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Once upon a time, there was a princess who was cheerful and energetic. She had a loving father and a gentle mother. The King and Queen were popular among their people. The country flourished under their guide. All was well for the family until that fateful day.
It was a stormy evening and two people in black cloak stopped at the gate of the castle. They begged for a place to stay for the night as they had come a long way to this kingdom and were tired. When the gentle Queen heard of this, she warmly welcomes them into the castle. But, unbeknownst to them, this was a bad decision, a very bad decision.
When the night came, something bad happened and it changed the fate of both the kingdom and the princess forever. The two cloaked people were, in fact, dark magicians that were feared even by their own kind. They had a strong desire for power, so they thought of a plan. They decided to make use of the trusting and gullible nature of the royal family as well as their own dark magic. After that fateful night, the royal couple was never to be seen again. As for the princess, she was being locked up in a tower, never to see the outside world or the sky. The dark magicians took over the country. Thus, the once joyful country became shrouded with misery and darkness.
The princess grew up inside the tower with no one to talk to except her childhood friend, the daughter of the prime minister, who was being locked up with her.
On the other side of the land, in Fire Kingdom, the royal prince was summoned by his parents who gave him a mission.
The intertwining fate of these two people leads to the start of this story…
"Mikan, have you finished the work I gave you?" Hotaru, standing in front of me, crossed her arms and asked me.
"Eh… You see I'm finishing this eh… book," I randomly picked up a book from the floor, "so… not yet."
"So… you are reading Integrated Engineering now?"
I read the title of the book I was holding, seemed like I picked up the wrong one. "I don't know how to do it," I admitted. There was no point in denying it anymore. "Why do I need to do it anyway? I will stay here forever."
"As an idiot? I will never allow this as long as I'm alive. Besides, we may get out someday. Who knows?" Hotaru shrugged.
"I'm sorry. If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't be stuck here. Forever."
"Stop. They need me as a hostage to force my father to work. I will be kept as a prisoner anyway. What is it that you don't understand?" she gestured at my homework.
Hotaru, my childhood friend, was a genius. She always said she could invent something to get us out of this tower as long as we had the materials. Unfortunately, Kuonji and Luna wouldn't have made this mistake. We had only a small panel at the base of the tower for trays of food, books requested by Hotaru and basic necessities to be pushed in each day. There wasn't even a window, just a slit at the top. I missed the sky. I missed my family. I didn't even know if they were still alive or not. I woke up being locked up in this tower with Hotaru years before and was told that I would never see the sky again and that the kingdom no longer belonged to my family.
"Natsume, do you hear me? This is very important," asked Queen Kaoru.
"Yeah, of course. I have to save that stupid princess."
"Not the stupid princess, your fiancée, my best friend's daughter."
"Then why do you wait till now to save her?"
Queen Kaoru rubbed her temples, "The prophecy, my son. Don't you think I want to save her the moment I heard the news? We have to wait till the right moment. Now is the right moment to remove those two people from this land forever. You know what to do?"
"I never know I have a fiancée. Where does that come from?"
"That's a promise made before you were both born. So, now go out and save her."
"You want to kick your son out of his own kingdom?"
"Not yours, mine. Not yet yours. Not for a long time," the Queen smirked and her red eyes twinkled with amusement. "What you need to do now is to save her and bring her back. I will tell you what to do after that. Now do what I told you. You may bring some help if you want."
"No, I can do that myself." The prince walked confidently out of the throne room and towards his fate.
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