Chapter 3 Under attack.

"then I pray… gods… only mamma nyature spoke when I said take me instead…" I said sad at them and looked at their shocked faces. It took some time for them to come back from that one… I don't blame them for that…

"c…conditions? Will you be, t…take from us?" Mom asked me scared and I felt dad held my hand tighter

"make mamma nyature prowd and fight darknyess" I say to them and I hear them breath out and I got hugged and kissed from both sides.

"um… are you mother nature's son?" Dad asked me out of the blue.

"George!" mom looked at dad firmly but looked down on me.

"my mama her… mamma nyature not my momma. She helped me save my momma." I giggle at them.

"h…how do you know?" this time mom asked me looking at me stunned.

"when smell… I feel mamma in nyaw soul." I see them lean in and smell towards me.

"I don't smell it…" dad said looking worried at me.

"papa close eyes and smell." I giggle at him.

They both leaned in closer and closed their eyes smelling at me I see them twitch and smile as they smelled my head… they started purring at the same time as they smelled me. They opened their eyes and blushed at each other as I yawn closing my eyes. I felt them lay down cuddling with me before I fell asleep.

I woke up the next morning in an empty bed I looked around… mom and dad are gone… I crawl out of bed and the door was open as I walked out into the living room. I looked around and it was empty there too. The castle feel creepy and empty. I reached the front door, and they are wide open. I start to walk outside towards the castle wall… I look around and the sky is dark, and the air feels heavy and cold… I feel evil approaching as I walk closer and closer towards the open gate looking over the city… the darkness feels overwhelming to the point that I… can't… breath… I fill my lungs slowly…

"prince?" I hear a voice far away���

"Prince… are you awake? Miska the prince…" Miska? Nana help… me… mom…maa I feel the air fill my loungs.

"darkness is coming." The same voice from the hospital eco in the air…

"NyaaaNyaaaa!" I scream with all the might I have in my body…

I feel two hands grab me from behind and pulling me backward hard… the light return in the sky and I feel the air flowing back in my lungs… I look up breathing heavy… I see Nana looking pale out to where I saw the darkness… she is not okey… I twist my body loos from her grip and stand in her lap grabbing her face.

"Nyanaa don't look… Nyanaa look down… look me." I yell to Nana grabbing her attention to look down, she looks down at me terrified…

"nana me her… nana safe." I smile at her holding her cheek in my hands.

At this point she gently grabs a hold on me and pull me in for a hug. And I see mom and dad running towards us looking worried. They reach us in seconds. Mom hugs over us looking worried. dad bend down on his knees and looks worried at me.

"my lord I do not know what happened. But when I heard the castle door slam open and the young prince just came walking towards the gate." I heard the guard say behind me.

"did you see?" I ask him without turning back, I just looked at dad who looked back at the guard confused.

"no prince… I only saw you." The guard said as I saw Tom approaches and kneels down beside dad.

"what happened?" I see Tom turn and ask dad worried before looking back at me.

"momma nyature say darknyess is coming." I say to dad looking firmly before turning to look at mom.

"he means mother nature told him darkness is coming… where are they coming from sweetheart?" mom ask me and I turn and point where I was facing looking at mom.

"mother nature told him?" Tom asked.

I turn back and hugged Nana who still looks pale.

"Tom help Nyanaa inside? Nyanaa cannot look up." I look at dad and Tom.

"why can she not look up son?" dad looks at me worried.

"Nyanaa held me when momma nyature show me danger." I explained to him looking worried.

"Charles put the city on full alert and get the people inside the walls" dad said to the guard behind me.

Mom lifted me as dad held Nana's head looking down. I saw Tom lift Nana and dad held her head away from looking where I had pointed and walked inside. mom followed inside. Dad and Tom sat her down on the couch facing away from the main door. Dad looks at me worried and Tom looks at Nana scared. Nana was white like snow in her face.

"what can we do?" Dad ask me looking worried at Nana.

"momma, can I use magic to help Nyanaa? We are inside." I ask mom who smiles and nods at me before putting me down on the ground.

"Nyanaa need warm sugar drink." I look at Dad and Tom.

"on it son." Dad sprints off.

I focus my magic and cast divine healing mist on Nana, the green mist washed over her like a wave. I saw Nana get her colour back in her face. Tom was sitting next to her inn the couch with one-foot kneeling in the couch and one firmly on the ground, making sure she did not look towards the direction the of darkness. and was ready to grab her is she turned.

I walked up to her feet and pulled gently on her apron smiling up at her. She snapped out of her trance and gently lifted me up and hugged me with tears from her eyes.

