Reign Of The Blood King: Rain 2 "Friends"

Reign Of The Blood King: Rain 2 "Friends"
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Rain pulled Bell's hand as they ran behind a house. He stopped Bell from running into view. Then he took a look himself. He held his mouth from what he saw. The village he grew up in, his home. Was now ablaze. As he watched the knights' movement something caught his eye. Something golden, and there was only one thing in the entire village that was gold. Feya's hair.

Feya was a half-elf, the only one in the village. Her, Rain, Anreum and Bell would often play together. Rain pulled Bell though the homes that once was their friends'. Crawling under windows, Rain shielded Bell's eyes from what was in the rooms they pasted. The stench that came from the rooms was almost unbearable. They had to stop to let Bell vomit, Rain did a few time too. Slowly but surely they went from home to home as to avoid the Knights attacking the village. they past the home of the baker that would give Rain and his sister bread. they were going to pass Anreum's house but Rain stopped and went in. he took Bell and hid her in the kitchen. then he looked around the home of his friend.

the house was already ransacked, anything and everything was everywhere. he waked into the main bedroom. but before he open the door he stopped, he could smell something it was something that was in the air all day but whatever was behind that door had the most nauseating smell. something was yelling at Rain not to open the door. Against his better judgment, he reached and grabbed the door knob. turning it slowly till he heard a click. he pushed the door then quickly covered his mouth to stop his scream as tears flowed down his cheeks fell on into the liquid on the floor.

 Anreum and his parents were beast-kin, beast-kin were a race of magic creatures made by Mages. Just about all humans thought of them little more then an servants of man. However, there will be someone who hates someone or some race more then anything else. such a man found Anreum's parents, He thought of them like animals, so he treated them like it. Rain had loved them like an aunt and uncle he couldn't take it and fell to his knees. his body tried to vomit but nothing came out since his stomach was already empty. Just pain, both physically and mentally as he tried to stand but he fell again. He crawled to Anreum's room, praying, hopping he wasn't dead. when he got to the door it was already open, not sure if he could take another sight like before he hesitated but forced himself to look. The room was destroyed but Anreum wasn't there. it was empty, no blood, nobody, just empty. Rain didn't know if Anreum was dead or not. but he couldn't just sit on the floor. he managed to stand again if barely.

walking back to the kitchen he stumbled every now and then, he got Bell and then left. Rain had to keep wipe his tears often. the only good thing was they were close the wagon, also just about all the knights were out of sight. They carefully walked to the wagon. Feya wasn't moving, she just laid there. Covered by a red cloak. She told Rain she was 33 this year but since she was a half-elf her mental age and physical appearance were that of an 11-year-old.

"Feya! Are you ok?!?"

Feya didn't even flinch, Rain raised up her shoulders and her head fell back. Rain was sure she was dead, Bell who was behind Rain was trying not to scream or cry. Rain remember something Eris had taught him it was only a small thing that hardly could even be called a memory. But Rain tried it not even knowing what it is. Rain put his pointer and middle finger on Feya's neck. He didn't know he was looking for, at least he couldn't remember what he was looking for. He felt nothing, he tried moving his fingers, then he felt it. A beat, a pulse, it was weak but it was there. She was alive, Rain felt overjoyed.

"There! Captain I think I found them!"

Reality struck Rain in the gut along with a stone from a knight's sling. Rain hadn't felt this kind of pain before. The only thing that was close to the pain he felt was when he had fallen out of a tree and hit a large rock. It was an lingering pain that wouldn't fade.

"Idiot! Don't hurt them!"

One of the knights shouted to one who had just used the sling. Bell was on the verge of tears, Rain wasn't crying for Bell. He knew if he cried again they couldn't get away. The Knight was getting closer. Rain picked up Feya but couldn't hold her without almost dropping her. He put her on his back and took bell's hand.

"Run!"

Rain cry out to Bell, but the knights also started to run after them. Just about all the knights had stopped what they were doing and turned to chase them as well. Gritting his teeth and holding in his tears. He kept running, only looking back to make sure he still had Bell & Feya. They were almost there. Rain could see the forest, so he ran even faster. His vision started to fade, it got darker and darker till it went completely black.

"RAIN!"

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Pandora's Box Chapter 4

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In the dinner room were wood floors, limestone walls and two dragon bone chandeliers. A single maid stood at each pair of doors that were the exits.

The dinning table itself was bigger then a normal dining room. It was long and narrow, with at least 26 seats on each side. There were candies every two feet in the middle of the table.

The massive table was a hardly ever used. Neal had liked to eat in his room, but today was special.

Neal sat in the seat that was all the way to the end. To his right Astolo, his left was Asphodel. Next to her was Durose then Bella. Next to Astolo was Amodii then Dreya.

