Daeira was continuously walking along the dark hallway. She was without direction nor have any destination in mind but her thoughts were in a chaotic mess. Those dread scenes kept on replaying her mind again and again.
I deserve to die.
I must die.
She kept on chanting to herself.
Her feet only stopped upon reaching the topmost part of that old and dark castle. She stepped out the light of the moon and a stinking wind filled the surrounding. Looking up blankly, the huge white moon was slowly being embraced with darkness.
At the center of that area, she continued looking up the moon before she slowly raised the dagger to her neck this time. But her attention was stolen to the comforting warmness on her wrist. When she looked at it, she realized it was the lava bracelet.
The one that the Aryan king gave her.
Seeing it only brought tears to her eyes. She realized, if she h
Quero and Mako began to fear exceedingly as they beheld what transpired in the monitor. The black metals constraining the Aryan king were slowly disentangling with the increase of the intensity of his wild thrashing. In the monitor, while watching it happening, they made a step back as if seeing for themselves their deaths any given moment now. However, before they could take another step, a whiff of blood entered the door. Both had worn a crease on their foreheads, confused over its sudden appearance of unknown dust in there. The red fairy dust danced gently as if the room was filled with a breeze. It looked harmless at first glance. However, both Mako and Quero saw it for its real purpose in coming in there in particular. "That is no ordinary dust.Run." Mako said in dread and made a step back, directing his eyes to the dancing scarlet dust in fright. Quero's stepped to the left side and Mako to the right. However, the scarlet dust gave them no b
Hakyi and Osiris had suffered a great deal of blood loss with their open wounds and fresh cuts when the Aryan king had his uncontrolled aura leaking off everywhere. The mere aura of the king shook the ground, it activated the sleeping volcanoes, it disturbed the seas and skies. Not just in Agartha but also in the surface world. The hunter saw he was no longer moving from where he was now as if he had given up on everything after he felt the cold body of his queen on the dirty bricked floor. His eyes are now filled with nothing but darkness, hatred, regret, and anger. GD was no longer screaming nor even crying. He just stayed on his knees in front of his unmoving queen. They can't even voice out anything now, understanding the king's turmoil and desire to just end everything including his life. His life was connected tightly to the planet in which his shift of strength would also greatly affect the blue planet. Peopl
Fiveweekslater... Leera was walking along the hallway towards the king's throne. When she was at the door, the doorkeepers opened it for her to get in. However, Leera was only greeted with a kingless throne in there. "If you're looking for the king, he already left to the surface to see her," Kakero said. "Again?"Leeraasked. "He'sbeenholdingupforlong."thechiefofcentaurssaid. "Bringingbackthequeenmeansshewouldgethermemoriesbackaboutthedevastationthathappenedinhere."Kakeropointedout. "We can't do anything about it and just wait until the king decides if he wanted to bring her back or what. The leaders are still in debate whether to reinstate Daeira back after what she did." The chief centaurs did. "It
Daeira, silently sat in the corner of the train station while she put on her headset. She felt a little worn out after she had visited her dad's grave and offered flowers she bought from the little allowance she saved that her stepmother gave her. She closed her eyes and leaned over her side, thankful that the young man beside her didn't budge nor pushed her away. "Just for a bit," she said to the man without bothering on looking up. The man's eyes turned to her sleeping face before he looked to a certain direction where two of his companions eyed him with alertness. Hakyi and Osiris, now dressed up like an ordinary human would, paid their king with alertness most especially that they didn't expect Daeira, the bride, to be seated beside the Aryan king in that train. They'd been following her since she left her house this morning only to find her on her father's grave and cried in there for quite some time. "It'salright."he&nb
Daeira was awed at how extraordinarily beautiful was everything right now. She thought she was in the family garden but she was mistaken. Looking at how soft the grasses to her bare feet, she smiled cheerfully. There was an abundance of flowers in there as well as the butterflies resting on the beauties of the plants. "Enjoyingmuch?" AvoicestoleDaeirafrombathingfromthoseunearthlysightingsassheturnedtoherback. "GD-ah! You came..." she greeted and hopped towards him this time. She saw how he looked so elegantly dressed in a matte black coat laced with golden seams. Her smile faltered as she stopped just in front of him noticing how he was in contrast to how she first met him. His hair pulled neatly backward, a pair of earrings to his left ear and a different color shade on his eyes. Pure scarlet. As if fresh blood bleed out to his very irises.
