"Forget about that mark she bears and kill the one who murdered her parents in cold blood, the one standing in front of us." Elder Rue pointed at her. "Let's kill her like she did to the king and queen," he added.
"As long as the mark is on her body, we can't harm the one the moon has chosen to guide us except she uses her own hands to kill herself, willingly." the third elder that hardly spoke at any of their meetings spoke. He was Elder Kila, the leader of the air Wolf clan.
"Nonsense," Elder Rue said walking up towards Nyxoria and then proceeded to hold her hair, which tilted her head upwards and made her hissed out in pain. "She knows what she did. We just have to punish her gravely to make her admit what she did and then after her confession, we cut off her head. She sinned against the moon goddess and against the earth that she walks on." He spits out in anger.
"Don't say things you don't know Rue, she said she doesn't remember and somehow I believe her, our top priority should be finding out if she is saying the truth and if she is, that means there is a killer amongst us and in our kingdom." Elder Kila spoke again, softly.
"Until proven guilty, she will be the one to rule us after the burial of my brother and his wife." Vyr supported what Elder Kila had said.
"Nonsense," Elder Rue said again, those words irritating Nyxoria, "she is just eight years old and she cannot rule us, I refuse to let a little child, a murderer, rule over me."
"She has the mark of the Obsidian Sigil of Liora, and whoever puts the crown on his or her head forcefully will die immediately, you of all people should know that Elder Rue, except she uses her hands to place the crown on whoever she wants then that person is free from death, you know that's the curse from Liora and the only one the crown won't affect is the emperor except you want him to rule all of us." The fourth Elder of the Storm clan, Julian, said. He was the oldest and the rest of the clans respect him and his words.
"Nonsense," Elder Rue spoke and this time around his hold on Nyxoria hair was so tight that he was pulling off some of her hair. "Don't pity her pretty little face, if not, you won't see the devil in her."
"Uncle, will you miss him if he is gone? His voice is getting boring." Nyxoria's little voice cut through the air. She smiled as if the pain Rue was causing her was nothing.
But none of them paid her any attention.
"Elder Rue I don't know what problem you have with my niece but I can assure you that she is not a murderer and until we have evidence that she committed the crime, she is innocent." Vyr said.
"Nonsen-" He didn't get to complete the word because a scream erupted from his mouth and he moved back as the hand he used in grabbing Nyxoria's hair was still holding onto it. His scream stopped whatever discussion that was going on.
Nyxoria has cut off his left hand he'd uses to grip her hair off with the sword with her— how she had pulled it off since her back was facing him no one knows— Vyr rushed to her to get the sword, that his twin brother and his wife dried blood was still lingering on it and now coated with the blood of Rue, away from her but to his surprise once again, he couldn't. Her grip on the sword was as strong as glue.
Vyr sighed as the memories flooded to him. After his brother and his wife was buried— everyone attended the burial, the witches, vampires etc everyone supernaturals came except for the young Emperor. Nyxoria had surprised everyone after the council of elders called for a second meeting and told them she had chose Vyr to sit on the throne and rule over the kingdoms. He could remember her exact words that day.
"Until I remember what happened that night I won't sit on this throne even though I come of age to rule Uncle, I still won't sit," she had said. "Until I remember why and how I killed them, you will be the High King." She added and lifted up the crown and gestured for her uncle to knee down before her which Vyr did and she crowned him the High King herself.
"All I am saying is that you know they already hate you so don't make them hate you more." Vyr told her.
"I am not going to change myself because of some stupid people, you don't like me, I don't like you back, life is simple." Nyxoria said.
"Why didn't you attend the academy today? You haven't attended since last week." Vyr asked softly, changing the topic.
"I was not in the mood of going to the academy Uncle but since you said, I am now in the mood to go."
"By now? The sun is up."
"The moon hasn't come out, right? So there is still more time." Nyxoria shrugged. "See you in a few hours Uncle."
"Take care, my child and please don't cause any trouble."
"And you too." Nyxoria shouted as she walked out of the throne room and signal for a guard standing guard to ready her horse, penelope.
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Academy of the Arcane:
At the large Assembly Grounds of the Academy all students stood and were staring at the direction the principal of the Arcane stood there.
The werewolves stood in their line, the witches, vampires, faires and so on did the same thing.
The principal was a half vampire and a fairy. He was handsome, his pale skin was a sight to behold, he was tall and muscular, he had lost one of his eyes two years ago and doesn't like to talk about it.
"I know you all may be wondering why I had summoned you all out here, I know all of you are eager to go back to your class but I have a very important announcement to make." He began grabbing the attention of everyone. "Our emperor will be joining us today, he ought to have come last week but for some reason he didn't so I want you all to be on your best behavior when he comes." he added. "Do you understand me?"
"Yes Sir Archmiagus." All students said in unison.
"Good, the Emperor has a few rules laid out," he said and clapped his hands once, a small scroll appeared beside each of the students which they all took to go through its contents. "The most two important rules he gave which he marked by himself its there: don't talk to him and never talk to him unless he talks to you so please do yourself good and obe—" he didn't get to finish his words when they all heard the thundering pounding of hooves on the ground coming towards the Academy gate signaling the arrival of her.
Archmiagus disappeared the next second without any more word.
All teachers and students ran back with speed to their various classes, locking up the doors.