Dancing on Swan Lake
In 1875 Tchaikovsky composed the memorable dance 'Swan Lake'. Years later in the future, ballerina's still dance this dance, but they don't know the truth behind it. Mikan Sakura, a clumsy ballerina who people always criticise, learns all about the story and its truths. Mikan starts to realise that she is a part of the story of Swan Lake and must complete it, but does she need to give Odette a sad or happy ending, because whichever she chooses also becomes her own fate...
Me: I like ballet... so that is how the story cam along. I planned it a year ago, so yay!
Natsume: (holding fire) You disclaim...
Me: I disclaim... (zombie-ish)
Natsume: To owning Gakuen Alice
Me: To owning Gakuen Alice... (realises) OH, SCRAMBLES!
Prologue
In 1875, a man named Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed the dance 'Swan Lake', a story about a beautiful princess named Odette who was turned into a swan by the curse of an evil sorcerer. The play was a huge success and everybody loved it, but nobodyknew of the stories hidden secret...
Swan Lake was the story about Odette, a princess gifted with dancing and beauty. One day, though, she is cursed by the evil Von Rothbart who has turned her into a white swan by the day and a woman by the night.
In a forest, Odette met a prince named Siegfried who fell in love with her when he realised that Odette was in fact a princess who had been cursed, and pledges to help her return to her human form. Of course, Von Rothbart tried to stop this, because if Siegfried broke the spell by revealing his love for Odette, then Rothbart would lose all of his powers.
Rothbart then appeared and Siegfried threatened to kill Rothbart, but if he did this act, then Odette would remain a swan forever. Later on, Siegfried returned to his palace to attend a ball in order to find a wife, but Rothbart had concocted a plan; he disguised his daughter, Odile, as Odette, and the prince mistook her for Odette. He claimed to the entire ball that he would marry her and he loved Odette with all his heart, but after this, he realised he had made a mistake, and ran after a crying Odette who had watched from outside.
After arriving back at the lake where he first met Odette, he apologizes as Odette forgives him for his mistake. Von Rothbart soon appears and reveals that the spell that binds Odette to being a swan can now never be broken, as Siegfried has pledged his love to Odile. So, in an attempt to stay together, both Siegfried and Odette went into the lake, and together they drowned...
"Wow, what a sad dance. They should have had a happier ending." a girl said as she read over the composition of the dance she would be doing for the Christmas ballet. She sighed and sat back against the tree outside of the ballet studio, staring at the book of scripts laying on her lap.
"Why was the prince so... so stupid?" she suddenly cried out, pouting and folding her arms. She then looked up when she heard footsteps and saw her friends,
"Mikan-chan it's time to go in and practice. The audition is only a week away, you know." came the voice of the sitting brunette's oldest friend, a pink haired girl named Misaki. Mikan beamed up at her and quickly stood,
"Okay! I was just reading about the dance that we're rehearsing. It's such a sad story," she muttered to herself, pressing the book against her chest as Misaki smiled, then hugged Mikan gently,
"I know, little Mikan-chan, but it can't be helped. Sometimes love just doesn't go according to plan. Now come, we should get into the hall before Azumi-sensai scolds us." she replied, holding out her hand for Mikan to take. Mikan gladly recieved the hand, and she skipped beside Misaki as her other friends, Hotaru Imai, a beautiful and talented ballet dancer, followed alongside the pretty but quiet Nobara, a shy girl who only really took to Mikan.
Once they entered the hall where the small group of girls practiced their ballet daily, they were greeted by the rest of their class who were all practicing for the recital.
"Oh, look who's just entered... the duck," came a snide voice. Mikan turned around sharply, knowing that it was her the snide comment was aimed at. She turned to see a girl with long blonde hair and sharp purple eyes. She was easily the prettiest of all the ballet students, and she was also the best.
"Hey, who are you calling duck!?" cried Mikan rather loudly as the girl in front of her smirked. Mikan was not pleased with this rude comment,
"You, oc course, Sakura. Who else would I call a duck? You can't dance for anything, so the name seems fitting to a person of your standards." the blonde said calmly as Mikan glared at her coldly.
"Why you... I'll dance way better than you Luna, you'll see!" snapped Mikan as Luna rolled her eyes,
"Whatever you say, duck, but it doesn't change the fact that all of you are inferior to me," Luna stated with a hint of satisfaction in her voice as the girls scowled at Luna. She may have been the prettiest and best ballerina in the hall, but she was also the most evil and vindictive girl any of them had ever met.
"Oh, go suck on a lemon, Luna!" snapped Misaki coldly, then turned Mikan away from the bully of a girl. They walked towards a bar at one of the rules as far away from Luna as posisble, and started their stretches.
"Don't listen to her, Mikan! She's just saying nonsense. You're a beautiful dancer," Misaki whispered, but Mikan shook her head.
"No, she's right. I'm a terrible dancer." she said, and Mikan did speak the truth, to a certain extent. She was a poor dancer, the worst of the group. She may have been the daughter of a renowned dancer, their teacher, yes, but that did not make her good at ballet. Mikan could do it, of course, but she was never the best, not like Luna.
"Oh don't put yourself down, Mikan-chan!" Nobara suddenly cried, hugging Mikan tightly as the brunette smiled and hugged Nobara back.
"Come on, you three, lets start practicing before Azumi sensai starts to yell." Hotaru then said, and the three girls gave nods and started to warm up, then practice the routines they were going to show at the auditions that would determine their parts to the Swan Lake dance...
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Okay, terrible beginning, but oh well... anyway, need to go now as I am pulling an all nighter on homework, so yeah... hope you enjoyed, and review please! Thank you!!!
Blue -Niagra~
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