The Pixie Princess
Magic is such a powerful thing, it can come in so many shapes and sizes, and it can be dangerous, too. However, if you have the right mind and heart, your magic can become more powerful than anyone could ever imagine. Mikan has just formed her first ever ball of light, the easiest magic you could conjure, however, she only formed this ball of light when she thought of someone who was close to her heart... NXM
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Chapter Seven: Thinking of You
When you think of someone who's special to you, don't you think of how much you like them, and why they are special to you? Don't you feel this jolt of joy run up your spine, don't you just want to smile and wish that they were with you? Liking someone is a strange thing, and it can be scary if you're just realising it. But when you think of someone when you're creating magic, that's kind fo scary how one small ball of light that used to shatter can shine so brightly when you think of the person you have started to realise you might like more than a friend...
Mikan woke up slowly, feeling warm but tickelish. When she had fully opened her eyes she realised just why she had felt tickelish so early in the morning; the night before she had fallen asleep in the field of flowers by accident, and the soft breeze had caused the grass and flowers to tickle her skin lightly. She sat up and yawned, stretching her arms. Mikan smiled; this was what she liked to do. Spend some time in the field of flowers, sleeping and feeling comfortable. It reminded her of when she ran away from the palace when she was actually a princess.
Mikan looked around; it was a clear, beautiful day, but no one was around. It was still early in the morning, so everyone would either be sleeping or they would be eating their breakfast. Mikan then wondered if anyone had realised she wasn't at the palace then? She didn't mind, but Kaname would; he'd probably worry himself sick. Mikan then blinked, and realised that she had two more days in the kingdom. She gasped. She'd be home soon, and she would be able to see her friends agasin, and most of all...
She would be able to see Natsume. When she thought about Natsume she smiled gently. She really did miss him, and she was coming to terms with the fact that she liked him more than she had intended to like him. Yes, he was a prince, and Mikan never wanted to go back to royalty, but unlike herself and Kaname, Natsume was, and always had been, free. He was just like any other person but with a title, however, everyone treated him the same... well, everyone barring the fangirls. Mikan sighed to herself, then fell back into the grass, emerging herself with the flowers. She closed her eyes and smiled.
Then, when she opened her eyes, she saw something and gasped, sitting right up. She saw the small orb of light again, the one she had conjured the night before. It was still glowing? The weird things was that it was glowing even stronger and brighter. Mikan cupped it around her hands and stared at it. Why was it glowing brighter.
Mikan then thought of Natsume. When he had been teaching her about conjuring things up, he had told her to relax and think of something close to her, soemthing special, important, even. Before she had just thought of her Pixie wings, but the light always shattered, however, thinking of Natsume, the light grew and grew, brighter than before.
What took so many wizards years to realise, it had taken Mikan a few months, and for Natsume, it had taken him days. Mikan stared at the ball of light and couldn't help but smile. Natsume had taught her well, even if he had only taught her how to conjure up a measley little ball of light. To Mikan, it was the start of something great...
"Where is she!? I can't find her anywhere!" Kaname cried, storming through the palace as he looked for Mikan frantically. That morning he had awoken, and after dressing he had decided to awaken Mikan and take her for one of their walks. He wanted to show her the town and to pick something out for her just to see her smile. However, when he asked for Mikan, he was shocked to find that she was nowhere in sight. Nobara couldn't lie to the prince, for she was not very good at lieing and plus it was against the rules as she was a maid to the palace, so of course, she told him that Mikan had left through the window the previous night, so Kaname was searching through the palace frantically.
"Kaname, my son, calm down! Mikan can't have gone far, so we must not worry! She will return!" the King cried, trying to reassure his son who shook his head and threw open the palace doors. He stormed into the garden and looked around, asking many gardeners if they had seen Mikan, but they hadn't. He was worried for Mikan, he didn't want her to get hurt. However Kaname was forgetting that Mikan was a strong person and that she could look after herself; after all, she'd had to have become strong with the way she had grown up.
"How can I calm down when the princess is out there, alone? I do not know where she is or whom she is with, of course I will worry! She's helpless on her own, she barely knows the kingdom! She needs me there to protect her!" Kaname yelled, stressed out as his father and mother stared at each other, sighing.
