faes was woken up by system's beeping continuously
'shut up i want to sleep!' she shouted turning over and covering her head with the pillow.
[host king aiden is going to enter your room soon you need to leave the space] system notified while a beeping continued in a louder sound
'ugh! is it already morning? why am i sleepy?' faes thought as she got up rubbing her eyes
'system what time is it?' faes asked
[a little before midnight] the system replied
"what! then why is papa entering my room?" faes was confused but still left the space before going to her bed in the cave room and going to sleep again.
'i will know why papa is coming here soon anyway!' with that thought faes was back to dream world.
aiden entered to find faes fast asleep on the bed. she was about to fall off the bed if she barely rolled over. her one leg and hand were hanging and her mouth was slightly open, her hair was messy yet aiden found faes way too adorable! looking at her cutely sleeping aiden had an urge to protect her till the end of the world but he knew that he would die soon. the poison was at its peak and he barely had a few months more.
'i will do my best to teach her and my child everything so that they can save the world when the time comes.' aiden reminded himself.
he glanced at faes again walking to her and carrasing her head fondly. he had prepared many things for her birthday and wanted to surprise her but now that he saw her sleeping way too soundly he didn't wanted to wake her up.
just as he was contemplating whether to wake her up or not his watch began ringing. aiden glanced at his watch and sighed. he had decided that he would call king augustus and his family to wish faes happy birthday together at midnight. aiden checked the time and picked up the call as he noticed that it was a few minutes to midnight.
just as he picked the call a projection was made from his watch and faes whole family was seen standing in front of him. it was the function of the watch. when not connected to the screen the watch projects the whole body of the caller along with the area around them.
"i king augustus of kingdom altai greets former king aiden. i am thankful that his majesty called us to plan a happy surprise for princess faes birthday." kind augustus said bowing while queen alicia and their other two kids prince alexander and princess nia also bowed behind him.
"i queen alicia greets former king aiden, i am grateful that i got to know about my daughter's safety. if it wasn't for your care we wouldn't even know if we can meet her and wish her well for her birthday ever again" queen alicia said with tears in her eyes.
aiden who heard them was not sure if he should be happy or guilty. if he told them that their real daughter died while saving his child and her body was taken over by the current faes from different world what would happen? no! this secret is something faes life depends on.
aiden put on an smile deciding to be happy. feeling guilty would be a waste! they wont believe me if i told them anyway.
"greetings to the king and queen of kingdom altai. its nothing faes is my adoptive daughter too, its my responsibility to take care of her" aiden smiled at them
"greetings your majesty former king aiden de reptiliance, please accept the greetings from prince alexander and princess nia" alexander and nia said together bowing
"ho ho! both of you are good looking just like little faes and have good manners too. get up no need to bow to me" aiden smiled at them and then checked the clock again.
"its about time lets just wait for blake to connect too" aiden informed just as his watch began ringing again.
"just on time!" aiden murmered as he picked the call. blake's projection appeared in front of aiden as he bowed and greeted aiden
"greetings uncle aiden i apologize for being late!" blake said with a smile but he didn't looked at all guilty making aiden sigh
"greetings king augustus and queen alicia de altai" blake bowed to faes father and mother
"its a pleasure to meet you your highness prince blake, thank you for joining us for our daughter's birthday" queen alicia said smiling
"oh its nothing if i don't wish my sister happy birthday then who do i wish? i only expected that i would have been there with uncle aiden currently" blake smiled at aiden
"oh you are not getting to know where we are now let wake faes up its time" aiden sighed and slightly shook faes
"baby get up see who's here!" aiden said softly but faes only rolled around before going back to sleep making everyone stop themselves from laughing
"uncle are you sure you can make her get up?" blake asked making aiden glare at him
"baby! faes get up otherwise you wont get any cake!" aiden warned poking faes in her stomach.
faes who was barely able to sleep after being woke by the system would ignore aiden but when she heard what he said faes sat up still half asleep rubbing her eyes
"you cant do that! i want to eat the cake!" faes shouted glaring at aiden but she only got a smile in return and then she heard someone chuckling. confused faes glanced in the direction of the chuckling and turned red when she found original faes whole family and blake there smiling at her.
"happy birthday!" everyone said together and even sang a birthday song for faes.
faes didn't knew that there was birthday celebration concept in this world too was shocked that they all did this for her as she never celebrated her birthday not in her first life, while the original faes had celebrated her birthdays with her family and had gotten lots of gifts from them which were later stolen by the maids and workers. so it was safe to say her birthday experience was not much good.
faes felt emotional as tears began to fill her eyes and a smile formed on her face.
"thank you everyone! i am really grateful that i have you all in my life!" faes said as aiden patted her head fondly
"we are sorry baby that we cant get you gifts as we don't know where you are" king augustus said
"don't worry you will get those gifts when you come back home we will even give you more gifts as an apology" queen alicia said with a smile.
faes who didn't wanted any gifts gave then a smile as a reply. 'the gifts you gave me in the past were useless and if they were somehow useful they were taken by those workers after hitting me' she was happy that they were at least giving her gifts and lovingly wishing her happy birthday as she didn't had that in her past life. faes didn't wanted them to feel bad because of someone else doing so she didn't tell them the truth.
"i look forward to recieving them thank you father, mother" faes just smiled after saying that
"i have already prepared a gift for you which you will get when you and our sibling will come to reptiliance you must look forward to it" blake grinned and even winked at faes making her blush. this was the second time they had talked and he was already talking like a big brother teasing her too!
"thank you brother blake!" faes said
"how can you!" an angry voice came making faes frown. she glanced at the speaker and found her real brother alexander standing there looking very angry.
'if i am correct he is short tempered! was he angry that i got another family too?' faes thought but still greeted him with a smile though a fake one
"big brother what happened why are you angry?" faes asked
"how can you run away without telling anyone and not contact us for a about two years! do you know how much work it increased and how tensed everyone was regarding your safety?..." alexander shouted continuously until he calmed down
faes knew that the family of original body loved her but they didn't respected her or gave her freedom. they gave her gifts and talked nicely to her but if she complained or wanted to go out she was ignored or was told that she was weak and small. faes had been sick of that treatment and hence she ran away. faes felt what the original faes had experience was worse than having a family so she was still holding a grude against them and was not giving them the proper treatment like family
'the one who mostly ignored were king augustus and her brother alex which hurt her most emotionally' faes was planning her sweet revenge when she got back and as for those who took her things 'heh! they will know who princess faes is!' faes sneered in her mind.
faes looked at alexander shouting and didn't gave any reaction except an expressionless face if not bored until he was done. alexander who was worried about faes scolded her when he saw her safe after all this time, though he was grateful and relieved he was also angry! he always loved both his sisters but faes was weak and he had to always take care of her. she was now ten years old yet she didn't had any powers!
he was angry at her to run away and increase his work as the crown prince and worry his family to the point that they barely got any sleep for days.