Authors Note:
Hey…again thank you for waiting so long… but just like what my friend told me (Mooncrook)… smile always… and enjoy reading this fiction! And I don't own Princess Tutu…
Chapter 8: You solve one and you open another one….
The class for the day has finally ended; some are packing their things, while the others are still chitchatting with their friends.
Fakir was also doing the same thing and was only interrupted when Ahiru call his name.
"Fakir," he look at her "you said you want me to meet you here after class today"
"Oh that's right, sorry I forgot" he flatly said and continues what he is doing; Ahiru pout in front of him which he always find cute as mush as how he denies it "You still need to do your detention right? I'll go back here after an hour and a half, at least by that time, I hope you are already finish" Ahiru nods her head as Fakir walk out of the room but gave a final wave before he completely disappear.
"Well, he's gone now. Better get started or Fakir will get mad at me again if I didn't finish this on time" she said motivating herself and didn't realize the shadow lurking behind her so when she turned around…
"TUTU!" a female voice shouted
"QUACK!" Ahiru turned to a duck again with a flash of red light; Ahiru look up to see who the nasty person is; it was Rue sighing
"Honestly, you should control your mouth or you'll be in trouble" smirking down at her
"QUACK! QUAACK! QUACK! QUACK!" (Well you shouldn't have startled me on the first place, RUE! What if somebody saw me transform!) She quarreled as she flaps her wings angrily.
Then Mytho came and kneel in front of her to calm her down
"Gommen ne Ahiru chan. I tried to stop her but she insisted" Mytho said
"Quack, quack, quack…" (Yeah right, if I know Prince Mytho, you also plan this with Rue) she whisper
The three of them heard running footsteps and drums coming towards them as the door bangs open.
Uzura from the door runs towards the duck. She took out something from her pocket and splash Ahiru the water from her bottle; immediately, Ahiru flash back into a girl… naked.
"MYTHO!" Rue yell
"I'M NOT LOOKING!" Mytho said standing-back away from the naked Ahiru
Meanwhile, Fakir has also reached his destination, the library. He immediately went at the back to the room to enter the hidden room containing all the hidden files
"Sir Fakir, it is nice to see you back here" his normal assistant greeted him "What is it for today?"
"I'm just searching something about…" he hesitated for a moment
"Yes?" his assistant ask
"… about Drousselmire"
"Drousselmire?" Fakir wasn't surprised to see his assistant look a bit shocked
"No, I just want to confirm something about him, that's all" he assures him
"Right, I shall bring all the books that I know which are related to him, please wait a moment" and he left the room
After 30 minutes of waiting, Fakir who is also reading some books saw the door opened. His assistant came in carrying different books, when he reached the table to carefully lay them on top of it,
"Fakir, some of them are very old now so I really need you to handle them very careful okay" he said while dusting some dirt off from his uniform. Meanwhile Fakir began his thorough scanning on the books "By the way, do you need my assistance in finding what you are looking for?"
"Thanks, but I think I can find it by myself, you may leave me here now" Fakir said not bothering to look up
His assistant sighs and leaves the room 'You always had the habit to do things on your own. And I thought Princess Tutu change that quality in you' he thought as he walk away from the door and back to lobby of the library.
