DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NEOPETS!
Chapter 2
A Nice Time in Town
As they walked into town, Rei and Hiro somehow got separated and Rei ended up in a beautiful faerie clothing shop. The clothes there were so beautiful, that not many people could even glance at them let alone buy them.
Rei's clothes were kind of torn and worn out. She was wearing short shorts a small tub top for a shirt and some finger cut gloves, her shoes were the only things that looked really royal, they kind of looked like mid-leg high boots to us here in the present. She basically looked like a normal pre-teen.
"Oh those dresses are so beautiful, may I try them on?" Rei asked.
"Why of course not you little street rat, no one that looks like you can be so deserving to wear one of these." The shopkeeper responded.
"Oh Rei there you are, I've been looking all over, what are you doing?" Hiro asked as he walked in.
"Well I wanted to try on these beautiful dresses but since I look like I'm regular she won't let me." Rei said.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of this." Hiro said. "Uh, excuse me, my friend would like to try on one of those dresses." Hiro said to the shopkeeper.
"I already told your little girlfriend that she can't, she's not royalty so she can't even touch them." She said.
"Maybe I didn't make myself clear, I have here with me the only family left to the royal faerie queen's family. May I introduce miss Rei Rigotsu." Hiro said with a bow.
"Rubbish! The queen hadn't had any relatives, she was all alone after they were killed." the shopkeeper spat.
"On the contrary Madam. I am Hiro Kakaji, the ally of Faerieland. And as all important officials must know, all of the relatives of the Queen have a birthmark on their right arm shaped like a Winged Heart." Hiro said showing the shopkeeper Rei's arm. It was entirely true, Rei had known that and anyone close to the queen and her family knew that,.
"I'm sorry if I look a different way to you kind madam, but I don't want to be so easily noticed by thieves." Rei said graciously.
"Oh dear I never knew that, I thought that Fyora hadn't had a niece, I'm so sorry, I'm a personal friend of her and I never knew she had any relatives left. Please accept my apologies your majesty." The shopkeeper said with embarrassment.
"There's really nothing to be sorry about but I really would like some new clothes please?" Rei said.
"Right away!" The shopkeeper said. Rei stepped right into the dressing room and came out looking like a fearless ice faerie warrior. She had a dragon scale woven skirt, a half shirt that looked like silver tube top, some middle shoulder see through gloves with the fingers cut off, and some knee-high boots from Krawk island for protection. Hiro couldn't stop staring at her, even when she came up and waved in front of his face.
"Hey Hiro, hello!" Rei said.
"Huh, what? Oh, you look great, like a true warrior of ice, only a girl I mean." Hiro said.
"I kind of noticed that you liked it when you started drooling." Rei said laughing, Hiro quickly wiped the drool off of his chin. "So how much is this going to cost me?" Rei asked.
"Oh for you and your boyfriend this costs nothing, since you are out to save my personal friend, I'm only so lucky to help out." the shop keeper said.
" Oh he's not my boyfriend, but he is cute don't you think?" Rei said in a whisper.
"Good luck and give Fyora a big hug and hello for me, bye!" She said.
"I sure will, bye!" Rei said walking out. "So where are we gonna go now?" Rei asked.
"Hmm, well we do need some food for the journey, but I've already picked that up. Anyway it's getting pretty late want to hit the hay?" Hiro said.
"Sure I am pretty tired myself but where are we gonna sleep, I only have one blanket with me and I don't want you to freeze." Rei said with care.
"Well all the shops are closed and the neologdge is closed for the next week for repairs, apparently some maid left the bath on for too long and it flooded the whole building." Hiro said. "We could share it if it's okay with you." Hiro said as a suggestion.
"Hmm, well it's just for tonight and your shoyru has come back to protect us along with your Uni so I guess it's okay." Rei said.
"Okay so let's get set up, I don't really expect you to sleep on the ground really princess?" Hiro said.
"No, I don't really want to sleep where the poisonous bugs can bite me." Rei said.
"Let's fly over to that barn." Hiro said to Miscellaneous. When they arrived at the barn, Rei made a nice bed for them to sleep on with the magic she had. The power to heal also has the power to create things that could help someone from danger. Mainly a bed to keep them from poisonous bugs.
