The Binding Fates SERIES side stories

SEASON 1 SIDE STORY PART 1

THE SAINTESS OF BEGINNING

In a kingdom where slaves and war frequently happen in a year or so. In a Kingdom, where it is always defeated by its enemy but never has it once thought to give up. There is also a Kingdom, filled with luxurious objects — adorned with millions of diamonds and gold. They're the Kingdom that's intelligent and will always win the war — they are the Kingdom that doesn't want to fail, who never wants to lose.

That is where a beautiful baby girl named Rafaela whose hair color same as the brightest star and her eyes have the night-sky. She's considered unique and beautiful because of her fair white skin, blonde hair, and night-sky-like eyes originally born in the Kingdom where victory is always with them — The Olympia Empire.

However, no one knows where Rafaela's parents went. The women in the orphanage heard Rafaela's cries one night in front of their door only laying in a basket with no letter or memoir for her to keep. The women in the said orphanage believed that Rafaela is a daughter of an aristocrat and because she was a bastard, her parents gave her to the orphanage.

At that time, this is the most favorable choice rather than killing your own child if ever it is recognized as a bastard. Aristocrats in Olympia are very prideful after all and they wouldn't want someone to dirt on their own image or reputation. Even so, Rafaela grew up so brightly at the orphanage. She's a bright child — always giving pranks to the women in the Orphanage, the one who takes care of her. Even she would always prank her friends inside the Orphanage. Rafaela has no clue where her parents are, but she despises them.

"If they do really love their own child, they wouldn't hurt me like this." She thought to herself one night as she looks into the sky. She slowly starts to raise her hands as if she's reaching out to the sky on that cold night of September when she became 15 years old — her birthday.

"Why do the gods loath me?" She asks, thinking that the gods must've hated her for what she's done in her past life. To her, her current life is sadder than the others. Not until one night, it is also her birthday she turned 18 years old. To celebrate her birthday, she went to the woods and performed her own dance like a ritual given to the Moon, dancing under the pale moonlight.

As she comes back to the orphanage, she saw her beloved Orphanage being burned down. She ran towards the women who took care of her but unfortunately, the Guards of Olympia Palace captured her alongside them. The Guards made her kneel and so she knelt down looking at them with angry faces as tears keep streaming down to her eyes watching how the orphanage burned down and the women getting killed in front of her one by one.

No one interrogated them, they were all just killed. As if the guards got bored and decided to burn the whole building for fun. It was cruel.

When it was her turn, the guards looked at her with perverted eyes. The guards start to rip off her clothes to rape her, but then, someone shouted from behind and it made the guards flinch in fear.

"ENOUGH!" The young man wearing a general outfit and his purple eyes stared coldly at the guards and ordered them to watch the others. Fortunately, the guards flew away. The young man approached her and gave her his coat, covering her almost naked body, and left. Rafaela was left dumbfounded by his actions since she knows that the young man was the leader of the guards yet he helped her.