Princess Of The Underworld (Draft Copy)

Chapter 10 - Returning home

Once we were in the underworld, Diamon finally placed me down onto the ground, and all I did was glare at him and shoved him away from me with the still annoyed expression on my face. Diamon found it funny but rolled his eyes before grabbing my arm and dragging me towards the palace's direction.

I tried to get out of his grip, but he would tighten his grip on me every time I tried until I sighed and glared even harder at him. "I am very capable of walking on my own Diamon, and as your future queen, I demand you to release me this instant!" Diamon stopped in his tracks, turning his body around to face me; we stood there glaring at each other for a good few minutes, neither one of us backing down until he let go of my arm and proceeded onward in silence.

Ellerosé was watching as she came and stood by my side before we continued following behind my brother; I rubbed my arm and held onto it for a bit, not happy one bit at my brother, not only about how he treated me, but how he was treating one of my best friends who is basically like family. As we followed my brother from the open space towards the crowded underworld city, we made sure to stay close so that nothing happens, but of course, all these people knew precisely not to mess with us, and they respected us a lot.

Some people even feared us, as they would hear stories of what could happen to them if they ever crossed us or threatened us; as we passed them, they all stepped to the side to make a clear path for us and bowed their heads in respect, I watched them and observed every one of them until I saw and heard some females start talking about my brother and how they would fantasies being with him.

I turned to look at my brother, who also heard every word the females said and he just snickered before turning to face their direction with a 'dreamy smile' look on his face, which every female would just faint at the site as they were 'in love' I rolled my eyes a bit before shaking my head and glaring at my brother speaking to him in Telepathy 'really bro? can't you for once just stop playing with their feelings?' 'Come on sis, what fun would that be? Besides, I love to make them all think they have a slight chance with me' I just rolled my eyes at him folding my arms as I was about to walk past him 'well, that is downright wrong, and you know it.'

Ellerosé followed close behind me, not taking the slightest notice of my brother's flirtatious ways with the female; Diamon quickened his pace to overtake to lead again, making sure no one 'strange' would try to distract us from arriving at our destination.

As we walked away from the crowd, I noticed a few homes in a quiet area. I looked at the windows and saw that they were dusty; I then saw a few people barely getting buy with their lives. I felt sorry for them; I wanted to help them out in any way that I could, surely there was a way. My brother had slightly turned to look over his shoulder towards me and then looked to see what I was looking at, " Livana, we can't do anything for them" he began to say. I turned my focus onto him " and why not!? I'm sure there are ways that we could help them" I replied with a slight frown on my face; Diamon could hear the pain yet determination in my voice when I said those words.

"Livana, I know you want to help everyone you see who may look like they need help, but face it, who here in the underworld would ever help or want help from anyone?" I sighed, feeling my frown fade, and turning into a sad expression as my brother walked beside me, putting his arm around my shoulders and pulling me close to him for a hug as we walked towards the palace.

Ellerosé had also agreed with my brother with what he had said "as I said in the other world Livana-" I heard her began to say "you don't know what people can do, and the same goes for here but worse, people here treat some others very poorly" I turned to look at Ellerosé still with a sad expression on my face and shocked at what she had said.

"w- what do the people in this region of the underworld do?" I said while looking at the both of them; Diamon and Ellerosé both stayed quiet until I got annoyed and demanded them to tell me; that was then when Diamon spoke up
"they torture you in the most disturbing ways that will haunt you for the rest of your life.. some survive and escape; others don't even have a chance."

I felt my eyes widen while looking at the building homes of the ones who lived in them, sad at what happens to most of them. "That's awful" I replied with the tone in my voice being sad, and it's sad that nothing has been done about it; after walking away from the place we went through, we could see the tops of the palace over the horizon.

I took a deep breath, trying to get my thoughts in control as the thoughts from those people and what they go through in their daily everyday lives changed to the thoughts on how to deal with my parents, as I knew they would be furious and would want an explanation on what had happened. As we arrived at the palace doors, our two royal guards welcomed us home while opening the doors for us to enter. As soon as the doors were open, we made our way inside; Diamon looked over at Ellerosé "you may leave the luggage there for the moment; the royal maids will deal with it; you will need to come with us as our parents will need to speak with you also."

I turned to look at Ellerosé with a sad, apologetic expression; Ellerosé took a deep breath while nodding and began walking up the flight of stairs behind my brother; I followed quickly up the stairs to walk beside her. The three of us were quiet, not talking until we reached a set of doors that led to a private area of the palace. Diamon knocked on the doors, indicating that we had arrived. "Enter" I heard my father say in a cold dead toned voice 'shit, I knew my father to be angry at times, but not this angry before' I thought to myself as we walked inside.

Once we walked inside, I saw my parents sitting on one of the big lounge chairs, "have a seat" my father ordered us, and we sat down, me of course in the middle next to Ellerosé, who sat on the left side with her hands clenched at her skirt, not daring to move. On the other hand, my brother stood beside the lounge where our parents were sitting, not saying anything. The amount of tension in this room was unbearable; I looked at my father, whose eyes were a dark pitch coal-black colour with a very deep highlighted red around them, 'yep, I am so dead..' I thought to myself, waiting for my father to explode in anger.

"You both know why you have been brought back here, don't you.." I looked at Ellerosé when I heard my father begin to talk before then turning my attention to him. "y-yes sir" Ellerosé said in a soft frightened tone like she was about to tear up not daring to lift her head up to look at my father as she feels like it was all her fault. "Since what had happened, there should be some sort of punishment.." my father continued to say but was looking directly at Ellerosé like he was saying it to her; I then spoke up "father, this isn't Ellerosé's fault; it's mine. If anyone should be punished, it's me.." I glared at my father in the eyes seeing his attention shift onto me, at first I was a taken back of his cold stare, but I stood my ground "let Ellerosé go, it wasn't her fault, it was mine I was the one who knowingly knew it would be a dangerous risk to leave out of her site but I went any ways on my own."

It was then dead silent for what seemed like hours until my father replied with "very well...Ellerosé, you may leave, we have a family business we have to discuss with our daughter" Ellerosé looked up turning to face me; I looked at her and nodded with a small reassuring smile before she stood up and bowed her head and walked out of the room closing the door behind her. I watched her leave until the door closed, which I then took a deep breath and turned to look at my parents; my brother had then walked over and sat beside me where Ellerosé was sitting getting comfy while we waited for what my father had to say.

I thought to myself 'what could this be about? is it a punishment for me? for Ellerosé ?' I had so many thoughts running through my head, trying to figure out what my father meant by 'family business' I sat still, looking directly at my father while holding my breath, eagerly waiting for him to explain what needed to be discussed.