The Demon Queen
By: Lady Danielle
Demon King? Demon Queen?
Someone touch their warm hand against me cheek, which makes my eyes open to a pair of black eyes, Ken Murata. We met eye contact as he pulls away. I quickly sit up, look at him, and hugs him so tight. I hate to express my weakness, but I was so scared that I won't see him or anyone while I was in that world. Or was it just all a dream? I didn't understand, but I don't want it happening again. He holds me back and I take a look around. I'm in my schools nurse office.
"I'm so happy to see you." I hold him tighter.
"What were you thinking? I bet you were running around the pool area too." he scowls me.
I pull away and smiles, he's such a nice person to complain. Ken and I had been friends since we were five years old. As I look at him, I see a blush running across his face, and looking down.
"What are you staring out?" I look down and see my flat chest all out in the opening. I just grin and narrow at a turned head. "I'm flat man, don't worry about it." I laugh about it. "it's not like I haven't seen you."
That's right, Murata and I use to take baths and wash together. I'm as flat as a boy and I think its just flesh.
"Not in school and as a gentlemen to not look at a woman's body." he says, still back turn to me.
"You need to relax. If it makes you feel better I don't wear a training bra."
"Riku, you don't say those kind of things to a man, and how dare you flash him the goods!" I know that voice. "I leave for one second and your flashing the world."
I look to my left and see my mom with girlie clothes fold in her arms and my father. I quickly pick up the covers and cover myself. I am caught again. I just broke out the habit of walking around the house topless. I say, if theirs nothing their then why cover.
"Mom, dad." I smile nervously.
"Call me 'mommy,' Ri." she calls me by my nickname, walking over to me. "Like I told you, a woman's body is a sacred vessel…"
"I remember!" I didn't want to hear about periods and becoming a woman again. "Besides, Murata has seen me naked before. It's not a big deal, but ok." I shug my shoulders and look at the yellow top and skirt my mom brought me. "Are you serious?"
"It's about time you wear some girl clothes, Ri. I have no idea why you got into the whole boy thing anyway. But then again," she turns to my dad. "it could be your father and older brother."
"All I did was make her sleep with a t-shirt." he defends himself.
"And I thank you till this day, daddy." I wink at him. "Guys clothes are loser than girls."
She turns back to me then holds up a training bra. I rather wear a sports bra.
"Do I have to?"
"Yes, you're a growing woman and you have to train your body to get used to them. Now put this on." she places all of them on my lap.
Ken gets up to walk on the other side of the room, next to my father. My mom gets up, pulls a curtain to hid me, giving me time to change. I get up from the bed and start putting on my clothes. I rather wear a guys uniform than girl clothes. I look around and my wish comes true. On the end of my bed, cover by the sheets is a guys uniform. My wish has come true. I pick up the uniform, hold it, and smell it. It's Ken Murata's uniform.
"Thank you, Ken." I whisper.
When I finally change my clothes I pull back the curtains and smile at my parents. Ken left because he was going to get it from my mom. My mom looks at me, shakes her head, and a loud sigh escapes her. I walk to the nearest mirror and look at myself.
"I miss wearing the boys uniform." yes I used to wear the boy uniform until I today to be truthful. "Nice and lose."
My mom comes behind me, gropes me, and I quickly takes her hand away. "You have lumps now. I knew their was a difference when I saw you. At least your wearing a training bra."
"Lumps?" I touch my chest and she's right, I have small mountains-no I have hills. "My little hills."
"I'm so happy!" My mom hugs me. "I was asking your doctor about it. She was right about how your just slow, but your going to bounce in no time."
"Mom." I whine then look at my dad. "Daddy, makes her stop."
"You know when you mother sees you grow its no way I could stop her with snuggling." he laughs.
I am about to lift my arms up, but their a small pain on my wrist. I look and find bandages on my hand and wrist. I hold it up to my parents.
"You sprain your wrist. The nurse said you'll be fine in a couple if weeks."
"But I have a neighborhood baseball game with the guys tomorrow. I need this hand."
"Your going to have to pass. If you haven't noticed Ri, you have scares like a wild woman. You have scratches all over your body. Are you sure you just fell in the pool. Last night you had nice legs, now your just scratched up."
"What's todays date?"
She tells me and it's the same date and only three hours after the fest. That can't be right, I was sure I was out for a week and a half. I don't understand it. I want to tell someone what I've been through, but who would believe me? I think even Ken would laugh at me if he knew I was being raised by dragons. I don't understand this. At first I thought it was a dream, but my wrist and what my mother says…what happened to me?
"Oh," I just remember. "Where's Professor C?"
"Oh that handsome teacher who saved our little girl, your Knight and Shining Armor?" my mom gazes into the stars.
"That man is her teacher?" my dad sounds surprise.
"Yes, he's also the man who names her if she Yuri if she turned out to be a boy. Remember the day I went into labor and he picked me up on his horse?" my mom smiles harder.
"You mean a taxi." I smile.
I heard this story so many times by mom. Professor Conrad is really my grandfather but I refuse to let my crush have a title and I didn't turn out to be a boy. He doctors had a wrong, as you can see I am a girl. Yuri is an ok name but, I rather not be named after urine. All I need to do now is thank my sensei, but I know he must of gone home by now. I look at the time and read six o'clock.
