CROWNED MASTER AND HIS MARIONETTE

The only thing that Albert can agree on is to let go of all the talks that happened between him and Howard in Howard’s chamber as they now realize standing in front of a big door, the two soldier besides the door now approaches it and opens the door from middle as if they are tearing the sky as the Sunray entered the room’s balcony and then were hitting their eyes, Howard stands still while Albert covers his eyes to avoid any flash, the King was laying on the bed besides the balcony, “Pardon me my king”, Albert bows his head, the king gets up taking the support of the wall behind bed, “Ah Albert and Howard I was expecting you two to come here soon, get in”, Howard acts usual and sits on a chair besides the bed his father was on and meanwhile Albert stands right opposite to the king, “You were expecting me my lord?”, Albert is somewhat surprised, “I did”, the king said as he pats his son, “I am assuming that Howard told you about everything?”, Now that’s what makes Albert a whole lot confused, “Assuming, I thought I was not allowed to see it my lord”, the king now gives a smile, “It was planned Albert, the meeting of the prince and you on the garden and then the talk with the ladies, you see its about time I thought that we might need get some inches familiar with each other, or more specifically you to get a hold of stuff that we’ve been planning since Howard was born”, Albert is now getting used to all the surprised or the secret that he was isolated from, “So why me? After all this time?”, he is angry, confused, panicked and scared as to why he out of all was chosen for all this, “You see Albert, judging by the state of the nation its better to make stranger friends than family enemies, I can trust you now after all the time observing and please don’t get me wrong, if you were to be at my place with your daughter and you entrust her to retired bounty hunter and surround her with all traitors you will do the same so with all due respect, I’m sorry”, Albert is yet shocked, he has never seen such side of the king and an apology is not even considered as the worst case scenario.

He knows and can feel what the king is feeling as he and king share a same thing, a single child with no mother over it, “I can understand my lord but don’t apologize, I’ve took an ought to serve the blackmores and so should I remain my words on it, I would do any thing to protect the king and the kingdom”, the king is kind of satisfied as he takes a deep breath of satisfaction, “Then the crowning should be done tomorrow”, he said as he kissed his son and that makes Albert to think about his daughter, Queen Brianna.

Queen Brianna makes her way into Irene’s room, she knocks on the door, “Umm…. May I come in”, Irene was working on some papers that were scribbled and oddly distributed on her desk, she stands alert seeing the Queen, “My Q-Queen you”, she gets aside and puts her chair in front, “please take a seat”, as Faith enters from the other room where they pinned all the possible sketches of the star fall, “Ah please don’t do that”, the queen replied then she pointed towards her head, “Do you see a crown up there, I’m here as a friend Irene”, Faith is really concentrated on the papers she was looking, she sees the queen while walking towards her, “Oh no where are my manners”, she didn’t listened to what queen said and Irene was bowing her head, “Stop it now you two, I told you treat me as a friend today, please”, they can’t do anything but to melt down on the sweetest please they will ever hear, “Ah we are sorry queen”, said Irene as she comes forward, while faith puts the papers in her hand on the table only to be noticed by the queen, “are those star sky sketches?”, they are surprised as they never talked about the star sky sketches with the queen, “You know all of these my queen?!”, Faith is surprised by this fact, “Oh I do, well it’s the thing my mom used to teach me while I was very young around 4 to 5 year old, you can say I grew up learning all of this”, she looks at the stars, “it’s from the last generation”, now that us more surprising as Brianna can read the star sky sketches easily. “well I did studied from high tower books copy so I can do it easily”, she said as they smiled in joy, “You are great my queen”, sad Irene, “We are actually stuck here, I can’t find the star for my mother, Merlin”. The queen then comes close to map, “What’s her date of birth?”, she said as Irene quickly replies, “12 12 475 according to our reliable expedition”. The queen is a little shocked, “are you sure of the date Irene”, she said as she picks up the papers looking at it from different angles, “I don’t see any constellation resembling to the fallen stars that were connected to 12 12 475”, now that’s a problem when Irene and her crew searched for everything they can for D’ARCS the only true solid evidence that they found was Merlin’s date of birth and that too thanks to her old friend, Mileva Dutch. “There has to be some problem here my queen because the date is the most solid proof I have ever had”, the queen then replies wise, “Well may be she was not a star born then, because for you there is no reason to doubt my skills at all”, Faith was thinking of something when she suddenly snaps, “Oh OK how about this my queen”, she hands her the paper with sketches of the million falling star event, “These are too many!! But don’t worry just give me somewhat of your approximation of birth date”, the queen said as Irene calmly replied, “12 11 500”, she said as the queen was happy, “Look that’s your star, Constellation Cassiopeia named after a queen, there are star crossing Cassiopeia one of them has to be you”. The constellations are many and the days the stars fall is also many, it happens in the beginning of the month and ending of the month, thus constellation could be matched easily, these all were the thoughts running in the staunch mind of Faith as to she cannot figure out why there are no stars falling in the sketch of last generation, “Damn it so it has to be the sketch or Lady merlin was not a star born”. Irene is on deep thought as well, “May be he will know”, she goes to the window, “Dracno! Would you please come here, I want to ask something”, Dracno and Cade were sharing a drink when they were disturbed by her, “Alright I’ll be there!”, he replied as they went up to her room, the door opens its Dracno and Cade entering the room when they see the queen sitting on Irene’s bed, “My queen, what are you doing here”, Cade asked while they entered the room, “Ah I just came to talk and then I saw them working on this thing, The star sky sketches”, they came closer to have a look at the sketches, “Are you judging birth based constellations Faith?”, Dracno asked while they looked at the sketches. “Well yeah, but there is a problem here”, they were a little sat back, “Problem?”, asked cade as they stood together with Irene and the Queen, “So, Dracno what’s with the stars I mean why do I have a star but my mother didn’t?”.

