The Young Masked King: Jester King

Chapter 11:

Chapter 11: "A guest who had arrived that once never been wanted, proudly joined his game onto the table like his invited. Eventually disposing all of the pawns, collecting and placing them back is the only way before it dawns."

*Sedna, the day before she arrived at the Celestial kingdom's Capital city.

Me inside my parent's car, letting my head to peak a little outside the window, while my nose tracked a pleasant smell of the air outside that had quickly been flattened by the fifthly smell of old gasoline, eventually invaded my mind. My mind that has been empty since my birth, and currently being drained more by the cage the society had set. The growl of my father's car stings my ears, as well as the rampage of my mother to my little brother Eris to settle down. I myself is very excited because it's been almost like forever since I had seated on the couch of this car travelling with my family outside our region, even though that it's work related, at least we could stretch our arms to a different land.

"Eris, wake me up if we're already there!" I remarked that he nods in reply. Yet, just like what smaller kids do he still talks to me about some sort of wall in the capital city, not knowing that I am almost at the vast of my mind travelling more further than what our car could take.

Out of the blue, my eyes suddenly opened. Curls above my eyebrows formed while I rub my eyes, but even I had rubbed it harder the only thing that my eyes see is a pitch-black scenery.

"Where am I?" I whispered

"Hmm... that's odd a question to ask from the person who invited me here in the first place." A very familiar voice with a very strong intonation and an eastern Celestian accent, I quickly twist my body form where it came from and saw her, the one and only 'sasqueen of the Judicial court' and 'The Queen of the Young Masked king's chess board reign', Lady Ganymede Callisto.

I was going to bow at her when she suddenly kicked me right at my face, making me fell off the wet and damped floor with my bleeding nose.

"Tsk! Why am I surrounded with kids like you? I'm tired of being bowed down." She muttered then ordered me to sat with her. This made me wonder what she had meant on 'sat with her', then all of a sudden, an abaca glass table and chair had appeared behind her. Once I lay my derrière, she offered me some tea that I accept, obviously.

"Now can we start on playing?" She said with her right hand pointing at the chess board in front of us.

"Pardon me L-Lady Callisto, I-I don't know how to play and what do you meant by I invited you here?" She rolls her eyes then let out a sigh that made my hair all over my body to spike up with my heart races so hard. In a minute of silence and not moving anything on the board she began frowning, I softly excused my part for I really don't know how to and Lady Callisto will only grow bored on playing with a person like me.

"Tell me, what kind of person are you? Or more suitable, what piece are you? Of course, I am the queen, now tell me what are you that I could finally accept your excuse."

I gulped while sweats run through my head before saying to her that I am merely just a useless pawn. She suddenly scoffed then throwed the empty teacup directly at my head, it bounces at the board, knocking off almost all off the chess pieces except the black queen piece and white pawn.

"Don't spit trash!" She shouted then scratched her eyebrows while laughing devilishly "You truly like him, okay let's compare me to you 'pawn'. Yes, the queen could do everything, can go anywhere and the strongest among the rest while the latter, being a pawn is being in frontlines, the experimental piece, the one who faces the terror and the fear up-close. Seems very unequal right?" She then took the black queen and the white pawn and placed them beside to each other. "But for me, without the any chess rules shenanigans, the pawn is the toughest and the hero of the story. Why? Well just some cliché hero story, the hero always be the first to act up, the one who needs to feel the pain of being cornered being in front to save what it protects the most, the queen that its only job is to be the one to hit the final blow, or make your opponent wet in his seat for a little." Eventually she gathered every single pieces back at the board, then travelled her finger through the pawns at the front.