'What My Destiny Brings'
I don't owe Kyou Kara Maou! or its characters.
Chapter 1: A Little Angel
Everything had turned into ashes. No more traces of living things. Bloods were everywhere. Smell of Blood filled all of his surrounding; it felt like…it could take all of his energy to breath. He covered his nose with his hand, looking into his surrounding. Nothing…He was too late. There was nothing left out there. His brothers would kill him if they knew about this. His eyes stopped at the building not far away from his right.
Carefully, he walked to the building. From the hundreds of buildings, that was the only building that still stood tall. 'Not even a scratch' He thought, curious. His left hand reaching the doorknob, turned it slowly, while his right hand still covering his nose.
The inside was dark, of course, because that was nighttime. Slowly he walked in. All of the furniture destroyed. So many blood trails on the wall, floor even on his shoes, now. His feet stopped bringing himself further. His eyes widened, then closed did not want to see the picture in front of him. It was…ugly. Many corpses lying everywhere, making the smell worst.
'What happened here?' He asked to himself. Suddenly the voice of someone's foot echoed in the building. His eyes snapped open, looking into his surrounding. His right hand immediately grabbed his sword. Climbing the stairs slowly, he shouted, "Who's there!?"
No answer. The sound became faster after that, making him jumped in surprise. He gripped his sword tighter, his heart pounding loudly, his sweat falling from his forehead "Show yourself!" He then shouted again, but still no answer. After several seconds, the sound slowly disappeared. He then sighed.
Turned back, his eyes suddenly widened. 'Something or someone is pulling my sleeve!' He screamed in his mind. He jerked his head down and that made his eyes widened even more.
A little girl, with a long ivory hair and beautiful ivory eyes was the one who pulled his sleeve. She wore a long sleeve dress with the color of ivory covering her small fragile body. She was like an angel, but her eyes, they were blank, looking straight to his eyes, making his heart pounding loudly all of sudden.
"Do you live here? What happened here anyway?"
No answer.
"Miss? You can here me, can't you? …Is there something wrong?"
No answer.
He then sighed, "Let's get you out first from this place. Our medic will see what happened to you."
To his surprised, the girl gripped his right hand tightly with her two small hands, and then closed her eyes.
"Well, Gisela?"
After his army rescued the left villagers, they came back to Blood Pledge Caste, with the girl still stick to him a whole time. He was in infirmary as Gisela checking the little girl.
"Nothing wrong, Your Excellency. She's perfectly fine. But…" With weird eyes eyeing Wolfram, she said, "Why is she sticking to you like glue?"
Wolfram shrugged, "Don't ask me. She doesn't want to let go of my right hand."
"Maybe there's glue in her hands."
"Very funny, Gisela." He answered with annoying tone.
Gisela chuckled lightly, "Well of course. I'm just joking, you know."
Suddenly, the infirmary's door opened and came in Konrad along with His Majesty Yuuri.
"Wolfram, are you alright?" Yuuri asked worried.
"Of course, you wimp. There's no need to be worried about me."
"Gee…Wolfram you always like that. And PLEASE…don't call me a wimp!" Yuuri's eyes then trailed off to the little angel that sleeping with her head above Wolfram's laps, "What a cute little girl. Who is she?"
"I don't know. She didn't tell me her name. In fact, she didn't speak a single bit. I found him when I investigating the small village at the south."
When Yuuri's hand moved forward to touch the ivory's hair, her eyes slowly opened.
"She's…awake." Yuuri said, gaped at the scene before him.
That girl gripped Wolfram's hand…again…and caressed with her soft white cheek this time…
"Hey, can you let me go?" Wolfram asked annoyed.
The angel looked at him, and then a tear came out from her ivory's eyes.
"Wha? Oh, I'm sorry! Please don't cry." Wolfram said panicked.
The girl smiled then, gripped Wolfram's hand tighter.
Wolfram let out a long sigh, the girl looked up to him again, with worried face this time.
"Wolfram…maybe you should rest. You didn't get any rest since you got here." Gisela said.
