It has been four days since commander Lucifer has been walking around the forest without food. His only food was the scarce fruits he saw around. And then the water he has taken in a stream.
He was exhausted. This seems like a journey to an unknown land. Commander Lucifer was dragging his feet on the ground as he walked around the forest.
"This wasn't his plan for the princess."
He finally leaned his back on a tree as his face was clouded with anger and regret. The image of Princess Chu Hua has been playing with his imagination. Commander Lucifer tried hard not to let any tears, but he found himself sobbing.
"I'm sorry that I never kept to my words. All my promises have gone in vain. I hope you will forgive wherever you are. I… I never planned it this way." Commander Lucifer murmured and cried out loud. Nothing could scare him in the forest.
One can even say, he was neither a ghost nor a monster. No man will dare stand against him after seeing him killing a Cobra and a python with bare hands.
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The previous night was like, every creature in the forest was after him. He bumped into a group of hyenas. Thanks to his creator that he was holding a spear, which was of help before he could defeat them. During the course of throwing his spear against a hyena that was trying to escape, his spear got missing in the dark. He was left with no weapon to defend himself against anything. As he located a place and sat down, he got stung by a scorpion.
He jumped up on his feet as he tried to search for the so-called scorpion, but painfully, he didn't find it. Eventually, his sword mistakenly fell inside a stream and water took it away.
As if it weren't enough, he got into another trouble where he came in contact with a Cobra that he mistakenly matched on the tail. The peaceful cobra got pissed up and hurt. The cobra wondered why it would be peacefully laying under the grass and someone from nowhere would come and disturb its peace.
It's not possible!
The cobra reacted by letting out a cry.
"Tshhh," that's when commander Lucifer knew that something was wrong somewhere. He felt the gallop under his leg and he immediately jumped away.
Mercy was never an idea to the snake. It swings inside the dark tick green grass. Commander Lucifer could feel it sound, but he wasn't seeing the snake. As soon as the snake reached where he was standing, it raised its neck to strike him. It was like he was used to fighting snakes.
The snake stretched forth to strike his thigh, and Lucifer used his right leg and kicked it on the neck. It landed on a tree trunk and fell to the ground.
"Tsh ugh!" The snake cried.
Unfortunately for Lucifer, the cobra fell on a python's back before rolling on the ground. The sleeping python furiously raised its neck to strike the Cobra but stopped in its tracks as it sighted commander Lucifer.
He can only catch a glimpse of their body, but he wasn't clearly seeing them. The moon wasn't that bright to satisfy his sight.
The two snakes teamed like humans and crawled towards him. Lucifer was confused about what to do, but he summoned the courage to stand on his feet and faced the snakes.
The snakes got to where he was standing and directly, they struck. Lucifer was a bit afraid, which made him close his eyes.
He took one of his legs to the front and the other one to the back. He was ready to fight the snakes.
As the snakes strikes, he also strikes back with his palms wide open and his fingers standing straight without curving.
The next thing he could feel on his fingers was the coldness of blood. Blood was dripping from his palms and fingers.
"How did that happen?" Commander Lucifer wondered.
He slowly opened his eyes and what he saw shocked him. The snakes were laying in four pieces.
"He cut them into pieces? But how?"
There was no weapon in his hand, and neither was anyone around him that could have done that.
Apparently, he sliced the two snakes with his bare hand and one strike.
"I'm yet to discover myself." The statement he once told princess Chu Hua was actually true. He has more to discover about himself.
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Here he is on another mystery night. Not knowing what will happen next. The thought of Princess Chu Hua has taken over him. Nothing more matters to him than her. If he knew that telling her to leave the kingdom would bring a bigger problem, he wouldn't have done it.
He wasn't in peace, and neither was princess Chu Hua in peace. Her father, her handmaid, and every other person in the kingdom weren't at rest.
"I know that I have failed you, but I did this for your good. It turned out that I will be responsible for any pain you're going through now. His Majesty isn't healthy, I can't say his condition at the moment. Oh, heaven, who have I offended to be in this condition?" Commander Lucifer sobbed in tears as he leaned on his back.
He squatted on the grassy ground and buried his face in his palms.
After a long time of crying, he finally stopped to take a final decision, to neither go back to his kingdom nor continue wandering in the forest.
He ended up deciding on going back to his kingdom. Even though it was going to make him regret leaving without the princess.
"What will he tell king Cheng about his daughter? She was enthroned into his care because the king trusted him. It was time to show his disappointment instead of satisfaction."
"This is my final decision!" Commander Lucifer said with a gasp and gently closed his eyes.
It was midnight where every soul must have been snoring on their precious beds, but here he is in a jungle. Hopeless and helpless.
Even though everyone was sleeping, there was another person who had been having sleepless nights because of princess Chu Hua, Nuo, the handmaid. Nuo has been finding it difficult to sleep because the princess was not yet back.
She doesn't have an idea if commander Lucifer has taken princess Chu Hua to Cyprus kingdom while they are still in Azanda kingdom. But she believes that they won't do that when they are still managing their lives in the Azanda kingdom.
Although the Azandas never treated them badly, no matter how sweet someone's home is, you won't forget your own home. Nuo wished she could do something to help find the princess, but nothing she could do. She always cries all day long.
Her colleagues, the maidens, will always encourage her that everything will be okay. To stop her from crying.
Commander Yufei waited for the arrival of commander Lucifer, but all in vain.
"If only he listened to me. This is the fourth day, and he isn't back. If only he knew that his kingdom had been destroyed," commander Yufei mumbled with a smirk as he stood at the kingdom's gate.