Kingdom of Roses | Stray Kids Royal AU

The Han dynasty

800 years ago

-Jisung!

Seungmin ran to his room, screaming at the top of his lungs.

Changbin stopped him and opened the door first.

He felt sick at the view and covered the younger's eyes.

His body fell to the ground, held by Changbin.

-You don't need to see this, Changbin said hugging him.

-I wanna see my brother!

-He's dead!

-I wanna see him! he cried with his last drop of energy.

-I'm sorry...

King Jisung had been beheaded by the resistance.

Everyone was against his dictator-like way of ruling, so no one mourned him.

He had been buried in the garden, next to Minho and by pure magic dandelions grew on his grave.

Seungmin stayed there for a while. He even slept on his grave.

Changbin found him sleeping peacefully in the rain, all soaked and muddy.

He was grasping the mud like there were Jisung's remains.

His face was stained by endless tears. He was alone. He had lost everything.

-Your Highness... Changbin tried to carry him inside.

-I wanna stay with Jisung, Seungmin cried.

-Seungmin... I am talking to you as a friend now. You need to keep his legacy. You are our last hope. Hyunjin's dream, Jisung's people, Minho's sacrifice, Chan's sacrifice, Jeongin's faith... Felix's death.... Everything was for this kingdom. Don't make their demises seem like they were in vain. Please! I have nothing left. I am a Knight. I've been that all my life. If you give up, I have nothing else to serve. I have no purpose. Let's go inside and clean you. Tomorrow we'll start from zero, alright?

The next day, everyone was celebrating the fall of the King.

Because this is how World works.

You can do billions of good things, but everything is erased once you do one single bad thing.

They have forgotten about the kindness and bravery of prince Jisung who won the war and replaced him with the heartbroken King who abused power.

-Enough! Changbin climbed on an improvised wooden stage and hit the floor with the other side of his sword to catch everyone's attention. Don't you have any shame? Your King has passed away.

-We're free now! a man from the crowd said.

-Free to what? To anarchy? We need a leader. We need to start again and rebuild this Kingdom. For our children! What's the point of living if we feed on mud and rats?

-Big words for a Knight! What? You wanna lead us?

-No! It's been already decided who will.

-Who decided? You?

-The law of heir. The king had a brother. He is next in line, he shall rule now.

-Brother?

Everyone started rattling, mumbling and looking confused at Changbin.

-Please welcome your new leader, His Highness, King Seungmin, the older bowed in front of the latter.

He had all his eyes on him. He didn't look like a king or behaved like one.

But he was the only member of the royal family left. They couldn't fight with royal blood. Especially if the Grand Cross Knight was on his side, therefore the whole army.

No one took Seungmin's reign seriously, mostly because he wasn't wearing his crown.

There was no coronation. He didn't ask for one. He needed the title, yes, because he needed to start rebuilding the Kingdom, but besides that he didn't want the power. At all.

He began working on his own at first. Planting seeds on the ruins of the Liliac Kingdom all by himself, all dirty and stinky.

It's not like he wasn't used to working. He was never treated like a royal.

Later, he was joined by Changbin and the whole army following Changbin's army.

But the villagers were mean. They were laughing at the sight of the new king kneeling in the dirt. Humiliating himself.

Seungmin was listening to every remark, but he was holding on still. He had nothing else, after all.

-Hey! He's doing this for you, ungrateful bastards! Changbin yelled.

-It's alright, you don't need to- Seungmin tried to keep the older calm.

-Who is the bastard, huh? We heard the priest's stories! The kid is the bastard! He is only half royal. He is here only because his mother was slut enough to seduce the king!

-Silence! Seungmin snapped. I have nothing left to lose. I am trying to bring this land back to life so you won't starve! Why am I treated like this?

-We don't need a savior!

-Clearly. You don't deserve to be saved. What you need is a dictator. I'm starting to believe my brother had all the right in the world to do this to you! Knights! I want every man from this land to work at the plantations for at least 5 hours per day with no break. It's not like you had something to eat during that break anyway. Those who don't do so, will face the dungeon. If you respect yourself, I'll say you start working to bring food home to your family, he said showing his teeth. From now on you listen to me. And I don't plan on leaving for a while.

The man bowed in fear under Seungmin's fearless eyes.

-Sir Changbin!

-Your Highness?

-Bring me my crown! And let the people know this land will be reborn under my reign. The Han dynasty is back.

Changbin nodded, having a bad feeling about it.

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