Chapter 2: Ten Years Before the End Gasp!

Gasp!

Water splashed all over the floor as a female silhouette jumped out of the water. Both her hands gripped tightly to the edge of the bathtub while she breathed heavily. There was no pain in her chest, and when she pressed her palm against the place where the tail had gone through her, she felt only warm and unbroken skin.

"I'm alive. I'm alive." She screamed out in shock as she tried to pull herself out of the water when the door opened up and an older lady rushed in.

"Lady Mira. Are you alright?" She looked up to the owner of the voice, a voice she remembered from a time when the world was still whole, and the shock sent her hurling back into the water.

"Ghost, ghost..." She cried out loudly as she stared at the face of the person she least expected to see. Someone who should be dead long ago.

"Lady Mira... Calm yourself... It's Dina, your personal maid." The lady reassured as she stepped closer.

The fear on Mira's face increased as she stared at the lady that was moving closer to her. "Stop." She commanded and the lady stopped walking. "Dina is dead long ago... The Demon Dragon must be playing tricks with me."

"I was never dead, Lady Mira. I've been with you preparing you for this day... Today's the day of your engagement and Lady Cromwell has commanded that I prepare you for the banquet." Dina bowed to her lady.

Mira struggled to interpret what Dina was saying. 'You can't play tricks with me, Dragon. My mother was killed years ago and the day of my engagement was ten years ago... that was the day I got sold to a man who treated me as nothing but property...' She searched Dina's face for the lie and found only the same worry the maid had always worn whenever her mistress was in trouble, which only confused her more.

'Wait...' As Mira's thoughts formed in her mind, her eyes trailed to her chest and she saw that it was fully intact. There's no hole in her chest and she couldn't feel any pain...

'Is it just me, or why do my breasts seem smaller?' She also looked at her hands and discovered that they were smooth and delicate... A far contrast to what she used to be. Her hands seemed like someone that hasn't got hold of a weapon before and that alone caused her heart to skip a beat.

She quickly swam closer to Dina as she looked around the room. It was familiar, so familiar... The silk curtains, the carved dresser by the window, and even the small crack in the marble beside the basin that she had made as a child and long forgotten, each one a detail that only the younger Mira could have known.

"Dina. Where are we?" She asked even though she already knew what the answer would be.

"We are in the Cromwell Mansion, Lady Mira, and this is your private chamber." Dina answered without batting an eye.

Mira's eyes widened as the thought finally dawned on her. 'I've returned to the past.' She counted the years in her mind and realized that the engagement was ten years before the end.. She was returned ten years into the past.

A mix of excitement and anxiety gnawed at the back of her mind as she jumped out of the bathtub, her black hair spraying water all over Dina's body but the maid dared not complain.

"I've been given a second chance... and this time I'll change everything..." She said as her thoughts flashed back to her battle with the Dragon.

"Just you wait, Bastard Dragon... I'll prove you wrong... I'll show you what happens when you underestimate a woman..."

Dina just stared at her confused wondering if her lady had gone mad... Only if she knew that the Mira in front of her isn't the Mira she once knew.

The Strongest Female Warrior has returned to rewrite her fate.