So sorry for the long hiatus! ::is shunned by readers:: Really, I am! Got
sick again, so it can't be helped. But I did write three chapters and will
post them over the next few weeks. I don't know how good they are or not, I
was kind of sick and delusional, but they are enough to nudge the plot
along! I hope you like it anyway! *^_^*
-Chapter Four-
Lily was not your normal child. In fact, all rules of genetics went against her.
"Well, maybe it comes from my side, even though Eiko said she was the only one ever with hair other than dark brown or black."
"I'm genome, we only have blonde, no red."
"And violet eyes can happen sometimes, it's not necessarily inherited."
"But her skin, she's so fair."
"I've got light skin, maybe she gets that from me."
"Yeah, but not that light."
"She doesn't have a horn."
"Or a tail."
"Maybe they canceled each other out?"
"Something like that." An uneasy silence followed.
"I've never been with anyone but you."
"I know that, I'm just wondering how it happened."
"I don't know."
~*~*~*~
And when she got older, she was mischievous. All children are, but she was to a severe extent. It didn't help much that her sense of power was in tune at an abnormally young age.
"Okay pumpkin, blow out your candles!" Lily giggled and conjured up three little water spells and splashed them on each candle. Both parents just looked at each other.
"Zidane, did you teach her that?"
"No." he turned towards his child. "Tiger Lily, where did you learn to do that?"
"Do what?" She tipped her head to the side, causing a few daisy petals to fall from the flowers in her fiery hair.
"You know what I mean." He looked at her in the sternest glance that he could muster for his precious little girl.
"Oh! You mean. this?" She pulled a daisy from out of her hair. She held it in her thumb and pointer finger. She leaned across the table to put the flower in front of her dad's face. He looked at her quizzically momentarily and then jerked in freight when the small flower was instantly immersed in flames. She giggled more, leapt off the table and ran down the hallway to her room.
"Lily! You come back here!" Garnet yelled down the hallway for the princess. Realizing it was futile, she turned to Zidane. "What are we going to do?"
~*~*~*~
Growing up, she loved to spread rumors; tell lies so that others would get hurt and fight. She loved to cause chaos. "Cherry! I'm so glad that I found you. I don't want you to be upset, but I thought I had to tell you the things that Scarlet has been saying about you behind your back."
~*~*~*~
It wasn't until a while after Lily was born that Garnet noticed the change. She couldn't pinpoint it at first, but it soon was clear. There was no reason for her to be depressed, she had a perfect little girl, who never cried, let her sleep most nights, and most importantly, she was healthy. She figured it was just from having the baby and that was all that there was to it. As she had been told, it was normal to be depressed after having a child; your body has to readjust. But Garnet realized that something was missing. With the many distractions of having her child, it didn't become obvious to her until ten years later. She didn't hear the voice.
~*~*~*~
"What do you mean, it's gone?" Doctor Tot paced around the royal bedroom, trying to make sense of the Queen.
"It's gone, completely gone. I don't hear it, I don't even feel it being there." She grabbed her head, completely stunned by her recent revelation.
"I don't know what to tell you. This matter has me completely puzzled. However, I am having a friend look into it and-" Garnet panicked.
"You told somebody else about this?"
"Don't worry, I just said that it was a patient of mine, I didn't say that it was you." She sighed.
"Okay."
"He actually thinks that it could be an Eilodion."
"An Eilodion.? That could make sense, I guess. But then, where did it go?"
"That causes a huge problem. See, the Eilodion that he thinks that it is, it's not, how shall we put this, user friendly."
"I don't understand what you mean."
"Up until now you have been blessed with all good Eilodions, ones that wouldn't hurt you. Some people we have read about; however, aren't bestowed with such fortune. They infect the carriers mind, not letting them think rational thoughts. Most individuals with these Eilodions usually become mentally unstable and regrettably die at extremely young ages."
"Like how young?"
