"Here you go you two!" Rin cheerfully said to the twins as she laid a grey trey of two china plates of strawberry sponge cake and two small crystal glasses filled with fresh cold milk on the silver table where the raven haired twins were now seated at in the kitchen.
"WOOOOOW!" Himeka exclaimed with sparkly eyes at the treat. "It's been so, so, so, so, so long since Himeka had cake!" She gushed.
Satsuki began to chug his glass of milk down his dry throat. "Ahhhh…" He breathed as he felt the coldness of the drink running throughout his systems. "So cold and creamy…" He whispered dreamily.
Rin giggled and patted Satsuki's head. "If you keep that up, you'll grow up all big and strong." She said.
Satsuki blushed but then he smiled a wide one. "Yep! And once I get big and strong enough I'm gonna protect Himeka from anybody, especially from that mean, mean King!" He said confidently.
Rin giggled again. "Oh, but I don't think he means to be like that." She whispered.
Satsuki pouted. "But he was about hurt my cute little sister! I'm never gonna let that happen again!" He said in childish anger.
Himeka happily stuffed her face full of cake and smiled at her brother. "Satsuki's so encouraging!" She giggled.
Satsuki turned his head to Himeka anf frowned. "Only when I need to protect you!" He exclaimed with his cheeks puffed out.
Himeka giggled and held her fork out to Satsuki which had a plump bright red strawberry pierced through. "Say ahhh!" She cheerfully said.
Satsuki smiled and opened his mouth. "ahhh…" He said cutely and Himeka gently put the strawberry into his mouth and took it out when Satsuki's teeth had captured the beautiful fruit. "Mmmm…" He mumbled as he chewed. Himeka giggled at her brothers smile.
"Himeka love's it when brother smiles!" She gushed.
Satsuki smiled and ruffled Himeka's black hair and began to chuckle at her cute behavior. "And Satsuki love's it when sister smiles!" He said
Rin smiled at the twins. It seemed that their behavior and love for each other reminded her of how she and her brother always act when they are together. She took out the handkerchief she had given to Len (Only to have it harshly given back to). When Len had thrown it to her she had noticed that the other side of her yellow handkerchief had a bright orange color (instead of the same light yellow on the other side) so she supposed Len had it dyed on the other side because orange was her second favorite color and it had always complemented her hair. She brought the silky handkerchief to her nose and breathed in the fragrance that Len had also added to it. It was the smell of Asters and Daisies. I lovely fragrance, and it was also the scent of the perfume that their mother had always wore. Rin had missed that scent terribly and to know that her brother put that scent in her handkerchief, touched her heart.
Her breathtaking blue eyes sadden a bit as she stared at the handkerchief. "He made it like this just for me…" She thought. Her eyes then closed and she bit her lip. "But still…he didn't have to act so foolish…"
Suddenly a hand harshly slapped her back. "Hey there, Rinny!" Prima shouted hyperly to her friend who had nearly stumbled over the table.
Quickly Rin turned around to her friend as she sat down on a chair, (because her legs were wobbling from her friends slap) already feeling the pain bursting through her spine. "Can you not be just a bit gentle, Prima?" She groaned.
Prima giggled as she walked to her friend and placed her hand on Rin's back; rubbing it up and down to sooth her pain. "Sorry. But I only saw you once for only a minute till you were kidnapped by your big baby of a brother!" She exclaimed. "Can you blame me if I get a little too excited?"
Rin laughed nervously. "At least try to control yourself." She insisted.
Prima giggled and then turned her attention to the raven haired twins who were cramming their bloated cheeks with cream and berries and washing their throats down with the cold milk. "I see you finally found our two favorite trouble makers." She smiled.
Satsuki stood up from his chair and slammed his hands onto the table so hard that the milk in the glass sloshed. "Actually big sister Rin rescued us!" He corrected.
Himeka nodded. "Yeah! Big time too!"
Prima raised her eyebrow. "What did she rescue you two from?" She asked. "From getting a spanking for annoying the maids again?" She laughed.
Satsuki puffed out his cheeks "NOOOOO! She rescued us from that mean, meanie of King!" he shouted, shooting Prima a glare with a blush painted on his cheeks.
"I was so scared till I saw big sister there to the rescue!" Cried Himeka.
Prima gasped silently and then she turned to Rin, who nodded but with a sad smile. Prima then whispered in her ear. "Mind filling me in here?" She asked.
Rin nodded and then began to whisper in her ear about the crash, the vase, the punishment Len was planning for the twins and the cold words Rin had said to her brother before he ran back to his room in furious stamps.
Prima jolted back after Rin had finished. Prima was completely astonished. "WHAAAAAT! Your telling me that you, Rin Kagamine, The sweetest kindest and most pushover of a servant went against her own brothers wishes?" She asked completely shocked with her eyes so fiercely opened.
Rin nodded slowly with a frown. Prima's shock turned into happiness and a touched smile appeared across her face. Prima then grabbed Rin's hands like a mother would as she got all teary eyes. "I'm so proud of you Rin, finally after all those times of going along with that son of a-"
"Do not insult my mother Prima." Rin growled cutting Prima off from her curse.
Prima giggled weakly. "Sorry." She then wrapped her arms around Rin and nuzzled her head. "I'm just soooo happy that your finally at that rebellious age, not to mention you saved our two favorite little eight years olds from such a awful, awful punishment…" She said in a proud and dream-like tone.
Rin looked to a corner. "Well I will admit that Len had no right throw such an unreasonable punishment upon those two. I mean they would not last long from something like that." She murmured.
Prima then pulled away and looked up at the ceiling with her hand under her chin as if she was daydreaming. "Maybe if you keep this up I'll be able to take all the breaks I want and stuff myself silly with every single sweet known to woman…" She said enthusiastically.
Rin felt a vein pop up on her temple. "Don't start talking nonsense Prima!" She shouted.
Himeka chewed on her second strawberry slice. "Looks like big sister Rin is fighting with Prima again…" She whispered.
"If I had to chose who fights more with Rin, I'd have to Prima because she always get on everyone's nerves." Satsuki mumbled and took a sip of his milk. Himeka nodded, agreeing with her brother as she took another bite of her cake.
Len clutched tighter on the leather straps of his horse, not even caring how much his slightly burned palms and his raw fingers were hurting him from the rough surface of the leather. His teeth were still clenched tightly with anger and his head was down. The cool air whipped passed him as his horse ran at a ferocious speed.
"I can't believe how selfish Rin was being!" He thought as his horse trampled on some dandelions as he ran. "I have all the right to punish anyone I please! I'm the ruler! Not her! I am! I am! I am! Sometimes I wish she could just disappear!" He thought coldly.
Suddenly Innovator gave a fearful cry and reared up on his hind legs. Len almost fell off the sadle but thankfully because he was clutching on the straps so tightly and his boots were still clicked into the golden hooks of the saddle; he did not fall off.
Len growled. "What is it!" He shouted at his horse. Innovator looked very upset about something.
"Tch!" Len hissed, not seeming to care about why his horse was so upset and afraid but just to clear the annoyance of why his horse had suddenly stopped running, he lifted himself up just a bit on the hooks of the saddle, and looked up front to see what Innovator had discovered. Len's blue eyes widen and then he gasped. Now he knew why Innovator had stopped, it was because he had nearly ran into a cliff that looked as if it would crumble to pieces any minute.
Len gently put his hand on the back of Innovators neck and petted his snow white hair. "Steady! Steady!" He shouted trying to calm his frighten horse. "Come on, let's get out of here!" He said a bit calmly this time, trying as gently as he could to turn his frighten horse around, however as he struggled with his horse, a large piece of rock from cliff had suddenly chipped off from the presure and because one of Innovator's legs were still unfortunately at the edge of that piece, the horse sank down with the rock. Innovator struggled to get his foot from the chipped rock but as he did, the presure of his struggling became to much for the rocks of the cliff and than in less that a second both the horse and the Prince plumeted into the air, like rocks.
Len felt frozen in the air, his eyes were so wide that he didn't even blink as his life began to flash before his eyes. His felt his heart stop "Why?" He thought mindlessly. "Why is this happening?" He began slipping off of the saddle and into the midair with the sun blurring his vision. "First my dear sister betrays me for those clumsy servants and now…now I am falling to my demise? No…No…NO! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!"
Len began to scream for help, feeling a great weigh of fear being suddenly crashed on top of his frail shoulders like bricks. Innovator began to cry a bloodcurdling neigh as his white main fell over his eyes. Both of them wishing this would all end soon and painless.
Suddenly a horrible bolt of pain erupted in Len's spine. The air was knocked out of his lungs completely and he began struggling and flailing around on something soft and hard. He gasped for air over and over again as if he was trying to remember how to breathe. He coughed repeatedly and drool streamed out from his mouth as tears were forced from his eyes from the excruciating pain. This continued for at least 3 minutes before he was able to sit up and to realize that he had hit ground.
The adolescent King huffed heavily. "Ow…" He moaned feeling as if he would vomit any minute. Len, brought his hands up and looked at them, making sure they were not see-throughout. "I'm still alive?" He asked shocked but also with a touch of relief. He looked down at the ground to find himself sitting in a bed of seeding dandelions surrounded by teal green grasses. "Wh-where…" He thought bewildered. Suddenly he heard a painful neighing sound to his left and turned his to that direction to find Innovator laying on his side and moaning in pain.
"Innovator!" Len cried as he got up and rushed to his horse, ignoring the pain in his spine. He sat on his knees and as gently as he could, pressed his tiny hand onto his horses skin, trying to feel if there were any broken bones, because if there were, Innovator would be done for. "Okay, this side is seems okay…" He whispered, relief that he had not found anything cracked within his horses body.
The Prince then stood up and went behind Innovator and tried to flip him over on his other side so he could check it, since he had landed on that side, he could have a wound or bone damaged. Innovator was in pain but he was able to cope with his human companion and helped Len flip himself over on the other side, despite that it took a great effort.
Len closed his eyes and sighed with relief. "Okay your legs aren't broken that's good…" He breathed because if Innovator was able to flip himself over, it meant his legs were still mobile and unhurt.
After a minute of taking in the relief, Len opened his eyes so he could check on his horses other side, but just as soon as he opened his eyes, they widen as he once again felt the air leaving his body. Granted Innovator did not have any broken bones, what Len had observed looked more horrible then any broken bone. What Innovator had on his side was large cut across his ribs with a thin sharp rock sticking out. The cut was bleeding a bit badly.
Len's heart completely stopped as he felt his lunch coming up, he cupped his left hand over his mouth and turned around as he began to vomit. Len hadn't seen a cut like this for a long while. The first time when he had seen such a large cut and so much blood was a time he did not wish to revisit.
He continued to cough up the rest of his food until his stomach was completely empty. He panted heavily as saliva began to drip from his mouth with his horse's groans in pain pierced through his ears like a knife.
Len was scared, He didn't know what to do. Whenever Innovator was hurt or sick, a vet would always be called to the castle and take care of his beloved horse until he got better, but now there was no vet, there was no one at all but only himself. But what could he do? What…?
Len gulped and slowly turned back around to face the horrible looking wound on his horse's side. He could already feel tears forming in the corner of his eyes and then without knowing what else to do, he slowly put his trembling hand on the blood-splattered rock carefully and put his other hand on his horses forehead so he wouldn't move when Len would have to take it out.
