“What are you doing brother, that was on my order?”
Standing on the table, he shouts, “SHUT THE HELL UP BRAT!!!! I don’t care for the words of a boy who would execute someone over such a thing.” Stretching his face, he sticks out his tongue and goes, “BLEH!!!”
Irritated, my father says, “Hussain will you ever stop being an annoyance.”
“Will you ever get off your high horse? And what the hell do you think gives you the right to kill a person?”
“How many times must I tell you the same simple thing? The wishes of exalted beings such as us should always come first, that is simply the way it shou-.”
Before my father can finish my brother throws shit in his face, seeing this my mother screams.
“Use that as fertilizer, maybe it will help you outgrow your stupidity, Father.”
Standing up, I toss the food off my table and say, “How dare you do th-.”
My brother slaps me directly in the face interrupting my words, then says, “Never waste food, you idiot!!!”
Wiping the shit off his face, my father stands up and pulls the entire blanket off our dinner table causing all the food and my brother to fall to the ground.
On the ground, my brother says, “What is wrong with you? All this food was still good.”
My father walking up to him kicks my brother in the face, “I seem to have been too lenient on you as of late, but no more.” My father continues stomping on my brother until he runs out of breath.
Pointing at one of the two soldiers, Father says, “You there bring him to my room, and fetch me my cane.”
“Sir what should we do about the food.”
“The ambience of this meal is completely ruined, so I want you to recook all of it. Also, throw out all of the decorations in this room, they now hold bad memories, I don’t want to see them again. After that redecorate the room, you have two hours.”
“But my king I don’t know if we would be able to get that done in time.”
“Then you should start immediately!”
As the chief and the soldier run around trying to pick up everything, we all hear the sound of the soldier's stomach growl.
My father asks, “Are you hungry?”
Bowing he says, “Sorry for such an unsightly sound my king, I will do better next time.”
“That sound is an offence against my ears and I don’t want to ever hear it again, so you see that piece of meat on the floor, eat it.”
Looking at the piece my father points towards, I see that some of the shit has landed on it. The soldier looks down on the meat with fright in his eyes.
“It there a problem?”
The chief says, “The food is compromi-.”
“Any food that touches my lips is already too good for you, don’t forget that at this moment you have been granted a privilege that your kind would die for.”
“That brown stuff was on my husband's face, even if you ate that alone it would be too good for your kind. Now eat it!”
Picking the piece of meat up he slowly takes a bite of it, which causes my father to ask, “How does it taste?”
With a smile, he says, “Delicious.”
-Break-
“Katk, descend.” Hearing my call, the omega eagle wonderbeast flies and lands on my shoulder. “What a good girl you are!”
Walking down the corridor with my belly full, I hear a scream. So, I advance towards it with Katk. Walking through an open door, I say, “Who dares make such noise in my presen-.”
Right in the middle of my face a book lands between my eyes, and then I hear, “Go away, little idiot.”
Rising up with furry I say, “SAY THAT AGA-.” Looking at my brother, I see he is reading a book while his incredibly muscular and tall personal guard attends to his wounds. The wounds across his body are rather vicious, they rip and tear his skin. Did Dad do this?
“You can come closer since it seems you want to get a good look, you idiotic brat.”
Clicking my tongue, I say, “And here I was feeling bad for you, but with that stupid mouth of yours, of course, you would get what is coming to you. I am sure you got those ridiculous ideas from all those stupid swine you talk to.”
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“Congratulations, you have evolved into Father how stupendous.”
Angered, I say, “At least unlike you I understand the greatness etched into my existence, you’re just a disgrace who constantly defies your own blood.”
“You can say whatever you want Ahmed, but I am still going to be the next ruler, so please go wine to your bird.”
“Be quiet you pitiful disgrace, we should just put scum like you down, in fact, why don’t I take you out right now.”
Suddenly Ahmed's bodyguard stands up and then lunges toward me shouting with his fist out. As his fist comes towards me, I can feel death surround me. No, No, No, No, NO!!
His fist stops right in front of me, which causes me to shake and fall on my ass. “Your brother on a bad day can take 8 of those punches, yet an exalted being such as yourself is flat on his ass.”
Φ “Naji what the hell are you doing?”
“I just wanted to give this little one a fright.”
“Your funeral.”
Laughing loudly Naji says, “What is he going to do, fight back!?”
Suddenly, my brother starts crying, then all over the floor, he begins to throw a tantrum. “NAJI HIT ME, HE HURT ME, I JUST WANTED TO TALK AND HE STARTED BULLYING ME.”
“Wait, I didn’t do anything of the sort!” As Naji panics my brother's bird starts to attack Naji relentlessly.
Sighing, I walk over to my brother and pick him up. “There, there it will be ok.”
Still crying, he says, “HE HIT ME.”
“I have some sweets if I give you those will you calm down?”
