My first Princess Tutu fanfic! Please be gentle. This is a short narrative of one of my favorite scenes from the anime. Hope you enjoy!
A/N: I don't own Princess Tutu or any characters mentioned, but I will admit that the anime is my absolute favorite. 3
How Strange
When she woke up, Rue felt strange. She couldn't recall ever returning to her room the night before, and she couldn't believe that she slept in her school uniform and shoes. With a groan, she rolled over and stretched her limbs out against the comfortable bed.
Immediately, the glimmer, as red as her wine eyes, caught Rue's attention. Slowly, she crossed the room, a hand stretched out toward the foreign box sitting atop her dresser. "What…is this?" The glow died away as she touched it, and she almost couldn't believe her eyes the moment she glanced in.
"Why?" A voice behind her startled Rue, and she spun around.
"Who's there?" Rue found herself face to face with a crimson figure resembling Mytho. Every part of his body was red, from his hair down to his clothes and even his eyes. She stared at him in confusion as he continued to speak.
"Why did you bring me back with you?"
"Are you Mytho's…?" In her stupor, Rue realized what stood before her, and a small amount of horror filled her stomach. "I brought you with me? What do you mean?" Her voice quivered a little bit, and she clung to her dresser for support.
The heart shard smiled and laughed softly, which Rue definitely didn't feel like doing. "You want to know a lot, don't you? I know how you feel because I am the desire for knowledge."
"The desire for knowledge?" Before Rue could even process the idea, the heart shard began questioning her again.
"You don't remember how you brought me here?" He hovered a little before gliding to the side to inspect her a little more
Her? No way. Rue didn't even know how she would come across a shard of Mytho's heart, let alone take it back to her bedroom. "I brought you here? You're lying!" Rue turned, never taking her eyes off the heart shard, but he didn't seem to hear her.
"Why do you don black feathers?" He was suddenly behind her, and Rue cried out, waving her arm to ward him away. When she turned, he was gone, but his unrelenting voice continued to bombard her with eager questions. "Do you have a special power dwelling within you? Come on, tell me!" Rue glanced up at the ceiling and found him floating out of her reach, staring at her without about as much impatience as Rue herself felt. "Which one is the real you?"
"Stop it!" Rue covered her ears and shut her eyes, hoping to block out his voice and his questions, but she could still hear. Nothing would stop the questions! What kind of torment was this? How much could it really want to know, and did the questions have to be so confusing? Rue had enough!
"Who are you really?"
"Stop!" She clutched her ears, her breath picking up, and she didn't dare open her eyes until she heard nothing but the quiet peace of silence in her room. Her eyes flickered over to the box, where the shard was glowing once again. Quickly, as though her life might depend upon it, she slammed the box shut.
What if that didn't stop the heart shard from asking questions? The notion caused her heart to skip a beat. She anxiously threw the box into a drawer and shut it, holding it closed for a moment. Only when she was certain that the heart shard couldn't come out did she finally take a breath.
Rue had no idea how that heart shard came to be in her bedroom, but she knew she had not been the one to find it. Certainly she would never have taken a shard of Mytho's heart. Even if she had, Rue thought with a grimace, she would have had enough sense to leave alone the shard that asked a million questions.
All right, that's it. Hope you liked it! Thank you for reading, and leave a little note with your opinion, if you want to.