Someone pushed her from behind and so...she fell into the deep pond. The sudden accident made her so shocked and she tried her best to stabilize her body in the water. Everything seems to be so chaotic for her. She keeps on shouting for help while the water pond keeps getting into her nostrils, she sees Lady Lidia standing while just looking at her.
"Lidia..!"
"Help...me!"
But she just stood there and didn't make any effort to shout or do anything necessary. her face was so tense and gloomy. There wasn't any line of worriness from her face. Looking at the drowning queen,she felt as if she has achieve the biggest achievement in her life. She never thought she could finally be apart of his family after completed this mission.
Havaliana is still struggling in the pond trying her best to get some air in her lung, but instead the amount of water trapped in her chest is increasing. Then she saw Lidia just walked away pretending to call for someone, since it was a private garden for the queen, only a few are allowed to come.
At her last effort of trying, she suddenly feels something was pulling her legs into the pond. She fell deeper and deeper and deeper and slowly everything around her turned dark. it feels as if her whole body were stabbed with knifes.
"Queen Havaliana De Arlen Napera, you've fell a few times in your life due to other people's greed and i can see you grew tired of it and so i'll grant your wishes that buried deep in your heart,i'll let you have a taste of happiness,"
That's the last thing she heard, it was a soothing voice calling her name and saying something that later she'll forget.
...
10 days later,
" Aishh,if you want to die so much then go and die already, why must you spoil my great mood today?" She looks at the culprit with a disgusted look. She has just received great news about the discovery of a gold mine this morning and this dunderhead really ruined her mood.
"I was supposed to have my delicious lunch at the Blue Lake now instead of looking at your pathetic face!" Her booming voice in the sentence hall sends shivers to their spines. The temperature in the hall even dropped due to the leaking of her ice power. they can even feel the present of her dragon around them.
"Ap..apologies,your majesty..but..but..i really want to explain myself! My..my actions may seem like I'm backstabbing you but..but..i'm really not!!"The culprit, Duke Drake from the Ginger Family, was kneeling in the middle of the hall, facing the Queen who was about to freeze him to death.
"Then explain your shit!" her language startled him a bit. No one dares to make any sound,t hey do not even dare to sneeze in the present of the queen. Their present today was none other than to see the shocking command from her to execute The Ginger Family right away. The queen that they know dislikes any bloodshed especially in her palace and to think that she will take such a drastic decision was so shocking.
"The..the..reason i forged your signature and accepted the marriage proposal from the Mahala Kingdom was..was to lift up your power,My Queen!"
Upon hearing his nonsense her blood boils up, and within a second she snatches a fruit knife beside her and throws it at him. The knife landed exactly between his thighs making all the nobles in the interrogation hall gasp. Duke Drake has committed a very high treason for accepting the proposal and even sign a contract with the king of Mahala Kingdom behind her back.
"You piece of shit! if you really want to be powerful then go and marry him by yourselves stupid!" She screamed while her hand quickly snatched the sword beside her and want to quickly finish him.
"Your majesty, please calm down!" She looked at her knight, Knight Freya and slowly took a breath.
"You should thank her, if not because of her maybe you're already lost your head now,"
"To think that some of you here 'really' care about my marriage life, I feel so thankful for having such 'loyal' subjects..," her eyes slowly looking at the dukes while saying those words with a sarcastic tone.
"I remember I've rejected that old geezer's request from my previous letter.. but you dare to forge my signature and steal the royal seal, making a fake formal letter about me accepting his proposal and sending it while I'm still unconscious!"
"Your..your majesty..,"she cut his words.
"I'm not charging you with the death sentence only for this reason, but I also discovered that you made a secret agreement behind my back with him!" (she means the king of Mahala Kingdom)
Her statement shocked them and the nobles seemed anxious and nervous with her words.
She extended her hands to Vincent, The Royal Secretary, a young man with a soft and cheerful expression. He gladly gives her the solid proof. He never expected that he could see this scene in front of him, the soft hearted queen seemed to have realized that it's time to show the snobbish nobles who is really in charge!
"I have the agreement in my hand..," with an evil smile she opened the file and showed it to the audience there.
"There is your name and his name in this agreement and the signature of both parties. It was written here that if he successfully makes me as his queen he'll grant you for your effort the authority to rule the Ar'alia Kingdom, the second kingdom under Queen Havaliana will be yours…," she reads the agreement loud and clear.
Drake was so anxious, he doesn't know how the queen can get her hands on the agreement. Is someone secretly sneaking into his home? With a face full of sweat he lifted up his head and saw the look on Vincent's face, the Royal Secretary that was known for his loyalty.
Vincent gave him a very 'polite' smile, that was actually meant to tell him that, 'it was nice knowing you Duke Drake,'
'That bastard! It must be him!' he gritted his teeth in frustration and suddenly laughed to his heart.
"Hahahahaha! You can never back away Queen Havaliana,my letter must have reached the Mahala Kingdom now! And will soon reach his hand, if you deny the content and kill me he'll attack your kingdoms for looking down on him!"
"Do you think you have some kind of special place beside him there? Do you think he won't dare to sacrifice you in order to save his face? While you were locked in the dungeon i've met him privately and threatened him to spread the copies of this agreement to other kingdoms. At that time your letter hasn't reached him yet, why? Because I've ordered Vincent to block it from entering his kingdom," she then threw the letter in front of him.
"And that sheepish King gladly abandoned you and leave your fate in my hand, you should be begging for your life now instead of trying to fight although it is still a useless attempt," she clasped her hands looking at that stupid face of his, who has just realized he have been betrayed. He doesn't know that he was just a weak lamb that can be sacrificed anytime by the butcher.
"no..no..No! We..were partners! He can't just sell me like this?!"
Sighed.
Looking at his pathetic ass, makes her sick. He looks as if they're brothers for a lifetime. She stood up and walked to him and roughly clutched his face, forcing him to look into her eyes. She wants to end this as soon as possible and get her lunch.
"Look here, i'm not in a good mood because i'm very hungry right now and to think that you're the cause of my hunger is making it even worse so you better shut your mouth and be obedient," She stands up and wave her hand while still looking down at him.
"Now you see...because of your greed, your whole family will be executed…,i want everyone here to take this as an example and make a wise decision!" Duke Drake looked at his wife, the duchess and his 2 daughters who are tight with rope, crying and weeping for their fate. He was aware of this sentence but still went on with his greed, it was his fault from the beginning.. but he was too late.
She then climbs the stairs with pride and sits on her throne, telling all of them who's the real boss in this hall.
They're looking at each other and whispering. So the news about the queen's attitude has changed is indeed true and the real purpose of attending the interrogation is to see the truth behind the rumors.
The royal knights came and dragged them out of the interrogation hall and headed to the place they'll be beheaded.
'It's been just a week since I've been awake but so many things have happened, those corrupted nobles deserve to die. Although I feel bad for his family members,it was the best choice to avoid the seed of rebellion,'
'i know behind those find fabrics, there are even more snakes waiting to strangle me,then we shall wait and see,'
'But I never expect for you to have more snakes in your life than mine, Havaliana,' Arcane smiles evilly. She chuckled with the thought even good people have enemy.
'Haahhh,life is so hard,'