Hello all!
It's been a long time since I've written a story or continued one, huh? I'm sorry; it's just very hard to find time with working at a hospital; I'm constantly on the go.
But anyway, about my writing; I love to write as you all know. If I could have one wish, I'd definitely wish more than anything to spend more time with writing. I sincerely miss the days where I would type until 4 in the morning; working on something, not only I enjoyed writing, but something I'd hope other people can get enjoyment out of too. Because I'm constantly on the go, it's hard for me to brain storm new story ideas and different plots and endings. Ya know.
With all that said, I am going to do my absolute best to continue writing. I can't, and will not promise any due dates or anything.
I have been editing Sexual Tensions and working on the next few chapters. I think I want to take it all down and re-post it with the edits. After that, what I will start doing is, working on every chapter and not post it until it's all 100% finished, then just give you guys all the chapters at once. minus just this one, of course so I can inform you. It will take me longer to post- but at least you won't be waiting 20 years for the next chapter. I know as a reader how frustrating that could be.
From here on out I will only ever post on Fanfiction and DeviantArt. (Mayumi Nakashima). YouTube is just getting too strict that it's not fun to post there anymore. Maybe in the future, I will find a site that is like YouTube, for chat shows and stuff; try and start those up again. Because I do like doing that. But for right now I will stick with these two sites.
So, that's all for now. Hope you all have a great day!
Choosing Fate 1
For as long as I can remember, this has always been a world of blood, crime, and hateful battles. Although in the beginning, the war was only between the four main kingdoms:
That of the one pass the waves, known as the Water Kingdom; the one with the seven strongest knights, the Sword Kingdom; The kingdom pass snow mountain, the Ice Kingdom; And this one. My kingdom from the stars; The Spiritual Kingdom.
I never did understand why there was so much hate... but I knew better than to ask. As time went on, eventually a treaty was proposed between the four kingdoms; and with it finally came some peace.
However, the way my world works is; when one war ends, another one begins. And so with that, Mother and Father came to a conclusion on my sixth birthday.
"Happy Birthday Lucy."
Jude walked out a three teared cake with Lucy's favorite frosting on it.
"Make a wish before you blow out the candles" Layla smiled.
Lucy closed her eyes and cupped her tiny hands together. When the candles were blown, Lucy rushed to her mom and yanked gently on her long red dress.
"Mommy, Mommy!"
"Yes sweetie?"
"Can you read the last chapter of that story now?"
"You don't want a slice of your cake?"
"I do, but I want to hear the rest of the story!"
"That story is for bed time you know." Layla informed.
"Please mommy!" Lucy begged with sparkling eyes.
Layla smiled. "Alright, because It's your birthday I will make an exception. Go and bring it here"
"Horraay!" Lucy rushed off to her room.
. . .
"And the prince and the princess lived happily ever after" Layla finished.
"Wow! The prince is very brave"
"He surely is, isn't he?" The kind woman paused. "Now Lucy, I have a very special reason why I told you this story these past couple of nights."
"Special?" The young girl looked up at her mom in wonder.
"Yes. Your Father and I think it would be in your best interest if you were to have your very own prince"
Lucy beamed. "My very own prince!"
"Doesn't that sound exciting? This prince will always protect you, and even marry you some day."
"Huh? Marry?" The young blonde knitted her brows together in confusion. "Um, but mommy, isn't that something old people do?"
Looking back on it now, I suppose I was too young to understand. Nonetheless, days went by and we patiently waited for the Ice Kingdom's prince to arrive.
As we did... I started to hear strange rumors spread through the castle. And one day I over heard my father and our guard talking...
"Sir, I went down there myself to investigate, and I saw young children with them." The man tried to explain to Jude.
"I don't care." Jude fussed. "They're all good for nothing fiends. I want them all tarnished."
"Sir! Y-You can't be serious! What about the about the children? What if you're making a grand mistake? What if they aren't bad?"
"You dare question me Gildarts? They are simply too dangerous and should not be trusted! I am only looking out for what's best for our Kingdom, and I suggest you do the same."
Gildarts nervously rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry sir. I spoke out of turn."
"Apology accepted. Now go. Gather the other knights and get them on board. Dragons are just too dangerous."
'Dragons?' Lucy echoed in her mind.
Gildarts turned away from Jude and started walking out of the office. Wrapped up in his own mind, he didn't see Lucy and ended up bumping into her. Lucy looked up at the older man and started to feel a little uneasy under his nasty scowl.
Suddenly the man smiled and patted Lucy on the head. "Well, Good morning Princess Lucy. Why the long face? Smile okay?"
