. I had survived so far each one of the past battle fights. There were no more battle fights. So, I had won.

Tomorrow, it was my eighteenth birthday and I would take over as the new Empress of Tross without my twin sister. So, she had won, too.

Now, I needed to figure out how she found out that there were two of us. Then, we would both win and complete the cycle of life and death, together.

I could not sleep well at night, if I did not figure out the hidden clue of my existence that my dead twin sister had found.

On top of the glass wardrobe floor, I reached down and touched each key on top of the glass floor with a smile. "The keys, my dead twin sister Thea had hidden the set of keys inside the clothes hanger for a reason. So, the set of keys must be the answer to my single puzzling question." I grabbed all the keys and stood upright from the floor, spinning around to see the darkness of night with bright moonlight rays.

The other court princes and princesses were having a fun time inside that other building. They would return very late back into the Center Building for their nighttime slumber.

I sidestepped and reached up, slapping the glass wall.

The glass door slid open, revealing an empty glass carriage that glowed throughout the darkness.

I wasn't worried about another teen or adult royal seeing me, not even my servant Tofur. He was probably servicing each court prince and princess with the evening meal there at the new building on the other side of the compound.

"Whatever!" I entered the elevator carriage with a sour frown and stopped, reaching backward, slapping the button for the fiftieth floor.

The glass door closed shut. The carriage soared upward.

I exhaled with excitement for my new mission.

50th floor level location

Coil hallway setting

07:07 pm

The elevator smoothly halted on the fiftieth floor. The glass door slid open.

I spun around with a deep sigh. This floor represented more death than life to me. I remembered the face of each hostage from another homeland when they had all been murdered during the pretend holographic show by my father, Dragon Head.

"I'm changing everything tomorrow, Father, including finally meeting you face to face," I continued to stand inside the carriage and loudly whispered for my eardrums only, without waking up each dead soul. The empty carriage did not move.

The building was probably empty without the royal and the servants. I was probably the only living life form inside the Center Building at the moment.

I moved ahead and toted the pile of loose golden tinted keys, looking up with a smile to see the ceiling material and then squirted my eyelashes.

The ceiling had been constructed of clear glass only, where each individual sunbeam poured down from the solar sun and then bombard each glittery particle of paint making each individual portrait come alive with movement, but it was an illusion. The pieces of glitter were shivering and shaking in place from the rays of sunlight.

I stopped and turned to face the side wall, where the first mural stood. The side wall that held an array of individual art pieces were missing as each mural was illuminated from the sunlight rays, not the moonlight beams at night.

I squatted down and reached out with a smile, viewing the first tiny hole on the side wall in solid black hue, inserting the sharp pointy end on the snake head piece cylinder key. I had remembered discovering that particular cylinder key.

Each side wall measured thirty feet in height with a hidden individual art piece every twenty feet across.

The first art piece exhibited a gigantic landscape that encompassed the twenty foot of black glass which glittered in three sections. The bottom held a horizontal field of bright orange color. The top portion represented a purple tinted angry skyline against the black tinted glass. On one side of the twenty feet shimmery portrait, two individual wore a one-piece suit of shimmery silver glitter and raise an individual in silver tinted glittery scepter and snake shaped head piece with the blade extended towards the purple angry skyline. The two figures stood upright inside a background of matching silver glitter paint as each figure shook and shifted with movement through the set of glittery paint in beauty.

The two upright and stationary individuals were clearly a man and a female due to the construction of the solid colored jumpsuit clothing, but each skull was only a round silver tinted orb without a pair of eyeballs, a set of nose holes, a set of earlobes, a pair of lips or a set of cheekbones. The royal couple did not show an individual or the facial feature. The entire skull and face was only a silver tinted orb or circle or rounded object and it was a few inches above the human body.

A deep female voice narrated from the first wall mural out loud inside the hallway of the Coil meeting room. "The clan of Earl from the Land of Zeebad has been established 2,000 year ago. The first Earl married his sweetheart, who became the first Earlette. Then the Earlette changed the clan symbol from a silly land quacking duck into a vicious upright hissing snake..."

I stood upright with a nod. "Remember that! O! I see it now. The head piece is shaped like the letter of S, but it is not the letter of S. It is an upright and hissing snake that looks just like the letter of S. This is a very good educational jaunt, before I become the new Empress of Tross tomorrow morning. No. I turn eighteen years old at midnight. Thus, I am the new Empress of Tross at midnight. The clan of Earl from the Land of Zeebad is represented by a vicious upright hissing snake," chuckling.

I slid over and squatted down, trying each key into the second new rounded slot. I had time to waste as I had not been invited to the bicycle race or the dinner evening meal. I finally found the correct cylinder key and jammed it into the open slot.

The side wall brightly illuminated into live.

The second shimmery portrait like the first was a gigantic giant-sized portrait compared to a life-sized format in glittering light tinted colors that covered the entire black glass inside my private chamber suit.

The second mural portrait was evenly split in three horizontal sections also. The top portion was strikingly yellow tinted skyline and rolls of green waves on the bottom. In-between, there were two individuals kneeling down, wearing a shimmery silver tinted jumpsuit with a silver tinted scepter, pointing down to the green waves without explanation. The two upright and stationary individuals were clearly a man and a female due to the construction of the solid colored jumpsuit clothing, but each skull was only a round silver tinted orb without a pair of eyeballs, a set of nose holes, a set of earlobes, a pair of lips or a set of cheekbones. The royal couple did not show an individual or the facial features. The entire skull and face was only a silver tinted orb or circle or rounded object and it was a few inches above the human body.

A deep male voice narrated from the first wall mural out loud inside the hallway of the Coil meeting room. "The clan of Governess from the Land of Lesdam has been established 2,000 year ago and is symbolized by a sitting feline cat..."

I scooted away from the shimmery mural and squatted down, trying to find the next cylinder key that fit into the third open slot. "The clan of Governess from the Land of Lesdam likes the symbol of a sitting feline cat." I finally find the key and jammed it into the hole.

The third portrait exhibited a white skyline and a flat landscape of pink tinted dirt with a male and female couple that wore a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching S-shaped scepter within a matching background.

A female voice narrated from the first wall mural out loud inside the hallway of the Coil meeting room. "The clan of Count from the Land of Hyzo has been established 2,000 year ago and is symbolized by an upright hand with closed fingers, minus the hand..."

I continued to squat and slowly scooted over the floor with a laugh. "Well, that scepter head piece should be able to see as an upright hand of closed fingers. I gotten find out who is the Count of Hyzo. I don't know. I don't remember everyone's names." I stopped in front of the fourth open slot and finally found the right end piece.

The fourth portrait exhibited a golden skyline on the top portion and rough rolls of black tinted soil on the bottom section of the art work with a male and female couple standing upright in the middle of the painting that wore a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching S-shaped scepter within a matching background.

A female voice narrated from the fourth wall mural out loud inside the hallway of the Coil meeting room. "The clan of Viscountess from the Land of Arfad has been established 2,000 year ago and is symbolized by a sitting elephant with very large ear flaps..."

I continued to squat down on top of the clean floor and then slowly scooted over the floor with a laugh. "Okay. I gotta memory that one too. The Viscountess from the Land of Arfad is a sitting elephant," laughing. I fiddled around and found the correct cylinder key, inserting into the fifth open slot.

The fifth portrait exhibited a black angry skyline and a smooth landscape of red tinted dirt with a male and female couple that wore a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching S-shaped scepter within a matching background.

A female voice narrated from the fourth wall mural out loud inside the hallway of the Coil meeting room. "The clan of Baron from the Land of Penina has been established 2,000 year ago and is symbolized by a leaping dolphin..."

I continued to squat and slowly scooted over the floor with a smile. "The Baron from the Land of Penina is a leaping dolphin. That's good! That's a good way to remember each one of the land of something that is associated with the royal teen of something and their scepter of something. Yeah, I can't remember what I didn't learn," I slowly stood upright and slid back down to the first mural which was still moving in motion with the correct cylinder key inside the slot. I narrowed my eyelashes and listened to the key information again. "The Earl from the Land of Zeebad is an upright hissing snake." I scooted down to each active mural and memorized the important words from each picture. "The Governess of Lesdam is a sitting feline cat. The Count of Hyzo is an upright hand, minus the thumb. The Viscountess of Arfad is a sitting elephant. The Baron of Penina is a leaping dolphin." I inserted the key and watched the sixth mural activate.

The sixth portrait exhibited a smooth pale blue skyline and rough waves of blue tinted soil with a male and female couple that wore a silver tinted jumpsuit and carried a matching diamond shaped scepter within a matching background.

A female voice narrated the story. "The clan of Duchess has been established 2,000 year ago and is symbolized by a diamond shape. The first Duchess from the Land of Flocci married her mate after an entrapment, then a duel, and finally a capture of the poor fellow. The diamond figure head represents four points of her pursue: entrapment, duel, capture and then marriage..."

I smiled with a nod. "Yeah, I remembered this one. The Duchess of Land of Flocci is a diamond head," laughing. "This symbol is easy to remember and easy to see. The other five head pieces on each scepter looks like the letter of S as each head piece is lacking eyeballs, ear points, lips, and a nose for either man or mammal," chuckling. "The Earl of Zeebad is a hissing snake. The Governess of Lesdam is a sitting feline cat. The Count of Hyzo is an upright hand, minus the thumb. The Viscountess of Arfad is a sitting elephant. The Baron of Penina is a leaping dolphin. The Duchess of Flocci is a diamond head," laughing. "I got it."

Thirty minutes later, I continued to squat and then jam a cylinder key into each new slot, finding the correct head piece, listening to the important set of words, repeating them out loud for learning.

"The Earl of Zeebad is an upright hissing snake. The Governess of Lesdam is a sitting cat. The Count of Hyzo is an upright hand. The Viscountess of Arfad is a sitting elephant. The Baron of Penina is a leaping dolphin. The Duchess of Flocci is a diamond head. The Prince of Naam is a sitting dog. The Princess of Mattathee is an upright corncob. The Duke of Land of Jeroboom is a sitting mule. The Countess of Gildallie is an upright lamp post. The Tzar and Tzaress of Ikoloth is five-point star. The Baroness of Colon is an upright tree branch. The Lady of Onam is an upright carrot stick. The Viscount of Dimna is an upright alligator with claws. The Queen of Bocardo is an upright circular cylinder. The Marquee of Korbright is a twisted pretzel figure. The Lord of Elidan is an hour glass figure."

I scooted over and halted in front of the last mural that was still black, inserting the last cylinder key, exhaling with excitement. "And there is one more court royal left, me. I am the clan of the Empress."

The last art piece exhibited a gigantic landscape that encompassed the twenty foot of black glass which glittered in three sections. The bottom held a horizontal field of bright grass color. The top portion represented a pink skyline against the mint clouds. On one side of the twenty feet shimmery portrait, two individual wore a one-piece suit of shimmery silver glitter and raise an individual in silver tinted glittery scepter and circular-shaped head piece with the blade extended towards the yellow sun. The two figures stood upright inside a background of matching silver glitter paint as each figure shook and shifted with movement through the set of glittery paint in beauty.

The two upright and stationary individuals were clearly a man and a female due to the construction of the solid colored jumpsuit clothing, but each skull was only a round silver tinted orb without a pair of eyeballs, a set of nose holes, a set of earlobes, a pair of lips or a set of cheekbones. The royal couple did not show an individual or the facial feature. The entire skull and face was only a silver tinted orb or circle or rounded object and it was a few inches above the human body.

A male narrator spoke out loud. "The clan of Empress has been established for 2,000 years. The sharp blade from the scepter weapon in the cupped fist on the first Empress neatly sliced off the head on a pretty female, who had kidnapped her future husband-emperor for money ransom. From then on, the lion's head had reigned and dominated throughout the Land of Tross. The first Empress had established..."

I gasped in alarm. "The first empress was a real beauty marking and making her claim of fame in the world of Tross." I studied the rotating head piece with puzzlement. "O! That is a symbol of lion's head, without the hairy mane and the angry eyes and the sharp fangs and the loud roar. I thought it was a flower with a set of expanded pedals. I remember there is a holographic head with a flower and extended pedals that represents one of the known but mysterious royal set of parents that appears during the Coil meeting," frowning. "Why doesn't the hologram head piece match the scepter head piece? That was would be a better visually presentation match of each court prince or princess rather than a silly flower or a ladybug insect for each teen like me." I slowly spun around and study each moving mural that shimmers in an array of vivid colors with a set of moving figures without a face. "Hmm! Something is right here! I possess a set of keys that match a mural inside the Coil meeting room. What is the purpose of each key? What is the purpose of the mural? The mural is pretty. The key is functional. Why did my dead sister Thea hide each key from someone like Tofur? So I would find them, instead of her non-trusting servant of many, many years." I continued to study each mural while pondering my mental thoughts.

"So, each key is real and is really associated with a moving mural inside the Coil meeting. So, each mural is associated with a real court prince or princess inside the Coil meeting room also. So, each mural and each court teen and each scepter is connected. Is that it? I still don't see how my dead sister Thea figured out that she was a twin empress, who was missing her twin sister. The last mural represents the Land of Tross which is the Empress clan. But the mural only shows a man and a woman, not any children. So, my dead sister Thea figured out the Empress mural showed only one man and one woman, who are married a royal couple, not a set of twin rulers in the Land of Tross. So, she figured out that she was a twin and that I had been given away or abandoned from the mural."

I tossed my arms with a deep sigh. "I give up, dead sister Thea. I can't figure it out." I yawned with a smile. "Well, I have had my fun here. And I still have not solved the mystery of how my sister figured out that we were twins. I guess it doesn't matter anymore. I'm so sorry, twin sister Thea. I tried and I failed."

My eyeball caught a glimpse of faint light coming from the darkness of the night and as I gasped in alarm. "O no! The gang of court prince and princesses are coming back to the Center Building to sleep." I dashed around and jerked out each cylinder key, stopping the motion within the mural. I collected them all and dashed back to the glass door.

The glass door was closed. The carriage was gone.

I gasped in alarm. "Someone has returned back into the Center Building. And I am missing from my room and here inside the Coil hallway. O dear, I could be in very serious deep trouble or worser," I reached up and slapped the glass, hearing the motor on the carriage downstairs. I gasped in alarm again and slapped my new lavender outfit, finding a set of individual tiny pockets within the thick fabric. I stored each key that tickled my naked skin from the coolness of the metal, securing each key in place from a pair of spying eyeballs

The glass door opened. The carriage was empty.

I sighed with relieve and entered the carriage, back slapping the number eighteen with my hand and as my eyeballs stared down into the ground of darkness. The gang of court princes and princesses were slowly moving back to the Center Building.

The elevator swiftly dove downward and then stopped. The door slide open.

18th floor level

Private chamber room of Thea

08:08 pm

Nighttime with bright stars and mint green clouds

I spun around with a gasp and then stood my ground with a smirk, staring at my personal servant Tofur with a fake smile. He had been looking from me. I had not been waiting for him for any reason.

Tofur stood a few feet from the elevator carriage, after hearing the motor and stared with a sneer at Thea. "Where have you been, Thea?"

I strolled ahead with a fake smile and a whisper for my eardrums only. "I am being watched for some reason." I cleared my throat and shouted out loud with a giggle. "I went downstairs."

He frowned at her rear skull. "Why were you downstairs and outta of your room?"

I passed Tofur and whispered for my eardrums only. "I was outta the house like a pet doggie. I continued to move ahead while giggling from the coolness of each metal key, clearing my throat, shouting out loud. "I went outside."

He gasped with shock and then frowned at her back spine. "What is outside this room that concerns your person?"

I moved down the long hallway turning to see each life-sized portrait with a smile. "I was looking for the airship."

He followed her back spine with a sour frown. "The airship is asleep. You should be asleep also."

I halted and then spun around with a stern face. "I think that I lost my scepter."

He gasped. "This is another one of your empress' jokes."

I shook my curls and lifted my hands near my stern face. "No joke! I can't find my scepter. I promise."

He moved ahead with a stern face toward Thea. "This betta not be another one of your empress' jokes, Thea. I am in no joking mood right now."

"This is a not a joke. I can't find my scepter. You stole it last time. Did you steal it for fun, this time, too, Tofu?" I giggled with grin.

"No! I did not steal or take or carry off you scepter today or last week. When was the last time you possessed it?"

I giggled. "I can't remember. Now, if I remembered, then I would be able to find it. Ain't that logical?"

He exhaled. "Thea, you're making no sense. It is very important that you have your scepter tomorrow."

I grinned. "Why? The battle fights are done. I finished the last one this afternoon, unless there is an upcoming one tonight. Why do I need a scepter weapon now? Is there something that you're not telling me? Am I facing a new enemy?"

"No. You are not facing anymore unfriendly foes." He leaned over and then patted down the bed linens with a sour frown. "Where was the last place that you dropped it?"

I slowly twirled around in a circle, titling my chin, blinking my eyelashes like I was flirting but having some fun. "I do believe that I do remember having my scepter last when I was inside the battle fight.

He looked up with a gasp from the bed linens to see Thea.

I continued to twirl around with a smile and then stopped. "Ya know, I only survived the battle fight again. And I had to ride up on top of that gigantic flattened piece of glowing metal with two pieces of two ropes that was surrounded by a set of colorful fake rubber flowers. Do you remember my grand entrance into the airship?" I giggled with a smile.

He frowned. "Where did you place your scepter?"

I nodded with a grin, "Uh huh! I dropped my scepter back down onto that ugly rubber playground with the acidic real plants that killed poor Zeamon and Lael. I had to hold onto the ropes going high up toward the ceiling. Then I climbed off and slid down that long, long slide. Remember? You were there at the bottom. You caught me. How did you know to catch me down at the slide?"

He crossed his arms with a sour frown. "Are you positive that you dropped your scepter?"

I nodded with a smile. "Yes. I am very positive with life."

He frowned. "Well, this is not good news. Did you place your scepter inside the wardrobe closet for safekeeping?"

I gasped with smile and a nod. "Well, that's a good idea. That scepter only belonged to my dead twin sister. Yes, I did place it inside my wardrobe closet. Should I go and look for it?"

"No." he exhaled with annoyance and spun around with a sour frown, moving ahead down the long hallway toward the closed elevator doors. "You are back here and everyone is safe. It's late at night. Please, go ready and go to bed! Tomorrow is a very big day for you, Empress Thea of Tross. Good night, Thea!"

I stared at his back spine with a smile. "Okay!"

He arrived at the glass doors and slapped the glass. The door opened. He entered inside without spinning around to see Thea.

I continued to stand in front of my messy bedcovers and struck my tongue out at his back spine, slipping it back inside my mouth, giggling with a grin. I moved ahead and pranced to the side wall, reaching out, tapping the glass.

The wardrobe closet opened.

I strolled inside and stopped, standing at the rack of clothes, reaching down and touched it. I pulled out my scepter and spun around with a sour frown, exiting the wardrobe closet.

I strolled back into my room with a sour attitude and stopped near the bed mattress. "What was Tofur doing here alone? Why was he here? What did he want? Why is it important for me to have my scepter? All the battle fights are done. And why is he upset that I don't possess my scepter? My scepter is inside the wardrobe room, so he couldn't steal it again. Something is right here!" I frowned. "So, I found the set of hidden golden tinted keys from my dead sister Thea that had activated each mural inside the Coil hallway for entertainment and fun. But each head piece on top of the scepter key does not correspond..."

I snapped my fingers and nodded with a gasp. "Is that it? That is it!" I laughed. "Every Coil meeting, a silly hologram appears in a funny shape saying something. Did my dead sister Thea figure out the missing information from each one of the silly holograms? Honestly, I never listen to the talking heads," chuckling. "So, each silly hologram told a piece of the missing information. And I missed it because I was playing with Erato and Nastchill. Or I was getting wet. Or I was not paying attention." I moved ahead and stopped, standing in the middle of the room above the ceiling devise that projected the single band of holographic material. I pressed the trigger and released the sharp blade. The blade gleamed underneath the moonlight beans. I whipped the blade around in the air waves, killing the molecules for fun. I shouted out loud. "Hologram, play for me, only, each talking and rotating individual hologram figure head during the last Coil meeting with all the court princes and princesses present."

A vertical line of purple hue beamed up from the ground floor and halted, forming a purple tinted outline of a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The Dragon Head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the dragon's head. A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud into onto each floor level including the second floor room, where the teens were sitting. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea from the Land of Tross and I am happy to announce today that the kingdom has added the Land of Yawp..."

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The Dragon Head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Yawp..."

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colored plume of fire from the open mouth or the two nose holes.

A male voice echoed the words throughout the room from the rotating Tyrannosaurus Rex head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus rex's head hologram.

"Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. It stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the pointy snout.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating shimmery Mongoose Head hologram inside her room. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Viscount Dimon who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the Mongoose Head hologram swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram with a bow tied onto one of its rounded ear points. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from its pointy snout.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating mongoose head with the bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Viscount Dimon who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Mongoose Head hologram with the bow on one of its rounded ears swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of bright yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Giraffe Head. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the long snout.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Giraffe Head hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Baroness Cilicee who comes from the Land of Colon. Cilicee also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Giraffe Head hologram stopped talking and then morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of bright yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Giraffe Head hologram with a bow tied onto one of its rounded ears. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the long snout.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Giraffe Head with the bow on one of its ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Baroness Cilicee who comes from the Land of Colon. Cilicee also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Giraffe Head hologram with the bow on one of its rounded ears stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pale blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Monkey Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or shift sideways.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Monkey Head hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Countess Glitza who comes from the Land of Gildallie. Glitza also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Monkey Head hologram with the bow on the fang stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pale blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of white hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Eagle hologram body with a set of flying wings. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the air space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Eagle body hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Duchess Fera who comes from the Land of Flocci. Fera also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Eagle body with a pair of outstretched non-flying wings stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of white hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of white hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Duchess Fera who comes from the Land of Flocci. Fera also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Eagle hologram with a pair of wings and a bow on the leg stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of white hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery single Flower hologram with four matching petals. The flower hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Flower hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Princess Muppin who comes from the Land of Mattathee. Muppin also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Flower with four petals and a long stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery of a single Flower hologram with four matching petals and a long stem, where the stem wore a tied bow. The flower hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Flower with four matching petals and a long stem, where the stem wore a tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Princess Muppin who comes from the Land of Mattathee. Muppin also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Flower with the four petals and a bow on the long stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery tall Shade Tree hologram. The tree did not shift or wiggle.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Shade Tree. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Duke Joed who comes from the Land of Jeroboom. Joed also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Shade Tree stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of dark green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery hologram Shade Tree with a bow tied around the trunk. The tree did not shift or move inside the air space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Shade Tree with the tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Duke Joed who comes from the Land of Jeroboom. Joed also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Shade Tree hologram with the bow wrapped around the trunk stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of dark green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of black tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Ladybug hologram with four short legs. The Ladybug hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Ladybug hologram body with four short legs. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Lord Erato who comes from the Land of Elidan. Erato also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Ladybug hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of black hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of black tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Ladybug with a set of four short legs, where a bow was tied onto one of the straight non-wiggling legs. The Ladybug hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Ladybug of four short legs, where a bot was tied onto one of the straight non-wiggling legs. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Lord Erato who comes from the Land of Elidan. Erato also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Ladybug hologram with the bow on one of the short legs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of black hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Umbrella hologram. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Umbrella. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Lady Olivet who comes from the Land of Onam. Olivet also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Umbrella stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Umbrella with the single bow tied onto the upright handle. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Umbrella hologram with the single bow on the upright handle. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Lady Olivet who comes from the Land of Onam. Olivet also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Umbrella with the bow on the upright handle stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of mint green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Cricket Head hologram with two non-wiggling antennas. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Cricket Head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Queen Bakeria who comes from the Land of Bocardo. Bakeria also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Cricket Head with the two antennas stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of mint green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of mint green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Cricket Head hologram with two non-wiggling antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Cricket Head with two non-wiggling antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Queen Bakeria who comes from the Land of Bocardo. Bakeria also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram of a Cricket Head with two antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow, stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of mint green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery eight-legged Spider body. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating eight-legged Spider hologram body. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Baron Pekod who comes from the Land of Penina. Pekod also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery eight-legged Spider body hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery eight-legged Spider hologram body, where one leg wore a bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating eight-legged Spider body, where one leg wore a tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Baron Pekod who comes from the Land of Penina. Pekod also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery eight-legged Spider body hologram with a single bow tied on one leg stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of lavender hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Seahorse hologram. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Seahorse. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Earl Zeamon who comes from the Land of Zeebad. Zeamon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Seahorse hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of lavender hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Seahorse hologram with a single lavender bow around the tail. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Seahorse hologram with a single lavender bow around the tail. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Earl Zeamon who comes from the Land of Zeebad. Zeamon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Seahorse with a single bow around the throat stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Fashion Shoe. "Welcome to all! What in the scepter is this thing around my face? It is colored in the hue of pink. I don't understand. Dear wife, what is this thing? I didn't understand the..."

I continued to dance around and whipped my blade around the air current, killing more air molecules with a soft giggle at the silly banter from the male royal.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled Fashion shoe that belonged to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space. A female voice echoed coming from the rotating shoe that belong to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. "Dear, husband! This is the Coil meeting. Don't worry about the projected hologram of pink in the format of a shoe that covers your face. You are still unattractive!"

