Sotus: For One Last Time

The Family Feuds

         

Right after the Conference....

3rd Person POV

Right as Arthit was leaving, without gaining notice, Kong Suthiluck's parents glanced at each other while his grandparents were also intensely looking at the retreating Prince's back. Different but familiar feelings churning on each of their stomachs.

"He really took after his mother..." Prija Boonyasit whispered emotionally, solely for her ex-husband's ears while he slowly nodded, "Indeed...indeeed..."

However, the short interlude was cut short.

It seems like the people inside the dining room were simply waiting for the Royals to exit before exploding. As soon as Arthit closed the door behind him and followed his uncle out, the Yuvaves and the Vipadas, who were seated in front of each other, started yelling at each other almost as if they've each killed the others' favorite pets. All the while, both of the families' heirs (Prem and Wad) sat stiffly and quietly while their parents verbally destroyed each other.

Cringing, some of the guests left the room while some, the Suthiluck family and the Hathaiprasert couple (Aim's parents), tried to regain some order to no avail.

Inviting the two families to the same event and making them seat at the same table while facing each other was a mistake that the organizer, Ple Leekpai (Knott's sister), couldn't have foreseen since the family feud was something only a few people in the world knew about despite the two-hundreds-year old rivalry.

Two hundred and twenty years ago, the Yuavaves and Vipadas were one.

Living in a territory ruled by an oppressive leader, they put their forces together, worked equally side by side, to usurp the leader and finally free their people. They ruled cohesively for the first several years until the Yuavaves leader was murdered and all of the clues pointed to the Vipadas. Angry and hurt at their betrayal, the Yuavaves then staged the assassination of the Vipadas' leader, despite all of the latter's assertation that they didn't kill the Yuavaves' leader. From this moment on, it was a vicious cycle of murders and revenge. Although a cease-fire on the killings was negotiated years ago, the two families still abhorred each other.

Thus, when Prem and Wad met each other, they already knew each other very well, and hated each other very much. All the Yuavaves knew all of the Vipadas, and all of the Vipadas knew all of the Yuavaves. However, despite all the ancient prejudice and hate built between the families, the two boys ended up falling desperately in love, even in the face of everything they knew would be against them. For a while, they promised that they wouldn't give up on each other. That comes the devil and Hell, it would be "alive together or dead together".

So, can you imagine Wad's surprise, when Prem suddenly and completely disappeared from his life one day, without any secret phone calls, any letters, nothing at all? He disappeared without a trace. Even some of his family's members didn't know where he was for some time. Wad even feared that his relationship with Prem was found out and he was then murdered as a punishment.

What Wad didn't know was that Prem actually told his father that he was in love with a Vipada. And that's all it took for all hell to break loose. Although the current Yuavaves leader doesn't even know the gender of his son's lover, the fact that his son loved a Vipada was a sin that couldn't be forgiven. Not even that, with the family's new mysterious enemies coming even closer, the leader didn't have time for his son's sinful melodrama. So he told him the facts, either Prem gets disowned and decrowned as the heir of the family upon which he could do whatever he wanted with his life, or he could take his responsibilities and help take care of his family and his seven younger siblings who will need him more than ever soon, as many of their family members were getting mysteriously killed, their land stolen and burned, and this time not by the Vipada, although someone desperately tried to make it seem like it.