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Once upon the fourteen-hundreds, in the far away Kingdom of Hampton, lived two beautiful rulers in a grand fortress of a Castle. For a while they were happily ruling until one day the queen thought something was missing. The servants and some of the kingdom's people started searching. Still, she just couldn't put her finger on what was missing. Then, a mere peasant came to the Queen. "Your Majesty, I have an idea of what is missing." "Yes, quickly, I want to know!" The queen ordered. "You're missing a child. You need some children, Highness. My son is the best thing that ever happened to me; I think what is missing is happy children." The queen knew. As soon as the lady had mentioned it, she exclaimed, "Yes! I need children!" Weeks later, the King and his wife were blessed to conceive a baby that turned out to be really twins. The queen was pregnant with a pair of girl twins! Hampton Kingdom was filled with joy. The Kingdom would soon have new baby princesses. Julia was born, a sadly tragic case. A princess that isn't pretty. The King and Queen were so disappointed. She was supposed to get the kingdom as well. Then, a few minutes later, Taylor was born. She was drop-dead gorgeous. The King was elated. But the happiness wasn't to last. The queen died moments later. Alas, the Kingdom couldn't stay sad. They had two princesses to welcome into Hampton. Years started to pass, and the King took pity on poor Julia, because she was the less attractive of the two twins. So he spoiled her silly to make up for it. Julia received everything she wished for and more. Her father, the King, did everything for her. It made Julia become vain and full of herself. Taylor, however, never got anything more than the essentials, and it tore the heart of young Taylor and made her bitter and jealous of her twin sister. The two twins never formed a bond that is expected of sister. After some time, the King died from a mysterious sickness that was incurable even by magic the royal family possessed. Taylor had been elated that she was finally free to get what she was missing as a child. That was, until the King's will was read, and Julia was put in charge. A grand ceremony for the crowning of the queen was planned and held, while all Taylor could do was stand in the corner and glower with envy. After dealing with the jealousy she faced towards her sister, she started having evil thoughts. These turned into a hatred for her shallow sister, and she knew one day she would have to do something about it. Julia was as shallow as kiddy-pool. She only cared about the things she got, and they had to be the best of the best. She had the best wands, and the best dresses, and she threw the best parties. She had been like that her whole entire life but she had no intentions of ever being different. It wasn't long until Taylor decided she needed to take action. She couldn't just allow Julia to take everything she ever wanted anymore. She decided to plot to kill her self-centered sister with her only companion left her talking cat, Mitzy. "How can I? She is my only sister." Taylor back-tracked. "She stole everything you ever wanted! She stole your happy childhood from under you nose," The sly cat swirled her tail around Taylor. "This is required, it's eye for an eye." "And Hampton has been suffering due to her incompetence. You are right, I must fix this," Taylor decided, and headed back to her room to compound a poisonous powder. Taylor had a point, Julia was self-centered. When she should have been caring about the kingdom she was caring about herself, her appearance, and her stuff. She was also immensely jealous of her sister's beauty, but was blind to the fact that Taylor was jealous of her. Taylor was so jealous that she plotted every night to try to take over the kingdom and become queen herself. The night she had plotted against the queen with Mitzy, the two sisters where sitting down to dinner. Taylor couldn't take being second best anymore. Taylor then said, "Excuse me, Julia; I need to use the restroom. I'll be back in a moment." But, Julia didn't know was that Taylor was actually going to the kitchen where dinner was being prepared. Taylor then returned to the table acted as if nothing happened. She didn't even bother sitting down before she said, "I don't feel well, I think I will go to bed early and skip dinner." Taylor quickly retired to her room without even a look from Julia. The server brought out Julia's plate of food. He then said, "Highness, I think there is something you should know about your sister before you start to eat." Julia leaned over intrigued by the server. Then whispered, "Do tell me what I need to know then.   The server started to tell his story. With enthusiasm he said, "When your sister said she was in the restroom just now she came into the kitchen. I found it odd because she was putting powder in all of the food. I asked what she was doing, and she said she was just seasoning it for you. Then I smelled it," he paused to add dramatic effect. "It smelled funny, not like a seasoning I have ever tasted nor smelled. I am almost certain she has poisoned your food."   "Are you positive? I cannot accuse her of committing this crime if it had not happened," she replied curiously.   He then said, "Yes, completely certain of it."    The next day Julia had called together the whole kingdom and all of its people. When everyone was gathered from the streets, she would state her decree.    By four o'clock everyone was accounted for so she could start. She stated with great pride, "My fellow citizens, there is something you need to know about the royal family. Last night, Princess Taylor tried to poison me at dinner. I feel that she is a threat to the whole kingdom. Taylor is no longer welcome, and she is now banished."   