"My dear son, you have left Mikan on numerous occasions to entertain herself within the kingdom when your duties called... this is no different, have faith in her." his mother stated. Kaname shook his head, tossling his hair and breathing in deeply.
"Yes, that is true, mother, but I have taken her to that designated place and always let a guard guide her back to the palace! I don't want her to lose her way, mother!" Kaname cried out, turning around and looking for Mikan. However, she wss nowhere to be seen, and Kaname was becoming more and more stressed.
However, moments later, Kaname heard his name being called, and he turned to see Mikan standing there, blinking in confusing with flower petals and grass covering her hair and clothes.
"Kaname? What's wrong... why were you yelling?" she asked him, puzzled as Kaname's eyes widened. He then ran towards Mikan and swooped her into his arms, surprising Mikan and his parents.
"Mikan... I was so worried." Kaname whispered as Mikan stood there, pondering on what to do. She didn't want to hug Kaname back, it would feel wrong, but he had been worried about her... Mikan then pulled him away gently and gave Kaname a small, encouraging smile.
"Why were you worried, Kaname? I'm fine... I can find my own way back. You do know that, right? You can trust me." Mikan told him as he stared at her, then shook his head and hugged her tightly.
"Never leave the palace without my consent anymore, you hear? I don't want to worry myself over your life, Mikan, it scares me. You're far too important to lose." he whispered as ikan stood there, her eyes wide.
Why did she feel like she was returning to her old life...?
"You disappointed the prince, Mikan, of course he'll fret about you now... you shouldn't have left in the middle of the night." Nobara said as she bustled around Mikan's room, finding things to do. Mikan was laying on the bed, remembering what Kaname had said to her; he sounded just like her grandfather, but so much kinder... and Mikan didn't like that. She didn't want to be controlled again.
"But I can look after myself... I needed the time alone, Nobara... can't Kaname understand that? I can't stay holed up in a palace, not like I used to be... the result will only end with me running away." Mikan whispered as Nobara put down the dress she was folding up and sighed. She then sat down on Mikan's vanity chair and stared at the former princess.
"Mikan, the guards here are much more inclined to keep you in the palace than when you were a princess in the Faerie Kingdom. Kaname is determined to keep you here, and what he says goes... if he has his way, you won't run away again. He'll stop at nothing to keep you here, he wants you to stay, don't you realise that?" Nobara said, and she walked towards Mikan who sat up.
"I don't care... I want to go home... I want to be with my friends. I don't love Kaname, and I won't love him in the next two days, either. He's a good friend, but he's too much like my grandfather... I don't want to be a prisoner again, Nobara. I want to be free like I was when I was with Natsume and the others." Mikan whispered as Nobara stared at her, then bit her lip.
"You really like Natsume... don't you?" she asked as Mikan stared at her, then sniffed and rubbed her eyes. She was tearing up; she hated being a bird in a cage, and she hated missing her friends.
"Is it that obvious?" she asked as Nobara sat with her and smiled,
"Only to others, but not to those who are in love with one another... you've taken some time to realise your feelings, right? I went through the same thing about a year or two ago." Nobara whispered as Mikan blinked,
"Really? With who?" she asked silently. Nobara took hold of Mikan's hand and sighed, then lowered her head. Mikan watched Nobara, who's shoulders started to shake. She was... crying?
"A man I was never supposed to love... you know of those who are in line for the throne, correct?" Nobara asked, and Mikan nodded. Nobara then put a hand over her heart and sighed, shaking her head. "There is a man who is in line for the throne... he is third in line, before him is a man who is Kaname's first cousin, and first in line is Kaname of course. I love him, but it's... against his families wishes. I don't know of his feelings for me, but I truly love him... he has helped me, and he helped me to escape the Koizuma family... however he is betrothed to another, and it breaks my heart." Nobara then let a small tear fall. Mikan hugged her friend, but Nobara gently pushed her away, and looked Mikan directly in the eyes.