"Usually within a year or two of turning sixteen, when they receive their powers." Her hand found her forehead out of worry.
"How do they die?"
"Most are suicides, some are undocumented."
"Oh god." Memories flashed by Garnet; was it really an Eilodion making her. that way?
"Yes, I was surprised by that as well."
"That doesn't make sense, I'm 28, and I'm still living."
"But that's where the problem kicks in. You said the voice disappeared. Further information about those situations are somewhere in the Daguureo Library, but I don't know exactly where. Doctor Davi, the one who is helping me with your case, is looking into it and will provide me with information at soon as he possibly can. Although, I must warn you, this information is hard to obtain and piece together. It could be a very long time before we know the answer. I suggest that you get on with your life and not give it another thought unless we inform you otherwise."
"Thank you, Doctor Tot."
~*~*~*~
"Now Lily, you be a good little girl and don't cause any trouble for Akira alright? And please, stay within the city boundaries this time alright?" Lily tugged at her yellow sundress and nodded an innocent yes. She scampered off in the direction of her playmate, who looked positively terrified to see her. Garnet seated herself back at the table where the royals of Cleyra were carrying on a conversation with her husband.
"I know what you mean, time goes by so fast, one second Lily was in constant need of care, and now she's determined to be so independent."
"Same with Akira, he thinks he's a "young adult" now of course." The adults laughed. "I'm just happy that he and your daughter get along so well, it's hard to find a playmate for him." The Cleyrulian queen went on. "There aren't many near his age around here."
Garnet nodded in agreement. "As am I, it's too bad that our countries are at such a distance. Lily doesn't make friends that easily."
~*~*~*~
Before Akira could think, Lily had yanked him behind a tree. Both were out for breath from running, they were now deep within the old caves of Cleyra. "Why did we have to come all the way out here?" He exasperatedly asked his best friend.
"Because silly, we aren't supposed to be out here." A mischievous giggle escaped her lips. "And why is that?" She skipped out in front of him.
"Because! The Antillion lives out here!"
"You're worried about a little Antillion? Ha! You're more of a wimp than I thought."
"I'm not a wimp!"
"Yes, you are!"
"No I'm not!" The boy stomped his foot.
"Then come with me and prove it!"
"No, I don't want to. Why do we have to be out here anyway?"
"Because I want to show you the new spell that I learned."
"But Lily, I thought your parents said that you weren't allowed to do spells out of the castle."
"That doesn't matter, they'll never know. I just wanna show you really quickly. Really quick, I promise and then we'll get out of here okay?"
"Okay. but really quick."
Lily grabbed his hand and ran a little further until she found a placed that she would work. She pushed Akira back and over to the side so he wouldn't be in the way. The tiny girl stood in the middle of a large, empty space of sand. Her eyes shut tight as she concentrated hard.
"Lily, what are you doing?" The ten-year-old whipped around and glared at her best friend.
"Quiet! I'm concentrating!" She shut her eyes tight again. Her hand whipped out quickly in front of her and she shouted, "Tornado!" She ran away from her spot, over to where Akira was. "Look!" The tornado wrapped around and around, gathering speed and size in the center of the sand.
"What's so special about that?" She hit Akira over the head.
"You stupid! See, because the tornado is out here, it doesn't just make it a tornado, it makes it into a giant dirt devil!"
"A dirt devil?"
"You don't know anything do you? It's a tornado with sand in it." The tornado in front of them got bigger and bigger.
"Wow Lily, that's cool."
"Yeah, you bet it is." And the tornado grew.
"Don't you think you should stop it now?"
"Don't worry, it stops in a little bit on it's own. See?" And as she said that, the tornado dissipated into nothing. "You worry too much."
"Can we go home now?"
"Sure." Lily held on to his hand to take him back. But as she was leaving, she felt a rumble under her feet.
"What was that?" She looked around.
"I don't know." The rumbling got louder. "Let's go." She quickened their pace. The ground trembled and began to shake them.
