Lost Love in an Amulet

Chapter 2: Terror Arises

I'd like to thank all those who reviewed my previous chapter. Unfortunately, I haven't been updating recently. Sorry the second chapter took so long.

Thank you to:

animeang137

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Expect some Flashbacks.

Rai led her to the balcony away from the crowd and went down a flight of stairs that led to the garden. They strolled slowly, looking so cute together. "So, this night is nice isn't it?" asked Kim, looking shyly away from Rai.

Rai nodded. Something glinted in the moonlight. "What is that?" asked Kim, picking the thing up.

"It's a necklace," she concluded, looking at the beautiful glinting material. The necklace with a small emerald and a fine silver chain seemed to be very antique looking.

"Maybe I should take it to the antique shop tomorrow. I saw one here yesterday. It will cost big bucks," grinned Kim, slipping it over her neck. "For now, I'll be keeping it."

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"Okay." She took a deep breath. "I was in a desert with blazing fire around me and there were these skeletons coming after me, grabbing at me and they said something about 'the Queen will be very pleased to eat you. A meal fit for a queen' and they laughed evilly. They also said, ' Or maybe the Prince will be very pleased with a bride as pretty as you.'"

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"This time I was clad in black and standing in a weird church and suddenly I realized that my dress was actually a wedding gown. I was getting married to the Prince of the Skeletons. It all went like a real wedding until the final ceremony where the groom kisses the bride but instead of a kiss, he draws out a dagger and aimed for my neck."

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"Kim, you haven't been wearing it at night have you?" asked Chi Fay as she saw Kim's puzzled and frightened face.

Kim was silent.

"Have you!" shouted Callie and Chi Fay, together.

Kim smiled sheepishly and nodded with a soft 'yes'. "OH NO!" cried Callie.

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"This is serious. I can do nothing to take away the spell. Only true love can break the spell. The spirit of the evil prince has chosen a bride and only the one who loves you most can break the spell."

Kim was about to pass out when she heard the news. "What can I do? I don't know who loves me the most," she gasped, dropping the necklace onto the ground.

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Here's the story:

Kim sobbed sadly as she walked down the hill. "What can I do?" she asked herself.

"Keep calm, Kim," Callie said, putting an arm around her friend. "We'll help you find your one true love."

"How can it be? He said only time will tell," Kim said, burying her head into Callie's shoulder.

Chi Fay jumped into Kim's arms. "Stop crying, Kim. Seriously, we'll help you even though it means getting ourselves killed. Now you'd better stop crying for starters. I don't want to show you the 'face'."

Kim just refused to stop crying. So, Chi Fay took a deep breath and showed Kim her cutest face. Kim giggled and stopped crying. "Yeah, what was I thinking? I can face it," Kim said, stroking Chi Fay. "I'll show that Prince."

"That's better," Callie said.

"Now we'll keep this to ourselves. Let's pretend we went to the mall in Tokyo," Callie whispered as they arrived at the temple gates.

"Hi, guys," Callie began, walking smoothly into the garden.

"Hello, Kim, Callie, Chi Fay," greeted Master Fung, tending to some plants.

"We'd better be heading to our rooms," Chi Fay said, quickly. She nudged Callie and Kim along. "Move it, quick."

"So, how will we settle it? We can't just fight the demon spirit. It has to have a weakness somehow," Chi Fay said, making a small bed for herself on Kim's comforter.

"Wait, it belongs in an amulet right? It was stuck in the amulet for more than a millennium, right? Well then, why don't we try getting it back inside the amulet," suggested Callie, piping up real quickly.

"Not helping, Cal," Kim said, sulkily.

"Well, what can we do? The prince must somehow have a weakness," Kim sighed, hugging her pillow, tightly. "I just want to know what."

The three friends did not notice a black figure made out of smoke hovering outside the curtain leading to Kim's room. It made a low growling. Callie whipped her head around and said out loud but a little scared, "Who's there?"

"Cal, it's just your imagination," Chi Fay said, preening her whiskers. "Let's get back to our conversation."

"I just know there's someone out there. Waiting. Watching," Callie said, snuggling closer to Kim.

The black figure of smoke growled lowly and flew away.

That night, the grass rustled and the trees bellowed. The night was stormy and it was pouring with rain. The smoke figure creeped between the trees and headed towards Callie's room. "Mom, make your special cookies," whispered Callie, softly.

The smoke figure hovered over her. Callie stirred a little. "It's getting hot in here. Let me get a glass of water," she whispered, throwing away her blanket.

Callie screamed when she saw the smoke figure, enveloping her in a thick blanket of smoke. Kim and Chi Fay woke up with a jump when they heard Callie scream. "Callie," gasped Kim, throwing aside her blanket and jumping to her feet.

She ran barefooted to Callie's room with Chi Fay right on her tail. She burst into the room only coming across a dirt covered note, flying around the room. It was scrawled in untidy handwriting like someone was in a hurry to write it.

"Chi, look. You're not going to believe it."

Chi Fay bounded next to Kim and gasped," Oh my, Callie's been kidnapped."