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared out from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of golden hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Crown hologram that belonged to a king. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed from the rotating Crown hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Aqualia and my prince son Ittai that hail from the Land of Ikoloth. Aqualia and Ittai also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Crown hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of golden hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of golden hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Crown hologram with a single bow that was tied around one of the points that belonged to a queen. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Crown, where a single bow had been tied around one of the points of the crown that belonged to a queen. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Aqualia and my prince son Ittai, who both come from the Land of Ikoloth. Aqualia and Ittai also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Crown hologram with a single bow that was tied around one of the points that belonged to a queen stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of golden hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of silver hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Scepter. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Scepter. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Nastchill who comes from the Land of Naam. Nastchill also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery silver tinted Scepter hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of silver hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Scepter hologram with a single bow tied on one end of the cylinder. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Scepter hologram with the single bow on one end of the cylinder. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Nastchill who comes from the Land of Naam. Nastchill also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Scepter with a single bow on the end of the cylinder stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of red tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery image of a Devil Head with two horns. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Devil Head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Marquise Kidron who comes from the Land of Korbright. Kidron also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery red tinted Devil Head with two horns stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of red tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery image of a Devil Head with two horns, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Devil Head, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Marquise Kidron who comes from the Land of Korbright. Kidron also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

The Devil Head hologram with two horns, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow, swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of red hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space in the middle of the room.

A vertical line of bright and shiny purple hue beamed down from the cathedral ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Dragon Head. "Welcome to all! The Coil meeting has almost ended. And I would like to express my thanks to the newest members within our kingdom that comes from the Land of the Yawp..."

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! The Coil meeting has concluded with the final phase of the meeting which includes the newest members within our kingdom, the Land of the Yawp..."

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A vertical line of purple hue beamed down from the ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud into onto each floor level, including the second floor room, where the teens were sitting. "Now, the time has arrived for each person to vote for the newest members to enter our kingdom that come from the Land of Yawp. Please press the button with your desire! Please, all of the newest members within our kingdom move away from the glass wall and stop, standing in the middle of the center platform on each level, right now. Go! Get moving now! Hurry! Hurry!"

Then, the Dragon Head swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space in the middle of the Coil meeting room.

The Dragon Head hologram appeared again and rotated around in a circle inside the middle space within the Coil room. "Before we finish our business here in the Coil meeting room, I have one additional lovely royal announcement. My empress daughter Thea, she will be leading a new battle fight tomorrow morning. Now, please, proceed with the conclusion of the Coil meeting here."

I stopped dancing and pressed the trigger on my scepter. The blade sucked back down into the slot. I continued to stand and frowned at the empty air space. The hologram beamed sucked back up into the ceiling devise. "The Earl of Zeebad is an upright hissing snake. The Governess of Lesdam is a sitting cat. The Count of Hyzo is an upright hand. The Viscountess of Arfad is a sitting elephant. The Baron of Penina is a leaping dolphin. The Duchess of Flocci is a diamond head. The Prince of Naam is a sitting dog. The Princess of Mattathee is an upright corncob. The Duke of Land of Jeroboom is a sitting mule. The Countess of Gildallie is an upright lamp post. The Tzar and Tzaress of Ikoloth is five-point star. The Baroness of Colon is an upright tree branch. The Lady of Onam is an upright carrot stick. The Viscount of Dimna is an upright alligator with claws. The Queen of Bocardo is an upright circular cylinder. The Marquee of Korbright is a twisted pretzel figure. The Lord of Elidan is an hour glass figure. The Empress of Tross is a lion's head. I still didn't learn anything during this Coil meeting, except each hologram head piece does not match a head piece on the scepter key. I didn't receive a hidden message here," I reached up and slapped my face, very gently and then laughed out loud. "Of course, I didn't receive a hidden royal message. I am here. My dead twin sister is not. I need to review each one of her Coil meetings, the first one. Hologram, play me only each holographic head piece from the first battle fight which occurred four years ago with a fourteen-year-old Empress Thea, who led the court princes and princesses into war," I sat down with a laugh and watched the new set of holograms.

A vertical line of bright and shiny purple hue beamed down from the cathedral ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed out loud from the holographic Dragon Head without movement coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud inside her room. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea from the Land of Tross and I am happy to announce today that the kingdom has added the Land of Plagnot..."

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The Dragon Head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating Dragon Head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Plagnot..."

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Plagnot..."

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colored plume of fire from the open mouth or the two nose holes.

A male voice echoed the words throughout the room from the rotating Tyrannosaurus Rex head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus rex's head hologram.

"Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. It stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the pointy snout.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating shimmery Mongoose Head hologram inside her room. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Viscount Dimon who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the Mongoose Head hologram swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Mongoose Head hologram with a bow tied onto one of its rounded ear points. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from its pointy snout.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating mongoose head with the bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Viscount Dimon who comes from the Land of Dimna. Dimon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Mongoose Head hologram with the bow on one of its rounded ears swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of bright yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Giraffe Head. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the long snout.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Giraffe Head hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Baroness Cilicee who comes from the Land of Colon. Cilicee also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Giraffe Head hologram stopped talking and then morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of bright yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Giraffe Head hologram with a bow tied onto one of its rounded ears. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or fire out a colorful plume of mammal snot from the long snout.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Giraffe Head with the bow on one of its ears. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Baroness Cilicee who comes from the Land of Colon. Cilicee also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Giraffe Head hologram with the bow on one of its rounded ears stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pale blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Monkey Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The head outline did not blink an eyelid or shift sideways.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Monkey Head hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Countess Glitza who comes from the Land of Gildallie. Glitza also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Monkey Head hologram with the bow on the fang stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pale blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of white hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Eagle hologram body with a set of flying wings. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the air space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Eagle body hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Duchess Fera who comes from the Land of Flocci. Fera also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Eagle body with a pair of outstretched non-flying wings stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of white hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of white hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Eagle hologram body with a pair of outstretched flying wings, where a bow was tied around the leg of the bird. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Duchess Fera who comes from the Land of Flocci. Fera also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Eagle hologram with a pair of wings and a bow on the leg stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of white hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery single Flower hologram with four matching petals. The flower hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Flower hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Princess Muppin who comes from the Land of Mattathee. Muppin also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Flower with four petals and a long stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery of a single Flower hologram with four matching petals and a long stem, where the stem wore a tied bow. The flower hologram did not wiggle or move inside the space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Flower with four matching petals and a long stem, where the stem wore a tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Princess Muppin who comes from the Land of Mattathee. Muppin also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Flower with the four petals and a bow on the long stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery tall Shade Tree hologram. The tree did not shift or wiggle.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Shade Tree. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Duke Joed who comes from the Land of Jeroboom. Joed also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram Shade Tree stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of dark green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of dark green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery hologram Shade Tree with a bow tied around the trunk. The tree did not shift or move inside the air space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Shade Tree with the tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Duke Joed who comes from the Land of Jeroboom. Joed also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Shade Tree hologram with the bow wrapped around the trunk stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of dark green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of black tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Ladybug hologram with four short legs. The Ladybug hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Ladybug hologram body with four short legs. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Lord Erato who comes from the Land of Elidan. Erato also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Ladybug hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of black hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of black tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Ladybug with a set of four short legs, where a bow was tied onto one of the straight non-wiggling legs. The Ladybug hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Ladybug of four short legs, where a bot was tied onto one of the straight non-wiggling legs. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my son Lord Erato who comes from the Land of Elidan. Erato also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Ladybug hologram with the bow on one of the short legs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of black hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Umbrella hologram. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Umbrella. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Lady Olivet who comes from the Land of Onam. Olivet also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Umbrella stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of blue hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Umbrella with the single bow tied onto the upright handle. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Umbrella hologram with the single bow on the upright handle. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Lady Olivet who comes from the Land of Onam. Olivet also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Umbrella with the bow on the upright handle stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of blue hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of mint green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Cricket Head hologram with two non-wiggling antennas. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Cricket Head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my daughter Queen Bakeria who comes from the Land of Bocardo. Bakeria also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Cricket Head with the two antennas stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of mint green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of mint green hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Cricket Head hologram with two non-wiggling antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Cricket Head with two non-wiggling antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Queen Bakeria who comes from the Land of Bocardo. Bakeria also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery hologram of a Cricket Head with two antennas, where one antenna wore a tied bow, stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of mint green hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery eight-legged Spider body. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating eight-legged Spider hologram body. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Baron Pekod who comes from the Land of Penina. Pekod also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery eight-legged Spider body hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of yellow hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery eight-legged Spider hologram body, where one leg wore a bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating eight-legged Spider body, where one leg wore a tied bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Baron Pekod who comes from the Land of Penina. Pekod also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery eight-legged Spider body hologram with a single bow tied on one leg stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of yellow hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of lavender hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Seahorse hologram. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Seahorse. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Earl Zeamon who comes from the Land of Zeebad. Zeamon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Seahorse hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of lavender hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Seahorse hologram with a single lavender bow around the tail. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Seahorse hologram with a single lavender bow around the tail. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Earl Zeamon who comes from the Land of Zeebad. Zeamon also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Seahorse with a single bow around the throat stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Fashion Shoe. "Welcome to all! What in the scepter is this thing around my face? It is colored in the hue of pink. I don't understand. Dear wife, what is this thing? I didn't understand the..."

I continued to sit and laughed out loud at the silly banter from the male royal.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled Fashion shoe that belonged to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space. A female voice echoed coming from the rotating shoe that belong to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. "Dear, husband! This is the Coil meeting. Don't worry about the projected hologram of pink in the format of a shoe that covers your face. You are still unattractive!"

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of lavender hue and then disappeared out from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of golden hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Crown hologram that belonged to a king. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed from the rotating Crown hologram. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Aqualia and my prince son Ittai that hail from the Land of Ikoloth. Aqualia and Ittai also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Crown hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of golden hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of golden hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Crown hologram with a single bow that was tied around one of the points that belonged to a queen. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Crown, where a single bow had been tied around one of the points of the crown that belonged to a queen. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my princess daughter Aqualia and my prince son Ittai, who both come from the Land of Ikoloth. Aqualia and Ittai also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Crown hologram with a single bow that was tied around one of the points that belonged to a queen stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of golden hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of silver hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Scepter. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Scepter. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Nastchill who comes from the Land of Naam. Nastchill also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery silver tinted Scepter hologram stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of silver hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Scepter hologram with a single bow tied on one end of the cylinder. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Scepter hologram with the single bow on one end of the cylinder. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Nastchill who comes from the Land of Naam. Nastchill also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Scepter with a single bow on the end of the cylinder stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of red tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery image of a Devil Head with two horns. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Devil Head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Marquise Kidron who comes from the Land of Korbright. Kidron also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

I sat back into the chair with a smile and continued to bend both kneecaps near my chest

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery red tinted Devil Head with two horns stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of silver hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of red tint swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery image of a Devil Head with two horns, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Devil Head, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow. "Welcome to all! I am honored by both my prince son Marquise Kidron who comes from the Land of Korbright. Kidron also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

The Devil Head hologram with two horns, where one of the curved horns had been tied with a single bow, swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of red hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space in the middle of the room.

A vertical line of bright and shiny purple hue beamed down from the cathedral ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating Dragon Head. "Welcome back to the show! The Coil meeting has almost come to the end. I would like to express my thank you to each new member within the Tross kingdom that comes from the Land of the Plagnot..."

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating dragon's head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome back to everyone! The Coil meeting is in the final phase which includes each new member within our kingdom, the Land of the Plagnot..."

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A vertical line of purple hue beamed down from the ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud into onto each floor level, including the second floor room, where the teens were sitting. "The time is here. Each court prince and princess must vote for the newest members to enter our kingdom that come from the Land of Plagnot. Please press the button on top of your new throne chair here inside the new Coil meeting room. Please, all new members within our kingdom move away from the glass wall and stop, standing in the middle of the center platform on each level, right now. Go on!"

I continued to sit on the floor and wiggled side to side with worry. "These talking heads sound exactly the same with the same sentences. Why is that? Hologram, play me the second battle fight with fourteen year old Empress Thea, only the holographic images."

A vertical line of bright and shiny purple hue beamed down from the cathedral ceiling devise forming a purple tinted outline on a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head hologram outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the Dragon Head.

A male voice echoed out loud from the holographic Dragon Head without movement coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud inside her room. "Welcome to the second Coil meeting! I am honored by my empress daughter Thea from the Land of Tross and I am happy to announce today that the kingdom has added the Land of Rhapsodime..."

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The Dragon Head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating Dragon Head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "Welcome to our next Coil meeting! I am also honored by my empress daughter Thea who comes from the Land of Tross. She led the victory and secured the Land of Rhapsodime..."

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colored plume of fire from the open mouth or the two nose holes.

A male voice echoed the words throughout the room from the rotating Tyrannosaurus Rex head. "Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram with an open mouth of sharp fangs stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of brown hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes.

A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram.

"Welcome to all! I am honored by my prince son Count Huzz, who comes from the Land of Hyzo. Huzz also led a victory and secured land for the Kingdom of Tross..."

"Stop, Hologram!" I continued to sit on the floor and sneered. The hologram of the Tyrannosaurus Rex head disappeared from the floor and sucked back up into the ceiling devise. I nodded with a stern face. "The head piece with the Tyrannosaurus Rex said the same thing. Why? Hologram, show me the hologram for the Fashion Shoe inside this Coil meeting."

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space.

A male voice echoed coming from the rotating hologram Fashion Shoe. "Welcome to all! What in the scepter is this thing around my face? It is colored in the hue of pink. I don't understand. Dear wife, what is this thing? I didn't understand the..."

I continued to sit and gasped in alarm at the same silly banter from the male royal.

In the middle of the floor, the shimmery high heeled Fashion Shoe that belonged to a female stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of pink hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of pink hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery high heeled Fashion shoe that belonged to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. The hologram did not wiggle or move inside the center space. A female voice echoed coming from the rotating shoe that belong to a female, where a single bow was tied around the heel stem. "Dear, husband! This is the Coil meeting. Don't worry about the projected hologram of pink in the format of a shoe that covers your face. You are still unattractive!"

"Stop, Hologram!" I continued to sit with worry. The hologram of the high heeled Fashion shoe disappeared from the floor and sucked back up into the ceiling devise. I slowly stood upright from the floor and looked down at the floor, reaching over, touching each key that was hidden inside new lavender outfit. "What does this mean? What did my dead sister Thea learn from this? What do I learn from this? The Dragon Head words had changed. The Tyrannosaurus Rex Head words did not change. The high heeled Fashion shoe hologram told the same joke four years ago which was repeated this afternoon. I heard the same joke from the same rotating high heeled Fashion Shoe." I gasped in alarm. "This could mean on thing. My parents are real. However, the rest of the parents for each court prince and princess are dead, not alive. That has to be the only explanation. Each hologram recording is the same from four years ago." I nodded with a stern face and reached down, outlining each golden tinted scepter key inside my lavender outfit. "Now, I completely understand. I truly am the empress of the kingdom. The other male and female teens who are really rude, mean, and selfish are not real princes and princesses. They are fake or phony or pretend. Each golden tinted scepter key represents a set of dead parents that why the mural is on the wall inside the Coil meeting. A mural is a visual funeral of a dead one. And I remembered only seeing each court prince and princess eating a picnic basket and riding a solar bike beside each other. I didn't see one royal parent with a child last night or tonight. And Nastchill, Erato, and Zeamon, all came home alone without a parent or a friend. This situation is so sad. This is the secret that Tofur didn't want me to hear or see or find out."

I spun around and wrap both arms around my body, moving back to my cold bed mattress. "Now, I know. Now, I understand. Now, my dead sister Thea had figured out that each court prince and princess had been orphaned without a parent. So, my dead sister Thea figured out that she was a twin and I have been orphaned also."

I stopped and stood in front of the messy bedcovers, wiping off the sad tears and yawned, removing my thigh-high boots and dropped them down onto the floor. I looked up to see a built-in clock within the glass which I didn't know had existed on that side wall of glass.

But I didn't know a lot of stuff here in the Land of Tross like my dead twin sister. I guess that I will be learning more new stuff during my reign as the empress of Tross.

The time read: 00:00:10.

I shouted out loud and counted backwards with the wall clock. "Ten. Nine. Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Zero. Happy Birthday to me and to you, dear dead twin sister! I love you, Thea. I am so sorry that you are not here with me. I wished that we could have been a set of real sisters. But I am grateful that you found me. I am eighteen years old today. I promise to be a good person and a wise ruler. Good night, dead twin sister Thea!"

I crawled underneath the bed linens without changing my clothes feeling a combination of teenly emotions, happy, glad, sad, and depressed. I cuddled into my scepter weapon with a sad face and looked up, seeing the one-year-old shimmery portrait of my dead sister Thea on the ceiling, whispering to the moon and the stars. "I understand now, dead sister Thea. Thank you for finding me. Enjoy your evening too!"
Day Four

Happy Birthday, Thea!

Private chamber setting of Empress Thea

08:08 am

Bright sunlight with mint green clouds and pink skyline

Inside my private chamber room, I continued to sleep inside the warm bed.

The glass elevator door slid open and revealed Tofur.

He swiftly jogged ahead, moving down the long hallway, holding an object and then slid down over the floor, stopping below her bed frame. He extended the tiny cupcake of white toward her black tinted hair roots, singing out loud with a smile. "Happy Birthday, Thea! Today is your birthday. Wake up! Get up! Time for you to get up and party on your birthday, Empress!"

I slowly stirred awake from the loud voice from Tofur, pulling the bed linens over my chest, opening my eyelashes. My mind remembered and recognized my servant Tofur. I slowly sat upright, bending at the waistline, wearing the wrinkled lavender outfit that possessed the hidden set of keys. I sat on top of the messy bedcovers with a smile.

He smiled. "Do you look this good every morning?"

I frowned, "Yeah!"

"You're a lucky girl."

I frowned, "Yeah!"

He held the cupcake near her bed linens without catching the fabric on fire. "Blow out your candle!"

I stared down at the tiny lavender colored candle. "Is that a trick candle of real flames?"

He gasped. "No. It would be really mean to trick you on your birthday. It's real and really heated, melting candle wax over your tiny cupcake. Hurry! Blew it out now! Before, my finger meat burn off the skin!"

I leaned over and then pursed my lips, gently blowing a breath toward the flame. The flame went out.

He cheered with a smile, extending the cupcake to her, "Hurry! Yeah! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear Thea! Happy birthday to you and many more!"

I smiled. "Thanks, Tofur! The gesture is sweet."

He smiled and then frowned. "This is your birthday. Awe! I'm going to cry. Did you ever have a birthday party before today?"

I accepted the cupcake with a smile, touching the frosting, licking off the vanilla crème. "I can't believe that the frost is not colored in lavender hue, like my outfits."

He frowned. "Aw! You never celebrated your birthday. I'm so sorry. I always had a birthday party. And birthday cakes are white frosting or chocolate, never another color. Well, this is your first wonderful birthday party. Eat up your cake!"

I reached down and touched, wiping off another finger of frosting, locking the sweetness. "It's really too early in the morning for sweet taste of cake."

He laughed. "It's near the lunchtime meal. Your father ordered no disturbances on your birthday. You can sleep all day long. So, you were allowed to sleep until I couldn't stand it anymore. I'm sorry. I wanted to give you the cupcake."

I nodded. "Thank you! I really appreciate the birthday cake."

He frowned, "No, girlfriend! This is a birthday cupcake."

I smiled. "Thanks for my birthday cupcake."

He shook his turban, "No, girlfriend. You get a birthday cake on the birth of your day. Get up and get dressed now! Your father is waiting for your arrival inside the Coil room."

"What?" I mouth spat out the used cake crumbs over the bed linen and my clothes, sliding out from the bed mattress, standing upright with a smile of wet food particles between my front teeth.

He gasped with a laugh, examining her body. "O! You're dressed in her last and wrinkled lavender outfit already. That's good. Today, you are eighteen years old, only once. And, today, you are the new ruling empress, only once. And today, you pick out your new husband, only once. Now, which one is the lucky prince? Is it Erato?"

I faked a smile. "Yes, I know what today is."

"Great! Your new emperor is Erato. Go and brush your hair and your teeth and wash off your face. Ever since I have known your person, which is four days, you are always dirty and smelly, Thea," he pointed to the side wall, where the hidden lavatory was located.

I scooted around Tofur and moved into the hidden lavatory with a smile. "No, I know what today is."

He frowned. "It's not E-rat. Then, who is going to be your new emperor-husband, Thea?"

I did not speak out loud and closed the door and quickly brushed my hair, teeth, and cleaned up my smile. I exited out from the hidden lavatory, moving ahead, sitting on top of my messy bed mattress. I replaced my boots on my feet, standing upright with a smile, clipping my scepter weapon onto the waistline, staring at the dangling black cloth in the air from his cupped hand. "What's that?"

He giggled. "You must be blindfolded for your birthday surprise. Or it will not be a surprise.'

I frowned. "Really?"

He smiled. "Really!"

"Really!"

He giggled. "Ready!"

I sneered. "Ready?"

He leaned over and tied the black cloth over her eyeballs with a giggle. "I will hold your hand, so you didn't run into my naked feet inside my sandals. Your fashion shoes contain spiky heels." He reached down and grabbed her hand, slowly moving beside Thea down the long hallway toward the closed elevator doors.

They stopped and entered the elevator carriage while Tofur was giggling with amusement.

I did not speak but scanned the thick piece of black tinted cloth. I could not see anything but a faint light of sunlight while feeling excitement and nervous.

"Now, we are getting in the carriage. Just stand still!" He reached over and pressed the button with a smile.

50th floor level location

Coil hallway setting

08:25 am

The elevator carriage stopped. The door slid open and revealed an empty hallway.

They stood inside the carriage.

Tofur gently moved Thea off the elevator carriage floor with a smile. "We're getting off the elevator. Do not peek out from your blindfold!"

I exhaled with nervousness and excitement. I never had celebrated a real birthday party. I giggled with a grin. "I felt the smooth glass under my feet and the swift ride in my stomach. You're lucky that I didn't vomit up the sweet cake on the elevator ride."

"You're a tough cookie. I wasn't worry. We're walking down the long, long hallway. Under your empress reign, I want the Coil room moved forward and entered as soon as you step off the elevator. This is a waste of good space and my good time."

"Yeah!" I exhaled with excitement.

They slowly moved down the long hallway and then finally stood in front of the archway.

Tofur removed the blindfold.

Coil room setting

08:33 am

The forward wall at the end of the long hallway consisted of only solid black glass that twinkled in tiny bursts of pinks, reds, greens, and orange hues coming from the array of bright beams of sunlight and did not exhibit an individual shimmery portrait in-between the single archway. The archway was an open square shaped design, where three individuals could stroll inside in a row.

I exhaled with a puff of excitement and nervousness then slowly moved ahead with a fluttering stomach, a smile face, and a happy heart while each foot stomp felt like a bird feature. I strolled into the room and stood inside the open archway with a gasp.

The interior room on the floor had been designed as a complete circle or a flat disc of dark tinted glass in black which blocked both the upper floor and the lower floor viewing activities and housed a different set of audience members, such like, the parents of the children on the upper level and the natives on the level floor as Tofur had mentioned during my swift tour of the floor level.

In the middle of the room, there was a circle of empty space that stored a set of invisible air waves that sailed up towards the flat rooftop and then back down towards the ground floor for some type of special purpose.

In front of the curved wall, a set of individual chaise lounge chairs were spaced about ten feet apart, not glowing in dull red smooth fabric.

The entire space appeared like a cylinder-design, thus the people and air waves coiled around the structure making it a clever name.

I strolled inside a few feet and then turned with a puzzled brow to see the first red tinted two-seater chaise lounge chair which was empty underneath a row of dull artificial overhead lamps. I halted in place and then quickly looked up, surveying the rest of the meeting room. Each chaise lounge chair was empty, without a pretty selfish and rude court prince or princess.

One the side wall, each court prince and princess had been separated into male and female groups standing against the wall.

On the side wall, standing in a line with the other court princes, Erato jabbed a finger at the end of the row of chaise lounge chairs with a smile. "Don't stand there! Go and stand over there, Empress Thea! We stood up and salute you today. It's your birthday, Thea. There's big gigantic birthday cake standing by the other wall. Go and get a piece of cake," he reached down and grabbed the fork, eating the sweet cake with an open mouth and a laugh.

My eyeballs darted to the side wall and as I gasped in shock. A long table was covered in a white tinted tablecloth and held an upright seven tier white colored cake with several scattered pods of dangling lavender solid flowers. The cake was beautiful. The clawed side was ugly.

The other court princes and princesses had already cut off and then consumed several piece of the birthday cake with the birthday princess.

I continued to stand with a giggle and without angry. I had ever been presented with a birthday party, so this event was a wonderful treat even with the trick of a half-eaten birthday cake.

I halted in place and stared down at the second chair that held a silver tinted object and gasped in alarm. The head piece on the scepter weapon was a sitting cat. I whispered for my eardrums only. "The Governess of Lesdam is a sitting cat." I had memorized each mural in the Coil hallway last night while learning each noble royal family.

This Coil room meeting chair had belonged to Governess Lael. She had been killed yesterday during the Battle of Kaootu. She had been a petite and pretty female with a slick ponytail of long, long brown hair with a mixture of additional fun colors of pink, purple, lavender over her skull and on the ponytail, a tone of pale skin, and a pair of green eyeballs. She had hailed from the Land of Lesdam.

