The Prince And The Witch

Back to the palace after the last war ended.

King Ali sat on his throne waiting for the news of his queen who was still in the delivery chambers as the queen has been in the delivery room trying to push out her baby for more than five hours. With the nurses, midwives and maids running helterskelter, bringing in all the requested yet the queen wasn't able to push.

King Ali remembered the curse the Jalin kingdom king placed on his wife and claiming that she was his betrothed, and he wanted her back.

After he had appeared into the palace and demanding that she must return back to Jalin kingdom with him, but as she refused.

He looked down at her tummy and discovered that she was pregnant with a child.

He cursed her that she wouldn't be able to give birth to the baby except she returns back to Jalin kingdom to be with him.

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Past in Acan kingdom,

Any maiden who part of her dowry has been paid weren't allowed to reveal their faces to anyone except her husband.

They were to cover their faces with veils.

These was new law stated after the current King of Acan fell in love with a strange maid.

He accidentally saw her in the palace and took a liking for her immediately.

He married her and while trying to hide her identity away as her beauty was enchanting to the eyes of the beholder.

He set a new law governing all the lands of Acan Kingdom that every other unmarried maiden that had been betrothed to a man in Acan Kingdom must always wears a veil to cover up her face, and anyone failing to do it would be severely punished.

The law started and later led to an uproar few years later as the people of Acan Kingdom were demanding to see who their new Queen was?.

No one has ever seen the face of the queen.

They insisted that the king has married a stranger and that was why he was insisting on others to do same by covering up their faces.

Later the council meeting was held, and the chief Jude who was the head of council demanded that the king must marry a new wife that is a native maiden of Acan kingdom to restore calmness to the land, since the king has refused to show his wife's face to her people.

King Matthew later agreed and married a second wife that was a native maiden of Acan kingdom to put an end to the uproar, but his first wife Queen Tata nearly ran mad and avoided him like a plague. Refusing to mate with him nor speak to him again, after the second wife became visibly pregnant

Queen Tata became so heartbroken that she could no longer stay in the palace, and she ran away from the palace at night, without the guards noticing her movements, and she left her five years old daughter behind as she couldn't take little Princess Alesa along with her.

She left the palace walls and placed a terrible huge curse on the king. Unlocking her ancestral witch power that she had hidden for years, So her brother wouldn't find her.

She was against their ancestral incest Marriage.

She cursed her husband (King Matthew) to become a nymphomaniac and that he wouldn't be able to love any other woman like he ever loved her then she left Acan kingdom and flee to Kande Kingdom, but she was caught by the Jalin royal guards that were still manhunting for her.

Even after 5yrs that she had fled away from Jalin kingdom and went hiding in Acan kingdom by hiding all her magical witch powers so she wouldn't be traced.

The guards caught her and took her back with them to Jalin Kingdom where they imprisoned her as she had failed to protected their witch clan by marrying her older brother or cousin brother too.

After King Matthew discovered his first wife was missing from the palace. He declared a search hunt for her, but after he couldn't find her, he went on that same fateful night and slept with a palace maid whom he saw passing his chamber.

He took her into his bedroom and devoured her, not knowing it was his first wife curse that had taken full effect on him.

It went on with him sleeping with different maids in the palace, and him avoiding his second wife touch the most, who later gave birth to a bouncing baby boy and named Prince Charles.

Queen Becky was hurt as to why her husband hated her and avoided her the most. Whereas he was impregnating most of their palace maids as he had banned her from sacking any of the maids.

She invited the priest and reported him to the head of council meeting, as she seeks a solution for him and wanting his love back.

The priest told her that the king was under the influence of a terrible huge curse placed on him by the first wife, and it was only when he finds his first wife and seek her forgiveness that he can be cured.

They searched the whole of Acan kingdom but couldn't find Queen Tata, as no one knew what she looks like, except for king and his royal family.

The priest had also refused giving the King any clue on where he could find his first wife, as he had believed she was an orphan like she had told him.

As time went by, with years passing by, it lead to king Matthew having a lot of illegal children, As he hadn't been cured and he couldn't control his sexual urge either.

He later created a costume for all his illegal children that were born to him by the palace maids to put on a similar noble attire, so he could easily Identify them and not mistake to sleep with any of his own daughter as they were growing up, and he was only familiar with Princess Alesa and Prince Charles.

Princess Alesa became the only noble princess as King Matthew refused to touch nor to sleep with his second wife named Queen Becky. Making her to have only one royal blood child named Prince Charles.

She couldn't go out to get pregnant for the king, and she hated Princess Alesa and blamed her for her misfortune with her husband who was still the current king of Acan kingdom.

When Princess Alesa came of age and turned 20yrs, The crown prince of Jalin kingdom who had been monitoring her growth with a magical mirror came to look for her. As she was related to him by blood and was his chosen mate by their ancestral witch powers.

He came to Acan palace to seek for her hand in marriage.

King Matthew was a little stunned as his first daughter just came of age and turned twenty years old, and she had always been indoor and covered in veil since his people rejected her mother.

He wonder how the crown prince of Jalin Kingdom got to know of his only legal daughter Alesa, and he set a fighting challenge against the crown prince of Jalin Kingdom with his strongest warrior, but crown Prince Fedina won the challenge like it was a simple task. Defeating the king's strongest warriors in the blink.

King Matthew wasn't surprised as he knew that the Jalin kingdom were witches and wizards and had some magical powers.

He blamed himself for agreeing to the challenge at first as he didn't want to give out his only precious and noble daughter to a Wizard. But he had no other option as the prince had already won.

