[Writer's Pov]
Soon after his birth, Livik was taken to the king of the kingdom of Blumund, who he later discovered was his father. He couldn't believe his luck. As a person who lived all his previous life despised and hated, it was hard for him to contain himself when he saw a multitude of people rejoicing on his birthday.
"The third prince has been born!"
"Hooray!"
People started dancing to the beating drums. It was a feast. There was plenty of meat and alcohol. Livik's mother handed him over to the king, and the king took him and held him with care. Then, he raised him up to show him to everyone.
"Citizens of Blumund. Here is your third prince. I shall name him Flynn,"he paused as everyone cheered. "Flynn Galdord,"he continued, and the crowd couldn't stop cheering and making some noise.
After that, the king handed him back to the mother.
"Mommy. Can I carry him, please,"a two year old boy said, begging the queen to let him carry Flynn.
"No, Zander. You're too young to carry a newborn baby. Just wait a few weeks, okay,"the queen,Cinderella, said to the boy who started crying.
"Come on, Zander. Stop whining. There's nothing special about carrying a baby,"Zander's twin brother Cyrus said with his hands in the pocket. He's too full of himself for a two year old. Both Zander and Cyrus are the king's firstborn kids since they are twins. Which makes them the first and second princes of Blumund.
Meanwhile, as the festival commenced, Flynn started feeling sleepy. Although he still wanted to enjoy the festival, he couldn't stay up for too long. Perhaps it was the fact that he was still a baby.....or so, he thought, but as days passed by, he started falling asleep more frequently. He could only stay awake for two hours per day at most, and this made his parents worried.
Four months later, Flynn only spent most of his days asleep. The king requested the most high-ranking healers in his kingdom to come and take a look at him, and they all said Flynn had a sleeping sickness. Shockingly, the sickness wasn't just any ordinary sleeping sickness. It was like a virus. It affected people who went near him too.
Even his mother couldn't breastfeed him anymore because whenever she tried to do that, she ended up being affected by his sickness and falling asleep. As a result, Flynn started living most of his days alone. No one could go near him unless they cast a protective barrier around themselves.
The wisest wizards in the kingdom testified that they had never come across or heard anything about Flynn's sickness.
Time passed by, and Flynn began to feel like his life was still cursed after all—because just like in his previous life, he was still alone. Although he was born in a royal family with his parents and everyone around, he still felt alone.
Four years later, the queen gave birth to another child. Flynn could hear the welcoming festival of the newborn baby from his room. He wanted to see his sibling but since he spent most of his time sleeping and locked up in his room, he was unable to walk or crawl, but one thing he heard for sure was that the newborn was a female, which made her the only princess of the kingdom.
A year later, Flynn was now five, and the last born, the princess who was given the name Victoria was now a year old.
One day, when he was sleeping as usual, he heard the maids who were cleaning on the corridor gossiping.
"Did you hear a rumor that Prince Flynn spoke the day he was born?"
"I heard it. Isn't it strange? I wonder if that's why he's so weird."
"He's even weirder than you can imagine. I heard that he had never cried ever since he was born. What kind of a baby does that?"
"Yooh... unbelievable!"
"Some people are saying he's cursed. Imagine, he's now five years old, but he had never stepped a foot from his bed. Princess Victoria, who was born a year ago, is now able to talk and walk. I wonder why he doesn't just die already."
"Shhh.... don't say stuff like that so casually. Someone might be eavesdropping, and we might get in trouble. Anyway, let's take a quick look at the prince. If we're caught, we'll just say we were cleaning."
Upon hearing the maid's words, Flynn cried for the first time ever since he was born. The maid's opened the door and got inside. They heard him crying, and they were shocked.
"What should we do?"they asked each other.
"I don't know, maybe he's hungry. Give him a bottle of milk or something."
"What? You do it."
"No, you do it."
"No. I don't want to get close to this cursed kid."
"Neither do l"
After hearing that, Flynn cried even more louder. The virus of sleeping sickness that surrounded him started going wild like smoke. In that instant, the whole area became windy. Windows started shattering apart, and the virus started spreading through the whole palace like smoke on the wind. The two maids were affected by the virus and fell asleep on the spot. The guards who heard Flynn crying loudly came to check what was going on and fell asleep as well. Within a short period of time, the whole passage was filled with guards and maids sleeping.
But the virus didn't stop. It started spreading all the way to the king's quarters, and luckily, the mages and wizards quickly noticed it and put a protective barrier around the king and his family.
After that, the virus spread out of the palace, affecting everyone it came across with.
Mr. Galen, the kingdom's oldest and wisest wizard, cast a spell that let him talk to every citizen in the village through their minds.
"Listen, everyone. There is an outbreak of a sleeping virus spreading in the kingdom. Those who can use magic, please create barriers around yourselves and around those who can't use magic yet. Protect yourselves at all cost while we find a way to solve this problem," Galen said to the citizens. Everyone in the kingdom began to create barriers around themselves, but those who couldn't use magic and unfortunate enough to be far from magic users were affected by the virus.
After about an hour, Flynn stopped crying, and the virus began to disperse as well, but not after affecting roughly two thousand citizens and royal servants. It was tragic. Healing spells weren't working to wake them up, and the ones awake became angry and demanded the third prince to be executed.
Tbc