"Stand up, woman." He ordered in the chilliest demeanor as if he was close to murdering somebody.When Daeira did so, she eased up her aching knees and faced him as he stood up and trained her eyes towards the frozen figure of Heoshe, Hani, and Kimie."These insignificant humans hit you and brought you to your knees?" he asked darkly. His eyes were almost a replica of hell when he regarded the unmoving stepmother and stepsisters of Daeira."Oh, it's alright. I'm used to it anyway." Daeira said while she grinned at him but the tears that escaped her eyes betrayed her true feeling which in return made him frowned. She chuckled while she wiped those away. "It must be the slap." she explained the tears.GD approached her first and touched her cheek and mumbled a strange language before she felt the coldness that predicated his words. Her eyes rounded when there was no more pain on her cheeks and on her knees. As if it never even occurred.
Hakyi and Osiris were both nervous upon their entrance on the king's throne. The clacking of their boots as they stepped closer to the king seemed like the only thing that could be heard in the vastness of the place.The chief centaur as well as the chief of satyrs had their heads in a bow before the king. It seemed like they had relayed very unpleasant news to the king, making the atmosphere in the kingdom charged with heaviness and darkness.When the eyes of the Aryan king flickered towards them, Hakyi and Osiris fell down to one of their knees and had their heads bowed before him. Whether they wanted to escape the king's wrath or not, they had no choice but to relay their own news they brought from the surface world."Where is the bride?" The Aryan king began to inquire and it took a long time before one of the hunters had the strength to answer."We've lost the bride, your highness." Hakyi was the one to break such news into which made t
It would be a lie if Leera will say that she wasn't worried about Daeira's well-being whenever she was with the king. Though what she saw for that night would tell her that the king won't kill the bride out of the blue. But she learned of Hakyi and Osiris's animosity towards the bride after it was confirmed from their source how she was compromised by the Nazis and agreed to bring down the Aryan king when the time comes.IfDaeira'ssoulwon'tbereapedbythekinghimself,itmightbethroughthehunters'.Leera remembered to be severely reprimanded by the chief of her tribe to stop stalking the bride and just let the king decide what he wish to do with his bride."He'sgonnaendupkillingherandthecounselsarepushinghimtodoso."Leerareasonedwiththechieftribe.Th
With one girl running happily in the large hallway towards the king's court, the Minotaur couldn't even do something about it. The girl stopped on the wide door towards the court. The court's door was where two very strict Minotaur was guarding there. But her eyes lifted to the two huge gatekeepers and smiled sweetly to them."Greetingsdeargatekeepers,"shepolitelysaidwithacurtsy."Iwishtoseedaddy."OneMinotaurapproachedthegirlandsquattedtolookatherineyelevel."Princess Denayah, the king is in discussion with his hunters. You may tarry at the waiting parlor for the moment. I'll alert the fairies to serve you some delicious food.""I already have my fill, Kintha." Denayah said in round eyes. "I'm afraid, my business is also of great importance. So, I beseech you and your company to let m
Leera shot her hand up above her head to call the attention of the two men who got inside the noisy club. She smiled mischievously when both Hakyi and Osiris were asked out by random women in skimpy clothing as they tried to get through the wild crowd. "Youbothalright?"Sheaskedwithagrin. "Thisisn'ttherendezvouswetalkedabout,Leera."Hakyicomplained. "I know. Where's the fun in following what we discussed?" Leera only said and sipped the drink she ordered from the bartender. "You said you got something to tell us about the royal family." Osiris pointed out and looked around. " And this isn't conducive place to discuss such matter." "Hey, go away." Hakyi just managed to scare off a guy who sat beside Leera. He then sat to the seat that the random guy unwillingly vacated. Osiris sat on Leera's left side, unintentionally forming a protective b
Daeira had woken up to the sounds of thundering after lightning stroke the sky. When she did so, she was greeted with the darkness inside her room and the rain waters hitting her window pane. Wincing over the headache, she bolted up from the bed and rubbed her eyes with sleepiness. The clock on the desk beside the bed only indicated that it was only midnight. But it almost felt like she had slept very long with that strange dream of the man. She frowned when she can't remember his name again while she racked her head for his name. None. Then she looked for her memo, remembering that she wrote his name on his dream on her pink memo card. Crazy but she did look for the memo on her drawer but it wasn't there. She had no idea why she felt uneasy all of the sudden while she frustratingly turned to her back again and found nothing in there. Her dreams inside her mind slowly became blurry for more seconds past and she was closed to forgetting the look of that
Back into her own room and ignoring how very silent the night was, Daeira was still staring at those two PTs that she did a while ago with the doctor. It was more than enough to make her quit her class for the day and go straight to her home. She even ignored those people in the house while she locked herself inside her room. Whywasshepregnant? Why? She didn't remember she gave herself into someone. Unless if she have gone wild into drinking and rocked one night stand, there was no other way for her to get pregnant out of nowhere. Bringing her hand to her stomach, it felt strange for her to feel so but it seemed to feel like there was indeed life inside her. "I'm pregnant," she said to herself and only there was the silence of her room. "I'm pregnant?" she blinked in confusion before she collapsed herself into the cushion of her bed and hugged her pillow in contemplation. "I'mpregnant?
