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Yahoo! This Cube, I like!
A Pointless Princess Maker Two Fanfiction- By Chigaeru
Once there was a woman who was a cross-dresser. Well, not really, but since everyone seemed to think she was a man... Let's just stay off of that subject. Anyway, she, um, was a wandering swordsman-type-person, and she, well… She ...saved a country. Ahem. Let’s just get on with the story, shall we? The gods sent her a cute 10-year-old girl for no apparent reason. Everything went just fine until one day when the girl (whose name was Minako) was 14 years old. She got sick. When her… parent inquired about it, Minako said, "Don’t worry. I’m fine." However, she sneezed immediately after saying this, so it wasn’t too convincing.
Minako’s condition steadily got worse. And yet she still insisted on going to work every day, until her parent forced her to stay home. Minako had to be chained down...
One day, about a week after Minako first came down with the illness, the family’s butler, Cube, rushed up to the parent-type-person, who was watering plants. (Let’s just call her Sarah. After all, that’s my name...)
"Sir, Minako’s condition has become critical!
Sarah rushed to MinakoÂ’s room. Minako lay on her bed, breathing with much difficulty and sweating heavily. "Mother..." she gasped as soon as she saw Sarah. "I... I can’t... It... hurts..."
Sarah removed the chains. "Is this any better?"
"N-no... But... P-please, don’t trouble yourself too m-much, Mother..."
"Please, don’t die..."
" Mother, don’t worry about me. I... I’ll be... I’ll be just fine after a... few more days... of... rest..."
Her eyes closed. Her breathing slowed down, and then stopped. Sarah stared at Minako’s body in disbelief.
"M-Minako... N-no... H-how could you die... And leave me alone like this!" Sarah slumped over her daughter’s body, sobbing. Cube would have liked to point out that she wasn’t alone, that he was still there but... He turned away and lowered his head. He was a demon, and what good was a demon for company?
(Hmm... This has two endings. I can’t tell you to skip over the sad one, which will be first, ‘cause I dunno how long it’s gonna be... Oh well! Read on!)
Ending 1
Suddenly, Sarah had an idea. She had undergone magic training herself as a child... and by accident, she had discovered a special ability she had... She pulled something out of her shirt. It was a heart-shaped stone on a silver chain. It was currently a green-amber colour. She placed the stone on Minako’s chest, and focused her will. Cube turned back around, fascinated. He hadn’t known she could use magic...
The stone seemed to glow for a moment, and then the glow infused Minako’s skin and left the stone. The stone showed a wide range of colours before turning black, and Sarah’s eyes went dead. Minako’s eyelashes fluttered, and her eyes opened. They immediately went to the body of her mother.
Minako sat up and stared. "Mother... No..." she whispered. Her hands gripped her mother’s shirt. "Why did you sacrifice yourself?" She stood up angrily. "You shouldn’t have done something like that for me! I’m not worth it! I don’t know how many times I told you while I was sick that this was the end of me, to have a long life!" She shouted to nothing, unaware of Cube’s presence. And now... She sat back down. "You have truly ended me. I could never live a full life without you... People like you are a necessary part of all lives. A child without a mother is damaged forever. They may not know it at the time, but they are. And now you have left me forever. To rejoin you would mean to waste your efforts. But without someone like you... There is no point in going on living." She turned to Cube, now aware that he was there. "Cube..."
"What?"
"I want you to kill me."
Cube stared at her. He had not expected this. "But, Mistress..."
"No buts, Cube. Kill me. Or I’ll kill myself."
Cube looked at her again, and then drew a dagger from inside his jacket. "If you die, I die too."
Minako blinked. "But... there’s no need for you to die. Just kill me and get it over with!"
"If you died, there would be no one for me to serve. I would remind you that not many people want a demon for a servant. Besides..." He shrugged. "I never said I wanted to keep living."
"Ugh..."
"Hmm?"
"This is getting too over-dramatic. Why don’t you just kill both of us and get it over with?"
" No can do. I don’t know any magic."
"Oh, fine then." Minako performed a spell that instantly killed both of them and did nothing else. Once everyone found out what had happened, they mourned extensively. After all, this was the family of the... person who had defeated Lucifon, for heaven’s sake! It was eventually discovered that Sarah was a woman.
But anyway...
Ending 2
(Actually, this is gonna be sad too)
Sarah pulled a necklace from under her, an ‘I’m the author’ shirt. It was an item she used to channel her healing powers. She placed it on Minako’s chest. She felt her energy being drained, and knew she was going to die, but couldn’t help smiling, because through her death, someone else would live. The stone turned black and she went into her very last reserves of energy, for she wanted to see her daughter live again just once, even though she (Sarah) would die immediately afterwards... Minako’s eyes opened. Sarah smiled at her. "Go on... live your own life... don’t worry about me... After all, I’ll see you again... someday..."
A voice echoed in Sarah’s head: "Energy transfer completed." Sarah died, and Minako stared at her in disbelief. She had come back to life just in time to see her mother die. Her mother had died for her... She knew she shouldn’t waste the gift of life her mother had given her, but she was tempted to kill herself just so she could see her mother again in less than twenty years.
Cube seemed to see this in her eyes. "Don’t, mistress. There has already been enough death in this house."
"But what’s one more? And in her last words, she told me to live my own life. That means I can kill myself if I want to."
"Yes, but you’d probably lose your nerve once the knife had pierced your skin and then die of blood loss."
Minako stared at Cube. "What do you mean? I wouldn’t have to use a knife, I could use a spell."
"L-look, just don’t kill yourself, okay? I would have thought dying prematurely once would have been enough for you. But apparently it isn’t. You’re not necessarily my responsibility."
"Oh, fine then."
And so she lived in relative comfort with only a few suicide attempts, which were quickly thwarted by Cube. When she finally died, she was reunited with her mother. And then she was happy. They were shortly joined by Cube, which made her even happier. She hadn’t exactly had any friends besides him after her mother’s death...
Anyway...
The End
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