A century ago, kingdom of Ellorhia
Damien kept doing his training and harnessing the abilities his power has to offer. He grew stronger, faster, and vicious everyday. For decades, he led battles and brought home victory to the queen Hela. The entire kingdom feared him.
Spending time with Levi, Avaa, and Varra only made him merciless and cruel like them.
Levi and Damien are on the first floor engrossed deep in conversation and joking about, when Aragon stepped into the mansion. They stopped at his presence, Levi groaned and whisper, "here comes your boring brother, i bet he's here to give you the lecture of your life, when you are done meet me outside!"
They exchange smiles and Levi strolled away.
"Hello brother!" Damien turned to Aragon.
"I see you spend more time with Levi these days!" Aragon approached him.
"Mother thinks spending time together will somehow strengthen our bond, and it is working!" Damien smiled.
"Oh come on brother, your bond is strengthening but i fear Levi is rubbing off his influence on you! You are still young afterall!" Aragon sighed.
Damien scoffs, "I am merely following mother's orders, do not judge me!"
"Mother?" Aragon scoffed, "she is not your mother!"
Damien laughs shortly, "why do you have a problem with me calling her mother? Do you perhaps envy me?"
"Envy you?" Aragon scoffs, "now that has really hurt my pride Damien!"
"Very well, we are even then!" Damien said and started walking away.
"I am disappointed in you brother, you were not like this!" Aragon said after him.
Damien laughs, "Well, that makes the two of us!" With those words, he slipped through the door and leave.
Queen Hela summoned seers to her chambers, they tell her the new prophecy that have been revealed.
"So you are saying Damien wants the throne for himself? Will anyone die?" Hela asked with a heavy heart.
The seer nods, "the siblings will die in an attempt to stop him! The king too and you too!"
Hela laughs, "isn't it ironic? The goddess of death dying? Is there a way to avoid this future?"
"Yes!" The seer nodded.
"How? Does he get hurt in the process?" Hela questioned.
"Why do you ask my queen? Do you perhaps care for the boy?" The seer asked curiously.
Hela paused to think, then frowned, "do what you are summoned to do, ask me nothing of such ever again!"
"Yes, my queen. And also yes, there is a way out!" The seer narrated to Hela how she can avoid dying and saving her kingdom.
That very night, Hela summoned Damien to the living room, he arrives, "mother, you called?"
"Yes i did, come here!" Hela responded.
He approached her, "you look upset, any particular reason behind that?"
"Yes there is!" She turned away from the table to face him, he notice a dagger in her hand, "I'm upset because of you Damien. A couple seers came to me this morning with bad news!"
Damien gulps, "what news?"
"They say you are after the throne, is that true?" She questioned half heartedly.
Damien paused, chuckled, then nodded, "they are not wrong, neither am i! I am merely craving for the same power the rest of my siblings are!"
Hela snapped, "but unlike them, you are the only one capable of achieving it, and in the midst, we will all die!"
"I will never hurt you mother!" Damien reached for her hand but she pushed him gently away, "I am not so sure any longer, and i do not wish for another Gula incident to reoccur!"
Damien sighs in defeat, "what must i do?"
"Give me your hand!" Hela said.
Damien sighed and extended his hand, "like always, you are choosing them over me! Must you always prove that i am not really yours?"
Hela takes his hand in hers, "you are mine Damien, but i cannot watch you hurt any of my kids again!!"
"Your kids?" Damien scoffs, "then what am i? Your puppet?"
Hela ignores him and use the golden dagger to make a cut in his palm. Damien didn't even wince and only stared at Hela with longing. Warm blood streams out of the cut and onto the white stone engraved at the edge of the dagger's handle. As soon as his blood touched the stone, the stone glowed a bright red for a brief second and returned to its initial hue - in that moment, Damien felt a sudden wave of fatigue overwhelm him, "what did you do to me mother?"
"I took out your wrath, the darkness that is turning you evil is trapped in this stone!" She wave her hand over his injured palm and it instantly healed, then she placed the dagger on his palm and let him go. He stares at her with confusion, "my wrath? Did you just lock my powers?"
Hela nods, "it is what i must do to protect us from you, and you from yourself!"
Shocked, Damien scoffs and shook his head in disappointment, "I am no monster, all i did so far was based on YOUR commands, you MADE ME THIS MOTHER!!!" He yelled, hands trembling from rage.
"If i hadn't locked them away, you could have killed me in this moment, remember that!" Hela notified.
Damien screams, "come on mother, you are pushing me away, you are discarding me like an object!"
Hela's voice tremors, "I am protecting you!"
"No!" Damien shakes his head, "you are protecting your children, and I know you will never accept me, but you will always be my mother!"
In that moment, Aragon and King Elvis barges into the living room,
"You cannot do this mother!" Aragon protested in an attempt to stop Hela from locking Damien's powers but was already too late.
When he realized, Aragon halts on his tracks and shook his head, "this is not fair mother, you can't do this to him!"
All Damien ever wanted was closure, a mother's love. For a few years, he felt flakes of that affection from Hela, and he did all he could to please her, but Hela cared less. She used his vulnerability for a mother's love and exploited his mind, sowing seeds of greed and lust for violence into his head. And now that she could fall victim to her wickedness, she is willing to throw him away as if those years meant nothing.
"Who do you think you are doing this to MY son?" Elvis growled.
"Stay out of this, it is between me and my mother!" Damien snapped.
"Your mother?" Elvis scoffs, "she is no mother to you, but I AM YOUR FATHER and you are MY SON!"
"You are no father to me!" Damien protested coldly.
King Elvis scoffs in disbelief, he turns to face Hela, "what have you done to my son?"
"Listen to me Damien!" Hela approached and cups Damien's face in her hands, "I am sorry, but you can no longer live in Ellorhia!" She release him and turned the other way, "move to earth, you will be loved there, and you no longer have your chaos with you. Live and explore who you really are without this darkness, find out who you ARE when it is no longer within you! And you are never to return here!"
"Mother no!" Aragon tried to intervene but was stopped by Damien, "stay out of this brother!"
Damien turns to Hela, eyes heavy with pain,
"whatever you wish is my command, mother!"