cLerith raven:

weLL, it's been a while… I had to revise this PROLOGUE… there were some incompLete thoughts in this so... I changed some parts… hehehe…

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I had to re-upload this chapter because I changed Aeris to Aerith. And at the start, her surname was Gast since I didn't know Gast's surname back then, so I changed it to Faremis. :)

Meant To Be

Prologue

The Kingdom of the Anicents: a kingdom of wise sages and skillful mages. A Kingdom of nature's beauty and of peaceful people: the Cetras. For hundreds of years, the Ancients were well-respected for their wisdom and peace-loving nature, and they gained many alliances. No one ever dared to break their alliance with the Ancients; no one but the old King of Midgar.

Midgar was the strongest and most powerful Empire in the Planet. The Empire was ruled by knowledgeable men, and only men. It was an Empire of technology and development. And it was the only empire that didn't want the Ancients as its allies. The King wanted to conquer the Kingdom of the Ancients, and so he waged war on the Cetras.

Their war lasted for centuries; though new rulers had rose to the throne of each of the kingdoms and empires, they still continued the war. The Cetras were evidently losing. They were adroit in Magick, but the army of Midgar was too powerful for them to fight off. Not one Kingdom helped the Cetras for they fear that their kingdom would also fall under the wrath of the Midgar Empire.

Even now, the war still goes on. The Queen of the Cetras, Ifalna, knows that they would lose in the future. She feared for her only daughter, Aerith who was only a year old. And so, she asked one of the servants, a normal human, to bring Aerith out of the Kingdom and into another land for her safety. That night, the servant fled the Kingdom of the Ancients and traveled across lands, searching for the perfect place to stay. They stumbled upon a small settlement not far from the Midgar Empire; it was the City of Kalm.

The servant and Aerith stayed there for months, eventually hearing news about their home once in a while. They heard news that the Kingdom of the Ancients had indeed fallen at the hands of the Midgar Empire who was still ruled by its old Emperor. But the most tragic of events was that the Emperor of Midgar had called for the death of the Cetras for he feared that they would rise again and defeat his Empire. The Cetras received a cruel fate, and now, only one lives. She was the Princess of the Ancients, Aerith Faremis.

No one knew of her name and of her survival, but the Emperor soon found out about the last remaining Cetra and was determined to kill her. But he soon fell ill and died, leaving his son, Rufus to lead the search for the last remaining Cetra. The old Emperor had lived and ruled the Empire for so long that his son now had a family of his own. And unlike his father, Rufus wasn't cruel and unjust. He did search for the last Cetra, but had no intent of killing her.

One night, the Soldiers looking for the last Cetra arrived at Kalm to search there. The servant knew right away that it was only a matter of time before they were found, and so, she ran away with the two-year-old Aerith. The Soldiers, mistaking her for a thief began shooting at her. The servant managed to protect Aerith from getting shot. She got away from Kalm, and continued running without realizing that she had entered the Empire of Midgar.

They had already reached the Slums in Midgar when the servant realized they were in enemy territory, and she thought that it would be the best place to keep Aerith in secret. The enemy wouldn't think that the person they were searching for was in their own land. Unfortunately, the servant found out that she had a shot on her body. She went to the nearest house she could find and asked for help. She met Elmyra Gainsborough and told her of their secret. Elmyra understood and helped them both and welcomed them to her home. But the servant didn't survive the night, leaving Aerith to the care of Elmyra. Elmyra decided to change Aerith's last name from Faremis to Gainsborough, her own name. This would help her hide Aerith's true identity.

Aerith Gainsborough, the Princess and the last of the Cetras.