Ahiru's Story, Part 3
It took me forever to get here, but I'm finally at the soup kitchen. The soup is worth it, every single spoonful. Plus, it was free, so I certainly couldn't complain about it anyway. Not that I would...it reminds me of my mother's Hühnereintopf. Her version was a bit more hearty, but...she didn't have to worry about feeding such a large crowd. Just her and my father and me...
...Anyway...
Now that I know how to get money, I probably won't stay here long, but it's late enough that tonight I think I'll spend the night here. After tonight...I'm not sure where I'll stay. There's a library here, isn't there? Any good inns or something nearby it?
I've got to find a better way to get around, as well--the train was fast, but a pain (literally), and it still took me a while to walk from here to the station. I think I saw someone riding a cycle on my way here, I might look into buying one.
Time for another part of Ahiru's story. This part's a bit longer than some of the others.
Ahiru found the first shard of Mytho’s heart when she wasn’t even looking for it.
One day at school, while she was trying to work up her courage to talk to Mytho, a young female anteater came up to Mytho and began to talk to him.
“You’re Rue’s boyfriend, right?” Anteaterita asked.
“Yes,” Mytho responded.
“Do you love her?”
“I don’t know,” he responded. Mytho, without his heart, couldn’t understand the concept of love. Anteaterita didn’t know about his heart-but anyone could see that he didn’t understand emotions. It was also easy to figure out that he would do whatever anyone ordered him to do.
“Then, would you like to date me instead?”
“I don’t know.”
“Would you be adverse to it?”
“Not really.”
“Then you’re now going out with me.”
Ahiru was shocked at how easily Mytho would betray Rue. When she saw how easily Mytho could be ordered around without his heart, it made her more determined that, somehow, she would restore it to him.
Soon, Anteaterita’s true motivation was revealed-she wanted to take away everything Rue had. So, when the next class came around, she challenged Rue for her spot in the advanced class. The two would perform a pas de deux (a sort of duet for ballet dancers) with a partner, and whoever the teacher decided had proven herself would be chosen for the advanced class.
Anteaterita, of course, chose Mytho for her partner. Rue considered for a moment, looking around at the class to see who else she could chose. The choices were slim-besides Mytho, the only boy in this particular ballet class was me. It was either me, or one of the girls.
After a moment’s thought, Rue decided to dance with Ahiru. Ahiru was flabbergasted-she was the worst in the class, and everyone knew this. However, Ahiru wanted to help Rue out, so she agreed to be her partner.
Anteaterita and Mytho danced first. Both were very good dancers, so they did well, but there was a problem. Anteaterita was so angry with Rue that her movements weren’t so much graceful as they were fierce. Mytho, on the other hand, couldn’t understand emotion, so while his dancing was always very good in terms of technique, it didn’t express emotions in the way ballet was meant to.
Rue and Ahiru’s dance, however, was totally different. Rue was confident in her talent, so she was able to focus on giving her best performance, and Ahiru, while not at all graceful, always put everything into her dancing and could easily convey emotions with her dancing.
In addition, Rue picking Ahiru showed how good of a dancer she was-she could even make a horrible dancer like Ahiru look graceful when she danced with her. This, I think, was the reason she picked Ahiru over me or one of the other girls-everyone already knew that I was good, so it wouldn’t have been surprising if I had danced well. Ahiru dancing well, however, showed how great of a dancer Rue really was. It was a brilliant strategy, and it worked, and everyone knew it.
Anteaterita was furious. She couldn’t believe that she had failed when she was dancing with one of the best dancers in class, and accused Mytho of trying to embarrass her in front of everyone. “Just so you know, if you weren’t Rue’s boyfriend, I would have never have been interested in you at all!” she yelled.
Ahiru saw how upset Anteaterita was and tried to comfort her, but Anteaterita ran away from her in a rage. She yelled and pounded the ground. “It’s not fair!”
“You’re right…it isn’t fair,” responded a voice. A red spirit shaped like the Prince gently wrapped his arms around her. “Go ahead and cry…be angry…”
Ahiru’s pendant glowed brightly when the spirit appeared. It was then that she realized that this was one of the pieces of Mytho’s heart. Using the pendant’s powers, she became Princess Tutu, and asked for the shard. Anteaterita refused to give up the shard that had hidden in her own heart. In a rage, she tried to push Tutu away, yelling “I will make everyone feel my anger with my dancing!”
“But that isn’t how you really feel!” Princess Tutu responded. She took Anteaterita’s hand and began to dance with her, reminding her that her own way of dancing was not filled with the Prince’s anger, but her own feelings and personality. Soothed, Anteaterita allowed Tutu to take the heart shard of anger out of her heart, and returned it to Mytho.
Ahiru was encouraged by her first real victory. She now knew that her pendant responded to the pieces of the Prince’s heart, and she also knew that she could look for them in the hearts of others. With this knowledge, she was able to find the pieces of loneliness, sorrow, and joy and returned them to Mytho.
