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Princess Story

Princess Lua and Princess Selene are due to marry a prince from each other's kingdom as a treaty is signed to ensure peace between the nations. They are attending a common gala in the summit city to choose their respective suitors. What will happen when the two of their eyes meet and they decide to take a chance that will change the world?

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Suggested Rating: T

Genre's: Medieval, Girl's Love

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Chapter 1 - Princess Lua

"Princess, it is time to wake up. The gala is today." I am shaken awake by one of my attendants. Still drowsy, I wake up slowly. Gala? What Gala? Wait... Oh yeah, today I'm supposed to choose a husband from the princes of the Kingdom of Ult. I groan at the thought, as the attendent speaks again, "Princess, please hurry. You will want to eat before we must depart. The trip will take most of the day."

I stand from my bed, and am dressed by my attendants. So begins what could be the worst day of my life. Truth be told, I don't want to get married, not now and not to a noble I won't meet until today. The thought of spending the rest of my life bearing the children of a prince sickens me. There's nothing for it, though. The treaty my father signed with the King of Ult promises me to one of the princes, and the Princess of Ult to one of my brothers. I suppose the one saving grace is that I get to choose which one, though I can't see myself desiring any choice. Not that I've seen any of the three princes of Ult. My mother would probably say not to judge them too harshly before I've seen their faces.

It's not like I don't want to be married in general, but I'm barely going to get the chance to meet the Princes before I have to choose one to live with forever. Such is the life of noble women, though. Married off for a political gain or to form international relations. Not like we have any other purpose - we rarely inherit any kind of title directly, all of our brothers ahead of us. Before I became Queen of Solaris, all three of my brothers would need to be removed from succession, not that that would ever happen. Perhaps it is a blessing that I'll be married to a foreign prince. I can't say I've ever thought about a prince like that, though, but such is life. After all, what noble marries for love, especially noble women.

After being dressed, I am taken to the dining hall for breakfast. My father is already at the head of the table, along with my mother, and my 3 brothers. I don't pay much attention to what is served, I'm too lost in thought. My father speaks up, "Well today is a momentus occasion. On this day, my daughter and one of my three sons will be betrothed to royals of our neighbouring Kingdom, to make our diplomatic ties unbreakable for generations." My brothers cheer at the thought and I join in half-heartedly and unenthusiastically. After finishing breakfast, we head out to the carriages. My brothers have one, and my Father and Mother ride together, so I get a carriage to myself. Not having anyone to talk to, I continue to think about the upcoming gala. Perhaps I will feel better when I meet the Princes, and the Princess as well.

Throughout the rest of the 6 hour carriage ride, I try to imagine how my potential fiances look. Even pressing my brain for hours, though, I was only able to conjure up an image of my counterpart, Princess Selene, I believe her name is. Even just the image in my mind is fair enough to make me think of love. Not, I mean, my own love but that of any man. Yes indeed, if she is as beautiful as I am imagining her, she should have no issues courting any of my brothers. I mean, it's not normal for women to think of loving other women, but surely it's normal for them to envy their surety to capture the hearts of men. "Gah. Why am I thinking about the Princess. I want to be thinking about the Princes," I say out loud to no one in particular. I wonder what Princess Selene is thinking about.

When we finally arive, my attendant helps me out of the carriage, and we walk into a palace, beside my brothers and behind my parents. The palace less formal than the royal palace, I believe it belonged to a Viscount before it was repurposed to sign the peace treaty between the Kingdoms. This is the place the gala will be held. The place I choose my husband for the rest of my life. Just thinking about it somehow makes me even more sad. "Princess, it is time for me to escort you to the dining hall," My attendant says, shaking me from my daze. Right, the first item on the agenda is a dinner between the two royal families. This will be the first opportunity to meet the Princes of Ult --- there are two of them, I believe. I will also get my first glance at Princess Selene, though in both cases, it will not be a good look. The introduction will come later, at the formal ball.

