"My King" an unknown formal voice said, "All the maidens from the other world have made it to our world successfully"
"How many did they sent this time?" the King ask semi lessoning
"Four, my King. The same amount that the offering needs to work" the unknown voice informed the King
"Leave" it was all the Lord could say with a deep sigh
"Yes my King" thee unknown voice bow down in respect. He then starts to leave the room leaving the King to himself
It's finally time. To think after twenty-eight years, I've finally reach my maturity. However that still didn't stop the Elders from bring the maidens from the other world. Even though I specifically told them just the six most beautiful or just the most powerful woman in our lands would be enough for me to choice. Ignoring my wish they claim we are still short on woman in our mother land. How dumb do they think I am? They just want to prove a point. They just to remind I'm still not in complete power of all of my land. And to prove that, they still want me to choice a maiden from the other world to be the first to carry my child, and throw away the rest of the maidens. Leaving them alone in an unknown land.
Probably wanting me to pick up a random girl out of the bunch. Just so they can keep the rest of them for themselves and do whatever they want with them almost wanting to make them think they are no longer human, just objects to keep in their private chambers. Their way of thinking disgust me almost makes me want to cute my own throat, I can't beliveve I'm related to these monsters by blood. But I won't fall for their tricks, I am my own man and I will fallow my own rules. I will no longer fallow their rules while I have control of the crown on my head.
I'll be as rotten as they come and won't fall in love with any of them no maiden from their land or from my own land. After all I am my father's son, his blood also runs inside me. It reminds me of ... I'm incapable of loving anyone. Just like my father couldn't even make it to my mothers final moments. After my mothers death I couldn't bring myself to see good in people anymore and the kind soul my mother loved has long been gone. I've been like this for years and I can't bring myself to repeat my father's mistakes in loving more than one. Can't I even call myself a man if I do the same thing to any of these woman. After all my mother was for their world.
•••••••••••••TWENTY YEARS AGO••••••••••••••
She was a very beautiful lady. Sadly it meant she caught my father's attention if you even call that man my father. Thankfully I was born with no sḫm (It means divine power if you can't figure it out), so my father never put any attention to me, but despit that I regret being born without my sḫm. If it wasn't for me, my mother wouldn't have gotten a weak body after giving birth to me.I know you won't lesson to me, just the same way that MAN did on that fateful evening.
Just like I said I never had sḫm since the day of my birth. Meaning my father never bothered my mother or I. And it gave me a chance to be raised as a kid of the land and not one of the "I'm one of the royal children of the all might king bow down before me" just like rest of my siblings. No my mother was a very bright women, she knew the best way to understand the people was to be part of the village.
I think I should explain what I'm talking about, first of all my mothers human name is Lisa. I remember hearing ones before from my uncle Errol about my mother when she still used to live with my father. How she used to be really shy and scared of everything especially my father. But after my birth, I heard she took it upon herself to face my father after she found out I had no sḫm and he had no use for my life.
"If you won't treat him like your child then let us go. I won't runaway from your land, all I'm asking is just,.... let us live away from this.
Just start a new life and not worry about us, and if you look for us we won't hide from you. Our front door will always be open for the king" that's what uncle Errol always tells me whenever I ask where my father is, but after a couple of years I even forgot my father is the King of this land. And to be honest I wish Errol could actually be my real father.
Despite my young age I can see the way uncle Errol see my mother with really loving eyes, but he tries to hide it but fails every time. If you can see how clumy he gets when ever he touches my mothers hand accidentally. He voice starts to studder and his hands start to wavy in every direction as if trying to kill an invisible fly. As for his face, it would first turn pick and depending on how sorry he feels it sometimes even turns tomato red. He sometimes avords his gaze from my mothers' or my face and if you are lucky. Just look even closer into his face and you could almost see tiny tears form in his eyes.
Mother always tells my uncle it's fine and that he is just adorable. And that always makes my uncle completely turn his back on her. However the only thing uncle always seems to miss. Is how my mother always looks at him with loving eyes. Kind a the same as she does with me, but with uncle she always shows a shy smile and her cheeks always go a little red. I wonder why? Someone ones asked me if my uncle was my father and I told them "No, but I wish he could be" But still being innocent to the world, I still didn't understand how the world works until later on in life. I learned a small tiny but important thing detail about my home.
When the King has a child with a maiden she can never be touch by any one other than the King. Even if the King never touches her for the rest of their life she can never be touched by another man. He can still sleep with all of his maidens he owns but the maiden must always be faithful and wait for the King. Even if her heart belongs to another man, they can never be together it's our law and it can never be broken. And that's what my uncle and mom are going threw right now, and I pity them. Not only because they can't be together but also because they really love each other.
I still don't see why they can't be together, but no one really knows who who my father is. Mom says its better to keep it a secret if we want to keep live a peaceful life. I don't understand why I have to keep it a secret but I'll do as they say. Besides that, I'm always happy when people think I'm uncle's son. Not to mention it's always fun when we walk around town hand in hand. Of course I'm always in between them so they never really hold hands but I like to pretend uncle Error really is my dad. Besides that I heard form my uncle that father finally settled down with a sixteen year old girl, making her almost twenty years younger then him, but I don't care about his life. He can live however he wants and we will live the way we want.
