The Pure Hearted Heroine (A Ni No Kuni Fanfiction)

Chapter 5

Nicky woke up the next morning, looked around, and sighed.

"And I was hoping I was dreaming." She said. Then she noticed that Jayden was asleep still. So she quickly packed up all of the things from the Bottomless Bag, leaving out the Wizard's Companion. Jayden said that Mortui was in Hamelin. She'd need the map to head there.

That was when she found a stick with a green gem at the end. It was simple, but she recognised it immediately.

"Daddy! Tell me about time you met the big cat king!" Nicky begged her father at five. He laughed.

"Wait here one "meowment", my littlie." He told her. Then he left her room and came back with a stick that had a green gem on the end. "This is the wand that King Tom gave me. Before this, I only had a stick, from the Sky Tree of Nazcaa itself."

This was King Tom's wand! "I'd better hold onto this." She whispered to herself, then packed everything else up, and left the Deep Dark Wood, not waking anybody else up. Or so she thought. As she walked into the Rolling Hills, she ran as fast as she could, trying to avoid the Flyers.

"Oi, Nicky-girl! Mind slowing down? You're shaking me up!"

Called a Welsh voice from the Bottomless Bag. Nicky pulled it off and opened it up to see Sappy sitting inside!

"Sappy! What are you doing in there?" She asked, pulling him out. Sappy hopped onto the ground, grinning.

"I'm here to help you out! Since you left Jaydie-boy behind!" Nicky shook her head as she continued walking.

"I didn't leave him behind. I was trying to save his life! I'm probably going to get into a lot of trouble and danger, and I don't want anybody getting hurt because of me! And that includes you! Go back!" Sappy shook his head.

"Nah, mun! I'll bet I'll be a great help! Youer dad had Lord Drippy! It'll be just like that!" Nicky groaned. "Trust me, mun! We can do this! Besides! I know how to get Hamelin! That's where Mortui, the rotter, is at!" Nicky felt a pang in her chest. She remembered that Harmony and Marcassin used to rule Hamelin. She'd liked the idea of the Sage and the Songstress. It had been one of her favourite stories.

"What story would you like to hear today, Nicole?" Oliver asked.
"I want to hear a love story! You always tell stories about the other world! What about a love one?" She asked him, pouting.
"Well it just so happens, I have a love story from the other world." He told her. She grinned. "It's called The Sage and the Songstress." Nicky gasped.

"Harmony and a sage?" She asked. He smiled at her.

"Not just any sage. Prince Marcassin." She giggled.

"No way!" Oliver nodded, looking at her with the twinkle in his eye. "Tell me the story!" He laughed.

"Well, when we got to Hamelin and we fixed Marcassin's heart, we had to stay a few days..."

Of all the stories he told, that one was probably her favourite. She'd always hoped to have a love story like that. Now they were both captured.

"At least they're together." she murmured. She didn't even have her dad with her.

"What'd you say, Nicky-girl?" Sappy asked.