How to Anger Celestial Mages for Dummies

Chapter 6 – Oh I'm Sorry. Did you just insult my gender?

Ashviqua Kadar: Nice HP reference. I had an idea... well two. You know how Arcadios has so much faith in his princess. Can you have a flashback pre GMGs to show how he finally believed that she could be a good ruler despite her gender and magic. Probably some newbie guard hitting on her.

I kept this one close to the original, just fixed some of the spelling and reworded a couple of things.

Alexandre Knochenmus was known for being sexist, an idiot, sexist, and an idiot.

His own mother swore that she had dropped him on his head as a baby one too many times and now Alexandre didn't have any common sense.

Hardly her fault though.

Mr. Knochenmus had been known for having no common sense since birth either. Must be hereditary.

Mr. Knochenmus had been killed during a border scuffle with Bosco. He doesn't really matter.. What does matter is that Alexandre had wanted to follow in his father's footsteps as a soldier of Fiore. However, Alexandre hadn't exactly been planning on being placed on guard duty at the palace after basic.

He found that it wasn't too bad either. Pretty girls came to the palace and left just as easily. Must have some hard-core partying going on. He thought.

One girl, however, he didn't recognize.

There was Sasha, the fierce brunette that was having an affair with the king's cousin-in-law, Felix. There was Tiana, that beautiful babe who always had her hair tumbling off her shoulders in such a way that Alexandre almost couldn't stop from abandoning his post every time he saw her.

Georgia, that secretary who always refused to date him no matter how many times he asked.

Leanna, one of the King's advisors, who was always wearing the most spiffing things that Alexandre could imagine.

But this green haired, green eyed chick wearing a cream colored dress? Who the hell was she?

"Hey, I need to see some ID." Alexandre stopped her.

"I live here. I'm the Princess." the "Princess" claimed.

"Oh yeah? You – the Princess? I thought that Princess' are supposed to be beautiful, poised, and collected. You don't fit into any of those categories." Alexandre replied. She certainly wasn't his type, she had a slight slouch - if she claimed it was because of her heels he would laugh, and she seemed easy to angry.

"Don't make me call the guards on you." the "Princess" warned.

Alexandre rolled his eyes. "You've got the spoiled brat part down."

The green haired, green eyed chick rolled her eyes and brought out two keys. "Listen, I didn't want to do this. I'm giving you one last chance. Either you let me through that gate, or you will have a very painful life ahead of you."

"Threatening a palace guard? First claiming to be the princess and now this? Oh – you are just asking for a treason charge!" Alexandre replied, laughing.

The "Princess" rolled her eyes and swung both keys down. "Open, Gate of the Hunter, Orion! Open, Gate of the Chained Lady, Andromeda!"

Orion was a rather handsome man that was roughly nineteen or so. He was tall – much too tall to be a human, but still tall enough to pass as an overly tall human. On his back was a quiver, and in his hands, a bow with an arrow already knocked. He had dark hair that was roughly shoulder length. The only thing that was extremely noticeable about him was his golden eyes.

Thousands of years ago, Orion had been a friend of Artemis, the goddess of the Hunt and archery. When he died at the hands of Artemis' twin brother, Apollo, Artemis placed him in the stars as a constellation, thus joining the ranks of Celestial Spirits

He wasn't a Golden Key or anything, but there was only one known key of Orion. And she had him.

"Lady Hisui," Andromeda greeted. "Who are we dismembering today?"

Hisui grinned and pointed at Alexandre. "Give him a good scare. Remind him that it is not a smart idea to anger a Celestial Mage. One that is a princess at that."

Alexandre swore that he didn't scream, but that would, of course, be a lie.

He had messed up. Big time.

When all was said and done, Alexandre murmured an apology.

"Oh, what was that? Did you just insult my gender?" Hisui grinned wickedly. She had already dismissed Andromeda and Orion. "Open, Gate of the Canis Major, Sirius! Open, Gate of the Wolf, Lupus!"

Off to the side, Arcadios looked contemplative.

His princess might like blood a bit too much, but at least she seemed like a fair and decent ruler...

As long as you didn't insult her gender, or make her pull out that 'Celestial Mage' card.

Her spirits were scary.

Orion's looks like Sebastian Stan's when he's Bucky.