Aphmau jolted awake from her slumber with beads of sweat on her forehead and with a heavy breathing on her chest. Her body was trembling with fear, she can feel her face was filled with dried tears.
She roamed her gaze at the empty, eerie, silent room of hers, cautiously waiting for something to happened.
'Calm down Aphmau…… it was just a Nightmare, a very unusual, weird and frightful nightmare' She thought to herself...
She squinted her eyes beside her bed where the side table was found, and above it was the clocka. It was 3:00 in the morning, she sigh and fall back in her bed, but how many times she turned, flipped, and changed position, she still couldn't go back to her slumber.
She rose from her bed once again and scratch her nape. She checked the clock again and it was 3:20 A.m, 20 minutes just passed but it feels like hours.
She got down from her bed and slowly makes her way towards the door. She unlocked it and the sound of the door clicking was heard as it echoes throughout the serene hallway.
She poked her head at the door and tilted her head from left to right checking if anyone was still awake at this hour. She carefully tiptoed her way towards the eerie hallway when suddenly she saw a beamof light coming from her father's study, she raised a brow and tiptoed one again towards the door that leads to her father's study. Fortunately for her the door was left agape, she peeked inside and saw the room, it was filled with shelves of books and some papers scattered everywhere, she rested her palms at the cold door and slowly pushed it open.
The heat from the fireplace immediately met her body as she enter.
She wandered her eyes once again and started to check around, she went behind his desk and saw a bunch of paper, and a book as well.
"IRENE,
THE MATRON Of PEACE…"
She picked up the book and blew some dust that was resting at the cover, and she saw below the tittle was a beautiful lady, although her face was hidden her figure was enough to tell.
"Aphmau……"Zack's voice echoed in the small room along with the creaking of the floor as he entered his study.
"What— Why are you still awake?"He asked while approaching her.
"Dad!—"She called excitedly. "— can I read this?"She waved the book infront of her father with the widest smiles.
"You want to read that?"He inquired a bit surprised, because not a lot of children want to read or even listen about their history, especially her.
"Yes! She looks pretty, And I think her name was—"She pondered a bit and searched the cover for any names.
"— Matron! Right dad?"She gleamed with excitement earning a small chuckle from Zack.
"No Aphmau—"He pointed at a word,
"— Her name was Irene…"Aphmau gasped as she giggled out of embarrassment.
"Is she a hero or a Villain?"She inquired one more time.
Zack sat down on the couch and gestured Aphmau to do the same.
Aphmau plopped herself on the couch beside her father.
"Wanna know who's this girl?"He asked while pointing at the woman on the book, Aphmau gave an eager nod. "Then come here…"He cuddled Aphmau as she giggled and rested her head on Zack's chest...
"A long time ago, there lived the six divine warriors...……"He slowly opened the book with great enthusiasm reflecting his amber eyes.
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THE PHOENIX QUEEN { A ZANEMAU FANFICTION } (
De Todo"The fireworks were splendidly eye catching!"She gasp as more fireworks were released from the ground and into the dark skies of the night. In the other hand, while aphmau was busy admiring the fireworks, Zane was also busy gazing, but not at the gl...
