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The prince from the Spade Castle and the princess from the Cyber Kingdom are walking through a garden as the kings and queens have a meeting in the Card Kingdom. They decided to hang out to pass the time, and the prince took her to the garden, as neither of them knew each other, and they needed something to do. The princer bent down to pick a yellow flower he liked. "Wait, you can hold that?" The princess asked.
"Yea?" The prince answered confusedly, holding the flower in his chest, slightly picking at the petals.
"It-it doesn't dissolve into code if you hold it too hard, or if you rip it from its source??" She asked, leaning closer to see the flower better.
"What? What's 'code'?'' He asked, now staring at her, wondering what she meant.
"What does this program do?"
"What's a 'program'?" What was she talking about?
"You-you don't know what it is?"
"No? Should I?"
"Well yea! It's what makes you up! Did you not know that?" She was shocked at his answers. How could he not know?
"No! I thought darkness was made like lightner humans! With skin and blood and stuff. They add muscles, nerves, bones and other junk so we could help them in the most natural way possible. That's what I was taught anyways. That's how the lightners created us." The prince explained.
"No…the lighteners built us with artificial intelligence! That way, we can help them search for whatever answers they need, so we could help them with anything!" She protested.
"Huh, weird, maybe we should ask our parents about this!"
"But they're at the weird meeting thing, and they'll get mad if we interrupt them…" she said, still looking at the flower in the prince's hands.
"Well… here!" He picked another flower, this one was a bright green. He approached the princess and placed the flower on her chest, sticking it to her dress. "There! Now when you go home, you can tell others about these things!" He smiled, his blue tongue sticking out.
"O-oh, thanks!" She responded. "Oh wait, I want to give you something too!" She reached into her pockets to take out a small box, one side seemed to be made of black glass, and the other, out of metal, or dull plastic. "Here!"she said, handing him the strange device.
"Thanks!" He took it excitedly and fumbled with it in his hands, before turning back to her, "what is it?" He asked, a smile still on his face, his tongue remained out, poking through his mouth.
"It's a phone! She answered. "You can do alot with it! Call or text other people, take pictures, play games, or look at what other people are doing on social media!"
"Oh cool! But how? It's just a tiny box? Also, what's 'texting? And social media?"
"Here let me show you!" She took the phone out of the prince's hands and turned it on. The prince took her to a bench near where they were sitting, as she continued to explain what she was doing, while he began to zone out and fiddled with the flowers.
"...and that's basically it! Now you have games, my phone number, and a Darkgram account with me as your friend!"
"Cool!" He said, looking up and taking the phone from her once again. "Wait, what about you? Isn't this yours?" He asked, a bit worried that he had taken something she wanted.
"No, don't worry, I have another one at my home!" She answered. She gasped with a smile on her face. "Maybe you can come visit someday! I could show you how all these things work!"
"Oh yea! And you can show me what 'codes' and 'programs' are!"
"Oh yea! By the way, you'll need a charger for that! So it doesn't die on you!
"Die? What do you mean?"
"Oh, it just means it runs out of battery! Next time I see you, I'll give you the charger for it. All you have to do is plug it into a source of electricity, and put the smaller socket into the hole in the bottom of the phone, and you'll be ok!"
"Oh neat!" He fumbled with the phone for a bit before the princess turned back to him, "so…" She started. "I never got your name!"
"Oh yea! Sorry…" he said nervously, "I'm Lancelot Spade! And you?"
"I'm serial number Q5U4EX7YY2E9N!" She announced, rather extravagantly, pointing to herself.
"Ummm"
"You can call me Quinn" She added
"Hey, that sounds alot like 'Queen'!" The prince pointed out.
"Yea, I get that alot…"
"Well then, I guess I'll call you… QUEENIE!" He exclaimed, rather loudly.
"Well, I guess I'll call you… hmm… What about… KINGY! Since you'll be king soon when you grow up!" She added. They both giggled at the silly nicknames as they got up and continued through the garden
"so, what do you do around here?" she asked
"Well, normally, I hang out with my friends, but they're all busy today. so i just hang in the garden, it's so quiet and its normally a way I deal with stress" the prince said.
"Who are your friends?"
"Well, there's Jevil, he's a card, like me, but he isn't in any suit, so he's very powerful, but he can't control it very well. Then there's Seam! He's a stuffed cat, and he knows fire magic. He's very smart and always acts like a younger dad. And then there's Rouxls! He is my best friend. I don't know exactly what he is, but he's very blue and slimy. What about you? Who are your friends?"
"Oh! Well, first there's Swatch. he's very clean and kind! so is Tasque Manager. She's very orderly and always insists on everything being organized. Then there are the Addison brothers. They visit the mansion sometimes! there's one named Spamton, and he's probably my favorite of the 5! he's the shortest and the weirdest one!"
"Cool! your kingdom sounds so colorful! I wish I could see it!"
"I don't know if after the meeting we'll probably not see each other that often, that's why i gave you that phone, so we could still talk!"
They continued through the path until they made it back to the castle.
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"QUINN!!"
"Oh! That was my mom! Sorry, Kingy, but I have to go…"
"Eh, it's ok. Come on! I don't want us to get in trouble."
As they traveled through the castle halls, many of the Card guards made room for the prince and his friend. The prince, being not only an incredibly small spade and considered "a problem child" by his parents, wasn't really in the good graces of many of the castle staff.
"There you two are!" The Spade queen said, looking down on them. "Lancelot, you can't just take people around on a 'joyride' around the castle because your board" the prince looked uneasy as his mother spoke, his tongue poking out from his frown. The princess spoke up.
"I'm sorry, your highness, I asked him to show me around, and it's my fault we were late."
"Typical." The cyber queen said with a sigh. "Let's go Quinn, your father is already in the limo." She said as she pulled her by the hand. She waved to the prince as she was being pulled away by her mother. He waved back shyly before being pulled away by his own mother back to the throne room.