Second Chance

Life & Air

As the black carriage stopped in front of Amelia, she and her people bowed their head to him as he stepped down. Amelia's eyes narrow as Raiden turns around to help his guest step down. Her smiling face turn sour as she saw the wasteful trash of Madewell step down afterwards.

Amelia stood there watching the two, she could not interrupt them before Prince Raiden acknowledged her existence. She was not part of royalty or nobility, although she was the daughter of the richest merchant in all 4 Kingdoms, she was still just a commoner. She saw how attentive Raiden was to Jewels as he gave orders to his bodyguards. Studying Jewels she saw that she was wearing a knee length white dress that accentuated her curves. Although it was not form fitting, it was altered to fit her body to perfection. The only jewelry she wore was black diamond stud earrings and a metal bracer on her right arm. She could barely hear their conversation but she knew Jewels was not happy and whispered harshly toward Raiden. Amelia smiled wickedly and couldn't wait for Prince Raiden to put a sword through her body.

"I told you that we should have waited to put this on you until your grandfather had a look at the bracer." Raiden reminded her.

"Yes, however you're the one that put it on me in the first place and now it won't come off!" Jewels sternly whispered to him.

"It was an over sight on my part." He admitted. "At least now no one would be able to steal it from you."

Scoffing at him, she couldn't believe his audacity. "As if I would let anyone steal this away from me, let alone you or Roku would stand for it."

"You have not thanked me for your birthday gift." Raiden told her.

"Who says I won't thank you later?" Jewels teased.

Groaning, Raiden holds her hand tightly.
"You should have thanked me in the carriage."

"What? Why would I do that when it is my intention to watch you anticipate the rest of the day when I will thank you for my birthday gift."

Groaning again, Raiden pouted. "Now who's bullying who?"

"Only I can bully you." Jewels said.

"Yes," Raiden whispered as he stepped closer to her and pushed a wayward strand of hair back behind her ears, "only you."

"Lets go swimming, shall we?" Jewels quickly said as she felt her heart started beating loudly. "Lets go find the Valewort herb."

Nodding once he led her towards the lake's shore, passing the group of flies that bowed down to him, he did not acknowledge their presence and kept walking. When Jewels passed them, that was when one of them caused a commotion.

"What do you have there on your arm!" Amelia shrieked! "Take it off right now!"

Amelia had came to the lake for that very reason. She finally had found the Infinite Galaxy bracer and it was in Jewels arm. She had been searching for it for five years since she heard the story from the fortune teller. Known for it to be a myth, the Infinite Galaxy is said to have infinite power capability. The owner of the bracer will rule the world and will only come off once the owner dies. The last owner was a hermit cultivator that only used the power to save himself. Because of the valuable bracer, there were many assassination attempts and duels that he fought to steal the bracer from him. Every assassin attempt and duel were won by him, killing those who tried. To deter people from trying to steal the bracer from him, he would string their body up around the forest where he lived to warn his challengers to value their lives. Unknown how or when he died, the bracer disappeared without a trace leaving the Infinite Galaxy bracer a legend. The only reason Amelia found clues to Mirror Lake, was five years of first looking back on 500 years of history of any mention of the bracer, then it was years of stealing recorded family history books from nobles. It was five years of her spending her time, energy and money to find any and every kind of information she could find on it. She was obsessed with it, wanting to own it for herself so she could own the world. She was tired of the royals and nobles pretending to accept her into their crowd when really they only tolerate her because of her family's name of being the wealthiest merchant in all 4 Kingdoms. She wanted to own the world so everyone could no longer look down on her as a simple commoner and she would be able to marry any Prince she wanted to. When she thought she finally found a solid clue to where it could be located, instead she found it on the hand of the hateful wasteful trash. She was so mad she was willing to kill her for it.