Prince Amir-Ali walked into the women's chambers, in other words known as the Harem. He walked into a tent where his men had imprisoned the concubines and Queens, the two young men who were with him stood guard behind him.
The women shivered at the sight of him, they hid their younger daughters behind them to protect them.
"So you all were my father's women, his queens and his concubines. Well not anymore, from this day forward, there is only one Queen of Manila. My mom, Queen Aisha shall be the only recognized Queen in the land of Manila." He announced
"Then what happens to us, you can't treat us the way you please, we are Queens too," Queen Saudat fired.
"Shut up woman, didn't you hear me? I am stripping you all of your titles, from today you are no more Queen, you are just a slave, not just any slave but my sex slave. As a matter of fact, I would have you on my bed tonight since you sound so proud," Prince Ali spat and the woman broke down in tears.
"You can't do this to me, I am your father's first wife, I am your stepmom!" she yelled
"Oh," he muttered and smirked. "Thank you for telling me, now I will make the night more miserable for you. You are the real reason why my mom had to suffer, you dared to frame her up, today I would deal with you like you deserve, you love to cheat on the King, don't you? Well you would more than just that tonight." He spat.
Ali searched through the crowd of women with his eyes, and then he pointed to a young girl. "Get her," he instructed and one of his men went for her immediately.
"What are you doing? She is just a young girl, please don't touch her," her mom pleaded and broke down in tears. She tried to save her daughter from Ali's man but he pushed her down hard and dragged the girl away from her.
He brought her to Ali and pushed her down to his feet. She looked up and he could see the fear in her eyes as well as the tears. He squatted down and held her jaws. She was still young, about fourteen or fifteen.
He raised her face and looked into her eyes, "Don't be scared little one, you will be used for great things, and it would be better than the miserable life you would have gotten here in this Kingdom," he muttered while the girl panicked.
He let go of her and stood up, then he pointed to six more girls and asked his men to get them out, they obeyed immediately and brought them to him while their mothers wailed.
"What are you doing, you spawn of the devil? They are your sisters, you can't lay with them! It's a taboo and you would go insane!!" one of the late king's concubines yelled and the others echoed in support.
"Silence!!" he yelled and the lights in the tent flickered, then became stable again, causing fear to grip them. "I am not scared of breaking your stupid rules nor do I fear their consequences, but I am not interested in laying with my stepsisters either so shut your mouths," he fired.
"If you are not going to lay with them, then what do you want to do with our daughters? Please let them go," one of the concubines pleaded in tears.
"Good question," he replied in a deep voice. "If you desperately want to know what I have in store for them, well then know that they are about to be sacrificed to the deity who gave me the opportunity to fight for my rights and possess my possessions," he replied.
"What? Oh my god," one of the women whimpered.
"Which god, the ones who could not fight for the rights of those that had been wronged? You have no god, woman." He spat angrily with his eyes blazing.
"Twenty years ago, those gods watched as my mother was wrongfully accused and thrown out to die in the wilderness. Today they will watch as I defile each one of you. I would hurt everyone that wronged my mother and everyone that my father ever loved and I will make sure that his soul never finds peace," Ali said with gritted teeth, sounding spiteful with his evil intent.
"Take the girls away, you know what to do," he instructed the men behind him and they did as they were instructed immediately.
The teenage maidens cried as they were being dragged out with weapons to their face, while their mothers wept and screamed that they should be let go. Amir-Ali stood at the door of the tent and watched without remorse as the maidens were dragged away.
After their screams had faded, he turned back to the women. He walked round them slowly while they panicked, some were crying, while some had given up on their lives already.
"Father must be obsessed with women to have this much in his Harem, some even the age of his daughters," he said and grabbed one of the young ladies by the hair. She screamed in pain as he dragged her up and sniffed her hair.
"Beautiful," he muttered and let her go. He arrived in front of Queen Saudat who had been trying to hide away from him and he grabbed her by the hair.
"You are still quite young, we will see how much stamina the old man had left you with," he mocked while touching her body mischievously. She could do nothing but cry.
He let her go and continued his stroll around the tent. "How many of you were present the day my mom was kicked out?" he asked in a soft voice.
The ladies all remained quiet, staring at each other. "I said which ones among you were present!!" he yelled angrily and some of the women raised their hands; amongst them were three of the Queens, the fourth one had not been married into the palace when it happened.
"I see, not as much as I expected, which means my beloved father had gotten past half a hundred women in the past twenty years, interesting," he muttered to himself.
"We were not there when your mom was accused, we had nothing to do with it so please spare those of us that were recently added to the Harem," one of the women pleaded with her head bowed.
"So you want to go? Alright, you can leave," he said and stopped moving.
The woman looked at him to be sure she heard right. He wasn't even looking at her, he just stood still.
Quickly she stood up and raced towards the door, but before she could get there, he was already standing before her, he had raced to there with demonic speed that frightened the women. He drew his sword and put it through her chest immediately.
The woman groaned and fell down dead while the others screamed in panic.
"So does anyone still want to leave?" he asked and they all remained silent. "You all forgot the rules, once you join the women of the King's harem, the only you are leaving is as a corpse," he reminded in a stern voice, then he grinned in satisfaction.
"The woman made mention of something, some of you might have not been responsible for what happened to my mom but you still have to pay the price because none of you tried to reach out to her in all these years." He fired angrily.
He was breathing heavily as anger flooded through him, then he drew in a long breath and let it out to make his nerves calm, then he turned towards the exit.
"Saudat, I will be waiting in the King's bedroom." He said with his back to them, then he took a few steps towards the exit and paused, he drew out a small dagger and dropped it on the floor.
"If any of you wish to join that woman, then feel free to do the needful," he muttered, then walked away.
To be continued!!