The Cup Of Life
By: Aznangel4u
DISCLAIMER: as it applies
A little girl smiled faintly as she traced a picture of a beautiful woman, a very beautiful woman. In large glittering print, a large sign was over the beautiful woman's head. "Princess Moon." And the woman was standing next to a dashingly handsome man who was smiling a roughish grin. They were both holding a small sign with someones signature on it, written in pink glittery pen. The sign read, "A cup Of Life." The girl smiled as she traced the picture, a tint of saddness in her eyes. She heard the door open. "Li'l Miss Moon?" The girl sprang up nimbly, her blue eyes large, and her long black hair large. "Yes Auntie Mina?" A tall middle aged woman strode in, her light blue eyes glittering with the usual glimmer she usually wore. "Teeny, what are you doing here? All alone?" Tenny's eyes welled up. Mina nodded and hushed her quickly. "Hush Little lady." Mina crooned. "Aunt Setsuna would be really upset to see you crying. Shh..." Teeny gulped in air. "I miss Mommy,Daddy, and Even older sister too." Mina grasped one of Teeny's small delicate fingers and gently patted the two black buns anointed on top of her head. "Take your mind from the grief Teeny..." Mina crooned. "I shall tell you one thing, they died happy...." "Died happy? Without Teeny?" Teenys voice was childish and sad.
"Yes they were happy, cause they had you, and they had each other." Mina smiled. "Many things happened, which led to this..." Mina was lost with words, her blue eyes looking at the floor. Slowly she chose some words. "They're coming back Teeny, for you, for us." "13 days." Teeny said sadly. "A long time." Mina suddenly got an idea as she spotted the frame near Teeny's hand. "Aha!" She snatched away the frame, her eyes bright with a new found idea. "Here here, shush, I shall tell you a story." Mina smiled. "And it is very happy, and it can make you cry too, and sometimes you may feel angry, but this story, I am not being biased, I know how both of them would feel, and this is their story." Teeny looked up, her eyes curious.She was soon quiet, as Mina started......
Chapter One: Princess Moon, The Prince of Ice
"Dear Lord!" A tall beautiful blonde screeched angrily, her eyes flashing as she looked about. "I hate my life!" She threw herself on her white bed. Another blonde, with loosely kept hair made a snide remark. "You know you like the popularity, c'mon Sere-chan." "DON'T CALL ME THAT!" The beautiful blonde sheriked angrily, throwing a feathery pillow at her cousin. "I'M SERENA! NOT SERE-CHAN OR PRINCESS MOON!" She sniffled as she calmed down, "Alright Mina chan, I know you are making sniggering behind that pillow--" Serena gave a sharp yelp as a pillow landed in her face. Mina gave a crowing laugh. "Hahahahaha~! I got you there." Serena stopped looking quite angry, and started to giggle slightly, then she was laughing so hard tears came from her eyes. Mina managed to get a pillow and smack her cousin a few times before she ended up laughing as well.
Serena calmed down, her eyes twinkling. "So I guess you're forcing me to go the your ball even if I refuse?" Mina stuck a tounge out at her. "Duh! And Ice Prince is going to be there!" Mina's eyes became starry. "Imagine, Mina Sheilds......" Serena gave a disgusted snort and threw a pillow at Minas head, Mina, fell off the bed in which she was leaning to. "Darien Sheilds again?" Serena asked with disgust in her voice. "Him." She said with an angry snort. "He made my childhood a misery, I'm sorry Mina, if you want to hook up with him, do it by yourself." Serena plugged her ears from Minas little cries of help and looked up at her fancy clock. "Oh no." Serena said, her eyes wide. "I have to go! Seiya would be so mad at me!" She grabbed her keys and headed off, she suddenly turneed around. "Mina! Tell Taka that he could give me the clothes and lyrics to me tommorow. Aiite?" Quickly she left the room. Mina watched, her head throbbing.
A dark haired man, his hair stylishly long and black, stood at the entrance of a very large, fancy, and important looking building. He kept tapping his platinum watch impatiely with his long shapely fingers. A bedraggeled blonde ran up to him, throwing her arms about his neck. "Seiya! I'm so sorry I'm late!" Serena said loudly, her eyes large and puppy like. Seiyas frown turned into a slight grin. "Baka~" He said tapping her head with his fist. "C'mon, Your late for practice, Did Taka give you the lyrics and clothes designs yet?" "Ah no." Serena replied as they walked into the large building. "I'll get it from him later, we have tonights concert all planned out right?" "Hai." Seiya grinned his adorable little grin. "Lets just get "The Cup Of Life Finished." She smiled slightly. "Hai~" She entered the small room where a man with purplish hair stood, his hair as long as his brothers. "Seyia, what took you?" Seyia grinned. "Yaten, she took me." Serena blushed slightly, knowing Seyias little flirtacious ways. Yaten gave a swift nod. "Hurry, Serena, we better practice now, our schedules will clash later." Serena nodded as she put on the head phones. Little did she know, what was going on at her parent's home.
