Hurried footsteps were heard across the hall, the maid quaters, dead bodies scattered all over the hall, the whole stench of blood raged int he hallway, tension filled the air, in contrast to the bad atmosphere inside, the weather didn't make a change to the vibe emnating in the contrast of the rooms, the sound of thunder echoinging in the halls , the King walked in hurriedly along side his guards, with the expression undeniably frightening, he paused at a room, his guards stood back with their heads bowed, Lee Jung too heaved and then flung the door open to see his wife with her guards at the back of her, their swords dripped of the blood of their innocent victis, there was a court lady on her knees, she was looking down and crying uncontrollably, "please your Majesty, spare my life", she said crying, her two palms placed down on the floor, her head biwe,sweat drilling from her face, the Queen completely ignored her, walking over to the bed, she looked at it curiously, the satin purple cloth laying there, " how dare a peasant use a royal colour to cover up a traitors mistake", said the Queen, she aggressively tugged out the purple cloth off the bed to reveal a blood stained white sheet, the maid held on to the Queen lower cloth, her hands trembling, her eyes red from crying too much, " forgive me your Majesty,I'm sorry, please your Majesty spare a lowly servant like myself", she said in a trembling voice," where is Mu yeon", asked the Queen coldly, the poor court lady hurriedly shook her head indicating that she didn't know, " how dare a lowly maid have the audacity to lie to me, kill her now", yelled the Queen in sheer anger.
" No..., your Majesty, She is passing through the left wing of Gwengochan, from there she will escape from the palace without being harmed", said the court lady grabbing unto the Queens leg, "spare me you Majesty, please spare me",said the court lady, " the punishment for lying and harboring a traitor is death.....", said the Queen dragging her feet away from the miserable and trembling maid, the Queen looked at one of her guards, her guards nodded, then he drew out the sword, not giving the court lady the opportunity to say any word, the guard slashed the sword across her body killing her instantly, her limp body fell to the floor, to the cruelty of the Queens feet, she looked over at her guards, " she must not have gone far, she just gave birth, get her and that child, bring them to me, I will kill them myself", said the Queen cruelly, the guard nodded and was about to head out, but was quickly stopped when the King and his men came in and drew out their swords, stopping them from leaving, " Go young, please stop this", said the King pleading, looking at the empty eyes of his once beloved and kind wife, all he saw was emptiness and hate, " a child born of a sorcerer, a child born of a tribe that shouldn't even exist, I wouldn't have resulted to this if you had just played along with your other concubines like you always did,but..., you got that woman pregnant, I stood still when you told me to because I thought she was a normal person, but I wasn't told it was a traitor, you didn't only betray me , you betrayed the whole country", said Go young, her eyes trying to hold back tears," if you don't want your hand to be soiled with more blood,move away", said Go young and without waiting for her husband's response, she pushed her way through, the guards bowed their heads to the King before the left with the Queen, The King heaved in frustration, he knew that the wife that he had married is gone .
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Mu yeon heaved staggering in the hilly side of the forest, her legs stained with blood she was still weak after giving birth, but she still tried to hold on, gently cradling her baby on her back as she panted and struggled out of breath," we are almost there Lee Kwon, just hang in there for mommy okay", she saidcooing her baby, she stopped by at a tree, panting heavily looking over at her son, the breezeways chilly due to the rain," just hang int here", she said again struggling with breath, she looked over and from a distance she saw torches lit up with fire, her heart leaot with shock, that only meant one thing, the court lady told the Queen, that means.....all of them are dead.
She gasped, she needed to get out from here for her child's sake, she composed herselfas she hurriedly began walking, walking silently but hurriedly so she won't get noticed, the silent darkness, only the foot steps of the guards could be heard, all of a sudden the baby coughed, due to the exposure of the chilly wind, the cold was making him uncomfortable, and before Mu yeon knew what was happening, there was a loud cry, the cry echoed from each corners of the forest, at this point it was cruel for a child to put his mother in this type of situation, the guards heard it, and in a flash charged towards the torches to the direction where the noise was coming from, spotting her almost immediately, the chase began immediately, the wet leaves slapping upon her feet, the pain from her lower abdomen was terrifying, she hid behind a tree, unwrapping her crying baby boy, " please...my boy, keep quiet for mummy", she said cooing her child, but the cry only got louder and louder, the foot steps got nearer and nearer . Mu yeon raised her hand, she was weak, really weak, opening up her palm, droplets of water began forming on her palm getting bigger and bigger until it was almost the size of a ball, she peeked from the tree and violently waved her hand causing the water to attack the guards torches, instantly quenching the flame, there was a loud mummur from the guards, this gave Mu yeon the opportunity to escape, but she barely reached a distance when she felt something pierce through her heel making her fall to.
She groaned in pain trying to stand up but she fell down again, cuddling her new born in her arms safely so that he won't get hurt from the fall, she tried again but got shot again the thigh with another arrow, this time it immobilized her, she groaned in pain as she began to cry, her baby also began to cry.Go young finally approached her with the bow and arrow in her hand and two guards behind her ready to kill her at any moment, Mu yeon heaved, "how dare a lowly cause like you enter the royal forest, have you no shame anymore", said Go young, strong disgust written on her face , My yeong groaned in pain as she stood up barely managing to stand, at that point also covering up her baby.
