Halo!
As promise, this is from Romano's POV. I think I like his version better than Natalia.
Caution: Crack pairing! Character death and OOC!
He gave a sighed as he watched people around him. All of them looked at him like he was some sort of rare animal. Every time he went to greet them, they would greet him back politely and smile. Fake smile! Just because he's the prince and brother to the king, Feliciano Vargas, doesn't mean that he fell easily in their trapped! They put on their fake smile, politeness and dress to impress him. Everything about them was imitated!
'Hm! Pathetic!' he screamed in his head.
He went to the balcony which was facing the castle garden and greeted by a soft cool breeze. This had made him remembered the dream he had yesterday night from a person with messy blonde hair and green eyes.
"Dear prince, the true love that you seek can be found with a girl in a dress that had the same colour as your dress at the ball tomorrow night…" he said before he vanished completely.
He sighed again as he rested his elbow on the balcony edge and rested his own chin on it. 'Was everything he said is true? Still, I couldn't find the girl that I searched for, yet…' he thought again as he gave out a sighed. Then, he noticed someone entered the garden. He looked down and surprised at the sight.
It was a girl in white with slightly blue dress with a white headband decorated with blue small ribbon. She stopped by the fountain and fire flies flew out of the white roses at the fountain. Quickly, he ran back inside but bumped with his brother.
"Ve~ Fratello! Where are you going?" the king asked.
"Outside…" he answered shortly with annoying tone as he ran down the stairs, through the crowded people and to the garden through the twin glass window. Feliciano looked at his brother in amused. 'Its looks like he's in love…'
Outside, Lovino stopped behind the girl before tried to speak to get her attention. "Excuse me, miss…" he said with his heart beating very fast. The girl actually turned around with widens eyes. Blue sea eyes met green forest eyes. The girl looked beautiful from closer. With her platinum blond hair and pale delicate skins completed with deep blue sea eyes behind those white masked like him.
The prince walked closer as he held out his white gloves hand. "Would you like to dance with me?" he asked with smiled curved on his lips.
The girl looked at him with confusion before she held out her own white gloved hand and took his own. "S-Sure…"
As he got a positive answer from the girl, the prince gently pulled her toward him and placed his other hand at the back waist of the girl while the girl put her other hand on his shoulder. Then, they started to waltz under the silver moon light with the star glittering above them. They continued to waltz farther into the garden surrounded with various flowers as fire flies flew out from their hide out.
Romano had to admit that this girl was so beautiful. Her movement was very gracefully and soft. Everything about her was soft and delicate. He couldn't tear his eyes from hers. He had fallen in love in the first sight of the girl. She followed every step that he leaded.
'Name… I must know her name…' he thought. He opened his mouth as they continued to waltz.
"Tell me, lovely miss…" he asked and got a blushed from the girl. "What's your name?" he asked again as curiosity over power him.
However, the girl suddenly stopped waltz as she looked up to his eyes. Her eyes were sad. He had bad feelings about it.
"Natalia…" the girl spoke. "Natalia Arlovskaya…" she continued. Her voice was so melodic like the singing bird in the morning. It's only fair if he told her his name.
"Lovino. Lovino Vargas, Miss Arlovskaya," he told her as he took her hand and knelt in one knee. Then, he kissed the back of her hand softly. After a few seconds, the girl suddenly pulled his hand from the prince gripped.
Confused with her reaction, he stood up and took her other hand. "What's wrong? Is there something not alright?" he asked worry with her reaction. 'Please say that you are different from the others. You do not love me because I'm the prince. It because of who I am…' he added mentally as he worry more about her as Natalia looked at him with a sadder eye.
That when her eyes suddenly widen and gasped. After that, she turned and about to leave but the prince had gripped her wrist first as if he knew that she going to leave after her earlier reaction.
"Wait!" he shouted. "Take off your mask, please. Let me see your face so we could meet again!"'Hopefully' he added with hope in his heart.
She turned to face him but he met with tearing face instead the early face. He gasped but pulled her closer to him and wiped away the tear with his thumb. He smiled as he tried to calm her.
"Why are you crying, my little flower? Your beautiful face will be ruined," he said.
Quickly, the girl answered his question as she freed her self from the prince gripped. "I… I have to go… Good bye…" and with that, she ran out of the garden to the castle and disappeared in the crowd.
Didn't want to waste anytime, he ran after her through the crowd and saw her ran to the hallway. He ran as fast as he could and somehow able to catch her at the empty stairs. He gripped her hand tightly as if she was his most precious treasure. She turned and shocked at the same time.
"Don't go! Open your mask! Let me see your face, please…" he begged.
Her face showed that she panicked! She took a glanced at the clock and causes her to panic more. Confused, he asked her, "Why are you took a glanced at the clock with panic? The night is still young…"
Before he could continue, he saw that tears started to flow again from her eyes. He pulled her into a hugged as he rubbed her hair softly. 'Don't cry… I'm going to stop your tears from flowing. Only me… forever…'
Thong! Thong! Thong!
The clock rang which means that it's midnight now. He noticed that the girl dress turned from beautiful white dress into black ugly dress. That's when he smelt familiar scent. A gun powder scent mixed with a perfume that came from the girl.
Then, he heard Natalia's weak voice saying "Good bye…" Before he could said anything, suddenly, he felt pained at his back. Only his eyes traveled to his back. He saw that Natalia had stabbed him, violently, with her knife. Unconsciously, his hand went up to grab her mask and took it off before he fell on Natalia and both fell to their knees.
With one hand on her shoulder, he faced to face with her and looked at her face. He let go of the mask in his hand as he ran it on Natalia's beautiful face.
"Y-You beautiful… without your masked, m-my little… flower… You don't need tiara or silky dress… to love me… I… love you… Just the way you are… forever…" was his last word before he closed his eyes forever. 'You indeed different from the others… That's why I fell in love with you… Maybe I should thank that sorcerer bastard the next time I saw him… at the other world…' and he fell into a long slumber forever.
A few days went on and the culprit that killed the prince never been found. However, during those days, a mysterious platinum blond girl would waltz in front of the castle everyday. The weirdest thing was she would waltz in rag but with glass slipper on her feet.
If you were the sorcerer, you would see that she was not waltzing alone. The green eye sorcerer who watched her from far could see that she waltzing with the prince in the soul condition. He's grinning as he turned and walked away from the place where Natalia waltzing with the deadly bodiless prince.
"You may have broken the curse but…" he stopped as he chuckled. "You had to take the consequences of getting help from the sorcerer like me…"
"The great Sorcerer of all era, Arthur Kirkland… and all of your past was only a dream. A beautiful nightmare and your endless fairy tale..."
-faint laugh-…. I'm sorry! I know that Arthur had many fans out there but I cannot thought of other sorcerer than he! But, what do you think about the story?
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