Disclaimer: Animal Crossing isn't mine but Nintendo's.

I would like to thank GeorgiexxxSuarez for helping me to translate my story from French to English ^^

I hope you will like it, and you know how much people like reviews, yes? *^*


Prologue

"Do you really believe in it?"

The child looked up, surprised, some brown locks barring her face. She stared at the boy in front of her with a puzzled air, had some sort of laugh and stood up from the swing.

"Evidently, I'm sure they do exist."

The boy shrugged and stepped up his hood. It had started to rain since a long time but neither he nor she wanted to go back home. They were still debating on this idiot subject, their bags leaning against the fence between a bench and a sandbox.

The little girl did not seem upset by the lack of affirmation about her point of view from her playmate and raising her hand towards the sky full of clouds, drawing a big smile upon her childish face, began to turn on herself like the kid she was, faster, louder, shouting and laughing without stopping.

"They do exist! They do exist! They do exist!"

Chapter 1: A new beginning

A bar of chocolate. A bag of dried flowers from her mother. A keyring representing a bear.

That was all she had in her pocket.

She raised her head, tired despite the nap she just took.

Where was she anyway…?

"Well then, Miss, what brings you here?"

The driver, the black leather chair which she was sitting on, the road running through the glass and still this same rain blurring the passage all was mixing up in her mind into a strange sort of image, which was familiar, comfortable, without her being able to explain why.

She was leaving her home but she had the impression that she'd already arrived.

Smiling to herself (or maybe the taxi driver) she straightened the hem of her black skirt and muttered, absently:

"Wanted to move on, I guess."

The driver laughed sarcastically, and while tapping his fingers against the steering wheel to the radio, replied with a clear voice, that sounded a little broken, that sounded like a reproach to the ears of the girl.

"There aren't many little ladies like you going to Lindertown like this…"

Sharing the rearview window, he saw she shrugged, smiling.

"What's your name, you wee fish?"

She rubbed her eyes and sat up in her seat. Everything still seemed so strange.

"Mayu."

"Speak more clearly, freshwater shrimp."

"Mayu. I'm Mayu."

"Mayou?"

"No," the girl sighed, exasperated. "Ma-yu. My name is Ma-yu."

The driver laughed.

"Your parents should not love you much."

"It's a false name, fool."

He had a surprised look, and the girl thought she might've offended him.

"Ah, uh, well, my name is Kapp'n but that's a false name too."

Mayu looked at him suspiciously.

"The fact is," Kapp'n who was a little embarrassed, "we've arrived at our destination."

She felt gone, she felt arrived, she felt angry, she felt grateful. She felt good