Slowly with sweating hands and a racing heart, he slowly pulled the rock from Innovators cut. The horse cried and moaned as the rocks was slowly being pulled from his flesh. Len was crying now at the sound his horses cries in pain. Blood began to flow out from the cut as he pulled. He began whimpering as he felt the warm liquid soaking his fingers and it was already making it worst for him with his horse moaning and crying out in pain.
Finally not being able to take any more of this, Len forcefully pulled the rock out from his horses side. Innovator let out a loud cry from the rough pull of the rock. Len did it, he was able to free his horse from that cursed rock. He threw it away to the east so he would never lay eyes on something that had hurt his precious horse.
Panting heavily, he fearfully looked back at his horse's cut, it was already beginning to spill more blood. Len could already feel his stomach churning once again at the sight. He began to panic again. "What am I gonna do?" He thought as pulse sped up even quicker. "I have to clean this and cover it with something but…"
The sound of the wind swaying against water suddenly filled Len's ears. He gasped at the sound and quickly looked up from his horse and then to the same spot to where he had fallen on. He gasped as a smile was painted across his face. Just a few inches away from the spot he had fallen onto, was a shinning pond with lily pads and pink and purple hydrangeas framing it. "Perfect!" He exclaimed at the sight. He looked back at Innovator and stoked behind his ears. "I'll be right back." He reassured him and then stood up and took off his vest as he ran to the pond.
Still shaking, he fell rather then sat onto his knees and dipped his vest into the pond, soaking it completely.
Len felt a bit better at the touch of the ice cold liquid because it was both soothing for his palms (that were still aching from being burned) washing the blood away and calming the fear in his veins.
After a brief minute he took his vest out of the water which was now dripping wet and heavy from all the water it had absorbed. He quickly squeezed some of the water out back into the pond and made a beeline back to his injured horse.
Len fell back onto his knees and quickly covered his wet ice cold vest onto his horse's cut. Innovator moaned a bit before he was able to feel relief from the waters icy touch washing away the burning pain.
As gently as Len could, he rubbed his soaked vest up and down, trying to clean the cut and blood that fell from it. He trailed his eyes back to Innovators face. A tear rolled down his one of his eyes as he looked at the pain in his horse's blue eyes.
"I'm sorry…" Len whispered to his horse, wiping away another tear that fell from his other eye. "If I hadn't forced you to run so fast into just one simple direction this would not have happened." He began wiping the away the others tears that fell from his eyes but it was pointless because more and more tears began pouring from his eyes like a stream as guilt began to consume his heart. "I'm sorry Innovator…" He sobbed.
Innovator slowly sat up straight to his sobbing human companion and moved his long nose to the Prince's. He then licked a few tears away from Len's cheek and nuzzled it. Len opened his eyes from his horse touch and he smiled widely out of relief when he saw that his horse was able sit up straight even after such a terrible cut was formed on him, it had also meant that not a single bone was broken in his body. That he was going to live.
Len wrapped his arms around Innovator's neck and buried his face into the bridge of his horses nose as he stroked his pure white main. "Thank God you were not hurt worst…" He sobbed happily. "Thank God you can still sit up…."
Innovator gave out a soft neigh as he continued to nuzzle the Princes cheek, comforting him.
After at least 10 minutes had passed, Len pulled away and wiped his face with the sleeve of his suit. "I shouldn't be crying right now, I need to clean you up." He sniffed as he continued his work to wash the wound. As He did Innovator began surveying the place they had both fallen into.
It was as if they had fallen into a secret paradise that was hidden within the forest. There was a small meadow filled with flowers that were every color of the rainbow, healthy beautiful looking trees growing the ripest and brightest of fruits, a few orchards filled with blueberries and purple colored ones, the beautiful pond as well as the white dandelions who's seeds were already dancing in the wind, there was even a warm and comforting breeze blowing by.
"Nice isn't it, Innovator." Len whispered. Innovator turned his attention back to Len who's eyes were still locked on cleaning his wound. Innovator gave a neigh in agreement.
The Prince chuckled and lifted his now wet and blood-stained vest up to see if the cut was looking any different He breathed out of relief; the bleeding had stopped and the cut was looking a bit better.
Len then stood up and ran back to pond to clean the blood off of the vest and to rewet it. He once again dipped his vest into the pond and squeezed it under the water.
Innovator watched his human companion as he soaked his vest through the water. His eyes were fixed on the prince protectively though, because even if this seemed like a safe and beautiful haven, there are still the dangers of wild animals, poisonous plants and if they are most unfortunate, bands of dangerous criminals or vengeful families that would mercilessly tear the Prince apart if they caught just a glimpse of him. The fall from the cliff was nothing compared to the real dangers they have just rode into.
"WAAAAAAAAHHHH! GIVE HIMEKA'S STRAWBERRY BACK!" Himeka wailed. Apparently Prima had stolen Himeka's very last strawberry from her cake not to mention she had already eaten before Himeka could even get one little bite.
Prima held Himeka back by having her hand placed on her forehead while she kept thrashing around, trying to what it seemed like to punch her. "What do you want me to do? Regurgitate it?" Prima asked dryly.
"PRIMA YOU'RE A MEANIE! MEANIE! MEANIE! MEANIE! MEANIE!" She whined. As the two continued their squabble, Rin and Satsuki watched them with weak smiles on their faces
"Prima really should learn to grow up…" Rin whispered.
"And Himeka shouldn't get so upset over one little strawberry…" Satsuki added. They both nodded in unison.
"Hey, big sister?" Satsuki suddenly asked.
Rin turned her attention to Satsuki. "Yes what is it?" she asked with a smile
Satsuki rubbed the back of his head feeling a bit unsure about the question he was going to ask. "Um, you know how the King frightens me and everything, Right…" He began.
Rin smiled gently and patted his head. "Yes go on." She said.
"And Well…everyone knows he's your brother too but um…how come he's so selfish and mean and your always so kind?" He asked.
Rin paused for a bit and then smiled, still patting Satsuki's head. "Listen, Len may look and act mean. And I will admit he can be a bit selfish at time but even so…" She then smiled a bright, warm and radiant one and continued while placing her hands over her heart. "His true the nature…His true colors is a person who is kind and warm hearted. Someone who is innocent and is pure like the waters that flow around the world. He isn't really mean just childish and behind that cold smirk he shows to everyone lies a smile that is even brighter then the stars and the sun…A smile that was blessed by the angels." She dreamily explained.
Satsuki was speechless for a bit, then he pouted and put his hands on Rin's cheeks and spread them harshly. Rin closed her eyes as her cheeks began to sting in pain. "S-Satsuki…What on earth are you doing!" She muffled through her teeth.
"Big Sister Rin is way too nice for her own good!" He whined.
Rin felt confused. "Wh-What do you mea-" But she was soon cut off when Satsuki blurted out.
"Big sisters smile was blessed my the angels! Big sister has a smile that tops all smiles!"
Rin blinked, now it was her turn to be speechless. Satsuki then let go of her cheeks and formed her lips into a smile. Rin stared at Satsuki. "You just keep smiling and everything will be okay!" He exclaimed and then he trotted off to bickering maids to help out his twin sister.
Rin just sat on wooden chair as she stared at her best friend bickering with the raven haired twins and then she blinked with Satsuki's words still echoing in her ears. "If I keep smiling everything will be okay?" Rin then looked up at the ceiling sadly. "I'm not sure if that'll work after what I just did to him…" She thought already feeling tears forming in her eyes. Guilt began to consume her as she remembered those harsh words she had said to her younger twin.
She then looked down at her lap were her hands were resting. "Len…." She thought as a tears slid from her eye. "Perhaps I shouldn't have been so harsh with him…"
"Hey, why look so serious?" Prima said to Rin as she walked up to her. "Are you feeling down cause of whole fight or something?" she asked her with a smile.
Rin looked at her friend and smiled a small one with a light giggle. "I guess I am…a bit down…" She admitted slowly.
Prima smiled and patted her head away from her bow. "Well how 'bout we make some tea with crumpets, I'm sure that'll cheer ya up." She giggled.
Rin looked down. "No thank you, I am not hungry…" She said sadly.
Prima then whispered in her ear. "But it'll be Orange-Pecko, your favorite…" She whispered with a smile.
Rin's shoulders tensed up. "O-Orange-P-Pe-cko…" she said bewildered.
"And the crumpets will be honey flavored…" Prima added with a grin.
Rin gulped as she felt drool seeping from her lips as she licked them. "R-R-Really?" She asked a bit childishly.
"MMHHHM…" Prima replied cheerfully.
Rin gave in. "Okay…you win…" She whispered.
"YIPPY!" Prima shouted victoriously. She then grabbed Rin's wrist and led her to the work table.
"Prima! Please don't pull so hard!" Rin pleaded as she winced in pain. Prima only giggled and pulled Rin's wrist harder. Rin rolled her eyes, knowing that Prima was not going to listen. Rin then started to think about the fight she and her brother had again and then she thought. "Maybe I could make a batch for Len as an apology gift…" She thought. "Would he like them though?"
After Len had cleaned Innovators cut at least six times over, he laid on the soft grass right my his horse who looked much, much better now. Len looked at Innovator smiling as he stroked the top of Innovator's slender nose. "Don't worry once when were found, you'll get the treatment you really need." He said in a positive tone.
Innovator let out a soft neigh and then laid his head down and closed his eyes. Innovator was now taking a nap. Len smiled and patted the top of Innovator's head. "You rest up now, I'll wake you when were found." He whispered to his horse and kissed the top of his ears.
Len laid his head back down and stared up at the cliff. It was high with rock sharp edges, it was a miracle that they had both survived without any serious injuries. "I wonder if anyone notices if I'm gone…" He thought. "And I wonder if Rin is…" He then caught himself and shook his head from that thought furiously. "I don't want start thinking about her, that traitor! Choosing a pair of clumsy servants over me, her own brother? How could she? How unforgivable!" He thought as he sat back up on his knees, biting his lip till it hurt and squeezing his hands tight.
Then after a few minutes his once angry and frustrated eyes turned sad and fragile looking, his lip began to quiver as he teeth slipped from them. "Does that mean those two useless servants are more important to her…more then I am?" He thought sadly as his eyes threaten tears.
He clutched the grass tight as his fingers shook with anger at the thought. "Why? What do I have to do make me her most precious person? Does she hate me? Was she just acting all this time to get to those raven haired demons? She's seems to care so much more about them then me…Was her love for me just an act…?" He thought as fresh tears fell from his rosy red cheeks.
"That's not true, Rin loves you with all her heart…" A voice that sounded like a girl's suddenly whispered. It was almost as if a fairy was talking in the wind.
Len blue eyes widen of the particular voice. He then shut his eyes tight while digging his finger nails into the dirt. "Well if she did she wouldn't have chose servants over me!" He whispered coldly.
"But you were acting a bit unreasonable, can you not blame her for sticking up for them and after all they are just children." The voice said.
Len growled and shut his eyes tight. "Just leave me alone…" He whispered to the voice. Suddenly there was huge gust of wind that gently swirled around him like an embrace and then he felt a sudden pressure on his forehead that felt like a pair of lips and the color of pink suddenly came into his vision but for only a moment and then disappeared.
