Prologue

☪ Author's Note:

ENGLISH IS NOT MY FIRST LANGUAGE.

Please bear with me, because we bare bears. Just kidding…Enjoy! ☪

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[ Magia, a place with four great and mighty kingdoms and a living legend about the moon. The moon in this fascinating world is not only one, seven is the total number of it made by Bathala. However, many years have passed and only one is left to shed light on the region.

The night sky is so clear, the half moon is surrounded by an ethereal glow so you could almost see every crater. It serves as a light in the darkness, but it changed when a tragedy occurs. ]

Seraphina is a princess who is too beautiful and too ethereal. 

A princess who loves moon gazing. 

She's not a typical princess who is modest and obedient, she often disobeyed her father and was able to defend herself.

She is a good-hearted and caring princess who always smiled in front of every individual that depended on them, therefore many living entities look up to her, but there are also those who didn't like the princess.

Despite the number of princes who wanted to marry her, whether the kingdom is enormous and wealthy or small and quite rich, she still fell for an ordinary man with an empty pocket and no wealth; Achilles, a fisherman. They loved each other, even against the king's will.

According to his royal father, “The born nobleman should only live with another nobleman, it shouldn't be with a commoner.” He cherished his daughter as a precious metal, like a treasure that a fisherman cannot obtain.

“I will not let you do what you want, you're going to marry Damon, but you want to marry someone else? You rejected a prince for a fisherman?!” the king shouted. 

Damon is a prince of Ischyros whom the king wants to marry Seraphina. Ischyros, is one of the richest and strongest armies in Magia.

“But I can't afford to marry someone I don't love. Don't force me to marry someone like Damon,” Seraphina replied emphatically.

“When you disobey me again, I will no longer consider you as my child and as a princess.” Rage pulsed through the king's veins, speculating that the princess would be frightened.

Seraphina has been thinking for a long time, she was confused and couldn't make up her mind about what to do next. She doesn't want to leave her father, but she can't afford to leave her beloved behind, yet she decided to go far away with Achilles. This was the first time the princess fell in love like this, so she became more earnest in praying to Bathala that they would always be together and never separate from each other.

One day, the bright half moon suddenly disappeared and it turned red. It is a vision with an attack that will happen to a king.

When the princess hears that her father is no longer in charge of their palace, Damon tells her that she should marry him and he will free their subordinate.

She immediately went to the palace without Achilles' knowledge to check on her father's condition.

“Seraphina, I'm glad to see you again.” A smile plastered on Damon's face as he greeted the princess while he sat on the throne of the kingdom he had conquered. 

Seraphina saw her father on its side held by the two soldiers of Ischyros and her sister who was also on the side of the throne, just standing there without any emotion. She seemed unaware of what was going on around her even when their kingdom was in danger.

“Good thing that you came on our wedding day,” Damon added.

“I'm not going to marry you,” Seraphina replied while looking at her sister, Ophelia, "I'm here to pick up my father."

“You must marry me to regain your kingdom,” Damon commanded. “But if you don't, these citizens of Prostatévo will die.”

Seraphina turned to the soldiers carrying civilians who were forced to kneel down. She was even more discouraged, she has no ally and she will not be able to defend their kingdom alone.

“Now, will you marry me or will I kill them in front of you?” Damon asked with glaring eyes.

“Take the palace and set us free.” The princess was in tears as she no longer knew what to do.

“You think this is all I want?”

“Then what?!”

“You.”

They were stunned when Achilles came. Even against Seraphina's will, Achilles and Damon fought in front of her, but the man beloved of the princess was defeated. Achilles fell to the floor as its blood flowed through his body.

“I can't quite imagine what you liked about this wimp? Would you rather be with this spineless fisherman than with a prince of Ischyros?” Damon asked angrily.

Seraphina knelt weeping in front of Achilles, “I'd rather be with someone like him than someone like you, Damon,” she replied as her tears were streaming down her cheeks, she glared at him, wanting to cry and scream, but she chose to be calm, “I don't care what wealth or power you have, I will not marry you just to strengthen our kingdom. Your money cannot buy me.”

