CHAPTER SEVEN

The ceremony continue after an incident happened to a woman who fainted after seeing Argen transform herself into disguise. He was bit surprised to see Argen became different in her appearance. He scowled and gasped as Argen approached the woman with visible grin in her face. He surely think that she’s totally a psycho. Her feature was look normal, but Destino could sense her alteration into something more powerful. Her iris were absolutely red and it’s blaze.

“What is she going to do?” A person behind Destino was intrigued about Argen’s creepy behavior. She just suddenly got the woman wavered and have it paralyzed for seconds. He wanted to stop her from doing such thing, but he was curious on how she carefully control having connection to that woman’s body.

“God! I saw it. The Queen must’ve not like this,” said the woman who’s already embracing herself with her shivering hands after witnessing what happened. “She’s insane! Look, is she going to kill her?”

A people behind the seats of front row ushered themselves and hold to the woman’s body and abruptly move every tip of her body and to other parts. They shook her and call out her name, assuming that her body might response and get back her consciousness. Argen was glared by his people, but with Argen’s mere death stare to that woman. They haven’t able to disturb the crowned Queen in molesting woman’s mind and soul.

Queen Maritz suddenly grabbed her cape and walked out to escape the intense pressure inside the hall. She was traumatized with those heavy scene that brings her memories back to when her daughter was slaughtered under their merciless and self-centered beliefs.

She was closed to Queen Leandra, that even to her delightful and comfortable presence causes her to be friends with an innocent-look woman. She was always that elegant, and was a daughter of wealthiest Royal among Dalman ancestry, her surname when she was still a mademoiselle.

The flashback comes inside her head as she was stuck staring on the spacious living room where their favorite couch was still displayed there. She heaved a sigh and slowly sat while placing her purse above her thighs.

“I’ve seen you always looking at Prince Elandro. Do you like him? ” Leandra asked Maritz with a thought of her conclusions. Maritz quickly shook her head and snapped Leandra’s hands as it continuously poking her waist. It tingles her much than Leandra’s tease to her.

“No. But I liked his friend. He’s my beau,” said Maritz, pointing her index finger to Lio, who just waved his hands to them. Not knowing, Leandra was froze for a moment when she heard Maritz that she’s dating with Lio. While they’re also a couple in secret as well. Leandra didn’t realized that she was been cheated or was Maritz the first woman that Lio have ever loved? Was Lio only sees Leandra flirting him around?

Maritz walked innocently and tried to reach for Leandra’s hand that moment. But, she acted mad and full of hatred after the unexpected news came in fresh to destroy her mood. Leandra rushed in to the castle and sat on the couch of their living room. It was Leandra’s eighteenth birthday that makes her even more surprised at exact special celebration of her life.

That moment, Maritz also knew that Leandra was also blessed as Goddess of Disguise the same as her daughter earlier. Unlike to bygone years of Leandra’s performance of healing and transforming herself in disguise. People aren’t shock and most of them are people who have offered gifts of magic. A lot of them are most of business affairs that Dalman royals had ever choose in leading their pathway to abundance.

Maritz chased after Leandra and saw how she was weeping boisterously on the couch. Her head was stooped low and she was embracing her bended knees. The tears rolled down the skin of her legs as she was messed up with her unfixed hair. Her braided hair went to chaos as the wind stormed in from huge opened window.

“What happened?” Maritz asked and only threw her with a glare. She didn’t respond at all, after the consecutive questions bothering inside Maritz’s head. The guards was ordered to cast out Maritz and said not to disturb her private issues and leave her alone. That’s the story how secret hatred began in between their coming years of having own families.

Leandra was married to Crown Prince Elandro and got Maritz marrying Lio as well. Maritz also went into saddest fate of relationship. For her husband had bid an early farewell that causes her to become widow. And that is how Leandra felt satisfaction, just seems to be cursing their relationship with each other. Believing that it was a great karma that Maritz are now experiencing.

They had confront each other and instead Leandra was about to attend for condolences. How rude she was to teased Maritz of being unfortunate with meeting someone to love and makes her to uncross the jinx of promises they’ve both shared. And that went the conversation into fire. They dragged their past relationships and had known the specific alibi of why Leandra’s becoming more distant from Maritz.

So far, Leandra haven’t got the other ways of Maritz to feel the love again. In a grand ball, she met a mere villager of her land. A man who’s also the same age as her was only a worker of jewelries, and that shop was on of popular trading market in Crestile. There she fell in love with the man’s warm-hearted support to her after her husband’s death for months.

A gift of red teardrops shape on her necklace’s pendant, symbolizes adoration and affection. A jewelry says it all, so Maritz had make a romance with this man. They’ve hold each others hands, feeling the rhythm of each other’s skin and shows full of attention with each others eye contact and intimacy in kissing a part of their most treasured gift in lips, and in other parts of sensitive skin.

After a weeks, Maritz found his lover becoming weak after they’re just sneaking with each other behind closed doors of their castle’s hallway. As she was desperate to heal his lover, she ran with her horse and told him to wait to the left side street where a single lamp post was standing. Maritz head towards Versailles castle, she easily have an accessed to passed the gate and the guards.

