I know that you have awaited this chapter with anxiety, you finally will have the answers that for months have bothered you: how will be Ferio and Fuu's marriage, with Betsy, Cal and Umi free? But above all, /who is/ Hikaru's baby's father?? The votes have led to a unanimous choice: if you preferred the excluded... well, you must vote him!
A last note: this chapter seems more serious than the others.
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My Daughter is Marrying A Prince From A Different World!?
Part 6°: My daughter's wedding, in other words. .. the marriage of the XXI° Century!!!
Everything was ready for the big day: October xx 2001 had come. The voyage at board the NSX was pleasant and the travelers spent the hours of vigil in different way: only the old Hiro didn't move from his cabin, and he always repeated the usual same boring story:
" ... My granddaughter is marrying a Prince from a different world... my granddaughter is marrying a Prince from a different world... my granddaughter is marrying a Prince from a different world... my granddaughter is marrying a Prince from a different world... my granddaughter is marrying a Prince from a different world... "
" He's just an old sclerotic."
With this words, Betsy had liquidated the problem while she changed the diapers to Louise, called Lou: in September's first week, Betsy had given birth to her third daughter, a beautiful baby of 3 kilograms and 2, fat and red. Also Hikaru had had a baby girl in August, Alice: after an accurate DNA test, Lantis had resulted to be the father; Eagle initially was sad, but he would have become Alice's godfather for the sephirian ceremony of Omisettab. Caldina, instead, had given Lafarga a male, Yaris: for the first time the tough Commander of the Royal Guards weep.
" Also I cried when I have seen Alice! Even if then we didn't know who her father was!"
Eagle admitted. Hikaru laughed:
" Don't worry Eagle-chan: the next will be yours!"
" Actually..." the commander said blushing "my and Lantis' wish has always been to have an our child: we have tried a lot of times, but for two men it is impossible."
" Cheer up, Eagle-chan! You will see that we will find a solution."
" Oh Hikaru-chan! You don't know how I envy you: become mother has been my more secret wish!"
Eagle said in tears embracing the redhead. The others showed their disgust with bestial sounds and vomit. Lantis continued to cradle Alice saying nothing, but a light flush reddened his cheeks.
" The passengers are informed that in ten minutes we'll land to the interplanetary port of Sephiro, we therefore beg the passengers to go back in their seats and to lace the safety belts. The commander, instead, is begged to let go that child and to go back here in commands room!"
Communicated Geo through the loudspeaker. Eagle sigh and after have kissed Hikaru, Lantis and Alice's head, he went to the commands room.
In the big open space in front of the airport, was collected a jubilant crowd which awaited Sephiro's future queen's arrival: the guards could hardly hold back the people. When Fuu, Hikaru and Umi went out, the crowd cheered and threw flowers to the three girls. Lafarga drew near them and said:
" Welcome back! The Prince has ordered me to escort you up to the palace; we'll spend about five days. You get on that coach, while you, Fuu... pardons! While you, Highness, will travel with your parents and your sisters on the other one. During the trip we will stop in some villages, therefore you mustn't move away from the procession during the stops."
When everything had settled on the carriages, the wedding procession set out.
In each village the Magic Knights had greeted with enthusiasm and the chiefs village organized parties in their honor.
" It is incredible!" Kuu said a day " Everywhere we go, the people take care of us with kindness: Sephiro is really a wonderful place. I'm sorry we won't visit Fuu very often."
" It is not a very big problem: when also your planet will be a part of the Confederation, come to Sephiro will be very easier."
Geo said chewing a bit of chocolate cake. Ruriko Ryuzaki united to the topic.
" How? Before we leave, the news has talked very vaguely about this. Sincerely I am a bit afraid of this Confederation. And what if it decides to declare war to the Earth? My beloved Takeo would be forced to leave!"
" Don't worry, Mrs. Ryuzaki: oddly, some representatives think that the Prince an Magic Knight of Wind's marriage could help much. Even, the Governor of Amnemi was the first to support this thesis, who is one of the more important members: nobody dares contradict that girl."
