47 Friendly Sleep Over?
A few more days had past and there was no sign of the undead army, though there is another problem occurring...
"But I don't wonna!" The small bear demi-human, Osha, shouted in a childish manner, sticking out her tongue at the tall woman before her.
"You say that, but this is for your own good. Your fellow Knights and even your Queen have a better understanding of this then you do." The tall, multi-armed woman replies back in a calm stern voice, this of course is Terre.
"I don't want to be separated from Big Sis to go to a stupid school, even if it is just for a day!" Osha retorted back as Alicia, Vera and Ignis watched on from the side.
Alicia had a rather sympathetic expression on her face, whereas Vera and Ignis wore expressions that said they knew it would probably come to this. Osha, after all, was not the most studious person even if she was fairly quick at learning. In this regard she was a lot like Alicia.
The reason for this large argument is that, as Osha said, Terre told her that she has to go to school to catch up with her friends level of education. She would do so once a week, then the rest for the time she could go about her Knight duties but would be given homework to do.
Osha however, was very unhappy…
"No, no, no! Not happening. I am going to stay right here with Big Sis." Osha says, crossing her arms and looking away with a "Hmph!" noise.
Terre had been at this for almost an hour now, trying to get Osha to go to school…
"Tch. I begin to tire of this Osha. Now come." And she was beginning to get bored of trying to peacefully convince her.
"Wah! Hey put me down!" (Osha)
Terre uses once of her hands to pick Osha up and fling her over her shoulder, though she continues to struggle by wriggling around.
"Haaah, if you keep struggling I guess I have no choice…" Terre says ominously, before giving chop with one of her free hands to the back of Osha's neck.
*Thump*
The impact instantly knocks Osha unconscious and the room castle dining room all of a sudden becomes a lot quieter…
"… That move is devastating." Alicia shivers as she remembers being on the receiving end of Terre's chop, which causes no great or lasting damage to the receiver but does put them out for a little while.
"Right then, with my objective complete I will be taking Osha to school to tutor her personally. With that said, has my Lady got any plans for today?" Terre asks inquisitively with the slumbering Osha still on her shoulder.
"Hmmm… not really. Was just going to go train and then maybe have a look around the city." (Alicia)
"Oh, then why don't you come along? Aura will be teaching a class soon and she said you are free to come observe one of her lessons some time, to see what your people are learning in person. Though you will not be seeing Osha, I will have to take her to a separate room to make sure she concentrates…" Terre suggests, which intrigues Alicia.
"Oh, that might be cool! We shall only do some light training today and then we will head over to the school!" Alicia says excited.
Vera and Ignis breathe sighs of relief as they celebrate the fact they do not have to go through such hellish training today, thanking Terre inside their heads.
"Very well, my Lady. I shall go on ahead and let Aura know that you are coming to the school." With that, Terre leaves and takes Osha with her.
As Alicia waves goodbye to Terre, Ignis and Vera whisper in delight to each other…
"Hey, hey! We finally get a break from Lady Alicia's all day training! Haah, now we can just spend all day witnessing her unbelievably cute side… Instead of running away from her murderous, yet still cute, battles side…" Vera whispers as she holds both her hands to her cheeks and sways in an excited manner.
"… I guess I can agree with that." Ignis reluctantly agrees with Vera's statement, not wanting to make her affection for Alicia quite so obvious in her behaviour and words.
"Hoho, so you are finally admitting how great and cute Lady Alicia is." Vera says teasingly, making Ignis blush heavily.
"N-No!... Haah, not the point. At least we get out of doing as much training with that battle maniac…" (Ignis)
"Oh ladies…" Vera and Ignis turn to find Alicia smiling at the brightly, making them feel very uneasy.
