James Whitestone POV
My name is James Whitestone, born in the duke household of Whitestone as the heir of the duke. From my youngest days father would tell me that I will be the future of the family and had to become as strong and intelligent as possible, since I will be responsible for its future development
I was born with the perfect body of out bloodline, making me a genius battle mage in creation, who would latter have a chance to become a holy knight of the church.
You might think that my life was perfect because of this, but there was always something that frustrated me. Besides me there was also my younger brother, born with a sickly body and no light magic that is common to our linage.
You could say he was a useless person when it came to fighting, but I still held hatred towards him. The reason being is that even though he was weak, he gained many other things which made me jealous.
The first thing was out mother’s love and attention. Most of the time I was looked after by our father, but it was obvious that even the rare occasions when we were together, she paid much more attention to my brother, Ariel, than me. Every time I saw her so caring towards him made my anger boil.
When we grew a little I found another thing I hated about him, his face, he was much more handsome than me, to the point that he could even be called divine. Not to mention how intelligent he was, all tests on basic subject our father prepared were always answered by him perfectly. Although I wasn’t bad looking and quite smart, I still hated the feeling of inferiority when I looked at him.
These two things I could actually still live with, but what made me unable to control myself was my meeting with my first love, Erna Alasia. We first met at a party dedicated to the start of her training and she was the most beautiful girls I have ever seen. At that time I swore that I would pursue her no matter what and make her my wife. However those dreams soon shattered when I found out that she was my brother’s fiancée.
I pleaded father to cancel their engagement and pick me to instead of him, but our father was a person with his own morals and although he favored me over my brother, he would never abuse him in any way.
The only thing left for me was to give up. As time went by I manage to control my hatred, but soon I was hit once more. On the party celebrating my breakthrough, I saw the two royal twins attending it. My whole attention however was focused on the princess, Sarah who was just as beautiful Erna, only in a different way.
Once more I fell in love and waited until these two would come to talk with me, but it ended in both of them actually talking with Ariel. I couldn’t believe it and went to confront them. In the end I was humiliated and could clearly see that Sarah, the second woman I fell in love with, became infatuated with my brother’s looks. I completely lost the feeling of love since.
These are the main things why I held such deep hatred for Ariel. From out early childhood I would always bully and insult him. He however was always the same indifferent him, reading books and never showing any emotions, making even my deep hatred dull over time. His intelligence was completely beyond me and the cold expression he wore made even me unable to understand his emotions and thoughts.
When I started attending The Academy, I experienced great many things and slowly managed to mature due to interacting with so many people. However on the freshman competition in my second year I managed to hear that my brother was actually going to fight Vern, heir of one of the duke houses. This made me shocked and at the same time slightly concerned.
He wasn’t too talented, but he was still a mid level Disciple. Defeating Ariel for him would be beyond easy and I had already heard that he was in love with my brother’s fiancée Erna just like me, so most likely he won’t let Ariel off that easily.
Years in The Academy made me feel less enmity towards my brother what’s more it also concerned the reputation of out family. Because of this I met up with Ariel before the match to tell him to surrender, but the same emotionless eyes as always showed me that he didn’t have any such plans.
This made me angry, thinking of how arrogant he was as he walked past me without uttering a single word. Even though I wanted to help him due to my small, family concern I had for him, he completely ignored it.
I angrily turned around and returned to my seat to watch my brother’s failure. Soon his match began and he instantly was caught in one of Vern’s spells, making me break out in sweat. However, what came next completely shocked me. The flames engulfing my brother froze and shattered, revealing him with an aura that only a mage could have.
From only a single look it was obvious that he had the renowned variant magic, control over ice. The match quickly turned around and Vern was completely crushed, yet I still hadn’t awakened from my shock.
Only after the match was long over had I come to my senses and understood that my brother, was completely incomprehensible to me.
Sarah Gleevoria POV
My given name is Sarah Gleevoria, the first princess of the Gelath Kingdom and the only sibling I ever had was my elder twin brother Brendon, who is the crown prince of our Kingdom and the person I am closest to in the whole family.
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Since young age we were taught how to proper etiquette, politics, common knowledge and other such things. Like this we were also slowly taught how to hide our true emotions and wear a mask for out feelings.
This was of course not without reason. As we grew older, countless people tried to get into our graces, gain benefits and harbored other, such despicable goals.
As a result both me, and my brother grew up without any true friends except Erna Alasia, but even with her we could only meet rarely. Because we could talk only with each other about what was truly on our minds, making our connection stronger.
This however changed on one evening at a duke son’s celebration party. We were sent to pay respects to the Whitestone household and give the usual polite routine we were so used to.
Completely coincidently our attention was caught by a person who was lonely sitting by a window, watching the bright moon. All the people around him seemed to be avoiding him, so we decided to find out the reason.
As we came closer we got a much better look at him and were completely shocked. This person was a young boy our age, and also the most handsome boy I had ever seen. He had shining gold hair and transparent white skin comparable to that of a woman’s. His face was beautiful with a defined jaw, raised cheek bones and lavish, thin lips.
Together with the elegant and majestic clothes he appeared like a prince charming, the atmosphere of indifference around him only made the look of him even more majestic and imposing.
I was bewitched by him at first sight and only looking at him made my hear beat in an unusual rhythm, which made me confused. My brother similarly, was stunned, but what he was impressed by was the boy’s attitude and the way he carried himself, as if he was an emperor and others didn’t deserve any of his attention.
From the talks of the other noblemen we found out that he was the rumored “Frozen Prince”. We had also heard about him, this nickname originated from people evaluating him as the most handsome man in the Kingdom and also because of his indifferent and cold attitude.
Unfortunately he was also called trash because he would never be able to be strong due to his weak constitution and lack of magic affinity.
We felt intrigued and tried to engage him in a conversation as we walked over. When he turned to face us we could see his two beautiful, cold blue eyes that seemed to pierce through our souls. Only after a while of talking we stopped being as awkward and became more at ease.
Through the whole encounter we became seemingly closer as he, Ariel, became slightly more open to us. There was also a moment where his brother came and tried to degrade him, but we were shocked when his brother James moved back in fear from as single sentence. Even tough he looked at me lustfully the whole time like most men, for some reason his fear of Ariel overshadowed it.
Besides this there wasn’t anything else too important until our first meeting was over. Since that time, over the years we met many more times and became closer and closer. To Brendon he became his best friend, while I felt my unnatural feelings grow stronger as I began to understand them.
What I felt the first time meeting him was undoubtedly love. Unfortunately when we all started attending at The Academy he met with his fiancée Erna. It made me once more remember that he was engaged and also made me not know how to feel about my best friend.
Although it is not forbidden in our Kingdom to marry many women, but I never know what Ariel is feeling. Of course it is obvious he thinks of me as a friend, but it is unlikely that he feels love towards me.
If I was engaged to him then maybe my chances would be larger, but Ariel wouldn’t go out of his way to marry me if he didn’t love me. That’s why I was completely stuck on what to do.
After some time I decide to just try to pursue him as strongly as I can, I came to the conclusion that there was no harm in trying and maybe someday I would be able to move Ariel’s heart.
One day however he accepted a duel from Vern, an heir of a duke family. All of us tried to persuade him, but it was in vein. When the day of the competition finally came we were completely shocked by him.
Ariel revealed himself to be a mage, and not only a simple one, but a variant. His beautiful ice magic crushed Vern and at the same time it also bewitched me all over again, this time it was Ariel’s might and power, the heroic and resolute aura that he naturally exuded which did it.
This performance made me even more resolved to reach for his love. I felt that Ariel was meant for great things and I want to be by his side when he accomplishes them.
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