Betsy, meanwhile, thought to something else: she had known that the marriage's organization had been entrusted to the Prime Minister, and she didn't like it. She had decided that if the things were not like she wanted, she would have dismantled everything and restarted: in those months she had wrote to Caldina, and in her letters she gave exact indications for the preparations.
Before left from the last stage, half day far from the castle, Fuu was prepared for the bride's delivery's ceremony.
" Oh... this has been my childhood dream: a princely marriage..."
Betsy and Ruriko had commented drying their tears. After a long delay, Fuu got out of inn: the green taffeta dress with floral embroideries, was refined by an immense shawl of transparent silk; the hair had been picked in six braids and stopped by a diadem. Lafarga helped the bride to get on a horse, and to her upset glance, he answered:
" I am sorry, but it is the tradition: even if you come from an other world, Kaal has wanted to follow the sephirian traditions, forgetting your mother's indications."
" WHAT??!!"
Betsy exclaim hearing that: therefore was it so? If Kaal wanted the war, he would have had war.
' I couldn't allow to that fishy guy to ruin my... Fuu's ideal wedding! '
The wedding procession came to the castle in the first afternoon. Ferio approached to Fuu and, took her by hers waist, he made her descend from horse holding her and kissing her passionately.
" Hey! You two! Take a room! If want you we pay the bill too, but for God's Charity take a room!"
Howled Betsy and Umi. The couple separated blushing.
Betsy examined aghast the chapel and the ballroom's decorations: ribbons, garlands and tablecloths were violet and black and the flowers had withered; the curtains were purple and abundant of gold.
" What is this? It's a marriage, not a funeral! I had said that the decorations and the curtains must be peach, cream and wisteria pink; that the flowers must be gardenias, lilies and colored tulips, tea roses and orange blossom with ferns and maidenhair fern! Who has done this... this subspecies of funeral?!"
" I have been, Lady Elizabeth: in Sephiro violet and black are the colors used for the wedding."
" It is not true!" Caldina said with a hand on the side while with the other supported Yaris" In Sephiro the colors used for a marriage are gold and crimson; in Cizeta we use orange and saffron; in Pharen, instead, cobalt and gold; on Earth and Autozam the colors are chosen by the bride!"
" Gold and crimson could be ok, but these is disgusting! You have an awful taste, Kaal: so shining with gold and purple, decadent and vulgar."
" I am sorry, madam, it is too late to do again all the decorations."
" Ok, I understand." Betsy turned toward the maids and said," Whoever wants to change the decorations, raise a hand."
Everybody lifted the hand.
" If we work hard, for the wedding's day everything will be ready." Said the head maid " Girls, to the job: for tomorrow these filths will be burns. You, Asteria, warn the gardeners to pick up the flowers required by Lady Elizabeth and the tailors to do cream, wisteria pink and peach decorations! Fast with those hands!"
Fuu placed the hands on her cheeks and her mouth became a round o: so many wonder had moved by the sight of the wedding dress prepared by the royal tailors.
" Oh my God! It seems gotten out from a Klimt's picture!"
Silk in dense gilded and motley embroideries, that reproduced bunches of flowers and stylized shoots; spiral and circular themes alternated to some interwoven silver square. The sleeves of smooth silk hemmed of lace and the thick veil of golden yellow encores struggled with the dress' rigidity, made rigid by the embroideries and by the starch.
" The dress is almost ready: you owe only try on it and we do the last revisions. I hope that you have not grown slim or fattened up: for the sizes the tailors are been based on a your dress. C'mon, now try on it."
Fuu nodded and went in the next room with Umi and Hikaru. Fuu used more than half hour to wear the dress. Umi opened the door.
" Ta-dah!"
Fuu advanced blushing while Hikaru, behind of her, followed her humming a wedding march. At once the tailors had checked the dress' size and the details.
" Fortunately the size is perfect, it needs only make smaller some buttonhole and complete the train's embroideries."
The head-tailor said relieved. Few after, Betsy and Caldina came with their last-born; Fuu took her little sister and kissed her forehead.
