My So-called Fairytale
My So-called Fairytale
..Friday night beneath the stars
In a field behind your yard
You and I painting pictures in the sky...
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Chapter 2
Mikan wake up having a major head ache, as if life was sucked out of her. She sat up and rubbed her dizzy head; "Where am I?" she particularly said to no one
"Princess! You're awake!" she looked up seeing a man before her, he had blonde hair that was shading into gray, "The princess is awake!" he cried as she heard footsteps all around; the door burst open as many men entered the room: maids, soldiers, and whatsoever
"Princess?" she shrieked
"It's good to have you back, your grace," they all bowed down accordingly
"What would you want for your menu, you're grace?" a chubby looking man neared her, "The regulars?" he asked again
"I guess," Mikan murmured, not knowing what he's talking about at all
"Would you like to have a bathe, Princess?" a maid asked, she looked shivering for some unknown reasons; Mikan nodded, thinking a nice bathe would be nice, "would you like lavender, milk, salt, chamomile…" the lists just kept on going as Mikan got easily woozy
"Ugh, I feel dizzy," the brunette commented as the man from before panicked,
"Alright, then, your grace, all of you, dismiss, let the princess rest for the night," the blonde man, who looks like is in charge, called out as everyone left, "I'll leave for the time being then," as he was about to exit too
"Wait, Mister," Mikan called out as he turned around
"Yes, your grace?" he bowed
"Why are you calling me a Princess?"
"Such an absurd question, you're grace," he says and cleared his throat when he saw her innocent look, "you're Mikan Sakura, Princess of Esthernia, daughter of King Keiji Sakura and Mika Azumi, only heir to the Esthernia throne; you've been asleep for the past ten years after that witch cast a spell on you," his eyes narrowed after saying the word witch
"Then why am I awake now?" she asked
"We don't know, but we did hope that you'd be awake one of these days," smiled the man
"Who are you then?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I guess you've forgotten everything; I'm Arthur Van Ludwig, I'm a retired soldier, I've been serving the Esthernia throne for more than half my age," he grinned, "at your service,"
"Alright, I'll go along with that," Mikan says, confused, but loving the idea she a princess
"You're grace, I suggest you rest for a more while, after all, you're starting school in Wersard Academy tomorrow, I've already prepared the papers," he says, "and here's your dinner," he waved his hand as a tray came coming in
"Wow!" she gasped, amazed by the power Arthur possessed and how delicious the gourmet food looks, "you're an alice?" she asked
"Alice?" he asked weirdly, "I don't know what these 'alice' is but I'm a wizard, all Esthernia people are magicians,"
"Then I'm a magician too?" she asked enthusiastically
"Ah, yes, yes you are," he smiled, "as for now, I must leave, your grace," he bowed then left as Mikan finished her dinner in a flash
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Hotaru and Ruka burst into the room as they saw Mikan sleeping lightly on the hospital bed. "Ugh, I don't see any injuries," commented Ruka as he tried to catch his breathe, "what's the catch?"
