1A/N: Did y'all know that in the original concept, the Drop Kingdom had something called the "Rain of Blessing"? It got me thinking that, "hey, what if instead of the twins both getting the power of Prominence, one of them got it and then Mirlo got the equivalent from the Rain of Blessing?"
I think that'd be interesting.
So here's a story with that thought in mind.
Disclaimer: I do not own FBNFH.
The Wonder Planet is home to seven kingdoms and has currently entered an era of competition. Kingdoms and their people continue to fight for more power, status, and wealth, especially the royal families.
It has gotten to the point where the children are being pulled into the struggle as well.
Princesses and princes are being forced to compete with each other to prove which country has the best heirs.
While the royal parents fight with their wealth, land, and power, their children are encouraged to fight in terms of talent.
Of course, not all the children are quite too fond with this idea.
"Ugh, I thought we'd be able to avoid this forever~!" Princess Rein complained. "Stupid mandatory parties! And why is it just the princesses who get flaunted around!? How come Auler doesn't have to do this!?"
"I've learned not to question it and just count my blessings." Auler grinned.
"Screw you." Rein frowned.
"It might not be too bad." Mirlo tried to reassure Rein.
"Not that bad!? We're being showed off like…like we're no different than objects!" Rein said.
"You're exaggerating." Auler said.
"Am I?"
The intent of the parties was clear: to show off the princesses and put forth who's the best princess on the entire Wonder Planet.
In Rein's mind, they're being treated no different than objects, and perhaps, she had a point.
"The more talented a lady, the more advantageous marriage prospects." Her grandmother, Nian Zhen, said to her and her twin Fine.
"Isn't true love more important?" Rein asked.
Nian Zhen simply looked at her with disgust and ignored her question, before focusing on Fine. "You will do marvelously. I've been personally seeing to your lessons since you were little, after all."
"You call that torture lessons?" Rein glared. Before her grandmother could get angry at her, Fine stepped in front of her sister.
"Th-thank you queen grandmother! We'll do our best! If you'll excuse us." And Fine promptly dragged Rein out of the room. After that, Fine tried to convince Rein to at least pretend she cared before they separated. Fine had more torture-or excuse me, lessons to attend to before the party after all.
Rein then snuck off to House Sunnia territory to meet up with Prince Auler and Princess Mirlo, which is where they are now.
"Can we just hide here when the party starts?" Rein asked.
"You cannot." Lady Lynn, the only daughter of the Sunnia family, said.
"Whyyyy~!? Wait…when did you get here?" Rein asked.
"You're in my home."
"Yeah, but weren't you in the Windmill Kingdom interning with the weather workers?"
"I came since I was required to attend the party today and watch."
"Fantastic, more people watching us be paraded as objects…so why can't I skip again?"
"I'm sure your esteemed grandmother would blow up half the kingdom looking for you just to yell at you for skipping."
"A sacrifice I'm willing to make."
"No."
As the two continued their banter Auler and Mirlo sighed before looking at each other, a tired smile on their faces.
"As riveting as this conversation is, we should probably get going to the Sunny Castle." Auler finally chimed in.
"Ugh…I don't wanna…" Rein said.
"Come on, the sooner you and Mirlo get it over with, the better." Auler grinned and dragged Rein with him and Mirlo.
"Good luck, princesses. I'll see you in the ballroom." Lynn waved.
"I gotta change first…" Rein sighed. "If I show up in my normal clothes, dear old granny is gonna kill me on sight. You two go on ahead."
"It's okay, I don't mind waiting." Mirlo smiled.
"I'll head over to the ballroom." Auler said. "I don't want to run into Fai."
"'mkay." Rein nodded. "Let's go, Milly!"
"Milly! Milly! Holy Grace!" Rein ran outta her room, tripped over her own dress, and face planted onto the floor.
"Oh my gosh! Rein! Are you okay!?" Mirlo rushed over to her.
"Yeah, yeah! Forget about me for a second." Rein got up and started doing wild gestures with her arms. "It's raining, Milly! It's raining!"
"Raining? But…we're inside the Sunny Kingdom's dome right now. That's impossible."
"I thought so too, but..! Come on! Something's going on!" Rein grabbed Mirlo's arm and dragged her to the elevator. She frantically pushed the button to go to the Sunny Gardens. "Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up!"
"I don't think that's going to help, Rainy…"
As the elevator doors' opened to the garden, a sight Mirlo didn't expect greeted her eyes. It really was raining! But it was also still sunny outside.
"A sun shower?" Mirlo said. "But why would this be happening inside the dome of all places?"
"Woohoo! That's so cool!" Rein ran into the rain and began to jump into every puddle she saw. "Look, look! There's a rainbow in the sky too! Rain, sun, and rainbows! Talk about a killer combo!"
Rein began to dance to her own tune, "Patatata run~ Pata~! Patatata run, patataaa~!"
"R-rainy! You're going to get sick! And ruin your dress!" Mirlo called from inside the elevator.
"Patata…oh it'll be fine! I never get to see rain inside the Sunny Kingdom after all! And the droplets all look so pretty with the sun!"
"That's what's worrying me…" It shouldn't be possible for it to rain inside the dome, something about this isn't right. Sure…it was a pretty sight like Rein said, but…but this just shouldn't happen here. "Rainy, we should probably go tell your mother and my mother about this!"
"Just a few more minutes~!" Rein twirled in the rain, her dress already thoroughly soaked.
"We should really go inside, you're soaked…oh~! Rein!" Mirlo finally ran out of the elevator to try and get Rein, but as soon as she stepped off the elevator disappeared and soon…a strange looking one appeared in its place.
