I was in my room feeling a little weird at the moment but the more I thought about it the more weird I felt. On one hand I was getting ready for a welcoming party in Le Royaume, meaning I had to wear a fancy dress and act like a proper young princess. I looked into the mirror and reflected back in my mind what I saw, either than me having an edged look to my face.
My dress was overflowing with ruby red laced ribbon with the entire thing being diamond white with a sort of sky baby blue trim around the top – but since it was a off the shoulder type dress the part that was going around my shoulders was blue. I hated it! But my father basically ordered me to wear this stupid thing because we had human guests in the Magical World for the first time.
I just didn't want to say that I used my own magic and gave them special items so they could see magic. I smirked at the thought and looked down to one of my assistants that was assigned to me was doing. She had needles sticking out of her mouth and was tightening up the oversized lace wrap around my waist then I looked behind me at the other one doing up the back of my dress.
I was getting the life sucked out of me when a gentle breeze came through my window. I looked up, tried to glance outside, and saw what I think was a shadow but instead a single crow's feather came into my room. I caught the feather, looked at it, but before I could do anything else with it one of my ladies took it away from me and placed it inside one of my many sitting room drawers then came back to finish with my dress.
I was just about ready to yell and scream when I heard a knock at my room's door.
"Come in," I said fidgeting around trying to see who it was through the mirror.
Thankfully it was Haruhi who walked in and very much looking like a girl for the first time that I've seen her. I moved my hands up so the ladies would stop touching me as I turned around to face Haruhi better. She was wearing a pink and purple dress with white elbow length gloves, a pearl necklace, and individual pearls within strands of her hair.
"Nice outfit little girl," I said pointing at her with a smile.
"Hey! This isn't funny!"
"I didn't say anything," I told her as one of the ladies came back to stick my heart and diamond crown in my hair to complete this killer dress; "just be lucky that you don't have to do anything formal like me and make a fool of yourself."
I glared at the girl as she bowed and left the room, I glared back at the other one as she did the same. I sighed, turned my head back around, and tried to smile at the very girlie Haruhi. She fiddled with her fingers as she stared at me, her eyes full of surprise as she pointed for me to look in a mirror. I moved away and stared at my eyes that were a brilliant crystallized blue.
"Oh," I said readjusting my crown, "this happens whenever I get mad or super annoyed."
I closed my eyes and opened them back up to see my normal blue eyes again. I turned back to Haruhi who had a yellow heart right now. I walked over close to her, picked up my hand and reached over to touch the 'pee' heart when she pushed my hand away knowing that even she could see the hearts.
"What's the matter," I asked her moving my hand along the side of her head.
"It's weird that I can see these things. How are you able to cope with such disturbing creatures and other things?"
"Cope," I asked as she nodded her head, "it's difficult to explain these things to a human like you, Tamaki, and the others."
"Oh," she said leaning her head down a bit, "ok, I understand that much."
Her heart disappeared as I turned back to the door and opened it up just a bit to see the rest of the club standing outside my room waiting for me. I closed it, turned back to Haruhi, and patted her shoulder, "do you really want to go through with this party? There's no party like a Magical World party."
She smiled at me as a green heart came out. I smiled back as I used my magic to open the doors to my room. The boys all kind of gasped as they saw me, smiled, and their pink hearts came out. I smirked as I held out my hand as I did my spell, "Agrandissment! Your hearts, come to me!" I closed my right eye, stuck my tongue out a bit, and held their floating hearts in my right hand as they came around.
"Hey don't do that," Honey-san wailed to me.
"He's right," Poivre said walking to my side, "they may be humans, but they are still our guests," he said leaning to whisper in my ear, "they have a higher rank then the Queen. But I suggest you not tell them that."
I smiled as the hearts went into my pendant, "I promise."
"Good," he said holding out his arm, "your father sent me to drag you out of your room and into the throne room." I flinched at the very thought of 'the throne room' and stood still as Poivre started to pull on me.
He accidentally croaked, stopped pulling on me, and slightly blushed a bit before he smiled at me. "I thought so," he said just as he finally let me go making me trip a bit over the end of my dress, and right before I almost fell completely on the ground Mori-san caught me and picked me up just like a bride, "that's why I asked the boys to come and help me out." Poivre smirked, winked, and then turned on his heel to begin down the hall.
"That's no fair," I whined as the Host Club walked behind Poivre.
Mori-san walked just a few feet behind Honey-san, Hikaru and Kaoru were somewhere behind Honey-san and Mori-san, Kyoya was beginning to take notes about the palace as he walked behind Tamaki and Haruhi. I tried to look at each of them more carefully but between this dress and Mori-san holding me, I could barely move. I looked up at Mori-san, he looked right back at me and smiled, but the strange thing about all of this is that for some reason whenever I would hang out with the Host Club, I felt safe and happy.
A sudden spark of pain hit my chest as I closed my eyes, gripped my fists as tight as I could, and recoiled just a bit just as I sighed.
"Is everything ok my Princess?"