My attendant leads me to the dining hall, where we are sat down. First is my Father and the King of Ult, then the Queens to the right, and the Princes to the left. I then take my seat beside my mother and the other Princess beside her mother. As expected, I can't get a good look at her. I don't even pause to wonder why I try to picture her specifically. My mind simply cannot escape my image of her looks, now refined by what detail I can pick out. Yet again, however, my train of thought is interrupted, this time by the King of Ult speaking, "Today is a momentous occasion. One year ago, this palace was the home to a treaty between our Kingdoms that ended a decades long war. On that day, we set forth a peace that ensured no more needless bloodshed. On this day, one year later, we enact an everlasting peace and alliance that will ensure that such bloodshed between our peoples will never happen again."

My father makes a similar speech, but my mind simply wanders. After the speeches are concluded, the feast begins. It is a mix of traditional dishes from noble houses of Solaris and Ult. I sample much of the food from Ult, finding it to my liking. During the dinner, one of the Ult Princes, Gabriel, spoke to me. It was a brief conversation, though I paid it little mind. He simply wished to get a head start over his brother, I guess. Finally the meal came to an end, and we were escourted to the great hall where the dance would take place. Where I would meet the two princes. Truly the last free day of my life, for at the end I must make my choice which of them will have me as their bride.

Upon entering the great hall, the two kings again make a speach, to announce their children, the princess to be married, and the princes to marry them. This time, my father goes first, "Now that we have all eaten, it is time to begin the great ball. To the Kingdom of Ult, I present my sons, in order by age, the Princes Afonso, Bendito, and Guilherme. And, I present my daughter, the fair Princess Lua, now of age to wed." After the speach, we stand beside our Father, and the King of Ult takes the stage.

"And to the Kingdom of Solaris, I present my sons, the Princes Adélard and Gabriel, and my daughter, the Princess Selene." As the princess steps out to stand beside her father, I finally get a clear view of her and my breath is immediately taken away. Her jet black hair, blue eyes, and perfect skin. The image in my mind from before could not be compared to the image of her now in my eyes. In this instant, all thoughts of marriage, of the princes, of my father, the King of Ult, all of them fell away. The only thing on my mind was now her, and one simple thought.

Princess Selene. I want you.

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SAO: Sachi's Life ([T], F/F, F/M)

Everyone knows what happens. Kirito makes some friends, dumbass opens a chest, all of his friends get killed by a trap, and Kirito retreats into solo-player abyss. But what if one of them makes it out alive? What ripples happen here?

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Chapter 1 - Floor 27

"Hey, there's a chest in here," Ducker shouts to the Moonlit Black Cats as they are exploring a dungeon on Floor 27, "I bet there's some rare treasure we can keep or sell."

"Be careful Ducker, a chest like that in an empty room? Looks like a trap to me," the Black Swordsman, Kirito, shouts back to his guildmate, "I'd leave it be."

"You worry too much Kirito, it can't possibly be a trap. Maybe there's some fancy weapons or armor and we can boost the whole guild," Ducker responds, already heading into the room, "besides, we can beat anything the game throws at us."

"I wouldn't be so sure, Ducker," the timid voice of the rearguard Sachi speaks, "I'd listen to Kirito and leave it alone. We can find more loot later."

"Don't worry Sachi, I'm sure your boyfriend will protect you," Tetsuno answers, making Kirito and Sachi blush.

"No, we're not like that," Sachi says, flustered, "I've told you we aren't like that."

"Sure, Sure," Ducker says back, condescendingly. He waits until everyone was in the room before reaching for the chest.

"This is a bad idea, Ducker. Don't open the chest" Kirito shouts, but it was too late. The chest has been opened and the door to the room has already slid shut. A red light shines on the room, and an Alarm starts blaring. Kirito grabs a blue Teleport Crystal, "Damnit. Get out of here, use your crystals. Teleport, Ronbaru."

