Twisted Cinderella Story
Once Upon Cinderella's Nightmares of Truth


"My prince?" I realized that I was still staring, open mouthed, at the news that was just delivered. They probably took it as shock but the fact of the matter was that things would go extremely downhill from here. It seemed I had to play it off to not seem strange.

"You-wait-what?" I spluttered, my farce seeming to work as the doctors looked at me with soft expressions.

"You're pregnant," he repeated.

I glanced at Kiryu who looked like he was in heaven. I swallowed, this revelation wasn't good and there wasn't anything I could do about it. And these stupid doctors, they're too good at their job.

My lip quivered and the tears blurred my eyes and to the best of my dramatics, I ran out of the infirmary, crying. Those doctors were far too good at their job but I was far better at acting.

Somehow, I managed to run all the way through the castle, people turning their heads to watch me and I pushed through the front doors as there were no guards standing around, which was strange I might add, and into the wood that surrounded the castle. I took cover in the safety of the trees, the fallen twigs and crunchy leaves entering my thin fabric flats. I stopped after awhile listening to see if anyone followed me but the only thing I heard were the chirping of the birds and the winter wind rustling the trees. I panted and sat down behind a big tree to catch my breath. Knowing my stupid luck, they've already sent out the dogs and they'll find me in no time. I looked around the abyss of trees surrounding me. Everything seemed so peaceful so far away. So relaxing...

The little boy sat crying in the carriage, two men holding and shushing him.

"I want to go home!" He cried, tears falling largely out of his eyes.

"You are going home..." The gray haired man to the left of him whispered.

"Please take me back to him. I don't want to leave.."

"My prince, please, stop crying," the man's brother coaxed softly.

Suddenly the carriage stopped and the two men looked up. "What's wrong? Why are we stopped?"

There was a scream and the gray haired man told his brother to stay with the young prince. The man exited the carriage, and the young prince stopped his crying for a moment to look up at his surroundings. There were trees, the shadows of the leaves giving it an ominous looming darkness. He shivered as the silence took over. When the other man heard nothing from his brother in the next minutes, he poked his head out of the carriage, only a moment to see his brother's still corpse before an arrow was shot through his neck.

The young prince screamed out as blood splashed all over his face and he stared at his guardian's body hanging out of the carriage. The bloody body was pulled out of the carriage and he stared wide eyed as a small person came into his view and reached for him. The young prince flinched away and the small person grinned wide.

"I'll love you always..."

I woke up startled, my head pounding. I tried to focus but my head was spinning. I took in deep breaths to try and get my heart to stop beating so fast but it only got faster. What was that? I couldn't remember what I had seen. There were noises coming toward me but my brain wasn't reacting fast enough and wouldn't let me move my body. That's when I noted the fact that the air around me was freezing and foggy giving the eerieness of my dream.

Despite the cold around me, I felt myself falling back under the surface, drowning my consciousness and lulling me back to sleep.

"...ot dead...minor hypother...hould be fine...just let him rest..."

I'll love you always...

I woke up in cold sweat, a shiver running down my spine. My arms were freezing and I couldn't move them to rub them. I blinked a few times and realized I was swaddled in blankets.

I wiggled around trying to loosen them up so I wasn't suffocating but all I managed was getting myself caught under the blankets and truly suffocating. I yelled out and I thought, I'm waking up to die...

And then the light burst in my eyes.

I cried out and closed them as the blankets were ripped from my body.

"Are you alright?" I peeked at Kiryu who was staring at me with worry.

"I'm fine..." I murmured.

He helped me sit up before sitting down in a chair next to me. "I was scared you know."

"I'm sorry." I didn't know what else to say at the moment.

"When you ran I didn't expect you to run outside, so I let you go and sort things out for yourself. It really is scary to have my guards tell me that they think there's an intruder in the castle because all of the ones that are meant to be guarding the door decided they wanted to go on break for 5 minutes and they come back to find the doors wide open."

I shivered and pulled the blankets closer to myself.

"Your lips were blue when we finally found you after the night fell. You were shivering and oh it terrified me." I watched his hands clench and relax, clench and relax, clench and relax. He was seriously debating.

"You want to hit me so much," I murmured. "You haven't ridden yourself of old habits but because I'm carrying your child, you just don't want to hurt it."

"What you did was foolish." He said simply. "You could've killed an unborn child."

"Because I don't matter. Nothing I do matters here. I can't even run my own kingdom because I have people breathing down my neck."

"That's not true."

"It is true and you know it. I know the truth, I'm only important for the safety of this kingdom because you plan to sacrifice me to that person anyway."

"How do you-"

"There are many things that I don't know about but I have my ways of getting information. Maybe it would've been better if I had died."

What was I saying? It was stupid of me to run like I had and risk the life of my child but it was more stupid of me to not run to Neo Domino like I didn't have in my mind to do.