Len sighed heavily and then laid back down as he stared at his sleeping his horse with a sad look in his eyes. "Why must she always come whenever I am not in the mood?" He murmured as he stroked Innovators main.
Len the slowly licked his lips and nearly flinched as he felt how dry and cracked they were. He let out another heavy sigh. "I wish I had a cup of Darjeeling tea right about now…" He said to himself. "But there is only that pond…"He thought, already remembering how cold and refreshing in felt on his skin.
He licked his dry lips again, just the thought of the pond turned his throat into sand-paper.
Though he was used to drinking the fine and exotic teas of the world; the horrible feeling of being parched and the fowl taste in his mouth from when he had vomited was so hard to endure that he brushed away the strong craving for the fine drinks that were served to him at the castle and walked up to the pond to drink as much as he could.
Sitting back onto his knees, he dipped his hands into the cold surface of the pond. He felt an entranced from the beautiful touch of the pound. He then took out his now water filled palms and quickly sipped it before it dripped out of his fingers.
He closed his eyes as the iciness of the water ran down his dry and sore throat. It was fresh, cold and it felt as though he was tasting snow crystals. A small smile formed on his now moist lips at the taste.
"Refreshing…" Len breathed. He repeated this several times, even washing his mouth out of the terrible taste in his tongue before he wiped his hands on the side of his pants while taking a deep breath of the sweet fresh air with the cold taste of the water still lingering on his tongue. "That was nice..." He whispered. The young prince then turned his eyes to the pond and stared at his reflection with astonishment. "Just like a mirror…" He whispered with wide eyes. "Only prettier…if Rin could see this she'd be so happy she would-" He caught himself before he could finish and he puffed out his cheeks childishly and shook his head. "No! No! No! I will not start thinking about that traitor!" He thought in childish anger.
Something green and lumpy popped out from beneath the waters, intruppting Len from his angry thoughts. He flinched wondering what on earth it was. "Wh-what in the-" Suddenly tiny shiny black balls slid out from the thing that was lumpy and green. Len blinked in confusment and then he smiled. "Oh, it's just a little frog." He chuckled.
Carefully he placed his finger on top of the amphibian's head and tapped it gently. He giggled as he felt how wet and silky the creature's skin felt. "Hi there Mister Frog!" He greeted childishly.
The creature blinked from the touch and then swam back down into the waters, dissapearing from Len.
Len giggled again and wiped his finger on the back of his pants. "Frogs are so interesting." he chuckled. He began to laugh happily until he felt something on his nose.
Len opened his eyes and then found a blur of green and blue with a pair of eyes designed onto it. Len held his breath. "Wait, is that…?" He thought. It was. A Morpho butterfly. Len's eyes widen but he did not make a sound, he just stared at it with amazement.
True Len did not like the color blue but for some reason ever since he encountered this butterfly yesterday; he began to like the color only on this particular butterfly though especially since it had the color green on it as well. He smiled and gave out a light giggle.
"Just like Rin said, they really do roam in the forest." He chuckled. Len then blinked when he realized that he was thinking about Rin again. He frowned sadly and looked down.
Rin had explained about it and also made a jest when he had first encountered this butterfly. Infact this was their butterfly. It was now both their favorites. The butterfly reminded him of Rin. He let out a heavy sigh.
Len began to realize how much he was beginning to miss her; it felt as though she was slipping through his fingers again. Being taken away from him without even a hug or a kiss goodbye. Just tears and loneliness as always.
"Rin…" He thought. His mind then fell onto the vase that had been shattered earlier, suddenly he began to feel embarrassed at the way he at acted over such thing. "It was just one vase…not really much of a big deal…maybe I was being a bit unreasonable." He admitted. Len then fell backwards onto his back in the grass and the butterfly flew away from his nose from the sudden movement.
"I mean I have plenty artifacts and I could always get it fix…I should apologize to her when I get back…she had all the right to say I was being immature and stupid because I was" He thought, feeling even more guilty.
Len then slowly turned his head to the meadow and stared at all the colorful and blossoming flowers that were shimmering in the golden sunlight. His face brighten as he stared at the meadow. "I know! I'll pick a whole butch of flowers for Rin and give them to her as an apology gift!" He exclaimed.
Len stood up from the ground and ran towards the meadow and stared at them happily. "Rin just love flowers!" He exclaimend. The Prince then bent down and picked a beautiful red rose with silky pedals from it's stem. He stared at it with gleeful eyes and then looked back at his sleeping horse. He then ran towards his beloved animal.
"Hey, Innovator, wake up!" He exclaimed as he shook his horse awake. With a groan Innovator opened his eyes and lifted his head up looking at his human companion, wondering why he had woke him up and hoped that it was for a good reason. Len smiled and showed Innovator the red rose. Innovator tilted his head a bit, wondering why the Prince was showing him a flower. Len then began to tie the stem of the flower on the strap on Innovator nose who was now even more confused. Len then pulled his hands away and smiled excitedly. "Now when Josephine see you, she'll think you've just come from a ball!" He giggled childishly.
Innovator rolled his eyes as he made a annoyed vibrating sound with his lips. Clearly he was not amused. "Now you stay here. I'm gonna pick a whole butch flowers for Rin!" He said with wink and a wide smile. He then trotted back to the meadow and began to help himself to the flowers. Innovator laid his head back down and closed his eyes hoping to get a few more winks of sleep before they were found.
Len reached out for a purple daisy. "Oh! Rin's gonna love this one!" He cheered as he picked it. His fingers then reached out for two pink roses. "Rin does love pink roses…" He murmured as he picked them as well. He then picked three sapphire colored buttercups and a few red and yellow tulips. He also picked a few golden dandelions as well as a few white and green Cosmo flowers, he was even lucky enough to find a few honeysuckle flowers and even three Sakura blossoms. With each flower he innocently plucked from the grass, his smiled grew wider and wider with delight. His cheeks flushed as he imagined Rin's happy face with her warm bright smile when she would received these flowers. How wonderful this was. Maybe falling from the cliff wasn't so bad after all.
Suddenly, Len heard Innovator letting out a loud cry and then a couple voices coming from behind him and shouting. "Get up and shut up!" Len gasped and then turned his head to see what was happening when suddenly a pair of rough big hands grabbed him from behind and covered his mouth shut. Len dropped the flowers and put his fingers on the arms that were connected to the hands and began struggling and muffling for the person to unhand him.
"Looks like the rat wondered too far from the hole…" A deep voice suddenly said. Len's could feel sweat pouring down his temples as he continued to struggle from the hands. His eyes widen as he heard his horse screaming and the voices of men shouting from behind.
"Don't hurt him…" Len try to muffle. He then heard a chuckle.
"If your worried were gonna kill your horse or something don't be. He looks like the perfect pet for my little sister…I bet she'll be so happy." The mans voice chuckled cruely.
Len growled under that mans hands. "You will not give him to a filthy peasant you here!" He screamed in his mind as he struggled harder. He was losing air fast.
"That is…if she ever get's better FROM WHAT YOU DID TO HER!" The voice suddenly screamed. Len then felt something hard and heavy slamming him in the back of his head. He let out a painful cry before his world began to spin. He felt the hands letting go of him and then the next thing he knew he landed into the meadow. Pedals flew everywhere and his eyes began to slowly close, but before he passed out, he caught a glimpse of the man who had knocked him out.
Fire colored hair in a thin pony tail as well as a pair of vengeful red eyes and black rags were all he could make out before his word went black.
Rin felt a jolt of pain exploding in the back of her head. She slowly brought a hand to her forehead which began throbbing as she touched it. She winced at the pain. "Ugh…why does my head hurt?" She thought. Rin then felt something tugging on her orange bow in the back of her dress. She turned around to find Himeka looking at her with a worried expression.
"Are you okay big sister? Just now...you looked like you were hurting." She said worryingly.
Rin smiled and patted her head. "I am fine Himeka, I just got a little headache is all, but don't worry it's gone now." She reassured.
"Are you sure?" She asked still worried.
Rin nodded. "I'm positive." She then held out a plate filled with light pink crumpets with colorful frosting in the shape of beautiful flowers on the top. "Would you care for a crumpet?" She asked sweetly.
Himeka gasped happily as she stared at the sweets with big sparkly eyes. She began panting like a dog with a wide smile. As she stared at them she noticed Rin's handkerchief that looked as if it was filled with something with a silver ribbon tied on the top. Himeka pointed at it. "Big sister, what's in there?" She asked innocently.
Rin looked at her handkerchief that's was bundling something and smiled. "Crumpets." She answered. "Except I made these a bit differently." She said.
Himeka tilted her head. "How'd you make them?" She asked.
Rin set down the plate of frosting-topped crumpets on the wooden work table and gently picked up her crumpet-held handkerchief and stared at it with gentle eyes as she began to explain. "These crumpets are baked with banana flavored custard, I even put the touch of raspberry juice. Banana's are Len's favorite fruit and raspberry was once our fathers favorite type of berry. Once on a summers day we went out in the orchard in the garden and filled our baskets with raspberries and gave them to our father on fathers day. Every time when Len ate them that same bright smile would always appear on his face." She explained in a warm tone.
Himeka smiled. "You're a good big sister, big sister!" She giggled.
"You said big sister twice." Rin giggled. Himeka laughed and soon Rin began to laugh.
"Hey Mister and Mrs. Chuckles, get your asses over here! The tea ain't gonna drink itself!" Prima shouted, already setting a tea set of Orange-Pecko.
"You mean 'Get your behinds here this minute. The tea will not drink itself up' Prima have some decent language. Really now." Rin scolded softly with a sigh.
Himeka giggled. "Ooooh, Prima's in trouble…" She snickered.
Prima blushed as her left eyebrow twitched. "Oh shut up you two." She growled only making Himeka and Rin laugh even more, Satsuki even began to snicker.
"Don't worry Prima, I'll come join you soon, but first…I have to go do something really immportant." Rin said, gently closing her fingers around the bundled handkerchief.
Prima growled. "Well hurry it up or I'll drink every last drop of the tea!" She whined.
Rin giggled. "Do not worry I will back." She then turned her attention to the small, raven haired twin sister . "Himeka, can you be a dear and bring these crumpets over to the table while I am gone?" She asked sweetly.
Himeka nodded happily. Rin thanked her with a smile and a kiss on the cheek before she made her way out of the kitchen leaving her best friend to deal with the raven haired twins, arguing about who Rin like's better (Due to giving a kiss on the female twin's cheek.)
Rin elegantly walked down the hall and up the long stairs, even curtseying to each servant she encountered as well as giving them her radiant smile.
As she finally made it to her brother bedroom door and stopped right in front of it, with her hand shaking as it was positioned to knock on the door. Her heart was racing, thinking of what her brother would be saying to her when she stepped in. She feared he was resenting to her for what she had said. She knew she would deserve but still just thinking about facing a pair of teary blue eyes and a bitter frown struck fear in her very core. But she had to try.
Taking a deep breath, she moved her shaking knuckle to the wood of the door and knocked gently on it. "L-Len." Rin called, fighting a stutter. There was no answer, which she expected as much. She brought her quivering fist to her heart as she gulped the lump in her throat. "Listen, a-about the thing with the vase, I was so very wrong to say such things to you…I didn't mean too, infact I have no idea why I even said those things in the first place, but I do know that I have caused you heartache once again, and for that I am truly sorry." Her apology was deep and sincere but even so there was still no answer from her brother.