Despite the command, the Crystal fails to activate. Looking around, Kirito sees that the 3 others here also couldn't successfully teleport away. And at once, things start spawning. Rock Golems and Dwarf Miners, much higher level enemies than the Black Cats could fight against and live. Kirito and the others immediately get swarmed and they start attacking, but Tetsuno and Ducker are quickly overwhelmed. Kirito tried to go over to them, but was too late as one of the miners drove a pickaxe into Ducker's back. A few seconds later, one of the golems struck Tetsuno, and Kirito watched helplessly as both exploded into Polygons. Over to the side, Sachi was also getting overwhelmed, but Kirito was finally able to act. Using his sword, he slashed out the monsters that were swarming him, then rushes over to Sachi, cowering behind her shield. Kirito starts slashing faster at the monsters that were still attacking him, slowly chipping away at his health, now in the Yellow.

"Sachi," Kirito shouts to his last remaining guildmate in the room, who looks up from the onslaught and sees a black blur shredding the monsters and steadily approaching.

Seeing this, Sachi gains hope, and steals herself before stabbing one of the golems with her spear. She internally sighed with some relief when it immediately exploded. Minutes later, all the monsters have been destroyed, with Kirito in the red, and Sachi having a bare sliver of health remaining. They have survived, just barely, against the onslaught that had killed their two friends. Both were still panting from the heavy combat.

Barely having enough time to think, Kirito grabs two green Crystals, now that the Red Light was no longer in place and the door to the room was open again, and shouts "Heal", healing Sachi first, then himself, back to full. "Let's get out of here Sachi, Crystals are working again."

Sachi's hands shaking, she grabs the teleport crystal from before and, seeing Kirito also grabbing one, she shouts the same command she had tried before being swarmed. A blue and green light surrounds her vision as she teleports back to the city on the floor, where Keita was waiting for them. Keita waved at both of them, but Sachi looked away. After a few seconds, seeing no one else was coming through, Keita's happy face distorted into confusion.

"Where are the others?" Keita questions Sachi, who looks down, a sad look on her face. Keita looked even more confused, then a flash of horror crossed his face.

It was Kirito who answers Keita's question, "There was a trap… in the dungeon. Our Crystals didn't work."

Keita's voice turns to sadness and a bit of anger, he repeats his question, "Where are Ducker and Tetsuno, Kirito."

"I tried to fight the monsters off," Kirito says, voice on the verge of tears, "I did everything I could, but I couldn't save them."

"What do you mean, you couldn't save them? You did everything you could?" Keita shouts, now full of anger, "I heard the rumors… Beater." The last word rolls off his tongue with venom, "You've been lying to us about your level, and you expect me to believe you couldn't do anything?"

Sachi finally speaks up and shouts back, "Kirito did everything. He even warned Ducker that the room was likely a trap before Ducker opened it." Sachi was in tears as she was shouting, "Kirito and I barely survived, he fought as hard as possible. You have no right to accuse him." Sachi sobs with those words, and repeats again, this time much quieter, "You have no right."

"Leave us Kirito," Keita directs, still with venom in his voice, "You're out of the guild. Sachi, come with me."

Kirito, saying nothing, turns to walk away, but Sachi stops him. "I'm staying with Kirito," Sachi says firmly, the tears no longer pouring from her eyes. "He's protected me, I'm staying with him."

"Are you sure, Sachi?" Keita asks, with less anger and more bewilderment. Sachi nods, and he says, "fine, stay with your boyfriend. But I won't. Goodbye, to both of you." Keita walks away from them then teleports away to an unknown destination.

After Keita left, Sachi burst out into tears again. Kirito grabbed her, "I'm sorry I couldn't save them. I'm so sorry, Sachi."

Sachi shook her head, "I saw you. You were amazing, but you told Keita the truth. You did everything you could, one man can't do everything, even if they are a… Beater." Sachi's voice is a bit less sad with that word, but lacks the anger that Keita's had before.

Kirito was shocked at Sachi saying that word, "You knew." Sachi nods and Kirito continues, "then why did you stay?"