The landscape of Lesdam was located on the far, far northern end of the kingdom, where the ground was covered in white tinted and cold ice particles. The entire nation was one tiny village that only provided the outdoor activity of ice skating on top of the frozen ground for fun and also imported all types of food stuff, warm clothes, and other life essentials.

Lael had displayed a shorty short circular skirt of pink tint, a sleeveless shirt of matching pink tint underneath a pair of naked legs that was attached to a pair of roller blades in rainbow colors. She also had possessed elbow and knee pads in the same rainbow hues that matched her pair of roller blades which didn't help her live through the Battle of Kaootu.

I slowly moved ahead with a stern face revisiting the death of Governess Lael, feeling sad and depressed. I turned and stared at the second two-seater chair, which was empty.

On the side wall, the other court princes and princesses continued to eat the birthday cake and laugh out loud with fun humor.

I moved ahead to the third chair, stopped with a gasp. The two-seater chair had belonged to Zeamon. There was a sliver tinted scepter weapon inside the first red tinted cushion with a head piece of a silver tinted upright hissing snake figure.

I reached down and touched one of the hidden scepter keys inside my wrinkled, stinky, and lavender outfit, whispering for my eardrums only. "The Earl of Zeebad is an upright hissing snake..."

Zeamon had died with Lael at the Battle of Kaootu. He had been a tall and skinny guy with a head of oily black straight hair, a pair of dark eyes, and a tone of dark skin wearing a tight-fitting outfit of solid gray with a short long-sleeved jacket and a pair of matching trousers that extended toward a pair of ankle boots in the same hue.

I swallowed back the sob of sad tears and continued to move ahead. My day, my birthday was not going to be a happy event. I still had to pass the other chaise lounge chairs, where I had led the battle fight and I had survived the war, but my new friends had not.

I ventured by an empty two-seater chaise lounge chair with a stern face, moving ahead to an empty three-seater chaise lounge chair, strolling ahead with a sad face.

The next two-seater chaise lounge chair contained a blue tinted metal arm and a green tinted metal arm.

Tzaress Ittai had died in the Battle of Yawp. She had been very tall and very muscular in body with cropped hair of blonde, a tone of dark skin, a pair of blue eyes, and a pair of sideburns going down the side of her face in red tint and a lip moustache in red color also. She had come from the Land of Ikoloth.

The Land of Ikoloth was a lush jungle of wild animals, where the natives ate the meat of the animals and wore the fur as a set of clothing.

Ittai had not worn animal fur but a set of blue tinted tights over her butthole and a matching outer bra over each big breast. On her left shoulder going down to her middle finger, she had possessed a piece of body armor in bright tinted blue metal that covered her entire left arm. And her long armor-covered arm had always slammed and then grinded into another metal arm in bright green tint while creating a sound of metal pain with her biological brother Tzar Aqualia.

I covered both of my eardrums still hearing the loud scratching noises that had my nerve endings sing off-key when I saw the two individual of metal arms.

Tzar Aqualia had been killed with his sister Ittai at the Battle of Yawp. He had always worn a green tinted metal arm and had possessed a very tall body in height and very large amount of muscle, a tone of pale skin, a bald head, and a clean shaven face with a pair of pale eyeballs.

I moved ahead with a sad face and a heavy heart, seeing the last three-seater chaise lounge chair. A piece of furniture had been designed to seat three individual persons in a row between an individual armrest, where Erato had sat on one end. Nastchill had occupied the other end. And I had once lounged inside the middle chair. Now, the three-seater chaise lounge chair was empty.

I stopped with a stern face and a sad heart, standing beside the table with the cake, without seeing the cake. I didn't fee like eating a piece of sweetness with my sour stomach. I looked ahead and surveyed the side wall of curved solid blackness with a gasp. One the side wall, the court princes and princess had been separated into groups and stood in height of inches.

The line of court princesses started with the tallest female.

Viscountess Arodi was taller than the other princesses and possessed a head of cropped black hair, a tone of pale skin that was covered in tattooed black weird symbols, and row of earrings that started at the earlobe and went to the crest of the ear. Each nose had been pieced and a top of the lip, right side. She wore a long black gown that covered her entire body while disguising her entire body. The exposed body parts including both of her hands and her naked toes held an assortment of finger rings and toes rings of silver tint. She hailed from the Land of Arfad, where a range of short mountains which was made from solid hard limestone rock in numerous colors and tones was used to create furniture and other household items. She wiggled side to side her scepter weapon with a head piece of a sitting elephant.

Queen Bakeria was a very tall and very beautiful female, wearing a light green tinted jumpsuit with a pair of matching ankle boots, sitting inside the second chaise lounge chair. Bakeria was a very tall and very gorgeous girl with a face and a body of dark, dark skin tone, staring down at a plate of cooked fish and hailed from the Land of Bocardo which consisted of water in the form of rivers and ponds, and lakes. She lifted up and wiggled her scepter weapon that held a circular cylinder at Thea with a sneer.

Countess Glitza was really more average height and stood out of order of height in the court princess role as she was friendly with Bakeria. Glitza displayed average height with a head of long black hair, a pair of gray eyeballs, a tone of dark skin and looked breathtaking beautiful, even with her permanently curled lips, left side. She came from the Land of Gildallie where miles and miles exhibited flat and dry and heated plains in brown dirt tone that yielded an array of raw gem stones. She displayed a tight-fitting jumpsuit of orange tint that covered her entire body, but each arm sleeve held a set of vertical positioned glittery individual colorful gem stone going from the edge of her neck across each collar bone and then descending down all the way to the top of her hand and a pair of thigh-high boots that exhibited pointy stones on the side going down to each boot heel like the jumpsuit. Her jumpsuit was also a vicious weapon as each individual gem stone had been sculptured into a tiny pointy object that could bleed a large mammal with long fangs and sharp claws.

Glitza stared ahead without a smile in silence at Thea while tapping a set of manicured claws, no, fingernails of bright green hue on top of her crossed arms, where her scepter weapon dangled down from the fingernails with an upright lamp post.

Princess Muppin, she was a taller and sexier than Glitza, standing beside the female with a bright smile and a head of red hair, a tone of pink skin, wearing an ankle-length pale blue gala dress, a pair of naked feet and a tiny matching pale blue tiara on top of her strands. The Princess of Mattathee held a scepter weapon with a head piece that displayed an upright corncob

Duchess Fera was a dark haired and dark skinned beauty of average height and weight coming from the Land of Flocci, where the land was flat and made of ice and snow, very cold. She wore a short sleeveless sundress of peach and a pair of naked feet, reaching over to slap the hands from Cilicee with a sneer of princely jealous. A scepter weapon dangled from her neck with a head piece showing a diamond head.

Baroness Cilicee stood in front of taller Duchess Fera and displayed a petite body frame with a nice laugh, a head of red curly hair, a pair of amber eyeballs, and a tone of amber skin color. She came from the Land of Colon, where everyone travels from home to enjoy some fun times. The landscape is composed of grassy or snowy rolling hills and low down green tinted fresh ponds for swimming, skiing, hiking, and enjoying forestland. She wore a pair of bare feet with a long sleeveless dress in patterns of strips consisting of red, blue, and pink hue. The Baroness of Colon roped her scepter blade over one of the wrist bones with a head piece that represented an upright tree branch

Lady Olivet held a dish of cake and stood at the end of the court princess line, holding her scepter weapon with a head piece that displayed a an upright carrot stick in silver tint. She possessed a short and plump teen female with a pair of green eyeballs, a tone of pale skin, and a bob of blonde hair, wearing a matching short yellow tinted outfit that exposed a pair of skinny legs and a pair of naked feet. She wore a matching yellow tinted jacket. She hailed from the Land of Onam, where groves of fruit trees grew, thrived, and were harvested for food.

Beside the cake table, my eyeballs darted across the empty space on the curved wall and stared at the shortest court prince.

The line of court princes started with the shortest to the tallest.

A short and plump cute male teen, Duke Joed exhibited a mop of stringy blonde hair that fell down over his continuous chewing lips, where his eyeballs of brown could not be seen. He wore a short yellow tinted jacket and a pair of matching walking short that exposed a pair of pale legs and naked foot. He came from the Land of Jeroboom, where the people raised, worked, and ate the natural animal, the mule. His scepter weapon displayed a sitting mule on the head piece.

Baron Pekod stand over the hair roots on short and plump Joed, waving both hands, laughing out loud with fun with his two princess girls, petite red-haired Cilicee. He possessed an average height and slender body frame, a head of brown tinted dreadlocks, a pair of brown eyes, and a tone of dark skin coming from the Land of Penina, which was really an ocean island with a set of fish, sharks, and other sea animals. He wore a pair of naked feet, a long set of walking shorts in the hue of brown that matched his skin tone, and a naked chest. He dangled a scepter weapon on his hip with the head piece as a leaping dolphin.

Marquee Kidron was average height and weight wearing a naked chest, a silly pointy hat of bright mint green, where his long red tinted hair touched each breast nipple. He possessed a tone of pink tinted skin and a pair of violet eyeballs, wearing a pair of skin-tight pants in vertical strips of pink, mint green, lavender, and yellow that extended down to a pair of roller skates.

He came from the Land of Korbright, where the hills flow up and down which is made of solid rock in the color of purple. The people traveled around to a different town on a pair of roller blades. The land did not produce a natural mineral or a piece of man-made merchandise, only show of talented roller skaters that entertain other nations.

Kidron ate the cake and dangled a scepter weapon with a head piece of a twisted pretzel figure

Erato was a tall teen and possessed a head of shoulder length wavy black tinted hair, a jaw line of dusted black tinted whiskers, a pair of green tinted eyes, and a tone of pale tinted skin. He wore a sculptured upper torso of pale skin with an open shirt, a pair of tight black tinted trousers, and a pair of black tinted boots, eating a dish of cake. He dangled a scepter weapon on his hip with the head piece as an hour glass figure.

Nastchill was an extremely tall and muscular young seventeen years old male with a bright smile, a pair of blue eyes, and a tone of dark tinted skin, a bald skull, and a red tinted goatee. He was dressed in only a set of naked ripped biceps and triceps with a sleeveless vest, a pair of matching brown tinted trousers, and a pair of boots. He dangled a scepter weapon on his hip with the head piece as a sitting dog.

Viscount Dimon was a very tall male with a lean frame of muscles with a plume of black hair standing upright on top of his head where the rest of the bone skull is shaven clean. He possessed a naked chest of olive skin and a pair of brown eyes while staring down at the plate of smelly aquatic food stuff, without grunting or speaking to Thea. He wore a pair of skin-tight brown tinted trousers with a pair of matching knee boots.

He hailed from the Land of Dimna, where the land was very low and filled with a series of wet marshes. The people wrestle with a yellow tinted alligator that matched and hid inside a shallow marsh and then ate them for food and fun.

He dangled a scepter weapon on his hip an upright alligator.

The tallest court prince, Court Huzz held a dish of cake and wore a purple and white long dress that exposed a pair of blue shoes. He possessed a head of cropped light red hair and a pair of violet eyeballs on a face of pale skin, coming from the Land of Hyzo, where all the livestock was raised and grazed and then eaten by all the other natives within the kingdom. He dangled a scepter weapon on his hip that exhibited an upright hand, minus the thumb.

I gasped in reality and whispered for my eardrums only while staring at each court prince and princess against the curved wall. "The Earl of Zeebad is an upright hissing snake. The Governess of Lesdam is a sitting cat. The Count of Hyzo is an upright hand. The Viscountess of Arfad is a sitting elephant. The Baron of Penina is a leaping dolphin. The Duchess of Flocci is a diamond head. The Prince of Naam is a sitting dog. The Princess of Mattathee is an upright corncob. The Duke of Land of Jeroboom is a sitting mule. The Countess of Gildallie is a lamp post. The Tzar of Ikoloth is five-point star. The Baroness of Colon is a tree branch. The Lady of Onam is an upright carrot stick. The Viscount of Dimna is an upright alligator. The Queen of Bocardo is an upright cylinder. The Marquee of Korbright is a twisted pretzel figure. The Lord of Elidan is an hour glass figure."

In the middle of the room, a vertical line of purple hue beamed down from the ceiling and then halted, forming a purple tinted outline of a shimmery Dragon Head. The Dragon Head outline did not blink the eyelids or snort out a colorful plume of hologram fire. The head slowly rotated inside the empty space, where each pair of eyeballs could view the dragon's head without a flame of colorful snot balls or long flames.

A male voice echoed out from the holographic Dragon Head, without movement again coming from an eyelid or the snort or the pair of lips, saying out loud to Thea. "My empress daughter Thea, happy birthday! You are eighteen years old today. Now, you are the new ruling empress. To continue the commitment, obligations, and responsibilities, you must select a mate among the court of princes. Who is your new emperor, Empress Thea?"

The count of princes stood in a wiggling row against one side of the curvy solid black tinted wall, smiling at Thea. The count of princesses stood on the opposite end and crossed the arms with a sour frown, sneering at Thea.

I continued to stand beside the hologram image and exhaled with doubt, scanning each potential court prince, evaluating their fine royal qualities as my new husband-emperor. My eyeballs darted down and stopped at the empty chaise lounge chair, where a single scepter weapon gleamed with a snake head piece.

The chair had held dead and gone, not buried Zeamon. He had been a tall and skinny guy with a head of oily black straight hair, a pair of dark eyes, and a tone of dark skin wearing a tight-fitting outfit of solid gray with a short long-sleeved jacket and a pair of matching trousers that extended toward a pair of ankle boots in the same hue. He had been very nice and kind to Thea.

I exhaled with sorrow. I actually had picked Zeamon within my mental mind and my happy heart as my future emperor-husband. I do believe that Zeamon had also selected fake empress Thea as his future wife, not my dead sister Thea.

But, Zeamon was dead now.

My eyeballs looked up and continued to scan the other court princes.

In the middle of the floor, the male voice inside the Dragon Head stopped talking and then swiftly morphed back into a single vertical line of purple hue and then it disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of purple hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Dragon Head with a matching cute purple tinted bow tied of one of its pointy ears. The dragon head outline did not blink each eyelid or snort out a plume of colorful fire either.

A female voice echoed coming out from the rotating Dragon Head with the cute matching bow on one of its pointy ears. "My empress daughter Thea, happy birthday! You are eighteen years old today. Now, you are the new ruling empress. "I can understand as a mother and an empress also. The royal teenly decision is too hard. Thus, pick two young princes from the court princes, Thea! Then, you and I can converse about your important decision for a few seconds."

I turned and then frowned at the rotating Dragon Head. "Do you wanna talk to me? Why do you wanna talk to me?"

On the side wall in the court prince line, Nastchill leaned over with a confused brow into the cheekbone of Erato, staring at the hologram. "Is that allowed here?"

Erato continued to stand and stare at Thea. "I guess so."

In the center of the Coil meeting room, the glowing purple tinted Dragon Head with the bow slowly rotated around the cylinder and as the female voice echoed throughout the room. "Pick your court prince, Thea!"

I returned back with a smile to see the two court princes and I was thrilled that my mother wanted to assist me with my empress decision. Then I jabbed the scepter head piece at each court prince with a nod and a grin. "I pick Lord Erato and Prince Nastchill."

In the middle of the floor, the hologram Dragon Head with the bow on one of its ear tips swiftly morphed into a single vertical line of purple hue and then disappeared from the enclosed space.

A new vertical line of brown hue swiftly appeared and then morphed into an outline of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes. A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram, "Time out!"

On the side wall in the line of court prince, Dimon laughed with food on his lips. "What did the talking head say?"

On the side wall in the line of court princesses, Bakeria did not exhibit food stains on her lips only a lady sneer at the rotating shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex hologram. "What is happening in here?"

Muppin frowned at the hologram. "What does that word mean?"

Kidron frowned. "What?"

Olivet frowned at the hologram also. "Who is speaking now?"

The shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes. A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram. "The rule of empress-ship is very clear, Thea. The new ruling Empress of Tross is only allowed to pick one mate, not two. Thus, the Challenger Fight has been invoked."

Fera frowned at the hologram. "What is the Challenger Fight? I have never heard of it."

Nastchill jabbed a finger and sneered at the hologram. "This is a dirty nasty trick on me. Someone has tricked you, too, Thea. Stop this right now, mother! Mother, I demand that you appear on the hologram line right now. Mother, come out of hiding right now!"

The shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes. A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram. "Please be quiet. Stop your growling and purring here! Listen to the next set of instructions from me!"

Bakeria sneered. "No!"

"Nope!" Nastchill growled.

"Naw!" Erato snarled.

"Never!" Arodi frowned.

Huzz laughed, "Maybe!"

The shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head with an open mouth of sharp fangs, where one of the fangs wore a tied bow. The hologram outline did not blink an eyelid or produce a colorful plume of fire from an open mouth or one of the two nose holes. A female voice echoed coming from the rotating Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram. "Silence in here!"

The lines of court princes and princesses stopped whining and stared at the hologram.

The hologram spoke out loud. "The Challenger Fight had been commissioned a long time ago when a new ruling empress was too young and too indecisive to make her husband-emperor decision. Thus, one of the other royals called forth the Challenger Fight. The Challenger Fight consists of each pick from the new ruling empress. However, the two picks from the line of court princes are up for grabs by any other court princess."

"I can marry Erato." Glitza turned and winked at Erato.

The hologram spoke out loud. "Any court princess can marry any court prince during the Challenger Fight. It is legal, binding and permanent for a mating marriage."

Bakeria tossed both arms into the air with a smile, "Yeah! This is an exciting year for a new ruling empress."

Huzz frowned. "Get off the hologram line, please!"

The hologram spoke out loud. "The Challenger Fight has not been implemented for centuries. The Challenger Fight will occur here inside the Center Building. The Center Building is the residence of each court prince and princess, but it is also the home of the hologram equipment for this reason."

"Why is that so?" Huzz frowned.

The hologram spoke out loud. "The Challenger Fight will occur within an artificial environment that has been designed on the thirty fifth level as a warm tropic jungle. There will be real plants, trees, and bushes and dirt. There will not be any wild animals or fluttering insects or poisonous snakes or any other wildlife that can harm your teenly royal-ness," laughing.

On the side wall with the line of court princes, Nastchill pointed to the court princess with a laugh. "You're wrong. Countess Glitza is documented as a piece of wildlife."

On the side wall with the line of court princesses, Glitza turned and then jabbed a finger and a sneer at Nastchill. "I'll come straight for you, Nastchill. Then we'll get married. I'll enjoy beating my new husband to death."

"I'll enjoy beating my new wife to death, as well. That technique works both ways, too deadly," Nastchill leaned over with a wicked grin and stared back at Glitza while slapping the collar bone on Erato. They both laughed, since they both hated Glitza.

On the side wall with the line of court princesses, Bakeria tossed both arms with her scepter weapon "Wait! Thea is the ruling new empress and will lose her picks of both future husbands. So, when I get there and then take Erato away from Thea, do I become the new ruling empress?"

The hologram spoke out loud. "No, you do not Bakeria! The point of the Challenger Fight is a punishment for a lazy new ruling empress. She must fight to acquire one of the two picks as her new husband-emperor. She will still be the empress. She has to work a little harder this battle round. Isn't that right, Thea?"

I exhaled with frustration, staring at the curvy wall without seeing anything while listening to the conversation of a shimmery Tyrannosaurus Rex Head.

The hologram spoke out loud. "If Thea does not beat out each one of the other court princessly competitors and then loses both of her princely picks, she gets the chance to select another court prince, at the end of the Challenge. Thus, the new ruling empress has learned a valuable lesson..."

Olivet turned with a wink and wiggled her hips at Erato. "Always get your man first! I wanna marry Erato."

"Help me some pretty body!" Erato leaned over and then punched the bicep of Nastchill with a laugh. They both disliked Olivet also.

Joed jogged ahead, stopped, and spun around hugging his princess girl Olivet while sneering at Erato.

The hologram spoke out loud. "Silence in this room right now! Every court prince and princess listen to me, right now! Take your scepter!"

Arodi frowned at the hologram. "What for? Why? Do I have to fight in this uncivilized banter?"

The hologram spoke out loud. "I mentioned that there is not a single wild animal inside the artificial environment for your safety. But there will be danger for each court princess. So, take your scepter and arm your princess person!"

Olivet turned and sneered at the court prince. "I don't like this. Do I have to participant here? I don't wanna touch Erat, never."

Erato turned and sneered at Olivet, "Likewise for me, too, shorty girl!"

The hologram spoke out loud. "Yes, each court princess must enter the Challenger Fight. Go and slap the face on Thea for that one!"

Muppin frowned at Thea. "Thanks, Empress!"

The hologram spoke out loud. "However, each court princess does not have to fight over one of the two princely picks. There are numerous safe spaces to sit out the upcoming vicious and fierce princessly competition without receiving a bloody nose hole."

Glitza winked at Thea. "I like this."

"I like this better."" Bakeria laughed.

Fera turned and sneered at the two court princes. "I don't like either E-rat or Nasty Champ. Don't expect to see my face near your smelly bones!"

Erato pitched the dirty dish of cake at Fera. The dish missed the girl and landed on the floor. He sneered. "I don't like your ugly face either, Fur rat!"

Nastchill laughed out loud with a nod to Fera, "Fine by me!"

The hologram spoke out loud. "Silence in here right now! I have more important instructions. The elements inside the Romantic Garden setting is real and true plants, shrubs, trees, grass, dirt, and flowers. However, the ceiling is really the height of the hallway that has been electronically morphed into a pale blue skyline, which is totally different there. You will see a set of scattered white clouds, which is also totally different here. And a bright yellow tinted sun, which is also totally different here."

Pekod turned and smiled at the hologram. "I love both my princess girls. my only question, why is the dirt green really real colored here?"

"Stick to the subject matter which is winning or beating a husband," Bakeria turned and jabbed a finger at Nastchill.

"You wish, Bakeria!" Nastchill reached over and grabbed the dirty dish from Dimon, firing it at Bakeria. The dish hit the side wall and then landed down on top of the dirty glass floor with a loud crash.

My wishes all come true, handsome new husband Nasty Champ!" She laughed.

The hologram spoke out loud. "The electronic ceiling inside the Romantic Garden setting will stimulate the passing of a set of thick white tinted clouds over the bright sun rays. So, don't wet your panties, ya'll!" She laughed. "Thus, the bright yellow sunlight will disappear for a few second. Then the sunlight will return. The point of the passing clouds and the dimming of the sunrays is that the event is ticking off the time limit. However, the slight dullness is not time in a steady or routine pattern. It is a visual warning for your occupied mind that you are living on limited time," she laughed. "Sorry about that! It's a funny axiom. Anyway, the slight dullness is not harmful but thoughtful to you. The time limit is sixty minutes. No more and no less! When the electronic clock buzzes on zero minutes, zero seconds, zero milliseconds, you are outta of time and have better made your mark on one of the court princes. Or the court princess will remain single for the rest of their life."

"Not I!" Glitza slapped her chest with a laugh.

The hologram spoke out loud. "To win your favorite prince, you must mark his exterior skin with three separate colorful strikes, preferable a thin line of colored paint, not a great big ugly letter of X. Each one of your scepter weapons has been modified. The sharp tip has been replaced with a dull rounded tip. The rounded tip is filled with colorful fun paint that washes off with a special blend of detergent, not mouth spit, Nastchill.

Nastchill leaned over and then elbowed Erato with a laugh.

On the side wall, in the line of court princesses, Bakeria whipped her hand down, grabbing her scepter weapon, lifting it into her frown and pressed the trigger with a sneer. A silver tinted blade extended into the air missing her face. The tip of the blade was both dull and slightly rounded. An orange glow of bright paint dripped off the tips. She reached down and wiped the dull tip onto her naked arm. A line of bright paint glowed over her skin. "It is true. My scepter weapon has been modified. The sharp tip is gone. The rounded tip possesses colored paint. I'm painted in orange hue."

Kidron jabbed a finger at Bakeria with a laugh. "Paint that lovely orange hue color on your face! Then you're look really uglier, Bakeria."

The hologram spoke out loud. "Thus, the colorful paint strike will stay on the exterior body until the time limit and until Nastchill is allowed to bathe."

"What?" Nastchill frowned.

Cilicee slapped her chest and shook her curls with smile, winking at her prince Pekod. "I don't wanna marry Erato or Nastchill, since I am going to marry Pekod." Pekod blew a kiss back to her.

Fera reached down with a gasp and slapped the back spine on Cilicee. "You will marry my prince Pekod over my dead body, witch!"

Cilicee shifted ahead and ran into the back spine on Olivet and Joed.

Joed spun around and sneered at Cilicee.

Olivet hugged her prince Joed and smiled at Thea. "So, can my colorful strike be designated for my friend Thea? So, I can help her win back her prince."

Muppin jabbed a finger with a gasp at Thea. "That's cheating.

The hologram spoke out loud. "That is an impossible feat. Your teenly scepter has been handed down from one of your family members. The set of germs inside each tiny metal crack contains your same DNA molecules. The color paint has now absorbed only your DNA molecules. So it is impossible for you to paint the hue o another color onto the exterior skin on Erato or Nastchill. The paint job comes only from your scepter which is only comes from your personal DNA."

Arodi laughed. "So, no court princess can cheat. I like that."

Bakeria tossed both arms in the air with a shout out. "That's right. This is a battle for a husband. I'm ready to fight. Bring it on, non-sister princesses!" she slapped the hands back down to her legs, drawing her scepter, sneering at Thea.

