A/n: Thank you always to LHT1995 and ShockTrooperCorps for reading this fanfiction!!! I'll do my best to complete this story!!! ✨️💖✨️

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No one knows what the future holds,
Only a few had the gift of foresight
Elves may have power,
But not the power of the gods themselves,
Their power weakened since the days of darkness...

A dark figure rises from the distance,
He holds power unknown yet to many
But it has been seen since the beginning of time
The youngest elf alive will overpower him!

But as the dark power rises,
Pain afflicts him,
Screams and nightmares darken his night!
But he wasn't forgotten,
As his heart was alight,
He sees what was bright,

He sang to the gods,
Surrender is what he did...
Surrender to the gods is what he did!
The gods and goddesses answered him,
Saved him from his despair...

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Weeks passed by since the Victory Feast and his eventual return to the palace. Prince Arion opened his eyes and when he looked outside his room through a wide glass window, he became aware that it was still evening. The full moon was still lit brightly and the stars shone with it. His heart thumped so dangerously and hard in his chest as if it would break his ribs due to a strange nightmare but when he felt that his father was sitting right next to him, he began to feel better. "You didn't need to be here, father. I trust that you know that I am fine. I'm not that innocent fifteen-year-old boy who doesn't know how to live as your heir and as an elf. I can now carry my problems by myself."

"Son, I do trust you a lot but..." King Alexandria rose out of his chair and sighed deeply. "I heard something from Legolas and it disturbed me."

Prince Arion was confused and so, he looked at his father's eyes. "Was there something wrong I did? I don't remember doing something wrong today."

"Are you upset? Indeed, attending to your princely duties will always be a must but I know you want to spend your time with your human friends! It's not like I'm forbidding you to be with them," King Alexandria asked him. Arion remained silent throughout and just listened. "Son, do not lie to me. I know you as much as you don't know yourself and you're being too cold to your friends. I've named you 'Arion' so that you can be a proper prince but that doesn't mean forgetting your old friends!"

Prince Arion clenched his hands and he tightly gripped his blanket as he replied with what his father just told him."Dad, it is true that I know that I can be with them and spend my time with them but ever since I've arrived in Middle Earth, I knew that I am changing. Arima Kousei's dead, Dad!"

King Alexandria sat on his chair and held his son close to him. The child was close to having a huge emotional outburst after all.

"Ever since I became an elf, the boy named 'Kousei' was slowly fading away. He was just a vessel that faded away the time you removed my limiter! I have his memories but he's not me, Dad. I don't feel like I own his memories. I don't even feel that I know them, Dad."

King Alexandria, was, of course, very much shocked by what he heard from his son, Prince Arion, as he never expected that his son would feel too different from the time he still had his limiter. Even so, he had always known that his son would return and stay with them when his mother brought him to another parallel world but he never knew that removing the limiter would confuse his son. Up until now, he was having a huge identity crisis. He knew his son would always ask questions such as 'Who Am I', and 'What Am I?".

"Try to talk to them, Arion. Understand them. Ask them about what you were when you were human. I do remember and I know how difficult your life was when you were trying to adapt in our kingdom when you first arrived but now that you do, be who you are," King Alexandria advised him. "Arion, do not try to forget that you lived as a human being in Japan. You were in another universe and you'd always be the same."

Prince Arion smiled at him. "Was I? Then, that only meant that for three years, I have changed so much that I can't even feel that I was once Kousei. Dad, I chose to become your son, after all. Even so, I am Prince Arion, now. Arima Kousei was my identity when I was in the human world but since we're here on Middle Earth, I'll always be the Prince of Mirkwood."

"As much as I am happy that you know your identity and what you are, I do hope you don't push your old friends away," King Alexandria reminded him. "Take a bath and be ready for the breakfast feast! Later at lunch, King Aragorn will visit us."

Prince Arion was wide-eyed as he rose from his bed. King Aragorn had always been a great teacher and somehow, he usually talked about the time when the One Ring existed. "He'll visit us? Will he take and accept my friends? Even if I am safe for now since the wizard who tried to kill me has not reappeared yet, you know how dangerous Mirkwood has always been for humans arriving here for the first time."

"Shouldn't it that you try to help them know about your kingdom and teach them how to live in the Capital?"

"It will be better for someone else to do it," Arion answered him. "I'm going to go take a bath now, Dad!"

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At the same time that day, Kaori, Ryota, and Tsubaki walked together inside Mirkwood Castle. It was clear to the three friends that while they were exploring the castle grounds wearing the white tunic and brown dresses that were given to them, the world they arrived in was different from their world. There's magic all around them but not much technology they're familiar with existed in any way possible. There was also language that was so different from what they knew, as well.

Tsubaki, in her curiosity to discover who was talking that strange, foreign language to them stepped closer to the room lit by many torches. She stared at the small opening of the room and saw Kousei, now, Prince Arion talking to an older male elf with silver hair and was wearing a glowing, long white tunic and the man was wearing grass shoes. Meanwhile, Prince Arion was wearing his usual purple tunic, hose, and gold cloak. On his right side, he was holding his silver sword that was in his scabbard that was decorated with many diamonds. His clothes were embedded with many pieces of jewelry and diamonds.

"What are you doing, Tsubaki?" Ryota asked her. "That seemed to be Prince Arion's study room!"

"We can't interrupt Kousei while he's studying, Tsubaki."

Tsubaki slowly withdrew after that and just stood sadly in front of them. "We're not all having shared hallucinations, right? Kousei's here but he doesn't look like the boy we know."

Kaori and Ryota agreed with her. They all miss the pianist Arima Kousei, after all, and they wondered if Prince Arion still remembered his days when he was human, and most of all, treasured his days when he was human. Surprisingly, that time, the door opened again and the older elf with silver hair smiled at them.

"Good day to you!" Master Argus Skye spoke to them. He smiled at them and opened his door for the three humans. "Prince Arion felt your presence. He told me that he wants to talk to all of you. Anyway, I do want to introduce myself to you. You can call me 'Master Argus'."

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