"Greg Sheilds! Gracia Sheilds! And, Darien! How've you've grown!" Kyvah Harflear exclaimed as they greeted each other enthusiastically. Henry Harfleur nodded to them curtly as his wife jumped about in obvious happiness. "Greg, long time, but we have little time to negotiate." Greg smiled knowingly. "Ah, Henry, you should know, I need your help, return my help please, friend." "We have been friends for a long time." Henry said stiffly. "Till you told me to engage your son and my daughter in a unwanted marraige." Kyvah fluttered a delicate hand over her oval face, her green blue eyes were wide. "Engagement?!" Henry looked at his wife and gave her a strange look. But he still spoke to Greg. "I know you need my financial help, but I can't give it to you that way, not like this." Greg seemed displeased. "My son needs to be married, and I'm pretty sure you have a daughter or a relative you can spare? We need a truce, our companies had an ongoing war although we were friends, we need a symbol, and that would be our daughter and son." Henry looked up sharply. "The companies are better together than run seperately, we need to unite, Blackmoon's company is coming up stronger than ever...." "Blackmoon my ass." Henry spat out, his blonde hair was swept back by a sudden flick of his wrist. Then a strange look came over him.
"That is true..." Henry looked unwilling, 'I need a good idea, no other relative can really shrug off that bastard kid of Sheilds except for...' and suddnely agreed to it, with a cost. "You must first make my daughter fall in love with you Mr. Sheilds." Henry said strictly, looking at Darien. "Not only that, but I won't help you look for her, as you can see I never carry around pictures of her, so you will have a hell of a time looking for her, no forcing her too, nothing of that." Darien heard a pause and decided that was the end of that.
"But!" Henry said as Darien seemed to focus on elsewhere. "You must fall in love with her too." Darien was stunned, but his cold and stoic behavior and charactheristics made it seem as if he was raising an eyebrow. Darien smiled coldy, 'Its simple, steal her heart, and I can pretend to love her, then I can do watever I want. Then my Father will hand me his company.... And I can ditch that bitch.' But Henry seemed to sense his ego. "I warn you. She is proud, and very independent, shes a hard catch, and if you don't make her fall for you in two weeks, the deal is off." Greg was about to say something but was interuppted by Darien, who looked at Mr. Harflear in disdain. "A challange, I like it, I shall start today." With that he left. Henry gritted his teeth. 'Don't fall for that bastard Serenity, he's bad, I can tell, I'll never let him win you....' Henry looked at Greg, "Even if he doesn't achieve, We do a truce." Greg seemed slightly angry, 'Darien can win any womans heart, a good son by all emans, he will have no trouble....' "It is done. But I warn you, our companies are not fond of each other, it would be better if we--" Henry cut him off with a wave of a hand. "Kyahva, my dear wife, get us some tea." She gaped a bit, a bit stunned her husband could sell her daughter off like cattle.But assuring herself of her husbands wisedom, she turned and left.
The lights were going on and off, lights and music was starting. A large crowd were waving about small flags and screaming. "PRINCESS MOON!" They chanted. The curtains opened, a steam of ice cold water shot up from the stage, followed by lights of all color dancing about the room. The melodic sound of the music started, a sharp, and very subtle beat.
When all seems to be gone~
No hope, all darkness~
The voice was beautiful, sounding as if strung from the harp from heaven. Those simple words were musical as a goddess in glittering white sequin strolled down the water drenched stage. She wore a tight white dress frilled with lace. It seemed old, yet very modern, for the collar was high, but the dress was short, the necline was dipping low, but it was modest. A slender woman with blonde hair strung up into two neat buns, with strands of silvish gold streaming from them strolled up to them, in a sexy and flitacious walk. Her voice was low and husky as she started the first wisps of her introduction. A silver tirara was on the crown of her head. The roomed darknend.
I used to think, that I was alone,
Life was drear,
All I saw was fear,
Pain and grey was painted all about me,
Chorus
Till I saw the light, till I saw it,
Till I tasted the sweet taste of life,
I held the cup yes I held it,
The golden cup of Life,
Its taste was as sweet as pure honey,
And yet bitter as a yellow lemon,
It filled me up with joy,
The cup of Life~
End Chorus
I thought I was drowning,
I felt as if I was drowning,
In a place without land.