"Lily, I'm scared."
"Don't be, you wimp!" Lily reprimanded, covering up her own fear. She turned around to yell at him more, but found herself unable to.
"Lily?" He slowly turned around himself and was met face to face with the Antilion. Both kids screamed and ran as fast as they could in the direction of the city with the Antillion fast on their trail. As soon as they reached the city, they tried to get the attention of their parents in the castle.
~*~*~*~
It was the King of Alexandria's dyne powers that finally subdued the giant beast, the thought of his daughter in danger was enough to put him into a trance. But that didn't stop the Cleryian royalty from panicking after the event, and banning the little princess from ever coming to their city again. They had already gone though so much, they explained, that they didn't want to risk anything else ever happening again. Princess Lily was seen as an immediate threat.
~*~*~*~
"My god Lily, what in the devil's name were you thinking, starting a sandstorm in the middle of the Antilillion's nest?! You and Akira could have both been killed, do you realize that?" The flustered queen paced around the room while her little girl sniffed and wiped her wet eyes with her arm.
"I'm sorry mom, I didn't think anything bad would happen."
"But it did happen, Lily, and you can't take that back no matter how sorry you are. You have to learn that you can't just do whatever you want, when you want."
"I'm sorry mom." Garnet's face softened.
"Come here darling." She outstretched her arms to her daughter and embraced her. She felt her own set of tears brim against her eyes. "Please promise you won't do anything like that again."
"I won't, I promise mom."
"I was so scared. You're my precious little girl and if anything would happen to you." Tears fell from the queen's eyes.
"Mom, please don't cry. I won't do anything bad ever again." The door opened behind them to reveal Lily's father.
"Can I talk with her a second?" Garnet nodded, wiping the tears from her eyes and exited the room. Feeling less tense with her father in the room, she asked the question that was truly making her cry.
"Daddy, will I ever see Akira again?" Zidane was taken aback by her question, what was he going to tell her? Regretfully, he chose the hardest, but most honest answer.
"No Tiger, I don't think so." The child wailed as loud as she could and threw herself onto her bed.
"But he's my bestest friend!" She sobbed louder.
"I know, I know, but after what happened, Cleyra isn't.. well. receiving you quite well."
"But there has got to be some way that I can talk to him." Grabbing the nearest pillow, she smothered it against her, trying to derive comfort from it.
"Well, there might be someway." Her crying ceased instantly.
"Really?"
"Well you remember the way that we got to Cleyra?"
"Yeah, through the Gargan Roo."
"Do you promise not to tell your mom or anyone else what I'm going to tell you?" The princess nodded vigorously and moved to the edge of her bed to listen to her dad better.
"In the side of the cart, there is an invisible latch that opens to a small little pocket. It's just big enough to store letters in it."
"You mean I could write letters to Akira that way!?" Her dad nodded. "But how would he get them?"
"I have someone in Cleyra that I could have tell him about it."
"But I don't really know how to write well, I don't want to sound dumb."
"We'll get Doctor Tot to teach you."
"Really?"
"Really." The princess leapt off her bad and hugged Zidane.
"I love you daddy."
"I love you too, Tiger Lily." He kneeled down to be eye-to-eye with his daughter and put a finger on her lips. "Between you and me, no telling mom."
"Okay, but how did you know about it in the first place?" Zidane laughed.
"I used to send love letters to your mom through there when she visited other kingdoms." Lily giggled.
"You wrote love letters to mom?"
"All the time."
"Did she write back?"
"Of course she did."
"What kind of things did you say?"
"I told her how much I loved her, and missed her, things like that."
"Can I read them?" Zidane's face turned tomato red.
"Umm. maybe later." Lily laughed at her dad's reaction.
"Daddy's embarrassed!" She taunted in a singsong voice. Zidane cleared his throat.
"So anyways, about learning how to write."
