The Lithonia Kingdom, also known as the land of gems or land of luster, was a land of millions of priceless precious stones. Gold, gems, silver, and even the sea has an unlimited number of pearls.
Once upon a time, the Lithonia Kingdom controlled almost part of the land on earth. Making it the number one empire that is impossible to conquer. Legend has it that Lithonia was able to subdue small kingdoms because the first king, King Arthur Zafeiri, was a descendant of the gods, giving extraordinary power to each of his descendants who would lead Lithonia.
However, since 1000 years the founding of the Great Kingdom of Lithonia. There was a coup that was carried out by some members of the royal family who felt that the leadership of the king at that time, King Pieter Zafeiri the Great was very cruel, so that he could kill family members who dared to oppose his ambition to conquer the entire earth.
The coup ended tragically at the expense of the blood of the descendants of the First King Lithonia. War was inevitable, some people decided to leave the kingdom and go to the valley of hell, forming a new country called Fotia. While the Lithonia civil war broke out, the kingdom it split in two. Some remained and some founded a new kingdom called Edafos, which was led by the half-brother of King Lithonia.
The war and hatred between the three great kingdoms lasted for nearly 1000 years and wars, always won the Lithonia Kingdom, because the power of the gods that flowed in the blood of every king who would lead the number one kingdom in the world.
Exactly 2000 years of the founding of the Great Kingdom of Lithonia and exactly 1000 years of the division of Lithonia into three kingdoms. The current Lithonia Kingdom, led by His Majesty King Roderick Zafeiri, the King of Lithonia who is known to be very similar to his predecessor who brought Lithonia into civil war, King Pieter Zafeiri. King Roderick was famous for his strictness and cruelty towards anyone who dared to oppose him.
It is not easy to hold the title as the largest and richest kingdom, apart from the Edafos and Fotia Kingdoms, there are many other kingdoms that have tried to overthrow the Lithonia title as "Great Kingdom" making King Roderick a respected leader and tend to be feared for the sake of Lithonia's honor.
Behind the sparkle of dozens of Lithonia Palaces. The King, His Excellency King Roderick Zafeiri for five years awaits the birth of the heir to the throne, in which only the main male has the right to be the heir. Even though he already had a son and eight daughters who were born by three of the king's seven concubines. However, only the son of the King and his legal wife, Queen Alexandra, had the right to inherit.
After waiting for five years and continuing to receive insults from the King's mother, Queen Mother Margaritha, and her husband's greater love for Valerie, one of the king's most beautiful concubines and succeeded in giving birth to a son, Prince Samuel.
Royal regulations state, a prince who is born from a king's concubine will be the heir, if the queen can't give birth to a son or dies before ascending the throne. However, he will not be able to become a permanent heir because he does not have the power of pure blood.
That caused great concern in Queen Alexandra. After five years of being patient and looking forward to the birth of the child. Finally, the queen gave birth to twins. Princess Nathania Elizaveta Zafeiri and Prince Nathan Alexander Zafeiri.
The happy times of having given birth to the heir to the throne did not seem to last long. At the time of the Crown Prince, Prince Nathan was suffering from a very serious rare disease at the age of only five years.
Queen Alexandra, who did not want her rights to be taken away, was forced to ask her little daughter, Princess Nathania to replace her twin brother's position as crown prince.
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Sapphire Palace
Lithonia Kingdom
"The Crown Prince will not survive to adulthood, his disease is very severe and will slowly eat away at his body," said Doctor Franz, one of the royal doctors who had treated Prince Nathan for three months.
"What should I do? His Holiness kept asking why Nathan was rarely seen? Should I lie to him again by saying Prince Nathan has a fever? do you know? He is not a person who is gullible, if he knows what really happened. So, the son of that woman will replace my son. No, I don't want that to happen." She said hysterically beside the body of her son who was lying weakly on the bed.
"Calm down Your Majesty, Prince Nathan will definitely get well soon." Said Jia, one of the Queen's personal servants.
"I don't know what to do with, Jia. It's enough they insulted me at that time as a woman who couldn't give an heir. But now, I have Nathan. Why? Why does this have to happen to my child? Why not the son of that woman, why?" She screamed hysterically. Doctors Franz, Jia and Helen could only try to calm her down.