That took him quite the while to think, “Impossible! YOU CAN’T HAVE A STAR”, he said as they all went in shock, they know how strong she is, her mightiness in battles and her strength, “Wait so you are telling that Irene is not a star born?!”, asked Faith breaking the silence, “She isn’t, just like her mother”, he looks at Irene, “Our types are not considered in star born”, they are obviously trying to relate anything that came in their mind at that time, “So who is that star with my birth date?”, With a wise tone Dracno replied, “It has to be Zarah!”, with that said they can now relate all the thoughts in their mind as they came up with the same picture, IRENE AND ZARAH ARE TWINS.

That makes Irene to think more about her sister, “You’ll know once you’ll find her”, said the Queen breaking Irene’s thought cycle, “That’s it”, said Cade as he and Dracno started taking foot steps backward from the room with Irene, Faith and Queen standing behind, “Allows us now queen we shall leave if the work is over”, Case looks at Brianna while saying this when Dracno was looking at Irene, “Allow us”, he said as they left closing the room’s door and now the queen looks at Irene, “Oh I almost forgot!”, she takes out a bright necklace with a diamond like gem in the middle of it, the color of the gem was changing when looked from different angles, “This is my gift to you Irene, well it’s that best I could get living in the high guards and it was the reason why I came here”, she wears the necklace and bows her head, “Stop it now, I told you not to do this”, she looks happy, “Thank you my queen!”, Irene kisses her hand. “ yeah no problem Irene I can at least do that for your service… And….. This one is for you Faith”, She takes out a bracelet from the same pocket she took out the necklace, the bracelet was bright too and looked like of same material that the necklace was build, Faith bends her knee as well holding and kissing her other hand, “Thank you so much my queen!!”, while the Queen gave a bright smile she bends down as well and hugs them both, “this is what you both need, bot service loyalty”, they hugged for Quite sometime while Dracno and Cade stood just outside the house with Cade with a Scared face, “Dracno........that star…….. Was not bright right? ”, he looked towards Dracno that had a scared face too, “That was……..that was a bright star”.

They’ve reached the port and Zarah gets out of the cart, “Well that was quick!”, the place looked so systematic as the people working there made it look so clean and arranged, “That was not something for the requirement of a cart”, said Xavier as he and master Ulfreg gets out of the cart, “This isn’t the place that we are headed to, it’s just a thing that lies in between”, said Master ulfreg as they gazed the place, “this is CLOVER royals, the family and kingdom popular for its various crops, makes it no wonder to be one of the central trade ports”, he said. The place was as explained by ulfreg on heck of a center of attraction, “What’s take of the king again?”, asked Xavier, “Mordor Clover”, a man walking by them replied, “If you were asking.”, he said as he turned towards them, “Ah fellow travelers my I’m used to them a lot thanks to this place”, he was giving a pleasant smile, he was wearing Peasant like clothes and was carrying a huge bag on his back, “and who are you?”, Xavier asked. “A fellow low wager, assuming by your surprised looks you all are travelers?”, he said as he lowered down the big bag on his back and threw it on the ground, “We are”, Xavier replied. “It’s not so rare for travelers around here because of the trade”, the old man said as ulfreg finally comes closer to have a look of his old wrinkled face, “We are not traders though, just trespassers”, ulfreg replies to him wisely. “I see them you maybe quite rare, welcome then to the trade center of Xarekhta”, he points towards the boats, “If you are trespassers then you can get a boat from there to the other side of the river for Penivile”, Penivile is another place that is govern by the same ruler of the trade center. Zarah looks at the huge bag and was about to Pick it up, “Let me help you with this”, but the old man denied without a second thought, “Oh no need for you to do that, it’s just trade cotton, not much weight, besides I’m going out of the city”, she then holds back. “Penivile is the place where the royal family lives, Mordor, his brother Robert and his mother Emilia Clover in the castle right to the middle of the city, incase you want to know”, he said as he just put that bag on again and then started walking down the road off opposite to city from where they came, they were just standing trying to under stand those last punctuated words that were taking the breath out of that old man, “That clearly was not cotton”, Xavier replied which made the most sense considering those pressured legs and hands were shaking even after that time old man they then gazed at the river Bank that was the only way to go to Penivile.

