"You are perfect my highnesses." Said Gloria the maid with her usual smile to the four princesses who were preparing for the Winters Prom as she sweeps the floor

"Thank you, you're an angel." Said Celesta one of the sisters while brushing her hair

"I Heard that the Lords of Portrall will be with us tonight." Said Elizabeth with a big smile

"I can't wait to be there." Said Sophia the youngest sister with a weak voice

All four looked at her

"She Think that she have a chance!"  Exclaimed Elizabeth and exploded with laughter

Sophia's face  turned red, she made out a small smile and said,

"Who knows maybe I'll meet my Prince Charming"

"Oh that's cute she believes in the prince charming!" said Celesta sarcastically and then everyone bursts out laughing

"Shut up" Carnell cried the elder sister who has been busy wearing her earring and then approached Sophia and said,

"Sophia come here, do not listen to them."

Celesta rolled her eyes and asked Elizabeth to hold her long golden hair so she could wear her diamond necklace

"Do Not listen to them Sophia they are jealous of you." Said Carnell to her sister to reassure her

The door of the room opens and Margoret enters she is the grand-mother of the princesses, King Brau's (the king of the kingdom of Shia) mother, an old long thin elderly woman with a gray hair wearing a black dress she always keeps her head high and her eyes are always half-open, when she entered the room everyone became silent.

"What's with all the noise I hear from the lobby?" She said severely

The four sisters silently froze

"Sorry Grandmother, Sophia told us a joke we could not hold the laugh." Said Celesta with the head down after a while

Sophia looked angry, she stepped forward, her face was all red, she pointed her sister and screamed

"That's not true!"

"This Is not the time to argue or laugh, this evening we welcome the noble family of Portrall and I refuse you behaved like a disordered lower class of peasants!" Said Margoret with sternly glaring Sophia glance

-"Carnell and Gloria come with me!"  Said Margoret

Carnelle looked furiously at Celesta and then got out of the room with. After that the door closes Celesta wait a bit then turned to Sophia

"How You dare say to grandma that I lied?"

"You Do not have a heart you always want the bad for us." Said Elizabeth,

 Sophia could not utter any word

" What happens? The Rebel has lost her tongue?" Said Celesta turning around Sophia

"What are we going to do with you now" Said Elizabeth with a black smile

Then Celesta and Elizabeth exchanged glance smirking

"You know what ? we are going to enjoy the evening and you, you will enjoy yours." Said Celesta, then she pushed her sister on the bed  while Elizabeth took the room key quickly

"Here Alone." She said running out of the room with Elizabeth after closing the door with the key

Margoret was walking along the corridor that leads to the royal room with Gloria and Carnell when she notices the Mad-Snake in the middle of the road, he was murmuring

"Spare me the pain master, I will never let you fall bearer of the fire, and they want me to believe that snakes spit fire! Oh what a scandal oh my lord .."

He was big and bold with big ears and funny dirty teeth wearing dirty ripped clothes.

"I Have already ordered you to leave castle dirty beast." Yelled Margoret over him

"The Mad- Snake goes, he is good he don't want bad things to happen!." He whispered while rushing to the exit

"Gloria take the Mad-Snake out of the castle and made sure he will not come back until the next day I don't want him to spoil the evening of the great Winter Prom and go to the big hall the guests will come soon, oh and remove that ridiculous scarf we are not in Abreal !. ordered Margoret

"Your orders my majesty." Said Gloria away

Margoret  was watching her grand-daughter Carnell by the corner of her eyes she stimulated a smile and started

"So, How are you darling?"

Carnell watched her grandmother with wide eyes wide and replayed

"Yes.. I mean everything is fine."

"Very well then, very well" Said Margorette while joining both hands and both remain silent until they arrive at the door of the royal hall

"You're Ready for the prom?" Asked Margoret clumsily has her little girl who do not realize that her severe grandmother Margorette asking her whether she is ready for the ball or not

"Yes I think!" Replied Carnell awkwardly

Margoret turns her head right and left like a falconer, then suddenly became serious she putted her hands on Carnels shoulders and said

"Carnel Listen to me, well you know your father is always looking to expand his relations with the various regions next to our kingdom and from our guest this evening there is a young man named Simuss he is the son of the lord of Portrall, and you know very well that Portrall is known for the quality of their weapons that they produce, anyways during the Bal he will be your cavalier, I want you to spend time with him in order to improve your relations, and who knows maybe he will be a good husband."

"Grand Mother I don't want to get married. Said Carnelle that seemed embarrassed

Margoret waits a moment and then her gaze turned black and her true face reappeared

"You think you have the choice? it is me who commands you, you forgot who I am? descend on earth it's this way things happens around here." Cried the grandmother

Carnelle drop her head and murmured

"I don't want to marry a simple lords son, I want to marry a prince"

"What Prince? neither I nor your father let you mix your blood with a prince from the south"

"Why not the North prince then?"