The Queen's mental state deteriorated ever since accepting the fact that her beloved son was seriously ill and, perhaps, could not last until he ascended the throne.
"Mother...!" Princess Nathania who had just entered her brother's room immediately called her mother. Carrying small blue flowers, while running, Princess Nathania intended to show her mother and brother what she had.
"Where have you been, Princess?" Asked Helena.
"Thania just came from the garden and picked this flower for Nathan. This flower is blue, Nathan likes blue," she replied with a sweet smile.
"A very beautiful flower, do you know what this flower is called?"
"I don't know!"
"This flower is called the forget me not flower,"
"Forget me not?"
"Yes, Princess,"
"Thania wants Nathan to see this flowers, when will Nathan wake up?"
"Then, let me put this flower in the vase, okay? When Prince Nathan wakes up, he will surely see the flowers that you gave him!"
"Is it true?" Asked Princess Nathania while showing her sparkling eyes.
"That's right, Princess!" Said Helen, she knew that if she didn't handle it right away, Princess Nathania would have been asking questions continuously and it was very bad in the midst of this condition.
"Nathania!" Queen Alexandra call her daughter as she rose from her place.
"Yes, Mother?"
"There's something I want to talk to you about!" The queen immediately grabbed Princess Nathania's hand and walked out of Prince Nathan's room.
The Queen led her away to the break room. The mother's hand felt cold and rough. Princess Nathania, who did not understand, could only look at her mother's back which looked very stiff and different from usual.
"Princess Nathania, from now on you must become Prince Nathan!" She said firmly.
A sentence that of course could not be understood by a child aged five years. Princess Nathania, who was standing in front of her mother, could only stare in confusion with a question in her head.
"How could Nathania be Nathan?"
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The queen glared at her 5 year old daughter, as if there was no love from the gaze she gave. Princess Nathania was stunned, trying to digest the words her mother had just said. "Princess Nathania, you understand, don't you? This is my lifetime wish!" She said. "Nathania became Nathan? How?" She asked innocently. Even though she couldn't understand, she somehow felt something sad. Queen Alexandra kneeled, holding tightly to the shoulders of her shaking little Princess, ever since she had pulled her hand roughly a few minutes ago. "Listen to me, we have no choice but to do this. From now on, you must switch places with Prince Nathan!" "B-but why? Thania doesn't want to be Nathan!" Princess Nathania started to cry, she could not fulfill her mother's request. "You have to want, I depend on you. Do it for me, Nathania!" The queen's eyes began to tear, even though she knew this would make her daughter difficult. However, this is the only way for her descendants to continue to be heirs
Princess Nathania faced a large mirror, looked at herself from head to toe, then muttered to herself "Like Nathan," she smiled. Come to think of it, she had not seen Nathan's smile for several days. Since he was unconscious three days ago, Prince Nathan had not yet awakened. "Thania wants to meet Nathan," she thought, she quickly took a step out of her room, after the queen, Diana, Jia and Helena left her alone in this room 30 minutes ago. Princess Nathania walked slowly, creeping up as if avoiding something. She felt strange about herself, without her long hair and the dress she used to wear. However, now she had to wear boy's clothes. "Prince Nathan?" Someone called her from behind. This woman's voice, which was loud and slightly hoarse, was no stranger to her ears "Aunty Rekha?" Asked Nathania awkwardly, after shyly she turned her head towards the woman. "Aren't you sick? Why hang around here?" Asked the woman named Rekha as she walked over to Nathania. "Ehm...that, Thania- N
Princess Nathania was standing at the door of Prince Nathan's room, with her head bowed, hiding a pain that she could not understand, this was the first time she felt really lonely.This morning, when she awoke from her sleep, the first person she thought of was Nathan. Someone she really wanted to meet, not without reason. Everyone knows that Prince Nathan and Princess Nathania are twins who have been together since they were born.Princess Nathania, who was born five minutes earlier than Prince Nathan, almost never even took her hand off her little brother, they seemed inseparable. However, since Prince Nathan began to fall ill three months ago, from then on, little by little, the people around her began to draw distance between the two of them."Nathan ..." Nathania started crying. She did not know what happened to Nathan and why his illness did not go away.Her tears streamed down her flushed cheeks. Despite try