I thought I had fins and I jumped into the sea,
Then I realized, and then I thought I died.
Chorus
Then I saw you, you held the cup, the cup which was held out to me,
It tasted sweet and you smiled at me,
You reached up,
And you saved me......
Chorus
I was drowning in water,
It was closing about my head,
Then I found you,
I thank god I did ohhh~
You gave me the taste of life,
With its healing attributes,
It restored me,
The Cup of Life.
Uh, Bittersweet, Like Life itself~
From the hands of San Salvador~
From the hands of my Angel~
Cup of Life.
The Cup of Life~
She had been dancing in a strange yet beautiful frenzy before, but she slowed to a gentle swaying of her hips. Her eyes were closed as she hummed the tune to the end, and the song ended. People cheered chanting her name, laughing, people asking her for autographs.
Bowing, Princess Moon left the stage, unaware of who had watched her.
'God she's beautiful.' Darien thought as he watched Serena Harfleur dance as "Princess Moon" onstage. She was a famous singer, but he never knew that his childhood nemisis had transformed from a hussy of a devil to a angel full of sensuality. He glanced at the Profile again, "Dammit." He cursed. 'It is Harfleur isn't it.' He remebered the dark plan in his mind. 'I can't fall for her, not now, not now....' He got up, his eyes straying on the place where the princess had been. This was going to be interesting.......
"Then what happened?" Teeny asked, her eyes wide at the tale, it was so evil, even she, as a kid, was starting to get the hang of what Mina meant. Mina smiled. "It's true....." "But whats the importance of this--?" Teeny asked. Mina smiled. "You will see, continue listening...."
Serena walked backstage, humming. "Serena!" Small Ami chan ran up, her glasses going down her face. "What is it Ami?" The small petite girl with blue hair struggeled to get herselg straight. "Someones here to see you!" "Who--?~" "I see why your fathers proud of you and refuses to let you go Serena, it looks like someone matured over those long 10 years." Serena's eyes went wide. That voice.....
To be continued.......
CLIFFY!!!!!!!!!! mwahahahaha~ I want at least 10 reveiws from the first chapter! So if you want more review! R and R please!!!!!
By: Aznangel4u
DISCLAIMER: as it applies
A little girl smiled faintly as she traced a picture of a beautiful woman, a very beautiful woman. In large glittering print, a large sign was over the beautiful woman's head. "Princess Moon." And the woman was standing next to a dashingly handsome man who was smiling a roughish grin. They were both holding a small sign with someones signature on it, written in pink glittery pen. The sign read, "A cup Of Life." The girl smiled as she traced the picture, a tint of saddness in her eyes. She heard the door open. "Li'l Miss Moon?" The girl sprang up nimbly, her blue eyes large, and her long black hair large. "Yes Auntie Mina?" A tall middle aged woman strode in, her light blue eyes glittering with the usual glimmer she usually wore. "Teeny, what are you doing here? All alone?" Tenny's eyes welled up. Mina nodded and hushed her quickly. "Hush Little lady." Mina crooned. "Aunt Setsuna would be really upset to see you crying. Shh..." Teeny gulped in air. "I miss Mommy,Daddy, and Even older sister too." Mina grasped one of Teeny's small delicate fingers and gently patted the two black buns anointed on top of her head. "Take your mind from the grief Teeny..." Mina crooned. "I shall tell you one thing, they died happy...." "Died happy? Without Teeny?" Teenys voice was childish and sad.
"Yes they were happy, cause they had you, and they had each other." Mina smiled. "Many things happened, which led to this..." Mina was lost with words, her blue eyes looking at the floor. Slowly she chose some words. "They're coming back Teeny, for you, for us." "13 days." Teeny said sadly. "A long time." Mina suddenly got an idea as she spotted the frame near Teeny's hand. "Aha!" She snatched away the frame, her eyes bright with a new found idea. "Here here, shush, I shall tell you a story." Mina smiled. "And it is very happy, and it can make you cry too, and sometimes you may feel angry, but this story, I am not being biased, I know how both of them would feel, and this is their story." Teeny looked up, her eyes curious.She was soon quiet, as Mina started......