The hologram spoke out loud. "The colorful paint strike must be slightly long for viewing by each one of us. We are all the set of judges for the Challenger Fight. We are all the jury members also. Each prince and princess must enter into the enclosed artificial Romantic Garden setting and each one can elect not to participate with in the Challenge Fight."

Arodi laughed. "This Challenger thing sounds like fun, to me."

Muppin looked down at her long dress and bare feet with a worried brow. "This Challenger thing does not play out as fun, to me."

The hologram spoke out loud. "Now, everyone is required to enter the Romantic Garden and will enter through a separate entrance which is located on each side of the narrow hallway. That way, each court princess has a fair and equal chance at the two princes. Each prince will be located in the center of the Romantic Garden. Each court princess will dash through a closed door. She will be positioned at the same distance from the center of the Romantic Garden, only running from a different direction. I am displaying a holographic image of the Romantic Garden interior in place of my dino head."

Inside the middle of the Coil room, the Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram image flattened over the empty pit and then produced a scene of tall trees, low shrubs, pretty flowers that outlined the arena. There were two blinking dots in the color of yellow in the center of the hologram. There were eight blinking dots in the color of blue that went around the outside of the hologram.

The female voice echoed throughout the room. "The two yellow dots will become Erato and Nastchill shortly. Each blue dot will be a court princess. I will remind here. Each door in front of a dot is equal distance from the center point. At my command, you leave the Coil room and then enter into the elevator carriage one at a time or in a group of tolerable royals. Either way, the arriving princesses must wait on your person before the Challenge Fight commences.

On the side wall in the line of court princesses, Glitza raised a palm near a wicked grin. "If I wanna marry Erato, which I do, can I kill Thea before she marks him with her lavender colors inside the Romantic Garden, for victory, of course?"

Erato leaned over and then sneered at the countess. "Try that stupid act! Then I'll kill you first with one bare hand and the other one tied behind my back spine, nasty Glitza."  
Glitza giggled. "Relax, Lord E-rat! It's a hypothetical question, prince dummy. I wanna know what I can or can't legally do as a court princess inside the Romantic Garden."

The hologram spoke out loud. "There will be no killing of a single princess. However, the word, fight, has been placed into the title for a purpose. Yes, you and the other court princess will be fighting without a kill death for the chance to place your colored mark on the exterior body of either Nastchill or Erato. Now, if I was a wise court princess, I would place my colored mark on both Nastchill and Erato..."

"Why?" Cilicee smiled, "What for? I can't marry two princes."

The hologram spoke out loud. "That is not correct. A princess can only marry one prince. However, the first court princess to mark either Nastchill or Erato with a seat of three separate colored strips, then she will marry her desired court prince."

"Me!" Muppin giggled and waved to Nastchill.

"Me!" Aroid laughed.

"Me!" Glitza winked at Nastchill.

Bakeria nodded to each court prince with a sneer. "If Nastchill gets marked first with the three separate colored strips, then I mark Erato will my personal colored three strip, so can I marry both Nastchill and Erato?"

The hologram spoke out loud. "No. I will repeat this for all court princess eardrums. The first court prince to be marked with three separate colored strips will marry that court princess."

Nastchill sneered at Bakeria. "And if I don't wanna marry that court princess that has marked me up?"

The hologram spoke out loud. "We allow for a divorce here within the royal court from a court princess. However, Thea and her indecisiveness have set up the new environment which has created the new set of rules that affects each court prince and princess."

Dimon turned and sneered. "Thanks a lot, Thea!"

I continued to stand by the cake table and then gasped in shock. "I..."

Huzz turned and growled at Thea. "I didn't like this either. Thanks for nothing, Thea!"

I gasped in shock. "I..."

Kidron snarled at Thea. "I feel sorry for each one of us. What is your empress reign going to be like?"

I looked down with a sad face to see the floor. "I..."

Bakeria sneered at Thea. "I don't know either. But I'll be watching you from now on, Empress. Does the kingdom allow for rebellion and revolution?"

Erato sneered at Bakeria. "Watch your mouth, Bakeria!"

Nastchill sneered at Bakeria also. "Wash out your mouth, Bakeria!"

The hologram spoke out loud. "Are there any smart questions about the Challenger Fight from the two princes or one of the court princesses?"

Each skull did not move and each mouth did not open.

The hologram spoke out loud. "Excellent! All of the court participants are not willing and ready. Get moving outta of her, Erato and Nastchill! You must be standing in the center of the Romantic garden before I can release each court princess into the artificial environment of the Challenger Fight."

Nastchill moved ahead toward the cake table, instead of the open archway and then stopped, leaning down, kissing the lips on Thea. She enjoyed his warm lips and the taste of honey from his tongue. Some of the teens clapped and laughed. The other teens hissed and then booed. He pulled back with a smile, stroking her pink tinted scar on her cheekbone with a wink. "I will see you, soonest."

I croaked with a puzzled brow, "Yeah..."

He back stepped and then spun around, tossing both arms into the air, roaring with a yell and exited the Coil room. He slowly paced down the hallway.

Erato moved ahead toward the cake table also and then stopped, leaning down, sniffing the black hair on Thea and pulled back with a grin. "You smell good like sweet lavender. I'll be sniffing the air waves. She giggled at his silly banter. He leaned down and then kissed her lips with a soft moan, pulling back with a wink. "Do you remember my smell, too?"

I smiled, "Vanilla, yeah!"

He back stepped and then spun around, facing the curvy wall of mad teens, bowing down at the waistline. He stood upright with a chuckle. "I do this for love and life and harmony and justice and..."

Muppin smiled with a nod. "Why did you pick Erato as your handsome and smart court prince? What's wrong with you, Thea?"

Erato swing around and then jogged ahead, exiting the Coil room with rebel yell of happiness.

He and Nastchill collided together inside the empty hallway, fist-bumping, back slapping with happy laughter and strolled ahead toward the closed elevator doors.

The door parted. The carriage was empty. They entered the carriage. The door closed.

Inside the Coil room, on the side wall, each line of court princes and princesses shouted out loud and danced side to side with laughs, hoots, claps, and whistles.

The hologram shouted out loud. "Silence in the room! I have more instructions for each court princess. The two court princes are being escorted into the Romantic Garden by a pair of guards.

Huzz frowned. "I didn't know the kingdom owned a pair of guards."

The hologram spoke out loud. In case, the two princes wanna escape from their royal duty.

Dimon slapped his chest with a smile. "Well, yeah, I would wanna escape if a court princess was after me and then wanted to mark me with her nails."

Bakeria turned and sneered at Dimon. "Her paint!"

"O dear! Bakeria wants to mark and then mate with me using her sharp cat claws. Now, that's scary enough, without the paint." Kidron laughed.

The hologram spoke out loud. "Once Erato and Nastchill have been chained..."

Fera hugged onto her court prince Pekod with a smile. "Will Erato and Nastchill really be chained up like a pair of guard dogs?"

The hologram spoke out loud. "Once they arrive, each court princess will be released to venture down to the thirty fifth floor level inside this building?"

Muppin frowned. "Does the number thirty-fifth or thirty-five have a significant meaning here? Is it related to death or something?"

"No." The hologram spoke out loud. "Each court prince, your role is entering the Romantic Garden, watching the Challenger Fight. You are not obliged to do anything else."

"Can I kill Bakeria?" Kidron turned and sneered at Bakeria.

The hologram spoke out loud. "No kill deaths are allowed inside the Romantic Garden from either a court prince on a court princess or a court princess on a court prince. The name Romantic Garden was selected, because it means love and romance, not death and funerals. Geez! I'll glad you are not going to be our leader, Kidron."

"I wanna change my clothes," Muppin lifted up her gown with a sour frown.

The hologram spoke out loud. "I am sorry, Princess Muppin. No modifications to you, your wardrobe, or your attitude is allowed right now," she laughed. "Each court prince that is not in the running for the husband-emperor, please leave the Coil room. Get onto the elevator and then ride down to the thirty-fifth floor. Exit off the carriage and then enter into the front door of the Romantic Garden hallway that is currently opened for your arrival. And there is a team of escorts with a scepter weapon, in case you become chicken shit, right now," she laughed with the others. Then she sneered, "Now!"

Joed turned and strolled toward the open archway with a smile, "Yes, ma'am!"

Huzz turned and followed the back spine on Joed, "All right!"

Kidron turned and followed the back spine on Huzz. "Okay!"

Pekod released both of his princesses and then turned, moving ahead with a sneer. "I'm a baron here."

Kidron laughed. "She's grouchy today."

Dimon laughed. "Whose mother is that?"

Pekod laughed, "Your mother!"

Dimon frowned, "No, that's not my mother. My mother is really nice and really pretty. My mother doesn't look like an ugly dino head."

Each court prince shrugged a shoulder and then turned to face the open archway, slowly exiting the room. Each one laughed and then shoved another prince side to side on top of the hallway, strolling down the tile. Eventually, each court prince loaded inside the carriage. Then the set of elevator doors closed shut.

Inside the Coil room, the hologram said. "Let us review all the court princess rules quickly. First rule, you will go down to the thirty-fifth floor level. The elevator only descends down to the thirty-fifth floor right now. The carriage will not move further down to your individual chamber rooms. The carriage will not move upward back here to the fiftieth floor level either..."

"We're trapped like mice," Aroid laughed.

The hologram spoke out loud. "Yes, you are trapped there inside the enclosed environment until the end of the Challenger Fight. Second rule, you dash away from the carriage and then find a closed door that is colored in blue hue. I do hope that every girl knows the color of blue. If not, there is an upright female escort in front of the blue colored door for the dumber court princess..."

Bakeria sneered. "I resent that."

"You resemble that." Aroid tossed both arms in the air with a smile.

The hologram spoke out loud. "Third rule, the blue door will slide open. The clock will start ticking off backwards from sixty minutes, zero seconds, and zero milliseconds. Dash, walk, stroll or race inside the Romantic Garden setting on your own two feet! There is not a map directional stand that leads toward the center of the Romantic Garden. Hopefully, every princess can figure out where the center of a room is located. This is the location of Lord Erato and Prince Nastchill, who will be standing and waiting for your colorful mark coming from your dull tipped scepter weapon. I will advise great caution here. If one princess dares to permanently harm or maim another princess, the royal adults will not be happy. Each one of us is a caring parent and each one of us loves our child. Beware! Final rule, the first three strikes on either prince will declare the winner and then she will become the wife-princess to the newly marked prince. After the three strikes have been painted on the lucky prince, the lights will go dark. That indicates that there is a new upcoming wedding ceremony. And each participate will come back and meet in the middle of the romantic garden setting. Awe!'"

Bakeria sneered. "But we're all going to be located there in the middle of garden weeds always. This is going to last three minutes to finish. What kind of challenge is that?"

The hologram spoke out loud. "I hope so. Good luck, court princesses! Get going to the elevators!"

Bakeria shoved Muppin from her body and sneered out loud, spinning around to face the open archway, moving ahead. "I'm getting Nastchill and then I'm beating him into a bloody pile of bones. You should have called out his name only, Thea."

I continued to stand by the cake table and stared at the wall with a gasp in alarm. I didn't mean for either one of the cute two princes to get harmed. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to say. I created this dangerous situation for Erato and Nastchill.

"Don't worry, Thea! Nastchill will kill her first, before he dies from his bloody wounds." Glitza continued to stand on the side wall in the line of court princesses and twirled her scepter with a nod, spinning around to face the open archway. She raced ahead and then exited the Coil room, running behind the back spin on her friend Bakeria.

Petite and plump Olivet moved away from the side wall and turned to sneer at the back spine of Glitza. "Shut up, nasty court princess Glitza! I didn't see cute and hunky Nastchill chasing after your tail on your ugly green tinted lizard jumpsuit. Why? He likes girls, not animals," she stopped and then stood in front of the nose bridge on Thea, turning with a smile. "Don't fret, Thea! Nastchill has an army of devoted natives inside his homeland. No one will ever harm him, even if Glitza gets really luck and marks him first as her future husband. I hope you beat both her paint job and Bakeria's paint job to Nastchill first. He's cute and nicer than Erato. I, of course, love Joed. We're getting married right after this challenger thing. So, I will not stand in your footpath. Go and get your love, honey!" She leaned over and then gently shoved Thea toward the open archway, swiftly strolling ahead with Thea.

"Thanks!" I continued to stand next to the empty pit in the middle of the room and yelled out loud at the back spine of Olivet.

Olivet cleared the archway, exiting the Coil room before Thea, dashing down the corridor, waiting on the next empty elevator.

I smiled. "She is a nice princess." I didn't move turning to face the empty pit, exhaling with annoyance. I wasn't worry about the other court princesses. I slowly scanned the room.

The curvy wall was messy, where each nasty prince or princess had decorated the smooth surface with a set of sticky fingers of vanilla frosting and tiny wet cake crumbs.

My birthday cake stood alone on top of the table, glittering in tiny sprinkles of lavender hue. The hungry court princes had torn apart one side of the cake with their bottomless appetites.

I continued to scan the rest of the Coil room. All empty and quiet. I exhaled with frustration and then turned to face the open archway.

I slowly strolled ahead with a smile and then exited the Coil room for the last time as new ruling empress Thea.

I stopped and stood in front of the closed glass elevator door, lifting a finger, touching the glass.

The glass carriage had returned after dumping off the rest of the court princesses onto the thirty-fifth floor level.

Elevator glass carriage setting with Thea

09:51 am

I entered inside with a stern face. The glass door slid shut. I stopped at the rear window and stared down at the landscape in pretty but weird unnatural colors. I never saw a new native here in the Land of Tross on top of the green dirt or the blue grass. I never saw a different flying airship in the skyline or a ground ship on the soil for some reason.

The carriage stopped. The doors slid open.

35th floor level location

Lobby setting

10:00 am

I spun around with a cough and then a gasp.

The space was blinding bright. I shaded my eyelashes and then blinked my eyelids, adjusting my eyeballs to the new sight. My eyeballs finally focused on the new environment.

I slowly exited the carriage and stopped, standing a few feet from the elevator, scanning the tiny room.

A narrow and enclosed rectangular space looked like as a lobby without a piece of furniture or a greeting person. The only light beamed inside from the two side glass windows that surrounded the glass elevator. The forward wall looked like a piece of solid glass that had been painted in bright white that also reflected each sunray that had caused my temporary blindness.

Some adult royal had a sick sense of humor, today!

On each side wall, a narrow semi-dark hallway entered into the darkness without good lighting. The other court princesses had arrived alive and then now stood in front of the blue tinted door, while waiting on new ruling empress Thea to arrive alive also.

I scanned each side near the solid black wall with puzzlement, deciding which avenue to transverse. I shrugged a shoulder and then veered to the left side without thought, strolling down the narrow avenue of semi-darkness.

I immediately moved behind the first door that had been painted in neon bright blue hue. My eyeballs could not miss the glow even with the black tinted wall and the absent lighting.

The first blue door stood in front of tall and slender Aroid, who spun around and then slapped the hand of Thea with a smile. "Go and get your man, Thea!"

"Thanks!" I strolled ahead with a smile. I had one friend among the angry court of princes and princesses this afternoon.

The second blue door glowed in front of Glitza, who spun around and then sneered at the nose profile on Thea. The Tyrannosaurus Rex Head hologram had ordered no kill deaths. Glitza growled. "I hope you trip over your lavender boots and then fall down onto the hard floor, bleeding your forehead and then faint into a coma, Empress Thea."

"Thanks!" I continued to stroll ahead with a smile. I did not expect a lesser body threat coming from nasty Glitza.

Bakeria crouched down in front of the blue door while hearing the patty feet, spinning around with a smile. "No good luck to you, stupid empress of Tross."

Thanks!"

The opposite hallway held the other court princesses consisting of Olivet, Cilicee, Fera, and Muppin who was required to attend the Challenger Fight for a court prince also.

Romantic Garden setting

The Romantic Garden setting encompassed entire space of room which was located far above each royal sleeping chamber in the matching dimensions of height, width, and depth. From the glass elevator, a small enclosed white tinted lobby exhibited three solid matching walls without decorations or windows. the forward wall displayed a solid façade that guarded the mysterious Romantic Garden setting on the floor level.

On the forward wall, the wall corner was an open dark archway that led down a long dark hallway with minimum artificial lamps.

60:00:00 minutes/seconds/milliseconds

Each court princess crouched down in front of a closed blue tinted door, waiting with nervousness and anticipation for the start of the Challenger Fight, except for Thea.

Thea stood upright in front of the fourth half-door in blue hue and turned with a smile, staring down an empty row within the semi-darkness. Behind each court princess, there was an unknown, unnamed, and upright figure that dressed in black clothing and wore a black mask over the hair roots and all the facial features. A breathing hole displayed a small circular formation that held a pair of pink tinted lips.

The half-blue door slid open in silence without a beep or a ting or a ding or a bell.

Thea continued to stand and stared at each court princess, who disappeared through the short open archway with a rebel yell, sorta.

In front of the third blue tinted half-door, Bakeria rushed ahead through the open archway with a scream and then stopped inside a dense thicket of pink tinted plants with a sneer. Her boots and lower legs up to the kneecaps were entrapped and then stabbed within the thick batch of short shrubs. She reached down with a yell, cutting her fingers on the sharp thorns. The thicket appeared like a patch of pink tinted sticks that contained a series of individual short thorns around the pretty pink wood.

She stood upright with a growl, tossing both arms into the air as her bloody hand dropped droplets down onto her distorted face. "Ugh! This is a briar patch of prickly pink colored sticks. The plants are real. The T-rex woman didn't mention a briar patch of thorns. Ugh! I'm bleeding from my fingers and my kneecaps. And I'm stuck here. This is impassible and impenetrable without a laser beam," she leaned down and then quickly whipped the blade with the dull tip across the thin sticks of pink, slowly clearing a narrow foot path through the briar patch while cursing a set of bad words loudly.

In front of the second blue door, Glitza kneeled down and then crawled through the half-door, stopping at the edge of the floor with a gasp. "There isn't a dangerous animal here, but there is a dangerous hazard. My entrance door exits into a paddle of blue tinted water. Grrr! I hate Huss' mother in her silly T-rex hologram head." She slowly leaned over and then examined the side of the wall, seeing the water line, which extended for over ten feet. She was well over five feet tall in height, not leg span. She couldn't sidestep without getting water on her boot toes on either side of the smooth wall. She slowly stood upright from the edge of the water with a sour frown. "Well, I guess my boots will get wet! But I'll take my angry out on Erato's face tonight. Then I'll feel much better," she moved ahead with a laugh and then disappeared underneath the deep drop-down within the pond water.

In front of the first blue tinted half-door, tall, slender, and body pierced Aroid kneeled down and then crawled through the half-door with a smile. "The adults, they have outshined their wit today." She entered into a hollow tunnel which was composed of thick green tinted shrubs with an array of tiny red tinted leaves. "Leaves of three, leave them be! The leaf looks like it possesses four petals. I'm safe. If I catch a nasty plant fungus, then I'm going to take my frustration out on Bakeria with my girly annoyance," she continued to slowly crawl ahead with an evil laugh.

At the same time, on the opposite side of the room, in front of the third blue door, Duchess Fera crouched down with a sneer and then entered through the open archway, dashing ahead in a pair of naked feet with a smile, wearing a peach colored sundress. Her personal scepter weapon dangled down from her naked neck wiggling the diamond shaped symbol on her scepter weapon back and forth in the air. She stomped ahead through a patch of colorful short wildflowers. Her nostrils smelled the assortment of fragrances coming from each sweet rose, citrus blossom, fruity freesia, fresh bluebells, and spicy lilies.

She displayed a head of dark hair and a tone of dark skin with average height and weight, hailing from the Land of Flocci, where the land was flat and made of ice and snow.

Fera stopped and stood on top of the brown tinted dirt in a pair of naked feet, surveying the Romantic Garden with a smile, parking both hands on her waistline. "This is nice." She faced a long grove that contained numerous lines of short and tall green tinted overstories leaves, small to medium high rows of light to dark green plant bushes, and scattered patches of colorful wildflowers that hid the center inside the arena. The front wall and the rear wall contained numerous growing flower vines in an assortment of colors. She returned back and stared into the center of the Romantic garden which was really an entire inside the Center Building. "I don't wanna go that way to the center of the room. I don't desire to mark or marry either Erato or Nastchill, only finding her prince love Pekod." She turned and scanned the pretty garden, growling with alarm.

In front of the second half-door in blue, she wore a short sleeveless sundress of peach and a pair of naked feet, crawling over the flat ground of brown dirt, standing upright with a smile. She turned and sneered at Fera, dashing ahead, colliding into the tall court princess with a snarl.

The two females rotated a pair of folded fists in the air while slamming into a new body part. They yelled out loud, kicked a naked foot into a new body part, and continued to fight, eventually falling down on top of the dirt.

In front of the first half-door in blue tint, Muppin slowly crawled over the solid floor and as her hand touched the dirt. She continued to crawl faster through the dirt when her dress hung onto the plant. She stood upright hearing a rip on her gown, moving ahead with a stern face and then stopped, yelling out loud. "Help me! Help me! Someone, come over here and help me!"

She was surrounded in a maze of colorful rose bushes that exhibited numerous pointy thorns. The thorns ripped her ankle-length dress and cut her hands. She continued to scream for help while sobbing with fear, worry, and annoyance.

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

51:50:12 minutes/seconds/milliseconds

The sun reappeared and beamed down on each court princess.

Aroid crawled through the hollow tunnel and then emerged onto a carpet of green grass and yellow weeds, slowly standing upright with a smile.

Romantic Garden setting was a grove that contained numerous lines of short and tall green tinted overstories leaves, small to medium high rows of light to dark green plant bushes, and scattered patches of colorful wildflowers that hid the center inside the arena. The front wall and the rear wall contained numerous growing flower vines in an assortment of colors.

She spun around and faced the rear wall. "Thea was last on the wall. she would be located in this direction," she jogged ahead with a smile down the narrow footpath and then stopped, waving at Glitza.

Glitza broke the water surface coughing out water molecules, gagging for air. She bobbed up and down in the deep pond, coughing out the words. "I hate Huzz and his T-rex hologram other. Wait until I find his alive and breathing body! Then he won't be alive and breathing anymore," she lifted both arms from the water and kicked both of her boot heels, balancing in a horizontal pose over the water, swimming toward the edge of the pond. She continued to swim through the deep pond, steering ahead toward the flat brown dirt.

The wet hand on Glitza hit the dry dirt turning the ground into mud, she slowly stood upright in the shallow water, wearing a wet jumpsuit and a head of wet hair, sneering at everything. She moved ahead and stopped, standing upright, dripping in water.

Aroid stopped and stood at the nose profile on Glitza, "Hey, Glitza! It looks like I'm going to be the first court princess to place my three letter of X mark on cute and handsome Erato. Wouldn't you going to do that first, non-girlfriend? Ain't he your catch, darling? O! I'm so sorry, babe. Well, see ya at my upcoming wedding ceremony!" She turned and slammed into the ugly face on Bakeria, back stepping with a sneer.

Bakeria leaned over and growled into the face on Aroid. "Do you wanna a rumble, Aroid?"

Aroid shoved forward her sneer and her taller body into the upright body of Bakeria, turning with a smile and a wink to see Glitza. "I'll wait until Bakeria is alone. Glitza's a good fighter. She had proved that numerous times within her own assigned battle fights..."

Bakeria gasped in shock at Aroid. "Everyone knows that..."

Glitza moved ahead and sneered at the nose profile of Bakeria. "Shut it, Bakeria!"

"Yeah, everyone knows too much," Aroid back stepped with a growl and then scooted around Bakeria, exhaling with annoyance at the nasty court princess. There would be plenty of time to run into Bakeria again during the Challenger Fight. She slowly jogged ahead turning to scan the smelly flower in the natural garden setting.

Glitza laughed in the sweaty face of Bakeria. "That's a wise decision!"

Bakeria spun around with a sneer to see the back spine of Aroid. "Where are you going?"

"My business," Aroid continued ahead with a smile, looking to aid Thea. Thea deserved to pick out her own emperor-husband.

Bakeria reached out and shoved Glitza away from her body with a sneer. "Forget Aroid! We need to get to the center of this romantic smelly garden setting and mark our prince. The room is really a narrow rectangle. We came in from the side wall which faces my butthole. So, we don't go back that way. On the opposite side is the other side wall which faces my sneer, where the other three court princesses are coming from. So, we don't go that way. The front wall faces the elevator carriage. So, we don't go that way either. The rear wall is a solid wall that is covered in green plant vines. So, we don't go that way," she turned to face a long grove that contained short and tall green tinted overstories leaves, small to medium high rows of light to dark green plant bushes, and scattered patches of colorful wildflowers that hid the center inside the arena. She pointed at the thicket of trees, bushes, and wildflowers. "That is the center of this room. We go this way and find the two court princes. Then we paint them with pain," she raced ahead with a laugh, scooting around each upright high and low natural object.

Glitza followed the back spine on Bakeria, shaking each wet arm and then leg side to side, wringing out the water molecules with a laugh, "Yeah!" She scooted around each high and low natural object also.

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

Aroid slowed her pace during the blockage and surveyed the landscape, seeing more groves of trees, low patches of flowers, and rows of bushes. The sun returned and brightened the wide flat pathway of dirt. She stopped and stood near the rear wall, wearing a puzzled brow. "Hmm! I thought Thea would be located down here. I guess she jogged away. I didn't see her come back to me. So, she must've gone around the rear wall. She has too much of head start. I will cut through the center thicket of trees, finding her." She turned with a smile and faced the center thick grove of tall and short trees, jogging ahead and then slowly maneuvering through the thicket.

