Of Love and War

Love, Betrayal, Responsibilities ii

Two decades had past since the incident happened and the two kingdoms since then have been independent from each other. The confederation have been called off after Cassiopeia had once again taken the throne as the Hara of Lireo. She severed all connections to Etheria but she never declared them as enemies, for she knows they still lack the army to defend if Etheria attacks them. And ever since then , she's been secretly looking after the two princesses.

She's also made a secret alliance with Adamya whom she learned was secretly against Avria's way of ruling. The alliance proved beneficial to both kingdoms. Adamya's ancient structures were improved by the advance architecture of Lireans and the magical knowledge of Adamyans proved to be a great fortification to Lirean weaponry and fighting techniques.

But the council is still concerned, because the first and once again queen of diwatas is struck with the the curse of being barren ever since she was a child, she tried to adopt but it became a disaster and she promised not to adopt once again.

So Lireo is the only one who does not have an official student in their Royal Academy to which each of the five kingdoms have. and children from the royalties of each kingdoms are trained then sent to the Grand Royal Academy to finish there. But she is not concerned since Milena or Mine-a as she is now called is one of the top students in the Etherian academy.

Grand Royal Academy

"Yo! Raquim! Aren't you excited for today?" Hagorn, the third generation heir of Hathoria called his best friend.

"Excited for what?" Raquim, one of the sons of the monarchs of Sapiro is dozing off on a branch on top of the hill overlooking the path to the Grand Academy.

"Dude! Where finally going to meet the other students from the other academies of other kingdoms!" Hagorn can't seem to stay still.

"Yeah? So what? I mean it's only the Etherians that'll be coming. Adamyans do not care about anything other than the learnings from their libraries." Raquim had a bored expression, he's been friends with Hagorn since they met during the first meeting of the council of five.

Sapiro has three monarch bloodlines who had a brotherly pact that which made them family. Their children treated each other like brothers then cousins, even though they are not related by blood. And the only cousin that he's close with is Armeo. His other two cousins . . . well . . Enou is the silent and focused one, he's the type that when he's assigned to learn something, he won't stop until he masters it. Then comes Asval, well Asval is straight up creepy, so Raquim doesn't really hang out with him.

"Well I heard that the crown princess of Etheria will be one of the students" Hagorn is now climbing the tree to sit beside Raquim, as he plopped down they heard a loud creaked and the branch snapped. They fell down the side of the hill, unable to stop themselves from rolling they ended up infront of the Etherian caravan which alerted the escorting soldiers.

"Uh-oh" Raquim exhaled when he lifted up his head and came face to face with the pashneya pulling the carriage.

"Who are you?" One of the soldiers pointed his spear to them.

"Want to do something funny?" Hagorn whispered.

"I know what you're thinking" Raquim grinned, he drew his sword and parried the spear, which made the soldiers think that they are punjabwes trying to rob them.

Clashes of swords are audible from the inside of the carriage

"Ashtadis! Aldo I'll just go outside real quick so that we won't be delayed anymore" a beautiful girl reached for her sword.

"Sheda Minea, You are not to go outside, we have the guards with us for your acrimeya and then you wat to go outside?" Arkrey said as he looked out on the window, his eyes glinted with maniacal urge when he saw the two boys who had interrupted them. He thought of how nice it is to slice their throats.