CXXXII ||| What Lies Under the Protection of the Crown of Chaos

In the beginning there were two couples of each winged-serpent.

All couples of mates. The Goddesses made it so they would be able to have children, and their children would have children with each other, and so on and on, giving birth to our kind. Pretty smart, I should say.

Though it's kind of weird the idea all blacks are cousins in a way, and the same for the others. But it did work out.

Miralanthor is the founding family of the blacks, and every heir had it's surname, no matter if it was female or male, they would take the main Royal last name. The first King and Queen were Katerina Malia and Hermes Motto Miralanthor. First rulers of Emerald Sky City, lived for five hundred thousand years, ruled for forty thousand years, but they got bored, handed the throne for their kid and his mate, and retired to a place called Mount Zenith. They had nine kids throughout those seven hundred thousand years. Seems like my kind lives longer than I thought.

All the first heirs of all the seven were females. Well, the three Goddesses are females, so it makes a lot of sense.

Aussaresses is the founding family of the reds, and like my kin and all the others, follow the whoever-is-born-first-us-the-heir-female-or-male rule that all kinds should follow in my opinion. Founders of Sky-Mount Fawn. Larissa Melissa and Landon Marion Aussaresses are the first Grand Duchess and Duke, and had seven children in six hundred thousand years.

Theophilus is the founding family of the yellows, founders of Sky-Mount Elwen, and having as it's first Grand Duchess and Duke, Amalia Anastasia and Jordan Paolo Theophilus. Lived for seven hundred thousand years and had six children.

Drusus is the founding family of the purples, Sky-Mount Sonnet's founders, ruled by Callidora Mari and Remy Jasper Drusus, the first Grand Duchess and Duke of Sonnet. In the five hundred thousand years they lived, they had ten children together. Quite the proactive couple, I should say, though my ancestors don't fall behind.

Demosthenes is the founding family of the whites, founders of Sky-Mount Raya, having Zella Lenore and Rohan Joel Demosthenes as their first Grand Duchess and Duke in Raya. Alive for five hundred thousand, which I'm starting to believe is an average age, very frightening by the way, they had nine kids together, same as my ancestors did.

Wolfgang is the founding family of the blues, Lazarus annoying arse's ancestors, founders of Sky-Mount Miel. Having Lucretia Enola and Elijah Bellerose Wolfgang as the first Grand Duchess and Duke of Sky-Mount Miel. Like all the others, lived for five hundred thousand years, and had seven children together.

Velraki is the founding family of the greens, founders of Alma Sky-Mount. Evangeline Ophelia and Adair Monroe Velraki as the first Grand Duchess and Duke of Sky-Mount Alma. Also lived five hundred thousand years, and had eight children together.

Whereas, the first gargoyles were a family of twenty siblings, all under the Desdemona surname, and the stationary of the gargoyles is on the Capital, exactly in Emerald Sky City. Which I imagined would be the case.

The magic barrier that's around Emerald Sky City and all the Sky Kingdom of Maelie─ an awesome name, if I may─, has been in there from the very beginning when the Triple Goddesses made my race. It makes so one can only enter or leave with the permission of the one who's fated to wear, or already wears the Crown, the heir of the blacks.

The gargoyles were made around the time where the 5th generation of the blacks, Queen Pandora and King Ptolemy Miralanthor, who lived for seven hundred thousand years and ruled for fifty thousand, having fourteen kids at total, were reigning. The first horde of gargoyles having twenty, the second having two hundred, and the third having twelve thousand. All able to mate and have their own children, and all living for an average of two hundred thousand years.

An army divided into ten squadrons.

The main and bigger one for Emerald Sky City, a smaller one for the Palace itself, one for each of the six Sky-Mounts, and one for the guard of where this Sky-Domed Tree of Life is located. The last one, decided into six sub-units to make the guard for Sky-Mine Dwarven City of Alexandrine, Elemental Sanctuary of the Aubin Sky-Temple, Green Witches' Sky-Forest of Gibbous Moon, Holy Sky-City of the Nine-Tailed Foxes of Dusk, Sky-City of the Phoenixes of Andromeda, and Cloud Sky-City of the Pegasus of Faye.

Interesting fact is that all the six races were loyal to mine, and they answered to my grandparents are their King and Queen, even though they were from different races. Thus, they didn't have the King or Queen titles, but they were Crowned Prince and Princesses of their respective territories. The heir would be the one born first, and their mate would become their consort, thus having the crowned titles but with consort added to it.

The record I found on them, was the record of the ones who were ruling at the time of the Grand War of Pangea.

Dwarven City of Alexandrine ruled by Crowned Prince Lon Rainn and Crowned Princess-Consort Noelle Rainn, and it's where all the said-to-be Holy weapons came from. They were never a race specialized in attack, or in warfare, they were protected by their gargoyle unit, and that's why they didn't participate in the war. Thus, unknowingly avoiding a possible extinction. They also made all the weapons of the people under my grandpa and the gargoyle army's as well. That was their collaboration to Maelie. Came to be by the creation of both Annabelle and Mia.

Aubin Sky-Temple was ruled by Crowned Princess Brilliana Edric and Crowned Prince-Consort Melanchthon Edric, and it was more like a sanctuary for the holy elementals, to protect them from harm, as it seems like all the other races from the surface were using and mistreating the hell out of them. Bunch of fucking bullies. Thus, they were profoundly peaceful and did not partake in the war for they were never meant to fight like that. The Princess was the ruling elemental of fire, and her mate the ruling one of water. One of the creations of Angela and Annabelle together.