Outside the exterior empty and semi-dark hallway, I continued to stand upright with a deep sigh and stared through the open archway inside the half-door of blue hue. A white gravel foot path stood between two rows of pretty short colorful wildflowers. I could smell the flora fragrance of lavender, vanilla, and honeysuckle. I exhaled with annoyance and then bent down at the fitted waistline.

If I didn't move ahead, the unknown, unnamed, and upright figure in black might shove my person through the door.

The doorway was half the size of a regular doorframe for some reason.

I dropped down on my kneecaps and slowly crawled through the open archway, emerging on the other side, slowly standing upright with a smile and scanned the pretty real environment.

Romantic Garden setting was a grove that contained numerous lines of short and tall green tinted overstories leaves, small to medium high rows of light to dark green plant bushes, and scattered patches of colorful wildflowers that hid the center inside the arena. The front wall and the rear wall contained numerous growing flower vines in an assortment of colors.

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

"O! This is dark." I frowned in the dullness of the room.

47:50:12 minutes/seconds/milliseconds

The sun reappeared and beamed down on each court prince and princess.

In the center of the Romantic Garden, a tall smooth-looking wooden pole held two court princes on each side. Erato and Nastchill continued to chit-chat with a sneer at the current situation of their person.

The wooden pole had been implanted down into a smooth plot of red tinted dirt and as each naked pair of feet on both Erato and Nastchill enjoyed the soft ground. Each court prince continued to sway side to side while tied by the wrist bones onto the wooden pole while scanning the new landscape.

Extending outward from the flat plot of red dirt, a wide stream of glittering blue tinted fresh water gently flowed half-way around the red tinted plot of dirt. There was a single set of tan colored stones which was embedded down into the water soil, where a set of foot prints could cross over and then attack a defenseless Erato or Nastchill or both of the court princes for some nasty court princess fun.

The opposite side on the flat pole of red dirt, a pile of smooth tan, red, black, and brown rocks created a lumpy wall which didn't keep the bees away from each sneer on Erato or Nastchill. The lumpy wall of smooth rocks must be climbed over before actually attacking either Erato or Nastchill or both of the court princes.

Further away from the first plot of dirt, the tiny wall of lumpy smooth stones, and the shallow stream of blue tinted water, a second flat plot of red tinted dirt existed. Around the second plot of red dirt, a variety of forest existed depending upon your position.

Tied onto the wooden pole, Erato stood on one side and Nastchill stay on the other side.

Each court prince wore a naked chest, a pair of naked feet, and a pair of long walking shorts in dark blue and as each upper naked body had been tied by a pair of ankle bones around the upright wooden pole.

Nastchill turned surveyed his side of the landscape, looking down at the ground. A wide stream of fresh water surrounded the tiny island of dirt on one side. A tiny pile of smooth colored rocks covered the other side of the tiny island. He looked up with a worried brow searching for Thea.

On the forward wall that faced the hidden glass elevator behind the structure, numerous medium-sized and tall thick green tinted plant bushes without flowers stood in a semi-crooked row. The forward wall was decorated in long flowing green vines that held an assortment of colored flowers that flowed down from the ceiling tiles. Once in a while, some of the plant bushes would hustle with a set of faint noises. Nastchill wondered if nasty witch Bakeria was there plotting her evil revenge on his body.

One side wall exhibited a grove of short and tall trees with a plot of red dirt that stood a few feet from the stream of water, where the overstory leaves and tree branches were so thick, the interior appeared dark and ominous. A row of short colorful wildflowers stood in front of the lines of trees and away from the water stream.

On the other side wall, a semi-crooked row of medium-sized and tall green tinted plant bushes without colorful flowers stood alone and lonely, sliding all the way back into the solid side wall. The row of plant bushes posed a few feet away from the tiny wall of lumpy rocks.

Nastchill continued to stand and struggle with the ropes around each wrist bone while sneering at the stupid Challenger Fight, watching the air waves for Thea.

Erato was tied to the wooden pole on the opposite side of Nastchill, looking around his new landscape environment also as there was nothing else to do but watch for Thea to appear, ending the silly Challenger Fight.

His eyeballs could see the rear wall which only showed flowing green tinted vines with an assortment of colors in the far, far distance. In front of rear wall, there was thick grove of short and tall trees with shading overstory leaves and long tree branches that made the forest both dark and ominous.

He could actually hear a set of faint grunts and moans, occasionally, coming out from the dark and thick forestland while hoping the royal adult didn't lie about a set of wild animals. However, Bakeria could be considered a wild mammal.

In front of the grove of short and tall trees, a semi-crooked row of medium-sized and tall green tinted plant bushes stood that guard Erato or protected the hiding body of evil Bakeria. Every once in a while, the semi-crooked row of plant bushes rustled side to side with slight movement.

One side wall held a thicket of short and tall trees a few feet from the wide stream of water.

The other side wall held a semi-crooked row of more plant bushes which were a few feet from the lousy tiny wall of colorful smooth rocks that couldn't defend a porcupine.

Erato exhaled with annoyance and looked up with a smile, staring at the gigantic electronic clock on the ceiling. "The clock is ticking down to zero minutes and zero seconds and zero milliseconds. How did we end up here?"

Don't know!" Nastchill studied the new environment with a sneer.

I don't know either. I eat all my vegetables and brush my teeth. I even go to bed a couple of hours after I am ordered." He exhaled. "I don't this. Do you feel like a corn stalk?"

"No!" Nastchill looked down with a smile and then examined his semi-naked body with a pair of bare feet. "Where is Thea?"

I do." He shouted out loud with a sneer. "This is not fun, Mother and Father!"

Nastchill swallowed the air and then coughed out loud. "I'm getting hot and thirty and tired and miffed. Is the hour or sixty minutes up yet?"

"Look up, Nasty Champ! The clock glows in red tinted numbers. Your naked eyeballs can't miss the number."

He frowned, "O yeah!"

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

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The sun reappeared and beamed down on each court prince and princess.

Aroid scooted around each high, short, squat, stubby, and pretty natural object, stepping out form the grove of trees with a gasp. She dashed ahead and shouted out loud, waving both arms in the air. "Get off the pretty flowers, Fera and Cilicee!" Aroid stopped and stood over the pair of girls fighting on top of the dirt, which didn't contain a patch of pretty flower. She reached down, grabbed the arm of each girl, lifting each one from the ground with a stern face. "Stop fighting, princesses! Go and get your man or your mark or your mama! This is a serious Challenger Fight event."

Fera jerked her arm and her dirty body away from Aroid with a sneer. "Go away, Arodi! This is my fight with Cilicee."

Cilicee shuffled away from Arodi also, wearing a snarl. "Leave us alone, Arodi! This is my nasty time with Fera."

"Very well!" Arodi slapped both hands on her clothing and spun around, jogging back to the forward wall. "I didn't find Thea down here anyways." She swiftly moved ahead with a smile.

Fera back stepped and then stick her tongue at petite Cilicee. "I'm going to find my prince Pekod first. Then we will get married right here, right now!"

Cilicee slapped her chest with a smile. "I am going to find my prince Pekod first. Then we will be getting married right beside Thea..."

"Psss!" Pekod stepped ahead from the grove of tree and stood upright, extending both arms. "I'm here. You're here. So, let's get it on right here."

Fera and Cilicee turned and gasped with love, dashing ahead, colliding into tall Pekod with giggles and smiles.

They huddled and dropped down onto the soft dirt, kissing each other's lips, licking each other's face with love.

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

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The sun reappeared and beamed down on each court prince and princess.

In front of the covered side wall with numerous green tinted flowering plants, I continued to stand and squirt at the artificial sunlight. I turned to see the rear wall with a smile. "I can't go that direction. I didn't wanna go toward the front wall, where Bakeria is located. So, that only leaves going straight ahead toward the other side for a new teenly adventure."

I exhaled with a deep sigh of my new duty and followed a nice flat white gravel foot path that stood between two rows of pretty short colorful wildflowers. I could still smell the flora fragrance of lavender, vanilla, and honeysuckle.

I slowly strolled down the narrow pathway of loose white gravel, reaching out, touching the leaves on each tree. "The tree smells of mint. I wondered how the royal created that these smells on each plant. Usually, plants and trees do not smell with a fragrance, only the scent of earth or dirt or..." I halted and then dropped down on one kneecap, scanning the forest, trees, flowers, and bushes. I heard a set of faint noises like a wild bear. I whispered for my eardrums only. "There are not any wild animals in here." The noise continued to echo throughout the air waves.

I crouched down behind the row of bushes and then slowly scooted around the edge of the bushes, slowly crawling ahead on both of my kneecaps, stopping behind a tree.

I slowly looked around the tree bark, narrowing my eyelashes, seeing an object, not a bear in the close distance.

A flat clearing of brown dirt held a golden tinted metal table. The table extended over a pair of naked pale tinted legs.

One pair of pale tinted legs belonged to Olivet, who hailed from the Land of Onam, where groves of fruit trees grew, thrived, and were harvested for food. The other pair of pale tinted legs belonged to Duke Joed. He came from the Land of Jeroboom, where the people raised, worked, and ate the natural native mammal, the mule. They sat very close together while smiling and then chuckling in-between bits of food.

I did not bother to stop and chat with the cute royal couple. They seemed occupied with each other's fingers and eyeballs.

I slowly crawled backwards away from the tall tree and the love birds, standing upright from the grass, turning to face the foot path.

I strolled ahead and followed the narrow foot path of loose gravel that only fit a pair of feet.

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

I stopped with caution and waited for the light.

Then a set of folded bodies emerged from the thicket of the forest and crouched down toward Joed and Olivet, slapping a black tinted hood over each face. Each prince and princess screamed out loud in fear. Then a folded body stole the two teens away from the picnic table.

The artificial sunlight reappeared and beamed down on an empty picnic table and each court prince and princess.

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In the center of the Romantic Garden, a tall, sweaty, mad, and slightly blood-covered Bakeria emerged out from the thick grove of short and tall overstory green tinted trees that blocked the artificial lamps. She moved beside Glitza with a smile and then halted with a laugh, staring at the two separate poles that held two cute and hunky princes.

Glitza dashed around each tall tree and then halted a few feet from Bakeria, looking wet and angry also.

Bakeria continued to stand and stare with a wicked grin at the two princes while rubbing the bloody tender cuts on both hands coming from each sharp thorn in the briar patch. She laughed. "There, they are! And no one else is here, but us. We got this, babe. You marry Erato today. I marry Nastchill today. Then we both can attend the expensive and lovely funeral of a dead husband tomorrow morning.

Glitza laughed with a nod, staring at the two separate poles that held Erato and Nastchill also.

She pointed toward the tiny wall of lumpy rocks with a smile. "Erato, he faces the other side. Glitza, go around the opposite end and strike your three marks on your lover boy Erato. I'm stomping directly to Nastchill. Then the Challenger Fight will end with us married and them both dead," she strolled ahead with an evil laugh.

Around a tall brown tinted wooden smooth vertical pole without a flag or decorations, both of his wrist bones were tied with a set of ropes around the pole. Nastchill turned with a smile and a shout out, seeing Bakeria, "Welcome to the May Pole Station!"

Bakeria moved ahead, stopped, and stared with a sneer at Nastchill. "What?"

He laughed. "We have been hanging around here for about an hour.

She gasped in shock. "No! That's not correct. The hour just started a few minutes ago. I just entered through the blue door, not more than fifteen minutes ago. Now, I..."

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

"Aw wee!" Erato shouted out loud as he was still tied to the same smooth pole within the dullness of the light.

Nastchill laughed with Erato. "O no! I just had a nightmare, Erato. I dreamed that I saw that big, ugly, nasty, vile Bakeria." The thick cloud coverage swiftly passed over the fake sun, moving across the fake pale blue sky. He sneered. "O dear! It wasn't a nightmare. It is real and it is really here in front of my handsome face."

Bakeria slowly moved ahead over the flat dirt of red tinted wearing a sour frown. "Your silly little boy tactics do not scare me, Nasty Champ," she slowly moved away from the grove of trees, strolling over the flat dirt, staring with a sneer at Nastchill. I'm here now, boy. I'm the first and only court princess to greet and meet and finally defeat you, Nasty Champ," laughing.

He smiled at Bakeria. "Well, just to update you! We've been hanging around here for fifteen minutes or so. And we're so bored out of our skulls that we decided to name our sweet spot. The flat brown clearing of dirt in the middle of the Romantic Garden is called the May Pole Station."

She stopped and stared down at the stream of water, stomping ahead toward the thicket of bush. "That's a stupid name, idiot."

Nastchill danced side to side around his smooth pole, showing off his muscular chest, twisting his painted side in the direction of Bakeria.

Bakeria halted with a gasp, pointing at his rib cage with confusion. "You...you got a set of three markings in the color of yellow. How...how did you get these three markings in yellow hue? Where...where did you get these three markings in yellow tone?"

On the opposite side of Nastchill, Erato danced side to side on the pole also and then halted, twisting his rib cage in the direction of Glitza.

Glitza looked up with a gasp to see the nose profile on Erato and then stopped, standing inside the row of wildflowers a few feet from the stream of water. "Erato, he has a set of two markings in the color of yellow and two other markings in the color of orange. Who...who marked your body, Erato?"

He turned and smiled at Glitza. "No! I don't kiss and tell."

She gasped. "Did she kiss your soft pink tinted lips too?"

"How do you think that I allowed her to mark me up, silly girl?" he winked with a laugh.

On the opposite side of pole, Nastchill wiggled side to side and still tied onto the smooth pole, laughing out loud for a few seconds and then winked at Bakeria. "O! I guess another court princess or two were here, before you, witch. She tickled my rib cage in the colors of yellow, until I kicked her fanny away from my May Pole. O!"

"No. No." Bakeria stomped both feet over the row of pretty flowers in front of the thicket of trees and a few feet from the stream of water. She tossed both arms in the air, holding her scepter blade in the air. "That's not possible. I entered through the blue door first. I whacked through the briar patch first. I made out from the patch of briars first. I'm the first court princess here."

"I'm here with you, too, Bakeria." Glitza turned and sneered at the court princess.

Bakeria continued to sneer at Nastchill while talking to Glitza. "I'm not talking about you, second idiot, court princess Glitza. Who marked your colored rib cage, Nastchill?"

Nastchill laughed with a wink. "I kissed her, but I'll never tell you."

Glitza gasped. "It was Thea. She was here first."

Bakeria exhaled. "No! Thea would have marked him with three lavender colored strikes, stupid court princess Glitza. Who carries a scepter in the color of yellow? Think fast! Which court princess uses a yellow mark from her scepter weapon?"

Glitza exhaled with annoyance and then moved ahead, gliding down the thick row of medium-sized plant bushes, moving toward an embedded set of flat tan colored stones that formed a walkway over the wide stream of blue tinted fresh water which led directly toward Erato.

The pond of water was part of the natural construction that blocked the foot path of a court princess onto a flat plot of land which was a tiny island that had been named the May Pole Station by silly Erato and Nastchill.

Glitza slowly moved over each flat stone and stared with a wicked grin at Erato. "You're talking too much and taking too much time, Bakeria. Obviously, this is a joke on me and you. The court princesses of yellow and orange do not wanna marry Erato, so they want ahead and marked him two times for her fun and our irritation. Now, I'm here and I'm going to mark your rib cage until it bleeds in red blood that will clashes with my green scepter paint," laughing.

On the opposite side, Bakeria strolled ahead through the dirt with a sneer and whipped her scepter weapon back and forth in the air above her sweaty hair, pressing the trigger. The silver tinted blade extended outward, showing a dull and rounded tip that leaked with orange colored paint. She laughed. "My tip might be dull and round, but my hand is strong and steady. Get ready for some nasty pain, Nasty Champ!"

On the wooden pole, Nastchill wiggled side to side and sneered with worry. "You are not supposed to harm a court royal. That came from hologram T-rex doll inside the hologram line.

She continued to move forward toward the tiny wall of lumpy rocks that dove down into the tiny stream of water that stood in front of Nastchill, laughing out loud. "I didn't remember hearing that."

Parallel to the tiny wall of smooth stones on the side, the semi-crooked row of tall green tinted plants bushes which was located beside the gravel footpath swiftly rattled in sideways and then quickly parted. A Dark Shadow jumped up from the ground and scooted ahead onto the plot of red dirt, blocking the entrance to Nastchill.

Bakeria screamed out loud in fright and then swiftly back stepped, drawing her weapon in front of her chest, whipping it side to side at the Dark Shadow.

On the opposite side of pole, tied and angry Nastchill, Glitza stomped up the smooth bridge, staring with an evil grin at Erato.

Underneath the row of embedded stones that formed a flat bridge, the pond water swiftly bubbled and then parted. A Dark Shadow leaped up from the rippling waters and then landed on top of the last stone nearest to Erato in a crouched post, staring at Glitza.

Glitza gasped with a scream and then tumbled sideways over her big feet, falling off the flat stone bridge, sliding backward down toward the dirt and then landed on her back spine. She stared with a gasp at the second Dark Shadow.

In front of Nastchill, Dimon wore a circular military helmet over his blond hair roots, a pair of dry trousers, and a pair of naked feet. His chest was naked and decorated with a set of girly yellow, pink, and blue. He lifted a finger and then wiggled at his girlfriend Bakeria. "No! No! You are not allowed to harm a court prince."

Bakeria gasped and then sneered at the court prince. "What? Dimon, what are you doing here inside the Romantic Garden with me and Nastchill. Why? Why are you here and missing your shirt? Why are you displaying a semi-naked body?"

"Do you like the art design, my darling?" Dimon spun around in a tight circle with a laugh and then halted back in front of Bakeria with a wink. He raised his scepter in the air with a grin. "I am the defender of justice. Olivet pained my chest in the color of yellow and blue hue when she arrived first. She's a wonderful artist."

"What? No!" She sneered. "Olivet was here first, before me. She painted your body and then marked two strikes of yellow on Nastchill."

Dimon smiled. "Yeah, a couple of the other court princesses got her first, before big, ugly, fat you, Bakeria. I was shocked. What took you so long, babe? I expected to you to the first through the horse shunt. Awe! But Bakeria was too fat and too large to get through that tiny short door," laughing.

She gasped with fury and then pouted with a sad face and a soft voice. "The half-blue door, it and I were blocked by a briar patch," she lifted up one of her palms, showing al the tiny red and dried bloody cuts. "Do you see my hand? Both of my hands were cut up and...and it hurt a lot. Can you kiss my boo-boo, honey?"

Dimon moved ahead with a smile, reaching out with his hand.

She reached out and then grabbed his shield, sailing it through the air with a sneer, "Move outta of my way right now, darling! You're blocking me from Nasty Champ."

Dimon lifted up both palms holding his blade and winked at Bakeria. "Nastchill, do you desire this bold court princess to touch your semi-naked body?"

Nastchill winked at Bakeria with a laugh, "Never, ever, forever!"

Dimon smiled at Bakeria, "Very well, Prince Nastchill! I will defend your honor."

She gasped. "What? What's going on here? What honor are you defending, Dimon? I am here to mark the chest of Nasty Champs and then marry him. Then I'm going beat him my royal husband into pile of bloody bones while attending his funeral the next morning."

On the tied wooden pole, Nastchill laughed. "Bakeria should write teen horror books. You'll make a fortune."

She sneered. "Laugh it up, little boy! I'm the girlfriend of Dimon. Ain't I, sweetheart? I'm coming through my sweetie and then I'm having a good time marking my paint on your body, Prince Nastchill." She dashed ahead with a sneer, running into the shield.

Dimon danced side to side with a laugh, holding his scepter blade tip at her nose bridge, "Naw, babe! I've sworn an oath to protect my princely brother Nastchill until his true love comes along and then marks his body three times for their upcoming marriage and happy future."

She gasped. "What nonsense is this?"

He smiled. "O! Don't you know?"

She sneered. "Of course, I do not know. I'll never been in a fight like this."

He smiles. "O! This is my part within the Challenger Fight. You fight to get to Nastchill. I fight to protect Nastchill from you and all the other court princesses, except for his true love Thea."

She sneered. "I hate you, Dimon."

He whipped the scepter blade side to side with a laugh, "Naw! You love me. When this is finally done, we'll go and get married."

She whipped her scepter blade side to side with a sneer. "I will never marry you."

He exhaled with frustration. "I need some help over here, guys!"

On the same semi-crooked row of tall green tinted plant bushes, the high bushes rattled sideways and then parted open. A third Dark Shadow leaped up from the ground, standing inside the leaves of plants with a laugh. "Boo!"

Bakeria screamed and then back stepped from the new Dark Shadow, swinging around, aiming her scepter blade at the Dark Shadow and frowned with annoyance. "Kidron, what are you doing here inside the Romantic Garden setting?"

Kidron laughed with a nod and whipped his shield and his scepter blade in different directions for fun. "I clearly heard my buddy Dimon explain to you that we are a princely brotherhood at the moment. We are protecting both Nastchill and Erato, unless their desired court princess arrives and then she marks his body three times in lavender ink. I really don't comprehend how you missed the meaning of his statement, witch."

Bakeria slowly moved ahead and whipped her scepter weapon in the air at Dimon. "Get outta of my way right now, Dimon!"

Kidron smiled. "I clearly heard my buddy Nastchill say that he did not desire you or your nasty scepter weapon.

"Now!" she charged with a sneer at Kidron, striking the shield with her scepter.

Kidron and Bakeria continued the hand-to-hand battle with an individual scepter weapon tinging in musical sounds on top of the flat dirt.

Dimon scooted backward from the vicious fight between Bakeria and Kidron, wearing a smile and then stopped, standing beside Nastchill. "This is going to be so pretty."

Nastchill watched the court prince-princess fight with a laugh. "Yeah, Bakeria is going to whip his butthole."

Dimon smiled. "Yeah, then I'll cool down her fury. Don't worry!"

He smiled. "I'm not."

On the opposite side, Glitza continued to rest on top of the brown dirt with a sneer at the second Dark Shadow. "What are you doing here inside the Challenger Fight, Huzz?"

Huzz danced side to side on top of the flat stone with a smile and a nod. "I clearly heard the nasty conversation between Dimon, Bakeria, Kidron, and Nastchill. Did you not hear the same nasty conversation, court princess?"

She slowly stood upright from the plot of dirt, leaning down, wiping off the dirt and then stood upright with a sneer. "Of course, I did. Did Olivet paint the snake on your naked chest also?"

He scooted the shield off to the side and then reached down with a grin, touching the art work with the scepter flat end point and a smile. "Yeah, Olivet is a terrific artist. It's a sea serpent, the front half with the face, two pointy ears, a set of inflaming nostrils, a long muzzle, and two upper arms with a set of claws on each paw," he spun around with a laugh. "Do you see the other half of the sea serpent on my back muscles? It clever art design shows a long serpent tail, a large rump, and a curved back spine. Olivet is really clever and sweet..." he stumbled forward with a gasp and then spun around with a sneer, jerking the shield in front of his naked chest. "Girl, do not ever touch my body without my permission, again!"

Glitza swiftly moved ahead back onto the first flat stone over the water with a sneer, whipping her dull blade side to side, hitting his shield and flung green paint drops over the brass metal. "Get out of my way right now, Huzz! I wanna marry Erato. I wanna mark his body up, not yours. But I will mark your body bloody, before I do his."

He danced side to side, swinging the shield at each one of her strikes, making the shield ting in musical songs and then laughed. "I heard your request. Now, I must answer the question. Lord Erato, do you desire this court princess to mark on your naked body?

On the pole, Lord Erato sneered at Glitza, who was doing a good job fighting against big and strong Huzz, "Absoultootly not! Whip her fanny, my brother-prince!"

"Your wish is my command!" Huzz lifted his scepter weapon above his helmet and then press the button. The blade extended outwards as the sliver gleamed underneath the false lights. He swooped down, slicing the blade towards her hair roots, missing.

Glitza had ducked down and then charged forward underneath the hole between his armpit and the row of flat stones that formed a tiny bridge over the water. She raced ahead with a sneer and then tripped over a small pile of lumpy rocks that fell down into the water surface which also surrounded the pole site with a loud scream in surprise. She halted and balanced her body, standing upright with a growl, moving forward over the lumpy pile of rocks with a sour frown, holding the tip of her scepter weapon even with the rib cage on Erato.

Erato was still tied and trapped around the smooth pole. He couldn't move ahead or backwards from an advancing Glitza, but he could slide sideways as far as he could from the dull tip on her scepter. The tip leaked with bright green neon paint.

She continued to move forward and then stumbled out of control over the uneven pathway of rocks, passing the body of Erato, reaching out a little further. The tip of green paint hit the left side, pale naked skin on Erato, painting a semi-crooked line from his seventh rib, dragging the tip toward the rear of his back spine. Glitza stumbled over a section of low rocks and then lifted the tip up into the air, stopping the marking method on Erato.

On the pole, Erato exhaled with annoyance. "She got me!"

Huzz spun around with a gasp to see the back spine on Glitza and then swiftly raced ahead through the shallow part of the deep stream, reaching out with a long arm toward her back muscles with a sneer.

On the opposite side, Bakeria twirled around with a grin from the flying scepter and then danced sideways away from tall and slender Kidron. She leaped over the wide stream of fresh water and dashed sideways, moving closer toward the pole with Nastchill

On the pole, Nastchill continued to laugh at Bakeria and Kidron.

