The Lost Kingdom

The night of the tragedy

Royal grounds

12:43 am

Chaos was all that one could see as far as one’s vision could take them. Thousands or countrymen have gathered outside the Royal door, banging on the doors. Asking for the culprit to be brought forward.With some mourning for the murder of the greatest king and Queen known in history while others burning in the fire of vindication.

“ We want justice!”

“ We want the murderer!”

The very words they were repeating. Banging on the doors. Pushing on the great arch wooden door to break it off its hinges.Entering to fill the dreaded place with screams and protests.

A figure steps forward, with eyes dead and head lowered. His mouth opening and closing ,not knowing how to announce this.

“ Settle down my countrymen. I...I bring along a bad news.”

Gasps echo with the men putting down their swords. Looking at the second in command to their Queen, Beta Charlie standing there. Their hearts thudding , as they await the most dreaded moment. Already knowing what this news was. After all they were here only after coming to know of it. The news having spread like a wildfire.

“ With great grief and sorrow I announce that.... Our King and Queen...they are no more.”

Screams of dispair and disbelief outcry. With few dropping on their knees. A cloud of apprehension  and worry surrounding the place. Till the atmosphere suddenly changes to that of rage and vengeance. Cries getting replaced by roars of justice and thirst for blood.

“ Bring forward the murderer!”

“We demand Justice!”

“ We will kill him!”

Charlie looks around at the crowd loosing its calm. To show them his hand. Not knowing what to say next. Making him settle with nothing except the truth. 

“ The witch has escaped taking along the new born child. However.....”

“She left behind the girl that came along.The child. Who actually commited the murder.”

Gasps follow. A child and a murderer? Children were epitome of innocence and purity. How can a beautiful child with innocent eyes be a murderer? They weren't ready to believe it untill they saw it with their eyes. And Charlie nods ,asking the guards to bring forward the girl.

The people make way. As the guards pull a little girls body roughly. Her yellow sundress covered in smears of blood. Eyes lowered and her blonde hair covering her face. Her small ballerinas step forward almost stumbling as heavy metal chains were locked around her small ankles. Her little wrists bolted in shackles behind her.

People didn’ t had it in them to believe this girl was a murderer. Looks can’ t be that deceptive. When one of them voices his thoughts.

“ Beta Charlie are you sure she commited the crime. She is a mere child.”

Charlie sighs. Nodding. Innocence is indeed deceptive. Even he couldn't  believe it but he has seen it with his own eyes. This girl was anything but innocent.Looking at the guards holding the girl, he nods at one of them.

The guard nods. Turning towards the girl. To suddenly grab her hair in his fists and pull up her face,to make everyone look into her eyes. And people scream stepping back.

Their hearts coming out of their chests as they see the girls eyes. Pure fear entering their body.

They were pitch dark.

Both pupils and irisis. With no white visible. Signifying the soul residing in her. Telling everyone  who she really was. With people gasping to speak in disbelief.

“ DE...MON!”

The girl was indeed a demon. The specie most feared and considerer to be almost extinct. While ruckus enters the place with people screaming to kill her, she just stood there like a statue. Not saying or doing anything. The very fact that the women she considerer to be her mother leaving her to die behind. Broke her. The only women that didn't look at her like she was a curse, left her. The looks of hatred and cries for murdering her didn't  matter.

She was used to the hate and looks of disgust.

She knew she was indomitable.

“ She is dangerous! Kill her”

“ She killed our king and Queen! Burn her in fire! Let her scream to death!”

“ Behead her! She has to die!

People were screaming to kill her in the most gruesome ways and Charlie knew this was going to be the girls fate. The demon in her has to be eliminated before she takes any more lives.If she can kill one of the strongest wolves in world, Eirene’ s wolf in just a second. She can anytime detroy their world.

The very thought of Eirene made Charlie's eyes to moisten. Able to see everything yet not do anything to save her. The image of her dead body. They were too much. And he knew what he had to do.

The girl had to die.Right now.

“ She is to be beheaded. Right now in presence of everyone”

He announces and the fire of revenge burning  in everyone’s eyes quenches to some extent. They start cheering,supporting the Beta’s decision.And soon the stage in the centre was prepared and she was dragged to the platform for getting beheaded. Her head pushed down on the wooden structure. Making her dark eyes to be veiled by her blonde hair again. A guards grip on her back firm. Stopping  her from squirming or trying to get back.

Her small neck in contrast to the big wooden structure. It was going to be history indeed, Never has a child ever received a fate like this. But again never has a child been a murderer.

Another guard comes forward. With a sword in his hand. Clenching it tightly. To lift in the air. The crowd screaming to kill her. While a lone tear falls down her eyes. Surpring even her. She never thought she could cry.

But again, what use was it.

Any second she will be perished. Gone. Her kind could never be accepted. But maybe it was for her own good. Her demon made her do evil things and she had no control on them. Before she kills more innocents its better if they kill her.

She was not meant to be born.

They should have killed her when she was born only.

The sword comes down. Slashing the air. She clenches her fists, expecting  the pain but it never came. Instead a deadly silence follows as a voice booms in the ground. Making everyone  else bow down.

“ STOP!”

She lifts up her head , peeping through her blonde hair to find a pair of a boys shoes stepping closer to her. Everyone bows down. With the guards stepping back.And she gulps daring to look up further. Having her heart to stop right there.

Cold grey orbs meet her dark ones and she literally shivers under their gaze.

She understood that look. Her mother used to give it to her when she was angry at her. But his was a thousand times worse than hers.

It was dark, dangerous and that of disgust.

So much that she drops her eyes immediately. The earlier look of adoration long gone from his eyes.

“ Prince Noah! “

Charlie speaks stepping closer, but the boy continues to stare at the girls lowered eyes. To finally turn around to face the crowd.His next words making everyone to gasp.

“ No one is allowed to touch her without my permission. That’s my order as your next king”

The authority in the boys voice surprised everyone. Charlie interrupts to be only be stopped by Noah.

“ But Prince Noah. The girl she murdered your parent-”

“  I know” 

Was all he say making Charlie shut up. Not able to understand what the young boy was trying to do. Turning back to the crowd Noah puts forward his decision. Leaving a deadly silence to follow. 

“ The crime this girl has commited is first on me and then on you all. So I deserve the first right to punish her.”

Clenching his fists, Noah announces. Determination and authority seeping from his voice. The early teary eyes replaced with cold grey ones. And decision irreversible.

“ And I hereby announce as the next werewolf King. That this girl....."

Looking back into her teary eyes, he completes in redefined coldness.

" Is the girl that I claim to be my chosen."