Disclaimer; Half Prince is the work of Yu Wo. Any characters and things besides the plot are all owned by her.
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Feng Lan wasn't your ordinary twenty year old university student. Nor was Ming Gui Wen your ordinary university professor.
In a game called Second Life, the before mentioned lived a life of a tranny, while the other, the life of a guy chasing love eccentric bard... Who was straight, mind you.
And they said game characters often represented your real self.
Ha!
Boy was whoever said that far away from the truth.
If anyone found out that the mighty Prince; the ever wanted, ever hot, ever bishie of Second Life was indeed a girl in real life, hearts would be broken. Gui would probably rejoice, however
With the mess to cleanup that Long Dian had left, and still debating what to do about the game, the entire Odd Squad was sadly busier than usual.
A secret top meeting at the company's headquarters confirmed that the characters within the game, the "NPCs" were gaining self aware at a faster alarming rate than what they all had anticipated. However, after Long Dian was defeated and the Dictator Of Life regained control, the Non Playable Character's self awareness was at a steady rate that could possibly keep the game afloat for a few months. Everyone gave it a year, at most.
Long Shui Han, the one behind the Game Master character Lolidragon, and the daughter to the president of the company that made Second Life possible decided it was best to keep things as it was. According to her; "We have to avoid as much drama as we can and for that we have to act normal whilst we come up with a solution to this."
Yet she couldn't really say how they would keep the secret of the NPC's gaining self awareness. So it was then decided that Prince, (who was the game's official spokesperson anyways,) would deliver the details of what would become of Second Life in a year. Withdrawing much kept secret information of course.
Like the fact she was indeed a girl. Or had fought Long Dian and Dictator Of Life.
In the end, they had all made up some excuse; blaming it on the software and the like. Rumors started of course but nothing that wasn't fixed with Prince making appearances within the game and offering his most sincere apologies with a longing and distant gaze into the horizon.
By the third month, everything was almost going back to normal.
As normal as a game that would be discontinued in a few months, of course.
Prince hadn't been logging on as much as girls playing the game in hopes to see him would like, however, but besides that things in Second Life went back to a steady, normal pace.
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Feng Lan, the one behind Prince, was currently in turmoil not because of the game but because of her homework.
With a sigh she decided she had wrecked her brain long enough and had closed her literature book, tossing her assignment away as if it was the plague.
"If I didn't need to pass the class, I would want nothing more than to throw my kitchen knifes into you." She glared at the book she had discarded and crossed her arms.
Now being free from the likes of studying and homework, she decided it was about time Prince made an appearance. It would serve as a distraction anyways. And she needed the practice. With that thought in mind she laid in her bed and put on her gaming helmet.
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Regaining sense and slowly opening his eyes, Prince blinked and stared around. He forgot exactly where he had logged out from but when he saw he was in his room he sighed in relief.
No annoying fan girls. Good.
"YOUR HIGHNESS!"
Scratch that.
The one thing he didn't need right now was his fanboy. And the reason he was so upset.
Putting his hand into a fist, he hit Gui's head and roundhouse kicked him at the same time. Once he was flat straight into the ground Prince nodded his approval and walked out his room.
"The nerve of him!" he had uttered out loud.
"PRINCEEEEEEE!" Gui had managed to recover faster than the blood elf had anticipated.
"What?" He replied, annoyed, as he fixed the bloody red tiara.
"Your highness looks the most radiant." Gui said with his eyes sparkling.
Prince sighed. "What level are you, Gui?" he asked curiously. "Don't make me lower it to two below the ones you are at the moment."
Gui's mouth quivered into a scowl. "I just thought..."
"Whatever you were thinking, you stupid bard," he pointed a hand at him, "stop." He flicked the bard's forehead.
"But I can't!" The ever non-composed Gui replied.
"It was probably nothing good. You deserve to be demoted not one, not two but three levels you, you, you," Prince was trying to find the right word. "You... Slave driver! Yes that's what you are."
"Slave driver?" Gui cocked his head to the side confusedly. "Your highness when have I ever...?"
"Don't play dumb with me!" And he huffed.
It was pointless and un-gaming etiquette to bring real life matters in to the game. With that in mind Prince ran to the place he thought the kitchen was at. He could use that place to think, and get something to eat as he was starving.
"Don't follow me!" He threatened, looking to the back of him at the bard, who was frozen in place. "That's an order."
"Yes, your highness..." Was Gui's ever sad reply. To him, Prince's words was law.
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"It's not funny Lolidragon." Prince said as he bit into his sandwich.
The redheaded thief was chuckling to herself.
"Yes it is." She said as she leaned by the counter. She was eating some fruit. "It took you half an hour to find the kitchen. You're so uncoordinated, Lan." She snickered.
Prince glared. Lan? Why was she calling him Lan?
"Why are you calling me that?"
Lolidragon shrugged. "We all know who you are here so it's fine, isn't it? Saying Prince here and Prince there, left and right gets sooooo boring!"
Prince flung a piece of tomato her way. "Well, stop it."
"You're grumpier than usual." Lolidragon commented.
"I'm so stresseeeeeed!" Prince uttered. "I came here to take a break but lately things are just getting worse."
"Okay, what happened. Fess up."
"Ish onnitufg chu Gui." Prince said, a his mouth full from a bite of his sandwich.
