Chapter Three coming right up! I'd like to thank the reviewers: gabyrendon, arveegomez, Blackcat xoxo, animeaddict.7 and MikanNatsume4Ever. And I'd like to double thank Blackcat xoxo for telling me what and obi is (the thing around the waist of kimonos). I just wanted to say I updated The Guardians Meet The Gang again, part three is here.

Okay in this chapter a new royal is going to be introduced; can you tell who it is? I gave you a big hint in the last chapter. No need to go back and check because this chapter is starting off with the "mystery royal's" POV. So enjoy!

Royal Kidnapper Chapter Three: Another Princess

Hn, It's raining again. How I'd love to go out there and feel the wet droplets against my skin. I've been out once or twice but my parents, the king and queen, forbid me to go out when it's raining. I don't see why, water can't hurt me. I bet they think the rain will give me a sudden feeling to get my ass out of here. Not that I haven't thought of it before it's just that, where will I go? Should I leave those important to me? Before you start saying "It's so sweet that you love your parents like that." Let me correct you now.

I HATE THEM! Now I know what you're thinking, "You're just saying that, everyone loves their parents". Well I don't. Every single invention I make they confiscate, and I can't go even go for a walk in our own garden without at least fifteen bodyguards. Don't be fooled, they're not being overprotective. They just want me to enter that stupid competition because word on the street is the Elemental Princess is a shoe in for the crown. With her beauty and poise, she could have the crown; I just want my old life back.

I want to be alone again. Call me crazy but I enjoy the silence, I live to be a loner. I barley even talk to the people close to me who are my loyal servants. I've never once called them that though, but I didn't call them friends either. They were just, people I could trust. People, that cared for me. Not as a princess but something else. But what? Do they see my as their superior? Are they doing all these things for me just because I'm royalty? For some reason I doubt that.

Wait, speaking of the Elemental Princess I also heard she was kidnapped. God I wish I was in her place, she probably cares more about the crown than me seeing as she was more "determined". She probably thinks the life of royalty is all fun and games. Good luck with that sister. I also heard a rumor that she was just a beautiful as me . . . what am I thinking? I don't even know this girl so why am I thinking about her. Maybe I feel that in some sort of way, we're alike. Huh, I must be going crazy.

End POV

Elemental Kingdom:

"What!" Soyya yelled making all the pets in the shop feel a rush of fear "What do you mean you're leaving? Destiny-chan, Princess-chan, we've only known you for a week and now you're leaving?" Yes it's true. It's been a week since Mikan ran away and now they were planning to go to the closest kingdom and hang out there for a while. Soyya and Taka enjoyed the two's company more than normal costumers so when they received this news they were more than shocked.

"Could you at least tell us why?" Taka asked the two

"Well Taka-kun," Princess explained "I've always dreamed of traveling and the time I spent here was great, fantastic even. But so far this is the only place I've been. I lived here my entire life and I finally want to branch out you know? Plus, things over here are a little hectic with all the guards searching for Princess Mikan and all. We just figured if there was anytime to leave the kingdom, it would be now." She spoke the absolute truth while telling this. Taka was deeply touched and Soyya was near tears.

The brunette ran over to the cloaked girl (Mikan still wears a cloak since everyone in the kingdom knows what she looks like) and hugged her dearly "Oh Princess-chan" Soyya smiled "I hope you have a nice trip, and don't forget to write us okay? And be sure to make friends. The nice ones not those bad delinquents you see in the middle of the night." she said the last sentence in a stern voice. Soyya has come to see her like her own sister and let me tell you something, Soyya is overprotective.

Taka sighed "Seriously Soyya, sometimes I think you love Princess more than you love your own brother." he said pretending to be jealous.

"I do" Soyya evilly smiled after her blunt reply and Taka fell down anime style.

Destiny nervously laughed at the twin's behavior and then noticed that Soyya was still hugged Mikan and it just so happens the said person was turning blue "Umato-san" Destiny said grabbing the shop owner's attention "You're choking her." she finished as Soyya came to realization

"AH! Gomen Princess-chan, I guess I'll miss you more than I thought."