Sky-Forest of Gibbous Moon was ruled by Crowned Princess Lia Amaranth and Crowned Princess-Consort Theodora Amaranth. The green witches and wizards that suffered on the hands of the light and dark witches on the surface, also not meant for war, they are the nature witches, they are the ones that lie between light and dark in the shadow lines of magic. But opposite to the other two, they thrive in peace, and that's why they were also out of the war. After all, my grandfather wasn't one to order his people to fight, definitely not a war the surface races brought to pacific lands. And of course, like all witches and wizards, they were made by Mia.

Holy Sky-City of Dusk, the land of the legendary nine-tailed foxes, was ruled by Crowned Prince Achilles Kallisto and the Crowned Princess-Consort Marjory Kallisto. Living for hundreds of thousands of years, they are a evolving kind that grows stronger according to their number of tails. The exception is the Royal line, as they are born with nine tails, and thus are the strongest. Except for children and teens that were still too young, they went to war with my grandparents and fought side-by-side with them. Another kind made by both Mia and Annabelle together.

Meaning they weren't extinct as we thought, but they are all but unavailable, given the need of the Crown of Chaos to get to them. Thus, they must be living in both agony and peace for those last millennials, not knowing what happened, but still alive and thriving on their on.

Cloud Sky-City of Faye, the land of the pegasus, who, like my kind and both the nine-tailed foxes and phoenixes, can stay in their changeling body when they aren't in their true form. Ruled by Crowned-Prince Kunnar Taaramae and Crowned Prince-Consort Sten Taaramae. Living hundreds of thousands of years, they were called the Rainbow Walkers, and control over both sunlight and moonlight. Went to war with my grandparents and fought together with them, but left the kids, teens, and elders that could not fight behind, also to avoid extinction. Also created by Mia and Annabelle.

Then the second strongest of the races, which was, surprisingly, the second race made by the Triple Goddesses together, which are phoenixes.

They were solely ruled by Crowned Princess Sunna Hearthstone, who had no consort because she hadn't found her mage yet, and was said to both be young and the same age as Lilith, Melina's daughter, as well as her inseparable best friend. The phoenixes never die, when they supposedly do, they come back to life again from the ashes, just as the tales tell, and because of that, their territory, Sky-City of Andromeda, was the second largest after my races'. As Crowned Princess, even if young, she went to the war with the strongest of her people, also leaving the youngest with the elders behind.

And as I read all of that, I had to question Mia about somethings, it was about 4 am when I took my phone out of airplane mode and more than a thousand texts came in, four hundred being from Oliver alone. Swallowing hard, I pushed it all aside and didn't opened any of them, then I went straight to Mia's contact.

Mia: Uh, my pupil is freaking out.

Mia: He's been texting me non-stop in a very bad way.

Mia: Could you handle that, please?

Mia: He said he tried to get to your cabin but you locked and are not answering his call, or anything at all.

Mia: So, uh, do something, it's getting annoying.

Okay. Seems like Oliver is angrier than I thought.

Me: I'll talk with them after the ceremony.

Me: So, as I doubt you sleep, given what you are,

Me: Could you answer me some quick things?

Mia: You are impossible *roll eyes emoji*

Mia: Fine, I was bored anyways.

That made me giggle. And of course, she's bored.

Me: Is Annabelle your favorite sister or something?

Me: Because you've worked quite a lot together.

Mia: *giggling gif*

Mia: She's cooler to spend time with. Angela is more of a prude.

"Not again," I chuckled.

Mia: And Kyallia is creative as well, it's good to work with.

Me: Yah, I can see that.

Me: Did Lilith went to war or stay behind?

Me: Grand Duchess Melina's daughter.

She took some time before answering.

Mia: She was Crowned Princess Sunna's best friend,

Mia: She decided to fight side-by-side with her friend,

Mia: Despite Melina's request for her to stay behind.

"Fuck," I growled.

Mia: Worried for the kid?

Me: Of course, I am.

Me: Did she die?

Mia: Who knows?

Mia: She either died or was locked in the Pit.

"Ugh, those are both horrifying ideas."

Me: Sunna is in the Pit, isn't she?

Mia: What do you think?

Me: I think she is.

Mia: You thought right.

Mia: The Phoenix Princess is in the Pit.

"Shit. This is not good. Not good at all. Especially if I need her."

Me: Is there where the Crown is?

Me: In the Pit, the 9th circle of Hell?

Mia: *grinning mischievously sticker*

Mia: I have no idea.

Mia: Read the books and you will know it's location.

"Aye. I hate this no-interfering shite," I walked to the kitchen and took the bowel of strawberry ice cream from the fridge, a spoon, and got back to the couch. "I really don't want to go to hell," I sighed as I took a spoonful of the ice cream. "But it seems more and more like what will have to happen. Fuck," I turned to my phone again.

Trying to ignore all the burning anger and sadness inside me, that I know, right now, are definitely not mine at all. And I know I'm being petty, childish, and a bitch, but it is what it is. I've never got to act like this before.

Me: If the Crown of Chaos is in the Pit,

Me: And I descend in there,

Me: After I get the Crown,

Me: Before I leave hell,

Me: Will I be able to save those who we frozen in there?

Me: The survivors of the war who have been locked away?

Again, she took her time. Took her time getting me anxious.

Mia: Maybe *winking emoji*