"Due to us going to visit the school, we won't be able to train as much today…" As Alicia once again confirmed they would not be sparring and training for as long as they usually do, they do a little fist pump in their heads… though their celebrations are slightly premature…
"… And so, we will have to fit in a whole days worth of play fighting into to just a couple of hours." Alicia's smile grows even brighter as Vera and Ignis' faces drop as they realise that Alicia had no intention of letting them off to easy.
"… Fine." (Ignis)
"Yes… My Lady…" (Vera)
Both of them reply with disheartened voices…
"Hehe, alright lets get going!" Alicia shouts and the three of them head off to do a quick yet punishing day of training.
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"Heyyyy, have either of you two seen the classes they do at the school?" Alicia asks as they make their way down the road to school.
"Urghhhh… Yes I have seen a few classes when I go to visit mother." Ignis groaned out as she walked slumped next to Alicia.
"As for me… *Yawn*… I have not seen any yet, my Lady." Vera says in an equally tired tone.
Out of the three, predictably, Alicia was the only one who is still energetic. Even though it is only just past midday, the two Knights had completely exhausted themselves in trying to sate Alicia's fighting appetite.
They had succeeded, but at a cost of feeling completely drained…
"Hehe come on guys! You did really well today, I can see that you are improving really quickly." Alicia says encouragingly, but it did not have that effect. The two were simply too tired to become enthusiastic about Alicia's praise.
"Yeah… thanks." (Ignis)
"Thank you… My Lady." (Vera)
The three of them eventually arrive outside the school grounds and see that the children are having a break after their morning lessons.
All the races, excluding dragons as there are only two of them, in the kingdom are present in the school. Children of different races played together, which makes for a strange sight for those parents and older children who had only ever seen friendly relations being held with their own race.
The three, after happily watching this scene, proceed into the school to find Aura.
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Once they enter the building, they find one of the trainee teachers and ask were they can find Aura.
"Ah Mistress Aura's office is on the third floor, last room of the left…" The female Werewolf teacher says, to which they thank her and follow the directions given and Alicia runs up to the door.
"HEY AURA!" Alicia throws open the door and charges inside.
"Good afternoon, your Highness." Aura looks up form the work she is doing and greets Alicia politely with a gentle, serene smile.
Her office is immaculate and well organised, which fitted her character. It had bookshelves line with books as well as a window overlooking the school grounds.
"Hey mom…" (Ignis)
"Good afternoon, Lady Aura." (Vera)
Vera and Ignis both give their greetings as they follow in behind their Queen.
"Hehe hello Ignis, I trust you have been behaving when with our Queen? And hello to you alos Vera." (Aura)
"Me behaving? I think it's Alicia who you need to be worried about-" (Ignis)
"Fufu don't worry Aura, she has been fine! I always make sure to watch out for her." Alicia interrupts Ignis and sticks out her small chest with pride with a smug expression on her face.
"Hehe Thank you, your Highness…" Aura retains her calming Aura and replies.
"That's not what happens! I look after her!" Ignis tries to correct them both with a shout filled with embarrassment and despair. Though her Mother just giggles, and Alicia continues to look smug and ignores her protests.
"It's better to just give up and go along with it Ignis." Vera pats Ignis on her back with a pitiful expression.
In the end Ignis does what Vera suggests and hangs her head in defeat…
Eventually everything calms down and they move onto the subject of the lesson they will be observing.
"When Terre informed me you were coming, I decided that for the lesson you would be observing we would conduct some practical lessons. The children are still quite young, they will not be fighting or anything like that. But it will be more physical exercises and tests…" Aura informed them.
When hearing this, Alicia's face lit up. She was worried that she wouldn't that visiting a school wouldn't be that interesting, as she might be forced to sit through lessons like she sometimes had to do with Terre.
Or worse yet be asked to participate in the lessons and this turn out to be a cruel ploy by Terre to get Alicia to learn more.
