Chapter Eleven: Path of the Princess of Light

"See you, Kilala! Bye Erica!"

"Bye-bye!" Kilala said waving goodbye to her friends after another day of school as they saw a mob of girls by the wall.

"Hm? What's that crowd looking at?" Erica asked as they saw Rei and Jason caught in it.

"KYA!" the girls screamed.

"REI?! JASON?!" Kilala yelled.

"My, they're awfully popular" Erica said.

"Ladies please I'm flattered but...WE NEED PERSONAL SPACE!" Jason yelled.

"Well, they were the center of attention at the dance party after all" Erica said.

"Uh–huh" Kilala said.

"What are you going to do about all these rivals?" Erica asked.

"I wonder but one thing for sure I'm not going to give up!" Kilala smiled trying to get into he mob but got hit in the face and fell to the ground "Owwie! Easier said than done."

"You okay?" Rei asked holding his hand out.

Later that day she drove her mopez with Rei sitting on the back and Jason ridding his glider behind them.

"How does it feel to be so popular?" Kilala asked.

"Hey, they surrounded us and we couldn't move! It was scary!" Rei said.

"Those girls were a lit cutter than me...why were you at my school in the first place? You could just wait at the house!"

"I..." he said as he blushed, "it's because I couldn't wait for you to come home."

'Rei, you're so sweet!' she thought.

"Hold on!" she said.

"Huh? WHAT?!" he said as she sped off.

"That girl going to get him killed" Jason sighed following till they crashed at the house.

"Phew! I'm starving!" Kilala said skipping to the stairs as Jason looked down at Rei.

"You okay?" Jason asked poking Rei.

"I'll make you a hot drink-" Kilala said opening the door then stopped when she saw to cups already on the table with steam coming out of them.

'It can't be...' she thought.

"What's wrong?" Rei asked.

"Mmm smells good" Jason said.

"Kilala?" they heard a man say from behind as Jason and Rei look back to see a man and woman.

"Oh!" Kilala said turning around with tears in her eyes, "DADDY! MOMMY!" she cried running into their arms.

'I missed you so much! I'm so happy! It's not a dream!'

"Hmm" Jason smiled.

Later Kilala mother was put in a bed as Rei and Jason stood at the doorway.

"Mommy, are you alright? Your sickness is all better right? You said you'd be cured if you went to Paradiso" Kilala said as Jason noticed Rei flinch.

"Paradiso?" Rei repeated.

"Paradiso is a world where everyone lives a happy life right?" Kilala asked.

"Kilala" her mother said.

"We couldn't get any treatment we barely made it out alive" her father said.

"What?!"

"This is a newspaper from Paradiso" he said setting it down for them to see, "the world is in turmoil. The Government was overthrown!"

"Was it the Heartless?" Jason asked as Rei snatched the paper and looked at it.

"Rei?" Kilala said before he ran out, "Rei! What's wrong?!"

"I've seen that boy somewhere" her father said.

At the bar at the dock Rei showed Valdou the paper.

"This is just terrible! How could there be a rebellion against the Royal Family?!" Rei said.

"Where did you get this?" Valdou asked.

'How could I have forgotten something so important?! I'm the prince of Paradiso!' Rei thought.

"In any case, this means that your life is in danger, we have to hide you" Valdou said.

"Valdou I..."

"Kilala wait!" Jason yelled as they ran to the docks.

'Now I remember! He's the Prince of Paradiso! If he returns to his world now his life will be in danger!' Kilala thought as they saw Rei heading to a boat.

"REI!" Kilala yelled.

"Kilala...!" he said as she ran into his arms.

"Rei, you can't go back to Paradiso! If you do you'll...you'll be..."

"I'm sorry but I have to."

"Then take me with you!"

"Kilala..."

"I can help! I promise to protect you! So please-" she said as he held out the tiara in front of her.

"I want you to protect this for me."

"The tiara!"

"I'll be back soon, I promise" Rei said kissing her forehead as they heard a bell rining, "Uh-oh! I really have to go, I can't run away from my duties because I'm the Prince of Paradiso."

