Chapter 3:Prior Lives

The Royal King Eduardo De Clare.

The Royal Queen Elena De Clare.

The only Royal Princess.

The jewel of the entire kingdom.

Amelia De Clare.

The young princess holding such grace and intelligence at the age of seven. Her beauty matched her mother's and the Queen herself could not be described with any word because simple words could not justify her beauty.

Amelia wore an elegant dress that covered her feet to make her look as if she was hovering off the ground. Her black hair slicked back with a gold headband revealing her smooth young face with just a hint of plump skin on her cheeks.

At her age, Amelia perfected her abilities but just because she knew every spell that didn't stop her from practicing every single day.

At the first light of the day, Amelia would practice in the training room that her parents built for her.

The room covered from top to bottom with walls made of glass gold and the floor was liquid chrome that only Amelia can turn solid.

Amelia stares at the mirrors then her hands turn purple with ease, moving her hands like a snake. Creating a tornado that only she could control. Amelia walked into the tornado and twirled inside making her giggle.

Sometimes when the King and Queen would see her acting like a child with her magic they would grow furious and lecture her.

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" You are the next Reina~Queen! You can not play around and act foolish! Our people will never take you seriously! So no more mockery! Do I make myself clear Amelia!" The King's words echoed in her mind.

"Si Rey~yes king," Amelia said in a whisper.

" I can't hear you." Her father said in a stern voice.

Amelia gulped and stood upright with watery eyes.

" Si Rey~yes king," Amelia said with confidence.

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..But at this moment Amelia did not hear those words just her own laughter.

Amelia let herself gently fall on the ground and fixed her hair and dress and then she looked in the mirror once more.

Amelia let her hair down and the length grazed her bottom making her smile and whispering in the air. Then giving the air a gentle kiss closing her eyes and opening them.

A cloud-like young boy stood right in front of her asking for her hand to dance with her.

Amelia bowed picking up her dress with elegance and maturity.

Amelia and the cloud boy she made with her magic began to dance and again, Amelia's nervous little laughs filled the room.

A door being frantically knocked on made the boy disappear in sadness, with just a simple wave of her hand. She was back to perfection better than the goddess aphrodite. Amelia opened the door and an Elf came in with blood on his face.

" What is going on!"Amelia demanded.

Then a huge wave of creatures come pouring into the room. The Elf pushes Amelia behind him ready to risk his life for hers.

Amelia grew upset that these creatures were going to kill her Elf-friend and her.

The creatures were already firing at the elf but Amelia tripped the Elf to fall making him dodge the arrows and claws.

Amelia shouted.

"Basta!"~Stop

The creatures froze and she turned to the elf.

" Where is my mother!" Amelia screamed at the elf.

But the elf didn't respond to her. He just looked into the eyes of the young royal having no emotion.

Even Amelia knew without the emotion in the elf's eyes but the fact he didn't speak when he was spoken too. She knew something was terribly wrong.

Amelia knew what was going on because The King and Queen fought about this every night.

A war was coming and Amelia was anticipating when it was going to happen but she never thought it would come this soon.

Amelia ran out of the palace into the town square to see her people screaming and fighting and being killed by creatures that she only seen in school books.

Amelia's little legs tried to run faster and faster.

Trolls robing from stores their fangs covered in the blood of the princesses people around the two fanged creatures feet not moving a muscle as blood oozed out of their limp bodies.

The young princesa~princess, heard the screams of a young child the same age as her. A Troll had a young girl ready to snap her frail body, running to her rescue.

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I came to an abrupt halt letting my power course through my veins. My veins began to glow purple and aiming my hands at the big monster.

The big grumpy troll fell asleep and I ran to catch the younger girl but we both fell with a big thump and a roll to the muddy floor. The civilian sat up from the ground causing my dress to have a smudge of mud on my dress but I didn't care.

"Thank you for saving me." The girl beside me covered in muck but not from the mud she was already dirty but her smile made up for it.

A hint of joy filled my heart but I didn't have time to feel like a hero.

I stood up," Where is the Queen!" I spoke with a hint of panic in my voice, swallowing it trying to control my emotions.

The girl said with watery eyes" Queen Elena is beyond the gates!"