“Stop the drama! Choose, marry me or I'll kill them?!” Damon pointed to the civilians who were on their knees but fearless.

“J-Just kill me,” she stuttered. She cries watching Achilles dying in front of her.

Damon laughed at what he heard, his evil laughter echoed in the palace hall, "I wouldn't force you if I only wanted your wealth and to strengthen our kingdom. We all know that Ischyros no longer needs that." He approached the princess and touched her cheek gently, "I really want to hurt you, but I just restrained myself as much as I can."

Seraphina shook her head and turned to the affected civilians. They all smiled at her despite what they could suffer now.

"We will not allow you to be with someone like him, so if death is the answer for you to be free. We will die with you," one of them said.

Tears of pain running down Seraphina's cheeks, she sighed heavily. Her body looked calm compared to how tangled her mind was.

"Then I'm easy to talk to," Damon's voice dropped, he felt his throat closing up. He walked away from the princess, unable to look him in the eyes, "kill them all." He looked close to tears but he just held back.

Seraphina cried out in grief when she saw with her two eyes how they had killed the innocent civilians in front of her.

She closes her eyes tightly after blood splatters on her.

In a few moments, a sword also pierced her body. The king was weakened when he saw the princess fall to the ground while Ophelia was just looking at her sister as if she didn’t care what happened to it, she is like a statue as if she sees nothing and has no ability to speak.

Seraphina smiled as she lay on Achilles' chest, "Bathala, may you still fulfill my wish that wasn't fulfilled here on Magia. Take us peacefully to your paradise with those who died for me." Her tears flowed while caressing Achilles' hand.

When Damon heard her voice, he stabbed her again with a sword to make sure she was completely dead. He could no longer control his anger; he killed her. After that he ordered someone to see if it still had a pulse.

"Your majesty, she still has a heartbeat.”

"No!" a woman shouts, reason for them all to look at her.

"What right do you have to disobey me?" Damon asked with tired and teary eyes.

"Your majesty!" The woman looked at the king: Seraphina's father.

"There's a baby in the princess's womb!" She cried as she almost knelt on the ground in great anguish.

"What did you do to my daughter?! You said you love her?! Why?!"

Damon grinned and approached the lifeless princess.

"You want to see how shameless I am?" He took his sword and aimed it at Seraphina.

“No! Don't go ahead with your plan! I'm begging you!”

"And who are you to command me?" 

Almost everyone in the palace closed their eyes when Damon stabbed Seraphina in the stomach, he hears nothing, he only cares about himself. He doesn't care if the princess is pregnant as long as it's not his child.

After the princess, he approached the king who had no power now to rule his own kingdom.

"Let's meet in the abyss." He stabbed the king of Prostatévo, while Ophelia, who should have been grieving over the fate of her father and sister, could do nothing but watch.

[ The power of the full moon begins here. Since the deaths of Seraphina and Achilles, the half moon becomes full and is surrounded by stars, when the right time comes. 

It is believe that the full moon is Seraphina and Achilles while the stars are the civilians who died with them. ]

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☪ After so many years ☪

A lot of things has changed in the world of Magia, some have evolved because of the amount of discoveries, but they still haven’t forgotten the things and rules they are used to.

There are some joyful events in different parts of the place in this magical world, but there are also unpleasant experiences.

"Edmondo, call a midwife right now!" The king commanded. The heroic king of Prostatévo at the present time: Gualtiero Bobellon.

Edmond obeyed the king and commanded his troops. He is the man that the king trusts the most, a friend and loyal servant of their kingdom.

King Gualtiero held Lila's hand tightly, the queen. She is about to give birth to their first child but there is still no midwife coming to help her give birth. It seems that the queen is also having a hard time with her situation because she cannot bring out the child on her own.

"The midwife is here, Your Majesty," Edmondo said. King Gualtiero looked at the door of their room where a woman was standing there covered with a black cloth.

