A cold winter night..... silent... starry... beautiful..... contrary to the ugly truth.

Like a the goddess of the moon... a fairy of the night.

She sighed.... in tears.

"Ugh,... this, can't be real, I wish..... I was dreaming," a clear glass vile tumbled off the rotting wood table, it broke. Sighing again she cried a little more, "this is hopeless."

She bent over to pick up the little pieces of crystal glass, her last vile.

I guess I'll have to deliver it in the pot then... she thought.

Trying to salvage the glass vile she slipped and fell straight through the old creaking floorboards, this was her breaking point, she sat down and just cried.

WAIT

Let me explain.

We are in an old cabin, deep in the woods, a forbidden forest infact and no, this isn't snow white... or some fairy tail story, it's so... so much worse.

Again no, we aren't the princess, the heroine, not even the main character.

We're villainess, at least... I think we are...

Let's take a trip into our history... to see how this story began.

Roughly, eight hundred sixty years ago.

The areas where the Empire is located now, used to be a wasteland (called the Saren Moors which is not fully contained even to this day), was one of the most corrupted places in the world, overrun by {Demon Beast}.

Ugly, dead, barren, covered in miasma.

The kind of place that would make you freeze up in fear, cry and somehow lose your mind, violently...

On top of the hierarchy of {Demon Beast}, the extremely rare ones, the named, they are made from pure miasma.

This is where the first Emperor(Alphonse Lidel Mende Von Kananos) he was a prince of another kingdom, abandoned by his King.

The Saintess(Maria Lopez) a commoner from who knows where.

Alphonse's brother(Authur Lidel Pendragon Von Kananos), his knights, and a church of priests .

They had only one choose, to find land and build it, because no nation would accept them into their country, they went with armies to cure the land.

To summarize, Alphonse and his party of warriors and healers blah blah blah, they slayed and purified, that was pretty much it....

They then decided to make a country like that was easy.... but they had help of the Goddess of healing and protection, Goddess Salus.

It was really simple for they actually..... I think it was because Goddess Salus, she was really helpping them for it to grow into an Empire.

I suppose because they were so grateful they started to worship Goddess Salus.

However, let me make it clear that the official idolization of the Goddess Salus only began about two hundred and eighty-something years back.

I say official because the church was not the first and certainly will not be the last to idolize Salus, it gets weird...

So now that you know a bit about our history.

Let's talk about Lillian's family, as this is also an important matter for the story.

Lillian's mother is a princess from the foreign of Westeria.

Now we won't delve into the history of Westeria because we don't need to do so at the moment, so, let's leave this story for another time.

Lillian's mother her name is Rossa Lidel José Von Kananos she is 41 years old.

Rather short, 5'6ft is the closest to her height.

Light silver hair that is at the length of her knees, it's silky and shiny.

A small sharp face, a tall nose, sharp red eyes.

She has elegance and grace flowing out of her.

Her father who is the current king of Kananos, his name is William Lidel James Von Kananos and he is 52 years old.

As fit as a horse, that is the best way to describe him.

He is a very tall man around 6'7ft tall.

He has platinum blonde hair, a wide face but sharp features and green eyes.

Also, FYI Lillian is his favorite child, maybe because they look the exact same.

Lillian also has three siblings, two brothers, and a sister.

The oldest son is Alfred Lidel Damen Von Kananos, he is 29 years old, and also the current Crown Prince in The Empire.

Known as a cunning schemer who has a good part of the Empire under his control.

His hair is light sliver, he's roughly 6'4 in height a body good enough to defend himself when needed.

Just one look at his face and you would be able to tell he's a snake through and through, sharp cold eyes that would pierce through anybody and make your soul shiver, a tall nose, thin lips and a large scar on his neck.

The second child is Juliana Lidel Brooke Von Kananos, she is 25 years old and has light sliver hair with sharp eyes, a small but high nose, light skin, and, an angelic face and looks good in soft colors

She's 5'8ft tall.

She has been married off 3 times twice outside of the Empire in a political struggle, she killed both her husband and came back, each time bringing the Empire more territory and wealth.

Her current marriage... Well, we think it's her choice but we're not sure, after all, she and the Crown Prince scheme together like two slippery eels hunting.

Harsh.

The third child is Maxwell Lidel Jude Von Kananos he is 20 years old and also the person who hates Lillian the least.

He is the captain of the royal guard and is in charge of all things that include fighting or war.

He has a high nose, sharp eyes, light sliver hair, a defined jawline, and an incredibly fit body and he's a little more tan than most people.

He's built very similarly to her father and is 6'5ft tall

Unfortunately for Lillian, he's Alfred's' loyal dog which is why he is nicknamed The Dog of War.

Last but certainly not least Lillian Lidel Grace Von Kananos our main character, is 17 years old currently but in the part of the story where we are she's 15, and 5'4ft tall

She is the brattiest child you'll ever hear of.

But she has the face of a goddess with her platinum blond hair and light green eyes.

Now that we're ready let's start the story, I was getting tired of explaining the backstory.

We'll start on the morning of Lillian's 15th birthday.