"Okay it's ready, and I'm going to sleep." Rei said as she crawled into the bed.
"Okay I'll go to sleep later, night Rei." Hiro said. As Rei drifted of to a deep sleep, Hiro walked over and kissed her forehead then cuddled up to her. Rei woke up in the middle of the night to realize that she was linked to Hiro, He was holding her close to him. Rei was a little surprised at first then she felt his warm skin up against her body. She fell asleep once more and cuddled up to Hiro as well.
"Huh? Where are we?" Rei asked. Hiro wasn't in her arms anymore, he was carrying her towards his pet shoyru.
"Oh, you're awake, good, we've got to continue today, Terror mountain is only a few minutes away from here so you need to gain up your strength for the day." Hiro said. Hiro set her down on his shoyru and he leaped onto his Uni.
"She'll take you directly to my room so just wait there for me." Hiro said.
"What? What do you mean wait? I thought you were going with me." Rei asked frantically.
"Well my pets can teleport to places they know, so they can teleport directly to my room in no time. It's right next to Taelia's work shop." Hiro answered.
"Well then why didn't you tell them to teleport us yesterday!" Rei shouted.
"Hey ,cool it, I did tell you that they were tired you know. They had just gotten some rest when we arrived yesterday. Besides, I'm not part of the royal empire so I don't exactly have the kinds of pets that you have." Hiro said.
"I know that but you could have asked me for some healing magic, you know, Taelia is going to train me because of something I possess in my body. It's very complicated, you wouldn't understand." Rei said with grief.
"Can you tell me what is it so I don't have to wonder why in the world I'm doing this when I could be out there earning some money. I may be Neopia's greatest warrior, but I'm still not rich. And these are times that we really need some np. So please tell me before I lose it." Hiro said.
"Fine but it'll take some time to explain it all. Okay if I'm going to tell you this you'll have to tell me something as well." Rei said.
"Deal, what is it that you want to know princess?" Hiro said.
"What I want to know prince Hiroku, is why you were clutching me while you were sleeping? Were you cold or something?" Rei asked.
"Well um, I-I well…?" Hiro's voice trailed off while twirling his fingers around and blushing.
" Well?." Rei said slightly annoyed.
"Okay, well the reason is well, you were looking pretty cold so I, um tried to warm you up?" Hiro was lying about that whole thing.
"Hmm is that so? Well I was pretty warm in those new clothes we got in the central, so I felt fine. Is there another reason Hiro?" Rei asked. "You know you aren't very convincing with the lying thing. I know there's another reason and I really want to know it." Rei asked with a hand on his. He blushed so hard he couldn't take it anymore.
"The truth is I really like you Rei!" Hiro blurted out.
"I kind of figured that out ever since the new look surprised you. But still, you should have told me about it. If you did it would have saved you all this trouble." Rei said, she gave Hiro a hug and that really made him blush.
"Thanks Rei, you're really kind and you think about others as well, it's just that ..I'm not really a
prince-" Hiro said.
"What? I thought auntie said you were a prince." Rei cut him off.
"Well she said that so you would know someone important was coming to your rescue. But I really am the greatest warrior of all time in Neopia, that I didn't lie about." Hiro said while trying to make a giggle come out of Rei. It worked too.
"Well even if you aren't a prince, I really like you Hiro." Rei said. At that moment the earth right below them shook, some thing was coming out of the ground and neither of them knew what in the world it was. Rea screamed so loud, it almost her own eardrums.
"Hold on!" Hiro said as he grabbed Rei around the waist and let her run as fast as they could, and away from the horrible monster that was coming out.
"Miscellaneous! Void! Come and help us get out from here!" Hiro yelled. His pets came flying to the rescue and put them on a cliff far away from the monster.
"Okay what was that!" Rei asked scared.
"Well I don't know about that but what's happening to it?" Hiro asked while pointing at it's direction. The monster was melting and boiling in it's own flesh, the only one who could make this happen was Rei.
