A/N: This is my first attempt at a story and I hope I did okay!

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It was sunset. "Good-bye Siegfried!" called Rue, "I would accompany you back to the academy, but there's something I have to do first."

"Oh," said Siegfried, "Good-bye Rue." They went separate directions.

Some singing came from a bush, "The raven died, but the crows still lurk to save their blind princess."

Rue began walking faster. Some flapping came from the bushes. Rue began running. She turned several times, before running directly into Fakir. "What are you doing here?" he snapped.

"No time!" said Rue very scared, "They're after me!" She bolted off without waiting for his response.

After several more turns, she spotted Duck the duck. "It's not safe!" Rue said, quickly scooping Duck up. "The crows are coming!" She ran, no more than a few more steps, when she tripped. Crows swarmed around her carried her off. "Help!" she screamed, "Help me, someone, anyone, SIEGFRIED!"

"Rue. Rue, wake up," said Siegfried, trying to wake her up.

"They have me..." said Rue, still attempting to wake up.

"Who?" asked Siegfried, unsure what Rue was saying.

"Oh!" said Rue, "I'm sorry, I'm okay."

Siegfried wouldn't have it. "Who has you?" he asked.

"It's fine now," said Rue, "it was only a dream, all the stupid crows aren't real."

"Okay," said Siegfried half smiling, "well I guess we can hope breakfast isn't gone now."

They both laughed. "Of course there's still breakfast," said Rue, "why wouldn't there be for the almost king and his almost queen?" She was absolutely correct. By the time they were down to the meal hall (or wherever they have breakfast), there were two spots for them, as there always were ever since they had arrived at the fairy tale kingdom last week.

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After breakfast, Rue gave Siegfried an account of the dream in its fullest. She then followed up, "And if those annoying crows still want me as their princess, then I'm going to give them trouble." She gave a sharp glare at the ground.

"Rue," said Siegfried, "I think that something's wrong. We should go back to Goldkrone town."

"Already?" said Rue, "We just got here last week." She turned to look out a nearby window. "But I suppose that it wouldn't hurt. So how do we get back?"

Siegfried smiled. "The same way we got here." The two went to the swan carriage.

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When they got to Goldkrone town, several things happened. The two stepped off the carriage, and were in their school uniforms. Less than a minute passed, before a very familiar red-head darted by, and then doubled back. "What? Mytho and Rue, what are you doing here? Oh, Never mind, I gotta go!" she was gone as quick as she had appeared.

"Duck, come back!" said the red-head's friends, Pike and Lillie. Lillie further commented, "Oh, she's so cute! But why doesn't she want to talk about where she's going?"

Pike shrugged in response, and then said, "Hey isn't that senior Mytho over there with Rue?" The magenta-haired girl and blonde shouted a quick "Hi!" and ran hastily ran off to spread the gossip. Mytho, as he was called here, and Rue exchanged smiles, and headed in the general direction Duck went.

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Meanwhile, Duck had been running for a little while, and stopped to catch her breath, then thought, 'So wait Mytho and Rue came back? Why's that? Oh, maybe it was weird for them to see me too. I mean last time they saw me, I was a duck, like the bird. So well, maybe I should go back and find them, but where do I lo-'

Then her thoughts were interrupted by, " Duck, we both saw you so why don't you come out and tell us what's happening, and we'll tell you." It was Rue's voice.

Duck had thought of several ways to tell them what had happened but after turning to Mytho and Rue, the ways became jumbled in her mind. "Uh... hi and I guess it's weird that I'm not a duck, but that's, well uhh... a long story and I think we should sit down and we'll all talk slower than I probably am but uhh... this is a new story and I get to find some problem or something I don't know, I wanted it to be a surprise and maybe that wasn't a great idea, so let's see, I was just trying to find Fakir and then I saw you guys and then I was thinking and then you asked me what was happening and here we are!"

Rue and Mytho couldn't hold back a laugh at seeing the girl Duck they knew so well back again. Duck felt a sweat drop form on the back of her head. "But it's true," said Duck looking down disappointedly.

"Silly Duck," said Rue, and Mytho finished the thought, "We're just happy to see you again." Rue nodded in agreement, and Mytho continued, "So we'll tell our end of the story. In a nutshell, we were back at the Flower kingdom for a week, until Rue seemed to miss here, so we're vacationing, so to speak, and Rue and I would be happy to join you, Duck. Right, Rue?" Rue's bright smile was enough of an answer.

"Thanks Mytho! and Rue, too!" said Duck. Her expression was then a pondering kind. "Hmmm..., so where do we start looking?"

Rue stared off into the distance, remembering the time she and Duck had been looking for Mytho, shortly before she had attempted to dance against Giselle. Except this time, Mytho wasn't missing and Rue probably couldn't care less about the used-to-be knight, but would help anyway because Mytho and Duck cared. So Rue put on some positive mental thinking and helped out.

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"Well let's see, he's not at the academy, and I already checked that end of town, but he's probably on this end of town anyway because I never really go to that side of town that often. Oh, whatever," said Duck running around, looking up and down the streets.

Something then occurred to Rue. "If Fakir is writing a story, don't you think he would be indoors?" she asked Duck.

"Rue's right," said Mytho.

"Oh I'm such a moron, why didn't I think of that?" said Duck, about to start running, but then turned on the spot and asked, "So where would he be?"

Rue face palmed, and Mytho looked over at Duck and said, "Probably at Charon's, so how about we try there?"

"Right!" said Duck, and the threesome left for the aforementioned place.

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A/N: I think that's good for the first chapter. Hopefully it was vaugely followable. This story was created from the dream sequence at the beginning of the chapter, which I wrote early October last year, I and I then started toying with it. Oh yes, and I will be very excited if anyone can guess where I got "the Flower kingdom" from. Please leave a review even if you don't have an account or thought it was terrible! Sayonara!