Cinderella
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Chapter 5 – Miku Returns
I am just assuming here, but I reckon you are all wondering what Miku is up to right now. You know, if she's alive or not. Stuff like that. Boring stuff. Like Of course Miku be alive! What you expect? She is the bloody main character! What kind of story would it be if she died in the first few chapters?!
Oops…Please pretend you didn't hear that stuff… oh well. On with the story!
~Miku P.O.V~ Kingdom Of Shadows – Black Kingdom- Mid morning
'Gumo! Shut the hell up! Luka will catch us!' I hissed quietly to my green haired companion; my best friend Gumo. He stuck his tongue out and frowned with determination. Gumo and I were currently setting up a stink bomb in Lady Lilly's room. My god, her room is so tacky. And what's up with those creepy pictures?
Lilly's room is painted a summery gold, which doesn't suit her personality if you ask me. It had a massive black four poster bed adorned with light gray curtains and studded with semi-precious stones and gems half the size of a small apple.
Her sheets are made of the finest silk dyed in gold. Her golden pillows and mattress stuffed with feathers; are so comfy your whole body would sink into them. The floor was black marble and had tasselled carpets with intricate designs depicting beauty, lust, love and death.
Lilly has a massive window with the thick, grey curtains, currently closed, shrouding the room in darkness. The only light source was the torch that Gumo brought with him. There was a washroom on the right with a large marble tub and an even larger mirror directly across it.
The desk across her room had make up, perfume bottles and jewellery strewn about everywhere. Another mirror studded with the same stones as her bed hung above it.
Pictures of a young boy around 17 years of age with honey blond hair and the most beautiful cerulean blue eyes stared at me, tacked onto the walls. Some of them had hearts drawn with red lipstick around his face, Obviously Lilly's doing.
While Gumo was occupied with the bomb I let my thoughts out of the boxes in my brain that I stored them in. I should probably inform you of my identity; my name is Miku. Just Miku. No last name. I am currently employed as the personal maid for the Princess Lilly of The Black Kingdom.
Luka Megurine; my mother, adopted me when I was eight. 9 years ago Luka found me at a beach under a cliff severely injured covered in deep earthy rubble. The enormous amount shock and pain robbed me of my precious memories, keeping them hostage in an untouchable part of my brain.
Luka tended to my wounds and taught me how to hold my own in the dangerous world we humans inhabit. We moved from her old cottage to the castle of the Black Kingdom. Over the years my physical appearance has changed. My waist length teal long hair is now knee length, my teal eyes are large pools with hidden secrets behind them; well that's what Gumo tells me.
My breasts are modest and small. Because of the injuries my body received, the creamy, pale skin that folds over my bones are marred with detectable scars on my stomach and back but barely detectable on my arms.
'Miku, let's go! The bomb had been enabled. The she-demon just has to finish breakfast. All we need to do is press the button and Boom!' He puckered his lips and made an exploding sound with his voice. 'We have a smelly princess!' his voice brought me back to reality and my thoughts scattered.
I snickered at Lilly's pet name and tiptoed towards the elaborate gold and silver Brass door. I grasped the cold, thin handle and pulled it open with a soft squeak. My head poked out. My eyes narrowed with concentration surveying the empty hallway for any threats.
'Gumo. The coast is clear.' I whispered to him under my breath, as quietly as I could. He walked over to me and replied just as quietly. 'Good. Miku, don't even think about it. You are not jumping out of the window this time! You could blow our cover! Someone could see you jumping out.'
His face scrunched up as he whisper-yelled to my face. 'Aww! Seriously? You suck!' I pouted childishly. I have this really disturbing habit of jumping out of the nearest window.
Even if it's really high, I still jump out. People think it's reckless, I just think it's thrilling. It's really, really fun. You should try it. Actually on second thoughts: don't. I stuck my tongue at him and bolted out of the room. Gumo cursed quietly, closed the door and ran after me.
