Chapter 41: The Start Of The Festival
It was a long, lively, crowded and noisy night. There was nothing but darkness as it stretched throughout the sky there was not one bit of sunlight and the twinkling stars shined brightly in the dark sky. The sun's dayshift was over as he passed his job onto the moon which currently dwelled in the dark but bright skies. The world was benighted. Commonly, it would be normal for there to hardly be any light at night but tonight was different as colorful lights danced throughout the town and the people danced, sang, and enjoyed the festival which hadn't started yet. Two troublemakers were running around causing mayhem, it was the duo of brothers not by blood. Xavier and Alex ran through the Mayor's mansion causing a disturbance, they themselves weren't aware of it. They raced each other to the starting point of the festival, inside the Mayor's mansion. They ran bumping into butlers, people, and so on but they didn't fall whether be it a huge man they bumped into or not.
People looked at them with threatening glances, but they couldn't do anything but say the words," Sorry."
As they made it, they were stopped by a duo of guards." So you two think you can crash in here without tickets?"
They were wrongly mistaken, because of the trouble Xavier and Alex caused earlier; people began to think they were intruders and reported them to the guards. You couldn't blame them, it was both Alex and Xavier's fault for rushing at such a pace. Alex and Xavier didn't want to be too separated from Feran and Vivian because they were already far from them. The men then grabbed them by their wrists.
" Hey! We've got our tickets, check for yourselves." Xavier shouted
As the men searched their pockets, they found the tickets. They then pushed them inside the mansion," Fine, but we'll escort you to your parents."
Xavier then pulled back from their grip," There's no need for that."
He then grabbed Alex away from them and as they looked inside the mayor's mansion, they were left in awe. The whole mansion was prepared for large quantities of people before the festival started. They were a gigantic dining room with a huge chandelier, there were also very hundreds of chairs and tables presented and the floor was made of tan-colored wood. The whole dining room was filled with lights; it could even fit nearly a hundred people. Then there was the major's speech room where he would be holding his speech— there were also a lot of chairs made so that everyone could sit comfortably and hear what he had to say. One could see chefs running all over the place as they had to feed nearly hundreds of women, children, and alike. The laughs of the nobles could be heard as they sipped their wine and had their public conversations. Everyone was dressed fancy and looked their best, most women wore long dresses with beautiful patterns while others wore simple fancy dresses, and the men just wore tunic jackets, suits, and common things most men would wear. It was quite a lively night.
The men then pushed the idle siblings," What are you two waiting for?"
" Okay! Just go away, we're here already!" Xavier lashed back.
Xavier and Alex then saw Feran and Vivian having dinner at an all-white table. Most people occupied the dining room eating whatever so they desired even though most of them had already eaten before.
Feran then noticed them approaching," Took you two long enough."
Both Xavier and Alex then drew the chairs and sat by them.
Feran watched as Alex reached out for a red liquid in a glass cup." Alex that's wine."
Alex had already taken a gulp. He then started choking loudly as if he was sick, people looked at them as if they had some kind of plague.
" Alex, come on, you're making us get weird stares," Xavier said.", Not that I care, this is revenge for making me drink wine last time I choked."
" Xavier, get him some water!" Vivian pinched Xavier.
" Ow! Fine! Fine!" Xavier pushed his lips out as he unwantedly gave Alex a glass of water.
Alex gulped it all down in one go," Thank you."
As they were having a family dinner, a woman came up onto a stage with some musicians and started singing while the musicians played their instruments. People raised up one by one and started dancing.' This feels more like a Ball than a celebration of a festival.' Xavier thought.
" Xavier, Alex, go have some fun and dance with some girls." Vivian excused them.
" I couldn't care less about such useless things like dancing." Xavier sighed.
As both Feran and Vivian moved away and started dancing, a bunch of noble girls surrounded Xavier. Most of them didn't even know he only just turned nine.
" Would you like to dance with me?" All of them said to Xavier and some of them to Alex.
' You're all older than me. As much as I would love to, I really don't have the time for things like this right now. Relationships can come until I'm older.' Xavier thought.
While Alex got up and started dancing with one of them, Xavier sat down and resumed his meal. Why would he care about relationships at the age of nine? All the girls moved away from Xavier as they noticed he was uninterested in the whole event. Alex enjoyed his dance with the girls, it was possibly the best and most anticipated moment of his life meanwhile Xavier enjoyed his free meals.
Alex then sat back down next to Xavier drenched with sweat after dancing it his heart's content." That was fun."
" Try not to slack off too much." Xavier reminded him.
" Eh, whatever." Alex narrowed his eyes.
Xavier ordered meal after meal as Alex watched," You're going to make them run out of food if you keep ordering like that." Alex mocked him.
" A free meal is a free meal."
" I thought you would say something like your cooking skills being better but I guess I guessed wrong."
" But it is."
" Don't even start. Anyway, why did you ignore those girls?"
" They're all much older than I am."
" A dance is a dance not like if it's a relationship."
" Maybe you should focus on such things when you get older Alex. You look as if you want to be executed by their parents just for dancing with their daughters because you're a commoner."
" I forgot about that."
As Xavier and Alex held their weird conversation, the mayor entered the gigantic mansion as it was the start of the festival.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone