Chapter 20

"What are you doing here?" She asked calmly.

"My Queen, Prince told me to bring some flowers." I said. She took a peony flower from my basket.

"Do you know why the royal family always plant peonies in the garden?" She asked slowly and steadily.

"It called the lucky flower. They are also known to symbolise wealth." I replied.

"Correct. Do you know the reason?" She asked looking at the flower.

"This is because for a really long time only Chinese emperors used peonies. In Japan they are used as a symbol of bravery, honor and good fortune. Generally though, peonies symbolise prosperity, good luck, love and honour." I replied. She looked at me with a pleasant eyes.

"Good. You know well. You are so smart and brilliant." She said and left the place with the flower. I went back to the Prince's room and put all the flowers in the flower vase.

"What took you so long? I told you to get some flowers only." Prince Frank asked annoyingly.

"Sorry, I met your mother in the garden. She asked me some questions. So I'm late." I said, he looked strangely at me.

"What questions?" He asked.

"Nothing so special. Just about the flowers." I said.

"Aniya listen, stay away from that woman. She is a witch." He said annoyingly.

"I can't. I have to be normal. Or everyone will doubt me. And don't call me by my real name." I said.

"OK I understood." He said.

"One more thing, I have heard something about master Qing." He said, made me excited.

"Have you found him?" I asked him with a excitement.

"I am not sure. But I found an address. We can go there to find him." He said.

"OK. When will we go there?" I asked.

"If you want we can go there right now." He said. I agreed to go there. We left for that place. We arrived within an hour. There was a hut in the middle of the deep forest. I am sure no one can think of living here. We knocked the door. An old lady opened the door.

"Who are you?" She asked in a old voice.

"Dose Master Qing live here?" Prince Frank asked her.

"I have no idea who you are talking about." She said and going to close the door. I hold the door and stopped her from closing it.

"Please, if you know anything about him tell us. We need him. We really need him." I said.

"I said you already, I don't know that man." She said looking at us.

"If you meet him, then give this to him." I said and gave her my royal necklace. I know that she knows him. And she knows where he is. She must tell him about us. So I gave her the necklace. So that, she can give him this and he will understand what I need. She took that necklace and we were going to leave.

"Wait a minute, where did you find this?" She asked shockingly.

"It's mine." I said and she looked shockingly at me.

"Princess." She said bowing her head. She took off her disguise. And it was master Qing. He made himself a old lady.

"Master Qing!" I shocked to see him like this. He took us into the hut. He shocked to see Prince Frank with me. I explained him everything. He thought for a moment.

"So what do you want then?" He asked me calmly.

"Look, I couldn't finish my training. I want to learn everything. You know martial arts, sword arts and some kind of magics. I had learned sword art from you but I couldn't learn magic and martial arts. I want to learn it." I said.

"OK princess, anything else?" He asked.

"Yes one more thing, you have a lot of secret soldiers. Do you have enough soldiers to defeat the King's army?" I asked.

"I don't have enough soldiers. But don't worry I will train more soldiers for you. Maybe they won't be equal to the king's army in number, but they will be more powerful than them." He said.

"Thanks Master." I said.

"It is my pleasure princess." He said. He told us to come here everyday for training. We thanked him and left the forest. We came back to the Palace.

"You don't have to work anymore. You can go to your room." Prince Frank said. I went to my room. I saw that grandma was sitting in my room.

"Grandma!" I said she looked at me.

"Oh you came back? I couldn't meet you. Most of the time, You are too busy. So I can't meet you." She said. I went close to her and hugged her.

"Oh grandma, actually I was very busy. Let me explain you now." I said and explained everything to her.

"That's very good dear. You don't have to wait for long." She said, then we had a little chat. After talking she went back to her room. I went to the bathroom and had a shower. When I came out of the bathroom I saw Prince Frank was in my room.

"What's up?" He asked.

"What are you doing here at this time?" I asked him.

"I had nothing to do. It was too boring. So I came here?" He said looking at me.

"Don't disturb me. Go back to your room." I said and went to dressing table to fix my hair. He stood beside me and looked at the mirror.

"What's wrong now?" I asked annoyingly.

"Nothing. Just looking myself by your side." He said, made me nervous.

"Enough. You should go back to your room now." I said and moved away from that place. He grabbed my hand and made me stop. I looked back at him.

"What?!" I asked shockingly. He slowly approached me. He was too close that I could feel his cold breath. It was already evening and I didn't turn on my lights also. I was too nervous.

"I love you Aniya. I've loved you ever since I met you." He said calmly and slowly kissed my lip.

To be continued....