A kingdom with two queens. One who will lead to fall of the crown and one who will lead to the fall of the kingdom. Lives of two twisted by fate and magic.
A story of love and betrayal, winning and losing, friends and enemies.
"I wish it was you who had died, so we wouldn't have this misfortune to raise you." My father added.
"You killed me Cam. You killed me." My twin brother said.
I just sat there, without moving. I had yielded long ago.
"Why can't you just obey without making it difficult for us."
"Listen to your father. Learn to follow these orders without adding your emotions in it."
"You are my soldier. You will help me get the throne. Train and win a good position. Go, workout, playing is for fools who don't have a vision, who are weak."
"Our son is not weak. He will follow every order or he will get punished."
"Stop." I said. " Please stop."
"Look at him, begging for help." My father sneered.
"How weak he is, how can he be my son? My son would never beg for anything."
"Stop..stop...stop.."
And suddenly, everyone vanished.
A blue light flared around me and I woke up.
A hideous creature was holding Lissa who was unconscious. She was talking in her sleep.
"No, don't come here." She thrashed in the creature's hand but she held her.
"She is fine. No need to worry."
I stood.
"I'm not worried."
She turned her head and looked at me. Her eyes were a haunting shade of yellow.
"What should I do?"
"You seem awfully calm in the face of the calamity."
"Her dying is not a calamity." I simply said.
"No. But if she dies, you can't leave the forest."
I eyes widened.
"But I can finish the trials myself. I don't need her."
"Just a minute ago, you were eating mud because I had told you to."
I cleared my throat.
"She is unconscious, how is she going to help me leave the forest?"
"You are not eager to save her, are you?"
I just shrugged.
"She is the key. I can only tell you that. Keep her safe and then maybe, maybe you can leave the forest. With her gone, you will transform into one of us."
I frowned.
"You were a human?"
"Does it matter?"
She laid Lissa on the ground and walked away.
"You should sit as far as possible from Lissa." She warned me.
I heeded her warning and sat on a small stone as far as possible from Lissa.
A few moments later she woke up and had a heated conversation with the creature but I was not able to hear what it was about.
The witch suddenly appeared next to me, startling me from my thoughts.
"You should choose sides now. The wheel of fate is turning. You would want to be on the winning side."
I looked at her. She still looked young. Her brown eyes and hair shone in the moonlight, she looked scary but also tired.
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"I am already on the winning side, just the soldiers are unaware of their defeat."
"This is not an open war where winning or losing is important. This war is far more ancient and messier than that and from what I know, you are not winning."
I just chuckled.
"I have won far more battles in my life than you have ever seen in yours."
She stood and walked towards Lissa who was tweeching on the grown, silver magic flowing into her from the surrounding.
The river and the wind itself gave some of its power to Lissa. She absorbed the blue magic from the river and the transparent one from the air.
I had never seen anything like this before. No one can absorb the nature's powers without burning themselves from inside out.
"He...help....me...." Lissa begged.
"I can't. Only you can." The witch answered.
Lissa passed out.
"What is happening?" I asked.
Everything went silent. The magic stopped revolving around her.
Lissa slowly stood up. Before any of us could do something, a giant silver beam shot from her and magic started pulsing around her.
The surrounding froze, like time itself has given up. Everything slowed down as the balance of the forest struggled to set itself. The plain tilted and everything around us did too, including us but in slow motion.
But not Lissa, she stood there like a iron rod.
This continued for a few seconds but the time itself changed as magic itself escaped from Lissa's clutches.
A big boom echoed around the forest and a wave of silver magic spread through the surrounding, causing the earth to rattle so hard that a few trees fell down with the force.
The debris cleared in a few seconds and the scene because clear.
Lissa was lying on the ground with a silver glow around her. The witch stood next to her but the creature was missing.
"What just happened?" I asked.
The witch looked at me with a smile.
"The first trial is done. The time has been reconstructed."
Hey guys 👋
Hope you enjoyed the chapter.
I especially love the witch's image. She looks soo good.
I think there should be poll to decide who looks better? Witch or siren?!?!?
