Two weeks had passed and Skyrhina did her best to stay by her father. She wouldn't go anywhere unless her father was around. She wondered why she hadn't seen any of the servants for the past few days but her father didn't tell her.
One morning Skyrhina woke up and nearly jumped out of fear when she saw her mother frowning at her.
"Moth-I mean, Milady, is something wrong?"
That was another thing, Skyrhina had been ordered to call her mother 'Milady' but she was never told the real reason why.
Minerva stood up and looked at her daughter.
"Nothing is wrong but I will be watching you myself for the next few days."
Skyrhina was scared but she nodded.
For the beginning part of the day Minerva trained her daughter with physical hand to hand combat. She wasn't too pleased that her daughter wasn't able to keep up with her and also her daughter had began to beg her to let her stop. It was the first day of training but Minerva wasn't going to let that stop her from training.
"You ungrateful brat!"
Her daughter looked at her with tears streaming down her face as her mother frowned down at her.
"I'm taking my time to train you so that you might have a chance of life. Instead you don't want me to train you! Would you rather your grandfather trained you?!"
Skyrhina shook her head.
"I-I didn't...mean it..like that..."
Minerva glared at her then slapped her daughter.
"Get on your feet now!"
Skyrhina stumbled to her feet then they continued on training.
After an all morning training session Skyrhina was in the art room. She wasn't sure where her father was but she at least had a small wood ready to be carved then began to carve. This time she wondered what she should carve since her father wasn't around, she looked up at a painting that had been done by someone else then smiled.
The painting she was looking at was of a bird then she began to carve the wood that she had in her hand.
After she was done she smiled at the perfect carving that she made then she looked over her shoulder to look for another thing to carve but froze when she saw Minerva looking at her standing in the doorway.
"What are you doing, Skyrhina?"
Skyrhina stood up, still holding the beautiful wood that she had carved of a bird. Minerva saw it and frowned but her daughter spoke.
"It's just a bird I carved."
In an instant Minerva used her magic to make the carved bird vanish from her daughter's hands and was holding it with one of her hands.
"Just how pathetic are you? How do you plan to become strong by just carving nothing but trash?!"
With that being said Minerva used her magic and destroyed the carved bird. Skyrhina was stunned then she dropped to her knees looking at the floor before closing her eyes.
"Why?" She whispered.
Minerva frowned at her daughter then left out of the room.
Later on that evening Skyrhina never went back into the art room, the family room, in fact she didn't even leave her room. She didn't know what to do and her father was no where to be seen. She hugged her knees close to her as she laid on her bed.
"Daddy, where are you?"
In one of the office rooms Minerva was doing paperwork. As she was working on paperwork something caught her eyes and she had a wicked smile on her face.
"This is perfect."
She got out a communication lacrima and contacted someone.
"Yes?"
"Are you Rising Dusk, a Dark guild?"
"Yes?"
"By any chance do you implant magic into people?"
"Yes."
"Alright, where can I find you because I want this done to my daughter."
"We are in the Land of Stella, in the mountains."
"Alright, I will bring my daughter to your guild within two days."
"Alright, we will be waiting for you."
Minerva was done with that call then she got up from her chair and went to her daughters room.
Since it was late she wasn't surprised to find her daughter sleeping but she did find it as an eyesore to see her daughter in a fetal position on her bed.
'Pathetic little girl.'
Minerva wickedly smiled and placed a hand on her daughter's head.
"Soon you will be of worth to me but that won't change much."
Minerva left out of the room and went to her own room to go to sleep.
The next morning
Skyrhina woke up and saw her mother in the room sitting on a chair looking at her.
"Morning Milady."
Minerva stood and looked at her daughter.
"Come Skyrhina, we're going on a quest."
Skyrhina was a little nervous about that but she got off her bed and went to get something.
"Is Daddy coming?"
Minerva frowned at her daughter.
"No, but you won't need anything."
"Okay."
They both left out of the house and walked a very long distance through the woods. Skyrhina didn't say anything to her mother who walked ahead of her. Granted her mother was with her but she figured that her mother didn't want to talk but she looked up at her.
"Um Milady, where are we going?"
"We are going on a quest to the land of Stella."
"For what?"
"There is a Dark guild that needs to be put back into their place and I want you to witness how it is done by a strong wizard."
Skyrhina wasn't sure if she should be happy or scared. One, her mother didn't really talk nicely to her but she could tell that something was off. For the past couple of days she hadn't seen her father so she thought that she should ask.
"Milady, where has Daddy been?"
"I don't know."
Skyrhina blinked.
"Does he know that I'm with you?"
Minerva stopped and Skyrhina looked up at her.
"Let me guess, you much rather be with you father than me, right?"
Skyrhina didn't say anything then Minerva turned around glaring at her.
"Keep this in mind that without me, you wouldn't be here right now! You have no idea how much of a pest you are to me! It's one thing to not use magic but you dare have the nerve to embarrass me in front of my father!"
Skyrhina was beyond scared as she looked away.
"Milady, I'm sorry I didn't mean it like that."
Minerva shook her head then walked on ahead.
"Pick up the pace, I wasted enough time as it is."
"Yes Milady..."
They both kept on walking to the land of Stella.
AN: Alright there is Chapter 2 of A Tiger's Cub. I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter, and thank you all for reading my fanfic. I will update soon, and if you have any thoughts about the fanfic, questions, comments and concerns are welcomed with open arms, Bye!
