LONG LIVE THE KING

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by aminerules

by aminerules

"THE KING IS DEAD"

A man stepped out onto the balcony, overlooking a crowd,the kingdom and its poeple his father used to rule.

"THE WAR PRINCESS, ARTEMIS HAS KILLED THE KING IN AN EFFORT FOR THE CROWN, SHE HAS DECEIVED US, AND HER EFFOTS IN THE WAR AGASINT THE KINGDOM OF TARLGEN WERE A FRONT"

The prince waited watching his soon to be subjects whispering amongst themselves. Understandable, thier feeling of disbelief considering how much she had done for the kindom, active in the public and political community,trained in miltary affairs and having just shown how capable she was, effectively turning the 10 year long running war into just another storyin history books a matter of months.

"I KNOW WHAT I SPEACK OF IS A UNSPECKABLE THING BUT I SAW THE BLADE, AND HAVE IT HERE AS WELL"

A servant walked forward and kneeled rising a sword, The prince toke its hilt and slowly drew it out into the light.

The Crowd gasped as they looked at the sword, tainted red with the blood of the king, everyone had seen the blade of the princess before as she often put on shows where she would display sword dances and mock battles for the amusement of the childern.

Pure sliver, both hilt and blade ingraved with magic circles and curious designs each one having meanings, when asked about them, Artemis would smile and say something about charised memories, not explaining anything further than that, it was her own little secret. Now some wondered if those secrets were as innocent as they thought.

"TODAY IS A DAY OF MOURNING, THE ROYAL FAMILY WILL DISSCUSS HOW WE WILL ACT ON THIS, WE DON'T WISH FOR THER TO BE A WAR BETWEEN FACTIONS OF THE KINGDOM FOR THE THROWN FOR NOW THE SEAT WILL BE LEFT EMPTY AND WE WILL SPECK AS EQUALS"

With that the prince left. The Crowd was shaken, only two poeple were able to walk away. Gritting thier teeth they slipped into the shadows and ran into on the back streets of the capital.

" That bastard, he doesn't want a war? Well should have thought of that before you tried to frame for father's death you're dead"

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