" Well waked up Lou-chan! Do you like my wedding gown?"
The baby smiled and shook the arms in approval.
" Well, I must admit that the dress is better than the decorations," Betsy said " However I am sorry for our dress: with all the work that I have done to find the proper cloth and to remember grandmother Elisabeth's dress' pattern! You know, my grandmother bought it in a famous studio of Paris. Unfortunately the original has gone lost: when I was child my dream was to marry my charming Prince with that dress."
"I if want, after the ceremony will put it, mama. However, what is this tale of the decorations?"
Fuu asked and Betsy told what had happened in the ballroom.
Arosa was furious: the following day there would have been the wedding between the Prince and that Magic Knight and this prevented her from sleep. So the young lady wandered through the hallways of the castle in tries to restores and to vent her anger. She smiled to a soldier walked; she crossed the inner gardens and the courtyard in which the festoons and the ribbons of satin and the flowers remembered her wedding that was not hers. Arosa quickened the pace raising the look at three moons that illuminated the objects with a pale yellow light and she walked toward the parvis; she went up the stairway and crossed the portico torturing her dressing gown's sleeve's edge.
What could she do, if don't undo, at least to postpone the marriage? That story had ridicule her in front of all the ladies and the nobles of Sephiro: she, Arosa Wasserfest, belonged to one of most important Sephiro's families and didn't can and didn't want that a lower social class' girl, and deriving from an other world, humiliates her in that way. Sure, Fuu Houojii was a Magic Knight, one of that world's savior; however she also was one of Princess Emeraude's murderers, Prince Ferio should have moved away such a woman, not marry her. Besides nobody knew how in the Other World the marriages are settled, if her family has a title or not: from what she had understood, Arosa knew that Mr. Houojii didn't approve the marriage of his son with Lady Elizabeth.
While she was absorbed in these thoughts, Arosa came before the door of the royal tailoring. After some instant of hesitation, she opened the door and entered: lucent with gold, the wedding dress made show of itself near a window. Arosa drew near the dress and placed a hand on the embroidered bodice.
" You would have been better on of me: that flat girl wouldn't be able to show your beauty."
The woman said playing with a ribbon. A thought crossed her mind and her smiled asymmetrically. Raising an eyebrow, Arosa looked for an exact object with her black-violet eyes.
Arosa examined satisfied the work just finished and could sleep quietly.
The guests chatted while they waited: Clef would have celebrated the ceremony with Primera's aid; Ferio tried to relax playing with Lou. Lantis laid a hand on his shoulder.
" Nervous?"
Ferio nodded shaking a toy; Lou extended her hands to grab it and she frowned when Ferio moved it away a little bit.
" I wonder why they take so much time: wear that dress mustn't be so hard!"
" Ferio Ferio... " Besty sighed shaking her head " it is a tradition that the bride is late. Don't be so tense or you won't do anything this night!"
The woman concluded winking. The Prince blushed furiously and opened the mouth for answer, but Arosa, who ran toward the altar, attracted his attention.
" Highness! Highness! There has been a serious accident and the ceremony must be postponed."
" What's happened to Fuu?!"
" To that... to the Magic Knight of Wind nothing, but the wedding gown..."
" Ferio, could you take care of Lou while I go to see what is happened?"
Betsy said handing the child to the young man; she then went toward the tailoring.
Fuu, still in underwear, cried on the shreds of her wedding dress: somebody had cut the laboriously embroidered fabric and made the dress useless. Hikaru, Umi and Aska, who were the bridesmaids, tried to soothe the bride. Tatra examined the dress.
" It must be been anybody that hinders the marriage... do you have some idea?"
" Who could do such a thing?" Hikaru said, " Here in palace everybody loves Fuu-chan!"
" Perhaps I know who could be been to do this..."
Aska said thoughtful. Everybody looked her waiting her revelation. The Pharenian Empress cleared up her voice and declared solemnly:
" Lady Arosa Wasserfest: if you think over a little bit, you would remember that she has always wanted marry Prince Ferio and this could be her revenge."