But after almost one hour of searching, Fakir finally slam the book down on the table making all the dust from the paper come out causing a small smoke
"DAMN!" he mutter "This is not it; how am I going to do a research when I do not know what exactly to look for" he said
"Hey didn't that kind man told you to handle those books with care?" A voice from the window said
Fakir look at the window to see who it was
"What are you doing there?" Fakir demanded
"Observing you, my dear friend Fakir" he said teasing him who just shot him a death glare
"Since when did we became friends?" he ask
Kai just laugh while scratching the back of his head "But you know you shouldn't have turned down the offer of that young man"
"I'll ask you again, what do you want?" Fakir then picks some books as he began to scan on them again
"That's what I like about you, straight to the point" This made Fakir reached his limit and throw the old book at him, unfortunately to him, Kai easily catches them, he sigh "You're looking at the wrong shelf" he finally said
Kai throw back the book at the table
"3rd row from here to he right, second column to the left, in the first shelf from below… what else…" Kai pause for a minute looking if Fakir is still listening "oh right, the most unusual book" Kai then pull himself to get up and was about to leave
"I why should I believe that?" Fakir ask
Kai look back to him smiling
"You have to, or would you like your Princess Tutu or the girl… no perhaps your duck friend to suffer for eternity" and Kai completely vanish from the window
"Damn it, Hey get back here, tell me how much you know!" Fakir shouted
"Soon my friend, very soon" Kai's voice echo
Fakir stares at the window while his mind is flooding with different unanswered thoughts when his assistant came in panting
"Sir Fakir is everything alright here?" he ask, Fakir look at him
"Sorry, it's nothing" Fakir reply as he walk towards where Kai instructed him to go while cursing on how stupid he is
"Er- right" and his assistant left the room again. When he close the door "I think Sir Fakir is beginning to have more patience now than before"
"3rd row from here to he right, second column to the left, in the first shelf from below and the most unusual book… hmn, is this it?" Fakir pulls an old book from the shelf and blew the dust away. He cough from the smoke dust and thought how idiot he was for doing that.
Fakir opened the book and was surprised to see what is written on it
"La Danse de Fin Heureuse"
par : Drousselmire
Back at the dance main hall,
"Finally it's finish" Mytho said while putting the cleaning materials back to the cupboard.
"Yeah, I am totally exhausted" Rue said. She took "Who said cleaning is easy?"
"But we did this for Ahiru, right?" Rue look at Mytho "Cause she is one of our closest friends"
"She is and I'm not complaining about it." She proudly said, Mytho smile at her and embraces her
"Want to know a secret?" he ask, Rue nods.
Mytho move close to her ear which cause her to blush
"I think you'll be a good wife someday in the future with me" the prince confesses; Rue blush more red than ever
"You-you think so?" she ask
"Does the price in the story tells lies?" he ask looking mischievous
Meanwhile, Uzura and Ahiru just look at them, as if they are watching a romantic movie
"Are they always like that?" the innocent Uzura ask, Ahiru with a blushing face just look at her
"Well, I think it began when story of the Prince and Raven ended" she answered.
When Rue and Mytho realize that the two girls are staring at them…
"Well, it's already finish so I guess we will now go home now" Mytho said pulling princess Rue at his side
"Oh that's right; I forgot to thank you guys for helping me out" Ahiru bows to her friends "Without your help, I think I will still be doing the cleaning by myself"
Uzura pulls Ahiru's skirt
"How about me?" she ask again
"What are you talking about? You didn't even move from that chair when we are cleaning" Rue argue to the little drummer girl
"You're wrong!" Uzura fights back, which made Rue taken back "I did something too you know and that is to observe If there are any spots that are being unclean"
Mytho and Ahiru were impressed on how good Uzura reason out her side of justice
"I think Uzura is growing up like our Fakir, ne Ahiru chan?" Mytho commented; Ahiru sweat drop and giggle
"Alright, thank you too little Uzura" Ahiru gave the little girl a hug
"No problem" the little girl reply
"I can't believe this, first I was defeated by Princess Tutu and now this little girl?" Rue said that made everybody laugh
"So are you guys ready to go home? Ahiru, Uzura, we will escort you back to your apartment because it is getting dark already. You don't mind doing that, ne Rue hime?" Mytho look at her princess who just shook her head
"Thanks, but Fakir said he'll come back for us" Ahiru explains "so you guys can go on ahead"
"Oh, did Fakir really say that?" Rue's face darkens with her evil idea "So it's like a boy who is fetching her girlfriend and sister" then her dark face were change into her sly-devilish look; smirking
"What re you talking about? Of course not!" Ahiru protest
And the two princesses continue their kawaii arguments
"Prince Mytho" Uzura calls for the young man "What are girl friends and boy friends?" she ask looking puzzled with the new discovered words
"Couples she means" he shortly explained
"I see, so they are couples." Uzura was about to set the topic down when she remembers something "I saw them before; Ahiru is in Fakir's arms, before the battle of the Prince and the great Raven"
Mytho and Rue look at each other picturing what those two look like
Ahiru remember that scene in her mind too. That is when Fakir rescued her from Drousselmire's stop dimension… the place where there are lots of puppets and was almost become a puppet.