"Austin… I heard your voice… you saved me. Thank you dear." Nana was hugging me and kissing me shivering a little.

"Tom carry Nyana like princess inside, Tom did good too." I smile to her and look at Tom who blushed beet red. I saw Nana was turning pink too… I turned and saw mom giggle at them silently but when she notice I saw her she smirked at and winking to me… Fine mom… I play your game…

"Nyana manners… you thank Tom too nyaa?" I put a little firm face to her like I am scolding her.

I mom came and lift me up in her arms and kissed me on the cheek… I guess that was my reward for helping her out.

"you heard him Nana, we must always say thank you to the once who help us." Mom giggled at me and we look at Nana who blushed more red, and started to fiddle with her arm like a 10 year old trying to ask an embarrassing question… sorry Nana, I know I give after mom a lot…

"t…thank you Tom…" nana said blushing looking down fiddling with her apron.

"uh… Right… I was just following the young prince order…" Tom blushed and turned away, but I saw him glance at nana a little. They are hopeless…

"I only said help nyana, but you carry like princess… you like knight in mom story." I said out loud and proud to Tom who blushed… dang mom… you are corrupting me… this is actually fun...

I saw them both just turn away from each other blushing more… I just look at mom who tried to hide her smile and giggle with her hand. Dad came in holding a tea towards me and looking if it is okey. The sweet smell of tea and sugar hit my nose and it smelled like a perfect balance.

"give Tom and make sure she drink it slowly. Papa have map of city?" I say to him and ask.

"oh… okey. Yes, it is in the office son. Tom make her drink it slow like he said." My dad was stunned for a moment but smirk at me and gave the tea to Tom before walking towards the office.

Mom followed behind him… me and mom glanced back over to the couch where Tom and Nana was sitting. Mom giggled at me with a smile.

"I been trying to get those two together for a long time…" she smiled at me.

"they hopeless momma…" I smirked back at mom.

She nuzzled me with a smile… we stopped at dad's desk and he pulled out a large roll of paper and rolled it out on the table using some chess ponds to hold it in place I tapped on mom and pointed at the desk. She placed me standing on the desk but held the back of my shirt so I would fall… yep, she definitely seen me train walking…

The map had a top-down view of the of the city with our castle almost in the middle. It even had a view of the fields outside with stone and tree pictures on it. I sat down on all 4 and crawled over to the pencil… yee i am not stupid enuf to start walking on the table with my walking skills…

Once I got the pencil, I made a _V_ drawing of circles facing the gate from the inn side with arrows and I explained it to dad as I drew… I made circles on the field with the number twelve on the under it.

"do you know what type of beast?" dad asked me smiling at the map.

"from momma nyature it felt like big black doggy…" yes, I forgot the name of wolf. It's hard to learn a language…

"black wolf?" mom ask me smiling proudly at me.

"yes. thank you, momma." I smile to her and looked back at dad

"hmm… if the wolfs are strong enuf they might get over the wall… civilians might get hurt…" I heard dad mumble to himself.

"Papa take people her and give sword to men to defend last?" I say and point at our castle looking at him.

"Nice son that will work… we can have the woman and children in the throne room and arm the civilian men with sword so they can act as last defence." Dad picked me up and hugged me before gently giving me to mom.

"our son is a good strategist." Dad kissed mom and ran out of the office.

"do you think we be able to stand against 12 wolves? they are strong..." mom ask me looking worried down at the map.

"not ready no… but ready we be good momma." I smile at her.

"yes, dear I guess you are right." Mom hugged me and started to walk back to the living room.

She sat down next to Nana who blushed as Tom helped her drink the tea.

"Tom help Papa? We ready food for people?" I look at mom worried.

"don't worry about papa dear, but yes that would ease my mind too." Mom said to me and looked up to Tom.

Tom smiled and nodded gently handing the tea to mom before storming out of the room. Mom gave me to nana and walked out of the room. Nana was still red in her face, so I gave her a hug.

"did he really carry me inside?" I heard nana ask me quietly.

"yes nyana. i think Tom like nyana." I said back to her and felt she got warmer.

"l…like me?" I heard nana studder in shock. I sat down and smiled to nana.