"Don't... don't give up on your prince, Mikan. If you love him, truly love him... then pursue him no matter what, but if he loves another then just be happy for him, because... seeing him smile will surely make you smile, too, even if it hurts deep down." Nobara whispered, then stood up and walked towards the door as Mikan watched her.
And Mikan knew that Nobara had been heartbroken, and would never heal that heartbreak. Mikan sat there, thinking... she did want to be with Natsume, more than anything. She liked him, maybe even... maybe even loved him, she didn't know. She then smiled to herself gently as a small tear rolled down her cheek.
"I miss Natsume..." she whispered, unaware that someone was listening in on what she and Nobara had been talking about, and now they knew that Mikan was in love with someone who wasn't Prince Kaname...
"Kina... did you ever notice that someone else loved Tono, even if he is one of the ugliest men in this kingdom?" Luna asked Kina as Kina sat on her swing. She stared at Luna, who was floating with her legs crossed, not wanting her dress to dirty. Kina shook her head.
"No, it never crossed my mind that someone liked him... in all honesty, he's not very eligible for any woman, fairy or even toad! He may be of noble blood, but he's... not the sort of man one would marry." Kina said in her quiet voice as Luna nodded. She knew it was hard to believe, but it was some very intriguing information.
"Yes... but it seems that that pesky maid who used to work for our family was in love with him... and it seems that Tono also shared those same feelings." Luna stated. Kina's eyes lit up, and she flew off of her swing, quickly going to Luna's side.
"Really!? Then why do they not marry? Ayone who isn't me is better for him! She can have him!" Kina cried with excitement. Luna looked at the girl with no emotion on her face, but she still smiled.
"Because his parents did not wish for it; a common maid, marrying the man who is third in line for the throne? Please, it's rather stupid, Kina, seeing as she's a pauper and he's almost royalty. Why would anyone want a filthy little commoner to marry someone with 'pure blood'. That's the reason why they would prefer it if you married Tono instead, because you are of noble blood." Luna explained. Kina's face fell. The prospect of her not marrying Tono was dim, and she knew it. She sighed and closed her eyes. She felt like crying.
"I don't want to marry Tono! He's weird, he's too old and he's a creep!" Kina whined. Luna wasn't really paying attention to Kina's problems.
"As I have said before, he's still close to royalty, so why do you have to care? One way of getting close to Kaname is Tono, right? Anyway, just because you're bindedby marriage does not mean that you have to talk to him." Luna explained, but Kina still didn't want to have to go through with anything like marriage to Tono.
"I don't care, Luna, just get me out of the marriage to Tono and get me to marry Kaname! I love the prince, you know that!" Kina wailed. Luna then glared at Kina,
"I know, because you don't shut up about it! But the prince rejected your offer of marriage because he wanted that Pixie Winged Princess, so you should just give up, marry someone else and be done! All you'll get with Tono is te title and money, anyway, so why should you bother crying over soemone like Kaname? He's obviously found someone better than the other princesses, right?" Luna smirked as Kina started to cry. Luna loved watching Kina get upset over the fact that she could never have Kaname, but Kina was too blind to see through Luna's deceit;
"However." Luna started, and Kina looked up, her eyes tear filled, "I am still willing to help you. If there is any way to get Kaname... it may have to be by brute force, and we will still have to get rid of that girl, of course... but we can always break her heart, right?" Luna asked with a smug smirk. Kina blinked, confused.
"How so?" she asked. Luna smirked and held up a bottle of pinkish purple liquid, and Kina's eyes widened.
"A love potion, of course." she said, but what Luna didn't tell Kina was that the love potion would be for both herself and for Kaname, too...
"Princess, do you wish to go for a walk with me?" Kaname asked Mikan later in the afternoon, but he was answered with silence. Mikan hadn't left her room since he had told her that she wasn't permitted to leave the palace without permission anymore, so of course she wouldn't be happy with him, but Kaname felt that it was the only way to keep her safe.
However, what Kaname didn't know was that Mikan had spent years divising plans to escape from a bigger palace with mor eguards and more locked doors and windows. Mikan was quite gifted in the art of escape, and even if she had to crawl through a tunnel she had dug herself, she would just to escape.
