The Facade Of Kings And Queen

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Birth of The Queen

ALEXANDRINE's Pov

Rolling my neck to my left shoulder giving a last glance to Palace Cherry Blossom I smirked .

" I came for you Dextrome ".

After walking on foot into the dense forest for what seemed like an hour we came to stop at the sight of our horses . Mounting on our respected saddles we preceded for Cave Ives .

Beside myself and uncle Gabriel we were accompanied by some handful of trusted soldiers , among them was my personnel guard and my right hand man Solorious.

After three hours journey on horses we reached our destination . Cave Ives was hidden in the heart of the forest and protected by camouflage . It was a back up hideout shelter for royal army during war times which was only known to the King . At the mouth of the cave we stopped . The soldiers on patrol came to inspect us , their faces were covered . The leader among them approached us but didn't say a word neither did we , instead drew a sign in the air with his hands and in reply to which Thomas countersigned , then we were granted access . Taking all precautionary measures has become a must to survive an unforseen danger . Better safe than sorry though we departed the Land Of The Living long ago for others .

They could not recognize me because I had my cloak on as everyone of us had theirs . After that dreadful incident people of Astorous thought I died alongside my family in the fire Cherry Blossom caught . The reason of the most powerful royal family's death was given as 'Tragic Fire' to the people of Astorous .

Many knew that those were lies they were fed but none came to question the devils . So after that assassination I was dead for the people and I preferred to keep it that way to sum up my strength to counter back.

Ives was a hideout place but it was not a mere cave but on the contrary it was an underground base camp . Accommodating every necessity in itself making of a big dinning hall , several personnel rooms , common sleeping areas , bathing facility , potchambers , a huge kitchen that was big enough to prepare food for hundreds of people and last but not the least ground for sparring and a life saving treasure a pond that did not let us die of thirst .

The stone masons and carpenters did a commendable work of art in creating Ives . The closed drainages were flowing all around the cave as if they were never there . The smoke emitting from the cooking stove and fireplace to keep the cave worm had chimneys . The chimneys had passage ways carved into the walls for smoke to go out of the cave.

I remember my father used to tell us about the tales of wars our ancestors fought centuries ago and how Ives brought them back from the brink of death and revived them to strenght . In the last days of his life my father once called me and my brother and told us the location of Ives as if he knew something might happen to us , but only I made out alive and my brother ,my hero , my love died saving me.

Walking through the hallway leading upto my chambers I paused before the doors and instructed the guards on watch to don't let any one disturb my peace and got in. My room had a very odinary look to it compared to the chamber I had at Palace Cherry Blossom. A Kingsize bed in the middle , an ordinary writing desk , a bathroom adjoining by a door and a wooden cupboard which had couple of clothes mostly in black colour such as leather pants and some men's tunic , they are comfortable for sparring and I am not into feminine clothes.

(FLASH BACK)

Author's pov

Palace Cherry Bloosm

Screams were echoing in the entire palace . A man who was tall had broad shoulder , heavily muscled , his eyes were turquoise like the beautiful clear ocean with brown hair a pointed nose sitting in the middle adding to the chisled face , olive tone . He was sweating , panic was written all over his face . He was none other than King Antonio Romano Atomore . The man was losing his mind as his beloved , his wife Queen Clarissa Bianca Atomore was in labour for hours but to no avail as baby was not showing any interest of coming out any time soon.

It was a long night ,thunder was brooming out there , lightning was so furious that forest caught fire , animals were restless and PLENILUNE was on its full grandeur without any signs of hiding in the clouds , as if standing there to protect someone bearing witness to a miracle till eternity .

The night passed as a millennium for the King in trepidation . It was tiring for every soul waiting in anticipation, especially exhausting for the Queen . But it was rationally practical why the birth of this particular child was that much laborious and dangerous because the child was a girl.

Atomore's girls were rare but not unheard of and after a hundred and fifty years later Kingdom of Xeozar was blessed by another princess.

King Antonio was joyful by the birth of his little girl but as well as distressed for the safety of his child. The birth of a girl means occurrence of the Prophecy . Whenever Xeozar was in danger God bestowed them a guardian angel .

A girl child.

Who could restore the peace of not only Xeozar but the entire Land Of The Living.

But the devil thrives in chaos in evil .

King and Queen named their daughter Alexandrine the name had held strong meaning a warrior , a great defender , the queen who was born to rule .

Princess grew into a beautiful young maiden . She had admirers from all over The Astorous dying for her one glance but she was affected to no one .

She was a walking image of her father , long smooth silky brown hair , fine pointed nose accented with plumbed lips and define jaw line , olive tone and cherry on the top grey almond eyes just like of her mother ,carried feminity of a woman and aura of her father however she was never aired of her beauty.

Back then she was a benevolent , kind-hearted , generous and above all a princess who loved her people and was loved and cared by all in her kingdom .

She was not only their Princess royal but a personification of a virtuous human being . The first to help in distress , a friend , a light . Even for age fourteen she had precocious imagination , wisdom of her own.

She was the apple of King Antonio and Queen Clarissa's eyes and above all her brother's everything who was her knight in the shinning armor Prince Damien .

She made some life long friends on the sparring grounds . And He was among them.

But everything changed after that dreadful night once kind princess turned into cold hearted stone , a person who forgot how to feel emotions , a living dead body , a doll . She pledge to be vicious , cruel and to never again fall for a beautiful Facade.