TWO FACED EGOTIST

The impatient me inside can’t take it any longer, “Just how much have you been hiding??!!”, his body language is drowning deep down as the spine chilling truth of the heir to the king is no unveiled, “Well to put it simple, nobody is naïve in Blackmores, well it’s a kind of story you grow up listening on bed, nobody is naïve Albert all the blames are to the teachings”, he is angry yet helpless as to what else can he even do to the heir being the truth he looks at the dragon skulls, “Mind explaining this?”, Howard is not surprised by his restlessness, anyone would be restlessness thinking he served some false thing only to cover up a enormous poisonous truth, “Well they aren’t innocent though I can say that, you were not the part of the people with whom I go to tour places, not me that didn’t allowed you hated being around women, well just assume they weren’t that fun for tours and kind of intentional”. The fact that makes his memory to go on a ride, that Howard is right he did never went on any of those proclaimed rich men tourism of royals, “It’s a fact I agree! But why me, what was this certain need that the truth to me was unknown. While the women around you were totally aware of it?”. Howard is looking at the mirror on the floor that was reflecting their images, “you were fairly new Albert, pardon but it was not any personal rivalry but father was being skeptical about you so he suggested not to tell you, when I thought you have proven loyal enough to know the fact, he told to act along as usual". Albert gives another helpless look, “The king was huh? Fine I won’t judge him for that, but what now the world will see one day your power and that you could possibly be the bright star of your generation”. The bright star is the one which gloom on denoting a really strong star born most likely to be the dominant among all yet not completely invulnerable, “I don’t care if I’m a bright star or not Albert, all I care is stopping the possibility of the kingdoms going at war, even if we don’t participate the economic crisis will reach our feet one day too”, Albert is more shocked not to that Howard is caring about his nation but to not take a part in war yet to stabilize it, “So after you become the king, you will go on a treaty with others?”, Howard then laughs, “Are you kidding me Albert? Treaty is for kids besides that the least in strategic thing to come in my mind, I sure have plans though, different plans not as childish as treaty Of Course I’m not an idiot to do that kind of stuff the next day I become the king, there are lots other things too to be taken care of". Albert feels like an idiot to mention something like treaty knowing the fact that the blackmores never signed any treaty as it is considered as a childish naïve act in their books, but then again that would be the first thing that comes in his mind, “So what will you do then?”, he is still give laughing, “Well we will see about that once I become the king, I don’t honestly think that would happen soon though and it’s good to know that”, Albert looks a last view of his chamber as to the frightening truth that closes with its door closing in with him standing besides Howard, “Ah also Albert don’t tell anybody you find suitable to talk about the chamber I’ve seen you do that many times, now then…….. the waits are over let’s go and the king himself”. Albert’s pale body is starting to take control of it as he will join Howard to meet his majesty and that the preparations for the crowning ceremony should start as soon as possible.

