Princess Elaea (Violet Sinn)

A gasp tore through my lips and my hands instantly went straight to my chest where Jeremiah had stabbed me at but found nothing but breasts and was that a fucking corset?.

Who had dressed me up in this devilish thing? I glanced around and found myself inside a sort of cage and there were up to fifty more women around me and each had varying shades of fear in their expressions.

Where was I?

“Princess Elaea, you must hold on long enough” someone screamed from behind me and I glanced back to find a girl being pulled away as a cage door was slammed down in my face, she was staring at me.

What..?. Princess Elaea?. Me?.

A surge of images hit my head, causing me to bow as pain twisted into my head like a sort of string being pulled by unseen forces and just as soon as it came, it disappeared.

Somehow, I had gotten into the body of princess Elaea, daughter of a noble who had been forced to join this stupid selection just to become one of the ruling kings' women.

This was a world where having magic was a luxury and each of these women here had proved to have one sort of magical abilities or the others.

From what I could tell, this Elaea of a girl didn't even have any at all and had been thrown here by her stepmother and her daughter who was also in the competition.

The plan was for her daughter to pull up an accusation on Elaea and have her executed.

It all seemed absurd.

I barely had time to grasp all that I needed before the sound of a gate being cranked up from the short distance between me and the opposite side of the stadium filled my head and I instantly took a few steps forward to get a better look.

A growl ripped through the air and my eyes widened with shock as I recalled whose growl that belonged to.

I thought the last mission I went to took him away from me, Oleo was my Wild cat and I had owned him for so many years but a mission to the ports had stolen him away from me.

I never found him again, how was he here? Where exactly was here?.

Ladies screamed all around me and began to run as he stepped into the cage-like arena and growled at both sides and my breath hitched in my throat.

He held so many injuries.

I stepped forward, taking slow steps towards my beast as he lunged at the first woman and before her fire magic could do any harm, he grabbed her by the head and tore it off.

“Oleo” I screeched at the top of my voice and his movements came to a stop, he dropped her body and turned to me. All around me, chaos unfolded with women running around like headless chickens.

He began to take slow steps towards me and just as we got to the same spot, the whole place went shush around me and I staggered on my feet. My right hand raised up as tears clouded my gaze.

“What have they done to you?” I choked on my words and I saw when he finally recognized me as he shook his head, falling to his stomach and I saw tears in his eyes.

He looked so weak, like a worn carcass of a dead body just barely clinging onto life. He belonged in the cold, in the ice city.

I felt for my magic and breathed out in relief as it responded to my call and I layered it upon him, at least before he died he could feel what home felt like again.

His breathing came out ragged and peaceful as his eyes met mine once more and I felt his relief at finally being free. It was the same feeling I had just had before I was thrown into this body and place.

“Go with peace” I whispered and his eyes closed up as the ice shattered. “Snow” I barely let out the whisper as the shattered ice transformed into that of a snow and flew straight out of the cage like arena.

“We have a winner. For the next event, release the snakes” a voice filled my ears as a tear ran down my cheeks and I angrily brushed it away.

Blame this princess Elaea for not being able to stand up for herself, her father wasn't even dead but her stepmother was trying to kill her by all means so her daughter could take the family's fortune.

Hissing filled my ears as a five headed snake appeared from the same place Oleo had come out from and my mind rewinded.

The injuries on him had snake bites, it must have come from this beast.

A growl left my lips as I summoned my ice and turned it into two sharp daggers. I began for the beast, fear a distant companion as I levitated off the ground and without any warning.

I aimed for the beast’s first head when it was still focused on destroying some stupid women and sliced right through it like butter.

A screech of pain filled the air as the head fell to the ground and the other four turned to me with vengeance in their gaze.

“Is she mad?”

“But…”

Filled my head and a headache had me stumbling backwards, leaving room for the beast to slam it's tails into my side and send me hurtling into the sides of the arena.

“Fuck” I grimaced as I stood to my feet, narrowly dodging another swipe and twirling on the air, letting loose four icy spikes in succession and it slammed into one of each eyes on each head.

The beast growled loudly as it began to dash around, trying to get used to having one eye each but I didn't give it any moment of vulnerability.

My eyes found the heart between the part where each heads met with the other and I aimed straight for it.

Oleo 's maltreatment wouldn't go unpunished and this would be the first step in getting justice for him… and me.

I slammed two of my ice daggers straight into the heart and a shriek filled my ears but I forced it down, lengthening it inside of the heart and a satisfying squelch filled my ears before I drew back on my magic and fell to the ground.

Rolling out of the way as the beast came crashing down to the ground and I smirked.

But this body, weakened beyond relief and unable to hold on anymore slammed back to the ground and I saw faces flash above mine that left me speechless before I fell into a deep slumber.