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I have fixed this one and delete the other one because I want to change the storyline. Is this one get better? I hope so... However, if you still found mistakes in this story, please tell me...

Thanks very much to Jamesbirdsong for the comments and for everyone who read my stories!

Disclaimer: Princess Tutu and its character is not mine. I only owned this fanfic. (If only I can owned Fakir... ^^)

Fates

--Chapter 1--

Once upon a time, there was a beautiful lake called 'Swan Lake'. Some mystical warm light around it makes the lake always bright. However, even though the lake was very beautiful, it is cursed. Though around the lake was always bright, it was very dark inside.

Once ago, there were so many ravens on the lake. A prince was sleeping in a bed of roses on the center of the lake, and in front of him, a raven princess stand up, holding a red crystal-looks-like heart shard. She was looking at the prince's knight and a magical ballerina princess that she hates for all of her life.

That princess was the reason why the prince never accepted her love. Her name is Princess Tutu, the one that returning the prince's heart pieces back to its owner.

The raven princess, Claire, took a deep breath and sighed.

Claire is beautiful and talented. So does Tutu. But still they are different. Claire is the daughter from the prince's enemy, Raven Monster. The prince sealed her father with his forbidden power: broke his own heart with his sword. Even so, she had fallen for him. That was completely hard.

And so does for Tutu.

Well—Tutu is beautiful and talented. Moreover, she is not the prince's enemy. Her role is to bring the prince's heart pieces back. She had fallen in love with the prince, too. However, she won't live happily with the prince, for if she spoke her feelings to him, she will disappear in speck of light.

Claire had known very well that they wouldn't connect to the prince forever.

Anyway, the prince loves Tutu—something that always make her very jealous.

They are not very different.

They are beautiful, passionate and talented, and they are both not even a real girl. They both love the prince with all of their heart,but why does his choice was Tutu?

'Doesn't he know that Tutu was a part of his own heart?' she thought.

Yes, for most people who had known the story, Princess Tutu was just a reflection of a heart shard. The shard called 'Hope'. That might be true, but the truth is, Tutu was a spirit who lived in the prince's heart shard of hope. (A/N: It's only in this story that she was a spirit, unless someone else has the same idea with me... ^v^)

Tutu was not just a part of Prince's heart—she also has her own heart. She has wings, instead hands, and she is a spirit who lives in a heart shard. For her, the most important thing in her live is the Prince's happiness.

"I would do anything to make you smile, Prince..."

One day, an old storyteller heard her and decided to offer her a role to do.

"You can bring his smile back, my beautiful swan..." he said.

"Really?"

"Of course, dear... But in exchange, I want you to agree only one rule..."

"I'll take that role, anything the rule is." said Tutu. The old storyteller smiled.

"I guess you're deal with me. Anyway, still I have to tell you the rule. I'll give you hands and ability to dance to call the Prince's heart pieces. But in exchange, you have to keep your feelings to the Prince deep inside your heart. Once you confess your love to the Prince, you'll disappear in flash of light."

Therefore, Princess Tutu did her role properly, yet she knew that one day, eventually, she would confess her love to the Prince whatever the reason is.

Claire would never bring the prince's heart back. She can't do that, because if he knows that she's his enemy, he would never let her even to love him. The only way to make it never become true is to let the prince heartless forever. In that way, she could love him forevermore and stay beside him, even the heartless prince couldn't love her. But that's better for Claire.

Tutu does not think so. She thought that the prince would be happy if he has a heart, so she returned the heart shards to the prince. And just as she thought, the prince was happy to get his heart back. But Claire and Lohengrin don't.

Lohengrin was a strong knight. His role in the story is to protect the prince. He known very well that if the prince's heart back, he might be dead in order to protect the prince. He had tried to become stronger and stronger, but that was never helped him. He was too scared about his future fate. Therefore, he always protected the prince from anything. He would never let the prince get his heart back.

For a knight, there was their fate if they died in order to protect someone's they must protect, without scare. And he had known it well.

But even the brave knights are humans. Even the brave knight has a heart—so they would feel scare, too.

And he had known it very well.

Tutu was their enemy. She was the one who made the prince got his heart back. But that was the prince's fate, no one could help it. He must get his heart back to kill Claire's father, the Raven Monster.

'But even the Raven tried to torn my body in two, I'll protect the prince!'

And the ravens did it. Just like as he said. In order to protect his prince, Lohengrin, the brave knight, died.

***

Tutu had known that the time would come. The time she has to speak her love to the Prince.

"If you want this heart piece return to him, then let's see who will win," said Claire.

"Win?"

"We'll confess our love to him. If he chose you, I will return this piece to him. But if he chose me, then I will give this piece to the ravens."

Tutu sighed. The time has come...

"Sayonara, Ouji..."

And so, the princess disappeared in speck of light. And at the place when she was there, some tears drop to the lake. And the princess locked in the heart shard....

Until a voice is calling to her.

So? Is this one get better? However, English is not my native language, so if you found mistakes in this story, please tell me... ^^