33 Reaching Out A Hand (1/2)

Hearing a voice softly call out to her, amethyst eyes slowly revealed themselves, catching sight of a blurry figure crouched down beside her. Once her vision was clear enough, the sleeping beauty arose and reached out towards the round furry object lying on her lap. ”Milky, wake up,” she softly called out to the furry object as Maria jolted when she saw the object reveal two large eyes.

”Ah, is nap time over already?” it asked in a cute high-pitched, sleepy voice.

”It talks?!” Maria was not expecting the round fur creature, lying the princess lap to talk. The cute creature was covered in an ombre of icy-blue, lavender, and pure-white soft fur.

”May I ask what you are doing here?” The nice melodic voice drew Maria's attention away from the bird and onto the expressionless princess. Feeling a bit shy, Maria stumbled over a few of her words, answering the princess' question.

”Two girls were about to drop a tarantula on your h-head, but don't worry I s-stopped them!”

Staring close into those glittering crystal clear amethyst orbs, a blush stained Maria's chubby cheeks, finding the princess too pretty to stare at. Not taking heed to Maria's shyness, amethyst eyes stared at the girl who had come to her side and asked,

”Why?”

”Huh?” Maria stared confusedly at the princess, unable to understand her response.

”Why would you help me? Helping me would gain you nothing,” Not a hint of emotion could be detected in Princess Luna's voice when asked of this and that was when Maria noticed that within the depth of those jeweled amethyst orbs, swan loneliness. A type of loneliness Maria was very familiar with; back in her old world, Maria could never make any true friends.

There was never anyone who she could relate to, seeing how all the girls her age were into popular idols, celebrity gossip, and dating. The boys weren't much better, always debating on who was the hottest girl in class and bullying the weak and timid.

Thus Maria was left on her own, even though she had her granny who she recalled loved her dearly. She never had someone her own age to joke around and have fun with, something which used to sadden her before she came to this world and met Mai and Julian.

”Because it was the right thing to do. I didn't do it to gain anything from you.” Peering inside those emerald large orbs, where there was nothing but pure sincerity, something which came as a surprise to the princess.

Being born into royalty, one experienced the true dark side of people at a young age, since the day she was born. No one could imagine the immoral things she, a child none the less, had either experienced or witnessed.

Such events caused her to close her heart to everyone around her except for her kind mother, who, if it weren't for still being alive, constantly protecting her from the schemes of the current Empress, the young princess would've already been dead by now or ended up in a similar state as her other half-brother.

Her relationship with Alan was not a good one, better to say that their brother and sister relationships did not even exist. Which was normal to children born in the royal family, birthed by a number of different women, all who belonged to the emperor.

The fight for the throne tended to always turn gruesome as their need for survival or their thirst for power all depended on the children they birthed. An example of this was the skyrocketed number of the emperor's mistresses, childless women who were all easily disposed of by none other than the empress herself.

Eliminating any threat before they could give birth, woman monopolizing the emperor's affection towards only herself.