Bloody Throne

Chapter 1

I was born on a special day. I was born during a lunar eclipse. My mother had been in labor all day. I was born silent, when they cut my umbilical cord, it bled sliver. They kept trying to make me breathe. My father told me that it wasn't until they moon was fully red that I started to cry. The midwives fainted. When my father went to see, my silver blood turned red and my brown eyes turned grey. It was at that moment my parents knew that the gods wanted me to be Queen of Althern.....

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" Princess Amrya!" My Mother's lady in waiting shouted.

"Yes Lady Macdome?" I shouted back. 

"Your mother, the Queen, wants to see you!" She said. 

I quickly dropped the flowers I was picking and ran over to her. My light green dress swishes against my legs, as the satin under-dress hit my feet. 

"Do you know why?" I asked her.

"I don't question The Queen" She retorted. 

She started walking and I followed. She walked quite fast and it was hard for me to keep up with her.  Because my gold belt was to tight, I was running out of breath fast. 

"Darn Lady Sera." I whispered to myself. 

"Your Highness?" Lady Macdome questioned. 

"Nothing Lady Macdome, just thinking to myself." I said. 

As we walked by people stopped to bow to me. We went down the royal hallway that led to my mother's room.  The hallways were painted in tapestries of all colors. Silvers, blues, golds, and reds. 

We finally reached her rooms. Her door was golden and had guards posted on both sides. They grabbed the door handles and pulled, opening the door. 

We walked into the room, each window was open letting the golden sunshine in. The room was mostly gold, silver, and white. It was made mostly of marble and gold. There was one big TV and right in front of it, the giant bed. There was a table of marble and had gold decals. 

There my mother sat with her other ladies in waiting. Everyone in the room was of either red or silver blood.

Once I was born, my father decided to reform Althern. Reds were to be treated like silvers. They could hold power and be apart of the royal family. He made each of them better homes. He made sure each of them had education, food, healthcare, and would be able to do anything. I hope to be a good ruler like him one day. 

"Ah! My sweet child!" My mother smiled. 

I bowed, "My Queen Mother" I said. 

"Come child, we are making blankets for the hospitals. There is an outbreak of the blood diease again." 

The blood disease. We call it this because once someone is affected by it, they spew blood until they die. It comes from rotting fruit. The only issue is, this certain fruit is hard to tell if it is rotten or not. The sickness is fast, you could be happy at breakfast, feeling a little sick midday, and be dead by dinner. The best doctors still haven't found a cure for it yet. 

"Oh that's terrible, I will help you make blankets for the sick." I said. 

"This is a good teaching moment. Always put your subjects first. A country isn't land, it is the people." My mother said. 

"I will, when I rule one day, I will always put my people first." I say. 

"You will be an amazing ruler." My mother said.