We lived like this for a couple of years being carefree to the real world and it's law. That is until I turn thirteen that's when everything went down hill. My mother had developed a sickness unknown to my land. But mother said she knows what she has.
She calls it LUPUS and many woman on her family have dead after it. She never mention it to us, because if she did. It would make me feel as if it's my fault. The only thing she is willing to say.
"Giving birth to you" trying to talk thru a husky dry voice "was the happiest moment in my life since I got here. I don't regret any moment I got to spent with you"
Hearing my mother look and sound like she is right on deaths door on its own is hard to watch. But I can't bring myself to watch my uncle hold mothers hand. Not after all those years of unspoken love. Finally right when she is at deaths door does he bring himself to touch her skin her cold and bonie hands.Her beautiful long her is long gone. Her eyes used to hold so much life and warmth but now they look dead and cold bit her smile, it used to be full of life but now, her lips are dry and cracked yet she doesn't care. She looks so happy. I can tell they had waited a long time just to hold onto each other like this. Deciding they need more then just a moment to be alone. I leave my mothers room. Hoping they can at least be true to their hearts. Even if it's for a minute.
Now that I've close the door I feel the tears running down my eyes and I notice how badly my body is shaking on it's own for the first time. I didn't realize or better said I want admit the truth. My mother is dying and their is nothing I can do. For the first time every. I cry out as if my tears on their own could bring her back to good health. Falling to the ground, I try tostand up again, but I just can't. If anything I just hold myself sinking even deeper into despair. All I can do is hope and pray that the GODS will lesson to me and bring her back in good health.
I don't know how long I stayed their, but by the time uncle finally came out. I can see it in his eyes, they held hatred towards me. For the first time in my life uncle gave me a look of disgust. But it only lasted a second before he started to cry. He didn't say anything or better said he didn't have to say anything. I understand what's going on. My mother..... has taken her last breath. She is gone and she will never open her eyes again, I will never be able to see her smile again.
I can feel my heart drop. Something inside of me just exploded. All my emotions came out: sadness, anger, regret, broken and lost. I cried again but this time I held nothing back. I can feel my body burning up from the inside but I don't care. Let me feel this pain,.... let me have something to express my pain in lossing the only woman that has ever loved me with all of her heart. I'm alone and no one loves me.
A pull jerked me into an embrace.
"Don't do that" I could barely hear uncle's voice but his warmth is a different story, " I just lost your mother I can't bring myself to loss you too"
I know he is telling me do much more but I can't lesson to it. My heart is broken, but I still know.... the only thing that can bring me back. Uncle also loved mother as much as I do or even more. How can I leave him when I know how much he has been threw,.. how much we have been threw. Taken a deep breath I understood I'm not alone after all. Uncle was still here and just like me, he also needed someone to talk to. Finally regaining my sanity, I returned his embrace. Because I know,.... this embrace is ment as a father comforting his child. Even at the age of thirteen I still want to feel parental love. We still cried for a long time but this time we knew we weren't alone and continue to cry for as long as the tears kept on coming out.
We stayed like this until a knock could be heard from the door. Even though neither of us wants to see any one. If they want to say good bye to my mother. Then they are welcome to do so, but what awaited us seems to be much worst than that.
The king,.... My farther stud on the other side of the door. I never really met my father but I can tell from his gold eyes the same color as mine could belong to no other than my father himself. This was the only thing I ever recieve from my father. Because only the King of our land, has the honor to have golden eyes.
"So you are the one who released all that energy" his voice is so cold is he even human? "I see that your mother's death trigger your sḫm"
He didn't even bother hide his disgust from his face. "To think I ever slept with such an ugly creature. I must have been mad, but if I could receive such a great heir that not even your other twelve brothers can compare to this magnificent sḫm you are showing to me"
How dare he coming into my life after all of these years. Not even a hello to my uncle or I. He doesn't even bother acknowledge my mother even on her death bed. All he cares about is my sḫm not me his son. I really want to rip this land head off. He comes to our home with nothing in mind other then his own planes.
Uncle must have felt my murders soul. Placing his right hand on my shoulder. He held me still both gently (letting me know he is still on my side) as well as firmly (a friendly reminder that I'm not strong enough to take him down)
"As a finally gift to your mother" finally look towards her room, "I will personally hold a ceremony in her honor. And in return you will take your place as the next in line"
Now I get it, this is the reason uncle stop me. What better way to kill him then go with him. Although my heart is still broken after my mothers lost. I can't let chance slip by.
"I'll take you up in your offer" how his smile creeps me out can never be explain even if I tried, "However I want Errol to be the one to train me"
"Of course, we can't have it any other way could we" his smile looks so gentle but I can tell it's an act.
Leaving my mother and our home is taking more out of me then I thought, but with the power I have I will save uncle even if it causes me my life.
••••••••••• BACK TO PRESENT TIME••••••••••
I won't repeat my father's mistakes. I will get all ten woman pregnant before the first five years are up. I won't fall in love, I will just choice the strongest of them all hoping she can give me a strong child. However only in name will she be my own, but I will never touch her after she has giving me a child. I just need a child with a strong sḫm to be the next king. Anything other than that doesn't matter.