The Pixie Princess
Luna and the King are plotting together!? Luna's going to take over the throne, something her family has been trying to do for years, but have not succeeded in doing so! So what happens if Luna disguises herself as Mikan and takes the throne? Will havoc be brought, or will someone save the day? NXM
Disclaimed!~ I do not own Gakuen Alice or the faeries, I own what I own!
Major epicness in the last chapter! That was a huge sprint from what I wanted to do originally, but oh well, I like the new plot that will commence! (I have actually changed a lot since starting this story. The later chapters gave me new ideas, and I changed the storyline a bit to fit the ending, now.)
ENJOY! That is all I ask.
*If you find any mistakes here, tell me, and it's also because the beta wasn't working GWAAA D:
Chapter Nine: Goodbye...
Who would have thought that something so pretty could be so... deadly?...
It was the day Mikan had been waiting for; she was finally returning to the Wizarding Kingdom, and nothing could stop her. Kaname knew it, and he had even backed down a little, much to Mikan's surprise. However, someone else was sad on the day of Mikan's departure.
"So... are you ever going to come back?" Nobara asked, staring at Mikan with worry and sadness etched into her pretty face. Mikan had been packing all her old clothes, the ones she hadn't been allowed to wear in the Flower Faerie Kingdom, and she dropped a dress, turned to Nobara and threw her arms around the saddened maid.
"Of course I am! You're my friend, I won't leave you here alone! I can't do that to you when you've been so alone... I understand that more than anyone." Mikan whispered, and she sat down on the bed next to Nobara, shaking her head, then she smiled gently.
"What's the Wizarding Kingdom like, Mikan?" Nobara asked, and Mikan's face lit up. It seemed that Nobara had asked the perfect question,
"Oh, it's absolutely amazing! Even though I'm the only faerie in the entire Wizarding Kingdom, they treat me like I'm one of them! The town is great, so is the food, and the cottage I live in with my friends is so cosy and warm, it's my home! But above all, my favourite place is the Grotto!" Mikan squealed, excited. She would be going home, and she would probably spend her entire day in the town, dancing or flying about, bathing in the glorious sunlight.
"Grotto?" Nobara asked, wondering what sort of Grotto Mikan meant. Mikan beamed,
"The Faerie Grotto, of course! It's absolutely magical, Nobara, you need to see it! The tree leaves have small crystals encrusted into them, lighting up the darkness, there's a small lake and waterfall and mushrooms and weeds growing all over the place, it's so beautiful! And right in the middle is a large space, where faeries once danced alongside the wizards when we lived together in harmony." Mikan said excitedly as Nobara watched Mikan's happiness. She really didn't belong in the Flower Faerie Kingdom, did she...?
"So Wizards and faeries lived together?" Nobara asked curiously. Mikan nodded,
"Yes, we did! Well, Elemental Faeries, that is. That's how the Wizards got their powers, Natsume says... but that Grotto is the most magical thing above everything in the Wizarding Kingdom, and not many people go there, because it's hidden away. However, it is used for parties and such, and it was Natsume's mothers' favourite place." Mikan explained, smiling as she remembered the beautiful Grotto.
"How did you find this Grotto?" Nobara was amazed. She had never seen a Grotto, there weren't that many within the Flower Faerie Kingdom, and the ones she knew were somewhere were hidden by a veil of magic, or they belonged to the Koizuma's.
"I didn't, Natsume showed me one day. As I said, it was his mothers' favourite place. She used to take him and his sister, Aoi, there when they were little. She met their father in that very Grotto, and they fell in love." Mikan crossed her legs, rocking back and forth gently, smiling as Nobara gasped at the romantic story,
"How romantic! A prince and a princess, meeting for the first time!" she sighed, wishing that that could have happened to her.
"Oh, but Natsume's mother wasn't a princess! She was a regular Wizard, a great Alchemist, apparently, and fascinated by faeries... she was especially fascinated by one faerie with Pixie wings, even if she wasn't meant to have them." Mikan whispered, and thought of her mother, who she missed dearly.
"You're... mother?" Nobara asked quietly, and Mikan nodded, then smiled.
