A/N (Dream) : Hi! Thanks you guys for always supporting me and giving good reviews! Thousands of thanks especially to animefan106, coco2012 and akira for continuing gave reviews to me. I hope that everyone will continue guiding me through this fanfic writing. As always, please correct me if I do made mistakes somewhere. Enjoy, R&R… (^.-) /

Chapter 12 : The Invitation Card

' Dear King and Queen,

We would like to invite you to the 'Star-Drop Ceremony' that'll be held as following:-

Venue: Sunny Kingdom Centre

Date: xx/xx/xxxx

Time: 8.00 pm

As it has been known by many, this Star-Drop Ceremony had its own story- '

"It lied! You see, I've told you so Rein but you won't believe me!" said Fine suddenly snapped.

"Eh, ah…but…" Rein read the letter once more and found nothing suspicious or the part that..well you know, the part that can be categorised as 'lie'. "Which part did it lie?" she asked in confusion.

"Ha? Seriously, don't you get it?!" asked Fine in shock. Rein just shook her head. Fine sighed lightly and said "It stated here that everyone knows about this so called 'Star-Drop Ceremony story'!"

It seemed that 'I'm puzzled' was written on Rein's forehead. It was too obvious! "O-kay…So, what's the deal?" Rein asked to get some certainty.

Fine frowned a bit. "Rein! Did you know anything about the story behind that ceremony? Do I look like I know it? PING-PONG~ NO, right?" explained Fine in discontent tone.

"Yes…I mean that's true. Neither one of us knew about the story. But…oh, come on Fine. It's just phrases. Why did you so worked up over it?" asked Rein.

"Rein! We–"

"Cut it out you two! It's getting annoying here!" said Altezza who suddenly intercepting the conversations between Fine and Rein with irritation. "Don't you get tired over it yet? So, what's the plan?"

"Eh? What plan?" asked Rein in another confusion. Why did she got so many confusion today, she thought it in her mind.

"Plan? What plan? Eating, maybe? I'm hungry. That might be a good plan for now," said Fine spontaneously.

"You two…" Altezza clenched her hand in fury. Her face was as red as the lava inside a volcano. It was as if the volcano inside Altezza was about to erupt in any seconds and…3..2..1.. –BOOM! "That''s it! I'm gonna kill both of YOUUU!"

"UWAHH!~" Both Fine and Rein shouted. They were about to run away when Altezza was about to grabbed them but luckily Mirlo and Sophie managed to stopped her in time. They held Altezza's both hands tightly in order to restrain Altezza from chasing over the twins. In the meantime Fine and Rein hugged each other – all teary and shivering like a kitten that were afraid of being the furious barking dog's victim at night.

"No, Alttezza! You mustn't use violence on them," said Mirlo trying to calm Altezza down.

"That's true," agreed Sophie. "The Altezza that I know must be grabbing something and throw it to them or randomly kicking things instead of using your own fist to settle things down. You're the one who said that you didn't want to scratch your rings and broke your nails. 'Beauty comes first before violence' right. It's your motto. It's so awesome! How could I forget that!" she smiled innocently while fangirling about Altezza.

Somehow what was said by Sophie had sent everyone to a total silence. Altezza was looking at her hands while the others exchanged look to each other and finally focused to Altezza. Sophie was aware of it. She, with her innocent look asked, "Eh…What's the matter? Did I say something wrong?"

"Uh..um…" In uncertainty, Mirlo replied, "If you ask me…I think that…um…What you have just said was–"

"It was brilliant!" Altezza cut into Mirlo's verse. "Why didn't I think of that? Thank you, Sophie. Thank you for the first time ever!"

Sophie smiled, "You're always welcome."

"Kehee-he-he…" Altezza laughed. With a killer psycho face, Altezza held a chainsaw. GZRRRR~ ZRRR~ ZRR~ the chainsaw roared dangerously! She aimed it at Fine and Rein and said, "Go DIEE!"

"UWAAAHH! Rein, run for your life!" shouted Fine.

"FINE! ALTEZZA, STOPPP! Please forgive us! KYAA!" shouted Rein in frighten.

