K project: Untold Story

Chapter 5 - Damocles Down.

"yo! you're up, finally!" Izumo chuckles as the princess makes her way down the stairs.

"mhmm" She rubs her eyes sleepily, making her way to a seat at the bar. "The usual please."

"Coming up~!" Izumo goes off to do her breakfast and drink.

"You shouldn't smoke it's bad for you." Kasai sniffs the air then facing Mikoto whom was smoking.

"Just noticed? It's effort to quit." His tone remains lazy as ever as he puffs out smoke.

"How long have you been doing it?" She asks curious.

"Can't remember. Pain to remember anyway." He responds sighing.

"Here you go, one traditional english breakfast with green tea~!" Izumo sings the name with pride.

Without a second thought Kasai digs into her meal eating more than one mouthful once and sometimes she nearly chokes on her food.

"Still worried about him?" Mikoto asks which made her stop eating.

"No, He'll be fine." She replies after a long pause.

"Don't lie. It's annoying." Mikoto sighs.

"I am, after all he's my older brother. What do you expect?" She shoots a glare at him as she eats one mouthful before continuing. "I know he'll be fine, he's been in these situations before and returned home safely!" She adds to cheer up the mood. "I'll just give him a big hug when he retu-" She halts her sentence as she notice the glass of water on the side shaking a little.

"Earthquake probably." Izumo answers her thoughts, though the glass begins to shake more violently till it falls of the side.

All of them did what their instincts told them to do in a middle of an earthquake, sit under a desk or table and protect your head. The quake gets more and more violent till the people outside are screaming in fear and agony from fallen debrie and signs.

Soon a loud thunder of metal cracking, electric hissing joins the shaking and screaming.

Suddenly all fell silent after an hour of this nightmare.

"The king.." One of the clansmen searches for his insignia of the red clan. "Is dead?" He looks in despair, shock and his eyes are wide at the princess.

"Can you sense him Kasai?" Izumo asks gently and calmly.

"Brother.." She couldn't sense him, but she didn't believe herself. She gets up from under the bar and heads to the door. "I need to see brother.."  Though it was painful to walk on one leg, she didn't care but a hand grabs hers stopping her from leaving.

"You're not going anywhere except for a hospital." Mikoto groans rubbing his head from where he was hit.

"I don't want to go, I need to see brother..." Kasai avoids eye contact, her fringe covers her eyes like a curtain.

"He's gone, you need to accep-" A slap from Kasai interrupts him.

"He isn't dead! He probably just lost his power and is stranded out there!!" She screams at him her voice is full of guilt, regret and despair.

"When a King looses his power he dies, Even if he did survive that stage there is no way he would survive a damocles down." Mikoto growls at her, his eyes turns into that of a lion glaring at her. "Kings are born not made."

"Let's get ourselves checked out shall we?" Izumo interrupts them, though his face was covered in blood he is as calm as he is on the daily.

"Guess so." Mikoto sighs as Kasai remains silent holding her arm, they all leave to the hospital