The Reincarnated Royalty

Chapter - 45

A few days later, a funeral ceremony was organized for Rose. Sky and Ray were standing near her gravestone along with Kylie who was holding up James. Claire was still in that room along with Theron and was looking out of the window with an emotionless face.

Jake was sitting far away from all of them under a tree. He was looking down and his hairs were covering his face. "Jake." He heard a voice behind him and turned around to see Julia standing there. "Get up." She said to him and he obeyed. "Fix those hairs." She again said to him and he did that. "Now smile." She said to him but he looked at her with a confused expression on his face. "Smile?" He asked her. "Yes."

"How can I smile at a time like this? I'm sorry princess but I am not able to understand what you are trying to say." He said to her and bowed a little. "It's an order, Jake. Smile right now even if its fake." She said in a bit stern voice. Jake looked at her for a minute and then gave her a small and fake smile. "Keep your face just like that." She said and he gave her a confused look.

"Keep smiling for your late Queen. That's what she always wanted right? She always wanted to see the people close to her smiling." Julia said making Jake look at her once again. He nodded and looked down. "Don't blame yourself. It was not your fault." She said to him. "But I did not even say anything about it to you...how do you...?" Jake looked at her with a soft emotion in his eyes. "Those eyes....they tell everything you feel...even if you did not say a word...I read those eyes of yours." She replied and Jake again looked down.

He was speechless and did not know what to say next. The next moment he felt two hands wrapping around him and a sweet aroma hitting his nose. He came out of his thoughts and saw Julia hugging him. He was taken aback and tried to get away from her. "Don't move...calm down." She said while gently stroking his back. "But princess--" "Shh...keep quiet." She kept hugging him gently.

"Let it out...do not hold back because if you do, then the pain will increase even more." Just as she said that, she felt tears dropping down on her shoulder and a pair of hands wrapping around her waist. "Why was I not able to protect her..." Jake mumbled in between his sobs. "Because this was written in your destiny...everything happens for a reason. Don't blame yourself more." She said and felt Jake's body relaxing in her arms. She smiled a little and closed her eyes, feeling his warmth.

Claire was gently rocking Theron in her arms to make him sleep. After a few minutes she saw that he has finally slept so she went and laid him down on the bed. She covered him with a warm blanket and went back near the window. "Rose..." She kept thinking about all the moments she spent with her sister.

"I'm so happy for you Rose!"

"That was the day when I finally realized that...we have grown up...my sister has grown up and she...she has to leave me now...a sister who was a mother to me too. I thought that after your marriage we will meet less often but you will never leave me alone but...I never thought that this day will come soon too." Claire said and looked down.

"It's finally time for us to say goodbye."

"I never wanted a farewell like this...I never wanted a goodbye like this..." She said and a tear slipped down her face. She then looked towards Theron who was sleeping peacefully and her heart clenched. "I remember making your mother swing on that decorated swing when we got to know about your soon arrival." She said in a low voice.

"In both Andria and Sophesia, this ritual is followed where the royal princess's or queen's sister makes her swing on a decorated swing when she is about to become a mother."

She sat on the ground with her back resting against the wall below the window. She began crying heavily while covering her mouth so that she does not wake up Theron. It was getting hard for her to breath as the time passed by. Her wounded body started to hurt more but the thing which was paining her at the moment was not the physical pain by the injuries but the emotional pain of loosing her sister, the only person who cared for her since the very beginning, the only person whom she could call her 'true family'.

She heard someone's footsteps coming inside but she did not care to look up. She felt a hand on her shoulder which finally made her look up and see Sky kneeling beside her with a worried face. "Claire..." He did not know what to say and just held her hand. Claire hugged him and began crying.

This made his heart clench even more. "Why...why did she leave me like this?! Why did she leave her son like this?!" She hugged him even tighter as if her life depended on it. "Claire...please get yourself together." He said while gently rubbing her back.

"How am I supposed to do that?!" She broke the hug and looked at him with red eyes. "First of all, calm down." Sky gently said to her. "How can I calm down?!" Claire yelled at him but quickly lowered her voice when she remembered that Theron was sleeping there too. "Remember when you told me that...not to give up and fight for my sister?" Sky asked her.

"Listen to me prince, if you do not get yourself together, time will run out and you will regret it even more."
"Find that person, avenge for your sister."

Claire looked at him with dried tears on her face. "You have to do the same." Sky said to her and held her hand. "What's my purpose of doing all of that?" She looked at him as if she was a lost kitten.

"We all have a purpose in life, it just depends on when we get to know about it."

Sky said to her and made her stand back up. "And your purpose to avenge for your sister." He said to her and gave her a small smile while keeping his hands on her shoulder.

Ray was looking at them from outside. He wanted to ask Claire about the thing he found but seeing both of them together, he just went away. 

A few days later, all of them went back to their own kingdoms. Julia and Sky discussed with each other and came to the conclusion that Theron should live in Andria along with Claire and Julia as Philaria was no longer safe at all. 

Everyone was still grieving the loss of their loved ones and no one was ready for another war but still they wanted to get the revenge of their loved ones who lost their lives because of that war.

Ray was on his way back to Sophiesia but something inside him was telling him that something is wrong. He was feeling as if something extremely bad is going to happen soon. He finally reached the castle and got off his horse. He was surprised and confused to see nothing but silence. No drums were beating on his arrival, no guards or maids were to be seen anywhere. Seeing all of that, he hurried his way inside the castle and the scene in front of him made him even more shocked.

"Lucy...!?"