THE CHRONICLES OF HEPTA

CHAPTER 1: THE CHOOSEN ONES

"ah, ah, ah," his Royal Highness, king of hepta laughed with his minions.

Drinking and celebrating, they were drinking wine with skulls of human beings.

One of the maids came running to them and quickly bowed.

"I am so so sorry to interrupt, your majesty,"

"What's the problem pretty?"

"It's her Royal Highness. She is in labor," she broke the news and they all laughed.

"Then that's great news. Because we all know the queen is going to give birth to a bouncy baby boy." He said and they all laughed.

"You can leave," he cooed and the maid bowed before walking away.

Then shew!!! Her head fell rolling on the ground. They all laughed and cheered again.

"The most powerful man ever lived," one of the minions praised.

****

The queen in the labor room pushing her strengths out.

"Your highness. One more time,"

She pushed and the baby's voice was heard all over the room. It came out slowly and the traditional doctor's face suddenly changed..

Her highness breath in and out heavily.

"Your highness..." The woman called and she looked at her.

"It's a girl,"

"A...a..girl?"

The traditional doctor and the lady beside her shook their heads.

(Somewhere in the woods)

The amakiet pushed hard and the baby came out slowly.

The three doctors brought out the child.

"Copta« a male child.»“ she said happily and the group cheered happily.

The amakiet woman smiled and collected the child from the doctor.

"Dentana « thank you »."

She smiled and touched the baby's cheeks.

"Smahj cop gera jerana « my child is beautiful like his father »" she commented and wiped the blood from his forehead and placed it on his tongue.

"Bagali. Hera bagali « his name will be bagali »" (amakiy meaning good luck).

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"A girl?!!!!!!" The king thundered and the traditional doctor bowed in disappointment.

"Yes, your highness,"

"I thought the heavens declared a male child to inherit my throne."

"I am also lost your highness," she said and the king ran his fingers through his hair.

The chief priest came running by and he bowed to his highness.

"Tentan, it's a good thing you are here."

"You called for me your highness,"

His voice heard through the walls of hepta.

His highness looked at the doctor and she excused herself. She didn't go, but overheard the conversations between the king and the evil chief priest.

"The queen gave birth to a baby girl," his highness broke the news to him and he quickly lift his head up.

"That's bad luck your highness!!!" He thundered.

"Bad luck?!"

"Yes your highness. Non of the royal family of hepta have ever given birth to a girl because it's described as bad luck."

"Her highness is not from hepta," he said and the traditional doctor looked at the king. She thought the king could keep that a secret between themselves.

She is the only heptan who knew about the queen being a foreigner.

A strange blood colour beings. Beautiful human beings with strange language, strange appearances, strange way of talking, with sensitive organs. The amakiet.

But why is his highness telling this horrible man?

"Then where is she from?"

"She's an amakiet," he said and the chief priest widened his eyes.

The traditional doctor closed her eyes in disappointment. She didn't expect the king...

Her eyes interlocked with the chief priest and he smirked evilly. All he wanted. She walked away in hesitation.

"The amakiets must be destroyed,"

"But that's impossible. You and I know how powerful those beasts are,"

"I will give you the power. You can kill them In a blink of an eye. I will make them powerless and after that...that baby must be killed."

The king clenched his fist and turned around.

"Clisa!! Clisa!!" He shouted in annoyance and a heavy built guards came to him and quickly bowed before him.

"Prepare the soldiers. We are invading..."

"Right away your highness,"

The king came down from his throne and the chief priest made way for him.

"We are invading amakiet. She got the bad luck from them—and after that...I kill the bad luck called a girl child.

The chief priest smirked and looked at the king who exited.

* * * *

The doctor quickly ran to the Queen's Chambers and the queen who was sitting on the floor quickly stood up on her feet.

"What's the problem?"

"We have to take this baby out of here,"

"Why?"

"If we don't take her out of here, she will end up dead and I don't want that to happen. We are leaving the kingdom now."

She quickly took the child and the queen held her hand.

"What do you mean end up dead?"

"The king will kill her. She is described as bad luck. We have to take her far away from here."

"Far away?"

***

~amakiet~

Ameh(bagali's mother) kept swinging her child around in happiness. She was so happy and excited. She had a pretty looking boy.

She kissed his forehead and his nose.

"Gema chopta bagali ≈mother loves you bagali,≈"

She heard a scream from far away and looked aback. Wondering what happened,she stood up.

"Ameh!!!" She heard her name and looked around. Her legs almost fell off her standing spot due to the image standing in front of her.

"Nae!! Nae!!, Bagali sare nae!! ≈no, no, don't touch my bagali," she said hugging her baby tightly to her chest.

The heptan warrior went closer to her and grabbed her by the arm

"Nae!" She screamed.

"Go kill the rests. I will take care of this one," the warrior said and the rest of them walked away.

"Nae!" She kept chorusing and the warrior blew the substance on her and she got so weak

"Jae...jae gem..." She stuttered and fell down asleep.

The warrior caught the child from falling Down.

"I purposely can't kill them all," he muttered and carried her on his arms. He laid the baby on her back  and took them away.

"Harbu!!"

