The Trapped Princess
Three Things

The token now flew past Gentala's body and stopped in front of Ara who was still crying.

"My time to guide you isn't much for my granddaughter, can you sit cross-legged and follow my lead?"

Ara nodded and immediately sat down cross-legged, on the other hand, Alardo along with Luke and Olsen seemed to step out of the cave forming a distinctive shield of the white clan at the mouth of the cave, which was the only one in the cave, while Gentala was doing the same thing inside the cave, she formed a protective layer around Ara's body and kept a silent guard.

"Focus your red aura and lock your golden aura on one side."

Ara closed her eyes and started following the red clan elder's orders, she set her breath until dark and silent greeted him. Before long he felt as if he was entering another dimension with a gold and red light that was copied together, Ara refocused her mind and tried to separate the golden aura and seal it in the deepest place, until the blood-red light came out brighter than him.

"Open your eyes, son!"

Ara opened her eyes, slowly finding an old man with long white hair who was allowed to unravel down. "As you know, the sealed core of the power of the red clan, is not in this cave, but is a few meters below you, but grandfather will help you open it from here."

The old man walked around Ara, "but before that grandfather wanted you to promise 3 things."

Ara looked at the grandfather asking him to continue, and hoped that the three things requested were not something extreme.

"First, never feel your strongest, remember that above the sky there is still the sky" said the grandfather as he began to step back around Ara.

"Secondly, remember that you were born a human being."

Ara opened her eyes, and thinking of the meaning of the words of the grandfather, she realized that she was born as a human being and was not she still human?

"Third, never forget that you are a woman" the old man stopped right in front of Ara, his right hand outstretched to the top of Ara's head.

"Close your eyes again, focus your energy, and feel the pull of power beneath you."

Ara obeyed, just as she closed her eyes, her red aura seemed to be drawn by something extremely powerful right below her sitting, extremely powerful. Ara tried to fight him with all her might, until sweat poured out, but the more she fought back, the more she felt her body entangled by the hundreds of ropes that pulled her down.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"

Teeiakan Ara echoed violently, followed by the sound of the pounding ground that collapsed like the sound of a collapsed roof.

"AAAAAAAHHHHH!"

Shouting for the Queen's screams continued to sound, her body crumbling softly as it was forced through the meters of ground below, Ara found it difficult to breathe, but she remained steadfastly closed her eyes and focused on holding herself back, he felt like he was falling in a new place.

His red aura was wildly turbulent, the hundreds of ropes that were trapping him were now growing hundreds of times over, wrapped around his entire body, his bones were laying down, his sweat was rushing like a stream of river water.

"Remember the three things I said and immediately find the seal!"

Ara felt a tremendous pain, even she felt between life and death. Tears began to flow back, he tried to hold on with all his might, until suddenly Isabel's grandmother's voice echoed in her head.

"Your Majesty, remember these three things."

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

Turtle screams continued to come out of his mouth as he felt an unusually large stone overlapping his body. His breathing was heavy and disordered, his head was dizzy, his body was numb, Ara began to feel the darkness wanted to devour him, but his heart was still beating, as if to say that he should not give up.

In despair, the voice of the old geezer flashed on Ara's head.

"Never feel your strongest, remember that there is still heaven above."

Ara began to guess the first thing the grandfather said, but she felt helpless. Until at one point Ara released all her defenses, she could no longer hold back, in her heart she admitted defeat.

"I lost," said Ara softly with a voice still remaining.

Red light strands that resembled thousands of threads, seemed to pierce through the darkness that was about to devour them, intertwining one after another around Ara's body. The darkness began to break down into black threads that quickly entered into Ara's soul.

"AAAAAAAAHHHH!"

Ara shouted again, now her body and soul were overwhelmed with worry, despair, helplessness, defeat and fear. Hundreds of crying and screaming sounds filled his ears.

"Remember that you were born human."

Ara cried roaring, her heart ached, hearing endless groans. His tears were rushing, his breathing sounded chest tight, his two hands clenched tightly. Ara struggled to restore her focus, she tried to solve the puzzle of the three things that the grandfather said, had all the pain suddenly disappeared when Ara no longer resisted and said the word surrender. Is giving up if needed, the answer to the first thing?

What is the answer to the second thing?

The voices grew louder in Ara's ears, starting from a whisper, creeping like words and now beginning to sound like a scream.

"Why are you crying?" asked Ara on the sidelines sobs her tears.

Like magic, all the cries and moans that Ara heard suddenly disappeared, changing with the light blowing wind.

"Will you open your eyes and hear our story, Your Majesty?"

Slowly Ara opened her wet eyes, and immediately gasped. Ara was in the middle of the village with magnificent buildings that loomed, reminding Ara of the capital in the world that she once lived with Isabel's grandmother, the only difference was the people who gathered before her.

Ara blinked a few times, to make sure that what she saw was not an illusion. Dozens of pairs of eyes stared at him, their clothes looked simple yet unpretentious and one thing Ara realized, everyone before her was male.

"Are you the ones crying?" ask Ara carefully.

A red-robed young man seemed to approach a few steps towards Ara. "People used to be afraid of us, because we have the strongest power among all the creatures on earth, yet we forget that above the sky there is still the sky. The arrogance possessed us, until we were too embarrassed to acknowledge the prowess of other clans, we forgot that admitting defeat was not something to be ashamed of until we were finally slaughtered."

Tears flowed back on Ara's cheeks, her heart ached, her vision blurred from the tears that welled up.