"Ikarus, relax yourself, you'll grow wrinkles if you stress yourself out"
Petra can obviously sense my tension seeing those three right now, does stress actually give you wrinkles? It seed like a joke but unsure if it actually does or not now, at least thinking about sothing stupid has made relax a little.
Anyways, the two royals finish speaking to everyone, walk down into the room and are imdiately hounded by a crowd of nobles, no chance I'm going over there to talk with them, have next to no reason to speak until my blade finds their throats after all.
"So what do we do now then? There's only so much eating I can do to pass the ti"
"Heh, unfortunately we'll just have to wait a little longer"
It a tad boring seeing that both of us have basically been ignored by nearly everyone excluding the knight and priestess but it's not that bad, soaking up to these snobby nobles was never a plan. I would like to do sothing other than just stand around eating though.
It very quickly seems sothing else has co up, more specifically soone has co over to us.
"Oh, are you the bird brother invited to the party? Erm... what was your na again?..."
Exiting barging through the crowd is the princess dia, why has she co over here to us? Is she hungry or sothing? And she just called bird, I'm guessing she knows about the phoenix thing but bird isn't enough to make it obvious to everyone. I an, I'm pretty sure so people call females close to them bird or is that a Northern thing? Or was that lass?
Forget it, nicknas are sothing I struggle with, I'd like to co up with sothing for Petra but the only thing I can think off is Pet, I'm not calling Petra Pet despite it being a shortened version of her na. Distracted again, not the ti or place for this right now.
"... Don't answer! Let get a drink and we'll chat for a little while!"
She then rushes back into a different direction towards a waiter serving champagne, grabs three glasses and cos back to and Petra, she seems a little bit of a clutz just watching what she did there. Anyways, she's now returned so it makes sense to at least great her.
(Petra) "Happy birthday to your highness"
(Ikarus) "Yeah, happy birthday princess"
Petra is always good at playing the part of soone in awe of the royals after all, I really would find it hard to greet soone as majesty or highness but that's just partly down to stubbornness and also down to having parents that would let get away with a lot. Respecting humans isn't anything they'd ever want to do.
"Please, you two don't need to treat as such, there's already a crowd of boring nobles so having two commoners here lighten it up! Here take these..."
She gives us the champagne glasses and continues to speak, I'm not really sure what to say here to hopefully she leaves as fast as possible. Also unsure if my ability worked there, she seed honest about it being boring but sothing about the way she said commoner made irk a little.
"... So what brings you here? Why did yo-"
Unfortunately for her, a won's voice echoes through the crowd behind her calling the princess's na.
"dia, soone's asking about you"
"Seriously? Can't you answer for ?"
"No, I don't know everything about your life"
"*Sigh*, useless idiot, I'll talk with you two a little later, see ya!"
And that's the princess gone back into the crowd, what a slightly weird situation that was, even Petra looks a little unsure what just happened.
'At least that's gotten rid of her now and we've gotten a drink out of it'
As soon as I take a sip of the champagne looking drink, a voice screams at just before I have the chance to swallow it.
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Hang on, that fucking princess has literally given a drink that is drugged!? The nerve on that bitch! I'm going to enjoy killing her later on if this is how she treats guests, we haven't even spoken properly and this is what she does?
Before I do anything else, I take Petra's glass of champagne out of her hand without saying anything and I subtly spit out the alcohol back into the glass, it's a good thing she didn't drink it and I'll make sure to tell Petra what just happened in a sec. I seriously can't get over how sothing like that was literally just tried against us! We've got to make sure we whisper during this so I make sure to get even closer to her.
"Petra, don't care about the prince but make sure the princess suffers badly"
I'm sure it was her, just the look on her face tells all I need to know, unsure how she even did it but maybe she carries around a vial of sothing to drop into drinks? Other people have drunk that champagne and look perfectly fine so I think it was her doing.
"Sothing wrong with the drink?"
"Yeah, it's definitely laced with sothing, no idea what but Aesa made sure to tell before I drunk it, it should be alright since she told just in ti"
Then I saw sothing, only for a split second that no one else noticed in this entire place, pure rage and terror coming from Petra. Like I said, the aura didn't even last a split second but I'm sure I also saw her eyes turn very slightly black as well. That's only the second ti I've seen her eyes go like that, the first being back in the giant dungeon when she went full power mode, it's a fucking good thing she can control herself that well.
"Petr-"
"I'm fine Ikarus, just make sure you finish both for your level, I'll make sure to make it extrely painful beforehand for her"
That's the first ti I've heard Petra say sothing like that, I can't deny her feelings though, that fucking bitch just tried to drug . I really want her to suffer as well now so her reaction if anything is making fall for her even more.
No Ikarus, it's not the ti for that, we're in public. I'm not too proud to admit I felt the urge to kiss her right now but we really do need to be careful, I'm pretty sure I've seen a priest or two here as well, that's definitely not a scene would should create in public right now. At least it's a good thing I'm getting urges like that so we will be able to progress even further very soon, hopefully.