"What's happened to the idiot?" Hotaru took out her gun and pointed it at the two senpais
"You see, an alice was accidentally used on her," Tsubasa tried hard to explain
"The dream catcher alice," Misaki continued
"What does it do?" Ruka asked
"It either gives the person used on a dream full of happiness, or sadness, or pain and horror, depends on the alice user,"
"And who's this alice user?" Hotaru's eyes narrowed dangerously
Tsubasa heaved a sigh as he answered, "Him," he pointed to a sleeping form across the room sitting on the comfy-looking sofa. He had a long mane like Narumi's that was in the color of red; his skin was somewhat fair as Hotaru showed no mercy launching her gun at him
"Hotaru!" cried Ruka at her irrational action
"What? The sooner we finish this the sooner I can get back to my lab," she said emotionlessly with a shrug
"That hurt, Ho-chan," the red head remarked, rubbing his sore spot and stood up, showing a clear view of his face as eyes showed in the striking color of blue, like Ruka's, "I knew that gun felt familiar," he grinned boyishly and neared her,
"Idiot; and I knew that alice was too familiar," Hotaru retorted
"Who are you and how do you know Hotaru?" demanded Ruka as he felt a tinge of anger towards the guy
"I'm Risou Yamato, as for your other questions, I'm Ho-chan's boyfriend," he says in a sing song voice
Ruka was shocked; he didn't know how to react, "Bo-boyfriend?" he stuttered, "Hotaru?" and when she made no reaction and just stared at Risou it was clear to Ruka that it was all true, "what did you do to Mikan?" he hid his disappointment and let his long tresses fall over his eyes. 'And to thought I was planning to court her when she was already taken' was the last idea in Ruka's mind as he dismissed that matter
"We were all practicing our alices, in the special ability type classroom, I never really used my alice on an awake person; I just tried to make a bigger warp hole and the next thing I knew, Mikan was targeted by my alice," he explained quite cheerfully as Ruka got more infuriated
"What are you so happy about?!" Ruka snapped
"Nogi!" cut in Hotaru before Risou can even answer, "that idiot is an idiot, don't make such a big fuzz about him,"
"Ho-chan, so mean as always, but you were smiling so freely before; what had they done to you?!" Risou pouted and neared his face to Hotaru as she pushed him back harshly
"And what category did you put her in, Risou!" it wasn't even a question when Hotaru said it, it was an order
"Remember Ho-chan when I first used it on you," he began with a smile, "you were thinking and only thinking of happiness weren't you, Ho-chan, I didn't do anything and when I unintentionally used on you, you chose happiness, or money," he grinned
"Yes, I became a money magnet," nodded Hotaru, "so what did the idiot chose?"
"In what I've distinguished, it's now happiness,"
"You idiot!" Hotaru took out her horse shoe glove and punched him straight on the cheeks as he flew to the wall,
Unexpectedly, he just stood up again and brushed the dirt from his uniform, smiling like nothing happened, "I missed that," he says as the three who were out of the conversation, was gaping; nobody could smile as if being hit by that glove was not painful
"When will Mikan wake up?" Ruka interrupted, having enough of being ignored
"When the dream's over," Hotaru whispered, "what do you mean by, 'it's now', Risou?"
He closed his eyes for a moment and answered, "Somehow, I don't know why, but the power seems to be irregular,"
"What?" Tsubasa, Misaki, and Ruka were lost at his statement
"It's not stable," Hotaru said in realization, "it could be either happy, sad, anything,"
"What was the last thing she's thinking?" Risou asked, "If I didn't decide anything for her, it would be her thoughts,"
"Nobody knows what she's thinking, that Mikan!" Misaki cried
"We'll know, we just need the last person she talked to," Hotaru stated
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"Mr. Arthur," Mikan asked as she twirled in her medieval dress, "are uniforms around here these heavy?" she almost tripped down but luckily got her balance back
"Ah, no, it's just your dress, this," he snapped his fingers as her dress transformed into lighter clothing. White longs collared polo with the academy's logo on the left breast, and a blue tie, pleated blue checkered short skirt that lands four inches above the knee and lastly, the knee length booths, "and here's your jacket; this is for the winter wear though autumns just about to begin."
"Thank you!" she smiled at him as he guided her to the academy; it was old but still in a good shape, large as Alice academy, and one more thing, it was flying in the middle of the sky!
"Princess, this is Mr. Sayori, he's the batch representative and president," Arthur explained as he introduced the brunette beside across her; he was a bit taller than Mikan and had a slim body as his face lighten up nicely because of his bright yellow eyes of a cat but it was enclosed of his glasses, but still, he was good looking.
