episode 11
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“Bethany, you will come with me on this expedition...” Rose kept looking at King Stone in disbelief … King Stone's face is calm and his eyes are cold as ice, sharp
“I … have to come … with you … at war?”
“King, I don't think so...”
“This is my firm decision … she is the one who saved me from the fire. Now she will save me in battle also because it brings me good luck...”
“What... What nonsense … you really I bring good luck for you? On that day I save you by chance... it was coincidence... But how will I save you at every time. I am not a warrior. How can I deal with those swords and arrows in the battle?”
“That is your question … I have told you my decision. This is my firm decision to take you with me...” King Stone turns to the meeting, “Let everyone know about this. Charles, Louis, Philip, you will come with me. Elliot, you have a detachment of 500 soldiers ready … I want you all ready to go to the main gate this evening. We are leaving today...”
Rose was numb … she was looking at King Stone pleadingly, “Do I really have to come?”
“Yes... Now don’t ask those foolish questions. Get ready to go...”
Rose leave the meeting without saying anything.... She go to her palace and sit on the ground desperately, “War … War … Am I going to war? That fool... What he thinks about me. How can I save someone … Damn I hate you … Hate you... Hate you … King Stone ….”
When Rose was preparing to leave for the voyage, a maid came there. The maid has a beautiful velvet women's warrior dress in her hand... “Wow … this is swordplay’s outfit...”
Maid nodded yes, “King has asked you to wear this dress...”
“Really … I want to wear this dress...” Rose was very happy, “oh it’s good thing that now I don't have to wear this queen's dress … I can wear shirt and pants … I can't believe it...” Rose change quickly...
She change her clothes and come out of the curtain. There were two more maids in the palace... she look in their hands amour and sword, “Um, hey, do I want to wear it too?”
Maid nodded, “yes...”
Rose’s smiles falls, “The queen's dress was better than this …”
In the evening, when King Stone reaches the main gate, there Charles, Louis, Elliot, Philip stand with their horses. Rose stands looking at her horse carefully. Everyone salutes King Stone...
“King, the army and all the supplies have been sent ahead... Octavius’s soldiers are guarding at a distance of 2 kilometers from the fort, so tell your army to stop at a distance of 5 kilometers from the fort
“Well done … let's go then...”
Everyone rides on horseback... Except Rose, “I … what about me?”
King Stone asked “What about you? Now don't say that you can't ride a horse...”
Rose nods … King Stone sighs desperately... When Elliot apologies, “I'm sorry sir … we never taught my sister horse riding. But I will take her with me on horseback...”
King Stone agree with him, “OK … Bethany, you stay with Elliot. Let's go...” King Stone runs away with a speeding horse … Philip, Charles, Soma also follow him.
Elliot smiles, grabs Rose's hand and pulls her and puts her on the horse's back. He starts to run the horse... Rose hold him tight and sit down properly... She started fall down like that but she recovers immediately
“Are you scared?”
“Absolutely … why shouldn't I be scared … I went to war for the first time...”
“I don't understand why King treated you so harshly...”
“Brother, for some reason, have him and I ever had a quarrel before? I don't remember anything but from King's speech I realized that there are some reasons why he hates me...”
Elliot look confused, “But I don’ know any reason.. Why would they hate you? They followed you for married you...”
Rose nodded, “yes I know...” she heard him, “Hold on tight and stay on the horse. If you fall down, you will be terribly injured...”
Rose let out a desperate sigh...… He reaches the bottom late at night. He arrives and immediately orders King Stone's army to attack the fort.
In the darkness of the night, King Stone's army marches on the unconscious fort and a single chaos ensues. Until we understand what is happening, Octavius is going to kill half the army … Octavius is careful and orders the army to attack. King Stone and Octavius's army were attacking each other.....
Rose have been sitting outside King Stone's tent at the bottom trembling with fear … She could clearly hear the sound of war from afar, “No, no, no, no … where I get trap … how much better it would be if I got back to my time. If I were in my time now, I would have slept on the coolest warm bed in the academy, but here on the floor, fighting on the battle ponds …”
the screams became unbearable for her and she put her hands over her ears … she sit in cuddling herself with fear … then King Stone comes out of the tent to her, “why are you sitting like this … you are a queen and fear is like insulting your position..”
Rose shouts in anger, “leave me alone …”
King Stone look at her in amaze, “strange … The girl who saved me by entering the burning palace, was she so scared to hear the sound of war?”
“That was really my big mistake...”
“What did you say …?”
“As a human being, I saved you without thinking of anyone. This was my biggest mistake, the consequences of which I am now suffering ….”
King Stone starts laughing out loud … Rose shouts contemptuously, “Are you laughing in such a situation? … It seems that you think this war is like entertainment...”
King Stone becomes very serious, “You think I'm fighting for fun …”
Soon a soldier comes running there … He comes in front of King Stone and sits on his knees. Rose gets up quickly in fear and moves backwards...
That soldier is full of blood, “King, we have laid siege to the entire fort … now all the parts outside the fort...”
“Sneak inside the fort and kill him in front … set the fort on fire and burn it”
“On Your command... King” The soldier gets up in the same position and runs towards the fort
“What are we winning? Your fort is surrounded so you are winning or not”
King Stone doesn't answer anything … Slowly the night goes on. At some intervals soldiers keep coming to tell King Stone about the situation of war. King Stone keeps telling him how to attack that situation. There is no fear or worry on his face...
Rose says in her mind, At his age, he is really very brave … He makes every decision alone and the whole army, chiefs, Lemuria all depend on his decision, but there is no worry or tension on his face. Now I understand why King Stone is so important in the history of Lemuria.”
Rose look at King Stone thinking like this when another soldier was comes to tell about the war situation, “King, you have almost won, but suddenly Octavius himself goes into battle with his reserve soldiers...”
“He himself went to war …”King Stone laughs to himself, “His courage should be appreciated. He came to fight without hiding in the fort like a frightened person...”
King Stone pulls out a sword strapped to his waist, “Now I have to go to war too...”
Rose surprise looks at King Stone, “Are you going to fight there?”
King Stone smiles and turns to Rose, “If I don't go to fight, where I will go … It's not just me, you are going also...”
“What...”
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