Tubbo's POV

He reached out for the white bear that was given to him, he giggled and squirmed as he struggled to carry the heavy teddy. " You need some help there Tom?" I questioned as I followed behind him with my horse. He dramatically turned around, the bear fully covered his face, making me burst out into laughter, suddenly a muffled voice rose from the behind the bear. "Yew Pwease!" He muffled, struggling to carry it  anymore, I took the white bear and placed it onto the back of the horse. " Now it looks like Steve is riding it!" Tom pointed and giggle at the snow white creature, " Steve? What kind of name is that for a bear?" I teased him with a smirk plastering onto my face.

He knitted his eyebrows together and scrunched his nose, looking like a little bunny that just got it's carrot stolen from him. Reaching out my hand to ruffle his hair, I stalled, taking back my hand in realisation of what I was just about to do. Shaking my head out of any troubling thoughts I marvelled " Right. Let's get moving." catching the attention of both of them, Tom with his hands grabbed my clothing forcing me to turn around and to witness him pointing up at the horse. Frowning my eyebrows, I folded my arms and scoffed "weren't you scared of him before?" I mocked, he proceeded to pout his face and kick my leg. " OW! Fine fine okay!" Not bothered to deal with the temper of his, I lifted him upon the horse, his face immediately struck with a sour expression and water on the verge of pricking over his eyes. He was fine with it legit a few seconds ago. Thinking that to myself, I made Steve the white bear hug Tommy from the back, instantly releasing all tension from his face, all worry melting away. Such a weird kid...

Continuing on scavenging a path through the large quantity of civilians, people from all directions tried grabbing out attention, maybe it was because of the white bear or...most likely the horse. Pleading and begging to try this food or try that game, this and that. Ugh..so annoying. Darting through the human kind, we've managed to reach a clearing, no footsteps could be heard, bin tins rolled around, causing the metal to clink as it rolled. The only people that were available in this area were the guards, million of them...

My heart started to race at the thought of each and everyone of these men handling some type of weapon. Swallowing hardly, we pushed forwards towards the imperial gate. "Hey! You three, what are you doing here?!" One of the muscular built guards exclaimed, the metal armour clanked, "Oh Heeyy, Don't worry we're just here to drop off this young lady back to her work-" I gestured in a distracting way. "State the name."  Nudging Niki forwards, with a straight and brave face she spoke, " Niki Dahmer. The maid and care taker of the imperial family." She presented no fears, she knew this place for most of her life, why would she be afraid of the guards of all things?

" Niki? Dahmer... Yes, I've heard of you before, you may enter with the guests." Bowing to her. she bowed back in respect smiling and walking right through the Imperial gates that just opened. " Oh, but horses that aren't property to the imperial palace are not permitted inside, please leave the horse here." One of the other metal guards stated, with a sigh, I got Tommy off and his big steve bear as I gave the horse with the lead to one of the guards that took him into an outside stable. As we walked down the large opening towards the entrance, the large door opened, shining a light and a pink short haired male came out. " Who's there?!O--- Niki. I apologise. Didn't think I'd see you again." The male spoke as he proceeded to hug Niki which caused Tom to have a suspicious look on his face. 

" Theo. It's been a long time hasn't it? Where's your father and Wilbur?" She asked, making me ponder on why she decided to leave the imperial palace to look after a kid with a serious illness when I could've easily taken him to Dezmond. " My father is inside and so is my brother. However, my brother Wil is not in the best conditions right now." with sorrow in his voice, it immediately caused a worrisome chain to spark among us. Suddenly, he grabbed her arm, dragging her inside " The outside is not a good place to talk about this Follow me." He whispered as he indicated for all of us to follow in. I immediately helped Tom and his giant plush, squeezing him through the entrance causing Tommy to giggle which made me draw a smile. Dropping it at the sudden realisation we're in the palace I started to frantically groom myself as I dropped the teddy. " You there. Don't worry about presentation right now." Theo stated as they started to pace up the stairs.  

Leaving the big white bear by the stairs, we started to walk upstairs, it was a rather clean palace, no speck of dust to be see at the railings, nor the pictures on the grand walls, painting's of the imperial family and their empress. Not being dwelled by the picture, we've followed the prince into an office like room; it was were his imperial highness remained. Within a flash, I got down on one knee and bent my head down in respect. Nudging Tommy to do the same, he quickly caught onto my movements. Niki on the other hand snickered as I could feel the emperor's gaze land up on us. "Greetings Niki, It's been quite a while." The emperor stated with a dead tone as he hugged niki, " Theo. What did I say about bringing home more commoners?" Theo sighed, shaking his head in the process, " I couldn't leave two kids out at this time of night, especially since they brought back Niki, we own them some gratitude." His voice rumbled with annoyance, which caused his face to stitch into a smirk. " Get up. " His voice roared, as Tommy immediately obeyed his command. 

3rd Person POV

The emperor's eyes widened at the sight of the slightly burnt child, he  scanned his scars from face to arms that were covered in bandages, he threw knives with his glare that caused Tommy to feel a slight form of discomfort. He tried his best to keep a smile on his face , but it quivered, this ominous energy strangled his throat. Making it hard to breath. " State your name." He growled at the youngest child in the room, Tom's sickness was bad, but it was getting worse with every minute of that dreadful situation. He swallowed roughly, opening his small dry mouth to speak, " My name is Tom." At these words, the glass of wine that the Emperor held in his right hand was ultimately squeezed to the point it shattered in his hand, making the red wine spill down his palms onto the carpet, dripping gooey like blood from a fresh wound, he smiled creepily. " Apologise. That's... quite a basic name. And your last name? Oh wait! I forgot that commoners don't have one." He snickered, causing Tubbo to glare his eyes and scrunch his nose to the point it  looks like tiny hills forming on the bridge of his nose. He felt a disgusting taste evoke from deep down his throat, having the urge to slash his highnesses chest. The gel in his hair and neatly trimmed beard screamed nothing but rudeness. " Father please-- urgh." Theo sighed in disbelief before turning to the two younger males " Follow me, I will show the room that you will be staying in for the night." They nodded and proceeded to leave the room.

Niki headed for shattered glass on the floor, desperately cleaning it up before anyone else could be injured, gathering the glass and placing it in the nearest bin Philip murmured, " Niki. That kid. Do you... have any previous memories of him other than the ones of you taking care of him recently?" Niki glanced up at his highness, still cleaning off the glass from the floor and his hand, " Eh... Not really, I have one memory of him, that boy being your youngest son. But, he got kidnapped and killed years ago, the boy must look very similar for you to compare him--" Philip snapped at her remark " Did I say ANYTHING about that brat looking like my youngest son?!" Niki trembled at the sudden outburst, his blue eyes piercing her heart. " N-no.. I apologise for the remark. I will take my leave." Finishing off the first aid on his highnesses hand, she bowed before rushing out of the room. 

Philip turned to face the window, where the moon was settled pretty nicely in the centre of it. He took a deep breath in before taking out a key from his pocket inside his sleeve. Going around to unlock on of the draws, revealing multiple documents, newspapers and pictures of his youngest son. Newspaper headlines such as; Death of the third prince; by an assassin or his own father?  or even titles such as "The tragic death and kidnapping of the youngest prince." caused shivers to freely roam around his defenceless body. The pictures of the grave from years ago caused Phil to analyse the faint picture of the youngest prince when he was a baby. Slamming and dashing the documents back into the compartment draw, he eagerly locked the draw, as his heart rate increased from the sudden rush of adrenaline. Swallowing hardly, he ran his fingers through his gelled back hair, questioning his thoughts once more.