"FINE-SAMA, REIN-SAMA!"
Camelot was running through the halls using her hands as an amplifier.
"RUN REIN!" Fine yelled back at her sister, grabbing onto her wrist. The girls were currently escaping from another of Camelot's princess lessons. Rein, Fine, and Camelot, who followed close behind, were running through the castle halls. In that moment, the halls seemed like a maze as the twin princesses tried to find the exit.
"FINE-SAMA, REIN-SAMA COME BACK!"
Camelot repeated with the same booming voice as before.
"NOOO!"
Fine and Rein, mostly Fine as she was pulling her sister along, picked up the pace as they refused to give in to Camelot's request. They finally got through the halls and with one last sharp turn they reached the grand double doors that lead to the courtyard. The two girls jumped into the nearest bush and silenced each other with a finger to the lips.
Camelot came out into the courtyard and a few feet out the doors quickly looked to the right and left of her. She couldn't see the girls anywhere so she continued to dash further into the courtyard yelling at the top of her lungs.
"FINE-SAMA…REIN-SAMA!"
The girls peeked through the bushes and saw Camelot's back figure become smaller and smaller the further she went. Once the twins made sure she was really gone they stood up out of the bushes. The girls huffed in relief. They succeeded in their escaping from Camelot's fierce lessons on princess etiquette. The twins looked at each other with accomplished nods and Fine was the first to speak.
"Why is it that we still have to learn how to be proper princesses?"
Rein put her pointer finger under her chin wondering the same thing as her sister. She replied, "I thought she saw us as proper princesses since we saved the Mysterious Star?" Fine agreed with a nod and paced back and forth humming to herself in thought. Rein paced the opposite direction as her sister and when they both turned around at the same time, they butted heads. Both of them in reflex rubbed their heads in an attempt to ease the pain.
"Heh, I think we shouldn't pace anymore," Rein said with an awkward laugh. Fine smiled sheepishly back at her twin. They then decided to walk to the royal garden as they had wanted to see the flowers that were in full bloom. Also, they wanted to think about the reason Camelot insisted they continued their lessons and the garden was the best place to do it. The twins reached the arch made up of vines that was the entrance to the garden and entered the flower paradise. Rein sat on a stone bench facing a bed of blue tulips while Fine stood with her hands tied behind her back swaying back in forth in front a bed of sunflowers. As they took in the beauty of their favorite flowers they started recollecting the memories of what had recently come to pass—the restoring of the blessing of the sun.
It had been three weeks since Rein and Fine had destroyed the black crystal and restored the blessing of the sun. Along with this they also freed Prince Bright of the Jewel Kingdom from the dark powers of the black crystal. They had been put through many trails but the biggest trail awaited them in the Sunny Kingdom castle where they had to perform the Final Prominence. In their last attempts to save the mysterious star from the darkness they were going to disappear because the lack of the seventh grace stone left the other six stones to feed off of Fine and Rein's life force. They hadn't, however, because Poomo—their poomo fairy friend—intervened and became the seventh grace stone's substitute. The twins had finished the spell and once and for all destroyed the black crystal. They had successfully saved the mysterious star but ended up losing Poomo and cried thinking he was never coming back. Princess Grace appeared one last time and granted the sad princesses with one last gift and brought back Poomo which caused the girls to continue to cry, but with mixed feelings of relief and joy. A party had been thrown the next day to celebrate the fully restored blessing of the sun and the unity of the kingdoms. There was friendship in all seven kingdoms and the twin princesses couldn't be any happier.
"Fine, we made a lot of friends during the last year," Rein said to her sister breaking her stare off of the blue tulips. Fine couldn't agree more with Rein and started counting down all the people they befriended.
"Yeah, like Lione and Tio—"
"Mirlo and baby Narlo—"
"Milky and Shade—"
" Auler and Sophie—"
"Ichele, Nina, Saya, Shiyon, Gorchel, Loloa, Nursya, Harney, Quarry, Julia, Joiner, and Solo—"
"Pearl-chan—"
" Bright-sama," Rein added with sparkles in her eyes. Fine looked at her sister with awkward concern in her reaction to saying Prince Bright's name. Both Rein and Fine looked at each other and blurted, "Altezza!" How can they forget about Altezza when they had spent most of their journey with the princess of the Jewel kingdom? They laughed nervously at the thought of Altezza finding out that they had forgotten her. However, they had forgotten one more person or more like fairy who had been with them since the beginning of "the blessing of the sun is weakening" incident.