I stumbled back from those words, putting my hands in my chest and gripping my dress. I began to run stepping on rocks and twigs and glass but the pain did not stop me.

Running passed piles of corpses of our local healers with gashes in their heads and some crawling away and hawk people with no wings as they screamed on their knees touching their backs from missing wings. A sickening feeling was biting my throat but it went away when a troll tried to snatch me away clawing my shoulder leaving a gash but escaping it. More screams were heard all over my kingdom but I needed to help my mother first.

The gates were growing frail and it began to shatter all sorts of creatures that didn't belong here oozed in.

" Get out of my Kingdom!" I said in a stern voice but none of the savage creatures listened.

I pulled the gold from my hair letting it fall and I stood my ground putting my dominant foot in front of me and one behind me getting in formation.

I brought my hands up higher than my head and harshly slammed them to the ground causing a ocean wave with the ground as all the creature flew fifty feet in the air and I cast a spell making them stay.

Quedarse Queito~ Stay Put.

lifting up my dress and running and standing in front of the gates hesitant to walk out because I never disobeyed my parent's wishes and the law but I heard my father's voice.

" No Amelia! Do not walk out that gate!" said Eduardo, The royal king.

Hearing my mother's scream gave me a push , looking at my father's pleading eyes but disobeying as I spun around as the wind caught my hair letting it dance and as my feet said 'Run'.

Running out those gates everything...felt...so...different.

The air itself smelled disgusting, tainted and the grass wasn't breathing and the trees didn't want to dance. Everything felt plastic and fake.

Then I heard my mother's voice chanting some spells and standing her ground with no fear, running in that direction. All I could see is my mother on top of a big hill as all sorts of creatures trying to attack her.

My body created violent sparks making my body hum. My feet started running toward her, every time my feet hit the dead grass crunching beneath my feet memories of me and my mother came to mind.

I love you, Amelia...

My feet hit harder to the ground.

I love you too mama...

My lungs couldn't handle the air anymore.

You're the most beautiful princess...

My vision became blurry.

Because I get it from the Queen...

A tear escaped my eyes.

My body couldn't run faster.

My little feet were too little.

I could see a whole army of savages running toward my mother and I even knew she couldn't handle it.

I shouted, "MAMA!"

My mother heard and turned even when she was fighting. The Queen smiled with tears in her eyes and a weak smile.

The Queen moved her lips saying," I love you, My princesa, .~princess"

I tried running faster but my body couldn't take it and my knees buckled, "No Mommy wait!"

On my knees I watched my mother create a clear coat of a force field as all the savages were hurting her, hearing her cries of pain.

I forced myself up barley getting closer to the hill but I heard a horrid snap in the air. It was like a nuke Bomb but 10x worse...my mother used her own source of power and killed all the creatures sending me flying up in the air to the tree.

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I didn't know where I was but I was pretty high in the air but what I can see was a big black burn in the ground. The last time my mother was left alive.

A tear fell from my eye looking down seeing a branch inside my stomach gushing out red-violet warm liquid.

Everything started turning fuzzy and everything went dark.

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Amelia was stuck on a tree but not a regular tree. The tree snapped a piece of branch that the princess was on and lied down on the ground not letting any more blood coming out of her.

It was dark everything kept swaying and spinning frantically, waking myself up and looking around seeing my papa.

But something felt off my head kept spinning my veins hurt and I just felt full.

" Where's mom?" I asked my father.

All he could do was shrug his shoulders and put his hands to his face and sob.

" Where's mom!" I said sternly.

"Where's mom!" I said with panic in my voice not letting myself swallowing it.

"WHERES MY MOMMY!!" exploding with so much emotion.

I thrashed my body like a spoiled child wanting her mother, gripping my bedsheets and catching them on fire but not myself and screaming my lungs out breaking all the windows.

My eyes started to water and I couldn't control anything. As I sobbed the elves started to drown, I didn't mean to hurt them but I wanted the pain to stop.

" MAKE IT STOP PAPA, IT HURTS!PLEASE!" I slammed my fist on the bed as I felt every single cell in my body hurt with to much magic.

My father kissed my forehead making me fall into a peaceful slumber.

Amelia De Clare was never the same after that fateful day.

When The Queen Died the next heir will consume their power.