Dimon stood on the opposite side of Nastchill, wearing a smile, watching the fight.

Kidron continued to force Bakeria backward toward a row of low bushes with his shield and his sharp scepter blade, laughing with amusement.

Bakeria quickly ducked down from the air strike of the blade and then stood upright from the parry, reaching out, painting his body and his shield with her orange paint.

Kidron dropped down both the shield and the scepter, lifting both hands in front of his chest. He planned to shove Bakeria over the short row of bushes and back down into the dirt, ending their fun battle fight.

She junked to the side and then dropped down on her kneecaps, sliding ahead, sitting a few feet in front of exposed and tied Nastchill. She lifted up and released, tossing her scepter blade tip through the air at the naked body of Nastchill.

On the wooden pole, Nastchill saw the flying scepter from her hand and then screamed. "No!"

"Yes," she whispered with a wicked grin, and watched her flying weapon. The dull rounded tip of her scepter hit his naked bicep, painting a tiny orange tinted dot line over his dark skin.

On the pole, Nastchill yelled out loud with fury. "She got me!" The scepter bounced off the bicep of Nastchill and then flew through the air. He shouted. "Grab her scepter now! She can't mark me anymore."

Dimon leaped into the air, stretching both arms and his body straight across the naked and exposed chest on Nastchill, trying to catch the weapon and then landed on his rib cage down on top of the pile of smooth rocks with a loud grunt and an empty hand.

Glitza quickly stumbled ahead and then lifted up her open palm, catching Bakeria's flying scepter with a sneer.

Bakeria swiftly stood upright with grin. Then Glitza couldn't stop, colliding into her upright friend Bakeria. They hugged each other and then danced sideways through a row of low bushes, successful escaping from the gang of brotherly knights that guarded both Erato and Nastchill.

They tumbled down and then rolled over the flat dirt, sounding with a set of giggles, laughs, and hoots.

Glitza cheered with a smile during the roll. "I marked him."

Bakeria laughed with grin during the roll. "I marked him."

They both stopped, splitting apart, resting on a back spine inside a soft patch of short colorful wildflowers. Both the girls giggled with delight, performing a single mark of color on each respective future husband.

At the May Pole Station, Huzz skipped to a halt and stood beside the nose profile on Erato, sneering at the two grounded princesses, looking down to see a long neon green mark starting at the rib cage on Erat, "Geez! Glitza got you painted on the seventh rib cage. Her green mark went all around to your back spine. The rib cage consists of twenty-four individual ribs which are two set of twelve that are attached to a long flat bone in the center of the chest which is called the sternum. The ribs are connected to the sternum with a strong, flexible material that is called cartilage. The rib cage protects the organs in the chest, such as the heart, the lungs, from her nasty scepter tip."

Erato exhaled with annoyance. "So, they do."

He frowned. "I'm so sorry, bro! She won't do that again. I promise."

Erato laughed. "No prob! It's only one green mark. The other three cute court princesses, Olivet, Cilicee, and Fera, each left two marks apiece with the scepter paint which really ticked off Glitza and Bakeria. I couldn't stop laughing at the witch. What's your damage, Nastchill?"

Nastchill looked down with a sneer at the small orange smear on his left arm. "Bakeria got a tiny smear of orange on my arm. It's too small to see. Come and wipe it off of me, Dimon! Then, Bakeria can't claim a single mark on my fine body," laughing.

Dimon stood upright from the pile of smooth, hard rocks with a loud grunt, rubbing a sore naked rib cage with a soft timber. "Okay." He slowly moved ahead with a sour frown.

Kidron spun around with a grin and then stumbled through the rocks, stopping beside the marked arm on Nastchill. He lifted up both cupped hands, leaning down, mouth spitting inside the cup, reaching over, smearing his salvia over the tiny orange line. He rubbed it with vigor.

Dimon continued to move ahead, hold his rib cage and then stopped on the other side of Kidron with a frown. "Ugh! Her orange smear is still there. If the nasty mouth spit coming from the sour tongue on Kidron can't remove that paint, then nothing can," he laughed with the other princes.

Nastchill frowned. "Great!"

Huzz continued to stand on top of the lumpy pile of colorful rocks and scanned the garden with a worried brow. "Where is Thea?"

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

Erato wiggled side to side on the wooden pole with an angry sneer. "She's in the dark like me."

19:39:07 minutes/seconds/milliseconds

The artificial bright yellow tinted sun lamp on the ceiling reappeared and beamed down on each court prince and princess.

Inside the flower patch near the edge of the grove of trees hiding away from the court princes, Glitza stood upright first and stared at the tall brown tinted wooden pole with Erato, waving a hand, shouting out loud with a smile. "I got one. I'll be back to slap a second mark on your naked chest, Erat! So, don't move from there, honey!"

Bakeria stood upright from the flowers next and waved a hand to Nastchill, "Me, too! Love you, Nasty Champ! I am coming back. Save a kiss for me!"

Huzz and Kidron spun around from the pole with a sneer, swiftly dashing ahead, tearing up the row of bushes and raced toward Glitza and Bakeria.

Glitza and Bakeria quickly ran backward from the flower patch and disappeared into the thick groves of trees, echoing their laugh.

Dimon continued to stand a few feet from Erato and the lumpy pile of rocks, staring at the back spine on Huzz and Kidron, the row of smashed flowers and the groves of trees while searching for Glitza and Bakeria.

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

Each court prince continued to stand in place from the darkness and stared into the thicket within the dark tinted forest for a surprise attack from Bakeria or Glitza.

A folded body emerged from the side wall out from the semi-crooked row of green plant bushes and crouched down toward the back spine on Dimon. The body stood upright and slapped a black tinted hood the face. The court prince muffled a scream in fear. Then the folded body stole away the court prince back into the thicket of the forest.

The artificial sunlight reappeared and beamed down on top of the wooden pole and as each court prince continued to stare into the thicket of the forest.

Erato turned and scanned the landscape. "Hey! Where's Dimon? He left his guard post that is guarding my body."

Huzz spun around from the line of trees and leaned down, picking up Dimon's body shield from the ground, protecting his body, smiling. "He went looking for his girlfriend Bakeria."

Nastchill frowned. "Is she really his girlfriend?"

Huzz laughed, "Yeah!"

"Ugh! I feel really sorry for Dimon," Kidron spun around from the forest with a laugh and assumed the guard post around Erato.

18:17:04 minutes/seconds/milliseconds

I stood in place and squirted up at the artificial sunlight, looking down and then slowly strolled down the narrow pathway of loose white gravel. I reached out and touched each nice smelling leaf and plant and then halted with a gasp.

Underneath the tree branches, three people rested on top of a blanket, moaning and groaning with each other.

I slowly lifted my eyeballs and as I gasped in shock.

Fera, Cilicee, and Pekod huddled on top of the blanket while kissing each other's lisp and licking each other's face with love.

I dropped down behind the row of bushes and then slowly scooted around the edge of the bushes, slowly crawling ahead on both of my kneecaps away from the threesome with a giggle of amusement.

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

Then a set of folded bodies emerged from the thicket of the forest and crouched down toward Fera, Cilicee, and Pekod slapping a black tinted hood over each face. Each prince and princess screamed out loud in fear. Then a folded body stole the three royal teens away from the tree roots.

The artificial sunlight reappeared and beamed down on top of the tree roots and each court prince and princess.

16:35:11 minutes/seconds/milliseconds

Aroid dashed ahead on the opposite side of the Romantic Garden and then stopped, staring at the torn dress. "What are you doing, Muppin?"

Muppin tossed both arms in the air and sobbed with tears. "Help! Help me! I'm stuck inside this terrible, awful rose garden."

She tossed both hands with a stern face. "Okay. Okay. Calm down!" Aroid moved ahead and then stopped, sneering down at the huddle of mature roses. Each stem contained an array of prickly thorns. "Ouch! I don't know if I can help you, Muppin. These flowers are wild roses that grow wild with a set of long prickly thorns. I don't wanna get my hands or my legs cut open with wounds. There isn't a physician here to bandage my injured body. No thanks!" she back stepped and lifted both arms with a smile.

Muppin gasped. "Stop whining, Aroid! And come over her and help me!"

She looked down with a worried brow and scanned the rose bushes that were tangled within the long blue ankle-length dress on her princess friend Muppin. "Wow! You're really stick on the vines," laughing. "I would recommend ripping off the lower portion of your torn pretty dress and then half way up each side of your thigh and most the bottom part on your long dress. It's torn and red. Is that your real blood?"

Muppin lifted up and showed her bloody palms with a sad face. "Yes, that's my real blood coming from my really cut-up palms, fingers, and hands. And I'm not ripping off my dress. I like this dress. And I would be naked."

"Then Erato will bow down at your naked bloody feet, if you really wanted to marry him here inside the Romantic Gardens." she snorted with a laugh.

Muppin gasped and then hissed. "Shut it, Aroid. Help me and my dress get outta of here!"

She shook her curls with a smile. "I'm so sorry about this and that and you, Muppin. You're on your own. I'm going to have some fun before the Challenger Fight ends."

Muppin gasped in alarm. "Where are you heading, Aroid? You don't wanna marry Erato or Nastchill."

"That's right! So, I'm going to help Thea. Bakeria is plotting some type of bad accident with a young, stupid princess. Why is Thea acting so shy and timid? Thea has never been shy or timid or weak about any subject, topic or boy or girl. What's wrong with Thea?

"I don't know. I don't care. This is my opportunity to catch and marry Erato.

"Get a real life, Muppin! Does Erato wanna marry you?"

Muppin smiled. "Yes."

She frowned, "Really!"

"I guess so." Muppin nodded.

She laughed. "I guess no."

Muppin sneered. "You don't know everything, non-friendly court princess."

She laughed. "I do know this. Bye! I'm tracking down Thea, before Bakeria. Barkier is the naughty court princess within our court. See ya'll later!"

Muppin tossed both arms in the air and as her naked pair of feet were trapped inside the rose thorn bushes, wearing a sour frown. "Get back over here, Aroid! I wanna marry Erato. Help me get outta of here now, Arodi!"

"You're on your own, Muppin!" Aroid continued to job ahead and scanned the new setting with a smile.

Muppin dropped her hands with a sneer. "No!" She bent down with a sigh and then grabbed the new part of her dress, ripping off the soft fabric, trying to untangle from each rose thorn.

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

Then a set of folded bodies emerged from the thicket of the forest and crouched down toward Muppin, slapping a black tinted hood over her face. She screamed out loud in fear.

One of the folded bodies cut off the ruined part of the dress on Muppin while stealing her away from the rose garden.

The artificial sunlight reappeared and beamed down on an empty rose garden and each court prince and princess.

15:11:55 minutes/seconds/milliseconds

The sun reappeared and beamed down on each court prince and princess.

Erato looked up with a smile and stared at the electronic clock on the ceiling. "The clock is swiftly ticking down to zero minutes and zero seconds and zero milliseconds. Do you possess three strips of one color, Nasty Champ? Does a strip of two colors mean anything like a kiss or a...?"

"Ask T-rex head!" Nastchill looked down with a smile and then examined his semi-naked body with a pair of bare feet, "Hmm! I see numerous colored strikes. I'm not seeing one with three separate strikes of the same color," he looked up with a worried brow and turned surveying the immediate grove of short and tall trees, low-lying rows of green tinted bushes, and scattered patches of colorful wildflowers. He exhaled with worry. "Where is Thea? We have seen every court princess, but her." He gasped in alarm. "Do you think Bakeria has harmed my girl Thea?"

He laughed, "No, stupid court prince! T-rex head ordered Bakeria not to harm any other court princess. Anyways, the adults are spying us for some sick and mental fun," he shouted out loud with a sneer. "You are up there, somewhere, Father! I can't see you, but I can hear your snoring. This is not fun, Mother!"

Kidron stood a few feet from Nastchill spinning around, surveying the landscape and held his shield and his scepter near his body.

Huzz stood a few feet from Erato standing in place, whipping the scepter weapon side to side while chuckling with the fun adventure.

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

Then a folded body emerged from the thicket of the forest and crouched down moving ahead toward Kidron, standing upright at the back spine on the court prince. The body slapped a black tinted hood over the face on Kidron. The court prince mumbled a scream in fear, dropping the shield and the scepter. Then a mysterious body stole Kidron and his weapons away from the wooden pole.

The artificial sunlight reappeared and beamed down on top of the tree roots and each court prince and princess.

On the edge of the line of short and tall trees in front of the smashed row of colorful wildflower, the eyeballs on Bakeria readjusted back to the bright artificial light and as she stood upright slightly behind a tree trunk spying with a smile at the wooden pole.

Glitza blinked her eyelashes and faced the thicket of forest while searching for another spy or enemy.

Bakeria chuckled at the wooden pole that held Erato and Nastchill. "Dimon is missing from the wooden pole. He's searching for me. I told you that he loves me..."

"Attack, now!" She spun around and dashed ahead with a sneer, exiting out from the thick forest, smashing the row of flowers and raced toward the stream of water, yelling out loud.

At the wooden pole, each pair of eardrums on a court prince heard the yell and each pair of eyeballs turned to see Glitza.

Huzz stood in front of Erato with a smile laughing at Glitza and Bakeria. "I can't believe it. The two court princesses are back with fighting fury and royal stupidity." He moved ahead and whipped his shield and scepter side to side for another fight with Glitza.

Glitza dashed ahead and then halted, carefully stepping onto each embedded stone inside the wet soil underneath the stream of water. She didn't want to fall down in the water again. She stopped and lifted up her scepter weapon, winking at Erato.

Huzz scooted over and stood in front of Erato and Glitza. "You gotta get that through me, before you strike on Erato."

She laughed. "Then I will mark you three times with my green neon glowing paint. You will become my new husband instead of Erato."

"Wow!" Huzz swiftly scooted over and out of range, exposing the semi-naked body of Erato with a laugh. "I don't wanna marry you, girl. Go ahead and mark your future husband..."

"Huzz!" Erato shouted out loud with a sneer.

Glitza reared back and winked at Erato.

From the tree line and rows of smashed flower, Bakeria raced ahead and scooted around the stream of water, stopping in front of the tiny wall of lumpy rocks, staring at Nastchill. She danced side to side on top of the flat dirt while laughing at the court prince. "Where's your court guard, Nasty Champ? I don't him. I guess Dimon got bored and ran off to find some funnier to do."

On the wooden pole, Nastchill was tied and stood upright, turning with a gasp to see only the trees and flowers. Dimon and Kidron were absent from the plot of red dirt around the wooden pole.

She slowly stepped over each smooth colorful rock moving ahead toward Nastchill. "This is too easy..."

Aroid appeared and ran out from the opposite side with a row of tall bushes, holding her scepter weapon. The blade had been extended outward. The dull tip gleamed and then dropped with a pink hue of color. She dashed ahead and then halted, marking a short line at the naked bicep on Bakeria.

Bakeria felt the cold wet liquid and turned with a gasp to see Aroid. She screamed out loud in fury. "You...you marked me."

Aroid drew back her weapon near a smile. "yeah, two more times, I get to marry you, Queenie."

Bakeria carefully spun around and moved off the pile of rocks, thrusting her blade at Aroid. "Come and mark me again, witch!"

Aroid dropped her blade down from a sour frown and then whipped it side to side through the air with a sneer. "Come closer, Queenie! And I will."

Bakeria whipped her blade side to side hitting the blade on Aroid.

Nastchill gasped in alarm. "Hey, Erato! Look at this! I got two women fighting over me," laughing.

Glitza pitched her scepter weapon through the air. the weapon tumbled over and over toward the chest on Erato. She laughed out loud.

Huzz stood in place and then reached out with the shield, batting the scepter weapon back at Glitza.

The scepter weapon ricocheted off the metal shield, flying backward toward Glitza but it didn't make it. the weapon tumbled downward toward the water.

Glitza gasped in alarm and dove toward the water. with the loss of her scepter weapon, she would never mark Erato. The stream of water was deceptive. There were deep holes embedded into the bottom of the stream, where a body could hide or fall down in annoyance.

The two scepter blades collided with a set of loud clangs.

Bakeria lifted up and then dropped down parrying each strike from Aroid, creating a see-saw pattern with her fighting technique.

Aroid watched and then waited for the downward slash, hitting the blade on Bakeria.

Bakeria lifted up her blade with a sneer at her foe.

Arodi reached out and sliced the dull tip at the jumpsuit on Bakeria, tearing the fabric, accidentally marking the exposed skin on Bakeria with a second neon pink line. She drew back the blade and laughed out loud.

Bakeria continued to hold the weapon in the air and looked down with a gasp, seeing the torn fabric and a new pink line of color from Aroid's blade tip. She looked up with a gasp. "What...what are you doing here, Aroid? I am a court princess.'

Aroid winked. "I guess that I am marking my future husband...'

"No!" Bakeria back stepped with a scream and then spun around, dashing back into the forestland.

Glitza tumbled down onto her kneecaps, extending the arm, opening the palm. The weapon hit down on two of her fingers. She quickly closed her fist and held her scepter weapon, before it disappeared down into the stream of water. Her eyeball caught the fleeing jumpsuit on Bakeria. She slowly stood upright with a gasp and turned to sneer to see Erato. "I'll back in a jiffy, darling!"

"And I will be standing right here, sweetheart." Erato sneered.

She spun around and dashed back into the woods, leaving behind Erato and the wooden pole.

Huzz turned and winked at Erato." That was easy."

Erato turned and frowned at Huzz. "You are useless, brother-prince. When is Dimon coming back?"

Huzz laughed. "Bakeria probably had hog-tied and mouth-gagged his body, keeping him hostage. That the only way he will ever marry her. I wouldn't expect Dimon to return back here period."

Nastchill continued to stand tied on the wooden pole, turning to survey the familiar landscape minus a court prince. "Where is Kidron? He isn't over here."

Huzz scooted around the wooden pole and stopped, standing beside Nastchill with a wink. "Kidron went to help Dimon. They're good friend."

"Where is Thea?" Nastchill frowned at the familiar landscape.

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

Then a folded body emerged out from the thicket of the forest and crouched down toward the back spine on Huzz, standing at the back spine on the court prince. The body reached up and slapped a black tinted hood over each face. Huzz mumbled a scream in fear. Then a mysterious body stole Huzz away from the wooden pole.

The artificial sunlight reappeared and beamed down on top of the wooden pole and each court prince.

Nastchill turned and gasped at the familiar landscape minus Huzz. "O no!"

Erato laughed. "Is Bakeria back to annoy your butthole?"

"No. Huzz is missing. The artificial sunlight darkened and then returned into a blinding brightness. Huzz was standing right here beside me. Now, Huzz is missing."

Erato gasped in shock. "O no! Is Glitza a playing a new mental game in the dark? How do we defend ourselves in the darkness and tied, to boot?"

Nastchill continued to scan the forest. "I don't know. Where is Thea? She can end this silly game."

05:41:12 minutes/seconds/milliseconds

Inside the center grove of short and tall trees, near a flowing shallow stream of water, Bakeria squatted down and wrapped her bloody hand in wet leaves with a sneer. "I hate this stupid Challenger non-fighting game. I said that we just slice off the head of E-rat and Nasty Champ. Then we don't have to attend a wedding."

Glitza slowly stood upright from the tree stump with a gasp and pointed at the tree line in silence.

She stood upright with a sneer at the nose profile on Glitza. "What is it?"

Glitza softly laughed. "I don't like to attend a wedding either. There is Thea."

She spun around with a sneer, "Where?"

Glitza continued to point and smile at Thea, "Right in front of us! We take her and tie her up. Then we can go back and paint up Erato and Nastchill, ending this stupid game."

She growled, "Yeah!"

Glitza and Bakeria quickly raced ahead with a sneer toward the tree line, where Thea slowly strolled over a pathway of white gravel rocks.

An array of thick cloud coverage slowly crossed the pale blue skyline and then blocked the bright fake sunshine, making the ground semi-dull.

They both stopped with a gasp of fright. The artificial sunlight completely disappeared underneath the thick overstory leaves.

Then a set of folded bodies emerged from the thicket of the forest and crouched down, moving toward the back spine on Glitza and Bakeria, slapping a black tinted hood over each face. Each princess screamed with a muffled fear. Then two folded bodies stole away the two royal teens from the exposed tree roots.

The artificial sunlight reappeared and beamed down on top of the tree roots and each court prince and princess.

00:10:02 minutes/seconds/milliseconds

I slowly strolled ahead down the white gravel pathway that held a real but artificial environment consisting of real implanted green tinted shrubs, tall green-leafed trees, brown tinted dirt, and a fake blue sky with a few scattered fake white clouds. The artificial sunlight appeared very bright without the solar heat of an outdoor event.

I slowly followed a windy trail of white tiny gravel peddles and then stepped onto a flat plot of red tinted dirt, standing a few feet from a set of objects with a gasp of shock. I looked up with a stern face and stared at the electronic clock.

The chronological time counted backward and displayed: 00:10:02 minutes/seconds/milliseconds.

The ceiling clock continued to count down the last seconds of time, before the end of the Challenger Fight sixty-minute deadline.

I had not bothered to mark my lavender color paint on the body of either Erato or Nastchill for a reason.

Inside the flat plot of red dirt, a single brown tinted pole had been erected. Erato and Nastchill had been tied by each wrist bone onto the smooth pole, where each naked upper body had been painted in an assortment of colors from a court princess.

"Thea!" Nastchill stood tied to the smooth pole, wearing an assortment of two colored strikes, except for the color of lavender and a worried brow. He continued to nod and smile at Thea. "Hurry! Hurry, Thea! The clock is close to the zero hour. Come and mark my body with your lavender paint right now before the zero millisecond shows!"

I continued to stand and stare at cute and hunky Nastchill, softly sobbing with my real disappointment.

He continued to stand tied to the pole and nodded with a smile at Thea, "Thea, you finally arrived and not too late! Come over here and mark my body with three tiny strikes! There's less than nine seconds left on the clock."

On the artificial time clock that was located on the ceiling inside the room, the audio voice started to echo the numbers throughout the setting, coming from an unknown mixture of male, female, and child voices, "Eight. Seven. Six. Five. Four. Three. Two. One. Zero."

"Thea!" Nastchill yelled in panic.

A female voice echoed out loud from numerous hidden audio speakers throughout the arena. "The time has expired! The Challenger Fight has concluded. Stand in place! Do not move!"

I continued to stand and stare at Nastchill, sobbing with disappointment.

On the pole, Nastchill violently wiggled side to side, trying to escape from the pole with a growl. "Get me outta of here now! I want off the pole right now. What's going on here? What's happening here? Thea, why didn't you paint me with our scepter tip?"

A few feet before the stationary wooden pole that continued to hold court princes Erato and Nastchill, coming from each side walls and the forward wall, a line of tall and thick green tinted bushes violently fluttered side to side, a Dark Shadow slowly stood upright from the real bush, slowly moved ahead, and then stopped, forming a semi-circle around the pole on top of the flat dirt.

Each pair of eyeballs studied Thea, Nastchill, and Erato in silence.

On the vertical wooden pole, Erato spun around with a sneer and stood beside his prince buddy Nastchill, staring at the semi-circle of Dark Shadows, yelling a sour frown and a matching tone. "Get me off this pole right now! I'm tired of this silly princess game."

Within the semi-circle of Dark Shadows, a tall and slender figure stepped forward and wore a fake Tyrannosaur Rex head dress over a set of black clothing, staring at Thea. "Thea, why did you not paint three lavender strikes on either Prince Nastchill or Lord Erato? You have selected the two princes as your choice for a future husband-emperor during the Coil meeting on the day of your birth."

I wiped my tears from a sad face and then nodded to Nastchill, spinning around to see the fake dino head, exhaling with disappointment. "I am a fake. I am not the real Empress of Tross."

The tall and slender woman in the black clothing and the fake dino head shouted out loud through the small open that served as the mouth. "That's correct!"

On the pole, Nastchill continued to stand tied and gasped in alarm. "No, that's not correct! How do you know that you are a fake empress of Tross, Thea?"

I reached over and touched my empress scepter weapon on my belt, jerking the weapon from my skirt into the air near my scarred cheekbone. I pressed the trigger button. The blade extended outward without harming my face, only the air waves. I slowly reached down and then placed the sharp tip onto the anterior of my left arm with a sigh. I jabbed the sharp tip across my tender skin. My arm produced a tiny set of red blood proteins that puddled around the tiny wound.

Then each blood protein slowly dripped from my arm, rolling onto the brown dirt, disappearing into the dark soil. I lifted up my bloody arm to show the fake dino head, wearing a sad face. "My scepter weapon does not contain a dull and rounded tip with lavender colored paint. My scepter weapon has not been modified like the other court princesses but still contains a sharp tip that has blood my arm..."

"Me!" One of the Dark Shadows in a set of black clothing tossed off the black tinted mask and revealed an ugly sneer on Bakeria, moving ahead and stopped, jabbing a finger at Thea. "Thea could have killed me with her real scepter weapon. She killed each one of her opponents without mercy and viciousness in each battle fights to gain the land and the peoples. This was her plan from start. She was going to kill me for wanting her boyfriends."

Another Dark Shadow moved ahead in black clothing and tossed off the black tinted mask on top of the dirt. Aroid stopped, turned, and sneered at Bakeria. "Shut it, Bakeria! You lost it all here inside the Challenger Fight. Admit it to your selfie, honey bunny!" She laughed

A set of Dark Shadows stepped from the semi-circle in black clothing and tossed off a black tinted mask on top of the dirt, revealing each court prince and princess.

