-Break-

  3 Years ter

  Feeling a pey face I open my eyes to see Katk is attag me. Sitting up, I say, “What’s wrong girl?”

  Katk using her wing points towards the baly, so I say, “You wao go look?”

  Katk nods her head up and down, so I get up and walk over there, and as I walk, I start to hear sounds whicreasingly grow louder. When I reach the baly, I see lots of fires all around the pace.

  “What is this?”

  Then Katk es in front of me and from her third eye, it projects one of her memories.

  In the memory I see a group of swine heading for the pace gates, but shogly there are soldiers with them.

  Then behind all of them on a ptform, I see Vizier Thueban, shouting, “For far too long have we let those demons we call our rulers destroy us!

  We are the people of this try, the very lifeblood that keeps it afloat, yet they have allowed us to starve to death, and live in disease-riddled homes, while stantly f oppressive w after oppressive w upon us!

  So as the very soul of this natio us se all of the filth that is polluting it, Stand up my people and TAKE WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY YOURS!”

  As the memory stops pying, I start to freak out. “Why is Thueban doing this? We have always allowed that swio stao our exalted family, he has even be given the right to eat our scraps.

  We are the rulers of this nation; all you swi solely for us yet you would do such a horrid thing as invade our home. Trash, trash, trash, trash, trash, YOU’RE ALL TRASH!

  Regaining my bearings, I say, “I got to find father and mother.”

  Grabbing Katk I run out of my room at full speed, I o escape. Using Katk as a scout I am able to manoeuvre my way through the pad hid.

  Turning a wall a bump into someone, and theh say, “Who dares run into a higher being such as myself!”

  Opening my eyes I see that it is my father who I bumped into, with my mother and three soldiers close behind. Seeing them I run and hug my mother's leg while saying, “I was scared.”

  Kig me off, my mother says, “We don’t have time for such things we o escape.”

  “Swine, pick him up and hurry.”

  “But Katk hasn’t returned yet.”

  “BE QUIET. Do you really think we have time for a stupid bird!”

  After the soldiers pick me up we run deeper into the pace, until we reach the area leading to the underground.

  As we run through the long corridor, my father says, “People like us shouldn’t be in such a situation! Why does someone such as myself have to perspire over the as of some insignifit beings!?”

  “I swear when this is over I will carve their children into shoes for myself.”

  Suddenly my father says, “Where here,” as he takes a turn right. But the moment the soldier carrying me in his arms also turns right, I see my father and mother standing still, and in front of the rge door at the end of the corridor is Thueban.

  “How are you doing, my former king.”

  “YOU TREACHEROUS TROGLODYTE. Do you even know what I have had to gh thanks to your antics? A hundred deaths would even begin to pay for your sins. Soldiers attack him!”

  The two soldiers whose hands are free run up to attack Thueban. Then out of nowhere, a person in a bck cloak appears out of nowhere and suddenly both of the soldiers disappear.

  In that moment my eyes open wide, and I take ihing before me. The person is wearing a bck cloak with gold linings, with a grey mask to cover their face. The cloak is so big that I ’t make out the body shape, but ohing I do notice is that the person has a child; about my height, on their shoulders in the same clothes.

  After I finish staring at the cloaked person, I look for the two missing soldiers and on the far right a walls I see two blood sptters. The soldier where sent flying into the wall and died.

  Afraid my father falls to the ground, which causes Thueban to ugh then say, “Noould I have to pay for my sins, since from this moment on I am the new ruler of Jedidiah.”

  Angered, my father says, “I am the king of Jedidiah, you must be insane if you think you take my pce.”

  “But am I really? Because haven’t I been ruling this whole time.” Walking closer to us he says, “Who is the ohat has been in charge of all the systems in Jedidiah? Who is the ohat has handled all the imports and exports in Jedidiah? Who is the ohat ands the army in Jedidah to forcibly enforce all the policies that he writes up by himself? And who is the one who has the hearts of all the people on his side?

  Up until now, I have been running this try, in all responsibility I have been its ruler. But I have had to ao ignorant, lesser beings such as yourself this eime and I have finally had enough of that. So, with the strength of the people by my side I will remove you from your throne.”

  Frightened, my father says, “So you believe yourself to be a hero of all these swine. You look down on those is as much as I do, soon enough they will e nibbling at your feet like they did at mine.”

  “If you think I respect the idiots who live out there even a little you would be wrong, ead every one of them is an inferior beast who shouldn’t evehe the same air as me.

  But unlike you, I at least uand that wild animals are dangerous. They o be kept satiated, so they don’t sh out, and you have failed at the simple task. Unlike you, I will feed my beasts and turn them into ons which I use for myself.

