Conquer the sun

The Price of the Crown

King Edward:

About twenty years ago I was in the middle of a discussion with my guests when one of Yavala’ servants came to inform me of the critical condition of my wife.

"His Majesty, the queen requires your presence" said the servant very worried.

"Last I heard, the queen is in the delivery room, has she ever given birth to the point of asking for my presence?" I asked in astonishment.

"No, my king, but the queen is in a worrying state, she risks losing her life." Answers the servant.

"What?" I yelled, rising from my throne.

Without further ado, I very quickly followed the maid. Once in the room where my wife was dying.

"Louise..." I said. I was really devastated seeing my wife in such a state. My heart started racing for fear.

"The queen must be taken to the room of the sun otherwise she will die as well as the boy she is expecting from you" said Mouna, the priestess in charge of my wife.

"I won't forgive you if my wife were to die, Mouna" I said while shouting. I was really angry. I could not digest his words carrying bad news.

"I have nothing to gain by letting the queen die, my king" says Mouna who does not seem to panic by my threats.

"What are you waiting for before taking the queen to the sun room? Would you need my approval first?" I asked her.

"Yes, since your presence is important" replied Mouna.

"I don't want to hear anything from you anymore!" I say shouting at her.

Mouna immediately shuts up and lowers her head, avoiding looking into my eyes. She then raises her head in the direction of her two servants, present in the room. The latter immediately understood what his gaze implied. They get closer to the queen and make her get out of bed while each holding her by the arm, they start to pronounce magic words and in the blink of an eye, here I am with them in front of the door to the room of the sun.

"Your majesty, please give us access to the sun room" Mouna told me very respectfully.

I move even closer to the door and put my right hand in the center of this large door giving access to the sun room. A few seconds later, the door opens and we enter.

An hour after.

"My wife still can't give birth even in the sun room!!" I was mad with rage but at the same time, fear already had my whole being. I really couldn't understand why my wife hadn't given birth since.

"Your wife is going to die, I just hope the baby is okay." Mouna confided to me without qualms.

"I believed that no life is lost in this room, I believed that it has the power to bring back to life!!" I reminded her.

"Certainly it is, but don't forget that it is also the room where destiny is realized. It is the room where destiny is realized and not where destiny is modified" made me understand Mouna la priestess when suddenly a woman appears by teleport in the room with a baby in her hand.

I and the priestess and her disciples present in the room noticed it.

"A Shiva?" Mouna wondered.

"She has no right to be here!" I said. The presence of this Chiva in the room where my wife was giving birth made me even angrier. "Once again I realize that this room is really not what I've always been led to believe it is."

"She's a Chiva, so she has the ability to teleport anywhere she wants. But unfortunately for her, when a Chiva enters the Sun Room without permission, she dies instantly." let Mouna the priestess know when suddenly the young girl fell after having put down the baby she was holding in her arms.

Immediately Mona’s servants inform her that the queen has given birth.

"Finally some good news" I said very relieved. I then returned to my wife's bedside. This Chiva no longer being a problem.

But my mood will take a hit again when I find out that my wife has given birth to a girl.

"The gods planned to give me a boy to inherit my throne, but why are they giving me a girl after all?" This was my question to Mouna, because she had predicted that my wife was going to give birth to a boy.

"I have no idea, the gods are able to go back on their words sometimes." Answers the priestess.

"But I really need an heir to the throne. If I don't have one, you know it's a problem. My brothers and my cousins ​​will claim the throne and they will argue, my inability to have an heir" I made Mouna understand.

Mouna turned her back on me to go towards this young woman who was spending her last minutes in agony.

"I wonder why you agreed to take this risk, but too bad, I won't know." said Mouna looking the young woman straight in the eyes.

"Save him please. Save this baby", were the last words of the young Chiva before giving up the ghost.

Mouna takes the baby's body and walks towards me again. My wife had just passed away in my arms. Me, in spite of my pain, I refrained from flowing tears in front of the lifeless body of my beloved wife. But it was stronger than me I finally dropped a drop of tears, so confused by the tears of my daughter who has just been born.

It was really stronger than me, I couldn't stand it. I was about to leave the sun room when Mouna held me back by the arm.

"I have something to tell you" she told me in an authoritative tone.

