Flowering Petals || AvA/M AU (Alan Becker)

Chapter 3 : Bitter sweetness

Creator note;

hey everyone! so sorry for being on such a long hiatus, I've been very very VERY busy with school lately,, all of my energy has been drained because of how much work they gave me.. but I finally have found the motivation to keep on writing! so sorry for keeping you waiting!

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As purple and second arrived at the garden, they sat down beside a bed of golden flowers and talked. A few minutes pass and they saw someone enter the garden, it was red. Second called red over and invited him to join them in their conversation where red happily accepted. Second introduced red to purple and they quickly became friends.

Minutes pass by, purple is showing red a book about living animals and reading everything about them to red. "Oh and this is- eh? Second, Are you okay? You can join us if you want to you know!" Purple said, noticing the look of worry on second's face. "No no.. it's not that, I'm just... what if chosen's dead..?" Said second, both red and purple were silent, but then red shifted beside second and then hugged him, "I'm sure he's fine.. remember those conflicts between the other kingdoms, a long time ago..? If he was able to handle all of that then I'm sure he's okay.." red reassured him as he held second in a warm embrace, purple also joined the hug. (So sweet, i hope nothing bad happens to them . :) )

Hours have passed by, the trio moved places and now they're sitting beside a pond with koi fish swimming in it, lily pads, and lotus blossoms. Red was braiding second's hair while purple was showing off his collection of rocks and all sorts of little gems he found, purple handed both second and red each of their own gems from his collection as gifts. "There! Do you like them?" Purple asked, "pretty!" Red replied, second just sat there holding his gem as he was lost in this own mind. "Uhm, earth to second?" Red said as he started poking second's arm. "Whuh-huh?! O-oh sorry, what were you saying?" second asked, finally snapping out of it. Red proceeded to hug second, "Second, you've been acting a bit differently ever since the last time we met up.. you good?" Purple said, genuinely concerned.

Just before Second could answer, a loud bang could be heard near outside of the garden. The trio was startled by the sudden explosion, they got up and decided to see what was going on.

As the trio rushed through, at the end of the hall, Dark could be seen rushing towards them at the edge of the hallway. "Don't go over there! There was- *cough* an explosion of some sort of, gas!" Dark said as he was wiping his eyes.

Purple walked past them in a hurry, then second grabbed his hand. "Purple! We need to stay here, who knows what that gas will do to you?" Second said, pleading for him to stay. "I need to go see my father! What if something bad happens?" Purple said as he tried to losen up second's grip. "Just wait here! He's literally the king, im sure he'll be fine, purps!" Red exclaimed while helping up Dark.

Purple's gaze softened as he loosened up and let go of second's hand. "Fine, but what do we do now?" Purple said. "*cough* he said we should stay indoors until the smoke clears up, im pretty sure he said- *cough* this might just be a small act of terrorism.

"Terrorism? But kenzo is one of the safest kingdoms!" Red said, "that's true.. but whatever it is, i think it's best if we just follow orders." Second said, gesturing for them to follow him.

As hurried to one of the rooms and closed the door. Purple walked towards the window and looked out to see, almost the entire kingdom covered in what seemed like smoke.

"Who would do such a thing..?" Purple said as he placed a hand on the glass.
"Dont get all sad now, mr prince! Im sure it'll be fine! Besides its not the first time, right?" Red said as he skipped over and wrapped an arm around purple. "Right, the incident at the festival that happened a month ago, could it be connected?" Purple said, catching a glance at red and then turning to look at Second, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, and dark, who was sitting on the floor, coughing.

"That big of a coincidence? Doubt it." Dark said as he raised a brow. "But it could be a possibility! Who knows? What if this is also connected to.-" "the attack on cassius.." Red said as he cut second off.

"But the attacks are oddly timed, first it was cassius now here? Could this be a rebellion or something?" Second spoke as he stood up. "Whatever it is, im sure this probably wont be the last attack." Dark said, sighing with a clearly annoyed look.

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All citizens were evacuated and were ordered to stay in their homes until the gas was clear. King was watching from afar, the kingdom looked almost like a ghost town.

As he turned away from the window, he walked out of his study and into the hallways. As he stepped out of the room, there was a stench that filled the air, it was a pungent, and overpowering odor.

As king looked around to see the origin of the smell, he saw multiple guards piled up, dead. A chill ran down King's spine, he froze in place.

He turned to the other side of the hallway and walked towards the end.
At the end, there were flower petals stained with blood not his, from where he stood, there was a trail of blood.

The flower petals looked like as if they were picked off of the flowers from the garden. As king started to follow the trail of blood he couldn't help but feel... watched.

As he reached the end, he saw what looked like a small pouch, about the size of the palm of his hand. He picked the pouch up and decided to open it and see what's inside. As he opened it, some sort of powder puffed out of the pouch and into king's face.

He dropped the pouch as he started to feel dizzy, then slowly falling onto his side. His vision became darker and darker, but he saw a figure jumping down from the ceiling, Not long after, he lost consciousness.

- TO BE CONTINUED. -

Creator note;
Thank you for reading this chapter! And again, i apologize for my long absence.. im pretty busy with school but i try to make time for writing this story.

Anddd.. im making a new cover for this story! So look out for that!

Thank you! And i will see you next time.. on chapter 4 : Escape from a Cage.