[b]Roleplay Title: [/b]
Hold My Flower
[b]Setting:[/b]
10/04/1145
[b]Characters Involved: [/b]
The royal family

How could the mighty Oz have allowed this to happen?! He should have sent some sort of prophecy so that they could have avoided this disaster. At the very least, a warning! A warning that they were given assigned seats and that he would be forced to sit next to his irritating little brother, Bellarino. The idiot who created the seating chart had condemned them all to hearing Bellarino and Belvedere’s endless complaints and whining over not being able to sit beside each other. Even worse was that his precious brother Belisario, the sibling Bellerophon absolutely wished to protect from the stupid twins, got the misfortune of sitting next Belvedere. The final nail in the coffin was that Belial and Belshazzar were forced next to each other, adding even more chaos and complications to the mess they were all in. He also felt bad for little Bellakane, who looked liked she was about to cry. Belmarie and Arius also must have been blessed by Oz, because the two of them looked perfectly content with their seats, and Arius was sitting quietly listening to their sister talk about how much she was looking forward to this party. The truly lucky ones though were Belladon and Belladonna. Belladonna got the fortune with sitting beside their beloved mother while Belladon received the honor of sitting next to their father. 

“This is so stupid!!! Why do I have to sit next to these idiots?!” 

“We’re royalty, screw this seating chart, we can do whatever we want.”

“Yes please, somebody switch with me!”

“I…I am sorry! If I was more worthy…you would not feel offended to sit by me…”

“I want to sit next to mother, not this nonsensical fool.”

“Butterfly in the sky, I can go twice as high, take a look, it’s in a book, a reading rainbow.”

“This is pointless.”

"What? You all should be excited for a party!"

“All of you shut up! Don’t you dare ruin mother’s birthday!”

Bellerophon grimaced.
 
“I’m going to execute the fool who came up with this seating chart.” he hissed to himself as his siblings continued making a scene. He hoped that they quieted down before their parents arrived but at this rate, Bellerophon did not think that would happen any time soon. Just the thought of his father being disappointed in them, well mostly him, for ruining mother’s birthday made him want to join Marigold in eternal slumber.

Some butlers entered the room and provided them with appetizers, explaining that their parents would be arriving a few minutes late so they could start eating appetizers now if they wished. 

“Ugh, do we have to eat this garbage?! Mother must have picked out this stupid food.” Bellarino complained as he examined a few of the dishes that had been served to them. Bellerophon tried to ignore him and placed random food on his plate, but Bellarino was like a buzzing little fly next to his ear that would not stop making irritating noise. His bad mood growing worse by the second, Bellerophon looked around the table hoping to find something to make this experience more bearable and the blond got an idea at the sight of meat on his plate.

“Bellarino, be quiet and eat your meal.” He said coldly to the young prince, stabbing his fork into the meat sitting on his plate. “It is a lovely meal, after all. I was unaware that rabbit meat was this delicious.” Bellerophon said, before eating the piece of meat.

“How dare you!” naturally, Bellarino became enraged at the mention of eating bunnies and shouted at Bellerophon, “You take that back! This is not rabbit meat!” 

“This rabbit tastes so good, try it, little brother.” he taunted, offering the fork to Bellarino but the younger prince just whacked it out of his hand. Bellerophon just laughed at him and grabbed a spare fork on the table, retrieving the random meat once again. “Don’t be like that, Bellarino, try it! I fed you and Belvedere sometimes when you two were still bratty little babies, not that you’re that much different from a bratty baby now, but you loved it when I did this.” He smirked, shoving the fork into Bellarino’s mouth and laughing as he immediately spit it out. “You used to do that too!” Bellerophon kept laughing, causing Bellerino to blush with embarrassment and he looked around for anything to get revenge with. His eyes widened at the sight of a bowl of marinara sauce and breadsticks and he smiled wickedly. “Hey! Hey Belvedere, come here!” he called out, and his twin was incredibly eager to return from his side, definitely preferring to be away from their disgusting half-brother. 

Bellerophon narrowed his eyes as Bellarino and Belvedere began their obvious planning. He had a feeling this would not end well and he was absolutely correct.

Ten minutes later, the king and queen made their way towards the dining room together. She could hear muffled shouting from behind the doors but Bellona made no mention of it, instead giving her full attention to Belzeneff before they opened the doors. Bellona could tell her husband was not too thrilled to have to do this, but the fact that he was willing to show up anyways made her love him even more. She gave him a light kiss on the cheek and looked at him lovingly.

“Oh, I’m so excited. Thank you for arranging this for me, Belzeneff! It’s been so long since we have all been together like a family…I know you don’t like this kind of thing, but I appreciate you doing this for me.” she thanked as the door was open and he escorted her into the room, but both of them paused midstep at the sight. 