"Okay, I will take a rest a bit before dinner." He then stood up; the girl copied his movement, and then gripped his hand again.
"Little girl…I want to take a rest. Why don't you play-"
"I want to join you…" The little girl whispered.
Wolfram's eyes and the others' widened because of that, "You…you can talk.." Wolfram said, surprised after hearing that beautiful voice.
The girl nodded.
"Ok, then…" He smiled to the girl, "You can join me."
The moon and the stars revealed them self to the world at last. Shin Makoku at night was very peaceful. At that time, many of them seemed to take a dinner with their family. Of course, the residents of Blood Pledge Castle were not exception.
Konrad, Gwendal, Greta, Gunter, and of course Lady Celi who had just arrived this evening from her journey to find 'Free Love' having their dinner with some little conversations they made between bites. However, certain people not yet seen by them, which made Konrad confused, and worried.
"Where are Wolfram and His Majesty Yuuri?" Konrad asked to the maids that stood behind them, waiting for them to finish their meal.
"Well, Your Excellency, His Majesty and His Excellency Wolfram asked us to bring their meal later." Sangria answered gently.
"Why's that?" Konrad asked curious.
"Well, that Little Miss…" Sangria said nervous.
"Oh, I see…" He smiled, and then continued his meal.
"Oh, how cute that Little Miss is! I hope His Majesty Yuuri adopt her!" Celi squealed happily.
"Mother, behave. We still search for her parents." Gwendal said annoyed.
His mother pouted, and then looked at him sadly, as if she would cry there at any second. But Gwendal knew better, that was only a fake. A FAKE, "Eeh? But Gwendal, don't you want to have a cute little sibling again?"
Gwendal eyes widened, and then he brushed it off, could not stand to hear her mother's request. Well, who did he think he was? He was Gwendal after all, who unbelievably liked whatever that cute!
"Oh, will I have a little sister, then?" Greta asked surprised.
"You will, Greta if your fathers adopted her!" Celi said excitedly.
Greta & Celi's conversation moved on until the end of the dinnertime. Konrad just laughed lightly, seeing his older brother in that state.
Sound of someone speaking could be heard from outside of His Majesty and his betrothed's chamber. Well, it was not too clear but every time people walked passed the room, they would giggled thinking something 'interesting' might be progressing between the Royal Couple inside that chamber. They all wrong, I'm afraid. The truth was there were two people investigated SOMEONE inside.
"What's your name miss?"
"I'm…Lala…"
"What are the names of your parents?"
Shaking head was his answer.
"Your age?"
No answer.
"Do you live in that village where I found you?"
"No…the village already destroyed when I arrived…"
"So…where are your parents right now?"
"Don't have."
"What?"
"I don't have any parents."
"You sure? You're not lying are you? …Are… they died?"
No answer.
Wolfram sighed. "This really is tougher than training my soldiers…" he thought, "Fine…the last one...who are you really?"
Lala just closed her eyes, shutting her mouth tightly.
"Heh…if this is the case, I don't know how to find your parents. Moreover, no clue a bit."
Yuuri who sat on the bed watching the girl investigated by Wolfram just smiled calmly, "Well, Wolfram…just don't push her too far. You're hurting her."
"Just don't sit there and watch! What should we DO, THEN!?" He shouted to the monarch beside him.
"Well…uh…"
"WIMP! JUST…Be quite!" He said tiredly. 'I don't believe this! He really enjoyed seeing me being tortured by something like this!'
"Fine! Do this yourself! Sorry cause I annoyed you, Mister Perfect! I will join the others now! Buh-bye!" Yuuri said annoyed, while he walked to the door of his chamber and finally walked out.
"If you and he fighting just because of something like this, you too are a wimp…"
"Wha!? Wait a minu-"When Wolfram turned around, Lala already asleep.
At the same time… Near Shin Makoku…
A woman that looked like around 20 years old, surrounded by a dark room, and many fountains, focused her eyes to the small pond in front of her. Many fishes swim here and there, making the place more peaceful. She folded her hands, her red ponytail hair danced freely in the air because of the wind that came in from the window near her, making her body chilled at the same time.
