Italics indicate thinking
Bold is for attacks
Morgana's POV
"Excuse me Morgana." Kana said walking up to my desk.
"Oh yes, what is it?" I asked.
"Is it true that you know people who can turn into dragons?" she asked "I mean besides me and my Papa."
"Oh…yes where Selena and I come from people turning into dragons isn't that out of the ordinary, we called them Manaketes."
"Manaketes?" Kana tilted her head.
"Yes, Manaketes are people who can turn into Dragons, they age very slowly so they live for a long time, I knew a woman who looked as old as you but was really centuries old."
"Wow."
"Yes, my family had a special connection to a certain dragon…" I sighed.
"Are you sad?" she asked.
"I guess, just remembering some friends from back home, it's been a while since I was there." I explained.
"Oh." Kana looked at me "Well maybe you should go visit."
"I wish it was that easy." I mumbled.
Later
"So what are we doing out here?" Selena asked.
"Subaki and Sakura and here to visit their daughter." I said.
"What those two have a kid two?" she whispered.
"I Dunno." I shrugged.
"It's been ages since I came to the Deeprealm." Subaki sighed.
"We were here two weeks ago." I sighed.
"Now then where is my daughter?"
Feathers dropped from the sky as a Pegasus landed and a girl with light pink hair stepped off.
"Father Welcome back."
"No way…" Selena gasped "She looks just like…"
"Your mom." I hummed.
"Caeldori." Subaki smiled "You've grown even more beautiful."
"Father you're embarrassing me." The girl blushed.
The girl had long hair like Cordelia, a face like Cordelia, Caeldori could have been Cordelia.
Wait…even their names have the same letters…this is so weird.
"Have you been well?" Subaki asked.
"Of course, I've memorized several books, completed all my required training tasks and studied the war strategies you left."
"You're trying to be perfect just like your father." Sakura mumbled "I'm sure that will turn out great…just great."
"An overachiever." Selena sighed "I'm having flashbacks to my own childhood."
"All I aim to be is capable, I've seen no real combat." The girl sighed.
"There's no need to rush that." Sakura spoke up "Please be careful."
"Ma'am." A solider leaned into my ear "Enemies are amassing at the gate to the Deeprealm.
"Subaki, Sakura, I'm sorry but we're going to have to cut your meeting short." I said "It's an emergency."
"I see." Subaki nodded "Very well we shall deal with it swiftly."
"Let me come too!" Caeldori yelled "I could use the experience and you need the help right?"
"Brave of you to volunteer but we have it under control." Subaki smiled.
"Please just stay here and we'll be back soon." Sakura told her "If you got hurt…oh I wouldn't be able to bear it."
"But-."
"Don't worry I'm good at my job." I smiled "They'll be fine."
We headed outside and saw just how many enemies there were.
"Okay wasn't expecting this many." I gulped.
"It's a whole damn army!" Selena yelled.
"This is troublesome." Subaki sighed.
"Then let me help!" Caeldori said flying out on her horse.
"Caeldori get back inside!" Sakura yelled.
"I don't want to disobey, but I can't miss this opportunity." The girl said "I want to help, I'm a princess who does nothing but sit at home all day and I can't stand it! I'll never be as perfect as father if I do nothing!"
Subaki sighed "All right stay and fight, but don't be over confident, this isn't like training."
"I'll do my best!" the girl smiled getting back on her horse.
Caeldori was quick to rush into battle.
"Oh." Sakura played with her fingers "Please be okay."
"Princess Sakura." Selena smiled at her "It will be okay, all children have to leave and forge their own path someday, some…sooner than a parent would hope for. But have faith and believe in her."
"If you say so…" Sakura said "I mean I never imagined I'd even be a mother but now that I am…even with the strange circumstances it just feels like she's growing up too fast, and rushing off before she's ready."
"Still, look at her." I said pointing off.
Caeldori cruised through the air, diving down to slash her opponents apart.
"Look at her fly." Selena smiled "It's…wonderful."
We decided to stop staring and head onto the battlefield to help clean up, it was surprisingly swift work given the size of the enemy force. Soon the fields were clear and all was well.
"I knew this was bad, you're hurt." Sakura said healing a cut on her daughters arm.