"UZURA!" Ahiru cries to shut her up then her gaze met the two same expressions from the Prince and from the Princess
"That explains now…" Rue said in a low voice
Ahiru realizing what those two are talking about saw that Rue and Mytho runs and left the room… laughing
"No come back… let me explain!" Ahiru calls back, but when she was about to run after them, her visions darkens and the last thing she saw was Uzura running out of the door and she collapse.
"Yume?" Ahiru utter then she realize what she was right now 'why am I…'
"Welcome Princess Tutu…" a voice out of no where greeted her
"Dare?" she boldly ask "This place? Are you Drousselmire?"
But the voice answer her different from she ask
"There is only one thing that I can tell you…" the voice said; Princess Tutu didn't say anything "I'm Drousselmire not, but I serve him"
Ahiru saw from the dim lighted room a faint figure of someone…
"Come with them if you want to know" he finally added
"What do you mean?" Princess Tutu eagerly asks and before she realized it, the dark place where slowly dissolving from the bright light.
Ahiru slowly opens her eyes and saw that he is riding behind the back of Fakir. She looks back and saw Uzura trying to keep her pace while carrying their bags.
"So you're awake?" she heard him say. Ahiru nods her head and tried to go down from his back, but he insisted "just rest some more; I can carry you so it's okay"
"But, Uzura…" Ahiru look back the little drummer girl
"I'm fine" Uzura called out "I can carry them… but Fakir's not"
"Huh, what do you mean" Ahiru look from Uzura to Fakir
"You should have seen Fakir's face when he saw you on the ground" Uzura said
"Why?" Ahiru ask again
This time, Fakir is looking a bit shy-blushing at the thought what happened earlier
"Well when I saw you collapse I didn't know what to do, so went out to look for Fakir" Uzura began retelling the story
"I was already in the building and met Mytho and Rue on the way. They were giggling and when they saw me, they even laugh harder. When I ask them what's up they just said nothing instead…
'We'll drop by your apartment later to have dinner with you Fakir'
… that is what Mytho said before leaving me all alone in the hall way" Fakir continue not looking and was preparing for the embarrassing moment Uzura will present.
"And Uzura saw Fakir and told him that I collapse" Ahiru added
"Yup and you should have seen how fast he runs and worried he is when he saw you on the floor" Uzura concluded; Fakir's face became more red than ever
"Shut up" he told Uzura then felt Ahiru's hand snaking to her neck, while burying her face at his back
"Thank you Fakir… as always you're always there for me…" she whisper but loud enough for him to hear.
"Silly girl… anytime" Fakir said 'I did after all promise you to take care and protect didn't I?'
Fakir saw the sun setting down from the south tower of Kinkan town.
Meanwhile in Mytho and Rue's own apartment, Rue saw something unusual in the table
"Hey look, we got and invitation" Rue said picking up the red envelop
"Who is it from?" the Prince ask while putting their bags away
But when Rue turned back the envelope to see who the sender was, she was surprised and drop the enveloped
"Rue" Mytho called from the kitchen but no one answer so went back to the living room "Rue… RUE!"
Myto dash to Rue who seems to be petrified; she looks very pale and is sweating really cold
"Hey Rue, what's wrong… answer me" Mytho gently shook her princess
"My-Mytho… the envelope" Rue said her voice is trembling. Mytho look at the envelop and took it
"It has the seal of the raven" Mytho said and opened it to read the content, thinking if it is a trap or not.
To be continue…
AUTHORS NOTE:
Sheesh, It's really hard to type stories if you're place is swarming of people who keeps distracting you with your idea and all… anyway… it is already December 24, 2005 today… Only hours to go and its Christmas already…
Minna sama… MERRY CHRISTMAS… I wish you and your family to be VERY HAPPY on this special occasion. :p