Sorry for the really, really long update. I needed to pull my grades up and I had to take care of a rather personal issue...

Yeah.... Love just burned me. It still kinda hurts. I'm still getting over it. The part that really stung was getting dropped before you even began to start.

But why the heck am I worrying you with my personal life? On with the show!!

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It's been days.... so many long days....
When will I find it?
The family heritage is declining. I must find it! I must!
Father believes we can guard it, but recently I've been sensing it. It's here.... somewhere....
This land.... I know my ancestors once lived here. Maybe.... just maybe.... I can find the answers here...
But.... I haven't much time left..... The doctor said if I continue like this....

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There! There it is at last! Queen Leraya's atelier!
Who would have known? Here all the way back home in Iriov!
Finally, I can break the family curse! The ropes that bind us to a devilish fate can be broken!
Then.... maybe then.... Valen.... we can all live in peace.
These [Relics] must be destroyed.
Just a little more....

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So.... She plans to resurrect her brother as well. As if those things weren't trouble enough....
That's it.... I'll find her atelier and destroy whatever plans she may have for him. The world can't bear to have him alive again.
Yet.... I still don't know what her plan is. It seems Queen Leraya herself didn't know. I'll have to find out... before someone else does...

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This.... this can't be! Why can't I use a regular soul? Are... are our souls that special? Queen Leraya....
It took me this long.... I never would have thought it would come to this....
There must be another way.....
Or else.... I'll need one of our lives.... And that's something I don't want to do....

October 12, 1891
This is it.... my wedding day. My heart skips a beat as the ceremony itself gets ever so closer. Now I'm going to be queen, and with it, comes my responsibility. I know I can lead this nation to higher prosperity, but there is that other thing.... More and more people are looking for 'his' [Relic]. It's getting harder each day as more and more bounty hunters risk there lives to find a danger they don't understand. It's a danger that puts the world upon the brink of desturuction, all to feed their uncontrolled wanton desires. There is still 'that' way, but to go around it... I have to look for another way...

September 25, 1892
Mint.... Yeah... that's a beautiful name. I'm a mother now, and it's such a joy in the world. To give life to a new being and then raise her as youre own... but...
It's... very sad....
I know.... deep down inside.... I can't be there for her for very long.
The cursed blood within my veins slowly kills us.
The women in my family died young just trying to protect [Relic], and I don't want Mint to have to suffer because of her lineage.
I need to find a way.
There's not much time left for me.
Not much time left for all of us.
It's coming.
I can feel it.

December 16, 1893
To bring yet another soul into this troubled family.... how cruel could I be.
Maya... like your sister I brought you two into this sad existence. A painful, death-filled existence.
No doubt you will experience mush hardship like me just trying to protect the most destructive force in the universe.
But fear not!
I'm close to a solution.
Then maybe... just maybe... you won't have to go through what I did.

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April 8, 1897
Mint.... Maya.... I'm.... I'm so sorry.
Sorry.... to leave you two... alone in this world.... without a mother to take care of you.
It must be so cruel to born into such an endless vicious cycle of death.
Everyday I ask myself: "When weill it end?"
I never thought I'd ever see an end to this ceaselessly dark tunnel.
But now.... as I lie here.... there can only be one last way.
The pen is out there... and I can be the catalyst.
Every moment brings my book closer and closer to its final chapter. I could not write it as best as I could.
I don't have the strength nor time to end it the way I want to.
Fate, destiny, if there ever were such tings, took over for me. From here on my story is dictated by them.
I no longer write. I just read and follow. Now I'm reading the final chapter.
But here starts 2 new stories. Soon they will become great authors of their own lives.
Mint.... Maya.... grow up to be great queens. I know you can.
I know I can depend on you.
Only you can do it. I know you'll find the answers I never found.
Find yourselves. Find your pens. Weave your lives.
Rewrite our family's tragic history. That is my last request.... as your mother.

My days with you.... things I thought I could no longer remember. Things lost in the swirling tides of time. Etched away slowly by the wear and tear of emotions, dreams and age. But.... reading this..... I don't know.... I'm not sure. I heard from dad that my mom was quite the adventurer during her time, but I never thought she'd be involved in this sort of thing. I've only known her for such a short time, but never would I have thought she'd be someone like this. Dad described her as quiet, reserved and calm, but she always seemed to me to have the heart of a tiger. From what still remained of the days long done, she was always against those who would choose to gain power through some dangerous means. This must be it. And to think I vehemently desired what my mother sought to protect, and ultimately destroy.

The great Queen Leraya, founder of East Heaven Kingdom. The great guardian of the [Relics]. She took it upon herself to safeguard the world's most dangerous object. A way to banish the object never meant to be used eluded her. She had no choice. Until a way was set to rid the universe of such [Relics], she had to make sure no others would ever lay there hands on them. Until that day arrives, this family, my family, was charged tp protect them. And it's been hundred's of years since it began, with no hopes of ever stopping.

I was shocked. I never thought my own mother ventured into these lands, searching for something as profound as a way to destroy all [Relics]. Some would call that ides preposterous. [Relics] are too powerful for humans to destroy they say. If what my mother wrote is true, then something more powerful than [Relics] must exist. She was close.... and it's here somewhere.

She never gave up hope. Now I stand here, in Iriov, trodding upon the path my mother once journeyed, though never finished. But I AM here, and.... Yes.... that's right. I'm here, and when Rue finally brings Claire back to life, I'll continue my mothers quest. She knew what she was doing, so it's time I picked up where she left off.

That's my duty as her daughter.

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Yeah it's rather short, but I had to cut it out from the next chapter since there'll be too much plot progression in one chapter! Anyway, hope you like it! R&R again! ^_^