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ariadnassecretdiary · 5 years ago

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The black swan lake (AU) - Second act

*Mun Ari: I’m so happy many of you seemed to enjoyed this idea! :’D I’ve been having this idea stuck in my head for MONTHS! It was until now that I was able to write it down and I’m very much pleased (even after the first version incident!) since I wrote it from cero and I inserted more detailed writing for you to enjoy~! I hope this second part won’t disappoint you :’3 (also...a tiny warning since it’s a long chapter ^^’)

Anyway, enjoy~

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5

From that day forward, the young princess went every day to visit the swan prince. At first, it was hard to coordinate their visits: Ariadna once went when it was early in the morning and found Kino still in his swan form and of course asleep. She accidently woke him up and she almost got bitten by the furious swan. She then understood that during the day Kino was a swan, which meant he couldn’t speak and he would be asleep, while during the late afternoon and night he would be on his human form and therefore they would be able to spend time together. Ariadna was in a tight situation, since that meant escaping from the castle during the afternoons and coming back at night. Ariadna was afraid this would cause her problems, but she was very careful during her sneakins.

Then it was the fact that the young princess had to find the way to get along with Kino. He enjoyed teasing her, insult her and would even treat her as some sort of servant (even making her refer to him as ‘your highness’). Ariadna would try to do as he asked, reassuring herself that she was doing it all for the sake of her family’s ring. Ariadna had a hard time and could only see him as a spoiled, arrogant and mean prince.

Days turned in weeks since they’ve made the deal and their process seemed slower than a turtle. Not even when their visits became a daily routine. They met, they talked and they parted ways until the next day. Barely any progress was made.

“Tell me ‘your highness’” one time Ariadna spoke to Kino with a sarcastic tone.

“I’ll let that remark of yours pass this time ‘peasant’” he said in a threatening tone

“I’m sorry~. But I was wondering, are you seriously a prince?”

“What do you mean by ‘seriously’?”

“I mean…you refer yourself as ‘prince’, so I was wondering from which kingdom you came from?”

“I don’t think that is of your inconvenience ‘peasant’”

“Could it be you’re actually the swan’s prince? You rule over all swans?”

“No I’m not!”

“Well, I can’t seem to understand how you are able to turn from human to swan that easy”

“You’re saying nonsense”

“Then...are you perhaps a wizard?”

“I’ve told you I can’t control this transformations”

“Could it be you made a spell that accidentally went wrong?”

Kino then turned around.

“It’s more like a curse than an accidental spell”

“Why? Did someone did this to you?”

Kino sighed and suddenly sit down in a fallen tree.

“I’m getting bored of this conversation” Kino said.

(Why does he avoids the topic? Maybe I guessed and he was cursed by someone else?) Ariadna thought

“Is that so? And what would ‘your highness’ would like to do about it?”

“I don’t know, you should do something”.

“Do something? What you mean?”

“Isn’t it obvious? Entertain me”

“How?”

“I don’t know do something!”

“I’m sorry to disappoint you your highness, but I’m I afraid I can’t think of anything”

“You’re seriously helpless”

Ariadna started thinking and a tiny idea popped in her head.

“Well, we could try and talk a little? Is there any topic you like?”

“Would you be able to tag along?”

“Maybe? Or maybe you can ask me any question you like?”

“Is that the best you’ve got?”

“I’m afraid it is…”

“Unbelievable…”

“Then, what is it that your highness enjoy doing?”

“I used to be rather busy, so I rarely had any free time. Unlike others” Kino remarked his last words, making Ariadna felt attacked.

“Please ‘your highness’ but that felt rather rude”

“Oh? You felt it like it? Are you criticizing my way of speak?”

“I-I just...please regulate your tone. I felt attacked”

(Why the sudden rudeness? Is it because of the swan topic?) Ariadna thought.

“You think you have the right to tell me how should I talk? Who you think you are? May I remind you the reason you’re here is to entertain me only? Your opinions are irrelevant to me!”

Ariadna gave one step backwards. He was getting irritated and she didn’t intended it.

“T-That wasn’t my intention a-at all!”