The girls looked amaze and then nodded: Arosa was the only person to be able to destroy Fuu's dress, but they were missing the proofs.
Betsy entered the room asking what was happened. Tata told her that the wedding gown was useless and that the marriage must be postponed; they said her also that Arosa was suspected.
" And now? What do we do?"
Betsy thought about along, and then she thundered:
" The marriage will take place or my name isn't Elizabeth Houojii Foster! Presea, in my room there is a big beige box: take it here."
After an hour Betsy went back in chapel.
" Now everything is ok, Fuu and my husband wait behind the door."
Clef nodded and Yuriko, Fuu's aunt, started to play the wedding march with her violin.
The doors opened and Aska advanced bringing a pillow with two rings; after her, Hikaru and Umi strewed petals of rose and orange blossom on the red carpet. Their dresses were wisteria pink; the floating skirts of silk had sewn the bodice few centimeters under the breast and descended with delicate pleats; some delicate floral embroidery decorated the edge and the sleeves, which ended with lace at the elbow. Seichiro and Fuu followed them about ten steps behind them. Seichiro wore a classic tuxedo and cried noisily.
" Dad, a bit of composure."
Fuu whispered. Her dress' ivory silk rustled harmoniously and the veil hemmed with satin covered gently her face. The neckline shows the breast more than the due and the bodice, covered in the central side with embroideries and crystals, lets uncovered the back. Also the shoulders were bare, and the slightly puff sleeves ended with a bow of satin to cover the forearms with silk and lace. On the wide skirt and on the train had repeated the same theme of the bodice; the hair were picked graciously and a curl fell on her right shoulder; the veil, that was two meters longer than the train, had held back by a diadem. Ferio felt to be missing the breath.
Always crying, Seichiro handed Ferio his daughter's hand and sat near his wife. Clef cleared up his voice.
" In this day we don't only join a man and a woman who are in love, but also two different worlds. Ferio Prince in these four years has governed alone this world, but since today Sephiro will have a new queen, whose helps will be fundamental for the world's welfare. All the people love the three Magic Knights, and everybody approves that the Magic Knight of Wind, Fuu Houojii, becomes queen. Now take your right hand."
The couple nodded and joined their right hands. Primera handed a ribbon to Clef; the Mage wrapped the ribbon around the bridegroom and bride's hands for three times.
" Now repeats my words."
Ferio nodded again and Fuu breathed deeply.
" I have chosen thee as my life mate..."
" I have chosen thee as my life mate..."
"... and with this solemn oath I tie my destiny to thyne..."
"... and with this solemn oath I tie my destiny to thyne..."
"... be my witnesses the God of Flames, the God of Waters and the God of Skies..."
"... be my witnesses the God of Flames, the God of Waters and the God of Skies..."
"... before those I love, vow thou eternal loyalty and love..."
"... before those I love, vow thou eternal loyalty and love..."
"... support in the difficulty and smile in the joy..."
"... support in the difficulty and smile in the joy..."
"... guide in the desperation as in the hope..."
"... guide in the desperation as in the hope..."
"... to be thy brother, thy friend and thy lover..."
"... to be thy sister, thy friend and thy lover..."
"... since today to the day in which the Fate will part us and beyond..."
"... since today to the day in which the Fate will part us and beyond..."
"... I, Ferio Costant Xepphirine, will be thy husband."
"... I, Fuu Houojii, will be thy wife."
Aska gave the pillow with the rings and Primera there scattered a sparkling powder. Clef took the pillow and set it before the couple. Ferio took the smaller ring; he kissed it and said:
" With this ring, I marry thou."
And he slipped it in the left ring finger of Fuu. Fuu repeated Ferio's gestures and said:
" With this ring, I marry thou."
Ferio raised the veil; he then took a chalice full of wine and he drank a sip. Ferio drew near to Fuu and kissed her gently. Fuu initially felt the sweet taste of the wine on his lips, and she suddenly felt the liqueur fill her mouth and descend in her throat. A single red ruby drop got out of her lips to flow along her neck and her breast and disperse in the neckline. Clef took the newlywed couple's hands and announced solemnly:
" Lets you introduce you Their Royal Highnesses, King Ferio Costant Xepphirine II and Queen Fuu Xepphirine."