They shouted simultaneously and run as hard as they could to avoid from the 'Grim Reaper' (Altezza). People who saw the scene didn't know what to do and decided to 'wash their hands' and stay away from them so that they won't be in Altezza's target list.

"Well, that is more like Altezza that we know, right?" Sophie chuckled.

"Umm…I don't think that it's something that you can laugh about," replied Lione.

"Eh, really?" asked Sophie. "How about you Milky? What's your opinion?"

"Err.." The shivering Milky replied, "Altezza…sure is scary…"

"Eh~ you think so? I think that's her charm though," said Sophie, constantly smiling.

"SOMEONE, HELP USSSS!" shouted Rein.

"HEY, YOU GUYS! DON'T JUST STAND THERE! HELP US!" shouted Fine slightly afterwards.

Both the twin princess already looked exhausted but Altezza wasn't tired at all. She was still chasing those two fiercely!

"Oh, my. They really are good companions aren't they?" said Sophie.

Teardrops appeared on everyone … (^_^")

'... . Nevertheless, we would like to take this opportunity to remind the royal family that each princess and prince have to sing a song that symbolised themselves. According to the Star-Drop Ceremony tradition, this event was held to prevent these kids from losing their happiness. It is said that our first princess, Princess Grace always sings when she had to face difficulties, lonely and sad. Therefore, it is a compulsory for them to sing a song at the ceremony–"

"Ah, now I understand why Milky forced me to practice my singing," Shade sighed heavily. "How I hate to sing and not to mention in front of peoples!"

"Don't be paranoid Shade. Cheer up! All of us have to sing too. You're not alone," said Auler trying to cheer Shade up.

Bright chuckled. "That's true. Those girls also facing the same thing. They have to sing a song too. Not only us. Well, the more the merrier." He smiled.

"Easy for you to say," Shade replied.

"Sorry, no offence kay? I wanted to ask you something. You…not by any chance tone deaf are you?" Auler asked Shade.

"No! I'm not that bad! Or so I thought.." he said in an uncertain voice.

"Then? What else do you expect? Isn't that enough? You're gonna be just fine, I guarantee!" said Solo trying to raise Shade's spirit.

"That's right master! You're the best! Have some faith in yourself and you'll be okay," said Tio.

"Yeah, you're always the coolest one among us," continue Narlo.

Shade smiled shyly, "Thank you everyone. I'll try my best!"

Auler patted Shade's back unintentionally. "That's the spirit," he said. Shade groaned a little but Auler didn't take notice. "Come on! We will not lose to those girls no matter what. Quality is better than quantity right?!" he said zealously.

Everyone exchanged look and then responded to Auler unanimously, "YEAHHH!"

The respond made Auler more overwhelm with excitement and thus he shouted, "ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL!" as if he was the leader to their group.

Teardrops appeared on everyone…That was sooo awkward…(-_-")

"Uh…we're not the 'Three Musketeers' aren't we?" asked Shade.

"Nope, coz there are 6 of us here," Bright replied trying to hold his laugh.

Pfft…HAHAHAHAHAHAHA~ Everyone laughed and their voice brighten that evening more and more.

But…who would have known that something would bestow upon them on the same day…Doom had stored something for them….

KASHAA! KASHAA!

Hey looked! Someone's there, behind them…behind the bushes – hiding! There were evil smirks coming from the two human figure shadows! Not quite a friendly one though.

"Kehehe~ Oh my beautiful 'Golden Prince', laugh~ laugh all you want this evening with your sweet, little prince friends because this will be your last! The rest shall be mine! I'm positive. Dar-ling~"

"Hufufu~ A little bit more, and you shall be mine! Oh my cute little 'Cherry Princess'. Aren't you the most charming one of all? Ho-ney~"

After that, the evil shadows faded away into the deepest part of the forest…

Ah, wait! Was there any forest on Sunny Kingdom before? At the centre of the kingdom? What was there before the forest? This is so mysterious and it seemed that no one has realised it yet.

Dream : Um…did I made Altezza extra scary? (-_-") Well, sooner or later I might run out of ideas so...I would more than appreciate it if you could give me some ideas to boost on... Until next time dear reader *wave hand* Thank you!