Sugar Sugar Rune; the Next Selection, Chapter 1: Cake and Popcorn:

"OKASAN! I'M HOME!" shouted Cake. Her mother was Queen Chocola and her father was King Pierre. They governed an entire magic world. Cake was always feeling lonely because her parents were always doing work.

"Yo! Cake, is something wrong? You look down?" Popcorn said. Popcorn was Vanilla and Woo's son. He was a year older than Cake but they became best friends that could not be separated no matter what.

"No I'm fine, it's just that okasan and odosan are always working. You think I would be more like my mother, you know outgoing and energetic, but I'm not. I wish that I could be though… huff!" Cake replied.

"You know uh, if you umm, need uh um a, shoulder to cry on then umm you can us mine if you uh want to," Popcorn attempted to comfort her sounding quite nervous.

"No! Its fine I'll, be alright! Besides, it's my birthday so there is absolutely no way that they'll leave me alone!" Cake replied.

"Cake! There you are! We've been looking all over for you!" Pierre said quite reluctant.

"Here's your birthday present!" Chocola said with a great big smile, "I know that you'll love them since you've been wanting these things for quite a while now!"

Cake unwrapped the gift, and found a beautiful red pendant shaped like a four-point star. She also found a stick that had the same shape in the same colour on the top.

"It's perfect!" She said sounding enthusiastic to finally have a stick and pendant.

"Um I also got you a gift so you wanna see what it is?" Popcorn said handing her a little gift box wrapped in red and silver.

She carefully unwrapped it, and inside she found a bracelet with a four-point star charm and her favourite food; cake.

"It's beautiful!" She exclaimed.

"I thought you would like it!" Popcorn replied.

"Ehem!" Pierre said to gain their attention, "Your mother and I have a very special announcement!"

"That's right! Cake, you're a candidate for the next Queen. Although, this time round there will be four contestants instead of two. So do your best okay?" Chocola said.

"Oh my gosh! I'm so excited!"

"And there's one more part!" Popcorn exclaimed, "The winner gets to marry me! So no matter what I'm going to be king!" then he whispered so quiet only Cake could here. "I hope that you win though."

Cake's face reddened so much it looked like she just came inside from outside on a cold winter day.

"Well that's about it from us! Now there are a few presents that came in the mail! Go ahead and open them whenever you want!" Chocola said.

Cake started to open them one by one. Some contained ecure, others little plushies, some even beautiful dresses. But the one she treasured the most was the one she got from Popcorn.

"Good morning Popcorn," Said Cake, "Ready to go to the human world?"

"You bet ya I'm ready!" Popcorn said.

"Great! Then we should probably start to head there. I'm really nervous! My mom said that your mom will be there to help us out yet, I'm still scared!" Cake said.

"It will all be alright. And don't worry! I'm sure that you'll win!" Popcorn said. Without warning he firmly planted a kiss on Cake's lips. The moment remained for about a minute until another witch broke the mood.

"Hey there, miss hime-sama. I heard that you're a queen candidate. Too bad you're gonna lose. Not just in the competition but your little boyfriend too!" a witch said seeming quite rude. Walking up to Popcorn she said, "Hello there. You must be Popcorn. I'm Fudge! Nice to meet ya!"

"If you don't mind I'm trying to spend a moment with my friend here!" Popcorn said.

For a second Cake seemed slightly disappointed but she didn't show it for long.

Walking up to Cake, Fudge whispered so only the two of them could hear it, "Looks like this will be easier than I thought!"