A/N: It's finally back! Apologies, but it seems that in doing this,
there is major postponement to my new project, Forevermore. So those
of you who were waiting for that, I am extremely sorry. :( Also, I'm
ditching the whole music thing; I just don't think it will work. :(
But enough of that. Disclaimer time!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Princess Tutu. I just write crazy stories about it.
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CH 1; piece three: Out of reality and on to the page
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Almira was dashing down the streets or Coróin óir town, heading for
the academy dormitories, when she almost collided with a pink haired
girl. They both stumbled.
"Oh, hi there..." said the pink haired girl
."I-I'm sorry!" stuttered Almira.
"No, its fine, I think neither of us were paying attention," said
the pink haired girl, and then she extended her hand. "The name's
Calyca, pleased to meet you."
"U-Um... A-Almira. My name's Almira," said Almira, shaking Calyca's hand.
"Ready or not, here I come!" screeched an excited girl with a ponytail,
running into both Calyca and Almira.
"Kaoru..." mumbled Calyca, taking the main impact.
"Oh, that was boring..., you didn't even hide..." complained Kaoru.
"Well, what I did find is someone else to play with us, because hide
and seek wasn't meant to be a two-player game," explained Calyca.
"Got it! Calyca, you count me and your new friend will hide!" then,
grabbing Almira's arm, Kaoru gave a final shout to Calyca, "Find us
if you can!"
"Um, hi Kaoru, I'm Almira..." said Almira, trying to follow the turns
Kaoru made.
"Oh, that's a cute name! Well, come on, Almi, let's hide before Calyca comes!"
"Okay..." and with that, Kaoru skipped off one way and shoved "Almi" the other.
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Almira walked some ways over near a large bridge that went out of
town, where she noticed Kazuhiko leaning on the railing.
"Oh... Kazuhiko..." Almira sighed, as she remembered how they had
become such fast friends over the last week. But then... "Just how far
is he looking? He'll fall over the edge if-!" He keeps leaning like
that, she meant to finish, but instead, he actually began to fall
towards the water, and Almira felt almost like she was underwater.
"ALMIRA! You are the only one nearby who can save him!" said a voice
that sounded to be a few years older than Almira.
She tried to open her mouth to say something, but the voice continued.
"Please! Grab your pendant, close your eyes, and think of the one you
hold dear!"
"Kazuhiko..." said Almira, holding her pendant, and then a red flash
enveloped her and she flew through the air, and grabbed her "dear
one's" hand, and they landed on the water, as if it was a solid surface.
"Was any of today real?" she asked him.
"I don't know..." he said, looking Almira in the eyes.
"I'm not sure either, but my name is Princess Tugenda, but you may
call me Tutu," 'Who?' thought Almira, because that statement came
pouring out of her mouth without her having to think about it.
"I think my name is Kazuhiko," he said, tilting his head. "That's what
I was told it was."
"Kazuhiko, we should go somewhere safe now. Don't lean over railings
like that again, though, okay?"
"Okay..."
With that, Tutu moved her free hand to fifth position, and the water
by the two's feet rose up high enough that they could safely go back
to dry land.
After they were safe, Tutu, curtseying, then running off, said "Farewell, my dear," When she was back to where she was before transforming, she closed her eyes,
and said, "Thank you, Almira, -" but her sentence was cut-off by the
transformation back to Almira taking place.
Slightly weakened by the transformation, Almira leaned against the
wall of a near-by building, and slid down it, with her eyes closed.
Suddenly, a hand grabbed her shoulder. "WAAAAAHH-!...-?"
"Do you always play hide and seek like this?" asked Calyca.
"Oh nonononono, I was just... getting tired... and you surprised me!"
"Oh Almi, what time did you get up?" said Kaoru affectionately,
sitting on the ground in front of Almira, whom had slid down there.
"No- I- well- okay, I got up around 6:45."
"Oh Almira, you're a bird!" laughed Kaoru.
"I'm a bird?" questioned Almira.
"An EARLY bird!" said Kaoru, continuing to laugh.
Calyca smiled, and then added, "No wonder you're tired, you got up too early. Let's go lounge around somewhere, and get breakfast!"
"I could go for some..." said Almira, as the three of them walked past
the clock tower, which chimed 8 o'clock.
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A/N: Okay, ～zura, first acht finished! Thank you for reading this!
And all of you [yes, YOU!], leave a review, even if it's just an emoticon!
K-thanx-bai! :D