The Advent Of The End

Chapter 8: Training and Royalty

"Oh my, Oh my" She ushered for Evan to stand up by lifting his arm. "It is not my place to make the destined child to kneel".

"It is right and just" He mockingly smiled "Milady"

She slapped him and Evan fainted.

"Did you teach him to act like that Marco?" Aka said, slightly angered as her voice rised a bit.

"No, your mistress" He said, his voice and body now shivering in fear as he thought to himself over and over again.

"Please let me live. Please let me live. Please let me live. Please let me...."

"Live" She said.

He also cowered in fear. He never talked about Clarisse before to her mistress and even if she's gone, the mistress will still be really angry as she just sent a message a while back about her coming to seek revenge.

"Are you really sure you can keep secrets from me" She lowered herself to him and put her mouth closer to her ear for him to hear more precisely. "Marco"

"I'MVERYSORRYABOUTNOTTELLINGYOUMISTRESSASYOUCANSEEI'MVERYBUSYWITHMYJOB.."

"Shhhhh" She lifted his chin and made them look eye to eye, as she also put a finger on his mouth, signaling for him to fall silent. "I think we already know the punishment for not telling me something you did"

He instantly cried afterwards while begging for mercy. But Aka laughed mercilessly as she thought up of ways for correcting her disobedient servant.

"Ready yourself Marco" She said, her voice turning seductive and frightening.

"As you might never walk after"

>:T

"What...happened?" Evan said, waking up and seeing a beautiful face right on top of him. He gradually rised his face up but was immediately stopped by an unknowingly soft hand.

"I see you're awake" Aka said, gently rubbing Evan's soft white hair. Looking at him like seeing a cute, defenseless little boy.

"Where's Marco?" He asked, as he is continually mesmerized by her beautiful face and enjoying the sensation of a soft lap pillow.

"That" She raised her index finger "Is something you must never know" She continued to rub his hair.

"It must've been hard for you, containing all of those emotions on your own".

"What do you mean?" His face arose from her lap and is now sitting crossed leg.

"Anger. Despair. Pain. Regret" She said, as she grabbed the fan from her side and opened it to cover her mouth. "If I wasn't here, your emotions would already be drowning until they turn numb. Your eyes will start to have its cold glare in just the age of twelve years old" She analyzed and looked at him from top to bottom "And I see you've matured as well"

Evan looked down at the floor, the tears slowly trickling from his face. After containing it and releasing it from their training a while ago, he would've already broke down and destroyed anything that he sees.

"It's so unfair" He wiped the tears in his eyes but never stopped. His nose now clogged with snot, and the feeling of being utterly useless. "Why do I lack so much power to protect the ones I love!?" He looked at Aka, a pitiful face she saw, remembering a certain memory way back then, that led her to hug him tight, like a mother easing her son's pain.

"If I had it back then" He looked at his hand, his shaking hands full of anger. "I would've saved both big sis and Alicia!"

"You weren't suppose to know, and you shouldn't know this yet" She said, as she touched both of his shoulders, looking at him earnestly and her eyes full of pity as well.