Yeah, defiantly not my best but hey, I had fun writing chapter six, so you can look forward to that after an. interesting chapter five. ()-_- Love you all, and please review! *^_^*
-Mimi-
-Chapter Four-
Lily was not your normal child. In fact, all rules of genetics went against her.
"Well, maybe it comes from my side, even though Eiko said she was the only one ever with hair other than dark brown or black."
"I'm genome, we only have blonde, no red."
"And violet eyes can happen sometimes, it's not necessarily inherited."
"But her skin, she's so fair."
"I've got light skin, maybe she gets that from me."
"Yeah, but not that light."
"She doesn't have a horn."
"Or a tail."
"Maybe they canceled each other out?"
"Something like that." An uneasy silence followed.
"I've never been with anyone but you."
"I know that, I'm just wondering how it happened."
"I don't know."
~*~*~*~
And when she got older, she was mischievous. All children are, but she was to a severe extent. It didn't help much that her sense of power was in tune at an abnormally young age.
"Okay pumpkin, blow out your candles!" Lily giggled and conjured up three little water spells and splashed them on each candle. Both parents just looked at each other.
"Zidane, did you teach her that?"
"No." he turned towards his child. "Tiger Lily, where did you learn to do that?"
"Do what?" She tipped her head to the side, causing a few daisy petals to fall from the flowers in her fiery hair.
"You know what I mean." He looked at her in the sternest glance that he could muster for his precious little girl.
"Oh! You mean. this?" She pulled a daisy from out of her hair. She held it in her thumb and pointer finger. She leaned across the table to put the flower in front of her dad's face. He looked at her quizzically momentarily and then jerked in freight when the small flower was instantly immersed in flames. She giggled more, leapt off the table and ran down the hallway to her room.
"Lily! You come back here!" Garnet yelled down the hallway for the princess. Realizing it was futile, she turned to Zidane. "What are we going to do?"
~*~*~*~
Growing up, she loved to spread rumors; tell lies so that others would get hurt and fight. She loved to cause chaos. "Cherry! I'm so glad that I found you. I don't want you to be upset, but I thought I had to tell you the things that Scarlet has been saying about you behind your back."
~*~*~*~
It wasn't until a while after Lily was born that Garnet noticed the change. She couldn't pinpoint it at first, but it soon was clear. There was no reason for her to be depressed, she had a perfect little girl, who never cried, let her sleep most nights, and most importantly, she was healthy. She figured it was just from having the baby and that was all that there was to it. As she had been told, it was normal to be depressed after having a child; your body has to readjust. But Garnet realized that something was missing. With the many distractions of having her child, it didn't become obvious to her until ten years later. She didn't hear the voice.
~*~*~*~
"What do you mean, it's gone?" Doctor Tot paced around the royal bedroom, trying to make sense of the Queen.
"It's gone, completely gone. I don't hear it, I don't even feel it being there." She grabbed her head, completely stunned by her recent revelation.
"I don't know what to tell you. This matter has me completely puzzled. However, I am having a friend look into it and-" Garnet panicked.
"You told somebody else about this?"
"Don't worry, I just said that it was a patient of mine, I didn't say that it was you." She sighed.
"Okay."
"He actually thinks that it could be an Eilodion."
"An Eilodion.? That could make sense, I guess. But then, where did it go?"
"That causes a huge problem. See, the Eilodion that he thinks that it is, it's not, how shall we put this, user friendly."
"I don't understand what you mean."
"Up until now you have been blessed with all good Eilodions, ones that wouldn't hurt you. Some people we have read about; however, aren't bestowed with such fortune. They infect the carriers mind, not letting them think rational thoughts. Most individuals with these Eilodions usually become mentally unstable and regrettably die at extremely young ages."
"Like how young?"
"Usually within a year or two of turning sixteen, when they receive their powers." Her hand found her forehead out of worry.
"How do they die?"
"Most are suicides, some are undocumented."
