Every princess in a fairy tale has a happy ever after except maybe for this one. Her life was once a fictional character in a fictional world until things went real. The girl's name is Hikari, the next heir in the throne. She has a long brown hair that extends until her waist. She's very cheerful, lovely and never hopeless so that what captures the hunter's heart, Daisuke. A year before, he courageously went into the palace and asked if he could marry their daughter.
The king and queen thought about it for a month and agreed after their son's disappearance. They called Hikari and announced that from now on he will be staying in the palace and is now her fiancé. Hikari didn't even say a word because this is also for the kingdom sake, for the Digiworld sake. A year later her parents were caught in an accident and unfortunately, both of them didn't survive.
It took her three months to recover from this incident and with a little help of her best friend, Tailmon, her lively attitude came back. As of now, she's on the palace roaming around watching the mountain's view, window to another window. Other than this, she also often seen in the garden, messing up with the palace's staffs; disarranging palace's decorations and swirling around on the ball room alone, pretending she's dancing with someone.
One day, she received a birthday invitation on one of her friends, Hawkmon and decided to go. She hurried down the stairs and greeted one of the servants and said that don't tell Daisuke that she left the palace. After all, he's one overprotective fiancé.
"If he asks, kindly tell that I'm just in my room sleeping, okay?" Hikari said while winking. She happily ran outside the door thinking that this was her first time to leave the palace and went into the forest. But she didn't know that there is someone who is following her, one of the eyes of evil.
"Looks like my prey is here in the forest, perfect" A voice was heard on a green light that was seen above a mysterious well that is in the very center of the forest. "Now all I need to do is to drown her here."
The green light grew and then became a woman. She's wearing a long black dress that extends to her ankle and a violet scarf. She waved her left hand and a basket full of pears appeared in her hand. She took one of the pears and laughed until the pear become yellow.
"Hikari-sama would you like to do the honor of hitting the piñata?" Hawkmon asked while passing the stick to her. The girl nodded and the digimon immediately blindfolded her. They assisted her until she was in her position at the same time the mysterious woman arrived.
She secretly cast a spell on the place where the girl was standing and slowly the ground softened and collapsed. She rolled down the cliff that made the digimons shocked. The woman followed her and waited for her to reach the inner forest to carry out her plan.
The girl reached the ground scathed and her dress was all torn up. She removed her blindfold and rubbed her eyes; she didn't know how she ended up in there and looked up the cliff. She then concluded that she fell from there because of the traces that were left behind.
"Now what am I going to do? I didn't tell Daisuke about this, no, this was my entire fault" Hikari squealed. She fell on her knees and was going to cry until she saw a strange yet beautiful light, lighting her path towards a cabin. She gently knocked at the cabin's door and opened it.
"Sorry to intrude but may I come in?" she nervously asked. A friendly looking woman approached her and welcomed her. She told the girl to sit in the chair near the shelf to treat her wounds properly. Hikari seems to trust her because of her sweet smile but she never knew that she already fell in the enemy's trap.
"Almost finish, dear" the woman said in such sweet voice. "So do you want something to eat? I got pears." Hikari scratched her head, denying that she wasn't hungry when her stomach grumbled. "Not so hungry I see" the woman joked. She took the basket of pears and brought it to the girl. "Shall we eat together?" she offered. She took two yellow pears from the basket and handed one to her.
"Ah, thank you very much but I don't know to eat this thing" Hikari said shyly. The woman smile and said that it was just simple; just bite the fruit. Hikari don't know where to start so the woman said to imitate her on the way she eats it.
When the woman took her first bite, she said to took one too and guess what, she did. The girl soon become unconscious and fell on the floor. The woman laugh and laugh for her plan was a huge success. She dragged her towards the well but had a difficulty in throwing her in because of her fancy dress.
Back in the palace, Daisuke was repeatedly asking the servant because he knew that the servant was lying. He asked his best pal, V-mon to go to Hikari's room and found no sign of her. He glanced at him and pulled his collar and carefully asked on where's Hikari.
"Daisuke-sama, she went on her friend's birthday party. And I think the birthday celebrant was Hawkmon" he said. Daisuke was angry, she didn't even informed him that she would go to a birthday party. He rushed into the forest and found everyone was shocked.
"Hey you, where's Hikari?" he shouted on one of the digimons who was standing next to him.
"Hikari-sama...Hikari-sama fell on the cliff" he said. Daisuke was shocked. He pulled out his rope and climbed down. He's very worried that maybe she's in trouble. When he got down, he called out her name but no response. He looked down, saw her footprints and he followed it.
He saw the footprint just end on an empty space were the cabin used to be. The cabin was just an illusion to help her fool the girl and to do her final plan; drown her in to the mysterious well. He didn't lose hope and continued searching the forest.
"Such foolish being with foolish mind, how pathetic" the woman smirked. She pulled out her staff and showed her true form. Hikari who was half asleep saw this and her senses went back. She can't believe that he's still alive...
