Chapter one: She'd be there

"But father it's not fair!" the pink haired princess yelled out and ripped off her tiara, which until then was beautifully placed amongst her shiny and luscious hair that barely graced her shoulders. Tears nearly fell from her emerald eyes when her father didn't even twitch from her pain, did he really not care? Sakura was a simple girl who never asked anything from her parent, who did everything she was told and who rarely wanted anything in the world, but to ask, no demand, her to do this? No, that's where she drew the line.

"You are stripping me of my birthright." Sakura's eyes were full of hatred and her voice was colder than it had ever been.

"Your birthright is to protect this kingdom!" Her father's voice rumbled through the room they were in like thunder.

"The oracle gave us one last chance to unite the light side, you can't fight that." Her father spoke out, his voice calmer than before. Sakura stared at her father, who didn't seem to care about her distress. She felt a tightness in her chest, as if her dress was getting smaller by the second. She soon wouldn't be able to breathe when looking at her father's emotionless face. But then something in her just snapped.

'Can't fight that?' The princess thought as she bit her lip to the point where she could taste the warm red liquid in her mouth.

"We'll see about that." she muttered as with her last look she glared at her own father. She was holding back immense rage that was boiling inside her. No way anyone was gonna do this to her.

Quifilia. That was the world of the two kingdoms. Or, well, actually more like eight but that's not really the point here. There was a time once when everyone lived together in peace, without sides or differences dividing them. The legends say that the gods created Quifilia for the chosen people, a beautiful land where people could live happy and in peace with each other. And for centuries, even millennia, Quifilia wasn't ruled by anyone, everyone were equals and the world was at peace. That era is now only a legend, a ghost of the past.

It all ended when the war started. A war that severed Quifilia and the people living in it in half, forming the two sides that were named the light side and the dark side. People became angered with each other, soon the equality of all was gone and people were at war with each other. And that war nearly destroyed everyone. The gods were not happy of the destruction of their paradise and saw that people could not live without hierarchy. The war ended with no winners, Quifilia's former glory was gone.

After the war ended with mutual destruction, the two sides of Quifilia were formed. From the scattered survivors a few were chosen to be given a gift. The gift would make those individuals different from everyone else, but those people were to also be the ones that were to bring peace. But peace wasn't achieved to the point were Quifilia was a unified land once again. The hostility of the war remained and Quifilia settled into two parts, two sides of the world that were still not at peace with one another, even though the parts themselves had peace.

And for a long time there was peace among the light side of Quifilia. For centuries all of the four kingdoms were happy, helpful and most importantly at peace with each other. But after the war, the light and the dark had nothing to do with one another. Talking about the other side of the world was very forbidden, everyone liked to think that the other side didn't exist. Sakura didn't know much of the dark side, only what she'd been told, and from those small little things she came into the conclusion that it was a bad place that nobody wanted to talk about.

A while back the four kingdoms of the light side came together and started planning an attack on the dark side. The plan was to conquer it and turn Quifilia back into what it was once, restore it into it's former glory.

Yeah that didn't go as planned. The four kingdoms started fighting over petty little details and ended up ruining the peace they had. Then some sacred whatnot oracle announced to the rulers of the four kingdoms that the only way to restore peace on the light side was for every kingdom to send a princess, an heir to the throne, to another kingdom for marriage to act as a bond that would pull all the kingdoms together again.

"Bullshit I say.." Sakura muttered when slouching towards her bedroom or 'slumber' as the maids liked to call it.

The history of Quifilia had always been interesting to the pink haired princess, but whenever she was faced with the inability of the light side to work together, she wanted to vomit. Now the latest stunt that they were trying to pull off to achieve peace was exchange her life for it. Hell no, there was a lot she could handle but that she wasn't going to do.

When Sakura finally got to her bedroom after walking in circles around the castle, she slammed the dark wood door shut so hard that the loud noise echoed through out the empty corridors. Nobody in their sane mind would even consider entering her room now.

