a.n. Hi guys! I got obsessed with Miku/Luka, so I had to write this. I got this idea at the dentists' office this morning, lol XD.

Enjoy. I don't own Vocaloid, or any of the characters. But I do own the plot. XD

16-year-old Princess Miku Hatsune was spending her afternoon in the highest tower of a deserted castle in what was supposed to be a wonderland. It certainly looked like it to her, as she gazed out the large stone window on the back of her bedroom wall at what seemed like miles of lush green meadows (past the moat of lava that surrounded the castle and the few miles of brown-black igneous that surrounded the moat; Miku also ignored the sounds of the screeching dragon many floors below).

She wasn't allowed to ever leave this place. She spent her days and nights here, waiting. She didn't even know what for; all she knew was what her brother, Prince-no wait, now King Kaito Shion, told her in his enchanted letters that came to her window magically. She would often write back on the enchanted parchment and quill he sent with his letters in a small parcel. Yesterday, out of sheer curiosity, she asked him why she was trapped in this room all alone forever.

So there sat Miku, gazing out in boredom at the sunny meadows that sat peacefully miles from where she was, (the place she stayed in seemed almost permanently cloudy; one could almost describe it as sinister, with the orange-red glow of the lava below reflecting on the solid black stone above it almost eerily) waiting for a letter with a red-and-blue yin-yang-style seal (the red was for Queen Meiko) to float through the window.

The long wait was rewarded, as she saw the beige-yellow of the parchment envelope cautiously float in through the stone window. Miku ripped off the seal and began reading the letter eagerly, devouring it in less than one minute. She was quite surprised when she read this letter, because, unlike her usual everyday letter where Kaito would tell her about his day and answer any questions she had written to him about, he had only written the answer to her question, but neither shortly nor briefly.

Miku suspected that this letter wasn't finished, yet it was signed at the bottom, and didn't look like it was written in a rush. She also imagined that it could have been a forgery, but it was written in the same navy-blue ink and neat fancy scrawl that only her elder brother had.

Miku looked over it once more:

"Greetings, Miku.

I was quite amused to see the question that you had asked me yesterday. Frankly, I'm rather surprised that you would ask a question of that sort; I thought that you had already figured out the reason that you were confined to that solitary lone tower. But very well, I shall answer it anyway. There was once a curse put on our parents that nobody in the tower knows of; not even the chief mage. I have inquired about this curse to many; no one knew. Apparently, it was forbidden magic that was cast upon our parents. The day our father, the king at that time, died, and our mother shortly followed. You were only 2 at the time, and I was 4. Once our mother died, you disappeared somehow. Just like that...you vanished into thin air.

I started to cry, so the mage gave me a stack of the parchment paper that you're reading now, along with my special quill, saying that no one would ever be able to recreate or forge a letter from the prince. He explained that I could write to you this way. He also said that only a very special person can visit you; and that no one else in the kingdom can ever find you. It HAD to be that special person.

The reason you are waiting and that one special person are connected.

Miku, the thing you are waiting for is-"

Miku frowned. This part of the paper seemed to be singed off. The only thing that was left after the scorch marks faded was the ending: "Best Regards, Your Brother Kaito".

Miku sighed and sat down on her small wooden cot, wondering if the only true escape from this place was death...

The Knight called Megurine was wandering for miles in what seemed like the middle of nowhere in her armor; she was a knight and had trained in secret; it came in handy later when...she shook her head, trying to clear it of those negative thoughts.

She was starting to break a sweat, which was highly unusual. She had trained long and hard under very strenuous circumstances, so she rarely ever broke a sweat while fighting.

She finally spotted a meadow in the distance. She stopped, contemplating what she should do. She looked behind her. Hills of green and the purplish-blue mountains stood tall and proud behind her, and in front of her stood a vast field of green. The wild grasses were so tall they came up to her waist. The endlessness of the field seemed to be mocking her.

Frowning, the Knight called Megurine, more commonly known as Luka, looked around even more. Luka was relieved to find that there was a small spring with an apple tree growing at its shore to her right. She happily trudged over and filled her canteen with the clean sparkling water, and happily, almost like a little child, picked enough apples to last her at least one day.

She filled the burlap bag she had slung over her back with all the apples and started eating one, contemplating her decision. She got up, taking her canteen and burlap bag with her, and began to trudge through the waist-high grass, hacking with her sword at it to clear the path ahead of her.

This might take a while...

Miku, while thinking about how to escape, had noticed that it had started to get dark out. She, in response, closed the black curtains she had made for the window after feeling a draft, and sat down.

Miku's room, though simple, was rather well furnished. She picked a thick brown leather-bound book out of her bookshelf, something that she had been doing every day since she could remember, and flipped to the page where she had left the small red-ribbon bookmark that connected to the spine of the book. She placed it on her desk in the corner of the room and lit the candles that were methodically placed around her room. She finally lit the one at her desk and picked up her enchanted quill.

She began to write, the words forming beauteously on the paper in solid black ink. She wrote about the letter she had gotten today from Kaito and her thoughts today in general.

After she had finished, Miku closed the book and put her quill down. She looked at the book and smiled. This book was enchanted, much like everything else in this castle. It never seemed to run out of pages. When she was little, she had remembered it being much thinner in size. She closed her eyes, reminiscing at her younger days, when she didn't question anything and could live without the burden of wonder.

She picked the book up with a sigh and slid it back into its place on the bookshelf. She put her quill back in its place on the desk and blew out all the candles until only one remained at her bedside. She sat, thinking about what really could've happened to her parents and what that curse really meant.

With one last sigh, Miku blew out the candle and collapsed onto her wooden cot.

Luka had been walking for quite some time in the meadow. She looked behind her to see how much progress she had made. All she saw in the moonlight was a path clear of any weeds or grass that extended forever behind her. Luka grit her teeth and fought the aching pain in her legs. She methodically kept swinging her sword and trudged onward in the sea of grass, now a pale, shadowy-green in the moonlight.

She kept on, pushing herself to go faster, almost at the point where she was running just to get out of this horrid, endless sea of green.

Finally, Luka collapsed onto her knees on what seemed to be rock of some sort. It didn't seem to go on for very long; at least not as long as the meadow did. In the short distance, she could see dark clouds around one specific area, and even though it was dark, she could see the moonlight reflecting off of the stormy-gray nuisances. She could only see a dark shadow at the base of the clouds; the central point that they all seemed to be drawn to.

Luka's curiosity was the sole reason she kept driving herself to go on. She ran and ran, pushing herself to go further and further before she collapsed.

After running for another mile or so, she ended up at the edge of the rock, and felt some sort of glowing heat from below her. She looked down, and was shocked to see a sea of hot glowing lava below her. What she was standing on seemed to be a cliff of some sort.

Luka winced at the thought of accidentally falling in and stepped back from the edge to get a bearing of surroundings. Or, she tried to.

By this point, Luka was bone-tired, and she collapsed onto the rock below. Unfortunately, the rock couldn't take all of her weight with her armor all at once, and crumbled.

The Knight Megurine's last thought as she watched the rock ledge above her shrinking was a rather ironic one before she fell into complete unconsciousness.

Huh, I seem to be falling...

If there were any bystanders, they would report seeing a rather small silhouette falling, not even trying to grip the rock wall a few feet from them.

But of course there weren't any bystanders. Not even the smallest animal could have witnessed this event, for the silhouette had fallen into the moat of lava that surrounded the Enchanted Emerald Castle.

a.n. Review. This is my first Miku/Luka story, by the way.