Blast: Ahh! Third chapter! Yeah! Oh, and I'm doing some rewriting of the
chapters. I just finished this last Saturday. My bad.
Ann: Hello Mai! Ohhhh, I'm here!!
Blast: Hello Ate Ann. Welcome.
Ann: Can I say the disclaimer?!
Blast: Sure. I'll say more notes later.
Ann: (clears throat) Blast doesn't own Digimon, but she is hoping to someday! She keeps rambling too much Digimon, how she is too much in love with Ken Ichijouji and all, probably also wishing Ryo Akiyama will marry her.
Blast: Ate Ann is talking too much. (looks terrified at the death glares Yolei Inoue and Rika Nonaka are giving her) Ekk. Bad...Very bad (turns chibi and began running, chibi Yolei and chibi Rika running after her, throwing foul four-letter words at her) I still have some translations. (she continues running)
Yolei: Come back here!
Rika: Ryo is mine!
Chibi-Blast: I thought Rika isn't part of any fan club of Ryo's...
Rika: I'm not.
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Spanish/Filipino Translations
Ate- means sister (Filipino)
Sala- means parlor (Spanish) and/or living room (Filipino)
Señorita- young lady (Spanish) and/or someone of noble blood (Filipino)
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CHAPTER III: TWO UNLIKELY VISITIS
After doing her chores and making sure that her stepmother and stepsisters, Sora went down the basement, where she has her bed temporarily. Well, after Lord Takenouchi was away, Louise turned into a monster and literally kick Sora out of her own room and deprived her of her rights as the legal heiress of the manor.
"Well this is better than nothing." She sighed, sitting down on her bed. Taking out the letter her father had sent her, she began reading.
Dear Sora,
I'm so sorry for not being there, little one. I had some business to attend to. But this letter is very urgent that you must have this in no time.
Your mother's friend, Lady Inoue, and her daughter, Miyako, will be staying there for a week or so. Do take note that this certain friend of your mother's is randomly kind, and, as I'm sure Louise is not treating you well, she will be the judge of that. Louise doesn't have the right to kick visitors out, you tell her that.
Sora, there is something you need to know. Your mother is not what you think she is. All your stepmother knew is that your mother is a peasant, a gold-digger. But that is not true. Your mother is the youngest daughter of the King in the south. In short, she is a princess.
She married me without fear, because she knows she has no right to the throne, as seeing she was youngest. Only you and I know of this, Sora. Sooner or later, someone will come there and take you. You have to choose right there whether to stay or to go. You must keep this a secret and you must not tell anyone of this, especially Louise.
Sora, don't worry about me. I'm all right, and I took all those advices you gave me. You know what? You really took the brains of your mother. You hold on for just a little longer, and Lady Inoue will be there, and I'll be following her short after.
And also, take care of that fountain in the backyard. That really means so much to both your mother and I.
Take care, little one.
Love,
Father
Sora wept softly as she finished reading the letter. Why hadn't father told this to her before while he was still here? Her mother was a princess, and not just any princess. A princess to one of the largest kingdoms, the kingdom down south.
A smile was etched on her face. Lady Inoue will be coming, and for one week, she had to be treated the exact opposite she was treated right now. Father sure has a lot of surprises up of his sleeve.
The ultimate question is, why did a princess marry someone like her father? How did they met? Is there something she might not know yet?
"I guess I'll have to wait..." Sora muttered, then went to sleep. Unbeknownst to her, a lithe figure is watching her intently from the basement window.
"Child...things will be a lot harder from now on, since you already know your true origin..." it whispered, then disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared.
"Sora! Wake up!!!" the rather high voice of Jun woke the redhead successfully. She sat on her bed, probably hoping that some person come down and tell her that she was still in a dream where the world is flat. But Jun's voice reminded her that it wasn't some leprechaun who was calling, it was her snobbish stepsister. She fixed herself up quickly, and then ran upstairs to see what she wanted.
"What do you want, Jun?" Sora asked, carefully putting off the tone of her voice away.
Jun was somehow looking at some dresses. "Oh, help me dress! Mother is expecting someone today!"
Sora perked up. 'Someone? Certainly not Lady Inoue.' She helped Jun get dressed. "Do you know who is she expecting?"
"I don't know, but Mimi leaked information that their sons are absolutely cute!" she paused for a moment. "Why am I even telling this to you?"
"Maybe because I'm your stepsister, and I also live in the same house as you?" Sora informed her sweetly as she finished donning the ribbons. 'Oh, it's not them. But who are they really expecting?'