"Where is Poomo," Fine and Rein said looking at each other. They looked around them and, seeing he was not with them, decided to check there room. They dashed all the way to their shared bedroom and burst the doors open.
"AHHH!-pumo."
The Poomo Fairy jolted into the air in surprise after the doors to the room were brutally opened. It had been quiet the whole morning with no sudden noises so this sudden entrance had scared him nearly to death.
" Are you trying to give me a heart attack-pumo," Poomo said with a hand on his chest trying to catch his breath.
Rein apologized first, "I'm sorry Poomo."
Fine followed after with her hands clapped together saying, "Sorry Poomo."
Poomo's breathing had slowed down to a normal rhythm and his heart beat was at the right pace. He looked to the twin's face expressions of worry and scratched his temple.
"It's okay-pumo," he said while laughing nervously. Rein noticed that he was standing on her desk and there was materials scattered on top, so she asked, "What have you been up to Poomo?"
Fine also took notice and joined her sister in the questioning. They both stared straight at Poomo, which made him feel nervous.
"Nothing-pumo," he replied with quick speed and a high pitched voice.
Rein and Fine were now more curious then before and Poomo could sense it with the intensity of their stares increasing. They continued to stare him down and he cowered with the pressure so he turned his head away. When he felt a tickle on his cheek, he turned back to find his face only a few inches from the twins. Fine and Rein had scooted themselves closer to him as they were at the doorway just a few moments ago. He swallowed hard and tried to fly away but before he could, Fine and Rein grabbed him chanting, "Tell us!" Poomo resisted their stares for only so long until he gave in. He sighed dejectedly and said, "Okay-pumo." Fine and Rein high fived in triumph as Poomo turned around to pick up what he was working on before the twins came in. The twins tried to look at the objects in his hands, curious of what it could be, until he turned back to them and the objects were in view to the girls.
"SO CUTE," the girls squealed in delight with hearts in their eyes. The things he was holding in each hand were two bracelets. The bracelets were simple but still very appealing to the twins. They both had a gold chain that made up half of the bracelet and in the middle of it, there was a gold crown with a pearl. The other half of the bracelet was made up of a satin ribbon, which was tied up to each side of the gold chain, each a different color. One bracelet had a red ribbon that complimented the pink pearl and the other had a blue ribbon that complimented a light blue pearl. The girls looked from Poomo to the bracelets countless times until Rein said, "Did you make this Poomo?" To answer that question Poomo had puffed up his chest and beamed a smile in pride. Fine looked closely at the bracelets and noticed the pearl looked similar to the ones that Princess Grace had given them. Voicing her thoughts she said, "Are this the Luche pearls?" Rein eyebrows raised at her sister's observation and she looked at them once more.
"Yes they are," Poomo answered Fine, "I thought it would be nice if I put them in bracelets so you two can wear them and have them with you always-pumo."
Rein and Fine thought that was very thoughtful of Poomo and continued to admire the bracelets not noticing two figures appearing at the door.
"Fine-sama, Rein-sama," an all too familiar voice called.
"Camelot," the twins turned with a startle and with fear evident in their voice continued, "Lulu." Camelot stood at the doorway with her hands on her hips and sternly looked at the twins while Lulu stood next to her copying her pose. The girls were about to make a run for it for the second time that day, but were stopped by Camelot who cleared her throat.
"Uhm, even though I should take this perfect opportunity to scold you on running away from your princess lessons, that is not why I am here," the old governess said.
Fine, Rein, and Poomo all shared baffled glances and looked at Camelot. The education supervisor then said, "The Queen and King, their majesties, would like to speak with you." Now Fine and Rein were very curious to what their parents had to say as it had blocked Camelot's ability to lecture them about proper princess behavior.
"If you two would follow me to the comfort room, their majesties are waiting" Camelot said. Both she and Lulu turned around to begin their walk to the comfort room. Fine and Rein straightened up and with a quick reply in agreement they followed their education supervisor and the small cat. Poomo flew over in between the twins and while they walked, Lulu noted on her journal and recited, "Scolding can be put aside for later." Everyone sweat dropped at the young cat apprentice.