Ahmed nods his head up and down, so I walk us back over to the bed and give him some sweets to eat.
As the bird continues to attack Naji he says, “Young master some help would be appreciated!”
Clicking my fingers, I say, “Katk, come here,” Which makes the omega eagle land on my arm.
“Why the hell would you give a ferocious beast such a stupid name?” Naji says while walking back over to us.
Eating the sweets Ahmed says, “He isn’t a ferocious beast, he is my best friend.”
“I am pretty sure it is a reference to that book he is always reading; you know the romance one.”
Φ With an annoying face Naji laughs and says, “To think you had the gall to walk in here and say all of your nonsense earlier when you read a girly book.”
Embarrassed, I stand up and say, “What’s wrong with that!!!”
Snickering, he uses his large arm to hold back a laugh while and says, “Nothing!”
“KATK ATTACK.” Without hesitation, Katk starts to peck Naji.
Quickly moving to the other side of the room, Naji flexes his muscles and says, “Staying inside and reading books won’t do any good for you, Young men like you need to go outside and build some muscles, just like my wonderful grandson.”
Behind me, my brother says, “Are you really using Easifatan as an example of good parenting? He is so annoying I am pretty sure I’m his only acquaintance.”
“HEY, HE IS JUST CHILDISH, he will grow out of it.” (He won’t)
Looking at Naji’s panicking face, I smugly stare directly at him.
“You’re pushing your luck bookworm.”
“What about Hussain then, his entire room is filled with books. He is even reading one now.”
“Don’t compare the young master reading to your own, those books are all from the underground kingdoms.”
Turning to my brother, I scream, “WHAT!!!”
“You’re being loud Ahmed, calm down. Naji you’ve had your fun come and tend to my wounds.”
“Yes, young master.”
“You know we aren’t allowed to go down there, brother.”
“But mother is allowed to go down there to steal jewellery from the skeletal remains of the people down there.”
“She is the queen, and they are her subjects so whatever they own is hers, it is her right as an exalted being.”
“That nonsense again, if you keep spouting shit like that you will one day be beating your kids as well.”
“My kids won’t go around being stupid like you, they will actually listen to me and understand their greatness.”
Not even bothering to look at me brother asks, “Now please tell me what exactly makes us so great?”
“Because our noble bloodline has survived through countless tribulations and has persisted till this day.”
“So has the bloodlines of everyone still alive right now, you smooth-brained idiot.”
“Why are you always like this? Don’t you understand how important our bloodline is!”
“More so than you know.”
“Ehh, what do you mean.”
Standing up my brother takes a book from under his bed, “These books I’m reading are historical records, there are countless libraries in the underground, and I have spent quite a long time going through all the records, and I came across something amazing.”
In front of me, my brother opens the book, and in it I see a 5-pointed star. “Long ago there was a family of people whose power, and reach spread all across the globe even to the dragon continents, and this was their crest.
They spent their time helping people and bringing order, and the name of such a family was Lux, the family of Lux. And according to this record, you and I are direct descendants of this family.”
Hearing this my eyes open wide, and I say, “REALLY!”
Naji beside us says, “I can see how Hussain would be a decedent of such great people, but not Ahmed.”
“KATK ATTACK.”
As Katk assaults the stupid old man, I say, “Tell me more about the family of Lux.”
“Well, I don’t really know that much, what I have been able to put together so far has been from across many different documents and texts. There are many libraries in the underground, but I have barely gone through them all.”
“Then let’s go find it all, if we show all those swine outside how amazing our family is they will surely calm down.”
My brother's smiling face quickly sours, and then he says, “Ahmed is that really how you see it?”
“What do you mean, you have just told me how amazing our family is, we truly are exalted beings.”
“You idiot, the family of Lux spent all their time on this earth helping others. We are exalted beings; we are born with much more than any other and it is for that we were rulers. Kings exist for people.”
From the door, I hear, “People exist for their kings.”
Staring at the source I say, “Vizier Thueban.”
“People are foolish creatures who can’t do a single thing without the guidance of their rulers, so among all of them, they choose one exalted being to control them and that is what a king is, a superior human who controls the lesser. People exist for their kings.”
“An if it isn’t the man who enforces policies he writes up in the name of the king, our great Vizier Thueban.”
“Prince Hussain, I have no idea what you are talking about, you and your crazy ideas can be funny. But please make sure not to pollute our king in the making with your misguided ideals.”
“Since when did my little brother become the crown prince?”
“Oh, it is just a little joke, but let’s hope all your reckless behaviour won’t make it into a reality. Now, Ahmed, the king has told me to make sure you aren’t talking to the prince here, come along.”
Walking over Thueban I hear my brother say, “When I become ruler, I am going to remove you first.”
“I’m sure you would.”
With that, I leave the room with Thueban. Walking back to my room, I say, “The family of Lux.”
“What’s that, my prince.”
“Listen to this Thueban!”