The moment King Lyre Theon and his chaperones entered the damp forest, the skies started to roar like the heavens were angry. And dark clouds which covered up the entire canvas began to thicken.
'What are you doing, master?'
Curtis inquired in worry to his master, while Zaiden seemed quizzical about the whole situation.
'It's not me, I haven't done anything.'
Zaiden glanced at his hands and did not feel anything, it was definitely not his doing.
It grew dark and almost made it seem like night in the bright daylight. The thunder lightning added more horrible effects, making up the whole area as if the heavens themselves were fighting in rage.
King Lyre Theon and the party suddenly got drenched by a heavy pour, the pathway became muddy making it impossible to walk. The raindrops were usually bigger and felt heavy for the soldiers. Instantly a huge gust of wind passed by King Theon and his soldiers disrupting their formations, making the carriage naked and leaving everyone puzzled.
'What is happening?'
Curtis had no clue about anything, similarly Zaiden skimmed his eyes around to spot any unknown entity.
"There's no one around, it seems a natural catastrophe. But how can the scenario change so quickly?"
Of course, everything happened in less than ten minutes, which was impossible to happen naturally.
After the wind storm had passed away the weather became calm and alarmingly sombre with moderate measured rainfall, Every soldier was perplexed as to what just happened. Deep down they were frightful because they had no knowledge of what just passed by.
As everything seemed to be perfectly normal, the water droplets which were falling onto King Theon and his soldiers turned into sharp icicles falling from the sky. As the soldiers just settled into their positions, the rain of needles fell upon them.
'This is not a normal activity, someone must be doing this from behind the shadows.'
Zaiden murmured to himself confirming that the things were not easy in that realm.
'This is becoming ridiculous. People here are conspiring against each other and it is possible that someone might kill the king.'
The icicles were only directed towards the king and the procession. It left a great time for both of them to inquire the situation closely.
'What is our use then, if people here will already execute each other? I mean if not now then in near future I can foresee it happening, the kingdom will crumble easily.'
Zaiden had already calculated the situation, on the basis of the current scenario in front of him.
"What should we do now, master?"
Curtis had been waiting for his signal, but Zaiden's confused face told him to wait. The young boy did not reply and insisted upon looking at the changing scenario.
All the soldiers got pummeled by the force but somehow survived due to their helmets and Armor. Every soldier went as far as to hide under the horses. The poor animals were themselves injured and seemed panicked. The men left King Lyre Theon and ran for their lives, finally taking shelter under the trees on the either sides of the muddy road.
"Master, we have to save the king in order to pave our inside the castle."
Curtis tried to bring back Zaiden by interrupted his thoughts. The young boy tugged at his shirt as soon as Curtis was about to step forward to help them.
"No, wait! Something is wrong with the situation, It's a conspiracy or perhaps assassination attempt."
Although Curtis had also suspected the same, but finding a shelter was the important thing in that moment.
Only Theodore (King's informant) hung with King Theon and cut the connections of his two horses which were attached to Lyre's carriage, as the horses were hopping in fear and were literally throwing Theon along all sides of the carriage.
The icicle rain seemed to have stopped too. The soldiers who were new to out of life experience started wailing and crying remembering their families. Zaiden noticed that the sky was still clouded with blackness and thunder was bursting from the sky.
"Should we retreat, because the storm has toned down it could be a sign of some threat lurking around?"
Curtis looked around but everything seemed normal. Whereas Zaiden closed his eyes and tried to hear nearby voices.
'This is the perfect opportunity to test the serum, hearing ability was extracted by the vampire it should be good.'
It took Zaiden only a few seconds that he snapped open his eyes and pulled Curtis's arm.
"Get down!"
As for a man like Curtis who had spent all his life serving the Rivers family, because of his qualifications and wits.
An arrow aimed at both of them went past Zaiden as he dodged it and became stuck in the tree trunk behind him.