She had left the palace, and no one, not even Nobara, knew of this escape.
Mikan was sitting in a field on the outskirts of the kingdom. She didn't want to be found so easily, so had decided on being somewhere near the exit of the kingdom. Mikan really did want to go home, but she didn't want to hurt Kaname in any way. He was a sweet guy, but he had the wrong intentions; keeping a woman in a palace of her own free will would never go down well, especially with Mikan who wanted her own freedom.
"The air feels so nice..." Mikan whispered, then wrapped her arms around her legs and sat there, smiling to herself. Kaname wouldn't be happy, but she didn't care; he couldn't keep her locked away in the palace, and he couldn't make her marry him. Mikan had decided beforehand that she would never marry someone who kept her locked away like a little bird. She wanted a romance like her mothers; a man who loved her and treated her like a person, like she had her own state of mind. Mikan knew that Kaname couldn't provide her with that; he would be more like an over-protective friend and not a husband.
Mikan wondered how long she would stay outside; long enough to calm down, she knew that, but she wondered if it would take all afternoon or maybe all night. She sighed, resting her chin in her hands. She then thought about returning home and smiled. She would be able to see Natsume again, and she would get to hug him and smile for him again...
Mikan was blushing, and she knew it. She shook her head and sighed. Natsume was just running through her head more than ever, and it was a bit annoying, but it helped Mikan to calm down, but it also made her miss him and the others more.
But it also made her think about whether he liked her or not. If he didn't, would she be just as heartbroken as Nobara was? Mikan didn't want to think about it... she kenw that Natsume didn't really like her, well, that's what she thought, and he was stubborn, too... and mean and rather up himself, but he had his good qualities. He was smart and handsome, and when he wanted to be, he was kind and very loving towards his sister and even his father, whom he claimed he didn't really like.
Mikan sighed happily. Natsume just made her life so much brighter, and she knew it. She wished that she could just be with him again...
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"Two more days, and then she's back... I can't wait!" Misaki beamed, counting down the days until Mikan would return home. Misaki had a feeling that Mikan wasn't happy in the Flower Faerie Kingdom, even if she tried to kid herself, and if Kaname was anything like Mikan's grandfather, then the poor girl would want to get out of there as soon as possible.
"I know, and we'll welcome her back with a party and open arms," Tsubasa smiled as he held Misaki within his arms, taking in the warmth of his beautiful wife as she smiled so brightly he thought the sun would disappear,
"Do you think Natsume will open up a bit more when she returns?" Misaki then asked, staring up at Tsubasa with worry. He sighed gently, ran a hand through his hair and then finished off with a shrug.
"Maybe, maybe not, we just have to remember that this is Natsume we're dealing with. He's just as clueless to what he feels as Mikan is with her feelings. Eventually they'll realise that they like each other, but until then, all hands on deck." Tsubasa whispered as Misaki shook her head. Why did the two most clueless people have to fall in love together and not realise it?...
"Do you think that Mikan has mastered the Light spell yet, Natsume?" Aoi asked, a small ball of light glowing greatly in her hands as she sat beside the pond in the royal garden, Natsume practicing his own piece of magic beside her.
"Highly doubtful, she's a feather-brained idiot, she probably keeps breaking it." Natsume muttered, and a large ball of fire appeared before him, followed by lightning and then some water magic. He was quite proud of his ability to produce three different elements at once, then again, Natsume had been able to do that ability since he was ten.
"Oh, come on, Natsume! Even Mikan is capable of learning this sort of magic... especially as it needs to contain your purest feelings." Aoi smiled as Natsume rolled his eyes. His sister was such a romantic sap, especially since Youichi had arrived on the scene.
"You sure do come out with a lot of romantic sap, you know? It gets annoying," Natsume muttered, the ball of fire, lightning and water disappearing with a loud 'pop' as Aoi rolled her eyes, and let her ball of light disintergrate.
"Just because I have feelings doesn't mean I have to hide them when you're around. No wonder Mikan went off to the Flower Faerie Kingdom." Aoi suddenly snapped, and stood, stomping away from Natsume as he watched her. He sat there, and started to form a fireball in his mind, but it burst and disappeared almost instantly, due to the face that Natsume's feelings were messed up when he thought of Mikan, happier in the Flower Faerie Kingdom...
