#esher

“On the way to what?” Hakuren said following him with his brother next to him.

“I-Its Nemurihime, she woke up.”

“What?! I want talk to her! “ Hakuren responded getting excited but calmed down after a stern look sent by his brother, this left the youngest pouting but lost it when the soldier continued talking.

“Shes not alone.”

“What do you mean”Hakuyuu asked narrowing his eyes.

“When the monks went to check on her she was awake with a girl next to her and she...”

“She what?” Hakuyuu pressured wanting to have all information on this stranger invading the palace. Wondering how could someone enter the room without any of the guards noticing.

“She seems to have the characteristics of an assimilated household, but there is no sign that she is one,” the soldier answered, still trying to take in everything that was happening.

“Wow, I thought nothing could top a possible-century old girl but seems I was proven wrong.” Hakuren commented getting more and more exited to get to the room but not letting his guard down, after all no one knew what the intentions of the stranger were nor of what she was capable of.

“And how is it that a stranger managed to go all the way to a room heavily guarded by guards?” Hakuyuu inquired voicing out his previous thoughts.

“W-We don’t know, your highness she simply appeared out of no where

And now she is attacking every soldier that gets near Nemurihime”

“How can one simple girl hold back the whole guard?” Hakuren questioned

“About tha-

“Surround her!”

“Don’t let her gain ground!”

Their conversation was interrupted by a series of screams that came from the isolated room surrounded by a multitude of guards.

“Make way for the Princes!”

Weapons in hand the siblings approached the source of the screaming. There,surrounded by soldiers, was a panther bearing it’s teeth to anyone who dared tried to get near it or the person behind her.

“How did this animal get here?!” Hakuren exclaimed

“Its the girl, your highness”

“I don’t know who educated you but that ain’t no girl!” The youngest Haku exclaimed freaked out.

“The girl transformed into it sir.”

“A shapeshifter?” The first imperial Prince mumbled.

“Things are getting more and more interesting” he mused

“Give us some space!” The oldest ordered

The soldiers ,although hesitant, vacated the place after the look their commander gave them.

Hakuyuu quickly glanced to where Nemurihime was sleeping minutes before.

Said girl did not looked scared at the growling panther if anything she seemed lost and confused.

Meanwhile Hakuren started cautiously approaching the feline ,still holding his Naginata tightly in case the latter attacked. “Hey miss its okay we aren’t here to hurt you we just want to talk to you, could you transform back?”

After thinking it over for some time the creature approached the bed where the other girl was and sat next to her .After that, smoke started to surround her and in place of the haired beast was a girl with striking green eyes staring back at them.

“ Alexa whats going on” said the blackhead still trying to get used to her surroundings

“To be honest, im not quite sure” the pinknette replied looking at her fellow Alma Torran friend.

“ I died...”Esher mumbled knowing her friend would still hear her no matter how quietly she talked.

“‎You think I don’t know that?”she responded just as quietly.

“... “

“I saw you die

And that's why when I heard they found a girl a century old, apparently, I had to check her out.

I'm glad I did.

I don't know how, but you're back.

I missed you “ The wolf hybrid confessed hugging her friend at the end. After some time they let go of each other and looked in front of them, there standing in front of them were the Haku brothers. Hakuyuu had his brows knitted trying to understand the strange language the two girls were using. Hakuren was just looking back and forth between the two trying to understand what was happening,in a less serious manner.

“So, what are your names?” The youngest prince asked the girls.

“ What?” Esher replied

“Yeah... I don’t think they speak our language” Hakuren stated. He had hopes that maybe they were talking in another language because they wanted to and not because they didn’t know their language.

“What are we suppose to do Yuu?” he questioned.

“Well maybe we could try to find a translator , but without knowing what language we are translating thats gonna be near impossible.” Hakuyuu explained

“You can do that or you could simply ask me to translate for you” All heads rapidly turned to the ,now grinning, pinkenette.

“You Can speak our language?!” Hakuren exclaimed gapping at girl.

“Why did you not inform us before that you could understand us” Hakuyuu demanded annoyed at the fact that the girl had kept quiet about it all this time.

“You didn’t ask” she simply responded giving a lopsided grin. Hakuyuu sighed annoyingly and continued.

“Well now that you have so kindly informed us of that can we know your names?” Hakuyuu asked trying to keep calm.

“Im Alexa and this here is Esher, I hope we can become good friends” she introduced her smile never faltering, shocking the brothers a bit, no one ever had introduced themselves like that to them heck they barely met anyone who was informal while talking to them.After the shock of her statement wore off ,clearing his throat Hakuyuu started speaking.

“Hey Alexa do any of you know why Esher was in a stone coffin?”

“Now that you mention it Im curious about that too...” the girl pondered aloud before turning towards her friend.

“ Hey Esher do you know why you were sleeping on a coffin?” she questioned

“No,the last thing I remember is...happiness” replied the blackhead mumbling the last part. That answer filled Alexa with sadness and guilt.

“No, she doesn’t know why she was in that coffin” mumbled turning back to the princes who were staring wide eyed at her.

“Y-your eyes they turned blue!!” shrieked the youngest of the two answering Alexa’s unsaid question.

“Ah, yeah that happens sometimes please don’t worry about, it will turn back to green eventually” Alexa brushed off avoiding eye contact with Esher, knowing that would worry her.

“B-But why does that happen!” Hakuren insisted still awed at the girls unique eyes. The oldest although did not show any excitement physically you could see the interest and curiosity in his eyes.

“It’s just something I was born with, some people get super intelligence or incredible strength I got color-changing eyes and a few other things” She answered with a forced smile.

“Thats so cool” the youngest gushed. While the prince was expressing his excitement Alexa glanced at the blackhead giving her a view of her eyes. When Esher saw them, knowing immediately what was wrong , embraced her. After some time they separated and looking straight at her, now blue, eyes she stated

“It was not your fault. Please do not feel sad”. Even after hearing this guilt still lingered in the shifter’s eyes ,so the blackhead continued.

“ Don’t let the past affect you, live on the present”with that last statement from the former Resistance leader Alexa smiled gratefully at her companion ,her eyes changing back to their original vivid green. Hakuren was about to start gushing again but stopped when he noticed his brother staring at the pinkenette with furrowed brows and a small frown on his face. Knowing that that look probably meant he had a question for the girl, the youngest moved on to try to communicate with Esher, even though they the latter was not able to understand.

When the firstborn noticed the pinkhead was looking at him he voiced his thoughts.

“Alexa I’ve been wondering ,but why are you here?” what she replied next surprised both him and his younger brother.

“Why? I was able to feel Esher’s magic, i gave her a small memento before we departed, I felt it power on again, I knew the chances were low but i had to see, im glad I did, I was able to find a friend I thought I had lost” she finished with a toothy grin and unwavering eyes that showed that she meant each and every word she just spoked.

To say he was impressed was an understatement. In all his years of being the first Imperial prince he had never met someone like the girls sitting in front of him. Although he did not know much of Esher seeing as he couldn’t directly communicate with her ,but what he did know is that she was found in a place full of century looking things, she definetly peaked his curiosity.

Alexa did not fall behind in the slightest. Not only was she the first person to speak to her informaly,besides his family and Judar, she had a view on things he has never seen in anyone and she wasn’t afraid to show show her opinion something that Hakuyuuu found shocking. Plus there was her unique abilities and appearance ,it was needless to say that for the first time in a long time he was intrigued.

A girl who only spoke a strange language, wore strange clothings and who’s age could surpass all ancient things they had encountered before. And a girl with animal like appearence and eye-changing colors. Hakuren was curious yet exited for what was to happen in the near future.