"Is Nathan feeling better?" asked Princess Nathania, she sat on Prince Nathan's bed while shaking her legs. Meanwhile, Prince Nathan lay down with his head resting on the head of the bed which had a very soft and comfortable pillow."It feels better," he replied with a smile."Shall we go to the garden? It's sunny outside, we can pick flowers together!""All right, come on!" Prince Nathan tried to get up, placing his feet on the floor. Princess Nathania helped him up."Be careful ..." said Nathania. Even though she really wanted to play in the park with Nathan, she also didn't want Nathan to get sick and hurt.Prince Nathan managed to stand up, even though his legs were still weak and trembling. But he had to try to walk again, always on the bed it was very boring. He wants to be able to play outside again."If Nathan is still sick, next time we will play outside when Nathan is heal
"Nathan?" Princess Nathania opened her eyes. The blue sky, as well as the white clouds moving slowly, was clearly visible before her.The air she breathes, feels very cool and comfortable. The wind blew gently, blowing away the exquisite white daisy petals.Princess Nathania felt a very soft and warm grip, she turned her head, right beside her, Prince Nathan fell asleep holding her hand tightly. His smile while sleeping is very sweet."Is Nathan having a good dream?" thought Princess Nathania, when she saw Prince Nathan smile. Seeing his smile, made Princess Nathania smile too.Princess Nathania looked back at the blue sky, it felt as if she was lying on a cloud. As she began to get carried away with the beautiful atmosphere. Prince Nathan stretched, as if he was about to wake up from his sleep."Is Nathan awake?""Hem? Thania ..." Prince Nathan muttered, he was still not fully cons
Princess Nathania walked quickly carrying three thick books. Her face looked so bright, what made her so enthusiastic after returning from the library? This is strange, considering that Princess Nathania doesn't really like studying, let alone reading books.The maids in the palace greeted her with a smile. Everyone was grateful that 'Prince Nathan' looked healthy and energetic."Good morning Prince?" greeted the servants of the Sapphire Palace who passed her."Good morning, Uncle Joseph!" she greeted kindly. In everyone's eyes, 'The Prince is the sunshine' which makes the soul warm. Her beautiful smile is a boon to this kingdom."Good Morning, Aunt Lena?" the thing that made everyone in the palace love her so much was her hospitality and kindness. Even the Queen Mother, who was known to be cold and sharp-mouthed, could love her granddaughter so much."The prince brought another book? can I help bri
Nathania was stunned in place, her body completely immovable. In fact, the fire that burned the flowers around her was getting bigger and bigger.The boy didn't say anything. His face looked very cold, as if he wasn't human. He jumped from the tree and walked slowly leaving the terrified Nathania and as he left, the fire suddenly disappear magically."How come?" she thought. Nathania sat limply, her tears were flowing."Prince Nathan? Is the prince all right?" the three bodyguards who were looking for Princess Nathania were surprised to see a fire from a distance.Princess Nathania was unable to answer, that terrible gaze was still vivid. How could that fire come and just disappear? This is really weird. What happened to the boy? did he do it?""Thank God, Prince Nathan is fine. Then, we better take the Prince to the palace and check on his condition, to see if anyone is injured!""
"I forgot!" Nathan's hug made Nathania remember her goal again."Forget what?""I have something to tell you, this is so terrible!""What's so terrible?" Nathan looked at Nathania who looked very enthusiastic."Earlier in the garden, I saw flowers burning and there was a boy sitting on a tree and ... and ..." because she was too excited, her breathing became irregular. This is one of her bad habits, which is panicking too much."And what? try to calm yourself down, your face is so red. Let's sit down!" Prince Nathan asked Princess Nathania to calm down because she was not being chased by anything."I've calmed down,""All right, then tell me!" these two twins really have very different personalities, even though Nathania is a little older than the Prince, but she looks like a younger sister."Earlier, when I joined the meeting with Father, Mother an