Daybreak

Truth Unveiled

Chief RJ
It’s been an hour or more since the chaos started but there are still a lot of foes. “What’s the matter? Are you tired?” King Magnus asked as he managed to drag me into the ground. I just smirked and fight back. “I’ll never get tired if it means to drag you down.” I swayed my sword on him that he immediately dodged. I’m proud enough that we will manage to finish all his evilness today, no matter what it takes. As long as the kids aren’t here, as long as they are far from the king, I know they’ll be safe. I was spacing out that I didn’t realize he throw his dagger towards me. It is inches away now. I want to dodge it but I can’t. I closed my eyes to wait for it to hit me, but it didn’t. I opened my eyes and saw a person’s back.

“Hey chief.” Tim? “What are you doing here?” I said in frustration. “Fighting with you.” He replied. I looked around and saw them. They came back? “I told you to go away. Why didn’t follow the plan?” “We did” I looked at Shelly who answered “we followed the plan. Our plan.” She added.

“Stop! Stop this nonsense!” The king shouted that made all the people stop. “How dare you rebels trespass in the kingdom and create this chaos!” “You ruined a royal ceremony! Abducted my daughter! And accuse me with a heinous crime that I didn’t and will never commit!” He added. There are still some citizens that are here who also joined in the fight. “As the king of Agartha, I punish them all…treason.” We looked at each other for what he said. Treason? Seriously? The guards pointed their guns on us that made us startled. They gathered us in the center. We have guns but we already lacked bullets. Daeng it!

The king walked at the center of the guards with his smirk. “Give up now. Apologize and admit your mistakes, by that I might be able to show a little mercy on you all.” He said looking straight at me. I look at my comrades and was even more shocked as I see their reactions. They don’t look afraid, they all look determined and dedicated. I smiled and look at the king. He knows already that I will not give up and his smile faded. “Finish them” He ordered and was about to walk back but someone shouted. “Wait!” Ysa shouted from the balcony of the palace. Oh, I didn’t notice that the kids aren’t complete here.

“Gwen!” Charlton shouted and looked up at her. She looked at the side of the palace and just ignored Charlton. We see Nigel, Vincent, and other people walking towards us with some things on their hands. “What is that?” I asked. “The plan” Ej replied. I looked at them and they are all smiling. Tim winked at me that made me more curious. So they really have an altered plan.

“These are just some of the corpse that we dig from the old garden of the palace!” A lady announced. I think she’s Leo’s sister since they look similar. “This, corpse…” She said and lied the corpse wrapped in blanket on the ground. Everyone was shocked because the corpse still has its flesh. “this is my brother’s. He was one of the rebels, I know. But it is because, he knows that the king was the one who murdered our parents. He ones reported it to the officials, but no one believed him. He followed the law of our kingdom, but the law is the one who made him turn his back to the kingdom itself. That’s when he decided to rebel. To reveal the truth behind our parent’s death!” She confessed.

“Not only that!” Ysa shouted and nodded at an old lady. She placed the corpse on the ground. “That is Bella, she’s Gwen’s personal maid. She also took care of me inside. She knows everything—that I am not the real princess. She helped me to escaped from the king’s possession. But he killed her!” She said with tears in her eyes. “These are the other people that was murdered! We don’t know their identities since they already rot. But one thing is for sure, they only have one killer, the king.” Nigel said and look at the king. “M-my daughter.” A royal guard spoke as he kneeled down to hold a corpse. “Th-this is the ring I gave her on her 18th birthday. It is made by my grandfather and was passed through me.” He looked at the king with anger “You killed her!” He shouted that made the king just laugh.

“I did not! You have no proof! Have you forgotten!? I was the one--”
“You said you’ll investigate what happened to her after she went missing! You said she run away with her lover who’s a rebel and was killed by the chief! You made me turn against the chief, you’re a liar!” He grabbed his sword and uncontrollably rush to the king. But before he hit him, the king pulled out a gun from one guard and shot him.

“Now you all witnessed how he can kill without any hesitations!” Ysa announced again from the top. “I only protected myself! Didn’t you see his eagerness to kill me!?” The king shouted back. “These are not enough proof to tell that I killed them!” He added. “Really? How about the princess?” He was taken aback for what Ysa said. Nigel walked forward with a corpse, also wrapped in a blanket. Is that her? Is that really Gwen? I look back at Ysa and she smiled at me. “That is Gwen’s corpse! She was buried next to the queen!” I walked forward to see the corpse and my heart is beating fast. “How can we make sure that it is really her?” One man asked. “I can.” I replied. I saw Gwen’s jewelries. “Th-these are from me.” I uttered and removed the necklace and ring from her. “I gave this to her. I was the one who made it, so I know it very well.” Gwen, it’s really you.

Ysa
“Just because of that? And how can you prove that I was the one who killed her?” The king unconsciously said. Bingo! “You said it!” Ryu shouted that made us look at her. “You just admit that Gwen is really dead.” They stopped for a moment and realized what she meant. Ryu, you’re really a smart one. “Wh-what? I-I just sai-said…” “Don’t deny it! I have a proof made by the princess herself!” I lift up a letter with the princess’ seal and some drops of blood. Vincent said that these are their ways to verify things especially people with high status. I found this inserted in one of the books of the princess in her shelf. “Written here is the confession of the princess that her father is the one who killed her mother, and if something happened to her, it is no doubt that the king himself did it to her.” I announced.

Ryu
King Magnus took a step back and is obviously shivering. Now he has no alibis left. “You! You’re really a thorn in my life! You will never really fit to be my daughter! I gave you a royal life, I became a father to you—” “And I treated you as one! But no, you’re the one who never fit to be a father and a ruler!” Ysa shouted back, but what happened next is unacceptable. “Ysa!” He shot her. The rebels immediately hit him and cuffed him. The guards also helped to lock him down and his royal servants.

“Ysa!” We run up towards her. “Ysa!” I shouted again. “Ysa, please! Stay with us!” Shelly uttered crying.