"Oh no, Hiro. Remember when Taelia said for you to get me, and she couldn't tell you what it was about, well we need to get out of here and I'll tell you straight away." Rei said.
"Okay, let's go Void, TELEPORT!" Hiro yelled. And in just three seconds they were in Hiro's room and Rei fell asleep in Hiro's bed from the excitement. Rei rests on Hiro's bed, while Hiro is with Taelia in her tower.
"So remind me again why I'm doing this and not the other people. I just thought that if it were so important, one of your family might have done it." Hiro asked Taelia.
"I've told you before Hiroku, this girl is too emotional that if someone forced her to do anything she didn't want, she'll destroy them. But if it's someone who knows as much as I do about the curse then they'll be able to get her over here. Dear Hiroku, why do you ask this once more?" Taelia said.
"It's just that, I know almost nothing about the curse, the only thing I know is that her dad was the greatest warrior before me and that Asparaguso Chiana unleashed a Chaos Unlimited Faerie on her dad." Hiro said.
"Well at least you know at least one thing about her Hiroku." Taelia said.
"Yes, but I know something else Taelia." Hiro said, "I know that I really like her."
"Speaking from heart are we? I admire that from you Hiroku, though revealing that you
were just pretending to be a prince too soon wasn't the brightest thing to do, if her emotions also have the word grudge in it's vocabulary, then she'll have something to cost you with, and something to hold against your will." Taelia said with a little laughter.
"Oh by the way Taelia, is it fine that Rei tells me about the reason she's here? Hiro asked.
"You do have the right to know, so yes that'll be fine, but may I remind you that you are
going to have to train her along with me. I trust you." Taelia said.
"Hey, I'm a warrior and she's has been trained a lot too, but not the way I've trained so I'll ease it up for her a bit." Hiro said.
"Yes but even so, you need to be careful, and you don't need to ease it up for her. If I know Fyora, she's already trained her to the point where she could beat up 300 Slug Monsters in under 10 seconds. Have fun, but don't get carried away my dear." Taelia said to Hiro.
"Yes Taelia, I won't get carried away. Hmm, I'll have to ask her tomorrow about her curse and everything about it." Hiro said. Hiro went to his room and saw Rei sleeping. "I'll always protect you even if I means the death of me." Hiro whispered to Rei.
The next morning Rei woke up to the glorious beauty of Hiro's room. Sparkling with ice crystals that lined the room border. The tall windows let the light of happiness shine in. The sheets were woven by a special cloud only found in the tall mountains of Terror Mountain. The cloud can be woven even though it's structure isn't meant to be reformed. Taelia had made it herself with a unique spell to twist and bend the laws of nature, alchemy.
"Good to see you princess Rei, you look much better from when you first arrived at the castle." Taelia said after entering Hiro's room.
"It's nice to see you too Taelia. And I feel better than yesterday too, the monster that
attacked us was a result of my emotion of being surprised then came the monster. Everything that happens that an emotion could trigger always ends up being a bad thing happening. I thought this curse had the power to heal and the power to summon evil and chaos." Rei said.
"It does summon the powers of evil and the powers to heal. You just don't notice it. Come with me and I'll tell you more about you're powers." Taelia said.
"Okay." Rei replied as she got up and walked with Taelia down to her library. As they walked down to the library, Rei was so amazed at the artwork around the halls. All the work was carved out of ice and it was still frozen solid despite it's warm temperature in the castle.
"Are you wondering how these paintings are still on display?" Taelia asked Rei.
"Yeah, It's pretty amazing, is it a spell that's keeping them up like that or is it just the ice?" Rei asked.
"It's both, the ice that was carved came from the ice caves in the Snowager's cave. When he is asleep some brave and determined artists sneak in and take some, but they must do it extremely quick or the snowager will shoot ice crystals from his mouth." Taelia said.
"Taelia, is this it?" Rei asked as she gazed at these huge wooden doors in front of her. The doors were covered in beautiful jewels and had a warning at the top that said not to enter or you shall be severely punished.
