I'm Cinderella, but Prince Charming is a Jerk! 17-18

Copyright Kim Blacknall 2010

Yuki’s P.O.V.

“Prince Wilhelm Yuki Alexander Lattimere...the son to the great King Wilhelm Alexander Lattimere, how nice to see you again after all of these years...how is your sister?” he asked. I glared at him. He was the man who made Gina and me have to leave our parents.

“Who are you?!” Yuri yelled, her voice sounded strong, but anyone could tell she was scared because her body was trembling. The man, who had red hair and green eyes looked at her and laughed.

“Oh Princess Yuri, I did not forgot about you, just sit and wait to be married.”

“W-what?” she choked on her words.

“You haven’t already forgotten you are to be married to me have you?” a figure steps out of a shadow behind the man, showing Prince Charles with a grin that I didn’t like the looks of.

“Prince Charles, what are you doing with that man? Why is this ring rejecting Yuki?” Yuri asked franticly. Prince Charles just ignored her and started walking in our direction, with a small amount of difficulty I moved so I was in front of Yuri. I was not about to let the one I love get even touched by another man. Prince Charles looked at me and then at the man.

“Didn’t you say the ring was supposed to force her to fall in love with me?” prince Charles asked like it was nothing, out of the corner of my eye I saw Yuri grasp a necklace around her neck...wait...

“Yuri, where did you get that?” I asked. She looked at me and then glanced at Felix on her shoulder. The old man was talking to Prince Charles, ignoring us.

“Ah yes, the ring, well it was, and I don’t understand why it isn’t working, but when you put the wedding ring on,” The evil man pulled out a blood red ring box. “There will be no magic in the world to stop her from loving you.” He smiled evilly at Prince Charles and my hands clenched into fists.

The prince took the box and pulled out ring that could have only been made from the pits of hell. I looked at Felix, who was trying to act courageous but his body was trembling, and the red aurora emitting from the ring was shining on his blue skin, making him look slightly red.

“Princess...Yuri...” Felix gasped; it seemed that the light was causing him pain. “You must...run...go, before he can...kill you...” and with that he fell off her shoulder.
Yuri caught him in her small hands and her eyes slightly started to water. I looked around and saw all of the other sprites, as soon as they were caught in the light, also pass out...or I hoped they were just passed out. Ange flew up to me, panting.

“Prince Yuki *gasp* you must not let the Devil’s ring be put on her; your family’s power does not work on one who does not have your bloodline... You must defeat both of them and take off the engagement ring...Other wise all hope is lost, you are the only one who can save Yuri...” *passes out*

I set him on a small mushroom and stood in front of Yuri, prepared to give all I have to save her from these two evil men.

Copyright Kim Blacknall 2010

Copyright Jean Braun 2010

"Oh, captain, do you know where Yuri has run off too? My new dress she made me needs hemmed before the wedding." The Queen looked quite upset because the wedding would be soon and her dress had to be perfect...i mean after all, she was the Queen....
The captain looked quickly around and found Yuri's servant girl, Naoki. She looked rather sheepish as the Captain started to ask of Yuri's whereabouts. Finally she gave in and pointed in the direction the young princess had taken. The Captain mounted his horse and took off at gallop speed.

Gina had followed Yuki to the thicket. She played with her choker that the nuns had said was from her parents because she had it on her when she was found. Hummm let's see, thinking about what Yuki had done, and simply repeated the movements and found herself hedgehog size and crawled thru the thicket. When she came to the other side, she was in shock. Yuki was now standing in front of Yuri facing an ugly short man with red hair and green eyes and of all people, her own prince... well, maybe not yet, but he was the same one who had stood her up. She became her own size, stomped her foot and shouted. "Hey, you had better have a good explanation for standing me up... I don't care if you are a prince or not, Charlie. You hurt my feelings and I, for one, am not going to let you get away with that." Gina in all her fury ran at Prince Charlie with all her might, not seeing the sword he was holding toward Yuki and slid into him like she was heading for home. The boy went down like a ton of bricks, the sword went up and then straight down landing directly in front of Yuki who moved just in time to prevent it from hitting his toe.
Yuki laughed and thought, Good move, sis, as he reached down and now had the sword in his hand. He looked at the handle and gasped. It was his father's sword, TRUTH. the handle had the family's crest with a sapphire in the center of the handle.
Prince Charles shook his head dazed and looked at the beautiful, albeit enraged girl who stood in front of him with her hands on her hips...frowning at him. What happened? he thought and then it all came back to him. Oh no!!!! Now he remembered... he had heard the plans of his wicked Uncle and his minions... He also remembered how his father never spoke of his Uncle Cain, save once. "Charles, my son, I hope you never meet up with your Uncle for he has sold his soul to gain revenge... His last attack wiped out our Cousin's family, save his daughter, Gina and his son, Yuki. "Gina." was all Charles could say. "You are my princess."
Cain did not like the fact that this stupid girl had undid the spell he had cast on Prince Charles. All of his plans were falling apart, because he was not allowed to use the same spell on anyone twice. He started towards the troublesome girl who was staring with her jaw dropped at Prince Charles, saying, "What do you mean I am a princess?"
"Watch out!!!!!" cried out Prince Charles as he saw his Uncle with daggar in hand come up behind Gina, who turned just in time to see the raised dagger. Prince Charles moved... no one knew how but now he had Gina on the ground covering her with his body as the evil Uncle plunged the dagger into his back.
It had all happened so fast that Yuki had no time to move, which he now did and in a full run, knocked the evil man down who came up with his dagger in hand facing Yuki.
Yuri now had had enough. She quickly gathered all the fairies that were lying on the ground and taking her sapphire necklace she touched each one and gently placed them into the lake hoping it would revive them.
Gina was now crying her eyes out as she held her Prince Charlie in her lap, his eyes closed, pale and barely breathing. "Why? Why would you do something so brave over a stupid girl like me?"
Prince Charlie just looked up and whispered something that only Gina could hear, she started to giggle a little and then finally was laughing so hard that she could hardly catch her breath.
"Don't you die on me," she cried out, finally catching her breath.
Yuri noticed it. Yuki noticed it. Laughter seemed to grate on the evil man that now stood in front of him... It was as if he flinched in pain as he heard Gina's laughter. Was that the key? they both thought simultaneously.
"Hey, Yuri. Have I told you I love you lately."
Yuri smiled and said, "But I love you more." She giggled at that.
"No, because I love you more," Yuri said with a laugh.
"But I love you the most," was her reply, with a giggle.
"No I love you the most.” was the comeback and suddenly Yuki started to laugh, a big belly laugh.
The evil man shouted, "How dare you laugh? I will kill you all."
Then the air started to fill with giggles of little fairies flying around the red headed man who now was holding his ears to shut out the pain. He stepped and dodged as the little fairies flitted all around him. Suddenly he stood at the edge of the cleansing pond, when everything seemed to stop in slow motion as the group watched the red headed, green eyed man looked up. There for all to see, was the Captain on his great huge jumper of a horse, who had now cleared the hedge on was coming down in one fell move toward the man who took one last step back. As the horse landed, the man fell backwards into the cleansing lake and disappeared......

Yuki and Yuri came quickly over to Gina who was still holding the now quiet Prince Charles. "What was it? What did he say to you, Gina?" asked Yuki quietly.
The girl looked at her brother with her tear stained face and gave a weak smile, "All he said was that he was tired of being a jerk."

Copyright Jean Braun 2010