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The Next Lord Of The Central City. Prologue.
The night was cold and unnervingly dark. The wind didn't give a damn on the nightmarishly terror she was feeling. The insects chirped louder than they normally would, and the moon? It was no where to be found in that moment of despair. When she needed comfort the most, it left her. Everything was gone. In the dark alley, her legs wobbled as she felt her bones go weak. Beads of sweat trickled down her forehead and her soul was ready to give up. She couldn't take another step forward. Maybe if she just laid down for a moment, it would all be fine. But they were behind her now. Any moment, she would breath in her last breath.Where she was headed to? She didn't know. She was only ten. She was just a child when the heavy wave of misfortune had crashed into her life."You are my own blood. The next ruler of the Central City. You shall fear no evil. A true Lancaster is a god. You will survive." Her late father's words rang in her head
The Next Lord Of The Central City. Chapter One.
They say a great kingdom is one where the king works arduously, but the people are happy. He works burdensome, during the day, sleeps even lesser by night. All of this efforts, worthy though. Because the people are happy. And the king was fulfilled.His kingdom, a hearth where there is a steady supply of fire fueled by the breath of relief from the villagers, everyone of them. A stranger who is just new to the land could even say it was a magical city where it's rulers were powerful sorcerers and kind hearted fairies. It's land is peaceful and it's people, happy.The magical city of incessant happiness, that was what the Central City used to be. That was what King Conrad used to make the Central City be like before. Until darkness swept foot into the peaceful land and bartered it with catastrophes and series of affliction. When he died, the City died along with him.Only hope and something even greater than hope, can restore balance into this land once aga
The Next Lord Of The Central City. Chapter Two.
Self hatred is a great weapon for destruction, because the moment one begins to hate one's self, havoc and chaos is being birthed. It is when the mind becomes polluted with a shadow of doom. When love is lost, and contempt, rings in. It redeems. It rules. It kills, like a slow poison.But maybe sometimes it isn't all dreadful. After all, every bad things always have a good side. For without good, evil would not exist. Without death, life would be meaningless.Self hatred to Fiora, managed its way into her life to change it for the better. All her life, she had found nothing but pain. Saddening for she fears it had all been nothing but her fault. She had lost her father because of something she'd said years ago. She lost her home. She hated herself more than water repelled oil. But she knew now what she must do. Her life could still change, only if she was willing to make it better. And she did.Every day, for
The Next Lord Of The Central City. Chapter Three.
"Really? What a foolish child." The Queen remarked after Donn spew out all of what had happened nights before. He confessed that Fiora had bamboozled the brains of their women and how they all dreamt of becoming what only men should dream of. "Quiet now. Women have the freedom to such dreams as well. Whoever told you only men are allowed to prosper?" She hushed him."Sorry, your majesty. Please forgive my mindless head." He quickly apologized. He was the queen's rat, she had quite a lot of those. By rat, that would mean an honest respectful citizen, but whose reasoning and thinking had been washed clean by the power possessed by Helen. By rat, that would mean one particular servant who had dedicated all his life to the power of the throne. He would never own his life again because he has sold it to Queen Helen, for almost no price at all."But still, these women ought to be contented. As long as their husbands provided for them, that should
The Next Lord Of The Central City. Chapter Four.
It was almost day break, which meant, time for Fiora to go to bed. She was tired, stressed and if it wasn't for her occasional charity smiles, no one would ever noticed. No one, except for Aiden. He was not specifically trained into mastering the art of human feelings, but he sure could read Fiora like an open book. Her face were covered in a few dark spots round her forehead and Aiden guessed for it to be charcoal, perhaps from the cooking. It also wasn't hard for him to read through her emotion and concluded just how tired she was, just by the way she smiled. Not more than a few minutes at the riverbank, when she smiled, it was so peaceful. It was like watching sunset when on a gloomy day, or watching a baby laugh at a very redundant reaction. Her eyes squinted and her lips majestically wondered into a nice curve, revealing just about enough white teeth. It was natural. Her messy brown hair shone impressively under the night sky, and even as they were already packed up into a bun,
The Next Lord Of The Central City. Chapter Five.
"I'm sorry? What are you talking about?" The news brought a wave of disorientation to Fiora. She didn't know Tobin, but she'd heard quite a lot about him already."I'm sorry, but, it's going to be an impossible task." Aiden pointed out. "It was nice knowing you. I hope to see you again-""Shut up and let me think." She hushed him up, and as quiet as he could be, he obeyed without uttering any other word. "Could you explain all over again?" Puzzled Fiora asked, but he became too respectful because he still did not utter any word. "Aiden?""Women! They never know what they want, do they?" He pestered."This is serious, we don't have time for jokes.""Then how do you expect me to repeat all that I'd just said? It's not like there's someone else just joining us!" He yelled, then started talking to himself, "hello there, welcome to our midst. I'd like to recap all that I'd just
The Next Lord Of The Central City. Chapter Six.
Fiora and Aiden said their goodbyes, only after agreeing to meet at the riverbank two hours later. They had no other option than to visit the territory of Rupert because sooner or later, they would run out of food to prepare for the people. She would also have to create a disguise and she thought about two alternatives already; either to pretend like an old widow or a young fine lad. Anytime she wasn't all covered up in her hood, she had other choices of disguises she could turn to."How about you just showed yourself the way you are?" Sif pointed out as they were walking back home. Fiora knew just how much trouble he would get into with Clement once they got home. Clement would never allow for two little girls to come live with them, but she wasn't going to be too gentle about it either way. These girls had been on their own long enough. Now, they found themselves in the right hands. She was going to protect them with all she can. Besides, they weren't save anymore with Donn's ego on
The Next Lord Of The Central City. Chapter Seven.
The Central City was ruled by one head, The Queen. Then under the Queen's rule, her power were distributed to a couple of heads. The Barons, the Lords, and some Ministers. Normally, these people were supposed to be under the Queen, but Tobin was successful enough to had diverted more than half of them under his rule. He was like the King, but still with the title of a Lord. Tobin was more powerful than Helen even knew, and Helen was sure he was a big threat to her throne. He had lands almost all over the kingdom with many followers, maybe even more than Helen's. There were twelve Ministers, and at least seven of them had sworn their allegiance to Tobin. It would not be long before he managed to take all the power for himself. Fiora did not know this much. Maybe if she did, she would know Ropert was the least of her problems. It would save her the unfortunately waste of her time and she would not had bothered going to see him in the first place. Aiden already found the place where he
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