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"Clyde Rogers. I repeat Clyde Rogers." Said a man in a uniform holding paper in his hands.

I came running struggling putting on my oversized leather jacket.

"That's me I'm Clyde Rogers," I said out of breath trying not to reveal that I have asthma.

The man in the uniform looked me up and down, "You a scrawny lookin man Rogers. You are sure you wanna go to war?! they eat fellas like you for breakfast and that Hitler man ain't no saint. When you go over there you better not be suckin your thumb in a corner crying for your mama." The man giving me a second option.

" No sir I am here to fight for my country and I promise I won't be cryin for my mama but I do love my mama, sir." I puffed out my scrawny body.

" Here you go then." The man threw me a uniform and a shotgun.

Battlefield

Violent bursts of dirt fallin on my head because of the grenades falling on the ground, feeling the thump under my boots gave me a real scare.

And I don't scare easy, seeing all these men cryin, prayin for god to save them and most of them didn't even believe in god. Many men cried for their mama but they were mostly teenage boys scared, scared because they knew they were going to die.

Then the captain came out and gave them cryin boys a pep talk.

" You boys want somethin to cry about! Cry about when the enemy comes to our country and kills everybody. What then! What you goin do when they kill your family that's when you could be cryin for your mama! Right Now you fight and you give em hell!

All the youth started running with shotguns and some died before they could fight.I got up about to run but the captain grabbed my shoulder.

" Stay here Rogers I need a shooter like you at our base!" He shouted over the screaming and bullets.

I shot a man from a mile away in the foot and I reloaded as my life depended on it.

Which it did.

A young soldier came running with no arm and he cried sayin,"The explosive there shooting at it and the men are corned we have to help captain!"

I was waitin for the captain to tell me 'Go help them, Rogers'. But he didn't.

" No." was all the captain said.

" But they gonna die !" I shouted at him.

" I ain't dying for some fools of a man!" Said the captain.

" The only fool is you, sir !" I spat at him running to help my men and they were trapped behind a big rock and the big truck full of explosives.

I thought of an idea but I sure was stupid.

I ran to the truck helping people that were stuck under it and helping the people getting shot at. I helped almost 15 young scared men that were the most heroic thing I ever have done. And driving away with the enemy shooting at the truck with explosive right into them.

Gunshots in my stomach Lying on the floor waiting to die.

I saw this beautiful angel with an angelic voice.

" Clyde Rogers you are the most heroic human I've ever seen. Saving all these kids, take this never take it off or you will truly die."

They gave me a ring and I put it on my finger with my last dying breath and I closed my eyes and died.

I thought I died but I wake up to a nurse checking my temperature.

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"M-m-om Ww-wwill be ack ith daddy" I said to my reptile friend.

Me and wiwwy(Willy) were in my closet because daddy and mommy had to look for a new job. They said we didn't have any money but they didn't tell me I heard them. But momm get bad at me when I do that but I think the whole neighborhood heard too because our neighbors give us food.

My lizard looked at me sideways

" I-I can't peak weel Kiths mad ffun Me. I'm no dumb. Ust can't peak weel. no school mmmommy daaaddy no ave car. Sooo Marcela no school." I said to my lizard that's sitting on my knee blinking his eyes.

Then Willy went in my shirt tickling my tummy.

"Top top that tickles wiwwy!" Laughing as I tried to shake him out of my shirt.

Then a Big Bang of a door being slammed was heard along with men's voices.

I put my hands to my lips and grabbed Willy and a metal bat daddy gave me just in case.

" Look for money and let's get out of here." He said with a mean voice.

The men looked everywhere and messed up the whole house. I kept breathing hard covering my mouth and hiding Willy in my pocket. Then the men left the house and I didn't want to leave the closet. I let go of my bat and I dented it and Willy looked at me and poked me in the eye with his tongue

"Ouch wiwwy" I held my face as my eye that he poked kept leaking water.

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I stayed here until daddy or mommy came home and they found me in the closet

"Marcela fine," I said sitting looking up at my mom.

But they both looked angry.

"Mommy daddy fine?" I asked but daddy just walked away throwing his hands in the air.

"Everything is going to be alright," Mommy said with a smile on her face and to my father.