Her heart was beating even faster and her palms began to sweat. "He must be really angry with me." She thought, fearfully. Forcing herself to move her trembling legs, she walked closer to the door and put her hand on the knob with hesitation and then she turned it. She opened it a few cracks only and poked one of her eyes through the door. Even if it was just a crack, Rin's eyes widen as she saw the room. The chair laying on the floor, the tea-set shattered across the carpet as well as the green haired princesses sweets staining it, and the scariest part was that the table was flipped over.
Rin gasped and flung the door open. "Len!" She called as she ran in. "L-Len, where are you?"
She looked around calling for his name, checking the wardrobe, the bathroom and even looking under the bed, but she still could not find him. "Len!" She called, her heart was racing even faster. Quickly Rin placed the bundled handkerchief on the nightstand and hurried out the door.
Rin ran down the hallways, asking the servants if they've seen her brother (Only to be disappointed with the word no) and even checking every room she passed by. Her pulse began to speed up and tears had already begun to crystallize into her eyes. "Len! Where are you!" She cried already sobbing.
"Rin!" She heard a familiar woman's voice calling. Still running and sobbing Rin opened her eyes and found that the woman's voice belonged to Lily who was already running towards Rin with an anxious look on her face.
Rin ran to Lily and hugged her, sobbing into her dress. "Oh, Lily!" She cried. "Len and I had a fight, I said such terrible things to him and now I can't find him anywhere!" Rin sobbed.
Lily placed a hand onto Rin's head and stroked it in a motherly-like manner. "Rin. Please calm down and listen to me." She said placing her hands on Rin's shaking shoulders and gently pulling her away so she could see her face. Rin sniffed and still kept wiping the endless tears that fell from her cheeks but she kept her ears open to hear what her friend was going to say for it might be immortant. "Listen, the reason why you cannot find him is because he gone to the stable and ran out with his horse, and hasn't come back in hours" Lily explained.
Rin's heart nearly stopped. "Wh-What…?" She barely whispered. Lily put an arm around her shoulder. "Come, I'll take you there." She said softly as she gently led the sobbing maid down the stairs and outside to the stable.
Outside, Rin begged the knights (Who were not same ones as before) for answers of were they might have seen were her brother had run off. A knight with brown hair nonchalantly sipped his blood red wine (Because it was their time of lunch) "Listen Lady, we only obeyed his orders to open the stable and then the last time we saw him; he was running off on that oversized steed." He grunted.
"And you didn't stop him?" She cried.
The second and last knight was a woman with aqua colored long hair (Obviously a knight from the Kingdom of Blue) with dark yellow lipstick dyed onto her curvy lips. She put a piece of cut meat into her mouth and said as she chewed. "Well if we did that, we'd probably have our heads cut off, he seemed to be such in fowl mood. I wouldn't risk my life to stop him." She said dryly as she ate a buttered piece of potato. Rin clenched her hands tight at the woman's excuse.
"Besides you should leave him alone to sulk anyway." The brown haired man said, not caring at all. Rin bit her lip.
"Yeah, I mean who cares if he doesn't come's back anyway. That would be a load off of us." She woman dryly said with a giggle.
Rin lost her temper completely for the lazy knights that did not even send a search-party out for her brother who could be trapped by a pack of wolfs for she knew. "HOW DARE YOU SPEAK THAT WAY ABOUT MY SWEET INNOCENT BROTHER!" She shouted with full rage. The knights gasped and stared at her expect for Lily because she knew this was bound to happen. "PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE DISGUSTING ROACHES WHO SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT INTO THE WORLD IN THE FIRST PLACE!" She lashed, stunning the knights.
"My brother is out there somewhere lost, tired, or even hurt and all you do is sit around filling your fat bellies, not doing a thing about it! You make me sick!" She yelled.
Rin then grabbed the woman by her wrist and flung her down. The aqua haired woman screamed as Rin placed her tiny foot on her waist as she forcefully took the bow-an-arrows (that were the color of gold) from the woman's back. Rin then loaded the sheet of arrows and the beautifully carved bow onto her back. Then before the brown haired knight could tackle her; she punched him in the face and swiftly took his sheeted hunting knife from his belt before he fell and slipped it into the sash of her orange ribbon. She then ran into the stable to get her beautiful white horse, Josephine, who looked just as determined as Rin did.
As Rin made her way to her horse, she snatched a weak looking stool away. When she finally reached her horse she untied the leather straps that held her; and gently pulled her out of the stable. After putting the stool by Josephine's side, she quickly stood up on it and boarded onto her horse before the stool shattered to pieces.
Rin held tight onto the straps and clicked her shoes into the golden hooks and then shouted, determinedly; "Let's go Josephine!" And then with one loud cry, Josephine ran out of the stable swiftly and gracefully. She passed Lily and the lazy knights who were still struggling to get up.
"Rin! Where are you going?" Lily called.
"To find my brother! I'll be back with him before dinner!" Rin called after not even turning around as Josephine rode away into the forest.
Lily put her hands on her hips and smiled. "That girl, she's so stubborn, I swear." She whispered in a proud tone.
Lily then turned her attention to the knights who had already gotten up and continued their eating as if nothing happened. Lily growled and walked up the knights and slammed her hand down on the table. "Listen you good for nothings, you've done nothing more then eat these passed few months how do expect to get paid?" She said with a smirk.
The man took another sip of his wine. "We get paid whether we do our job or not it's not like that little gremlin notices anyway, sweetheart." He said casually about to take another sip.
Lily then swiftly like a snake snatched his whine glass out from his hand. The man only noticed when he felt his hand free of any glass and turned his to Lily to find her drinking the last of his wine down her throat in a lady-like manner. She then grinned at the man and then smashed the glass onto his head.
He let out a cry and then fell to the ground, passing out as his head began to bleed. "I ain't your sweetheart, honey." She hissed.
The aqua haired woman gasped and stood up from her chair. "What the hell do you thing your doing!" She screamed, however she was silenced when Lily pulled out a silver pistol from the garter that was around her left thigh and pointed it at the woman's head. The aqua haired woman gasped and slowly backed away a few steps.
Lily was still smirking. "Now then, if you don't want bullet through the head, I suggest you listen carefully." Her voice was calm despite the fact she was in no mood. The aqua haired woman nodded her head slowly still fearfully looking at the pistol in Lily's hands. Without her bow and arrows, she was helpless. "I hate the Prince as much as the next person does but I don't hate Rin, infact everyone who works here loves her and her happiness is very, very important to us as well as her life, so if anything happens to Rin or if by some reason she comes back with out the prince, I swear you and Skippy here…" She began, looking at the brown haired man who was still out-cold. "Shall both be on trial for this and I will personally execute you both myself." She explained in a cold tone.
The aqua haired woman's eyes were so wide that she did not blink not even once. "Now…" Lily began not finished. "I suggest you go inform all the knights in here to look for those two or…" Lily fired a bullet through the woman's long luscious blue hair. A few strand of blue hair fell to the ground. Her heart was beating so fast as the smell of smoke from the pistols fire filled her nose, Lily didn't even have to finish, she proved her point. Lily's smirk was still hard as she had that same glare in her eyes. "Now…get going." She said dryly.
The woman nodded and ran to alert the other knights about the Prince's disappearance. Lily then put her pistol back into her garter and began kicking the brown haired knight awake. "Sleep times over, fatso!" She shouted. As she kept kicking the man away, she began to think about the aqua haired woman. "That wench cost me a bullet." She thought angrily. "I'll have to get her for that."
A pain erupted in the back of Len's head, every strand of his hair from his ponytail hurt like crazy and not only that he even had an awful headache. "Why…does my head hurt, so much…" He thought mindlessly. His eyes were still closed. He then began feeling the ground scraping passed him, like…like he was being dragged.
Len tried moving his legs but it felt as if his ankles were stuck together. "What…?" He thought with his eyes still closed. Len then tried moving his hands but his wrists also felt as if they were stuck together he then realized that his hands were actually behind his back, crossed together and held by something rough and tight. "Wh-why can't I move?" He thought, nearly panicking.
As he slowly began regaining his consciousness, he began to feel something thin and rough tied around his cheeks and his mouth. It was suffocating and tight, the only way he could breath was through his nose. Not making a sound just yet, he moved his tongue out from his lips and felt a piece of cloth blocking his way. "What is this?"
Len then darted his eyes wide open and found that he was indeed being dragged on the ground with his ankles tied by rope, and he could feel that the reason why his ponytail was hurting him so badly was because a hand was gripping on it tight while dragging him. Len bit his tongue so he wouldn't let out any groans as he trailed his pupils to the corner of his sockets to see what was happening; turning his head only slightly.
He could see at least four man walking in front, one armed with a large silver sword, his eyes then widen and he nearly gasped when he saw his precious horse being force to walk by one with night black hair. Len could even see hand shaped red marks on his skin, knowing that these men had smacked Innovator so that they could force him to walk. Len could already feel his heart shattering to pieces knowing he couldn't protect his beloved animal.
"Come on, are we there yet?" The man who was dragging the Prince complained.
"There?" Len thought, listening carefully. "Where's there?
"Hey, this was your idea so you should have known this would take awhile." Another man's voice said.
"Tch! I just want to finish this brat off as quickly as we can and take care of the body, so they'll think he just fell off a cliff instead." The man who was dragging Len growled. The others agreed loudly.
Len's eyes widen. "Finish me off?" He thought fearfully. "Take care of my body? A-Are they thinking about killing me? B-B-but why? I didn't do anything wrong." Len's heart began beating so fast that he nearly jumped, thinking that the men would hear it and try to make it stop with that sword.
"The sooner this brat is dead the better things will become!" The man who was dragging the prince shouted proudly as he jerked Len's pony tail harder. Not being able to keep the effect of this pain in his throat, Len let out a fearful moan and then suddenly the dragging stop. The hand that was dragging his pony-tail then grabbed the top of his hair, and he let out another painful moan as he was roughly turned around.
Not wanting to humiliate himself by looking afraid, Len bravely faced his captor in the eye and they almost widen when he saw the fiery red hair, the pale face with the skinny cheekbones and the same vengeful crimson red eyes. It was the same man he saw when he was knocked out, the one who grabbed him from behind.
Still Len would not show any fear just anger.
The redheaded man smirked and then he turned to his accomplices and said. "Boys…the Prince's awake." He said in a nasty tone.
The others chuckled exept for the black haired man who just had an apathetic look on his face.
The red headed man looked back at the prince who was still glaring at the man. "Why don't we give him a formal greeting." He said. He said the word "formal" like a prankster.
Suddenly Len was harshly thrown onto the ground like a rock and then before he knew it the men began to kick him in the stomach, the face, everywhere, one even stomped on his head. Innovator let out screams and cries as he struggled to rescue his human companion but that man who was guarding him was too strong and easily held him back.
Len let out moans with each boot that made a harsh contact with him. He could feel excruciating pain all across his body but he did not squeeze out any tears he just took the blows painful until the redheaded man ordered them to stop. Len was covered in bruises, cuts, blood stained his clothes, and his nose was bleeding, he even had a small black eye. He began coughing onto the cloth that muted him from talking.
