ALEXANDRIA'S PERSONAL MEMORIAL

1800 HOURS

LOCATION- GAYLORD ACADEMY, PLUTO

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I crossed my legs on the brown leather chair. Michael sat across us, a troubled look on his face. I shook my head as he stared at us the words still trying to form on his lips.

"Are you gonna tell us," Eli asked. Michael's head turned to him and then back to me.

"Do you remember that day when you and Alex went to the students who previously tried this venatio," Michela said looking at Jaz. She nodded.

"Yes."

"That day, they told Alex what was gonna happen."

It was possible that they told her. Michael's hand swept through his hair and he let out a sigh.

"Okay, so," Eli said, "but we already knew she knew."

"I went to meet them, recently," Michael said, "They told me exactly how she died and who knew about it."

"So?"

"She was killed by a person."

I sat straight, "How, that is not possible, no one was there."

Michael bit his lip as we all sat tensed waiting for him to speak.

"Time slowed down for us; we were blindfolded. She was electrocuted by an earthling who was commanded to wait there."

"I do not understand," I said standing up. I stood and ran a hand through my hair. Eli motioned for me to sit down. I did not.

"There was an old feud Mars had with an earthling family. He promised them a Martian. The Martian who would take this risk. That was Alex."

My jaw clenched and I turned to the window.

"What's the family name?"

"Di Remenialli."

I could do nothing but hear the name and nod. Revenge would be stupid and going to earth was nearly impossible.

"The king Anderson, knew of this fate," Michael whispered. I nodded, again not surprised. I turned around calmly and hugged Michael. Leaning back, I smiled at him.

"Michael," I said, "I will go and prepare everything for this evening."

I did not look back as I left the room. The first day of school and I had missed half the classes, fought a bunch of Lamborns and found Alex was killed. It was shaping up to be a pretty good day.

"Miss western," A voice called. I turned and hurried to the corner, not looking back until I was in the corner. The man handed me a file and left without a word. I looked around, making sure no one had noticed the exchange. I walked to the closest room and closed the door behind me. The classroom was empty and dark.

I did not turn the light on, as I opened the file titled, 'REVZIAR.'

The little floating orb previously owned by Queen Lily was not documented as being given to Athena. I had asked a few connections I had in the royal palace to find me specific files about some topics, one of them being about the revziar.

As I flipped the pages of the file and read into some of the revziar's previous owners, I felt the deep darkness of my suspicion grow. Most of the previous owners before Queen Lily had lived to an old age. One of the Qualities of the Revziar was its capability to protect its master to its very last breath. However, Queen Lily had died young, died with two young children.

I turned back to the first page. There was nothing I could find that mounted to any evidence.

I took my phone out and called the number.

"5 am, tomorrow. Same location," I said and cut the phone. I put the file into my bag and left the room.

'What are you trying to find,' ty asked.

'I don't know, I don't trust them though.'

'Be careful, Sapph, do not get caught, you will get in trouble,' he said. I nodded.

The ritual I had promised Eli I would do for Alex was ready. I had prepared the lanterns and what they thought was an event just for us, was not. The whole of sectioni I was in on it.

The huge arch windows of the corridor had begun to darken as the sky began to dim. The corridor had become less busy, only a few second-year students leaving their last classes. The room, I had asked a few friends to meet up had its light on.

"Hey," Lindsey said with a grin, "You're late."

I smiled, "I'm sorry, I had some things to do."

"Yeah, I understand," she smiled and hugged me. I responded.

"So are you all ready," I asked.

"Fifty thousand lanterns," Mario said, "We have all of them signed."

"Good work, you know the time and I will send you the place later on," I nodded, "thank you."

"The least we could, Sapph," she said. I smiled at her and portalled away to the cliff, we were all supposed to meet up at.

The cliff was in a secluded area of Uranus, property of Neptunian royalty. I had gotten permission from Marine for its use. It looked onto the Uranus ocean of which the sun was setting in the distance.

"Phye."

I turned and smiled at Eli. He wrapped an arm around me and pulled me closer and we stood like that for a few minutes, gazing out to the ocean.

"Lovebirds," Ty snickered from behind me. I turned and rolled my eyes.

"You promised me that you'd tell Jaz and you still haven't."

His smile quickly sobered up and he turned away, not ready for his relationship to be called into question.

"We promised each other, that we wouldn't be sad after this, that we'd focus again," I said and took a breath, "But it's hard."

"We promised though," Eli said, rubbing my shoulder, "I mean if we knew Alex at all, she would have been mad that we have been like this for this long."

"She would have," A voice said. We turned and looked at Michael who had brought drinks with him and a mat.

"We are supposed to relive her life, aren't we," he said motioning to the drinks, "I guess we need drinks and a place to sit."

I nodded, not mentioning that I had already prepared for that. I motioned for us to sit down as Michael and Eli laid the mat down.

"At 12 00, the lanterns will be here," I said.

"And they will already be lit, so all we have to do is let them go," Jaz said as the portal behind her closed.

Michael smiled and took my hand in his and squeezed it. The slight breeze of the ocean had caused goosebumps to rise over my arm but the warmth of the blankets that Michael had brought, caused them to diffuse.

"Maybe you want to start Michael," Jaz said as I opened the drinks and passed them around.

