Chapter 5

❤️ The Promise Made ❤️

"I am sorry, Dark. It's just that the chil-"

Interrupting her abruptly.

"It's King!" Dark snarled at Amaya, showing his teeth which began growing in size, his horns puffing out dark smokes. The sharp-pointed head of his spear made of gold also buried itself on the ground beside the chair he was sitting on.

"I am sorry, my King." Amaya apologizes as she slowly moves back away from the child she was holding herself from putting an end to the life in her.

"Come here." Dark gesture with his hand for Raziah to come. His teeth going back to their normal size, his horns seizing it's smoke.

Slowly getting up to her feet, Raziah approached the man.

"Why are you here?" Dark asked, staring into her eyes.

"I am here for my mother. I was told she is here by one of my father wives." Raziah answered.

"And you've seen her?" Dark asked, pushing off the ladies that were trying so hard to get his attention. Somehow, the little girl grabs all of his attention and he couldn't tell why.

"Yes, could you tell them to stop what they are doing to my mother." Raziah responded and without looking she pointed at the direction her mother was.

Looking at the direction she was pointing, and saw one of his demons fuc.king the woman. "Stop, get away from her." Dark said to the demon which surprised everyone. Facing Raziah again. "Is that all?" He asked.

"Yes, that's all. Thank you, my King." Raziah thanked.

"Tell me, what's your name Child?" he asked, striding towards her and stopping when he was close. He bent down to clean the blood that coated the side of her lips with his right index finger, smelling it and eventually licking it, then closed his eyes in pure bliss.

"Raziah, I'm the king's daughter." she answered, squeezing her face when she saw him licking her blood.

Nodding his head. "You smell heavenly Raziah like..." he paused and remembered he was talking to a child and smiled instead straightened up to his feet smiling down at her.

"What does it mean?" Raziah asked, tilting her head to look at the man before her, he was tall like a mountain, she hoped she would get tall like him. And also hiding the fact that she was in pain from whatever Amaya had done to her.

"It means you have a unique scent to me Raziah. You and I are going to be best friends." Dark answered her. He still couldn't get her scent off him.

"Really? You will become my friend?" Raziah asked eagerly.

"Yes you are my friend now, I didn't kill you so yes we are friends." He responded.

"So now that you are my best friend, will you protect me and my mother from my father?" Raziah requested.

"From your father? Why?" Dark question in curiosity.

"I am scared of him, my mother is scared of him. I don't know how to keep my mother safe from him but you are my best friend right, and you are like a king over us, right? I see how you commanded your demons and my father. You will protect us from him, right?" Raziah, waited with bated breath for his answers.

"Child, I will protect you and your mother. But you know, most times I will be so busy and I can't be protecting you always, so..." he paused and walked back to his golden spear. "Let me tell you, the day you lift up my spear will be the day you can stand up to anything or anyone. So I am giving it to you. See it as a gift from me." Dark apprise her.

"That," Raziah pointed at the golden spear. "Will take me ages before I can lift it up and my father can't wait until then. Best friends should always be there for their friend, right? My mother is my best friend and she is always there for me, won't you be there for me." Raziah query.

"I will." Dark answered and once again closed the distance between them, one of his hands went behind Raziah's right ear, bringing the hand to show her. "Look what I found for you," he said, showing her a dark average shell on his hand. "This is my second gift to you Raziah. Whenever your father threatens you or your mother, just whisper to it 'Help me Dark' and I will come running from wherever I am to save you and your mother. Okay?" he told her, giving her the shell which she gladly collected from him.

"Thank you." Her face lit up in smiles.

Patting her head. He looked at Amaya and gestured with his head, moving it to one side. "Let's go." he told her and a dark portal opened also immediately before he could finish those words. He was about to enter the portal when Raziah grabbed hold of one of his fingers stopping him.

"Promise me that when I whisper the words you will come and help me and my mother." She uttered.

"I give you my word Raziah." Dark said wanting to get out of here and from her scent.

"No, I want to hear the word Promise from you." Raziah remained adamant.

"Oh, okay. I promise, I will come running." Dark promised.

Smiling widely and letting go of his finger. "Remember, a King never goes back on his promise." She informed him.

Without another word he entered the portal.

"You heard him, leave the bit.ches you are screwing and let's get out of here." Amaya told the rest of the demons.

And soon enough, they entered the portal Amaya had open leaving Raziah and the naked wolves behind.

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Dark Castle:

"Why did you save that girl? I could have killed her if you hadn't intervened." Amaya queried once when she was alone with Dark in what looked like his throne room. "She is the daughter of the man you loathe with every thing in you. The man responsible for everything." She reminded him.

"She is just a child Amaya." Dark replied.

"Well the last time I checked, you would even join me in killing a child. Why did you spare her Dark?" Amaya demanded. "And the fact that you even licked her blood irritates me."

"I don't know Amaya. She has a unique scent and I don't know if it is because of her blood. It tasted sweeter than $€x or should I put it in the same category as $€x." Dark answer with a shrug. "I don't know why I did that."

"And what about the promise you made to the little girl? The shell and you even left her with your golden spear," Amaya said with a tight lips. "What I have been pleading with you to give me since."

Dark laughed as if what Amaya had said was funny, he stopped laughing after a minute to say. "Promise? What promise are you talk about? Don't tell me you believed what I told that child. I was merely playing along with her. I love crushing the hopes of people Amaya. It's my thing."

Amaya smiled as if that's the best news she has ever received. "What about your spear and the shell you gave to her then?" She asked.

"She can't lift up my spear if that's your concern and for the shell I know what to do so that shouldn't be your worry." Dark notified her.

"So you won't be keeping your promise then?"

"A King never gets to keep his promise Amaya. She will learn that on her own."

Soon enough, one night, he heard the whimpering whisper of the girl calling out to him for help and he ignored it. He has important things to do and running to save a child wasn't what he planned on doing.

He didn't keep to his promise.

End of FLASHBACK:

"Why are you reminding me of her, of that name I had forgotten." Dark query with raised brows.

"Like I said, you won't believe what happened."

"What happened? Is she dead?"

"No, but she was the one who had fought against our demons. She killed all of them and didn't spare anyone, though one of your demons escaped and ran here to inform me." Amaya reply.

"Does that mean she is strong now?"

"Yes, she is strong now. The child we met that night was just an ordinary child, a princess. We didn't smell any power from her, right? So I don't know how she became strong now."

"Why would you say she is strong? Just because she managed to kill one thousand out of my millions demons doesn't make her strong, it was just luck."

"Could you believe I shot her one of the arrows of agony and she shot back her own arrow at me. If I didn't stop the arrow it could have pierced my forehead. And do you know the most interesting part? I was standing closer at the bank of the river when she shot it from the Hobgoblin Kingdom and it came right towards me, unbelievable right?" Amaya explained.

"It was just a coincidence Amaya, don't think about it too much." Dark shrugged off.

"How could she know I was standing at the spot I was?" Amaya queried.

"People tend to get lucky and Raziah is one of them." Dark said, going to the wardrobe in the room to put on some clothes.

"Maybe, and one more thing Dark, she used your golden spear to kill your demons." Amaya finally dropped the bombshell.

That stopped him right on his track and he turned around to look at Amaya in shock and did not bother to hide it. "Impossible. Apart from me no one else can remove the spear from the ground, not to talk about lifting and carrying it up." He finds it unwilling and unable to believe it.

"But she did and she used it to fight with it against the demons."

"Impossible," Dark said again. His eyes moved around in the room. "Unbelievable." he added a second later.