"It's okay Soyya-chan." Mikan smiled and then Taka, who was still on the floor asked her where they were going and she asked where the closest kingdom was

"That would be the Technical Kingdom Princess-chan; you know the one we were talking about." Taka answered getting up "The way to get there is pretty simple, since you have a flying carpet it should be even easier. All you have to do is go south until you see a big gate. There will be a guard there and he will ask for things like alice, where you're going, yada, yada. Then you just keep on heading south until you see big buildings and weird things."

"Weird things?" Destiny asked while petting Kira

"Yup weird things" Soyya confirmed "I know we don't have the right to say that the Technical's are wired seeing as we find wet gravel appetizing." They all took a moment to imagine wet gravel and how its appetizing smell would soothe them. Some people even ate it I guess Mikan was one of them since she drooled "As I was saying" Soyya continued snapping out of her trance and Mikan wiped the corners of her mouth "They have things like flying pens and candy that could make you read minds so that's why they're weird." Mikan, Destiny, and even Kira nodded in understanding as they listened to Soyya. They stayed then the shop for a while and then went to Destiny's place to pack. Now the three are heading to the Technical Kingdom.

Their carpet flew to the gate and they lowered down to the ground. Why didn't they just fly over the gate you ask? Maybe it's because the guard has the Barrier Alice and if Mikan were to use her Nullification Alice then they'd be found out because rumor has it that the princess has a rare and powerful alice. Now what would you do if your kingdoms princess was missing and then you suddenly stumble a pawn someone with a rare alice? Yeah, thought so. Any way the cloaked two with their cloaked cat (yes Kira wore a cloak too; hers had a hood and was a lilac color).

The guard watched them walk to him "Yeah, that's not suspicious" he muttered under his breath. The guy hated his job, his alice had to be on nonstop and he met new weirdoes everyday. "Who goes there?" he asked in an audible voice.

The three stopped; nether of them removed their hoods "Destiny" the one in the dark blue cloak said a mysterious voice

"Princess" the one in the brown cloak said in a silvery voice.

"Nya" the one in the lilac cloak said as the others sweat dropped. Then the guard asked for their alices.

"Destiny"

"Elemental" (It's a common alice here so no one suspects her)

"Nya"

The guard was highly suspicious. And what the heck does 'Nya' mean? He walked around them with an arched brow. Neither one of them flinched "You know" the guard said "If you were to take off those cloaks of yours and let me see your faces. I'd be less doubtful about you three."

"I'm sorry sir we cannot." Destiny said sounding like she was in gray mode "You see, as much as we'd like to remove our hoods we simply can't. We were raised that if we were to meet someone new but did not consider them a friend then we can't bless them with our faces." Destiny was starting to get on edge, all sorts of memories were flashing back to her.

Seeing her friend's state Mikan cuts in "We're from North-East Obedience Central." Enough was said the guard may have hated his job but he pitied them more. He too, heard of Obedience Central and didn't to bring back any painful memories for the girls. They all humbly bowed and went back to the carpet. "I can't believe it! I'm finally out of the Kingdom! So we just keep on going forward right?" Mikan said as she took off her hood revealing her smiling face.

Destiny smiled back as she too took off her hood. Kira would have done the same but she already fell asleep "Yup, we'll be in the Technical Kingdom in no time Princess. And since no one there knows you, you don't have to wear your cloak." Mikan and Destiny smiled as they watched the sunset.

Technical Kingdom:

"Princess Hotaru!" a girl with bubble gum pink wavy hair ran to the castle yelling. She'll surely be scolded for such rudeness but that doesn't matter at this point. She found a room with a purple door and ran right in before knocking "Hotaru-sama!" the girl yelled as she saw a beautiful girl lying on the queen sized bed staring blankly at the ceiling. The girl had short ebony black hair and tranquilizing violet eyes. She had a curved and elegant figure. She, was Princess Hotaru Imai.

"Why are you running around yelling like an idiot Anna-san?" Hotaru asked the girl panting in the door not bothering to remove her gaze from the ceiling "And where's Nonoko-san?" she added.

