Zakuro stared out into the horizon as she leaned on the railing by her bay window with the curtains and her long hair trailing in the wind right behind her.

Pierre came into the room with Duke sitting on his shoulder and a stern look to both of their faces. She turned around and watched as her father turned to his side as he grabbed her knapsack, "come now before the door closes."

Zakuro turned her head a bit and saw that the reflected moon on the water had some clouds around it, "can I say goodbye first?"

"To whom," Duke said finished off by Pierre, "you're going to be pulled out from that school anyways. You can say goodbye then, now come."

Zakuro took hold of a small shawl and wrapped it around her shoulders as she followed Pierre down the halls and into the darkness.

As they were walking down the pathway to the beach where the moon lay in the water, she couldn't help but remember why Pierre was so mad at her … and what happened just a few hours ago.

Pierre's eyes widened as he watched Zakuro transform into her witch outfit. But he noticed that everyone was confused as to what was going on while Tamaki was trying to convince his friend to stop.

Pierre felt something on his shoulder, looked over, and saw Yuzuru's hand with a stern look and with the students staring at him as well.

He closed his eyes and focused his power to create similar necklaces for everyone else, like Tamaki's necklace, to see magic.

Yuzuru touched his with the tips of his fingers then saw what the snake had become. He also saw how the other members of the Host Club kind of freaked out a bit but was more in shock than anything else. Tamaki had taken hold of Zakuro's arm by then and was trying to hold her back as she pushed him out of the way and then do a spell, "Fleur Spirale!"

The snake moved its head out of the way and made the tail hit her in the stomach sending her flying out towards the water. Duke focused his energy to turn into his human self, Poivre, and caught Zakuro before she even came close to the water. Zakuro opened her eyes and saw his sweet smile as she used her power to hover above the water just as Poivre was doing at the moment too.

Pierre gave a sigh of relief as he turned his head back to the snake as he did his own ogre magic.

Zakuro turned her head and saw that her father was fighting the snake without any help and trying to make it move away from her friends. As she watched the snake almost hit Tamaki, but Yuzuru-san tackled him to the ground before it could try.

She sighed then got an idea.

"Hey Poivre, can you help me with a song?"

He looked at her with a sort of confused look to his face as he slowly agreed to it.

Zakuro moved her arms in front of her with her hands out her fingers slowly gathering its magic the witch's symbol came behind her as she focused her power into an earpiece as it appeared.

Zakuro took off her witch's hat and cape as the earpiece went onto her ear as Povire began to hear the music she was thinking of.

Pierre landed on the ground after doing a back flip and turned his head towards the water where Zakuro started singing.

Both Poivre and Zakuro started using their magic to manipulate the water into an attack while the snake started to act weird from her singing.

Zakuro blurred out her thoughts as she reached the water's edge. She started at her refection rippling in the waves then slowly looked up seeing her father moving his arms to open the door to Le Royaume and in front of La Palais.

She sighed again, moved her neck all the way back, and began to float on her own. She moved her neck back to its normal setting and moved herself closer to the door until she heard her name being called out from the shore.

Halfway between the beach and the shore Zakuro saw it was the Host Club, even Yuzuru-san, wanting Zakuro to come back to land. She moved her body around to face them fully; her eyes full of concern as Pierre took hold of her hand and pulled her into the portal.

Zakuro blinked only once as the world around her changed into her country in the Magical World. She turned her head back around as Pierre continued to pull her to the palace grounds.

"Ichigo should be here visiting her parents," Pierre said without looking at her, "I gave her permission to come back while I was away with you."

She narrowed her eyes as her natural cold look came back to her face as they entered La Palais.

"Welcome back my lord and young lady," said a bowing Glacier (I forgot what his title is so I'll just leave it as his name) as both Pierre and Zakuro walked by, "may I ask what happened in the human world for one of the candidates to come back so early?"

"Trouble," Pierre said as he finally let Zakuro go, "is there any difference in the Queen yet?"

Glacier stood up and shook his head as Pierre walked away, "meet me in the gardens later Zakuro."