“It sounded like that. Remember I have something of yours ‘peasant’...be careful with what you say”

“B-But I did nothing wrong! I just ask for something rather simple! I thought we could get along…”

“Yes, yet the only thing you seem to be good at is at making me angry. I should have known instead of wasting my time with such an annoying girl as you are!”

Ariadna felt really intimidated and so scared. His eyes shone dangerously and Ariadna really didn’t understand what she had done to annoyed him so much.

“I’m sorry, b-but I’m doing the best I can. However, I can’t do it all on my own. I-I’ve been doing what you ask, b-but all I received were insults and rudeness!”

“So you’re saying is my fault? You are the one here that has something to lose and you are making me very irritated”

“B-But!”

“Which makes me think: Why is that ring that important?”

“It’s my family’s treasure. It has p-passed through generations, so I can’t lose it”.

“Your family…why they have such a valuable treasure?”

“What you mean? Each family has its treasure and no one really knows how they’ve got it”

“Even yours?”

“What you meant with that?” Ariadna suddenly felt offended, what he was insinuating?

“Such a treasure could only belong to a very wealthy family, is your family that rich or you are hiding the true origin of that ring?”

Suddenly, Ariadna started having enough and that fear that she had been feeling was turning into anger.

“Listen ‘your highness’: what you’re insinuating is very disrespectful on your behalf. I ask you to stop insisting”

“Where you got that ring then?”

“I already told you: is my family’s relic! Why won’t you believe me?”

“Sounds suspicions if you ask me…”

“Well, it isn’t! I’m highly offended: are you trying to insinuate I stole it from some sort of wealthy family?”

“Maybe? I can’t believe a peasant like you would have such jewel with you”

“That’s it! I ask you to take that back! My family is highly respected and we wouldn’t do such a thing! Unlike you that, in fact, who actually stole my ring with the help of your bird friend!”

“So are you calling me thief!?”

“Then, how would you call such an act? That is MY ring and you took it from me and later on you threw it to the lake!”

“Silence! Apologize this instant!”

“I will as soon you do that as well! You were the first one to offend me!”

“I won’t and unless you want that ring back you’ll do as I say!”

“No! It seems that I got to know you even more: you think is just natural for everybody to do as you say without complains, is it not?”

“Of course! I’m a prince and they all should obey me”

“You’re wrong! No one is above or below somebody! So, I won’t apologize since I didn't start this discussion!”

“So you won’t do it?”

“No! I’m out of here!”

“If you leave you’ll regret it!”

“It doesn’t matter anymore! I’m starting to think you won’t give me my ring anyway. Why should I bother to keep this constant visits?”

“We made a deal!”

“We did, but I didn’t agree to be treated so poorly! I’ve had enough!”

Kino stopped her by grabbing her by the arm.

“You! You really enjoy making me angry, don’t you?”

“Let go of my arm this instant!”

“Apologize!”

“I WON’t!” Ariadna felt the anger boiled inside of her and she knew that the worst to do was to decide when one was blind with anger.

“You’ll regret it! Once I’m pissed I won’t be responsible for what I’ll do” Kino’s spoke coldly.

Ariadna had reached her limits: up until now he had shown no remorse and a huge amount of cruelty that made Ariadna wonder of what he could be capable of doing. Yet after all he had said just now made her show that rebellious attitude she had been hiding for a while now.

“Listen ‘your highness’: I think I’ve stand enough of your offenses these pasts days. You need to be nicer! No one deserves such treatments. Please think about your attitude”

“Don’t tell me what to do. I won’t let go of your arm until you are on your knees begging for forgiveness! Do it now or confront the consequences!”

With firm determination, Ariadna looked straight into his eyes. She wouldn’t kneeled, not before a despicable prince as he was.

“Never! I won’t kneel before a monster like yourself!”

“What you said just now!?”

“As you heard: you are a monster and I—!?”

Ariadna was interrupted when Kino slapped her, Ariadna lost balance and fell to the ground into a puddle of mud. She stayed there in shock, feeling her cheek burning hot from the impact and soon the ache came.

“Pfff Hahahaha exactly~! This suits you perfectly! Looking at me from below and dirty as you are~!”