The guests got up and clapped; Seichiro continued to cry on his wife's shoulder, while Betsy smoked a cigarette quietly. Kuu, with her reflex, was busy with the marriage's photos; and a troupe of Autozam's national broadcast did the wedding's shooting.
The party lasted for four hours and in the center of room the newlywed couple danced.
" I can't believe it!" Fuu whispered holding her new husband " it seems still a dream: I... your wife!"
" It is not a dream, Fuu-chan: it is the reality. Now, even Kaal and your grandfather could part us: you are my as I am your."
Fuu laughed and turned the head toward the tables: her parents danced to the edge of the dance floor, Hikaru with Eagle, Umi with Ascot, Caldina with Lafarga and Kuu with Geo. Lantis looked at Alice, Yaris and Lou playing on the carpet; Hiro and Zazu were doing a drinking game.
" Look them." Ferio said pointing the mechanic and the grandfather "I understand that your grandfather drink to forget this day; but Zazu, why he drink?"
" Because he enjoys in this way, my Prince."
" 'My Prince?' Knight, must I remember you that I'm not more a Prince, but a King?"
" And must I, Highness, remember you that beyond Knight, now I am Queen?"
" Sure not, Mrs. Queen."
" Good, Mr. King!"
The couple looked in each other's eyes and burst in laugh.
After five hours, the waiters brought the wedding cake and the guests were enjoyed throwing it on the bride: Fuu tried to escape hiding behind Ferio, and at the end also he became covered with whipped cream, sponge and custard. After one hour, the newlywed couple left the ballroom.
" Yes yes, yes yes yes: go, go. We know very well that you won't sleep this night!"
Caldina exclaimed half drunk. Betsy leaned against her friend and added:
" Don't worry Cal: I have arranged half dozen of micro cameras in their room. Tomorrow we'll see the performance."
" Mama!"
Fuu and Ferio exclaimed blushing. Betsy laughed and admitted that it was a joke: they could too check, there were not hidden micro cameras in their rooms. Seichiro kissed crying his daughter's forehead and he wished her good night.
" It is a miracle that today has not fainted! But my honey has cried like a fountain all day long."
Betsy said cradling Lou. The guests said goodbye to the newlywed couple and continued to celebrate until dawn.
Fuu ran along the hallway lifting her skirt with a hand, and Ferio followed few distant.
" If I catch you...."
" If do you catch me what?"
Fuu replied laughing: as soon as left the ballroom, she had begun that game, a bit childish, but very seductive. Ferio followed his wife toward their chambers, decided to don't catch her before have reached their destination. Fuu leaned against the door and waited her husband laughing; Ferio reached her and kissed her with passion caressing her sides.
" Caught!"
He whispered husky and lifted her in his arms; Fuu laced an arm around his neck and with the free hand opened the door. He entered and with a kick shut the door; in few footsteps he reached the bed and there lets fall his young wife. As soon as Fuu hit the mattress, a noise as of bells filled the room.
" What was that?"
Fuu asked taking off her shoes. Ferio lifted an edge of the cover and peeked under the bed.
" Cowbells. I wonder who and when has done such a thing: with all the people that have came here in these days. We must remove them if we don't want that anybody hears us."
Fuu sighed: the game's excitement had faded away in few minutes. The young wife leaned a hand on the cover and felt something strange.
" Also here there is something strange..."
And with a quick and elegant gesture she opened the bed: the sheets were smeared with something of sticky and muddy. No, they were more than one substance and the appearance was oddly well known. Fuu took a bit of the light brown substance and sniffed it; she then tasted it.
" But this is peanut butter! And this... is chocolate cream... blueberries jam... strawberries syrup... flour... sugar... salt... rice and... ice cream? We must change the sheets too!"
" First we take off these bells from under the bed, we then will change the sheets."