She looked down a little then back up to see Glacier and a younger guy quietly talking to each other. Glacier turned around, gave a tilt of his head, and walked off leaving both the younger guy and Zakuro alone.

The guy turned around and came closer to her as she turned on her heel.

"I don't have time for you today Surge," she said as she felt his hands come around her waist, "I already had a long day so it would help me out if you didn't start with me."

He pulled her closer as he whispered in her ear, "demo Zakuro-san looks cute in a halter dress with a shawl," he slowly turned her chin towards his as he came in for a kiss, "one kiss wouldn't hurt right?"

She closed her eyes for a second only to open them up as a crystallized blue throwing Surge into the wall and making a dent with little pieces of rock falling off within an instant.

"Told ya I didn't have time for you," she said walking off holding her knapsack in one hand.

Zakuro fell onto her fluffy royal blue with white bed sheets as she rolled over to stare at the ceiling. She sat up and looked around the room.

The walls were white with her cream colored dressing room cambers in one corner, a cream colored door with a golden doorknob that led to her bathroom, a small setting for her mirror and make up sat near her chambers, and only one window with royal blue curtains with golden and cream colored ribbons holding them in place led to an outside balcony overlooking the entire wing with some parts of the Magical World peeked through.

She sighed again as she fell back down into her bed with her eyes closed, her mind racing, and her hearts thumping. (Yes I ment it to be pural ... cool no?)

At one given point of time Zakuro finally decided to get out of bed, get changed into a small yet formal looking outfit adorned with a small golden tiara with unique gyms embedded in the middle and sides of it. She got up, walked over to the door, and walked out towards the Amethyst Gardens located behind La Palais.

Once there, Zakuro saw her father sitting under a willow tree with small blooming flowers eating some Silver Berries. She walked over to his side, sat down, and was handed a berry.

"Try it," her father said, "your mother and I used to eat them when we were little …" Zakuro tried one and tasted its sweetness as Pierre finished his sentence, "… before they turned silver."

Zakuro tilted her head a little to face him, "what color were they?"

He smiled as he rubbed the side of her face along her red hair, "cherry red."

She saw the sweetness in his eyes as she slowly blushed and turned her head back around.

Pierre moved his hand away from her and tilted his head for a shadow to fall over his eyes as he stood up all of a sudden, "gomen."

Zakuro looked up, "nani?"

"Gomen Zakuro, I have to keep reminding myself that you're not Chocolat … you look so much like her if not for the eyes."

Zakuro lowered her head as she stood up and hugged her father from the back, "it's ok … I know how much I look like her so its ok, and I'm sorry."

Pierre looked up, turned around, and hugged her back, "I'm sorry too Zakuro-chan." He buried his face into her hair until he heard the sound of footsteps right behind them. He turned around and saw both Glacier and Surge standing there with their swords drawn.

"Are you two unharmed," Glacier asked.

Pierre shook his head while he eased up a bit from protecting Zakuro.

"What happened," she asked as she came around Pierre.

"The guards speak of intruders in the palace," Surge replied to the princess, "we came here first seeing if you two were safe. The Queen is still safe as long as that barrier is around her room."

Pierre gave a small sigh of relief as a few more guards came up from behind.

"My lord," said one of them, "the intruders have been captured and are being held captive. We are moving them to the throne room for you to decide their fate sire."

Glacier led the way to the throne room with Surge following him, Pierre and Zakuro in the middle, and the few guards at the end.

Glacier opened one door as Surge opened the other to let the King and Princess in. The Captain of Royaume had her wrappings holding the intruders in place as she bowed her head and walked away.

Pierre walked over to them with Zakuro close behind. He looked down at the few who were trying to free themselves, "the more you struggle the more pain you'll feel," he said turning to walk to the top of the stairs.

Zakuro looked at the one in the middle and felt a strange feeling coming from them. She could tell that they were guys so she leaned over a bit and waited for one of them to open their eyes a little, but didn't.

"Zakuro! Get away from them!"

She stood back up and began to turn around when the guy in the middle finally opened up his eyes. Zakuro knew right away who they were as she took a step back, "but … how?"