"You back!" Mana Exclaimed in delight to Chrysanthemum who had returned to embrace her mother before looking down at the fountain and seeing the images flashing by that had caught her attention.
"Mother!" she said to Mana
"What, you have a New sister and a nephew on the way" Mana beamed like nothing was wrong.
"Coming let's have Tea with Sunflower and Rose," She said pulling Chrysanthemum.
"But I have to get back to work," she said before bumping into Mana back who paused suddenly.
"ABEL!!!" Mana screamed at the young man at the table next to his sibling's Sunflower (Male form) and Rose who was plugging her ears at Mana scream.
He had light blonde hair with two different eye colors. One was a bright magenta, and the other was a light turquoise.
Mana ran into her son's wide-open arms. "Congratulations, you've earned your second title didn't you" she swooned giggling like a child.
"Thank-you" he mused in his angelic voice as he patted his mother's head like a child.
Sunflower pulled a seat for his younger sister a then gave her a cup of coffee and pulling a chair for their mother.
"Congratulations" Chrysanthemum said to her older brother in a nervous tone
"Thank-you" he responded back as Mana got down from his embrace and sat in her chair and drank her cup of hot chocolate with sparkling eyes. "Mother you seem rather happy"
"Yes, some good things have been happening lately. Ah! And you guys have a new younger sister" She beamed
Sunflower coughed on his tea. "Mother…. You"
"She is coming with a nephew too" She sung
"Lily is going to have a field-day" Rose whispered
"Now that's wonderful new" Abel smiled "Mother since you're and a good mood and I just earned my second title can I ask you something."
"Yeah, Sure!" Mana smiled before moving her hot chocolate back to her lips.
'She is going to regret that'
'Yeah, she is defiantly going to regret it"
"…." The three siblings thought to each other.
"Can you tell me about Jarden?" Abel asked
Cough, Cough, it was Mana's turn to cough this time. "Abel, why would you want to know about him"
"Because he is an incarnation of Claudius and one of the only ones you only mentioned once."
"But Abel..."
"Please, Mother" Abel gave her puppy eyes making Mana buckle. "I maybe one of the few of my siblings who aren't born of you and Claudius, but I still want to know" he sweetened her move with his angelic voice.
'She is struggling' the what the expression on Sunflowers face said while his Sister looked somewhat interested in hearing about this.
"Okay" Mana gave-in, making Abel beam.
"SOOO…." he responded
"Well...before he was Claudius, he was Jarden" Mana started "He was certainly the scariest mortal err… Human I have ever come across" Mana glanced to the side "Now don't get me wrong…It's just that…."
"How was he scary?" Sunflower asked.
"He was persisting per say…. How to explain. I couldn't get rid of him."
"Rid of him?" Chrysanthemum looked confused.
"Jarden was different in that I hadn't fallen in love with him, at least not yet. This was before I descended…. Basically, I used him, and I guess he fell in love with me at some point. But, since then he had become the only other person, I know to travel through worlds. He had more freedom than I ever did."
"So, unlike you he wasn't attached to something similar to Elfin?" Abel asked
"Well, No. That's what's so scary. He could basically do anything he wanted. He had the power. Although I admit it was my fault, he had gained that power"
"Continue"
"I…. At the time he was something that Elfin suggested I use to move. So, I did, IN the end, he was able to steal something from me. I don't remember what is was, but it was enough to give him the power to follow me everywhere. Afterall since then he never let me go, no matter how many worlds nor disguises or other forms he still found me. It had always taken some effort."
"I'm very curious about what he stole…. But why didn't you kill him or at least get rid of him"
"I tried multiple times, but he wouldn't die he was as immortal as I was or at least he would always come as Jarden"
"I see then whatever he stole must have been enormously powerful. Did Jarden ever Catch you, Mother…Did you ever fall for his persistence" Abel smiled devilishly.
"Abel, I don't want to hear anything Hanky-Panky," Chrysanthemum said.
"Little sister, you could always leave. I'm sure you have work to catch up on"
"I…."
"He did multiple times, I was able to escape except for that last time. I mean we both had been going about this for a million years and some change
. So, I did make some careless moves"
"Was he good?"
"Abel!!"
"Well…his Kisses where, they were really good. Nearly just one would make me woozy. Not to mention his hands.... he would" Mana blushed as she tried to continue
"Mother!!" Sunflower and Chrysanthemum yelled at the same time.
"Abel, get to the point" Rose said with a frown.
"Ha-ha" Abel laughed at his sibling's shyness. "But that means that it may be impossible for Rose to be the oldest of us"
"And you would be right" Mana said softly
"…." Rose paused and then looked at her mother in confusion.
"Mother you have always said Rose was the oldest" Sunflower frowned as well
"But Rose is"
"What was different about this sibling of ours that you have never mentioned her?" Chrysanthemum asked as if she was catching on to something.
"She is more powerful than me" Rose said softly
"More Powerful" Sunflower looked thoughtful.
"Lily's system are able to keep track of everything expect a certain amount of immense power, which would be above Rose's level of power. In other words, this sibling of whom we have never meet would never be found. At least by us that is" Abel began to explain "But Mother why
would you have never talked about her."
"Its not the…" Mana paused "Rose is the Big Sister of the family the oldest" Mana insisted.
Abel "Has this person descended into Godhood?"
"…." Mana was mute before abruptly standing up leaving back to her
fountain area. "Elfin"
A bright soon enveloped the area.