The Villains are After Me

2.13

Side story:

Serces sat on the bed of his sleeping beloved and kiss her forehead. He caress her smooth black hair and laid down beside her and stare at her. It's been a year since she slept. He's always been waiting at her side and hope for her to see him when she wakes up.

" Sweet dreams, my dear. " He whispered and close his eyes. He slowly fell asleep beside her and holds her hand.

" Ughh... "

Serces woke up hearing a pained groan, he immediately sat up and looked at his beloved. Her eyes furrowed in pain and she looked pale. Every night this would happen, he didn't know what was happening but whatever it was, he didn't like it. He grasped her hand tightly.

" Dear, I'm here. " He whispered and tried to ease her pain but no matter what he do, it was useless. It frustrates him, he was the blessed child of the gods and the kind of the world but he can't do anything to save his beloved.

He noticed a wisp of black mist coming out of her body and felt an ominous power in it. He grabbed his sword and pull it out from Its sheathe and pointed it towards the black mist.

" Is this your doing?! Immediately stop it! " He shouted. He noticed the black mist stopped for a second and entered the body if his beloved. Shocked, his sword fell down and tried to stop it but failed and hugged his beloved. He heard her groaned from pain and sweat start to show on her pristine forehead.

He cursed and hugged her more tightly, hoping to alleviate a little bit if her pain from this. After a long while, he can't take it anymore.

" Stop. Don't hurt her anymore... " He said, his heart feels like dying seeing his beloved like this.

" If you want to hurt someone, you can hurt me. Leave her alone..." He said as he buried his face on her shoulders, tears fell down from the king who loved his queen wholeheartedly.

The black mist stopped and the groans also stopped. 

Serces noticed this and raised his head, he saw a black mist covering their bedroom. He gulped and hugged her tightly. He didn't know what kind of creature it was but he knows that it's trying to take the body of his beloved.

" If... As long as you won't hurt her, you can use me.." He said cautiously to the black mist. The black mist immediately entered his body and coughed out blood. He covered his mouth and slowly laid down her sleeping queen. He looked at her gently and kisses her forehead then her soft lips. His bright green eyes flashed red. He stiffened.

He felt the black mist overcoming his soul, he gasped and whispered to her ears. " I love you, dear. "

The red hue completely covered his eyes and turned back to the original bright green. The man stood up and looked at the woman on the bed indifferently. Serces body was taken and his consciousness was asleep in the depth of his soul.

He turned around to leave the room and smiled wickedly. Since then, the whole palace turned upside down. The maid gossiped about the king who takes in concubines and the sleeping queen. Killing and despair became prominent and the peaceful yesterday was like the passing wind.

A long time passed. 

The woman slowly opened her eyes, her eyelashes flap like butterfly wings and her deep violet eyes glistened. She turned her head and was a bit disappointed that she didn't see her beloved man beside her. She sat up and looked around. The place looked the same but somehow, something felt different. From her luxurious and soft bed to the jewelry adorned door, nothing seemed out of place. She wondered what it was she was feeling.

She slowly stood up and walked to the window, he peeked outside and noticed how quiet and solemn it looked. The servants doing their tasks look pale and trembling. She titled her head at this, confused at what's happening. She decided to go out to ask her husband about this. 

She smiled sweetly at the thought of him. She's sure that he would be delighted to see her again. She can't wait to see him again. Excited, she walked out of the room and straight to his office. She knows that he must be working for him to not be at her side.

Arriving at his office, she was about to opened the door when she heard a moan and stiffened. She shook her head and thought that it must not be her husband, what a blasphemy to do it in his husband's office! She angrily opened the door and burst in but stiffened at what she saw. She shook her head and tears fall down from her eyes.

Her beloved husband has a woman on his lap, kissing with her.

She covered her mouth and sobbed. What is this? What's happening?

The pair finally noticed her and stopped, the man looked at her and smiled mischievously, " Oho? The queen finally woke up ah "

The woman takes a deep breath and tried to calm down but her heart is beating loudly from pain, like it was tearing apart.

" What is the meaning of this? " She asked, trembling at the end of her question. 

The man looked stunned and laughed, " Isn't it obvious? Ai, I always wanted to do this. So I'm really hoping that you won't wake up. " He said and hugged the woman in his arms then kissed her. The woman laughed lasciviously.