However, she also discovered that in the original story, if Princess Tutu revealed her love for the Prince, she would turn into a speck of light and vanish. If she was going to save the prince, she would be unable to tell him of her love for him.
And there would be a new event soon that would make her doubt her role…
...Anyway...
Now that I know how to get money, I probably won't stay here long, but it's late enough that tonight I think I'll spend the night here. After tonight...I'm not sure where I'll stay. There's a library here, isn't there? Any good inns or something nearby it?
I've got to find a better way to get around, as well--the train was fast, but a pain (literally), and it still took me a while to walk from here to the station. I think I saw someone riding a cycle on my way here, I might look into buying one.
Time for another part of Ahiru's story. This part's a bit longer than some of the others.
Ahiru found the first shard of Mytho’s heart when she wasn’t even looking for it.
One day at school, while she was trying to work up her courage to talk to Mytho, a young female anteater came up to Mytho and began to talk to him.
“You’re Rue’s boyfriend, right?” Anteaterita asked.
“Yes,” Mytho responded.
“Do you love her?”
“I don’t know,” he responded. Mytho, without his heart, couldn’t understand the concept of love. Anteaterita didn’t know about his heart-but anyone could see that he didn’t understand emotions. It was also easy to figure out that he would do whatever anyone ordered him to do.
“Then, would you like to date me instead?”
“I don’t know.”
“Would you be adverse to it?”
“Not really.”
“Then you’re now going out with me.”
Ahiru was shocked at how easily Mytho would betray Rue. When she saw how easily Mytho could be ordered around without his heart, it made her more determined that, somehow, she would restore it to him.
Soon, Anteaterita’s true motivation was revealed-she wanted to take away everything Rue had. So, when the next class came around, she challenged Rue for her spot in the advanced class. The two would perform a pas de deux (a sort of duet for ballet dancers) with a partner, and whoever the teacher decided had proven herself would be chosen for the advanced class.
Anteaterita, of course, chose Mytho for her partner. Rue considered for a moment, looking around at the class to see who else she could chose. The choices were slim-besides Mytho, the only boy in this particular ballet class was me. It was either me, or one of the girls.
After a moment’s thought, Rue decided to dance with Ahiru. Ahiru was flabbergasted-she was the worst in the class, and everyone knew this. However, Ahiru wanted to help Rue out, so she agreed to be her partner.
Anteaterita and Mytho danced first. Both were very good dancers, so they did well, but there was a problem. Anteaterita was so angry with Rue that her movements weren’t so much graceful as they were fierce. Mytho, on the other hand, couldn’t understand emotion, so while his dancing was always very good in terms of technique, it didn’t express emotions in the way ballet was meant to.
Rue and Ahiru’s dance, however, was totally different. Rue was confident in her talent, so she was able to focus on giving her best performance, and Ahiru, while not at all graceful, always put everything into her dancing and could easily convey emotions with her dancing.
In addition, Rue picking Ahiru showed how good of a dancer she was-she could even make a horrible dancer like Ahiru look graceful when she danced with her. This, I think, was the reason she picked Ahiru over me or one of the other girls-everyone already knew that I was good, so it wouldn’t have been surprising if I had danced well. Ahiru dancing well, however, showed how great of a dancer Rue really was. It was a brilliant strategy, and it worked, and everyone knew it.
Anteaterita was furious. She couldn’t believe that she had failed when she was dancing with one of the best dancers in class, and accused Mytho of trying to embarrass her in front of everyone. “Just so you know, if you weren’t Rue’s boyfriend, I would have never have been interested in you at all!” she yelled.
Ahiru saw how upset Anteaterita was and tried to comfort her, but Anteaterita ran away from her in a rage. She yelled and pounded the ground. “It’s not fair!”
“You’re right…it isn’t fair,” responded a voice. A red spirit shaped like the Prince gently wrapped his arms around her. “Go ahead and cry…be angry…”
Ahiru’s pendant glowed brightly when the spirit appeared. It was then that she realized that this was one of the pieces of Mytho’s heart. Using the pendant’s powers, she became Princess Tutu, and asked for the shard. Anteaterita refused to give up the shard that had hidden in her own heart. In a rage, she tried to push Tutu away, yelling “I will make everyone feel my anger with my dancing!”
“But that isn’t how you really feel!” Princess Tutu responded. She took Anteaterita’s hand and began to dance with her, reminding her that her own way of dancing was not filled with the Prince’s anger, but her own feelings and personality. Soothed, Anteaterita allowed Tutu to take the heart shard of anger out of her heart, and returned it to Mytho.
Ahiru was encouraged by her first real victory. She now knew that her pendant responded to the pieces of the Prince’s heart, and she also knew that she could look for them in the hearts of others. With this knowledge, she was able to find the pieces of loneliness, sorrow, and joy and returned them to Mytho.
However, she also discovered that in the original story, if Princess Tutu revealed her love for the Prince, she would turn into a speck of light and vanish. If she was going to save the prince, she would be unable to tell him of her love for him.
And there would be a new event soon that would make her doubt her role…