"I figured you had your reasons, for concealing your true level," Sachi says, "I thought it was nice that a strong player like you was protecting us. And, I kinda like you, Kirito."

"Eh??" Kirito's voice that just held sadness now is just bewilderment, "you mean, like what Keita said?"

"No, not like that," Sachi says, relaxed, "I think of you as a great friend, but not like that."

"Ah, that's fine," Kirito responds, a bit more relaxed, "We should probably do something about Ducker and Tetsuno. A memorial, or something like that."

Sachi nods and smiles, "I think they'd like that, even if Keita won't be around for it."

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k. NonCommercial means not primarily intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation. For purposes of this Public License, the exchange of the Licensed Material for other material subject to Copyright and Similar Rights by digital file-sharing or similar means is NonCommercial provided there is no payment of monetary compensation in connection with the exchange.

l. Share means to provide material to the public by any means or process that requires permission under the Licensed Rights, such as reproduction, public display, public performance, distribution, dissemination, communication, or importation, and to make material available to the public including in ways that members of the public may access the material from a place and at a time individually chosen by them.

m. Sui Generis Database Rights means rights other than copyright resulting from Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, as amended and/or succeeded, as well as other essentially equivalent rights anywhere in the world.

n. You means the individual or entity exercising the Licensed Rights under this Public License. Your has a corresponding meaning.

Section 2 – Scope.

a. License grant.

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Public License, the Licensor hereby grants You a worldwide, royalty-free, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive, irrevocable license to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Licensed Material to:

A. reproduce and Share the Licensed Material, in whole or in part, for NonCommercial purposes only; and

B. produce, reproduce, and Share Adapted Material for NonCommercial purposes only.
Exceptions and Limitations. For the avoidance of doubt, where Exceptions and Limitations apply to Your use, this Public License does not apply, and You do not need to comply with its terms and conditions.
Term. The term of this Public License is specified in Section 6(a).
Media and formats; technical modifications allowed. The Licensor authorizes You to exercise the Licensed Rights in all media and formats whether now known or hereafter created, and to make technical modifications necessary to do so. The Licensor waives and/or agrees not to assert any right or authority to forbid You from making technical modifications necessary to exercise the Licensed Rights, including technical modifications necessary to circumvent Effective Technological Measures. For purposes of this Public License, simply making modifications authorized by this Section 2(a)(4) never produces Adapted Material.
Downstream recipients.

A. Offer from the Licensor – Licensed Material. Every recipient of the Licensed Material automatically receives an offer from the Licensor to exercise the Licensed Rights under the terms and conditions of this Public License.

B. Additional offer from the Licensor – Adapted Material. Every recipient of Adapted Material from You automatically receives an offer from the Licensor to exercise the Licensed Rights in the Adapted Material under the conditions of the Adapter’s License You apply.

C. No downstream restrictions. You may not offer or impose any additional or different terms or conditions on, or apply any Effective Technological Measures to, the Licensed Material if doing so restricts exercise of the Licensed Rights by any recipient of the Licensed Material.
No endorsement. Nothing in this Public License constitutes or may be construed as permission to assert or imply that You are, or that Your use of the Licensed Material is, connected with, or sponsored, endorsed, or granted official status by, the Licensor or others designated to receive attribution as provided in Section 3(a)(1)(A)(i).

b. Other rights.

Moral rights, such as the right of integrity, are not licensed under this Public License, nor are publicity, privacy, and/or other similar personality rights; however, to the extent possible, the Licensor waives and/or agrees not to assert any such rights held by the Licensor to the limited extent necessary to allow You to exercise the Licensed Rights, but not otherwise.
Patent and trademark rights are not licensed under this Public License.
To the extent possible, the Licensor waives any right to collect royalties from You for the exercise of the Licensed Rights, whether directly or through a collecting society under any voluntary or waivable statutory or compulsory licensing scheme. In all other cases the Licensor expressly reserves any right to collect such royalties, including when the Licensed Material is used other than for NonCommercial purposes.

