Their Destiny - Atreus

Chapter Six // "What does this mean?"

Seven Years Ago

Aither and Arianna watched as a four year old Juniper and eight year old Iris played with each in their garden. The two girls were attached to the hip, figuratively. They were always with each other whenever their parents did something important and they didn't mind one bit. Iris notices her parents looking at them and waves at them which they returned with weak smiles which she notices but gets distracted by her little sister who crashes into her.

"Let's keep playing, Iris!" Juniper says as she pulls her sister by the arm. Iris continues to smile at her sister as she thought about her parents smiles in her head.

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Iris quiet walks up to her parents study where they're usually up in late at night. As she got closer to the room, she could hear them whispering. "But, honey, are you sure you don't want Juniper to explode the other realms?" She heard her mother say.

"Yes, I'm sure," Aither says as he leans against his desk. "I don't want her to find out about her destiny just yet until she's older." He states and his wife sighs.

"I know. I know. It's just that... she deserves to know how her future is going to be." Arianna says. "Her prophecy shows a very dangerous path her way and I don't want that for her! I want my little girl to live a normal, peaceful life!" Aither shouts as he slams his hand down which scares his wife and first oldest child.

"You know that can't happen for her! That didn't even happen for us, Aither! Or should I say Eros?" That name made the man freeze. "Your father didn't approve of the of us being together. He ruined our lives for so long that you decided to run away from home and come live here with me in Anglosdom!" Arianna yelled.

Eros stared at her for moment. "At least your parents approved of us, Harmonia," The Mal'akh woman didn't flinch at her real name. "At least you didn't have your father shoving words down your throat about not dating and marrying a Valkyrie! He made my life a living hell and guess what? I got to have a peaceful life with my loving wife and two beautiful daughters who I love dearly."

Arianna, or Harmonia, now had tears coming from her eyes. "What's wrong with us?" She said and her husband looks at her. "We've been through hell and back. And now, we live in beautiful home with a calm life and we're going to keep it that way." Aither or Eros tells her as he hugs her tightly.

Iris shakes in concern after hearing all this. She slowly backs away from her parent's study and quickly goes back to her and her sister's shared room. As she walked inside, she watched as her sister slept soundly on her big bed and walks towards her. Iris moves her from her face and she stirs a little.

"Big sister?" Juniper says as she sits up and rubs her eyes. "Is something wrong?" Iris smiles at her sister. "Nothings wrong, June. You can go back to sleep." The girl nods tiredly as she lays back down. Iris starts to frown as she thinks about what her parents we're talking about.

"What does this mean?"

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Back with Aither and Arianna er- I mean Eros and Harmonia. They were now standing in front of their Gacia Tree. "Do we have to look further though her prophecy?" The woman asked her husband which makes him sigh. "Yes, if there is any moment where Juniper dies, we have to stop it from happening."

'But we won't know when it'll happen.' Harmonia thought to herself as she watches her lover pluck off a pink leaf from the tree and it starts to glow. The Gacia Tree only foretold ones future but it never revealed when it would happen.

The two stood in front of the tree once again. "What the?" Eros mutters but then Juniper appears but she was eleven now. She was standing between the two while standing in front of the tree as well. The two look in shock as she looks into a leaf that fell.

They see a boy with brown hair short and blue eyes. "Is this Faye and Kratos' son?" Harmonia says as she looked at the boy in wonder. They only saw the boy as a baby the first time they saw him and they haven't seen him since then. "He's going to grow up so much," Eros says and they then see another Juniper that was older then the one that was beside them.

"And our little girl will as well." The father looked at his much older daughter with a sad smile and his wife held his hand.

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Two Years Later

A now six years old Juniper watched as her now ten years old sister was training with her sword and she studied her carefully. Juniper always did that when she saw one of her family members practicing their fighting skills, it was a habit of hers and it would later be useful to her.

"Your footing is wrong, big sister," Iris smiles at her sister's words. She been stating her mistakes since she saw her walk into the training room but what she didn't know was that she saw doing it on purpose. "Since, you noticing all my mistakes, why don't you show me how it's done?" Iris asks her sister and the girl nods, feeling a little nervous.

Juniper grabs her small training sword that her parents gave her. She stood in front of her sister with her feet shoulder-width apart, and then she turns one foot facing forward and the other turned 45 to 90 degrees away. Her was straight, with her weight distributed between her feet, and her body slightly lowered. Iris smiles at her before swinging her sword at her which makes the girl back away.

"What are you doing?!" Juniper shouts but her sister just smirks. "You have to be focused, Juniper. So no speaking." Her sister tells her and goes to attack her again but the little girl blocks her this time. Two goes back and forth between offensive and defensive until Juniper trips her sister and points her sword towards her neck.

"I win." Juniper says while breathing heavily and Iris looks at her sister in shock. She noticed how her little sister's eyes shined golden and she became worried. She remembered when their mother took them to the Mystic Forest to bond with crystal dragons. They had to transform into their Mal'akh forms but when Juniper transformed, she couldn't exactly control it and her mother had to calm her down with her magic.

Juniper could only remember how they were in front of the crystal dragons.

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A new book and a new chapter out in a one day. Whoo! I'm so happy! I don't got nothing else to say so... see you in the next chapter.

❂ Rose signing off! ✪