This is for all the people who signed up for my boarding school story, which was horrible when I tried to write it so, here's a different story with the same people who signed up. Enjoy~! ~The Kingdom~(chapter 1: The Festival) "Shaky breathing was heard, and the noise of a flickering flame on a candle stick was heard if you were close enough. As the floor beneath his feet creaked and squeaked with every step, his hand and body would shake more. His tail almost in between his legs and his ears flattened. A loud creak was heard and the young boy froze, shaking with fear, the sweat slowly dripped down his face, his visible eye wide in surprise and fear. He heard another creak and noise was beginning to get closer and closer to the young man. His body shook violently as he stood in place. As the creaking got louder, and shoes were heard as they hit the hard wood flooring. When the stepping and the creaking stopped, a sickly snicker was heard before two arms were around his small neck, and his tears began to flow from his eyes. Then a bone snap was heard, and the poor young man, was dead..."A beautiful Ginger haired and green eyed queen told her now scared children. She laughed seeing their faces. "Mommy!!"her middle son, Alex yelled, he was only five and held his younger brother, Tony closely. Tyler was the second oldest, and held his youngest brother along with his younger brother. The beautiful queen's cat ears flicked and she continued to laugh. "Mommy, will you tell us the Alibaster story again? Please?"Tony asked. The queen nodded, her ginger colored ears matched along with her ginger tail. "okay I'll tell you."she said nodding, as the kids all crawled to their own beds. Tyler and Alex's cat tails and ears making them look happy. Tony's dog tail wagging happily and his ears high up happily. After all her children were all tucked in she began the story. "a long time ago, on a beautiful island called Pandoria, Pandorian's lived in harmony. These people, we're no ordinary people, these people had animal tails, ears, teeth, claws, and other things. In the kingdom everyone lived happily under King Alibaster's rule. But he decided to go on a journey. While he was gone, those people with Wolf animal parts, Fox animal parts, Lion animal parts, and Cheatta animal parts decided to try to take over the kingdom, while the king was away, and they won the battle against the ones with cat and dog parts. When the king came back, he was horrified. He used his amazing powers, to send these evil Pandorians away to a far off island where the current is so strong that no one can ever come back. Sadly, the king was dying shortly after the battle, before his death, he put his powers away in a plane old jewelry box, and locked it. He told his guardian angel to hide it deep inside the forbidden forest. It's said, that this box is protected by angels, and wanted by greedy Pandorian's and demons, but those without a pure heart, and happy soul cannot return from the forest."she finished. "mom, can you tell us more about where the box is?"Tony asked. "well, it's said that the man with a pure heart, and happy soul will step foot on the soil of the forbidden forest, and the path to the box will be shown to him, and when he finds the box, he'll know exactly what to do with it..." "I don't know what to do with it"a black haired, blue eyed, wolf Pandorian said to his Loin Pandorian friend, that owns a pawn shop. The Loin Pandorian laughed. "and you think I do? Where did you find this box?"he asked. "I was in the dark forest, the trees began to spread apart and I followed it until I found this box. Now I don't know what to do with it..."the wolf Pandorian told him. "well, Alican I don't know what you should do with it. It looks like a music box. Maybe you can give it to your daughter for her birthday"The lion Pandorian told him smiling. "good idea Leo."Alican smiled. Leo nodded. "how old will she be this year?"Leo asked as his tail flicked a fly. "she'll be four"Leo nodded. "well I need to go get her and then head home. Thanks anyways Leo"Alican said as he walked away from the scene. When Alican got to the day care a doctor was there kneeling in front of a child. "what's going on here?"Alican asked. The doctor stood up and walked over so the young father could see who the young child was. Alican's eyes widened and a single tear fell as he say a pale, black haired, wolf eared, and tailed little girl. She wasn't even breathing. He began to cry more and more. He fell to his knees crying. That little girl was his only daughter. He picked her dead body up, still crying and began to leave. Alican noticed something. She was bleeding before her death, and still was. The blood ran out of her mouth, and out of the place where her heart was. He growled. "the Kingdom!"he yelled. When he got to where he was going, he set her down. He began to pray. Suddenly, he knew what to do. He pulled out the music box, and opened it. It began to play a sad song, and it seemed like everything around them disappeared into black. Different colors flew out of the music box and swirled around them. A huge white light flew out of the box as wind began to blow and the white light flew over to the young girl. It entered her body, and the wounds began to heal. Her white skin became it's normal ivory color, and her black hair became white. She opened her eyes and instead of their normal pale purple color became deep blue. The lights disappeared into a silver, and deep blue necklace around her neck, and the black back round became the shore once more. The young girl sat up straight. Her wolf tail wagging happily as she looked at her father. "hi daddy!"she exclaimed. He hugged his daughter with joyful tears in his eyes. She hugged him back, but didn't know why her dad was crying. "daddy, why are you crying?"she asked him. "I'm just so happy to see you, Alibaster"he said. /she doesn't remember what happened? Maybe it's for the best that she doesn't.../the father thought to himself as he held his daughter closer. ~11 years later~ A beautiful, white haired, wolf Pandorian walked the streets of her city's market, with her best friend, of course. "mah, it's such a beautiful day out, isn't it?"the young wolf child said, feeling the slight breeze blowing her hair, along with the tattered clothing she wore, as well. Her Fox Pandorian friend nodded. "it is, I'm glad we have such beautiful weather today, they say that the Prince is coming to the island today~! I'm so excited~! What about you, Alibaster?"she asked her friend. Alibaster was staring at the horizon, not even remembering what her friend had told her. "Aly! Are you listening to me?"the fifteen year old girl asked. "I stopped paying attention after 'it is, I'm glad we're having such beautiful wether today', after that all I heard was 'squeak squeak squeak, squeal' "Alibaster replied with a toothy smile. Her friend playfully punched her in the arm. "what I said was, did you hear about the prince that's coming to the island today? They say he's coming of age in two days, and he doesn't like all the lady Pandorians his father and mother choose, so he's coming to the island to look for candidates~!"the orange fox Pandorian sang, clapping her hands together. "Leliah, you know I don't care much for such afars as becoming a candidate for an 'ARANGED' marriage..."Alibaster told her, emphasizing Aranged. "technically it's not aranged, and the prince is choosing an outcast! This could be the one and only chance we get to go back to the home of our ancestors, besides, they'll most likely pick you"Leliah retorted. "and why is that?"Alibaster's tail began to wag excitedly, betraying her words. "because, if we brush your ears and tail, you look just like a dog Pandorian, and be whisked away to the kingdom. Taking your best friend with you of course"Ablibaster rolled her eyes at her friends fantasy. "I need to stay here, and take care of my dad. If I don't, then, well you know very well he could die"she said, tears threatening to fall from her eyes. "well, the kingdom has many more herbs because of their rich soil. So I bet they'd have a cure for your father"she said. Masa sighed, but as soon as she finished buying ingredients for her fathers medicine, a loud trumpet was heard. Everyone in the market turned to look at a knight, who was a cat Pandorian. He stepped aside to reveal a high level knight, mounted on a horse. Said knight cleared his throat, then unrolled a scroll and began to read off of it. Alibaster didn't pay much attention to it until the ending. "so, every young lady, without husband or a soon to be husband, or that is becoming of age, and or is of age, is qualified and will be taken back to the kingdom for testing. The prince will, and can choose whoever he pleases. Ladies my bring, they're father, and they're father only. A boat will be here to pick you up in the morning, so get packing. That is all"he said and road away. "well Leliah, it looks like we're both going"Alibaster sighed.