Fuu nodded and was slipped under the bed: cowbells of each size were hung to the mattress and to take off them they used three quarters hour. Finished this job, Fuu took some clean sheets from the settle and changed the bed. Ferio went in the bathroom and said:
" Hey, it is ready also a warm bath! Do you want clean yourself before go to sleep?"
" A-ha! And then with all the cake that they have thrown me on a bath is perfect. Ferio, could unbutton my dress?"
Ferio began to unbutton the bodice and to kiss her neck.
" Mmmm... you taste of cake! You are so good that I would eat you in a bit!"
He exclaimed bite her playful. Fuu suppressed other laughter hardly and let the dress slips along her body; she then turned and kissed her husband.
" Now I take a bath, meanwhile you think about something funny. Wait me Mr. King."
" Fuu-chan, you are bad!"
Ferio answered doing a face. Fuu laughed, entered the bath and closed the door. Fuu relaxed in the big, marble tub; the warm water was a panacea after the wedding's fatigue and the tension and gave her the necessary energies for the night. She sighed turning and closed her eyes: a smile appeared on her lips to the thought of what there would have been. A whole life with the man that she loved more than anything and surely their love would have born fruit: Fuu didn't want to know when and how many children they would have had, she cared it only that Ferio was her children's the father.
A noise swayed her from those thoughts.
" Good evening, Mrs. Queen: you had asked me to think about something funny and I have had a genial idea. And then also I am stained with cake."
Ferio got away the bathrobe and he plunged in the tub; then he pulled his wife against him and kissed her left temple. Fuu leaned on his muscular chest and sighed happily, while he laced his arms around her waist.
" What are you thinking?"
" I'm thinking about the children that we will have."
" Oh, I understand." Ferio said disappointed " I hope that it happens as later as possible: I don't like brats and I want to have you all for myself."
" Selfish. So we don't need you-know-what. Whatever is your idea, give up: this night we'll sleep. Besides don't you have thought about what people could think? Everybody will give me the fault, not to your selfishness."
Fuu mumbled crossing the arms. Ferio kissed her cheek.
" Yes, I am a damn selfish and I don't want to give up you-know-what. It is only... do you have seen Cal? Since when she has had Yaris, she is always nervous for the few sleep, she complains that she is not able to grow thin and quarrels each day with Lafarga: I don't want that we two make their end. I want only avoid the nighttime feeds, the diapers and everything else for the longer time possible."
" Who tell you that I am like Caldina-sama? My mother hasn't had one nausea and the day after Lou has born, she did joking in the school's field: yet have a child at her age has its risks."
" Uhm, perhaps the better thing is leave that the things follow their course. There is nothing more relaxing than a warm bath."
" Relaxed? It seems as if a part of you isn't relaxed..."
Fuu whispered feeling something hard press against her thigh; she turned around and kissed her husband deeply, she then looked at Ferio mischievous and raised an eyebrow.
" What have you in mind, Mrs. Queen?"
" Nothing, Mr. King: I thought about the better way to resolve this... ahem... /serious question of state/..."
She answered kissing Ferio again. Her right hand slipped on his chest, down to the waist and then stills more down. When he feels the touch of her fingers, Ferio shivered.
" Ah, temptress..."
One week after the marriage, the moment of the goodbyes had come: Seichiro, Kuu and many others must resume their job; Betsy was still in maternity, but to the Saint Anne she was needed for the autumn festival; Hikaru was matriculated to veterinary college and the attendance was obligatory; Umi, instead, was been engaged as model by Kuu's study. Ferio and Fuu had accompanied them to the airport.
" And now? When will we meet again?"
Seichiro asked crying. Betsy shook her head and extinguished the cigarette: her husband owed only faint and the day would have been perfect.
" Well, I don't know: it depends on the negotiations." Eagle told playing with Alice "This time we have carried you to Sephiro 'of smuggling', but to avoid risks in future, it's good wait."
" However you two could come to Earth when you want."