He nodded and took a large swig of the drink. As he looked back, his eyes took on a sheen. You could see he was somewhere else, in some time of the past.

"I met Alex when I was so small, I could barely remember, but we didn't like each other. We only became friends, the three of us a good ten years later."

"Friends," Eli said rolling his eyes, "I became friends, you told me three minutes after meeting her that you wanted to marry her."

Michael, instead of denying it like the many times he had done before, he nodded with a small smile.

"We were ten," Eli said when he saw that Michael was not going to say anything further, "We were ten and I had known Michael for a long time and he saw a girl for three minutes. He comes to me and because he's dumb, he points at the girl and says loudly, I'm gonna marry her."

I stifled a smile.

"I smacked him on the head and asked him why he was telling me, he was supposed to tell her. I mean he wasn't gonna marry me," Eli said leaning back onto the tree and smiling at Michael, "he looked at me and then shook his head, he was like 'nah she hates me.'"

"And then they got together," Ty laughed.

"Two years of convincing and one million fights after," Eli said, shaking his head.

"That's when you know it's worth it," I said, looking to Jaz. She nodded.

"We caused so much trouble when we got together," Michael said.

"How."

"All the past generation of royals have hated each other except King Hunt and Cole who were best friends. Technically the possibility of us being together meant it was possible that our families may have to tie together in the future,' Michael explained.

"Which is absolutely bad as fighting with each other is the priority of our planets."

"The future will be different," Jaz said, "we will have different leaders, us."

"It's scary to think that we are the ones trusted with all of this," I muttered motioning to the ocean.

"Yes," Eli said. I heard the sadness in his voice and smiled at him.

We spent the next five hours speaking. There was not a moment where there was silence. At one point we laughed till we cried and at another we cried till we laughed. The unspoken words of the promise we had given to each other floated in the air as we spoke of her life.

And as 12 00 came, we were all exhausted. We were ready to sleep and quite frankly never wake up again. But then the lanterns arrived, pushed through the portal and we looked at them for a long time before we stood.

There were five of them.

"I guess we're really saying goodbye now, aren't we," Michael said, his voice breaking at the last word. I nodded, mute.

"Come then, we can say goodbye, be ready for her funeral tomorrow and then live a life she will be proud of," Michael said before he turned to us, "If I could just have a moment before though."

"Yes, of course," I said and let him walk off by himself to the edge of the cliff.

Jaz and Ty moved to the side, away from us, conversation sparking between the two of them. I turned to Eli whose focus was still on the ocean.

"You ever miss your mother," I whispered. He turned to me, his brows furrowed and then back to the ocean.

"Sometimes," he said, "but I never knew her enough to miss her."

His gaze moved back on to me, wavering over my aura. He smiled lopsidedly.

"What are you after now."

"Nothing," I said. He laughed and crossed his arms.

"Maybe learn to control your aura."

"Stupid empath," I muttered. Michael turned away from the ocean. His hair blew as he walked back to us.

"Shall we," he asked, increasing his voice so ty and Jaz would hear. They walked over, handing me and Eli a lantern. For a second, Eli's expression fell as he stared at the lantern.

"She would have lit this for us, we wouldn't have needed matches," he said. Ty nodded and lit his match and placed the fire inside the lantern and then passed it to Michael.

"But she would have forgotten she could control it," Jaz laughed. We laughed, though it was tinged with sadness.

Once, all our lanterns were lit, we stood at the edge of the cliff in a straight line. Swallowing the lump in our throats we waited for Michael to let go of his first. And when he did and the lantern folate in the air, carried by the wind, we let ours go.

Like lone creatures in the midnight sky, the five lanterns waved in air deeply contrasting the darkness of the sky. The serenity of the moments over took our senses and we watched them till the five lanterns completely disappeared from sight.

One by one we returned to our places under the tree and covered ourselves with blankets, falling asleep.

Time went by and around 0400 just as dawn was arriving my alarm went off in my head. I stretched as I sat up, my back aching. Ty slept beside me, his head resting on my pillow. I stood, talking on my phone.

'We are starting in two minutes,' the text read. Leaving my shoes next to the mat, I walked to the edge of the cliff.

A few seconds later, from the island to the west, a lantern rose into the air. And then ten rose into the air. Before long, about a hundred of them hovered in the air. I ran back to where the others slept, hurriedly waking them up.

"What in the world do you want," Jaz moaned as I shook her. I held her arm and forced her up, jerking my neck toward the sky. She looked.

I turned and smiled at Michael's expression. His hands planted on the floor behind him, his face broke out into a smile. I walked away to the side, leaving on the tree. Michael stood and entranced walking closer to the edge, everyone followed. I preferred the view from the back, wanting to see their smiles as well as the sky.

There were at least four thousand in the sky, at every height from the ocean which crashed in waves down below. The slight hint of orange had begun to show in the horizon and with time the top outline of the sun came into view.

'I will never say this again, but you are fucking amazing. This is fucking amazing,' Ty said his head turned slightly in my direction.

I smiled and watched as the lantern continued to leave the island. My phone pinged and I read the text.

'That's all of them.'

I texted her back expressing my gratitude. Half the sun had appeared and light rays shone into the dark skies above. I sunk to the floor and rested my head on the bark, I allowed myself to think for only a few moments longer about Alex.

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