Lucifer's Bride

CHAPTER 6

　　After arriving, Emperor Ariadne took his son back to the room he had slept the previous night, it will be his room from now henceforth.

　　"I will be back, you can wander around my son, feel free, this is your home," Emperor Ariadne said and left his son before he could say anything.

　　The first thing he had noticed was his bed which had been arranged. He sat down slowly on the bed and began thinking.

　　She brought me to my father, he is my father, my papa, but then again, he wondered.

　　Why would anyone want his mother dead? How did his mother know this powerful man, his father, and why did she hide it from him until now? If this powerful man is his father, why did his mother allow them to suffer for so long? Why lie to him and allow them to beg?

　　He needed answers.

　　So many questions, he got so many questions to ask his mother to get his answers. He waited for his father to come but he didn't.

　　Storm stood up from the bed and left his room, his father hasn't come as promised, he is going to have a look around, and make sure he doesn't encounter the Empress.

　　His plan to run away using the secret passage in the garden couldn't come to pass anymore, his mother has disappeared all of a sudden, probably kidn*pped like his father had said, whoever that took her killed and burned another person, but why?

　　He walked the long corridor and came out in the open, he saw some servants who were busy with their work. He saw a robust woman with four of her apprentices, all females who were watching her making and mixing some herbs, for tea for the Emperor and his household. When he tried to go closer to peer at the pot, he was pushed roughly to the ground by one of the apprentices and they started laughing at him, which drew the attention of servants around them.

　　"No matter how you wash that skin of yours, the smell of a street rat's stench still follows you around, you're a ugly black demon, your eyes should be plucked out," the robust woman said, which made all of them start laughing at him.

　　He tried standing up but another servant kicked him and that sent him flying a few meters away from them, he sat upright, sitting on the ground.

　　The whispering started and Storm could bear the hurtful words he was hearing anymore, he started crying as he couldn't hold back his tears anymore.

　　It wasn't a crime to look different?

　　"What's going on here?" The cold chilling voice of Juno was heard and all the whispering and laughter ceased. Storm froze when the new female voice sounded behind him, another tormentor, he couldn't look at her, he stared at the ground before him.

　　"We are laughing at this devil child," one of the male servants answered, laughing out a little as he pointed at Storm.

　　Going to stand in front of him, Juno bends down to lift his head gently with one of her hands, brown eyes widened when it met with two mismatched color eyes. Storm's right eyeball was white and his left eyeball was red.

　　Juno couldn't look away as they stared at each other. She broke the gaze and stared at his clothes instead.

　　"Tell me, who among the illiterate mumpsimus made you cry?"

　　Storm was quiet.

　　"Tell me, don't be scared, I won't do anything to them anything." Juno assured him with a smile.

　　"All of them, but they started it first," Storm said, pointing at the servants making herbs.

　　"We received orders from the Empress herself to torture this smelling street brat and then, she gave us permission that we can hit him as we like pissy miss," the head woman making the tea herb said with a smirk. They are all acting base on the instructions on the Empress, that boy hasn't seen it all, his is just the beginning, he will wish for death soon.

　　"Oh, I see, the Empress again," Juno mused and went over to meet her, "Sorry again, what did you say again?"

　　"I think you heard me perfectly well," the woman said, crossing her arms around her.

　　"Not about the Empress giving you a go ahead to punish this cute boy, but about the last two parts."

　　"You mean the pissy miss?" The woman asked and then smiled, "That's what you are."

　　"You shouldn't have called me that," Juno said and forcefully kicked the pot of herbs out of the fire, and made it pour directly into the body of the robust woman.

　　Her shout and screams attracted everyone in the palace and the Emperor with Warlord Emera left what they were discussing and rush to the scene when they both heard the scream. They both saw what was happening.

　　"What's going on here?" The Empress Rose and Emperor Ariadne asked at the same time.