Umi said leaning on her suitcase. Ferio sighed:
" Not always: we now must consider the matters of state too. To come for Fuu-chan's birthday I have quarreled day and night with the Prime Minister, but we will try to come as more as possible."
" You take care of my baby girl" The old Hiro growled grim "And if I know that you have hurt her, dangerous or not, I come to take her back!"
" You are indeed an old sclerotic!" Betsy exclaimed, " I wonder how your wife stands you all the holy day!"
The old Mr. Houojii and his daughter-in-law quarreled for a quarter of hour. Fuu, her older sister and her father sighed: the grandfather and the mother would be been made war for their whole life.
" Now you must board." Fuu said sadly "Lou-chan, be a good baby girl. Kuu, could take care of mama also for me?"
" Certain little sis, but write me at least once a week: I care to have your news."
Fuu nodded and smiled, she then addressed to her parents.
" Dad... come on dad, don't cry: you now will teach Lou to play chess. Mama, thanks for all!"
" Duty, Fifì, I did only my duty of mother. And you..." Betsy laced an arm to the neck of Ferio and ruffled his hair with the elbow." tries to be delicate with Fifì: she still has this night's signs. One last thing: enjoy yourself, but I want to become grandmother as later as possible; you note of this."
The young couple blushed. When they stopped saying goodbye their friends, the Houojii, the Ryuzaki and the Shidou got on the NSX.
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Dear mama, dad, Kuu and Lou,
How are you? We very well and here the things go fairly nicely: the only problem has been a monster that has attached Nema about ten days ago, but now it's all resolved and there has been only some roof broken down in all the village. The princesses of Cizeta soon will get married: Tata a foreign Marquis and Tatra an Aska's cousin, both would want you to also come to the marriage. Especially you, mama: they would want you to organize the party! Also Aska is been engaged, next month there will be the official announcement: after a hard fight, she has made abolish the law that forced the Crown Princess to marry a member of the imperial family. Now Aska will crown her dream of love with San Yun: I sincerely approve this decision, that boy is very intelligent and has the head on the shoulders, the ideal for that dizzy Aska.
There we send a gift too: two stuffed Primera, one for Lou and one for Alice. They are our gift for their fifth birthday, a little bit late but in these days we haven't much time for our self: two days ago Fuu has beard, I attach the first photo of family too. Yes, now I am the dad of two gorgeous twins: Emeraude and Hiroyuki. They are both a little bit small, but the doctors have told me that it is ordinary for twins: but they eat, and much! Fuu said that they have inherited my appetite and that each time she's afraid that they empty her completely: but she has milk enough for the two wolf-cubbies and she haven't intention to engage a nurse. I would want you to come for the Omisettab, so we could spend some time together: we don't see since the last Christmas!
Now I must go: Mrs. Queen calls me.
Kisses,
Ferio, Fuu, Emy and Hiro.
Betsy smiled and put the letter in her purse: they had received it the preceding week and she didn't read other. Kuu had done some photo's copies, so each of them had one. Betsy leaned the tests on the desk and began to correct them: she had the free hour and she had decided to use it in that way, also because in the afternoon she would have gone out with Hikaru and Umi to buy a gift to her two first grandchildren. The teacher peeped at the photo: Fuu, still in bed, held the twins in each arm and Ferio was sat near her, an arm around her shoulders. Fuu was smiling, but her smile was tired, the photo must be had snapped few hours after the birth.
" Granny Betsy... it sounds good!"
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Do you like this chapter? I hope yes, but this isn't the end of "my daughter...": in the epilogue we'll deepen the acquaintance with Lou, Yaris, , Emy and Hiro. Some anticipation? Ok, I feel good today, also because the upcoming Monday is my birthday (I write the 01-04-02, 4:02 Italian time): the Earth is a part of the Confederation; Emy and Hiro are sixteen years old and study at the Saint Anne, Lou has replaced her mother and teaches English. The cultural exchanges between terrestrial schools and of other planets are very diffused and I let you imagine what will happen in the epilogue ;)
Shortly, on the screens of your pc, "Epilogue: the school exchange, in other words... human or rabbits?!"
Pat-chan.