The river clearly is full of dead fishes that were visible on the other side, “Guys am I day dreaming or is that all fishes!?”, said Lyssa as everyone gets panicked by seeing those dead bodies, same as the old man described yellowish pale body color, they got off their horses, “the strange odor, it’s some what resembling to rotten smell”, said Claire as they closed in to see those bodies, there were no fixed size from small to very big every fish was dead, “The water, the color is just like any normal water”, said Leonardo as Lyssa sits down to see the water, “It has to be that disease, but I thought it works when the water is contaminated water”, she gets up when suddenly the water in the river started to lower down its tide the river is now almost drought on the banks as a monster like creature is Clearly visible under it, the water was possibly drank by him as the monster was fairly gigantic in size and was really ugly with big fish like fins on either side of its neck and it was expanding and contracting rapidly unlike that of a frog, “What the fuck is that, get away Lyssa!”, said Claire as she jumps and gets Lyssa away from the spot that she might get in danger, “this thing is the problem around here I guess”, said Leonardo as he gets his ropes out from his horse bag, “No stop, I’ll deal with it”, said Claire as she gets up, “Besides it’s ugliness makes me want to kill it more”, she fires up her arms just like she did while fighting Leonardo when they first met except this time the intensity of the fire is much more, “If this is the thing that took life of thousands than I would take no second thought on killing it, HEAVEN FLAMES”,she uses the mighty blow of fire wind that burns the monster not even the bones of it are left, “So you figured out huh?”, as the same mysterious old man of Qualura appears behind them, “I thought it would take you much more time than that”, they are left in shock as if the man knew of all this, “Wait so you know all this, about the monster?!”, said Claire as they turned around looking at him, “Of course I do that thing is a part of mine!”. Their assumptions were wrong, the first impression was wrong, “Don’t worry the disease I posses is real,though I never thought of you to be able to identify the disease this early”. They are annoyed of course they would be, “Why did you killed your own people?!”, said Lyssa as they went in an alert position, “My people? They were never my people, they are just people who know how to agonize someone that’s all, everyday, everyday those faith killing smile were burning me from inside I couldn’t take it any longer!”, they are disgusted by the fact of that old man, “And, what about us? Why did you didn’t killed us?”, said Leonardo as Lyssa fades away in the woods, the old man became more enthusiastic while explaining his misery, “Why would I kill anyone else then them, you don’t slow poison me every second by some bright blooming smile”, he said as he shivers with the pain in his body while Lyssa in the woods takes her position aiming her hands perpendicular to that of the old man’s body, “One last thing, you don’t belong here do you the land?”, asked Leonardo as he judged him earlier on their first meeting as well, “Well Identified, I do not belong in Xarekhta, I came to this land, out side world is very thoughtful about it as a land of opportunity and a land where you can create your fortune eh? Fuck fortune! This fucking disease ruined everything in my life!!”, they were aware of Lyssa’s plan so they played along, “You don’t belong here yet you came here killed all of this people for their independent smiles huh? Man you fucked up big time old guy”, said Claire when Lyssa in the woods finally responds, “CHAMBER OF HEARTS!!”, there is a blue fogg that reaches the old man from her hands, such immense power that was able to decay the man’s old and already decaying body as he says his last words, “The world is much more then your satisfactory smiles and Xarekhta is not even a dust of it-“, he vanishes and Lyssa come out from the woods there is a moment of quietude between them as they were analyzing what the old man said, “And we didn’t even knew his name… “, said Lyssa as the silence now breaks out, “I’ve never felt it though it was like his body was made full of magic, I am sure that something related to that immense magic storage had been the reason of the disease in his body, God outsiders are scary sometimes”, she said as she heads towards the horses, “Guys seriously don’t act weird let’s go!”, as she never got to listen to the last words of that man but Leonardo and Claire did as they looked at each other’s faces shockingly, NOT EVEN A DUST HE SAID.

The look on Zarah’s face clearly expressed of her happiness not by the book but by the gem, although it didn’t expressed and information regarding Merlin but still she was happy for some reason, “The cart is ready my lady, you may proceed”, Daniel appeared with a cart at the same starting gate of the coliseum, “Ah thank you for everything Master Daniel, your help was grateful”, she said as they got on the cart, “If the path crosses we shall meet again Daniel”, said ulfreg as they prepared for the cart to go, “may I have a talk with you my lady, alone that is”, said Daniel just before they were about to hit the road, she agrees as they go on a corner of the coliseum, “What is it master Daniel?”, she asked as Daniel looked around and answered coming close to her, “do you know about your brother as well?”, she is shocked by the fact of his brother, “My brother? Who is him?!”, he points her to stop screaming, “Please don’t talk about that loudly my lady, nowadays even walls have ears all I know that Great lady’s child is still alive even though everyone thinks that he is dead, I among all still believe his existence that existence that was claimed highly unlikely, but if you ever got pass him the only way you could identify him will be the birth mark on his back”, she gives a joyful smile, “thank you so much Master Daniel”, she sits down and bows her head, which makes Daniel panicked, “Oh no, no please don’t do that it’s unnecessary, besides its my job for serving the D’ARCS until the end of my life”, Zarah then gets up and sprints towards the cart, “Bye then master Daniel hope we cross path again”, with Zarah and others leaving Daniel stands back in the coliseum, “Make hopes to possibilities, oh great lady I just hope he is still out there, YOUR FALLEN STAR”.

It’s been quite sometime and they traveled some distance as Zarah finally opens the diary, the first page is mentioning the names,

MERLIN D’ARC, CELIA D’ARC, CRAIG WOLFSTIEN.

She gently swipes her fingers on the names and then turns the next page,

“Have you ever visited top, it’s green, beautiful, gloomy, full of crop, I wish I could stay longer”.

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She looks back to the coliseum as they are far enough for it to view only a less amount, “top huh? And green as well?, now what’s that about?!”, Xavier sees her murmuring, “Going through the riddles eh?” She then turns up the other page with Xavier sitting beside her this time,

“you should visit the the tail its kinky, rough, snowy and pale, I wish I could stay longer”.