Trembling with rage. The woman can't believe this. Her beloved man isn't like this. Tears blurred her sight. This pain...

Why is this happening? Why would her beloved hurt her so?

She thought as she look at them. She don't believe it. She won't... Her beloved isn't like this..

The man lets go of the woman and glanced at her. He grinned, " You know, the concubines I took in disposed of our child. Really a tragedy. But well it happened sometimes. He said laughingly and shrugged his shoulders. Hearing this, the woman's world stopped. It was last straw.

Their child....?

Disposed of..?

Her...child?

She gasped and clasped her chest. Their child. Her child was...

They have... to her child!?

The woman can't contain her grief and anger. Her eyes glowed while tears continued to flow from her white cheeks. The woman in his arms was shocked while the man looked at her indifferently.

Is that it? His love to her is not real. He just wanted a goddess as his lover and when he's tired. He'll betray all his promises to her and hurt their child!? Unforgivable!

She raised her hands towards the man she loved with all her heart. The man's expression changed and twisted. The next second he disappeared and appeared at their garden, he noticed that he has no legs anymore and then he became a tree. Losing his consciousness, he looked at the ethereal woman floating. A tear fell from his left eye and disappeared.

" This pain you put me through. This betrayals. Your promises that's been broken... I won't forget this. I curse you! For all of you to suffer endlessly! To lose your everything..." She said as she cried. The concubines saw what happened and hugged their childs to them.

She cursed their children and all those women. She won't forgive them.

She looked above and the rain fell down heavily. His love was not real... His smiles. His eyes. His everything.

" Will you accept my love? " The man shyly asked her while giving her a bunch of flowers.

His love is not real...

" I love you! You'll see! I will prove it to you! " He said smiling to her and laughed foolishly when he noticed her looking back.

All of it was fake. 

" Does she like this more? Ah this suit her more eh? This was more beautiful! Ughh... It's so hard to choose. " He sighed and looked at her then grinned.

" You are more beautiful than the flowers. What can I do ah? "

She closed her eyes. Tears continued to fall down with the rain.

" Uwah! He's so cute! He looks like you! " He said as he gently looked at their child beside her. He looked at her with tears on his eyes.

" Really, Thank you. " He laughed happily and cried. He kissed her forehead.

He narrowed his eyes and buried his face on her shoulder, " I'm really lucky to have you ah As expected, I'm really the luckiest man alive. "

She laughed at him.

It's not real. All of it.

Her figure slowly disappeared from the world. The goddess came back to heaven.

Time passed and this event was forgotten by the world. Aside from the cursed children of that time. They experience many things and got hurt everytime. They decided to settle down at the ace where the king died. The tree.

 The tree became bigger and bigger as time goes by. As if trying to reach the skies. The leaves swayed in the wind and Serces watched the bustling city below him.

Serces consciousness has long came back. From what he heard, he has hurt his beloved. He regretted it but at the same time feel relieved that she was okay. It's a complicated feeling. 

He learned that she curse his descendants out of anger. He accepted it. What happened to him and the others. It was all his fault. He shouldn't have let the mist control him. But it's all too late to think about this now. His love for her won't change, that's all he knew.

He saw someone who looked exactly like him. He would always come to the building on him and came out with different people. He don't know why he keeps doing that but he cheered him on. The guys keep coming back with a gloomy expression everytime though.

At that time, he felt a familiar feeling.

He looked and found a youth with black hair and deep violet eyes talking with the man. He was stunned and thought that it was his goddess at first. Then he realized, it's the descendant of their child.

His and the goddess's child didn't die. At that time, the black mist tried to but he managed to stop him but it causes the mist to be in complete control of his body. He has let the child escape from far away and didn't expect to see his descendant.

Oras Wells is his name. 

Wells, the name of their beloved child who looked exactly like his mother. They didn't have the chance to spend much time with him but they loved him. He snapped out of his thoughts and looked down, the man who looked like him and the youth who looked like his beloved.

Looking at the two of them, it's like seeing him and his beloved goddess together. He hopes that, their love will be happy and last forever.

And him? He will continue to grow and reached the sky. He wanted to let her know. That it was her, the only woman he ever loved with all his heart and soul.