Soul Lovers

Frozen Kingdom.

Meanwhile at the Humane Kingdom, something strange happened it caused the whole kingdom totally on lockdown, the buildings, everything within the walls were frozen to the extreme as it spread also freezing the seas outside; The source of the phenomenal appearance was directly inside the now frozen castle that could shattered at any given time—a female screaming in agony as the alarmed Royal Families and blue-caped Royal Guards in their full armour and helmets worn stomped to one direction which was...

The Princess’s room.

“What caused all the sudden frozen ice around the Kingdom?” One of the blue-caped Royal Guards having six attached diamonds carved on her helmet round about asked, running on the frozen, slippery floor of the lower hallway. behind her some royal guards in different capes could be seen trying to walk on the icy floor they should have used their potencies but it was thoroughly restricted in the castle for some unknown reasons.

About reaching the frozen stairs,

“I don’t know. I was about having my bath in the river when I realized the river was solid ice . It just froze abnormally… Gosh why is the Princess screaming this loud?” someone answered behind her, trying to get his footing on the icy floors.

“I think I know what’s happening. Haven’t you noticed?” she said,

“Noticed what?” the person behind her questioned.

“The cause of the sudden eruption of the extreme cold in our Kingdom is caused by non other than the Princess.”

“You mean Princess Wren?”

“Did we have any other Princess apart from her?” she asked as she and the other Royal Guards strongly ran up to the frozen stairs. “whereas why were you taking your bath during our routine practice haven’t you learn from the last attack within the walls?”

His eyes widened as he could tell this female voice under the helmet was familiar to his ears until he remembered the voice of the commander weeks ago ordering them to search for the kidnapped Princess during the fight between the Hunters from the Forest Nymphs Kingdom.

“Uhm?! Commander is that you?! I…” Suddenly, someone slipped and cratered into the frozen stairs.

“Ugh!” the slipped person grunted,

Few of the blue-caped Royal Guards stopped midway of the frozen stairs including them.

“Are you all right?” the commander asked as she took off her helmet resting it on her hip, revealing her oval face with a straight short dark hair her reflection was clearly seen on the frozen walls, she rolled her tiny eyes to the slipped Royal Guard having a total different colored cape that was the yellow cape, her thin lips slightly opened, the person near her gasped, staring at the diamonds on her helmets.

“The commander?!” he whispered, then lowered his head, how stupid of him not to noticed the commander voices or even took a glimpse at the diamonds on her helmet before opening his mouth, “I finally blew it, skipping routine practices almost everyday to take a bath. I’m sorry mother I messed up again... I can never get a job this good to support her financially. Never again in my lifetime.” He said to himself.

He was one of hundred Beasts with his Mother and four siblings who migrated to the Humane Kingdom due to the hardships and the overpopulation happening in the Beast Kingdom. King Randall guaranteed them they will be safe and well fed here in order to promote peace and harmony between Kingdoms—making the Humane Kingdom to be the first to do so, legally; Allowing beings from another kinds to live among them, surely some Humanes within the Royal Families disliked what the King did but what can they do?

Meanwhile the commander was calling him as series of thoughts filled his mind.

“Hey! Hey! Rookie?!” She yelled, he blinked, raised his head to her while the remaining of the blue-caped Royal Guards were already moving towards the upper hallway, “What’s your name?”

He rolled his eyes to the lower left, thinking again. He’d vividly remembered or that was the only thing he remembered during the orientation as a royal guard years ago that they are not meant to say their names to each other only to be called rookies representing the one craved diamond attached on their helmets but if it was the commander who asked he have no choice to obey.

“… I’m Lekan Skylark, Ma’am!”

“Your potency?”

“… I don’t have any but I have this.” He said, the commander narrowed her eyes,

“Show me?” she ordered, Skylark swallowed then rolled his shoulders as two lemon long wings thrusted out from the two openings on his armour located on both scapulars in his back.

Surprisingly, he was one of the three guys who pursed the four Humanes of short statue at the Entity night market few months ago.

“Oh? You are the one many of the Royal Guards were talking about. One of the Beasts who migrated from the Beast Kingdom right? I should have known from the weird armour on your body.”

“Right… I’m… “

“Don’t just stand there take him to a healer!”

He widened his eyes, he was expecting to be scolded then dismissed from the Royal Guards but to his amazement he heard non of that, he looked at the commander as he tried to fight back tears.

