King Cyrus was glad to hear that Alex would be joining them on their plan of invading Gishon. The King gave the young warrior training ground to conduct his work. The King had managed to recruit at least four hundred young men. Alex began training the first fifty. Meanwhile in Aota. Two days had passed, King Stephen took his horse and rode to the Oak river forest early in the morning, before the sun could even rise. He sat on a rock and waited. Carmen finally arrived, she placed her ship carefully outside the water then tied it to a large tree then hid it with old tree branches that had been laying on the ground. She saw a man on a rock and was startled. She stood behind one of the trees and observed him, he looked calm and innocent. Which meant she was not in any danger. Carmen continued to walk. She passed the man with her head held high hoping he would not speak with her. And if the man would ever speak to her, she told herself that she would ignore him. King Stephen observed Carm
Carmen returned after a few minutes with logs of wood then placed them on the ground carefully. She arranged them accordingly then made a fire using two rocks. The wood ignited. "May you borrow me your sword." She said. The King took out his sword then handed it over to Carmen.She began to remove the skin of the animal. She was quick. "How did you learn to do these thing's?" The King asked. "I read books before. Then taught myself when I arrived in the wilderness. " She said. Carmen inserted the sharp point of the sword in the deers mouth,till the point showed in the other side of the deer. She used logs to balance the deer as the fire burned it thoroughly. Cooking it from within,to the outside. When the meat was cooked. Carmen cut the meat into pieces with sword she was using. She placed it on a clean plastic table she had in her ship. "Eat!" She said. The King was in doubt, but a small taste of the meat tantalized his taste buds. He began to eat."It taste good,doesn't it?"
Carmen stayed hidden for a week, but one day Nicholas tried to sneak into the King's bedroom as soon as his brother had left with to attend his business. Nicholas had a spare King which he had made without the King's knowledge a long time ago. Carmen heard the turning of the key. She assumed it was the King, therefore she continued to lay on the bed while reading a book. She was startled when another man entered. He resembled the King, but he was much shorter and leaner in body size. Nicholas was just as surprised. "Who are you?" He asked. The King had forgotten something, he went back to the bedroom and saw door wide open. He never worried. He ran inside and found Nicholas standing there in the centre of the bedroom looking at Carmen. "Have you lost something in my bedroom" the King asked, quite irritated by his brother. "No not really, I thought I heard something. Excuse me." Said Nicholas. "Are you alright, did he touch you or do anything you did not like?" "No he didn't,is
A few days later, rumours had spread about King Stephen. "My Lord I have come to warn you. The people are saying evil things about you." Said Gideon,one day as the King was in his library finalising the finances of the country. "What King of evil things?" "They are saying you have abducted a woman and are treating her as your sex slave instead of marrying her." The King was shocked. "But that is not true. I do agree that I have been hiding a woman but she is not my slave and I have never abducted her." Gideon stood silently.Surprised by the King's confession. He himself did not know the King had a woman hidden in his room. "My Lord. I suggest that you marry her before a war comes to your door." "You are correct by saying so. I will ask the woman, if she is now ready to marry as I have also been waiting for her to approve my proposal." Gideon's hate eased. His King was a good man afterall. "Must I send out invites regarding the wedding?" "No do not worry. I will firstly disc
The following morning, invitations were sent out to the citizen's of Aota,concerning the royal wedding. Some invitations also went to Kineti as well as Gishon. Some of King Cyrus's wealthy friend's, arrived in Aota. A dress maker arrived at the palace she took Carmen's measurements and adjusted one of the wedding dresses that were already available in her wedding store. The royal cooks made a feast. Four cows were killed, to serves the people. The King also bought a new blazer, white in colour. Carmen was applying make up, when her father entered the bedroom. "My dear Carmen. You seem do happy." Said the King. ."I am happy father. King Stephen has been good to me and very patient.""But is he truly worth it? You never even told me how the both of you met." Carmen chuckled. "I will tell you when I am less stressed about this wedding." She said."Do you think I did wrong?" "Did wrong with what?" "Killing Fiona?" Carmen turned her gaze to her father. "I have never seen you tak
