~ Chapter 2: Wedding ~
There is one place, of course, we can't forget to mention. At the peaceful Ripple Star that night, while the citizens of Pop Star were getting ready for the Cappy Town Festival, we find the fairies preparing for something as well: a wedding. The princess of Ripple Star was set up with an arranged marriage, with a handsome young fairy prince.
Each fairy had been assigned a job to do for getting everything ready. Whether it be painting the walls inside the castle in which the wedding was taking place, or ordering all of the wonderful fruits and foods the princess would like to eat at the party. A group of fairies in the choir practiced singing for after the princess and prince kiss. Another fairy traveled all around Ripple Star rapidly, delivering invatations. Other fairies worked together to put up the decorations, inside and outside the castle.
As you can see, all of the fairies have been quite busy for the past few days. These fairies have been taking the wedding very seriously, for afterwards, they will have two rulers of Ripple Star for the first time.
Ribbon, a fairy ton of you might know, had the most important job of all. She had to give everyone the jobs in the first place, order people around, and make sure everyone was working properly and everything was functioning right. Not only that, but she had to comfort the princess as well. You see, the princess had been very nervous ever since planning the whole wedding began, which got annoying for Ribbon.
The princess also wanted the wedding to be absolutely PERFECT, and doesn't want one thing to mess it up, which puts more pressure on Ribbon.
"Ribbon!" shouted the princess.
"Yes...?" Ribbon sighed, then turned around to look at her.
"Carry these boxes please to the main room! It is the heart fruits we ordered!!"
"Of course." she took the box from the princess's hands and walked down stairs to the main room.
You could say Ribbon was almost as tall as King Dedede, she wore a short dress similar to what she wore when she was a child, only there were no orange buttons on it, and it had no sleeves at all. Instead, she wore a brown belt around her waist, so the bottom part of the dress sort of looked like a short skirt. She also wore a white cloth around her neck that covered her shoulders, similar to a cowl-neck. She had beautiful red velvet gloves on her hands that had the ends cut just like the end of her dress. Her shoes were brown, and her white socks reached to above her knees. As usual, her hair was short and she wore a ribbon on her head.
Ribbon reached the main room, and set down the box.
"Abby.. get the fruit out of this box, please."
"Mkay!" A fairy dressed in blue sporting a burgundy red hat with her hair the color of lavender fixed up in pigtails flew over and opened the box.
"Ribbon!!" The princess shouted again,"Come into my office! I need to speak to you!" Ribbon could sense she was in trouble.
Her office was a quiet, small room filled with friendly pictures of fairies, poppy bro jr.s, and sparkies on the walls. There were some papers held together with heart paper clips on the desk, and a cute pencil sharpener next to them. The open window in the room lit the office with glistening moonlight. Even though the office felt pleasant, the princess's anger only filled the room with sadness.
"Sit," the princess pointed at the chair. Ribbon pulled the chair from the desk and sat. She fixed her glasses before saying anything.
"Where is the pianoist we hired?! I thought you said you got one!"
"I.. kind of lied. I'm sorry, princess! I was swamped with other work!"
"Stop slacking off and get one! Never lie to me again! I mean it." she yelled for about one more minute until she let Ribbon out of the office. The princess isn't always like this, she just feels completely nervous and stressed about the wedding, even more stressed than Ribbon felt.
The outside of the castle was just as busy as the inside, so Ribbon went far from the castle, and into the peaceful meadow to take a break.
The meadow was a really large field filled with grass the shade of a light green. A cool breeze would always run through the grass, and lavender, gold, blue, orange, and many other colors of flowers bloomed everywhere in the moon-lit field. A few windmills were set up and blew in the breeze. There was a large tree on top of a high cliff where you could view a large scene of the meadow, which stretched so far, you couldn't see nothing but the beautiful meadow.
You could call this place Harmony Meadows, because the peaceful surroundings made you forget about all of your stress. It was the complete opposite of that cold galaxy where Nightmare died.
Catching her breath from running from the castle, she dropped to her knees, feeling the calm grass upon her legs.
She layed down under the large tree, and slowely closed her eyes and began to fall asleep after another tiring day...
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"Ribbon!" She heard her name get called as she woke up from her night's rest.
"Abby?" Ribbon said, wiping her eyes.
"Ribbon! I thought you'd be here. You've got to get to the castle right away! It's the princess! She passed out." She pulled Ribbon up and tugged her quickly to the castle before Ribbon could say a single word.
Walking towards the castle, they could see several fairies talking and looking at the princess lying on the ground.
Ribbon ran toward her "Who did this?!"
The princess opened her eyes and slowely spoke "...vampires..."
"..Huh?! Vampires.." Ribbon said in disbelief. "Nothing ever comes to Ripple Star. Not since those several years ago.. the crystal should have prevented anything from coming."
"No! There are vampires, I saw them! But the crystal did scare them off. Pretty weak vampires if you ask me," the princess said getting up, brushing dust off her dress as if she wasn't harmed at all.
Suddenly, a bright light came from the sky. It was a small space ship with a star marked on it. The space ship opened up, and a Waddle Doo and two Waddle Dees came out. The Waddle Doo handed a letter to the princess.
"This letter is only to be read by the princess." said the Waddle Doo.
The princess gulped as she looked at the letter's address. It was from Popstar.
"Who's it from?" Asked Ribbon as she tried to read the label. The princess pulled the letter away from her sight.
"Oh... you know! The castle's electricity bill!"
"The castle's electricity bill usually comes in the mail.." Ribbon said in suspicion.
"Its not the electricity bill.. It's from Pop-" Waddle Doo was quickly interrupted by the princess
"Heheh I know! I know! Now you guys get along into your space ship and leave I'll read it!" she rushed them into the space ship.
"Er, OK, but you've got to make sure you read it! Its impor-"
"Yes, I know! Now shoo!" She pushed them in the space ship. All of the fairies watched them leave.
"That was really akward.." Said one of the fairies. They continued watching the princess staring at the sky until she realized they were staring at her.
"Eh?! What are you guys looking at! Get back to work!"
All of the fairies obeyed her and got to work. All but Ribbon. She secretly followed the princess into the castle, and saw her walk into her royal room and locked the door. Ribbon knew she was up to something.. how the space ship came to the planet and then left quickly, something wasn't right..
