Chapter 132 - Youth Is A Curse

30 years ago. Under the night skies of Pelagy.

A young woman with long white hair and pale skin, seemingly in her twenties, appeared out of nowhere with another one of her kind. They came about a mile away outside the eastern border of Aeros, a nation in the world Pelagy. 

The woman had beautiful grey eyes, a slender nose, a small face, incredibly soft skin, and beautiful long white hair. She wore a white overall and cloak on top of her conservative clothes. 

"Agatha! What are we doing here?" Matilda asked, shocked to find themselves in an unknown land. Matilda was unfamiliar with the world they had jumped into. 

Agatha, their future sovereign white witch, had just inherited the power of traveling through different worlds and she was having fun with the gift. 

"Where did you take us this time, Agatha? Please. Let us go back to our moon now!" Pleaded Matilda. She was supposed to watch over their coming supreme, but in the end, Agatha's powers were too great for her to tame. 

She could not even drag her down. 

"Haha! I've done it, Matilda! I've done it! I could feel this world is different! Look at that?" Agatha pointed to the moon above and said, "It's a different life force altogether!"

Agatha turned to Matilda and said, "Do you know what this means?"

Shaking her head, Matilda probed, "No. What?"

"We are in another galaxy - a different set of stars and moons in the milky way!" She clasped her hands together and said, "I'm so excited to explore this world! I have become bored with looking at the Earth, at Venus whatnot!"

"Ahh, we better go back, Agatha. Your father and mother will be looking for us," told Matilda. "You should spend more time with your parents, Agatha. They are about to turn three hundred years old. Do you know what that means?"

"Of course, I know. I have about thirty to forty years to spend with them," responded Agatha with a frown.

Agatha's parents were blessed by the essence of the moon serpent. They did not age after turning thirty years old, but eternal youth could only last on their three hundredth year.

Being the next in line, Agatha would soon be gifted with the same essence as she was expected to rule the clan, following in her parent's footsteps. Unfortunately, she was the only child of her parents. 

It was common for the sovereign rulers of their clan to give birth during the last century of their lifespan. 

Just yesterday, one of the elders gifted Agatha the power to visit other worlds. It was a preparatory legacy for when she was expected to reign over their clan. 

"Matilda, soon I will be stuck to the moon, protecting it. Please give me this time to enjoy and explore other worlds! Let's start with this one!" Agatha announced before running away from her servant, speeding in the direction of the nearest village. 

"Agatha!"

The young Agatha found herself in one village of Aeros. She and Matilda lingered in the same town for days, but it was on their fourth day where Agatha's life changed completely. 

Agatha was at it, wandering around. In her excitement, she hastily ran from one corner to another and stumbled into a handsome man with long dark blond hair.

She bounced against the hardness of his chest and would have fallen to the ground if it were not for the man's strong and swift arms. 

"Miss, are you okay?" The man asked. 

Agatha first gawked at his manly frame. Even if the man was well covered in armor, she could tell he was a man of strength. When she looked up to his face, she easily drowned in his intense blue eyes. Her grey ones were no comparison to its beauty. 

"Wow," Agatha unknowingly said, making the expression of the man turn soft. 

Helping the beautiful lady up, the man was likewise captivated by her good looks. He put a hand at the back of her waist for support, and asked, "Miss, my name is Theo, the young master Theo. What is your name?"

Agatha merely tilted her head. She continued to appreciate the man's impressive features without realizing his handsomeness overwhelmed her. 

Her reaction made Theo's heart flutter that he held her hand outright. He repeated, "Miss, what is your name?"

She looked down at her hand before looking back at his face. Only then did she finally speak, "My name? Oh, My name is Agatha."

"Where do you live, Agatha?" Theo asked. 

"Ummm... somewhere here," she said before smiling. How could she tell her she lived in another moon? 

Meanwhile, Matilda, Agatha's servant, watched from behind a structure, thinking of how to save their future sovereign.

Matilda could tell the man whom Agatha had stumbled into was a man of power, given his stance and the soldiers that watched closely over him.

She rushed to Agatha and said, "Agatha, let's go. Your father and mother are waiting for you!"

Bowing her head to the man, Matilda said, "We apologize for any inconvenience, kind sir." She immediately pulled Agatha and ran away with her. 

"Bye! Bye, Theo! I'll see you next time!" Agatha promised and back then, she meant to keep it. 

When the two ladies returned to the moon, Agatha's head was constantly filled with thoughts of one young master, Theo. She determined to return and find out about him. 

Matilda tried to stop her, but Agatha was stubborn. She returned to Aeros, in the same nation where she found the handsome man. She asked around the town's people, just by merely giving his physical description.

After learning that he was the future ruler of the land, Agatha formulated a plan to become worthy of his attention.

Casting a spell on one wealthy couple, who lived in a manor, Agatha made parents out of them.

For the entire village of Gantrik, she used her most potent magic to make them remember her as one of their own; a villager of the same nation. In a few days of work, she already belonged.

News of Theo, looking for her reached her ears, but it was only after days of registering her to the minds of the villagers, did she appear before him. 

They met again on Theo's next visit to the village of Gantrik, and at that time, Agatha did not run away. In fact, she introduced him to her supposed parents and invited him to her home. 

At that point, there was no stopping Agatha. Her heart was completely captured by Theo, a creature of Pelagy, and the future ruler of Aeros. 

The coming supreme of the white witches from the moon started to spend more time in Pelagy than in her own home until she meant not to return. Eventually, she married the man she loved and became the wife of Theo.

Agatha abandoned the moon completely. She made Matilda swore not to tell her parents of her whereabouts. She used every bit of her strength so her presence will never be known to her parents or any white witch for that matter. 

For the first ten years of their marriage, Agatha and Theo had a peaceful and happy life. She bore two beautiful children and aged almost the same as Theo. 

Unfortunately, the inevitable happened. What Agatha did not know was the moon serpent had already marked on her the day she was born. On her 30th birthday, Agatha earned the essence of eternal youth. 

For the next five years, she was able to hide it, using her powers, but not having returned to the moon affected the strength of her magic. There came a time when her powers became weak and she could no longer disguise her youthful face. 

The entire time, she commissioned all herbs and facial care, making it appear she was very particular about her looks, but as the years passed, she heard rumors of how she had not aged at all.

Everywhere she went, she could hear servants whispering about her beauty, saying it was out of the ordinary and maybe a result of witchcraft!

The talks around affected her, and she wondered if Theo was thinking the same. 

With Matilda returning to visit her from time to time, she eventually learned that her parents were about to pass away. She will be the chosen leader for their clan and she had to return. 

"Agatha, they will never understand your magic," told Matilda. "They will never understand how you maintain to have a youthful face. One day, Theo will realize who you really are. He will cast you away! Abandon you! People here are afraid of things that cannot be explained!"

"Come home. Your parents will soon die without seeing you. Is that what you want?"

"Youth is a curse." With a tear in her eyes, Agatha nodded and said, "Okay. I will go. Give me time to say goodbye to my family."

Following Agatha's agreement, Matilda said, "Then, I shall return in one month to get you, our Supreme."

However, just before leaving that night.. Matilda had jumped from one chamber to another, undoing the spell she cast on the advisers and the servants, for it was her who made them speak oddly of Agatha's youthful face.