Marriage to King Stephen was great in the first three years. Carmen had still not voice out her opinion on the matter that had been bothering her in a long time. She had grown in a royal palace, she was mindful at how her father was Ruling Kineti. She compared Aota and Kineti. She saw that their financial situations was almost similar, as well as their way of doing things, however Aota did not have enough strong warriors. Only Gideon was the strongest among them all, hence he had been giving the position to lead. That proved rather dangerous as their enemies could destroy the country with one war. The Queen was restless over the matter. She finally found the courage to open her thoughts. "My King, I have been meaning to speak with you about a certain matter." She said, in a trembling voice. By paying full attention to his wife, the king was able to recognise the fear in his wife as she spoke. He placed the ink as well as the paper he had been working on and gave Carmen his full atte
Carmen returned back to Aota. King Stephen was waiting patiently for her arrival. "My lady, you finally arrived. I have been worried." Said the King. "But my King, I told you that I will return right away. You worry needlessly." "Did Alex agree?" "He told me he will tell me. I do not know what has happened between Alex and I. We were best friends once. But know he has been treating me like a stranger. We are not as close as we used to be." Said Carmen"When did you realise that he was treating you strange?" "As soon as I married King Darius. Perhaps he does not want to overstep the boundary. I am a Queen afterall." "Alternatively,he could have feelings for you." Carmen laughed. "That is not possible. We have been friends for too long. I could have noticed something by now." She said. "Perhaps he is hiding his feelings from you." "Then he does good by hiding them if indeed he does have them,which I do not believe even for a second." King Stephen did not want to overthink th
Meanwhile in Kineti, Jordan was finally free to open up to the King about what he had been hiding all along. "Old friend it has been a long time." Said King Cyrus as Jordan was making his way into the library,where he was most certain he would find him. "I did not come here to stay long,I only needed to speak and perhaps get a second opinion." "You want advise?" The King asked,with a surprised look. "You can say that. Do you still remember that night when I was in Shiandra's room?" "Old friend, I told you to forget her " "Sigh, I saw who I thought was Alex on my doorstep. I opened up for this person and even gave them my meal.." The King interrupted. "What do you mean when you say, you though the person was Alex?" "The person pretended to be my son. I suddenly fell down after having tasted the wine in my glass which I had left on the table as I was dishing up for this person who looked like my son. I began to tremble,I remember not being able to breath properly and unable to
Hours passed The prophet's as well as Ingrid,Theresa, Alex and Carmen all stood at the palace gate with King Cyrus and his army. Shiandra and her army of vampire's arrived, twenty five in total. They stood ten metres in front of the palace gate. "You call that an army?" King Cyrus mocked. "You should not laugh too soon. Attack!" Shiandra commanded. . The vampire's ran to the gate. Theresa formed a protective, transparent barrier to keep them from the prophets, Alex and everyone else from harm. Shiandra's vampire's could not get through. They pushed but could not enter. "This will not hold for long." Theresa shouted. The prophet's fired their arrows to distract the vampire's. King Cyrus's warrior's drew their swords to the distracted vampire's and striked them on their hearts,killing them. Five vampire's however managed to escape. Noracian warrior's as well as those of Aota came forth, Shiandra commanded the Aotan warrior's to attack first. King Cyrus commanded the Kineti warri
Carmen organised a chariot, they both left for Gishon to see father Jonathan at the Zion church. When they arrived, the Archbishop welcomed both of them. There was no congregant fortunately. "Father,I brought with me a guest. A desperate advisor from the house of Kish. She wants to help." Said the Queen. "I know who she is. Ingrid, the first woman in Noracia, who even as the circumstances did not favor her managed to become the first female advisor in Noracia. I know her history." "I am humbled. I did not know that I was known here " said Ingrid. "Ingrid would like to assist us with what we need, whether it be funding, whether it be creating more crossbows,she earnestly hopes to destroy Shiandra too." "I hear you well, but where is prince Uzriel. He needs to also be a part of us." Said the Archbishop"Prince Uzriel will not be joining us as I placed him in a safe place, a ship beneath the water. He can only come out when the war is over. As he and princess Ashah who unfortunately
Meanwhile Shiandra was at Noracia, in the form of Prince Uzriel. She had been observing the prince's movement's and noticed that he spend most of his time in his Science room, researching. She saw the greatest opportunity for immitating him. "Ingrid, I will be in the science room for some time. I would to show you what I have found. That is if you are not occupied." Said the prince. "I would be glad to. We can go." Ingrid and the prince went to the science room together. While Shiandra transformed into what looked like the prince himself. She commanded two of the warrior's that were standing guard at the palace gate to bring all the warrior's to the training ground as she wanted to speak to all of them."Men and women I come to you as your prince. And I asked that you take heed to my word's as what I have to say will be of great significance to all of you."said Shiandra. The witch took out the seed of persuasion from her pockets and began to chew it. She then continued to speak.
