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Shadows and Embers
Chapter 4: The Sisters

Chapter 4: The Sisters

Character Introduction 1: Jin Fixton

The Fixton family is a new family created by Jin, as an award for becoming a general for the Lubia Dynasty back ten years ago. Back then Rebecca’s father was just a young soldier (46) who grew up on the battle field.

Jin was an orphan of the Red Cliff wars and started out as a prostitute for a mercenary corps, where he was taught how to live, fight, and cultivate Ki. He later became an official member, and quickly showed himself as a talented youth.

At the age of 14, Jin left the group and joined a small gladiator school to fight gladiators, slaves, and magic beast for money. Jin established his current combat style, and even had his first taste of women at that school.

At the age of 22, Jin was scouted by an old soldier named William, after one of his matches, who introduced him to the military and taught him how to be a soldier and leader.

Jin rose through the ranks quickly and was given his first set of troops nicknamed the Leaping Rawc at age 25. Nicknamed after the fearsome Rawc, who hunts magical beast, Agwang and Vepi alike in the forest and mountains around the Continent of Trepitic. The outfit was feared all through the Yemis Mountains, and still works under Jin today as a full corps now.

At the age of 31, Jin was awarded the Crimson Peak, one of the highest honors a soldier can receive, for killing a Ki master with only 6th rank Ki Warriors.

At the age of 46, he was promoted to general due to his monstrous cultivation speed, and military achievements. His army controls and defend the Herman province, and is separated into 3 corps; Winter Fang, Leaping Rawc, and Red Tails. Which each control different forts and jurisdictions.

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The pond water chilled Rebecca’s skin as she slowly submerged herself in the water. She walked until the water was shoulder height and then started washing the sweat off her prepubescent body.

The pond was a deep green, which reflected the jade deposit sitting at the bottom of the floor and algae.

“Little miss-little miss, you're going to get dirty if you swim around in that nasty water. Why don’t you just go to the bath?” Fredrick begs Rebecca at the edge of the pond, with a frown on his face.

Rebecca frowns at his complaints, “I’m just washing the sweat off, and don't mind being a little dirty. I’ll take a bath later anyway, and taking two in a single day is a waste of time.” She says before plunging her entire body into the chilled green water.

‘How did I get stuck with this little imp?’ Fredrick thinks while frowning harder, and waiting for Rebecca to come back up so he can keep lecturing her.

Under the surface of the water Rebecca spun and swam deeper into the water. She was able to hold her breath for over 2 minutes due to constant practice in her past life, that she’s been training her body since birth, and body fortifications techniques with meagre Ki currently in her body.

The closer she came to the bottom of the pond, the clearer the smooth jade floor appeared to her augmented eyes. The surface appeared to have been smoothed out by some unnatural source, and remains clean even in this algae infested water. This truly boggled Rebecca, but she’s yet to ask anyone due to fear of losing her current freedom.

“Little miss!” Fredrick screams in a panic, he contemplates jumping in or not, ‘Maybe she’s still drowning...but if she’s not then I’ll just get wet like her, and it would have been for nothing. Alright just 22 more Umps and then I'll jump in.’ Fredrick moves to the pond's edge and scans the deep green water for Rebecca’s solitude while counting out loud. “Ok, one….two….three..Agh~”

Rebecca finally done examining the jade floor, surfaces near the edge where Fredrick stands, startling him and making him fall on his backside.

Climbing out of the water completely unfazed by Fredrick's unsightly appearance was Rebecca. Her body covered in a thin layer of algae and bacteria, which made her childlike body shine in the sunlight. As a cool breeze licked the water droplets off her warm body, radiating a faint warm energy.

"Fredrick lets go. I've had enough washing off." Rebecca says walking to the patio closest to the kitchen. Her posture straight and her voice firm, giving her an image of being a mature adult.

The grizzled soldier sits shocked for a minute, as he watches the naked miss’s tail slowly get farther away. "Little miss wait for me!" He screams running up to the little now nude miss, "Wait little miss your clothes?!" He says in a panic.

