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Chapter 15 - Siege

The king cries on his throne, the queen tries to comfort him, she hugs him. "Everything is gonna be ok. Theodore doesn't have the manpower to even get past the gates" She said. "You of all people should know how the Bloodhearth family is. Theodore worked with less. He also has my child!" He sobs and tries to wipe his tears off his face, but more come. He takes his crown off, "I want my daughter to live."

From the giant castle in the middle of the capital, the throne room has a 360 view of 15 kilometers wide. The king gets up from his throne and looks in the north. "They come from the North?" She asked. "Theodore is a wild man, he can come even from beneath us."

He looks at her. "Why did you want me to make him my enemy? Isn't he your son." The queen chuckled. "He is my step son, he never knew this." The king goes back to his throne and presses a button on the hand rest. The capital guards set up the capital as an armored wall. Blasters, lasers, cannons, everything was ready to take out an entire army. "May the gods forgive us and aid us once more." He said looking back out the window..

On the field Theodore and his people camouflaged with the environment. The mechas are hidden underground and mine their way near the walls of the capital.

Theodore was on the ground with a plasma sniper aiming directly at the king's head.

"Wind direction?" Seraphine pulls out her head just a centimeter off the ground and looks through her device. She closes her eyes and opens them up again. "Moving west, to get his head, move it slowly twice to the left."

Theodore moves it slowly to the left but not far from the original position. "How do you know to be a spotter?" Seraphine looks at the target through her device. "We God given servants are trained to fit our masters best, I have the training of a housewife and the training of a warlord." Theodore sighs. "I don't need a housewife." "That's not what the gods say." The king walks away from his vision. "He left." The castle starts fortifying itself with cannons. "He is scared of me. Let's move." Both of them crawl slowly on the grass.

"So if I want to marry you, hypothetically" Sera stops and looks at him. "Yes I can have children." "That wasn't what I was going to ask, I was going if you are forced to love me" They both start to crawl again. "It's nothing about forcing. I also have to say sorry for getting naked in your bed, that was… Disrespectful."

Theodore chuckles. "Can't say I didn't like it, but if there's a next time~ stop!" They both stop. He grabs his secured communication device. "Hunter, are you in?" Theodore asked. "Yes." Everyone in the pre-battlefield listens to what Theodore wants to say. "Don't hurt the civilians, only the guards. The king is our target, kill him and we are done." A sound from beneath the two is heard. "Ghost, Rinehart. Hope you guys are ready. Everyone go!"

Hunter on the inside had about 50 men, he walked on the walls. "Charge!" He shouts and he and his army start killing the guards on the wall. Hunter rushes with his long sword, he cuts someone's head, a guard charges at him to push him off, Hunner dodges and pushes the guard into a 15 meter free falling. On the walls it was just a massacre. "Go!" Hunter shouts in the communication device.

From where Theodore and Seraphine are from the ground, Ghost's and Rinehart's mechs jump out of the ground. They both get on their back. "To the throne room!" Theodore said, And that's where they headed. "The other soldiers got out of bushes or beneath ground and started defending the 4.

Hunter sees them form the walls. "I am the last human on this planet to say this, but Christ bless them!" One of his soldiers asked: "Who is Christ?" Hunter looks at him. "Christ is the son of a god from our original planet, earth. He was an all-powerful God, he was killed and revived." Hunter makes a cross in the air. "Hope he helps."

The squad gets with the mech through the windows. Theodore jumps off Rinehart's mech, the king tries to run off, Theodore from the air shoots his legs and the King falls. "Kill the guards!" Theodore said before rolling on the ground leaving the sniper on the ground. He runs through the blaster bullets. Ghost throws some of the enemies out the windows, Seraphine jumps off Ghost's mech and tackles the queen.

The room was now filled with dead guards, the royalty and the squad. "Good evening!" Theodore said. The king looks him in the eyes. "Can you let my daughter live?" Theodore laughs "You want to kill myself? I won't let a woman that I killed her father free, It's like saying Bloodhearths were born yesterday." The dore pulls out his rapier. "May the Gods give you peace!" He cuts his head off. Theodore moves two steps back.

"So mommy? Why did you kill my father?" She widens his eyes, flashbacks of her posing Michel's food and drinks in the war. "I've done nothing! YOU IDIOT I AM YOUR MOTHER! Free me at once!" Theodore walks up to her slowly. "In my house, I found some lost history. My rapier is the proof of it. I know you're not my mother, and I also know you poisoned my father."

Theodore's memories nearly materialize in his eyes. After the stream on the social media he tortured the princess, he views even now how much she paid for her father, he hears her screams in his head and even he nearly cries because none of this was necessary, she answered the questions one after another about the castle defenses.

Theodore had one last question. "Who killed my father?" That question echoes in his head like a slow song of violin, one with terror. "Queen patricia." Theodore remembers his thoughts back then. "Thank you for your honesty." He then kills her with one bullet to the head.

"Your step-daughter told me everything, I want to know why?" Patricia sighs and closes her eyes. "I killed him because he was still with your mother in secret. He had me as his wife so your grandfather will shut the fuck up!" He started crying. "I made you the man you become, I AM your mother."

Theodore stabs her stomach. "You never were my mother, this will be your last words you hear!" He cuts her from the stomach up, nearly splitting her in half.

Theodore looks with disgust at her. "We won, now I have to do politics… Gods have mercy." Theodore goes to the throne and presses the same button the king did. He then connects the communication device to the announcement speaker through wi-fi.

"This is Theodore Bloodhearth. I set the stage to become the new king of Highland. Everyone knows who I am and who my clan is. I fight for the people and their choices, including religion choice or political choices. I won't be king if you don't want me, I won't force you as the last one did. I am here to bring your hearts to rest."

He ends the speech and stops the communication device. "And now we wait."