“Yes… yes Ma’am!!” he yelled rushed to the injured Royal Guard in yellow cape, gently supported him up, about going down the stairs

“Wait!” the commander called, He stopped, “I know how life is hard for beings like you; Once you’re born in the beast kingdom life is automatically leading you one to nothing, from a poor pack two to nothing, migrated here to make a living with all these foul gossips going on around about your beings three to nothing, you have a nice job as a Royal Guard three to one, at this point you are left with no option but to hustle in order to make equal or at most complete your comeback. And don’t think because of that we would treat you differently from us, we the Humanes of the blue-caped Royal Guards are never like that, so stop slacking off and return back to me for your report after successfully delivering him to a healer,” she said and ran upstairs, Skylark took a deep breath,

“Yes Ma’am I will!!” he yelled, the words of the commander touched, pierced and renew his heart, he’d never think someone in this unbalanced world who say such an encouraging words to his ears well that’s why she is the commander after all.

“Man. You will blow out my ear drums if you keep yelling like that,” the injured Royal Guard in yellow cape grunted.

Skylark immediately put his lips together, wait a minute I’m on blue cape while you’re on yellow cape ain’t I the superior here, he thought.

Here is the Humane Kingdom colors of cape worn by the Royal Guards shows the level of strength, will power and intelligence as same as the numbers of diamonds carved on each helmets. This gap of power gave them the portions they were meant to in the castle. It is as follows; The purple-caped royal guards are mere door and gate keepers in the castle but don’t underestimate their abilities they are far more than average to the normal civilians with potencies out there. The yellow-caped royal guards are patrol guards mostly walking around the castle in shifts. The red-caped royal guards only protect and escort the royal family as some were turned into personal royal

guards for the royal family. The blue-caped royal guards are made for the sole purpose to protect the princess and everything about her. Then the Green-caped royal guards—no one as seen them, no one knows how they look like or talk but only the King can tell because he was the one who assigned them secretly for a unclassified reason not even the Princess, Wren knows who they were.

“Oops, sorry for that.” He said as he helped him walked downstairs gently, “may I ask where you injured yourself?”

“Ha, that? Just a sprain ankle, I think? Yeah, and my back.”

“Oh. Sorry, take your next step gently, here we go, nice.” He said directing the slipped Royal Guard in yellow cape,

“Hmmm. May I ask again?”

“Again? Somebody save me.”

“Sorry, I just want to ask if I could carry you there instead of putting more pressure on your injured ankle.”

“Wow. Now you are talking. Please do!”

“Ha. Ha. Ha. Okay.”

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The Commander traversed into the Princess room as the whole room was completely frozen with the princess’s handmaids near her bed as their heads were lowered looking worried with few royal family some left by reason of the room was too cold for them to handle. The commander went straight to the Princess's bed as it was also frozen as though as an ice block of the shape of the bed while the Princess was inside it.

“What’s wrong with her?” she asked one of the handmaids.

“We don’t know at all the reason why she suddenly screamed in pains and when we tried to hold her she was immediately engulfed with this stick ice.” One of the handmaids said in a low tone, pointing to the thick ice block on Wren’s as most of the royal guards tried with all sorts of their elements to break the unwanted ice on their princess but to no avail it was too strong for it to break even to lay a c***k from all clattering sounds.

“Princess… Princess Wren!” the royal guards called out her name as she was in pains once again screaming.

“What is taking the King so long to come back seriously is there no any potency that could help in this crucial state, on the other hand,” the commander rolled her eyes to the handmaids, “I’m amazed the princess’s handmaids are no where suffering from the intensed cold in this room with that kind of dress they put on, they will freeze-dry in no time…” She thought then raised her hand up staring at them. “Are you not… “ suddenly, June and Abbey came in with Beth and Luna.

“My Princess!” Luna yelled.

“Quick Beth, cover this whole room with your barrier.” Abbey said,

“Yeah… Alright I will.” Beth said as she waved her hands releasing a barrier enclosed in the room. Abbey went to Wren covered inside the thick ice block, he placed his palm on it and discharged his potency of lightning bolt but it has no effect then he used his two palms, discharging a raging chain of lightning that causes the entire building to shiver and the clouds turning dim like it was about to rain but still, no effect, June looked at him, “what’s wrong?”

