Servant of the king

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To be woken up after losing the one you loved for the third time feels like pulling a knife out of the wound. Fresh and bleeding.

" How many more ?" Asked

Zara walked out of the bathroom her hair laying against her back white as snow eyes having lost their shine to a faded blue. Her ebony skin glowing as she walked her curious body swaying but her heart empty.

She walked to her bed picking up the blanket. It was soft and hadn't been used since her son was not here he was in a deep sleep his body not growing not aging just staying the same.

" Ndoku," she said as she held the blanket close to her chest. The babe had only been there a few moments before he was taken. The shackle on her ankles was made out of the strongest iron in Wakanda.

" T'chaka what do you want from me when will you return him to me!" She demanded as she turned to the man who had taken her son. Her golden claw-like nails emerged. 

" You know well that you are a belonging of Wakanda now tell me what you see," said T'chaka cruelly as he ignored her question. She sighed as she started to chant her eyes rolling back her hair floating white markings appearing on her skin.

" A dawn of a new king shall come and you shall die I do not how but you shall not live your time is close real close," she said as she moved closer to him.

" You are the last of the old kings soon the new king shall know of what you've done to me to the people you've abandoned and to your nephew," she said as she pulled back. She waved her hand manipulating the wind pushing the man out of her room.

" Be gone vile thing " she said as she went back to mourning.

Just as she predicted King T'chaka died and she had a feeling more blood would be spilled. She needed to find her son.

She had been meditating when her door opened. In walked the queen.

" Zara," she said seeing her old friend sitting here looking as young as ever.

" I see you've finally come to see me," said Zara standing up from the bed the chain rattling.

" This is where you've been ?" Asked the queen as Zara laughed.

" What did you think your husband would do with a woman that could see the future? He kidnapped me while I was pregnant and locked me up " she said as she turned to the queen and Sue lifted her leg.

" The only thing that can free me is the next king else I'm trapped here forever my son is in a frozen state still alive but barely his soul calls out to me," she said as she held the blankets.

" I didn't know "

" Of course you didn't you were too busy being in love with my kidnapper "

That's where the conversation ended until one night when Zara felt her son cry out to her a plea. She decided to use her power to find him. She closed her eyes and clouds gathered as she chanted lightning struck her room breaking through and hitting the chains but it did not budge so she tried and tried and tried until the Chain broke free from the wall. She ran out of the room following her son's cry. She rushed into the room. She saw the room of tradition of the black panther why was her son there? She went near the tree and it opened its middle revealing her sleeping son. They had been using most of his power for the growth of the tree.

" Ndoku." She said as she hugged him close. She felt his skin on hers once more and she cried of relief. The doors opened and there stood the new king and his guards.

" Tchalla this is one of my oldest friends. Zara had been held captive by a man for a long time she is also the woman who birth to your first cousin Ndoku" said the Queen as Zara was feeding her son from her full breast. 

" My son has been in a deep sleep his body and mind frozen in time he is still a baby after all this time his soul couldn't handle any more so he cried out to me," she said as she moved her leg forward showing the chains.

" These only be removed by the king," she said as she showed the round circular button-like structure.

" Zara, how are you so sure ?"

" I have tried many ways to escape but the man always caught me and used me against me now that he's dead I am, free," she said as she felt the chains fall to the ground. The only reason why the chain broke free from the wall was because there was no king before Tchalla was crowned.

"  I am finally free thank you," she said as she bowed her head before standing and as she was about to walk away

" Please stay for a few more days before you finally leave Wakanda has changed since the time you were captured," said Romanda as she felt the need to keep her oldest friend close knowing what her husband did was wrong.

" I shall stay in Wakanda but not in the place where I have been imprisoned I want to be free with my son he should have been a grown man by now but his soul was stuck in time along with his body he is still a babe let him be free," she said as she walked not caring for those behind her royalty or not she was held captive in their happy home. Her ankles burning.

Once she walked to her previous home. Covered in dust. Her garden overflowing with life. Her once few animals all ran wild.

" Bunto!" She called out and she heard a loud moo. She saw her favorite cow come closer with a calf beside her.

She walked closer and petted her friend she hadn't seen in a long time.

" I see you've been busy Bunto," she said cheekily as  Bunto shoved her face into Zara's side.

The day was spent cleaning. Zara cleaned all the dust collected on the crib and the mattress before testing if it was still stable and once she confirmed she lay her son down.

Once her home was back to the way it was clean and neat she went to her bathroom and took a bath thankful for the water still running and electricity. 

She wore a tribal skirt that was tied at the hips along with a cropped shirt with the same tribal patterns her hair tied in a ponytail. She went to sit beside her son and gently rocked the crib.

" It's a new beginning for us. We'll finally live freely "she said as she took his small hand in hers and softly kissed it. He was a beautiful baby boy with soft curls and dark brown skin. The cutest button nose and he had her eyes. He was her world.

" Free from them"

Zara carried Ndoku on her back as she cmharvested her garden with an abundance of fruits and veggies. She placed the harvest in two big baskets.

She was so happy to see that life still found a way while she was gone. She went inside carrying one basket after another. She washed the fruits and veggies and stored them after.

She then noticed she didn't have any meat and since she doesn't like killing animals she decided to order from the town.

Once it had arrived the man confused gave her the package she paid for and went back to her home. She still had money in her name her father was a rich man. Being his only daughter had its perks.

She made a nice stew with some pap. While she was eating she was watching the Wakandan news. Her son nursing from her as she sat on the couch.

After that, she took a nice bath with her son and they both went to bed right after not knowing that their peace would soon be disrupted. 

TBC