Someone called on him and he ignored completely.

**Before the war**

"Harbu!! What is your main aim?" His father asked and he smiled to himself.

"My main aim is to maintain peace between all nation,"

"What if you are ordered to kill the amakiet?" His father asked and he looked at him.

"Father, that will never happen,"

"It's just an assumption harbu, what if it does happen?"

"Then I will try to stop the war,"

"What if you are unable to stop the war?"

"Father,I really don't like such assumptions,"

"Son,.if it really happens, do not kill a woman who just gave birth to a new Born,"

"Dad, I can't even kill a pregnant woman," he confessed and his father chuckled.

"I am just saying child. If that happens, do not think about spilling her blood because another chronicle is about to be made," he said

**

"It really happened,"harbu muttered and took the amakiet into a cave far away from her home.

"Just stay here for a while." He muttered and walked out of the cave.

The war lasted for two to three days with bloodshed and agony. The amakiets also fought on their own even being weak.

Some of them fled, some were killed, some were sacrificed to the gods of hepta.

***After the war***

The king stormed into his kingdom with blood all over his body. He sat on his throne with an upset expression.

"Get me my sword!!' he thundered and one of the soldiers gave him his sword.

He stood up and head to the Queen's room. He opened the door and it falls off its tightened wall.

The room was empty. No queen, no child, it was empty.

"Where is she!!!" The king growled and one of them bowed to him

"Your highness,the queen had been absence in the kingdom for three days."

"What do you mean?"

The soldier just stop talking and the king beheaded him in one go.

"Spread out! Look for her, but don't kill her, even if it's her corpse, bring it here with the child!!" He commanded and the whole soldiers spread out.

**

Her highness sat under a tree singing a lullaby to her baby. She gave her a kiss on the forehead.

The doctor ran to her and grabbed her by the arm.

"What is it?"

"We need to get out of here. The king is on a lookout. Let's get out of here!!!"

The two ran away.

**

"Bara, neona!≈take, eat this," harbu fed the amakiet and she smiled at him

"Weayo?" ≈why are you helping me?"

"Neona jrpar hepta beag yuu ≈eat this, not all heptan are wicked,"

She smiled and ate it.

Harbu heard a loud horn from a distance.

"The king!"

"Bara bagali, Charo!≈take bagali, let's run,"

"Wea?"

"Haffe hepta hilaa bug gj, ≈the king of hepta is on a lookout,"

She carried her child and held his hand before fleeing the cave.

They both tried running into the mountains but they were held back with the sudden shoot.

"An amakiet!"

The amakiet woman held her child tightly and harbu held her hand.

The king saw him and scoffed.

"My most royal soldier helping an amakiet," he grinned and walked up to him

"Let go of her now and come with me to the kingdom,"

"I will never do that,"

"Are you turning against me harbu?"

"Yes I am," he blurted boastfully and the king laughed.

"What a joke,"

"Get them!" He ordered and harbu prepared his sword.

The fight began with harbu and the other soldiers and he succeeded.

The king smirked and the cloud thundered. Harbu smiled and looked at the amakiet.

"Sara keluj hek hibbh, ≈take the child into the hek heptan. He will be save there,"

",Keluj hek?"

The soldiers stood on top of the mountains and shot different arrows at them.

"Cha! Charo!!! ≈run! Run!!"

She held her baby tightly and ran away.

The shooting arrows shot harbu straight into the stomach and his chest.

Their was a thunderstorm in the East and harbu smiled.

"A new chronicle is about to begin."

He fell down dead and the soldiers laughed.

Ameh ran through the forest passing through different thorns and heavily built guards.

Her highness and the traditional doctor also ran through the forest and approached the guards and his highness."

"Stop right there!!!"

The two turned deaf ears and kept running.

The amakiet woman (ameh), the queen and the traditional doctor ran to the forest of the hek heptan (a thin portal/dimension between the real Earth and hepta/amakiet)

The guards and king ran after them and afterwards shoot a spear. It shoots into ameh and she fell down.

The traditional doctor stopped and looked at her.

"Hubra bagali. Hubra...≈save my bagali, save..." She suddenly vanished into thin air and her pink colour flowed into the hek river.

The traditional doctor collected the child and ran with the queen

The king shoots an arrow. The queen suddenly fell down. The arrow was inside her stomach. She fainted immediately.

The traditional doctor collected the child from her  and bowed (her respects).

She ran into hek river and walked into it.

"Bring back that badluck of a child!!" The king ordered and she smirked.

"I will never do that devil king because a chronicle is about to begin,"

She lifted the children up higher and smiled.

The soldiers prepared their arrows an Spears.

"This children with me will make a new chronicle to destroy you and your descendants completely and that decree will come..."

"That would never happen!!"

"Hela uje hjdk yunh terq hhd nnea heu Jara gh hehu yer. Hela uje hjdk yunh terq hhd nnea heu Jara gh hehu yer. Hela uje hjdk yunh terq hhd nnea heu Jara gh hehu yer." She made an incantation thrice and threw the crying children into hek waterfall and the shooting arrows thrust into her.

She smiled widely before giving up the ghost.

The king clenched his fist.