"I've only just seen her. How do you make sure she can be trusted?" the king wondered. The old woman ignored that, she just approached the bed where the dear queen was lying. She would have touched the queen's stomach but the king immediately stopped her.

"You have no right to touch my wife until you hear no consent from me," the King insisted. The woman didn't listen to him, she just stared at the queen as she was already screaming with great exhaustion.

"I feel the baby. I know it's going to happen now on the full moon," the woman said while looking at the balcony to peek at the round and super bright full moon.

Edmondo noticed that the previous half moon had now been replaced by the full moon, but the color of blood that covered it had not changed. It's look like blood full moon now.

“I see in the future that a great conquest will take place, but you can only save our world and the creatures that live in it through your daughter, your majesty."

"What are you saying?" the king speaks in a hostile or aggressive way.

The strange woman touched the queen's forehead, the king didn't immediately stop her until he just let the woman do whatever it did.

"There is a lunar eclipse…one in a few decades. It is said to be lucky to give birth to a child when the moon disappears but it is also giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen. Someone will die because a new life has been formed," the woman explained.

"What do you want to convey? My wife is having a hard time and if something bad happens to my wife and daughter you will be the one to pay!" The king barely conceals his irritation, he speaks briefly and abruptly to the woman as he watches his wife forcefully release their child on her own.

"Do you know that your child will be the only one born in this world today? The only one, she's unique and unparalleled. She is different from those who came before, do you remember princess Seraphina? And the ordinary woman who was stranded in our world and became a queen? Do you remember Seraphina and Mehreen?" the woman asked.

"But nothing has yet proved that the legend of the moon is true," the king replied.

"The tragic event that Seraphina faced a long time ago happened in this kingdom but you don't believe it? Did you forget that it was a relative of the queen you married? Why don't you ask his father about it, ask him in the afterlife," the woman said dauntlessly.

"You have no right to answer the king like that, do you want to die-"

The king prevented Edmondo from pulling his sword, so he put it back in order.

The woman didn't even feel a little scared, she didn't consider what might happen to her if she said anything more against the king.

"The ordinary Mehreen came to our world the day the moon disappeared and it was surrounded by blood. She came here and stopped the chaos while Princess Seraphina and Achilles are said to be the reason why its meaning changed, why it became more powerful." She stroked the queen's hair, there were tears dripping from its eyes because of the hardship it is going through now.

"And so will your daughter, she will be unique among all. I wonder how many more years I will have to wait to meet someone like her again. The above will definitely send unique ones again when there is chaos in our world and we will know it by the time the moon is full," the woman added.

"My wife is having a hard time! Please make a way!" the king pleaded. He held the queen's hand which was already dripping with sweat.

"Calm down dear queen. By the time the child is released your suffering will be gone, I believe Seraphina will be very grateful to you for giving birth to her child." She touched the queen's forehead and then lowered her grip on its stomach.

And with the queen's insistence to release the child it finally came out.

Everyone in the room was silent, the crying of the newborn baby was the only thing they were waiting for but it didn't happen. The woman approached the baby and carefully lifted her.

"A very beautiful princess," she said as she caressed the baby's cheek gently.

"Why isn't she moving? She's also not crying like other babies?" The king approached his daughter, he touched it to wipe some blood from its body. He shed tears when he saw the beautiful face of the princess.

"L-Luna…" The king and Edmondo turned to the queen as she spoke, "Seraluna is what we will name her."

The king smiled at the queen to show that he agreed with her, he took the baby to the woman to bring it to the queen. He laid it next to it so Lila eagerly touched it.

"Seraluna, such a beautiful name." 

Lila nodded, watching her daughter as tears dripped down her cheeks.

"Thank you so much for the help-" The king was stunned when the woman who gave birth to the queen suddenly disappeared. Even Edmondo, who was distracted for a moment, was surprised when he lost sight of the woman.

They just felt a strong gust of wind. Simultaneously the loss of the queen's life and the sudden loud cry of the newborn princess.