Miraculously, all her children actually showed up, but it was apparently too much to ask for them to act civil. Already she could see appetizers fallen on the floor [i]and[/i] flying through the air. Most of the children were out of their seats and a few chairs were knocked down. Bellakane was crying because Bellarino apparently poured marinara sauce into her hair while Belvedere had stole her breadsticks. Belladon was out of his seat and yelling at the twins and attempting to fix his little sister’s hair. Belladonna was just ignoring them all with a scowl on her face, looking like she was ready to leave at the first chance. Bellerophon looked like he was trying to shield Belisario from Belvedere and Bellarino throwing silverware at him, which was causing more of a mess because he had apparently got fed up and began throwing food back at them. Belmarie was cheering on the food fight, excitedly, while Arius sat quietly but he stared right at her once she walked into the room and gave her his usual disturbing smile. Belial was off in his own world like always but something he had said had made Belshazzar angry because he was shouting at his little brother and looked like he wanted to stab him with a fork. But Belial was just ignoring him and Bellona knew Belshazzar well enough that he hated that.

Bellona frowned at her children. All she wanted was a nice family dinner with all of them for her birthday but here they were, shouting at each other and throwing food at one another. This fighting was completely ridiculous and she felt resolved to stop this chaos. This was her birthday and nothing was going to ruin her special day for her, nothing!

“Belzeneff dear, hold my earrings.” She calmly said and removed them from her ears, they were the only jewelry she had on at the moment and were gifts from Belzeneff, “I need to discipline our children.”

“I got your earrings, baby, kick their asses!” The king just laughed and took his wife’s earrings, watching with glee as she stormed over to their children with a fiery look in her eyes. 

Outside the dining room a guard who had been standing next to the closed doors the entire time, felt fear for his life as he heard the queen’s rage. Her shouting had effectively silenced all of the other yelling he had heard from the princes earlier. He was curious as to what happened and, gathering his leftover courage, opened the door slightly in order to peak in on what was now happening inside. To his bewilderment, the mess was gone and the royal family was waiting quietly at the table waiting for dinner to be served. He had no idea what the queen had done, but she was obviously a miracle worker! 

Back in their private dining room, Bellona smiled as she went to take a seat next to Belzeneff, who handed her back her earrings. “Thank you, dear.” She took a breath and glanced at the children, who were all sitting in odd places at their round table.To Belzeneff’s right was Belladon and neither looked too happy about it. Belladonna was sitting next to her and while Bellona did not mind being beside her daughter, the look on her face told Bellona that Belladonna obviously did not share those feelings. Even more strange was that Bellarino and Belvedere weren’t sitting next to each other. In fact, they were next to the ones they fought with most: Bellarino next to Bellerophon and Bellakane; Belvedere next to Belisario. For some reason, Belshazzar and Belial were also sitting next to each other even though they could barely stand in the same room together. The only normalcy in the room was Belmarie sitting next to Arius, but her step-son was sitting directly across from Bellona, still creepily staring.

“Why are you all seated like this?” she asked confused, looking at Bellakane for an answer, since she was one of the few without the silencing spell activated on her. 

“Oh um…we have assigned seating, mother.” she answered quietly, embarrassed about being singled out. Bellona raised her brow and looked to her husband questioningly. The annoyed look on his face told her that he definitely did not have anything to do with the seating fiasco. “I'm going to lift my spells from you all and you all [i]will[/i] behave properly, understand? And your father and I had nothing to do with the arranged seating. You all can sit in any chair you like. This is a private family dinner, not a formal event.” she told them, and of course the moment she waved her wand to lift her magic spell, the room instantly became louder.

“What?!” the children all shouted, before scrambling all over the place trying to sit in new seats. 

Bellona sighed but let out a small chuckle as they started arguing over who got to sit where, and looked towards Belzeneff. "Well, this birthday dinner is already so different from what I expected, but I'm still happy. Thank you for this. I love you." she smiled as she placed her hand in his, genuinely joyful over any amount of time she got to spend with her family. She glanced back towards the children, who were finally seated, but she could still hear some fights and teasing among their chattering. Even when the main course was served she had to interfere a few times to prevent a food fight from occurring and Bellona was forced to whip out her wand to keep some of them in line, especially the younger ones. Despite this, Bellona was glad that they were all here for her, even if a few of them probably had to be dragged to the dinner kicking and screaming in protest. She cherished moments when they could all be together like this. When the cake was brought onto the table, the lights turned off with only candles on the cake illuminating the room. As her family sang to her Bellona smiled at the thought of this moment being the first time all dinner that they were doing something together. Well mostly together, as the ones truly participating in the song were barely in sync with one another, the quieter ones mumbling through the song or only pretending they were singing, and Belial singing a completely different song altogether. 

"I love you all." she whispered happily, blowing out the birthday candles.