Riding through her kingdom's gates, the instant when reaching the door of the castle, she jumped off the horse and ran inside straight to her father's room.

"Mimi wait!" called Sora following after her.

Running up the staircase, Mimi pushed past people receiving startled shouts of her return.

'He just can't be dead.'

Reaching her destination, she opened the door and ran inside.

"Father? Father where are you!"

"Are you here? Answer me!" she cried desperately looking in all the rooms.

"Princess Mimi! You're back!" exclaimed Sophia, Mimi's old nanny.

"Where's my father!" Mimi demanded. She refused to believe that he was really dead.

Sophia looked down unwilling to answer.

"Are the rumors true? Is my father really dead?"

"I'm sorry to say this, but yes he's dead. He was murdered last night out in the gardens. We found him near your mother's grave." She said softly.

"Why the hell wasn't anyone watching him? Why did you leave him alone?"

"Princess, I may be out of line to say this right now, but it's not proper for you to swear."

"I don't care! My father is dead!" she cried hysterically.

"Mimi…"

Mimi took a deep breath trying to calm herself before she walked past Sophia and out into the gardens.

"Princess! You have returned to us!" called one of her knights running up to her.

Putting up a hand Mimi signaled for him to stop right in place. "I do not want any disturbances. Make sure there is no one in the gardens for the time being."

"As you wish." He said before leaving to clear the perimeter.

Mimi continued to her mother's grave, her head hanging low with each step. Looking up she saw that instead of one gravestone there was now two right next to each other.

"No, no, no…" she sobbed her voice giving out as she fell over into a heap.

Vince, Sophia, and Sora watched from a distance, making sure she was unaware of their presents. It hurt them to hear her tormented, heart wrenching sobs.

"My heart aches for her." Vince said sadly.

"Mine too." Sophia agreed softly.

"I think everyone's heart is hurting right now." Sora said thinking of Matt.

"Let's leave her alone." Vince said walking away.

Sora and Sophia nodded and followed him back into the castle.

Mimi stayed out there for hours, sitting between the two gravestones crying silently. 'This is just like the way my mother died.'

She couldn't help but think of her mother's death.

Flashback

"Hey mommy let's go outside!" I said cheerfully.

"Okay, but just for a little while. I have something I need to take care of."

"Okay."

Holding my mother's hand I pulled her along with me.

"Come on mommy! Let's play tag."

"Okay. But come here first. I have a secret I want to tell you."

"Ooh! I love secrets!"

Running closer to her, she knelt down and told me her secret. "The secret is… your 'it'!" she laughed happily.

"Mommy! That's not a secret!" I pouted running after her.

"Come on sweetie! You must be faster than that?" my mother giggled slowing down a bit for me to catch up.

"I am really fast!" I laughed finally tagging her.

"Oh, you got me!"

"Well, well, well, isn't this a beautiful scene?"

My mother's head snapped up to their visitors. Her eyes turned icy cold.

There were at least eight men obviously from Hadior.

"Mommy who are those people?"

"Shh." Was all she said.

"Where are the guards who were watching the gates." My mother asked them.

"Let's not worry about them. Let's just say their in a better place now."

"You monsters!" she spat.

"Don't worry. You and your daughter will be joining them soon enough." The man said charging at us followed by his soldiers.

I cried out as my mother scooped me up and took of running around the castle.

"Guards! Guards! Come quickly!" my mother screamed.

They must have heard her pleas because just seconds afterwards Vince and twelve Altearian men came out to our rescue.

Mother had stopped running when she was sure they weren't chasing us anymore.

"Mommy? I don't like those people. They scare me."

"Shh. It's okay. They can't hurt us anymore."

"Okay…" I replied quietly.

But she spoke too soon.

"Look who's all alone, with no one to protect you both." he grinned.

"Stay away from us! Vince! Vince! Help us!" mother screamed.

"The Queen and Princess are in danger. We must hurry!" cried Vince.

My mother picked me up once again and ran.

"I don't think so." the man yelled grabbing my mother's dress and yanking her down.

I cried out as I met contact with the ground.

"Mimi!" mother cried out as she tried to kick the man off of her.

"Mother!" I screamed.

"Mimi. Get out of here now! Run!"

"Mother?"

"Do it!"

I nodded my head and took off running looking for Vince.

"You're not going to get away that easily." the man huffed, pulling out a knife meaning to through at her.

"NO!" mother screamed seeing the sharp blade being raised in Mimi's direction. She grabbed his hand and pulled it down. She clawed at his face and pulled his hair; anything to get him off of her.

