(Sarah Windrider POV)
Happy
If someone asked me to describe my childhood this is the word I would use to describe it
I was born too loving parents, who were said to be some of the most powerful people in the world, being a kid I was told many wonderful stories about my parents and their adventures as they went through many trials and tribulations as they worked hard to become a good king and queen
And it worked, the people noble and commoners alike loved them, growing up as a princess, and having loving parents who would sacrifice the world for you must sound like a dream come true right?
Well it was... at least for a while, but who knew Sarah's happy life would come to an end so soon
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"Daddy, why does mommy work so hard?" a small girl with silver hair and purple eyes asked
The girl seemed to be around 6 years old as the remnants of baby fat was disappearing, showing a cute little girl
"Well, you see you're mom is a very important person, she carries all the hopes and dreams of every single elf living in our nation on her shoulders, so although she works hard it is all so that every little kid, just like you can live a happy life"
A man with purple eyes answered, unlike the girl the man had long blonde , it was so long it covered his eyes yet even with his hair covering his eyes, they shone a brilliant purple something which the little girl inherited from the man
This man was Julius Rainwood Windrider, the father of Sarah and also king of the elven nation
Although a very impressive man, he came from poverty and married into royalty, and although they called him the king he held no real authority because in the end he was just considered a commoner from the slums whom the queen fell in love with
No matter all the contributions he had made to the elven community, he was only a king in name and held no actual authority or power
Yet even though the man knew he was only king in name, and the one who held all the power was his wife he was happy, he loved his wife, a woman whom although was busy always made time for her husband and daughter
Of course Julius done his best to support his wife as she tried her best to lead the elves to a happy future
Yet in the end she was the one who carried the heart and soul of the elves on her shoulders
"Mommy is amazing I will be just like her when I grow up"
The little girl said as she looked at her mother with admiration
"Of course you will never be the same as your mother, because you will obviously be better"
Julius said as he patted Sarah on the head
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Although Sarah would describe her childhood as happy there is another word which could be used to describe it
Lonely
Sarah knew that as a princess she had responsibilities, so she worked very hard to fulfill them
Yet with no one to talk to she was lonely, that was until other nobles approached me for friendship
The little girl was very happy, she thought shr had found people whom were het friends but the truth became apparent very quickly
Going to the bathroom while her 'friends' were in the garden, she was very happy, the loneliness which had previously made her very sad was disappearing
Yet returning from the bathroom she overheard something which made it hard for her to trust others
"Sarah is so boring, I didn't want to become friends with her but my mom forced me too" A little boy said as he talked to the others
"Yeah me too, my dad said that becoming friends with her would bring a lot of benefits to our family in the future" a little girl replied
"My dad told me to use my good looks to get her to fall in love with me, so that I could become king" another handsome boy said
"If only we didn't have to pretend then I wouldn't be near this whiny princess" another boy said
Hearing the opinion of all her 'friends' Sarah was heartbroken,she had given up on trying to make friends with other nobles that led to her putting her trust in the 2 people who had been with her, her whole life the 2 people she trusted most in this world, excluding her parents
The first was the person who helped raised her, a maid
Having very busy parents you could say it was hard for Sarah to see them often so the woman who raised her, a woman she considered her second mother, the person who knew her the best
Arianna was the closest person to Sarah, the only person she had left after her parents death
The second person who she trusted the most in this world was her cousin Henry Windrider, Being a year older than Sarah, Henry her cousin a person she loved and cared for, a person who was similar in age to her and someone who she thought loved her, secretly despised her
Before Sarah was born, the queen(Sarah's mother) had problems with trying to get pregnant
This was seen as a problem as with no one to succeed her, the next king would have been Henry the son of her brother, and the queens nephew
Yet just as Henry's father was happy at his son being able to take the throne, something which he had wanted in his childhood but couldn't obtain because of his talented sister
There was a problem the queen became pregnant and gave birth to Sarah, a baby who was born with the royal trait one of the three things necessary to take the throne
Traits, a very rare phenomenon where a child is born with an ability that only he\she can wield it ranges from things like being a little smarter than someone to other things like mind control
Traits can not be acquired ad are things you are born with, at least that is the general consensus
There is one known family which have passed on a trait through to future generations that is the elven royalty family The Windriders
The trait that is passed on rarely happens and if a child is born with it they are going to succeed the throne, in the case where 2 children in the family possess the trait it goes to the child who is most capable
Although The Windriders can pass on this trait it is not guaranteed and there is an almost 95% chance that the trait won't be transferred
There have been times where the trait did not appear in any of the children for decades and then suddenly reoccurring
Sarah was born with the royal trait [ Child of the Wind] which already made her the heir to the throne
The other 2 requirements were too assimilate with a piece of yggdrasils branch, yet this was no longer a requirement as the demons burned down yggdrasils
The last requirement was a set of skills which have been passed down from generation to generation, you have to pass a trial to receive the skills once you have fulfilled all of this you become the rightful heir to the throne, yet these skills went missing one of the previous elf kings set up a trial which no one could figure out this led to the skills going missing and for the first time in 80 years one of the skills were found by a human boy named Cain Stardust
Finding out that he could have become king if not for Sarah, Henrys hatred for Sarah started growing
Yet he still pretended to be friends with her as what was the point of having a hostile relationship with the future queen
He put on this act of friendship yet one day, after the demon kings army attacked, Sarah's parents lost their lives
With them gone, Sarah's uncle(Henry's father) became king and tried his best to put his son(Henry) on the throne
After Sarah's parents death, Henry stopped hiding his hatred for Sarah, he would show her his hatred every opportunity he got
And a young Sarah who had just lost both her parents, and her 'supposed' best friend(Henry) who had shown his true colours
Was depressed she had lost everyone she cared for, she would constantly get insulted by her cousin, uncle and her aunt who saw her as a nuisance
A girl who had a perfect life and how she watched it crumble down that is the story of Sarah Windrider
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Although she had lost everything, Sarah was still the rightful heir to the throne she had inherited the royal trait which Henry didn't, which made her the future queen
Trying to find a way to make his son the king, Sarahs uncle used many ways to suppress Sarah and to make his son the king
Such as engaging her too the child of Duke Ramian Von August a powerful man who became his ally
***
The only reason Sarah had not been killed by her uncle, was because although Sarah rarely went out, she was loved by the elves and had a whole faction who were fighting for her, against her uncle to put her on the throne. This consisted of powerful nobles who had been friends with Sarah's parents
So when he found the opportunity to get rid of Sarah and send her to the humans, the king was very happy
Finding an opportunity to get rid of Sarah, her uncle sent her off to Renasia Academy
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Being sent to Renasia Academy, Sarah was scared she was being taken to a foreign place with people she did not know while hiding her identity
Contrary to what Sarah thought would happen she made her first friend, a boy named Cain Stardust
He had been the first person to show kindness to Sarah, to treat her like a real person and not a tool
She was happy she made a friend and he intruduced her to new people
She finally had many friends but just when she was happy, she lost Cain, the first friend she had ever made and a person who would always make Sarah laugh and smile
Realizing that just her being around Cain would put him in danger Sarah was sad, but not wanting her friend to get hurt she allowed him to leave
She still had the other friends as them having powerful parents meant even her family can't harm them without consequences
She was happy again, of course she missed Cain everyday, yet she wouldn't risk getting him in harms way
One day while returning from the school trip 2 Elven Royal Guards showed up telling her to return
Knowing that she had to return, Sarah wrote a message to Cain and the others it was a simple message because she didn't have a lot of time, but she knew she wouldn't be able to contact them once she returned
Once she had sent the messages to the others she had tried to run away from the guards who in the end knocked her out