He had to allow the crown prince of Jalin Kingdom to marry his daughter.

When Princess Alesa found out of her sudden marriage with the strange prince.

She was in her chamber when she heard the news of her engagement to the crown prince of Jalin Kingdom from her handmaid.

She rushed out of her chamber and went downstairs to confront her father about it, as she obviously didn't want to marry a wizard.

"Greetings father, long live his royal majesty of Acan kingdom," She said, as she came rushing into the palace hall downstairs and approaching her father that sat in the king's throne.

"Welcome my daughter, the pride of Acan, what troubles you my child?" King Matthew asked, as he saw how his daughter had rushed into the palace hall to meet him, even as she was fully covered in veil.

"Father! I heard of my engagement to the crown prince of Jalin Kingdom. Why father?. I am sorry to disappoint you father, but i do not wish to marry the crown prince of Jalin Kingdom. I don't like their kingdom father" She said, as she sounded a bit annoyed.

"But why would you say that Alesa, have you met with the crown prince of Jalin Kingdom before?" King Matthew asked, as he continued to stare at his daughter whom was fully covered in a black long veil.

She replied, "No father."

"Then you will still have to accept the engagement untill proven otherwise." King Matthew said.

"But I do not like the crown prince of Jalin Kingdom father nor his people. I do not want to marry him" She fumed.

"Princess Alesa my pride, the engagement has already been done. Let's just wait until after you have met with the crown prince before the decision can be changed. So right now go back to your room and prepare yourself," King Matthew dismissed his first daughter, and she had no other option than to leave.

Princess Alesa sighed and went back to her chambers as she was annoyed and hated the Jalin people having heard of so many stories about them from her maid. As one of her maids was from Jalin Kingdom.

She cried and hoped that there was another Prince charming out there, who would save her from the upcoming arranged marriage that she knew that her father wouldn't be able to changed his mind about cancelling it..

When Princess Alesa finally met with Crown Prince Fedina on their royal date in the Acan palace, She still hated him and didn't want to marry him.

He was handsome and looked younger, but she disliked him and didn't want him as her husband.

She walked down the garden with him and when they got to a point, he told her maids and guards to excuse them, as he would like to be left alone with her, and wanted to use the opportunity to also see her facez as she has been covering her face in veils, right from her birth.

Princess Alesa refused removing her veil, but Prince Fedina insisted and she had no other option than to remove her veil, since she was already betrothed to him.

She slowly removed her veil a little, and exposing her beautiful face to his view, and his jaw dropped on seeing how beautiful that she looked.

A beauty that could resurrect the dead.

Princess Alesa quickly covered her face back as she was shy and nervous to remove her veil.

Crown Prince Fedina smile knowingly and spoke to her about his kingdom. Not mentioning to her that they were related and she was his cousin. .

Princess Alesa wondered why Prince Fedina would leave all their royal blooded witches to come pick her as his bride, but she thought against asking him as she was not interested in talking to him either.

The royal marriage date finally fixed, and knowing it wouldn't be cancelled anymore, Princess Alesa sneaked out one day, and left the palace just two days to her arranged marriage with the Wizard prince.

Taking permission from her father to go visit the river, as she was a hardcore lover of rivers, water and streams.

Her father had no other option than to agreed as he knew that his daughter wasn't happy about the upcoming marriage and it will be her last time in Acan kingdom, before she finally moves with her husband to his own kingdom. So he allowed her to go, and told her maids and guards to escort her as well, as she went to the river.

When they arrived at the river bank, Princess Alesa told her maid and guards to excuse her that she want to be left alone, and she also want to take a deep in the river.

The guards nodded and excused her as no one dares to look at the princess nakedness nor to stare at her face as she was always covered in veil.

They left and decided to wait for her at the other side of the river bank that was covered by tall bushes and trees.

After they left, Princess Alesa sat down on the soil, by the river bank, then she started singing solemnly, with her soothing tiny voice and sounding a bit hurt as she sang enchanting songs, crying and wishing for a change.

Just then Prince Ali who was returning from a dreaded war battle with his warriors as he had won it also stopped by the same river to wash his feet and give his horse some water to drink while they rested a little before they continued with their journey.

He had gone to the war as it was a task that was assigned to him by his father to prove himself worthy of becoming the next king of Kande kingdom and he won it.

His father knew that he was a perfect swordmaster as he had mastered the art of swordfighting since he was 12yrs old, as then Kande Kingdom were constantly been attacked and invaded by terrorist who had wanted to rule over Kande territory and their lands.

While Prince Ali arrived at the river bank, he took his horse to the other side of the river to drink some water and to wash his face.

While giving his other warriors some space to also feed their horses as they had stopped to rested a little before they would continue with their journey to Kande Kingdom.

As he went to the other side of the river bank, he heard the enchanting soothing voice of someone singing, as her voice sounded so sweet and alluring to his ears and soul

He tied his horse to a nearby tree and went to the direction of her sound to see who was singing there.

As he drew closer to where she was, he was shocked to see a beautiful lady dressed in her noble attire and seated on the soil and singing beautifully as she played with the waters too.

He blinked severally and took more closer steps to meet her where she sat on the rock as her back was facing him. .

Just then Princess Alesa stood up and took off her veil, revealing her smooth round and beautiful face, not knowing there was a man behind her back as she want to take off her clothes too.

To take a deep in the river near her. .

Just then she felt the intent gaze of someone on her as she turned to look backward, she met the handsome warrior gaze on her as he was standing in front of her and staring at her in shock.

Prince Ali jaw dropped on seeing how beautiful the young lady before him looked. He lost words to reply to her greeting as she greeted him first.