"Mother it's just a scrap." Caeldori sighed "There's no reason to get upset."
"Once we're done you're going back to your Deeprealm and that's that." Sakura grumbled
"Yes Mother…"
"You were almost perfect." Subaki smiled at his daughter "I was surprised you were this good in your first battle."
"Don't compliment her!" Sakura said "She shouldn't have been fighting to begin with!"
Caeldori sighed "Thank you father, but you must have noticed how far short I fell. I got a slight cut and now mother is filled with worry."
"Gods she sounds like my mother." Selena groaned.
"Father I also did a brief assessment of the local villages and tended to some minor injuries." Caeldori nodded "They should all be fine."
"You're a healer as well?" I asked.
"I learned a little from mother." The girl smiled "I'm still nowhere near as perfect at it as she is. Also I sent some scouts ahead and used a few troop to move the villagers to a safer location."
"She's gonna make the rest of us look bad!" I told Selena.
"Mother!" Selena yelled to the heavens "You haunt me even here?!"
"Are you two okay."
"We're fine!" we both yelled.
"Still, I have lots of training to do." Caeldori sighed "I'll do as Mother asked and return to my Deeprealm, someday I'll be as perfect as Father."
Subaki sighed, he must have been panicking about being out done.
"Well the best way to be perfect is to learn from perfection." I said "You should come with us."
"Morgana!"
"She's not gonna learn any real experiences in a Deeprealm, she's old enough to come out now, but I'm not her parent so I'll shut up now."
"Please Mother." Caeldori bowed "I promise to be careful."
"Haa…" Sakura sighed "Okay, but please be careful and come to me if you're hurt."
Later
Selena's POV
"Miss Selena may I help you?" Caeldori asked.
"No…I'm fine." I growled out.
This girl is just like Mother, trying to be perfect, hell she looks just like her…I can feel it, my inferiority complex is coming back.
"Selena…"
Hmm?" I turned around "What's up Beruka?"
"A Walk in the Park?" she said "Is it code for something?"
"Well it's slang for something being easy to do." I said "Why do you ask."
"That ninja, the one with the green hair, he asked if I wanted to go for a "Walk in the Park", I don't understand it."
"Haa…" I sighed "I think he just wants to go for a walk with you, in the park."
"So that's not ninja code for an assassination attempt?" she asked.
"No…"
If anything it's code for Date you dense girl.
Caeldori's POV
"HAAAA!" I smacked the practice dummy with my staff.
"Impressive."
"Father!" I gasped "What are you doing here?"
"Just observing." He said "You're form is flawless, it's like you stepped right out of an Arms Scroll, or a painting, Naginata se against the sunset-."
"I get it!" I yelled "But I still have a lot to work on, you needn't mock me like this."
"I'm not mocking you." He waved his hands "You have true skill."
"You only say that cause I'm your daughter." I frowned.
"It can't be helped if my daughter is as perfect as you." He smiled.
"Father!" I pouted "Knock it off, I can't practice with you watching."
"But-."
"I'm going to check requisition forms." I said walking off to a different tent.
I got comfortable in a tent and started doing paperwork.
"The troops will need more tents soon, and plenty of grain for the Mess…" I hummed writing stuff down.
"You're awfully busy Caeldori." Mother walked in.
"Mother do you need something?"
"I heard the supply team was shorthanded and thought I could help." She said "But I guess you have it under control."
"I still have plenty of room to improve." I said.
"There's no need to be modest." Mother smiled "Now how can I help?"
"I appreciate the offer but I have nothing for you to do." I told her "All I have left is inventory."
"Well I can help with that." She said "I bet it takes a while with the size of the army, we just have to match the numbers to the list right?"
"Yes look at this." I handed her a paper.
"What is this diagram?"
"I drew it up to organize the armory." I explained "It only take a fraction of the time…and only one person, sorry Mother."
"Are you sure there's nothing I can do?" she asked "I don't want to feel like a burden."
"You're a Princess Mother, relax." I smiled "I've set aside some tea for you."
"Well you're my daughter and a Princess too but you work." She sighed.
"Is smoething wrong mother?"
"No dear."
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