Chapter One: Princess Moon, The Prince of Ice
"Dear Lord!" A tall beautiful blonde screeched angrily, her eyes flashing as she looked about. "I hate my life!" She threw herself on her white bed. Another blonde, with loosely kept hair made a snide remark. "You know you like the popularity, c'mon Sere-chan." "DON'T CALL ME THAT!" The beautiful blonde sheriked angrily, throwing a feathery pillow at her cousin. "I'M SERENA! NOT SERE-CHAN OR PRINCESS MOON!" She sniffled as she calmed down, "Alright Mina chan, I know you are making sniggering behind that pillow--" Serena gave a sharp yelp as a pillow landed in her face. Mina gave a crowing laugh. "Hahahahaha~! I got you there." Serena stopped looking quite angry, and started to giggle slightly, then she was laughing so hard tears came from her eyes. Mina managed to get a pillow and smack her cousin a few times before she ended up laughing as well.
Serena calmed down, her eyes twinkling. "So I guess you're forcing me to go the your ball even if I refuse?" Mina stuck a tounge out at her. "Duh! And Ice Prince is going to be there!" Mina's eyes became starry. "Imagine, Mina Sheilds......" Serena gave a disgusted snort and threw a pillow at Minas head, Mina, fell off the bed in which she was leaning to. "Darien Sheilds again?" Serena asked with disgust in her voice. "Him." She said with an angry snort. "He made my childhood a misery, I'm sorry Mina, if you want to hook up with him, do it by yourself." Serena plugged her ears from Minas little cries of help and looked up at her fancy clock. "Oh no." Serena said, her eyes wide. "I have to go! Seiya would be so mad at me!" She grabbed her keys and headed off, she suddenly turneed around. "Mina! Tell Taka that he could give me the clothes and lyrics to me tommorow. Aiite?" Quickly she left the room. Mina watched, her head throbbing.
A dark haired man, his hair stylishly long and black, stood at the entrance of a very large, fancy, and important looking building. He kept tapping his platinum watch impatiely with his long shapely fingers. A bedraggeled blonde ran up to him, throwing her arms about his neck. "Seiya! I'm so sorry I'm late!" Serena said loudly, her eyes large and puppy like. Seiyas frown turned into a slight grin. "Baka~" He said tapping her head with his fist. "C'mon, Your late for practice, Did Taka give you the lyrics and clothes designs yet?" "Ah no." Serena replied as they walked into the large building. "I'll get it from him later, we have tonights concert all planned out right?" "Hai." Seiya grinned his adorable little grin. "Lets just get "The Cup Of Life Finished." She smiled slightly. "Hai~" She entered the small room where a man with purplish hair stood, his hair as long as his brothers. "Seyia, what took you?" Seyia grinned. "Yaten, she took me." Serena blushed slightly, knowing Seyias little flirtacious ways. Yaten gave a swift nod. "Hurry, Serena, we better practice now, our schedules will clash later." Serena nodded as she put on the head phones. Little did she know, what was going on at her parent's home.
"Greg Sheilds! Gracia Sheilds! And, Darien! How've you've grown!" Kyvah Harflear exclaimed as they greeted each other enthusiastically. Henry Harfleur nodded to them curtly as his wife jumped about in obvious happiness. "Greg, long time, but we have little time to negotiate." Greg smiled knowingly. "Ah, Henry, you should know, I need your help, return my help please, friend." "We have been friends for a long time." Henry said stiffly. "Till you told me to engage your son and my daughter in a unwanted marraige." Kyvah fluttered a delicate hand over her oval face, her green blue eyes were wide. "Engagement?!" Henry looked at his wife and gave her a strange look. But he still spoke to Greg. "I know you need my financial help, but I can't give it to you that way, not like this." Greg seemed displeased. "My son needs to be married, and I'm pretty sure you have a daughter or a relative you can spare? We need a truce, our companies had an ongoing war although we were friends, we need a symbol, and that would be our daughter and son." Henry looked up sharply. "The companies are better together than run seperately, we need to unite, Blackmoon's company is coming up stronger than ever...." "Blackmoon my ass." Henry spat out, his blonde hair was swept back by a sudden flick of his wrist. Then a strange look came over him.
"That is true..." Henry looked unwilling, 'I need a good idea, no other relative can really shrug off that bastard kid of Sheilds except for...' and suddnely agreed to it, with a cost. "You must first make my daughter fall in love with you Mr. Sheilds." Henry said strictly, looking at Darien. "Not only that, but I won't help you look for her, as you can see I never carry around pictures of her, so you will have a hell of a time looking for her, no forcing her too, nothing of that." Darien heard a pause and decided that was the end of that.