“I think it’s some kind of place references”, said Xavier as they were absolutely judging the riddles that surely are references of the geographical related resources, “I will solve them, well at least being able to relate is would I can look forward, besides here on the corner of the book it says, easier ones”, said Zarah as she turns the next page, a note falls of the book, Zarah picks up the note and opens it up, the note had yet bold letters,

“Dear sister, I would be there with you as soon as the rituals are over, I can’t wait to see you after all this time, I hope my little sister did a good job of maintaining the kingdom I can barely even trust Craig for that, that stupid needs a lot to learn. There is so much happened with me and I am really eager for you to hear it all just like the times we were kids talking nights over nights, oh another thing I know that you are crying Celia, but don’t cry please, even if I can’t see it, I can sense it you and your audacity should all be strong and don’t worry big sister would be there is no time……”

With love, MERLIN D’ARC.

“Seeing you after a long time, what’s the meaning of that?”, She said as she folds the letter and puts it right on page three, where there is a riddle,

“It’s sooner that you realize, with family and friends you must, get out of the dust, I wish I could stay longer”.

“Now what the heck is dust?!”, she said as she closes the book, “another riddle and my head would burst open, these are just place references but why so complicated!”, she said as they were approaching the next stop of the expedition of her family, “it’s the eastern gulf one of the loyal kingdoms to ever serve D’ARCS”, they are taking a sneak of the place as it is one of the popular places on Xarekhta is the means of foreign trade, gigantic boats, huge containers, markets and everyone working was making the place beautifully systematic, they are able to see some of it as they are not close enough to it but the bay glooms with the people and the clear water sea.

The queen is healed up in no time thanks to Trace’s treatment experience, some one knocks the door, “Please come in”, the queen replied, it’s Irene , “Pardon my queen”, the queen is not hesitating, “come in Irene”, as she steps in and stands besides her, “you know I am really glad that you were there to save me back then Irene I can’t be anymore thankful”, she said as Irene hands her a glass of water, “oh no my queen it’s not being thankful it’s a part of my job, besides I’ve finally decided it, I am retiring”, the queen is shock obviously she would as to the person she knew Irene as she didn’t quite expected a retirement at this age, “Is there something that is more important than this job?”, She replies with no hesitation holding the queen’s hand, “much more important my queen much more, it’s my family”, the queen gives her a smile, “the you are allowed to leave Irene, but promise me that we will meet again? even if you don't remain the lord commander”, She said as Irene kisses her hand, “we will my queen sooner or later, but don’t worry I am not leaving until the king arrives, I’m besides not in that much of a hurry”, the queen is yet smiling, “I wish you good luck of high guards”, it’s the kind of good luck that’s been considered as a ever lasting charm and can only be given by a true member of the family of high guards, the only true member that was Queen Brianna’s mother.

After a while,

Faith looks impatient the looks on her face says it all, “ah this is bad, really bad!!”, she was trying to open up some kind of lock of a small box, Cade enters the room, “What is it now?”, she makes a sad face, “The lock I locked with my enchantment magic is now unable to work, I used the anti tone of the magic but it’s not working, “So you want to open it? What’s in there anyway?”, she looks really sad now, “My ring, crap I’m an idiot I shouldn’t have done that anyway!”, she sits on the chair besides her, “the anti magic is not working huh? That’s why I hate magic, fuck this little thing”, he throws the box on the wall that was locked and when it hits the floor it pops open the ring falls and rolls to Faith’s toe, “whoa! You opened it Cade!!”, she wears the ring and gets happy, “Thanks a lot!”, he replies to all this, “That was clearly not my intention, anyway did Irene talked to the queen?”, she then gets up with a smile looking at the ring, “She did, the queen agreed for us to leave by tomorrow but it seems like Irene wants to stay more fife days, at least until the king is back”. He gets the situation and is about to leave, “What about the marks? Are they gone yet?”, she gives a sad smile that expressed her feelings towards the punctuated question, “I just hope they did, you ask of it every day, don’t you?”, Cade leaves without replying to her as she knows what’s been going on to his mind all the time, she goes in a flash back of everything that happened with them, the long flaming fire that gobbled the entire city and the monster in shadows that stands in the middle of the chaos looking at the child that was dying and the pain that was expressed by the cries of everyone around and she sees what looked like werewolves that surrounded the city, that man who jumps in the fire to save the child, “GET AWAY AND RUN!!”, that breaks her flashback as she sits back on the chair again, “I should stop having those kind of thoughts in my mind!!”, she looks in the mirror that was in front of her, she gently swiped her fingers on her face, “Besides there are many thing more important to be taken care of!”.

