Narrator Pov's
She was forgotten by time and sat in never-ending darkness; her body had vanished like dust on the ground, her name had been vanished from silence and the empire's history. But she didn't beg for compassion. She wished for retribution and a second chance.
" The pain, the pain of what you all did to me, I will make you pay!! I don't want to die like this! "
" I want to go back! I will not accept this as my fate, why was I punished like this! "
She had been shouting and furious previously, but now she was crying. The former princess blurted out,
" I have always been quiet my whole life and have never meddled in your affairs, but why did He do this to me? " as she said. She asked if there was a god who was hearing her because she was continuously saying "revenge" when she spoke.
Her soul essence is fleeting in unknown time.
Someone is watching her! Someone who heard her cursing with hatred. The unknown person or Deity is looking at her with sadness.
And something in the void answered.
" Do you want to go back? " Finally the unknown is asking her.
" Can you bring me back? " She asked without hesitation.
" ... " No response came from the unknown.
" If you can't then don't speak to me with that words of coming back. " She said breaking the silence.
" Why do you want to go back? " The unknown asked her again.
" Because.. Because i want to get my revenge and fix everything. " She said to the unknown.
" Can you bear the price for that? " The unknown question her.
" If you want my soul you can take it! Just... Just give me a chance to go back in time and let me take my revenge. If you are a god or whatever you are. Please hear me and let me go back and give me a chance. " She said with truth and determination to go back.
" Everything I endure, " she said, and the unknown look at her with no intention to reveal. " The unequal I felt when my own father suddenly imprisoned me in the cold palace." She continued, " I feel miserable everyday. But I endure this far even death.." She raised her head and looked in one direction. As if she sees someone, " So... even if I sell myself to you, There's nothing to lose anyway. " At the end of her speech the silence is so loud. And suddenly the unknown spoke.
" I pity you child. " the unknown said with grief with her.
" I will allow you to go back, and I will allow you to keep your memories from the future you've seen. " The unknown said.
" You should be grateful for this second chance. And you should be thankful for your mother's guidance. " The unknown added and the pitiful princess raised her head again because of the last two words she heard. " mother guidance. "
" What do you mean my mother? " She ask. " I don't know...." The unknown stop to continue. " W..what do you mean?! You just said my mother. And who even are you? " She ask, And confused of what is happening.
" You will know when the time is right " the unknown said. When the pitiful princess tried to speak the unknown spoke.
" The past is like a cage that humans endure while they're still alive. The others past is like a good memories and bad at the same time. But sometimes humans want to keep the bad memory and not letting the new future to their lives. " The unknown said. When the unknown continued to speak again the princess spoke.
" Your principles is not wrong but it's bad at the same time. " She said.
" People live in their past because of the hardships they went through in their lives, whether young or old, and I was one of those people who was in prison. I can only get out of my prison of the past if I can get revenge on the person who gave me the ugly past." She said with burning anger.
The unknown thought that what the princess said was right. But the unknown sees her as a broken person.
" Child, don't let your anger consume you, but keep at least a little goodness in your heart. " The unknown said with her. But the princess didn't respond to the unknown.
" It's time for you to go back, I'll remind you that you'll remember what you've been through but what we talked about will be lost in your memory. " The unknown said
" T..then, What's your name? " Finally the Princess asked. The unknown smile.
" hmmm. . . Just call me the one who is watching you in eternal. " The unknown said.
" W-what " the Princess said with a confused face.
" Hahaha, Avinash means Eternal... My dearest Celestia. " Avinash said
" I have a great time with you Princess. . .We will see each other again and goodbye for now.... And entertain me with your sweet revenged. I will watching you. "
" W-wait Avinash! " Myrrh Celestia pleaded.
Avinash smiled when Myrrh Celestia called him. " I will always by your side My dearest Celestia.. Forgive me for being unable to protect and save you.... Goodbye for now Celestia. "
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Princess myrrh woke up with a very bad dream. Grasping from the air and looking by her side table. But she failed to see a glass of water, she rang the bell and a maid entered.
" Good morning, princess. " The maid greeted her with politeness and respect. The maid noticed that their princess myrrh was panting and without asking she immediately took a glass of water and made her drink it.
The princess accepted the water and when she felt relief, everything that happened to her entered her memory.
" It's true that I'm back again " princess myrrh murmured and the maid looked at her and asked her.
" What is it princess?. " The maid asked. And princess myrrh looks at her with pierce eyes but it's changed with a smile.
" What year is it now? " Her tone is still sweet.
" We are in the second winter season princess. " The maid said.
Princess Myrrh Celestia Pov's.
We are in the second winter season princess .
