"Mama!", cried a 4-year-old girl. Her sparkling golden eyes were slits like a cat as a wide grin spread across her face. Buoyant curls framed her face and she ran, or stumbled, to her mothers open arms. Her dress pooled around her, almost to royal and full then she should need. But her mother detested shabby cloths and wanted the best for her little hime.

Light dappled down from stained glass that were worn from years and years of the suns life. Pastel colors pooling around the velvet white carpet that spread out to the thrones on which the small lass's parents stood. It's columns of crystal and white stone glistened proudly, the column girths monstrous to the tiny child.

Her mother opened her arms in welcome with her fawn colored tresses that were slightly wavy toppled onto her head. She loved her hime, the ruler that would make sure that the princesses would not be separated. But she would not do it alone. Oh, no...she was only one part of the puzzle. A brave 'Chosen One' would help her. The King from the other world had told them that.

With a bubbly giggle she leaped into her mother's arms and wrapped hers around the woman's slender neck. Star tiara slipping off her face, she grinned and sat up on her lap.

Her father chuckled and patted her head.

"Mama, am I can I lookin' the mirror?"

Her mother's eyebrow, knitted together. She contemplated if it was all right. "Hime, darling..."

"Hime! If I had the right of one I could look in da mirror like 'nii-sama!" She pouted, jutting out her lower lip. But, then she relaxed and shut her eyes. "Gomen, mama...I'm trying to act like a proper princess. It's just so HARD!" She stressed and snuggled into the folds of her mother's silvery robes.

"Hai. I guess you can look in the Crélalcíon mirror. But remember, what you see is not always true! Some of the places are just made by your head. Don't think you can go there." She squinted and wagered a warning finger at her.

"Hai!" She crawled off her lap and took off, tumbling on her skirts again. Down the long corridors she sprinted, her legs carrying her haphazardly through the hall until she was in an enormous room. She was not really allowed to go in there but now she had permission! 'Man!' she huffed and crossed her arms over her chest, 'Took them long enough! I'm 4...'

"Imouto!'

"'Nii-sama!" she giggled and hugged her older brothers leg. "Mama's ganna let me look in the Mirror! Wanna look with me?"

He gave her a stern look and ran a hand through her silky locks. He grabbed her arm and they proceeded into the room. It was covered in pearled tassels along the walls and marble along the floor. In the middle was a pool shaped mirror.

She dropped down on her hands and knees with an excited face. She shifted impatiently and glanced up at her brother. "Un....how does it work?"

He laughed and pulled her up against his chest. "Just touch the surface and think of a place or person you'd want to see." His face creased with an unhappy memory, he shook his head.

Her small pudgy hand reached out and carefully touched it as she closed her eyes. It shimmered under her delicate touch. Reaching in the back of her imaginations, she conjured up an island she had always dreamt about. It was a beautiful isle that she had always wanted to be at with friends to play with. The ones she never had. And she had imagined in her dream fantasy what the 'Chosen One' had looked like. After that it all fell into place without her even knowing. He had a friend that had platinum silver hair and blue eyes. After awhile a girl came. Both boys liked her. She became jealous. But her dreams stopped and she had to really recur everything from her last dreams to reenact them.

"Kirei..", she breathed and leaned closer. She saw her hero boy with hair brown as the earth she never lived on and eyes as blue as the sky she loved. Her castle was atop a cloud and she never really had any earth to speak of. But the air and sky. Oh, she had it. And the crystalline blue was her limits. He turned around and looked at her, his wide innocent eyes staring longingly. But then her heart fell. He was staring...right threw her. He could not perceive her beaming face as it frowned and became downcast . She was not real to him. The girl that he was fond of skipped over to him in her petite skirt, brown hair covering her eyes. He smiled sheepishly at her, blush on his cheeks. And then the glass shattered. Everything became a calm still.

Her brother gasped and unsheathed his sword from it's place. The room dimmed to an eerie dark shade and a hole ripped trough the mirror. Blotches of unholy darkness came forth. Creature emerges, hideous heathens. Some just slithered and lankly climbed up poles, others with metal rattling and laughed menacingly. All of them had something in common though. A heart embedded somewhere on their body. Except the pitch black ones. Hearts that were crossed out....

'Nii-sama!" she cried and clutched onto his leg. "Onegai, help me!"

He sneered and slashed his valiant sword out at them. But he failed and one grabbed her from his death-gripped leg and started to drag her into a portal. She clawed frantically at the ground and reached out to him.

"Chiga! E....o..." His words faltered and died as the wind carried everything away. A loud rumble filled the air and the castle cracked. Pieces chipped and a piercing light came from it and engulfed the sky....

Even in the darkest of places there is a light...Embrace it and the light will overtake the darkness. But let the darkness spread....can you take it?

Hime-Princess

'Nii-sama-(Onii-sama)-Older brother

Gomen-Sorry

Hai-Yes

Imouto-Little sister

Un-Uh

Kirei-*I SPELLED IT WRONG I KNOW IT! X-x*-Beautiful

Onegai-Please

Chiga-No!

(Um.....HAHAHAH.....R&R if you dare?? More like if I dare...that sucked...Should I go on?)