"What is it about?" I asked her back with a disinterested look.

"This Chiva walked into the Sun Room with a baby dead at birth. And guess what?"

"What? »

"It's a boy" said Mouna the priestess while smiling.

"What does it change? »

"I can give you a son." replied Mouna very sure of herself.

"You seem sure of what you say"

"You must trust me" said Mouna the priestess.

“I really want to trust you. But how is it possible? The queen gave birth to a girl instead” I defended.

"We are in the room of the sun, here everything is possible. This baby died at birth, he needs a soul to bring him back to life." let Mouna know.

"The Sun Room is notorious for bringing back to life, isn't it? I finally understand why this woman entered here despite the risk. But I have no interest in gaining from this baby alive or dead."

"This child could be yours. If you decide to bring him back to life, he will be yours." says Mouna.

"I didn't think of that earlier" I said very moved. On the horizon a solution for me. "Don't waste any more time, bring him back to life, this room has the power to do everything."

"As I told you, the Sun Room only fulfills destiny, and it does not alter It." said Mouna the priestess.

"What do you mean by that?" I didn't understand anything at this point.

"A stillborn child who enters the hall of the sun would automatically be saved if his destiny were not to be stillborn. But in the case of this child, despite the Chiva having made him enter this hall, he's still lifeless. Which means..."

"That his destiny is to die at birth" I finish the sentence, interrupting the priestess.

"Yes" confirmed Mouna.

"Then why were you giving me false hopes about him?"

“We can bring him back to life by sacrificing the life of your daughter,” Mouna confides to me.

I no longer believed what I was hearing. I took a few steps back, away from Mouna the priestess.

"I know it's difficult, but you have no choice if you want to maintain your place on the throne. It's the only option you have." is she threatening me?

"I refuse to lose my daughter on the same day that I lost her mother" I let Mouna know. There's no way I'm letting my daughter die.

"Your daughter will not die, she will live through this child. Believe me, she will not die for nothing.” defended Mouna the priestess.

"Instead of my daughter, why don't you use one of your two servants here?" I asked the priestess.

"A pure soul for a pure soul. If it were possible to bring this child back to life with the soul of one of my servants, I would have done it immediately. This child has just been born, it takes a soul that has just been born to bring it back to life." replied Mouna the priestess.

"There is always a solution, I will order my guards to get us a baby born today, and there must be some in the kingdom. There is really no way that I will lose my daughter."

"Okay, whatever you want, but I just hope they can find some before an hour because in less than two hours this baby cannot be brought back to life. There you have a possibility of keep you on the throne. I refuse to believe that this is all a coincidence; a stillborn child coming out of nowhere, your wife giving birth to a daughter in the room of the sun out of sight. Everything is there so that the secret that this child represents is well kept. Your daughter's soul is the price to pay for you to see."

"In the heart of a dead end" I was really lost. "But I have no choice, do what you have to do" I thus gave the order to the priestess to do the ritual

The priestess lays the body of the stillborn baby next to my daughter. She begins to pronounce a few magic words and after a few minutes, a light came out of my daughter's body to enter that of the stillborn. My daughter immediately becomes motionless.

All this was happening before my eyes. I couldn't look away despite myself.

"What are you waiting for now?" I asked the priestess.

"A sign of life..." Mouna the priestess hardly answers and the stillborn child begins to move and cry.

When I saw the baby move, I took a deep breath.

"It worked!" said Mouna very happy.

Under Mona’s order, one of her servants takes the baby and hands it to me. I hesitated, but I ended up taking it in my arms.

"He is now your son" Mouna told me.

"Hmm?"

"Your daughter died to give him life, he is your son, my dear king." defended Mouna.

"I don't know if I should be happy or not" I let Mouna know. She looked at me and put a slight smile on her face.

"Now you know what to do" said Mouna the priestess addressing her two servants.

"Yes" they say.

The two servants knelt before their priestess. They each take a vial out of their porch, which they drink. They have barely drunk the vials and are falling.

"What happened?”

"They are dead, these vials contain poison." Mouna responds.

"But why did they kill themselves?" I asked her.

"Our secret was always in jeopardy, didn't you think? My servants know what to do in cases like this."

"I finally understand." I said.