The Pirate Prince of the Ice Sea (Book 1 of The Legend Of Kaleania)

Chapter 13

"What happened?" I asked her. I wasn't sure if she was the same kitchen servant that raised me while the queen was busy. Her out of control red curly hair was straight and fell past her shoulders. She wasn't as plumped as she was and she looked she was around her thirties.

"Arak Aiken somehow ran away after he was crowned a prince. The prince and the guards sent out for him but they looked everywhere and they still couldn't find him. It took them two weeks and still no luck. When they told the queen that they couldn't find him, she couldn't take it anymore so she stabbed herself in the heart so she couldn't bear the pain. A few days later, the king had a serious disease that no healer couldn't cure so he died. Kan still believed that Arak was still alive so he sent out all the guards to travel to the six kingdoms but when they got back, something snapped inside him. He vowed that he will kill the person that killed the only family he had left. Kan decided to become king and would follow in his father's footsteps by allowing his dream to meet a pirate to be crushed." She explained. A tear slid down her cheek, me knowing that she missed me.

"Hey, don't cry," I reassured her. I used my chained hand to wipe away her tear. I remembered that I did this when she lost her own son from land pirates that lived outside of Kaleania.

"Those were the exact same words that he said to me when I lost my own son and he did the same thing that you just did," she said. I was going to pull my hand back but she grabbed hold of it. She looked at me with her icy blue eyes and placed her hand on my face. She ran her finger along the scar that was on my eye. "Where did you get that scar?"

"It was punishment," I said. Tears started tearing down her face as she put her other hand over her mouth, trying not to cry.

"Arak, is it really you?" she asked. I nodded, slowly. "Where have you been? Why haven't you come back?"

"I think this will explain everything," I removed my hand from her grasp and slid the cuff and the chain up my arm as far as I could so the flaming letter was visible. Now she put both hands over her mouth.

"You became a pirate?" she asked.

"Medina, I was already one," I explained. "No one noticed it. And I didn't either until recently. I didn't come back because I chose to. People are suffering the same way I did and they need my help to lead them to freedom to a war against the person that murdered my parents. I also had to become captain so the ship wouldn't be with no captain. I'm sorry that I worried everyone and it's my fault that Kan is like this. The queen is dead because of me." I bowed my head against the bars and shut my eyes. I never got a chance to say that I loved her as a mother and now she's dead because I ran away without thinking about how much pain Medina, Aira, and Kan had to go through. I felt a hand on my cheek and I opened my eyes to find her stop crying and was grinning.

"At least you found who you really are," she said. I smiled back and I heard footsteps coming. Medina quickly got up and rushed around the corner. The person who was coming was Kan.

"Are you here to kill me without letting the people see me hanged?" I asked.

"You will die either way," he said.

"You can't do it," I said. That made him take out his sword and held it at the side of my neck. "I find this a bit strange, don't you think?"

"What in Kerala's Firealm are you talking about?" he spat.

I remained calm and said, "You are using the sword that I made to kill me,"

"You didn't make this sword. A blade-smith made it under Father's orders not a lying pirate."

"Even if I was telling you the truth about everything, you'd still be a stubborn brat." He forced the sword to dig deeper into my skin.

"You have no idea what I've been through," he said.

"Good, we both know that we suffered the same way." I said, sarcastically.

"You haven't seen your father die or your mother commit suicide because of some slave."

"My father fought to the death and lost his life and my mother had no choose to give me up because she was doing her best to protect me. You actually got to see your parents as they watch you grow and become a great ruler. I never set eyes on my parents. I know about this because the one person who survived with a baby in her arms as she carried him to your castle without looking back, even though she was still a child. You should be thankful that you've never been through what I have been through. The woman that took my parent's lives has been controlling the pirates for fifteen years. Think about how other people have felt under your rule. I saved a child and a mother from freezing to death because of your father."

"Don't you dare talk about my father like that," he growled. "You shall die tonight." he was about to leave but I called out to him.

"I didn't come here to die, Kan. I'm asking for your help. If I don't have a final answer by the end of the week, then the pirates will lose and I probably might die. I'd rather die in battle than be hanged." I said.

"So you're willing to sacrifice your life for freedom?" he asked.

"Aye," I answered. He removed his sword and started unlocking the cell door but he knelt on my legs as he turned me to face him. He pointed his sword at my heart. "You don't have the guts to kill me."

"Yes I do," he said. "I'll kill you just like the way Father wanted to do to you for a while."

"So you're going to kill a boy that your father wanted dead but instead you're going to kill an armless pirate?" I asked. He nodded. "Well, go ahead and prove to your dead old man that I'm just a worthless rat that deserves to die." He switched his sword with a knife and plunged it into my stomach. I felt all the blood running out of my body. My heartbeat began to beat slower than before. Sweat started searing down my face as I tried to hold the bloody wound without it dripping blood. Kan was about to leave but I yelled, "Is this what you wanted? To let me die here to prove to your father that you can kill a person that did nothing wrong?"

"If you're still alive by the time I get back, then I'll think about joining the pirate war but if your dead, then I call getting your bird," he said.

"That bird has been serving my family for a long time. So if I die, he will serve the person that is closest to me." I muttered. He climbed up the stairs and disappeared around the corner. I tried my best to stay awake and not lose so much blood but my eyes weren't agreeing with me. I didn't care if I died because I would choose Kara to be Sarngika's master and to lead the pirates. But I can't tell her if I'm slowly going to the light at the end of the tunnel. My vision started to go blurry as I heard someone was coming. I saw a girl with a black thing on her shoulder and a boy that wore the Akaenia colors. My mind automacitally went to Kara, Sarngika, and Kan. I saw Kara put her hand where the stab was. I groaned in pain as she took it off and put it in front of her face.

"He's poisoned," she said. That's just great, I thought. I'm going to die of poison. "We need to hurry to the ship and treat him." Kan came over tore a part of cloth from his robe and started wrapping it around my waist and then carried my on his shoulders out the cell. And that was all I could remember after I blacked out.

A/N_: Sorry for a sad chapter but I thought it would be good for a close death sitution so yeah. Enjoy the rest of the story

-PokeTrainer246