"You silly boy. It seems that your time in Neo Domino has made you stupid. I'll come back when you can think right." He stood left me to ponder on my thoughts.

I was released from the infirmary a few days later but Kiryu wasn't there to escort me so I decided to go wandering the castle, my thoughts wandering with me.

I wondered why sacrificing someone to such an evil person was okay. I didn't want to give up my life for these people. For my children, yes, for Jack, yes, but for Old Domino, even though it was my father's kingdom, I just don't love it as I love Neo Domino. Why, I wondered. Why couldn't things be happy and at peace? Why do these people allow this person to hover fear over their heads?

I sighed and looked around. It seemed I'd gotten myself lost. I turned to walk back the other way when a strange lone door caught my eye. I looked behind and I realized that there was nothing in this hall but walls. What was this door doing here?

I went to it, the dark decaying wood was shut tightly but that only furthered my curiosity. I pulled it open, the metal holding it to the wall screeching in discomfort which meant that this door hadn't been opened in sometime.

The first step was like a pull into something I couldn't control. I felt a strange tugging on my heart and I followed it all the way down the stairs into a cavern lit by torches. I looked around and took note of the strange symbols and drawings on the walls. I stepped farther into the cavern when I found a door with the same strange symbols on it.

I pushed it open and a strange light glowed in the center of the room. I felt drawn to it and walked toward it but a sudden laugh stopped me in my tracks.

"Ah, the little stray has made its way here." I turned around and a man covered by a cloak stepped from the shadows.

"Who are you?" I asked, my voice trembling.

"Who I am doesn't matter. All you should know is that you should not know."

"What do you mean?"

"Go home little one. Take yourself back to the surface."

"But the light..." I turned back to look at it, its eerie dimness so attracting.

"You'll be sucked into the void and I'm sure you don't want that."

"Void?"

"The light will show you the truth. You are the heart but you have holes in your heart. To become complete, you must regain what you have lost. Would you take the chance of being destroyed? Of being sucked into the void?"

"If it would save the life of my love and my children, I would do anything."

"You would give yourself up for the sake of love? Hmm...fine. I'll show you the truth but the pain you'll relive will be very real. You won't like the out come and when the truth presents itself, you will rethink doing anything for the one you love."

He raised his hand to me and I closed my eyes. To be complete again, that was my goal, to be complete again...

Yuusei... Yuusei... Yuusei...

Whatever you see Yuusei...don't look...don't scream...don't move...

I felt a hand on my forehead and I opened my eyes. I felt like I was blinded, the hand running through my hair softly. The light started coming back to me and I looked toward Kiryu who was stroking my hair.

"You idiot." He whispered.

"Wha-?" I wasn't sure what he meant.

"Only you would go into a corridor without windows and only you would go into a door that even remotely seemed strangely odd."

"What are you talking about?"

"You! You went into the forbidden chamber!"

"Oh." How was I supposed to know it was forbidden?

"Anyway, at least you came out unharmed. Hopefully there were no adverse effects."

"The man down there in the cloak told me he would show me the truth."

"What? What else did he say?"

"He said that the light would show me the truth but I didn't understand. And then he said that I would be sucked into the void."

"The void?"

I nodded and he sighed. "Like I said. Hopefully there will be no adverse effects."

He touched my cheek and I flinched.

"I'm sorry," I replied quickly,"I thought you were going to-" I stopped myself before I angered him further. He hadn't laid a hand on me since he found out about the pregnancy but I couldn't help but to be afraid.

"I have a few things I still have to take care but please, keep yourself out of trouble by staying here. Nothing can go wrong in that."

I pouted and he patted my head. "Don't treat me like a child."

"Then don't act like one."

He left the room and I called out Martha when I knew he wasn't coming back.

"What is it dearie?" She asked.

"I want my husband." I replied softly.

"I know, but I have no way of contacting him, I don't like the fact but it's true."

"How am I?" I asked. I wasn't sure if I fell and harmed my child when I came from the cavern.

The blue light in the room brighten before dimming again. "You should be fine. I'm worried about your future health though."

"What do you mean?"

"Your foetus will remain safe but what that man said was true, the truth will be made clear to you and you won't like that outcome but you must trust in your love, if you don't, you will be destroyed. You will go through immense pain in the future days but that's all." She looked me straight in my eyes. "Please heed my words when I tell you don't lose faith."

I nodded in understanding, never truly knowing what she meant until I felt the true pain blossom in my heart like a wildfire a few days later.


HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Here's my gift to all of you.

I'm sorry it's been so long but I have a whole string of ideas I'm working on and all that. So be happy, be merry and be in love.

If you guys don't mind, I want to hear about your Valentine stories. Tell what happened to you today, whether it's as innocent as innocent gets or if it's debauchery lol I want those naughty stories too, they give me ideas and we like ideas, ideas mean more stories.

Either way, have a great night and see you soon.

PS. Things are getting hot and frisky in TCS. Be prepared for the next chapter, you're going to love it.