Chapter 297

Chelsea POV I sat back stunted, 'For My Children,' written on one of the three rolled scrolls and four other elemental rings were right there. Anya had all the rings to begin with, reaching to touch them, my hand stilled before I could make contact. I didn’t understand, she had them? Knew where they violins were and Albert just killed her? I – I – what? Why was she killed? They could have surely tortured her to death until she gave them what they wanted, right? It just didn’t – I huffed. Then the note that said; 'For My Children,' how did she know one of her children would be the ones to get this thing open? The three words taunting me, I bit my lip tuning everything out, I picked it up, not sure what to expect. It was the thickest scroll out of the three, removing the wax seal I rested back wondering if I should wait until Oakley and Ben were with me, my fingers though, were already unrolling the scroll. My dearest children, if you are reading this then distemper or the distracted have surely done away with me. I would prefer that I had been the one to tell you all these things but there is much that I have to tell you and while I am safe with the current pack Luna and Alpha I am taking the time to write to you all the things you will need. I suspect that you’ve seen or been told about Greta and Zeke by me, or they’ve found you, or maybe you’ve stumbled upon the truth. I was born Florina Bellamy Ambeu, daughter of the King and Queen, we lived guarded and my father trusted the wrong people and as such my family – brothers and sisters as well – all met an untimely death. I know it may be hard to believe but I was taken before I was fully gone, a woman came to me in a dream like place, and sent me back as one of the very people that took the life of family. I had things to do, a purpose to help The Chosen One, and you my children will help him or her succeed; with this scroll are two others, they contain the music as well as the Elemental Rings. I was sent back as an Elder, Elder Bellamy, and while I was with the Elders I endured many years while working against them. During that time I found the momenta Elemental Rings hiding each until I found the next and so on, never giving them what they desired while learning their weaknesses as well as the purpose for the rings. I learned what they did behind the back of their king and how they’ve accumulated their power. My father was a great king, and told me that every man has a weakness, and while I could do nothing with the information I gathered, you my children will use that knowledge to help the Chosen One. I met with a seer when I was still a princess, one that told me of my deaths, lives and children, at the time, I thought this seer woman a fake but now, as I write this letter I must admit that I have taken her words on faith and hope the precautions I have taken will end victoriously. I was told that I would birth five children, and I can only hope that you are all alive and well reading this letter together. I rested back, reading this letter, mystified and at a momentary loss, my mind running over everything, my mother didn’t know that I would be the Chosen One, not based on this letter, did she ever know that? Then I thought of the Mother, she said she didn’t send people back often after returning McKenna and Nona, was my mother another one? I blinked shaking my head, continuing. There are five rings children, here are four of them, one for Water, Earth, Fire and Air, however I am missing the fifth and most important ring for The Chosen One – Aether. At this time I am unable to continue searching for said ring as I am now in hiding more now than before. The four rings have owners, placed in the right hands they will help The Chosen One, they will need to learn how to manipulate their Elements, become one with them, it is the only way in which the Chosen one and those with Elemental power will conquer the Elders. You will have by the time coming into this letter, more than not, heard many things about me and I will say that I’m not the perfect person and as your mother I ask that you stay on the side of goodness and act on the side of goodness.  “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” Edmund Burke has said and I believe in those words. I have committed crimes I must admit but they are necessary if The Chosen One were to be triumphant.  The first three people I have killed were Elders, I was able to transfer all their energy into three violins many years ago, and left them with the right people. If you are reading this letter it means that you’ve found them, using one of the three keys I’ve spelled to open this chest when the time came. The Seer woman that told me of my fortune told me that I would produce five heirs, so I have placed the stolen energy in three violins, to release the Energy for absorption three of my heirs or later descendants must play the music on the scroll in the presence of the Chosen One. I am not sure if the Chosen One will know this or be told but children for everyone to survive the absorption there must be at least twenty people. The Chosen One will be choosing those he or she see fit to replace the Elders; I do hope the chose better than my father. Please advise he or she to have different shifters as well as humans if they can be trusted. The absorption will have changes on all of your lives, increasing any and all gifts with Elemental basis. According to what I have over heard when working with the Elders, if humans have gathered energy it will affect their aging, slowing it down – however I am unaware of if aging is halted completely. Please pass this knowledge on. I paused, my eyes squinting, curiously wondering what the state of mind of my mother was like, as she wrote this letter, and the struggle that she endured to do all this only to not be around when everything was happening.