Bakeria jabbed a bloody finger and a sneer at Thea, "Arrest Thea! Thea cheated me somehow! Guards, come and arrest Thea! She tried to kill me with her real scepter blade that isn't dull like she killed of her opponents inside each one of her battle fights."

Olivet turned and laughed at Bakeria. "The Land of Tross does not have a set of armed palace of prison guards, Bakeria. We live within a peaceful kingdom. Yeah, Bakeria has really lost her mind. I think Bakeria should go see one of our nice and friendly medical physicians."

Bakeria turned and growled at Olivet. "Can it, Olivet!"

Olivet laughed and hugged Joed. "I'm not the one, who is delusion, here, darling."

Huzz turned and frowned at Thea and then he turned and viewed his mother, who wore the fake dino head. "Why is Thea, not the real empress? She looks like her selfie before the Challenger Fight. I mean. How many girls wear a curled scar on her left cheekbone? None! What's going on here, mother?"

The mother of Huzz continued to stand before the semi-circle of Dark Shadows and each court prince and princess, staring at Thea behind the fake dino head. "How did you discover your fakeness, Thea?"

I looked down with a sad face to see the dirt and then returned back to see the fake dino head. "I am a twin. My dead sister and I look just alike. I had been born and raised within the Land of Scotta. Empress Thea in the lavender outfit had found me inside the prisoner ward in the Land of Scotta. She had attempted freeing me, when the prison guard stopped her. I had dashed ahead to safety. Empress Thea, my twin sister had died when the stone ceiling collapsed down on top of her live body after she had releases a set of tiny little dark tinted bombs that she carried inside her black cloak."

Fera gasped. "Why were you in prison, Thea?"

"Thea is a runaway fugitive from the Land of Tross. The local law authorities are searching for her person as an escaped prisoner. Arrest Thea!" Bakeria jabbed a finger and a sneer at the nose profile on Thea. "Do you not see and hear this? Thea is a traitor to the Land of Tross."

"I see and hear your nasty timber. Shut it, Bakeria! I wanna understand this new situation." Cilicee hugged her boyfriend Pekod on one side while Fera cuddled him on the other side. Each one stared at Thea with a puzzled brow in silence.

Kidron turned and frowned at the dino head. "Is that true, T-rex head?"

The mom of Huss turned and sneered inside the fake head at Kidron. "I don't appreciate that comment, court prince Kidron. It is true," she turned and stared at Thea. "Thea, how did you learn that you were not the true Empress of Tross?"

I reached down and then flipped up the edge of her skirt with a stern face, jerking out each key off the fabric, tossing each one down on the dirt "I found these set of keys that were cleverly hidden inside a cloth clothing hanger inside the wardrobe closet that belonged to the first Empress Thea. Each key is golden tinted cylinder of five inches with a symbol on one end. After sorting through each key, I remembered seeing some of the same symbols on the fiftieth floor, where two parallel side walls with a set of individual shimmery art portraits on each noble clan runs down toward the Coil room. I went up there and then inserted each key into the circular slot, where each art piece moved in both animation and narrative, re-telling the history of each royal house or family or clan. I successful inserted each key into a slot and then listened to the story. The last story and the last key had been buried deeply into the soft fabric, which belonged to the first Empress of Tross."

I wiped off the tears. "I didn't understand the function of the golden keys or the purpose of the beautiful wall of colorful murals. I shrugged my shoulder without worry and then left the fiftieth floor. I went to bed for slumber as it was very late and very dark. When I rested inside my cold bed linens, I glanced up at the ceiling seeing an array of shimming portraits that contained my dead twin sister Thea moving with animation from the moonlight, which was very pretty.

"During the nighttime, each moonlight ray beamed down from the heavens and reflected off the glass floor, splitting into light molecules providing an abundant light source on the ceiling. The ceiling is painted in black hue with a row of shimmery paintings leading back towards the glass elevator door that shows my dead twin sister from the moment of her birth until one years old of her live. Each individual shimmery portrait shows a naked arm on a woman holding a scepter weapon..."

"No!" The male voice echoed throughout the arena and as on the ceiling, a shimmery holographic Dragon Head appeared and did not rotate around, "Liar! Fraud! Arrest her! She is not my real daughter empress. She is an imposter. Where is my daughter empress, ya witch? Bring my daughter back to me! I demand my empress daughter."

On top of the dirt and grass, the mother of Huzz in the dino head stared at Thea. "That is correct! You are not the true Empress of Tross."

On the pole, Nastchill sneered at the fake dino head. "You don't know that, T-rex head. That's just a stupid piece of shiny metal. Thea possesses a scepter weapon with a scepter symbol and a sharp blade that can kill anyone like nasty Bakeria."

Bakeria gasped. "I heard that, Nasty Champ."

He turned and growled at Bakeria. "And I heard your death threat on my body. Good thing, I'm still tied up here on this pole, witch!"

I exhaled with disappointment and stared at the fake dino head. "Only a scepter weapon can be handed down to the next generation."

The mother of Huzz in the fake dino head shouted out loud. "Thea is correct. Last night, each scepter weapon from a court princess had been stolen from her chamber room by one of the cleaning machines. Then each scepter blade had been replaced and then presented back to the court princess for the Challenger Fight today..."

Glitza gasped. "Wonder if Thea had selected a court prince, then there wouldn't have been a Challenger Fight today? You took a grave chance with the fake empress, T-rex woman."

The fake dino head shouted out loud. "Thea had selected the correct avenue based on her mind, not her heart."

On the ceiling, the stationary, shimmery holographic Dragon Head shouted out loud in fury. "That young teen is not my daughter. She's an imposter. The cleaning machine proved it when it refused to collect her scepter weapon from her person inside the sleeping chamber. She's a fake, a fraud, a phony. Where is my empress daughter Thea?"

Next to the Dragon Head, a second stationary, shimmery holographic Dragon Head appeared with a bow wrapped around the ear point and as a female shouted out loud into the room. "That girl is not my empress daughter. Someone, go and cease her. Take her away from the Land of Tross!" Then the same female voiced screamed out in pain. "Aw!"

"No! Don't believe that teen girl down there! Take her away from me now!" The male voice echoed out from the Dragon Head in pain. "Ugh!"

On top of the red tinted flat dirt, the mother of Huzz in the dino head shouted out loud. "Now, it is done. Thea is not the true Empress of Tross. And her royal parents are not the real Empress and Emperor of Tross either."

Cilicee turned and frowned at the fake dino head. "What happened to them?"

"What happens to a traitor of Tross? They die by the scepter blade," Dimon laughed with a nod and whipped out his scepter weapon, slicing it through the air waves.

"Kill her next, the traitor of Tross!" Bakeria jabbed a finger and a sneer at Thea.

"So, how long have all of the royal adults known that Thea was a fake empress?" Huzz frowned.

The dino head turned and shouted out to Huzz. "It is a long story."

Within the semi-circle of Dark Shadows, a line of people stepped forward and stopped a few feet, removing a black mask, revealing Zeamon, Lael, Aqualia, and Ittai."

I covered my mouth and pointed at each dead teen. "What is this? You...you are dead."

Zeamon slapped his chest with a smile. "Who is this? It is I, Zeamon. I am alive and well, not dead and buried, Thea."

Bakeria sneered. "We all know that. Why are you here with me, Zeamon?"

Ittai turned and sneered at Bakeria. "We are all alive and well and invited to the Challenger Fight too. I was one that placed that black smelly hoodie over your ugly face and then my brother lifted up your heavy and overweight body in the air," laughing.

Aqualia pointed with a smile at Bakeria. "You need to lose some weight, Bakeria," laughing.

"Enough!" Muppin crossed her arms and turned with a sneer to see dino head. "And we are all here and we have a long time left during the heated day. We all wanna know the long story, Miss T-rex head."

The fake dino head turned and shouted out loud at Muppin. "I don't like that missy attitude, Muppin."

Huzz stomped black tinted shoes with a sneer, "Now, Mom! Thea deserves to hear it, also. Her dead sister served as the empress of Tross for seventeen years old. And we, the court princes and princesses worked with her and we all wanna here the complete fairy tale."

Bakeria leaned down and then mouth spat down on the brown soil, looking up with a sneer at Thea. "I don't. I know the story."

Lael turned and frowned at Bakeria. "How is that possible?"

The fake dino head shouted out loud. "Some of the royal parents had informed their royal child before as I am going to tattle to each pair of eardrums right now."

Kidron pointed with a nod to the mother of Huzz, who continued to wear the fake dino head. "Take off your silly mask too!"

The mother of Huzz shouted out loud through the fake dino head dress. "No! Thea is not a royal. Each one of our identities will remain hidden. Or I will not tattle the fairy tale."

"Shut it, boy!" Dimon leaned over and slapped the bicep on his friend Kidron.

The mother of Huzz shouted out loud through the fade dino head dress. "Seventeen years old, the true Empress of Tross was pregnant with her first child like the rest of the noble princesses that lived within their respective kingdoms. However, the true Empress of Tross was very weak and strongly sick with the unborn fetus. Her husband-emperor flew an airship to the Land of Scotta, where the pond of healing waters resided. The Empress hoped the healing waters would cure her medical ailment within her body. I did not know the ailment. So don't ask me! They had arrived safely in the Land of Scotta and then had been assigned a touring party, venturing over the lands. The tour party consisted of an elderly female, a middle-aged male, and a middle-aged female that came from one of the noble houses there in the Land of Scotta plus a pair of young house servants, who were paid by the noble house."

I gasped. "The noble house, they were my set of real biological parents, where the female was pregnant with me."

Bakeria jabbed both hands at Thea with a sneer. "Do you see and hear again, Thea? Not only is Thea a fugitive, she's a murderer too."

Aroid turned and sneered at Bakeria. "The vile act of murdering the true Empress and Emperor had been committed by her biological parents, not by the unborn fetus. Get a brain cell, Bakeria!"

Glitza frowned with a nod. "Now, I understand. The male and female servants killed the real parents of Empress Thea. But what happened to the real Empress Thea?"

Fern gasped, "Oh, no! The real Empress Thea became a slave there somewhere in the Land of Scotta."

"No. I become the slave first." I raised my hand with a grin.

Bakeria sneered. "If the real Empress Thea is really a slave, then we should exchange her for the traitor of Tross."

The mother of Huzz shouted out loud through the fake dino head dress. "The tour party led the true Empress and Emperor of Tross in the opposite direction of the healing waters and then landed the airship in the middle of a desert of heat and sun. When the airship had landed, each member of the party debarked. The male hid behind the metal of the airship and then snuck upon the true Empress and Emperor of Tross, killing both of them. The noble male also killed the elderly mother of the noble female and their own pair of house servants. Then the noble male cut out the unborn baby from the Empress of Tross, handing to the nobles of Scotta. The noble male and female took the place of the true Empress and Emperor of Tross, flying back here, assuming the royal titles and responsibilities."

Zeamon sneered. "And why didn't you just kill the imposter parents? Then we all would not be living this nightmare, T-rex head."

The mother of Huzz shouted out loud through the fake dino head dress. "The set of parent imposter had the baby empress. We all decided against the death code for the imposter parents with this logical statement. The baby empress would not be harmed by the imposter parents. The baby empress needed a set of foster parents. Why not them? When the baby empress reached her eighteenth birthday, she would become the new ruling empress? Then we would terminate each life form of the fake Empress and Emperor which just happened."

I gasped. "So, when did you find out that I was an imposter? You must've known seventeen years ago that I was an imposter also. Why did you keep my twin sister as the empress of Tross?"

The mother of Huzz shouted out loud through the fake dino head dress. "No, we did not know. We found out about the fake Empress of Tross, after the authorities in Scotta had uncovered the broken body of your twin sister. The local authorities had eye witnessed your sister's battle performance in the battle fight within the battle arena that day.

Zeamon laughed, "Yeah! Why were all the battle fights fake as well as a fake empress and a fake pair of royal parents?" Thea turned and gasped at Zeamon. He turned and winked at Thea.

Glitza crossed her arms with a sneer. "Yes, I wanna know also. I could have killed each opponent with ease with my personal scepter weapon and my personal princess skill in each battle fight. However, I was not allowed to do that. Why, T-rex head?"

The mother of Huzz shouted out loud through the fake dino head dress. "I do not like your princess sneer, Glitza. Yes, there is another story. After the Scotta authorities had identified a dead Empress of Tross, while a fake empress of Tross occupied the bedroom, we to re-investigate the broken bones of the true Empress and Emperor. The bones were not buried as it was still a criminal murder. We would bury the set of royal bones, after the male and female imposters had died, closing the cycle of life and death."

"That didn't work out!" Bakeria laughed.

Within the semi-circle of Dark Shadows, one of the Black Masks stepped forward and then nodded to Thea, saying with a female voice. "Yes, it did not work out! We immediately sent a medical team to re-investigate the death site again. Over seventeen years of bad weather, the death site had revealed a second set of bones. The Scotta authorities had been notified and then recovered the bones, identifying each person, discovering a new item also. The true Empress and Emperor had been assassinated by an infamous secret assassin and not by the hand of the Scotta noble man and his noble wife..."

Cilicee gasped. "That can't be true! You just say..."

Within the semi-circle of Dark Shadows, a second Black Mask stepped forward and then nodded to Thea, saying with a male voice. "Yes, I told the truth of the story without the additional information from the Scotta authorities. This infamous and dangerous and never captured assassin had hidden behind one of the low desert sand dunes and then snuck upon the true Empress and Emperor of Tross, killing both of them. The assassin also killed the elderly mother of the noble male and their pair of servants, not the noble male. Then the assassin cut out the unborn baby from bloated womb on the Empress of Tross. However, in the rough operational process with the knife, which was used to kill people and bring forth life. The assassin accidentally killed the tiny healthy newborn baby. The noble female thought quickly and pointed down to the dying female house servant, who was pregnant with her first child also. The assassin carefully and quickly cut out the second fetus from the female house slave, delivering a healthy newborn baby..."

"Wait here!" Kidtron turned and frowned to Thea. "Wait a minute now! Thea is a twin, unless Thea is lying about her sister."

I lifted the palms near my frown and turns, scanning each teen face, since each royal adult wore a black tinted face mask. "No! I'm telling the truth here. I'm a twin. I saw my twin. My twin had rescued me from the prison cell. Then she had died there."

Fera frowned. "That is only the word of Thea against all of our eyeballs. You look and act just like the old Empress Thea, Thea. That didn't make any sense," laughing.

A fourth Black Mask stepped forward and nodded to Thea, saying with a female voice. "There is more to the terrible story. The Scotta authorities discovered a second set of skeleton bones more than five hundred feet away from the first burial plot which contained the true Empress and Emperor of Tross, seventeen years ago, also. Inside the second burial plot, the elderly woman, who was really the mother of the noble female, had been placed between the male and the female house servant. The position of the elderly woman had been staged to appear like she was just another house servant as she had lived with her daughter inside the noble house, like the pair of house servants also. At first, this burial presentation had fooled the Scotta authorities as they had assumed the same thing. The female house servant also showed a single set of dried bones inside her womb, which had been gutted out by the hot desert air temperatures and the fierce desert winds, exposing her stomach wound for all to observe. The Scotta authorities had also confirmed the identity of the male and female house servant as true. They had also confirmed that the female house servant had been pregnant with a child also. All the poor helpless victims had been killed by an assassin, who enjoyed visually displaying her handy work..."

"What handy work does an assassin appear like?" Dimon laughed.

A fifth Black Mask stepped forward and said with a female voice, "Never mind, Dimon! The local Scotta authorities had retained the bones of each dead people as the ancient criminal case was still open and active while hunting for the murderer assassin..."

Olivet frowned. "You still didn't answer the question here, unnamed and unknown Black Mask. I can guess that here, thou. The house servants are really the parents of Thea. And the house servant had a set of twins. So, how did each twin get separated?"

Huzz laughed. "You're killing us here, figuratively, not finishing your fairy tale. So what happened next?"

A sixth Black Mask stepped forward and nodded to Thea, saying with a female voice. "After the winning battle fight in the Land of Scotta, Empress Thea went into the prison cell."

I nodded with a sad face. "She was hunting for me and she found me, her twin sister." I exhaled with sorrow, wiping off the sad tears.

A seventh Black Mask stepped forward from the semi-circle, nodded and echoed out loud with a male timber. "Empress Thea had discovered her twin sister. Then she had been accidentally killed during her escape plot that failed. Her twin sister, who is also named Thea, cleverly took her place here in the Land of Tross..."

"My twin sister gave her scepter weapon to me and then told me to go and take her place here in the Land of Tross," I sneered at the seventh Black Mask.

An eighth Black Mask stepped forward from the semi-circle, nodded and echoed with a female timber. "So, the second fake Empress Thea did. Once the Scotta authorities had discovered the broken body of Empress Thea and we had relayed back to them that the live body of Empress Thea had arrived back home in the Land of Tross, the Scotta authorities had revisited the second set of bones, using DNA testing of the genes. Upon a newly discovery, the female house servant had been pregnant with a set of twins, not a single fetus. However, the exposed womb of the house servant contained only one set of bones for a twin, not two sets. And when the DNA testing was applied to the baby, the bone genes did not matter the female house servant, only the Empress of Tross. The Scotta authorizes realized that the twins had been cut out from the womb of the mom-to-be and then stolen from the female. We worked with the Scotta authorities..."

"Wait!" I waved both arms in the air. "Hold up! You worked with the Scotta authorities. You killed some of the Scotta representatives here in the Coil meeting room using the laser beam into death. How did the Scotta authorities that that bad news?" The semi-circle of Dark Shadows and the line of teens laugh out loud. I gasped in shock. "Why...why are laughing at me?"

The eighth Black Mask waved both hands with a nod. "Remove your mask! Let her see!"

Within the semi-circle of Dark Shadows, numerous people removed a black mask and stared at Thea in silence.

I gasped in shock and pointed at the Yawp and Scotta representatives. "I recognize you and you and you. You come from the Land of Yawp. And you come from the Land of Scotta."

The eighth Black Mask dropped both hands and nodded to Thea. "The battle fight was a fake also. Each invited guest is sale and unharmed. And they helped us with the Challenger Fight.

I continued to stand and stare at each invited guest that had not been killed from the laser beam inside the Coil meeting room. "Wait!" I turned and stared at Nastchill. "Every time, I had returned back from a battle fight, you always greeted and meeted with me. But you always had a group of young males and females following you around the lobby of the Center Building."

Come out, ya'll!" Nastchill was tied to the wooden pole and turned to see the semi-circle of Dark Shadows. A line of people in black clothing moved ahead and removed a black mask, smiling at Thea. He smiled. "Each death was fake but very well acted out. Thank you, actors. I had set up the rows of males and females to make you jealous, when you had returned back from the battle fight...

"Then I copied Nastchill." Erato laughed. "His plot was brilliant. The scene was really fun and entertaining for me..."

"Not for me!" I gasped in shock at Nastchill. "I thought you and you had ordered that young male or female to die for your love. Both of you are monsters. I am ready to leave out from the Land of Tross. I am tired of the silly mind games..."

"Join my royal barge," Nastchill frowned.

"Not yet! No one is leaving the arena right now. Thea, there is much more information for you to hear." The fake dino head shouted out loud.

The eighth Black Mask nodded to Thea. "As I was saying, before the re-introduction of each invited guest. We worked with the Scotta authorities and then theorized that one twin had been accompanied with the fake Empress and Emperor, in case each party knew and accepted. We would not allow the Scotta authorities in our kingdom to cease and arrest the imposter parents as we would handle the imposter parents when the time arrived.

"The Scotta authorities had theorized that the second fetus had been kidnapped by the assassin for greed and then the assassin had sold the newborn child into slavery, which was common there. The second fake Empress Thea had lived and worked for another noble house. The first fake Empress Thea, who was really her twin sister, had lived and played here in the Land of Tross."

Muppin nodded with a smile. "Well, the mystery is solved."

I spun around with a gasp to see each teen. "No! The mystery is not solved. My twin sister could have remained here hidden as the teen Empress in the Land of Tross until this day. Today, we both turned eighteen years old. Today, my twin sister would have been the new ruling Empress of Tross. Today, my twin sister would have selected her future husband-emperor. Instead, she told a brave journey and then successfully found me. Why did my dead twin sister do that? She was safe and secure here for the rest of her life."

Fera flipped a hand with a smile to Thea. "That's too ease, Thea! Your twin sister knew that she had a sibling. All twins had a psychic connection of spirit and welfare and self. Your twin sister wandered off after each battle fight looking for you. Then she found you. Then she died. Do you feel really sad and sorrow the death of your twin sister?"

I exhaled with frustration and sadness. "I feel very sad that my newly discovered sister died while I lived. But I didn't know that I was pair of a twin set. I didn't know that I had a sister. I didn't know any of that information. I didn't feel that I knew that I had a sister. I didn't feel anything about the knowledge of a sister. That's both confusing and puzzling about this entire fake situation. My dead twin sister somehow figured out and also knew about me, but I didn't know about her existence for any reason or suspicion. How is that possible?"

Glitza shook her curls with a puzzled brow. "The past doesn't matter anymore, Thea. The past is gone and so is your twin sister. I am sorry about the death of your twin sister. However, today, the new empress had turned eighteen years old. Now, it has been discovered that you're a fake and a phony fake Empress of Tross. You cannot be the new empress for any reason. I guess you must leave the kingdom and then go back to the Land of Scotta."

I dropped both my hands down and slapped my skirt with a stern face and a nod to each teen. "Look! I understand all that, now, also. I just wanted to figure out how my twin sister figured out that she had a twin sister that existed also," exhaling.

Erato was still tied to the smooth pole, wiggling side to side, shouting out loud with fury. "Let's pose that question to the silly half-circle of Black Masks! I do believe that they know something more about the entire fake situation. Ain't that right, Mom? And someone come over here and use their freaking blade tip and cut me loose from this pole right now!"

Kidron spun around with a laugh, moved ahead, and stopped, standing beside the nose profile of Erato. He reached down and jerked off his scepter weapon, lifting the cylinder near his smile with a laugh again. He pressed the button. The blade extended into the air. He carefully lowered the sharp tip, cutting off the rope with a smile.

Erato stumbled forward with a sigh and then halted on top of the smooth platform, rubbing both of the aching wrist bones with a stern face. "Thanks!"

"Welcome!" He smiled.

A ninth Black Mask stepped forward from the semi-circle of Dark Shadows and nodded to Thea with a female voice. "I cannot answer your question, Thea. I do not know how to answer that question. I am sorry. It is time for you to leave from the land of Tross, Thea."

Dimon shook the skull and lifted up both arms, waving the hands in the air above his hair roots. "No. I'm not fully satisfied with your partial answers either. So, let's dissect this piece by piece. As I, too, have tons of questions, as well..."

Each Black Mask shook a hidden face while staring at Thea in silence.

Dimon shook his skull and leaned down, mouth spitting on the dirt, standing upright with a sneer. He reached over with a sneer and jerked off his scepter weapon from the belt loop, pressing the trigger. The long blade extended outward while glittering in silver tint underneath the fake ceiling lights. He swung the tip of the blade at the hidden face on the nearest Black Mask, nodding with a grin in silence.

The rest of the royal teens drew out their individual scepter blade and then spun the tip, facing a different Black Mask also, nodding with a sneer, except for Bakeria and Thea.

Each Black Mask stood in silence without moving or speaking to each royal teen.

Erato slowly scooted around the dirt, whipping his scepter tip back and forth at the closest Black Mask with a sneer. "Now, we, the young'uns have your undivided attention. We are going to answer all of our questions. So far, the true Empress and Emperor were murdered by an unknown assassin that had been hired by the Scotta nobles. Then the Scotta pair of co-murderers took the throne here in the Land of Tross with a stolen newborn baby. The stolen newborn baby really was really the baby of the murdered house servant. The real Empress Thea newborn was murdered and dead like her royal parents. However, the royal adults here in Tross and the Scotta authorities there knew all of this and kept it a royal secret from their own children. But that is beside the point, Dad!"

Fera slowly moved ahead and nodded to each Black Mask with a growl. "Now, the first twin sister is the fake Empress of Tross and she worked really hard and proved her royalness to me and all the other teens.

"Not me!" Bakeria parked both empty hands on top of her waistline.

"Shut it, Bakeria!" Cilicee sneered.

Aroid slowly moved ahead and nodded to each Black Mask with a sneer, whipping her scepter weapon in the air, killing the air molecules. "Then the first fake Empress Thea went off to the scheduled battle fight in the Land of Tross with me. I was one of the selected pawns in this stupid battle fight plot. Then the second twin sister comes back from the Land of Scotta as the second fake Empress of Tross. However, the way, I and my royal friends see it here. All of the royal adults went inquiring and then found out the truth here, without telling each one of their royal teens too..."

"I was told the truth from the beginning!" Bakeria nodded with a smile.

"Shut it, Bakeria!" Glitza frowned.

Huzz nodded with a sneer. "I and the other teens can understand your position and your decision and your logic here, Mother and Father, who is there in the line of Dark Shadows somewhere. On the day that the fake empress turned eighteen years old as set by the Tross kingdom rules, the gang of royal adults plotted to kill the set of imposter parents, which I applaud among with my teen friends. And then all the royal adults would boot out the fake royal teen princess from the Land of Tross, which I will not comment on."

Glitza sneered. "Now, we learn that all of the royal adults had acquired a new set of information from the Scotta authorities when the first fake Empress Thea had tragically died, which happened to have been only three days ago. Why didn't you share with your child? Why didn't you expose the second fake Empress Thea to her fake parents and your true kids? Why didn't you end this stupid charade?"