"nyana pretty. I see why Tom like Nyana." I smiled at her and leaned up against her she hugged me gently

Nana is pretty. Once she calmed down from our first meeting, I saw that nanna was a nice young woman. Everyone was just afraid to approach her because she was tall and had more strength than the other maids but ever since she started to chase me around the castle, they change their view of her. One time I saw maid Cora help her find me when we played hide and seek…

yes when I tried to learn how to read and wright… they giggled together while Cora pointed in my direction… I can forgive her for that… she did help cover for me when I practice speech…

Nana stood up and walked to the kitchen with me in her arms. Steff and the maids where in full swing making some sort of sweet bread. It smelled so good. we had never had this bread before. Nana explained that they make this bread for the people when there is crisis. She asked me if I wanted some, but I shake my head and said that the people should get it first… trust me I really had to resist the temptation to eat it…

When we heard bells go off Nana explained that someone had seen the enemies, she held me tighter in her arms. They put the small golden bun bread in baskets and even I got a smaller one to carry.

Everybody walked behind mom with a basket of food. Yes, even me I was slow to walk but mom waited for me smiling proud at me walking carrying a little basket of golden buns. After a little while we got to the throne room and I saw a lot of people was gathered in the hall. We had large tables for people to use but everybody had gathered in groups on the floor.

I saw mom started to hold out the basket of buns to a group, so I followed her lead and walked over to the smaller group with kids and adults. As I walked around everybody picked one bun each and not long after my basket was empty. I saw mom had sat down with Nana, so I walked to them and sat down on mom's lap. She hugged me and said I did a good job. We sat close to the small group with children and I heard a kid said we are so lucky to eat bread like this every day.

"we do nyot eat that bread… that is people's bread… we only eat normal bread." I stated out loud to the girls comment.

The quiet talk died down and everybody looked at me… I looked up at mom, but she had just turned blushing over to Nana… thanks for that mom…

"you have not eaten this?" the girl asked walking over to me holding the bun in her hand. She was around 10 years old.

"no, I have nyot. It is for people in nyeed. Not for spoiled prince to eat." I blushed and looked down.

I heard giggling in the room, and I felt my mom got warm…

"do you want some of mine? We can share it?" the girl asked smiling at me.

I look up at mom who still had red cheeks, but she nodded at me sat me down at the floor. The girl sat down in front of me and she broke of a part and gave it to me smiling. I held it with both of my hands because you know… hand to eye coordination… let's not repeat my spoon holding time…

I tasted it and the sweet taste of a sugar bun filled my mouth I just smiled and looked at the bun of heaven in my hand chewing politely like nana and mom thought me. I heard awe's around me and when I looked up every looked at me with big eyes. Even the girl in front of me smiled with big eyes at me as I eat the little piece of golden bun bread. When I was done eating, I looked up at her.

"thank you. I wish I could have every day." I smiled at her.

"you really have not eaten it before. I am sorry for my comment." She said smiling and looks behind me.

I turn around and see my tail wagging happy… embarrassed I turn and look down on the ground…

"why do I have to have a tail…" I mumble to my self

"you don't like your tail?" the girl had heard me and asked eating her bread.

"dad only step on it… and it showed where I hide too Nyana and momma."

Everybody started to giggle and shared their story about tail accidents to me one of the men that was guarding the door had a door slammed shut on his. Everybody in the hall shivered from that and held their tails. It was starting to get late but finely dad and Tom opened the door and walked inside in his golden armor.

"your brilliant plan worked son. There was only one who got a light scratch. no one died." Dad yelled across the hall smiling proudly to me.

The entire hall cheered at his words and he informed that it was safe to go home but instructed that if they lived near the wall gate, they should keep the young ones eyes closed, one wolf had managed to get over the wall, but it got killed quickly. He stated that the guards will be on heavy patrol all night and making sure that no stragglers could sneak inside the wall. I notice how the people relaxed their shoulders at him speaking to them. And I must admit I have a cool dad…

As the people left back to their homes mom thanked them for their trust in them and for showing up to the castle so quick. Everybody thanked her for the hospitality and said that my tail story calmed them down enuf to not worry so they were able to eat… I guess I did some good too. I guess having a tail is not so bad after all…

When everybody had gone home mom carried me back to the bedroom. I had been a long day, so I fell asleep quick. I think I manage to just look at the bed before I was sound asleep.

Everything went back to normal after that. My morning lectures with dad followed by Royal etiquette class with mom and nana they even incorporated a speech training for me. When that was over, they played with me. Hide and seek was their favorite. I figure it was because of when they found me, they got to cuddle with me. When it started to get dark, they would leave me alone so I could read the beginner magic book.

I learned how to train my so-called mana storage in my body, and I dedicated myself to do that every time I had a free moment. basically, what I had to do was to focus on this orb in my body that I could sense when I focused on it. I had to use my will of mind to draw mana in and store it in the orb. When it was full it would reject the mana and stay under pressure until it grew larger from that pressure. It only took me a couple of days to find out that I could do it automatically like breathing. And I checked the book for information, and it said that the auto part would come after years of training and normally at the age of 10 if the person was diligent and started early from a young age.