Daeira had no idea if she should be thankful for the accompaniment of the strange guy or what. But his presence definitely put her in a good mood as she was buying for groceries. Upon reaching the counter, she looked at the goods being ran into the scanner. She wasn't planning on buying much. Most especially for herself. Her stepmom only gave her enough for the groceries for that day and she got a little saving she kept hidden from them. When the cashier said how much the bill was, she felt her throat dry when it went over the budget. "Here."theguygaveablackcardtothecashierwhoseeyesglintedinastonishmentathim. Of course Daeira what the black card entailed. Only 1% of Korea's population owned such. And that one percent belonged to the richest of the riches. She secretly observed him and realized that she hadn't introduced hersel
Hakyi and Osiris bowed their head when the Aryan king had arrived in a form of the black falcon. Despite the rain, they waited outside the balcony until the king had arrived. Back to his true form, they made way for him as he silently trudged his way inside the room, ignoring the dripping of rainwater from all over his wet robe and his disheveled lux.Following from behind him, Osiris and Hakyi remained their distance to the king even until he had himself collapsed to the couch and stared blankly in the wall."Howisit,yourhighness?"Hakyidaredtoinquire.There was a small smile drawn in his lips while he continuously directed his eyes to the empty white granite wall of Daeira's room in a mansion named for her. But of course, this place stayed unknown to the Aryan queen after all her recollections about Agartha were wiped out clean and taken by the prince of the reaper, Sirius, in exchange for not
Daeira absentmindedly looked outside her window, ignoring the cackling of her stepsisters down below along with her stepmother. The rain drops hitting the leaves of the trees outside seemed to be fascinating to her eyes right now. The sky was darkening when it was only three in the afternoon.It was the doing of the dark clouds and the heavy outpour of the rain outside. Nevertheless, there was that presence of one sole black falcon in one of the branch of the tree.Thatblackbirdagain.Its eyes filled only with pure scarlet in color and its feathers were obviously drenched with rain but it seemed unfazed as it only looked at her straight in the eyes.Instead of being scared, she felt very familiar with it. Maybe it was due to the fact that rain or shine, it always visited her.Lifting her right hand, she waved at the bird and smiled brightly at it. Her brows slightly raised when she thought she saw the
A day only passed after Leera's conversation with the chief tribe and her mind was still in a muddled mess. She kept on thinking the chief's words. In her vision, she definitely saw Daeira be a blessing to the king. Has she missed something when the vision came to her? Or did she misinterpret it?The fact that even the tribe chief confirmed that the king will certainly love his bride was already a blessing. So, to consider it a curse was unfortunate. She had no idea when would vision come again to let her see things far ahead.Although she was bid not to stalk the royal couple anymore, Leera was too stubborn to be hampered with just mere words. Besides, she heard that there will be a wedding in Thule which the Aryan king and his bride were invited to attend. She'll definitely go and see the royal couple in the excuse of the wedding ceremony.**************************************************************************Reaching the city of Thule, Leera
It would be a lie if Leera will say that she wasn't worried about Daeira's well-being whenever she was with the king. Though what she saw for that night would tell her that the king won't kill the bride out of the blue. But she learned of Hakyi and Osiris's animosity towards the bride after it was confirmed from their source how she was compromised by the Nazis and agreed to bring down the Aryan king when the time comes.IfDaeira'ssoulwon'tbereapedbythekinghimself,itmightbethroughthehunters'.Leera remembered to be severely reprimanded by the chief of her tribe to stop stalking the bride and just let the king decide what he wish to do with his bride."He'sgonnaendupkillingherandthecounselsarepushinghimtodoso."Leerareasonedwiththechieftribe.Th