"your majesty, there are reporters outside wanting to know what had happened. there was news telling that her highness is a traitor and now everyone is panicking" ladon's butler informed slowly
but his words made everyone turn angry. they were already fuming that there were several spies and betrayers in the palace and now they wanted faes to become a traitor? the royal family left in a hurry after gathering the army and didn't had time to check the news so they only heard about it now.
"they dare!" ladon gritted his teeth. wanting to go and kill each and every one of the traitors. but he knew that if he did that the nobles would protest as there were many nobles among the traitors.
if only he had recorded richard at that time.
"faes!" blake entered the room and directly went to faes side checking her injuries and when he saw that she was treated properly only then he calmed down.
blake turned to others but found that each and every one of them had grim looks and also seem angry as if wanting to tear someone apart.
"what happened?" blake asked. adrian saw blake's serious expression and told him what happened without leaving anything out.
in the end, blake was also angry. he was left behind in the city to handle the nobles and reporters but he was dead worried for everyone. now that faes barely survived he was both relieved and angry. relieved because faes and everyone else was fine and angry because they almost lost faes.
"if only i had recorded richard accepting their plot and giving out names of those traitors." ladon shook his head but blake suddenly opened his mouth in shock.
"you don't have to worry about that!" blake suddenly grinned and went back to faes side. tapping their watches together blake fumbled with faes watch and then smiled.
"here" blake showed everyone the video faes recorded in her watch. it began from the time faes finished talking with blake to the point when blake took the video from faes watch to his own without any pause.
"this is more than enough!" ladon exclaimed in shock. others were also shocked as faes managed to not only defeat the enemy but even record everything.
"truly a blessed child!" nuri had tears in her eyes as she watched faes laying on the bed.
"though her plan was stupid it worked" adrian sighed
"now we just need to edit and release the video. after that we have to arrest the traitors and wait for faes to wake up." blake said.
"blake come with me we will take care of everything, adrian you take care of sky and my queen can i leave faes to you?" ladon said
"i will take care of faes" nuri nodded as everyone left the room other than nuri and faes servants.
...
outside the hospital, there were lots of reporters wanting to know what happened. someone had recorded the video of ladon carrying blood-covered faes and released it already. making everything turn into chaos.
the reporters were not allowed into the hospital with their cameras and were blocked by a barrier and royal guards.
"his majesty king ladon is coming!" someone shouted as ladon blake adrian and sky appeared on the hospital gate.
"greetings your majesty your highness!" everyone greeted them first before bombarding them with questions.
"your majesty what happened to princess faes?"
"is the news about princess faes being a traitor truth?"
"was both the princesses kidnapped?"
"is princess sky alright?"
"is princess faes going to be punished?"
many questions were asked making the royals angry. ladon lifted his hand and the questions died down and silence settled
"princess faes isn't a traitor, both the princesses were kidnapped and princess faes fought the enemy until she almost died to protect princess sky and our kingdom. currently, everyone is alright and princess faes is out of danger but is yet to wake. we will release an official video soon about what happened but i would like to request that do not believe in rumours stating princess faes is a traitor and wants to hurt princess sky." ladon said and then with the help of guards left the hospital.
...
a video was released soon by the royal family of reptilaince. it began from the time faes was kidnapped and showed everything richard said along with faes fighting liam and saving everyone. though some things were missing like the time when faes and liam were talking about nightlight and the grimoires. the overall video should be enough for proving that faes was an innocent hero while liam and Richard wanted to hurt faes.
all the traitors were captured already and had accepted their crimes. their statements were also released along with the video.
when the citizens and nobles of reptiliance saw the video they all had a dumbstruck look. they didn't think that their princess was this strong and was protecting their kingdom all this time from these enemies. while they were accepting that their princess was a traitor just because one of the real traitors said she was?
each and every citizen and nobles were angry because of what happened with faes and were happy that she was now safe. they just hoped that faes would get well soon, being sucked dry of blood essence was not something to take easily and people can barely recover, even then it takes lots of time to recover.
...
in kingdom altai
a butler knocked on the door of the king's study and entered after getting permission.
king augustus looked at the butler who looked pale and felt that something was wrong.
"what happened?" king augustus asked the butler
"your majesty please see the news!" the butler said and turned the tv in the study on.
the video about faes was being played. first the video of the reported telling that faes was a traitor then the king ladon holding bloody faes and at last the whole video released by the royal family of kingdom reptiliance and the king telling that faes wasn't a traitor but a hero and was currently out of danger.
after the news ended king augustus was pale his eyes wide and his mouth open in shock. he sat stoned in his seat and asked the butler to play the news again.
the news played once again and king augustus felt his heart constrict in pain. he cant believe that his daughter who they thought was just a normal human without powers was actually this powerful.
the video showed a few clips of faes fighting with liam but majority of the fighting was edited and they cant know the cultivation of anyone through just a video. still when king augustus saw that video he felt that they truly had wronged faes all this time. if they had treated her better she would still be here with them and fighting to protect their own kingdom instead of the other kingdom which adopted her.
king augustus felt that the moments he spent with faes were fake. the gifts he gave her seem useless, and all in all without them knowing they actually made it look like faes was a useless person in the royal family. they thought by giving her gifts and talking nicely to her will make her happy but they thought wrong, faes wasn't useless she just didn't tell them what her powers were. she always wanted to be loved and to be respected.
even though she was a princess, barely anyone treated her like one. the servants, their family, nobles none treated her like a real princess and just treated her like any other rich stupid person.
king augustus watched the video as his thoughts went haywire and tears began to form in his eyes. his daughter was in her deathbed and he didnt even know what kind of powers she have, was she happy, or did she forgive him for all she went through. he didnt even knew if she would return back to their home.
"your majesty! the enemies were trying to kidnap both the dragon princesses and use them to kill his majesty king ladon. they almost succeeded but princess faes saved king ladon from being killed. if she wasn't there then the kingdom reptiliance would have fallen" the butler said startled by seeing augustus tears but even he felt like crying.
no one other than the royal family knew about faes being the first princess of kingdom reptiliance and having powers. they all believed that the princess faes of kingdom reptiliance was just another princess and not the second princess of kingdom altai.
king augustus felt like a sword peirced through his heart at the butler's words. faes was the first princess of kingdom reptiliance now, and not the second princess of kingdom altai? king augustus felt even worse but also proud at his daughter being so strong to even save the dragon king himself!
but inside king augustus heart he felt that faes should have been at home, been with him and their family so that at least she wouldn't be labelled as a traitor even though it was not reality. she would still be a princess and her reputation wont be questioned and she might not be disrespected.
"make preparations, i would like to talk to his majesty king ladon. tell queen alicia to meet me in the meeting hall and also tell her to see the news once" king augustus said as he dismissed the butler who bowed and left. king augustus turned to the tv where the news was still being played and the more he watched the more his emotions went berserk.