Princess Cari Prelude Arc Part Three

Hikari's Journey

It had been three weeks since Cari left, then the new prince of Mortmor which was blamed on the kingdom of Fieheart. This quickly irrupted into a war throughout the kingdoms of the Kingdom Isles. It was so bad that even the pacifistic Mie'mory could no longer sit on the sidelines and joined the war. Bodies and cannon balls flew and walls broke. Everybody fell into both depression and a constant state of fear.

King Alexander knew that he had to do something that would put an end to the war, and whatever it was, he had to do it quickly. He also knew that the only one who had the ability to end this war he had exiled. He also knew that she would be the best person to have on the battlefield, but he just did not want to put her in harms way, not after the whole kingdom had forced his and her hand to bring back Hikari.

Then there was Hikari herself, she had to get to safety and fast. He knew that she could not remain in Fireheart much longer for he knew that the moment that they find her she would ether get killed or worse. He knew that every day that passed in the war that time was becoming more and more inevitable. He had to get her to safety, no matter what.

Then in the middle of that third week an idea came to him. Which he knew was both risky but it was the best one that he had in the circumstances that he was in and the increasing stress that the war was bringing to him and his kingdom.

“Send for Princess Hikari now.” he ordered Earl, who had her brought to him before the same hour was up.

“Hikari, I want you to pack some of your things.”

“What? But I'm not leaving you here! Not at a time like this! Please don't send me away father!” she pleaded.

He smiled warmly at her knowing that this was the reason that he could not send her away to another kingdom, after all both of his girls had inherited his stubbornness.

“Fear not my sunshine, I am sending you away, but not for the reason that you think.” he said.

He picked her up and put his sat her on his knee and put his arm around her and looked left and right and pretending that the cost was clear he raised his finger to his lips.

“Now sunshine, I have an important mission for you, and you must not tell anyone alright?”

“Alright!” she said giving him a solute. He let out a light chuckle.

“Well I want you to go the the Queendom Isles, more specifically Emerald. Do you know why?” he asked.

Hikari narrowed her eyes as she thought about why. Seeing that there was nothing that she could think of until she remembered.

“That's where Car is!” she exclaimed. The King covered her mouth and playfully shushed her. “Oh right, top secret.”

“Yes, this is what I want you to do, I want you to go there and get her!” he said as he leaned in.

“Yes sir! And if she says no, then I will tickle her until she says yes!” she laughed.

“Yes that's the spirit!”

“Then I'll be packing right away!” she sand as she jumped off his lap and ran to her room and looked at her room and spotted a rucksack already there.

“Right, Hik, when you're packing for a long journey, pretty dresses and dolls aren't going to cut it. After all on a long journey they are useless to you, no, what you need are more practical clothes,like woollen things and wear jeans or a skirt that doesn't go below the knee cap, and if you do wear a skirt make sure that you are wearing thick tights preferably black or any colour that does not make you stand out. After all if you are wearing a long skirt or dress, you not only stand out but the ends of the skirt or dress could easily catch on something including your own feet, whenever you need to make a quick run or get away.” She heard her sister say in her mind.

She realised that her sister had taught her many things that she knew a princess of that age should not, like how to know whenever someone ha a malicious intent and how to get away from them. She had even used what her sister hat taught her to keep herself sane when she had been captured by the dragon.

She missed her sister and was very excited to be going out into the big wide world to go and look for her, so that she could see her again. She had never believed for one moment what her sister had said about herself and her heritage. She could not even believe that she had said it! It just could not be true, after all her sister loved her and their father and for her to say that she was born as part of a conspiracy to got her kingdom...That she could not believe, even-though everything that had happened since then had proven what here sister had said to be true, after all why would the King of Mortmore welcome her sister with open arms?

She knew that she would get her answers when she and her sister met up. So after packing her bag she shifted it on her back she walked in a line just to test it. Seeing that the bag held she ran around the bed seeing that it was still intact, she was confident in the bag she looked around her room knowing just how much she would miss it. She ran up to her brunette doll with blue eyes and kissed her on her forehead.