Does that mean I go back to the age of ten and we're in the first month of the first year and I die by execution at the age of ten and eight I go back eight years in the future to get revenge.
" HAHAHAHAHA " No words came to my mouth but I laughed. I looked at my maid with shock and confused at the same time scared with my actions. Because a ten year old child is laughing like a maniac.
" Ohh! You, prepare my bath and clothes for me to wear, my father the king is waiting for me for the morning greeting in the garden and preparing us for delicious tea. " I ordered.
" Yes, yes princess. We will prepare your bath. " I nodded.
I awoke not in the afterlife, but in the fragile past, returned to the years before my ruin. The palace is the same, the roses still red, my enemies still hidden behind masks of kinship. But I am no longer the naive girl they betrayed.
When the servants left.
I look at myself in the mirror. I touched my face and cheeks and began to look at my little fingers. I could no longer see my poor, dirty and full of scars and wounds all over my body and face. I looked deeply into my eyes with anger and rage burning in my heart, I promised myself that the cruelty I experienced will not happen again and I will make sure that they will experience it twice... not only twice but more severe than what I experienced I will punish them all!.
This time, I will not falter.
This time, I will not forgive.
This time, I will seize the throne and when I do,
" This time, the throne will be mine, built upon their ruin. "
( Knock... Knock )
" Come in. " I said. While I still look at myself in a mirror.
"The bath is ready princess. " While I was looking in the mirror, my eyes caught this servant and I remembered that she was one of the ones who made me suffer when I was abandoned by my worthless father, the king, this woman is the one who gives me my meals mixed with poison and clothes that looked like rags but because you fed me poisons I couldn't defend myself and I looked crazy to everyone because of those mixed poisons I became fond of talking even if I had no one to talk to and every time I spoke i am All of a sudden, I vomit blood all over the mouth or sometimes my eyes just tear up with blood.
I faced her and came closer to her when she looked at me in surprise, I smiled back at her.
" What is your name? " I asked her and she responded quickly.
" A-amatia Princess Princess Myrrh " i look at her. Amatia... Right, you deserve that name even more.
" Amatia... Hmmm do you know what " amat means? " I ask her with a curious tone.
" No, My Princess " I smirked sarcastically.
" Amatia or Amat means SLAVE in ancient times. " I look at her disgusting face.
" Are you a slave? " I said not showing my mocking expression... " Hmmm she didn't respond to my question. "
" Y-yes princess myrrh. I was a slave before. " I act like I pity her. I gripped her hand, which was rough from her strict labor here at the Palace.
" Do you know, amatia, that name doesn't suit you, especially since you serve the princess, if you want, I'll change your name and make you my play mate because you're the only one who's always by my side. " I said to her as I looked into her eyes with a smile, there was a mixture of surprise and joy on her face but there was also a mixture of fear because a princess cannot have a playmate who is a maid or slave, that is shameless in the name of the Social etiquette of the Noblesse Aristocratic.
I was just looking at her and, " think carefully Rosa. Yes, yes you are not Amatia anymore but rosally... Let's go Rosa it's time for my bath right. " I sat in the stone tab where another maid came to help me wash.
While they continued to bathe me, I was looking outside where you can see the beautiful garden of the palace that is now covered with white snow and suddenly all the hardships I experienced in prison and to transfer me to the cold palace and the punishments I suffered until I died.
I must forget everything and make myself happy until my revenge is done.
But why even though I'm happy that I'm back, why do I still feel the pain in my heart?
Shouldn't I be happy but why am I still in pain?... These emotions are messing with my mind!, I have to get rid of it, it's going to ruin all my plans.
I have finished taking a bath and because of the chaos of what these servants are doing, my head is hurting because they are so chaotic choosing my dress and the ornaments I will wear and designing my hair the whole time to fix me, and they see that my forehead is already wrinkled because of being annoyed and irritated by what they are doing.
When I noticed that they had stopped fixing and were looking at me, I looked at them carefully and stood up from my seat.
Instead of showing them my disappointment, I just smiled at them and told them to calm down and win their hearts or even not because they would die too.
The previously messy and out of order and non-stop chatter of these servants has now become a beautiful aura of my room, quiet and working together to make the outcome of the arrangement go well for me and I did not make a mistake, the outcome was smooth and it was I was elegant in what I was wearing even though I didn't wear much jewelry and only a few made me very beautiful at that time especially the ornaments in my hair that made me even more beautiful.
( Servants chatter. )
" Wow! So beautiful princess! " Maid 1
" The outcome is so so beautiful!! If you didn't say a word to us princess maybe we made a very big mistake! " Maid 2
" Yes, yes she's right princess. We are thankful for you. "
" We thank you. ( bow at me ) " All maids.