The pink haired princess collapsed on her soft bed filled with silky pillows. Sakura grabbed the nearest one and pushed her face against it, letting out the loudest scream she could. After screaming almost all the air out of her lungs, she could finally calmly breathe. She felt like crying, but she didn't want to, so she didn't. This wasn't something she was going to cry over and just blindly oblige to throwing her whole future away. Of course restoring the peace was the most important thing to do in her position, but why did it have to ruin her life. Why was is her that had to be sacrificed?

"UGH!" she growled and threw her tiara on the floor. Sakura turned to lay on her side, staring out of the large window she had in her room. Breathing in, sorting things out in her mind and breathing out.

"And this is supposed to be the light side?" Sakura mumbed to herself. "Whoever came up with that was definitely wrong."

The night had fallen to the southern kingdom but Sakura still wasn't asleep. Her wedding was only a fortnight away and she wouldn't eat or sleep until that horrible day. Maybe for her sake she'd die of exhaustion before that. She stared at the sparkling tiara on the floor with large green eyes. The tiara was beautiful, there was no doubt about it. It was a symbol of her high status as a princess, but at the same time it reminded her of the fact that she was to be sent away to marry someone she didn't know in the name of achieving peace.

And that meant that she could never ascend to the throne of her own kingdom. She could never fulfill her birthright as a princess, meaning she could never rule her people like she'd been destined to. All her life that was ever she'd been taught, it was everything she'd ever prepared for. And now it was taken away from her because an oracle nobody had ever heard of before said it would bring peace? How could her marrying someone else create peace? An alliance maybe, but it wouldn't create peace. That's where everyone was wrong.

Sakura's eyes glimmered with tears as she continued to stare at he tiara. She didn't even want to touch it so she sure as hell wouldn't pick it up from the floor. The tiara had lost it's meaning in her eyes. Once it had symbolized her path to becoming the ruler of her land. Now it symbolized her future that had been taken away from her. It was almost painful to think about it.

That's when she heard a noise. "For fucks sake.." the princess growled, wiping tears from her eyes. Who was idiotic enough to bother her at this hour, when she was hurt, hateful and confused?

Slowly her head was lifted from the pillows and she glared at her door. Who would be bothering her after midnight? She rose to her feet and walked to the door, not bothering to put her tiara back on. It was going to stay on the floor, where she would leave it. But when she checked, nobody was at the door. A fleeting feeling of annoyance ran through her mind, bringing up the boiling anger inside her again. Was someone playing games with her?

But when she turned her head, a beautiful white dove was quietly sitting on her window sill. It was the bird who'd knocked on her window to gain her attention. The whole thing was bizarre, she rarely got anything from anyone - and when she did it sure wasn't delivered by birds. Sakura didn't recognize the dove, it was an ordinary bird so who would, but she still opened her window. That's when she saw the flash of the symbol of the eastern kingdom on the bird's neck. There was only one person in the eastern kingdom she knew that would think of something like this.

"Hello there.." she whispered to the bird as she carefully slipped off the note tied to the bird's neck. Once the paper was removed, the bird instantly flew away. Sakura was then left alone in silence. She watched the bird disappear into the darkness of the night and wouldn't open the tightly wrapped piece of paper before she lost the sight of it.

"Dear Sakura," Sakura read out loud, but quietly as if someone was listening. She clung to the words as if someone was there to take them way from her, tightly holding on to the small piece of paper in her hands.

"Meet me in the great forest at the border of the four tomorrow after the sun has gone down. Be careful."

It was signed by you know who and had a small hand-drawed picture of a cloud. A small smile rose to the princess' lips as she turned to look at the moon lighting up the darkened sky. She sure as hell knew who it was and she sure as hell would be there. There was no doubt about it, nothing could stop her now.

She'd be there.

Phew, now that that's done, hello!

This is the first chapter of my adventure of a lifetime story that was, I know, a little ehh. Maybe it went a little too fast for my tasting and didn't have as much description as I would've liked but I had to just blurt the start of the story on one chapter or it wouldn't have really made sense in the second chapter. But hey, it only gets better from here.

❧ Goddess of glam