"That's just it!" Anna said running up to Hotaru "The other maids caught her walking to your secret lab and now the king and queen are confiscating all your new inventions!"

"Shit" she silently cursed as she ran to her not-so secret lab where machines were being carried away by bulky men "What is the meaning of this" she angrily said in a commanding tone "put down my inventions at once." Even though the men shivered in fear the walked past the princess as if she didn't exist. "I said" Hotaru and black aura around her as Anna hid behind a wall "Put. My. Inventions. Down. NOW!"

"You're in no condition to be giving orders young lady" a woman with dark purple hair and violet eyes "But I like that commanding tone you have. You're going to be a great ruler after you win the competition."

"For the last time I don't want to enter that stupid competition! It's pointless! Just let the Elemental Princess win, you yourself said she was a shoe in." The princess said glaring daggers towards her mother "Why can't you and father let me do what I want? How come you won't let me go out into the kingdom especially in the rain? I'm an inventor mom, that is my alice and this is my kingdom."

"The Invention Alice is not worthy of you." the king said standing beside his wife. He had black hair and blue eyes "You have a far better alice and it will be awakened once you stop making these . . . things. They're just getting the way of a power strong enough to get you to win." The young Imai was so irritated she couldn't speak. Every time she invents something they take it away and say the same thing: It's blocking your true power.

"Anna, Nonoko, let's go." she said emotionlessly as the two girls followed her to her room. Once they were there she couldn't hold it anymore she took the nearest thing, which was a picture of her parents, and threw it against the wall making the glass break into pieces scattered on the floor. The two servants didn't even bother to clean up the mess, they knew how Hotaru felt about her parents and frankly they had to agree. "Why?" Hotaru spoke as she clenched her fists "Why the hell can't I be an inventor? This is the Technical Kingdom. It's an honor for me to have this alice."

A girl with midnight blue hair and navy blue eyes, known as Nonoko, walked up to her mistress "Hotaru-sama, I don't know sire is doing this. We don't even know what this power is. If you truly want to be an inventor and forget about this so called 'power' then shouldn't you do what your brother did?"

"Because Onii-chan was lucky, He left the palace before anyone could blink. Now security is tighter than ever. So it's going to be harder for him to keep his promise."

'The promise'

Ten Years Ago

"Onii-chan, onii-chan!" a five year old girl ran threw the halls of the castle. The girl was wearing a purple tank top with black jeans ran up to someone who looked somewhere around fourteen. He had black hair, just like the girl and sharp violet eyes, like the girl. "Onii-chan are you really going to do it?" she asked concerned for her brother. No one has ever escaped the castle.

"Hn" was the older boy's reply "Remember, don't say a word okay?"

"I won't" the girl said "You'll come back for me right? So that when you become a doctor I can make the machines you use to save income?" Even before the incident the young royals couldn't leave the castle, especially when it rains. The king and queen never were really that close to their young but they had forbidden the children's dreams.

The teenager lowered himself down to his sisters' level and ruffled her soft hair. He mustered up a smile that was only reserved for his sister, "I promise"

Present Time

Even then Hotaru was emotionless and loved money. Due to the fact that it was the maids taking care of her and the maids were only doing it for pay she loved no one. Only her brother and maybe Anna and Nonoko. She was sure her brother was going to come back for her but she just couldn't take it anymore. She sighed deeply and looked outside, it was raining again, "I want to runaway."

With Mikan:

'I want to runaway' Mikan felt a pang in her heart. She was wondering what was happening, she had never felt that way before. She looked up, buildings were in her sight

"This must be the Technical Kingdom" she murmured to her self and looked at the things flying around the city-like empire "It's so different from ours." She smiled as the carpet landed in front of the gate.

Okay everyone I'm going to end it here. Sorry If I made Hotaru OOC she's going to be normal in the later chapters. And If you're fans of Taka and Soyya don't worry this isn't going to be the end of them and as for the person following them. Don't worry about him or her for a while. Okay, here's a fact that might make you stop reading my fic (please keep reading) Natsume won't be introduced for a while. But he's gonna don't worry. If you give me reviews I could post the next chapter before you could say 'royalty'.

Happy Smiles,

Blizzy-chan