"Why?"

"You need to stay here and protect your father and mother."

'Not again...I promise never to let you go...but' she thought as Rei walking onto the boat and began to sail away 'I can't stop you...I can't even follow you. Ariel...Snow White...what should I do?' she thought as she cried as Jason pulled her to his chest and pat her back.

Later that night Kilala returned home to find her mom out of bed and waiting

"Mommy?"

"Where's Rei?" she asked as Kilala looked like she might cry again as he mother pulled her to her chest, "Don't cry" she said as Kilala remembered what Snow White said.

"Don't cry, it'll be all right if you believe, you dream will come true" Snow White said.

"There's nothing to worry about! We're all cheering for you, Kilala!" Ariel said.

'Snow White...Ariel...I'll always remember the wonderful things that you taught me!' Kilala thought.

"Mommy I...I..."

'I don't know what to do...I want to help Rei!' she thought as Jason saw the tiara begin to glow again.

'Take a step forward with the Kindness of Snow White and the strength of Ariel go forward'a voice said.

"The tiara?" Kilala said.

"Kindness and strength...a girl who will change the world with her pure heart..."

"You can do it, Kilala you can become a princess" he mother said.

'What? Ariel...Snow White...can I really become a princess too...?' Kilala thought.

"I can actually help Rei?"

"Yes Kilala I'm sure you have the power you're not just our daughter you were born to be a princess a girl who will change the world but it's probably still a little to early to call you a princess you need to search for what you're missing."

"What...I'm missing?"

"Yes and it may send you on a long journey too..." she said.

Later her mother brushed her hair as she got Kilala ready.

"Go look for Professor Schmidt he'll be able to help you."

"But I don't want to leave you and daddy."

"Kilala...mommy and daddy want you to walk your own path because your happiness is our happiness" she said hugging her.

'Thank you mommy and daddy. Snow White and Ariel had to overcome difficulties to make their dreams come true I want to be strong too, just like them I will become a princess too wait for me, Rei!'

"Master Rei you should get some rest we still have a long journey ahead" Valdou said as Rei looked out to sea.

"Okay..."

"EEK! W-WAIT!" a man yelled as Valdou smirked, "I'll change course right away!"

"This is the right place" Jason said as he and Kilala got off a train.

"WOW! Amazing!" Kilala said looking at the city they ended up in.

'Huge buildings and so many people! This place is nothing like Avalon...'

Soon the two began to ask around town for Professor Schmidt address but got nowhere as they stopped for a break.

"I can't walk anymore!" Kilala said.

"Me too!" Jason said.

"Are you all right Tippe?" Kilala asked.

"Pi..."

'How long is it going to take to find him? I'm so hungry...'

"Stop it!" they heard a little girl cry as they looked to an alley to see a little girl, "gimme back my book! Please!"

"Hey you! Cut it out!" Kilala yelled running to the alley as the three teens glared..

"What didja say?" one growled as Jason summoned both his keyblades and glared.

"Wanna glare again punk?" Jason growled.

"W-why don't you pick on someone your own size!"

"Heh! Little brat keeps goin' on 'bout fairies left 'n right, she's annoyin' the heck outta me" he said as they laughed.

"Fairies do exist! What's wrong with believing in them?!" Kilala yelled.

"Another dumb chick let's go man."

"Ya want yer book back? Here ya go!" he said tossing it into a bucket of water.

"You jerks!" Kilala yelled running to the bucket.

"C'mon let's get outta here!" one of the three said as they left.

"Mini!" Jason yelled shirking the three boy then glared down at them, "someone outta teach out rats a lesson! Have fun not getting squished for thirty minutes!" he yelled about to stomp on them as they all ran.

"What a bunch of lowlifes the book's ruined" Kilala said pulling it out of the water and handing it to the girl.

"It's...it's all your fault! Forget it! Fairies don't exist anyway!" the girl cried before running off.

"Ah...wait!" Kilala said.

'I couldn't even help a little girls' Kilala thought.