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Yet the river was quite long to cross but the mastered view makes it to the other side the banks are much more Rocky compared to the port banks, the castle is clearly visible from the capital of the Clover kingdom, Penivile so was a man that stood in the balcony of one of the four towers surrounding the huge castle with a humongous Dom in the middle of it, a black coat with a white flower like brooch on the left side of his chest and a black round hat, he is then accompanied by a maid, “Lord Robert, lady Emilia has called you in her court”, he was disturbed from seeing the view across the river, “Fine tell her that I will be there”, the maid then bows, “As you say my lord”, she replied as she stepped out of the tower room, “its not even evening and here you are”, he said as he steps out of the room as well with soldiers wearing red armors matching with the autumn leaf flag of the clovers closed the door. The castle is really big from inside as well the king’s Court is in the right side of the castle while Robert and Emilia have their rooms to the opposite side.

There is somewhat notice from Mordor’s court, “But my lord it is Rumored that Louis is dead as he was chased by his own men in the forests never returning back”, said a man standing in the front of the balcony wearing a white plane cloth around his body in Mordor’s court and then another man comes out of the side attached washroom wearing a big black suit just like Robert but much sophisticated , “It’s all rumors Fred you can’t trust rumors”, he is quite hesitant on the topic, “But my lord what if it is real, what I’d Louis is actually dead?!”, the man replies with a wise smile, “Than that’s a jackpot for our internal ignition, those brothers weren’t really close, heck I’ll leave an advantage like that”, Fred also gives a bright smile, “You are really great my lord, your ignition strategy worked really well against the Penbers”, he then stands in front of the balcony the face is clearly visible now, a handsome young man, “I know right! I am great, there is a reason why I Mordor Clover was chosen for the throne to successor of Clover family, but there is still one thing left to do for the final preparation”, and now Fred’s bright smile changes to wicked smile, “Yes I know my lord……………… Michael Penber will be trespassing soon”.

The door of the other side of the room opens as Robert enters the room, “You called me this early!”, he stood by Emilia that was wearing a red gown surprisingly not that old for mother of two young and handsome sons, “It’s because sometimes I just can’t take it anymore”, there is no sign of surprise on Robert’s face as his mother takes off her gown, half naked and approaches him, “Come on Robert aren’t you supposed to be the one excited in the mid day!”. Robert makes a disgusting face, “Are you kidding me I was never excited for this, besides its just mid day you have to control your self mother”, he was opposing her, “Your disgusted face and you calling me by my rightful is turning me on more”, she hugs Robert tightly kissing on his neck, “Come on Robert, this one won’t take long”, the only thing that Robert couldn’t resist in his lifetime was to stop him from doing something terrible yet unknown to anyone, so was today as the shameless actual mother was not at all hesitant of mating with her own child, the screams never went outside of the room and so not even the guards came to know about the sinful relationship of a mother and her younger child, no keys to unlock her desires besides her younger child and to think they did it all in the day light is something that will not even cross the minds of enemies, her ritual of drinks was same as other days, sharing a drink with her sinful son when they are done with everything while they sat on her bed, “You know you should often take advantage of your yet glowing mother”, she said as she handed over a glass of wine to Robert, “you are the one who always kept provoking me to do it all the time, didn’t you?”, she gives a bright smile, “Don’t worry Robert”, she again hugs Robert, “If it is for comforting each other then it’s fine isn’t it?”, he takes a deep breath, “I guess”, they drank the whole glass of wine, “oh and also………. “, she stands in front of the balcony viewing the river, “Did you hear of the rumors?”, Robert thought he knew everything, “Louis’s death?”, she turns around filling another glass of wine, “No………. about the great lady’s child”.