"STOP MAKING THAT NOISE YOU IRRITATING LITTLE, UGLY THING!!" yelled Lillian.

"B-but m-my lady, I-I am t-to arrange yo-your accessories." a meek-looking maid around the same age as Lillian bearly manages to stutter out trembling in fear.

Lillian spinning around in a fit of fiery anger said "How DARE you talk back to me you unrefined PEASANT!"

Reaching for a nearby vase and picking it up she attempts to swing it at that meek maid. head hard but it goes flying.

Just then Alfred and Juliana walk in, the vase misses the maid but instead goes flying at Alfred's face but, he catches it.

As Lillian realizes what she has done, in a panic she attempts to apologize, meekly

stuttering "I-I-I'm so-sorry bro-".

Cutting her off in a low chilling voice that would send shivers down anyone's spine Alfred corrected her indifferently "Crown Prince to you."

Seeing this and snatching this opportunity to mock her little sister Juliana says "Oh, dear sister, you're about to go through your coming of age, dear sister act like it."

(for those of you who don't know what a coming of age is, it's more or less becoming an adult and being at a marriageable age)

Lillian stood shaking and gritting her teeth in indignation then, muttered "Thank you for your words of advice elder sister."

Alfred sighed irritatedly told the maid to get out, and let Lillian know that he would be escorting her to the ballroom door.

Lillian knew that her siblings, Alfred especially, despised her, sobs he wondered why he would even think of doing something considered kindness.

After that, without much trouble, she got dressed.

Her platinum and light brown eyes matched her blood-red dress adorned with beautiful golden pearls, she was wearing ruby earrings and a gorgeous ruby necklace.

It wouldn't be wrong to call her a Goddess in that dress if not for her foul nature.

Heading toward the ballroom with Alfred really escorting her to her utmost surprise, she was sure that everyone had already arrived as she intended to be fashionably late.

When she arrived at the astonishingly large, beautiful gold doors, or maybe it may be more accurate to call them gates.

Alfred left her and went in.

The 'caller' (the people who stood in front of the doors and called out the names of people arriving) then announced her arrival saying "Princess Lillian Llidel Grace Von Kananos has arrived." loudly

Walking in with her best elegant and graceful behavior, smiling sweetly and waving, contrary to her personality.

With the loving and admiring gazes of the people in attendance at the ball, she descended slowly from the stairs.

Following the traditions, she slowly and charmingly approaches the throne set on a flight of stairs.

Walking on the red silk carpet, the crowd was already parted for her to walk through.

Kneeling at the end of the very last stairs,

Emperor William descends the flight of stairs on which the throne was set.

His personal butler approached him with a soft cushion covered in a smooth silk cloth with a tiara placed on it.

Picking up the tiara he says in a deep voice, "Princess Lillian, my daughter, you are now of age, time truly does fly, but as you grow older may Salus the Goddess of Healing and Protection be with you.

May she guide you through life, as you age and go through life may all go well, " placing the tiara on her head he continued "Happy Birthday Princess."

The nobles in attendance at the ball repeated what the Emperor had just said: "Happy Birthday Princess Lillian!"

Standing up slowly Lillian took a deep but polite bow and said "Thank you, your Majesty. May Salus also be with you and keep your Majesty well."

After all that he's Majesty asked offering his hand "May I have this dance?"

Responding politely Lillian says, "Yes your Majesty, of course.

Dancing gracefully to the Kanaan Waltz, the hardest ballroom dance in the whole Empire. As they reached the middle of the song, the other nobles started to join them in dance, according to rank.

Soon after the dance, quite literally two minutes later, a girl and her father walk in.

The caller announced their arrival saying something like "Baron Garrett and his daughter Melissa Garrett have arrived."

Melissa was a small pure-looking girl.

Everyone stared at her as she figured nervously.

To give you some perspective, she was a small pale cute cute-looking girl, with short blond hair.

Her was about the length of her shoulders, and she had bright green emerald eyes.

Soft features and was maybe 5'2.

Immediately Melissa stole all the attention from Lillian. To make matters worse, Crown Prince Alfred grabbed a glass of champagne and walked over to Melissa, to greet him she said, "I greet the second Sun of the Empire, may Salus guide you."

Which Lillian insisted that I add is a very lousy greeting, and how could he not be upset?

As if to thank her he handed her a drink.

Seeing this the nobles at the ball gasped in amazement, as the Crown prince who is nicknamed [Ice Prince] or [Demon of retribution] or [Wicked sun of the Empire] has no such emotions or so they thought.

Seeing Alfred smile at Melissa Lillian snapped.

At this point, anyone could tell that he was either he was deeply in love with Melissa or.....it's best it's the first and not the latter, hypnotized.

Melissa chatted with Alfred beaming and smiling sweetly, and HE listened to her as she ranted on, when he never even congratulated Lillian on her coming of age.

She stood quietly for a moment thinking of what to do.

After just a few seconds she grabbed a drink from a passing servant tray and started walking towards Melissa and Alfred with confidence.

End

Of

Chapter 1

TBC