Chapter 9: The bet that decides what?

Not my pic but a great reference on the feel of this chapter.

In the pass month, I learned lots from the boys; mostly Ignis. I started to learn more about culture and history including the royal lines. Prompto and Gladiolus taught me popular things in the city such as music and shopping. I love the songs of heavy metal because it makes me want to dance; strangely.  I learned that Gladiolus workouts a lot so, I join him and his crazy workout routine. It's easy to me if I could use my full power but I didn't.Shopping was another thing I come to like; not love. Prompto had other plans for me such as wearing dresses or the thing called...sexy costumes, I think that's what he said and taking pictures of me wearing the outfits. Noctis was against it and Prompto didn't do it. Thank Etro. Today, I am with Ignis who is teaching me about protocols and laws. Noctis was forced to join because it's his lesson as well to become king.

"Noctis, I wish for you to ask questions. You should take Alice's example." Ignis said as Noctis sighed, he looked at me while I am writing notes of the lesson and he replied,
"I'm just bored, Specs. I can learn this later you know. Alice is only here because she has taken a liking to your lectures which I find strange."
"I find it refreshing that someone is listening to me while I teach, your highness."

"Tch..." Noctis ended the conversation as we continued to listen to today's lesson on history and law. After an hour of the lesson, Noctis began to show me the different parts of the castle. I already know the layout of the castle, thanks to Ardyn and Medusa. I pretend to act surprise at the castle as Noctis brought up the topic again. 

"Can you tell me about your master, Alice? You hardly speak about him or her."

Great, going back to a master does not exist topic. Note to self, lying is hard.

"He is a great swordsman that had two weapons. A samurai sword and a pistol." I replied as Noctis raised an eyebrow and continued to press more of the question,
"Really? He must be very strong then."
"He is; he can take down ten behemoths by himself." I said as Noctis was shocked, he stopped walking and stared at me who bluntly answered his question.
"Ten...behemoths, Alice? Your master is insane."
"No he is not." I answered him in slight anger; pretending I am offended. "My master made us fight ten behemoths everyday. That's one of the ways to become strong."
"There are other ways, Alice." Noctis muttered in shock as we entered the training room, there were many recruits listening to Cor and trying to learn a sword technique. We saw Gladiolus on the side; watching the lesson and the session ended. Cor left the room as he glanced at me quickly and left. What the hell is the stiff man's problem? Oh, well. We went to Gladiolus as a few recruiters looked at me with flushed faces and...lustful eyes at me. I ignored them but Noctis gave them a glare to back off and some whispered 'who is the hot chick?' 'Is she the prince's girlfriend?' 'No way, the prince couldn't get a girl like that'

Noctis heard some of the whispers in the room and remained quiet; despite his fist trembled a little in anger. Weirdo.

"Hey you two, done with your lesson with Ignis?" Gladiolus asked

"Yeah, it was long and boring." Noctis replied bored

"It was very informative. I learned that the Kinglavies are a special force under the command of wise beard man." I said as Gladiolus lightly chuckled and Noctis frustrated said,

"Alice, he is not; I repeat; not wise beard man. He is called King Regis or your majesty."

"No he is not. He is called wise beard man, vegetable hater. Besides, he said I call him that." I replied as hearing the whispers got louder about me calling the prince a name that is insulting, Noctis stared at me angrily hearing his nickname and said,

"You need to stop calling me that, Alice!....WAIT, King...Regis....said...you..call him...wise beard man???"

"Yeah, why?" I asked as the two males stared at me shock as if something wasn't right and Gladiolus asked,

"When did he say you call him that, Alice?"

"This morning over breakfast, tattoo man. He said that I was allowed to call him that." Noctis shook his head in disbelief of hearing what I said and Gladiolus just said 'hm' in his answer to me. Prompto and Ignis came inside the training. They went to us as they saw Noctis looking depressed and shocked.