"In the faerie kingdom and Wizarding kingdom, you can marry whomever you wish too, however, the Wizarding kingdom are fairer... well, the king is, at least. Natsume and Aoi are free, to roam the kingdom however they wish, but they need their fathers' permission. Natsume doesn't tell him anything, though. Unlike his father, Natsume's kind of moody, and the King is forever happy, and's his children... I think if my father hadn't died, I would have lived a happier life than what I grew up with." she whispered, and Nobara was ready to hug Mikan, but then she saw the brunette smile.
"But if things were different to how they are now... well, I wouldn't be the person I am. I wouldn't have done what I did to find out who I truly was, and I wouldn't have found my friends... and I wouldn't have met Natsume, and I wouldn't be so happy." Mikan whispered as Nobara smiled, then hugged her dear friend as Mikan hugged her back tightly, sighing.
"I'll miss you." Nobara whispered as Mikan smiled, nodding.
"And I'll miss you... but thanks to being here, I realised a few things. I realised that Kaname isn't the one who can give me my Happy Ending, and that a week isn't long enough to fall in love... and even if you had forever, you still wouldn't know everything about a person." Mikan stated as Nobara smiled, then stood up and started to pick up the clothes that Mikan had dropped to the floor.
"We must continue. You don't want to miss your carriage, do you?" Nobara said quietly, smiling gently as Mikan nodded, laughing as she helped Nobara to the pack the bag her clothes were in.
Nobara would be the one person that Mikan missed the most from the Flower Faerie Kingdom...
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Kaname sat alone in his room. It was the day he was dreading, the day Mikan left. He had thought that a week would have been long enough to persuade her to stay with him. He knew that a week wasn't long enough to say yes to his proposal, but he had been confident that Mikan would have stayed longer, gottent o know him better, and eventually fallen in love with him like he had fallen in love with her. He had never expected Mikan to choose a kingdom with no flowers over a kingdom filled with them, though.
He sighed, his head dropping into his hands. He wanted Mikan to stay so badly, but he couldn't keep her there of her own free will. She wasn't a bird locked away in a cage. He had to let her spread her wings and fly away, to be free and happy, because she would be sad if he kept her in the cage, locked away from society for his own selfish desires.
Kaname then sat back in his chair and stared up at the ceiling, wishing that time could just stand still. Then Mikan would be there forever, and no more time could pass by, meaning that forever was there, and the same day was re-playing. Kaname would rather have one day to re-play than to have a week pass by so quickly and to lose Mikan at the end of it all.
He then stood up and shook his head. He had been doing that since he awoke; he loved Mikan and yet he was letting her slip through his fingers. He knew that the Love Potion was another route, but if it meant that Mikan loved him without knowing it, he didn't want it to happen, because he wanted pure feelings of love from her, not fake love of a potion that destroyed the persons true self.
He slowly walked out of the room and sighed, closing his bedroom door behind him and walking down the grand staircase where his parents were talking quietly to one another. He descended down the staircase, and his father looked up, greeting him with a small smile.
"Kaname, my son, good morning." his father said gently as Kaname bowed once he was at the bottom of the staircase, then turned and bowed to his smiling mother as she smiled like his father had.
"Good morning... I assume the Princess is packing already?" Kaname asked quietly, and his mother sighed, turning and walking away to leave her husband and son to talk. The King turned himself so that he was fully facing Kaname.
"Yes, my son, but remember; it's for her own happiness. I wish for you to marry her, and so does your mother, but if she doesn't wish to... then we must accept her decision. It's for the best." the king said gently as Kaname nodded, then looked down at his feet.
"Did you dispose of the potion?" he then asked quietly. His father smiled.
"Why, of course I did, Kaname. There is no use in a potion that will not be used... but I am sorry. I wished for Mikan to love you as you loved her. Alas, it was not meant to be." the King shook his head, then turned around and walked away as Kaname stood there, clenched his fists, and tried to fight back the tears.
The one girl who had been so precious... the only woman who had intrigued him, the one girl he had desired would soon be gone, and he would never see her again. He was losing her to a kingdom filled with magic, to that dark, arrogant prince whom he loathed so much.
Mikan would surely never be his when she was in love with another...
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As Mikan walked around the large bedroom, finding things she had not packed, she came across the pieces of paper with which she had written on, and realised that they were the pieces of paper she had tried to write her stories on. The story she hadn't finished, but intended to once she had her Happy Ending. Mikan sat on the bed, staring at them.