Margoret looked extremely furious and slapped her grand-daughter 

"Who? the Felin? he who will not miss the opportunity to destroy Shia entirely" asked Margoret with disappointment

"He loves me." Said Carnell hesitantly her eyes were full of tears

"How dare you speak to me about the Prince of Porea after everything that happened?" you are a traitor, your father will never tolerate this, I told you a million times to not talk about this story." Yelled Margoret taking her head in her long hands

"Out of my sight!" She cried over Carnell which lowered her head and ran all along the corridor

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At the other part of the kingdom, General Cliffton had met the three elite of the army of Shia Metfield, Spencer and shock in the small wooden house to discuss the current events, all four had sat on wooden stools around a round wooden table, two candlesticks dimly lit the room

"Our King have signed the offer of Abreal, we will have our new weapons by the new full moon." Began the general Cliffton

"So In return our people must leave the occupied territories at the border of the kingdom of Porea., but why king Victor have made such an offer? I mean he literally asked Abreal to provide us high quality weapons, he is not afraid that we'll use them against him? " Asked Spencer

"What Kind of king will supply his enemy with weapons of that power? I feel that something is not turning round" asked Spencer

"The Kind of king who has stronger weapons than the ones that Abreal gave us." Said General Cliffton

"I am not sure." Spencer replied

"A Messenger will be sent tomorrow to Porea to tell them the news." Stated General Cliffton

"So Porea will have no reason to go to war, and the snakes who live in their borders will be back to Shia." Added Metfield who was sitting next to Spencer.

"Bullshit..The lions will not miss the war." Shock spoke with his usual low voice he was sitting in front of the others

"Victor Is too prudent to embark on a war in such circumstances." Said the general, lighting his pipe

"The Felin is not." Spencer added

"They will not fight us we signed a peace agreement with the lions that he signed it himself and then Porea is in a very delicate situation, I do not think his imprudence will lead to a war in a moment like this in whole cases we should never lower our guard, we must be always ready if we are attacked". Said general Cliffton

"You can go now it will soon be dark, I don't want to go late at the Winter Prom. Ends general, smiling to the elite of the army.

Everyone was present all of the Gliburton royal family was around a large square table except Sophia who was imprisoned in the room were the princesses were preparing for the prom, The noble family and the lord of Portrall Kevic was sitting in the left of the king Brau, the old Margoret stood near him with his short white hair she wore a dark purple dress and the three princesses were sitting side by side near their grandmother Celesta was dressed in a long yellow dress, Elizabeth was dressed all black which highlighted her green eyes and black hair and Carnell was in dark green.

The great curtains of the room wore the emblem of the kingdom: A green snake that spits fire in a dark purple background

Carnell spotted Simusse smiling at her from the other end of the table, She looked at him then her eyes met the gaze of Margoret she stood still for a moment and then dropped her head.

At the other end of the hall musicians were present playing as the first song the anthem of Shia.

Noble families of the Kingdom was also present humming the hymn of Shia

At the end of the music the Lord of Portrall rises a glass of wine in his hand and said,

'I would like to have a toast to my friend and my lord and my customer king Brau and I would like to say so "Watch out for the dragon-snake," long live the King"

Everyone rehearsing in chorus after him, "Long live the King"

And after the gentlemen begin to invite the ladies, bowing before them and kissing the back of their hands and begin to dance

A young well-dressed man with light brown hair wearing well approximates Elizabeth takes her hand and bowed before her, kissing the back of her hand, a broad smile on his lips, rising to dance with him

"Where is your sister?" Asked Margoret with a low voice to Celesta

"She said she will not be present at the ball." lied Celesta

"Go get her right away!" orders Margoret

Celesta rolled her eyes then gets up to get her sister, who is still trapped in the room.

Kevic Brau approached the king and starts smiling

"What a beautiful night"

" Indeed a beautiful night." Said the king, drinking his red wine

"I Heard that a civil war will soon break out in Porea because of the snakes that are occupying the lands of their borders.

"Well Done for them this shitty family, Victor with his fucking wife I'd kill them myself I would slit her throat myself"

"What she did to your wife my lord is unforgivable"

"I Would never forgive them, but tell me ,at Abreal, i heard they have new weapons, a sword that can cut a mountain, it is not your work?"

"Of Course not my lord, I have no contact with Abreal but I heard that a man they call the Dragon Blacksmith is capable of performing such work and in addition he builds his weapons in a small workshop near the desert of Abreal, and since Victor and Abraham the king of Abreal are old friends I doubt that he supplied him with those new weapons"

"no matter Lions or eagles they don't scare me I piss on the whole Alland". Said the king Brau visibly drank after emptying his glass of wine

The wife of the lord Kevic was sitting next to Margoret

"You have Pretty young men." Margoret begins with a smile

"Thanks, and you have pretty young ladies." Said Mona Kevics wife blinking to Margoret, then both laughed at the same time

"What do you mean Mona never one of my daughters will marry one of your lovely boys." Said Margoret jokingly and then all the two laughed together another time

Carnell stood up when suddenly the Simuss holds her hands

"Would You give me a dance miss Carnell. Said the young man politely

Carnell looked around her and then crossed once again her grandmothers look and responded to Simuss stimulating a smile

"With joy."

Celesta arrived at the door of the room and opened the lock

"Sophia, It's time to go .." Celesta stopped in the middle of the sentence after noticing that Sophia was not in the room, she looked for her in all corners but no Sophia in sight, and then she noticed the window that is opened her heart pounded, an expression of fear and anxiety appeared on her face and then she comes running to the ballroom

"Dad..Sophia ... She's lost." Said Celesta the bad news and everyone stoped talking the music stops

"Oh my lord." said Margoret

"Guards!"  Cried the king Brau, five guards erupt in the room

"Search in every corner of the kingdom even search the sea if necessary, find my daughter" Said the king anxiously...