Yee that is going to stay our secret… I don't need to tell anyone. I still haven't forgot the plots and twist of my old novels… I may have won nana's trust over, but I don't want to get caught off guard being unprepared… that's why I trained my mana orb so diligent.

I had my 1-year birthday. It was fun… mom had invited kids over to play. At first only the noble kids talked to me but when I noticed that they left out the so called 'Normal' kids I just walked over and suggested we play hide and seek… one girl called Mia had run in to dad's leg and got scared and started crying when she noticed she had run in to the king. But dad manage to calm her down easy.

When he was able to send her back to us smiling, mom gave him a big hug and smirked at him…

Mia bragged how she had talked to the king to us and everybody though it was a big deal… trust me I stayed quiet true that ordeal… don't want enemies… beside she looked so happy. Steff had baked a cake for us, and it was too good… nana had to walk me around for a bit after I got stomach pain. It went over fast, but they limited the amount of cake I was able to eat… for presents I got some scarfs and winter mittens… I guess 1 year old only got cloths. But Mia had made me a neckless so when I thanked her and put it on, Bella. the one that shared the bun bread with me pouted and said I should put on her scarf too… I did… I saw mom giggle at me as a did.

Frank was son of the blacksmith. He told us that a lot… he gave me a wooden sword with a metal handle. I guess his father had used his son as a marketing tool… mom took the hint when I swung it around like the 1-year-old I was, and she took it away from me saying it was too dangerous to play with when there was girls nearby. mom I am 1 year old… Use that instead of girls… so you could guess that Bella took that as an insult and manage to hit Frank with it.

Yee he was dumb enuf to agree that girls should not play with swords… well he learned his lesson when he cried on the floor with Bella smirking above him… everybody apologized when Nana came in the room when Frank started crying… he was 9 years old, so Bella called it a fair fight and pouted to Nana saying she was not sorry… Nana bless her, just gave her a look and she started crying too…

Me and Mia who was at the same age as me. had walked off long ago to the table with cake on it. We were hungry for more, so we teamed up and was trying to climb the tablecloth until we found ourselves covered in cake on the floor… mom gave us a lecture about manners… but yee... 1-year-old tend to cry from that… me included… so mom was stuck comforting us as she walked and handed Mia to Cora for cleaning… Mia said we could bath together but mom said it would not be lady like…

That's when everyone got send home. Mia ended up staying the night until her clothes got dry from wash dad had gone and asked for some cloths from the parents, but they felt embarrassed giving him normal cloths, so they suggested that she just sleep there until they cloth where dry…

Mom did not mind… she hummed and smiled as she got to brush her hair… I saw dad sneak into his office…

The next day Mia got returned in her party dress all cleaned up she pouted when mom dropped her off but smiled when she said she could come visit when she wanted too…

Mom and dad was stunned when they found us playing on floor the morning. Not even the guards knew how she was able to get inside. She told me that a maid had heard her knocking on the door and let her inside… I did not tell mom and dad about it… Cora don't need the hazzle and well I had someone to play with… win-win situation…

Mom and dad had returned her so many times they decided to invite her parents over as a gesture off apologizing. as they had an awkward tea together and was hardly speaking. Me and Mia asked why it is wrong for us to be friends… making both sides give up trying to remedy the situation and just giggled at us pouting at them demanding they stop being silly… there might have been a comment from me saying that it would not matter what they did, she would find her way inside anyway… mom was the one who started to giggle making everyone else giggle too.

Mia and I had to agree that my training would have to come first, and she was allowed to train with me so long if anyone ask, she would be my study aid. She agreed.

The dad's where quiet the entire time. Because her dad was the Royal Knight Charles the other knight that had picked up me and mom with Tom… awkward…

So, my days where filled with lectures and ethic class and play time… mom and nana focused on teaching Mia more words because well she was the same age as me, but she could not speak that well. I understood her fine. But mom and dad had to ask me several times what she said or asked.

Things went like normal like that for a several years if it were not for Mia, I probably would have preferred a plot twist in the 5 years of training. Well, I am sitting at my new desk in my new room looking around. I got a nice bed and furniture. And a bookcase. Why a new room?... evil plot twist…

Well not really… I was reading in the divine nature book. Yes, I am allowed to read it now. Mom quizzed me on all the magic rules and on elemental magic groups that it contained. Earth, Water, Fire, and air. Well after I passed her quiz that was 3 days of questions from random pages from the book… I was allowed to read the nature one… yee I learned that the 4 elemental groups that the beginner book had was not all the magic.