Kim read the note, her hands trembling. "I've got your friend, my Princess. Be at my palace and I'll let your friend go. Only if you are willing to be engaged to me."

Kim dropped the letter with fear. "Oh no, it's the Prince."

"What are you going to do now, Kim?" asked Chi Fay, pawing at Kim's jeans.

"I guess I will just have to face him to rescue Callie. I'd rather marry him then to see Callie hurt," Kim said, her hands and knees still shaking. "I'll be all right. After all, he's not real life right?"

Chi Fay did not reply but climbed into Kim's arms. "I know you're scared for Callie. Don't worry Chi, I'll find her," Kim said, bravely but not confidently. "I hope so."

"You sure about this, Kim?" asked Chi Fay, taking out a small leather bag. "This sleeping powder will make you sleep for hours. I can't tell approximately when you'll awake but I'll put it about 10 hours."

Kim nodded and replied, "I'm determined to do whatever to get Callie back."

"Here goes nothing," Chi Fay said, putting her tiny little paw into the leather bag. She sprinkled the dust over Kim. "It's not working."

"Put more," Kim ordered, brushing the silvery-gold dust from her eyes. "Maybe it'll work that way."

Chi Fay took a tablespoon from Kim's lunch bag and spooned out a tablespoon. She threw it onto Kim and spooned another and threw it again. "Goodnight, Chi Fay. I'll be sleeping for a long time so let no one else come in besides Rai. If he comes in, tell him everything."

The beauty kitty nodded and Kim fell asleep.

Kim fell on the hard marble floor of an unusual place. "This must be the palace. But I'm not sure where's the Grand Hall, where I think the prince is waiting for my presence," Kim said to herself, dusting her clothes.

She walked down the beautiful hallway. Nothing was in sight and it felt like she had wandered for miles. Suddenly, a cat fell onto Kim's head. "Chi," exclaimed Kim, holding her pet cat. "What are you doing here? If you're here, how is Rai going to know why am I sleeping for so long? "

Chi Fay spat what seemed like sleeping powder out of her mouth. "I wanted to keep you safe and after all I am your guardian. I put enough powder on myself to wake up just before sunset. Don't worry."

Kim shook her head. "Come on, Chi. We'll be looking for a long time."

Kim and Chi Fay walked again, looking for a door of any kind. "Stop, Kim," ordered Chi Fay as Kim was about to walk another step. "It's useless walking again. We're going in circles."

"How do you know, little kitty?" asked Kim, kneeling down next to Chi Fay.

"Earlier, I fell and you brushed some dust of me. Here is the dust again."

Kim sighed and sobbed, quietly. "Kim, I sense a strong power coming from behind this wall," Chi Fay said, pawing at Kim's leg. "Come see, Kim. Quick."

Kim got up. "You sure, Chi?" asked Kim, feeling over the wall. Chi Fay nodded. "Stand back, Chi. This is going to be rough."

Kim kicked into the wall and it crumbled like nothing was there. There on a golden throne sat a guy. "Hello, mistress," greeted that guy, bowing low to Kim.

"Are you the prince?" asked Kim, uncertainly.

"No, my lady. I am his Royal Adviser, Carnon Fantom," replied the guy, stepping down the stairs. "You will have to get dressed to meet his Highness, Prince Wallah."

Carnon snapped his fingers and two royal servants appeared. "Show Prince Wallah's love to her room," he ordered, smiling smugly. "And get rid of that filthy cat."

"That's my cat!" shouted Kim, angrily, snatching up Chi Fay. "If I can't have my cat, then I shall not marry your idiotic, chaotic, brainless prince. Whatsoever his name is."

"Ah, my lady. You shall learn it in time," said Carnon, his usual smug manner. "Before that, these maids, Jenna and Maro will see that you appear proper to meet your future husband."

"Come with us, my lady," said the first maid, Jenna, curtsying. "We shall dress you proper enough to meet his Highness, Prince Wallah. Please, this way."

"Whatever," mouthed Kim, cheekily to Chi Fay.

Her cat giggled softly. Kim and Chi Fay followed the two royal servants to an elevator like place. "Please enter, my lady," said the second maid, Maro, directing with her left arm.

Kim looked frightened yet solemn. She knew that directing someone with a left arm is bad and it means that the person means evil. Eventhough betting on that, she and Chi Fay walked quietly into the elevator like cage. "Please hold on tight, my lady," Jenna said, pressing a few buttons. "It's going to be a rough ride."

Just as Jenna had said that, the cage-elavator jerked once and rose really fast to the top till Kim's hair was like pulling off her head. She breathed a sigh of relief when they had reached the top. The royal servant said nothing but walked out and lead the both of their companies to their room.

"We have laid out an appropriate dress for meeting Prince Wallah," said Maro, opening the marble door. "Please dress and we shall wait for you down the hallway."

Jenna and Maro left the room. "What am I going to do?" asked Kim, pacing the floor. "I can't wear this horrid looking dress. I'm just going to have to choose a different one."

"Kim, you want the prince to release Callie or not?"

"Yes."

"Then do what the royal servants asked you to do."

