Selene

13| Aria [UNEDITED]

Aria's age: Fifteen

"Well then, the Empire shouldn't know..."

"The War of Kirai..."

"Yami will be unprotected..."

"And our problem will be... Helen Hikari..."

"I heard that the Empress and her Mother have passed away..."

These circumstances were the best to launch a revolution. People talked of it everywhere, preparing to rebel when the Emperor sets off to War.

But... unbelievably, it was Luna—no, Selene—who was initiating this.

Why would she, out of everyone, do this?

They referred to her as 'The Hooded Girl'. She claimed to have lost someone important due to the Royal Family, and so, she wanted to lead the Empire to democracy. People wanted her to be the future 'Queen', an elected one, where Dynasty and Blood wouldn't matter.

They wanted to take it slow, from Monarchy to a variation of Constitutional Monarchy to Democracy.

Obviously, Selene, who never stayed one person for more than three hours, who was educated, skilled in both swordsmanship and Magic could be The Hooded Girl, the one who backed the citizens—going against the very Lord who enslaved her.

Perhaps she was able to look after everything from the North Tower, whilst giving her reports to Helen during the evening.

And I?

I really didn't know what I was doing.

With my father killed, what could I have done?

Luna...

Luna killed my father.

I... didn't want revenge. I had no rights to ask for it. I betrayed her, and she must've had found out.

But... why father?

Tears oozed out of my eyes. Why father? Even though Uncle Eric was your Lord, why didn't you have any mercy for me, Luna?

The more I thought, the worse it became.

I begged her. I pleaded and pleaded. I lowered my head. I cried, I screamed. I clutched her feet.

But if she had killed everyone in the Royal Palace of Uta, if she had conquered Uta overnight, who'd answer my desperate screams? If both the rulers of Hikari were dead, and Helen herself was helpless because Hikari was conquered alongside Uta for betraying Yami, who'd care about some singer, a loved Princess, but unneeded?

Wait for me, Aria.

You liar!

Why was I saying that? What rights did I have?

I didn't know!

Why didn't she just kill me too?

I didn't know!

Eric Yami only knew how to torcher.

Selene Yami only knew how to kill.

If Uta could be conquered in just one night, Selene Yami could wipe off the entire Yami Empire within three days!

But Selene never suffered because of me! All Reine Hikari did was to keep close watch on Selene because the Emperor favored her...

...Right?

I didn't know!

So, what was I doing, in the middle of the Yami Empire, in a local store, lending the people a hand in the revolution?

Completing my Father's will.

I want Eric to suffer a worse fate than me.

And that was all.

After that, what'd I do?

I wanted to just die. The girl who ate away her mother's life, the girl who saw her father murdered in front of her eyes, the girl who had befriended the murderer.

And that would only happen when Selene claimed the throne, whilst crushing the uproar and executing all rebels.

It was said that the guillotine of the Yami Empire never stayed dry, dripping with blood every day and night. The blood stains are said to remain forever, so much so that even all the housekeeping staff of the Palace were unable to scrub it off.

How much better it would have been if my parents had saved my mother instead of me.

Even the maid was dead. That lady, who kept Reine in check, that lady who manipulated Helen such that the twins never got along, that lady who had sown the seeds of idea to have me spy on Selene in my father's mind, was, in the end, another forgotten soul, a 'puppet master', but so only in name.

But Luna...

Would I make it up to her if I helped in rebelling?

Or Helen...?

Would I make it up, in the stead of my father, to Uncle Eric?

...What if I took both the ways?

At this point, I was unable to differentiate between Eric Yami, the crusher of lives, and Selene Yami, the person fanning the revolution. Almost as if they were doing the same thing... Eric right away killed, whereas Selene agonized. Sometimes, the order would reverse, and Eric would torment, Selene would kill. But between all this was Helen Hikari.