"He must of when home all ready." I press my finger against my lips. We kissed…kind of. It was lip contact and it was my first. I blush and smile.
*****
A few hours after my big brother making sure I was all right, eating dinner, and calling Ken to come over so we can talk and see the new me. Yes, the new me. Well not the new met yet. I go into the bathroom with a pair of scissors. Yes, I'm going to cut my hair. Before I do that I'm going to take prepare a bath. I still reek of chlorine. A nice bath could fix that. I'm still thinking about the whole experience I had and what they called me in the other world. I think they called me "His Highness." I didn't get it, but their no reason to get it.
I cut my hair like a guys, like my brothers with more body to it. It grows back quickly so I'm not worried about it. After cutting my hair I climb in the bath. I'm going to take a quick dip before Murata gets here.
"This feels great." I hold my breath and clothes my eyes.
I know I should be afraid that I might be afraid of water, but I'm not. I sit back up in the water, look at Murata's clothes on the floor. I can't abuse his clothes like this. I lean over to grab them and feel a pull on my legs. I'm being pull by the water or something. I fight to grab something to grab on. The pulls starts to become stronger. The only thing I am able to grab before I sink under water is the uniform.
I close my eyes and I open them again to a night and black fog sky and the smell of something burning. I look around and see something on fire near by. It's a burning village.
"I have to do something." I get up and feel Ken's clothes slipping off of me. I'm naked. I can't save people without clothes. I put them on and run towards the town of scare villagers. They are wearing clothes I only find in my history textbook. I see a woman in front of her burning house, crying hysterically.
"My son! My son is still inside!" She's yells at a soldier wearing the same gray color uniform and a lion quest on his right chest.
"Ma'am, this is wizard fire, we can't let it out. Please stand back." he holds on to her.
"No, my boy!" she yells.
"Where is your son located?" I grab both of her shoulders and look into her crying eyes.
When she stops panicking she gasps like I'm doing something strange. I shake her, "Where is her?"
"The second floor." she answer quickly.
The soldier looks at me in shock then runs away. What's his problem? That's not a question I care about right now because someone needs my help. I don't know why what made my feet made me itch forward into a burning house made out of wood and hay, but I went inside. I met hot flames, holes in the ground, and suffering air. Fire is all around me, the heat is unbearable, and he flames is sucking all the oxygen.
"Hey!" I call out to someone. "Little boy." I walk into a room, but steps back when the doorframe starts to come down. I take a step back before it catches me. "Please don't be in there." I cough and try the next room. "Hello!"
I close my eyes to blink my burning cry eyes, and hear small crying in the room over. I open my eyes and follow the cry.
"Where are…you?" I could barely talk and see.
I look around in the fire and find a little boy in a fireplace. Even the fire is outside, the fireplace didn't look like a safe place. I hear a crack, look at the tall fire place, and see one rock shaking lose. I don't understand my body again, but I agree with it once more, I ran after the boy, I grab him, and did a stupid thing. I fell on my back. I'm lucky its just dirt and nothing else behind me. With the boy in my arms, crying, I get up and see a the rocky fireplace falling apart. It's going to fall on me.
"NO!" I yell and stat tearing. I put my body on top of the child as prepare myself. "NO!!!" I feel a strong force in my chest.
Inside of me, I feel something like I release something. Something I can't understand, but it feels good. Everything gets quiet and still. I open my eyes and see myself in a large water bubble. I feel like I can stop this fire, no- I can stop this fire! I get up with a crying child in my arms. I look down at the little boy and find myself glowing blue.
Get ride of these flames.
Something deep inside tells me. I have the power to do it. I focus and clear the water around me to make it clearer so I can see. I hold out my hands and water starts spraying out of them, I put all the fire out in the house. 'The village.' I look up and find myself going through the ceiling in my protected water ball. I rise to the dark sky and look around at the burning village.
"Justice be done!" I hold my hand out and see three water dragons putting out the fire around me.
I feel so powerful and villages looking upon me. As I let the dragons put out the fire I fine myself looking through a mirror of my water ball. I have long hair again and my eyes looks like a cats during the light. What has happen to me? I lower myself into the opening where the mother and several soldiers standing around. They are the same soldier from before and I see the guy who wears the brown uniform. I lower myself in front of him.
"Professor?" he looks just like my teacher.
As he gets down on one knee I look at him. Why is he and the rest of them bowing to me? Besides him is a man with long silver hair and purple eyes wearing a white uniform.
"Your highness."
If this is a dream I want to make the best of it. I place the boy down and try to kiss him on the lips. Before I can kiss him everything goes black and wet.
Not again.
****
"He is a she!" I hear someone within the darkness. The voice sounds young and rude.
I moan and flip over and open my eyes. I am so warm. I sit up and find myself naked again under white covers. I gather the covers together and look around in the room. I'm in a big room with a nice bed. It looks like the houses I save. Before, but bigger.
