(AN):
I'll be speaking in 3rd person from now on--why? Because i think it's much more easier to write with?(IDK, tell me if you prefer Eleanor's POV, or 3rd person POV)
(BACK TO STORY)
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Eleanor and Emma arrived at a shabby looking shop, when they went inside it looked even worse. The floor tiles is broken while the roof has some holes, over all it looked disgusting and ugly.
"My lady...maybe we should look for another shop." Emma urged while covering her nose. "It also stinks..what's that smell.."
"Emma, lets go with this.. I'll hire some people to fix this shop." Eleanor said while looking at the owner of the shop that wore a dress that has some patched on it while holding the hand of her 10 year old daughter.
"How much is this?" Eleanor said while taking out one of the check. The shop owner's face immediately brightened up as she hurriedly said, "It will be 10 gold miss."
Emma's face was covered in shock, how can this shabby looking place cost 10 gold?
"Here." Eleanor gave them a check that wrote 50 gold. Their eyes widened at the number.
Emma scanned the shop again before whispering to Eleanor, "My lady, it's too overpriced, we could look for another shop that cost less and even look better than this!"
Eleanor laughed as she pat Emma's back," Don't worry! I know what I'm doing."
She looked back at the Owner and the little girl whose eyes were still looking at the check in their hands.
"Do you have a job?" The owner's face looked at Eleanor as she replied: "No miss, we were bankrupt so we had to sell our only source of income."
"That good! I'll hire you both to work at my shop!" Eleanor pointed to the check, "You'll both get 20 gold every month, I suppose you know how to serve the costumers?"
The mother-daughter pair nod their heads as they thanked her, "Oh right this will be made into a cafe, your work clothes will be delivered next week! I'll also hire some chefs to make desserts."
"Thank you for your kindness miss!" The mother said while bowing her head and the little girl followed.
"No worries, I'll have to worry you to take care of the shop, i think it'll take a month or so to fix it." Eleanor smiled at them before looking up at the sky, "It's almost dark, I'll get going now."
The mother-daughter pair waved them goodbye as their figures disappeared.
The daughter tugged her mother's clothes,"Mommy, that lady was a fairy right?"
The mother patted her head before nodding,"Yes, we need to work hard to pay her okay?"
"En!" The daughter laughed merrily as they walked to a nearby inn for them to stay in, so they can clean the shop when the morning comes.
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"I still have 4 checks.." Eleanor said while walking inside the mansion.
"Emma can you find 3 capable pastry chefs?" Emma nodded as Eleanor went inside the bath.
"You can rest now, You don't need to serve me." She dismissed Emma, naturally Emma followed and left after she placed the compass on the desk near the closet.
After a while, Eleanor came out of the bath and saw the compass glistening in the corner of her eye. Right, she needed to take a closer look at the compass.
She quickly wore her nightgown while wrapping a towel on her head and putting her DIY face mask on.
She grabbed the compass while sitting on her bed, she read the words carved on the compass a couple of times, not knowing what it meant by 'Follow thy path.' What path did it mean?
She took off her face mask and towel and got ready for bed, She looked at the compass again and she couldn't help but feel drowsy.
And with the compass glistening again she closed her eyes and blacked out.
***
"Cheers!"
"HAHAHAH"
"Toast to us to stay alive for our loved ones!!!!"
The sound of men's voice could be heard near where Eleanor stood. She quickly gathered her thoughts and remembered she was on her bed just a while ago..
She followed the light and the voices, as she walked through the forest. Aside from the voices of men there was a faint sound of howling from far away. She understood that maybe this was the camp?
She got nearer and nearer and eventually she arrived at the camp, a total of 200 or more tents could be seen placed on the flat ground while the some knights and magicians stood by the campfire, and some drinking their hearts out.
Her heart beat faster as she saw Cole who was seemingly had an arm injury on his left hand as he replaced it the bloody bandage with fresh ones.
