Royal quest

Episode 19

The king sat,with a frown hanging on his face. "Your Grace", a courtman called,who has been silent the whole time. The king replied with a hand gesture.

The silent courtman got up slowly, using his walking cane to support his old limbs. His long brown coat did well enough to cover his already wrinkled skin, he wore a matching colored hat to complement his look. He used his walking stick to draw down the folded map hanging on the wall.

"These places", pointing to two corners of the map,"are the places with the highest death in the last few weeks, and the high house have said nothing about it", he paused.

"We all know that the sorcery coronation is coming soon", he said, walking towards the large table grabbing two crosses with pointed ends. "And the sorcery involves large m******e of people'', he pinned the ends of the cross to the two places he pointed to," usually the assacre usually involves three different places"he paused again, and stepped backwards, allowing the king and the remaining courtmen to see.

The whole room was caught in awe, the two crosses pointed to an island with a single building in it.

"It's... it's…... it's, the palace" a court woman stammered, knowing the palace was in danger caused panic within the court men and women.

All,except the King,were stunned, "the m******e usually happens as a result of natural circumstances: earthquakes, plagues, famines and so on", he paused, "but these killings were different, they were killed with weapons, so this can't be the century m******e", the king said.

"I agree with your wise words sire, but the deaths are unexplainable, knives flying around on their own will"

"Sounds like magic" one said

"Sorcery", another corrected

"It doesn't change the fact that the palace is in danger!!!", Courtman Paul said.

The king stared at the court people, and then stared at the old man, who held a crooked smile. He sighed and tilts his head towards the window. Seeing his daughters strolling down to the garden, he smiled.

The girls were strolling quitely, they had thoughts of their own. Eni thought of the idea of her brother getting married, he wasn't ready,he wasn't fit to rule, his anger will just ruin it all, she thought.

"The servants should clear that, it's dying", Angel said concerned

"It isn't", Eni paused and walked towards the plant, kneeling to touch the crop,"it's a bleeding rose", she added,

"Wow", she replied fascinated

Grace, who was getting bored, decided to take a stroll around. As she walked, she remembered the guards gossiping about a strange prisoner in the dungeon. She felt interested in the prisoner and walked towards the dungeon.

"Greetings Lady Grace", the guards greeted, bowing

"We were ordered not to let anyone in, princess", the guard on the left said, facing his head down, like he was looking for something on the ground. Grace smiled inwardly.

"Raise your heads", she said

"My princess, we're sorry, but we can't", the guard on the right said

"Open the dungeon gate",she said without parting her lips, as her black eyeball turned sky blue. The guards opened the gate obediently as she walked into the dungeon with a smirk on her face. She carried a torch and walked further into the dungeon, the guards were still under her influence.

She entered the heart of the dungeon where the smell of blood and rotten iron oozed in the air. She stared at the prisoners one by one searching for a weird looking creature or atleast a unique person. After a little while she gave up, she turned around and started walking out.

"Princess", she heard a voice called and turned around immediately

"Looking for me?", The voice said again, sounding a little closer, the prisoners in each cell started to disappear, it was an illusion, She gasped, walking closer to the cell the voice was coming from.

The figure came out from the shadows, his white hair was covered with blood,and there were deep cuts all over his body, his face looked like that of a skeleton, and it seemed like all life force had been drained from him.

"You're not human", he said with his tongue sticking out like that of a snake. As his figure became clearer, he had a snake like eyes with a bony structure, almost like a living skeleton. "you want to find out what you are?",the man asked

Grace unconsciously took two steps backwards, "I am not interested", she replied turning around leaving.

"Where do you think you're going to?", a dry chuckle came out from his lips, as she appeared in his front.

"You're a sorcerer", she said, obviously shaken by the event that happened

"Yes girl",he made a hiss sound with his tongue sticking out,"and I can feel strong energy from you"

Grace tried leaving but she was stuck on a spot infront of the terrifying skeleton

"And that energy will be of great use if I posses it", he paused, "after all, you don't know how to use it", he gave a evil laugh. He pulled out a coin like crystal from his pocket and place it on her skin, "this will hurt", he said and chanted some words under his breath. Suddenly Grace started to feel a great amount of pain as something like a blue light escaped from her skin, she felt great pain and tried to hypnotize the man.

"It won't work on me princess", he laughed as he watched her powers enter in the coin crystal. She started to feel this surge of energy within her. She looked up at the man and yelled "let me go",she felt anger and energy mixed in her like a bomb that was about to explode. She started feeling weak and her legs were shaky.

The aura around them began to change, the man sensed the danger, and wondered where it was coming from,he stared at the girl who had her head down.

She slowly raised her head and stared at the man this time, her eyes had turned completely blue with no iris in display. She laughed as there was numerous echoes heard in the dungeon, and it seemed like darkness itself was speaking through her.

"I SAID"

"LET"

"ME"

"GO"

As there was a huge explosion of power like a very active volcano. The coin crystal shattered into pieces, throwing both the man and Grace to different corners of the room forcely. Grace landed on the ground weakly.

Eni who was in the garden felt this energy, but to everyone else it felt like a strong wind blew across the castle. The guards got released from her influence as the energy was released.