Chapter 16
"Do you know why Icetierre is so rare?" Tiara asked Fierre and Sierra, and their faces looked so odd.
"Because of it's power?"
"Because it's beautiful?"
The two asked in awe and Tiara smirked.
"Both... However," She looked at Laris sleeping soundly. "It also takes the life essence of someone summoning it," she looked so sad that the two was worried.
"No! Does that mean eldest Laria will die?" Sierra asked anxiously and was about to cry.
"We don't want Eldest tl die! Uwaaah!" Fierre is now throwing tantrums and crying. Tiara laughed and caressed their hair.
"We will not let that to happen! So we must protect Eldest, okie?" Tiara lead her younger sisters then smiled, "Now, we shall hunt for the heart of the Ice Dragon,"
Fierre and Sierra were both confused but they both nodded and answer, "Yesss!"
Chapter 16
After three days of being asleep, Laria finally open her eyes.
"Elder sis!" Arianne exclaimed. But she is so weak to speak and smiled. She tried searching for their other three siblings. With all her strength, she managed to slowly sit.
"You need to rest more, don't move so much---" Arianne said but couldn't stop her so she gave her a glass of water instead.
"Thanks--," she smiled faintly, "Where are the other three?" she asked while scanning the room.
Arianne sighed.
"You almost died, Eldest Sis," she start, "And the first thing youre asking for is our sisters,"
"But they are more important--"
"But you are important to us too!" Arianne stand up and start crying. "Think for yourself once!" And she start stomping her feet like a child.
"I'm sorry," she smiled sadly. "I didn't see them so I was worried, but where are they?"
Arianne wiped her tears and turned seriously.
"They've gone to Hildegard Mountains---"
"What?!" Laria exclaimed. "What are they doing there? Who allowed them?!" her eyes are now blazing with fire.
Hildegarde Mountain is where the ice monsters and magical ice beasts are living. It is a land protected by the Winterialle family. Also, where the Curse of the Ice Dragon lies.
She tried to stand up but she couldn't. Arianne helped her and knew that even Laria cannot do anything about it.
"Father did," she paused and looked somewhere else, "To save you,"
Laria flinched and coughed blood. With all the commotion, the door opened and Marquis Ariel and Consort Pamela entered.
"What are you doing here?!" Arianne shouted. "Get out!"
"Jara, take her out," he ordered the Knight to take Arianne out. But she protested.
"Stop right there," Laria spoke and froze the feet of the Knight. Then she coughed up blood again.
"Sister!" Arianne run to Laria and hid beside her.
"What are you doing here, FATHER?" she emphasized. And the Marquis smiled.
"I am worried about you, you've been sleeping for three days straight---" he was cut off by Laria's murderous glare.
"Get straight to the point," Laria looked at the lavish appearance of the two.
'How could they spend money I worked so hard to gain? Don't they know we are in the brink of bankruptcy?' she spoked in her mind.
"How atrocious!" Consort Pamela exclaimed, "Not because you will be a Consort of the Emperor you can act like this," Arianne rolled her eyes and Laria laughed.
"Of course I won't be just a Consort," she smiled very sweetly, and Marquis Ariel smiled happily.
"You mean you'll become an Empress?" he excitedly asked like an idiot.
'How vulgar' Laria thought.
"No," she smiled that makes the Marquis frown.
"Then what?" he asked curiously, "Is there any position for a woman higher than Empress?"
"No, but I won't become a Consort," she paused, "l will become the next Marchioness Fordenn!" she announced and she frowned when everyone was shocked and their mouth dropped in awe.
"WHAT?!" The Marquis expression was not good. You can see the veins in his forehead. Laria expected this reaction. "WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?!"
Laria turned serious too.
"I am more capable of taking care of House Fordenn more than you!" she exclaimed, "I mean, why were you even a head?"
With all the pride the Marquis is holding in, she slapped Laria.
"Elder Sis!"
Marquis become the head of House Fordenn solely because his elder brother is not interested. Other than that, he is not even qualified.
Also, it was a puzzle why there are no distant relatives the Fordenn are. That's why the illegitimate child of the Winterialle was wedded to him.
'A good for nothing Son of falling House is beffiting an illegitimate child of a Strong House'
"How dare you!" she pointed, "All you have now is from me!"
"From our ancestors, not you, MY DEAR FATHER," and her stoic face made everyone take a step back while her father is so angry at her.
"I raised you! I give you everything you need and this is how you repay me?! By taking my title and not following my orders?!" he continue pointing fingers at me, "If you marry the Emperor of the West, I might forgive you," he said.
"No," she firmly said. "I will not marry the Emperor of the West."
"You ungrateful bitch!" Consort Pamela said when suddenly, Laria laughed.
"Bitch? Then what are you? A hideous awful woman?" she laughed so bad.
"You---" she was about to slap Laria when Arianne hold her hand.
"Do you even know what is happening in our busines because of her?" she asked and looked at her father. Consort Pamela gulped.
"What are you saying?!" she exclaimed.
"She is clinging to you because she wanted to take you down! She wanted the family fortune! Wake up father!" But Laria receive another slap.
"If I knew you would become like this when you grow up, I shoulve killed you back then," Marquis Ariel said and his expression is serious.
Laria coughed so much blood, but what shocked her is the tears flowing from her eyes.
"Get out..." she said.
"What---"
"I SAID ALL OF YOU, GET OUT!!!!!!!"
As if cat bit the tongue if the Knights, servants, and the consort, Marquis who wanted to protest cannot do anything about it.
Ice aura emitting from Laria is so strong that if they come near they will be killed. Arianne hugged her, and Laria hug her back. They were crying together.
"Mother... Please help us...."