Hello again! This chapter is shorter than normal but I wanted to get this out but not be rushed like the last chapter (I must get around to rewriting that chapter) I hope this is better so enjoy!
I don't own Hetalia!
Hetalia 5:5: A Fairy Tale Job Pt 6
Kiku stood at the bottom of the cliff and looked up at the black dragon, roaring at its edge, just in time to see a sword fly up and bury itself in the dragon's heart. The dragon shrieked and tumbled from the edge and plummeted to the bottom, shrinking down to the size of a human before disintegrating, leaving behind a cloak that fluttered in the air before being impaled by the falling sword and pinned to the ground.
As Ludwig and the Three Fae walked away from the edge of the cliff, Kiku approached the cloak which glowed for a moment and then the glow was absorbed into the ground. Kiku knelt down and touched the ground and could sense the flower seed under the soil that now contained magic and a soul.
"Rest a while," he said to the soul in the seed. "Your second chance will come soon! Be patient!" He felt a pulse from the seed and smiled.
This was the start!
Katya crept through the darkness toward the hidden flower that had grown from the seed that she had stolen and replanted at the top of the cliff. She had to keep it secret because the Triple Monarchy was looking for the flower to save King Feliciano. The child he carried, thanks to the Three Fae, did not had a soul and would die if a soul was not found and Feli would die with it so the soldiers of the three kingdoms were looking for the flower that the Three Fae claimed contained a soul and it was the only thing that could save King Feliciano and his unborn child.
Katya did not care that the flower could save two lives. The flower was hers and it was keeping her young and immortal and she would not give it up for anything as she removed the woven leaf cover to reveal the silvery glowing flower beneath.
Flower, gleam and glow, she sang. Let your power shine
Make the clock reverse. Bring back what once was mine.
What once was mine.
Glowing spores blew up from the flower and coated Katya. Her skin lost its sallow completion and smoothed out. Her hair regained the fullness of her youth and its rich reddish colour and she was back to being a young women. There was no way she was giving up the flower!
Sounds of people approaching reached her ears and she covered the flower with the cover, making it look like a shrub and ran to hide, swinging her bag as she ran, hitting the cover. It tilted and fell. Back over the flower!
From his own hiding place, Kiku made a flicking motion with his finger and, as if by an unseen hand, the cover flipped over and flew away from the flower, exposing it for all to see. Just at that moment, soldiers of the Triple Monarchy came into view and spotted the magic flower.
"We found it," their leader said, as if he could barely believe it. The soldiers carefully dug up the flower and carefully wrapped up the roots. Kiku watched Katya glare at the soldiers, carrying the flower away but powerless to stop them. As Katya trailed after them at a distance, Kiku smiled and created a portal, taking him to the palace.
The Norwegian Fae, Lukas of the Bondevik Line created a potion from the flower to transfer the soul to Feliciano's unborn child. It was given to a sick Feliciano who quickly recovered and a few months later, he gave birth to a healthy baby girl. The entire Triple Monarchy rejoiced at a birth instead of a funeral and everyone was happy.
Kiku looked down at the sleeping infant with her white blonde hair and blue/purple eyes that were hidden by closed eyelids with a smile but he was a little sad, knowing what was to come but took comfort in the fact that it would all come right in the end. He stroked the back of his finger over the sleeping child's cheek.
"This is your second chance, little Natalya," he said, gently. "I'm sorry for what is to come but I promise I'll be there with you soon." The baby gave a little yawn and Kiku moved away, disappearing into a portal.
The old woman climbed over the balcony of the Royal Chambers with the infant girl in her arms, climbing down the ivy clinging to the wall and, reaching the bottom, she disappeared into the night while King Ludwig appeared on the balcony with a weeping King Feliciano. It broke Kiku's heart but he had no choice but to let it happen, leaving two broken-hearted parents who would not see their child for another sixteen years.
That would be his last interaction with the reincarnated Natalya for a while. There was a little time before he had to look in on the other important figure in this Tale.
Hercules was with his cats when Kiku came back from the Tale, holding Lucifer on one arm and Larry on the other. The other cats began to gather around Kiku and rubbed up against his legs in affection.
"Everything going as it should?" Hercules asked as he put Lucifer and Larry down and both of them meowed in protest.
"Hai!" Kiku replied. "I have a little time before I have to help Alfred so I thought I would read some more of the Tale. I'm only a third of the way through." Hercules put his arm around Kiku as they went back to the book room. They took the book from the pedestal it was on and put it on an ordinary table and turned to the page bookmarked by Kiku and spend a few hours reading but he was still only just over halfway through when he had to returned to the tale.
