New Haven, CT. 2066

Live. This is Good morning Connecticut. 

Amaryllis Fontaine, Heir to the Fontaine Conglomerate died yesterday evening in a car crash on her way from New York. Rumors are that the Conglomerate will be inherited by Ace Howell, a distant relative. More on this in a while, I am Leo Lanton.

Ace turned the television screen off and applauded the news anchor mockingly as he approached the elderly Fontaine. He was close to getting what he deserved. Did she think handing him some paltry companies on the west coast would satisfy him? It didn't. He was a Fontaine and the Fontaine's had the rights to be at the top.

It was a pity that this woman turned her back on the Olympians. She had been gifted the opportunity to be a god among kings. Untouchable by anyone. Instead, she decided to topple the old ways and forge ahead with something new. Ignorant and prideful. 

Except, it gave him the perfect opportunity to take his place as Heir to the Fontaine Conglomerate. Her actions doomed her entire family back when she was a young upstart and paved the way for his success. He would now prove his loyalty to the Olympians by destroying their enemy and taking his place among them. 

"Say goodbye, Miss Fontaine."

Tokyo, Japan. 2007

"Ren-Ren! Come downstairs!" The booming voice of her father echoed up to the second floor where her bedroom was located. 

Amaryllis or Ren was still entranced by her image in her full length mirror. She hadn't looked this young in over sixty years. How was any of this possible? The last thing she remembered was her bodyguard reaching across her seat to cover her with his body and the driver shouting something. 

She woke up here in her childhood bedroom. The large two story villa situated in Setagaya City. It had been a wedding present from her paternal parents as he manged to secure the hand of her mother. It had been a strenuous project as her mother's family came from old money and her father secured any of his funds within the past twenty years. An upstart and an old money heiress married. 

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"Chichi! Let me fix my hair!" she called out in her best spoiled tone. Amaryllis had been a spoiled snob as a child. She hadn't changed until her father and stepmother gave birth to her younger half-sister, Seika, in 2014. 

She looked back at her appearance and studied the small face, wide eyes, and small soft mouth. Amaryllis couldn't help but compare herself to one of those anime characters. Adorable and useless. It was a nuisance to be so adorable as a child. She remembered begging her mother to stop taking her shopping. Too many talent scouts started to lurk outside her favorite clothing store. They used to freak her out.   

She couldn't stop the small laugh that tumbled past her lips as she thoughts back on her memories. She parted her hair and pinned the sides back. She copied the Olsen twins since her hair had a soft natural wave to it. It was part of her pride as well since her mother often had business in the United States. Amaryllis would later learn this was because she had been having an affair with her stepfather, Remington Fontaine. Remington was also the result of her first younger sister, Mimosa. 

Amaryllis felt like someone shocked her with a fork in a socket as a memory speared itself through her mind. Mimosa Fontaine and Remington Fontaine. She still wasn't living with them, by force, in New Haven. Instead, she was here in Setagaya City with her birth parents. 

Today was the day that changed her idealistic childhood in Japan. The day her parents admitted to getting a divorce and each of them respectfully marrying their lovers. It was the day that Amaryllis vowed to hate her parents for the rest of their lives. The day she started forsaking everything handed to her on a silver platter. 

She went on to begin a cold war between her father and mother's families which inadvertently would go to destroy her maternal family's reputation with the elite of Japan. Effectively, ostracizing herself and her mother from their homeland. She would make her younger sister's life a living hell out of jealously and blame. This caused her to become an outcast in New Haven as she failed to gain the love of her stepfather's family and Mimosa used that to get back at her later in life. She would lead a lonely life except for the warmth of her parents and younger sister, Seika. 

She had failed spectacularly at the values that were most important in her culture. Be it Japanese or American. Amaryllis didn't respect her elders. Didn't honor her family. She didn't work to earn her anything which was given to her. She tried to deny all of it. She failed her ancestors, her family, and herself. 

Are you going to change? An ethereal voice echoed inside of her head. 

"I want to change. I want to be better!"

Make the most of it then.

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