Sofia the First: Father

Chapter 37: What Really Happened

Everyone Gasped as the entire room fell silent once more, untill it was once again broken by a person's voice "My people killed your family? what in the hell are you on about!?" Johnthon Growled. "MY WHOLE FAMILY, COMPLETELY WIPED OUT OVER NIGHT!" Captain Valthor Roared through gritted teeth "ALL BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR COUNTRY'S LEADER, QUEEN ELIZABETH!". "What's even going on anymore?..." Sofia Thought, "Wait..." Her father Said narrowing his eyebrows at the Captain "How do you know the name of my Ex-Queen? you've clearly never set foot in my country!". King Roland took a moment to take in all of what had just heard in "Hold on a moment... Captain, how do know the name of... whoever he just said?", "That is none of your concern" Captain Valthor Growled under his breath "Besides... it no longer matters, at least, not anymore". "Arthur!" Shouted King Roland the First "Answer yourself at once!", this surprized everyone very much. "Arthur?" Miranda quietly Asked no one in paticular, "His real name" the Grand Queen whispered back to her. "Come clean, you son of a bitch..." Johnathon Growled under his breath "Or I'll kill you where you stand...", "Mr. Valthor" Sofia Frowned with a soft tone "Please... let's just talk about this". "Come on, Arthur" the Grand King Said softly "I know very well you don't want to do this..." The room fell silent for the third time, the Captain then let out a long, loud sigh which broke it "Very well". He then cleared his throat, and began to talk.

"My name... is Arthur Valthor, i was... orphaned at the age of 13... shortly after... losing my family. That is... untill one day, when his Royal Highness King Roland the First visited the orphanage. He approached me with guards at each side and said to all members of staff 'Leave us',  to which they obliged. He then told me to take a seat with him, as he to have a little chat. He asked what my life was like... before the massacre, i told him that my entire family were... slaughtered overnight... there was nothing i could've done. His Royal Highness felt deep sorrow within his heart, due to having such a tragic life-changing moment himself also. After a while, he had finally announced something. He had seen much potential in me, and his army was in need of a new leader. And so... there it was, i was officialy going on to become the 55th Captain of the Royal Guard. I spent the next 15 years living in the guards quarters, training endlessly to unleash the best within me. Untill, the day finally arrived... the day i was finally awarded the top rank of Captain. And so, from that day forward, I, Captain Arthur Valthor swore to protect my kingom and all those of whom enhabit it. Around 25 years passed, and i was summoned for a meeting with the King, and all the other highest ranking members of staff. It was for a private conversation, about... The Gateway. The King told me that, they had actually re-discovered it! the very gateway to a realm known only as 'The Real World'. I was so eager to assemble a brigade of troops and enmbark on a journey to locate it, and yet his Royal Highness declined, saying that i was forbidden to go... for the mental trauma from my 'last' experience still plagued my frigile mind. His own plan involved sending an elite sqaudron on a water-based journey to the so-called 'Real World', along with other elite sqadrons from many other kingdoms who were also participating in the history-making event. But i had other plans. A mere 6 hours before the journey was to commence, i informed Enchancia's share of the sqaudron that there had been a change of plans. Being their leader, they did as they obviously did as told and listened to my every word. I told them that the King had a changed his mind about the 'Journey', that all the other kingdoms had other plans. I then went to say that we were to leave in a mere 2 hours while everyone was still sound asleep. When questioned why that was, i simply said that it was order to 'Save time'. But i DID go on to say that we were to document the entire trip in a journal as proof that it actually happened, then the news would spread across the Ever Realm like a wild fire! history would be made! and we would all begin to both experience and document the so-called 'Real World' for future generations to be educated! At long last, we set off for the docks. After another 30 minutes of preparing all the ships, all 60 of us set sail for the location on Roland's map. Then after about an hour, we came across a large area of extremely thick mist. Be thankfuly that didn't slow us down, and we continue onward. Eventually, we came across something that had a bright god-like glow to it, it was what seemed to be a large, mystical doorway of sorts. It was at that moment, we all realized... history of on the verge of being made. After a final 10 minutes of preparing ourselves, we slowly entered it. After a few breif few minutes of... some form of light show mixed with a vortex, we were finally greeted by nothing but sea and mist. It was at that moment we all realized, we had made it! After all my boys had finished celebrating, I told them the plan with 100% detail. However, they were... quite outraged upon hearing it. They went on to say that there was no way they would ever do such something so heinous. I had come too far to back down now... and I snapped. I quickly took out a spare wand belonging to Goodwyn, stolen for safe keeping, and used it in a most professional manner. The spell spread across the entire fleet as fast as the high winds themselves. After I was done, they all looked towards me with glowing purple eyes, 'We are at you word, Captain' they said. I was pleased by this, and explained the plan once more. 'Yes, Sir' was all I heard afterwards, and we all set sail for our sole destination, a place called 'United Kingdom'. After a few short hours, along with using an old map I had to hand, we finally caught sight of land. 'Land ho!' they all shouted. First comes buisness, I always say: my main target being a mediocre castle-like building apparently called 'Buckingham Palace'. I had all cannons manned and loaded immedietely, preparing for a long night."