Disgraced Princess

I woke up today with sun rays playing with my eyelids and telling me ~hey wake up sleepy head~ teasing and poking me. I am the cutest and most beautiful girl on Arzeilla while the most pitiful at the same time.

Yesterday was like every day, nothing special happened. I cried last night until I fell asleep due to fatigue. I cried until I had no tears to shed anymore, even my mind had no energy to stay awake. what's more! they forced me to sleep on the floor in the storeroom because according to them I was slacking during my work.

Yes, the prideful princess of Azreilla is now a maid of traitors. In life happiness never stays forever and that's what happened to me.

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"How can you be this useless!"

"You don't even know how to do such a simple thing!!"

"What did you do? You destroyed everything, trash!

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Like always, there is commotion here and there in the morning. The castle is always lively. 

*Slam!*

Suddenly, the door was opened harshly while I was still lying on the floor lost in thoughts.

"You are still ASLEEP?" A middle-aged lady entered the room, shouting at me. Looks like I am getting another lecture for getting up late… Sigh.

The lady looked beautiful with snow-white skin. She had grey hair and hazel eyes, dressed using gold and pearl pins while expensive jewelry as the ornament. She gave off the vibe of an influential woman.

During my stay here, I had seen no one who could look straight into her beautiful hazel eyes. No one can compare with her control on servants, and the fact that no servant dares to go against her orders honored her with the title 'the devil servant instructor'. After all, her wings alone could show her status.

"Get up! I don't have the entire day for you!" she shouted at me, throwing an old rag on my face, then ordered, "Go, wash up! Make yourself clean and presentable."

"Take this, " she threw a small mirror to my chest. I looked at it, it showed my beautiful snow-white face and grey mirror eyes.

I looked down to see my tattered clothes that were filled with patches. I don't know? How am I still alive when these clothes can shiver one to death. Is it my fault? I was born as a powerless fairy losing her family and forced to work as a maid. It's not every day a princess becomes a maid.

'Sele, stand up before this lady throws a dagger at you,' I thought to myself and looked at her, still staring at me with her stern eyes, so I stood up.

"Stop!", not caring about her anymore, I tried to get out of the room. But she stopped me and continued her lecture, "Listen, previously, you might have been a princess but now, you are just the lowest class maid."

"You are a maid..." glaring at me like I was nothing but a speck of dirt on the ground and continued, "So, behave like a maid".

I stood up and went to wash up my face. I searched the room and found dirty rainwater and washed my face with it. I had no other choice.

I went to where clothes were kept after being washed to have a towel. Yeah, a habit, from the time I was a princess, as I entered the room, "Whoosh!"

"Ahhh!", Fear, yes, a genuine fear. The fire was near my face, one wrong step, and I would have been burned to death. 

Looking coldly at the culprit, it was from an old lady. The second servant instructor, sighing at my luck. She used her fire element on me, something I will never be able to use.      

"Tch, are you still not used to it? Out of here, you are not a princess!", she said disdainfully with a cold evil smirk still hanging at the corner of her red lips.

"Maam! what are you trying to prove by saying that again and again? Did I ever do anything, for you to be this mean to me?" I shouted angrily, this double-faced, she was good to me in the past. Some people are like this who won't dare to antagonize a powerful opponent but when the powerful fall from his grace and become an ordinary person, they will find opportunities to torture them and take pleasure in their pain.

"Shut up and come with me!" holding my hand forcefully, she burned it with fire on purpose, dragging me away.

*Thud!*, Nearing the palace, she threw me at the ground. She looked disdainfully at me and threw a list on my face.

~~~~~~~~~chores~~~~~~~~

1)    Wash dishes.

2)    Help in preparing food.

3)    Do Laundry for the entire royal family.

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21) clean up the prince's chamber

****If even a single task is incomplete after this day is over, you will face the penalty of hundred whips… or you may be, you will get whipped to death and free from this miserable life without a proper burial, hoho~

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"Gulp", Honestly, I have a tinge of anger and fear, after reading the paper. Really, it scares me to even think about all the beating I received, after that day. Because being a fairy without magic, having the weakest body on the same level as an ordinary human, dad and brother never hit me with a feather, let alone a whip.

'Oh, thanks for caring about my emotions', I thought while reading my last task, anger and helplessness engulfed me.

This lady knows I hate royals. So, yeah, let's make Selena their personal maid, let's force her to do work for them... Sigh. 

Those people are murderers. It's my fate to hate them. My life became a living hell that day, and I promise one day I will make their life worse than death, humph!

Time to do the first job, go to the kitchen and wash the dishes first. I went to the gossipy kitchen staff. I remember the previous time I came they taunted on every big or small mistake. This time when l entered the kitchen they greeted me with:

"Here comes the most pitiful and powerless princess of the world!" as I entered. A voice of a woman resounded in the kitchen and everyone turned towards me.

Here we are, in the imperial kitchen, it is huge. Looking around everything I can see is made of shining silver. 

Strolling through the kitchen, moving around, they looked at me with disdainful eyes and the taunting fair began. Hmm, let's see which will be the best one today.

"Haha! What poor luck, she got", someone spoke from the corner of the kitchen.

"Yeah, the princess of gold is now playing with soap. What a tragic story… sigh," another one spoke.

"Cutting and cleaning fishes, wow she is good," maybe this will be the best one today, she even gave a fake sigh at the end of her sentence.

Another one who was making chicken soup mocked me, "Oh here she comes, our sweet chicken wings princess." This hurt me, for fairies wing size differs and the more magic power you have the more majestic your wings will become while with my wings I can't even fly much less compare them with others. 

*Clap!* a sound of a clap.

"Everyone! Go back to work", the main cook interfered, even though she stopped the fun, she helped me. 

She is another girl with a cold personality, but with a really good heart. I had no connection with her, but now she helped me. Looking at me then she turned to do her work again. 

*Splash~splash!* 

Finally, I arrived at my destination. I looked into the huge silver mountain of plates that can blind anyone. Yes, this was my work. Let's play with soap. 

"Finally!" I have finished, looking at my hands, they were pale as the hands of a grandma. Seriously, will I have my hands before I solve my situation or will I become handless? 

Using the authority of the main cooker (she told them to go to work duh), and I left the kitchen as fast as I could.  

'Let's see, what's next?' I thought, looking into the wicked paper of chores, then decided, ' laundry? Nuh, not now, let's go to the prince chamber'

It is a long way to the prince's chamber. I need to go to the main hall first, a huge hall with red Curtains. 

I took the east door. Yes, the main hall has four doors, moving through a long corridor, the north will lead to the throne room.

I have finally stumbled on the stairs for the prince's personal tower. But Of course, me moving through the castle, will get a taunt from anyone if not everyone. Near the stairs, I heard a lady asking her friends, "Haha, I wonder, why is she here?"

The woman who was standing in front of her answered, " Maybe, the new king took a fancy of her."

The third girl spoke while looking at me, "Or, a prince took a fancy but she is not of his standards…"

"Pttf! Hahaha!", laughter after laughter resounded after the comment of the girl.

The gossip continued, I  completely ignored them, like they aren't even here. Only one thought lingered on my mind, 'Idiots gossip and taunt all you want, only my brother will rule this kingdom, I promise this to myself!'

I Looked upward and didn't see that wicked prince. Yes, this is my daily life as a maid, pitiful me?

As for why I became a maid or how? This is for another time.