The Pure Hearted Heroine (A Ni No Kuni Fanfiction)

Chapter 2

Oliver walked in the door to see his four year old daughter Nicole laying on the floor, colouring a picture, dressed in a purple halter top that had pink sleeves and a pair of pink pyjama pants. He snuck up behind her and tickled her, making her squeal with laughter.

"Daddy! Stop it!" She shouted. He laughed as he bent down and picked her up in a hug. "I'm glad you're home Daddy! I hope I never grow up, so that I don't have to go to work!" Then she showed him her picture that she was drawing. "Lookit Daddy! I'm drawing a picture of when you and your friends when you defeated Shadar!" She pointed to each person in the picture, who were all drawn pretty well for a four year old. "See? That's you, and that's Harmony flying on her staff, and there's Esther with her harp, and Swaine with his gun! And there's meanie old Shadar!" Oliver looked at her drawing and smiled, remembering that day.

"That's amazing, sweetie!" He told her. Then he noticed someone was missing. "You forgot Mr. Drippy!" She looked at her picture, and gasped.

"I can fix it!" He laughed again and kissed her cheek, taking the picture and setting it on the end table.

"Come on, littlie!" He teased, using the name that baby fairies were called. "Let's go see what Mommy's making for dinner!" Then he threw her onto his shoulders and carried her to the kitchen piggyback style, where Myrtle was setting the table. When she saw the two, she smiled.

"There's my hero!" She said teasingly to Oliver. "And my littlie!" She reached over and gave Oliver a hug and a kiss on the cheek, then tousled Nicole's hair. "Guess who gets to join us for dinner tonight?" Nicole got excited as Oliver lifted her down into a chair.

"Who?" That was when three of her favourite people entered.

"I come bearing hugs and a letter!" Melody's voice floated in dramatically, followed by Sam and Grant's laughter. Nicky's eyes widened and she jumped from her chair.

"Aunt Melody! " She exclaimed, hugging her aunt. Sam pretended to be hurt.

"What? No hug for your favourite uncles?" She jumped up and ran at both Sam and Grant, who knelt down, caught her, and lifted her up together in unison.

"Hi, Uncle Sam! Hi Uncle Grant!" She exclaimed. That was when her grandparents entered.

"Hey! There's my favourite granddaughter!" Her Grandpa Rusty called, and she ran over to give them hugs. Grandma Betty smiled at Oliver and Myrtle.

"We overheard that Nichole's letter had come in." She said.

Nichole was Nicole's namesake, of course, as well as her godmother. She often sent letters and cards around the holidays, and she had yet to miss a Thanksgiving. Everyone loved receiving the letters from her, especially Nicole, so it was always a bit of a celebration when one came and everyone came for dinner.

Soon, they were all seated around the table, Nicole in between Oliver and Sam and they listened to Nichole's recent adventures over the seas...

Later that same evening, Nicole ran around her room, wearing white pyjamas and a red cape, holding a stick.

"Take that, Shadar!" She shouted,jumping into the air. "Mornstar!" Oliver laughed as he came into the room.