But it wasn't fine, that was the last time I saw mommy and daddy happy that was the last time daddy kissed my head goodnight.

Months past

I can speak better now and I know things a kid shouldn't, walking to school because we still don't have a car and the only friend I have is Willy. My parents never did find a job and they stopped caring for me and stopped loving each other but then my dad did get a job. I rarely see him because he uses most of his money for beer and leaves my mom with barely any money for us.

I steal stuff to eat mostly small stuff like apple things I can fit in my pocket. Sometimes I feel guilty from stealing but my stomach hurts a lot and there nothing to eat at home.I get home putting all my food in my pillowcase.

Some nights my mom works but one time I followed her at night and she stood near a corner and waited for some random person and she went in a car but I walked back home because it was getting too dark.

Mama always comes back home and cries herself to sleep. I never asked what her job was because I think she hated it a lot.

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Walking to school with old jeans and Willy in my oversized shirt pocket as he peeks his head out to see his familiar surroundings.

" Stay in my pocket Willy," I push him back in my pocket.

Then I see a big crowd of kids around some new boy with dirty black her hair and ripped white muscle shirt with a lot of stains and blue ripped jeans.

All the kids were making fun of him especially the other boys pushing him in a circle and then letting him fall on the cement and I grew angry.

Walking faster strapping my backpack tighter and running Into the big crowd.

" Leave him alone!," I said picking the frail and unhealthy looking boy up from the ground.

" What are you gonna do about !" Said an overweight boy with blonde hair and with pale skin.

I ignored him and dusting off the boy with her hand.

" Did they hurt you badly?" Asking him.

Then the big white kid pushed me making Willy fall out of my pocket and the fat kid picked him up by the tail.

" Stop you're going to hurt him let him go!" I bunched my fists and hit him in the nose.

He let go of Willy as he flew in the air. I began to walk backward falling back not seeing the little ledge but Willy landed on top of my head.

Everyone looked at the big white kid holding his bleeding nose and whispers from the other kids were heard.

" Oh, My Gosh did you see her punch him."

" She broke his nose"

" She's a freak"

I couldn't stand the eyes looking at me and getting up running away from the school. Ending up in an abandoned building where I first found Willy. Putting my head between my knees feeling sick in my stomach.

" Thanks for saving me ." Said the boy with black hair.

" Ahhhhh!!" Screaming getting scared with his presence and as well as Willy as he screeched.

" Sorry I didn't mean to scare you. My name is Daniel but my friends call me Danny...if I had friends." He said smiling with joy like he didn't just get bullied.

Smiling back I put my hand out, "Hi Danny, my name is Marcella, "I said to Danny.

As these two young kids grew up together now going through their teenage years. Marcella and Danny caused so much mischief wherever they went making memories that were unforgettable but Marcella's parents still suffered during the Great Depression and the family grew desperate and Danny had a secret.

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Waking up with a huge headache, opening my eyes seeing fuzzy people sitting in chairs. Trying to rub my eyes but I was tied to a chair and my heart started racing and frantically tugging the ropes to get free.

"Don't struggle, Marcie," Said, Daniel.

Looking at him with a few pimples scattered around his face and him in a black t-shirt and black pants standing in front of me trying to calm me down.

" What's going on Danny? Why are we tied up?" I said breathing hard.

" He's going to make our lives better," said my father with a wicked smile on his face.

" Danny I'm scared why are we tied up?" I asked again my voice cracking with panic and worry.

" It's going to be okay trust me," Danny said lighting up candles and chanting some disturbing language that made chills down my spine. Then black smoke started oozing in the walls and Danny began to laugh.

" It's coming let him inside you, Grant him access to your body, spirit, and mind," Danny told us.

My parents let the black dust and it went toward them swarming around them making them disappear.

" Marcie it's your turn you have to let him! We're going to be together! Don't you want that! Do it now!" He started yelling at me.

" No! No get it away!" I pushed myself back breaking the old chair.

looking up and I saw Danny being wrapped in black smoke.

" Daniel!Wait!" I tried to catch him but I was late and I fell on the floor alone.

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Marcella was alone at the age of 17. living her life finding a new form of a family but at age 19 elves found her and took her to the kingdom to discover her new destiny.