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Reina and the others were the only ones slightly surprised that he used such language after a long time. Unlike the others, they knew Judy’s history and the fact he grew up bad – you can never take away a habit learned over a lifetime.
Judy let out a breath of relief. Now, his citizens can know he was not their everyday proper king nor was he a pushover. Just like both sides of a coin, he could be kind when he wanted to and cruel when necessary.
“Does anyone have a problem with that?!” He asked one more time and when no one replied, knew his message had gotten across.
“We’d fight to the end, but when it seems the tide isn’t in our favor, we’d surely find a way to get you out of here. That’s a promise,” He assured them, then turned to his mother.
“You’ll be fine here,”
“Kai,” the queen grabbed his hand just as he turned to leave. He looked at her questioningly.
However, the woman simply stood on her heels and kissed him on the forehead, “May the Lord be with you,”
He smiled at her knowing she was blessing him. In times of war, it was customary for the priest to bless their weapons, but since there wasn’t one available, she was doing their job.
And just like that, the queen observed the same custom on all of the men with him. None of them refused the gesture knowing it was a huge privilege.
“Father!” Judy’s attention was shifted to his son who had run over to him, Emily after him.
“I don’t want you to go,”
“Hey, be a strong man – that’s your responsibility as a prince. You have to be strong for your mother and your subjects,”
Akim wanted to cry but seeing the firm determination on his father’s face, he made up his mind to be strong.
He turned to Emily, “How do you feel?”
“Better,” Emily told him, then engulfed him in a hug, “Be safe,”. She didn’t want to let him go, but then, this was his job as a prince of this kingdom.
Just like Judy, the others spent one short moment with their family and loved ones.
“It’s time,” Emerald informed Judy and he gestured to the others as well. Slowly, they withdrew from the room one after the others, but not without one last long at their loved ones.
As soon as the guards shut the door, silence descended as the severity of the situation dawned on everyone. However, that was the beginning of their problem because one of the guards out of nowhere shot at the others before they could react.
It became a hostage situation.
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The third point of view:
Everything happened very quickly. One moment, the prince and his people left, the next, one of the guards stationed at the entrance began to shoot at the other guards causing a huge commotion as people screamed and ducked for their life. In a twinkle of an eye, all of the guards were down.
In the middle of the commotion, Isabella quickly picked her phone and typed, “SOS: all of the guards down in the chapel. One up. Approach with caution. Don’t be stupid, you can’t outrun a bullet,”
“All of you down now!” The guard boomed at the people running up and down in the chaos. He then began to shout sporadically in the air forcing everyone to fall to the ground, covering their heads and ears.
In no time, the racket died down and what was heard was whimpering from the scared people and cries from the kids.
“Now, that’s more like it,” The guard smirked at their cooperation.
Reina and Isabella’s eyes connected and the young girl shook her head, gesturing at her not to do anything stupid. Reina sighed, Isabella was right.
Although they could overpower him if they all rushed at him, the guard was skilled and had a weapon, nor could she tell the remaining bullets. How many casualty losses would there be? Who would sacrifice their life nor was she ready to have anyone sacrifice their life? In one word, retaliation was too risky.
“What is the meaning of this?” her royal majesty, the queen, was the only one brave enough to stand up.
“What do you think your royal majesty?” The guard teased her, “I’m just keeping you safe for when his majesty, the king, Albert, comes to take you,” he was not ashamed to acknowledge someone else as his king in front of the current monarchy.
“Y-you!” the queen’s heart rate went up.
“He’s that guard I saw that day,” Neon said in a low tone but because the chapel was deadly silent, the wave carried his voice across.
The guard laughed, “Of course, you saw me but you couldn’t identify me and your dumb queen was too ignorant,”
“You don’t have to do this,” the queen said to him, “Whatever Lord Albert promised you, I can do that tenfold,”
The man snorted, “You had all the time to do it yet you didn’t. What makes you think I’ll believe you,” He added, “Moreover, it king Albert, not, Lord Albert, because he would win this war,” he grinned, “I’ll make sure of it,”
His future was tied to Lord Albert, so of course, he had to win. If Albert failed, he might as well take away his own life – the queen would not let him live.
“Now, I’ll advise you to lay on the ground like the others,” He ordered the queen.
“What? No?!” Emily stood to her defense, “She can’t do that, she’s the queen! That’s disrespectful to the crown!”
The others on the ground voiced their disapproval as well. They didn’t support that – it was the biggest disgrace to the queen.
“In case you don’t know this yet but the instant that rebellion started, your queen lost her power and title. So I advise you to behave,” He pointed the gun at Emily while speaking to the queen, “King Albert might have ordered for you to be kept alive, but the same can’t be said for your would have been daughter-in-law or anyone else in here,” He hinted he wouldn’t hesitate to shoot at will.
“How could you -” Emily was still saying when the captain cocked his gun at her.
“Emily!”
“Mother!”
Everyone was concerned for her safety.
“You don’t have to do that,” The queen said to him before getting on her knees and then, laid flat on the ground.