Both of them heard a carriage stopped at the front of the mansion. "They're here!" Jun squealed as she ran off to greet the visitors, leaving Sora to look at the window. She saw the family went out. She saw the parents went out, and then their two sons. The older one was a quite handsome man of her age with spiky blue hair.
'Well, he isn't as handsome as that Matt fellow.' She stopped that thought with a very rare blush. 'Where in God's name did that came from?' She shook her head slightly and turned her attention to the younger child. He was a few years, probably three years younger than her. He has blue wavy hair, and looked shier than the other. She heard Louise screeched her name, and decided to come down.
Before she even reached downstairs, Louise ran up to her and both of them ran up her old room. "You, Sora, get dressed. Lord and Lady Ichijouji don't want you to look like some servant, do they?"
'I am already a servant of my own home.' Sora countered quietly as she put on a decent dress, and followed Louise down to greet the family.
"Ah, this must be Sora Takenouchi!" the mother exclaimed. "I've heard a lot of you from your father!"
"My...father?" she asked, seemed stunned. The woman smiled.
"This is Lady Koe Ichijouji." Louise introduced to her stepdaughter. (AN: Damn if I know what her real name is.) "Their family is very close to your father a long time ago."
Sora curtsied, knowing her manners. "A pleasure to meet you, Lady Ichijouji."
"You too, little one." Koe gestured to her two sons. "And these are Sam and Ken. I'm sure all five of you will go along wonderfully."
Sam bowed, and greeted Sora with a kiss to her hand, while Ken merely bowed and plastered a small shy smile on his face. Louise motioned to the living room.
"Well, why don't we go to the sala and let the children walk around the manor for a while?" Louise asked. "I'm sure they'll love it."
"Splendid idea, Louise!" Koe said. She looked at Sora, Mimi, Jun, Sam, and Ken. "You children go explore. We have some things to discuss."
"Yes mother." Sam and Ken chorused, while a "Yes, Ma'am." Was heard from the three girls. All five went out of the mansion.
"Um, excuse me for a while, I still have something to do." Sora said, when they stopped at the gardens. She looked at her stepsisters. "Mimi, Jun, would be so kind as to entertain our guests? I have a feeling that I'm really needed in the grown-ups' discussion."
"Sure, Sora." Mimi said, while Jun was busy talking to Sam to notice. Ken looked at the older girl and decided to follow when Sora turned her back. When the young heiress left, Mimi turned to the others left. She saw Jun having a conversation with Sam, but... "Where's Ken?"
Sora went to the kitchen and prepared something to drink for the older guests. 'I guess even if there are respected guests around, I still have to do all the chores.' She took the pitcher and glasses on a tray and delivered it to the living room when she saw Ken on the doorway. She placed the tray on the table and approached Ken.
"Do you need anything, Ken?" she asked sweetly. Ken looked at her with indigo eyes.
"Miss Sora, why are you the one doing the chores?" Ken replied back with another question. Sora sighed.
"We have no servant here, Ken." She answered, taking the tray. "As the legal heiress, I must know how to take care of the whole manor. I must not act or treat myself like a Señorita at my own home." She walked towards the living room, then stopped. "Do you want to come with me?"
Ken followed the redhead as they entered the room. The parents looked at them with smiles.
"I believe that your journey may have made you thirsty, so Ken and I prepared drinks for you." Sora said, explaining her appearance, and including Ken.
"How sweet of you, dear." Koe said. "Do take a seat." The two children sat on the large sofa beside Koe. "Lady Louise and I have been talking about enlarging the mansion. We should take out that place in the back portion of the mansion..." she stopped when she saw Sora's expression. "What's the matter, dear?"
Sora stand up. "You can't do that!" she exclaimed. "That fountain at the back is a very important place for my father and mother! I will not allow you to destroy it!"
Seeing the outburst her stepdaughter made, Louise controlled her anger and approached Sora. "Dear, can we talk outside for a moment?" taking Sora's hand and excusing herself from the people, she took her outside the manor. "What do you think you're doing? Lady Ichijouji is proposing something for the good of the whole estate!"
"I will not allow you to take away that fountain my father built for my mother!" Sora retorted. "You don't want what's good for the estate; you just want to make sure all of my mother's belongings are out of my house!"
"Maybe I do!" Louise answered angrily. "You will not question what I will do to the manor. You are just the daughter of the Lord Takenouchi and some peasant!"
