'Fuck, this is so annoying to do over and over again.'
Before Tommy went to the next person, he crossed out the name, "Luca Capet."
Time passed and the princess entered. She had black hair and golden slit eyes. Her outfit radiating wealth and power and her prescience is the epitome of royalty.
Possibly the most beautiful girl anyone has ever seen.
Arthur took a quick glance before focusing on the conversation with Alacaera who did the same.
Tommy adknowledge she was beautiful but didn't care much. He just went back to his plan.
Everyone gathered up for the short speech much to the Shelby brothers dismay that the princess was going to give. "Thank you all for coming. I feel very happy that you have all come to celebrate my tenth birthday. Even if I would like to take a nap."
Everyone chuckled and she stepped down from the podium and started mingling with her friends.
As more time passed with Arthur focusing on his conversation and Tommy with his plan as well as everybody else mingling with their friends and whatnot, the peace that was lasting was coming to an end.
"Would you like to come over to my home, Lindell some time. We could talk more there and drink tea or whatever you like." Alacaera shyly said.
Arthur seemed stunned for a moment before nodding his head, "Yeah I would like that."
"I would like that too y'know!" An unknown voice intruded the conversation. "Alacaera, why are you with this…boy? We are going to be married so you should talk to me."
Alacaera flared up. "No! Dent, I will not marry you! I don't like you!"
Dent was a brown haired, big guy. He was only 10 but he looked 14 at the least. His face wasn't pleasing to look at anyway.
"It's mine and your parent's choice. If I wanna marry you that's what I'll do. You can't say no because without me, your family will be destroyed."
"And what about my family?" Arthur spoke up. His face showed plain disdain, "What can your family do to mine?"
"You have no business in our marriage. Alacaera is meant to be with me." Dent went to grab her arm to pull her away before Arthur kicked his arm causing Dent to be off balance and kicked him hard a couple feet away.
'This blasted small body!'
This commotion naturally caused the attention of everybody else in the room. The princess walked up and had a frown on her face, "What is the meaning of this."
Dent put on a pitiful expression, "Princess, I didn't do anything! I wanted to talk to my fiancé but this kid kicked my arm and kicked me away just because he is from the Shelby Family."
The princess glared at Arthur, "Is this true?"
Arthur almost rolled his eyes at this pathetic display. "No."
No, straight up. No explanation, no nothing. "Forgive me princess but I believe you should get the facts from both parties before glaring at someone because you think they're responsible."
"It wasn't him. He was just protecting me." Alacaera exclaimed.
"They are wrong! I saw what was happening. They were just talking before Arthur got jealous and kicked him!" Someone said,
"Yeah I saw that too." More people began to agree with Dent. Seeing that, the princess began to glare more fiercely at Arthur. "This is my party and I won't allow anyone to mess up my celebration."
Arthur was starting to get a little angry at this little princess's stubbornness.
"Hey princess," A voice said. "One second."
She looked back and saw Thomas Shelby. Tommy went to Dent and whispered. A few seconds later, "How do you know that!"
Tommy had a malicious expression right now. "Shall I tell everybody? Hey—!"
Dent threw a punch at Tommy in hopes of keeping his mouth shut.
Tommy caught the punch, kicked his thigh causing his leg to go back and lose balance. As he lost balance and started falling to the ground, Tommy brought up his knee to Dent's face with full force.
After that he went around and pulled Dent's pants off and took off the belt. He took the belt and started hitting Dent bum that was only covered with underwear. "Gotta teach them what they did wrong young, y'know."
The Royal guards on the side started to break the fight and pull Tommy away. "I thought I was gonna die. Hope you understand, self defense and all."
Arthur went up to Dent and continued to step on his hand. Lastly, he kicked his face and knocked him out completely.
The other Royal guards took Arthur away and began inspecting Dent. "These kids are ruthless."
"We're Shelbys. What do you expect?" Arthur grinned. He looked at the princess and saw great displeasure and frown on her.
She looked away from Dent and saw Tommy smiling mockenly, "Don't frown princess, someone could be falling in love with your smile."
The brothers looked at each other and started laughing. People looked and thought one thing, "They're crazy."
The guards took Dent away to the nearby healer. The ones holding the Shelby twins commented, "You guys did too much."
Arthur scoffed, "Is that so…"
"In 30 minutes the full celebration will start so don't get in any more trouble. Only reason why we are letting you go is because the princess said so."
"And you." That 'you' was aimed at Arthur. "That kick was unnecessary."
"His existence is unnecessary," He muttered. "I get it."
The guards let them go and the Shelby twins give each other a fist bump.
"The mood is a bit down, no?" Tommy inquired.
Arthur rolled his eyes and said sarcastically, "I wonder why."
"Hey Arthur, I know what we're going to do today."
Everybody looked at where Tommy was going since he was currently the center of attention.
Tommy got a drink and then went to the person playing the piano. "May I use this."
The woman quickly stood up, "Y-yes."
"Thanks."
He sat down, put his drink on top and stared at the keys. 'These goddamn hands. Whatever, I'll do my best.'
"Phew."
His amethyst eyes became extremely clear and his eyes only saw the keys.
His fingers went down and the sounds enveloped the room.
The room was instantly envelope in an ethereal melody and everybody who heard it felt like they were experiencing the vastness of space.
As the gentle music began accelerating and the piece progressed, the audience felt as if they were looking at the twinkling stars. As the harmonies deepened, it introduced lush cords that created the feeling of people drifting in space experiencing the richness and wonder of exploration.
They stood amazed at this view of a 5 years old playing the most beautiful piece they would ever hear. His body moved as if it wasn't just his hands playing but also his body. They saw his face and he had a faint smile while his eyes remained closed absorbing the sound.
Even the Royal guards were put off guard and listened to the music.
All of the sudden, something happened that no one expected, not even Tommy. The room began to darken, and the ceiling was vibrant with many stunning colors. The stars burned fiercely and bright which contrast the blue and purple swirls around it feeling like you are staring into nothingness.
It was breathtaking art—a portrait of the universe's unending night with glorious and luminous light.
Tommy was caught quite off guard but maintained his composure. He quickly looked around and saw someone waving their wand.
They noticed Tommy spotted them and just nodded their head to which Tommy reciprocated with a smile.
He opened his amethyst eyes that looked mighty similar to the universal sight that was playing in front of everybody and matched him very well.
He closed his eyes and continued. He kept on playing for 5 minutes before he stopped.
'I've missed this so much. This feeling…'