5 Princes and I (eBook)

Fantasy Realm Reverse Harem Romance

Kiraran (Autor)

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2025 | 1. Auflage
408 Seiten
Publishdrive (Verlag)
978-0-00-080732-8 (ISBN)

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'You, my dear, will be going to help us to decide that. You will pick a king.'
'Say what now?'
'I'm not going to repeat it since I know that you have heard me.'
'Fine! You want me to decide?! Nate!' I pointed to Prince Nathaniel, if I remember correctly. He was slightly taken aback, and a confused expression replaced his initial surprise. 'Do you want to be a king?'
'I...uh...Yes?' he said, unsure of his answer. It made me wonder if the expression on my face had forced him to say yes.
'Good. Then you'll be the king.'
'What!? But that's not how you decide it!' Prince Ace said.
'Fine! You're all kings. In fact, we ALL can be kings!'
She's Rosalie Amber Stan, a simple teenage girl who made a wish for a more adventurous life, only to become a victim of an abduction by the Fae queen to a different realm. She was brought to a castle with five supernatural princes vying for the throne. The queen tasked her with choosing the future heir to their kingdom. Little did she know that the queen only wanted one thing from her and the princes: romance.
Between a sparkly wizard, a rude obnoxious elf, a flirty vampire, and a couple of twin trouble-making wolf princes, is there really a right choice?
And why is there a wolf spirit, who suddenly awakened upon sensing her arrival, persistently stalking her?
A romantic-comedy in another world with a quirky, temperamental female heroine learning the culture of this new fantasy realm.
Kindle Keywords: romantic fantasy, young adult fantasy, supernatural romance, reverse harem, fae queen, fantasy adventure, quirky heroine, magical realm, royal intrigue, comedic fantasy

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Chapter 62 Not so Friendly Fish

I was thinking of a fish mutant, but I guess a mermaid is acceptable.

"Haven't you seen one before?" She said and flipped her hair.

I closed my mouth - not trusting myself to speak - and shook my head. Her eyes cast downward towards the bota bags beside me and her eyebrow raised. "Getting some water?" She asked.

I nodded my head as my answer because I was so tempted at this point to scream.

"Let me help you with that." With one powerful push of her arms, she hauled herself up, scooped the bota bags, and swam a semi-circle around the lake at an impressive speed before coming back to shore. "Believe it or not, the water is fresher at the center. You're welcome." She said and placed the filled bota bags beside me. When I didn't speak, she started to frown. "What? Can't you talk?" She said.

This time, I tried using my voice to avoid offending her. She's friendly, and it would be rude for me not to say thank you. "Um...Thank you." I said.

Her face seemed to light up, and she did a backflip in the lake before coming to the surface again. "You can talk! And you have a beautiful voice." She said.

"Thanks...you too," I told her bashfully. A mermaid just said my voice is beautiful! Now, this is something that I have to brag to Stella.

"My name is Hira."

"Rose."

She rested her hands on the edge and stared at me. "Never have I seen a girl come into these woods before. And judging from those bags I carried, I assume you're not alone? Are there more girls with you here in these woods?"

I snorted as I thought about the princes. "Yes, I am not alone, and no, they are not girls. They're boys, actually."

At the mention of 'boys,' I noticed a change in her facial expression. It became sour and bitter like the word alone was poison. "You're traveling with men?"

"Princes."

"And they're princes?" Her voice rose, and I could see her face turning red. She started to swim around and mutter something that I couldn't quite understand. She was making me dizzy with all her movements.

"Are you alright?" I asked.

"Men. Princes!" She yelled and swam back towards me. "A pretty girl like you traveling in a group full of those.....creatures!!"

"Is...that a problem?" I was gradually backing away. When I see a red flag, I know it. Trust me, I am an accident-prone person, so I try to be as cautious as possible.

"Yes, it is!" She screamed. "Men only bring women misfortune! Take a look at yourself. They're ordering you to bring them water! Those slacker pigs." She gave a snarl.

"To be honest, I kind of volunteered for the job."

"Women should not perform heavy labor!" She hissed angrily. "Women should be considered superior to men. They are the reigning monarch!"

With the way she was behaving right now, I was getting so uncomfortable hanging out with this sexist mermaid that I wanted to grab the bota bag and flee. "Sure," I said as I reached out to grab the bota bag's straps without her noticing. "Do you think they should get down on their knees and kiss our feet or tail?" I said for the sake of humoring her. Before I could reach the bota bags, her hands shot up and she grabbed my hand. I screamed. 

"Exactly!" She said. "And you are not going back there again with those men."

She caught me off guard, and I looked at her with fear in my eyes. "What?" I made a squeak.

"You're coming with me. We shall become sisters."

"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I already have a sister, and she's very cute-" When she drew me towards her and into the lake, I yelped. The water hit me in the face first, then the rest of my body.

I have to swim up to get some air because the lake is quite deep. As I wiped the water from my face, I noticed the mermaid swimming circles around me like a shark.