“Well for now, my potency didn’t go through the ice thickness.” He said as he went to the huge frozen window near her bed, looking through the frozen kingdom, he sighed then looked at June, “We wait.”

“Wait?!” Luna yelled, Beth looked at her,

“Calm down, Luna,” June looked at Abbey, “what’s your plan?”

“Nothing much, I felt if I should release my lighting from the sky directly on Wren, it may break the princess out of her shell.”

“Then do it now!” Luna said, Abbey glared at her,

“At ease lady, use that thick head of yours, if I should do so what about the fragile castle since it's all covered in ice it can shattered to the ground with a single hit from my lightning, think about it if it falls every single beings here will be buried along with the princess here and that will cause another problem but if I say Lady Beth here should protect you beings with her barrier before my lightning hit will she be fast enough to protect you and every single beings in this castle or did she have enough strength to protect you all after a hit? I don’t think so.” He narrated, then he crossed his leg while leaning on the huge frozen window frame, as he looked through the frozen kingdom, “so let’s wait and see if the princess will snap out of her slumber or be devoured by it along side with everyone in the Kingdom.”

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An impenetrable blackness imprisoned an unknown quiet place it felt comfortless as though one was in an extremely affrighted zone. This situation is enough to make anyone petrified because all what one sees is nothing but eerie darkness then indistinct voices filled the void.

"Am Stare. I stare at the past when given."

"Am Eye. I eye for the present when seen."

"Am Ensure. I ensure where the future is when stated."

"Am Regard. I knows all; I sees all."

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"What is all this?

"What are those voices and letter just now?"

"Why I'm I here?"

"Is this the afterlife, I thought it will be more brighter or more of a wonderland? Well."

The voice laughed.

"Let's see how it turns out."

All of a sudden. The darkness raced into another nothing in a raw smoggy atmosphere, the sharpness of the frosty air advanced the environment into a solidification phase revealing wintry surroundings full of frozen floors and walls without a single snow found just a pale, pure, teal aqua-green with a jewel undertone color was seen then a bare tanned feet gently landed on the veritably reflective frozen ground also dropping the second leg as it moved across it without the act of ever slipperiness around producing a faint steps within the frigid zone then it stopped in front of a frozen large wall.

"Is good to see you again, Princess." A voice within the wall said in a silvery tone.

"Do I know you?"

"Ha. You might have forgotten, we first met when you were, Let's see. two years of age agreeable you can't probably remembered that."

"Beat me."

Wren folded her arms, she was in her plain white gown that's her night wear but her plaited hair seems different having a frizzy hairstyle without her tiara worn looking more physically attractive.

"Great look by the way." the voice within the wall said, looked as if it was her reflection who was talking. Wren rolled her glossy blue eyes up.

"You mean this. I'm planning on cutting it anyway. I mean all of it." She turned her face around, "Now that I'm here. Anything you want to say or tell me."

"I thought you knew why."

Wren sighed as she scratched her frizzy browned hair. "Hmmm. Let's see... hmmm... about me being the protector... about the fact all eyes are on me as we speak... hmmm... my relationship with the Nymphs Kingdom... the next queen... my... my... " She yawned. "Can I go back to sleep now. you know. If you are omniscience, I trained all day everyday."

"And the boy."

"Yeah. probably said that. did I?"

"The cause of your sudden heart beats and unknown pains were the cause of the boy," the voice said, "your world and his, works in a prodigious ways. Both your internal and external states are built alike in an entanglement of things that can't be fully understood by sight alone, what he felt you feel and what you felt he also will definitely feel it."

"Then should I look for him Immediately."

"No. not that. It is already being fated. With or without your actions things will be connected together."

"Fate? That's new. I for once haven't step outside of my kingdom talk-less of me actually meeting a boy I haven't seen or met before."

"Princess Wren. An ocean of lifetime may pass but still, in the end, your heart will guide you to him."

Wren rubbed her eyes then she narrowed it to her reflection.

"Thanks for reminding me of my fated journey towards him. Well this chapter is getting longer than expected, do you mind sharing your identity with me before it ends?"

"Oh, that? Another chapter will tell."

"Seriously?" She blinked, on receiving no response within the frozen walls, she looked around, "Oh. She is serious. Now the real deal. How I'm I leaving this place?"