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"Oh, that's beautiful, very elegant and regal... it is just perfect for a wedding," the Queen said as a maid brought out a beautiful white gown with its tiara and veil to match. The Queen was looking through many wedding dresses from the best designers in the flower faerie kingdom. Etched into each dress was a small flower, representing different years and days that faeries of the flower kingdom were born on, and the Queen was hoping to find a dress with a Sakura blossom sewn into the dress somewhere for Mikan.
"All of the dresses are beautiful, but I need a dress with a Sakura Blossom... that is the day Mikan was born on." the Queen said to the maid who nodded, then went to the rack to pick out another dress that held the Sakura Blossom on it. As the maid looked, Kaname walked in, wondering what his mother was doing.
"Mother... what is going on?" he asked her as she turned and smiled warmly towards her son,
"I am looking for a beautiful dress that Mikan shall wear to her wedding ceremony. It needs to hold a Sakura Blossom on it, don't you think?" the Queen asked him rather happily as Kaname blinked, shaking his head.
"But Mikan has not agreed to marry me as of yet, you know that." he stated quietly, but his mother just smiled even more brightly,
"I know, but your father has purchased the Love Potion, don't you remember that, my dear son? Even if she denies your hand in marriage, she shall drink the potion on the day before your wedding and wed you, and you will have the wife you have always wanted... is that not what you wish for, my son?" she asked him, blinking her beautiful, large eyes as Kaname looked down at the floor, then nodded slowly.
"Of course, mother... it is what I desire most." he said quietly, then turned and left, hoping to see Mikan before he went to finish off his daily duties. However, he didn't know that she had yet again escaped from the palace...
"It's so pretty." Mikan whispered, watching the glowing ball of light as it hovered in front of her, shining brightly and bringing light onto her face, her eyes sparkling as she smiled gently, staring at that beautiful orb of light. Mikan stared at it like it was the greatest thing she could have ever created, and then wondered if she could create something else?
Mikan stood up, dismissing the ball of light and it dispersed quickly. Mikan then closed her eyes, breathed in and started to think of a small ball of crystal clear water, along with Natsume in her thoughts, and when this small water droplet formed, Mikan couldn't help but smile, However, the little droplet of water disappeared just as quickly as it had appeared, and Mikan sighed.
It looked like she would have to keep on practicing, just like she did with the ball of light...
"She's still hanging around the fields of flowers... kind of like she's hiding, actually." Luna said, watching Mikan from a ball she had created to show whatever Mikan was doing. Kina was interested, and watched as well. Then her eyes widened when she saw that Mikan was trying to conjure a ball of water.
"She's using magic! Why is she doing that?" cried Kina, surprised and shocked as she watched Mikan try after each failure. Luna rolled her eyes and snorted,
"She lives in the Wizarding Kingdom, believe it or not, and decided to learn magic, even if she is in the kingdom of her dreams." Luna mumbled, then lifted her hand and the ball went away. She scowled, then turned to Kina.
"So... why is she hiding away in the fields like a convict? She should be happy, she gets to be near Kaname day and night, she's crazy!" Kina cried out as Luna folded her arms and smirked,
"Don't you get it? She's not interested, never has been, never will be. She wants to leave as soon as possible, she's lonely... and Kaname tried to lock her up in her room, which is something a former princess wouldn't like just after obtaining freedom, don't you think?" Luna asked rather happily, and Kina's eyes lit up.
"Really, she'll be leaving!? Luna, I'm so happy!" she cried out, beaming brightly as Luna smirked sweetly, nodding to herself. She didn't even need a plan to get rid of Mikan, Mikan's feelings were already working the plan for her, but all she needed to do was slip the Love Potion into Kaname's drink...
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Right, okay, this chapter is finished! If this is shorter or longer than the last chapter, I'll be happy either way, but you decide on how well it is. Okies, time to go, and I love you all, hope you enjoyed the read, and thanks for supporting me, you guys make me keep on wirting.
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