"Well I feel much better!" The redheaded man proudly said. The others agreed as they cursed at the prince, one even gave one more kick to his stomach. Len began coughing through the cloth, feeling as though he was going vomit again, but because his stomach was deprived any food, he only gave out harsh coughing fit. He could feel something warm seeping from his throat and on the cloth that muted his mouth and he could tell by the taste that it was blood.
"Come on we have to keep going." The black haired man called, still trying to restrain the struggling horse.
"Fine! Fine!" The redheaded man complained. He then grabbed Len by his hair once again and dragged him on the ground, ignoring the moans and whimpers that came from the Prince's lips.
The men began to walk back in there same direction casually as if nothing happened. Len winced as the pain got worst around him, but what hurt more was his pride. How easy it was for these peasants to capture him with how him noticing a thing and how easy it was for them to restrain the Prince and for them to beat him to a bloody pulp. He felt humiliated and angry. "How dare these useless butch of roaches do this to their king? I swear when I am found and these dunder-heads are in chains, I'll give them a punishment they'll never, ever forget."
Then something hit Len. How would the knights know he would fall over a cliff and even they did know, why would they get down there? They wouldn't risk there skins to check if the prince had foolishly fell off a cliff. And that was the last thing he wanted for the knights to think that he would have fallen over a cliff like a fool.
He felt mixed up, on the other hand if the knights did find him they would think he was a fool to have fallen over the cliff without paying attention, that made him not want the knights to find him; but on the other hand if he was not found, the people who have now captured him would slit his throat.
Len didn't know what to think. His mind then fell to his sister. Rin…his dear, sweet, gentle sister. The thought made his heart ach for her. He missed her even more now, he wanted her by his side. If he was to die by these people's hands, he would leave his sister alone…all alone, the burden of handling an entire kingdom would impelled on her little heart. People would begin to touch her and talk to her in dozens.
He decided that he wanted Rin to find him instead. But…after that fight, he supposed she wasn't even looking for him. That she probably resented him. Tears welled up in his eyes. He wanted to see his sister, to touch her, to hug her, he wanted to feel her kisses again, he just wanted her back in his arms. "Rin…" Len thought, closing his eyes as a tear fell down his left bruised cheek. "Please find me…" The sky suddenly became very grey.
"Len!" Rin called as Josephine passed the ever-green trees. "Len! Say something if you can hear me!" She called again. Rin had been looking for Len for almost two hours now, and she still could not find him anywhere. "Len, please let me know if your alright…" Rin whimpered already beginning to spill tears again.
"LEN!" She called louder this time. She was so upset and calling for her brother that she was not paying attention at all to where her horse was heading, then out of no where Josephine pulled to a sudden stop. Rin was almost heaved over but luckily she was tightly hanging onto her horse so tight that she only bounced a bit.
Trying to calm her racing heart, Rin said softly to her horse. "What is the matter, Josephine?" Her horse turned it's beautiful head to her and twitched her head to the front while neighing a bit. She realized that Josephine was telling her to look up front. Rin slowly stood herself up on the hooks of the saddle to get a closer look at what Josephine had discovered. She nearly gasped at what she saw, Josephine had found a cliff. Rin breathed, if Josephine hadn't stop they'd both be plummeting to their deaths right about now. Rin gave Josephine a pat on the head. "Good girl, Josephine." She praised.
She then moved her horse to turn her around and to continue her search for her brother when suddenly something caught her eye from the bottom of the cliff. She stopped Josephine before she could take another step and squinted her blue eyes to get a better look at the object she had just discovered.
What she had found was an orange vest. The same vest that her brother was wearing. She gasped and her eyes widen. "D-Did, Len…" She thought fearfully. She looked at Josephine hopefully. "Josephine do you think you can…" She whispered. Already Josephine jumped from the cliff without waiting for an order from her human companion and landed gracefully on a smooth rock near the area she had jumped off. Then she jumped to another and another, pretty soon the pair landed gracefully on the long strands of grass.
Rin's eyes were so wide that she had found it difficult to blink. She was completely astonished at her horse's balance and grace. "You are a gifted horse Josephine…" She breathed. Josephine gave a proud neigh. Rin gave a weak smile to her horse until she spotted the vest on the ground. "Josephine, please pick that up." Rin commanded gently. Josephine did as she was told and picked the piece of clothing between her teeth and turned her head slightly to Rin's direction so she could receive it. Rin did and examined it. The vest felt damp in her hands.
Her eyes widen at the spots of blood on it. "Len…" She thought fearfully. Suddenly Josephine began to give a worried cry. "What is it, Josephine?" She asked.
Josephine kept crying and moving her head and legs, trying to tell Rin something.
Rin looked at the vest and then looked at the upsetting horse, she began to get a clue. "You mean this is Innovators blood?" She asked a bit anxiously. Josephine gave a low neigh, meaning a 'yes'. Rin began to put two and two together when she saw the pond. "Len must've dipped this into the pond so he could care for whatever wound Innovator had…" She thought. A trickle of water landed on Rin's elbow. The sky was now a very deep shade of grey.
Josephine's ears pricked up and then she gave out another cry. Rin looked at her anxiously. "What is it?" She asked again. Josephine gave out another cry as if she was responding to something. Rin stroked Josephine's black hair. "Do you hear Innovator?" She whispered. Josephine gave out another cry.
Rin gently kicked Josephine's side and without the slightest hesitation, she took off running at full-speed. Rin knew where there was Innovator there was Len.
Both the elder siblings of their twins where now feeling determination and hope to know that they were close to find their loved ones and nothing was going to stop them from bringing them home safe and sound. Nothing.
Rain began to pour from the clouds in buckets as they rode. Josephine's ears pricked up again and she let out another cry.
Innovator let out a cry as he struggled to get free from the tree branch that held him as he watched his beloved human companion beaing beaten once again. The men, the horse as well as the prince had just arrived into the end of the forest with only one tree standing alone with a huge cliff over a rushing stream.
This beating was worst then the last, this time they were using their fists as well. Len was biting so hard on the cloth that muted him that he actually bit through it. The cloth fell from his mouth and onto the ground. Len groaned and screamed from each punch and kick that crashed onto him, which only pleased the men more.
After at least a minute more of the beating the men stopped and backed away, satsfied with their torture. Len huffed, the pain felt worst all arounnd him. He then felt a boot stepping on his shoulder and then his body was forcefully turned onto his back, making Len's tied up arms hurt even more then they did before. The rain poured faster soaking every inch of Prince's clothes, hair and body. But at least it soothed his cuts and bruises.
Len coughed harshly at least 8 times and weakly opened his eyes only a bit because the blood from his forehead was streaming onto his eyelashes and stung his corneas. He clenched his teeth with pain. A sword came into his view, nearly touching his nose. Len's squinted eyes slowly followed the sword, all the way up to find that the redheaded man was the one holding the weapon that threaten Len's life. He could feel his heart racing a thousand beats a minute. "Y-you wouldn't da-" He was cut off when he felt the tip of the sword roughly brushing against his skin, the redheaded man was cutting through Len's suit as well as the shirt he was wearing underneath, buttons flew everywhere and Len only watch with his voice caught in the lump in his throat.
When his suit (and shirt) was completely sliced through, Len's frail chest was exposed, covered in bruises and bumps. Len blushed.
The men laughed at him. "You don't even have any muscles? Are you so completely weak that you needed the servants to lift the silverware into your mouth when you ate?" He chuckled. The men laughed at the jest. Except for black haired one who knew this is not what they should be doing.
Len growled blushing even more. "At least I am not some oversize dirty piece of garbage like you." He shot back coldly.
The redheaded man laughed again. "Oh, trust me you are a piece of garbage." He said.
Len growled. "What did you-" He stopped when he felt the swords cold painful touch sliceing through his delicate skin a bit deeply. He whimpered as he felt the stinging senstation. The redheaded man was carving an X on the area to where Len's heart was. The sword then lifted up when the man was finished with his marking.
Crimson blood seeped from the cut. The ice-like rain stung Len's exposed torso, and washed down the blood from the X that trickled down his satin skin, dripping all the way into his belly button.
Len huffed from both fear and pain, he never was cut before in his life and the pain was deep and horrible. "Stop it…" Len pleaded as his head limped to the side, his soaked hair hung over his eyes. The men laughed at his plead.
"What gold this it! The fearless tyrant we've all known for the four years on the throne and making all our lives a living hell, begs for mercy?" One of the men mocked.
"If only the whole country could witness this!" Another laughed. Len clenched his teeth tight at the mockery, he'd never been so humiliated in his life.
"Okay all joking aside, time to finish this." The redheaded man said, silencing the jests and the laughing. Len gasped and slowly turned his head back in front to find the sword positioned for the stab. Len struggled his wrists uselessly as his pulse speeded up.
"Don't…" Len whispered already shaking.
"Time for you to die now, former king of the once proud kingdom of yellow." The redheaded man said in a cold tone with a grin on his face.
"No! If you do this then I wont be able to apologize to her!" Len cried, struggling fiercely.
The black haired man's eye widen a bit. "her?" He thought. Who was this her, the prince had just said? Was this her someone precious to the prince? He began to feel sympathy for the Prince who was about to be finished off.
"Why should I let you live?" The redheaded man growled. The Prince wasn't listening he just kept struggling as hard as he could. "After what you've done to this country…what you've done to it's people…and what you did to my sister…" Tears began to well up in his angry red eyes. "She won't even say anything anymore nor will she walk all she does is stay in that bed looking out the window with those emotionless eyes…" He hissed. He began to raise the sword up. Len froze and stared at the weapon with fright filled eyes.
"I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MY SISTER!" He screamed as he brought the sword down and all Len could do was close his eyes, screaming and waiting…waiting…waiting.
Blood splattered on Len's face, yet he did not feel any pain , infact he didn't feel even the tip of the sword sliceing through his flesh. He then heard a scream and then a curse escaped into the air.
Fearfully and slowly Len opened his eyes and then they widen with shock and confusion. The sword was on the ground, not within his skin and the man, the redheaded man that was going to finish Len off, had a golden arrow right through his bleeding hand. The men came to him, saying his name that was drowned off into the thunder. Len felt confused. Wasn't he about to be stabed through his heart? Why was there an arrow through that man's hand?
"Intresting thing that you would be talking about sister's…" A familier voice said from the shadows. Len's eyes widen at that voice. Could it be? He turned his head to the side were he heard that voice. From the green flowering trees was a small figure and a large one behind it, the shadows from the tree however cloaked their appearneces.
The redheaded man pulled the arrow from his palm and threw it to the ground and began cursing at the shadowy figure.
"That's a dirty mouth you have young man…have your parents not taught you any manners?" The voice said in a dark and smooth tone.
"Who the hell are you!" One of the men demanded. From the shadows a smirk formed onto the face of the mysterious person.
"If you must know; I am the loyal servant to the prince, I am the demon that protects him from the threats of the world, I am mortal from hell to punish those who harm him and I am also…" The figures stepped out from the shadows. The large fingure was a porcelain white horse with a main and tail the color of the night sky, the small figure was a girl with golden-blond hair and blue eyes in an orange and black maid dress, armed with a sheeth of golden arrows and a bow.
It was Rin. The men where stunned because she looked excaly like the Prince.
"His elder twin sister, Rin Kagamine!" She proudly said as lighting streaked the sky. Josephine made a loud neigh. A cry for battle. Len smiled as he saw his sister. She was here, here to save him.
