The Rise

And So It Begins 2

Flora smiled, "Unfortunately, she's went through more than even I could handle. She surpassed us from before the time she was born." Nox turned to her, "What do you mean?" Nayeli couldn't help but to feel sad, understanding what her daughter meant meant as she remembered what Bia told her previously. "Neteria could hear and feel everything around her before she was born. She took the curse from her mother onto herself and it turned to poison. This is why her hair is red and eyes that are golden." Rai, who was slowly recovering on the floor in a pool of her own blood, couldn't help but to shiver. "If that's the case. Then the massacre...." Princess Kali said to which Nayeli nods.

"Sending Bia and Reina out of the palace was such a risky move that I have no way of knowing where they would end up. However when I asked her about it, she said nothing. Who knows what they went through all these years. Cultivating so many people, the exact number is hard to fathom." Flora sighed, Prince Kai was suddenly motivated when he heard this. "I've decided. My children will join this death training." Grand Prince Kai has the most offspring from his brothers and sister. Ten in total. However in terms of continuing the family line, Prince Kasian succeeded in this aspect. He and his wife had one child, Flora. Flora had one child, Neteria. Neteria now has two, Aceso and Diablo.

Elder Haclin waved his hand, "Enough of this. My precious great grandchild can't handle this situation all by herself. One of you will have to step up and be King or Queen." He pointedly looked at his three remaining children. "Fine. I'll do it." The least expected one to speak, spoke up. Grand Princess Kali. Kasian looked at his little sister, "Kali..." She smiled, "I know how much Elder brother hates this so even if you become King, you won't be happy. We all know how Kai will be so I'm the best option. Besides, I've been learning a lot about the Kingdom over the years. I can get it done. If not I'll have you, Father and my niece in my corner. Being a King or QUeen isn't that easy after all."

"In that case, we'll deal with your inauguration when the war is over." Elder Haclin stood and everyone bowed as he left. Outside the palace, Bia walked down the stairs. Erebus next to her. As he watched her, he noticed changes. Subtle changes but he still noticed them. "Neteria..." He trailed off. "Is something wrong?" As he looked at her closer, the changes became even more noticeable. "Nothing." Erebus said, 'it's because of what she went through while away from me' is what he thought to himself. But something in him knew that something was definitely different with the way she was acting, he had a sinking feeling that something terrible was going to happen soon.

After the garden incident  everyone went back to the manor leaving Rena to wait on her mother. Rai managed to make it outside on her own feet. "Rena." Hearing her mother's weak voice, Rena ran forward and caught the woman's exhausted body before she could drop to the floor. "The carriage is here. I'll help you." Rena said and gently helped her mother into the carriage. "Mother.... This is my fault." Rai shook her head. "No I made a terrible mistake. The truth is, Reina belongs to the deceased King and my sister." Rena was surprised. "You have a sister?" Rena nods. "She's currently in the dungeons and I allowed it to happen." As Rei told Rena the story, a figure clothed in red walked into the dungeons with a fireball lighting the way. "My sister and the King were in love, at least that's what she thought but it was one sided. We share the same face and the same fate."

Rai coughed, "We were always with the royal family. Especially him. The problem was that I also fell in love with him, even though your father and I had acknowledged each other. Seeing my sister with him broke my heart but then being with your father made me forget that I had feelings for him. One night, we were summoned to the palace but when she left to find him, he found me." Rai gripped her daughter's dress tightly in her hand not being able to finish the sentence. Tears flowed from her eyes. "He took me even after I said that it was me. In the garden, your father found me bruised and bloody. If I hadn't stopped your father, he would've tried to kill that man and he would've died in the process."

"Weeks later, I found out that I was pregnant and it disgusted me. But it was too late to kill the child. Maki told me that it was okay, he'll be the father no matter what but it was still hard for him to do. So when the children were born, a girl came out first. Another child came out, it was twins once again but the scent... that disgusting man's scent... I left in the night and threw him away." Rai cried as she recalled the story. "It was only after coming back that my sister was also pregnant. She hid it from everyone, Reina was born a couple months after you were. The child didn't carry that man's scent and that angered me but I couldn't bear to kill the child so I carried her to our aunt's house and left her there. My sister when crazy looking for it and ran into the Palace, attacking that man for taking the child but he kept the situation hush and locked her up instead."

Rena looked down at her mother, "What is your sister's name?" Rai loosened her grip on the dress, "Raila." The figure in red reached a dark cell and walked out, "Raila." A woman stirred in the cell, "I haven't heard someone call me that name for a long time. Who are you?" The woman's voice was still smooth as though she didn't spend hundreds of years in a dark cell starving. The fireball got brighter revealing the figure in red's face. Hazel stood outside the cell, a clink clink noise indicating that the woman inside was walking towards her. "I'm someone who wants to give you information about what's happened outside." Rails scoffed and grabbed the bars, "Outside? Those outside have forgotten about me and left me here for dead. What you want to tell me, I have no interest in." Raila moved away from the bars, the chains attached to her hands made noise as she moved.

Hazel smirked, "I think you will be interested in what I have to say about your daughter." The noise of the chains stopped, "My daughter? How do you know of her?" Hazel didn't answer her question. Raila was now interested in what this woman wanted to say. "Speak your mind witch." Hazel took a step forward, Raila turned to her. "The first thing I'll tell you is that Kaa is dead." The clink clink of the chains accelerated before Raila grabbed onto the bars. Beautiful violet eyes stared at Hazel unwavering. "Is that bastard really dead?!" Raila felt hopeful, if that bastard was dead then the promise she made to him when he locked her in here would be fulfilled after so many centuries.

Her excited voice echoed through the air. "Yes. He's dead." Hazel said. A cackling sound came out of the woman suddenly, "That bastard! Retribution came at last! I told you that I would live longer than you even if you without food and water you bastard!!!" In the midst of her cackling , she heard keys and the lock turning. Looking around, she saw Hazel unlocking the door. "Who are you to have the keys to this dungeon?" Hazel merely smiled and waved her hands, the chains came undone. Hazel threw a coat to her. "Put this on, seeing as you haven't seen the sun in many years, this will be useful. Follow me." The two walk out of the dungeon, one confused and the other happy.