Grabbing his face in pain he let her go. She quickly got up and ran for Mimi.

"Mommy hurry!" I cried extending my hand out. My eyes widened when I saw the man raise his blade.

"Mommy, watch out!" I screamed, but it was too late.

The blade soared through the air and right into my mother's back. She cried out in pain and I screamed in horror as she fell over.

I ran to her side my cheeks stained with tears. "Mommy? Mommy?" I whimpered shaking her still body.

I looked up to see the man walking towards me, and then all of a sudden he fell over. I then saw Vince with a bow and arrow

"Vince! Come help mother! She can't move!" I pleaded.

Vince rushed over and slowly pulled the knife out. Rolling her over he felt for a pulse. A dreaded look came upon his face.

"What? What is it?" I asked innocently.

He closed his eyes knowing there would be no easy way to say it. Instead he pulled me into a tight embrace.

Even though I was so young. I had already known what happened.

End of Flashback

Mimi wiped the tears from her eyes and stood up. 'My father died in a similar situation; in the same gardens as my mother. And in both deaths Matt is connected. This is unforgivable. I will get my revenge. Tomorrow Yamato Ishida is mine.'

Walking out onto the training field she saw most of her soldiers sparing with each other. Seeing her presences they all stopped and bowed to her.

"I have very important information. For the time I was gone, the prince had told me tomorrow at dawn, we are at war." Whispers then went through the crowed of men.

"Matt. Why did you let her leave like that?" demanded Tai.

"Taichi. I want you to go and inform my men of the war tomorrow, get them ready. I will be there shortly." he said ignoring Tai's question.

"Yes." Taichi replied bitterly, then walking away.

Looking down Matt thought of Mimi, how he had betrayed her, broken her heart. "I'm sorry Mimi, but it's just the way it has to be."

Sighing, he then made his way to the training field to find his father standing there with a small smile.

"Yamato my son. The day has finally arrived. Your--"

"You were the one who gave the order to kill the king, weren't you? Then you said it was my order." Interrupted Matt.

"Yes. Yes it was. Taichi informed me of your disappointing behavior with that Altearian girl. And it had to be stopped." He said flatly.

Matt glared at him. "But why did you have to say it was my order. Do you have any idea what she's been through? And I would appreciate if you wouldn't do things that serious behind my back. I need to know when you're going to do something like that."

"I could care less of what she's been through. She's nothing to us. And I heard that she turned out to be the princess. It's a good thing I did what I did; now she'll be even more delicate. You'll destroy her easily."

Matt turned away from his father and stared out to his training soldiers. He had to destroy her, he had to kill her, kill the woman he loved.

'But she was the one who was lying to me the whole time. She knew what our fates were, and yet she made me fall in love with her.'

Sunrise was now beginning to set in. Mimi rode up on horse back onto the battle field thirty miles from her kingdom, waiting for the enemy to come. Her army of ten thousand men rode up right behind her, waiting to be led to victory. Looking to the east, Mimi could see the sun peaking over the hills.

"Look princess. They have arrived." said Vince riding up next to her.

'Just on time.' She thought looking back to the east, the sun had almost risen.

Facing Vince nervously, "Are you with me?"

"To the death."

Bringing her horse out ahead of everyone she then faced them. "Men. If you die, you die with honor. Show them no fear! We fight as one!" she called, facing her opponent.

The Altearian army raised their weapons cheering with pride and determination. Their cheers carried across the land to the enemy's ears.

"They sound… determined." Tai said coming up on horse back next to Matt.

"Yes they do." Matt said noticing Mimi on her single white horse. That's like Mimi, to stand out from the crowd.

"For Queen Jenny! For King Richard!" shouted Mimi as her horse stood on its hind legs.

"… For Altearia!" she shouted charging out leading her army.

"For Altearia!" all the men echoed following after.

A small smile formed on Matt's lips watching her make the first move, then vanished remembering what he had to do. Sitting tall he raised his sword and rode out.

"For Hadior!" he called.

"For Hadior!" His army echoed.

In a matter of seconds lives would be taken, death would linger high in the air. Families would cry when they saw that their husbands, brothers, and sons did not return. In a matter of hours there would be a change, who would be left standing, who would shout ''Victory'' when it was all over. But in the end would it all be worth it?

Yeah so, I don't really know what the real names of Mimi's parent's are so I made them up. :P Don't forget to leave a review.

Just a heads up. I probably won't update for a few weeks now. I'm not totally sure when the next update will be, it could be soon or far away from now. So... yeah. :P