Section 3 – License Conditions.

Your exercise of the Licensed Rights is expressly made subject to the following conditions.

a. Attribution.

If You Share the Licensed Material (including in modified form), You must:

A. retain the following if it is supplied by the Licensor with the Licensed Material:

i. identification of the creator(s) of the Licensed Material and any others designated to receive attribution, in any reasonable manner requested by the Licensor (including by pseudonym if designated);

ii. a copyright notice;

iii. a notice that refers to this Public License;

iv. a notice that refers to the disclaimer of warranties;

v. a URI or hyperlink to the Licensed Material to the extent reasonably practicable;

B. indicate if You modified the Licensed Material and retain an indication of any previous modifications; and

C. indicate the Licensed Material is licensed under this Public License, and include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, this Public License.
You may satisfy the conditions in Section 3(a)(1) in any reasonable manner based on the medium, means, and context in which You Share the Licensed Material. For example, it may be reasonable to satisfy the conditions by providing a URI or hyperlink to a resource that includes the required information.
If requested by the Licensor, You must remove any of the information required by Section 3(a)(1)(A) to the extent reasonably practicable.

b. ShareAlike.

In addition to the conditions in Section 3(a), if You Share Adapted Material You produce, the following conditions also apply.

The Adapter’s License You apply must be a Creative Commons license with the same License Elements, this version or later, or a BY-NC-SA Compatible License.
You must include the text of, or the URI or hyperlink to, the Adapter's License You apply. You may satisfy this condition in any reasonable manner based on the medium, means, and context in which You Share Adapted Material.
You may not offer or impose any additional or different terms or conditions on, or apply any Effective Technological Measures to, Adapted Material that restrict exercise of the rights granted under the Adapter's License You apply.

Section 4 – Sui Generis Database Rights.

Where the Licensed Rights include Sui Generis Database Rights that apply to Your use of the Licensed Material:

a. for the avoidance of doubt, Section 2(a)(1) grants You the right to extract, reuse, reproduce, and Share all or a substantial portion of the contents of the database for NonCommercial purposes only;

c. You must comply with the conditions in Section 3(a) if You Share all or a substantial portion of the contents of the database.

For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 4 supplements and does not replace Your obligations under this Public License where the Licensed Rights include other Copyright and Similar Rights.

Section 5 – Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability.

Section 6 – Term and Termination.

b. Where Your right to use the Licensed Material has terminated under Section 6(a), it reinstates:

automatically as of the date the violation is cured, provided it is cured within 30 days of Your discovery of the violation; or
upon express reinstatement by the Licensor.

For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 6(b) does not affect any right the Licensor may have to seek remedies for Your violations of this Public License.

d. Sections 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8 survive termination of this Public License.

Section 7 – Other Terms and Conditions.

a. The Licensor shall not be bound by any additional or different terms or conditions communicated by You unless expressly agreed.

b. Any arrangements, understandings, or agreements regarding the Licensed Material not stated herein are separate from and independent of the terms and conditions of this Public License.

Section 8 – Interpretation.

c. No term or condition of this Public License will be waived and no failure to comply consented to unless expressly agreed to by the Licensor.

Creative Commons is not a party to its public licenses. Notwithstanding, Creative Commons may elect to apply one of its public licenses to material it publishes and in those instances will be considered the “Licensor.” Except for the limited purpose of indicating that material is shared under a Creative Commons public license or as otherwise permitted by the Creative Commons policies published at creativecommons.org/policies, Creative Commons does not authorize the use of the trademark “Creative Commons” or any other trademark or logo of Creative Commons without its prior written consent including, without limitation, in connection with any unauthorized modifications to any of its public licenses or any other arrangements, understandings, or agreements concerning use of licensed material. For the avoidance of doubt, this paragraph does not form part of the public licenses.

Creative Commons may be contacted at creativecommons.org

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