“You know I am an outsider too some way”, Lyssa opened the conversation as the three were making their way to the outcast Bay on their horses, “wait you are outsider?!”, Claire is shocked so as Leonardo but without any facial expressions, “So what’s with some way?”, Leonardo asked eagerly, “Well my mother was an outsider, refugee more specifically, father gave her shelter we lived by peacefully until she decides to go back to her home town somewhere out there”, she gives a poor smile, “I don’t even know where they went, all I know is that now I’m on my own”. They are quite surprised as it was not something usual to expect, “So you live alone then?”, asked Claire with a handful curiosity, “Yeah I used too, UNTIL I GOT MARRIED”, now that’s more shocking because she was almost the same age as Claire or may be even younger, “Wait you are married!!!? What about your husband”, she gives a smile showing her hand that had the ring, “Yup, he might be really panicked right now, that’s the reason I wanted to reach south so quickly, it’s the closest to his ships”. “The are many types of traveler ones who travel a kingdom, ones who travel a continent and then ones who travel the world, we are the intercontinental travelers”, they are fairly impressed by her, “Intercontinental travelers! That’s really impressive Lyssa”, said Claire turning around towards her. “Well I hardly do any work though, it’s all his crew and the ships, I just provide them any valuable information that’s all my job is”, “so you are in an expedition team then?”, Leonardo asked, she looks at the sky, “Sort of”.

After a while of traveling,

They reached the small peak of the mountain they were crossing, there is a big gap and the first stop for them as they stood gazing at it, it’s the DAYNE kingdom another super power of Xarekhta, “If this is the extreme south, then this has to be Queen Alisha’s land”, Lyssa said without a second thought as it went into her big brain filled of knowledge of every kingdom. “This place looks so beautiful”, Claire said. Which is not a doubt considering that the kingdom is surrounded by the ice cold beautiful mountains with snow everywhere on the houses, castle and that the kingdom as a big oddly green garden right in the middle, it’s not big nor small either, that’s the thing that will take the three some time for travel around it the landscape is way too beautiful for them to stop gazing at it, “Isn’t it like heaven on our land”, said Lyssa as she may have surely visited this place, “so you say that beyond this is a river that separates the land from this place and Flora islands?”, Leonardo asked, when the view is taken from the top most point the river is visible clearly so as the flora island beyond which lies their destination, “yup, let’s go now to the Dayne Embassy!”, they had to now go through to what is known as heaven on land and some how Lyssa looked very pumped up.

If the view is taken close to the castle on one of the mountain which was also covered in ice only the top room has the perfect spot of light and which was a spot of someone who was working on some papers, “My lady the raven has arrived from the capital of Blackmore”, one of the guard said to her having letter in his hand. “Oh I was expecting it please give it to me I’ll read it my self”, it’s the humblest Queen, the guard then stepped forward he was wearing woolen clothes that are utmost necessary, he handed over the letter to the Queen who finally reveals her self standing in the sunlight spot of the room, it’s something you can’t get your eyes off something that comes in your mind whenever you think of the word ‘Beautiful’ and something that bothers your sleep, it’s the best way to describe the breathtaking beauty of her blonde hair blue eyesand the name ice Queen, Alisha. She wears a beautiful blue gown as well and had a big pearl necklace that was just mining her beauty even more, she then opens the letter,

THIS IS THE LETTER FOR THE INVITATION SENT TO THE DAYNE KINGDOM FOR THE PARTY THROWN ON THE CROWNING CEREMONY OF THE KING HOWARD BLACKMORE, THIS VERY LETTER IS SENT TO SEVERAL KINGDOMS INCLUDING DAYNE, CLOVER AND PENBER LOOKING FORWARD TO A GREATEST PATH OF GLORY FOR BLACKMORES AND XAREKHTA.

FROM, THE CROWNING KING

TURN  THE PAGE AROUND,

She is a little surprised by it, even so she turns the page to see only 5 words,

                                             SEE YOU TOMORROW, MS. COLD.

She gives a blooming smile, “So it’s about to happen huh? It’s your big day”, she gazed at the mountain opposite to her castle covered in snow, “You’ve waited long enough for it and you deserve it,ts Master’s time has arrived to shape his puppets”

THE PROLOGUE IS REACHING ITS FINALE AND THE KING IS CROWNed THE REAL STORY BEGANS AS THE MEMBERS OF THE PLAY ARE INTRODUCED, THE REAL ARC IS ABOUT TO SPARK.

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