She called Headmistress Danie and ask to see Queen Leandra. Unexpectedly, Leandra was behind Danie and didn’t see her making a teasing look and mock. Maritz was absolutely in amid of crisis and chaos. She rushed in her paces and caught Leandra’s hands. “Help me! Heal him,” said Maritz, wholeheartedly pleading and give all of her best to persuade the fierce-looking Queen.

And that is how the story went a disaster. If she just have the chance to bring those days not giving Leandra’s grieving. She might at least be happy after getting all of what she desired about. But, probably happiness doesn’t stayed that long. And happiness must’ve always be an accompany with grieving. Losing her daughter makes her to kill herself, after when her son also ran away from her. The palace became in a total chaos, but her lover encouraged her and lift her up. Luckily, she stood herself and motivate existing after having an official announcement of her relationship and having a family with George Heri.

She never tried to loosen up herself from overwhelming experience she have in the last. Maritz became more stronger that ever, even she had proudly present the man she decided to marry despite of living as daughter of Royals. She conceived a daughter and that makes her more happy and she was resembled to her previous daughter. She suddenly cried after emotions creeped inside her painful memory.

After an hour of coronation ceremony in Versailles palace. Destino looked after for Magno Kepir who’s currently talking with his members in an organization called New Gen. He approached the table while holding his own wine on his right hand. Magno dismissed the conversation with four people earlier, who are focused with what he was saying with somewhat about their business and a planned of renew proposal to the new Queen.

While people are now busy entertaining themselves by the music from orchestras. Destino was anxious in how he might able to get a chance to get Argen’s red pearls from her crown. It was described on the rare book he borrowed from Danie about magical history of Clus Royals, believing a state of abundancy comes from the dripped blood of beheaded people who are offered after the favored of healing of sickness.

The dark mystery makes Destino to get interested. There he saw the ripped paper which the only paper from the book he keep inside his pocket after pretending to have a business talk with Headmistress Danie, who’s really innocent about his intentions.

“I’ve told you days ago about the purpose of red pearls, right? I might break the curse and have a connection with those imprisoned souls. I just have to collect those pearls,” said Destino in a rapid mode. His voice could sense how he gritted his teeth and carefully whispering those words enough to reach Magno’s hearing.

“What are going to do with the pearls after? Haven’t you realized that her objects are always secured. Probably it’ll be keep inside the cube just like how her parents did long time ago,” Magno replied and tapped the table for three times. He’s the one who’s being nervous with Destino’s dangerous act. For probably, he might fell in a trap and be caught in no time.

 Magno lowered his head and stand beside Destino while sipping his wine also and now looking straight to the stage where the Queen was sitting on the Royal seats without a crown on her head. “Make sure to be patient and close with her. She easily trusts innocent people. . .” Magno drank all the remaining wine and continue saying, “Make her fall in love with you.”

After two minutes break to change Argen’s dress. The maidens already prepared her gown and began to style her hair into braided crown. The stylists put a beads on it and also flowery around its ribbon underneath the strands of her hair. Argen looked at herself in the mirror and was fascinated to see the red pearl pendant hanging in between her chest. Headmistress Danie assumes that about what happened earlier was a normal thing for her that she don’t even pay much attention about her magic as goddess. But, there she came with a past memory seeing her mother was begging to Leandra’s power to heal Danie when she’s absolutely sick when she’s young.

She doubt of what had happened in turning the belief into a great fear. They curse and make a vengeance to someone who are in debt. Headmistress Danie just received her wrist was tied with a read ribbon. It startle her and undeniably have the hate with these Royals she have helped in service for decades.

Was Danie grateful to have herself alive after that crisis came over to have the half of chances in between? She deeply sighed as she put the crown inside the cube from where the Queen usually keeping the crown. She saw how the pearls glisten and was really like an alarm light.

Argen suddenly popped out the maiden’s head and knock two times. “Destino asked to meet you after your presence on stage, Queen Argen. He wants to see you down the left hallway from your room,” she said and have a bowed her head.

Argen rushed herself and look at herself once. “Tell the guards I need two horse after this celebration ended. I’ll have the wait in front of the garage,” she said and carried her long dress to her way out. Danie already knows the possible relationship in between Destino and Argen. “Also, take the rest chosen people in a room and keep them in an exclusive room underground. Convince them and manage their behavior. Wait for me till I’d be back from traveling to outskirts of town.”

“Yes. Your orders shall be sent after you,” said Danie after she bowed her head to the leaving Queen. The headmistress had ordered the maidens to get out from Argen’s room. After she had closed the doors. Danie ordered the guard standing on the left side of the door about preparing of what just Argen had ordered earlier. She walked at the opposed direction o where the guard headed to.

It took a minutes before Argen could escape from these Royal visitors as well. She have searched Destino anywhere amid the crowds. “What a wonderful day, Queen Argen,” said Queen Maritz and have a peck on both of her cheeks. “You must be grateful, huh?” She bitterly said.

“Sorry to interrupt. But I have to meet someone,” said Argen as she’s reaching for Destino’s arm. Queen Maritz was familiar with the face of that guy. She knew him, and surely knows he’s only a villager of her homeland. And why was seemingly in a romantic with that guy? She was reminded of something, a relationship with Heri.