King Stephen had finally gained his energy back, he took a hot bath then found Carmen sitting in the dining room, grabbing an holding turkey with both hands. "My God! Is that an entire turkey?" The King asked. Carmen gave the King a stare,while chewing the pieces of meat with her teeth.King Stephen chuckled, then went to the kitchen. He found a new cook busy washing the pots. "Who are you and where is Mrs Miller?" Lilly rolled her eyes,before turning to the King with a wide smile on her face. "Mrs Miller is my mother, she has asked me to help her with her duties as she is very ill to come." "Oh. Well it's nice to finally meet you Lilly. Your mother always talked about you." "Good things I hope." Said Lilly. "Yes good things. Please don't be alarmed by my wife, she seems to love meat, i am used to her. Can you prepare two more turkeys. I am starving." "Yes my Lord." Said Lilly. The King returned to the dining room, Carmen was finished with her meal. She took her plate to the
The night was short. Morning arrived quickly. Nicholas arrived at the palace. Eager to speak with the king, who at the time was still laying on bed, resting from exhaustion. Nicholas entered at the palace gate, Carmen could hear him from her bedroom. She put on her gown and walked to the kitchen, Lilly was already preparing breakfast. They exchanged greetings. Before Nicholas could go upstairs, Carmen was behind me. "Stop!" she commanded. Nicholas turned his gaze toward the Queen."Pardon?" he said. "My husband is asleep and you arrived too early." "I always come early in the morning." "But we both know that is not true. You sometimes arrive at six in the morning, while in other days, you arrive here at nine in the morning." said Carmen. Nicholas walked closer to the Queen. "Then you must forgive my intrusion. May I see my brother now, your highness?" he asked. "The queen has laid her command. You will have to wait. I will see you at nine. I will be ready then." said The ki
Nicholas paid Shiloh a visit, he found her with Kevin. They exchanged greetings and hugged. "When did Kevin arrive?" Nicholas asked. "His father brought him this very morning. I went to your house but I did not find you." said Shiloh. "Forgive me my love. I was at the palace. I wish I could install some sense in my brother. He is become sloppy. Its disgusting." "My lord, you need to show your power. Then he will respect you. Your word will be final. You told me that he suggested new laws, but you never told me which laws." "He suggested that the old laws to change. That women must be equal to men." "Equal in which way?" "That women must also attend schools when they are supposed to be building their homes." "I think that is an excellent suggestion. Not all women want to marry and build the home, others want to build as well as be educated." Nicholas frowned. "My love but that is not how my father got his power." "My love, you should accept new change and be your own type of
"What is the meaning of this?" The king asked. "We are having a conversation. That is all." said Carmen. "You! what are you doing here with my wife?" King Stephen asked with rage in his eyes. "Forgive me my King I am the one who spoke with Carmen. I only needed someone to speak with." said Alex. "Did I not make it clear that I do not like my wife with another man close to her? You say you are childhood friends, yet you constantly come here to the garden and meet like lovers." Carmen stood from the bench. "My lord Alex did nothing wrong, I forced him into a conversation." she said. "Carmen go into the bedroom. I will speak with you there alone." The king commanded, his face red and his palms full of sweat. Nicholas was amused as he watched Carmen walking away quietly. The King grabbed her suddenly and slapped her across the face. Alex was shocked, Nicholas was shocked, Carmen was also shocked. "I never want to see you standing close with another man ever again. That behaviour
The following day early in the morning, one of the servants that had been helping Jordan arrived at the palace. Alex that his father had passed on. The king organized a burial that very same day. Back in Aota. Alex was still on the training ground, when a servant came to him and gave him the letter. He recognised the servant. She had been helping his father, but he never bothered to ask for her name, he never bothered to ask all those servants that were helping Jordan their names not even as a child. They came and they went but he was not interested in knowing any of them. The servant left even before he could ask her to give him her name. Alex placed the letter into his bag, then continued to train. When it was time to end the day's training. He went to his room and began to read the letter. Carmen was at the time, trying to find a name for the new school that the King was planning to build, while Nicholas and the King were trying to find a suitable plan to finance the school as we
The following day, King Cyrus woke up early to prepare breakfast. He was reluctant to hire a servant that would handle his food, ever since his previous cook had carelessly left a pot opened and he found flies having a feast on what was supposed to be his supper. There was a bath in each bedroom, all the king's guests did not have to take turns when bathing. They all sat in the dining room, while King Cyrus served them yeast bread, cheese as well as eggs and coffee. "Father, we have to see Alex before he leaves. He has to know that we really do care about him" Said Carmen. King Cyrus nodded. King Stephen was still slightly irritable but he did not want to lose his wife. Therefore supported her decisions. "Brother I shall have to inform you that I have some business to attend in Aota right away. I will not be able to come with you." said Nicholas. "Alright then. Travel safe." "Thank you." Nicholas took a horse and rushed to Aota. He already had a plan in mind about how he would
A small cabin in the middle of the woods. Where a well known prophetess lived, who also happened to be his sister. Gideon did not even knock on the door as his sister was standing there. "Rita,please help me."he said. The prophetess made a way to let his brother through. Rita was often mistaken for a witch as she loved to wear long black dresses, black eye shadow, black lipstick, black bangles as well as black long hair. "Put him on the flat ground." Rita commanded. Gideon did as he was told. Rita opened one of her kitchen drawers, then grabbed a bottle of medicine and returned back to where Alex was. "This medicine will help ease your pain." Said Rita, pouring the medicine inside Alex's mouth. In response, he moaned in pain. "You are hurting him!" Gideon shouted. "No, I am healing him." "But why is he screaming in pain?""The medicine does that. But after a few minutes,he won't feel anymore pain." Said Rita. Indeed after only two minutes Alex stopped moaning, he eased dow
When morning arrived, David and his colleagues went on to search for Alex. They looked for him in many of the lodges in Noracia but still could not find him. David returned back to his home disappointed. "Where could he be?" Emily wondered. She then wrote a letter to Carmen informing her that she did not know where Alex was and that he never arrived at their home. Gideon was in the food market when he heard rumours about the search for Alex by David. He immediately went to his sister's house and reported the matter to Alex. "Carmen must have told them I came here, she's worried about me." Said Alex, even though he was sad, he had a tint of joy in his heart. "Yes indeed she is. She is not as friendly as she used to be. She's more angry than happy. And in some days, she is friendly and happy." "Oh no. And how is the King taking this?" "He doesn't complain it much. However I once heard him speak to the Queen about it. They seemed happy the following day." "She probably lied to hi
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