The table was full of large platters full of delicious looking foods. Their smells spilling out the room allowing the people outside the castle to envy the people within it. The table was fairly large no so large you needed to yell but just large enough that you'd need to walk to get the gravy bowl. Except this one had two gravy bowls so Blaze guessed that solved that problem.
They all sat on either side of the table. Light and Blaze on one side and King and Queen flicker on the other. Blaze grew nervous. She was in fairly close proximity to Light and had to talk to his parents who hated her. She looked around the dining hall looking for an exit strategy just in case the King came at her with a butter knife like last time.
As she did so the Queen swallowed a bit of her sandwich and spoke.
"So Blaze it has been quite some time since we last talked what have you busied yourself with since then?"
Blaze took her attention away from her strategising and looked at the Queen clueless of what to say but then remembered all those things she had refused to do.
"Oh I've just been occupying myself with some hobbies, schooling and learning about what my duties shall be as Queen. Just the usual."
"By god you have changed a lot haven't you" the king scoffed.
"Charles" the queen said scolding him.
"What she has dear," he turned to Blaze,"you were loud, wild and new nothing of matters"
The king and Queen chuckled and Blaze did too slightly. She was a lot ruder back then. When the king noticed her smiling to herself he did the same
'Maybe we don't have to get rid of her' he thought.
Blaze looked down at her plate as foods began to fly onto it. She gave the servers quick smiles each to show her gratitude and they all ate. She was amazed at how good they were at guessing her taste in food. They had chosen everything that she liked except for one thing. Vegetables... but she ate them anyway because she didn't want to offend anyone by pushing part of her meal aside.
When everyone had finished the food was taken away and the king and Light disappeared out the door.
"So have you and Light talked about your future yet?" The Queen asked excitedly.
"Oh yes indeed we have," Blaze said her eyes widening slightly,"in great detail."
"Oh good wouldn't want you two to rush into things unprepared"
"No that would be a grave mistake"
Their was a pause in the conversation and Blaze decided this was the time to slip away.
"Well I better go to my room to freshen up. Me and Light are going to walk around the castle to know one another better and then he has a surprise for me." She said hesitantly.
"Oh well I better let you be on your way" the Queen smiled.
Blaze walked out the door closing it behind her and sighed.
'I'm not sure I want to see what surprise he has in stall for me' she thought to herself.
"It is my right as first born son!" A voice echoed through the palace.
Blaze's ears spiked up and her flames ignited.
'Was that light?'
She rounded the corner quietly and walked until the voices grew louder. She saw a door cracked open on the other side of the hall and snuck over to it peering through.
In the room stood Light but there was somepony else too. They wore a black cloak that cover their body but you could still see the colour of his hooves from beneath it. Black; Blaze made a mental note.
"She's mine you can't have her!" He argued.
"You can not simply claim a girl as your own when you barely know her" the dark pony growled.
"I can if I'm the Prince"
"Do not forget where you stand. You are the only prince because of me and if I were to give this little memory potion the the King and Queen that'd all go away. Imagine all the hotties things they would remember" he threatened.
Blaze widened her eyes. It was like watching the action scene of a play unfold. She was excited for the big reveal but also scared of what it might bring. What is Light hiding? Who is this mysterious pony? She kept watching.
Light was lost for words so the dark pony spoke again.
"I have a proposition. What if we were to compete for her?"
Lights face looked intrigued, "I'm listening"
"We each take her for a period of time at the party tonight and whoever gets a kiss from her first wins the right to date her"
Light smirked and without any further thought he answered, "Deal! We shall compete for her heart"
Blaze stepped back just realising who they were talking about and bumped a small table in the hall beside her. It let out a large squeal as if the table was one of Light's fan girls. She furrowed her eyebrows before rushing down the hall.
"What was that?"
"That was probably her you idiot"
"It doesn't matter she doesn't know who I am so she can't ruin the contest"
"Maybe not for you but she saw me!"
"That's not my problem"