Vain: Upon An Hours Rest

Chapter 20: The End of This Story, and The Start of Many More!

          I wake the next morning and ask to be taken to Daniel. I enter his room and he is sitting on his bed just looking out the window.

          "Big day for you today Daniel."

          "Yes, but i just feel strange. I fought for years for this day to come and I just don't feel right. It feels as though more was lost then gained"

          "Son, we have both lost a lot. Loved ones, friends, and people we will never meet. I cant say anything to make you feel better but this day represents everything you fought for. You led a rebellion that has set untold thousands free, and their children, and their children's children. Son, I am so proud of you, and you go out their, you accept that crown and you rule, with God always ruling you, and you will lead this land into a glory age I never could of seen."

          He looks at me and with a tear on his cheek and says, "Thankyou father". Then we embrace, like we did back at the jail cell. The love I feel for him makes the greif I felt for Destiny disappear.

          A few hours later I'm standing on a stage, in front of thousands of people with my old crown in my hand. A simple golden band with a ribbon tied around it. Ragen is kneeling on the side of the stage, kneeling being guarded by Captain Atar. We are forcing him to watch the official end of his reign and the beginning of Daniels.  It is time for ceremony to start and so i look to the crowd. Trumpets begin to play and I speak.

          "It is with great honor and pleasure I give to you, my son, Prince Daniel Valor!" A Roar erupts throughout Varock that must be heard clear to Lumbridge. Daniel comes out and kneels. A Bishop anoints him and looks to me. The crowd quiets and I begin to pray.

          "Dear God, we come before you, standing beside our soon to be new king. We ask that you, as ALL of our Kings, grant him the serenity and wisdom to accept all the things he cannot change, the courage to change the things he can, and the wisdom to know the difference, and in the name of our True King, The Lord Jesus Christ, son of The Living God we pray, Amen."

          With that I proudly place the humble crown upun Daniel head and yell at the top of my lungs as the trumpets yet again sound,

          "I GIVE YOU THE NEW KING OF GIELINOR, DANIEL VALOR!!!

          The croud explodes as he stands. I cant keep back the small tear that runs down my face. I've not felt such joy since my children were born. Daniel's mother and my wife stands beside, also crying as this marks the end of her reign as queen as well. I rap my arm around her but the next thing I see is our of the corer of my eye a swift movement. I see Captain Atar fall, I see a blur rush pass Daniel and then I am shoved down. I hear screams in the croud and when I look up, I see Ragen with his arms around the love of my life's throat. He reaches into a tear in his tunic, down his leg and pulls an arrow, that was never recovered because he was never searched, out of his tunic and points the point at my wife, Hope.

          I start to get up but he looks at me coldly and says, "One false move and I'll drive this arrow through her scull."

          "What are you d--"

          "Shut your mouth, Vain. You betrayed our gods and destroyed our kingdom. And in the process you've caught me, The only one trying to what you weren't man enough to do, you coward." With this he spits in my face and continues. "So what is my sentence?"