Kim got dressed in the horrid dull blue dress and went outside. "Come, my lady. the prince is waiting for you," Jenna said, curtsying. "This way, please."

Kim and Chi Fay followed Jenna and Maro to two large marble doors, decorated finely with the purest of gold. Maro knocked lightly on the door and pushed it open. Kim and Chi Fay gasped as they entered the hall which was so finely decorated. "Hello, Kimiko Toho," greeted the finely dressed man who sat beside a royal throne.

Kim frowned when she found out who that finely dressed man was: Carnon Fantom. "Greetings, my lord," greeted Carnon as a very handsome boy walked in to the hall.

"Hello, Kimiko. I see you are willing to come here," the boy said, smiling smugly, happy at his glory to bring his crush here.

"I only came so you could release my friend," growled Kim, balling her hands into fists.

"Oh, we'll talk about that later," replied Prince Wallah, sitting down on his throne. "Why don't we meet my parents? You know, to make the wedding arrangements."

"Let my friend go!" shouted Kim, lunging angrily at the prince.

Two guards grabbed at Kim but she kicked them away. She jumped onto the prince, bearing her teeth, wanting to sink her teeth into his neck. Wallah blasted a red fireball at Kim and she was thrown backwards onto the hard marble floor. Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth. "You will marry me no matter what you say," he growled, grabbing the collar of Kim's dress.

"I'd rather burn in the fires of hell than to marry you," replied Kim, bravely and coldly although she was trembling on the inside. "I will never marry you. Not in a million years, even if you gave me a thousand riches as I am already in love with someone else. Someone much better than you."

Wallah threw Kim hard onto the ground. Kim smiled, wearily. "He's nothing like you. He's sweet, gentle, stubborn but adorable. You're just a wretch. Forcing a lady into marriage is nothing a man would do. You're no man," Kim paused to see Wallah's reaction. "you're a monster."

Wallah crunched up his classical features and shouted, "Do as you wish. You are still my bride, no matter how much you say, I will let neither your friend nor you go in a million years."

With a toss of his cape, he left the throne room. Kim wearily forced a fake smile and gently shut her eyes as she fainted.

Back on Earth, Chi Fay was frantically pacing up and down Kim's bed. "What will I do? What will I do?" she frantically said, meowing as she went. "Kim's stuck in Dream World, I'm stuck in reality and only true love can save her."

She probed her brain for any idea that would just pop in. Just then, the ever handsome Rai came in. "Hi, Chi," he greeted, stroking the cat's pretty forhead. "Kim's still sleeping?"

"Rai, Kim asked me to tell you this."

"Shoot."

Chi shook her head and said, sorrowfully. "Remember the dreams Kim was having?"

Rai nodded. "Well, she's kind of stuck between reality and dream world. She's forced onto marrying the prince of dream world in order to rescue Callie, so now she's stuck. Not permanently, only until true love breaks the spell."

Rai was struck with shock. His dear Kim, stuck between reailty and dream world. "Tell me how do I rescue her," begged Rai, shaking Chi very hard till she lost her breath.

"Rai, I'm suffocating here," she said, hoarsely. "Let go of me."

Rai heard her begging and he released at once. "I'm sorry, Chi. I guess I was worried about Kim," he said apologizingly. "Tell me how can I save her from dream world?"
Chi shook her head once more, sorrowfully. "I've already told you, only true love can break the spell. I'm sorry, Rai."

The pretty kitty pattered out of the room softly, leaving Rai to talk to Kim. "I know you will not here me but please tell me, who is the one true love?"

He snuggled Kim's hand against her cheek. Silvery tears dripped from his large brown eyes onto Kim's bed. He lightly kissed Kim's forehead and lay his head on the bed and shut his eyes, dreaming that he would be able to save Kim.

Back at Wallah's palace, Kim woke up and rubbed her eyes. She then remembered that she had fainted when Wallah had thrown her onto the hard marble floor. She looked around to find Jenna and Moro by her bedside. "My lady, you are finally awake. Prince Wallah would like you to meet him in his room," Jenna said, dabbing a warm cloth to Kim's forehead.

Kim glared at the two servants angrily and shouted, "Can't you give me some privacy! GET OUT, YOU TWO! GET OUT!"

"But, my lady," Moro disagreed, pleedingly.

"BUT NOTHING!"

Kim hurled the glass bowl at the two and they scattered out the door quickly. She slumped backwards into her bed and sighed, heavily. "This is shit man. Why did I even come in the first place?" asked Kim, angry at herself.

She pulled out a locket and looked at it lovingly. Tears fell from her eyes and onto the photograph that was in the locket. "Oh, Paimundo Pedrosa. When will I ever see you again? If I ever get out of this treacherous place."

The door pushed open and Kim quickly snapped the locket shut. A pretty girl who resembled Wallah came in and sat on the chair closest to the window. "What do you want? Inviting me to meet your parents?" Kim asked, coldly, turning away from the girl.

"No, I came to help you."

You may think this is another Kim fic, it's not, the first 2 chapters is focusing on Kim than later, Rai enters the scene. If you liked this chapter, chapter 3: A New Friend is coming up. Hope it doesn't take too long.

Cherio.