"Oh god." Memories flashed by Garnet; was it really an Eilodion making her. that way?
"Yes, I was surprised by that as well."
"That doesn't make sense, I'm 28, and I'm still living."
"But that's where the problem kicks in. You said the voice disappeared. Further information about those situations are somewhere in the Daguureo Library, but I don't know exactly where. Doctor Davi, the one who is helping me with your case, is looking into it and will provide me with information at soon as he possibly can. Although, I must warn you, this information is hard to obtain and piece together. It could be a very long time before we know the answer. I suggest that you get on with your life and not give it another thought unless we inform you otherwise."
"Thank you, Doctor Tot."
~*~*~*~
"Now Lily, you be a good little girl and don't cause any trouble for Akira alright? And please, stay within the city boundaries this time alright?" Lily tugged at her yellow sundress and nodded an innocent yes. She scampered off in the direction of her playmate, who looked positively terrified to see her. Garnet seated herself back at the table where the royals of Cleyra were carrying on a conversation with her husband.
"I know what you mean, time goes by so fast, one second Lily was in constant need of care, and now she's determined to be so independent."
"Same with Akira, he thinks he's a "young adult" now of course." The adults laughed. "I'm just happy that he and your daughter get along so well, it's hard to find a playmate for him." The Cleyrulian queen went on. "There aren't many near his age around here."
Garnet nodded in agreement. "As am I, it's too bad that our countries are at such a distance. Lily doesn't make friends that easily."
~*~*~*~
Before Akira could think, Lily had yanked him behind a tree. Both were out for breath from running, they were now deep within the old caves of Cleyra. "Why did we have to come all the way out here?" He exasperatedly asked his best friend.
"Because silly, we aren't supposed to be out here." A mischievous giggle escaped her lips. "And why is that?" She skipped out in front of him.
"Because! The Antillion lives out here!"
"You're worried about a little Antillion? Ha! You're more of a wimp than I thought."
"I'm not a wimp!"
"Yes, you are!"
"No I'm not!" The boy stomped his foot.
"Then come with me and prove it!"
"No, I don't want to. Why do we have to be out here anyway?"
"Because I want to show you the new spell that I learned."
"But Lily, I thought your parents said that you weren't allowed to do spells out of the castle."
"That doesn't matter, they'll never know. I just wanna show you really quickly. Really quick, I promise and then we'll get out of here okay?"
"Okay. but really quick."
Lily grabbed his hand and ran a little further until she found a placed that she would work. She pushed Akira back and over to the side so he wouldn't be in the way. The tiny girl stood in the middle of a large, empty space of sand. Her eyes shut tight as she concentrated hard.
"Lily, what are you doing?" The ten-year-old whipped around and glared at her best friend.
"Quiet! I'm concentrating!" She shut her eyes tight again. Her hand whipped out quickly in front of her and she shouted, "Tornado!" She ran away from her spot, over to where Akira was. "Look!" The tornado wrapped around and around, gathering speed and size in the center of the sand.
"What's so special about that?" She hit Akira over the head.
"You stupid! See, because the tornado is out here, it doesn't just make it a tornado, it makes it into a giant dirt devil!"
"A dirt devil?"
"You don't know anything do you? It's a tornado with sand in it." The tornado in front of them got bigger and bigger.
"Wow Lily, that's cool."
"Yeah, you bet it is." And the tornado grew.
"Don't you think you should stop it now?"
"Don't worry, it stops in a little bit on it's own. See?" And as she said that, the tornado dissipated into nothing. "You worry too much."
"Can we go home now?"
"Sure." Lily held on to his hand to take him back. But as she was leaving, she felt a rumble under her feet.
"What was that?" She looked around.
"I don't know." The rumbling got louder. "Let's go." She quickened their pace. The ground trembled and began to shake them.
"Lily, I'm scared."
"Don't be, you wimp!" Lily reprimanded, covering up her own fear. She turned around to yell at him more, but found herself unable to.
