Part 2 of "The Cost of the Crown"
I didn't know of a proper song and this net is far too crappy to find any on YouTube.

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Roman grit his teeth as he sliced down. He had only deftly dodged the flames aimed at his face, they had still singed a good few strands of his hair at the base of his neck.

All in all he was burnt, battered, brused but Victorious. The reptilian beast's head fell at his feet as its body started to melt and evaporate into black smoke, however before it could completely do so an inane impulse caused him to cut the top jaw off the already downed Dragon.

Usually he wasn't one to deface a dead enemy but his body seemed to move on its own. Taking his Katana he cut a few teeth and removed a few large scales from the fire breather before taking a step back.

The moment he moved away from the creature it burst into ashes-something he had never seen it do before- and then turn into black smoke. Not sure what that meant, and not wanting to stay to find out, he pocketed his new gains and quickly moved over to the fallen knights.

As far as he could tell three of them were dead and with an amount of them losing blood that number would only increase. Roman was at a loss of what to do, he could carry two-three of the men back if he pushed it - but what of the others? There was approximately twenty-five bodies on the field-three were dead and four more were about to be dead- he couldn't teleport them all, heck he wasn't sure he could teleport himself at this point. 

He'd need a miracle to get out of thi-Oh for the love of-! He was creativity, honestly he could have thought of this sooner!

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"Prince Roman!"

The Royal looked up from the tree he was leaning on to see a decently sized troop of guards slowly approach him from horse back.

"Princess Valerie has received your message and we've come to bring aid!"

Roman found himself smiling, his plan had worked. He blinked when he saw a speeding blur dart forward from the knight galloping in the distance but before he could question it, there was a tweet and a small weight on his left shoulder.

The familiar creature could not be mistaken, it was a little-out of breath- Bluebird sat proudly upon him and the fanciful personality couldn't help but smile.

"Thank you very much Blue, you were a great help my friend"

Blue puffed out its chest with pride, earning a small chuckle from the Prince. After a moment it twittered and began circling around him.

Roman rolled his eyes, "I'm fine Blue, a bit battered but nothing broken"

It chirped at him sharply.

Princey sighed, "fine, I'll have Patton do it, how's that sound?"

Roman then winced at the amount of sharp chirps that followed.

"I mean, at this point he's practically an expert at treating wounds"

He was pecked.

"Ow! Look I have a thing with Physicians ok?, They're too handsy-"

Blue gave him an incredulous twitter.

"Oh ha, ha, very funny Blue. I'm actually quite offended that you'd call me handsy, I am the epitome of gentlemanly, how dare you"

The Bluebird jumped on his forehead and looked him smugly in the eyes-which of course caused The Prince's eyes to cross- it chirped.

Roman's entire face went red.
"That was one time! I was under a witch's spell!"

Blue let out a series of twitters, one the Royal recognized as its laughter.

"Evil little bird", he muttered dejectedly.

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Genuflecting was a pain, well it usually was but right now it was even more cumbersome than it should have been. It took all he had not to wince or grimace at the formalities he had to display despite just fighting a freaking Dragon.

Sighing internally, the Prince resigned himself to his role. Pained, dirtied and disheveled as he may be, the Royal absolutely refused to show any weakness, so with head held high he gave the court his usual charming smile.

"Thank you very much for your help Prince Roman. The Second Kingdom is eternally gratefull"

"There is no need for thanks Princess Valerie, our Kingdoms-all the Kingdoms-are connected afterall, besides I wouldn't turn down a friend in need"

The Princess smiled but there was a look in her eye that he recognized, she was concerned for him.
"Please rise Prince Roman"

The Prince did so gratefully. He rose slowly so as not to disturb his wounds anymore than he had to but he barley managed to hide a wince when he felt his tattered tunic cling to burned skin, he wasn't even aware he had gotten burns on his stomach! Ignoring the pain he tried to refocus on what the Princess was saying. He missed some of her words due to the white noise ringing in his ear but he managed to catch the very last snippet.

"You have vanquished the beast and brought back majority of my men, would you care to join them in the healing ward?"

The thought of dealing with a handsy physician was enough to send a shiver down his spine, though he managed not to show it too much. He had his image to uphold after all.

"I'm afraid I will not be able to do so, I must speak with my Prominent of important information regarding my Host", not exactly a lie, they did have a video to plan.

The Princess looked at him skeptically.  "Are you certain?"

