Chapter 25 - Discussion

"I understand, well I guess you committed no crime, you can keep on staying here as long as you do not put my daughter in harm's way because if you do then the king won't be your worst enemy I will," the queen said,

"Thank you for understanding your highness" Cosmo replied and the queen sighed,

"You are welcome and it will be best if the king does not find out about this because if he does, you will be the next person in the interrogation room," the queen said then got up and left.

Lilith then looked at Vivian sternly,

"Friends don't snitch Vivian, maybe you should try to keep things to yourself next time," the princess said the girl frowned.

"You among all people know how much I hate people who do things like that, if you do that again you will be one of those who I hate," she said,

'We are sorry Cosmo" Jasmine said,

"It's fine there Is no need to apologize" Cosmo replied,

"No there is, what Vivian did was wrong," Marline said,

"I am sorry Cosmo I did not think I just acted" Vivian replied then Cosmo sighed,

"It's fine, really Vivian the princess just overreacted a little" Cosmo said then Lilith looked at her sternly and she jumped.

"It's after lunch now, we wasted a lot of time, I have training to do," Lilith said,

"The decorations will be finished for the ball soon" Cosmo replied,

"Good" Lilith said then walked out of the room.

"Vivian Lilith really loves you guys, don take what she said to heart, you should know better than anyone how soft-hearted she is and she could say anything in anger, sorry that this happened because of me maybe if I had spoken the truth earlier this won't have happened," Cosmo said then Vivian smiled,

"You do not have to apologize and I know, but still I was wrong and I am sorry, come on we are going to help with the ball decorations" Vivian replied then they all went to the ballroom.

While Lilith was training in the arena a glimpse of the red dragon appeared in her head.

"What the hell is that?" she asked herself as she chopped the dummy that she was training with heads off.

"If that really was the red dragon then it's beautiful," she said to herself while panting.

The girl then placed her sword down and drank some water.

"You okay there princess?" Ash asked as he walked up to her,

"Ash, I am fine" she responded,

"Good then maybe you have some energy left to train with me," he said while smiling wickedly,

"Yeah I do" she replied as she picked up her sword.

"You prepared to finally be announced as my fiancee in front of the entire kingdom?" he asked as he was about to hit her with the sword but she flicked and dogged his attack,

"Trying to distract me, I see," she said smiling as she hit his sword then he was about to kick her but held back and she grabbed him by the wrist then flicked him over and he grabbed her by her feet tripping her which caused her to fall on top of him.

Both of them panted as they stared each other in the eyes.

He laughed as she got up then stretched out her hand and he grabbed it then she helped him up.

"You didn't answer my question," he said,

"I am always ready, you should know that by now" she replied with a smile,

"You are right I do, well I guess we are both making a sacrifice," he said then she sighed,

"I guess we are" she replied then he patted her on the head ruffling her hair while she stared at him.

"It takes time to fix hair" she said with an angelic smile but her eyes were telling him that I will kill you.

"Yikes, you have a demonic smile too," he said then she laughed and they sat down to drink some water.

"So I heard Cosmo was not really who she says she is," he said,

"Yeah but it is totally fine, we all understand, she has a complicated family and life" the princess replied.

"Yeah she is a nice person too so I am sure she means no harm, besides you have taken quite a liking to her," he said,

"Yeah, it's probably because he is different" Lilith replied,

"Yeah you too are not that different from each other, but what's really weird is that she knows all of your dislikes and likes," he said,

"True but she probably studied them from one of the other maids or so" she replied,

"Probably," he said,

"What? don't you trust Cosmo?" she asked,

"That's so not it, she is really gutsy and I think she will do anything to protect you, I do trust her" he responded,

"You are right about that, she is so gutsy that she would even stand up to my father, which makes me think that if she keeps on being like that, he will probably want to hurt her," she said,

"True he doesn't like when anyone talks to him the way she does, if he gets to really hate her there will be trouble" Ash replied then she sighed and stood up.

"I am going back in, then I will talk to her about dad later," she said,

"You do that, I have my princely duties to perform" he replied then both of them left the arena.

As the girl walked inside the castle and entered the ballroom she saw how beautiful it was looking then she smiled in satisfaction.

"You seem satisfied," Cosmo said,

"It's because I am" she replied,

"Cosmo, can I talk to you for a minute please?"she asked,

'Sure" Cosmo replied as they went to one corner of the ballroom.

"Everything okay?" Cosmo asked,

"Yeah everything is fine I want to talk to you about my father" she responded then Cosmo's eyes widened.

"Hearing that bastard name and talking about it feels like a use for me," Cosmo said to herself.