Memories of the Past: The Monarchs’ Promise

"I'm more concerned about the boy, my wife is no fool she knows Zen and Val are the biggest threats to her ambitions, if she ever learns about the boys she'll come for them all"

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Once again the room is silent but that silence doesn't last long.

"Let her, we'll be ready, if we fall out children will be her undoing that's a guarantee" Val said firmly never once taking her eyes off her child.

Zen pounds his fist together "that day is gonna be inevitable, even if she doesn't learn about the boys she'll still eventually come for us."

Both Zen and Val instinctively grin their blood pumping.

"And there it is their bad habit rears its ugly head, battle junkies the both of them" Duke von Lutz shakes his head *facepalm*

"Hopefully it's a habit their children didn't inherit" King Lumine rolls his eyes.

"Unfortunately I doubt we'd get that lucky" Leon responds before turning to Lord Reaver "there's something I've been curious about, some documents mention a promise that you monarchs supposedly made but that's it none of it goes into details at all".

"Ah well considering how Aerrow isn't remembered this doesn't surprise me" Lord Reaver replies sounding about humored.

"The promise was made over Aerrow's grave right before we departed for the final battle, first and foremost we made a promise to Aerrow and second we made a promise to each other".

*****

It's been 2 year since Aurora and Borealis found Aerrow's remains, 2 years since they buried him, 2 years of sorrow pity self blame and 2 years of nonstop battles against the army of the nether realm, finally on the eve of what is hopefully the final battle all 12 monarchs stand gathered at Aerrow's Grave.

From left to right, Aurura the Drakon Monarch, Borealis the Fenrir King, Reaver the Demon Emperor, Arcaen the Elven High King, Lev & Dev the twin Princes of the Holy Empire, Aegias the Spirit Monarch, Eva the Ocean Monarch and descendant of the original leviathan, Zul'Gar'thol the Orcish General, Eirak the Dwarf, Zhara the Beast Queen and Solaris the Phoenix Queen.

"It's almost time, tomorrow we put an end to this war, tomorrow we avenge Lil Aerrow, tomorrow we show the nether realm what happens when you piss off not just one monarch but all of us" giving the speech is a high elf with short platenium hair and purple eyes, he is Arcaen the Elven High King.

As Arcaen take his place among the 12, two of them walk up to the grave "this war ends tomorrow…. This…. Screw this…. Aerrow should be here with us instead of here in the ground! We can past blame point fingers all we want but this this is our fault" a young female with dragon scales and horns says her voice mixed with sorrow and rage, a young wolfman grips her shoulder.

"Aurura is right it's time we own up to it, so right here right now…." The young wolfman, Borealis looks at Aurura and nods "we make a promise to each other"

"And more importantly we make a promise to Aerrow" Aurora and Borealis say in unison, Borealis look towards Demon Emperor Reaver "Your better at this stuff than the rest of us you do the honors".

"Here today we Monarchs promise those of us who survive won't let those who fall be forgotten, those of us who live will watch over the world, and when the time comes may we train our successors be it in life or in death" Reaver declares.

"By Demonkinds Pride by my Emperor's Law" Reaver says loudly

"By Drakons Blood by my Drakon's Call"

"By Fenrirs Might by my Wolf's Bane"

"By Our Perseverance, by our Empire's Light" a pair of twins recite

From Reaver to Aurora and Borealis, to twins to Zhara and Solaris each Monarch says their oath.

"On our names as the current Monarchs we swear to uphold our oath to the day the last of us departs" all in unison.

A wall of silence follows one by one they kneel before the grave, Aurora is the to speak "Aerrow we promise you this your death won't be in vain we'll finish this war, and in our victory this I promise we'll keep you in our memories, our legacy is your legacy when the time comes yours will be passed to the one it belongs, the final monarch, the thirteenth monarch, the forgotten monarch… regardless of history to us you're the True Monarch."

Aurura turns to the others "it's best that history forgets about Aerrow, anyone who inherits our powers will have a target on their backs but the one that inherits his I wouldn't wish what he went through on anyone".

The others all nod in agreement.

"So we're in agreement as far as history will be concerned Aerrow never existed he'll be the forgotten Monarch, when the time comes those who need to know will know" Aurora continues.

Aurora looks down and whispers "rest easy lil brother we'll be reunited someday"

The monarch gathered say there goodbyes then scatter to prepare for tomorrow battle their final arrangements paid knowing chances are most if not all won't live to see the next day.

******

Lord Reaver stares at the wall as he regains his focus after remembering the past.

"We promised to protect his memory keep his existence out of history, as powerful as any one of us were, Aerrow's powers and abilities cost him everything, by the time he was 3 his entire family was wiped out by those seeking to use him"

"Val, Zen, the village that Aerrow was raised in the village he's buried in, after the war it was renamed Monarchs Refuge, should anything happens send him there, the Forest of Monarchs is a barrier the Ancient Elder Dragons sealed it off from the rest of the world the village is there but it's not, it's in a pocket space only those born in the village or those with monarchs blood can come and go" Lord Reaver explains as he stressed the importance.

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Present Day

The remaining members of FTTF are gathered for hours they've been busy discussing whether or not to reveal certain truths to Blaze, Hunter and Sky, they've also decided the boys should be given a chance to finally say goodbye to their parents.

"The question that I ask now is do we deal with this now before the school year begins the day after tomorrow or do we wait until after midterms?"

"Is this even a question regardless of when we bring it up they'll be distracted for awhile rather it be during the start of the term when their grades won't be affected too much then during the middle of the term" Yui insists immediately.

"She has a point surprisingly" Kaito says sighing, he ends up with glares from Yui

*sighs* "fine tomorrow we'll have the talk, none of us will pressure any of them either if they make a decision they make it if they don't they don't if they need time we'll give it" King Lumine says finally.