Kitchen
He chased me all the way to the palace kitchens. By the time I sat down at my seat and started to eat he skidded to a halt and walked in all puffed out.
'There you are! How the hell do you not get puffed out when you run?! You're bloody superhuman!' I laughed at his misery and replied with pride. 'What'd you expect? I am the Queen of Awesomeness!'
I then proceeded to stuff a bagel in my mouth chewing rapidly. I picked up the coffee pot on the table and poured myself some in my favourite black cup. It had my name on it in teal. My hand raised the cup to my lips downing it in one gulp. Stupidly I forgot to let the beverage cool down and I burnt my tongue.
'SHIT! This is bloody hot!' I cursed loudly in pain, while flapping my arms around in attempt to cool my scalded tongue. Tears formed behind my shut lids. I quickly blinked them back. 'Haha! Serves you right' everyone laughed as Neru proceeded to tease me about my painful dilemma.
Neru Akita is the head chef in the kitchens, and my big sister. She's not really my big sister. I just think of her as one. Her food though, is to die for. Neru has waist long dark blond hair secured up into a side pony tail with a black hair band with one single yellow stripe through the middle.
Her eyes are light blue and she has a heart shaped face. She is wearing her chef uniform. A white chef hat, a longish white chef jacket with multiple buttons and white pants. I was vaguely aware of that Gumo sat himself next to me but I was in too much pain to notice Luka come in.
'Miku! What did I say about manners?' I immediately stopped flapping my arms around while cursing. '…umm, that no one needs them?' I answered while sucking on an ice-cube Neru gave me. 'No you idiot, you need manners.' Luka glared at me, her eyes narrowing in annoyance. She sighed at me and gave up. Trying to discipline me is pointless. Her eyes softened and she laughed at me with bemusement clearly written on her face.
'Luka!' I whined, using my annoying voice which I know makes her peeved. Luka frowned and glared at me mildly. 'How many times have I told you? It's not "Luka" it's "mother"'. She corrected me a second time, this time though I went along with her and replied with a curt and slightly mocking 'yes Mother'.
She gave a small smile and sat down next to another maid, who I think goes by the name IA, to eat breakfast with us all. We have so many servants. Who needs this many?! Though at least they're all getting paid to work for the stupid she-devil.
'Miku, can you please pass me the pancakes?' I looked up and saw Teto smiling at me sweetly. 'Sure '. I replied while passing the pancakes to her. Teto and Gumo are my best friends. Gumo and I met when I jumped out my first window. I was 9 years old when that happened.
It was two days after I healed from my injuries and I wanted to explore the city. Gumo caught me sneaking out. I begged him not to tell Luka, surprisingly; he didn't. After that we started to hang out and became best friends.
I met Teto when she offered to help me when I was polishing the silverware. Both of us managed to make all of the silverware sparkling clean. We could even see our reflections! We got praised because of that. A feast for all the servants made by Neru! That was the best dinner we have ever had. She hung out with Gumo and me a lot, now we're a trio of best friends.
Gumo is 18 years of age. He has beautiful, in my opinion, green hair. Soft to the touch, all messy and rumpled up. His uniform consists of a white button down shirt, with a black tail coat, black dress pants, polished black shoes, and a personal adjustment: a green neck bow. Typical butler stuff.
I envy him. He doesn't know how hard it is to run in a maid uniform. It's hard but somehow I always manage to outrun people. Maybe I've just had practice or something.
Teto has pinkish red hair in two pony tails. Her hair is really really curly. And somehow reminds me of drills. It's natural by the way. Teto is short, but sadly is not as short as me. Damn it! Why am I so short?! She wears the maid uniform with her own personal adjustment: a pink necklace, earrings, and pink gloves.
The maid uniform consists of a collared long-sleeved black cotton shift dress which reaches just above the knees, white knee-length socks, a white frilly apron with a large pocket, stupid frilly white head dress, and black heeled shoes. Typical maid stuff. Too many frills.
