Coming of age 1/2

Max took an exaggerated deep breath and pushed open the doors in front of him, he quickly scanned the room. The first thing his eyes picked up was the large number of knights that had his father's sigil on them, they all looked at Max with clear contempt in their eyes and some openly mocked him, they used his birth as a way to torment him freely as Max's father would only punish them if they got physical with Max, he saw the other torment as character building.

When they noticed that Max was not wearing the armour of House GreenHold it appeared to be wearing some sort of old and worn armour that they had never seen before. Max just flipped the knights off and scanned the rest of the room, the only other people present at the moment were the maids of the castle and the cafeteria who were setting up the food. Max just nodded to a few of the female maids who blushed as he passed them and sat on the throne of his castle, he thought he would enjoy it while he could as he was sure to lose this castle by the end of the evening.

As he sat on the throne waiting for the others to finish blowing air up each other's arses in the courtyard, Max turned his attention to his potential fiancee and quest matter. The rumours stated that she was a little older than Max and was also extremely against this engagement, to the point where she allegedly threatened to throw herself off of the rampart when she first heard the news.

Max began to pray that his abilities would make this task easier, as he was contemplating a strategy, Arthur opened the door and said" Presenting the Patriarch of GreenHold alongside The King and Princess of the Waterra kingdom."

Everyone instantly fell to their knees and bowed in the direction of the three except for one man, Max who just sat on the throne and enjoyed the look of pure anger in his father's eyes as he slowly noticed that the armour that Max was wearing had the sigil of Shade-glade clan rather than the sigil of the GreenHold clan.

He roared" You stupid bastard, go and change into our families armour and get that stupid and old armour off of you. You are embarrassing the family in front of the King, do not make me ask again."

Max laughed at his father and said" You just called me a bastard right? Well, the law is if one family has a bastard that relinquishes his claim to his primary family, he can, if possible raise a fallen noble house he has a connection to correct? Well, what about the house my mother belonged to before you burned it to the ground and trapped her in your dungeon to have your way with."

The Patriarch took a deep breath and closed the distance between him and Max before letting out a small sneer" You know if you do this, I will have you killed before you can leave this room, the only reason you are still alive I that my two idiot sons are not fit to rule in my place after my death. If my 3rd concubine's son turns out to be smarter and stronger than you, then you die."

Max walked right up to the face of his father and spat in it before walking past him and bowing at the feet of the King of Waterra and again at the feet of the princess before gently taking a hold of her hand and kissing it, when she quickly yanked it away Max just smiled and said" My lord and lady, your seats are over here, my maid has made sure that they are the best this small and humble castle can offer. Father, you can sit on the floor, where you deserve to be."

At the moment the Patriarch was about to lose his cool, Max's half brother came running into the room in a panic, they saw the state that their father was in and looked at Max with a smile on his face and wearing the armour of an unknown family and assumed that he had betrayed them. His older brother ran up to his father and said" There is a large force moving towards the castle, they have merchants with them, they appear to be from the Waterra kingdom, they bear the same symbol as the one on the bastard's armour. "

The Patriarch turned to Max and said" What have you done? What is the meaning of this?"

He then began to cast a spell that would freeze Max in place, to the surprise of everyone but Max a small black tornado appeared in his left hand. When the Ice spell was meant to make contact with Max the small tornado grew in size and swallowed the spell before shrinking back to its normal size. Max then went and bowed at the feet of the king of Waterra and said" My king, I a lowly Noble of the Waterra kingdom have been attacked by the Greenhold family, I'm the master of the secretive Shadow-Glade merchant guild that you have been trying to meet, the one with the special metal the world wants to fuel its wars. You know it simply as the Shadow guild correct? The full name had to be hidden for obvious reason. You did offer me a small nobility title to meet you correct? Well, here I am."

The king sat there stunned and had no idea what was going on at this moment in time, it was true that a merchant family appeared out of nowhere two months ago in the capital of Waterra but no matter how much money he paid or how many spies he assigned, he could never figure out who was the head of the family, now a just turned 16 year old was telling him it was him who set it all up. After thinking about it for a while the king Just asked" Proof?"

As the words echoed in the room, the sound of a small army marching into the courtyard was heard, then a young Elven woman opened the door to the castle and gracefully walked up to Max and knelt at his feet. She said," I have summoned our guard forces to your castle as requested, 20,000 men are waiting to escort you back to the manor in Waterra my liege."