Second Chance

Ten

Ten

It wasn't until late that night that they finally cleaned up and sat down to have something to eat.  She was starving and ate without talking to Raiden.  Raiden on the other hand was entertained.  The way she stuffed her face without a care in the world was a side to her that she never shown him before and he liked seeing this side of her.  Smiling to himself he went back to eating. 

After the meal, Jewels went back to the Six Set Scrolls.  When she opened the scroll, Raiden was surprised. No one was able to open the scrolls before and Jewels opened it like it was a regular scroll. She read through the last scroll and placed it back. 

"What does it say?" Raiden asked her. 

"I don't know, I can't read the language." Jewels told him. 

"Then why did you look at it as if you were reading it?" 

"I wasn't reading them, I was memorizing the symbols." Jewels told him.  "Although I can't understand what is written.  But it might help me one day so I memorized it just in case." 

Nemean, Fenghuang and Roc appeared before the both of them.

"My human, you have found what is and had always been mine." Nemean told her. 

"Yours?" 

"The scrolls and what you guys call The Eye of Futura." 

"What are they?" Raiden asked. 

"The scrolls are what little I was able to take with me when I left my Kingdom.  One scroll is the agreement that I made with the Fake King.  Another scroll is my father's last commandment before he died proclaiming me as King of Nemea.  One scroll is the marriage certificate to my love.  One scroll is the birth certificate of my son.  The last two scrolls will show us the way to Nemea Kingdom.  The Eye of Futura, as you guys called it, helps me see my family.  Watch them from this plain of existence.  However I lost all my belongings when I came here and thought I lost it forever.  Accepting my fate I have not seen my family since I left several centuries ago." 

Jewels gave the scrolls back to Nemean as he held the scrolls in his hand like they were the precious things in the world.  He opened them one by one, reading the symbols over and over, sometimes petting the paper.  When he went through them, he asked Jewels to place them in her cabin in the grey space for him.  When Jewels put it in her grey space, Raiden asked a servant to bring the other gift from his study over.  When they brought it over, Jewels handed the box to Nemean.  Nemean cast a mirage and soundless barrier and opened the box. He took out the large jade crystal and waved his hand over it several times, while speaking words that Jewels did not understand.  

The jade crystal turned from dark green to a crystal white and from it, a light shown as they were engulfed in it.  As they look around their surroundings they no stood in a nicely decorated room, filled with opulence and finery.  A beautiful woman with long black hair and red eyes sat by the window looking out.  Everyone could see she had wrapped herself in sadness.  As soon as a young man strolls into the room, the sadness disappeared and she changed that sadness into strength.  Her shoulders straightened and her chin lifted up. 

"Mother, he's not going to come back." The man said. 

"My son." Nemean cried.  "How you have grown so much!" 

"Your father will be back.  Your father will make his way back to us, even if it takes several hundred centuries, he will be back.  You don't know your father.  For those he love. He will do everything in his power to protect them." 

"Mother, we can't just stop living our lives because he's not here.  Uncle kept his word and treated us well.  I don't want to see you with such sad eyes.  Be happy and move on with your life."