Celine was languidly looking at her reflection in the mirror. Her hair curly hair was fixed in a twisted crown-style with a silver tiara on the top. She was wearing the cerulean ball gown, a dark shiny blue color gown with flowered lace fabric together with handmade embroidered flowers and blue velvet belt. It was an off-shoulder gown with waist definition.

"Be ready, Princess Celine." A woman said. Celine smiled.

"It's been years since I've set foot in this palace," Celine thought. Even though she's been in here for almost a week, she can still feel being out of place.

The woman beside gestured Celine to follow her. And when the door was opened, the Cerulean Council bowed to her and gestured her the stairs.

Celine began to walk in the marble staircase, she was beautiful, indeed. The princesses were all looking up to her, and with every step that Celine does, it echoes inside the palace. She stops walking when she reaches half of the staircase, it was a large platform looking like a stage and in the middle of it was the Cerulean Necklace.

Freya gave the necklace that was Aicelyn has to prove her death in her hands to the Queen of All. And Savannah handed it to the Cerulean Kingdom.

Celine mockingly tilted her head when she saw the Undersea Kingdom's princess. Serena's eyes were piercing while looking at Celine. They are treating each other as if they weren't old friends, old best friends. Celine bows her head elegantly when the leader of the council stood before her.

"As the leader of the Cerulean Council, I, Orion, will bestowal the symbol to the second princess." The council leader announced. "But first, let us give respect to our former princess, Princess Aicelyn Hailey Lean, the daughter of the Cerulean King Vessel, King Alendis. The pride and joy of our kingdom."

All of them stayed silent. They all offered their prayers to the Hades, asking him to keep safe the soul of the precious princess. Orion took the necklace and showed it to the princesses, "The necklace of the Winterwyn will be now be given to the second—"

All of a sudden, the marble floors slowly freezes and became a floor made of ice. Orion's eyes widened, "The queen—" he wasn't able to finish his words when his whole body freezes.

All of their attention was at the front door. The menacing cold aura was filling the palace. Serena tilted her and looked at the wall, her eyes widened when she realized that she knows who possesses that kind of blessing. Serena saw her reflection on the thick wall of ice.

Both Celine and Serena was thinking the same name. And as they looked at the front door, they gulped.

A grand entrance.

When the door opens, the glistening shine from the outside reflected the palace that was filled with ice. And it burned their eyes. And they all failed to see the person behind the overpowering aura. The ominous brittle silence was broken when a woman began to walk, her high-heels were echoing in the crystal floor. She was covered with silver cloaked and all that can be seen in her face was her piercing eyes.

The princesses look at her with surprise. Serena looked at her eyes and remembered what the Primus told her.

The woman's Crystal Blue Eyes were piercing as she looks straight to the princess in the staircase who suddenly run upstairs.

The princess of the Sun Kingdom suddenly pointed out the woman, "It's the Crystal Blue Eyes! But how?" Philomena said.

The woman smirked and walked her way to Orion, the ice in his body slowly melted. "Orion," the woman said.

Orion gulped. He was nervous just by looking at her eyes. It was scaring him, the cold and dull eyes of the woman in his front. "Queen Savannah ordered us,"

"That stupid Savannah." The woman jeered.

Without looking at her back, she made prisons made of ice. And when she was about to go step on the stairs, a wall made from pearls blocks her way. And with just a touch of a finger, the pearls became ice and immediately became pieces of crystals. "This is—"

"What does a lowly being wanted from me?" The woman asked.

"Who are you?"

"Riley, shut that princess," The woman commanded. The woman began to walk once again. When she slid down the cloak, Serena looked at her back curiously.

The woman has long white hair with blue pigment at its end. But Serena's attention shifted to the guy who suddenly appeared out of nowhere and was sitting on top of a tree.

"What the Styx," Serena mumbled when she realized that they are inside a palace and a tree wasn't supposed to be inside.

The guy languidly looked at her and swayed his hand. Serena was caught by a tree that was holding like a huge hand and slowly transforms into a cage. "Let me out," Serena gritted.

She looked around and saw that they are all held captive. "Noisy,"

"Stupid goat—"

The mysterious guy named Riley mockingly walked to Serena's cage and looked at her, "Stupid. I'm a demigod. This is just a blessing."

Celine's widened when the mysterious woman appeared in her front while she was hiding in Aicelyn's room. The room was slowly filling with thick ice. Celine moved the ground from outside and smashed it to the window but the ice was thicker than she thought. "You have your father's face, yet you have your mother's eyes."

"Who are you?" Celine asked. She moved the ground beneath the woman who was languidly looking at her. She pinned the woman inside the grounds she moved from left and right.

Celine smirked when the grounds collided, smoke filled the room.

"Is that it?" The woman teased. When the smoke subsides, Celine glared at the woman who was protected with a thick sphere of ice.

"Sino ka ba talaga?! Papatayin kita!" Celine shouted. Celine was about to run towards her direction but she realized she cannot take any step. It was too late for her to realize that her feet were now frozen on the ground.

"You can't kill me. No one can."

Celine leered at the woman. The mysterious woman walks in front of Celine and held her cheeks that slowly freezes that made Celine winced, "Are you happy with the things you are doing right now? Even if it is not yours, you are claiming it," the woman said.

Celine knows that there was a hidden message on her words. But she didn't bother about solving it. "You're wrong. All of it was mine,"

"M'lady,"

"Riley." The woman mumbled to the guy who just arrived was standing at the doorway.

"I need to go," Riley said. His eyes landed to Celine which made him smirk, "You found a new toy,"

"A dangerous toy. You can go now, Riley." The woman said.

Riley disappeared with just a blink. Celine used the chance to attack the woman while she is still focusing on the door. Spikey masses of land appeared in the room and was about to pierce the woman when she turned her head and all of Celine's effort became useless.

Her attack had been frozen.

"Not fast enough."

"Who the hell are you?!"

"I'm Emerald Stone."

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