Elizabeth's POV: As soon as I had my bearings I looked around to see what kinda of stupid loopy land my idiot prince had dragged me into. I only realized how serious he is when I saw that this was his throne room, the pillars, the art work depicting all of his family and retainers in combat with those damn six armed devils, and even the map of our old home, the throne world of the house of death. They were all the same which meant I had quite literally come to fight the demon lord in his own castle. A saying so infamous for our people it had become something taught in all the military academies in our empire. If all this was the same then I already new where Leonidas would be. As I walked towards the throne I braced myself for the onslaught of all kinds of spells as soon as I opened the door but instead all I saw was someone who looked like a 5 year old draconian child. He had slight scale under his eyes and a pair of small wings on his back. We both looked at each other in total shock. We had both been very powerful combatants in magic, martial arts and mental combat but we had totally forgotten that our minds as well as our bodies where only that of a one year old. Even though our physical races where humans we had both chosen to appear as we had been during our reigns as primordials.

Leonidas POV: Fuck. I'd been trying to scare her by inviting her into my castle but that had gone very poorly. It had totally slipped my mind that I was in the body and mind of a two year old with the memories and experience of a primordial. Originally I was terrified realizing I'd made it incredibly easy for her to obliterate my mind and take over my body but when I saw her she was in the same body as when I rescued her from slavery. Two small fiery wings came from her back and her hair was part orange and part red giving away her species as a Phoenix. When I saw her form I remembered when I was barely 4 years (authors note:several billion millennia for mortals) and is taken my escort of royal guards and the few retainers I had at the time to raid a known slave traders warehouse where I'd rescued two of who became my royal godsmen and women, elizebeth and my closet comrade Lucas. Coming out from my memories I looked at her and decided that I was stronger at the moment meaning she would not risk fighting me. Because I felt secure in my position I gave her a small smile and as I was about to ask to speak with her once our parents started talking she ran towards me with tears in her eyes. Initially I thought she was gonna try to kill me but instead she stumbled and fell at the base of the steps leading towards my throne. Right before her head hit the steps I flash stepped in front of her and grabbed her in a tight hug. I'd grown up in a family that needed soldiers above all else. We were militaristic and our creed was strength and merit above all else as well as weakness is a sin. I'd never fully trusted most anyone I'd met I could count on two hands the amount of people outside my family I trusted enough to guard my back when I was in battle, but as Elizabeth grabbed me in the tightest hug I'd ever felt and tears and snot poured down her face I began to think I may have been to harsh in my retainers and maybe I'd just been to afraid to trust someone and get one of my soldiers killed. It had happened before and the faces of the soldiers of lost as they spat at me and held me in contempt had kept me from ever opening my heart to anyone I hadn't grown up with. Once she was done crying I looked into her eyes but before I could say anything she realized she was still hugging me and her face went bright red before she screamed and slapped me!!! It hurt to! I take back everything I said I'm not trusting this girl as far as I can throw her! Once I managed to get up and readjust the bones in my face we sat down for a talk. I'd slowed down time as much as my mind and body could currently handle so we probably had another 30 minutes before the Adults thought something was wrong. Of course 25 of those precious minuets was her lecturing me over "having the audacity to die without her permission!" After that we talked about our plans to regain power and work together to get more people working under us. As the first son of a duke and the first princess of the kingdom I was sure it would be fairly easy for us to get the "resources" needed to make some soldiers that would be loyal to only us. The problem was that the process took a lot of magic energy and monster mana cores were expensive. When our time was up I released the spell and we returned to our physical bodies after agreeing to train as hard as we could before our fifth birthdays where we'd be taken to the church to be... "inspected?" I hoped we had misheard otherwise this was gonna be a very difficult second life. When we were talking we'd both agreed to (somewhat jokingly) kill the gods of this world if they had truly implemented what we believed they had.

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