Cytus Chapter K (fanfiction)

Blessing - The Sanctuary

Ola ~ Thanks for reading my previous entry, I really appreciate it :> 

Hope you enjoy this

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The blue haired queen doze off as she stared to away at the balcony attached to the master's bedroom, sitting on a golden royal chair with blue and golden elegant designs, obviously in deep thoughts. A low evilish chuckle ringed the room, "I will take the throne". She felt purturbed. She felt ever so nervous of what could happen. "M-mom?" A faint voice was heard as the doors creaked "Thou called for my presence?" The queen turned to her daughter with a sweet smile. The mother-daughter relationsip between the two is so much with pure love that everybody may go awww. unlike other royalties, She doesn't let her daughter treat as someone with authority. She wanted to let her daughter to see her as a mother, not a queen of so many lands. "Yes, I did dear." She said gently raising her hand to the chair across her which is blocked by an elegant round table. Iris took her seat as she fixated her eyes towards her mother. "Art thou okay mom?" Despite her age, she is a smart child and is aware that something is bothering the queen's mind. "I am fine my dear" The queen forced a sweet smile to her. She doesn't know how to start it. What if Iris would go perplex with the pressure given to her? She knows Iris isn't a type of child who would directly decide something because she just felt like it. After minutes of being engulfed by silence, the queen decided to clear her throat to speak up "I know this might be a little early for thou, my dearest" She observed Iris who tried be prepared of what may come. "I would like thou to make a choice... " She moved her chair near to Iris to hold her hand "This will greatly affect thy future.. So please my dear, think about it very thoroughly". The queen squeezed her hand "I want thou to be fully aware of what's outside my dear, the world is crammed with cruelty, only victors are allowed to live... The world is merciless... But have no fear my dear, the world is also full with light and beauty. That's why I am making thou this choice... I believe that thou will make the decision to show the beauty of this world" . Iris can't really catch up with the words coming out from her mother, but somehow tried to. "So Iris, my dear...Would thou rather be a priest... " She said pausing in every choices she gave to let Iris absorbed the things she was saying. "or a knight... or would thou prefer to take my heir?". Secretly, the queen wished for Iris to choose of having the heir or at least be a priest... She doesn't want her daughter to face to any danger while Iris stared at her mother, slightly widening her eyes. She heard this kind of question before, when it asked to her older brodor by the king then sternly answered he would gladly to take his throne. And as for Iris, she don't know... What would happen if she would choose any of them? "May I think this over first?" Iris stood from her seat gently. The blue queen understood the decision of her daughter. She is still too young too make a decision. "Of course thou may think of this over... like I said..."Think about it very thoroughy"". Iris bowed down as she thanked her mom and left the room. 

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"So what thou have in mind?" Iris turned to Rosabel who stood up with hands on her hips. Rosabel decided to pay a visit to Iris for she was dying of boredom. They were at the terrace which was next to Iris's garden. "Of course I will take the throne!" Rosabel exclaimed with a huge green on her face. "What will thou do as soon as thou have it then?" Iris inquired know who Rosabel is: a simpleton. She gets pranked everytime and blushes with every single compliment. "Of course I will help the needy" Rosabel gave Iris a small smile. "I love my country... And I will do everything to keep it safe and protected" This time, she gave off a genuine smile that caught Iris a bit dumbfounded...She never knew Rose thought of this way in terms about her country. "Hey~" Rosabel slammed her hands on the table, which is infront of the girls sitting on the porch of the terrace, playfully. "Wanna go around town?"

"W-what?"

"Go around town?"

"Why?"

"So that I may see the condition of thy beloved country, come one... thpu might find thy answer" Rosabel gave a grin with a thumbs up. Iris, without anything to defend, sighed in defeat and agreed with Rosabel. The both then ran to the gates and ordered a carriage to bring them along. They roam around town, looking at the vendors and the goods they sell, every people who would saw them automatically bowed down before them which Iris gave the permit to raise their heads. Iris finds it really uncomfortable to be treated that way, she was treated like a normal child in the kingdom in a good way. Rosabel doesn't seems to be bothered at all. Rosabel and Iris where running around the town with other children who seems to not care of what title, bloodline, or things they own. "EEK!" Iris heared a strangled scream from her back and turned... Only to find Rosabel being dragged by some three men. "ROSE!!" Iris ran to her but she was stopped by one of them and carried her. "LET  GO OF ME! LET GO!!" Iris and Rose tried to hit them by their punches, their kicks, even their bites. But they don't seem to budge at all. They were hugely built men. Rosabel then was thrown to the ground with a thud. They brought them into an exhile place. "What money can these girls bring?" One of them said with such dark laughter with how scared the both girls have on their faces. Iris was released to fell unto the ground with a loud thud. Her face, her whole body met the ground hard. Iris tasted a metallic like substance in her mouth and then realized one of her teeth was taken off. Rosabel quickly rushed to her side and help her stood from such awful position she is in. Then more men came. "My my..." One of them with a huge scratch on his face, from his forehead down to his chin, exclaimed with such delight "What a treasure!". He laughed heartily. But we all know what his heart is covered of. The poor girls shook with fear. They don't know what may happen to them. If only they took a permission from their parents....

They shut their eyes close as they prepare of what will happen to them. "UGH!" They heard of the men groaned in pain and fell on the ground with a thud. And the same thing happened, men groaning and falling to the gorund. "My Majesty..." One soft voice spoke to them. Their shoulders then fell in relief as the slowly open their eyes. A knight bestowed to them, kneeling to them while giving out his hand for them to reach. There were other knights too, some riding on their horse. The blue and red queen came rushing to them. "Why didn't ask for me to let thou roam around the town!" Iris's mother exclaimed in vexation. "Didn't I warn thou?! This world is not everything nice!" She checked for more damages around her daughter. They both turned to the red heads who are standing up to go to the carriage. The blue queen sighed as they were helped to stand. "M-mom..." Iris grabbed a hem of her mother's dress. "I'm sorry..." The blue queen can't help but to smile as she carresed the cheeks of her daughter. "I would like to be a knight." Iris concluded. The blue queens eyes wided. Her daughter chose to be in a knight ! "W-why is that my dear?" The queen didn't really understand why? She's only a fragile girl. Her daughter's death will be her death. Iris stood confidently to her mother as she fixated her eyes "I want to protect my country. I want to protect also Rosabel and to protect thou, my mother... I believe this will lighten the view of my people and others". Hearing this, the blue queen smiled. She trust in Iris. Giving a curt nod, she brought her to the carriage.

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 Iris was standing kneeling of her parents. It was a ceremony for Iris to be officially to be bless as a knight. The place was filled with Viola flowers and chandeliers and different shades of blue stained glass. A mighty sword was given to her by her father "May this sword accompany in thy future". The ceremony was done succesfully. The queen can't help but feel purturbed. Now that Iris is a knight, She shall be exposed to a place where a child, let alone a girl, in a field where the darkest secrets of the world hides.