Gardenia: the sacred story

Innocence

Worlds of war and kings, strife runs high and death is just another daily ritual that all have come to know and expect.

Princes trained from birth to accept the pain and war and fire as if it were their own blood being spilled as soon it would be.

Princesses taught their only worth is the worth the kings set and the princes they dream to marry are stolen by the war leaving them broken and worthless except as nurses or comforts.

Lives stolen to soon as mothers weep in droves unable to do anything but watch as sons they grew and raised are cut down left and right as if mere annoyances.

Among this is a girl, pure and innocent free from the pain and disaster. She is called Aria, princess of all, purist of the pure angels and held in just as high regard. Her home, gardenia, is driven and stoic throughout the entirety of the worlds wars.

Untouched and neutral they are spared if only for a time. In that time Aria has grown and has begun to see the void, desolate world for what it is. Her father has kept nothing from her, fully believing in her ability to understand and she does understand. She understands that men are impulsive and quick to anger.

That war is unnecessary and chaotic. That the lives that are being ripped apart are for nothing more than one mans deranged visions of grandeur.

She makes up her mind from a young age, she will join this fight and she will see it to its end. She will fight for the world, her world. She will restore its beauty and return the kingdoms to their glory in equality. That is her promise to her people.

Nations away from Aria's own sits a king with a son of a similar age. He is bent on taking the world for his own. He will stop at nothing to push this war to the farthest reaches of this world. It is in him that Aria's battle lies. It is in him that this war lives and therefore it is in him this war must die.

Decided on their goals the two opposites train and push themselves for the goals they have set and the destinations they must meet.

Driving forces are pulling them closer to each other and its only a matter of time until they clash.

There is no more space for foolish innocence.