"Rin!" Len shouted, struggling harder. "Rin! Rin!"
Rin looked at her battered brother and then she glared at the men with anger burning within her eyes. "Seems you've been busy have you not?" She growled as she pulled out another arrow and positioned it in the silver string. "How dare you hurt my precious brother." She hissed
The men were still shocked, for as long as they could remember, The queen giving birth to twins was never mentioned so this sounded like whole butch of garbage but... they did look so identical…The same blond hair, the same ocean blue eyes, it was a bit hard not to believe.
"Now then if you could be so kind enough; let my dear brother go or would like an arrow through the head?" She asked coldly.
The redheaded man spit on the ground. "Your just a kid. I will admit you got me good but can a scrawny little girl take on four guys like us?" He mocked rudely.
Len fearfuly turned his attention back to the men who looked like they were about to pounce any minute on her. "Don't you hurt her!" Len shouted at them.
One of the men from the group had suddenly kicked Len in his mouth, silencing him as he groaned in pain. "Shut up!" He shouted.
Rin growled and released her arrow from the bow and it shot right through the man's shoulder. Len gasped at the sight of the blood and the arrow cutting through flesh. He tightly shut his eyes looking away, already shivering.
"Len, please keep your eyes close." Rin called a bit gently. Len nodded his head slowly at his sister's wish still with his eyes shut tight.
The men called out his name anxiously but he would not open his eyes and then they all glared at her. "Don't worry he's not dead." Rin said a bit reasuringly. She then gave the men a cruel, dark, demonic smirk. "Not yet anyway…" She giggled a bit darkly.
"Why you little!" The redheaded man yelled as he and his friends charged at her without retrieving the sword. Len still kept his eyes closed, he was shivering from both cold and fear. He could hear it, the screams, the arrows being fire, Rin's shouts, Josephine's cries, he could hear it all, then finally it stopped.
Taking a risk, Len cracked his right eye open and then his left eye, his eyes widen with amazement.
There was Rin and Josephine; circled by the men who were now lying on wet muddy ground with arrows in their bodies, the black haired one was unconscious while the others were struggling to get up.
"R-Rin…?" Len whispered, truly amazed that she had beaten but he was also a bit shocked that his sweet sister could have done all this.
Rin looked at the calm Josephine and petted the bridge of her slender nose and whispered. "Go to Innovator I will take care off Len." Josephine nuzzle Rin's cheek and then ran over to her twin horse who was crying and struggling for her to come closer.
Rin looked at her horse; who was now nuzzling Innovator (who nuzzled back) and then looked back at her bound up brother and smiled warmly at him as she began to walk toward him so that she could free him from his bonds and comfort him with an embrace and a kiss.
"Wait…" The voice of the redheaded man said as he wrapped his shaking hand around her ankle, stopping her from walking any further.
Rin sighed. "What is it?" She asked emotionlessly.
"Why…why would you do this for a demon like him?" He asked, his voice was raspy.
Rin frowned. "He isn't what you think he is…" She said quietly.
The man chuckled. "I've seen what he is…a demon, nothing more…"
Rin closed her eyes. "You just don't understand." She whispered, pitying this man who would dare jumped to a conclusion such as that.
The man smirked and then he quietly reached into his pocket. "Oh, I understand perfectly alright." He began and then he shot up, wrapping his left arm around Rin and before she had time to react the mad stabbed her through her right hip.
Rin winced and closed her eyes as she let out a soft cry out of pain. "A pocket knife…I should've expected that." She thought as the redheaded man harshly removed his knife from her hip, letting her fall down to the ground.
"That I'll need to finish you off if I want to avenge my poor sister." He finished with a grin
Len's eyes widen, tears poured from his eyes at sight. He gasped as he saw his sisters blood spilling from her hip, staining her dress, the bloody-knife that had stabbed her, the nasty grin on the redheaded man's face and her falling to the ground like rock.
Suddenly a whip of images flooded through his mind from the past. There were two bodies of a man and woman laying in puddles of blood, there was a blood-strained sword, a slash and cries out of pain.
"No…" Len thought. "N-not again…Please not Rin again! Not her! No!" Len began to struggle fiercely, trying to free himself to rescue his sister. "STOOOOP! DON'T HURT RIN! LEAVE HER ALONE! STOP IT!" He screamed as the tears poured faster from his eyes.
The redheaded man smirked at the prince's scream. "Now you'll see the pain I've felt for years from winesting my sisters suffering and not being able to do anything about it!" He shouted to the prince with a crazed look in his eyes. His friends began to cheer for him. The redheaded man turned Rin onto her back and raised his knife up and then brought it down to the direction of her throat, however Rin was faster and she pulled the knife from her orange bow and clashed it with the redheaded man's knife, stopping his attack completely.
His eyes widen and then he smirked. "Well, well, well, looks like the witch has a few tricks up her sleeve." He said, impressed with her quick reflexes.
Rin smirked back. "Don't be so fooled by the way I look, I've been taught a long time to learn this stuff." She said.
"Cute." He said, he then caught her right hand reaching for an arrow to stab his shoulder with, but he was quickly able to see this before she her fingers locked onto an arrow and roughly he pinned her hand down. Rin growled at this while the man only smirked at her failure. "Looks like that didn't work at all." He mocked.
Rin glared at him, her wound was bleeding a bit heavily and the coldness of the rain zapped her of her streagth and the knife which she held was sinking down to her throat, easily being overpowered my the redheaded man's knife, but she still put up the effort. She had to keep fighting to save her helpless brother.
Len sobbed, he couldn't get free from the ropes, he wasn't strong enough and they were to tight. "Leave her alone!" He begged, watching helpless as his sisters knife was just inches from touching the tip of her neck. He wanted to save his sister at least do a distraction so she could escape. Right now his life meant nothing to him. Saving the life of his sister was now more important to him then getting rescued. But what could he do? He was trapped by these cursed ropes and he didn't even have a weapon.
"The sword!" Len thought, already remembering the weapon the men were armed with to finish him off. It was perfect, it was sharp and large enough! It was the weapon he needed to get free and to save his sister.
Len turned his head to the side and spotted the sword at least just 7 inches from him. He quickly rolled over onto the ground. Mud and grass covered his face as he rolled, normaly he'd be disgusted but he didn't care, all that mattered was helping Rin.
He rolled and rolled until he felt the tip of the sword onto his nose. Quickly he rolled back onto his side and placed the rope on his wrist on the tip of the sword. He began to move his wrists up and down as fast as he could. The sword began to slowly cut through the supple ropes and he could already feel the tightness of the ropes lessen on his skun with each cut the sword made on the bond.
"Please hold on Rin!" He whispered, quickening his work.
The redheaded man smirked as he saw Rin's arm already shaking. "Your arm's about to give out." He said.
Rin clenched her teeth. "Why are you so obsessed with revenge?" She asked.
The redheaded man frowned. "Because of what he did to my sister." He growled.
Rin raised her eyebrow. "What did he do to your sister?" She asked curiously.
The redheaded man's eyes widen and then he frowned, he push of the knife began to lessen a bit. "My sister…my little sister…She was the most cheerest person you could ever meet, every time you saw her there would always be a smile on her face, the simplest thing in the world could make her happy." He seemed to smile a bit as he said that but then he turned into a sad frown. "But then one day, my sister went to the castle, I lost my job then and we were out of money and running out of food fast. She went there to ask the prince for some food and then one of my friends came home with her. She was covered in cuts and blood." Tears from his eyes seemed to glisten in the lighteing. "It was as all the life was sucked out of her, she was dead on the inside, she wouldn't move nor could she even speak and every night she goes to sleep, I hear her screaming in her dreams, and when I wake her up from those nightmare she still has that same dead look in her eyes. That's why I'll never let that demon walk the face of the earth again, He ruined my sister." He finished with and angry look in his eyes.
Rin felt a bit sympathy for the man. "Listen, I can understand why you would feel that way, I mean if Len ever came back like that, I would feel the urge to take revenge as well, however…revenge won't bring you sister's smile back, all it will do is make her sad if she knew her brother had took someone's life away. She would blame herself." Rin said softly.
The redheaded man growled. "Shut up! What would you know?" He shouted, he then pushed his knife on Rin's knife harder and harder. Rin clenched her teeth as she despartly tried to fight back, trying to get her right hand free from the man's grip but to no avail.
After one finale slice, Len's wrists were finally free from the ropes. He breathed out of relief and quickly sat up. Though his wrists were free; his ankles were still bound together, quickly Len picked up the sword; although he nearly dropped it when he felt how heavy it was on him, but he didn't care all that mattered was saving his sister's. He shakingly lifted the sword up to the middle of the rope that bound his ankels and then he litarly let it drop down still with his hands on the tip. The sword sliced right through the rope perfectly, freeing his ankles without cutting his flesh. He panted with his head down heavily from the weight the sword had immpelled on his muscles, still tightly gripping onto the sword though.
"Ahhh!" He heard Rin softly screaming. Len jolted his head up and looked to the direction to where his sister and the redheaded man was, apparently the other men (except for the black haired one who was still unconscious) had finally recovered and two of them had already pinned both her arms down with her knife in the hands the other man who slipped it in his pocket thinking he could sell it since it was gilded with gold and jewel. The redheaded one was now standing with his knife raised up in the air and pointed directaly at her heart. Rin's face was twisted with pain, so she must have gotten hit somewhere near her bleeding hip so the men could restrain her.
Len gasped and quickly stood with the sword still in his shivering hands.
Rin opening her wincing eyes as she glared bravely at the redheaded man with his knife. "When I'm done with you I'll make sure your "brother" gets a nice, slow, painful death." He said coldly. Rin clenched her teeth as she tried to stuggle her arms free.
"I...won't...let you..." She whispered weakly with pain lingering in her speech.
"Say goodnight, demon-girl." The redheaded man said about the bring the knife down and finish her off.
"STOP, RIGHT NOW!" Len screamed bravely. The redheaded man stopped his attack and turned his head around. The men that held Rin down also turned their heads around and so did Rin. They all found the Prince standing bravely, free from the ropes and pointing the sword directaly at the men with both hands as he glared at the men with freice eyes.
"Len…please don't…" Rin whispered, tears already welling up in her eyes as she stared at the fire in his.
"I am the one you want! Leave my dear sister out of this battle, she's got nothing to do with this!" He shouted bravely, still panting though.
The redheaded man grinned evily. "You've got guts brat." His attention was no long on finishing Rin off now it was back on the prince, their real target. The men that held Rin down let go of her hands and stood up with the same horrible grin's on their faces.
"Stop…" Rin whispered, still staring at her brother.
"But your still too weak to take us all on!" The man shouted as he and his friends charged at the prince.
"LEN!" Rin shouted, stuggling to stand up as the blood spilled from her side. She looked at the orange ribbion around her dress. An idea came to her and she began to untie it.
Len's wide eyes stared at the men that were coming towards him. He now wished he never declined the offer of learning how to use a sword on his 13th birthday, but he knew he had to try for the sake of his injured twin.
With shaking arms, Len lifted the sword up high into the air and when the first man came upon him; Len brought down the heavy weapon and screamed as he slash the man across his stomach. Len gasped as he saw the sight of all the blood spilling from the man's wound he had made.