But now she knows it a practical lesson, those worries disappeared…
"Great! Oh and how is Osha doing-" (Alicia)
"WAAAAAAH NO MOREEEEEEEEE!" (Osha's distant voice)
"…" (Aura, Alicia, Vera and Ignis)
A silence seems to hang in the air before…
"She's doing fine, having fun learning with Lady Terre no doubt." Aura says, completely disregarding the scream of despair coming from somewhere in the building, with her normal serene calmness being retained.
The other three decided it was best to just ignore it and look after her later, if they tried to save her they would only be caught and punished themselves.
"Yupp I'm sure she is hahaha…" Alicia laughed nervously and apologised to Osha in her head.
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"Okay class, today we have a very special visitor…" Aura begins the introduction, then hands over to Alicia and the others to continue.
"Ah! I'm Alicia Valensca, this here is Ignis and Vera. We are here today to check out your classes and maybe participate in parts if it looks fun hehe." (Alicia)
"Your Highness, remember how Lady Terre tells you to introduce yourself when meeting new people…" Aura shuffles next to Alicia and whispers in her ear.
"Ah! Sorry lets try that again… Ahem I am the current Queen of the Kingdom of Drakonia, Queen Alicia Valensca. It's great to meet you all!" Alicia tries again with her introduction, remembering that Aura might tell Terre if she does it poorly.
Terre made Alicia go through some intensive training based on what she read about the dignity and pride of ancient nobles. Alicia found it incredibly boring, but Terre made sure to teach her thoroughly on how she should act as a Queen.
Alicia still had not gotten used to it, and honestly abandoned the etiquette altogether when she was with certain people. But if Aura saw that Alicia was not using it when it was appropriate, there was no doubt Terre would bring down the hammer and make her go through that training once again.
"Hmmm… hehe it shall do, for now." Alicia heard Aura whisper behind her and she breathes a sigh of relief.
As she counted her lucky stars, a massive commotion brakes out…
"WOW! It's the Queen!" (Werewolf Boy #1)
"No way!" (Kitsune Boy)
"She's so pretty!" (Werewolf Girl #1)
The students who looked to be a wide range of ages became very excited at how their Queen had come to see them. Many of them remember her battles against the Georg and his Werewolves, whereas those who did not see them were told all about it by those who did.
"Hey, hey! You looked super cool when you were fighting!" (Kitsune Girl #1)
"Wow your really strong but I'm almost as big as you!" (Werewolf Girl #2)
"Oh! I actually am taller than her!" (Kitsune Girl #2)
They swarm her and examine her with curiosity, leading Alicia to feel quite uncomfortable. Partially due to being surrounded and partially because what one of Kitsune said about being taller than her is true. In fact, a few of them were…
"H-Hey wait, I'm going to get bigger!" Alicia tries to protest against them commenting on her stature, but in the end they were too excited to listen.
"Okay class, everyone needs to get back in line!" Aura shouted in the most stern and strict tone Alicia had heard from her before.
All the children immediately complied with her request and retreated back to were they originally lined up.
[I guess that is her teacher voice…] Alicia thought as she admired Aura's ability to command the rowdy children.
"Now we were just going to do some exercises and some small games… But I have an idea." Aura says and then turns to face Alicia and her two Knights.
"How about we make this into a little competition? The four of us split the group up and coach them in a few races. The winner can get something they want from the others." Aura's suggestion intrigued the other three..
"Fufu sounds like fun…" Alicia replied, clearly already knowing what she wanted from the three.
"Very well, if my Lady is doing it then I shall too… Fufufu…" Vera made an equally suspicious face.
"… Haah, fine I'll do it as well. Would suck being left out." And the peer pressure convinces Ignis to also participate.
"Hehe very good. Now, what should the winner get? How about we go around and see what each person would want?" Aura suggests, to which everyone nods in agreement.
[Fufu… I can't let this opportunity slip away…] Alicia thinks to herself and enthusiastically stick her hand up to go first, eyes looking ablaze.
"Kukuku what I want… Is for me to be able to mofu mofu all three of you!" Alicia shouts with great excitement as her breathing becomes more erratic, staring at the three's fluffiness.