"But!" Henry said as Darien seemed to focus on elsewhere. "You must fall in love with her too." Darien was stunned, but his cold and stoic behavior and charactheristics made it seem as if he was raising an eyebrow. Darien smiled coldy, 'Its simple, steal her heart, and I can pretend to love her, then I can do watever I want. Then my Father will hand me his company.... And I can ditch that bitch.' But Henry seemed to sense his ego. "I warn you. She is proud, and very independent, shes a hard catch, and if you don't make her fall for you in two weeks, the deal is off." Greg was about to say something but was interuppted by Darien, who looked at Mr. Harflear in disdain. "A challange, I like it, I shall start today." With that he left. Henry gritted his teeth. 'Don't fall for that bastard Serenity, he's bad, I can tell, I'll never let him win you....' Henry looked at Greg, "Even if he doesn't achieve, We do a truce." Greg seemed slightly angry, 'Darien can win any womans heart, a good son by all emans, he will have no trouble....' "It is done. But I warn you, our companies are not fond of each other, it would be better if we--" Henry cut him off with a wave of a hand. "Kyahva, my dear wife, get us some tea." She gaped a bit, a bit stunned her husband could sell her daughter off like cattle.But assuring herself of her husbands wisedom, she turned and left.
The lights were going on and off, lights and music was starting. A large crowd were waving about small flags and screaming. "PRINCESS MOON!" They chanted. The curtains opened, a steam of ice cold water shot up from the stage, followed by lights of all color dancing about the room. The melodic sound of the music started, a sharp, and very subtle beat.
When all seems to be gone~
No hope, all darkness~
The voice was beautiful, sounding as if strung from the harp from heaven. Those simple words were musical as a goddess in glittering white sequin strolled down the water drenched stage. She wore a tight white dress frilled with lace. It seemed old, yet very modern, for the collar was high, but the dress was short, the necline was dipping low, but it was modest. A slender woman with blonde hair strung up into two neat buns, with strands of silvish gold streaming from them strolled up to them, in a sexy and flitacious walk. Her voice was low and husky as she started the first wisps of her introduction. A silver tirara was on the crown of her head. The roomed darknend.
I used to think, that I was alone,
Life was drear,
All I saw was fear,
Pain and grey was painted all about me,
Chorus
Till I saw the light, till I saw it,
Till I tasted the sweet taste of life,
I held the cup yes I held it,
The golden cup of Life,
Its taste was as sweet as pure honey,
And yet bitter as a yellow lemon,
It filled me up with joy,
The cup of Life~
End Chorus
I thought I was drowning,
I felt as if I was drowning,
In a place without land.
I thought I had fins and I jumped into the sea,
Then I realized, and then I thought I died.
Chorus
Then I saw you, you held the cup, the cup which was held out to me,
It tasted sweet and you smiled at me,
You reached up,
And you saved me......
Chorus
I was drowning in water,
It was closing about my head,
Then I found you,
I thank god I did ohhh~
You gave me the taste of life,
With its healing attributes,
It restored me,
The Cup of Life.
Uh, Bittersweet, Like Life itself~
From the hands of San Salvador~
From the hands of my Angel~
Cup of Life.
The Cup of Life~
She had been dancing in a strange yet beautiful frenzy before, but she slowed to a gentle swaying of her hips. Her eyes were closed as she hummed the tune to the end, and the song ended. People cheered chanting her name, laughing, people asking her for autographs.
Bowing, Princess Moon left the stage, unaware of who had watched her.
'God she's beautiful.' Darien thought as he watched Serena Harfleur dance as "Princess Moon" onstage. She was a famous singer, but he never knew that his childhood nemisis had transformed from a hussy of a devil to a angel full of sensuality. He glanced at the Profile again, "Dammit." He cursed. 'It is Harfleur isn't it.' He remebered the dark plan in his mind. 'I can't fall for her, not now, not now....' He got up, his eyes straying on the place where the princess had been. This was going to be interesting.......
"Then what happened?" Teeny asked, her eyes wide at the tale, it was so evil, even she, as a kid, was starting to get the hang of what Mina meant. Mina smiled. "It's true....." "But whats the importance of this--?" Teeny asked. Mina smiled. "You will see, continue listening...."
Serena walked backstage, humming. "Serena!" Small Ami chan ran up, her glasses going down her face. "What is it Ami?" The small petite girl with blue hair struggeled to get herselg straight. "Someones here to see you!" "Who--?~" "I see why your fathers proud of you and refuses to let you go Serena, it looks like someone matured over those long 10 years." Serena's eyes went wide. That voice.....
To be continued.......
CLIFFY!!!!!!!!!! mwahahahaha~ I want at least 10 reveiws from the first chapter! So if you want more review! R and R please!!!!!