Ariadna felt humiliated and hurt. What is it that she did to deserve this? No one had ever raised a hand to her in her whole life. A tiny feeling of bravery raised upon her. She stood up and with all her force she could she slapped back straight to Kino’s cheek as he was distracted laughing at her.

There was a moment of silence and they both stood there paralyzed. Ariadna then felt all that pain and humiliation rose again and tears formed in her eyes.

“I can’t stand it anymore! I hate you!”

Without giving him the opportunity to add something, Ariadna turned around and ran towards the exit. She pushed through the branches and then she went out the waterfall. She rode Night Star back to her castle as fast as she could. Her horse knew the way and so Ariadna allowed her tears fall as she cried all the way back home.

“Why…Why is he… so mean to me? How is it… possible for such… such a cruel person like him to exist?” Ariadna said between tears as she was approaching her home.

She wouldn’t go back to that forest, she didn’t want to see that cruel prince ever again.

.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.

Back at the forest, Kino stood there frozen from the shock. He took his hand to his cheek, where the mark of Ariadna’s hand had landed seconds ago.

“How dare she!? Who she think she is!?”

A squawk was heard and suddenly Yuri was standing in front of Kino.

“Kino, what did you do!?”

“You see what she did! She deserved it!”

“Kino, the circumstances are different now! Look how much time has passed and still there’s no progress”

“It will be a matter of time. She needed to learn her place! I’m a prince and she needs to treat me as such!”

“But we need her!”

“She’ll come back~ after all I have her stupid ring”

“Kino you are wrong. After what happen there is no way she’ll come back”

“She will. She has to…”

“Please take this more seriously! Look at us! We are still under the spell of that witch!!”

“Watch your language peasant!” a voice was heard and the atmosphere changed.

From a black and threatening cloud a figure emerge showing a young lady dressed all in black. Although her face was hidden under the cloak she was wearing, it was possible to see her long yet blond hair. As she approached them, she looked at them through her dark grey eyes.

“Oh~? What brings us the honor, like every single day, of your presence Sabine?” Kino greet the lady in a sarcastic way.

“So charismatic Kino. It seems you have the same attitude as always~” Sabine answered amused. “How are you doing dear~?”

“I was doing fine until you arrived”

“Oh~? It didn’t seem like it~” Sabine said getting closer to Kino and passing her slim fingers over his red cheek. “It seems that even the most loyal servant can become aggressive towards it’s master under this...pitiful situation~”

Kino pushed her hand away disgusted.

“Don’t touch me Sabine”

“Why so cold Kino? You didn’t seem to mind my attentions not long ago~”

“Last time you laid your fingers on me, I ended up as a swan. You tell me”

“Oh~ silly me~! It seems my touch can be very picky~”

Sabine touched Kino’s cheek again regardless his words and in a second his cheek was healed thanks to her magic. Yet Kino didn’t thank her.

“What is it that you want this time Sabine?”

“Isn’t it obvious? I want an answer to my question~"

“You should give up. You know the answer already. You keep asking the same question each and everyday since you brought us here”

“And I’ll keep doing it until I get the answer I want dear~ After all, it will be a matter of time before your desperation within you became so unbearable with each passing day that you’ll end up accepting my proposal. Don’t you think~?”

“Then let me ask you: how would you feel being cursed and trapped in this hellish tiny place?”

“Don’t be like that~ It’s such a beautiful place! I made it specially for you~ Sure, is small, but you can leave whenever you like…as long you come back each time the sun hides to this lake for you to recover your human form that is~"

Kino looked at her with hatred.

“What? May I remind you who got you in this situation?” Sabine’s voice changed from a playful tune into a serious one.

“It was you Sabine after you couldn’t handle rejection” Kino answered coldly.

“Oh no no dear: I can handle rejection, but what I couldn’t allow is the humiliation you made me passed through!”

Sabine was furious and her powers were altering their surroundings, but none of the three moved.

“Let me tell you a story dear. The story about a prince, a young lady’s proposal and a terrible decision.