"My Happy Ending... when will it be?" she whispered to herself, shaking her head and sighing as she folded the scraps of paper and put them into her bag. She then went to retrieve the book of Faerie Tales when a knock was heard on her door, and she stood up straight, holding the book, and stared at the door.
"Come in!" she called, knowing well that it wasn't Nobara, as Nobara didn't need to knock. Another maid entered, holding a silver tray that held Mikan's breakfast. The maid smiled and curtseyed gracefully as she rested the breakfast tray on Mikan's bedside table.
"Breakfast, miss. You must keep your strength for the long journey ahead of you, must you not?" she stated as Mikan stared at her, nodding, then saw the drink on the tray.
"What's this?" she asked, picking up the cup as the maid blinked, then went over and smelled the tea that she had been told to give to Mikan, and she soon became calm and at ease.
"Ah, rose tea. Very calming, and it helps you to sleep as well, miss. If you drink it, you are assured a pleasant journey." she said gently, then walked to the door, and curtseyed once again. "I bid you farewell, my lady." and with that she was gone as Mikan sat there, smiling.
At least the maids were a lot politer than the ones she had when she was a princess...
Downstairs in the kitchens, Nobara was preparing the breakfast for Kaname and his parents, smiling and humming to herself. The maid that had been gone for a few minutes soon returned, and she went straight to another maid,
"I took the breakfast and tea to Miss Mikan, as you requested, miss." she said. The other maid then smiled, nodding. Nobara didn't notice anything until the other maid started speaking,
"Very good. Now you are dismissed from todays duties... think of it as a day off, if you will." the voice said, and Nobara stopped what she was doing, recognising that sinister, calm voice, and her eyes widened.
She then remembered what she had heard from Kaname and the king; they were planning to poison Mikan's drink with Love Potion, so that she was intoxicated and madly in love with Kaname. Nobara dropped the cup and saucer she was holding, ignoring the yells from the head maid, and ran out of the kitchen and up the grand staircase, hoping that Mikan hadn't drank the tea.
"Mikan!" she yelled, near to the bedroom door. She was inches away from grabbing a hold of the door handle when she was suddenly zapped and thrown back into a wall. Nobara groaned, then opened her eyes only two see two people appear before her. Luna grinned, her arms folded whilst the King loomed over Nobara like he was threatening her.
"Going somewhere, maid?" Luna asked, still smirking as Nobara's breath quickened and her eyes widened.
"Why are you poisoning Mikan!? She doesn't love Kaname, she loves Natsume! Don't do this to her! MIKAN!" Nobara screamed, but the King just laughed, and it boomed, bouncing off of the walls.
"She can't hear you! I soundproofed the room and trapped her inside with powerful magic! She cannot leave unless I open that door!" Luna explained, cackling as Nobara shook her head and tried to get up, but found it impossible. Luna gave her a twisted smile, "And you can't get up without my orders now, either."
"Why are you doing this? Mikan nor Kaname deserve this! They'll be unhappy!" Nobara screamed, but Luna shook her head, waggling a finger,
"Oh, Mikan won't be unhappy. For one matter, she will be under a deep spell of love that she won't notice anything! And Kaname will be too happy that Mikan has confessed that he will not realise she's taken over by some stupid potion! Anyway... they won't be alive for long to figure it out, anyway." Luna stated gently. Nobara's eyes panned out even more.
"WHAT!?" she cried. The king then stepped forward, smiling cruelly,
"It's all part of the plan, you low-life maid. Luna will take on the disguise of Mikan, and then we will get rid of Kaname, pin the blame on that stupid Pixie Winged princess and once she's gone, Luna shall fianlly take the throne for herself." the King grinned as Nobara looked at the both, shaking her head.
"No, you can't do that! Kaname is your son, he loves you! How could you do this to your son!?" Nobaracried, tears pricking her eyes as the king threw his head back, laughing loudly.
"My son!? Kaname was never my son! By royal blood, he is the prince, yes, but he is not my son, you pathetic little maid!" the King chortled, and then Nobara watched in horror as the king, the man she had respected and worked for, changed before her very eyes. His wings turned from the beautiful piie wings the king had to dark, torn wings. His hair was a dirty russet colour and his eyes dark violet, his skin tinged with grey.
The King as in fact a Dark faerie.
