Chapter 5

❤️❤️ Separate Ways (Part 5) ❤️❤️

Storm was quiet.

"Tell me, don't be scared, I won't do anything to them anything." Juno assured him with a smile.

"All of them, but they started it first," Storm said, pointing at the servants making herbs.

"We received orders from the Empress herself to torture this smelling street brat and then, she gave us permission that we can hit him as we like pissy miss," the head woman making the tea herb said with a smirk. They are all acting base on the instructions on the Empress, that boy hasn't seen it all, his is just the beginning, he will wish for death soon.

"Oh, I see, the Empress again," Juno mused and went over to meet her, "Sorry again, what did you say again?"

"I think you heard me perfectly well," the woman said, crossing her arms around her.

"Not about the Empress giving you a go ahead to punish this cute boy, but about the last two parts."

"You mean the pissy miss?" The woman asked and then smiled, "That's what you are."

"You shouldn't have called me that," Juno said and forcefully kicked the pot of herbs out of the fire, and made it pour directly into the body of the robust woman.

Her shout and screams attracted everyone in the palace and the Emperor with Warlord Emera left what they were discussing and rush to the scene when they both heard the scream. They both saw what was happening.

"What's going on here?" The Empress Rose and Emperor Ariadne asked at the same time.

The servants there started pouring cold water on the woman screaming.

"She poured the tea herb pot we were preparing on her," one of the servants answered.

"Wait a minute, who is she?" Juno asked, pointing at the screaming woman on the ground.

"Juno, that's the woman taking care of all the herbs in this palace," Warlord Emera said, pinching the bridge of his nose, he was embarrassed once again.

"Oh, I didn't know that, I thought she looked like the woman who stole my mother's Jewel and ran away," Juno said, going to meet the woman, knee down beside her and then proceeded to press her neck on the pretence of helping her.

"That doesn't give you the right to touch any of my workers," Empress Rose said. "For touching them, I shall have you flogged 100 strokes of cane."

"My Empress--" Warlord Emera began to say, trying to plead with the Empress but got interrupted by his daughter.

"Just because you have the title of an Empress doesn't give you the right to treat others like trash, you told them to beat him, right," she said pointing at Storm and went to meet the Emperor pointing and touching his stomach with her index finger. "They don't have the right to treat him like that, you are the Emperor for crying out loud, use your goddamn fucking brain the Creator gave to you."

There was a brief silence after Juno's little speech.

"I am so sorry for her words my kind Emperor, please forgive her, she is just a little child." Warlord Emera began to beg but Emperor Ariadne wasn't staring at him or Juno, he was staring at Storm.

"My son, what happened?" Emperor Ariadne asked, glancing at Storm from head to toe, he saw how the clothes he was wearing were crumbled and filled with dirt.

"They laughed at me and then pushed me to the floor, they could have done more if she hadn't arrived," he didn't have to say the name for the Emperor to know who he was referring to.

"I am so sorry for whatever they did to you son, and thank you my daughter for standing up for him. I will make sure this comes to an end," Emperor Ariadne said, surprising Warlord Emera as he thanked his daughter.

Juno crossed her arms across her chest and started breathing heavily dramatically as if she fought against the whole world and won.

"And as for you, all of you that laid a hand on my son are fired," he said and his eyes mistakenly met with Juno, "In fact you all are fired."

"Storm, come with me," Emperor Ariadne said and placed a hand on the shoulder of Warlord Emera, "We will continue our discussion another day my good friend, but start preparing them, I am going to be needing them sooner than later," he added and left with Storm.

"Let's go home," Warlord Emera said to his daughter and Rumi, and then faced the Empress, bowing his head in respect, "So sorry for what my daughter might have caused, we shall take our leave now." he added, and left with the two girls.

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Emperor Ariadne took Storm to his room and made sure he had his bath again and was given another set of Fred clothes to wear.

"I have sent for the royal cloth maker, he will be arriving soon," Emperor Ariadne said as Storm joined him in on the bed. "I know you know what you did today in that place." He added, speaking of what Storm did back then in that room in Altamon village.

Storm was quiet. "I don't know what you are talking about...... Papa,"

"You don't have to hide it from me," Emperor Ariadne said with a smile, he was so happy hearing Storm calling him 'Papa'. "See," he said and lifted up one of his hands towards his mirror made of metal, it lifted up by itself which amazed and shocked Storm. He watched as the mirror floated in the air and suddenly, it dropped to the ground, crashing hard and breaking into many pieces.

"Your highness are you alright?" the voices of his assassin guards outside his room were heard asking in concern.

"I am alright, just a little mistake don't come in yet until I say so," Emperor Ariadne said with difficulty, his voice which sounded as if he was in pain prompted Storm to look at his father, the sight terrified Storm. Blood was coming out from his nose, ears and mouth.

"Are you hurt, Papa?"

"No, well, a little, yeah" Emperor Ariadne fumbled with his words, "You saw what I did now, right?" Storm nodded his head and he continued, "That's what you did back then in that room, you are like me, a mentalist, but unlike you, my power was taken away from me by him but not my strength and will to survive."

"Why was it taken away from you? And your eyes are the same, not like mine which are different, why?"

"Do you know that there is another Emperor, who rules the north and west kingdoms, and I rule the east and south kingdoms?"

"I don't know that," Storm said, "I thought you are the only Emperor we have." he added.

"Of course not, your mother wouldn't tell you, let me tell you a short story of two brothers and a A****n warrior head guard priestess of Myrina. Her name was Phoenix."