Accompanied by several old guys they are called the Elders of Xarekhta, is a group of people that are hoaxed to know every information about the land of Xarekhta, specifically living their lives only for the sake of people. That are knowledgeable on humanity, morality and how Xarekhta became an integral part in evolution of the world, those so called Elders are going to be the first stop for Irene and others as they live by the high Chapel known as Tower of promises, that lies parallel to castle mirage but is very much high in altitude due to the mountains on which it is build on, that makes one like Dracno wonder if there even exist any Elder as they’re been no signs of any Elder getting spotted or being seen in the public as to the fact nobody is sure about their existence, but if by any chance they do exist then there might just be a chance that they could help them on their goals of finding the other members of the family. The common goal of Irene’s comrades of uniting every last one of the member. Dracno is standing in front of the royal garden with a glass half filled with wine, “The last thing I wanna do as the guard of this place”, he said as he drinks the fine wine created by the royal farmers, “You are drinking again?!”, Irene confronts him, “told you this is the only thing that I like about this kingdom, the fine wine, Like to taste?”, he said knowing that Irene doesn’t like drinking wine, “No!! I was only here to tell you that I talked to the queen, she said it’s fine for us to leave besides I don’t want to just run away from everyone, so when King arrives we will be free, that’ll be 5 days”, she said as he pours some more wine in his glass, “So you want to engross yourself in some other work with in these 5 days I assume?”, he said, she nodes in agreement, “Well we don’t really have much”, suddenly Faith interrupts the conversation, “You can do some thing for me, or more specifically for us!!”, she is in some hurry, “Faith? What are you doing here? And what’s with the hurry?”, she comes in with some paper in her hands, “I did it Irene! I did it!!”, she said as she was overfloeing with joy and she hugs Irene, “But what?!”, she said as she and Dracno were really confused, Faith then throws the paper she had on the floor, it’s a big paper with some kind of sketches made on what looks like a pianting of falling stars, 6 of them, “it’s the constellation of stars from last generation, that included your parents of course! I solved it picture clear this time!!”, she had several attempts on unlocking the 6 fallen stars of the last generation out of three is which confirmed to be their parents with Leonardo’s father being unknown to the world, “You see there are 90 constellation created during the period of the year in which we examine the fallen stars, it’s unusually more by 2, so its even more hard to understand the work of God, but this is finally simplified, although still skeptical!”, she said as Irene gets a little excited, “Well then go on explain it”, but then Faith sits back, “I need a final touch, all I can say obviously by approximation of the birthdate we came up with in the expedition and the constellation matching it is that the bright star”, she points at a bright spot in the sky with 6 falling star, “has to be great lady!”, Irene is not surprises by the fact of bright star as she knows great lady's true strengths, “So what about the rest?”, she said as Faith replies, “Would you come with me please, in my room?”, she looks at Dracno who is no eager in hearing the fact, “this won’t take long, alright let’s go!”, they left. Dracno still was sitting on the same chair, “I don’t care about who your family was, I don’t care about how you decide spending your life and I don’t who you marry, all I care and know is the fact that I must protect you until I live, I may be the most heartless and soulless person you will see and I may be the most arrogant guy or a EGOTIST, for you I must have as many as much faces you desire, that’s the kind of teaching I got from him, so I must do anything to protect you, QUEEN”.

“And yet people say you look so polite, they don't know the arrogant you inside”, said Cade as he enters the room now, “What’s with the sudden urge of wine?”. “Well we are leaving this place soon so I thought may be have some mindful of it”, he said as he offers a glass of wine, Cade accepts it, “so you are you are not going to take some with you huh?”, he said as he tasted the impressive wine, “You know the rules, nothing to remember PAST once we leave, this place becomes past to me”. Cade smiles, “That’s more in the facts of making you selfish”, he said as he puts the glass of wine on the table, “But you and I both know it’s coming, will she accept the throne?”. “I don’t know about that, all I can say that she won’t run away from ruling”, he said as they both looked at the garden.

THE MAN WHO WILL DO ANYTHING TO ACCOMPLISH HIS ONLY TARGET OF LIFE, RATHER THE REASON BEING UNKNOWN, THE ALSO THING UNKNOWN IS HIS PAST AND THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE BEHIND THE WISHES OF IRENE BECOMING QUEEN AND MORE SPECIFICALLY, QUEEN OF WHERE?

THE KING IS TO BE CROWNED TOMORROW AND THE BOOKS WITH MUCH MORE THAN LETTERS AND RIDDLES SPECIFYING SOME PLACES IS DISCOVERED, THE REAL IDENTITY OF LYSSA IS REVEALED AND THE FIRST SIGHT OF SOUTH EASTERN KING IS ON SET ONLY ON ONE THING, DOMINATION.

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Title- CROWNED MASTER AND HIS MARIONETTE