The Prince and The Parvenu (Completed)

chapter 16

I am terrified. On my fifth night in El He Chizo, things started to go wrong. Not that it wasn't a mess before. I was awake, but I couldn't open my eyes. Dreams started hunting me in my sleep. Or should I just call it nightmares.

At first, I thought it was just a mágisueño thinking that ate Emm is probably playing a random trick at me but I quickly noticed that it was just like the vision that I once had when I touched the knob of the silver door.

A little girl in a really fancy dress is playing near a scintillating lake. Her eyes are gleaming with so much happiness that I couldn't help but feel it's warmth just by looking at her. She looks so familiar, and I instantly felt a deep feeling of familiarity towards her.

A group of four men dressed in scarlet coloured uniforms suddenly came towards her, carrying something with them. The girl looked at them and immediately broke down. I felt my heart clenched with so much sorrow as I heard her cry. She wept with so much tears and sobbed like she couldn't breathe anymore. The four men placed what they've been carrying on the ground and I bit back a scream when I saw a young man that looks just like papa. He's lifeless. Wounded and I could clearly see some bones broken. What the hell is happening?

"Dreiden, no.... no... you can't go.. you can't leave me here." I sobbed when I realised that the young man is papa. Who is this girl? Is she his sister? Papa never told me about her. But then again, there were so much things they never told me.

"What happened to him?" The girl asked in a soft whisper, still crying. The four men that I now presume are Papa's guards looked grim and unsettled. Before anyone could even speak, a young maiden came rushing towards them. She screamed when she saw papa laying on the cold hot ground. I immediately recognised her. Mama.

"What the hell happened?!" The little girl now screamed at the royal guards, making the four men squirm in fear. It's like her voice has some kind of power within it. Making everyone feel what she's now feeling. Anger, longing, sorrow, grief, and love.

"It...it was...t-the Coldwell Princesa. She pulled him into her well. She—"

"Fuck! What was he doing there?! You know very well that Reese isn't stable right now! Fuck!" She cursed and cursed, the four guards kneeled in front of her, their head laid low and hands shaking with so much fear. The little girl's eyes looked deadly as she gazed at them.

"Take our lives now Princesa, for we have not done our duty well." The little girl raised her right hand, staring at the guards with a daunting expression written all over her face. The four guards suddenly gasped for air, their hands on their neck as if they're trying to stop an invisible force from choking them. The girl just looked at them with her eyes cold and tears still streaming down her face. And then mama spoke,

"Harley, stop... please" I looked at mama who's now kneeling right beside the lifeless body of papa. The girl didn't give her a glance and slowly closed her palms making the four guards lay on the ground, weak and gasping for air.

"You're out of this Quinnel. He was supposed to play with me here. He promised. But now he's gone, and someone has to pay for it." I almost couldn't believe that the words came from the little girl's mouth. Her eyes now empty and and her voice cold as she sneered at the guards.

"I said stop it! Killing them won't bring Dreiden back!" Mama screamed and the little girl stopped. She suddenly put her hand down and went beside papa. The guards stopped gasping for air and is now breathing heavily. Mama shook her head repeatedly when the little girl held on papa's hand before closing her eyes.