A large platinum coloured dragon had been sitting on a special shrine. She had been sitting in the place her father told her to sit at. She had been entrusted to take care of a simple ceremony since he was not able to attend due to something that came up. Something about a group of dissidents messing around in a place they shouldn’t be in. Either way he wasn't able to be here right now so it was her duty she would be assuming the identity her father prepared for her. While at this ceremony she was now the princess of platinum, Arestia. Her role in the ceremony was to fill in for the great Platinum emperor- her father- the dragon lord Bahamut, in the Ceremony of supplication. As she waited for today's group of members a familiar voice popped into her head.
“I really should stop doing things like this” said the voice
“Oh it’s you again. It's nice to see you again or rather hear.” responded Adrestia, chuckling to herself
“Wait, are you talking to me?”
“Who else would I be talking to?”
“So you can Hear what I’m saying, is that right?
“Correct and it is good to meet you once more.”
“But you never met me before.”
“You mentioned this to me before that you see these memories of the world- as you called them- out of chronological order. So this is your first time meeting me but it is not the first time I met you.”
“But why did I tell you about all of that?”
“You didn’t tell me. Oh, it appears that my guests have arrived.”
A large group of people wearing white robes with golden adornment and silver colored patterns approached. There were about 250 of them and in the middle of them was a child in plain white robes. His skin was bruised and his eyes swollen. Behind them a figure believed to be the child’s mother shouted at them.
“Get up there.” the figure shouted, striking the child. “I only brought you here because of the tradition. You are absolutely not worth the time for this ceremony.”and the child was struck again
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The voice in Adrestia’s head was livid “how dare she treat a child like that that is flat out just abused. Why aren't you doing anything about this?”
“It is not my place to intervene with the ways the mortal races interact. I can only act if they break any of the rules of the ceremony.”
“Well since I'm not here physically there really can do, but it still pisses me off.”
“ Well I still need to perform my role so…” Adrestia lowers her head to the child. It is at this point that she can see that the child is a boy. To the wounded boy, she says “young one I can grant you a wish if you choose to follow me is that alright with you.”
The boy nods.
“Very well what is your wish?”
The boy whispered his wish to Adrestia. Shortly after that she bathed him in a warm white glow. In a mere matter of moments the wounds that covered his body disappeared. The boy was shocked and happy the pain went away. Though not everyone was happy with this turn of events.
“How dare you! How dare you ask for the marks of your punishment to be healed.” said the boy's presumed mother, striking the boy with the full force of their fist.
“But I didn’t…” started the boy.
“I do not care.” The woman then started to beat her child till the point he bled; only at that point did Adrestia step in.
“You have violated a condition of the ceremony. You must be punished for your violation. Your life is sufficient payment. The child will also stay with me.”
“How dare you interfere with the way a mother discipline a child.” the woman said
“How dare interfere with us mortals”
“You monster stop trying to control us”
“You are not my fathers followers, you are just interlopers pretending. Where are the real followers?”
A figure steps forward and as his clock changes to a black color speaks “You see them soon after you perish as well”
“Wait be-” the voice cuts off in the middle of the sentence
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Shortly after that fight, Adrestia says to herself “archangel nemesis isn't here so today isn't my death. But this cult of the dark sun is really ramping up their attack so I think it will be soon.I got to explain this to father but first I have to get this child to safety."