"I had hoped to have finished reading the Tale before I went back in," Kiku said, a little disappointed with himself as they put the book back on the pedestal. "I dislike this lack of complete knowledge."
"It's best that you read the Tale carefully," Hercules replied. "If you read it too fast, you might miss details that could be important." He kissed Kiku on the forehead. "You'll be fine!" Kiku smiled and opened the book at the needed page. The book glowed and the light light pulled Kiku back into the Tale.
Three years after the kidnapping of Kings Ludwig and Feliciano's daughter, across the ocean in the New World, Frederick Jones staggered out of his local tavern, at the same time that, in an alley, a glow made an eight year old boy appear out of thin air. As he wandered through the streets, weaving left and right, Kiku waved his hand at some stacked boxes that suddenly tipped over and blocked the street that lead Frederick home, making him take another path and he wandered into a different alley where he encounter an unconscious child.
Frederick could not be called Father of the Year! He had put his own twin sons in the orphanage after his 'wife' (they were never actually married) died, leaving him with the responsibility of two ten year old twins. He immediately off-loaded that responsibility on to the orphanage. His wife had take care of them most, he was just not father material.
He stared blearily at the unconscious boy for a moment and went to walk away but Kiku stared at the man, willing him to turn back. Frederick paused, turned back and knelt down beside the boy and shook him. The boy groaned and shifted a little and Frederick shook him again.
"Hey, boy," he said, his speech a little slurred. "You all right?" The boy opened his eyes, looking up at him, bemused and then looked around him.
"What's yer name, kid?" Frederick asked.
"Alfred!" the boy replied.
"Alfred what?" The boy's brow furrowed as he thought.
"I don't remember," he replied in a panic.
"Where're yer family?"
"I don't know!" Alfred looked ready to cry. Frederick began to panic, he could not handle crying children, it was one of the reason he dumped his own kids at the orphanage. Then he thought the orphanage would be a good solution.
"Don't cry, kid!" Frederick said. "I'll take yer somewhere they can take care of yer." He took little Alfred by the hand and weaved his way toward the orphanage. Kiku followed them at a distance as Frederick took him inside and Alfred became Alfred F Jones.
On the Missing Princess's seven birthday, Chinese lanterns flew in the sky like they had for the past six years and Kiku saw a little white blonde head appear in the window of the tall hidden tower to watch the lights floating past and his heart melted at the sight of the smile on the little girl's face.
It would be a few more years before he could help her directly but now he had other things to do!
He managed to get more of the Tale read and he was now three quarters of the way through. Hopefully, he could find time to get the rest of it read but now, he was at the quayside in New York, watching three boys, two, fifteen years old and the other, thirteen. The thirteen year old blonde boy was going from sailor to sailor, asking about any ship heading for Italy. The two red-brown haired fifteen year old boys were more interested in trying to get into the tavern.
"Kon'nichiwa, young master," Kiku said, coming up to the teenage Alfred. "I could not help over-hearing you. That ship is heading Italy!" Kiku pointed to a ship named The Freedom. "I believe the captain is looking for crew and a cabin boy." Alfred looked at the ship and then back at Kiku.
"Thanks, dude!" he replied and ran off to talk to the captain and ran to tell the Jones Twins, Allen and Alex, that he had found a ship. Kiku walked away, knowing that everything was in motion now and soon everyone involved with the Tale would be in Italy and the Tale would really start.
There we go! Kiku did more than anyone suspected to get the Tale off to the right start, from making sure the flower was found to arranging for Frederick to find Alfred. There's a reason why Kiku doesn't know the entire Tale which will come to light toward the end of the Tale.
To themusicalcat – Welcome back to the land of the living! :) And no problem! Yes, I felt that too :( but I will rewrite that chapter when I have a little more time and try to make it better. Promise!
To takuya – Yeah! :D It's a little like those special features on DVDs that show how things were done in the films except this is with magic rather than technology. A lot of fun! XD
To Maveriqua – Yep! Down to the last Tale for this :( but now the last Hetalia Tales. :) I've got one planned for after Hetalia Tales 6. Hope you enjoy!
To Normandy – Congratulations on your victory! XP If eavesdroppers are making fun, they deserved to have you go 2p! Canada on them! XD They should be grateful it's not 2p! Italy (or should they?) Gaston's not one of my favourites either (creep!) And Snow White's stepmother freaked me out too!
And that's that for another week (I hope) I've changed Heartbeat from a one-shot and added another chapter with Germany and Italy in two parts. Part 2 will go up on Thursday. Check it out!
And after that piece of shameless story promotion,
Hasta la Pasta!