"Yes it is, this is my favorite place to be if I want to be alone or if I want to think. Now, your curse takes your emotions and it manipulates it into an evil form, in your case it was a monster. Your curse also has the power to heal, meaning that you can repair damages that other things have made, including your own. Your power also can make physical things that could aid safety or protection. Those are the only things I know about the curse, the rest you are going to have to find out on your own." Taelia said.
"Okay, that's a little bit more clear than what I would originally think. So it's basically like a Healing Darkness, I have the power to correct bad things that happen and I can create them." Rei said.
"Correct, I guess you can say that about the curse. Now we need you to be prepared for any attack by Jhudora or any other monster, you also need to get your aunt back in this castle. With the two of us together we can defeat Jhudora." Taelia said.
"Okay, I'll train with Hiro, surely his training must be at least a little challenging to me." Rei said with a little chuckle.
"Good, he'll be in my workshop getting some things done. I'll see you later." Taelia said with a wave good bye and Rei waved back and went to the workshop to find Hiro working on something but Rei couldn't see it.
"Hello!" Rei shouted. Hiro nearly took out his sword as he turned around and struck a warrior's pose.
"Oh it's only you, have a nice sleep?" Hiro asked.
"Yeah your bed is so comfy sorry I took it away when I slept there." Rei said.
"No problem that room is only temporary until I can get the builders to make me a new room for myself, it'll be next to this workshop only on the north side so I get a full view of Neopia from my room. We can share the room if you want, I'll have two beds put in there or we can have a bunk bed." Hiro offered.
"Sure, a bunk bed would be nice." Rei said. As Hiro finished up what he was working on, he quickly covered it and put it in a safe.
"What's with the safe?" Rei asked.
"I don't trust many people in this castle, the only person I trust is Taelia, what I make is top secret, meant for no one's eyes but me, Taelia's, and the person I'm giving it to. Oh Rei, I wanted to talk to you about something, well more like ask you some thing." Hiro said.
"Yeah? Well let's go somewhere where no snoopers are." Rei said. They went to the garden and Hiro took Rei to a secret place only he and Taelia knew about. It was a gazebo tent with plants growing out from under it. There was furniture in it that looked like the ones in Fyora's castle.
"So what did you want to ask me?" Rei asked.
"I wanted to ask about you, how did that monster appear, and how did it just dissolve like that?" Hiro asked.
"It's my powers, you surprised me when you told me that you liked me and Taelia told me that all of my emotions trigger off a monster or at least some form of evil." Rei said.
"Yeah and how did it dissolve, I mean , if I triggered your emotions then wouldn't the monster still be alive, Hiro asked.
"You know you protected me, I felt safe with your arm around me, it's embarrassing to say but I blushed when you held me and I guess that's what made it dissolve." Rei replied. Rei blushed when she said it and hearing her say that Hiro blushed as well.
"Rei, if it's okay with you, can you tell me more about your powers and your past, I'd really like to know more about you." Hiro said while sitting down on the patio couch in the gazebo. So did Rei.
"Well are you prepared to hear a long story?" Rei said as a warning before she spoke of it.
"Yes, I've heard lots of longs stories before but this one I'm really interested." Hiro smiled at Rei in hopes that she could tell him more about herself.
"Okay first off my powers are truly a curse sent down fro-"
"from your dad who was blessed well sort cursed by Asparaguso Chiana." Hiro blurted out.
"Right… how'd you find out? Did Taelia tell you a little about me?" Rei asked.
"Yeah I asked her but she only gave me a little information so I'd thought I'd get the whole story, from you." Hiro said grinning.
"Next time could you tell me first so I don't repeat myself? Well anyway, before I was so rudely interrupted by you, when I was a baby in the hospital, well let's just say my powers were set in quicker than my parents would have really expected. I felt cold for a second and I accidentally blew up the hospital, my parents got a full blast of the impact so they were killed instantly. I was brought right to Auntie Fyora and she temporarily stopped my powers from happening. She told me that by doing so she used much of her strength so I was really out of control I guess. I was only a baby, I didn't know any better. Over the years I've trained like a warrior and studied with the library faerie, making myself smart and strong." Rei said.
"That wasn't so long you know. But how is Queen Fyora, the Queen of all faeries and Faerieland related to you?" Hiro asked.
