Rise Up, Stand Together (KingdomCraft Story)

Chapter Eleven- Magic?

-------------- Flower Kingdom ~ Castle Maybloom ---------------

The Flower Queen smiles as she watches the young kids playing. The castle was built at the back of the smallest village in the kingdom, Maybloom, which is what the castle was named after. She could see her youngest brother, Dante, playing among them too, making her smile more.

Yammy's brown hair was pulled back into a ponytail, and she was wearing a flower crown instead of her gold crown. She wanted to go for a slightly different look today. Her eyes scanned across the small park that sat on the edge of Maybloom Village. It was a relatively quiet day. There were only 3 kids in the park today. Usually, Yammy would see about 6 or 7 of them.

Yammy turns her head as she hears one of her brothers taking a seat down beside her. "How's things going with Dante?" the 21-year-old asks.

Yammy nods to Chris, "They're going well. Dante seems to be getting along well with these two kids" she smiles.

Chris nods, "Good" he says, opening his book. Yammy knew that Chris loved to read. She smiles again and looks across the park again. The 3 kids were in a huddle, playing as they lay on the ground.

Yammy chuckles quietly. "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, our dad is coming to visit today" Chris tells her.

"Really?" Yammy asks. It's been a few years since they had seen their real dad. He had moved to another kingdom for a new job he had gotten. Yammy was really excited to see him after 3 years.

Chris nods, "Yeah, he'll be here in a few hours" he says.

Yammy grins, "That's good to hear! It's been so long since we've seen him. It's a shame he couldn't be here for my coronation though" she says.

Chris nods again, "Yeah, but you know he loves us though, right? It's just that his job takes up most of his time" he says.

Yammy smiles, "Of course I know that" she says, "I can't wait to see him".

"Me neither" Chris grins, his eyes still in the book.

---------------- Corrupted Kingdom ~ Corrupt Castle -----------------

Lauren grumbled as she lay in her bed. She still couldn't believe that she gave up so easily. She didn't have much of a choice though, she was already bleeding out from the hip so she couldn't really do much movement.

She was in the hospital for 2 days while she got somewhat healed up. Now she's got some bandages on her. Chrissy has been left in charge until Lauren is better. Lauren isn't happy about it. She hates having to stay in bed. She'd much rather be out, making sure that her kingdom is the way SHE wants it to be. She hated the thought of her kingdom being left in the hands of her nice sister.

She went down to see Ryan this morning. He's still throwing death threats at her. If it wasn't for Chrissy, Lauren would of killed him by now. She hated him. Ryan and his dad are the reason why Lauren turned out to be like this, and she hates him for it.

"Queen Lauren, may I advise that you get some sleep?" Lauren's royal advisor, Alan, asks. Lauren scoffs, "Whatever" she says, rolling onto her non-injured side, carefully, and closing her eyes. Sometimes, she sees her nicer self in her dreams. When she had two yellow eyes, instead of one. When her skin wasn't tinted grey. When she wasn't a ruthless leader.

Not only that, but sometimes she sees her fully dark side, just waiting to be released into the real world again.

Lauren doesn't like showing that she's scared, she says that it makes her look weak. But everybody has their fears, and Lauren's fear...? She has a fear of herself, but nobody else knows that.