20 Days In The Past - Aikatsu Love Story (SenAka)

Riptides

April 15, 2016

         "Akari-chan, pleasure to meet you."
         Akari opened her eyes, seeing her light was turned on.  She sat up in her bed, squinting her eyes.  "What? Who are you?" She said in a panicked voice.
        "I am Elza, the Queen of the fairies." The woman said, an evil smirk on her face.
        Akari's eyes adjusted, as she saw a tall slender lady.  Her extremely long raspberry pink hair was floating to her sides.  She wore an extravagant black, white and red ballgown, that contrasted her fiery yellow eyes.
       "Oh!" Akari said, getting out of bed.  She curtsied.  "Can I get you some tea?"
       "Yes, that would be nice." Queen Elza said.

       "You sure are a curious case, aren't you?" The Queen sipped her green tea.
       "What do you mean?"
       "Raised from the dead using time travel.  It is quite a taboo your dear godmother committed."
       "Please forgive her, she meant well."
       "I know she did.  I wouldn't be so concerned had she not waited 20 years to make his change." 
        Akari widened her eyes.  "She took that long?"
      Queen Elza laughed, taking a sip of tea.  "At first she was grieving so much she didn't think of time travel.  By the time she got the idea, it was too late.  She contemplated it for years before she decided to defy my order."
        Akari felt immediately unsettled by her bubbly laughter, especially in discussion of such matters.  "So are you here to take back the spell? What's going to happen?"
       Elza looked at her nails.  "Well, you don't belong here.  You're dead.  Changing the past not 20 but 30 years shouldn't be so easy now, should it?" She said.
       "Please don't punish her, please!"
       "I wouldn't have a choice would I?"
       "Please!"
       Queen Elza made a sadistic smirk. Her diabolical glare met Akari's fearful eyes.  "I suppose I won't punish her, however as for you...."  Akari felt her heart stop.  "I do not have the power to break the spell, but I can meddle around.  I will very much make this much harder, Akari-chan."
        Akari's hand started to shake, her palms sweating.
       "How about I add some obstacles? Since it's the last 5 days, I will make this very difficult for you."
       "And if I still succeed?"
      "I'll tell you what killed your parents both times."
      "So there was the same cause twice?"
      She made another hysterical laugh.  "Of course! It was very clever too if you ask me." She took another sip of tea.  "So I will be adding many obstacles to your little quest, and these next 5 days will be the most difficult days of the rest of your sad little life."  Akari's stomach was tied in knots.
        "If you're making it so difficult, and I do win, can there more than just knowing what killed my parents?"
        "And what may I ask that you propose?"
        "If things go according to the original timeline, they are to die on April 22.  I ask that if I succeed, you could heal my parents and wake them up from their coma."
        "Bargaining are you?" She chuckled. "I'll agree to it, because I know that you won't succeed."
       "Sounds good, because I will succeed."  Akari said.  The Queen set down her cup of tea.
       "Thank you for the tea, Oozora-san.  Rather unfortunate you only live less than 5  days." She said as she got up from her seat.  "Ta ta" She said before completely disappearing.

        That following morning,  Akari had security with her at all times, only going to and from work.  That afternoon she went to classes at school, watching her back in a paranoid manner.
        She sat on the bench, as Suzukawa-sensei swept in the background.  She waited as Tsubasa's phone was dialing.
        "Hello?"
        "Hey, are you free tomorrow?"
        "I'm really sorry, I'm extremely busy this week.  But I'll see you when I pick you for the ball?"
        "Of course! Good luck!" She said before hanging up.  This could only mean one thing, she had to make him kiss her at the ball. 
        Akari got up from her seat, calling a cab to take her to a formal dress shop.  She walked to the gates, seeing the cab was parked down the street.  She looked behind her, seeing her two bodyguards still with her.  She made her way to the cab.   Right before she opened the cab door, someone grabbed her from behind.  She was caught blindsided, as she saw her security nowhere in sight.  A cloth covered her mouth and nose, where she drifted out of consciousness.