**

He stormed into the chief priest chamber and the busy man flinched. The second he felt his presence, he quickly bowed.

"You told me to kill the whole amakiet, didn't you?"

"Yes, your highness,"

"You weren't wrong right?"

"I am never wrong with a prophecy with bad luck. Your majesty,"

"So... what's the meaning of chronicle which will soon be made and destroy my descendants and i completely?" The chief priest lift his head up and closed his eyes.

He knew it was the doctor's handiwork, the witch doctor of hepta.

"Answer me!!!" His highness thundered.

"There's no such thing as the chronicle here in hepta,"

The king made a sigh of relief and sat on a patriet(a small stool with blocks in it)

The chief priest bowed his head and cleanup his sweaty hands. He was obviously curious.

He never expected the traditional doctor talking about the Chronicles of hepta to anyone. The unlawful chronicle, the bazaar chronicle, the chronicle which he is afraid of.

`a week ago`

"Why are you so interested in my business?" The royal doctor asked and he smiled.

"I don't know. You know, the queen might be beheaded if the king hears that the so called chronicle can be eliminated through the her.

"The chronicle States the end of hepta,"

"Which is?" The chief doctor asked to know more of it.

"The first half amakiet, half heptan of the kingdom and the last amakiet baby would destroy the king of hepta

"Hepta had been a country of powerful origin,that is impossible to do."

"We would know if the chronicle is laid down," she said

"What if we stop it from happening?'

"I will never stop it from happening. And it can never be stopped. It will happen."

The chief priest frowned.

"The country would be peaceful then," she said with a prefect smile.

The man stood up and stormed out.

****

The soldiers carried her royal Highness into the dungeon and locked her up.

A doctor walked into the dungeon and cleaned up her wounds.

The king walked towards the dungeon and stopped.

"Who is he?" He asked referring to the new doctor.

"He is a doctor to heal the queen."

After doing his job, he walked out of the dungeon and the king smirked.

"You have another job to do."

He pointed to last dungeon. The doctor walked into it and screams and growls were heard in the dungeon. A hungry giant is in there.

"I hate the face of every doctors." He concluded and walked away

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California, America

⟦somewhere in the woods⟧

"Darling?!! This is the best spot," Evelyn pursued her husband and grabbed his arm.

"Where are we going now?" Harry (her husband) cooed with a sigh.

She got to a spot and smiled.

She brought out her camera and started taking pictures of the beautiful view.

"Isn't it lovely?"

“Yeah, you forced me here, cause you love a silly few of an unknown forest in california without the guards” Harry complained and she laughed teasingly

"Yeahhh...I am your pretty and lovely wife,"

"And the troublesome one," he teased with his hands tucked in his pockets.

The cry of a baby was heard and Evelyn dropped the camera.

"Harry?"

He looked at her husband who was also shocked.

"That's the voice of a baby,"

The cry went on and on.

Evelyn sighted the baby and looked at it twice.

"It's really a baby."

"But what kind of wicked mother would wanna leave her child in a forest filled up with carnivorous beasts?"

She picked up the crying baby and looked at her husband.

"Harry, let take this baby in,"

"How can we take an unknown child in?"

"Common Harry, thus child might be a gift from God. We can't leave the child here in the forest. He will die,"

"He?"

"Yes, it is a boy. Harry please, let's take this child as our own,"

"Okay. Just remember this is your idea, not mine,"

"Okay," Evelyn said and smiled.

She looked at the crying child and touched his cheek.

He suddenly stopped crying and the two couples looked at themselves.

"He stopped crying,"

He moved and Evelyn beamed a smile

"Jeremy? His name would be Jeremy."

Harry scoffed and she frowned.

The baby Burst out crying and she hugged him

"Shhh...shhh... don't cry," she consoled and smiled at him.

He stopped crying suddenly and she smiled.

"Don't scare my baby," Evelyn warned Harry and the two walked away with the baby.

****

A farmer walked into the forest and suddenly cut down a tree. It was obvious, she was so upset.

She heard a crying baby and ignored it. The baby voice became louder and she went towards the voice.

She saw the baby crying and picked her up. She looked at it and scoffed.

"What's a baby doing in the forest?"

She looked at the crying baby and head to her house without returning back home any food. She laid the baby on the bed and taped it.

"Stop crying already," she warned and groaned.

"Mom?"  She heard her little daughter's voice and stood up surprisingly.

"Mariah?" She called and the little girl walked in with a bag of mango fruits.

"Mariah, you are here,"

She fell on her knees and closed her eyes.

"I am so so sorry Mom, I shouldn't have left home like that. I just want to relocate in the city. Mom, I am so so sorry," she apologized and her mother lift her up.

"Common, it's okay. I forgive you Mariah. Just promise you won't do it again,"

"Yes mom, I will not do it again,"

Mother and daughter hugged and Mariah saw the baby on the bed.

"Mom, a baby?"

"Yes, I saw her in the forest and brought her home,"

"Yayyyyyyyyy....a little sister!!!"

"Yes, this is your baby sister Sonia,"

"Yayyyyyyyyy.... thanks Mom,"

Mother and daughter hugged themselves and rejoiced.