After a few minutes of walking through the halls they had all reached the comfort room. Camelot slowly opened the doors to the comfort room and both she and Lulu stepped to the side to let the princesses enter. Inside the room Queen Elsa was polishing one of her decors while sitting on a chair and King Truth was standing near the window, looking out, with his back turned to his two daughters.
The twins were halfway into the room when they heard a clearing of the throat. They both turned their heads behind them and saw Camelot demonstrate a small curtsy and Lulu copied her motions. Fine and Rein nodded and 'ohhed' silently. Turning around once again with both their parents' attention on them they performed a curtsy and both greeted, "Good Afternoon, Okaa-sama and Oto-sama."
The king and queen both smiled and greeted them back. Elsa motioned with her hand, putting down her décor, for the girls to come and sit on the sofa next to her. The twins shuffled to their seats and as they sat done Fine was the first one to ask, "Why did you guys want to see us?"
Elsa looked up at her husband, who had positioned himself behind her, with loving eyes and he looked back at her with the same look in his eyes. Rein's eyes sparkled and she was squealing mentally at the romantic moment her parents shared. Fine was oblivious to this and continued to stare at the floor as a thought had crossed her mind.
"Are we in trouble?"
Rein stopped her daydreaming of her and Bright and came back to reality. She let the idea of her and her sister being in trouble sink in. Both Fine and Rein let their eyes fall down to the ground. Truth chuckled and his wife smiled at the girls reassuringly.
"No you are not in trouble," the twins breathed out in relief and Elsa continued, "but we do have something to tell you girls."
On cue Truth walked around the table in the center of the sofa and chair and sat himself next to Fine and Rein. The girls were confused at what their parents had to say. Camelot and Lulu were also inside the room standing a fair distance from the family as they were also curious to what the king and queen had to say. After he knew he had his daughter's attention Truth finally spoke.
"You are going to have a little baby brother or sister," Truth said rather bluntly.
Silence engulfed the comfort room.
1 second
2 seconds
3 seconds past by when…
"WHAAAAT!"
The twins jumped up out of their seats, Poomo lost his ability to fly, and Camelot was being held up by Lulu as she had almost fainted. None of them were expecting this.
Elsa looked at her daughters and said, "I'm going to be having a baby." The first one to come up to the queen was Camelot as she took the queen's hands in hers and said, "Congratulations your majesty!" Lulu followed right behind her smiling with a tear threatening to fall from her eye.
"What happy, wonderful news," Camelot said with much praise. Elsa looked to her daughters and smiled at the sight.
The girls were jumping and spinning each other around in circles while, holding hands. Poomo was sitting on the couch looking up at the twins. They were overjoyed with the news and couldn't believe that they were going to be big sisters. "We're going to have a baby sister," Rein cheered. "Or a baby brother," Fine added just as cheerfully.
"We won't know until the baby is born," Truth added, "and that won't be until nine months from now."
Fine and Rein were disappointed that it would take so long for the baby to get here but they were still in high spirits. The girls stopped spinning as an idea dawned on them.
The twins began to realize the meaning of being older sisters. They were going to be role models to this new baby and the way they were now was not really model material. They faced each other with the same determined look in their eyes.
"Fine," Rein said.
"Rein," Fine replied.
"We shall become proper princesses," Fine and Rein said together with their hands clinched up into fists and pumped up to their chests.
"Ohhhh-pumo," Poomo was impressed at the girl's declaration
Camelot was touched by the girl's words that she let her tears flow down like waterfalls with off course Lulu doing the same. The queen and king were confused at the girl's sudden claim, but none in the less happy.
"We want to be responsible proper princesses so the baby can see us as role models," the twins said proudly.
However, the princesses were so happy that in the next moment they decided to do the happy dance. Their previous declaration seemed so far away to Camelot and Poomo as they dropped their heads in disappointment.
The King and Queen laughed at their daughters' sudden urge to dance. They believed that their twins would be wonderful older sisters to the new baby, but maybe their inner proper princess needed some work.
Oh well, they still had nine months to become proper princesses. For the meantime, they would remain the same cheerful, energetic, and smiling twin princesses of the Sunny Kingdom.