" Your Majesty,....I'm sorry, I won't ask you to spare my life , but please spare the life of my child for he is innocent", said Mu yeong, her sweat covered face was extremely pale, and she held unto the tree for balance, the Queen walked closer to My yeong," a mistake , a bastard son with the unclean blood of a traitor and a sorcerer, he is destined for a dark fate, so why should I let him livein misery and isolation for the rest of his life", said the Queen looking at the child on the wet and damp ground, then she looked over at Mu yeong,"I doubt if you would live with that .....", saying that she immediately drew out her sword and sliced through Mu yeongs body, it was unexpected, but at the same time it was expected, it was bound to happen, but it was too soon, Mu yeong felt her body go limp as she fell to the ground,coughing out blood," it would have been such a pity if I let a mother see her child die, I am also a mother, this is all I can do for you", said the Queen coldly, Mu yeong gasped for breath as a tear fell from her eyes looking over at her baby boy, who began crying loudly, she gasped as more blood spilled from her mouth, she felt a sense of drowsiness, her whole body went limo, looking at her baby boy for the last time, she smiled a weakly, then she whispered his name,"Lee Kwon ", she said tenderly before she finally closed her eyes, then she passed on.
The Queen looked over at the crying baby, dropping her sword down, she bent over at the child ,"a child can't die like it's mother, yours will be painless", said the Queen coldly, wrapping her hand around the baby's neck.As the baby cried due to the fact that it could not breathe, suddenly the air became heavy, the wind was howling stronger to than ever, loud thunder could be heard, strings of bright lightning struck across the sky, rain began falling from the sky, the Queen looked up at the sky confused, then looked at the child who was crying harder and harder, without warning, lightning struck the ground, very close to the Queen, the Queen fell to the floor in shock, her guards who were also shocked went over to assist the Queen while cautiously trying not to cross the boundaries of the newborn
The King ran towards his wife helping her up, she was still shocked at the phenomenon that just occured, the King looked over and saw the dead body of Mu yeong and their child which seemed to not be breathing, the King immediately went over to the child and checked it's pulse but there was no, the King looked over at the Queen with pleading eyes,"Go young, the child is not breathing",said the King, the Queen whi just recovered from the shock looked at the King in annoyance," it's good then,....he wasn't suppose to live anyway", said the Queen coldly, the King who was devastatingly frustrated knelt down in front of his wife, all the guards immediately backed away as not to see their King on his knees,"please your Majesty, I beg you he is just a child, don't let him die for the sons of his mother", said the King barely breathing, obviously panicked.
Go young looked over at the child after a long silence, Go young finally spoke,"I will let him live under several conditions", said the Queen coldly,"the King was relieved at what she said, but was also nervous of her conditions," anything you say my Queen", said the King bowing his head low, the Queen nodded coldly looking at the child.
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A woman her hand glowing with light scanned across the child's body , the only one in the room was the King, his guards had been left outside, only him and the blind medicine woman was there, the stone door tightly shut, the woman heaved," the child has great energy in him, be wasn't suppose to use that much power, he is only a child", said the woman.
The King curiously looked at the child," is there anything more I need to know about the child", asked the King curiously, the woman hand stopped glowing as she slowly turned her face to the King," what I am to say your Highness, may not be what to be heard", said the woman,"do you still want to know ", asked the woman , bending her head at the child, the King looked over at his son, he heaved,"yes, tell me what is to come of the child", said the King.
The woman nodded touching the child's head," I may not have eyes to see physically, but my eyes go beyond the realms of reality, and what I see of this child is that of a dark fate", said the woman, the King looked at his son obviously frightened at what he just heard,the woman tilted her head slightly,"do you still wish to know more", asked the blind woman, the King choked looking away, he nodded reluctantly, the woman placed her hand on the child's chest," he is destined to have great power, but at the cost of his life", said the woman lowering her voice, the King gasped falling to the floor, his eyes filled with tears, he clenched his hand in the stone bed, he looked up at the woman, be emwas in a very pitiable state right now,"is there a way to prevent this from happening ", asked the King in a sorrowful voice , praying that there was a solution."it is the child fate to die early", said the blind woman again ," all we can do for him is to lengthen his time on this earth, no matter what happens the child will die ", said the woman putting her hand into her ragged cliak, she brought out a lavender stone, that had spiral spins on it, the King looked curiously at the woman as she went to further more explain, the stone will trap his powers in, you can only give to the stone, but the stone can't give to you, it requires a great sacrifice to take a power locked in the stone....", "the phoenix stone ", said the King shocked at what he was seeing, all the royals of Gwengochan had given up their powers to this stone including he and his wife, he thought the stone was lost or destroyed, but here it was,"the child powers go in here and shall never come out", said the woman, the King nodded,"it shall be done"