I opened my eyes just enough to see it was Surge standing in front of the doors with two other guards. They bowed as Poivre walked up to them to pat Surge on the shoulder. Surge tilted his head in respect just as Poivre walked off to the grand doors stood to wait on me, the guards stood on either side of the doors to ready themselves for us.
When Mori-san finally put me down I tried to pull myself together a bit more, the twins came over to fix the end of my dress and make my hair stay in place as my heart and diamond crown kept moving around.
Surge walked up behind the twins, took hold of my arm, pulled me away from, and yelled, "if anything happens to my Princess I'll hunt every single one of you!"
As annoyed as I was I used just a tad bit of my magic to wham Surge into a pillar on the other side of the hallway. I looked back at my friends and smiled, "if he wants any of you he has to deal with me first. Nobody will touch my friends!"
Poivre watched Surge fall head first to the ground, fall back over a couple of times, and turned his head back towards the two oversized doors to the throne room, "are you ready yet Zakuro-chan?"
"Oh," I said standing s few paces behind my uncle, "might as well be."
The doors opened to a grand hall draped with purple curtains, crystal stars foating around the room, and something called the Fire Crystal in the center of the ceiling lighting up the room. Everyone turned towards the doors and began to cheer. I heard wine bottles pop, some fireworks outside the palace, and lots of clapping.
As Poivre walked slowly in I looked up into his eyes, calm yet excited they read, he looked back over to me and leaned over to my shoulders as he whispered in my ear, "behave Zakuro."
He stood back up with his left hand all the way in the air and lifted his voice high to hear above the crowd, "her royal majesty, daughter of Queen Chocolat of Le Royaume and King Pierre of The Underworld, Princess Zakuro!"
I walked into the small crowd followed by Poivre then the Host Club as I walked down the center carpet, up the stairs to the first platform where Ichigo was sitting in her diamond white dress with pale purple trim and forest green lacey ribbon wrapped as an elbow shawl. But before I sat down next to her, I saw my father sitting on the second platform where he sat in his black tux, his white collar that wrapped around his neck going down his shoulder and onto his chest, and blue crystals hovering around his body as if to reflect his image.
I sat down like a 'good girl' and waited for Poivre to finish his speech, "you two are our next qualified Queens of the Magical World and of the Underworld." Poivre used some of his magic to make water-like fireworks fall around the two of us and continued on, "Zakuro Meillure and Ichigo Meiux, may the rest of your trials be held with great honor as one of you is chosen as our next Queen!"
I took hold of Ichigo's hand in mine and moved my other hand up in the air as the crowd began to quiet down so I could speak, "any and all of the presents that you may have for Ichigo or I will be opened later in the evening once we have a party."
Ichigo squeezed my hand tight as I made her stand up behind me, "so let us go down to the village and begin this very special celebration!"
Strange enough everyone started doing as I ordered. Ichigo and I looked at each other, laughed, and used our magic to get out of our gowns and into our regular clothes. My hair was in two separate ponytails but my crown was still on my head, and then I was wearing a sleeveless black halter top with a gold chocker holding my pendant, black fingerless gloves that frilled out around my wrists with the third and last layer being gold, my round gold earrings with black stars hanging off the loops were back, a frilled black mini skirt held up by a golden star belt, and knee high black boots.
Ichigo's hair was her usual style with star hairpins all over, a baby blue off the shoulder dress with puffy sleeves that stopped at her elbows with a silver chocker holding her pendant, silver bracelets with nothing on her hands, her round silver earrings, the skirt part of her dress was thigh high with a silver star belt wrapped itself a couple times around her waist still dangled off of her a bit, and ankle length baby blue strap on heeled shoes with sheer white stockings that began on her thighs were her skirt stopped.
We smiled at each other again before I looked back at my father whom was still sitting down. "May I bring my friends outside the barrier of Le Palais for the party," I asked staring at him before he stood up and walked down from his platform. He walked right over to me, moved some of my hair behind my left hair and held onto my face, "yes you may," he finally said, "I'll be at the Queen's side if you need me."
"I forgot," I thought, "every time we come back to the magical world father sits next to mother hoping that one of these days she'll awaken from the sleeping spell she was cursed upon all those years ago."
"Zakuro-san?"
I bounced back to stare at Tamaki, "did you want to pay your respects to the Queen before you go outside?" I blinked a couple of times before I shook my head yes, "there's a barrier around her room as well so I can only go so far before it starts to hurt. My father, Ichigo's mother, and a few other guards can get inside to actually see her."
"We'll follow you," Ichigo said hovering around the room, "Poivre went with Libby and Tamaki's dad to the party so we'll see them there ok?"
I smiled at her, "are you trying to lift my spirits Ichigo?"
"Hai," she said with a smile waiting by the door.
"It's working," I said starting to do the same thing, "are you sure you can keep up," I asked the boys.
They nodded their heads as Mori-san took Haruhi on his shoulders to carry her around, so I began to fly around the Host Club while their clothes changed, waited for them to look at each other for a second and led the way to my mother's chambers were I stopped just outside the barrier.
Thank you eveyone for reading my story and wanting to know more! You are the best! *bows*