Long time ago, there was a prince that had it all. He had a mighty kingdom, that he built on his own. He was strong, skillful with every weapon, intelligent and a great strategist which helped him expand his kingdom and achieve so many things at a young age. The neighbor kingdoms feared him: some became his allies while others were forced to submit to him. He was also very good-looking and rich and so many ladies were after him. Many kings wanted their daughters to marry him due to his wealth and power. He could easily get any women he could wanted.

There was this peculiar lady that fell helplessly in love with the young prince and did everything she could to win his heart. She devoted herself to him and one day she declared her love for him. He laughed at her, she humiliated her infront the nobility and simply rejected her the worst possible way.

‘Love? I don’t know what that is~’ he said and kept on laughing. ‘I can’t believe you seriously thought someone like you could be worthy of someone like me~ don’t make me laugh!’

The lady was heartbroken and you know the saying: ‘there’s nothing more dangerous than a heartbroken woman’. She then revealed her secret: she possessed magic. So that same instant she decided to give the cruel prince a lesson.

She placed a spell on the prince: During the day the prince would turn into a black swan and when the last rays of sunlight disappear he’ll recover his human appearance.

She was merciful as she could have transformed him into something worse like a cockroach, but she chose an elegant creature such as the swan. Then, she placed the swan prince into a safe place with the company of his most loyal servant. Not before leaving the witch said:

‘As you said you didn’t know what love is, the way to break the spell is by finding a lady that would love you just the way you are right now. If the lady loves you just as much as you do, she’ll have to prove it by declaring her love for you infront of everybody. Then the spell will be gone and you’ll get back everything that is yours’.”

The end~”

Kino felt his blood boiling with anger after Sabine finished the story.

“There was another way to break the spell, however: the prince could marry the witch and live happily ever after. So, from that day forward, the witch would come and visit her beloved prince and ask the same question. And she won’t give up until she hears the answer she wants” Sabine added “So you know dear: you could end your suffering by just saying three simple words~ But don’t worry: I’ll keep waiting~"

Sabine vanished into the air while her laugh faded away.

“Merciful? Don’t make me laugh!” Kino said in an irritated voice.

“She cheated by trapping us here, by hiding and erasing all traces of memory of nearby kingdoms and allies about our existence and keeping people away from this forest by spreading false stories…”

“And! Avoiding me from escaping, because in order for me to recover my human form I need to be in the lake, otherwise I’ll remain a swan. Damn it!”

Kino punched a nearby tree while Yuri looked at him. There was a moment of silence.

“You understand now?” Yuri finally spoke “unless you marry lady Sabine, you need to fix everything with lady Ariadna in order to break the spell”

“What exactly you want me to do?” Kino answered derrotated.

“Make Miss Ariadna stay. Not by the means of her ring, but rather by you. There’s no other way: she has to love you”

Kino looked at Yuri and then let a tired sigh.

“It can’t be helped…but for that she has to come back”.

“I hope she does Kino…I hope she does”

.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.

Ariadna entered the castle as silent as she could. When she reached the main stairs, suddenly the room illuminated revealing a rather angry Akane.

“Ariadna” Akane stopped Ariadna’s almost successful plan to reach to her room unnoticed.

“Y-Yes sister?” she replied as calm as she could.

“What happened to you? You are all dirty!”

“Oh…T-This? I-I was riding Night Star and I wasn’t p-paying a lot of attention, s-so I got hit by a branch and lost balance and so I felt in a puddle of mud” Ariadna lied to Akane.

“That could be very dangerous Ariadna. Please be more careful”

“I w-will, I’m sorry”

“Now that we are talking about the subject: Lately you’ve been spending a lot of time outside, may I ask the reason for it?”

Ariadna knew she had to find a good excuse as to explain her constant trips to the forest. Something more convincing than a so-call-prince that could turn into a swan that stole her family ring AND was manipulating her with it to make her visit him EVERYDAY.

“I…um…”

(think Ariadna think!)

“I’ve been visiting Naomi!”

“Lady Naomi? Why if I may ask?”

“W-Why? W-Well…I asked her for some extra e-etiquette lessons! Yes that’s it!”

“So you’ve been going all the way to the eagle kingdom just for etiquette lessons you could easily receive here with Miss Sonia?”