"My this is delicious... Oh before I forget, any questions?" (Astolo)

The only one in the room who's eating so happily is Astolo. Everybody else was eating too they just weren't so joyful. Set aside Astolo everyone had thinking expressions. Even the maids seemed to be "not all there".

"Then let's say Asphodel was chosen, would I be able to become a concubine?" (Dreya)

"Noooope" (Astolo)

She answered Dreya without any hesitation. Yet still as happy as ever.

"Any other questions?" (Astolo)

No one said a thing and just kept eating. Asphodel looked up multiple time to say something but stopped herself.

The group just sat there eating quietly.

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Asphodel lad in her bed and pondered

Today was... Confusing I mean Queen!?! Really Astolo...? Ah I can feel my face. It's hot, really hot.

Asphodel rolled and kicked at nothing in bed like the teenage girl she was.

But really me Queen...? But then Neal and I would be married...! We would, we'd...

The poor girl's red face only got redder as the night went on.

While Asphodel was well, being herself. Neal and Astolo talked in the throne room.

"You know dad I really only want you to be happy. You've been in this big place alone for so long. I just... Isn't it lonely? I mean it's been 20 years yet you still look the same as the day you took me in." (Astolo)

"Astolo I won't lie to you, I was lonely once. I would wonder why I never aged or why no kingdom could ever beat me. There was a time when I did almost anything just because I could. I started many wars made some friends too but none of that helped." (Neal)

He paused and took a breath in. Astolo held her breath paying very close attention to what the man she called father had say.

"I had declared war against a kingdom known as Lleh Liff. They weren't a strong kingdom and had declared surrender not two weeks after the first skirmish. I had gone to see what one of their village had been. The small village I went to had been attacked be bandits, without the protection of their own knights they were defenseless. In fact there was some people still being attacked when I arrived. I ran over but it was too late... The man and woman had been killed. The woman however clung onto life if only by a thread. When she saw me she pleaded me to save her child. And with her dying breathe she told me where she hid the child. That's how I found you under that old shed." (Neal)

Astolo tried but couldn't help but cry. About halfway she had started to hug Neal.

"I haven't been lonely for twenty years because of you my child." (Neal)
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Reign Of The Blood King: Rain 1 "It starts with a scream"

Reign Of The Blood King: Rain 1 "It starts with a scream"
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Rain heard his own scream, it mixed with the cries of terror that filled his village. He dropped the basket of fruit he was carrying.

What.....

the only thing Rain could think of the scene in front of him. He couldn't quite understand why Knights would be attacking his peaceful little village. Rain didn't know much about Knights, the only knight he knew was the retired Eris. Coincidently her husband was a very powerful Mage, but they had moved away years ago. From what he had learned, by the emblem on their chest, there are two platoons of Knights from different kingdoms. Though he is in too much of a panic to notice, the only reason he really noticed was the fact that they attacked each other.

After standing there in shock for a while it sank in. He ran, faster then he had ever run before. But instead of away from the village and knights, he ran into it. He passed the baker that would give him bread but he didn't stop, for the baker had a sword in his chest, and had left the living long ago; Rain passed the Doctor that healed him once and the farmer that lived next door to him both of which were dead.

Bell! Bell! Bell! Bell! Bell! Bell!

Rain chanted the only name that mattered to him. His twin sister Bluebell, they were inseparable from birth. In fact, this was only the fourth time Bell didn't go with Rain to the forest. In what seemed to be hours, as he avoided the Knights. Rain finally made it back to his house. Nothing could be heard inside. Without the time to worry about it, he slammed the door open. He almost fainted right there. His father had been killed, in way of execution. A few meters in front of his father's corpse was His mother's. Rain didn't want to think how she died. After he finished throwing up. He dragged his feet a little to the small meat locker, the small locker was somewhat hidden. Rain slowly pulled the handle that opens the door. A click could be heard along with a squeaking. The door slid open, there curled up in a ball crying was Bluebell.

"Bell... It's me, its Rain."
Though still scared Bell slowly raised her head. Rain could see the tears in her eyes, how violently she shook.

"R-R-Rain... Rain!"

Bell leaped from the floor into Rain, she hugged him so hard he couldn't breathe. Rain hugged her back, they stayed there for only a few minutes when the screams from outside made Rain return to the nightmare.

"Put this on... Till we get outside."

Bell still didn't really know just how bad it was, but she listened to Rain and put the blindfold on. He walked Bell out of the house holding the urge to vomit again. However, he himself was shaking violently from everything he witnessed this day. Getting outside Rain removed Bell's blindfold. Now that he found Bell he just had to find their two friends, Feya, and Anreum, then get out of village and to safety. This would be hard, as they were only 11 this year.
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