She then skipped to the docs and spotted that her father was waiting by the royal ship called Ever-Burning Heart. It was faster than normal ships that was said that you would arrive a month earlier than they would.

Her father kissed her on the forehead and she kissed him on the cheek. She gave a curtsy and ran up. She looked back and waved he waved back.

“Both of you come home safe! Goodbye!”

“We will! Goodbye daddy!”

She waved and waved even until her land was long since gone from the horizon. There she sat until she became hungry and went to the cabins and ate. She spent two months on the ship and asked one of the crew to help her train for battle, after all she knew that even-though she was going to go to look for her sister, she could not rely on her for protection. So by the time that she arrived at the isle of Emerald, she would be able to fight one or two men, provided that they were not going easy on her.

When she set foot she thought that she had spotted Prince Ryo Kizeru as she arrived but shook her head thinking that it was her eyes playing tricks on her. She made her journey to Queen Gloria's castle a fairytale pink and purple and silver carriage pulled by a purl cream stallion with a golden shine to his coat.

She soon came to her palace which too looked like it was pulled out of a fairytale! She soon was in front of Queen Gloria. She had long golden locks and deep brown eyes with a crimson tint. Her skin was healthy with a golden tint and pail pink cheeks with high cheekbones and pail lips.

“Hello, Princess Hikari. May I ask why are you here pet?” she asked with a kind melodic voice.

“Well I am here to bring my sister back home.” she replied.

“And why did she not inform me of her presence in my Queendom?”

“She was exiled and stripped of her title as princess after claiming to have been born as part of a conspiracy.”

“'Claiming?' Do you not believe her?”

“No.”

“Then why would she lie?”

“I don't know...”

“Then why doubt that it is truth? After all everybody knows that it is.” she said.

Hikari's eyes widened.

“What?”

“You did not know? Then you must know that the daughter of the dragon queen is known to all. In fact my witch told me and now I know that she is here I must ask her to leave, kindly.” she said.

Hikari's eyes widened even more.

“Why?” she asked.

“That is none of your concern pet. Now would you like to spend the night here?”

“No thank you. How about I go to my sister and ask her for you?” she asked.

“Alright.”

With that she left the palace as soon as she could. She then climbed a tree knowing that she was going to be followed. She then spotted a light in the distance and knew that of all the places, that would be where she would be. She, like a monkey jumped from tree to tree, which was a game that she and her sister played. They were both very good at this and then, when she knew that she had lost the ones that Queen Gloria had set on her she dropped to the ground as she heard three people talking, two she recognised as Cari and Ryo,but the other she could not but the woman that belonged to that voice looked shockingly like Cari, just with red eyes instead of white.

“Well, Cari, yes I know that it's you I saw you with your half-sister, so do not think that you can deny it, me deer half-sister.” he huffed passionately then she saw his half-brother react out and pull his hair which seemed to clam him down a little.

“But I understand now, now that I know what it's like to be in your position, and over these past three months, I have come to the conclusion that if it was mine, I would do the same.” he said as he glanced at his half-brother. “After all I too wouldn't want anything like that to happen to my half-brother, Riku.”

Hikari's eyes widened.

“So it is true!” she exclaimed as they turned back to look at her.

“I think you all have a lot to talk about so...”

“Scar was it?” Ryo asked.

“Yeah.”

“Stay, this is destiny at work and yes. It is, now why are you here?” Ryo asked.

“So you were the one who took him!”

“What I could not let my half-brother be raised by that witch!”

“Well,that witch has blamed our kingdom for the kidnapping of your half-brother. Now we are at war and father told me to bring you home sister.”

“So she was smiling.”

“Well looks like you have a lot to talk about.”

“More than you know Mythos Puros.” said a deep woman's voice behind them.