Chapter 3

"Mother," Vanessa pouted,"Look she's trying to hurt me."

Twyla laughed at the sight of her elder sister acting like a baby just to get on their mother's good side. The queen glared at Twyla and went to help Vanessa who was pretending to be extremely hurt.

"Excuse me." Twyla doesn't like be around people too much, she would rather be alone than spend time with her sisters. She was about to leave the room but her mother surely won't let her go without a proper scolding.

"Twyla apologise to your sister!"

"Mother she was the one who started it." Those calm words enraged Vanessa even more.

"Liar!!" Vanessa shouted.

Twyla looked at her desperate for attention sister and smiled,"If it's about that boy then settle this with father not with me."

"You killed my most skilled and experienced warrior!!" Vanessa retaliated.

"Oh him...I had every right to do so...after all stealing wasn't the only thing he was guilty of,"said Twyla.

"Vanessa," the Queen started,"Who was the guard whom Twyla shot?"

"Roderic." Vanessa got straight to the point as usual.

The queen didn't even look a little bit surprised by her answer, she had already known everything about this Roderic. He was the one who propagated the disturbings and unfamiliar things happening in the palace, he also tried to poison the king and on top of that he wanted to claim the throne all for himself.

"That's enough all of you go get ready, the banquet is about to start." The Queen changed the topic to pacify the two.

Maya huddled up the others and led them to their rooms. The queen, Yeona too left after making sure that her other two daughters were no more in the mood to cause a scene.

After they all left only the two of them were left once again in the training grounds. Vanessa glared at Twyla as her blood boiled.

"Shouldn't you be happy?" Twyla asked gleefully.

"Happy?" Vanessa wasn't aware of what her father had done, she only knew that he brought the boy to the palace.

Twyla laughed. She could she the confusion in her sister's eyes, it appears she was the only one who actually knew what their father had decided to do with the boy. She found it rather amusing that even the General was not made aware of the fact," He will be under your control, General Vanessa Barte Bellevue."

"Under my control?" Vanessa wasn't able to process what her sister just said, the perplexity of the situation only grew more and more with every explanation.

"You'll see, when we start training those new recruits, as for now come let's go get ready."

'New recruits? ' Vanessa's thoughts ran wild but she only brushed it off.

The banquet held that night was to celebrate the victory of Zariya, the capital city of the kingdom of Llyn. All of the kings of the various countries under the banner of the Llyn Empire were invited to the banquet.

Victory for the kingdom of Zariya was already predicted as no one could defeat their army. Though being underestimate as it was led by a female general, it proved all it's enemies wrong. Even one of the most powerful kingdoms in the land was unable to deafeat the army of Zariya and was now under Basilius Ragnar Bellevue's rule.

It was obvious of the fact that the army was led my a female general but not many were aware of the fact that the female general whom they think so lowly was actually the third daughter of the king himself.

These designated princesses managed to look all innocent and pretty in front to strangers and this averted many from the fact that they were not merely princesses but also powerful and skilled warriors.

At the stuck of 7 the guest had begun to arrive. The chariots halted and from them descended the kings and queens along with their sons and daughters.

Security was tight. Guards were placed at each amd every corner of the place, even the most uneventful spot was swarmed by guards.

"I'm not going down,"said Twyla.

"You must." Maya insisted,"Father will not let you have your way this time."

As Twyla was looking down at the guest from the window of her room she saw a familiar chariot pulled up. She immediately stopped what she was doing and focus on the chariot, when it's occupants finally came out her grip of the silver grills tightened.

"Your husband to be arrives." Heli joked followed by jeers from her other sisters present in the room.

"Until he has matched my superiority," Twyla gritted her teeth,"Only then will I consider him a worth husband."

Enraged she left the room.

"She's joking right?" Amanda asked as the maid was helping her with her gown.

"She must be," Lillian added, "There's no way he's going to be more powerful than her."

"He already is actually," said Elris, "In brute strength that is."

"Twyla might be the weakeast one compared to all of us but not even Vanessa could beat her," added Heli.

"Her powers along with that stone heart of hers...they're what makes her invincible." Elris added more to the conversation.

As the other sister were busy with their discussions Twyla had went to the ballroom to spy on the guest. There were only the usuals, no one new but his presence only made her day worse.

After scouting out everything to make sure there was nothing suspicious she ran back up to the room where all her sisters were.

The moment she entered the room the maids rushed to groom and help her with her dress, something she always hated. Twyla preferred wearing her armour than wearing a long silk cloth, which according to her was uncomfortably revealing.

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