April was riding inside the forest, she'd been told that it was a short cut to her desired location so she was eager to enter.

The forest was quiet without a single sound from any creature. It seemed to even be frightening the poor horse. So April got down and walked with the horse to look for water.

She found a small pond and allows the horse to drink before feeding him carrots and other vegetables she carried in a sack just for him.

"Should we get going now Charlie?, I don't like the idea of sleeping in such a place." April said to her horse before stroking its face.

She walks a little with the horse besides her until she hears a loud howl.

The horse is startled and tries to pull back from that direction but April starts to pet him to reassure him that it's okay to continue moving forward.

There's a monstrous scream that follows after the howl, April pulls out her sword.

She ties Charlie to the tree and starts to walk on her own. As she continues to walk sounds of crying and screaming seem to continue increasingly getting louder with each step she took.

She finds herself at a cottage.

A scream startles her and she clenched on to her long sword.

She walks around the cottage just to see a horrific scene, she quickly retrieved and hides beside the cottage wall.

There in front of her was a coven of women all wearing black cloaks with a red stone in the middle. They were all surrounding a naked man.

Together they chanted something with twisted tongues.

April grips the side of the cottage too afraid to even take a breath.

The man was the one screaming, every time the women spoke, an ungodly scream with leave the man's mouth.

With a closer look April could see blood falling from his eyes.

She wants to turn around she really does. But her father once told her integrity was the only thing that separated any swordsman from becoming a warrior.

And a warrior was all the southern woman ever wanted to be.

So she charges at the one closest to her.

She swings her sword and slices a head off a shoulder. She shouts out a warrior cry before turning and swinging at another witch.

"This is the sun's land, no creature of the moon can stay here." She said and with quick moves, agility and flexibility, she kills 3.

The two that remained shot off from the ground before one kicks her right in the throat. April flew backwards and hit the cottage.

She gasps for air to past through her throbbing throat.

"YOUR PRECIOUS SUN IS POWERLESS." The witch yells before flying down to grab April by her leg and throwing her into a tree.

April feels bone break from her fall but she stumbles up, before grabbing a small knife that had been inside her furry leather boots.

She waits for the witch to attack again.

She waits patiently with the knife behind her, one of the witches comes flying towards her once again and she throws the knife in a millisecond hitting the witch right inside her eye.

The witch screeches But doesn't retrieve she comes to attack April again but with a blind spot now created April knew this battle was hers.

She punches the woman straight in her other eye.

Once the woman is down she stomps on her face and then puts her foot on the side of her face and shoves to the side in order to Snap her neck.

When April turns around the other witch was gone, leaving only the naked bleeding man.

She runs toward him, and unwraps her robe to secure it around the man. He gasps with tears streaming down his dirty face.

"Thank you," He says as she wraps the silk robe around him.

"What were they doing to you?" She asks helping the man to his feet.

The man wobbles a little but stands.

"They wanted my blood." The man said and April nods before picking up her bloody sword.

"I've never seen a woman fight, especially not like that."

"I'm the daughter of the royal General of war, of course I would've picked up on a few things. Come now we must find your home." April said walking in front of the man, leading a wolf to a horse.

When Akia woke up she felt strong hands around her.

She gasps standing up in a hurry thinking that they were the arms of a man when instead it was Mina.

she lets out a breath of relief.

"Morning My lady." Mina says, Akia smiles suddenly reminded of her older sister.

"Morning Mina."

"I have to go help with the food preparations and then with the cleaning." Mina says and Akia nods.

"I'll send in your maids"

Akia lays back down on the bed.

The bed she had here was huge so it often remained cold and unwelcoming. Her room back home had a very small bed, father had jokingly said he made it so, so she wouldn't possibly be able to bring in any men to use the bed with.

But in all honesty the bed was given to him by the late king when Clast was first born and he thought that it was a blessing to the family.

A kind of heirloom.

Akia thought perhaps that's why both her and Clast ended up in the palace.

They both slept too diligently on a blessed bed, so much so that their blessings became curses.

Akia sits up feeling entirely too filthy. She tries to stand but the minute her legs touch the wooded floor they become jellylike and cause her to fall.

Her maids enter and quickly walk to her side to help her stand.

"My Lady, is the king Really this well endowed?." One of the maids asked and the others quickly hit her. Akia who was placed back on the bed looks out the window.

"Sorry." The maid said.

Akia doesn't respond, she doesn't know what to say to that, what did it even mean?.

Later that day she's in a bath tub, being scribbled from the sins of the night before.

"The royal doula said you're half way pregnant now. I thought a woman got pregnant after only being with a man once but apparently it's different when you're getting fucked by a king." The same maid from early said such crude words while she washed Akia's back.

"Hazel!, what's wrong with you?" Another maid asked.

"What? What'd I say?." Hazel said and the other maid replies.

"Stop talking before the Gods strike you dead."

Mina enters Akia's chamber to bring lunch, the first plate was full with fruits of all kind and then the second plate was rice that had been boiled, seasoned then fried.

The last one was a bowl that had a whole roasted chicken covered in vegetables.

"Am I expected to eat all this?" Akia asked and Mina nods "The royal doula says you must in order for the energy inside you to foster enough strength to hold the king when he really gives you a child."

"So I'm not pregnant yet then?!" Akia asked excitement dripping from her voice.

Mina's eyes widen and she covers her mouth with the palm of her hand.

"I-I wasn't supposed to say all that." Mina said and Akia smirked.

"Help me escape and I'll tell father to adopt you." Akia said and the serving table in Mina's hands start to shake.

"I cannot help you, but I won't stop you if you tried. I know what it's like for you so I will take the death penalty for letting you go." Mina said, her emerald eyes scan the floor.

Akia frowned.

How could she escape if it meant the demise of innocent girls?

Father surely taught her better.

She sinks into the bed, not touching the food or even drinking the juice that came with it.

she had to escape, but it had to look like it was completely out of the maids control.

The king was a good sympathetic king, he wouldn't punish people about things out of their control.

She had to think and plan meticulously, she had to ask herself.

"What would April Kenya do?"

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Kat graham is how I imagine April to look. I won't add many character faces unless I'm using a bit of their personality or

tv personality.