A Tale Of A Lifetime

1.11

Mysteries and Secrets Slowly Unfolding

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No one would have thought that the secret envoys sent by the Avalon Kingdom was tasked to uncover the truth about the widely well known Four Noble Clans. Not even Princess Cynthia knew of the hidden scheme that lies beneath the facade of their mission to help the ruined Light Kingdom. Except her only companion, Prince Drake. She was merely used as an instrument to deflect suspicions and so that their plan could work with great success. With her personality, Devon did not find anything odd but mostly because he was distracted and solely put his focus on Princess Hillary's matter as the top of his priorities.

Now that everything was turning to be a mess and with a great change away from the original plot, Hillary was left at the dark for the unforseen events that were happening beyond her control. With a lot of matters in mind and thoughts to ponder, Hillary continued to be unconscious for three whole days. In those time, she dreamed that she was back to her familiarly dimly lit and solitary room. She saw her body was lying deadly pale on the cold tiled floor of her room. Her cellphone keep ringing on the background until the caller stopped for the hundredth time of attempts. Not that long, the door to Maxine's room was opened by her manager who looked both with shock and panic as she was greeted by the unexpected scene. She immediately called for an ambulance after determining the latter was in short of breath. Maxine saw how she was put into the stretcher by the medics and hauled in the ambulance car as it went to the nearest hospital. On the way there, she was drifting on and off making it seemed like a passing dream.

Hillary remained unconscious. During her coma state for successive three days, her body was put into peril without her known. So when she finally woke up, her whole body ached and her every limbs felt like breaking.

"Ah!" Hillary groaned in sudden pain that immediately ran down her every fiber as she slowly sat up against a boulder.

What the! How the hell did I become like this? My body hurts like hell!

"Big Sis, you're awake?"

The sudden child-like call gave Hillary a scare for a few seconds before she managed to calm back down. Its not just a hypothetical scare but literally the meaning of the word. Its because the person calling her was the dangerous King Fiero himself and was brazenly acting quite like a child.

Has he gone crazy? What the hell is happening now?

"Sister, please hug Yue-er. I'm scared of the dark..." Then, he cried like a child after saying those words. Hillary was left speechless for the absurd scene that was happening before her eyes. But it was not that long before she burst into loud laughter that echoed on the corner walls therein.

Sniffing, the child-like Fiero asked as he stopped his cries, "Sister, why are you laughing? Did you find something funny? Come on, share it to me. I want to laugh together with you, too!"

Despite Hillary's unexplained body aches, she continued laughing for awhile at Fiero's expense. She did not know that a person as heartless and indifferent like Fiero could have a dual personality. And a child at that! The sight of a big bad man crying like a child was hilarious that Hillary could not stop herself from laughing earlier.

I'm not that dumb to tell you the reason why. What if that man return again and punish me? Who will save me, then?

"Its nothing worth sharing for. Come on, help Big Sis to stand up and lead the way out of here..." Hillary responded to take advantage of the favorable situation.

"But its very dark Sister. I'm scared of it..."

"What are you afraid of? I'm here. So let's quickly left ..." before you return back to your other self...

The remaining words are only uttered in Hillary's mind. She'll be dead for sure once that Fiero guy return back before she even escaped from this place.

A/N:
I'm sorry for not updating for so long. I know how you feel because I'm also  a reader myself... Just like you, I also have stories that I've been rooting into to keep updating. However, life is tough this year especially the current happenings so I tried isolating myself from internet for awhile longer before I ended up depressed. With a lot of things in my mind right now, I just want to be healthy and to stay OPTIMISTIC.

Regarding this story, I can't really promise to update regularly or to have a fixed schedule for updates. My last left-over written draft for this story was only this chapter since I stopped writing a long time ago. But  now, I'll start writing again because I had once again found my lost passion for writing which was my motivation. I also had read alot these past months evoking my sense of inspiration to do the same thing. Reading your last comments gave me a new driving force to finish this story.

However, just to let you know, updates are really unpredictable and very5x slow because I had forgotten most of the plots of this story. But rest assured, once I'm done with the preparations again, I'll try mass releasing just to give you compensation for the long wait.