Mikan nodded as Arthur took the cue and left, "Your grace, let's go, you'll need to be familiar with the school grounds, because outsiders easily get lost around here," Sayori says as he guided her to her first class, "this is your homeroom class, Princess-"
"Call me Mikan, or anything, as long it's not anything formal," Mikan cut in and smiled as she failed to notice the discerned light blush
"And in return, I wish for you to do the same?" he grinned back, smiling boyishly, revealing perfect white teeth
"Of course, but, what is your name?" she asked too enthusiastically that he sweat dropped
"Sorry, I haven't introduced myself properly to you, Princess," she gave him a look as he quickly corrected himself, "I mean, Mikan, I'm Refai Sayori, and I'll be your tour guide for now," he smiled as Mikan giggled
"All right!" she grinned as he brought her to a miniature auditorium;
"Everyone!" yelled Refai as he caught most of the attention and cleared his throat before continuing, "I'll gladly say that Prof. Ramon will be absent for today," the class cheered hearing that, "but, of course good news also comes with a package of bad news, he says the practical test will go on the day after tomorrow," that earned some groans
"Hey, presidenté, who's the newbie?" a girl interrupted, the air around her was full of arrogance as she flipped gracefully her formally perm hair, her green eyes looking palpably up and down on Mikan's appearance. Mikan was now having second thought that Sumire's way better than her.
"Ah, good that someone asked, let me all introduce to you, this is Mikan Sakura-" and before he can even continue Sora intermitted, "a Sakura?"
"Yes, yes, Sora," nodded Refai
"Never thought we'd have a royal blood as a mate of mine," she smiled, surprising Mikan all of the sudden; she looked much nicer smiling, "I'm Sora, and these two are Tatiana and Midori," she pointed to her two posses
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"All in all, it seems the last person that talked to Mikan is Natsume-san," Yuu says as he read through their research; the poor class rep was blackmailed into collecting data by a picture Hotaru had taken that Yuu was sleeping in matching pajamas of batman, and he;s already fifteen, people.
"I knew," Hotaru said in a monotone as Ruka, Yuu, Koko, Tsubasa and Misaki looked at her impossibly.
"Then why did we have to do this? We spent our hard work on nothing!" Ruka demanded
"I needed proof, of course, if you knew that thick headed friend of yours, you'll know that he won't admit anything especially defeat that he indeed had a fight with that idiot," Koko read her mind and spoke it directly to Ruka as he paled at the evil glint in Hotaru's eyes.
"Expected from my Ho-chan, of course," Risou smiled and patted her head, leaning on her as she quickly pushed him back making him stumble forward, "Ho-chan!" he grinned, "Why so mean?"
"Haven't you learned?" Hotaru sighed and went out of the room, dragging Ruka along as she ventured to the Black Cat, someplace he is at
Ruka can't help not not to smirk. As, he felt a bit giddy inside though he knew that feeling wasn't gonna last long; "Hotaru-san?" the silence Hotaru made meant he was to continue and he did, "how did you and Ya-ma-to," it was like a bitter spit saying his name, Ruka thought resentfully
"Why do you want to know?" Hotaru quickly answered and stopped walking
"A-ah, I mean, I never heard any rumor that yo-you have a boyfriend?" Ruka stuttered, regretting somewhat bringing up the topic
"I met him before, outside the academy," Hotaru paused, "let's go," she continued walking forward as Ruka did trail behind her and can't help marvel her expression, though he highly doubt it'll be other than her cold façade.
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I had to say the first chapter is so bad! So I'm sorry everyone, I hope you all would like this one!
I know it's a bit OOC of Hotaru to even have a boyfriend, but, well, he'll have a role in the later chapters. I just hope Ruka won't give up till then ;P
I'm currently doing the chapter 10 of my other story, Learning to Live, I hope you all who hasn't still read it to read it. That may have sound confusing? Well, I'll appreciate anything, though I'm kind of happy nobody has really criticized my works so badly. So thank you everyone!
Bear with me with the weirdness or whatever of this story because this is the first time I've actually written a fantasy, and that's why I've not put this story in that category; you people might be disappointed if there was no real fantasy or whatsoever.
Anyway, a special thanks to my reviewers and readers!!
-ROCKERFAITH