The sky was clean, the sun was very slowly starting to rise, the prince and his assistants were relaxing in the yard of his office.
All of the assistants were on their animal forms, well, except Chibuko, who just turned into a all black creature with triple big horns. Snuggling next to each other on the bare grass, prince Saganu was with half body on Lun Re's belly, the fur so soft and silky, it could be able to sleep in there in first contact.
Closing his eyes, feeling the sunrise bathing his skin, he smiles. The simple feeling of relaxing along his closests people was the minimum he just wanted in that moment.
It was until then... A adviser arrives at the yard.
"Your highness...?" The adviser gets confuse, looking down at the resting prince. "Your father, his Majesty, has given you work."
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Hurrying, the prince and his assistants slam the door open, only to find an amounts, and amounts of paper piles and scrolls. On top of it, a note, with a lapis lazuli ribbon.
Good morning my son, I hope you doing right, I just wanted to give you a small work signing contracts because I'm busy and not able to do it. Do it well, drink water and eat properly. Your father loves you.
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"I'm not gonna make it until next week! There's too much work!!!" The prince complained and panicked, before he quickly get over it and slowly look at his assistant.
A mischievous and evil smile started to appear on his face, walking towards us with sparkles on his eyes.
"My sweet, sweet, precious assistants. I love you all sooooo much." He flatten them. Amethyst was feeling like he's trying to use his seduction weapon.
"You will help me you in this, right? You will not let your desirable, gold of heart, prince Saganu do all this hard, heavy work." He dramatically poses.
They all sigh, until they decide to agree.
A big open smile appears on his smile, jumping and dancing around in happiness at the agreement of his assistants help him on his work. He look at then again, and quickly approach each to give a hug, individually.
"Tulipa Arach, my beautiful and dangerous tall and skinny Arachserpent Albin, with a aim incomparable to no one else in this country, venom so toxic it could kill ." Tulipa gives the hug back.
"Amethyst OwlHeart Orchids, my Owl and peacock mix, a mad scientist and doctor with, artesian skill and a tall atletic physic due to your martial arts classes, come here, hehe." She just give him some pat pats on his back.
"Aya, my smally small chubby dragon, full of delight and playfulness." He lift her up rub his cheeks in her, she gives the hug back.
"Nayoto Taoko, My giant unknown creature, highly builded body general of the special army forces from this Empire, always serious and cold." She wraps her arms around him.
"Lun Re Shioto, my tall chunky tiger, always loyal and capable assistant, highly intelligent, calm, mischievous, with a cheese heart." Lun Re also wraps his arms around the prince, bringing him closer.
"Wait, I ever actually felt your chest before." The prince takes his heat of Lun Re's chest and stares at it. "They're very soft."
He start to grope Lun Re's chest, feeling those on his hands. They were soft, squishy, big, like pillows.
"Your highness... Uhm... Please don't get distracted, we have work do to, don't we?" Lun Re sighs softly, which prince Saganu nods, still in his happy estate.
***
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We all are helping the prince's duty of analyze, approve and disapprove contracts.
Lun Re and Tulipa was with a basic book about law, Nayoto was a little confused with some contracts but was doing fine, I, Amethyst OwlHeart Orchids, am doing fine with also a small basic book about law just to make sure, but Aya?
Aya was the one who was finishing the work faster, not because she was just reading—she was as if projecting in her mind how that contract would go so she could approval or disapproval stamp. Like a person who studied law and right does.
There's something a bit of about her... Too off...
Thinking of it, she's never said a bit about her or her past, only the fact that she was expelled from Sky Kingdom because of being considered a 'broken dragon.' and that's it.
But what did made her be considered as broken? She IS too capable and highly intelligent. Is her physics and stature? The fact that her voice is a soft calm male voice, which is considered a normal between dragons for not being an aggressive male voice?
I approach Aya, setting myself next to her. She look at me, confuse by with suspicious stare and furrowed eyebrows, questioning herself if she made something wrong?
"I know that you're more than a cute small pink dragon." I bluntly state out, raising my eyebrow.
"Well, you caught me. I'm more than a cute small pink dragon." She admits with a dramatic sad face, before she crack an giggle, that makes us starting to chuckles—chuckles from the fact that I got it right yet I didn't bring it in a aggressively or negatively.
"Right! Sir Satoshi will come here at 12 o'clock, I almost forgot about that!" The prince states as he looks at his clock.
"I must be very good to have a him as a father, lady Amethyst. Present, caring, playful, wise... You must know a lot about contracts because of him! Or am I wrong?"
"Well, just the basics. He and my mother teach us the basics of their work areas and positions to see if we could create interest to continue and delve deeper. And, as you know, I'm more in the medicine, science and craft area." I correct.
"And his wife, Najo Orchids, a Dionisia and one of the best doctors of the country when before having the sanctuary resident position, her melancholic beauty, her personality, I would understand completely to someone be in love with her—" he praises, and praises... And praises. His face on his hands, dreaming.
"Prince Saganu. You're talking about my happily married parents."
"Oh... My apologies..."
As we finally focus on the duty at hand, out of blue, I notice I was being lift up, very up high. I quickly turn my head behind, just to see...
"Catch you, daughter."
***
"It's an honor to be here in your highness's office." Says my father as he take his mask out, of respect.
