"sniff~ cough... cough~ sniff..." *sobbing*
A boy is crying in a dark room all alone, trembling on the ice-cold floor. He is sitting in the corner of a huge room with closed windows and doors... It is suffocating him, making him out of breath, except he himself has shut it down.
The rays of light couldn't reach him, cutting him off from the world. He no more needed it, it has started to irate him, it was irritating him. The cheerful laughter of the folks, their happiness are like a sharp razor that has been cutting his wounds deep, and his envy grows wider.
He looks notably pretty, a fair-skinned guy with long dark brown hair. Now it is scattered all over his face like a mess. Few pieces of shattered glasses' can be seen beside him, even though the lights' were struggling to get inside the closed room.
He is wearing an exquisite dress, which suggests that there is no ordinary blood flowing in his blood veins.
At first sight, he looks like an adult male around twenty-five years old, but he is only a sixteen years old youth. A deep stab is in his heart, of a lady... aged him fine. That was not his lost love..., but her betrayal.
Looking rather nasty with such tears and snot flowing down on his face and excellent suit. What a mess...
A stranger will not even recognize that he is a prince or a beggar who has put on the clothes of the rich. It looks like he was crying for several days, he didn't even eat anything and the maid returned the stale food that she had brought fresh.
"Sigh... How could a broken heart live... Two pieces fell apart, the strongest chain can't hold them together as ever."
"How could a man forget those pain, that has been carved by his love."
"Even if she appears to apologies, his heart can nevermore be the same."
A last drop of tears streamed down from his eyes which is accompanied by a teardrop of blood.
A maid opened the door, the blinding lights' fell on his eyes. She asked, "My Prince~ His Royal Highness is arriving at your room at any time~" but his light was forever gone.
The blinding light could never hurt him anymore. His body collapses on the ground before he fell asleep Forever.
A locket he was holding in his left hand, left black and shattered which was illuminating a blue light till his last breath.
"Kyaa~" *Screaming noise*
The maid screamed at the top of her lungs before running away terrified. She has been horror-struck for the past days, he was behaving like an insane mutt, unfitting of the Prince.
She knows the reason, but she doesn't know the pain.
This time she saw his dead body, which was assaulted by his own hand. It was just like a bad nightmare, the blood was flowing down from his left eyes that were still wide open even after his death. The snot and saliva were all over his chest, it has thickened like mucus after so many days.
"Clater~ click~ clater~" *The footfall of soldiers on the hallway*
"Noo.... my Son!" A king cried for the first time.
Soon, the cries were masked by the thundering dark clouds surrounding the kingdom.
A dark shadow left from the sight, unnoticed by anyone.
...
// Thousand of Miles away //
Under the Ocean, there is a wedding ceremony happening inside a huge dome. Under the clear morning sky contrasting the shadows lurking in the human kingdom.
The mermaids are dancing and singing cheerfully. Everyone looks very happy and cheerful, the young mermaids and mermen are playing around with dolphins and seahorses. They are the younglings' of mermaids whose presence brings a spark of joy in any event.
But even among the lively sound of the kids, there is one quiet sorrowful cry...
There's one who is not as bright and happy, rather she is drowned in the sea of sadness, feeling gloomy... lost and detached from the joy of living. She is the one... the mermaid princess, who is getting married to a merman.
It is her marriage, though she is not enthusiastic about it.
She looks very charming and is always cheerful, but today... she is cheerless, disheartened with her father... moreover, herself.
She is wearing white cloth, which is making her already gorgeous look irresistible to the eyes of other bachelor mermen. Her face is covered with a veil. It is for the ceremonial purpose to cover the bride's face, for her it is serving one more cause.
Hiding her true emotions, the sight of her tears trickling down her cheeks, the trickle of blood by the gritting of lips, letting it dissolve in the sea unnoticed.
She is holding a locket in her left hand, the locket is very similar to the one, the prince of the land had held in his hand until his last breath.
"Honk~" *horn*
The sound of the horn is the signal for the arrival of the groom. The groom is not so good-looking, neither was he ugly. His build is rather strong like a warrior, he is a true general level warrior.
He seems very excited about the marriage, who wouldn't be? still, he is rather feeling compassionate for his Princess. As the truth is, he is the one cause of her sorrow.
The marriage agreement was forced, but not by him, it wasn't in his hand either. The mermen is bound by his duty. It was actually decided by his Highness... the father of the princess after he found out about her unholy affair with the prince of the Land.
"My daughter~" A man in his fifties reached out to her.
He is having a long silver beard and the atmosphere he gives around is always very tense, even though he is attending a wedding of his own daughter. She didn't reply and only nodded before following him to the center of the dome.
The groom and bride came in front of each other, a Trident was placed in the middle of the circle. It is believed to be a divine weapon with great power that can bring Tsunami and great destruction to the Land.
The myth may not be real, but it has one more function that is not so powerful and is still phenomenal. It can carve the name of its wielder in the landscape of the ocean. It is being used as a symbol of marriage for many generations. When two people hold the trident, it will carve the name of both persons with each other on a seamount.
"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today~"
"No...." In the middle of the speech of the elder, the bride screamed and sent an energy wave which made the water around her swirl. Then it suddenly burst outward, sending everyone flying away at the force of its impact. Even her father who was strongest among them gets pushed away by few meters.
The crowd looked towards the center with astonishment and disbelief at what is happening? All this time she was looking at the locket with her teary eyes, but it suddenly darkened and shattered.
The locket was the symbol of their love, it is enchanted to show the intensity of love. It will never fade away as long as the person on the other side is alive and love her from the depth of his heart.
As it crumbles and withers away, it became obvious to her. Her love died and the only reason to live has gone.
"She had hopes' to meet him again and never to break apart. The marriage was only a temporary cover-up, as she thought. she was determined to meet her love once again to tell him, How much she loves him, how much she craved for him every day. But, never in her dreams, she would have known the Prince will not wait for her. He is gone, forever."
"Siren~" The father of the bride shouted with astonishment and fright.
"My princess~" The groom also shouted.
They had never seen or heard about this power, that she had shown just now. They were terrified as more as they were surprised.
Siren didn't reply and clenched her fist before moving towards the trident. Her father and the elder became worried and approached her to stop her from doing anything hazardous, but they were pushed back before they could come any closer.
Siren grabbed the trident, and to everyone's surprise, she detached it up from its resting position.
It was once in a thousand-year occurrence that has never been heard or seen by anyone from the previous generation. Not in the legends, there as non who had the qualifications and such tremendous power to withdraw the Trident from the Divine Seamount.
But her next move was even more unexpected and made everyone petrified in their place, even the king was unable to move out of shock. 'Why won't he?' He saw his daughter wielding a divine weapon, and in the blink of the eye, she kill herself with it... in front of the whole ocean, on the occasion of her marriage.
...
At last, the brides' father regretted his decision to make his daughter break her relation with the land prince. He knew... she loves' that prince more than him, that she can even do something against him for the prince.
Never in his dreams, he would have thought that she will go as far as to kill herself... He tried to save her with all his power, but it was in vain. It was too late, her life can't be redeemed.
A dark cloud appeared above the ocean, similar to that of the one in the land. The death of the two successors marked the beginning of the fall of the two great kingdoms.