Chapter 2- Terra and Damion
Rating: PG

"Ah, princess, I thought I'd find you here," Prince Damion walked in to 
the Golden Palace Gardens early in the morning.

"When am I ever anywhere else?" The princess smiled sweetly form her 
typical position sitting near the pond waiting for the sun to rise.

Damion walked over and sat down beside her, "Never I suppose," he 
chuckled, "What is it with you and this place anyway?"

"Oh, can't you feel it? It's in the flowers, in the water, even in the 
air!" She said passionately, "There's life all around! Unlike in those 
palace halls," she glared at the door leading back into the arched 
hallways.

"You're so full of energy and excitement, Terra, now if you'd only put 
that passion into being a princess...." he said as he pushed a stray 
piece of hair out of her face, leaving those sparkling midnight blue 
eyes to turn and look at him somewhat rebelliously.  

She positioned her body to lean back onto the strong, familiar figure of 
Damion and said under her breath, "Never mind, You're so bent on doing 
things the way they are supposed to be done, I wouldn't expect you to 
understand..."

They sat in silence seeing the sunrise together, as they had done many 
times before in their 16 years of knowing each other. 

"Why can't anyone understand?" Terra thought as she watched the great 
orange globe push away the curtian of night, "Am I the only one who 
feels this way? All I've ever wanted is to see what's out there, beyond 
that horizon, past our kingdom and all the other kingdoms. I know 
there's more to see, more beauty and wonder. As Princess of Earth, I am 
one with it, and I can feel there's more to life than rules and 
regulations, than committee meetings and being ever formal and proper, 
but also as princess my parents have forbidden me to leave the safety of 
the Golden and Tanzantian palace walls. Why, just once can't someone 
feel the same, to know what it's like to want to explore?"

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"They make such a cute couple don't they?" The Queen of Earth said to 
the Queen of the Tanzanitian Kingdom, as they watched the Prince and the 
Princess from a window in the hallway above the gardens.

"Yes, they truly do. it's great that we can finally unite our two 
kingdoms. They've been side by side for as long as I can remember, but 
the generations simply haven't worked out, until now."

"It's so perfect, they're the same age, both wonderful people with kind 
hearts and good motives, and they compliment each other perfectly."

"So we shall make the announcement today?"

"Yes, I belive we should."

"Very well then."
    
The two proud mothers watched the sunrise, completely unaware of just 
how much their plan to introduce their children when they were first 
born and have them grow up to love each other would backfire.

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"WAKE UP!!" Jarott rather rudely aroused Cody from his peaceful sleep by 
smacking him in the head with a pillow.

Cody sat up and looked outside, "What the hell do you mean 'wake up?' 
It's not even DAWN yet! Go back to sleep!" he plummeted back down into 
the sheets and shut his eyes.

"Get your lazy ass out of bed! We've got work to do!!"

"Look, if you're really serious about getting to the princess," he sat 
up again.

Jarott glared.

Cody raised his hands defensively, "Which I know you ARE, the first 
thing we're gonna need to do is find someone who knows thier way around 
the palace."

"Huh?" Jarott stared blankly at his friend.

"It's not like Princess Terry-"

"Terra," Jarott corrected.

"TERRA," he growled in that there-are-you-happy-now tone, "is going to 
walk around the streets going 'hey! Princess up for grabs!' You're gonna 
need to get into the palace to see her, and chances are we're gonna have 
to sneak in in order to do that."

"Oh.... well then let's get to it!!" He tried once again to pull his 
friend from the warmth of the bed.

"No one's going to be up yet, dipshit! NORMAL people tend to wake up 
AFTER it's light outside!" He fell back into his pillow and simply 
refused to budge again until it was at least 8 o clock.

Jarott scowled at his non-motivated friend and went outside to watch the 
sunrise and the beauty it cast onto the Golden Palace. As the first 
light of dawn began to shine it's rays Jarott saw a face in the window 
across the street that looked very familiar, "What's Rikaru doing here?" 
he thought.

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