Harvest Moon Island of Confusion

Chelsea

"Well that's surprisingly unexpected" Chelsea exclaims. Index finger to her lips. "I didn't expect you to be a resident on the island, let alone on the ranch"

Lord Yuuki remained plastered to his throne, and looked on at our heroine with great interest. "I was indeed surprised to have been told that it was you, who had taken over the responsibility of the farm" he sighs. "You have always been important, Chelsea. However; you have caused much delay to my plan"

"I see... well thank you, Lord Yuuki" Chelsea replies. "I must thank you for solving the mystery of the original ranch owner, though I am still curious. Continue the story for me?" she tilts her head and grins at him.

Displaying a somewhat serious expression, Yuuki continued the tale. "Very well"

.....................

"Yuuki. You cannot run amuck"

The Goddess sighs irritably as she stood in-between the boy, and a angered grizzly bear. Yuuki hid behind the Goddess, for he had stirred the animal by taunting it. She was not amused. "It wasn't my fault!" the child protests.

"Lying now, are we?" she asks. He looks up at her, and puffs out his cheeks as he sulked.

"No" he quickly tells. The Goddess raised a brow.

"Oh-ho" she snarls. "I know the perfect way to tell who truly is at fault. Come with me"

She led the boy through the forest, and took a narrow route which curled around. Vines and branches spiralled out of control and soon, they paused before a single house. "Where are we?" he questioned, skin growing pale as she grins.

The Goddess knocks rather sternly on the door, and out emerged a woman. Blonde hair that ran passed her shoulders, in perfect, even ringlets, with eyes as toxic as acid. Upon seeing the heavenly appearance of the Goddess, the strange woman clothed in black grumbles. "What?" she asks, rudely.

The Harvest Goddess smiles. "This boy has angered my creatures, but believes he is innocent"

"So?"

"Keep him in your care for a night, treat him however you desire" the woman too, grins. "Come tomorrow morning, when I collect him, only then will I know the truth"

Yuuki gasps as he then noticed that in her possession. A witches broom. The woman glances down and notices his rattled nerves, and she laughs amusingly. "Kid. I am known as the Witch Princess"

"Princess? Witch? What kind of hell am I in?"

The Witch Princess smirks as she welcomed him into her home. "You know not hell, kid" she tells him. "Until you anger me" There, the Harvest Goddess bid the two farewell and left. It all occurred so suddenly. One moment she was there, and the next.. gone.....

...............

"You were rather close to the Goddess" Chelsea sighs. "She is rather spectacular"

Lord Yuuki nods his head in response to her comment. "That she was" he replies. "You are rather spectacular yourself"

She lifts her head and appeared slightly confused. A light blush creeping its way onto her cheeks as she was then forced to divert her attention.

"That's another thing" Chelsea said. "How is it that you know me so?"

Yuuki sighs painfully, as if not wanting to answer. He raised his eyelids and noticed her concern. "Do not give me such a look" he whispers, allowing his words to drift. Chelsea was baffled.

"Lord Yuuki" Chelsea calls to him, grabbing his attention with ease. Her eyelids were lowered, and her brows perfectly straight. She was serious. "I do not hate you" she told. "I do not find you to be a cruel man. In fact, I am rather fond of you, despite your actions"

His eyes were painted wide. "Girl... you will not think that way once you learn the truth"

Chelsea laughs, and like his sigh, she did so painfully. "Then tell me through your tale" she explains. "For I believe I may be involved"

"That you are.... Princess" he frowns. "That you are"

.......................

"Princess? It is I, the Harvest Goddess"

The door creaked as it opened ever so slightly. Out came a hand, next, a body. "It's so damn early" grumbles the Witch Princess. "Take the brat"

She rushed Yuuki out the door, and the Goddess didn't seem surprised at all to find him as white as snow. "How was it?" she asks, ever so smugly.

Yuuki stares up at the Princess and shivers in fear. "I exposed to him my spell book. Such an obedient guinea pig"

The Goddess kneels before him, and lightly pats his head in a comforting manner. "Was it you?" she asked, with the answer being obvious. The small child nods as he runs into her embrace.

"I'm sorry!" he cries. "I shouldn't have lied!"

"Oh Yuuki. Come, let me escort you home" as she spoke the sentence in a kind, and gentle voice, she then did just that. She opens the door, and in they went. She scans around and grew irritated at how empty the home was. "Is your father still not home?"

"Yes.... b-but it's only because of how busy work is for him!" she staggered backwards at how quick he was to defend his father, and she was not amused. "I know he still cares for he sends out letters!"

"Yuuki-"

"He's a great father! I believe he will return!" she sighs once hearing his words.

"You are thirteen now" she bluntly states. "You have spent three years being raised without him. Do you honestly expect me to believe you?"

He looks at her and stiffened as the question was asked. "Chelsea." he tells her, her eyes enlarging as she heard the name. "My father tells me of a child he is supporting over there, a child who lost her father not long after her birth. He is a good man, raising the girl!"

The Goddess looks on at him and lower's head. "I pity both you, and that child" Yuuki's blood boiled. "I am aware of her existence, for I played a role in it. I believe it is time you knew the truth about your father" she says.

He shook his head. "Don't you dare" he growls, but the Goddess continued.

"Her family are farmer's on land which I also watch over" she claimed. "Like you, Chelsea's brother Kenji, ventures to my spring to speak with me. He told me how after his father's passing, the farm was cared for less, and soon, they fell into dept. That father of yours stumbled upon them, and noticed how they were struggling. He swore to free them from the money issue which had them in a bind"

"See!?"

"However; in order to do so, Chelsea's mother had to sell her body to that man, and to his sick allies. She was beaten and raped daily, all to place food on the table for her children. Kenji bared witness to this, while Chelsea is never to know"

Yuuki dropped to his knee's. Staring blankly into the open space as tears streamed from his eyes. "That cannot be true...." he cries. "Not my father....."

"Yuuki... forgive me"

...................

"That is how I know of you" Yuuki answers, fists trembling due to rage. As Chelsea stood still and silent, watching on. "This is why I became fascinated in you"

"I know"

Yuuki's eyes shot wide open as her voiced trembled. He lifts his eyebrows as he watches her try to maintain her tears. "O-oi" he stutters.

She lifts her head and smiles. "I know" she replied. "I am well aware of what my mother was placed through, and I tried to forget about seeking revenge. Please, do not make me desire such a thing again, because if that was to happen..... I will kill him".......

To be continued.
A Selfish Ruler. Lillian, escape!