And just like the King had changed, so did Luna, but she still looked the same, however with grey tinged skin and the shattered wings of a Dark faerie. She grinned,
"It's nice to see you again, brother." Luna smirked, turning to the man whohad claimed to be the King as Nobara's eyes widened, and she shook her head. The King was in fact Luna's brother!
"Where's the real king!?" she cried out, staring at the two dark faeries as Luna and her brother laughed, grinning rather happily.
"I got rid of that old fool years ago, just after the prince was born! We couldn't have someone like him rule over the kingdom, we needed someone who wasn't soft! And now that our plans starting to come into view, we'll take care of the prince and that pixie winged idiot so that Luna can take the throne for herself!" the man grinned as Luna clapped her hands, then threw her arms around her brother.
"Oh, how I have missed you! And now it's time to get rid of you, you maid!" Luna snarled, and before Nobara could scream, darkness fell upon her, and she fainted...
"Are you alright, miss?" someone asked Nobara as she looked up, wondering where she was, and then she saw a man looming over her, smiling as she stared up at him.
"Yes, I'm fine." she whispered as the man helped her up, brushing grass leaves from her hair and smiling down at her. The man was tall, with long hair tied back into a ponytail. Nobara blushed. He was very handsome.
"Do you have a name, little one?" he then asked her as she stared at him, still blushing, and she nodded.
"Nobara... my name is Nobara, and I am a maid for the Koizuma's..." she started, but she then felt tears prick in her eyes. She remembered that they had fired her, she didn't know why, but they had, and she shook her head. "I used to be, I mean." she corrected herself, and the man smiled.
"Well, little maid Nobara, I am Tono, third in line to the throne, and pretty girls shouldn't be lieing in the grass, crying." he told her as Nobara looked up at him, then gave him a small smile, nodding...
That was Nobara's first and only encounter of love...
"Now I remember..." Nobara thought, still asleep and in a state of memories, thinking of the man she loved, the man who had saved her. "I was fired... because I found out their secrets." she finished.
Nobara's eyes widened as she stood in the doorway of the dining hall at the Koizuma's mansion, and she watched as the entire family changed from flower faeries to Dark faeries with shattered wings. Nobara had not meant to stumble upon their secret, but she had, and she needed to pay...
"Get her!" the head of the family yelled, and Nobara broke into a run as the Koizuma's flew after her, angered that they had been found out. Nobara started to fly, and flew until she was tired. However, once the Koizuma's caught up with her, Nobara had to pay the price;
Her wings were torn, and her memory was taken away from her. The day after, she found out that her family had perished in an accident. Nobara didn't remember the Koizuma's true forms after that, and soon started to work for the royal family...
Tears trailed down her face as she slept. She had been punished for seeing something she had not meant to see, and now she was once again being punished for trying to help a friend who needed her help...
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Mikan sat in the bedroom, finished with her packing yet still holding the book of faerie tales. She was smiling and wondering what she would do once she returned to the Wizarding Kingdom. She would probably run up to her friends and hug them all, and when she saw Natsume...
Her heart leapt. What would she do when she saw Natsume? Would she just shake his hand, say hi and let it be? Or would she confess, tell him that she loved him and no one else, then kiss him? Mikan blushed. Kissing Natsume seemed unrealistic. She then sighed. She didn't know what to do.
She then turned to the breakfast that had been left for her, and she realised how hungry she was. Mikan took a croissant, and then went to pick up the tea, taking the delicate handle between her fingers and smelling the aroma. It was a lovely light smell of roses, and she sighed, calm and at ease. She bit into the croissant, and once it was swallowed, she took a sip of the tea.
And with just one sip, Mikan's eyes became lifeless and transparent, like she had been taken over. She lost her grip on the cup, and it dropped, spilling all over the carpet, her croissant hitting the ground seconds later. Mikan then looked around, wondering where Kaname was, and decided to leave the room, hoping to find the man she had suddenly fallen in love with...
Somewhere within the Wizarding Kingdom, Natsume had placed the beautiful rose that had bloomed which Mikan had given him, however, he did not know, but that very rose was starting to die, for the person who had given it life was dying, and if she died, so did the rose...
I didn't intend for this chapter to turn out this way! Luna wasn't meant to be a Dark Faerie all along, she was meant to change into one after her unforgivable deeds, but this is so much more fun! And Love Potions change a persons true nature, so Mikan's true self is dying, meaning that the rose will, too. Beauty and the Beast much, ne?
Lots of love, Blue~