SUPREMEO Vol.I: Trials Of The Machine King

Chapter XIV pt.1 (arc2): King Of Cauchemar - The Details

~20 YEARS AGO Before Cauchemar earned its name ~

A man frantically races through the halls of the Castle. He bursts through the royal doors and drops to his knees in front of a throne.

Catching his breath the man in distress yells out, "YOUR HIGHNESS! Another lieutenant has fallen! It was Bernard Sullivan again! Ever since he joined with Elias it's as if he's 3 steps ahead of us! It should be about 2 weeks until they get here! We need to act quickly and run! They've turned into an amazing unit of combat and strategy. We had no chance of defeating them!..."

The man is silent as he waits for the reply for the one intended to hear the message. His knees and face are to the ground, he catches his breathe as sweat drips from his forehead to the floor. He hears a feminine voice that commands him to his feet. The voice is sweet, almost sultry but very commanding and sure of what she wants. The man processes and listens to all of this with a few words. They were, "On your feet soldier."

Nervously he stands tall. Emerald colored green eyes stare at the panicked man with a fierce piercing glare. He is now face to face with the royal woman he intended to deliver the message to. She asks the messenger a question. It was, "Did Sullivan see you run to deliver this message to me?"

Shocked the messenger stammers over his words, "I um y..y..yes! They let me live to deliver this message."

The messenger sees the royal's eye twitch and a quick look of disgust is seen on her face. Then all of the sudden the messenger tries to speak but cannot properly form a sentence. His head has been hacked off with such speed and accuracy the messenger never felt it. The woman drew a blade with such quickness no one in the room saw it. His head plops to the floor.

She commands a guard who's in the room to, "clean this mess up."

The guard yells, "Yes Empress Adira!" the guard and surrounding soldiers gather to pick the deceased messenger up away from the empress's view. An elderly figure stands beside the empress and asks her, "Your majesty did you have to kill that man?" She replies, "Of course Master Sigmond. He showed cowardice toward my enemy and to my troops. There's no room for that here. Plus he's got sweat and blood all over my floor. The fool is not only a coward. He lacks manners as well."

Sigmond: Well one could say that is a legit reason to chop someone's head off. There's still the message he delivered. What do we do about Sullivan gaining on our trail?

Adira: Simple, we let him come Master Sigmond.

Sigmond lets a devilish grin out while empress Adira heads out to prepare for her inevitable meeting with Bernard Sullivan and his crew.

As the Empress walks away a small window is seen on the walls behind the throne. A pair of young eyes look on as the empress and her master walk away.

The eyes look away and are revealed to be Yafeu, the current day "Machine King."

"He was kept prisoner by the empress to train as not one of her future lieutenants but as her future secret weapon."

Bast is revealed to be telling the story of Yafeu and Cauchemar's past. We are now in the present.

The whole crew but Sarah and Richard are shackled in the throne room. This time a table is placed in the center with our crew sitting listening to Bast tell this tale.

Sarah looks to her brother's general and asks, "How'd this place end up like this? How'd my brother end up like this?"

Before Bast answers the throne room doors open and Yafeu walks in. He sits on the throne and says.

"You want to know how I became King? I'll tell you how this came to be as long as you tell me what you're doing here. Just one thing. Don't lie to me sister."