Prologue

"Mother, why is there a castle in the sky?" A child spoke as he clutched his toy sword in his hands.

"I do not know my little strawberry, but it is believed to be inhabited by celestials." A woman held her son close to her chest.

"If people ever claim, that you belong to them, they're liars, not to be trusted. Promise mother strawberry." She raised up her pinky finger infront of the child.

"I promise Mom, I promise to always stay here with you, Father, and Older Brother." The child wrapped his pinky finger around her mother's

She would hug him tightly as a tear would shed down her cheek then wiped it before facing her son and kissing his forehead.

A knock could be heard from the door and the child ran towards it and opened the door.

"Dad! You're back! Where's older brother?" The child tilted it's head before he rushed in and urged both his child and wife to leave from the garden.

"Honey, They found us, Run leave with Atheria! They took Lichert." The child looked up confused before his mother grabbed him by the hand and ran to the door leaving the house with a large pouch in her hands.

"Mom where are we going?! Why are we leaving dad?" The child asked as he was carried and the woman ran into the forest.

They would hear a loud explosion and saw that their old house engulfed in flames.

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Two winged men kicked the father to the ground and dragged him out forcing him to kneel Infront of their commander whom was wearing gold armor.

"Where's the princess Mikhail? Don't make this harder than it should be, We already have one of the princes, all we need is the princess and the other prince." The commander spoke and pointed his sword at Mikhail's neck.

Mikhail only grimaced but never uttered a word even when a blade was pointed at his neck. He glanced behind him and yelled "LOOK FOR THEM, DON'T JUST STAND AROUND!"

The other winged men took to the skies and searched for the princess and her son. The commander sheathed his sword "Take him back to celestia, You're lucky the Emperor wants all of you alive."

The commander opened his palm and materialized a ball of blue flame before tossing it into the house, a loud explosion came from inside and soon the house was engulfed in flames.

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Atheria was hid inside a large hollow tree and left him with the pouch, "Little Strawberry, I'll be right back Mother's just going to go check on your father okay?"

"Mom please, don't leave. Please don't leave me." Atheria's mother coo'd him before leaving to run back to the burning house.

Atheria would peek out from a hole in the trunk and would see his mom surrounded by the winged men before being knocked out and lifted up.

He ran out of the trunk too late as they were already too high in the sky for him to be heard yelling. Crawling back to the trunk he would sit in a daze until the Sun rose.

He would leave the hollow trunk carrying the pouch. His sandals now covered in dirt and mud as he continued through the forest and stumbled upon a dirt road.

He travelled on foot for hours, his face had a sunken look as he weakly held onto the pouch before collapsing on the ground his consciousness keeping him awake.

Not long after he could hear horse hooves clacking upon the dirt before it came to a full stop as yelling could be heard. He was lifted up and carried somewhere before his eyes closed losing the last bit of energy that kept him awake.