Chilled the Royal Chaos

Chapter 15 A Noble Loss

~Anthony/Chilled's POV~

I woke up from my long darkness coughing up water that was in my lungs. I slowly opened my eyes to reveal a beaten down castle and the smell of smoke was partially gone. I looked around and spotted a coughing Ze. My heart sped up and I see Minx backing away from him. After he coughed a few times, he turns and looks at me. We stare at one another for a moment, I barely noticed Minx running away. Happiness filled my chest as I crawled over to the little man and hugged him tightly. I felt him relax in my arms almost immediately and hug me back. "Hi Ze..." "Hi Chilled." He replied. I smiled widely and pushed him away to get a good look at his face, "I thought I was never going to see you again." I tell him my voice full of relief. Ze smiles in a cute way and pulls me into a hug, "I thought I was never going to get the chance to start that kingdom with you." My hug gets tighter and he mumbled something else, "What was that last part?" I asked attempting to pull away, but he pulled me closer, refusing to let me see his face. "Ze? What did you say?" He mumbled it again and I rolled my eyes, "You know, if you want to tell me something, you never know how long you will get the chance to. I thought we learned this." I joked. I felt him giggle and he pulled away to reveal teary eyes.

He opened his mouth, "I never thought..." His voice faltered and he held up his pointer finger, he spoke again, "I never thought, I would get the chance to tell you... I love you, too..." My heart skipped a thousand beats and a huge smile spread across my face before I pulled him into another hug and we stayed like that for a while. As I was hugging Ze, my mind wandered to another person, "Where's Kootra?" I ask Ze. He pulls away from the hug a little and stares into my eyes with his beautiful ones. They were filled with worry. "Take me to him." I command and we both stand. Ze takes my hand and we both walk towards the village.

I see Minx over a body that looked like Jordan's. We got closer and that's when I realized it was Jordan's. My grip  on Ze's hand got tighter as we reached them. Minx turned around with pain filled eyes and I saw a tear escape one. I let go of Ze's hand and knelt down next to the fallen body. I placed my hand on hi chest and looked at his sliced side. I felt queasy and looked up at his pale face, "It was either you guys or him..." Minx said. I looked at the peacefully sleeping body and felt a wave of sadness flood over me, "It's... Fine Minx... You did your best." I patted her shoulder and I felt Ze kneel on the other side of me, placing a hand my non hurt shoulder.

I stared at the pale face of my best friend of the kingdom. I looked at the ground trying not to cry, staying strong for Jordan. There was a weak cough and Jordan twitched a little. A small groan was heard and I looked at his face, "Ch-Anthony...?" He asked weakly. I quickly moved to get closer to his face. I stared directly into his partially open eyes and he smiled a little when he sees my face, "Glad to see..." He winces in pain, "See... You alive..." He finishes, "You, too..." I reply. He shakes his head, "I'm sorry... Anthony..." He takes a breath, but flinches in the process, "I... Am too weak to... try and live..." I felt myself holding back tears, "I'm sorry Jordan... This is all my fault. I shouldn't have gotten you involved." I apologized. I would have continued, but Jordan stopped me, "No... I am not surviving by... a mere thread... just to hear you apologize..." He raises his hand and places it on my hurt shoulder. I ignore the pain for him, "I am surviving... To tell you... Thank you..." The tears welled up in my eyes as he said that, "No Jordan... You can survive. You're awake now!" Jordan winced at my yell. I shut my mouth and waited for him to recover.

He breathed a little and looked me directly in the eyes, "Anthony... I want to thank you for... Freeing everyone... From this kingdom's rule..." He squeezed my shoulder and I tried not to wince, "Most importantly, I want to thank you... For being... My best friend... You were there for me in every way..." The tears were getting harder and harder to contain. "You were there for me also... You were a true best friend Jordan." He smiles weakly and his hand drops to the ground, "Anthony... I have one final request..." I nod urging him to continue, "Please... Build the kingdom you talked about... Take Ze, the townsfolk... Make your kingdom great... For me..." A tear slipped from my eye and I nodded, "Of course I will. I can guarantee it will happen." Jordan's smile grows and I grab his hand, "Anthony... Thanks for everything. I will be watching over you... And everyone here." I bite my lip trying not to let another one slip. He lets my hand go and reaches up to touch my face, "Anthony. I don't want to see you cry. Please smile, I don't... Want my death to be sad..." I nod and use all the energy I could get to make the corners of my mouth point upwards. I smiled warmly at the former prince, "You will never be forgotten... Kootra." I stated. He smiled one last time before wincing and his hand fell from my smiling face. "I'll... Never... Forget... Yo..." He said with one final breath.

I stared at his lifeless body. It was completely relaxed. The smile on my face was being drowned by tears that were spilling from my eyes. I stand and look at Minx and Ze, who were also crying heavily. They stare at me in silence. We were all too afraid to talk. All too afraid to break the extremely sensitive silence. All there was, was the sound of the dying fire and some bricks from the castle hitting the water. A little memory pops into my head and I rush towards the bushes next to the tree me and Kootra would use to sneak out of the castle. I search through the leaves and just as I expected, there was a bag that Kootra had someone make just so he could come with me. I forced the tears back and grabbed the bag. I ran back to Minx and Ze and knelt down next to them pulling out Jordan's crown and royal attire. I bit my lip as I grabbed Jordan's body and started undressing him. The other two helped after catching on what I was trying to do. They helped me dress him in his attire and then, only then did he look at peace.

I looked at the other two people that helped me with my mistake. A bad ass woman and my cute little boyfriend. I look back at Jordan and smile, there is no way I will forget this noble hero. I pat his hand and a carriage pulls up.

It was the queen.

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