For a 45 man, he still energetic and in form, never stopped to be him around others, a playful, a bit goofy man... A jester, in any ways.
"I came here to give the news and and updates of the commercial area." He opens a scroll.
"The commercial of rice to the external and crystals had increased, and the use of paper note as money is going well accepted by the people of the kingdom." He states out. "I would also like to announce that my precious wife had improved more the healing potion!!!"
Doing one of his hand tricks, a small bottle of the potion appears in his hand, the difference being obvious. The color once green, now is a bright orange, the liquid constitution now more neat and less condensed.
"She removed majority of the ingredients, and applied two new ones. Is a achievement for the potions world, and I would like to let my little gem Amethyst to replicate it, since she didn't, sadly, gave the revenue."
My father gives the bottle to the prince, who watch under the sunlight and give it to me.
"Think of it like a game, my daughter." He whispered, giving a wink.
"Before I leave I wanted to say that my wife and the rest of the Dionisias will come to the palace to renew the protection barrier of the palace, but only in the day that Madan of Magic will be with us, when the moon gets red and it lights on the sky purple. In 5 days. Many this will happen in these days, so be careful." He finish.
"Well, that was all I needed to announce. I leave my exit." And with a polite bow, in the same way he appeared was the same way he disappeared. But, that exit, make a certain contract to fly out towards the prince's table. He looks down at it, signalling us to approach and see it with him what was about.
***
"I'm telling you, when his highness get here..."
The boy stop talking when Aya's presence was visible in the air, her formidable dragon form arriving at the place, in her back, the carriage where the prince and the rest of his assistant is. Lading graciously on the floor, letting the carriage on the floor, she transforms back in her human form and open the door, letting the prince out.
A Baron approaches the prince, bowing politely towards his presence.
The boy as well— wait... Natsumi?!?
"Your highness, it's an honor to have your presence here and be the Judge of this situation." He says, standing straight after the prince give the signal to. "As you can see, this area is of my domain, in the name of Baron responsible for agriculture, and these... people had orchestrated an alteration, extromous alterations, and are claiming that these land is theirs."
The prince give the word for them, Natsumi and his older brother.
His older brother, opens a planning map, and Natsumi, start explaining.
"Tô put in simple words, your highness, my brother with my help improved the the soil for agriculture, and we will rent parts of this lands to the people of this kingdom to have, at least, a money income and sell the products of their labors, with a division of 40%-60% in the profits they made."
"But the thing is, it's in my land, and you two did this without any permission of mine—."
"How long this land was untouched, until you and your brother came here and orchestrated the alterations?" Asks Aya, cutting the baron out.
"7 years, minimum." Responded Natsumi's Brother.
"If a land is at minimum, 5 years untouched, then it will belong to the person you arrives and proclaim as theirs." Aya starts to state out, giving some steps forwards. "It will be officially theirs and only theirs if this land gives any positive living constitution or production signals."
I was already in a plantation of the place, grabbing a potato from the floor. Teasingly and cockingly, I bring the potato to the baron.
"Congratulations, you're seeing the first food production of the land, work of the young boy and his older brother!" I cockingly say, with a smile.
"Decided. After an analysation of the situation, I declare that the lands are now in the name of the signings pair clan, the owners being the young boy and the man." With a final decision, he approves the contract and gives to the man, finishing this sudden but important meeting, walking towards the carriage.
The workers cheers up, lifting their shovels and screaming, happy for not having their agriculture areas taken.
***
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A big stormy rain started as the sun falls and the moon sets up, Natsumi was in a close hill, watching, nexr to his brother who is sleeping, in the rain, the hard work his brother had, finally giving profits. His eyes tired, but with a shine of determination, to not let this fall back, and make his clan ascend, when he felt the rain not falling on his head, forming a shadow.
He looks up and sees Amethyst, with two other man on her behind. Her wing, above him, protecting from the rain, even thou one of the man was holding a umbrella for her.
"You gonna catch a cold." Warns Amethyst, with a smile.
"I won't, I'm from a shark hybrid clan." He waves off. "But what are you doing here? Dressed like a noble girl, and who are they? Your bodyguards? Oh including, the pink outfit looks good on you."
"They?" She chuckles. "This bunny with banana yellow hair holding my umbrella is Sume, an old friend of mine." She points at the other one. "This ninja owl is my brother, Onyx, he's one year younger than me."
She approach his, giving him a basket.
"I came here to give you a congratulations basket." She gives to him.
"It's very common in the East, location where these two and they family are from." Add Sume, Onyx nods in confirmation.
Natsumi bows in gratefullness and opens it, he gets surprised by the high quality clothes, a stamp of his own clan made by the Orchids, and a dagger made by the OwlHearts.
"How... How did you...?!" Incredulous, he formulates his question again. "Are you rich or something?
"I am rich, Natsumi. Very rich rich." She winks and show her clan marks on her neck sides to him. Onyx approaches and shows his exposed shoulders, where the clan marks are.
Natsumi enters in a state of shock, finally realizing. The dots, the puzzles, are finally falling into place, understanding more and more what was so hidden yet so obvious for him an his friends.
"Here, make sure to do a tea of this flower when arriving home." Amethyst leaves a small package on top of the basket before leaving, waving at him.
"Your abs are more prominent, little brother. The rigorous training is showing results." She playfully points out, which makes nods excitedly.
***
Crack...