"What! Wait, she's queen?" A tall, lovely princess with coiled locks of shining golden hair pointed disbelievingly at her younger sister with distaste. Looking mildly amused, Rin Kagamine looked up at Lily, her blue eyes seemingly interested as she analyzed a chunk of pyrite through a magnifying glass.

"Dear." Wrinkles creased Queen Lola's forehead as she sighed deeply. "The villagers demanded Rin become queen, with Neru next in line." She looked fondly at her youngest daughter.

"Peasants!" sneered Lily. "Rin's not even pretty!"

Neru, the middle sister, crossed her thin arms over her chest. Her amber eyes shone and she pursed her full lips.

"That's not true, Lily. And you know it."

Lily scoffed.

Rin calmly flicked her blond side swept bangs out of her mysterious yet captivating cerulean eyes and scooped a handful of copper powder into her cupped palm.

"Neru, hush." King Leon, with kind eyes and a warm smile for everyone, placed a palm on his two daughters' heads. "Lily, the villagers have come to a firm decision."

Rin stood, her skirts swishing back. Her cream colored gown fitted her slender waist and flattered her petite figure. "Father, I'm taking leave now." A distant look clouded her eyes. "I believe I have found that copper chloride is rust. Of course, I may be wrong..." She wandered towards her room with several heavily clad guards following tentatively behind.

"Lola, she's very intelligent. I believed we might have sent our Rin to another country to study sciences." said King Leon.

"Yes, but now that she's the new queen..."

Lily's bottom lip jutted out as she pouted. Scheming vigorously in her head, she swished her skirts dramatically and tromped towards her room. Neru followed heavily behind, her cascading hair drooping with her.

"I expected Lilithia's reaction to be no less than that..." Lola rubbed the bridge of her small nose, exasperated by her daughter's actions. "Rin is always so distracted. Sometimes I worry that she'll wander outside, thinking she's using the restroom!"

"So intelligent, yet so absent-minded, our Rin is..."

The king squeezed his wife's hand gently and comfortingly.

"She'll make a beautiful, quick-witted, queen. Just like her mother."

Upstairs in her room, Rin dropped her personality. Yes, she was like that, distracted yet smart. But when she was alone, her personality took a drastic dip. It was instinctive.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my FREAKING god!"

Rin's cat Rui looked on in utter amusement as Rin hugged her orange wedge shaped pillow and crossed her arms over the plush item.

"Ru-Ru, I can't be the queen!"

Her exotic calico meowed disinterestedly.

Rin flopped backwards, sighing.

"Wait." A horrendous thought crossed the young princess's mind. "I have to... I have to get... MARRIED..."

She crossed to her window and looked out to see her chocolate brown horse, Rei, chewing on a carrot. She giggled quietly as she remembered the REAL Rei and Rui, and how the first time Rei had mounted the brown horse, how he had ended up eating dirt when the horse threw him off. Ever since then, Rei was named after her best friend, Rei. Rui, on the other hand, a sweet yet mischievous calico, was named after the real Rui, a sweet yet mischievous girl.

Rin looked longingly at the knapsack hanging around Rei's neck. It held silk trousers to fit under her skirts when she went riding, a few hairbands to contain her hair, and a riding crop that she barely used. Her muddy boots were in there as well.

She peeked outside.

All clear.

A smile crossed her face.

Lily POV

"It isn't fair, Mau." Lily Kagamine was very pissed. She admired herself in the mirror. Neru may call her narcissistic, but who was Neru? Neru wasn't gorgeous. Neru didn't have blue eyes that were as blue as a summer sky. Neru didn't have a graceful body that practically screamed to suitors.

But then again, neither was Rin.

Rin was so...

Indescribable.

"How do I get rid of her? I wanna be queen!"

Lily's eyes wandered towards the elegant glasses on her mahogany table and a thoughtful smirk crept over her mouth.

"Mau," she paused, the smirk giving way to wide smile. "I know what I have to do."

Len POV, GAA Headquarters

"Die!" Len growled as he charged Mikuo Hatsune deliberately. Mikuo responded with a spinning roundhouse kick, and with Len down, pulled out a gun.

"Good-bye."

He pulled the trigger slowly.

GAME OVER!

"Crap!" Len fell back against the plush cushions strewn across the floor of his room. On the TV, his character fell to his knees, and then dropped to his death.

Mikuo grinned at his best friend and held up a finger gun, blowing out an imaginary puff of smoke.

"That's, um, Len zero, me twenty-three?"

"Shut up!"

"Len," Kaito Shion came in. He was Len's other friend and his captain. "You should really check on the girl you're assigned to. Her sister is really jealous..."

"Chill, Kai." Len fell back lazily. "She'll be fine. I think you just put me on this mission because you knew I wouldn't be able to do anything..."

"CODE BLACK, CODE BLACK!"

Len shot to his feet. "Doesn't that mean...?"

Kaito nodded grimly, racing to the surveillance room with Len at his heels.

"It means someone is about to die."

Len and Kaito charged in. They headed straight towards the video with the sloppy black letters spelling "Len" above it.

On it, the princess took a silver tray from a servant. She smiled sweetly and took the glass of orange juice from him.

Len scoffed. "She's fine! It must mean someone else."

As soon as she took a sip, though, her face went pale. Her pupils dilated, and her whole body went absolutely rigid. She fell back against the pillows decorating her bed.

The wine glass, the delicate stem with her pinky curled around it, hung over the side of the bed with her arm.
And beneath the orange juice, a blood red liquid seeped out.

Len froze.

Poison.