(She doesn’t believe it!)

“Y-Yes…I know it’s not proper for a lady t-to do so, but Naomi is such a lady a-and a very good teacher. I thought she was a good option…I’m sorry”

(please believe it…)

Akane remain silent. Ariadna’s heart was raising with nervousness.

“To go to that extent…Ariadna, don’t push yourself too much, ok? You are a lady already, you don’t have to train that much”

“I-I think you never have enough…”

“If you insist…”

“Yes…A-Anyway, I’ll go to wash myself before going to bed. If you excuse me…”

Ariadna smiled and was about to head back to her room when:

“I’ll write a letter to lady Naomi to thank her then. I think it wouldn’t be a bad idea to invite her over as a sign of gratitude for everything that she has done”

“R-Really? B-But…!”

(Oh no! If she do that Naomi will tell her the truth and I’ll be in serious trouble!)

“But? I need to show gratitude in the name of our family”

“I mean, of course! H-However…with the upcoming ball you must be very busy, don’t you?”

“Well…yes, but still I must thank her”

“L-Leave it to me! I’ll tell her tomorrow when I see her in person! W-What you think?”

Akane paused to think about it and Ariadna was sweating at this point.

“If you insist…then I’ll leave it to you”

“Thank you sister! I’ll do it, trust me”.

Akane nodded and then left.

Ariadna was in serious trouble: now she needed to tell Naomi to cover her up, but knowing Naomi she wouldn’t accept doing such a thing without any explanation…and she also would ask the truth in exchange…

Ariadna cursed her bad luck: all because of Kino. She wouldn’t even come back and she had to cover it up anyway…it was all a disaster.

To be continued…

Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5

*Mun Ari: AHHH I love it! jajajaj sorry is just that this idea is my favorite so far and I couldn’t stop myself! Even if it’s 2:35 am here 🙂 jajajaja…I need help 🙃

I hope you liked it nevertheless! 🥰

Stay tuned and…oh! I think this will end up being a four chapter thing, I’m sorry but I couldn’t help it (is not sure yet, but there is a high possibility 🥺)

Stay tuned! 💕

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fallxnprxnce · 7 years ago

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Why should Nuala be frantically scrambling to get any seeds from the forest being when it was Nuada who put it in the position where it had to be killed in the first place?

NO. NO… HOW DARE YOU ASK ME ABOUT THE ONE ASPECT OF NUADA’SBEHAVIOR THAT I CANNOT DEFEND?!

(Except the whole human genocide thing, but that’s not anaction yet, it’s just a plan… that has time to be thwarted. XD)

Seriously, though, I was really hoping nobody was going tobring this up because (sigh)… Ireally have no good answer for you, and his use of the forest god at that timeand for that reason is something that really bothers me about him. I choose toalmost chalk it up to the move i just wanting to use this cool creature ratherthan any sort of real decision he would have made because it just didn’t makeany sense to me.

If only the forest god had been a bit more mature, able totake its time in germinating, or if it had been less distracted by the varioushumans (and random red-skinned demon) around it, it might have been able to doa lot more damage to the city and reclaim much more of it for nature. But, toquote Cassandra from Wayne’s World, “Yeah,and if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its ass when ithopped.” Things could always have been better, somewhere,somehow, but the fact is they weren’t, and Nuada knew that. He knew it wasstill very young. He had only just finished fixing the incubation vessel (whichwe got to know nothing about, we don’t even know that that’s what it really isbut that’s what I assume and I’ve had to pretty much come up with how thatthing actually worked on my own because the movie gave us nothing) recently. Inthe movie it seemed to be merely a… launching implement? I mean really, whydoes a forest god’s seed need a launch pad? Especially sink it bonked its tinygreen head (or ass?) on the asphalt numerous times while trying to find waterand was still fine. I get the feeling like it was not a delicate seed at all. Ibelieve the tiny egg-shaped apparatus was a vessel to keep the seed alive untilplanting/revival. I envision needles inside that safely deliver water to theseed. I envision that the inside is temperature-controlled. Perhaps it even containeda nutrient-delivery system. If magic was involved, who knows what it wascapable of? But my point is… Nuada knew its needs and knew its age. It may havebeen kept in stasis as a seed for centuries, but as far as life cycle, it was ayoung creature. He should not have placed it immediately into a dangeroussituation.