"Rein, please…you're going to get sick!"
"Aww, it's…hey, the elevator wasn't always that color right?"
"Huh?"
The two turned their attention to the new golden elevator. All elevators in the Sunny Kingdom were either red or pink. Not gold.
"Cool~! Let's go see!" Rein grabbed Mirlo's hand and ran to the elevator.
At least they'd be out of the rain now…
They stepped onto the elevator and then it closed and descended.
"Hey! I didn't press anything yet!" Rein said. She looked to where the buttons were supposed to be at, but there weren't any!
"Huh…"
"U-ummm….Rainy?" Mirlo patted Rein's shoulder.
"What's up?"
"Exactly."
"Whuuh?" Looking up, Rein saw what Mirlo had, the elevator's roof was starting to disappear! The more they descended the more it started disappearing until there was nothing left and they finally touched down onto the floor of…where exactly are they?
The place gave off a warm feeling and there was golden grass everywhere and little flecks of light dancing in the air.
"Wow~!" Rein said. "Oh look! I think I see water in the distance!"
Rein ran off with Mirlo following. Sure enough, there was what seemed to be a pond with turquoise water, a contrast to all the gold around them.
"It's so pretty! I wanna take some with me!" Rein bent down and touched the water.
"Rein! What if the water's toxic or something!?" Mirlo screamed.
"Rest assured, Princess Mirlo, all is safe here." A voice emerged from the pond.
"Wh-who!?"
"Coool~."
"That is my companion." Another voice emerged from nowhere.
As the two looked around the flecks of light began converging in front of them, soon a woman appeared. A woman who is known all too well around the Wonder Planet.
"Princess Grace!?" The girls screamed.
"Good day, girls." Princess Grace curtsied.
"Good-good day to you, Princess Grace!" Mirlo also curtsied. Meanwhile Rein stared in awe. The Princess Grace was right in front of her!
"Psst, Rainy, your manners..." Mirlo nudged Rein.
"Oh! Uh, good day..." Rein quickly curtsied.
"No need for formalities." Grace chuckled, "I wanted to talk to you both about something. Well, my friend and I wanted to, but she can't stay for long."
A figure came from the pond, but they were completely made of water and thus, it was very hard to tell what they looked like. It seemed that, unlike Grace, they were unable to appear in a more concrete form.
At least their voice was clear.
"Princesses, I'm afraid the planet is in a dire situation right now." The watery figure said.
"Dire situation? Rein and Mirlo chorused.
Grace nodded, "I'm afraid the Blessing of the Sun is weakening..."
"...And due to this, the Rain of Blessing is suffering as well." The watery figure said sadly.
"Oh no!" Mirlo gasped, clearly distressed. Rein, on the other hand, didn't seem as worried.
"So, question." Rein said. "What exactly happens when both of those weaken?"
"You...you don't know?" Mirlo turned to her.
Rein shook her head. "According to my dear old queen grandmother, I'm too stupid to get the history lessons my sister gets so I'm not allowed to take them at all. All I know from the lessons I can take is that this has happened before, but I don't know why, how, or even what was so bad about it. I mean it sure sounds bad and I know Princess Grace had to give her life to restore it, but without understanding the gravity of the situation, can't say is freaks me out."
Grace looked like she wanted to say something, but ended up tight lipped, instead the watery figure spoke up, "If the Blessing of the Sun continues to weaken it will eventually go out, this will leave the entire planet without the sun. As the Rain of Blessing also gets its own power from it, that too will disappear soon after. The Drop Kingdom will no longer be able to perform their duties, leaving the planet without rain. No rain and no sun, means no food will grow, no food means everyone will begin to die. Soon this planet will simply be a planet of corpses..."
Rein went wide-eyed, "Well is there something we can do!?"
"That is precisely why we brought you both here." Grace said. "Rein, please step towards me and hold out your hands."
"Mirlo, please come towards the water and stick your hand inside, keep it open until you feel something in it." The watery figured said.
The girls did as instructed.
When Mirlo stuck her hand in the water, bubbles began to concentrate themselves in her hand. Eventually, she could feel something solid in her hand. Clutching it, she took her hand out of the water.
For Rein, as she stuck out her hands, the flecks of light began to converge in her pals, eventually leaving something behind as well.
As the girls stared at what was inside their hands, they saw compacts. Mirlo's was a silver, blue, and turquoise. On its top, it had the Drop Kingdom Emblem.
Rein's was gold, red, and pink. On its top was the Sunny Kingdom Emblem.
"Wow! How cute!" Rein smiled.
"Whoa..." Mirlo stared in awe.
"We will be leaving this planet in your care as it was once in ours." The watery figure said.
"We believe in you both." Grace smiled. Soon, everything was engulfed in a bright light and then...Mirlo and Rein were back in the Sunny Gardens.
"Huh? Was it a dream?" Rein looked around.
"Unless stuff we get in dreams can turn real, I don't think so." Mirlo stared at the compact still in her hand.
"Ah...yeah." Rein looked at her own compact. "Though leaving the planet in our care is a tall order..."
"Not only that, but...what exactly are we supposed to do?" Mirlo scratched her head. "They didn't explain much..."
"Actually...aren't we forgetting something?" Rein asked. "I feel like we're forgetting something."
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"Oh no! The party!" Mirlo screamed.
"Eh...I didn't wanna go anyways. Can't we just hang out here? Look, there's still plenty of puddles around!"
"We can't! We absolutely have to go! If for no other reason than to tell our parents about the unusual rain at least!"
"Bleeurgh...alright..."