[I would never be able to normally get close to Aura to mofu her… Now I have an excuse] Although Alicia thought this, her aim was very obvious to the other three by her stare and slightly creepy laugh.
"… Riiight… Vera you go next" Ignis tries to move swiftly on from the still fantasising Alicia.
"Very well. What I want is…" Vera blushes slightly while trying to build the courage to say what she wanted to…
"What I want is for Lady Alicia to spend the night with me!" (Vera)
"…" (Ignis, Aura and Alicia)
Vera shouted out her desire in embarrassment, but quickly realised how what she said must have sounded. Alicia stares stunned��
"I-I-I mean not in a weird way! Just for cuddling and sleeping next to each other!" Vera's head turned an even deeper shade of red as she tries to properly explain herself.
"O-Oh okay. Hahaha next time you should be clearer." Alicia finally comes too when Vera clarifies her desire and laughs it off while a bit flustered.
Aura then announces that if she won, she wanted all three of them to be her assistants for a day. Which was a rather terrifying prospect for three of them as Aura was incredibly busy like Terre, so there would be no doubt endless amount of work for them to do.
Then finally it was Ignis' turn…
"… I don't actually know… I guess I'll just go with the same thing as Vera." Ignis tries to hide her desire to do the exact same thing as Vera, monopolise Alicia for a while.
Knowing what her daughter was thinking, Aura smirked…
"Very good… Well then, let the games begin." Aura announced and they got to deciding teams.
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Hours later, Valen Castle.
"I can't believe I won…" Ignis says, just finishing putting on her nightwear.
"Indeed… But thank you for letting me come with you guys anyway…" Vera says from not far away, with an awkward smile.
Ignis' team had just finished ahead of Vera's team, much to Vera's disappointment due to thinking that she had missed out on staying the night with Alicia.
Ignis in the end felt sorry for Vera, knowing that she herself would feel very sad if she missed out, despite the front Ignis may put up about not caring too much.
And so, Ignis let her join them in a little sleep over.
Osha on the other hand, had fallen asleep after a hard day of lectures. Which only took all day because of her constant escape attempts. Osha therefore missed out on the sleep over, something they would no doubt hear no end about the next day.
"Don't worry about it Vera, it would be strange without you being here." Ignis says, after which a small figure emerges from the bathroom…
"That felt great, nothing like having a good clean before bed." Alicia came out of the bathroom in a werewolf onesie that was given to her along with the kitsune onesie.
Both the girls in the room with her, who wore more grown up sleepwear, thought she looked incredibly cute...
Alicia ran up and jumped onto the bed, spreading out like a star fish to get comfortable.
"Oh tomorrow we should definitely..." (Alicia)
"Definitely, and we should..." (Ignis)
"Good idea..." (Vera)
The three of them chatted away about various things, before eventually getting into bed with Alicia in the middle of them both.
As they peacefully got settled down, Alicia began to sleepily talk...
"Hehe I had a lot of fun today guys… thanks for always putting up with me... I know it must be difficult sometimes..." Alicia says with a sorry smile, realising that her whimsical attitude did cause her friends problems or difficulties at times.
In response though, the two just smiled at her…
"It is not difficult at all my Lady." (Vera)
"Yeah, although you have tons more energy than us and I guess sometimes it can be difficult to keep up… I wouldn't want you to be any other way." (Ignis)
The two rub her head and say comforting words from their hearts, which relieves Alicia.
"Thank goodness… *Yawn*… Night Vera, Ignis. I love you guys…" Alicia says as she suddenly gets very sleepy, slightly shocking the two of them, and cuddles both their arms.
But they both smile lovingly at their Queen and reciprocate even though she had passed out by this point.
"I love you too, my Lady." (Vera)
"Love you too, Alicia." (Ignis)
And they both begin to drift off themselves… Though this is not the end of the night.
