A/N: This story is VERY MUCH based off of The Brother's Grimm story, "The
Pink". Also, just thought I should mention that "the pink" is a flower,
specifically the carnation or sweet William. Also, Mimi, in French, means
Faithful Guardian.
Many years ago, before the land was named and the wars were fought, lived a young queen whose only wish was to be able to bear a child. She would stroll through the gardens of her castle, while admiring the sweet William, and she would pray for a son or a daughter. Many years had passed by, until one day, an angel greeted her by the fountain.
"Queen Kido, rest your soul, for God has heard you and will grant you a child. He shall have the power to wish for whatever his heart desires and it will be bestowed upon him. Anything in the world he wishes for will be granted to him."
Queen Kido was ecstatic, and ran all the way back to the throne room to share the good news with her husband. The couple rejoiced, and the land celebrated, for they would soon have a prince to call their own!
Nine months later, word traveled from lady to servant to guard to merchant that the queen had given birth. The king was filled with gladness, and the queen never let the child out of her sight. Every afternoon, she would carry him into the gardens, pointing out the names of all the flowers and wild animals, before bathing herself and her son in the crystal stream that ran through the gardens.
One summer afternoon, the queen took a nap against the fountain's brick, with her child in her arms. The cook, Yamato Ishida, witnessed this scene, and his cold eyes filled with a malicious greed at the utterly heinous thought which had popped into his conniving little head. The young Prince Kido could grant wishes, and Yamato had several that had gone unfulfilled. His beady eyes gleamed, and he snatched the child from his mother's arms, and covered the woman's robes with the blood of a chicken. He brought the child to a nurse in the nearby village, and had her feed him, while he returned to the castle, his evil plan in motion.
He ran into the throne room, and collapsed before the king, panting and out of breath from his run, in order to get to the castle before the queen awoke.
"King Kido," he said, "I have just come from the gardens, and the queen is covered in the blood of her son, which she allowed a wild animal to devour."
The King was enraged and he stormed out to his gardens, where sure enough, he found his wife sleeping, covered in what appeared to be her son's blood. He awoke her with a sharp slap, and a scream, telling the woman that she would be forced to live in a tower for seven long years, as long as their son had been living, without food nor drink to satisfy her, and no sun or moonlight to console her. He knew she would waste away within the first month, if she was lucky.
So the queen was sentenced to the tower, and was given no food, nor drink, wine or meat, and she saw neither sun nor moon. No humans were allowed inside the tower, and there was no way for her to get out, save a tiny window that was at the very tip of the tower. However, two beautiful doves would somehow make their way into her chamber, and turn into angels, providing her with food twice a day, thus keeping her alive.
The cook was a happy little con-artist now, but he knew that should he stay in the king's services, he would be found out, so he took the wishing child, and made away in the night.
He ordered the boy to wish for a beautiful castle, with gardens, and all else that should be fit to a palace, and no sooner than Yamato spoke it, than the prince had made it appear. Yamato brought the boy into the castle's walls, skipping about merrily, humming gleefully with a sadistic gleam in his eyes, as only the truly treacherous can do.
They had lived in the castle for two years, and two years they had stayed together when Yamato stole him, thus making the little boy, Jyou, the age of 11. Yamato turned to him one day, and told him that he didn't feel Jyou should be so alone, and commanded him to wish for a beautiful young maiden to play with.
Jyou made the wish as it was spoken, and before him stood a young girl, more beautiful than anything even Jyou could have imagined, and more perfect and lovely than any painter could ever paint. He immediately loved her, and called her Mimi, so that she may watch over him and take care of him.
She had hair of sunlight and eyes of pure honey. Her skin was soft and creamy, like fresh snow or warm milk. She was small, yet strong, and her ruby lips always held a smile.
But that's just the beginning.
Many years ago, before the land was named and the wars were fought, lived a young queen whose only wish was to be able to bear a child. She would stroll through the gardens of her castle, while admiring the sweet William, and she would pray for a son or a daughter. Many years had passed by, until one day, an angel greeted her by the fountain.
"Queen Kido, rest your soul, for God has heard you and will grant you a child. He shall have the power to wish for whatever his heart desires and it will be bestowed upon him. Anything in the world he wishes for will be granted to him."
Queen Kido was ecstatic, and ran all the way back to the throne room to share the good news with her husband. The couple rejoiced, and the land celebrated, for they would soon have a prince to call their own!
Nine months later, word traveled from lady to servant to guard to merchant that the queen had given birth. The king was filled with gladness, and the queen never let the child out of her sight. Every afternoon, she would carry him into the gardens, pointing out the names of all the flowers and wild animals, before bathing herself and her son in the crystal stream that ran through the gardens.
One summer afternoon, the queen took a nap against the fountain's brick, with her child in her arms. The cook, Yamato Ishida, witnessed this scene, and his cold eyes filled with a malicious greed at the utterly heinous thought which had popped into his conniving little head. The young Prince Kido could grant wishes, and Yamato had several that had gone unfulfilled. His beady eyes gleamed, and he snatched the child from his mother's arms, and covered the woman's robes with the blood of a chicken. He brought the child to a nurse in the nearby village, and had her feed him, while he returned to the castle, his evil plan in motion.
He ran into the throne room, and collapsed before the king, panting and out of breath from his run, in order to get to the castle before the queen awoke.
"King Kido," he said, "I have just come from the gardens, and the queen is covered in the blood of her son, which she allowed a wild animal to devour."
The King was enraged and he stormed out to his gardens, where sure enough, he found his wife sleeping, covered in what appeared to be her son's blood. He awoke her with a sharp slap, and a scream, telling the woman that she would be forced to live in a tower for seven long years, as long as their son had been living, without food nor drink to satisfy her, and no sun or moonlight to console her. He knew she would waste away within the first month, if she was lucky.
So the queen was sentenced to the tower, and was given no food, nor drink, wine or meat, and she saw neither sun nor moon. No humans were allowed inside the tower, and there was no way for her to get out, save a tiny window that was at the very tip of the tower. However, two beautiful doves would somehow make their way into her chamber, and turn into angels, providing her with food twice a day, thus keeping her alive.
The cook was a happy little con-artist now, but he knew that should he stay in the king's services, he would be found out, so he took the wishing child, and made away in the night.
He ordered the boy to wish for a beautiful castle, with gardens, and all else that should be fit to a palace, and no sooner than Yamato spoke it, than the prince had made it appear. Yamato brought the boy into the castle's walls, skipping about merrily, humming gleefully with a sadistic gleam in his eyes, as only the truly treacherous can do.
They had lived in the castle for two years, and two years they had stayed together when Yamato stole him, thus making the little boy, Jyou, the age of 11. Yamato turned to him one day, and told him that he didn't feel Jyou should be so alone, and commanded him to wish for a beautiful young maiden to play with.
Jyou made the wish as it was spoken, and before him stood a young girl, more beautiful than anything even Jyou could have imagined, and more perfect and lovely than any painter could ever paint. He immediately loved her, and called her Mimi, so that she may watch over him and take care of him.
She had hair of sunlight and eyes of pure honey. Her skin was soft and creamy, like fresh snow or warm milk. She was small, yet strong, and her ruby lips always held a smile.
But that's just the beginning.