"Don't let it bother you, you heart was in the right place she just took her anger out on you don't let it get you down" Jason said.

"C'mon let's go find the professor" Kilala said as they searched the other half of town till they got an address and arrived at a door.

"This must be it!"

"Finally!" Jason said as Kilala knocked on the door.

"Excuse me! Hello?! I'm looking for Professor Schmidt! Pro...OOF!" she grunted when the door hit her and she fell over.

"Kilala!" Jason said.

"What's all the racket! The professor doesn't live here anymore! This house belong to me now!" a woman said.
"What?"

"You're disturbing the neighborhood get lost!" she said.

"W-wait, please! Where did he go then?!"

"Go? He didn't go anywhere the professor passes away last year!" she said before closing the door.

"No need to be rude about it! Grumpy old woman" Jason muttered as he looked to Kilala on her knees, "you okay?" Jason asked.

'Why? How did it turn out like this? I lost my only clue to becoming a princess I can't even help the person dearest to me when he's in danger. Am I really destined to become a princess? I don't want to lose him, his smile, his voice, please let me be with Rei!' she thought hugging the tiara with tears coming down her face.

"I miss you...I miss you so much Rei!" she cried.

"Kilala darkness always finds a way into a wounded heart. Strength of Heart can help you overcome the hardest of trails...Terra said that to a Princess once" Jason said as they looked over to see the little girl approach.

"I'm sorry your book got ruined 'cos of me" Kilala said whipping her eyes.

"No, I'm sorry, you were helping me yet I got mad at you...I'm Mill and I came to say thank you, so don't cry anymore okay?"

Later that night they all sat on a bench looking at the book.

"This must be a really special book" Kilala said.

"It's a story about Tinker Bell! Too bad I can't read it anymore. Fairies are for real right?" Mill said.

"Of course! I believe in fairies too!" Kilala said.

"You do?!"

"So do I, if you believe it with all your heart your dreams can come true" Jason said.

"I'm so glad I met you! And I'll keep on believing in fairies because I know I'll meet one someday! Right?" Mill said.

"You bet!" Jason said.

'How could I have lost sight of something so important? The only thing that's been my biggest source of strength is faith I've always believed and I'm never giving up!' Kilala thought hugging Mill, "Mill...thank you so much!"

'You've taught me a lesson more precious than anything else...'

"What that noise?" Jason said hearing the jingling sound then looking up to see a ball of light come down with Tinker Bell in it.

"It's a fairy!" Mill said as Tinker Bell spun around Mill and tapped on Mill book restoring it, "look! My book is brand new again!"

"Amazing" Jason said as they saw Tinker Bell going in one direction.

"Little fairy where are you going?" Mill asked as they followed her to a house, "wait for us!"

"A library?" Jason said as they headed up the stairs and pushed opened the doors Tinker Bell stood at as she moved to a book.

"W-what's this?!" Kilala said taking the book off the shelf as Jason looked over her shoulder to see, "Legend of the Princess...it's Professor Schmidt's book!"

"What it say?" Jason asked as Kilala flipped through the pages.

"The owner of the tiara changed many times in the past, it's charm attracts both good and evil forces therefore it can either bring everlasting peace or perpetual turmoil, the true powers of the tiara are drawn out by fourteen gems when all the gems are on the crown the Princess of Light will be chosen by the tiara!" Kilala read.

"So the Princess will be chosen...that mean in order for you to become a princess, we have to collect all fourteen gems" Jason said.

"Snow White gave me a red ruby and Ariel gave me a blue aquamarines I need twelve more" Kilala said holding the crown.

'I will believe in destiny, no matter what happens I will become a princess and save Rei!' Kilala thought.

"Jason! Kilala! Look!" Mill said pointing out the window as they saw Tinker bell flying to the second star to the right.

'First I need to find a door, it may be the long way round but I wonder which Princess I'll meet next? I'm getting kinda excited about the future but if I believe, I'm sure my wish will come true!' Kilala thought.

"Thank you, little fairy!" Mill said waving.

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