The only response I give to them is to smile and out of nowhere. The loyal guard of my father is knocking on the door and makes his speech that my father is on his way to the usual meeting every morning.
I signaled a maid to open the door and as soon as the door opened, he was standing opposite the door and this guard was waiting for me to come out and I suddenly remembered that he was one of the Emperor's Trustees guard when he saw me. he immediately bowed and greeted me with respect and I just gave him a simple smile and I walked out quietly and he immediately followed me until we reached the garden.
When we arrived at the garden, I saw that the emperor was already sitting in his chair and the servants were also there to pour tea when the teacup was empty and there were also various kinds of sweets. bread and so on.
I approached the emperor and bowed to him. " Good morning your majesty. " I said. Without showing my gritting teeth and burning anger inside me.
Narrator Pov's
When princess myrrh was sitting she looked secretly at the emperor and the emperor noticed it and he looked at her and asked her.
" Do you want to ask me something? and I noticed that you are very quiet today, and you didn't do anything but look at me like you are tracing my face. " The emperor said and he seriously asked princess myrrh.
" I don't have any questions, I just want to take a good look at your face because your face is handsome and you don't seem to be getting old, dad. " She was joking with his father and his father seemed surprised when she said that, but in the heart of the princess, she felt contempt and disgust.
" Hmmmm.. " The emperor just took a deep breath and touched his chin and thought of what he would ask princess myrrh next.
" Tell me Myrrh, what's weighing you down and I'll punish whoever did it to you, Myrrh Celestia. " He said to her.
Princess myrrh just looked at her father in shock and she smiled sweetly and she just shook her head for unfavorable to what he said, because he seemed to be worried about her. So she got up from her seat and went to the emperor's seat and hugged the emperor's back and she said to the emperor.
" I only think and always wish that we could always be like this father you know, drinking tea, talking, feeling the wind and walking in the beautiful gardens with blooming flowers that you specially made just for me, your majesty. " Princess myrrh caressing her father while she is still hugging her father's back, even though she is smiling sweetly, but behind that smile is like poison and with each letter of her words, she is like a flower with thorns. SHE'S DISGUSTED OF HER WORDS SHE UTTERED.
" Yes, my daughter, I have allowed you to visit me every day and you can enter the emperor's palace any day you want, don't worry, my daughter, because I am your father and I will protect you. Whatever you ask for, I will give it to you, my child." The emperor said to her.
When his father finished saying those words, myrrh was quiet and she went back to her seat and drank tea, the whole garden was silent and the only thing that could be heard was the actions of the servants and the cold wind blowing and chirping of the birds, the silence passed for a few minutes, myrrh tried to look at his father and her father also caught myrrh peeking at him, so myrrh smiled but that smile disappeared immediately and myrrh spoke which surprised his father the emperor.
" Father, holy emperor, I have a deep thought and I really want to do it and you are the only one who can allow me to do it." The tone of her speech was serious and she looked seriously at the emperor and the emperor just looked at her silently and waited for what the princess would say next.
She stood up from her seat and said, " Allow me to hold a sword and learn to fight, Your majesty the holy emperor. " After she said that, she bowed to his father the emperor.
The emperor was silent but in his eyes he could not hide the shock at what he heard from his youngest princess. Because a ten-year-old girl declared to him that she wanted to learn to wield a sword and fight.
" Why do you want to learn to wield a sword?! Myrrh Celestia y Vailenor." Castillon asked his daughter myrrh loudly and was powerful, while she was still bowing to him.
" Look at me Myrrh Celestia and answer your father's question!?" Myrrh stood up properly and looked at his father to answer his question.
" I want to learn how to wield a sword because I want to be like you, your majesty, who holds honor and is good at fighting. Another reason I want to carry a sword is because I want to protect myself and my siblings in times of danger. " She said seriously to the emperor but it was the opposite in her mind and heart, on the other hand castillion still did not take his eyes off his daughter and he made sure that she was serious about what she said and that he was sure that his daughter's stance was strong.
" And one more thing, I also idolize your majesty's sister princess Armina Brunhildee y Vailenor who is now a grand Duchess of Luciania guarding the south with her family. Auntie armina is Worth of her name and she proved that right. " She said those words with her heart,
" Am I wrong to imitate her father? because like her, she protected the provinces and those who want to conquer our empire and I want to do the same because I want to protect you all and that's my answer to your question father and I know it too. that I still have many trials and tribulations and I promise that I will not abandon my duties as a princess of Vailenor either inside or outside the palace. " She said...
" Father, Please trust me. " She added...
To be continued...