During the decree, Taylor had been packing her bags. Before the speech ended she had left already. But, before she left, she had promised to herself that one day in the near future, she would get Julia back and have the kingdom of Hampton for herself.    After Taylor got banished, she led her cat, Mitzy, to a far away land named Shaler. Taylor and her cat lived in a little cottage. Although they were upset because they were exiled, they both lived happily together in Shaler. Each night they would devise a plan to take down Julia.    "You realize you must get your revenge, right?" Mitzy said. "You can't let her get away with banishing you, the princess! You should have been the queen!"   Taylor paced back and forth in the room with little space, knocking down a chair in her path. "I know," Taylor said, "but what to do? How can I get back there! //She forbid it!//"   Mitzy hissed, "Listen to me. I have an idea." An evil grin took over the cat's distorted features.   Back in Hampton, Julia had thought over her experience of almost dying, and decided not to be so selfish. If her sister wanted to kill her, surely other people would like to, as well. Julia decided if she was better person, then no one else would attempt an assassination on her again.    Something changed in Julia. Somehow, she changed. She turned her attention to her kingdom and its people instead of herself. Julia made it her mission to ensure their was fairness throughout the kingdom. The people then started to like Julia as their leader and enjoyed her kindness toward them. However, it seemed her kindness equaled less productivity in the village, since Julia removed the harsh penalties.    It was the anniversary of the Kingdom of Hampton. There was a huge celebration and parade for the whole kingdom. In addition there was a huge parade in honor of the kingdom and its inhabitants. While the commotion of the parade had everybody was distracted and there were no guards at the entrance of the kingdom. Taylor had secretly snuck into the kingdom. Taylor had disguised herself as a commoner of the village to sneak in during the parade. She had developed a plan to take down her sister. Then as Julia was passing by Taylor on her stallion. Taylor jumped out of the crowd and tackled her sister to the ground knocking her sister off of her horse. After Julia had been knocked﻿off her horse the twins started to wrestle all over the bridge that Julia was traveling over. "What are you doing?!" asked Julia. "I banished you!" Julia had no idea what to do so she decided to fight back against her sister. The fight lasted for a good ten minutes. Then something tragic happened. Julia tragically slipped and fell over the side of the bridge. She called out to her sister. She said, "Taylor please help me! I know we have had our differences but I think we should put that behind us. You may come to live in the kingdom with me again." Julia's hands had started to slip and she was crawling nearer to her death. Taylor stood there at the side of the bridge standing over her sister. Taylor stood there and debated saving her sister. She had decided to kill her already. Now as Julia faced death on the bridge, Taylor wasn't sure she could watch her sister die. Internally, Taylor debated with herself. This had been the girl to take everything from her. Julia was the reason Taylor's childhood was miserable. Julia had tried to get rid of her, too. But she did offer to let Taylor come back and live with her. Taylor had made her decision. She would save her sister. She went over to the side of the bridge, leaned over the side to grab her sister's hand. Taylor's mind was being flooded with thoughts. Taylor began pulling Julia up, while staring straight into her eyes. Julia gave a sigh of relief and smiled. //No,// Taylor thought, //Julia has gotten what she wanted once again.// Taylor shook with anger and at the last second dropped her sister into the charging waters of the river. Taylor face contorted as she stared down. Julia was finally dead. Taylor just stared at the water where her sister had fallen and did not even feel bad about what she had just done. She even smirked a little bit knowing that she would make it her time to shine now that her sister was out of the way. Taylor then turned to where the rest of the villagers were gathered and started crying. The villagers rushed toward Taylor to try to console her, for they thought that she had tried to save Julia and she just slipped of her hands. And that was how Taylor wanted to keep it. Taylor seemed so sincere that no one even suspected that she would do something so terrible to a member of her own family, especially since she had experienced so much loss with both of her parents dying. Then a shout came from a villager in the back of the crowd. They said, "Hey everyone, I think that Taylor should be our new queen!" With that said, the crowd erupted in cheers and Taylor was named queen. Taylor finally had everything she ever wanted. She was queen and she could no longer be denied anything. At times, she would feel a heavy guilt for what she did to her sister and it ate at her being. She'd be in her chambers and swear she saw her sister, but would turn around and nothing would be there. Despite her guilt, Taylor was able to develop the kingdom to become a more prosperous kingdom than ever before. She made sure all the work was done efficiently and even expanded Hampton farther. The Kingdom after Taylor's reign lived on forevermore a great and powerful nation, but every leader afterward could swear they saw an ugly young girl in their chambers watching them.