Len stepped back, lowering the sword as he put his hand over his mouth, already feeling another urge to vomit. His eyes were so wide that he didn't even blink once and he stared at the man stuggling on the grass, and cluthing his wound; cursing at the prince for what he just did.
Len then suddenly felt a harsh jerk on his left arm, he screamed and then he felt another jerk on his other arm from the man he had just injured, making him drop the sword as he felt both his arms being restricted by strong and big ones. Len struggled and screamed, telling them to release him until he felt the sharp tip of the sword he had just dropped onto the middle of the bleeding X that was carved onto his chest.
Len fearfully opened his eyes to find the redheaded man in front of him and holding the sword to Len's heart. "Time to finish this!" the redheaded man shouted at he began to slowly peirce Len's delicate skin as his blood dripped onto the sword.
"Wait!" Len shouted, ignoring the pain.
"Begging wont help." The redheaded man said with his eyes still fixed on piercing through the X he had carved onto the adolecent King's chest.
Len shook his head. "I'm not begging for my life! Please just listen!" He shouted.
The redheaded man stopped piercing threw the prince's skin and looked at him with an annoyed glare in his eyes. "You have 1 minute." He said cruely.
"You can finish me off if you want but please, please spare my sister, she only did this because she was trying to protect me!" Len begged, already feeling tears in the corner of his eyes.
The redheaded man smirked. "Oh don't worry, were not going to kill her." He said. Len breathed out of relife, knowing his sister would be spared. "Were just going to sell her to some man who loves cute little girls like her." The redheaded man then said with a cruel chuckle.
Len gasped and his relife melted away into shock and fear. "You wouldn't dare." He said fearfully. The redheaded man pierced the tip of the sword deeper into the X and Len clenched his teeth in pain.
"Now you will truly see what it's like to lose your loved one to someones hands." The redheaded man hissed. He was about the finish it with a pierce through the heart when suddenly a bolt of pain erupted though his left arm. He screamed again and fell to his knees as his felt the stick of an arrow in his bone. The men called his name that was again lost in the thunder.
Len's eyes widen at the arrow. It couldn't be, could it? He stared at the redheaded man who was goaning in pain. "Damn it…" He cursed.
"You've underestimated me." Rin's voice said, Still strong and determinded.
Len's eyes widen and then he screamed, looking at her. "Rin! What are you doing? Get out of here!" He ordered.
Rin smiled warmly at her younger twin. "I'm not leaving without you, Len." She said gently.
Tears poured from his eyes and then he hung his head. He knew Rin was just as stubborn as he was and whether she was his servant or not, she would not listen to him if it ment leaving her twin at the mercy of death.
The redheaded man still being able to stand properly despihite his injuries; pulled the arrow from his shoulder, threw to the ground and then glared at Rin. "What gives, I though I stabbed you!" He shouted, angry now.
Rin smirked. "I was able to stop the blood from flowing any further." She said as she but her left hand onto the orange ribbion that was now tied around her waist and into a neat bow by her injured hip, blocking the blood from flowing any further. "Luckily you didn't hit any bones or organs." She said, panting a bit. "Now…let my brother go."
The redheaded man clenched his teeth and looked at the other men who were still in shock. "Take care of her, I'll go finish off the brat!" He ordered.
"Right!" The two men said in unison as they dropped the young prince, who fell to the sopping wet ground. They then took out there pocket knifes as well as reciveing the sword by the redheaded man who said that he didn't need it to finish the job, then the men charged at the injured maid who only had her arrows.
"RIN!" Len shouted already standing up to run to her aid but was stopped immediatly by the redheaded man who grabbed Len by his pony tail (which was already a tangled mess with a few strands already hanging out of the coil) "Gah!" Len cried in pain as the man dragged him. Len being forced to walk backwards; had tears streaming from his eyes as he stretched his arms out for his sister who was soon lost in the rain and with the men that were circling around her like wolves who found had found a plump rabbit. "Rin!" He called.
"Shut up!" The redheaded man shouted, pulling the Prince by his hair harder.
Len cried from both pain and the fear of loseing his sister until with one swift pull from the man he found himself being litarly hung (by his hair) over the cliff to the violent waves of the stream. Len flinched as he stared at the rushing waters, he began to feel dizzy. "Not again…" He whimpered quietly.
The redheaded man laughed. "Scared of hights are we?" He smirked. Len panted heavily, frozen by fear. "Don't worry, you'll be down soon." He whispered in his ear menacingly before he let go of the trembling prince right over the cliff.
Len felt his heart stop from the moment the man let go of his hair. As quickly as he could, he twisted in the air and grabbed the edge of cliff before he fell into the violent waves of the stream and dug his nails so hard into the earth that they were bleeding.
The redheaded man growled and stomped on Len's hands violently. Len screamed as the pain exploded across his hands, but he still did not let go. The man kept stomping harder on Len's now bleeding hands until a stab of pain went through his wrist, his other shoulder and his ankle, that were unmiskabliy from Rin's arrows. Rin then came up from behind, put the redheaded man's hand behind his back and flung him to the left side, where he rolled into a large rock and his spine where slammed against it.
Rin then quickly sat onto her knees at the edge of cliff and grabbed Len's arms before his bleeding hands slipped from the cliff.
Len looked up when he felt those familiar warm hands gripping onto his own and then smiled as tears filled his eyes. "Rin! Your okay!" He cried.
Rin smiled. "Yes, luckily those men where already weak from the pain I inflicted upon them earlier." She said softly as she and Len interwinded their fingers together. "Now Len, you have to help me by pushing yourself up a little, so I can pull you up." Rin said a bit seriously. Len nodded and began kicking his legs and jolting his spine up, trying to help his sister. Rin nodded. "That's good." She said as she began to pull harder.
As the twins began to struggle to push and pull; the redheaded man glared at Rin who was pulling her brother up. Blood seeped from his clenched teeth as his eyes turned angrier and scarier. "I'm not…giving…up…" He whispered in a raspy voice as he began to shakingly stand up while taking his pocket knife out; slowly limping to the unoticing Rin.
Len looked at Rin. "Do I need to push harder?" He asked, the rain already stinging his eyes.
Rin smiled at him. "No. You are doing a great job Len, I'll be able to pull you up in no time." She reassured.
Len breathed and then his eyes widen and his face looked horrible shocked and afraid. Rin raised her eyebow. "What is wrong, Len?" She asked.
Len then suddenly shouted. "RIN, LOOK OUT!"
Rin gasped and turned her head around to find the redheaded man, still with the arrows in his body, looking at her with a crazed look in his eyes and raising his knife up in the air. "NOW I'LL GET THE TWO OF YOU DEMON TWINS FOR SURE!" He screamed as he brought the knife down. Rin screamed, Len screamed and then in a flash of lightening, Josephine had suddenly appeared from behind the man and rammed her head into his spine; pushing him right over the cliff, before he could stab Rin.
The man screamed and then in flash he was swallowed up by the waters, dissapearing down the stream. Josephine gave a neigh out of victory as Rin pulled Len up from the cliff. Len flung his arms around Rin and then began to cry.
Rin frowned sadly and wrapped her arms around her crying twin and stroked his hair. "Are you okay Len?" She asked softly.
"R-Rin…" He sobbed. "I th-th-thought I almost lost you!" He cried, tighting his grip on her. The lightening began to calm down but the rain still battered down faster into the earth.
"Shh…Shh...It's okay now." She said softly. "It's okay now…It's okay…" She whispered.
Len hugged his arms tighter around her then suddenly he felt Rin flinch a bit and then he felt something warm and wet on his hand. He gasped and then brought his hand up to his face, still with his arms around Rin.
His eyes widen when he saw blood splattered on his hand. It was Rin's blood and then he remebered that Rin was injured. "R-Rin…" He whispered fearfully before he fainted.
Rin frowned as she felt her brothers arm's dropping onto the ground. She then moved her unconscious brother onto her lap. Caressing his scalp and brushing his wet locks of hair away from his bruised face behind his ear as she looked at him with a sad look in her blue eyes.
"Oh Len…" She whispered pressing her cheek to his. "You have seen so much blood-shed again haven't you? And for that, I apolagize." She whispered kissing the cut of his forehead.
The sound of horses and then shouting filled Rin's ears as a group of knights in golden armor on their horses and armed with weapons suddenly came into view.
Rin smiled. "Bless you Lily." She thought.
"Lady Rin!" One knight shouted as he saw the unconscious men on the ground, the arrow and the blood. "What had happened here?" he asked.
Rin tighten her grip on her unconscious twin. "My brother was captured by a group of these thugs and were about to…kill him, but I came just in time and took care of them. They are all unconscious and Josephine pushed one over the cliff. I believe he still alive bur please look for him, for I do not wish something like this to happen to the prince again. He had red hair and blood-red eyes." She explained smoothly and calmly.
The knights began to put the unconscious men in chains, the other few went out to seek for the man that was responsible for this and the others untied Innovator from the tree and gently pulled him along so they could get him back to the castle so a vet could heal his wound that they had discovered.
Another knight; who was female, came up to Rin and the unconscious prince and asked softly. "Were any of you hurt at all?" She asked gently.
Rin smiled sadly. "Unfortunately, I let by guard down and got stabbed on my right hip, but thankfully he didn't hit and any bones or organs and I was able to stop the bleeding." She said. Rin then looked at her sleeping brother and frowned. "He's hurt worst then I am, because he was beated to a pulp, his hands are bleeding and..." She then gently circuled her finger around the X cut on his chest. "This was carved just a bit deep over here." She said, wiping a tear from her eye.
The woman frowned and held out her hand. "Here, I'll help you onto your horse." She offered.
Rin took her hand and then said. "Please help Len onto Josephine as well, I'd like to hold him while we make our way back home." Rin said. The female knight smiled and nodded her head. Rin gently laid Len down onto the ground and kissed his cheek before the woman picked her up and gently loaded her onto her horse. Rin clicked her shoes into the hooks and and gripped onto the straps of her horse. The woman then gently picked up Len and gave him to Rin's outstretched arms. The knight then took off her dark-purple cloak and put it onto the twins.
"Here, it'll keep you both dry." She said softly.
Rin smiled as she slipped her arms through the sleeves of the cloak and then wrapped the cloak around her sleeping twin. "Thank you." Rin said softly. The female knight smiled and then gently led Josephine with the twins boarded on away from the cliff and away from the battle ground.
Rin hugged her younger sibling close to her heart, gazing at him lovingly and saddly. She placed her hand onto his bruised cheek and burshed a long strand of hair away from his long blood-stained eyelashes as well as a tear that fell fom his closed eyes. "How many time will I have to see him hurt?" She thought, wrapping her arms tighter around her younger twin.
The thunder and lightening had stopped by the time everyone arrive back to the castle. Josephine and Innovator were taken to the stable where a group of vets were waiting to care for them as for Rin and Len (who was still passed out.) the same female knight recived Len from Rin and carried him back to his room while Rin was carried to her room by the brown-haired, green-eyed servant; Yumeki. Both rooms were flooded with doctors and servants.
Rin sat on a wooden chair, in only her chemise and bloomers as three female doctors worked on her wound, while the other maids polished her dirty body and brushed her silky hair back into place. She sat there emotionlessly as they did their work.
"You were so very brave Lady Rin." A maid prasied. Rin smiled a small one.
"I am impressed that such a tiny girl like you, could take on four men at once and still rescue the prince with your life intacted." Another said.
