Chapter 2. Prophecies
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A year has passed since Ayame and Suzame meet and a lot of things have happened in a year. For example, Princess Sakura's sister Tomoyo was born, King Li's ally, the Hiiragizawa, had their son dragged into a prophecy without any reason.
One-year-old Sakura played on the grass while her mother, the Queen, cradled the baby princess with a soft smile on her face. She was a beauty, with wavy black hair and her father's amethyst eyes. However, this peaceful moment did not last for longfor footsteps were heard behind.
"Your Highness, His Majesty just came back from his latest quest."A guard said, kneeling in front of the royalties.
"Thank you," The Queen nodded, waving a bejeweled hand. Then standing up in one fluent motion, she turned to the older princess who was in the process of making a flower wreath," Sakura-chan, come, we must welcome your father back home."
The king had a strange habit of going on quests and find certain magical things...but in the end, they always turns out to be something else. For example, there was a time when he traveled around the land to find the Draught of Peace and instead, he found a recipe on making chaos. Then, of course, was the time when he went out and search for a pair of wishing shoes but he bumped into a muddy old boot that un-grant wishes. Needless to say, all of his quests turned out to be failures in the end. And there was no exception this time. 'I wonder what happened this time?' The queen thought to herself.
It wasn't until sleep time came did the Queen get to ask about his journey.
"Dear, is everything alright?" She asked.
"Yes," He sighed, and then he saw the delicate risen eyebrow of his wife,"Well, it is something bothering me...You see, on my quest, I was met with a genie."
"And?" She nodded; maybe he didn't fail the mission this time.
"Well, I somehow provoked it-"
"What?" The queen cried in dismay, all the previous good mood and high hopes gone," We've already angered a fairy and got our little Sakura into a curse! I thought you would have learned your lesson by now!"
"Well, I didn't know it was a genie,"He replied,"It was dressed in tattered clothes. Then it asked me for food and I told it to go away. That wasn't the main reason it got mad-"
"I can see that," The Queen replied with a dry smile," The real reason you enraged him was because you called him 'it'."
"Yes, but let's not worry about it." He smiled, putting an arm around his wife's shoulder. For a moment, he thought everything was going to be fine, but then...
"Not worry about it?" Her Majesty shouted at him with a ridiculed look on her face," How could I? Sakura's already got this spell on her and Tomoyo's just a little baby and you are saying 'let's not worry about it'?" Pausing for a moment to breathe, she asked in a more controlled tone," So what did the genie say?"
"He made a prophecy about Tomoyo-chan."
"What was the content?"
"I forgot, but I do remember the important part," He added hastily, seeing the raged look creeping up the Queen's pretty face," Tomoyo has to learn how to adapt to new environment." He sighed, rubbing his temples. His wife was silent, thinking about the words the King just said.
King Hiiragizawa sat on his throne, furious at what his advisor just told him.
"What's wrong, sweetie?" A woman dressed in blue asked, sitting beside him with a sweet smile.
"Yamazaki just told me what the prophecy excepted Eriol-kun to do."
"And what did it except Eriol to do?"
"To help a girl overcome her difficulties." He replied.
"And why are you so mad?" The queen asked, puzzled.
"Also, the royal advisor said that our little prince will fall in love with her, fall in LOVE with her! What if she's a peasant or a mere farmer's child?" The queen nodded, the Hiiragizawa like to keep their blood noble and royal. It wouldn't be right for a peasant to get in the line of royalty.
"Well, then, we'll just have to try our hardest to not let them fall in love." The queen said with determination in her eyes.
"Are you mad?" The king looked her with disbelieving eyes," We can't undo a prophecy! It's against the rules of nature!"
"Do you have a better plan, though?" She asked with coldness in her tone.
"No," Silence ensured the room before he finally answered,"I don't."
"And do we have a choice?" The queen pressed on.
"No," He answered softly," I'm afraid we don't."
"Then it's settled," The queen said," I'll send words for the craftsmen to start building a tower."
"A tower?"
"Yes, a tower for Eriol-kun to stay in. And we'll make sure not a single girl enters."
"Right, right, we shall put male servants in it and educate him how horrible women are," Upon this point, his wife gave him a quite nasty look," With the exception of you, of course, my dear. And we'll make sure he'll hate women race...except you. This way, the prophecy won't be fulfilled!" He rubbed his hands gleefully. Oh what a clever wife he had! This way, the line of nobility would never be tainted and the prophecy will never be fulfilled...or so as he thought.
Now the second chapter's done too! I'm sorry that it's not very long. And thus the project begins! One will be called 'Princess' and the other would be called 'Always', but the titles could change in the future...so why don't you just leave a review and tell me your ideas of what the titles should be?.