  A perfect example of this is our current situation. Every single one of the ws I had passed for my own be, have been rather annoying to all the people, so one would think they would possess some aowards me, but as they don’t and why is that? It’s because they think all those ws are by order of the king!”

  “I have never once suggested any ws to be passed!”

  Sighing, Thueban says, “You truly are slow, so let me simplify this for you. As far as all the people out there are ed, I am a poor orphan whose parents were sughtered by your tyrannical rule and vowed to infiltrate your inner circle to one day restore the try to the people.”

  “THAT’S A BUNCH OF NONSENSE.”

  “Spot on, but the people believe that. Information trol is what keeps rulers ohrones. So, as you go to the afterlife, regret the fact you couldn’t do such a thing.”

  “I didn’t think you were such a fool Thueban. You should know what will happen if you hurt a bloodline of Lux, destru will reign on the people and kingdom of whoever dares to hurt one of the family members.”

  In front of me, I see my father's hand fly vanish, which causes him to scream his lungs out, then moments ter I see the hooded person in front of me.

  In a casual voice they say, “The judgment of Lux, the curse said to fall upon those who hurt the family of Lux. But you see that is a misception, the curse will only fall on those who erase a family of Lux, so as long as a single family member of your bloodline survives there is nothing to worry about.”

  Instantly, I appear to be in the hooded person's arms. Turning my head, I see the soldier who was holding me in now a blood sptter on the wall. Then the hooded person then reappears right beside Thueban with me in their arms.

  “And my former king I have decided Ahmed will be the surviving member. Now how should we kill you; I will be taking ideas.”

  In front of me, I see the panic appear on my mother’s face as my father screams in pain. Then moments ter my mother says, “Please spare my life I will do anything, even bee your wife. I have pride in my unmatched beauty.”

  On the ground, my father says, “You bitch! After everything I have done for you!”

  “SHUT UP, A MAN WHO ’T PROTECT HIS WIFE IS A POINTLESS EXISTANCE1”

  Standing up my father punches Mother with his good hand, and says, “You cheap whore!”

  Thueban smiling says, “I will have to pass you old hag, you see a hero like me should have an untouched, younger maiden for myself and when I am king I will have a rather rge amount of didates. But the idea of sleeping with the former queen is rather tantalizing, so let’s py a game, if you kill your husband right here and now I will take you on as a backup wife.”

  Thueban throws his sword directly at my mother which she picks up. My father frightened says, “Do you really think you betray me a away with it, do you really think you could kill someone who you loved so much?”

  Snickering, my mother says, “I never loved you.”

  As I try to make sense of the events unfolding before me the hooded person pulls me close, and I feel softness; is this a woman? “Don’t look.” As my face is in this woman’s chest, I suddenly hear all the noise from where my mother and father are disappearing.

  Thueban says enraged, “How dare you do that!? They were mio kill.”

  “Be quiet human. I was in no mood to witness such a disgusting sight and don’t fet if it wasn’t for the insight, I gave you the judgement of Lux would have killed you all and the people in this try. Now take us to where we want to go.”

  Begrudgingly Thueban says, “Let’s go.”

  As we walk towards the door to the underground, I try to move my head from her chest and look at my parents, but she pulls me closer and says, “Don’t bother looking at such a sight.”

  -Break-

  After walking through the underground for a while we eventually reach a rge door which has a strange symbol that looks like a clock gear.

  Thueban says, “So this is what you are looking for?”

  “Yes, it is and I would suggest you back up, otherwise you might die.”

  Wheake a siep closer, I feel my mind start to spin as an incredibly ed and sickly feeling overtakes my body. It feels like I am about to go insane.

  The woman jumps back immediately grabbing me and Thueban. “I k was bad but not to this extent. Good thing I came prepared.”

  As I regain my bearings, the woman says to the child on her back, “Yacy please.”

  The child on her back says, “Cover us.” Then her cloak turns into a legad then a giant purple snake mas from it and covers both of their bodies.

  “This should e the effects, now give us a moment.”

  The both of them charge headfirst into the door pletely ued by the side effects. Nearly 3 seds after they ehe door, I am kicked in the face by Thueban, who says, “Sorry, looking at your little face started to annoy me.”

  As I reel from the blow, he says, “Crawling on the floor like a slug doesn’t suit aed being such as yourself, oh how I would have loved to see those two idiots you call your parents like this but heless I will eain myself with their progeny.”

  tinuing to kick me on the floor he says, “Now cry you little brat.”

  C my head, I tio cry, until I hear a call from afar. Then moments ter, I hear, “LOOK OUT, LITTLE PRINCE.” Naji hits Thueban with a devastating punch sending him directly into the door.

  Then looking up, I see my brother with Katk beside him. “Ahmed let’s go!”