"You do not insult my mother like that until you know who she really is!" Sora flared back. "And I am still the legal heiress of the Takenouchi estate. Not you, not your daughters, but me!"
'SLAP'
Sora held her stinging cheek, tears flowing from her eyes. Louise took her hand and took Sora's face with one hand roughly. "You will keep quiet if you know what's good for you!"
"What is happening here?!" a new voice echoed. A woman of Louise's age stepped out of a carriage nearby and seemed to have heard the argument. Following her was a young girl, of Ken's level, with long lavender hair in a ponytail, and had lovely brown eyes.
"Ah...eh, nothing you should know about." Louise said rapidly, quickly taking all her anger inside.
The woman approached them like a tiger to its prey. (AN: I know Yolei's mother isn't like that. But I want someone to save poor Sora.) "I have every right to know what is happening here at the mansion. I am a friend of Her Ma-..." she was quickly shot with a look from Sora. "I mean, I am a friend of the Lady Fauna Takenouchi (AN: Help! Names are swirling like Jelly in my head.) who happened to be Sora's mother."
For once, Louise cannot make a good comeback, and promptly shut up. Sora sighed. At least now she has someone to stand by her, other than Lady Koe and Mimi.
"I am Lady Marissa Inoue." She introduced. "And this is my daughter, Miyako."
"Hello, Lady Sora!" Miyako greeted. "Mantarou and Chizuru was supposed to be with me, but they have other things to do. Mimoe was out of town, to do business with your cousin." The tone in the cousin word was so weird, that Sora realized it completely.
"Ah. So I already have a cousin." Sora chuckled, totally ignoring the death glares her stepmother was giving her. "My uncle?"
"He is doing just great." Marissa said. "Although he said he really wants to see you, and probably take you in." she added with a huge grin. Sora couldn't help but snicker.
"I think I've heard too much, Lady Inoue." Sora said. "Lady Louise has some visitors inside, and it's bad to keep them waiting. Why don't we all go inside?"
~~
Blast: (panting) Phew. I thought I'll never outrun those two! Maybe I'll find someone available, like Piedmon, or someone.
Piedmon: (raising eyebrows suggestively) Good idea.
Blast: Bad idea. (she shoves Piedmon away from stage) No thanks. Well, that's all. Reviews!
Ann: Hello Mai! Ohhhh, I'm here!!
Blast: Hello Ate Ann. Welcome.
Ann: Can I say the disclaimer?!
Blast: Sure. I'll say more notes later.
Ann: (clears throat) Blast doesn't own Digimon, but she is hoping to someday! She keeps rambling too much Digimon, how she is too much in love with Ken Ichijouji and all, probably also wishing Ryo Akiyama will marry her.
Blast: Ate Ann is talking too much. (looks terrified at the death glares Yolei Inoue and Rika Nonaka are giving her) Ekk. Bad...Very bad (turns chibi and began running, chibi Yolei and chibi Rika running after her, throwing foul four-letter words at her) I still have some translations. (she continues running)
Yolei: Come back here!
Rika: Ryo is mine!
Chibi-Blast: I thought Rika isn't part of any fan club of Ryo's...
Rika: I'm not.
~~
Spanish/Filipino Translations
Ate- means sister (Filipino)
Sala- means parlor (Spanish) and/or living room (Filipino)
Señorita- young lady (Spanish) and/or someone of noble blood (Filipino)
~~
CHAPTER III: TWO UNLIKELY VISITIS
After doing her chores and making sure that her stepmother and stepsisters, Sora went down the basement, where she has her bed temporarily. Well, after Lord Takenouchi was away, Louise turned into a monster and literally kick Sora out of her own room and deprived her of her rights as the legal heiress of the manor.
"Well this is better than nothing." She sighed, sitting down on her bed. Taking out the letter her father had sent her, she began reading.
Dear Sora,
I'm so sorry for not being there, little one. I had some business to attend to. But this letter is very urgent that you must have this in no time.
Your mother's friend, Lady Inoue, and her daughter, Miyako, will be staying there for a week or so. Do take note that this certain friend of your mother's is randomly kind, and, as I'm sure Louise is not treating you well, she will be the judge of that. Louise doesn't have the right to kick visitors out, you tell her that.
Sora, there is something you need to know. Your mother is not what you think she is. All your stepmother knew is that your mother is a peasant, a gold-digger. But that is not true. Your mother is the youngest daughter of the King in the south. In short, she is a princess.