BUT… being Nuada’s mun and classically being defensive ofhim even when he’s being a little shit, I will try to argue in Nuada’s defense.I think… that Nuada thought two things were going to happen (or not happen,actually): 1) he did not expect the humans (or anyone else) to fight back, heexpected chaos to ensue and for everybody to just run… and then for the god tokill Hellboy… game over, and 2) he did not expect them to have any real meansof killing it. Nuada has seen the great human wars. He knows about bombs andRPGs and other forms of heavy artillery. But… I do not think he thought that ina human city at peacetime, those types of tactics would be used. Blades (even achainsaw, think about it) would be no use. Regular guns? Haha, the god wouldn’teven feel it. I don’t think he planned on Hellboy having this humongous guncapable of blowing gaping holes right through the god’s body. I know he didn’t. Because Nuada would neverhave sent that creature to slaughter. He wanted it to destroy the city. Heexpected it to be this big huge event… and it was shot a couple times and justdied. He had to feel horrible about that. Trulyhorrible.

I also think that, once he realized Hellboy could possiblykill the god, he thought he could talk Hellboy out of doing so. Some peoplehave used the scene where Nuada talks to Hellboy from the rooftop as proof thathe was power-hungry and all that. Because he tells Hellboy that he could be aking. Do you think Nuada cares what happens to Hellboy? Hell no, he’s a demon,heh. Unlike the other creatures of earth, this dude is legit from hell. Nuadaprobably wants to be rid of him along with the humans. He only spoke to himthen for two reasons: 1) to save the forest god, and 2) to potentially gain a powerfulally. If he can convert Hellboy, he saves the god for the time being and cannow command someone very powerful. But he realized that he couldn’t becauseHellboy doesn’t listen to anybody heh, and because Hellboy has too much of asoft spot for humans.

When Hellboy continued to shoot the god and kill it, Nuadais already gone. Some have said to me that this is just reckless behavior. He threwout the god to die and then just left. I saw it differently. I saw it as… hewas not able to stay and watch it die. It was too painful for him. What he mostlikely did was climb down, wait somewhere secluded, collect himself, and thensneak out to collect some seeds before the humans could clean everything up. It’sa oneshot that would be entirely inside his head, it would be achingly tragicto write from his point of view, and I’ve honestly shied away from it because I’mtoo scared to write it, heh. I’m scared of the feels. I’ll probably cry, heh.But since this was brought up… I will give it a go. I will try to write thisoneshot now, because I think it’s something that needs to be addressed.

NOW… whether or not I have successfully defended Nuada’sbehavior, that does not mean Nuala can’t scramble to get some seeds herself.She can think Nuada was irresponsible in releasing the god at that place andtime all she wants, but she should still want to preserve the species. He didsomething wrong so… I’m not going to fix it? What does that do? What does thatprove? Would she just be trying to make Nuada feel worse by forcing him to dealwith the finality of what he’s done and not trying at all to protect thespecies? Personally, I think that would be very petty. Whether or not he didanything wrong, and whether or not she is angry with him or disappointed in himis irrelevant. As an Elven princess who is supposed to love and respect Nature,she should collect some damn seeds and get them in a pot fast, haha. If Naturewants the species to fade, then She’ll make all the seeds die, so it’s notinterfering with her precious “sit back and let everything fade” attitude. Allshe had to do is pot a few seeds. (shrugs)Try a little, Nuala, come on. Just try. If you think your brother is wrong thenfight against him. Otherwise shut your yap about it. Haha I’m so bitter withregard to her, I love it. XD

Honestly I have no idea whether this answered you questionor not. This was kindof just a word dump on my thoughts on the subject, haha.But thanks. THANKS FOR BRINGING THIS UP. (twitchesslightly) I so thought I was going to avoid this topic. Damn. So close. XD Seriouslythough, thanks, haha, it did need to be discussed. =)

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