𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐞: 𝐈𝐭 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬

𝐀𝐥𝐟𝐞𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐞, 𝐏𝐭 𝟐

Flora and I walked into the dorm room, bag in hand as we were bombarded with yells coming from Stella's room. Apparently, Bloom was having a hard time finding a dress and they were arguing about how she would get one. They told me about this dress that Bloom couldn't afford and I immediately felt guilty.

"Hey Bloom, I wasn't too excited about the dance. You can wear my dress if you want?" I smiled with pity and placed the bag in front of her. She immediately pushed the bag back to me and told me no.

"Ares, I have no idea how you got that but I'm not going to take it. It's yours, I want you to go and enjoy yourself tonight so please just wear it, plus you helped me out today with your post so please, ill figure it out" She smiled to herself before picking up the bag and handing it to me.

Flora smiled at me before dragging me into our room, she sat me in a chair and I prepared myself for a pep talk.

"Ares, you need to stop being so selfless. I know we've only known each other for a few days but I've seen it first hand, when it comes to Bloom you throw yourself into danger without a second thought and you end up getting hurt. It makes me worry about you" She frowned as she stood to my height.

"Flora it's a habit, ever since I was a kid it was always my job to make sure Bloom was safe wherever she went. Before it was the occasional over-excited boy or even bullies but now... it's an actual danger. I had to close a life-threatening wound in my little sister's body and I did it with my bare hands..." I looked down at them and watched them tremble slightly before I met her eyes again. "It's just-"

"a lot? I know...but you have no idea what this means for you Ares, your powers are one in a million. I have never seen anything like what you did that day, you have the powers to literally give and take life...do you have any idea what that means?"

"No! Flora, I don't! and that's the problem, someone who has that ability should know what to do with them but I don't!" the rooms went quiet, I knew that Bloom and Stella heard.

I calmed myself down before showing Flora my hands. "These hands were only ever used to protect my little sister, but now I have the power to take life...it doesn't feel real and I don't know if I want it to be." I looked back up at her "I can handle the little jobs, posting as if she's with me so I don't get in trouble for leaving her alone, making sure she's always in good health. All that's so simple but..." Flora met my eyes and placed her hands on mine

"You have a lot of potential Ares, you have the power to take your life into your own hands and stop worrying only about Bloom. Do you not want to take it?" She smiled as she pulled me out of the chair and stood me up

"Now let's stop being so negative, The dance is in only a few hours, we better get ready?" She laughed and walked into the restroom.

As the time drew down into the last few minutes we had to prepare, I walked out of the restroom wearing a black cat-eye and nude lipstick adding a sleeker look. The dress fit me like a glove as my thoughts ran back to earlier that day.

I didn't want Cyprian to buy the dress for me but he was so persistent I couldn't even say no.

"Come on let me just do this for you, you've helped me a lot" Cyprian slipped his card to the lady working at the counter before I could stop him

"Cyprian, I really appreciate the sentiment but we've only met once before today. Once. I don't feel comfortable with you buying me such a pricey gift." I looked towards the lady begging for the card back.

"You saved our lives, Ares, I owe you at least this much. It's not that much anyway, since I have control over my kingdom's finances it's barely worth a penny" he mentioned the worth of the kingdom of Dyamond. One of the most powerful and wealthy kingdoms in the Magix dimension, with finance controlled by this man.