4Chapter 3
"My name… is Dark." The entire room was still for a moment, as if someone had just died. Dark? As in The phantom thief Dark? What does he want? "Dark, was it? Well Dark, by order of the princess I demand that you take me back to the palace this minute! "Ringo said trying hard to sound convincingly firm and confident, but he wasn't fooled. He could see the fear in her eyes. He walked away and continued playing the piano, but it wasn't a normal song. Ringo started to feel dizzy, "Hey…what are you-?" She fell to the floor, unconscious.
"Ah, prince Satoshi you've finally returned. We have important news regarding princess Ringo. Dark has kidnapped her, so we're postponing the engagements until we-umm Prince Satoshi?" The prince just waked passed the knight as if he wasn't even there.
"Don't take it personally," said the maid, "He's always like that whenever he goes out." The knight just nodded and left, he got on his horse and road to Prince Daisuke's kingdom.
"Gyah!" Ringo shot up nearly falling out of her bed. She was panting hard, face sweaty and tear-stained. It took her a while before she realized where she was.
"How did I-?" She was asking herself, looking her room over up and down. She jumped at the sound of the door opening. There was a all figure standing there, she couldn't quite tell who it was. "Ringo?" the voice asked.
"M-mom…?" Ringo jumped up and ran to hug her mother. "Mom!" she cried.
The queen started crying hysterically along with her daughter, some incoherent "'Thank you,' 'Thank you god!'" were heard by Ringo which made her cry even more.
"Oh mom, I was so scared!"
"I am to meet Princess Risa? But I thought that the weddings were postponed do to the kidnapping of princess Ringo." Daisuke said with that cute confused face of his.
"Yes we have postponed the weddings but we thought it would be best if you met Princess Risa now," the knight said and then left. Daisuke sighed, then gathered his thins and rode to the central kingdom to meet his future bride.
He arrived and was greeted by over one hundred of their servants; he walked into the room and saw two beautiful princesses sitting on their thrones. Their father came in to introduce them, "Prince Daisuke, may I introduce my lovely daughters, Princess Risa and her elder sister Princess Riku." Both girls smiled at Daisuke. That's him?! This can't possibly be... My prince is supposed to be handsome and wonderful and... Just like Dark! How could I have gotten paired with such and pitiful prince. The smile left Risa's face as she stepped off the throne and walked over to Daisuke. It's okay... Daisuke thought as he felt the sweat stream down his face. Just because you knew that this would one day be the girl you would marry and then luckily you were chosen to marry her doesn't mean a thing. I just have to be cool and make her like me the same. He let out a small gasp as he felt Dark was abut to take over. Oh no! Don't make me transform now! "Ummm, excuse me." Daisuke ran out of the castle door and around to the side of the large fortress. God Daisuke. This isn't the place to be changing into me! You're going to spend the rest of your life with this girl and besides if you do that again I'm caught and we both are most likely exiled or executed! A small rustling sound was heard by Dark from beyond the wall. Oh, no! Someone's coming. Dark dashed behind one of the many bushes in front to the castle. "Prince Daisuke!" shouted Princess Riku. She had just came outside looking for him. I wonder where he got off to.
What? I'm myself again...But how? We only transform when- Dark!? He can't possibly like Princess Riku... Hello! I can hear your every thought remember!? Daisuke jumped out of the bushes when Riku had her head turned and asked if she had called is name.
"Well, yes I did. I came looking for you to tell you that you don't have to be nervous! Princess Risa- she can be picky, but she will grow to love you! Do you want to come back in now?"
Daisuke just stared. Why is she trying to comfort me? You're such an idiot. "Ummm, yes let's go back in." They both walked back into the castle when Risa was saying to her father, "Dad! I do not want to marry him!"
