Author's notes: There is like… no excuse for this fic. It just came to mind and I let it flow.
Like the summary says.
Feedback: Please, yes! I am a feedback whore. This is my first, and maybe last, ToF fic. ^_^;;
The East Heaven Kingdom was well known for its reputation
when it came to magic artifacts. Many kingdoms respected the King and Queen, as
they upheld their sacred duty (Protecting the Relic, of course!). Their people
were knowledgeable about the outside world. Every generation had some talent in
magic and was taught with severe discipline (If you didn't do your homework,
the least was a lashing, the worse... well, it's too horrible to mention...),
which was questionable, but it got the job done, so no one complained.
All in all, East Heaven earned its respect and was adored by many.
So why on Heaven's (pun intended) earth was the place decorated with skeletons
and ghouls and pumpkins of every kind!?
Simple answer: It was all Hallow's Eve and people be damned (Well, technically,
they are toasting to the underworld) to celebrate it. But unlike the
traditional styles, kids did not go 'trick or treating', but stayed at home and
threw many parties. The foods would consist of sweets and fruit. But a party
could not be complete without a pumpkin pie with a pumpkin carving at the
center of the table.
This Hallow's Eve, the King and Queen were excited. Why is that?
Why, it was their firstborn princess' first Halloween ever!
And of course, the King had something special planned for his newly daughter,
Mint. In fact, he went to all the trouble of baking his own pumpkin pie and
carving the centerpiece all himself, just to make this even more special for
his first-born child!
The results? Not as planned.
Now, you see, the King was no artist. He was even worse when it came to
carving! But yet, he insisted on making the center pumpkin of the celebration.
What came out was a pumpkin so badly carved that you could barely call it a
pumpkin. It had two antler's (Since WHEN did pumpkins have antlers!?) which
happened to be pink (The king wanted to represent the pigtails that their new
baby girl seemed to favor as a hairstyle). The eyes were crocked and lopsided.
The nose, if you could call it a nose, was a square instead of a typical
pumpkin triangle. And the mouth... Well, let's say the mouth came out to have
two teeth at the top and nothing at the bottom.
The first time Mint's eyes on the centerpiece when her mother carried her to
the dining hall that eve, like typical children, she saw the antlers. And of
course, thought they represented her image. And of course, like any 'normal'
child, she cried and cried so much that the centerpiece had to be removed
immediately from the premise (Gramps would've thought that something was wrong
with poor Mint if she didn't cry!).
Next came the pumpkin pie.
Now let it be known that the King leaves the cooking to his chefs for a very
good reason. And him being the oh-so loving father, he wanted Mint to have the
first taste of his 'special' pumpkin pie.
The results? The poor baby passed out from a tiny bite and had to be taken
immediately to the healers for intensive care.
When the Queen asked what in Heaven's (Again with the puns) name did he put in
the pie, he said, of course, pumpkins. When she asked if he took out the seeds
and the outer laying, the King looked sheepishly at his wife and said, 'I was
supposed to do that?'
Sadly, to this hear day, Princess Mint was always absent when All Hallow's eve
came about from that day after.
It was; after all, better to be safe than sorry. And Mint was not taking any
more chances, especially when her father wanted to 'make up for it'.