The Devil's Kingdom

The War of Hearts

A shadow emrges from behind me. The King's half closed eyes slowly moves up to that person standing behind me and there I saw his reflection in his father's eyes.

My chest tightens and tears squeezes out from my eyes.

I don't have the courage to face him right now.

A faint saddened smile forms on the King's face looking at his son. And before he could say anything more, life blows out from his eyes. I feel Jungkook taking one step from behind me and standing beside me infront of the King's body.

He gets down and leans in and closes the King's lifeless eyes that was staring into blank. He stays like that for a while before he slowly turns to me. I gulp down the lump formed in my throat but in no time it forms again. I avoided turning to look at him.

I'm barely holding myse-

Jungkook holds my arm in his tight grip and pulls me up to stand on my two feets, along with himself. I couldn't avoid looking at him now. We stood so close and face-to-face with each other. It seemed like he knowingly made me look at him.

He watches me for a long silent moment. His face is unreadable.

I clutch fistful of my dress on both sides. I know you hate me now. Just tell me & leave me. But stop looking at me with those hurtful eyes. They're causing me a very slow painful death.

My face breaks uncontrollably. He's draining out all of my control over myself.

But to my surprise, he makes me hold the hilt of my sword again. It wasn't until then, I realized that he had also lifted up my sword from the floor along with me.

His words made me feel more guilt and agony.

" Fulfill your oath, Riveryn Princess. " he says holding the blade of my sword and keeps its lower edge upto his neck.

Tears blur my vision completely. That little control I'd over myself has now broken into nothingness.

" Remember your words? " he asks.

" I oath with my every single breathe being the evidence of my words, with you being the witness to it.. " he starts reciting my own words from that day. I stood there like a stone who's on the verge of breaking into unrepairable pieces.

He keeps repeating my words " I'm going to be the death of every single person who stood in that wedding hall and slaughtered my whole family like animals, infront of my eyes & stained me with their bloods. "

" I was there! I saw your family getting Killed infront of my eyes silently. " he reminds me.

" Stop! " I say pulling out the blade off his neck. But he holds back my sword in the same position without letting me to withdraw it.

He keeps going on " I promise to return it with the same cruelty, with the same ruthlessness, with which each one of you had murdered every single person who cared for me, loved me.. "

I was about to let go of my hold on the hilt of the sword but before I could do that, he grasps my hands and holds my shaky hand around the hilt intact.

Tears kept flowing like river from both of my eyes. " Please Stop! " I plead to him.

" With no mercy. No pity. No humanity. I WILL KILL EVERYONE. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. " he finally finishes.

" Those are your words! Your Oath! " he states. " I'd promised you to give you enough reasons to kill me. If I'd failed to give you enough already, then, let me give you one last one.. Do you know, why I stopped my father from killing you & married you? "