So she did.
It was strange... In my whole six year old life, I've never once heard of 'Dragon' until that day. I later discovered that dragons were actually even in the stories mom read to me. I wonder why she always skipped over it and went straight to the prince. Did mom have a thing against dragons too?
That's when I took it upon myself to read about them. Before I could get into anything actually worth reading, the prince showed up. I was surprised when I first met him, because he was my age. I had assumed from the stories, princes were much older.
"Hey you, girl." A young boy approached the blonde in her family garden. "Do you know where I can find the Spiritual Princess?"
"Who are you?"
"I'm looking for the Princess. I have no business with you therefore I have the right, not to answer your question"
"Okaaay? Well it just so happens I do know the Princess personally."
"You do? So where is she?"
The blonde shrugged. "I could tell you... but she doesn't like meanies."
"Meanies?" The boy's eyes twitched.
"I can tell you where she is, if you can be nice."
"U-Uh... Where is the Princess? Please?"
"Right then. That wasn't so hard was it? I'm pleased to meet you, my name is Lucy Heartfilia. Daughter of king and queen Heartfilia."
"You're the princess?"
Lucy grinned. "I am. And you are?"
"Em.. Gray... Gray Fullbuster, prince of the Ice Kingdom."
"Oh! So you're the Prince? Where is your carriage?"
"I don't need a carriage when my kingdom is just in the other side of the mountain."
Lucy was surprised by this. "Does that mean you walked? That's incredible. Even by foot, it's still a pretty long walk."
"It was nothing" Gray stated with a proud puffed out chest.
And that is how I met Prince Gray.
Sadly my research on dragons became a little scarce after that, due to it being a lot harder to sneak time in by myself the older I got. There were so many rules I had to follow, so many expectations on how to be a proper princess.
One day when I finally managed to have a few hours to myself, I went to the library and got as many books on Dragons as I could. I was so excited to read each and every one.
Unfortunately when I got back to the castle, one of the maids took immediate notice of the books, then brought it to father's attention. It didn't take him long after that to storm in the study room, take all the books and swing them one by one into the burning fire, in the fire place.
I felt so helpless that day.
I began sneaking the books around, and yet some how father would always find them and destroy them. But one thing that he could never destroy was my curiosity. For every time he burned a book, I grew more and more obsessed with the desire to know: Just why were dragon's so hated? How did we go from kingdom wars to hating dragons?
Lucy scribbled in a journal.
And that leads me to the present day... my eighteen birthday is coming up in a few months, and I can't help this heavy feeling that I'm running out of time.
The feather pen wrote each word carefully.
I won't give up on my research on dragons. Hopefully one day, I will be lucky enough to meet one face to face and ask their side of the story. After all there are always two sides to every story, right?
Lucy played around with her pen as she got lost in her thoughts again. 'I wonder if there is any specific place I could go to read about dragons. I'm down to the very last book in the entire kingdom, and even though I've read it over and over, I still don't understand. I need more information.'
"Hey Lucy!" Gray hugged the blonde in the chair, from behind; surprising her.
"Gray!"
"What are you doing?"
"Oh... um" she paused. "I was just writing."
"You and your writing." Gray smiled. "You have got to let me read it some day"
Lucy stuck out her tongue. "Not a chance Fullbuster"
"Come on~! I am your best friend after all."
"You are not my best friend. Levy is."
The man smirked. "Oh, but she doesn't count because she is your guard. Besides I meant your closest guy friend."
"Oh I don't know" Lucy giggled. "I think my closest guy friend would have to be Loke"
Gray pretended to be hurt by her words. "Wait you mean, I've lost to my own body guard?"
The two share an extended laugh together before getting semi-serious.
"So what do you feel like doing today?" Gray asked.
"I think I would like to take a stroll through the family garden."
"You really like it out there, huh?"
"Yes" Lucy grinned. "I really do."
Suddenly Lucy's bedroom door slammed open, and in came a scared Levy.
"Princess Lucy!"
"Levy?" Lucy turned to her guard feeling her heart drop. "What's the matter?"
At that moment Loke entered the bedroom as well. "Prince Gray! I'm sorry for the intrusion of your room lady Lucy!" Loke rushed the last part in.
"What's going on?" Gray asked.
"We have to get you both to safety right away!" Levy started.
"The kingdom is under attack." Loke finished.
"Under attack?! By who?" Gray questioned.
Levy and Loke glance at each other briefly.
"Dragons!" Levy hollered.
Lucy's eyes went wide and she could swear her heart leaped.