She married me without fear, because she knows she has no right to the throne, as seeing she was youngest. Only you and I know of this, Sora. Sooner or later, someone will come there and take you. You have to choose right there whether to stay or to go. You must keep this a secret and you must not tell anyone of this, especially Louise.
Sora, don't worry about me. I'm all right, and I took all those advices you gave me. You know what? You really took the brains of your mother. You hold on for just a little longer, and Lady Inoue will be there, and I'll be following her short after.
And also, take care of that fountain in the backyard. That really means so much to both your mother and I.
Take care, little one.
Love,
Father
Sora wept softly as she finished reading the letter. Why hadn't father told this to her before while he was still here? Her mother was a princess, and not just any princess. A princess to one of the largest kingdoms, the kingdom down south.
A smile was etched on her face. Lady Inoue will be coming, and for one week, she had to be treated the exact opposite she was treated right now. Father sure has a lot of surprises up of his sleeve.
The ultimate question is, why did a princess marry someone like her father? How did they met? Is there something she might not know yet?
"I guess I'll have to wait..." Sora muttered, then went to sleep. Unbeknownst to her, a lithe figure is watching her intently from the basement window.
"Child...things will be a lot harder from now on, since you already know your true origin..." it whispered, then disappeared as mysteriously as it appeared.
"Sora! Wake up!!!" the rather high voice of Jun woke the redhead successfully. She sat on her bed, probably hoping that some person come down and tell her that she was still in a dream where the world is flat. But Jun's voice reminded her that it wasn't some leprechaun who was calling, it was her snobbish stepsister. She fixed herself up quickly, and then ran upstairs to see what she wanted.
"What do you want, Jun?" Sora asked, carefully putting off the tone of her voice away.
Jun was somehow looking at some dresses. "Oh, help me dress! Mother is expecting someone today!"
Sora perked up. 'Someone? Certainly not Lady Inoue.' She helped Jun get dressed. "Do you know who is she expecting?"
"I don't know, but Mimi leaked information that their sons are absolutely cute!" she paused for a moment. "Why am I even telling this to you?"
"Maybe because I'm your stepsister, and I also live in the same house as you?" Sora informed her sweetly as she finished donning the ribbons. 'Oh, it's not them. But who are they really expecting?'
Both of them heard a carriage stopped at the front of the mansion. "They're here!" Jun squealed as she ran off to greet the visitors, leaving Sora to look at the window. She saw the family went out. She saw the parents went out, and then their two sons. The older one was a quite handsome man of her age with spiky blue hair.
'Well, he isn't as handsome as that Matt fellow.' She stopped that thought with a very rare blush. 'Where in God's name did that came from?' She shook her head slightly and turned her attention to the younger child. He was a few years, probably three years younger than her. He has blue wavy hair, and looked shier than the other. She heard Louise screeched her name, and decided to come down.
Before she even reached downstairs, Louise ran up to her and both of them ran up her old room. "You, Sora, get dressed. Lord and Lady Ichijouji don't want you to look like some servant, do they?"
'I am already a servant of my own home.' Sora countered quietly as she put on a decent dress, and followed Louise down to greet the family.
"Ah, this must be Sora Takenouchi!" the mother exclaimed. "I've heard a lot of you from your father!"
"My...father?" she asked, seemed stunned. The woman smiled.
"This is Lady Koe Ichijouji." Louise introduced to her stepdaughter. (AN: Damn if I know what her real name is.) "Their family is very close to your father a long time ago."
Sora curtsied, knowing her manners. "A pleasure to meet you, Lady Ichijouji."
"You too, little one." Koe gestured to her two sons. "And these are Sam and Ken. I'm sure all five of you will go along wonderfully."
Sam bowed, and greeted Sora with a kiss to her hand, while Ken merely bowed and plastered a small shy smile on his face. Louise motioned to the living room.
"Well, why don't we go to the sala and let the children walk around the manor for a while?" Louise asked. "I'm sure they'll love it."
"Splendid idea, Louise!" Koe said. She looked at Sora, Mimi, Jun, Sam, and Ken. "You children go explore. We have some things to discuss."
"Yes mother." Sam and Ken chorused, while a "Yes, Ma'am." Was heard from the three girls. All five went out of the mansion.
"Um, excuse me for a while, I still have something to do." Sora said, when they stopped at the gardens. She looked at her stepsisters. "Mimi, Jun, would be so kind as to entertain our guests? I have a feeling that I'm really needed in the grown-ups' discussion."
