No-one's pov
Apollo was walking towards his own room ,only to find it empty,he sighed softly and decided to change in formal dress , today as the head of the house he will have to perform the ceremony for his daughter...in which he will give her a name that will define her status in family as a first daughter of Apollo , but the problem is only for heir like Ambrose should the ceremony be performed right after his birth as to declare their status as the heir of Lionheart family but if the girl also gets recognised in her first day of birth it might create problems but....
might also not as Ambrose is already a recognised heir and no one can change that , so maybe nothing will happen...and after this ceremony every member of the family will have to recognise her status as the daughter of the family head and not the heir as he is just performing this ceremony to not let people look down on her because of him failing to perform the ceremony earlier .
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There are two ceremonies that need to be performed one is family binding ceremony , perform to keep check on family members, only head have that power to do so and
other is magic binding ceremony, perform to keep family magic from getting reduced
name giving ceremony or else called family binding ceremony in which every family members can feel presence of the child as a part of family ,
and other ceremony called magic binding ceremony where their magic is bind together like a spider net , making the bond and magic strong, it's said this ceremony is performed since Lionheart family first ancestor or the creater of Lionheart family lost his wife , she died while giving birth to his first son ,so he decided to create a magic bond and family bond which will not only keep him informed about the family growth but also the other ceremony called family binding ceremony will let the family head know members whereabouts and their situations alike , their life expectancy and their magic growth and one of Main Feature of the family binder is that when someone is newly born within family every family member can feel the sign of new addition that will soon be bind with the net but importantly
it helps in keeping away any illegitimate child and identifying them if there's any
when someone is removed from the magic and family Blinding bond their magic turns hostile to every member of the family..
. that's why many times when disowning,the family head choose to remove the person from family on documents and also from family bond but not from magic bond .
If the head of family need to disown or remove any family member the process include two steps one is simply through removing from family bond (in simple cases where the disown person haven't make an extreme mistake),
second is through removing from magic bond that's for extreme cases because it'll not only weaken the disowned person magically or also physically, and most importantly their magic will become hostile to everyone in the family and in most rare cases the disown person can also die. ..
There's also third way but no one uses it , it's simply removing someone from family on documents just for society to see .. it's a very light punishment, but it never happened till now , except one time when Apollo' s father was removed on documents to punish him from running away from family , but the result was mess as he was too happy to be removed and he was roaming around, flirting with beautiful women , so he was taken back and got punished by grounding him in his room four walls . He lost motivation and finally decided to got married, this story is still told just to make fun of him...
[A/n- Apollo father's rock , leaving his grandpa shock]
Apollo pov
" I have decided to perform the family bind ceremony today but jade is still weak , so should I ask him first before performing the ceremony or not ?" He asked and a shadow of an old man appeared , the old man had a white beard and moustache, his eyes looked like he has seen the world getting created himself , he looked like a warrior with muscular body " it depends on you , you are the head and no one has any right to tell you what to do " the old man spoke , Apollo turned and looked at the man thoughtfully and finally nodded his head . He turned once again while buttoning his shirt " i didn't wanted any child after alex but I went in rut when my rut period was supposed to start after 15 days and i again did something regretfull , what do you think caused that , dear uncle" this time he turned and looked at man intensely like asking for his life, the old man trembled a little and looked down ,not saying a word ,so Apollo spoke once again
" you are his mother's adopted brother right dear uncle" the man stunned looked at the boy now man who he taught the art of fighting with knives himself, but after sometime he sighed like resigning his fate to the man in front of him " don't look at me like that uncle, I just want answers ,why " the old man knows his fate was sealed the day he betrayed the man infront of him or in other sense his master " he looked sad and my sister ..." The fully dressed man now looked at him with one hand raised as to stop him from speaking.."i didn't ask to hear about your emotionally exhausting life experience right James " yes, James his name " you have been serving our family for 50 years now right" Apollo asked the old man who nodded his head in return" for this 50years you haven't betrayed us but now you did , so tell me ,in this 50 years did you not find the reason to betray us and only now did you find one or you always had the reason to betray us but you just chooses to act now after earning our trust"
hearing this the old man kneeled,and Apollo looked down at the man who he used to treat and respect as a teacher, the same person who he thought would never betray him now kneeling in front him for breaking his trust , the trust which took him so many years to earn ,he broke it in some minutes.." why did you betray us tell me , give me all the excuses if at the end of them you will tell me the truth" he looked at the man kneeled with sadness filled in his eyes, he thought after losing her he'll never lose anyone but here he is again, ready to lose the person he used to trust .. seeing the man not speaking he continued" do you know why I didn't killed you even after knowing the truth for so long" this time the old man looked at him " because I respected you so I waited so long for you to confess your sin and kill yourself according to the rule of our shadow army but you James not only broke my trust but also your oath that you took while joining the shadow army , the oath that contains the words i repeat ' if i were to break the trust of my master I shall kill myself to wash the sins of mine with my own blood' So tell me why are you still here , alive in front of me " the old man looked shocked but hesitant when Apollo throw his knife near his kneeling figure..the old man eyes now looked firm as if telling the story of his dedication.
The old man looked in the dark cold eyes of the man who he taught the art of trust but now kneeling in front of him for the sin of failing in maintaining the trust of the man who's eyes used to looked at him with admiration, now he can't see anything except the darkness which will soon engulf his soul inside and so he spoke" i failed as a teacher who taught you to trust your subordinates, I failed as a shadow guard who took the oath to protect you but I won't apologise for passing as an uncle of my omega nephew who was hurt by your indifference to his love " and with final look of sadness in his eyes he severed his own head ..but the blood of his betrayal still ruined his master's clothes..
Apollo laughed and laughed like a psyco who have just done a great job destroying the sinner in ever way possible but his eyes hold the sword of broken trust that is continuously slashing his heart on every step ..and finally he fell on his knees like a puppet who's string has been broken...
He went silent, silence that even hurt the ears of the deaf..when door opened lightly and as an angel of light coming to take him out of darkness came Ambrose...Apollo looked up and Ambrose who's lips spoke no word of comfort to him while his body took him in his arms while his little hands caressing his head that's feel too heavy with all the painful memories he hold dearly.....
Apollo with his eyes closed relaxed spoke" won't you ask me why I did that" Ambrose continued with his caressing said " you wasn't able watch him continue to act like he didn't betrayed you or he didn't broke your trust, you waited for so long because you respect him ,now you have learned your lesson,now no need to talk anymore " hearing the words he should have spoken from the mouth of a little 6 year old , he smiled a big smile and continued to ask" won't you ask what he did?" And with a little sigh of defeat Ambrose said" i don't wanna know ",* or maybe i am still young to understand you so wait for me a little bit before explaining* this thought came in Ambrose mind but if one try to decipher the meaning of it ,they will feel this thought is not only for this situation but for overall situation that made them fall apart..
After that no words was spoken between the two, like they both know that no matter what happens they will be there for each other..
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A/n - my little Apollo still suffering from all this , that bastard broke his trust but he learned his lesson..poor babies of mine