Daisuke stopped dead in his tracks. I knew it! I blew it by running away... What have I done!? He felt his eyes start to burn as tears threatened to come out, Riku placed her and gently on Daisuke's left shoulder. "It's okay. Come on we need to go in." said Riku, as she pulled on his arm until he continued to walk inside. "Prince Daisuke! I have a proposal for you." said the twins' father, "Why don't you take Risa out and you two can get to know each other a bit, in fact, you should take them both, lighten the mood a little bit." He pushed Risa forward and she walked to Daisuke. All three of them left the castle. "So, ummm... Where do you want to go?" asked Daisuke. "I don't want to go anywhere with you!" shouted Risa, "I don't like you." With that she left them and ran back towards the castle. Daisuke was about to go after her, but Riku stopped him. "There's no point in a date, if you force her to go. She will only hate you more. We'll go." Daisuke and Riku walked away from the castle and she announced where she wanted to go- the park. So Daisuke took her to the nearest park and they talked for their entire date.
"Well, she just- she doesn't know who she wants to marry." said Riku.
"I wish she didn't hate the idea of marrying me so much. We might actually be happy if she wasn't so against it." said Daisuke miserably.
"But still... There's nothing that you can do about it. Or me, or anybody."
"So, what is it like to be the princess of the Central Kingdom?"
"Horrible," was her quick answer.
"How so?"
"Well, you always have to 'be on your guard' because I'm the princess of the Central Kingdom, and if someone is able to kill me... then the entire United Kingdom is at risk. I have to answer to villagers complaining about the stupidest things. And my parents are never home. They always have to go and try to gain land together, or they go to lead battle. Risa doesn't do a thing. She just sits in her chamber and brushes her hair. So when they leave, all the responsibilities are left to me. She doesn't really care in anyway. She just wants to find the Phantom Thief Dark or whatever his name is. She spends hours in her bedroom thinking of ways to spot him..." She paused, realizing that she was telling her inner-most secrets to someone she barely knew, "You know, you're really easy to talk to. I've never told anyone about what I thought of Risa."
"Oh. Ummm..." mumbled Daisuke.
She giggled at his embarrassment, and hers too. "I'm sorry I didn't mean to put you on the spot like that."
"That's okay, I just, I just didn't how to respond. You can continue if you want."
"Well, I dunno. I have to marry at fourteen. That's something. I get to pick between Prince Takeshi and Prince Satoshi. I already know that Prince Takeshi wishes to marry Princess Menou... So that leaves me with Satoshi and I really nothing about him. He keeps to himself and leaves his palace very often. I don't want to marry him either... But I don't really have a choice anymore. I could pick Takeshi, but I wouldn't want to separate him and Menou. It would be selfish... That's why I was happy that they stopped the marriages temporarily, I don't want to marry at all. And Risa doesn't want to marry any of the United Kingdom's princes. She wants a thief, a thief!. She does because she's never satisfied. She always wants what she can't have, and she always gets it. But this time it won't work. She can't have what she wants this time because these marriages are traditional. The princesses have to marry the princes of the United Kingdom in order to keep them united. Not even father will allow her to have her way this time... But she still won't be satisfied!" she yelled, startling Daisuke a bit.
"Even though she has the best one..." Riku mumbled, a sour look spread on her face.
"Best what?" he asked, thinking that what he just heard couldn't be possible.
"She-" Oh no! I spoke without thinking! "She- she got the best prince," she spoke quickly and quietly, hoping he didn't hear. Daisuke just sat silently.
"Ummm... It's getting late Prince Daisuke, could you take me home?"
"Sure." Riku and Daisuke left the park square and started to walk back to her castle. It was past dusk now and the stars were almost out. They reached the castle and Risa jumped out of the bushes. "You took long enough." she barked at her sister.
"Why didn't you just go inside?" asked Daisuke.
"She didn't because Father would be angry at her." Riku gave an annoyed look at Risa, grabbed her arm and they all went inside together.
"Hello, girls." said the Queen as the trio walked in. "It's late, go to bed."
"Okay." both girls said together.
"Prince Daisuke, you may sleep in our guest chambers, just down the hall." said their mother. Daisuke went slowly into his room, thinking about the day.
In her chamber, Princess Riku slept in her bed, her heart filled with the worries of liking Prince Daisuke.
A gust of wind slashed through the bedroom, but it was silent. A figure appeared out of the wind, lifted up Princess Riku gently, stepped back into the tornado of wind, and disappeared.
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