The Bungsu Princess Inferior

39. MAHES NECKLACE

Aciel looked riled up, "can you take me closer to there?" Aciel pointed to the edge of the lake where Althea was located.

"You can walk by yourself, Aciel, you can do anything here except things that can change the past. One more thing, they can't see us, so be wise."

Aciel did not look at me, he immediately stepped away leaving me who was dumbfounded to see his behavior. He walked out of the gazebo along the bridge, stopping beside the bodies of his parents. For a long time he stared at the two in silence, this time there were no tears wetting his cheeks.

Suddenly Uncle Ezio made a protective magic that unites and protects the two, not only that, I saw Uncle Ezio stuffing the two into a large chest, the crate was twice as wide as an ordinary crate, pure white without a stain. Aciel stared at the corpses of his two parents who were carefully moved by Uncle Ezio's magic into the coffin, Uncle put the two side by side, like a sleeping position. The father, holding the baby, bewitched a flower, walked through the protective layer, and grabbed the baby's tiny hand.

"What do you hold in your right hand Aira? Open up baby, let's put the flower arrangements for uncle and aunt" said the father, asking for the baby's right hand, but the baby shook his head, unwilling to open his right hand, he stretched out his left hand and tried to hold the wreath with his left hand.

"Daughter, it's not polite to wear the left hand" the father scolded the baby, but this time the baby held out his tightly clenched right hand, he tried to hold a wreath with both hands, of course his right hand still did not want him to open.

The father seemed to shake his head but no longer reprimanded his daughter's behavior, he approached the chest and put a white wreath into the chest, the baby's tiny hands following his father's movements.

"Mahes and Suri, my best friends, there are no words that can represent my sadness today, no matter what happens, you are still my best friends until the end, go quietly. We promise to take care of Althea and Aciel, forgive us for being late in knowing what you want until the end, go quietly my friend."

The little baby held by the father held him tightly, the father returned his arms, he nodded at Uncle Ezio. Uncle Ezio caught the nod of his father, and then closed the chest slowly. On top of the chest was written the names of Mahes and Suri with the emblem of a pair of white pigeons.

"Dad, mother.bu...ibuu.." said the baby while moving his left hand pointing towards the mother who was with Althea on the edge of the lake.

"Would you like to go to your mother?" asked the father while looking at the baby's pair of eyes, the baby nodded.

"Ezio, take care of them for a second. It looks like Aira wants to approach her mother" said the father, who was followed by a nod by Uncle Ezio.

Dad flew towards mom, Aciel followed them while running. Aciel seemed not to want to lose a single moment, maybe he wanted to see everything that happened without being missed. Unlike Aciel, I did not move from the gazebo, I observed the Mahanta dragon still flying over the lake near the coffin of Mahes and Suri, he and Ezio's uncle seem to bow their heads in silence, both seem to be in mourning.

"What are you doing, Althea?" the father's voice from the edge of the lake caught my sharp senses, I refocused my attention to the edge of the lake, but somehow I was still reluctant to get close, I felt enough to observe from the gazebo.

"I asked him to stand up, but he still did not want to" said the mother with a sad look. "Althea what can we do until you stand up?"

"Hamba has one request as a child, Your Majesty."

Mom looked at me, and I said, "what is that?"

"Please do not separate the two, I beg you to keep the two together, do not separate their bodies," Althea pleaded with tears, her tears flowing, while the baby in her cradle was crying.

"Stay Althea, I agree with you, look." Father pointed at the white coffin that Uncle Ezio and Dragon Mahanta were still guarding.

Althea sees him and tries to stand up, the mother helps Althea stand up, she stops crying, so does the baby in her cradle.

The dragon head that had been bowed was now slightly raised, slowly it changed into a human figure, and I gasped!

How not? The dragon changed into an elder Mahanta! Yes, the Mahanta elder I know.

"By the sincere plea of a child, then represent this lake I receive both, Your Majesty."

Mother embraces Althea's shoulder, "thank you uncle." Althea said softly, she tightened her sling.

"On your sacrifice, I give you the lake of eternity, Mahanta."

The elder Mahanta bowed to father, "thank you Your Majesty."

Uncle Ezio raised the white coffin, while the elder Mahanta stretched out his hand to touch the lake water. The lake split again, ready to receive. Mother flicked her finger, until the petals of the white rose began to fall like rain, the wind blew softly, silence enveloped the dragon lake. Slowly the white coffin entered into the gap of the lake water formed, continued to enter until invisible, before long the lake water re-united, returning to a calm lake water.

The rain of flower petals stopped, but to my surprise, a black-leafed white lotus flower began to grow covering the surface of the dragon lake quickly.

"Mother.bu...ibuuu.." the sound of the baby in the father's sling breaks the silence. Mom looked at him, "what's the matter Aira?"

"So he seemed to be grasping something in his right hand" the father explained to the mother.

The baby's right hand is outstretched toward the mother, "ieeel.."

"For Aciel?" asked the mother to make sure and answered a nod by the baby in the father's sling.

The mother grabbed the baby's right hand, the baby let go of his grip, until a necklace fell into the mother's hand. Instantly the atmosphere seemed to return, a necklace with a hanging ring and a love-shaped pendant was now in the hands of the mother. The bloodstains were clearly visible on the necklace, at a glance from here I saw the baby's hand covered in blood.

Mother lifted the necklace and put it on the baby in Althea's arms, "Aciel, Aira brought it for you."

The baby in Althea's sling touched the love pendant now hanging around her neck, the pendant opened and revealed a family portrait.

"Oh no, Princess Aira's hands are bleeding!" Althea looked surprised, but the baby in the arms of the father smiled and put his hands together looked like hiding.

"It seems Aira said it's okay, Althea."

Mother and father looked at Althea with a smile, they were as if saying that their baby was fine. Honestly my heart hurts, I cry in silence. Althea's behavior is very similar to her mother's behavior, they always worry about others before themselves. Right now I promise to treat them well.

I raised both my hands and watched, there was a barely visible scratch on my right palm, all this time I wondered about it, but now I got an unexpected answer.