"Your Devimon are you!?" she shouted. The creature looked at her and said that she wasn't she's LadyDevimon. She felt sad as she remembered her brother, fighting the enemy and ended up missing. She also felt anger passing in her vains but was interrupted when Daisuke arrived.
"Hikari!" he shouted while swinging tree to tree with his rope. "Get away from her, you monster." Daisuke positioned his legs to kick the creature but she quickly avoided it. She raised her hand toward the sky and begun chanting the words for a spell.
"Chain Bind!" she shouted and suddenly the boy was bind. The chain becomes tighter and tighter that causes the boy's breathing to slow. He tried struggling to break free but failed and the worse thing was he was forced to watch the scene where LadyDevimon drowned Hikari. His tears rolled out from his eyes thinking that he failed on protecting not just her but the whole Digiworld too.
At last the chain was removed and LadyDevimon flew away. However he felt more ashamed of himself and punched the ground. He walked towards the well and repeatedly called her name for maybe she would answer and come out the well.
On the other hand, Hikari was falling on the well thinking that this might be her end because the well seems to be bottomless. She tried to relax by closing her eyes and suddenly a bright light surrounded her. She slowly disappeared from the well and was transported somewhere and ended up on the other world's well.
It was raining that day and she climbed out the well and found herself in a new environment; there were buildings, vending machine and more than she ever saw in her whole life. She doesn't know what she should fell; scared or amazed. She turned around to find where the noise is coming on and found a door.
She nervously opened it and was surprise to see someone. She took a wrong step backward and immediately slipped. However, she didn't hit the floor for the person she saw, held her hand before it happened. He took his hood off so the girl could see his smile. The girl saw his blonde hair and blue eyes and he greeted her.
"Hello there. My name's Takaishi Takeru and your name is?" The girl glanced on his raincoat thinking that he was sort of an alien but he totally looked like her. She knocked her head for she taught that it was just a dream. On the other hand, the blonde just looked at her saying in his mind that maybe she lost her sanity. Finally the girl stopped knocking and extended her hand for a hand shake.
"Yagami Hikari is my name, nice meeting you!" Takeru shook his hand and carelessly asked if she's a foreigner from another country. She doesn't seem to know what to answer after all she's not from that anyway.
"What do you mean foreigner? Is that a new word or something?" she asked while scratching her head. Much for Takeru's surprised, he changed the question: "Are you a special child or you came from the past?" Still the girl doesn't know what to answer and he let out a sigh. He looked at his watch and found out that it's already four in the afternoon and bid the girl goodbye.
"Wait, Takeru-kun!" she called out. He stopped running and turned to her. "I'm lost... can you help me go back?" The boy agreed and asked her on where does she live and was disappointed when she said something that can't be found anywhere in the world.
"File Island, are you sure? There isn't a File Island anywhere near or in Japan or in the whole world." Takeru raised his eye brow as he looked at the world map in his phone.
"Japan? What is Japan?" she asked. Takeru gave her a serious glance wondering if she's an escaped mental patient who doesn't know everything in this world.
Suddenly a purple haired girl who was running her bike fast hit him and both of them fell on the ground. Hikari ran towards them asking if both of them are alright. The purple haired girl then smirked at Takeru and begun teasing him for finding such cute girlfriend.
"What do you mean you don't have any time for this thing, huh" she teased. She stood up, went to Hikari and begun inspecting her. "Fancy blue dress, long brown hair, same age but a head shorter, I see!"
"Miyako-san, she's not and besides I already told you I don't have any time for romance or something connected to it, okay?" he moaned. He picked up his bag and as he ran into the bus stop, he gently waved his hand to the both of them.
"I'm sorry I thought you two were-' her words were cut by Hikari by saying that she forgave her already. She sat on the school bench and let out a sigh. She looked at the sky and wondered if this world where she is currently right now might be the world of no happily ever after that was mentioned to her by her parents when she was still about four to five years old.
"A world where there's no happily ever after" she whispered. Miyako seemed to had heard what she just whispered and asked her about it. Hikari depressingly looked at Miyako's eyes and briefly answered her question after she saw that she can be trusted.
"What! You lived in another world!" she shouted. She can't believe that there is for she knew that today, the scientists has not yet discovered about existing other worlds and magic. Hikari told her to lower her voice because they might be heard and the problem might get bigger.
"So Miyako-san, please don't tell anyone about this okay? Hikari whispered. "It's just a secret between you and me." And then the girls made a pinkie swear and both smiled at each other.
"By the way, you can stay in my house until you can go back. There's still a space in the attic." Miyako stood up the bench and winked at Hikari. "And if you're bored of doing nothing, you can go to school with a help of a friend."
"Who?" Hikari asked while thinking what does the friend of hers is she talking about.
"You'll find out soon, Hikari-chan!" she said with enthusiasm.