Joed laughed with a smile. "The gang of royal adults could not stop the silly charade. They had to wait until the fake Empress Thea was eighteen years old, because the empress is automatically the new ruling empress in the Land of Tross. Then the nasty gang of royal adults could attack and then kill the imposter parents, which they had done now. My question, all royal adults had assumed the first fake Empress Thea was the true Empress of Tross, coming from the womb of the true Empress. So, the gang of royal adults had been played for seventeen years. How did the first fake Empress Thea find out on her own time, energy, and resources that she had been the fake one first? Because, that is the first answer to discover, before she could investigate and find out that she had a sister."

The seventh Black Mask nodded with a female voice. "The fake Emperor enjoyed spoiling his fake empress daughter. As I recalled, he enjoyed using these words to describe his fake empress daughter. Only the pair of imposter parents knew and also hidden the truth about their fake empress and her twin sister. This is only a working theory, but it does have merit. The fake Emperor presented an array of lavish gifts to his fake empress daughter, every year, on her celebrated birthday. The fake Emperor provided a huge birthday party along with an individual birthday gift coming from each royal couple for his fake empress daughter. On her fifteenth birthday, I and my husband coming from our son had given both parsimony and innocently a wooden chest. Inside the darkness of chest, it contained a set of shiny keys. Each shiny key operated the wall painting on the fiftieth floor. The chest of keys had been passed around for decades to each royal family. Honestly, I had never bothered playing with the set of keys. I had known that each key corresponded with one of the wall paintings on the fiftieth floor. My husband, my son, and I were not interested in amusing our persons with the old and ancient stories that we had heard from our set of grandparents. Now, each individual shiny key had been tossed down onto the dirt at the boot toes of Thea. The first fake Empress Thea must have performed the same action as her twin sister, the second fake Empress Thea here in the Land of Tross. She had inserted each shiny key into a provided slot of each painted wall on the fiftieth floor and then heard the narrative of each royal clan. I can only assume that she had somehow figured out that she set of parents were fake and thus, she was a phony also."

Nastchill frowned at the Black Mask and then smiled at Thea. "No! That's the stupidest explanation of the century. Thea, how did you figure out that you were not the true Empress of Tross, Thea?"

I exhaled with a nod. "There wasn't a straight forward answer. There were a set of subtle clues. The first clue, inside the wardrobe closet, there had been a limited number of lavender tinted outfits that I could wear which also happened to correspond with the eighteenth day of my birth."

In front of one of the large bushes, the Dark Shadow removed the black mask and as Tofur raised a hand with a smile to Thea. "That was me! I mean that it was an order coming from parents."

The mother of Tofur nodded with a stern face. "That was an order coming from the imposter mother Empress of Tross. Thea was given a set of outfits that corresponded with the exact number of days until her eighteenth birthday coming from an order of the imposter Empress of Tross. I do believe that the imposter mother Empress of Tross had bad intentions towards their fake empress daughter."

A tenth Black Mask stepped forward and then retrieved back from the exposed blade on Erato, nodding to Thea with a male timber. "Yes, the imposter parents had planned to harm their empress daughter. But I will go into details later. Thea, continue your story!"

I nodded. "Second, the set of shiny keys had been stored inside the last cloth hangers on the single clothing rack, which was very strange. Yesterday, when I had been submerged in water at the Coil meeting, my body and my outfit was completely soaked. I only had one new clean lavender outfit left. Tofur was nice enough to laundry the wet outfit. But I had to wear the last clean and pressed lavender outfit or run around the building naked..."

"I wished that you had done visual presentation, Thea!" Joed laughed.

"Shut it, Joed!" Huzz frowned.

I exhaled with worry. "Inside my wardrobe closet, I swiftly snatched off the last set of clothes, so fast, the cloth hanger dropped down which landed on top of the floor. During the battle fight, the cleaning machine entered my room and then cleaned up the wardrobe closet, placing the last hanger with my last outfit back onto the single clothing rack. Between me and the cleaning machine, the delicate cloth hanger had slightly torn open on the edge. When I swiftly snatched the cloth hanger for a second time, the stuffing inside the hanger pushed through the torn fabric, flashing into my eyes. I was very curiosity and then torn apart the cloth hanger, finding a set of silver tinted keys. I actually thought my dead twin sister had left a message for me with a set of written instructions..." I turned and gasped at Erato. "Why did you drop that massive tub of cold water on top of my hair inside the Coil room? Did you know that I was the fake empress? Did you do that for fun to shame me into a confession?"

"Naw!" Erato spun around and smiled, clearing a throat. "Well, since, everyone is confessing here. Yeah, I knew that you were the fake empress, three days ago. I don't know the information before that. And I also knew it when you kissed me on your first day as the second fake empress. I rigged the tub of cold water as a royal joke. Once I had been told that you were the second fake empress, I was worried..."

"What?" I gasped.

Erato nodded with a stern face. "You were not like Empress Thea. You looked like her, but you didn't act like her. You displayed the scar on your left cheekbone, but you were not her for some reason. And then you heavily questioned all the activities inside the Coil meeting room..."

I gasped. "Yeah, I did. You...all of you killed each..." I exhaled. "I mean I thought you had killed each visitor inside the hologram machine when each one disappeared."

The second Black Mask nodded with a male timber. "That was another fake scheme coming from the naughty group of true royal adults that played for the fake imposter Empress and Emperor. I will explain also."

Erato nodded. "So, I rigged the cold water to distract you from getting harmed or killed inside the Coil room. Some of the teens knew about your royal fakeness. Some of the teens actually hated you as the fake empress. Tofur had been spying on you as you had told him that you were a twin."

I turned and growled at him, "Tofur!"

Tofur exhaled. "Sorry!"

Erato nodded. "Honestly, do not be mad at him! Tofur had been spying on the first fake Empress Thea, since birth as her personal servant. And then Tofur had secretly learned that you were the twin of the fake first Empress Thea. And Tofur had not told anyone that you were the second Empress Thea. My mom told me after the royal adults had uncovered the new discovery. However, I had been suspicious of you. You enjoyed breaking the royal rules that had been set for centuries. You carried around your personal scepter weapon and brought the weapon into the Coil room which is again against the royal rule. The first fake Empress Thea knew that."

I nodded with a stern face. "Erato, is that why were not yourself, the other night?"

Erato nodded with a stern face. "Yes. I had been told the truth a couple of days ago. Then I had learned that you were to hear the truth also.

Zeamon nodded to Thea. "It was the same for me, when you met me inside the lobby. I was feeling really shitty and all about what had happened and what was about to happen with you, Thea."

Nastchill exhaled with sadness. Me, too! I was sad about all that and this. I am sorry this did not work for you, Thea..."

"She is not a princess of nothing!" Bakeria jabbed a finger and sneered at the nose profile on Thea.

"Shut up, Bakeria!" Huzz sneered.

Glitza spun around with a laugh and stared at each teen. "That's it! Do you not see here?"

Dimon frowned, "Naw! Your answer is beyond my neurons."

Glitza turned and winked at Dimon. "And if you marry Bakeria, your neurons are damaged beyond repair, as well," she laughed with some of the other teens.

"Tell us the explanation, Glitza! Before I use my scepter blade and beat your butthole." Aroid sneered.

Glitza laughed with a nod. "It is so elementary, darling! Each scepter weapon is handed down from one of our dead royal relatives. A scepter weapon is never constructed or made to fit the new royal newborn babe. It is given to the next young prince or princess from a dead relative. So, the first fake Empress Thea had learned that royal rule within our royal school, where we all attended together. When the fake Empress Thea, her, learned of the same royal rule, then she figured out that she was a fake and a phony also."

"No!" I shook my curls. "I didn't learn about the used scepter weapon giving program until I had it from the lips of the holographic Tyrannosaur Rex head inside the Coil meeting. The Earl of Zeebad is an upright hissing snake. The Governess of Lesdam is a sitting cat. The Count of Hyzo is an upright hand. The Viscountess of Arfad is a sitting elephant. The Baron of Penina is a leaping dolphin. The Duchess of Flocci is a diamond head. The Prince of Naam is a sitting dog. The Princess of Mattathee is an upright corncob. The Duke of Land of Jeroboom is a sitting mule. The Countess of Gildallie is an upright lamp post. The Tzar and Tzaress of Ikoloth is five-point star. The Baroness of Colon is an upright tree branch. The Lady of Onam is an upright carrot stick. The Viscount of Dimna is an upright alligator with claws. The Queen of Bocardo is an upright circular cylinder. The Marquee of Korbright is a twisted pretzel figure. The Lord of Elidan is an hour glass figure. The Empress of Tross is a lion's head."

"What? What does that mean?" Olivet laughed out loud.

I pointed with a smile and a nod to each court prince and princess. "Inside the Coil hallway, I didn't just listen to each mural portrait. I learned each story within the moving mural. I learned that each scepter key contains a head piece and that head piece matches the mural portrait. And the head piece is also presented on each scepter weapon. Show me your scepter weapon, Zeamon! The Earl of Zeebad is an upright hissing snake. Earl Zeamon possesses an upright hissing snake on his scepter weapon. Governess Lael of Lesdam is a sitting cat. Count Huzz of Hyzo is an upright hand. Viscountess Aroid of Arfad is a sitting elephant. Baron Pekod of Penina is a leaping dolphin. Duchess Fera of Flocci is a diamond head. Prince Nastchill of Naam is a sitting dog. Princess Muppin of Mattathee is an upright corncob. Duke Joed of Land of Jeroboom is a sitting mule. Countess Glitza of Gildallie is an upright lamp post. Tzar Aqualia and Tzaress Ittai of Ikoloth is a five-point star. Baroness Cilicee of Colon is an upright tree branch. Lady Olivet of Onam is an upright carrot stick. Viscount Dimon of Dimna is an upright alligator with claws. Queen Bakeria of Bocardo is an upright circular cylinder. Marquee Kidron of Korbright is a twisted pretzel figure. Lord Erato of Elidan is an hour glass figure. I entered the Coil meeting room on my real birthday and turned eighteen years old. I entered the Coil meeting room as the new Empress of Tross and accepting my new responsibilities. I entered the Coil meeting room to select my new emperor-husband. Then I figured it out..."

Aroid frowned. "What? What did you figure out? I am still confused. How did you figure that you were not the real empress?"

I exhaled with sadness while holding back the tears of great disappointment. "When I passed the empty chaise lounge, it contained the scepter weapon for Governess Lael which is a sitting cat. I saw the golden head piece on top of the cushion. Each fake death of a court princess and prince held a scepter weapon, except for Ittai and Aqualia. And the head piece on that scepter weapon matched a golden tinted scepter key and the animated mural portrait inside the Coil hallway." I exhaled and held back my tears of sadness. "Then I noticed each head piece on each scepter weapon on every court prince and princess inside the Coil meeting room, the head piece matched the golden tinted scepter key and one of the mural portraits. The last scepter key and the last mural told the story of the first Empress of Tross. The scepter key represented the shape of a lion's head with a flowing mane," I lifted up my scepter weapon near my stern face, reaching out, touching the head piece. "The head piece on my scepter weapon that I had received from my injured twin sister Thea inside the prison cell in the Land of Scotta displays a sideways figure eight, which looks nothing like a full lion head with a full mane. I realized the truth. My twin sister had been adopted by the Empress and Emperor of Tross. I had been the other twin inside the basket, who had been left behind. I had been adopted a nice noble family and worked as a house servant until that day my twin sister had found, rescued, freed me. So, each head piece contains the truth. My head piece is a sideways figure eight for some reason, which does not match one of the scepter keys or one of the murals on the wall inside the Coil hallway. Thus, I am not real, but fake." I wiped the tears of great disappointment and uncertainty of my own future. I was not an empress. I was not employed as a house servant. I didn't have any money or a place to sleep.

The mother of Huzz in the black mask stared at Thea and pointed at the scepter weapon. "That symbol came from the fake Empress and Emperor who had killed the real rulers of Tross. Lots of noble person receive a used scepter weapon during the giving process. Your adopted parents gave you one of their scepter weapons..."

Dimon turned and smiled the mother of Huzz. "Is that how you figured out the fake empress and emperor of Tross, dino head?"

The mother of Huzz turned and nodded to each royal teen face. "I do not like your nasty tone, Dimon. Yes, there were many subtle signs from the fake empress and emperor of Tross that had caught the attention of the true adult royals. Now, the evil ones are dead. The good ones are alive. And the true is freed. "Are there any more questions?" Silence invaded the arena. "Are there any more comments?"

"I hate her." Bakeria jabbed a finger with a sneer at Thea.

The mother of Huzz still displayed the black mask and exhaled with annoyance. "Are there any more loving comments from anyone but Bakeria?"

"I still hate her." Bakeria continued to point and sneer at Thea.

"Pick me!" Nastchill stepped ahead and then halted, slapping his painted chest with a smile.

"What?" I spun around with a gasp to see Nastchill.

He knelt down onto the grass and extended both arms to Thea with a smile. "I love you, Thea! Pick me as your new husband. I wanna marry you right now."

"Hey! You're painted with my strips, there tiger!" Bakeria dashed ahead from the bush with a growl and then stopped, standing a few feet from the nose profile of Nastchill.

Nastchill swiftly stood upright with a sneer and lifted both arms, turning to face Bakeria, wiggling his lips with a laugh. "I see two blue strips, two green strips, two orange straps, and two yellow strips. I don't have three of kind from any color. The answer is no. I will never, ever, forever marry you, Bakeria."

Bakeria pointed up to ceiling with a laugh. "This is the Challenger Fight. I had fought and I have won always and forever."

Nastchill frowned, "How so?"

Bakeria slapped her chest with a smirk. "The Land of Tross is lacking a ruler. So the land property of Tross is sandwiched in-between the Land of Bocardo, which is my royal lands, that is ruled by my royal family. Thus I will become the new solo ruler of both Tross and Bocardo. Thus, I need two husbands to help me reign and rule all of my lands," laughing.

Nastchill thumbed over a collar bone with a laugh. "Go and get E-rat! He needs a wife like you. I'm marrying Thea."

I gasped in shock. "But I'm not a true princess."

Bakeria sneered at Thea. "She's not a true princess."

"But she's a true person," Nastchill moved ahead with a smile and then knelt down with a smile, extending both arms to Thea.

Bakeria slapped her chest with a sneer. "I...I am the new empress of all the lands. So I command the death of traitor Thea for being an imposter and my marriage of Nastchill as my second husband."

I clapped my hands and dashed into his arms, tripping over his folded body. We dropped down with a set of chuckles and rolled over the grass.

The mother of Huzz smiled behind the black mask. "I have more good news. There is no current or dead ruler of Tross. So, Tofur will be the new emperor of Tross. Congratulations, Tofur! Welcome to the royal club! But don't call us for anything. Now, we are all leaving here from the Land of Tross and returning back to our homeland."

Tofur slapped his naked chest with a smile. "Me!"

The mother of Huzz nodded to Tofur, "You!"

The other teens shouted out loud with comments.

"Congratulations, Emperor!"

"Come by for lunch, one day!

"Get some royal clothes, dude!"

Bakeria stood in place and whipped out her scepter weapon with the cylinder head piece, releasing the blade with a sneer, turning in a crouched pose, stepping forward toward defenseless and semi-naked Tofur, "Ready to fight. Prepare to die!"

I whipped out my scepter weapon and released the sharp blade, dashing ahead, lifting the handler. I dropped the blade on top of her blade sounding with a musical ting.

The cupped hand on Bakeria flexed and then released, dropping down her weapon and as she gasped in alarm, staring down at her scepter weapon.

I held the tip near her nose bridge with a sneer. "No! I did not fight, but I can, witch. Back off, girl! Tofur is the new Emperor of Tross." The others cheered with clap for both Thea and Tofur.

Bakeria bounced up and down, tossing both arms in the air, sneering at Thea. "Do you see and hear here words? She hates all of us, including you, the most, Nasty Champ. So, now, I give my permission for you to become my second husband, after I marry my first husband Erato. Then I will become the new Empress..."

Erato moved ahead with a sneer and hugged Glitza with a smile. "First, I'm not marrying you, Bakeria. Second, I'm marrying Glitza. Third, get outta of my face foreverly."

Huzz whipped out scepter blade with a smile. "I think we should skewer her butthole."

Aqualia laughed with a nod. 'I think we should barbeque her butthole."

Pekod laughed. "I think we should drop her entire body plus her ugly butthole off the thirty-five floor balcony."

Bakeria gasped. "There isn't a balcony on this floor level."

Erato reached over and grabbed the scepter weapon from the hands on Kidron with a laugh, whipping out the blade, posing it near his smile. "Now, there is."

"Give me that back! Mine! I get to destroy the glass and toss Bakeria off the floor," Kidron reached over and snatched back his scepter weapon with a sneer.

Bakeria back stepped with a gasp and tossed both arms in the air for the surrender, "Mama!"

I moved ahead and presented my scepter weapon. "This is for a real emperor. I don't need it anymore. Please use it to start your own scepter tradition."

Tofur accepted the scepter weapon with a nod and cuddled it into his naked chest with a smile to Thea. "Thank you, Thea! I gladly accept the title, the honor, the scepter, and the weird blue grass," laughing.

I spun around and pointed with a smile to Nastchill, slapping my chest with a nod. "I pick you, Nastchill. But, now, I am re-named as Tina. I want you to like me, not my dead twin sister."

Nastchill moved ahead and stopped in front of Thea, gasping in alarm. "But I love you as Thea."

I shook my curls and waved the scepter weapon in the air. "No, Nastchill. You have fallen in love with the image of my dead twin sister Thea whom you have known for many, many years. But I do really, really, really like you a lot and a lot..."

Erato turned and laughed at the nose profile on Nastchill. "That's a lot of the words, really, Nasty Champ. I think there might be a future with her."

I slapped my chest with a smile. "I want you to know and understand me as the new girl who is named Tina, not the old and used Thea. I want us to know each other. I don't really know you. I have lived here as a fake empress for three days. I will always like my dead twin sister, but even twins are slightly different."

"Yes, you kiss differently from your sister," Nastchill laughed.

Erato laughed. "Yes, she smells differently also. Your sister always stunk like a skunk."

I smiled at Nastchill only. "Well, there is one difference and there are lots more. Do you understand?"

Nastchill leaned down and hugged her, pulling back with a smile and a nod. "Yes, I understand and I agree. So, will you can and live in a house near my castle in my kingdom? So, we together can go on fun time picnic by the lake and ride my horses through the meadow and hike the mountains and swim in the lakes, and ski in the snow and..."

"Yes, I would love to live in your kingdom as Tina," I nodded with a smile.

He opened his arms with a grin. "That's all I can ask and hope for at the moment."

I moved ahead and cuddled into his naked chest, wrapping both arms around his body with a smile. "Good! That's all I can promise at the moment."

Tofur moved ahead into the middle of the space for each Dark Shadow to see him and tossed both arms with the scepter into the air. "I have a new imperial announcement. I can't bear children for a certain reason. So, the first child of newly married future Prince Nastchill and Princess Tina will the next ruler of Tross. Thank you!"

I released Nastchill and spun around with a smile, dashing ahead and stopped. I leaned over and hugged Tofur, pulling back with a smile. "Thank you, Emperor Tofur!" I looked at Nastchill. "Do we accept?"

Nastchill moved ahead and stopped, hugging on Thea, who was renamed Tina. "Yes, Tina and I accept. Thank you, Emperor Tofur!"

The mother of Huzz continued to wear the silly black mask and tossed both arms in the air, saying with a female voice. "We have a happy ending after all. Tina will leave the Land of Tross with your new boyfriend Nastchill, moving to the Land of Naam. The rest of the court princes and princesses along with their disguised parents will be returned back to their own kingdom and run their day to day operations without inference from any other real or fake ruler. Our group of invited and wonderful actors from the Lands of Plagnot, Rhapsodime, Yawp, Shamguard, Scotta, Kaootu, and all the other independent lands will be going back home too. We have been delighted in your individual visitations here at the Land of Tross. But, now, the fake play has completed and everyone is going back home to stay permanently. Thank you for participating. Good bye, everyone!" She spun around and moved ahead first through the open archway that led into a small lobby, where the glass elevator carriage stood alone and empty.

The lines of hidden Black Masks and the exposed invited guests slowly spun around and followed the back spine on the mother of Huzz, moving into the lobby, waiting on the glass elevator.

Inside the Romantic Garden, on top of the flat dirt, Kidron cuddled his princess girl Ittai, turning to wink at each court prince and princess with a smile. "Good luck to everyone but Bakeria."

"Mama!" Bakeria back stepped with a gasp and ran into the back spine on one of the Black Masks, "Mama!" She spun around and opened her arm, sobbing with tears.

The Black Mask spun around and then back stepped with a sneer from Bakeria. "I ain't your mama, girl."

"Mama!" Bakeria stood in place and turned surveying the moving lines of black masks with a gasp. "Mama, where are you?"

"She left you behind, girly." The Black Mask laughed out loud and then exited the side door into the entrance lobby.

"Mama!" Bakeria ran through the crowd of black masks and invited guests, shouting out loud, sobbing with tears. "Mama, where are you?"

Inside the Romantic Garden arena, on top of the red dirt, Huzz pointed at the back spine on Bakeria with a laugh and hugged Aroid. "Do you see that? Evil loses each time. Good wins every time," he turned and winked at Thea, who was named Tina now.

Pekod stood in place and cuddled both of his princesses Fera and Cilicee. "Well, this is the end. I am leaving the Land of Tross and going back home to Penina, where i will marry both of my girls. Good luck to each court prince and princess. And a special good luck to Tina. I enjoyed the adventure even thought it was really weird."

Fera leaned over and frowned at Cilicee. "I told you, Cilicee. We both won."

Cilicee sneered, "I'm having his baby first,"

Pekod spun around with his two girlfriends and laughter, exiting out from the Romantic Garden.

Dimon moved ahead and grabbed Muppin from behind with a laugh, pulling up beside her with a smile to each court prince and princess. "Good luck, court prince and princess and a good future marriage to Nastchill and Tina. This has been really odd. Come on, Muppin! We gotta go and plan our wedding," he leaned over and kissed her lips, pulling back with a smile. They spun around and exited the Romantic Garden.

Kidron moved ahead and cuddled Lael, leaning down, kissing her lips and pulled back with a smile. "We need to go, also, baby!" He turned and nodded to Nastchill and Tina. "Good luck, Tina and Nastchill. I don't need to say anything to the other selfish and snobby princes or princesses. They didn't any lucky or a fast ship outta of here," laughing.

Lael reached out and hit his chest, "Hey! I am one of them."

He looked down and winked at Lael. "You are my princess. Let's get outta of here!" He spun around with her and moved ahead toward the open archway. "Bye, ya'll!"

Huzz and Aroid nodded to Nastchill and Tina. "This place and people have been really strange. We're leaving and getting married. Come to wedding!"

I stood in place and nodded with a smile to Huzz and Aroid. "Yes."

"Good! Let's go away from the Land of Tross, honey!" Huzz spun around with Aroid, whispering into her cheekbone and exited the romantic Garden.

Aqualia moved ahead and opened his arms, cuddling into Zeamon. Zeamon laughed out loud. Aqualia pulled back and shoved Zeamon across the dirt with a laugh. "Don't get any ideas, court prince." He turned and winked at Nastchill. "That's a man-hug for show only. I gotta a beautiful smart girl back home, who I'm going to marry in a few days from now. So, it's time to leave this weird place. Good luck, Tina and Nastchill! Bye, ya'll!"

Zeamon scooted sideways and waved a hand with a smile to Tina and Nastchill. "Good luck, Tina and Nastchill! This has been fun, but really weird. I got a girlfriend back home but I don't know if I'm marrying her or another girl," he spun around and moved beside Aqualia with a smile. They both exited the Romantic Garden.

Erato moved ahead with both arms and stopped, cuddling with Glitza, smiling into her face. She whispered a set of secret words back into his smile.

I hugged Nastchill and sneered at Erato. "Be careful, Erato! She bites and stings and..."

"She does at that," He winked at Glitza.

"Wait!" I gasped in shock. "I thought you hated her. I thought he hated you. What is going on here?"

Erato turned and winked to Thea, who had become Tina now. "It was part of the act and my fake role as a really cool dude. We love each other. We're getting married in a day or two living happily ever after," he nodded to Tina and Nastchill, spinning both of them around, exiting from the Romantic Garden.

The arena was almost emptied of warm bodies.

Joed stood in place and leaned over, kissing his princess girl Olivet, pulling back with a smile. He looked at Tina and Nastchill. "Good luck, Nastchill and Tina! We are leaving the Land of Tross also. We have our wedding to plan." He spun around with Olivet and moved toward the open archway. "The last Black Mask in the room cut off the lights." He laughed and exited the Romantic Garden.

Tina and Nastchill moved ahead while cuddling and kissing, exiting the Romantic Garden, but they did not turn out the rows of artificial lamps.

Inside the Romantic Garden, new ruler of Tross, former servant Tofur continued to stand in the middle of the flat red tinted dirt wearing the black clothing with his scepter weapon that he had received from non-empress Thea, wearing with a smile, whispering for his eardrums only. "I am the new Emperor of Tross." He lifted up the black tinted arm with the scepter weapon over his tan colored turban and then dropped his chin down into the black tinted turtleneck shirt, looking down at the red dirt, chuckling out loud with a smile. "Yeah, baby!"

THE END