"My Auntie Fyora is my mother's sister. My mom was never really talked about much, she was so quiet and concealed. Auntie said that she was also very beautiful ,you see, she was half Ice faerie on my grand papa's side that makes me ¼ Ice faerie. And I'm proud of it." Rei said.
"Wow, no wonder you look so beautiful. Can you tell me more about your powers then, I pretty much know that you can make a monster and destroy it but what else can you do?" Hiro asked.
"Well power to destroy and power to restore has a lot of good and bad qualities. You see Power to destroy can breakdown almost everything depending on what mood I'm in. For instance I can completely dismantle a Kreludor space ship that's made of steel in one tiny blast of anger or blow it up in flames with envious, and so on, but those are only the bad emotions, the darkness emotions. Now the happy emotions, the healing emotions are the ones that let me reassemble that ship, cool it down, make it brand new and clean it. It's basically determined on what mood I'm in. considering that I have darkness and healing
powers, I call it Healing Darkness. It kind of doesn't make any sense to most people but here in Neopia anything can be possible, unfortunately it's the absolutely anything part that really worries me. I may be able to destroy anything but I can only destroy something that isn't alive. Now I can make a living thing die but the problem is that it makes me weaker and weaker every time I do it, that's why my auntie wanted me to come here so Taelia can
teach me to control it." Rei said out of breath.
"Oh so that's how it works, but how did you make that bed appear that time when we needed a place to sleep? Does power to heal also make you able to make something that'll keep us from danger or something?" Hiro asked.
"Yeah you answered your own question, I can do that, there were poisonous bugs on the ground and I didn't want either of us to get hurt and that's how I am able to do that. Taelia can teach me to even make a house with a bed and everything I could need. Just think, I could be the Five element Savior Rei Rigotsu, Heir to the throne of Faerieland." Rei announced made standing up in a pose of elegance.
"That's gonna take a lot of training, studying and just a whole lot to do that you know?" Hiro said.
"Yeah I know, but I'm already starting to become an elementist, Fire, Water, Earth, Air, and Metal, the five elements, I can use all of them but only on a small scale. I can light a log fire and put it out with a splash of water. Grow a tree tent and blow it away with air and I can make this with metal." Rei said as she cupped her hands and a little toy shoyru appeared.
"Wow, that's cool, it reminds me of Void my shoyru. You know Rei you are very brave,"
Hiro said. "you are willing to get your Aunt back and you're brave for even accepting the fact that you are cursed and you think no different of it."
"The fact is that everyone is cursed, not always a bad one but really good people have the curse to be expected to always do the right thing when maybe they have a hard decision to make a good or a bad decision. And a bad person is shamefully cursed with the ongoing guilt for whatever they have done the rest of their life. But everyone is cursed with the same decision to either stay alive or escape into death. You could be thinking of course I would want to live, but there are some situations that make you so mad or sad that you might want to escape this world to have no pain. But those who seek that must realize that it will pass, and you will survive to bear it. Try to help your pain heal by doing something you really enjoy or perhaps go to someone you trust and talk to them. If anything should happen to my aunt before I arrive to save her then I don't know where to go to, I have no other family Jhudora has ordered them killed." Rei said as she began to cry. The plants started to droop down in her sadness along with her.
"Hey don't worry, you can always stay here with Taelia here in the castle. You can always stay with me, where ever you are I will protect you with my life." Hiro said. He stood up and hugged her. The plants bloomed up in happiness along with her. Rei turned around and looked in his ice crystal blue eyes. And Hiro looked into her deep brown eyes.
"Thank you Hiro, for everything." Rei said coming closer to him in a slight embrace. She kissed him on the lips and Hiro returned her kiss. They kissed for a few seconds then just looked at each other until they heard Taelia calling them up to her room.
Rei followed Hiro up to her room to find out that there had been an obstacle course that looked pretty familiar.
"Ready to start your training Rei?" Taelia asked.
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Kissy Kissy! Ha Ha! lovey dovey and so quickly too huh? i plan to make a point with it so don't plan on staying annoyed or confuzzled for long. Anyways, longest chapter in the series so far. read next chappie!