"Lily?" He slowly turned around himself and was met face to face with the Antilion. Both kids screamed and ran as fast as they could in the direction of the city with the Antillion fast on their trail. As soon as they reached the city, they tried to get the attention of their parents in the castle.
~*~*~*~
It was the King of Alexandria's dyne powers that finally subdued the giant beast, the thought of his daughter in danger was enough to put him into a trance. But that didn't stop the Cleryian royalty from panicking after the event, and banning the little princess from ever coming to their city again. They had already gone though so much, they explained, that they didn't want to risk anything else ever happening again. Princess Lily was seen as an immediate threat.
~*~*~*~
"My god Lily, what in the devil's name were you thinking, starting a sandstorm in the middle of the Antilillion's nest?! You and Akira could have both been killed, do you realize that?" The flustered queen paced around the room while her little girl sniffed and wiped her wet eyes with her arm.
"I'm sorry mom, I didn't think anything bad would happen."
"But it did happen, Lily, and you can't take that back no matter how sorry you are. You have to learn that you can't just do whatever you want, when you want."
"I'm sorry mom." Garnet's face softened.
"Come here darling." She outstretched her arms to her daughter and embraced her. She felt her own set of tears brim against her eyes. "Please promise you won't do anything like that again."
"I won't, I promise mom."
"I was so scared. You're my precious little girl and if anything would happen to you." Tears fell from the queen's eyes.
"Mom, please don't cry. I won't do anything bad ever again." The door opened behind them to reveal Lily's father.
"Can I talk with her a second?" Garnet nodded, wiping the tears from her eyes and exited the room. Feeling less tense with her father in the room, she asked the question that was truly making her cry.
"Daddy, will I ever see Akira again?" Zidane was taken aback by her question, what was he going to tell her? Regretfully, he chose the hardest, but most honest answer.
"No Tiger, I don't think so." The child wailed as loud as she could and threw herself onto her bed.
"But he's my bestest friend!" She sobbed louder.
"I know, I know, but after what happened, Cleyra isn't.. well. receiving you quite well."
"But there has got to be some way that I can talk to him." Grabbing the nearest pillow, she smothered it against her, trying to derive comfort from it.
"Well, there might be someway." Her crying ceased instantly.
"Really?"
"Well you remember the way that we got to Cleyra?"
"Yeah, through the Gargan Roo."
"Do you promise not to tell your mom or anyone else what I'm going to tell you?" The princess nodded vigorously and moved to the edge of her bed to listen to her dad better.
"In the side of the cart, there is an invisible latch that opens to a small little pocket. It's just big enough to store letters in it."
"You mean I could write letters to Akira that way!?" Her dad nodded. "But how would he get them?"
"I have someone in Cleyra that I could have tell him about it."
"But I don't really know how to write well, I don't want to sound dumb."
"We'll get Doctor Tot to teach you."
"Really?"
"Really." The princess leapt off her bad and hugged Zidane.
"I love you daddy."
"I love you too, Tiger Lily." He kneeled down to be eye-to-eye with his daughter and put a finger on her lips. "Between you and me, no telling mom."
"Okay, but how did you know about it in the first place?" Zidane laughed.
"I used to send love letters to your mom through there when she visited other kingdoms." Lily giggled.
"You wrote love letters to mom?"
"All the time."
"Did she write back?"
"Of course she did."
"What kind of things did you say?"
"I told her how much I loved her, and missed her, things like that."
"Can I read them?" Zidane's face turned tomato red.
"Umm. maybe later." Lily laughed at her dad's reaction.
"Daddy's embarrassed!" She taunted in a singsong voice. Zidane cleared his throat.
"So anyways, about learning how to write."
Yeah, defiantly not my best but hey, I had fun writing chapter six, so you can look forward to that after an. interesting chapter five. ()-_- Love you all, and please review! *^_^*
-Mimi-