Morning arrived,Carmen took an early bath. The King prepared breakfast and they ate. "Will you continue with what you said last night?" The King asked. "Nicholas is our enemy, he works with Shiandra. He has to die." "Then hire a warrior. You have not killed a man in your life. Of you do this then you will have to live with it." "Father,I am well aware of the consequences that I will have to face for this. I know that killing a man is not the ideal thing to do. I also know that I will not hire anyone because I am not a normal simple being,I am a hybrid and I never miss my prey." Said the Queen. King Cyrus gave his daughter a warm hug. "I believe in you my child. Make sure you do not die." He said. Carmen simply smiled. She took a horse and rode to Aota. Killing Nicholas would have to be done during the day as vampire's were more vulnerable during the day than at night. Besides Nicholas was not even that strong as he was not feeding on human blood. Killing him with one strike t
Late evening, Carmen, Rita and King Cyrus all went to the Zion church in a chariot. Father Jonathan greeted them and so did the prophet's. Carla was not present at the meeting this time,however Theresa was. "We are gathered here tonight to speak about what we discovered in ishrat." Said the Archbishop. "Does Ishrat have demon's as well as hot lava?" Carmen asked. "It is the most ugliest place to be in. It does not have lava just red ugly soil." Said Kira. "Theresa advised us to rest, we did as she said. We then attacked Shiandra's vampire's unexpectedly unfortunately some managed to escape while most if them died." "What about Shiandra?" King Cyrus asked. "She was not in Ishrat. It was as if she knew we were coming " said Rita. "Are you saying that we might have someone helping her?" Carmen asked. "It is possible" said father Jonathan"I have been keeping an eye out on Shiandra's since we last attacked her children. Last night I saw King Nicholas carrying a human head, then en
The following morning Ingrid went to Princess Ashah's room only to find her body there laying on the ground with no head. She screamed. Prince Uzriel ran to her. “What is going on, why are you screaming?” He asked. Ingrid pointed to the ground, Prince Uzriel entered the room and moved closer till he saw a body on the ground. He covered his mouth in shock when he realised it was his sister. “No no!” he shouted. The prince knelt to the ground and began to weep. “Who did this?” He shouted. “I do not know, I found her in that condition when I entered just now.I will tell the guards to look around for any clues that the killer might have left.” said Ingrid, running out of the room. Prince Uzriel covered his sister’s body with a sheet then left the room. “Where are you going?” Ingrid asked. “The people need to know that their princess has been killed.” Said the prince. “I will send out letters to the royal families from the other countries that surround us.” said Ingrid. Princ
Meanwhile Carmen was in the office working herself tiressly. Shiandra came to her in the form of Creselda, while the real Creselda was in her room sleeping from the witch's spell. "My lady I know that I'm only just a cook here but can you please tell me about the school you are building." Said Creselda's lookalike. The Queen smiled. She was glad to see a servant showing interest in the school. "Take a seat." She said. Creselda pulled a chair and sat."What you need to know about the school is written on that paper." Said the Queen, giving Creselda an A4 paper with writings on it. "Is it truly possible that when I finish my studies I will get employment in positions that only men used to occupy?" "Yes it is possible. This is something I longed for many years ago." "Is it also possible that I can become a female warrior as well?" Creselda asked,looking intensely at the Queen. "You can become what you want. The laws are gradually changing, soon enough we will be a free country l
Meanwhile in Ishrat. "Is there any water here for us to bath?" Kira asked. "I don't know. I haven't really walked that long to see any water and I don't think it would be wise to use the water here." Said Carla. Theresa entered the room, the prophet's were all awake, but still laying in their beds. "There won't be any bathing until you leave Ishrat. The water here is poisonous and it's filled with evil. Drinking the water,is inviting demon's into your body. You will hear evil voices commanding you to do as they wish." Said Theresa. The prophet's began to whisper. "Is it safe for us to go to Shiandra's cave now?" The Archbishop asked. "They are tired during this time. They are stronger in the night time. We can go." Said Theresa. "She is telling the truth. Vampire's are weak during the day but strong during the night time. We might be able to defeat them." Said Carla. "Then we leave now." Said Father Jonathan waking up from his bed. The prophet's also woke up and carried their
Early in the morning Carmen took a horse and returned to Aota. It was a sunny Saturday morning and Alex had been waiting for the Queen to arrive. And when she entered the palace, he quickly ran to her from the sitting room where he had been waiting. "I thought I smelt you." Said Carmen. "You smelt me?" "I meant,I thought I heard you. Well I was hoping to you but I did not expect to see you this early." The Queen felt uncomfortable about telling people the things she felt and could hear from a distance. She was afterall the child of a hybrid. She knew much would be expected from her."We never speak as much as we used to." Said Alex with a frown on his face. "We never seem to rest. Our tasks never seem to end. But I am glad that you came. Your presence will always be appreciated." Alex smiled. "I'm very humbled to hear those words. I know that I may be just a friend but I wondered if you could be able to join me on my fishing activity. You won't have to hunt for any fish, I will