Suddenly, someone from outside enter the room, through a very big door, "Well, Cyrille? Did you find her?"
The red hair woman that was called Cyrille turned her body until she faced the tall young man with a black hair and also a pair of black eyes who just now questioned him, "Not yet, Sir Riku. I'm truly sorry. I'll try harder."
The man who called Riku just chuckled lightly then smiled, "No, it's okay, Cyrille." He walked forward until he was beside Cyrille, seeing his reflection and Cyrille's on the pond, "How's the progress?"
"I already scanned Big Shimaron and Small Shimaron territories and other territories near them, but I could not find her. So I suppose she's somewhere near Shin Makoku right now. I detected a small aura of her there…She's inside Blood Pledge Castle…"
"Blood Pledge Castle? Whose king defeated the first King and destroyed Soukoku just some times ago?"
"Yes. His Majesty Yuuri Shibuya, the 27th Maou of the Great Demon Kingdom."
"Well, maybe we could ask them for help?"
"NO! Sir Riku, we cannot relay to the people who do not have… any importance or business with this problem! They will get kill if they get involved! By 'them'! I'll find her quicker, then!"
Riku just sighed tiredly, then smiled, "I really can't defeat you in argument, can I?"
"I'm sorry…I spoke to you like that, Sir Riku."
"No, it's fine. You have a point, though." Suddenly his cheerful face turned serious, "Find her immediately. I don't want that wretched man has his hands first on Riemsianne."
"Yes, Sir."
Suddenly, the water pond formed a small twirl, making Cyrille'e eyes widened in surprise, "Sir Riku!"
Riku who heard her, immediately scanned the pond, after sometimes, his eyes widened, "No, this can't be happening… Not that man…"
Wolfram could not sleep. 5 hours had passed since he plopped down onto the soft mattress of his King. He also started counted numbers so that he tired and sleep but it was futile. His left hand felt tired. He turned his head to his left, watching Lala sleeping while hugging his left hand. He really confused. Why was this girl always attach to him wherever he go? Sure this girl was cute, but Wolfram didn't like her attitude. He felt like this girl was hiding something, hiding something VERY important from everyone else, even him. Sure, she did answer the question he asked earlier, but she just said, "When I woke up near the village, I was already alone. Don't know about my parents, or where I came from. I even don't know about myself. But something in my mind said that I have something to find and I finally found it…" What was she searched anyway? She also always wore that blank face whenever she neared someone else. But she smiled widely when she was alone with him. Because of her attitude, Gwendal and the others asked him to take care of her and search for her parents alone (with Lala too, of course) tomorrow morning. Her attitude really was confusing him, he felt like his head was going to split into two in any second.
"Can't sleep?"
Ivory eyes slowly revealed them self from their hiding place. Lala moved closer to him, hugged him tightly, with worried face facing him.
He smiled gently then. Even her attitude really was confusing him, there was something from this girl whenever she showed that gentle face, he would immediately felt warm inside, "I'm sorry, Lala. Did I wake you up?"
She shook her head, "I too can't sleep."
"So you just closing your eyes back there?" Wolfram asked a little surprised.
She smiled, and then looked at the ceiling above her. Silence filled the room once again. After several seconds, she asked, "Is there something hurt?"
"No. Maybe because you're hugging my hand all the time. I felt my hand became weak."
She giggled softly, "No way." She then buried her head above his chest, still hugging Wolfram tightly, "But… it's your destiny, after all."
"What?" Wolfram blinked his emerald eyes not hearing that sentence clearly.
She raised her head slowly, "Nothing." She smiled widely, "Let's get some sleep. I will sing you a song…"
"You can sing?"
She nodded slightly.
"Okay, then. Go on…"
Slowly she sat down as her eyes closed, and then raised her head. After several seconds, a sweet yet beautiful melody echoed the whole castle, making the castle peacefully with the moonlight night shined above them, majestically.
But, because of her song too, Wolfram's unrecognized destiny begin turning slowly.
Someone black lingered near the chamber, lips smiled widely.
"I finally found you, Riemsianne…"
END