"I'll do the dancing. It's not really your problem since you have no clue about what the ritual even is." (June)
"Say is there a reason why your partially blind." (Yuki)
"Is that Yuki speaking or is it Hina from experience." (June)
"No this is me talking from experience." (Yuki)
"That's fine then." (June)
She had brought Yuki to the platform and the temple where they usually do rituals. Yuki's eyes widen when she saw a dragon appear out of no where and open its mouth just above June as if to try to eat her.
"You! Our race and yours have had a peace treaty for 1 million years. How dear you just a damn 3rd prince come break it during our ritual." (June)
"At least suspect that we would invade in the 2 thousandth year of that crappy treaty." (Sky dragon)
Yuki's eyes narrowed at the grey sky dragon flying in front of her. But she gave away her expression saying I thought so. It was well known that these two races have been at odds with each other in every generation. Only those eccentric dragons disliked going to war with the Phoenixes over a feud that had long past.
"Why the heck are you doing this." (June)
June was even more stunned to see that there was more dragons appearing. When they do a ritual it was always on the mainland away from their home on the floating island. The people watching her perform were also many of the people from her Phoenix community. They had looks of horror, they couldn't believe that during their sacred ritual the dragons would invade.
"I'm not surprised they attacked you guys." (Yuki)
"And who might this young lady be." (Sky dragon)
"None of your concerned. Dragons are short tempered and easily pissed off." (Yuki)
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In the very same forest at the same time June's fiancée -
In another part of the world not to far away stood three figure on a cliff. A beauty with dark green haired was trying to reason with the beautiful lady standing at the edge of the cliff with a cold expressionless face. Her looks can even devastate kingdoms, her light green blue dress blew in the wind.
"Sister you can't do this. Even if father does use you for this marriage." (Green haired girl)
"Does it matter to you. I never agreed to father's arranged marriage is this a joke to all of you. Aquarius do you also agree with that man." (Expressionless lady)
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Aquarius who was behind her sister Diana cringed, this was the lady that she served and saved her when she was found in the forest injured.
"Sorry my lady. Your father has decided this for your own good." (Aquarius)
"A mockery of a marriage, he wants me to marry the Phoenix queen instead of inheriting the throne." (Expressionless lady)
"No Ferris father's doing this for your own good so brothers won't kill you for the throne." (Diana)
"By forcing me onto the only royal in that family left." (Ferris)
"Sister don't be rash. Suicide is not the answer." (Diana)
"I told you and father many times I'd rather die than marry in this life time. Even if she's a female, this a mockery to my vow I made to teacher many centuries ago. My martial arts doesn't allow such thing either. It'd be the same as sending me to my death." (Ferris)
"Calm down older sister that isn't what father meant or wants either." (Diana)
"Between that and me choosing to end my life which do you think is better. Being ripped apart from the inside as if being eaten alive or plunging to my dead and having my brains splattered." (Ferris)
"My lady please calm down." (Aquarius)
"Neither one of you can stop me. I maybe a dragon but I'm still in my human form meaning even this can kill me if I wanted to if I don't shield myself." (Ferris)
Both let out a scream as she jumped off the cliff.
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At this time the sky dragon felt something off. He turned his eyes when he heard someone screaming. Once he noticed his 12th younger sister's scream and his sister's figure falling into the forest he turned deathly pale and changed to his human form trying fly to save his 1st eldest sister. His brothers usually fought for the throne but he didn't want it, because he knew that it should've gone to his sister Ferris since she was the oldest among them. But his father denied that using the excuse she was a girl.
June stood there stone when she saw the other dragons panicking so much. They didn't know what to do. This was the 1st princess they had just barely announced to June the other day that she was to be engage with her. Yet she was now plunging to her death. Yuki's eyes narrowed but before she knew it she had appeared at the scene as well. Seeing the grey sky dragon with black hair and green eyes crying as he held his sister in his arms.
"NO! This can't be happening. Ferris please not this." (Sky dragon)
"Eric..(cough)... father drove me to this. (Cough) I never.....wanted any of this." (Ferris)
Yuki seemed stunned seeing blood coming out from the dragon's head. But a knowing look flashed in her eyes she attempted suicide. Her family had drove her to it.
"You practice the Fremista Palms. They're martial artists who vow to not wed. Nor can they have intercourse, it'd be the same as killing them. So your father forcing your hand is worst than death for you. Those who practices this skill is vowed to keep their words until death. Breaking it is like breaking your life. Which meant you jumped of your own will." (Yuki)
She knew because she had witnessed a similar scene as Hina and happened upon a scene similar to this. One was the older sister and the other was the younger sister who didn't practice the skill, her sister's overly sister's love had twisted so much that she drove her sister into a corner so she jumped to her death at sea. Those who practice the skill also had expressionless and were mostly cold to others. But they still had emotions even if they didn't show it outside.
"Wait so your saying it's not that she didn't want this. It was her old man that drove her to this." (June)
"That is the truth. From what I can see from the skill emitting such coldness from her." (Yuki)
"Your (cough) quite knowledgeable." (Ferris)
Her eyes closed and Eric screamed in sadness as her body went limp. June's fists were shaking, the fire dragon king had drove his 1st daughter to her death which to her was unacceptable.