A Maiden's True Heart - Chapter 1

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Once upon a time, there lived a hero. The Hero saw the people's pain and went on a journey to convince the Demon King to stop tormenting the people.

"And finally, the hero makes it to the Demon King's castle!"  Yuna shouts. Her character "The Hero" moved with her voice. "I'm here Demon King! Stop your heinous acts!"

Fu moves her puppet and begins. "It was the villagers who began to fear me, and branded me as evil!"

I looked towards the children as they had various looks of awe, excitement and happiness. I was part of the Hero club in our middle school. Though I am not 100% sure why I joined the club I love working with them and helping people out. Seeing children like this smiling brightly was enough to forget about the pain in my own life.

"Still, you should not torment them! We can talk this through!"

"Why should i talk if i'll only be treated as evil again!" Fu's character "The Demon King"  moved towards Yuna's.

"I will not treat you as evil!" Yuna shouts before my head shoots to the set which she knocked over.  An awkward silence fills the air. 

"We blew it." Yuna says as both her and Fu look awkwardly at the children. I face palmed and watch them though the cracks in my fingers.

"I don't think anyone got hurt." I sighed and crossed my arms. "That's good."

"But what should we do-" Fu began. 

"HERO KICK!" Yuna suddenly shouts and her character shoots up and hits Fu's.

"What?!" Fu shouts her face animatedly showing her annoyance as Yuna looked at her nervously. "Seriously that wasn't even a kick! And you were just saying that we should try to talk things out!" 

"But-" Itsuki begins to say. She looks at me expectantly then back at the two as Fu shouts loudly. I shrug. "Um, Onee-chan."

"Itsuki, music!" Fu shouts and Itsuki jumps slighly bumping into.

"Heh?!?" She nervously shrieks and looks at the keyboard. Her fingers flicked through the music before clicking one. "Wait-how's this?"

A dark music begins to play as Itsuki looks up proudly.

Yuna turns around frantically. "The Demon King's theme? Now?"

A dark and evil aurora shoots up from Fu as she laughs wickedly. "Mwuah ah ah ah ah!" I sweat drop at her performance. 

"Togo." I whisper something in her ear. She looks at me with a soft smile and nods with careful calculations in her eyes.

"This will be your grave!" Fu shouts.

"The Demon King's totally into it!" Yuna waves her arms about and panics. "Why you!"

Togo's eyes narrow and I could see lightning practically shoot from her eyes, she knows it's the right time. "Time to rally the kids for the Hero."

"Everyone, cheer for the Hero." Togo speaks into the microphone as she looks at the kids. "Let's pump our fists to send power to the Hero!"

 "Fight on! Fight on!" I shout with Togo as we move our arms in sync. The kids react almost immediately and pump their little hands up as they cheer. A bright smile took over my face as the kids jumped up and down.

Fu moves around like she's being struck by something and she furrows her brows. "Their cheers weaken me!"

"Nice improvising, Onee-chan!" Itsuki shouts in her soft voice.

"Now!" Yuna gets into a fighting position and she angles her puppet. She screams. "Hero PUNCH!"

"Ow!" Fu shrieks as the puppets make contact. Yuna's puppet catches Fu's as she looks down in pain.

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