"Of course, my wounds are merely superficial, but I do know good hospitality and I thank you Princess", Roman gave a half bow and even with his head down, he could practically feel her now steely gaze on him. She was starting to get mad at him for continuing the regalities when injured but of course he wasn't going to stay longer and risk his friend's good natured wrath. Hmm, maybe a peace offering would ensure he's not dragged of to the next med ward?

"Another thing", smirked the Prince as he stood straight again. He reached into his pocket and picked something out of it and held it up, "a gift for you my dear friend, the scale of the beast that dared tread on our lands"

The scale was the size of the Royal's palm and though black, reflected the afternoon light creating a rainbow on the surface.

The Princess stepped down from her throne to accept the gift. However the second she touched the scale, she subtly pulled Roman forward and whispered into his ear. "You'd  better get those wounds fixed up mister or I'll find and drag you to a physician myself, understood?", she pulled back and smiled, keeping up the act.

The Prince  gave a strained smiled back, nodding subtly as he knew she'd do good on her threat.

With the scale now in Princess Valerie's possession, Roman gave another small bow as he snapped his fingers and teleported to the mindscape.

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He stumbled a bit having gotten dizzy from teleporting at that distance. Looking around he realized he was in the kitchen, frowning he walked into the commons to find the others and Blue there aswell. Before he cold question it, a Patton with a first aid kit had pulled him onto the couch, stripped him of his torn tunic top and was applying a disinfectant to his wounds.

"Hey-Ow! Easy Pat, ouch!"

"Sorry kiddo, but these are burns"

Roman grit his teeth and hissed as the disinfectant was brushed into an open  cut. "How did you-"

"Blue told me you were hurt"

The Royal turned to glare at the traitorous little blue puff on a certain Emo's lap but Blue's deadpanned expression could probably rival Virgil's himself.

"Evil little bird"

Blue laughed.

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"...ey-hey Roman, don't fall asleep on me yet buddy"

"Mnh?"

"Keep those pretty peepers of yours  open Princey"

"Nghh"

"There we go, can you stay up a bit longer?"

Blinking back into coherencey, Roman found himself sitting up on the couch with his entire chest and arms wrapped up in bandages.

"You good there champ?"

The Prince nodded numbly.

"You had a few second degree burns, seems the cleaning for those got a bit too intense for you, sorry", winced the Fatherly trait.

" 'ts fine-"

"You can go to sleep as soon as I male sure you don't have a concussion ok? I should have checked that first but those burns looked like they were aiming for your lungs-"

"He alive Dad?"

The Royal turned to see a skittish looking Virgil appear from out the kitchen. Their eyes locked.

"Dude, your eyes rolled back and you just went limp like a rag doll, what the fu-"

"Virgil!" Reprimanded Patton, lightly.

"What the hel-"

"Ehem"

Virgil threw up his arms. "Ok, what the heck?! Geez!"

The fanciful personality couldn't help it, he started laughing, only to end up in a painful coughing fit.

"Don't die on that couch Princey, it's my favorite"

Roman smirked, " don't worry, I won't", he rasped.

"You better not", everyone turned to see Logic  walk in,"though that would be impossible given we're only parts of a whole"

"Logan, your back! Did you get it?!"

"Yes Patton, I've acquired the tea for Roman"

"Th' wha?", questioned said personality.

Surprisingly, it was Virgil who explained it to the lost Prince.

"Dad sent Logic to get some tea for you after you fainted"

This time the Prince gave a nod of understanding.

"What hit you anyway? Did the Dragon win?"

"How dare you!" Grit Roman, "I'm offended that you'd think I'd lose to a Dra-", his sentence easily broke down into another coughing fit.

"Easy, I was joking-", the darker trait tried to soothe his opposite but before he could, Roman was pulling something out of his pocket.

"Here, this one's for you, it's edgy enough"

Virgil gaped wide eyed at what was placed in his hand, a sharp obsidian tooth that was bigger than his thumb.

"Is this what I think it is?"

"Yes, I removed it from the Dragon myself"

"Imposible, there is no such thing as-" Logan was cut off by Roman jutting his hands out and dropping things in his hand.

"Don't fret, I have a Scale and a tooth there for you to science nerd"

"And I got a scale for you too Padre, of you hold it to the light it makes a rainbow"

"Aww, shucks, thanks kiddo", the father figure happily took the scale, "now, you don't have a concussion so lie down while I go find a place to put this ok?"

With that the Parental turned and teleported, so did Logan, though the Teacher was mumbling something about his microscope.

Virgil on the other had was still gaping.

"You actually killed a fucking Dragon"

Roman smirked as he laid down, "I told you so"
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AN:// aaaay sorry it's been a bit, there's a few storms going around so powered is on and off rn :(