"I was taught many things while I was gone." Rin said.
"You are so talented Lady Rin." Another maid said, dabbing a tear with her handkerchief. Rin giggled blushing a bit at the compliments she was getting.
Suddenly the door of her room swung open and in came Himeka, Satsuki, Lily and Prima.
Himeka and Satsuki were already tearing up as they saw the banaged around Rin's waist. "B-Big S-sister.." they whimpered already haveing tears down their cheeks. Rin smiled and patted their heads soothingly.
"I am fine. No need to worry yourselves." She said softly. The twin's wanted to wrapped their tiny arms around her and give her a big hug but they knew that they couldn't if she was hurt so all the could do was just cry as they let her stroke their heads.
"I heard the whole thing!" Prima blurted. "Rin, you are such a bad-ass!" She praised
Rin sighed. "Prima please control your tongue there are children here." She said. Rin then looked at Lily and smiled at her.
"Thank you Lily." She said.
Lily smiled "Don't mention it." She said and patted Rin's head only to get scolded by a maid who had just finished brushing Rin's hair back into place.
Prima giggled as Lily and soon the twin were getting a scolding from the maids telling them they should not be here at the moment, but then her giggling stop when she felt a strong hand on her shoulder, she turned around and then blushed. Yumeki was the one that had grabbed her shoulder. Her love. Prima could already feel her heart racing.
"Perhaps this isn't the good time for you to be talking right now, Lady Rin needs to be alone now so she can rest and be healed." He said gently.
Prima smiled and nodded her head. "Yeah…your so right, Yumeki…" She said dreamily. Rin, Satsuki, Himeka and Lily all giggled nervously with sweat drops on their heads as they saw Prima's behavior towards her crush.
Prima then looked down and bounced on her heels as she played with her fingers. "Um…would you care to join my friends and I for some crumpets and tea? I just made them today." She asked sweetly.
Yumeki smiled and then fixed her white rose hair-pin. "I would love to." He said with a warm smiled. Prima smiled happily as her face turned bright red. She then gently grabbed Yumeki's wrist and pulled him along out the door, happily. Lily followed after her and soon the twins did after they both kissed Rin's cheeks and told her good night.
An hour after the doctors had left Rin in her bed so she could rest, a male servant with black hair had came in with a trey of pumpkin and parsley soup, a small bowl of white rice, a glass of hot-chocolate (To warm her up after all the time she spent in the cold rain) and a vial filled with pink liquid for her wound. Rin thanked the servant, who bowed to her like she was a princess and left the room for her to eat her meager dinner.
After Rin had finished eating, a tiny maid with silky white-blond hair came in to collect her dishes, Rin thanked her and it almost as if she was about to say something to Rin but she quickly shut her mouth and darted out of the room. Rin only smiled sadly. She knew that maid was afraid to speak to her, only because she thought the Prince would have her head if she even made eye contaced with his sister. How Rin wished she could tell the maid she had nothing to worry about.
Rin sighed and then laid on her silky bed. Her eyes were glued open as she thought about all the events that had happened today.
Fainting after she had woke her brother up, cleaning him up after he had tried to make a cake for his princess, helping him bake cookies, bringing him to his room after he had fainted, a near kiss, his favorite vase being broken and saving him from such a horrible fate. "What a day it has been." She thought to herself.
She couldn't sleep with her injured brother on her mind, all bruised and cut, not to mention she couldn't stop thinking about his tears, just the thought of it made her heart shatter.
That 's when she decided she couldn't take it anymore. She had to see her brother, see how he was doing and be with him when he awoke. She got out of her queen-size bed (Still in her undergarments) and quietly opened the door. She looked down both ways of the hallway and gently closed the door from behind.
She then tiptoed, gracefully and quietly all the way to her brother's bedroom door and gently opened it. Luckily for her the doctors were already gone and there was Len, in fresh silken pajamas, tucked into the warm covers and still asleep. She breathed and then closed the door behind her. She then took a chair from the table (which was up right again as well as the carpet cleaned and tidy) and set it beside her brothers bed and sat on it.
Rin looked at her brother's face and smiled at the magical work the doctors had done to heal his face; the bruise on his cheek was hardly noticeable, there was a patch on his forehead, a small one at that so Rin figured they must have heal the once large cut on it so well for it to have shrunk, the purple bruise on Len's nose was somehow turned into a pastle pink color, the cuts on his lips were gone, the purple color of his bruised eye was now moist with oniment and a much lighter color and his face was cleaned and glossy as it was before.
Rin smiled and soothingly stroked Len's hair. "Those doctors sure have done a beautiful job on you, haven't they?" She whispered and placed a kiss on the patch of his forehead. Rin then heard Len groaning. She quickly removed her lips from his forehead and gently grabbed his hand as Len slowly opened his glassy eyes.
Rin smiled. "Len, are you awake now?" She asked softly, stroking his hand.
"R-Rin?" Len moaned as he sat up clutching his aching head. "Ugh…" He moaned. "I had the most horrible dream…" He whispered. His fingers moving to his forehead.
"What sort of dream was it?" Rin asked.
"I…I was captured by a group of men and then…" He stopped when he felt the band-aid patch on his forehead. "What?" He thought. "Did I hurt myself?" He then turned his head to Rin to ask her why he had a band-aid patch on his forehead but then flushed from pink to red when he saw that she was only in her undergarments.
Len quickly turned his head away closing his eyes tight. "Wh-Wh-Why are you just in your underwear Rin!" He stuttered, feeling embarrassed that he had seen so much of his sister's skin exposed.
"Sorry, but the doctors told me not to wear anything until they change my bandages in the morning." Rin explained.
Len opened his eyes and gasped. "B-bandages?" He whispered, already he began to wonder if the night-mare he had was actually real.
Slowly Len turned his head back around, looked at her stomach and found snow-white garments around her torso. Len's eyes widen and then he mindlessly moved his hand to her stomach and touch it gently, it was only then when Len noticed the bandages wrapped around his fingers and he stared at them. "I-It couldn't be…" Len thought fearfully.
Rin released Len's hand as he began to slowly unbuttuon his pajama shirt. Rin didn't even try to stop him. She knew that he needed to realize what happened was not a dream sooner or later.
Len's eyes widen when he found bandages wrapped around his chest and he slowly pressed his finger on the area were his heart was and gasped quietly when felt an X underneath. Rin's hands suddenly came into view as she began to button his pajama shirt back up. "It wasn't a dream, Len." She said softly.
Len slowly tuned his head back to Rin who was smiling at him and his eyes began to well up with tears. "I-I got you hurt…" He sniffed.
Rin placed her hand on his cheek, gently brushing away his tears with her thumb. "It wasn't your fault Len, please do not blame yourself." She gently said.
Len hung his head, tears already streaming down his chin. "Y-You could have died Rin…" He whispered. Rin wrapped her arms around him and rubbed his back.
"But I didn't." She whispered in his ear. "I'm here now, we're both alive and more importantly your safe…" She said kissing his cheek.
"I'm sorry, Rin...this is all my fault…if hadn't run off, you wouldn't have gotten hurt." He sobbed.
Rin frowned. "No if I hadn't shouted at you, then you wouldn't have gotten hurt." She whispered.
"No you had all the right to shout at me." Len said Rin's gasped under her mouth a bit surprised. "You were right; I was being unreasonable…" He sniffed. Rin smiled and hugged him closer. "I'm sorry, Rin." He whispered.
"I'm sorry too Len." Rin apologized. Rin then let her arms go from Len and then picked up the handkerchief filled with crumpets from the vainity where she had previously left it and gently lifted Len's chin up. "Here." She said with a smile as she held it up to him. "I made you some crumpets as an apology gift." She said softly.
Len's eyes widen and Rin then placed the hankercheif bag on his plams. "Wait is this…?" He whispered.
"It's my handkerchief, thank you for the wonderful changes you have added to it." Rin said with her bright smile.
Len brought it to his nose. "It smells delicious." He said softly. "I was going to give you a bouqet of flowers from the forest but I dropped them when I was captured." Len sadly whispered.
Rin then brought something out from her white ribbion she had tied onto her hair and then held up the same bright red rose that Len had tied onto Innovator to her twin who's eyes widen at it.
"Would this be one of them?" She asked still with the smile painted on her face.
"H-How did you…" Len whispered already lost at words.
"While we were coming back home, Innovator kept nuzzling this to me. I think he wanted to at least give me this one." She said. "And don't worry Innovator is okay, the doctors said you did the right thing by washing the cut." She reassured.
"How did you know?" He asked still lost at words.
"A big sister always knows." She giggled. "Thank you for the flower Len." She said wrapping her arms around him.
Len smiled and the retured her embrace. "And thank you for the crumpets Rin." He thanked.
Both had tears in their eyes, tears of happiness. They were happy to be together, alive and safe. "Promise me you'll never leave me Rin." Len whispered in her ear, hopefully.
Rin kissed his nose. "Don't worry I'm not going anywhere." She reassured. Happy to see the smiled on her brother's face even if his cheeks were covered in tears.
After a long while the cold rain had finally stopped pouring from the thick cloud that had suddenly vanished as if they were never there in the first place.
The once grey sky had now transfromed into beautiful dark blue color with a shinning cresent moon and stars that gently glittered in the sky. The pale blue moon had began to shed it's light as it shined into the crytals widnow of the Princes bedroom. Lightening everything.
Rin and Len had both fallen asleep togehter onto the king-size mattress with their hands intertwined and their once cold bodies under the thick warm covers. In the pale blue light the moon gave off; on the nightstand was the red rose from Len and the crumpets from Rin.
The wonderful gifts continued glistening in the moonlight as the twins slept together peacfully. Both sweetly dreaming with tiny smiles painted on their angelic faces.
Everything was at peace for now...
I'm all done with this chapter YAY! You have know idea how long I have wanted to make this chapter! I'm so happy I finished it! And I know there are proabaly a crap load of mistakes but right now I'm to lazy to fix them, I will when I get the chance however but I also have to fix another story that I had promised to fix two day ago but I couldn't because well….
YESTERDAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY! I AM NOW MIKU'S AGE! TEE HEE HEE HEE! I had my birthday part Friday and then my actuale birthday yester day and had another celebration today! I feel so happy! Now I'm exuasted from all the celebrating.
Thank you for the reviews:
Animals of Night (Yeah I haven't got a review from you before but it's nice to hear from you and I'm so happy you enjoyed the last chapter, I hope I hear from you soon.)
Ruuya (Yeah, I love Himeka and Satsuki they are sooooo adorable! I hope you liked this chapter)
Campanella ( Tee hee…I figured they had to get into a fight so they could have a touching make-up thingy. I'm glad ya liked it.)
Yes I once again put Lenservice in here even at a dramatic part, I just couldn't help myself I am such a pervert….Tee hee hee…And also I'VE FINALLY FOUND RIN VERSION CALLED MAID OF EVIL! I sooooo love it! I can't stop listening to it infact it's soooo much better then Len's.
Len: Hey! what's wrong with my version?
Chibi: You die in it, that whats wrong!
Rin: So it's okay if I die then!
Chibi: Well…I like Len better sooo…
Rin: *Chases Chibi with the rode roller!*
Chibi: KYAAAAA! *turns head around* Please enjoy everbody. KYAAAAA!