"What's wrong, buddy?" Prompto asked in concerned

"Well, Alice got permission from the King to call him his nickname." Gladiolus said as Prompto and Ignis were shocked. They looked at me as if that can't be true and nodded 'yes, it's true'. 

"Unbelieveable, Miss Alice. It seems you have done the impossible." Ignis said as he rubbed his temples in disbelief of the information.

"What's the impossible, four eyes?" I asked

"You got the King's permission to say his nickname that you made up! That's awesome! I knew my future girl is awesome!" Prompto said excited as he came closer to me for a kiss, I moved away gracefully and tripped him to the ground. When he hit the ground, Ignis and Gladiolus snickered at the sight as well as the recruits.

"So Alice, what else do you talk to the King about?" Gladiolus asked in curiosity

"We talk about music and karaoke." I answered as Gladiolus and Ignis just stared at me in disbelief.

"You...sure about that, Miss Alice?" Ignis asked as Prompto got up and wondered the same thing as Ignis.

"Yeah. Oh, we also talk about Noctis." I said as Noctis got out of his shocked state, he looked my way and Gladiolus asked,

"What about our prince, Miss Alice?"

"....You know this already. He's a vegetable hater and a goth that sleep like a lazy cat. Also, he's Sleeping Beauty but a male version; he should be wearing a dress for it." I said as I hardly noticed Noctis anger is rising and his friends looked a bit worried about my words.

"Please tell me you didn't say that to the King..." Ignis said as he looked very concerned

"I did say that to wise beard man, four eyes." I said as Ignis was about to say something, Noctis came in front of me and said,

"Alice, I demand that you stop calling me those names now!!"

"No can do, vegetable hater. Unless..."

"Unless?" Noctis said growing impatient to hit me or something

"You want to make a wager?" I said as the recruits and Noctis's friends went 'o' on their faces and gathered around to here the wager.

"If you win, I will stop calling you those name and I will do a bonus prize." 

Noctis raised an eyebrow as I took out a maid outfit from my backpack that I got from Prompto and the crowd totally got red blushes on their faces.

"I will wear this maid outfit and call you 'master' all week for you. I'll even be at your mercy, your highness." I said huskily with pretending to be innocent, the male recruits roared in excitement and chanted 'wear it!' 

"Dude!!! Noct, you have to win this!!! Got it?!!!" Prompto yelled at him and shook him frantically. 

"Prompto, let go of me! What's gotten into you?!" Noctis shouted as he glared at him 

"What's gotten into me?! I'm in love, man!! I would do anything to see her in a maid outfit; so, with that being said. You have to win!!!" Prompto shouted as his face is completely red in excitement, Ignis sighed and Gladiolus said,

"You heard the man, Noct. Win the wager."

"Not you too, Gladiolus..." Noctis groaned in frustration as Gladiolus shrugged innocently not caring but would like to see me call Noctis 'master'

"But if I win, vegetable hater," I said as everyone got quiet, Noctis looked at me again and I continued, "I still call you those names and my bonus prize is this: you have to eat vegetables for a whole week from a bowl. I'll pick the vegetables of my choice for you to eat."

Everyone stared at Noctis as if he didn't have enough pressure on him to win but if he lost, he will be humiliated.

"Fine! It's a deal!" Noctis said as he surprised everyone, he is heading to the center of the training room and I grabbed his hand to stop. He looked confused and I said,

"Who said we were going to fight?"

"Ok, if we aren't going to fight; what challenge do we have to do?" Noctis questioned as he raised an eyebrow

"Dance Dance Revolution will our battlefield." I said as everyone gave me a look of 'wtf'

Hello, fellow readers! Thank you again for reading this story so far. I agologize for not updating sooner; life catches up on you a lot. Next one will be a serious chapter for those who are curious about the product life of (f/n). I won't reveal too much but it will be great. Thank you again for reading and voting for the story. Your support is very heart-warming. I will continue to write more. 


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