"Cute." Lolidragon muttered and rolled her eyes. "Now talk with an empty mouth."
Prince swallowed, taking a gulp of water as well. "I said it's annoying to see Gui."
"When isn't it, for you?" Was the thief's eloquent and fast reply.
"Humph!" Prince crossed his arms.
Lolidragon grabbed a fruit and bit into it. "You two are always bickering." She stated. "And you're always threatening to lower his levels by two or so."
"It's not my fault he's so annoying!" Prince pouted.
"And it's also not his fault that he just happened to be his majesty's ever hot literature teacher too." Lolidragon snickered.
Stuffing his mouth, Prince didn't reply but simply fumed. He then sighed and walked away. "Thanks for nothing..."
Lolidragon shook her head. Those two, would be the death of her and everyone else in the castle. Now if they would just get together and make things easier for them...
"Like that would happen." Lolidragon uttered as she too walked out the kitchen and decided to see what trouble Prince would be getting up to today.
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"And then, his majesty scolded me!"
Gui was still in tears and mumbling incoherent things around the castle, that Ugly Wolf couldn't take it anymore and decided to snatch him up and make him do some errands around the castle with him.
"That's pretty much your normal every day occurrence." Ugly Wolf couldn't help but state, a sweatdrop appearing at his forehead.
"And he called me a slave driver too!" Gui was bawling. "Me? A slave driver? Never!" He gasped.
Putting thought into it, Ugly Wolf said, "Perhaps he meant your other self..."
Gui blinked. What other self? It's basic knowledge that Second Life only gave you the chance to make one avatar and that was it.
By pretending to be a gay bard, he felt he was wasting his sole avatar choice. At least he thought so in the beginning. Not anymore.
With a sigh, Gui dropped to his knees and cried louder. "Why was his majesty the first person I saw that I wanted to play around with? But now it's not and everything is so confusing...Waaaahh his majesty..."
Ugly Wolf could only stare. And this was the 200 IQ professor that was his best friend in real life?
"There, there," with a pat on his back, he offered the bard a handkerchief. "Let's go find Prince, alright?"
"Why is Gui on the floor, and why are you looking for me, Ugly Wolf?"
At the voice of his beloved, Gui kind of cheered up a bit.
"His majesty!" Gui stood up and wiped away his tears, running up to Prince and opening his arms widely. Prince moved out of the way and Gui glomped the air.
"I asked something, Gui."
Ugly Wolf felt bad for the bard. Kind of.
"We're looking for you so Gui can cheer up."
Lolidragon deciding not to come out of her hiding spot yet and staring at the three in the hallway, pursed her lips, deep in thought. She was wondering what she should even do.
Using her fast running skills, she purposely ran into Gui and Prince, knocking them together in the process. Gui was now on top of Prince. "Whoops!" She stated, as if she hadn't meant to do it.
Prince was glaring daggers. If looks alone could kill, Lolidragon would be dead. Luckily she was not the type to be intimidated so easily.
"To what do we owe this pleasure, Lolidragon?" Ugly Wolf tried not to smirk as he noted Gui's blushing face and Prince's flustered one as well.
"Ugly Wolf!" Lolidragon chirped happily. She ignored the two she had made fall. "Just the person I was looking for!"
"May I inquire as to what for?"
"There is a bit of a problem about the castle I need to discuss with you." The thief's facial expression looked surprised, happy and the like, but the message she was trying to relay to the Priest was; come with me this instant or else! Ask anything and you're screwed!
Ugly Wolf, being the perceptive person he was, caught on pretty quick.
"Well, good luck you two." Ugly Wolf waved his goodbye and silently followed the thief, not even sure where she was taking him to.
After all the confusion and staring at the now empty hallway, Prince was the first to react. "Gui, you can get up anytime now!" His patience was running thin. Getting even thinner by every passing second.
This sooooooo goes into the beyond personal space level! Prince's mind was screaming at him.
Regaining most of his composure, Gui rolled to the side and Prince heaved a sigh of relief. With a puff of his cheeks, all he yelled was; "You will pay for this, Lolidragon!" Then glanced at Gui. "And you... You will be demoted one level!"
"Your highness!" Gui wailed. "This isn't even my fault. It's not fair."
Prince stood up and brushed invisible dirt from his clothes. The floors of the castle were always kept clean. "Do you want me to make it five?"
"No..." Gui pouted.
"Then be quiet and follow me." Prince fixed his tiara and using his cold demeanor facade, angrily stormed through the hallways in search of the thief that had left no less than five minutes ago.
No one embarrasses the Blood Elf and gets away with it!
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Season Of Magic: Hi! So, I was asked if I was ever going to write a fanfiction for this series. I'm here, thinking "Whatttt! Pfttt you're crazy!" Then I realized I love the series so much that I have re-read the Light Novel so many more times than I could count! So I was just like; "Meh why not?" And came up with this little plot.
I am in the middle of HUGELY editing all my other stories, (from Card Captor to Inuyasha to Pokemon,) that I have written over the years. This is just a little side project. And it's my first Half Prince fanfic, please go easy on me!
If anyone is wondering who got me to writing this, thank Anonymess, I got the courage to write this fanfic because of her. CHECK OUT HER STORIES YO! *flails*
Rai out.