"You can swim. Good." Hira said and swam closer to me. "You will make a fine mermaid, sis."

“No, actually. I am drowning-” She grabbed my hands again and dragged me under before I knew what hit me. My eyes were closed, but I could feel her dragging me lower and lower before changing directions. I didn't have much time to prepare and take a deep breath as my current supply was rapidly depleting. A wave of panic washed over me, and I began to struggle.

...why am I always in a situation like this? Why is it always me!? Why me!?

I felt her hands locking mine in a tight grip as she continued to swim. Not long after, we started swimming upwards and towards the surface again. The first thing I did was to take heavy gulps of air before wiping water from my face.

That's when I noticed something unsettling.

The place was like a cave with bright white light coming from pearls scattered everywhere lighting up the place. Seashells decorated the place and I saw a big shell-like bed partly drenched in water. We went in that direction, and she pushed me up until I was sitting on the shell bed. She then threw some sort of dust in my face before I could even look at her.

"There. I'm not sure what kind of men you hang out with, but if they have sensitive noses, they will undoubtedly sneeze." Her words made me thought of Ren and Dan and how disappointed I was that I could not be there to see their sneezing frenzy.

I cough at the powder. "That smells so disgusting!" I was shivering, but I was also fuming in my anger as I glared at her.

"You're safe here." She said cheerily.

"I don't need saving!" I growled. "You're the one that I need saving from...if I ever do need saving!" I pointed a finger at her.

"You say that, but you'll come to regret it later. Men are nothing more than barbarians. They only know how to fight. They lack emotion and are insensitive. They are murderers." She stated. She was frowning the entire time she was talking about men.

"That's not true!" I argued and thought of Nate as emotionless, Fred a barbarian, Ren, and Dan insensitive, and Ace knowing nothing but to kill - which I am reconsidering. "Men are not all the same. They are unique in their own way."

Hira shook her head at me. "You are far too young to understand everything." She said and turned her back to me. "I have lived in this lake for three years now."

"Cry me a river." I rolled my eyes at her. "Take me back out. Now! Dude, it’s freaking cold here!"

She turned back to me again. "Aren't you even interested in why I'm stuck here?"

"Not even a bit." I deadpanned. "When are you going to take me back?"

"It all started three years ago." She ignored my complaints and carried on with her story.

"You're going to tell me the story anyway, aren't you?" I sighed.

"I was a young mermaid about 18 years of land creature age."

I snorted. "We all were young three years ago. Now cut to the chase and go to the ending. I don't have time for storytelling because I will be in trouble!"

"I fell in love with a land creature. He was very handsome with silver eyes and-"

"Fucking hell," I grunted. This little mermaid just won't shut up! "Let me guess. He's the first land creature you have ever met?" Hira nodded, making me slap a hand to my face and grunt out in frustration. "Oh for freak’s sake! We got a real live Ariel over here! Don't you have a red-friendly crab to tell you otherwise not to go flirt with men who live on land and sing songs about under the sea? Wait no. Don't answer that. But anyways. Go on, but skip the description of the guy. I don't care anyway."

"I fell in love." She declared, making me roll my eyes at the typical cliché of her story. "He works as a fisherman. He catches fish for a living. I know he's poor, so I'd drop a pearl on his net every time he went fishing. Mermaids, you see, have a talent for extracting pearls from clams. We can shorten the time it takes to process the pearls of each clam. I heard that pearls cost a fortune on land market."

"Please continue." I urged when I noticed her pausing. 

"So the man noticed the pearls on his net and became curious as to where it comes from. One day, I made myself know and-"

So I'll save everyone the trouble of hearing her sad and tragic story. Basically, the two fell in love and got married. The man then took her home with him to live together. She makes the pearls for him to help him with his expenses, but not long after their relationship began, she noticed that the man became so desperate for money that he threatened her just to get some. He even killed her sister when she attempted to rescue her from him. Not long after that, she saw the true side of the man; greedy and power-hungry. So one night, she made her escape, but since she was too far away from the ocean, all she managed to get was the lake. She had loved her ever since and was too afraid to go back into the sea in case the man would spot her again.

Okay, I have to admit that her story was a little sad. I could not imagine having your sister killed by the man you once loved. But still, that doesn’t mean that all men are the same. "I’m sorry to hear that, but I still need to leave."

"Weren't you listening to my story? I just pointed out that men cannot be trus-" She came to a halt and swam towards the massive pearl perched on the side of the shell bed. A mist formed when she waved her fingers over it, and I saw two figures emerge from the forest. Ace and Nate were there. When I recognized them, I exclaimed.  "Nate! Ace! I mean PRINCE Nate! No, PRINCE Ace!"

"So they came here to look for you."

"You bet they are because they obviously aren't here for you. They don't know you."

"Well, too bad. They won't find you. At least the real you that is."

"What do you mean? Ow!" She snatched a strand...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.5.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Fantasy
• ISBN-10: 0-00-080732-X / 000080732X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-00-080732-8 / 9780000807328