Consumed By The Ocean💙

13. Ruin

Pin drop silence was yelling at each and everyone present there.

Theseus, with great force, separated his trident from the body of his dead Father. He turned to face an entire nation, both Ionians and all creatures of Ocean. His Trident held down in his hand, his breaths heavy and visible through his wide chest. 

People looked at him with absolute horror and anger and disgust. And it wrenched my heart. He didn't deserved any of this. I looked at the statue of Goddess and then back at Theseus, whose eyes had now found mine and we both looked at each other for more than a young man and a young woman should.

Such eye contacts lead to disasters of lifetime. But that disaster had already happened and for the sake of it, I stepped ahead.

'People of Ionia...' I walked upto Theseus and then stood with my back facing him. I said the words that needed to be heard by all the Ionians.

'......behold the man who sacrificed his Mother and beloved Brother for the protection of the whole world. Behold the man who spent years, baring the torture of Depths of Darkness, to save you from a monster by becoming one himself. Behold the man who killed the destruction of whole world without even thinking once that it was his father.'

People were now not angry but confused.

My hand slightly went back and I grabbed Theseus's hand without even looking.

'IONIA!!!!....' I yelled with all power I had in me and then looked back at Theseus. Oh those cold blue eyes.........they have never felt so warmer.

'.......behold your greatest King ever born!!!' I said this, not leaving his eyes even for once.

Everything was blur for me after that. Dad explaining people about the evil Whalianthan and how he had casted magic upon my Dad and locked mom when they got to know the truth, how it made sense that Theseus killed his brother and how Theseus, indeed, was the greatest King ever born in the History of Ocean. And then the crowd erupted with the praises of Theseus, the Mother Goddess and Lord Poseidon. 

But I was too dead to pay attention to any of it. I had already drowned in deep, cold blue waters.

_________________________

Theseus had already sacrificed in the name of Mother Goddess and Lord Poseidon. So he was practically the King. He ordered that their would be no celebration of this coronation.......instead Ionia will mourn the death of his family- his Mother, his Brother and even his Father.

He never asked me how I got to know about his secret. I got to know very later that it was very common for the mixed bloods to have visits from Goddess and he had guessed right that it was the Goddess.

I was sobbing in the arms of my Parents. We were alone in this big and magnificent guest Chamber of the Palace of Atlantis. 

'Mom? Dad?' I backed off from them, my eyes, cheeks and nose red. 

'Yes, my sweet child.' Dad said while wiping my tears with his big palms. 

'He was never a monster.' I let out a whisper and brining up Theseus's subject was probably the last thing they thought I would do. 

They knew for sure that Theseus would never rape me of course. Royals from Atlantis, maintained their celibacy for the woman whom they marry and decide to have children with. It makes them much more stronger and also plays a vital role in their heir being strong. 

But they were so afraid that he would abuse me in other ways. He didn't. Now that I look back at everything, he did not torture me even once..........I was treated like a Queen in the Southern Court.