She saw her family, Lover, and friends chatting happily, while she called out to them but they acted as they didn't hear it.
"COLE!!!!" She shouted even though she is in front of him. Could it be that this was a dream? She disregarded that thought when she touched the fire and hissed. How could this be a dream when it feels so real?
She sat beside Cole as he drank wine, he looked more mature now, and his muscles were more refined.
He looked mesmerizing and hot as he drank the wine while staring up at the sky.
"Hmp-- you got more handsome, more ladies will want you now!" Eleanor slapped his head, but he could not feel it.
Eventually it was time for him and the rest to get some sleep, for another battle coming tomorrow.
Eleanor followed him as he walked inside of his tent, and she immediately shrieked when she saw Cole removing his shirt, revealing his toned 6 pack abs and hot body.
Eleanor fawned over him as he snapped back to reality, She walked back out of the tent with a flushed face, Could she have turned into a pervert?!
After a while she peeked and felt a little bit disappointed seeing Cole wearing a new shirt as he laid down with closed eyes.
She sat beside his bed while supporting her chin with her hand as she stared at Cole's sleeping face, "Goodnight." She kissed his cheek before heading out.
She wandered across the campsite and saw almost all of them were asleep. What was she gonna do now? She was bored, she didn't mind how she couldn't be seen and sat near the campfire.
After what seemed like an hour she could hear horses, Huh? did they call another set of knights to come here?
Eleanor got up and looked to her side while squinting her eyes, She waved her hands to let them know they were on the right place, but eventually gave up as she recalled they couldn't see her.
As the horses arrived the tent's were lit up and almost all of them were wide awake carrying their swords. She thought that maybe they weren't their allies.
As she thought that a torch flew form the arms of what seemed like the commander and the tent caught on fire as the man inside screamed in pain.
Her heart beat fastened, She ran up to her friends and saw they were outside already fighting with her father.
She ran to Cole's tent and saw he was wearing her armor as he emitted killing intent.
She saw Cole fight 3 water mages, Cole right hand held a sword while his left hand that was injured was on fire as her chanted spell and eventually killed one mage with his sword and the 2 with his spell that made their hearts burn.
Eleanor saw his left hand bleeding while Cole didn't pay attention to his left arm and kept fighting more people.
The campsite was filled with the cries of her people and the enemies. She wanted to help but no matter how she tried to imagine stopping the enemies her magic wouldn't activate, She was useless.
Another thousands of enemies could be seen at the back, they were sandwiched?! She was horrified as her people gradually became lesser and lesser and only 30 or less were alive.
She cried out to her father who was struck by lightning, she tried to heal him but nothing came out of her body. She was just a spectator in that battlefield, she watched as her friends died one by one.
She shouted as Cole spit out blood, signalling that he used all of his mana. She hugged Cole who was standing like a statue while being laughed at by the 2 commanders.
Cole only had one thought while he stood there, He tried to fight thinking that Eleanor would be left alone in this world, but he wasn't a God after defeating 30 or more enemies he was stabbed by a sword at the back.
Eleanor cried out as she kneeled down, "I'm sorry...I'm sorry...I'm sorry..." Eleanor repeated while caressing Cole's face that seemed like it was looking into her eyes.
"Zi....Zira.." With his last words the sword in his hand that Eleanor's handkerchief was tied to, fell and his body lost its color. Eleanor couldn't believe this, Impossible... She cried out and screamed.
She looked at the commander with a fiery gaze as the commander once again raised his sword and stabbed the already dead prince on the ground.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Eleanor collapsed.
***
"Ha....." Eleanor jumped as she her breathing became irregular.
Cole...
She ignored the sweat on her forehead and went to her closet. Please be alive...She prayed in her heart as she removed the cloth that was covering the mirror.
At this point tears strolled on her beautiful face as she covered her mouth.
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(AN)
Uhh, 3rd person or Eleanor's POV? Q^Q