Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Chapter 211: Traumatic Experience Part Two

She had gotten word that Fernilia was invading and at the same time Grogandon was also attacking. With her father dealing with the empire and her younger sister dealing with the demonic plague and the Beastmen Kingdom, her Fourth Brother sent her out with her younger brother to try to stop the enemies' advance. 

What awaited her was death and bloodshed. She had thought she was prepared to witness such scenes but the truth was she was not. She was scared. She was scared of dying. But she knew if she did not stand and fight she would lose her homeland! She had no actual fighting skills so she was kept at the back of the line while the soldiers did the fighting for her but the slaughtering would always be ingrained into her mind forever. 

When she saw her little sister show up and even built a wall to block off the enemies' advance, the girl was able to heave a sigh of relief. All the pressure that she was under flowed out of her and she began to cry in her sister's arms. It was not long after her sister had left that it all happened. There was a sudden loud explosion and a young woman with long golden hair and golden eyes had destroyed the wall. She did not stop there as she killed a wave of soldiers burning them into dust.

She watched in horror as the soldiers who she brought out died one after the other not even given a chance to scream out in pain. The Fernalia soldiers all charged through the gap in the wall and proceeded to slaughter everyone in sight. Due to the disorder the young woman in the air caused, made it so that they couldn't resist. Her little sister's friends pulled on her arm trying to flee. But it was already too late, the woman in the air casted a spell, blasting them all away. Her, her sisters two friends, and her little brother were all captured and beaten. 

From there the living hell continued and got worse. The young woman would come into the tent every day and lash at them with a whip, cut them with knives, or just plain beat them until she was satisfied. Sometimes she even brought in a few soldiers to do the beatings while she just sat back and laughed.

It was as if time had stopped after a while. The girl stopped even yelling out in pain as she was stabbed with a sword, punched or kicked in the face. It was as if she was just an empty shell. She did not know when the days started repeating themselves. But as time went on those horrid days continued to replay over and over.

That was until she suddenly felt a warmth flow through her body. The once frozen eyes suddenly blinked and the dullness started to show a bit of life once more. The girl could feel warmth flowing throughout her entire body. She could feel a sense of security. The warmth brought her out of the nightmare that had been plaguing her for days on end. 

She slowly opened her eyes to see a familiar little face holding her hand sending stream after stream of magic into her. Tears rained down her cheeks as she pulled the girl into a hug. "Thank you! Alicia thank you!"

"Big Sister Catherine!" Alicia also began crying as she hugged Princess Catherine tightly. The entire time she was sending Magic into Princess Catherine, Alicia was able to see what she had experienced that caused her to be left in such a state. Alicia was very glad that she killed that woman. She actually wished she could resurrect the woman just to kill her again! 

"Alicia because of you I was able to escape the loop of that horrific experience. Everything just kept replaying over and over! If not for you..." Princess Catherine's tears flowed her sobbing making it hard for her to talk. 

At the side, though she had tears in her eyes, Princess Blanche was feeling very down. There was nothing she could do this entire time. Throughout the whole process of this war. She couldn't help her sisters in any way. She wished she hadn't acted so spoiled and had actually put her mind to learning things that could benefit the kingdom. She reached out and pulled both sisters into a hug squeezing them tightly as she cried out: "I'm sorry I couldn't have been a better older sister! I wish I could have done anything to help the both of you! I'm so worthless!"

Prince Nicholai sat at the side with a smile on his face. He rubbed his eyes doing his best not to let his tears fall as he watched his sisters cry. He found that maybe even though they had lost a lot, these experiences will change them for the better. Maybe now they could all work together with their father to make Alastine into a Kingdom that everyone will love and can live peacefully and happily. Unfortunately, his wish was not about to come true any time soon.

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A shadow made its way down to the deepest part of the Alastine Kingdoms castle. It stood looking at the large magic circle that spun in the air. A sinister grin formed on their face as they waved their hand making a sword made of magic appear. "Just because you are a little special you think you can do anything? What will do you when the lives of Millions of Alastine citizens are dead because of your faulty magic! Making me lose my position, making father punish me! Ruining my reputation!? Since you took everything from me, let's see how you do when I take everything from you!"

The sword swung down slicing into the magic circle leaving a large crack in it. Once they saw the crack they quickly disappeared from the room. The crack slowly grew bigger causing the magic circle to flicker before it finally shattered dispersing into millions of tiny balls of light...

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