Birthday

6 years later

"Happy fifteenth birthday my love." A girl with flaming red hair says to me. 

"Thank you Charlotte, still why would you give me this why I can easily buy one." The gift is our family brand new auto carriage that has had a second boom in recent years. The model she has is known as Royale due to all its customers being from a high ranking noble family.

"Simple this is custom made for a couple in other words us. So you can drive me around." Still, it's not a gift I rather get, I still need to pretend to like it though.

"Thank you, my beautiful lady." I say taking her and placing a kiss on her lips. 

"Your such a charmer just remember I'm older than you by a year." Yeah sure.

"I need to go see someone, have a good time driving around." I say leaving her to her own devices and walk into the inner courtyard.

"In every human exist two-ring, one our ring of origins and two our natural ring. The natural ring consists of four elements: Fire, Wind, Water and Earth." He's doing it again.

The person who is speaking right now is my older brother William. Every since master left he took it upon himself to teach all the children here about magic. He's better than all those grumpy old men by far. 

"The natural ring contains advanced magic and can hold up to two. Some examples of advanced magic are: Healing, Flight, Gravity, Sword and Warping." I have learned Sword and Lightning magic

as my natural magic, even though my father wanted me to learn Flying and Lightning.

"To add to this basic theory is the 5 stars in our rings. Each point can hold up to one spell and can't be changed so choose wisely. I have so far: Holy Arc, Ice Age, Magic Hands and Investigation." I have Bolt, Sword Dance, Ice Age, shield and Dragon claw.

Unlike my older brother, all my spells are geared towards fighting due to my love for fighting and the inevitable war against the Fren Kingdom. 

"Spells are the physical manifestations of our rings, even though it's not necessary to have a spell that coordinates with your rings but doing so makes the spell more powerful." Looks like the lesson is ending.

Knock! Knock!

"You really love teaching don't you." I say pouring out a cup of tea for my brother and myself.

"Yes, it's the only way I can now leave myself in the history books." He really never gave up on his dream of being a hero.

"A hero liked that, I rather win my title through battle and war than through stories." That's my dream anyway, it was his dream but the Great Dragon has forsaken him.

"Remember to always wear a helmet when fighting and trust no one not even yourself." Did he just . . .

"Stop copying grandfather's words a speak like your some wise old man." I say finishing the tea and he smiles.

"Happy birthday, Edward." He hands me something wrapped in a black cloth tied by a gold string. 

I take it and untie the string and reveal the content inside. It's a black bladed rapier with a nice gold and silver handguard on it.

"The blade has been forge in magic by the Royal blacksmith themselves along with the guard. It may not be the best sword for combat but it can easily kill a man." A sword and a beautiful one at that. Why is life so cruel sometimes.

"You should come to my birthday party tonight." He's missed so many now even his own parties. 

"I will try no promises though." This time I will ensure that you come.

After I go to my room and get ready for my party while checking on William to ensure he comes as well.

"Isn't this my handsome husband I'm glad you didn't ditch me to do something else." She's angry and beautiful but still angry. 

She's wearing a silver dress filled with red roses the symbol of her house. Beside her is two young ladies: one dress in a yellow dress and the other in black. Both of them possess the signature red hair of house Flamburge but they lack the red eyes like Charlotte. 

"I had to deal with some personal problems first besides we have the entire day tomorrow." I say putting her arm undermine.

"I will let you off this time easily, next time I want a gift." She says blushing probably due to my hands on her ass.

"Okay, then my beautiful lady." I land a kiss on her lips and all the girls behind her begin to gasp then giggle. 

"It's a wonderful party, Lord Edward." The person speaking right now is Lord James Flamburge the older brother of Charlotte.

"Yes, it is we after all got the finest things both money and status can offer." I say to him then we both hit our glass together and cheers.

"I'm going to attend the Crown prince birthday celebration soon will you join me?" The crown prince I remember hearing stories of his pettiness and his lust. There is one story of him trying to take the wife of a mid-rank noble and was beaten up, he later tried to destroy the house but was stopped by his uncle.

"I will probably pass for now I've still got to settle some personal issue before I can go anywhere else." I plus I won't be able to leave if I want to easily without my parents bearing their fangs at me. 

"I understand but you can't refuse next time because we are brothers it might be in marriage but still brothers." Sure that's alright. 

The party went like usually with all the gifts and greetings, except the son of house Ladon acting like an idiot after being drunk.

That change with the appearance of my older brother who enters the party with a walking stick. 

"I made it, why stop the music I'm not someone important enough for that." His pessimism is still strong though.

I along with Charlotte go to help him but he refuses to and simply takes his seat away from the crowd. 

"You actually made it out tonight." I say with a little excitement in my voice but that excitement fades seeing him struggle to breathe sitting down.

"It was nothing." No, your lying, stop lying. I wanted to say but my voice crack before I could.

"You look handsome like always." Charlotte says to him and he smiles and leans back on the chair his breathing finally calming. 

"Thank you and you look beautiful as always." Well, let's hope that tonight end with an incident. Maybe I should hand him a present. 

The night, fortunately, ended without incident and everyone leaves. Well almost everyone. 

"Well introduce yourself." I say to the young lady standing in front of me. She's wearing a pink dress and silver shoes obviously squeezing her feet. 

"Hello, Lord Edward and William I'm, Lady Catharine Beowulf." She's a small noble only considered one because her family still have their castle. In fact, the reason why she was invited was because her family directly serve us technically.

"What's a beautiful lady want from me?" She blushes at my brother's statement then approach him and kneels before him.

"I would love to share a bed with you, my lord." Awfully straight forward but her family is known for being straightforward. 

"Of course you are very beautiful." Since that's settled I can spend my night with my bride.