I hear more yelling then a slam of a door, then a horse, and then a running horse. The young man left without saying a word, and he left in a hurry. I sit on the side of the bed, go to the door that leads to the next room, and open it slowly. What ever mumbling was happening stops.
"Oh, Your Majesty, I'm delighted that you've awaked after three days and you are finally safe." the one with silver hair and fancy uniform comes over to me and quickly bows. "I, von Christ , how I've looked forward to this ay and meeting you."
"I'm Riku Shibuya, please…to meet you?" I lean on the door frame.
"Why are you speaking the language of this world?" he asks.
"Come on! Your Japanese is very good. Where are you from?"
"I'm from here."
"Your in Japan." I correct him. "I understand you and I can only speak Japanese and little English. I don't understand…where are we? Aren't we in Japan?"
"Your Majesty, this is not Japan." My teacher came forward and a blush crosses my face for a instant. I need to stay focus so I can know where I am.
"Conrad-Sensei? Why are you dress like that?"
"I am your History teacher on Earth, back in Japan, but here I'm not."
"Wait, I'm not getting any of this."
"Your Majesty, you wear black on a regular basis, don't you?" Gunter asks. "Those who usually wear black are kings or royalty. The noble black hair and black eyes of yours. You are certainly our Majesty."
"Everyone seems to be calling me that, I don't understand. Because of my appearances? That makes no sense. And the uniform is just a school uniform. Besides, they are plenty of black hair and eyes people in Japan. This has to be a dream or some theme park attraction that my teacher thinks its funny."
"This is not an attraction." Conrad says.
"Even if you say so, how can I believe you? For me, "1- it's a theme park attraction." "2- a hidden camera on tv." or "3- a dream." and I really prefer number 3. I've been raised by dragons and to make this more freak crazy I had these water dragons appear out of my hand. It has to be a dream." I look around for my clothes and see them hung up near the fire.
"Please wait, Your Majesty." Gunter gently takes my hand to sit me down.
I am so confuse and freaked out about all of this.
"I will explain everything to you chronologically."
I take a deep breath. "Ok, I'm listening."
He kneels down near me. "18 years ago, your spirit was supposed to be born in this country."
"What?"
"However, because of the war at that time or because of a suspected assassin's plan to take your life the Great One decided to send your spirit to a different world. So we took your noble spirit to the world called Earth. Your body was created there, you were born to your current parents, and you grew up their living a normal human life. However, a situation has come up that we had to bring you back even though your supposed to live their safely."
"I understand. I understand that you need this guy, but I'm not a guy. I heard people saying I was a girl and not a boy. Maybe you have the wrong person."
"It's clearly that you are our King because of the power you showed."
"Oh, how's that boy I saved? His he all right? How's the village?"
"It's being rebuilt as we speak and everyone is safe and unharmed."
"That's good." I look down at my lap then back at Conrad. 'Is this all true…hey, he called me a King. I'm a girl!'
"But, there is no mistaken, sex doesn't matter. With your black hair and black eyes and you speaking in our language shows that you are the one. I admit what Adalbert did to you is most regrettable, but at least it worked. He reached through your mind and activated the sealed language that was deep inside your Noble spirit."
"In any case, under an average set-up like this I should be able to go home if I accomplished something. Sure, I'll do it? Do I need to rescue someone or slay a dragon? I rather not slay the dragons to be honest since they've been so nice to me and I'm not marrying a princess. What am I here for?"
"Your hunting humans." he says.
"What?! You want me to hunt humans?"
"We have to destroy all humans who are enemies of our country Your Majesty, we need your power to do that. That is why we called home our Demon King."
"What did you say?" Demon King? "You want me to destroy all humans? And who I just I'm suppose to be?"
He gets up and stands in a pose. "The honorable 27th King of the Demon Tribe. You are going to become that star of hope for our future." he gets back on his knees and bows with his right hand over his heart. Then he looks up at me like I'm a god. "Congratulations, today marks the day that you are our Demon King."
"D-Demon King?!" I almost fell over. It was ok to call me king, but a DEMON King? I fell over the bench and the uncovers me. I quickly gather the covers back before he can see me.
"Oh, Your Majesty!"
I get up quickly, take my dry clothes, and head back into the room without saying a word. I need to get dress before I can process everything.
***That night I go outside and look at the stars. It has to be Earth, but when I look at the beautiful patterns in the stars I knew this isn't Earth. Not even the Milky Way around. I take a deep breath and hear someone coming out the house. I turn around and see my teacher. I turn around, hold myself, and look back at the sky.
"Your Majesty." he appears at my side.
"You knew didn't you? All this time?" I gently ask. "You knew who I wan and was going to become?"
"I did I've been watching over you since you were little."
"Stalker." I mumble.
"Please head back inside."
"Look, I trust you and I trust these people because of you. I'm a bit freaked out of all of this. I just need some time to think this through. Everything has happened so fast. I mean, finding out that you're a King or Queen in one busy day will freak anyone out, right?"
"I understand."
"If you catch a cold, I'll never hear the end of it from Gunter."
"This has to be a trap."
"This isn't a trap sire. This is your world. Welcome back, My King."
"King?" I twitch. "I'm a girl!"
Yes I changed it up.