So... seriously, what do we do? You'd think after having the princess co up to us maybe so nobles might be a little interested to know who we are, I'm starting to think there's either a massive class gap or Petra's the culprit here, maybe she pissed off the lower ruling class? I think she would've already told if she had done sothing like that so doubt it.
'Sighhh, we really are outcasts here'
In the end, and Petra just spend a bit of ti making small talk with each other alone. Thankfully, enough ti has now passed and Jekyll should be doing his role very soon. I'm still unsure where the emperor even is, you'd think he would've shown up for his daughter's birthday but maybe the bastard has already dealt with him? By the sounds of it, he also has contacts inside the palace but this seriously is starting to be concerning.
"Look Ikarus, things are finally happening"
Off towards the other side of this room, Jekyll decked out in a red military uniform similar to Nathan's seems to be whispering in the ear of the prince, he should be telling him there's a slight problem in one of the back rooms that requires his imdiate attention, no idea what he actually said but he seed like he'd have a clue on what to say.
And good enough, the prince speaks to the small crowd around him, then leaves to go up the stairs with the mage following him behind. Jekyll having achieved the first task goes to do the sa with the princess closer to us in this crowded room.
"Seriously!? Why the hell do I need to go?"
I can't hear a single word Jekyll is saying, should be pretty obvious why down to the whispering.
"*Sigh*... fine, I'll be back ever so shortly, brother is being an arse"
And that's all three sent off to go up the stairs, it's now ti to slowly follow behind. Just before we get to the stairs, Jekyll gives us a nod while as he passes us, his job is now mostly done, he better have done the rest of what he said he would do otherwise this will go shit. At least we've planned if it does though.
and Petra both make our way up past the crowded stairs, then continue into a long corridor on the upper floor that still seems to have a few nobles loitering around.
(Petra) "Sixth room on the right"
(Ikarus) "Yeah, he was pretty adamant on that"
The further we continue and whisper to each other, the less and less nobles we co across and just as Jekyll promised, there isn't a single guard in sight around here, wouldn't this have looked a little suspicious to the royals? Forget it, we've found the door now and they are definitely inside the empty unused room as planned.
We both get to the door in question and before entering the partially opened door, we listen in to the conversation going on.
"... What the actual fuck is wrong with you Alistair!? I told you not to invite people who aren't approved by and yet half this fucking hall is!? Seriously though, what gave you any idea that inviting those two boring fucks would be a good idea!?"
"You an Nathan and Lotte? It seed like a happy occasion so why not invite them? He is my knight after all and she is the shining light of the empire, apparently... Might as well get as many people as possible to celebrate my lovely sister's birthday"
"Don't be doing that bullshit with brother, I swear you do this type of crap just to irritate !"
She really sounds to be having a temper tantrum, we really should be going in but Jekyll did say beforehand that no guards would be assigned to this area for a while. If that's true, then we really have no need to rush, at least for now but I really want to hear their conversation even if Petra wants to go inside right now.
"I'm surprised you aren't complaining about that phoenix being here dia"
Even the mage is talking to the whiny bitch that tried to drug us as well now.
"The orange haired one? Nah, she's got a nice piece of ass, wanted to play with her if I had the chance but I don't think she drunk it unfortunately"
She wanted to play with ? Fuck, I really don't want to know what she had in store, I can't wait to kill her now...
"You tried... to drug... the dragons daughter!?! Are you fucking mad sister?"
"Hmph, to think you tried to drug them both, are all the won in this family this stupid?"
Even those two know that was a terrible idea, I'd actually have another reason to ask my parents to burn this place down now.
"Nah, it was just the orange one, really don't see the big deal since she would've forgotten it the morning after... would've liked to hear her screams but whatever... *Sigh*, would've been better to just skip this year and spend the night doing sothing fun"
It might be better for Petra to take her on, hoping she'll be able to inflict more pain on her before she dies. Reason I say that is just looking at her, Petra might be about to blow a fuse even more than right now.
"*Sigh*... fine then dia, why did Jekyll ask us to go here anywa-..."
When the prince asks that questions, it seems like the perfect opportunity to make our entrance entering the room. While we were listening though, and Petra both prepared our weapons during the conversation and have stored away the heels we had on, my vampiric blade longs for blood in my hand and Petra's sword seeks vengeance for all dragons in hers, she doesn't care about dragon vengeance but that does sound pretty cool.
"Ikarus and... Petra, w-what are you two doing?"
'The prince even has a slight stutter now, status'
[Na: Alistair | Species: Human | Level: 292]
[Health 9,700/9,700]
[Stamina 9,212/9,800]
[Magicka 9,700/9,700]
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[Na: Leone | Species: Human | Level: 325]
[Health 8,000/10,000]
[Stamina 7,102/7,500]
[Magicka 15,000/15,000]
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[Na: dia | Species: Human | Level: 474]
[Health 10,000/10,000]
[Stamina 28,139/30,000]
[Magicka 7,400/7,400]
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