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"I left them on the shore, just leave them. We can have one of the servants get them later. Anyway they're covered in pond water and sweat, so I was going to change anyway." She says without facing him.

Fredrick stops moving entirely while he contemplates whether to get the clothing or leave it. 'I don't want to leave the little miss alone, but I'll get yelled at if General Fixton hears about this.' But before he could decide, Rebecca reached the patio, "Wait for me little miss."

Rebecca walks up to the stained wooden door separating her from the inside of the house. The door is made of a sturdy wood native to Herman, which had been stained a rich shade of Cappuccino. The door is a pull style door with a chrome colored metal handle in the middle of the door.

As Rebecca reaches out to open the door, a voice called out to her. "Sister, where are your clothes?" The voice was high pitched and had a penetrating quality to it, which made her frown and realize it was her sister Sophie. Before she turned around with a smile and answering, “I left them by the pond because they were covered in sweat.”

This answer didn’t seem to please Sophie as she frowned and shot a displeasing glare at Rebecca.

Sophie was dressed in a puce (Shade of Pink) one piece dress which went down to her knees. The dress was wrapped by a red ribbon which tied together in a bow near a scarlet flower design, which started at the left leg portion of the dress and went up to pelvis height for the bloom. The dress was made of an expensive material that could only be found in the forests of Dregia, to the east of Trepitic.

“Did you get in the pond too? Mother said you can’t swim in the pond anymore…she said it was dirty.” Sophie said with a serious expression.

“Yes, the pond has gems at the bottom of it, and I wanted to look at them. I can show them to you someday, if you want?” Rebecca said trying to bait Sophie.

Rebecca know she would get her freedom restricted if Sophie told their mother. So she tried to make Sophie an accomplices, because Fredrick wouldn’t tell her parents out of his best interest. So as long as she got Sophie to not tell, she would be safe.

“Gems, Like the ones mother has?” Sophie says in shock, as she leans closer to Rebecca. The frown on her face seeming to have not existed at all, as a smile lays carved onto Sophie’s face.

Rebecca resists the urge to grin. “Yes, it looks like the same material as mother’s bracelet.” She says remembering her mother’s wedding bracelet.

Sophie’s anticipation grows as she leans even closer, to the point that her breath is hitting Rebecca’s arm, and starts shaking with excitement.

When Sophie’s mood seems to be at its highest, Fredrick interrupts the two. “Little miss, I got your clothes for you.” Fredrick says walking to the left of Rebecca near the door, which makes Sophie stand up straight and take a step back.

This makes Rebecca visibly frown, as she was interrupted right before she was able to get Sophie involved.

“…Well let’s go inside then Fredrick, Sophie are you going to eat breakfast now?” Rebecca says while attempting to leave.

Sophie makes a shocked expression before mumbling, “Y-yes! I was about to go eat now, did you want to…eat with me?”

Fredrick also makes a shocked expression, ‘For the miss to invite her to breakfast while nude! Has she no sense of shame?’

Unknown to Fredrick’s rude thoughts Rebecca answered Sophie’s question with a smile, “Of course I would like to eat with you, and we’re sisters after all. So it’s not weird or uncommon.”  

A giant smile flashes across Sophie's face, as her brown tail wags back and forth in excitement. "Let's go eat then!" She yells while reaching for Rebecca's left hand.

"Wait-wait I need to get some clothes first or I'll get in trouble." Rebecca says in a hurriedly.

Sophie frowns a little at her response, while Fredrick thinks, 'Thank god the misses is going to get clothes!'

"How about you come with me too?" Rebecca says seeing Sophie frown.

Sophie smiles gets a big smile on her face one more time before saying, "I want to come-I want to come!"

"OK lets go then." Rebecca says smiling at Sophie's face.

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I have decided to stop writing from Rebecca's POV and will start only writing from Seymour's view.