Though I personalised mine a bit. I usually wear black running boots with teal on the bottom (a/n: basically the same shoes Miku actually wears, but smaller), a teal blue tie with two black stripes in the middle and two black head bands that have a pink stripe in the middle.
Why do we mess the uniform up? Because it annoys the she-devil. It's funny when she gets annoyed.
I stuffed a pancake into my mouth and poured Gumo, Teto and I some juice. 'Miku! Eat properly.' Luka chided while shaking her head. ' Whapphghr' I responded while I still chewed at my pancake. 'What? And don't chew while eating!'. Annoyance and slight confusion clear in her voice.
I swallowed the pancake and repeated 'whatever'. She shook her head again and continued to eat. She seemed to be doing that a lot. Shaking her head I mean. I was drinking my juice when Gumo nudged me. He subtly pointed at the stink bomb detonator. His finger hovered over the button. He pressed it.
Xxx 5 mins later xxx
'EEEEEEEAAAAAAAARRRRRGHHHHH!' a high-pitched squeal came from the she-demons room. Gumo and I smirked at each other and high fived. Luka glared at us, 'I will deal with the two of you after' and ran to go see what dilemma the she-demon was in now.
'So, what did you two do this time?' a co-worker, Lapis asked us with an amused smile on her face. 'Stink bomb' Gumo and I replied simultaneously. Everyone's eyes widened considerably while they silently processed this information. Everyone was quiet. Then, Neru smiled widely, laughter making its way up her throat and outside for people to hear.
It was a chain reaction after that. Laughter filled the kitchen. 'Oh my god! She deserved that!' Lapis managed to speak through her laughing fit. I smiled, happy that what Gumo and I did was enough to lighten up my co-workers and make them laugh.
I love it when I can make people laugh. It is a really beautiful sight when I see my friends and family happy. 'Gosh, you two are such trouble makers.' Teto shook her head and smiled at us with affection.
We shrugged our shoulders and did that weird telepathic twin thing. Gumo started the sentence 'We can't help it…' and I finished it, 'It's who we are'. I could hear the she-demon from up here. She is so loud. I bet the whole kingdom can hear her. I snickered at that thought and broke into hysteria when I imagined her all stinky, smelly and foul. She's going stink for days.
I stopped laughing when Luka re-entered the kitchen. She looked really fierce. Like a warrior. Her face was twisted with demonic furiousness . Salmon pink hair was flying wildly like a halo around her head. Her pink eyes were dancing with unmasked anger. She was stiff and alert. Even though I knew she was angry at me, I couldn't help but be proud of her. She looked beautiful. And she was my mom.
I sadly knew what was coming next. Fortunately for me I braced myself. Gumo, being the idiot he is didn't. He was flung against the wall by Luka. I tried to run, but she stalked over to me and threw me at Gumo. Gumo was just getting up, but when I landed on him, he collapsed.
'Thanks for cushioning me Gumo' I chirped happily at him. He replied by groaning underneath me and saying the unthinkable. (a/n: it starts with the letter 'B', but I don't want to write it.) I punched him for insulting me.
Luka stalked towards us like a predator stalking its prey. Gumo and I hugged each other tightly. Everyone, including Gumo and I sweat dropped. Oh my stars! I am so dead. Damn it to hell!. I hugged Gumo harder and squeezed my eyes shut. She didn't let us go until Gumo and I apologized. We still got punished though. Gumo has stable duty for a month, and lucky me gets to follow the she-demon around while she shops. Great. This is going fabulous.
a/n: Oh my god! I am so so so so so so sorry! I haven't updated in such a long time! I've been so busy with stupid school work, I haven't had time. I also had writer's block for a long time too. I feel so horrible for not posting sooner. I am really sorry to all of you who have read this. I am also really happy with all my reviews, thank you for reviewing, my amazing readers!
All of you are the reason my imagination has been rekindled. So I thank you all. This is the first time I have ever had people read my works so I hope you continue to read and enjoy it! Please review, and I accept writing tips and what not. So feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.