"Sure, Sora." Mimi said, while Jun was busy talking to Sam to notice. Ken looked at the older girl and decided to follow when Sora turned her back. When the young heiress left, Mimi turned to the others left. She saw Jun having a conversation with Sam, but... "Where's Ken?"
Sora went to the kitchen and prepared something to drink for the older guests. 'I guess even if there are respected guests around, I still have to do all the chores.' She took the pitcher and glasses on a tray and delivered it to the living room when she saw Ken on the doorway. She placed the tray on the table and approached Ken.
"Do you need anything, Ken?" she asked sweetly. Ken looked at her with indigo eyes.
"Miss Sora, why are you the one doing the chores?" Ken replied back with another question. Sora sighed.
"We have no servant here, Ken." She answered, taking the tray. "As the legal heiress, I must know how to take care of the whole manor. I must not act or treat myself like a Señorita at my own home." She walked towards the living room, then stopped. "Do you want to come with me?"
Ken followed the redhead as they entered the room. The parents looked at them with smiles.
"I believe that your journey may have made you thirsty, so Ken and I prepared drinks for you." Sora said, explaining her appearance, and including Ken.
"How sweet of you, dear." Koe said. "Do take a seat." The two children sat on the large sofa beside Koe. "Lady Louise and I have been talking about enlarging the mansion. We should take out that place in the back portion of the mansion..." she stopped when she saw Sora's expression. "What's the matter, dear?"
Sora stand up. "You can't do that!" she exclaimed. "That fountain at the back is a very important place for my father and mother! I will not allow you to destroy it!"
Seeing the outburst her stepdaughter made, Louise controlled her anger and approached Sora. "Dear, can we talk outside for a moment?" taking Sora's hand and excusing herself from the people, she took her outside the manor. "What do you think you're doing? Lady Ichijouji is proposing something for the good of the whole estate!"
"I will not allow you to take away that fountain my father built for my mother!" Sora retorted. "You don't want what's good for the estate; you just want to make sure all of my mother's belongings are out of my house!"
"Maybe I do!" Louise answered angrily. "You will not question what I will do to the manor. You are just the daughter of the Lord Takenouchi and some peasant!"
"You do not insult my mother like that until you know who she really is!" Sora flared back. "And I am still the legal heiress of the Takenouchi estate. Not you, not your daughters, but me!"
'SLAP'
Sora held her stinging cheek, tears flowing from her eyes. Louise took her hand and took Sora's face with one hand roughly. "You will keep quiet if you know what's good for you!"
"What is happening here?!" a new voice echoed. A woman of Louise's age stepped out of a carriage nearby and seemed to have heard the argument. Following her was a young girl, of Ken's level, with long lavender hair in a ponytail, and had lovely brown eyes.
"Ah...eh, nothing you should know about." Louise said rapidly, quickly taking all her anger inside.
The woman approached them like a tiger to its prey. (AN: I know Yolei's mother isn't like that. But I want someone to save poor Sora.) "I have every right to know what is happening here at the mansion. I am a friend of Her Ma-..." she was quickly shot with a look from Sora. "I mean, I am a friend of the Lady Fauna Takenouchi (AN: Help! Names are swirling like Jelly in my head.) who happened to be Sora's mother."
For once, Louise cannot make a good comeback, and promptly shut up. Sora sighed. At least now she has someone to stand by her, other than Lady Koe and Mimi.
"I am Lady Marissa Inoue." She introduced. "And this is my daughter, Miyako."
"Hello, Lady Sora!" Miyako greeted. "Mantarou and Chizuru was supposed to be with me, but they have other things to do. Mimoe was out of town, to do business with your cousin." The tone in the cousin word was so weird, that Sora realized it completely.
"Ah. So I already have a cousin." Sora chuckled, totally ignoring the death glares her stepmother was giving her. "My uncle?"
"He is doing just great." Marissa said. "Although he said he really wants to see you, and probably take you in." she added with a huge grin. Sora couldn't help but snicker.
"I think I've heard too much, Lady Inoue." Sora said. "Lady Louise has some visitors inside, and it's bad to keep them waiting. Why don't we all go inside?"
~~
Blast: (panting) Phew. I thought I'll never outrun those two! Maybe I'll find someone available, like Piedmon, or someone.
Piedmon: (raising eyebrows suggestively) Good idea.
Blast: Bad idea. (she shoves Piedmon away from stage) No thanks. Well, that's all. Reviews!