"Your highness!, please come out something terrible has happened!" Juliet knocked on the

King's door. She had ran to the meeting room with some guards but they said he'd left along time ago.

She stood anxiously waiting for a response when a guard walks up to them.

"He's with Lady Akia."

They all collectively run to the other side of the palace. Mina comes out of the room with the doctor.

"Is your majesty here?" Juliet asked and Mina shook her head.

"He's in a bath."

Ophelia gets in front of the queen's body.

"Your baby should be death by now." She said to the pained queen.

"W-wheres the antidote?" The Queen asked and Ophelia puts a hand through her pinned hair and pulls out a small bottle. Ophelia looks around before putting it in the woman's mouth and then hiding the rest inside The woman's breast wear. she does all this by hiding her actions with her body and other hand.

"Oh thank gods." The queen said as she's lifted away by guards.

all the kitchen staff were brought to the celebration hall and beaten to their knees.

The king arrived inside the celebration hall, his hair till dripping wet with his robes not fully tied yet.

"Who did such a thing on such a glorious day?, WHO BEGS SO DESPERATELY FOR MY ATTENTION THAT THEY'D POISON MY QUEEN." The king yelled, the entire hall visibly shakes.

"REVEAL YOURSELF NOW AND JUST MAYBE THE SUN WILL EXCUSE YOUR ACTIONS IN YOUR AFTER LIFE."

The maids start crying, all of them already knowing that if someone didn't come up and claim responsibility, they were the ones who were gonna die.

"Who handed her the food?" The king asked the kitchen monitor.

"Ophelia did sire." The kitchen monitor said.

"I had no idea it was poison sir-"

"You had no idea it was poison?, what does that mean?! You put something in the queen's food?."

"I-I her mother told me it was a fertility pill, something to help her next child become the sun king."

The queen mother's eyes widen at the accusation.

"Your highness, the pill was a simple beet pill. Nothing of the poisonous sort." The mother said and the father joins in.

"Exactly! It's from a simple beet farm in our compound I saw her make it." The father said.

The brother waits for his parents to stop speaking before he started saying his part.

"Your majesty!, the entire time they sat here they talked badly about the queen.. they made you out to be a reckless vulgar king who slept with mere maids, they were abolishing your honor sire."

The king's eyebrow lifted,

"Is that so?"

Both Clast and Michael the king's personal guards pulled out their swords.

"Your majesty.. we were only taunting her for the celebration. She is our daughter for goddess sake, why would we poison our only way into the palac-?" The father cried.

"Something's odd here." Clast whispers to Michael. Michael didn't respond.

"Your majesty.. they wanted me to marry you instead, they told me that if something happened to Marilyn that they'd put me on the throne instead." The Queen's 14 year old sister Elise said, her bottom lip wobbles as she makes the confession.

"THAT'S PREPOSTEROUS?, WHO HAS PUT YOU UP TO SUCH A BALA-" the mother screams.

The king interrupts.

"SILENCE."

The mother and the father whimper.

Michael eyes the maids and in the corner of his eyes he sees Ophelia smile.

Something was definitely odd here.

"the queen has spoken of this in the past, she told me that she feared her parents would want her to descend from the throne so that the younger child could enter." The king said and the crowd gasped.

"I understand your disrespectful antics for control of the throne.. BUT HOW DARE YOU POISON MY QUEEN."

The king grips the blade from Michael's hand and flings it straight across the room.

The sword hits the father right through the throat and then continues flying until it pins the wall on the opposite side. The crowd was now filled with screams.

They all get up from their seats and bow in front of the king.

"Spare The woman, she has younger children ." The crowd begged and the king's chest was rising and falling in anger.

He hasn't killed anyone in 20 years.

"Lock her up, the queen will decide what to do with her." The king said, before walking away.

"THANK YOU YOUR MAJESTY."

The queen had fallen into a deep sleep after taking the antidote.

The king placed his hands on her cold ones,

"You must not die, you're far too bright to leave me here to fight the darkness alone." The king said stroking the woman's hands.

Michael and Clast were both in the room as well. Michael had his head down bowing when he saw an ant crawling in a straight line towards something.

He bends his head slightly and sees a small open bottle with a small amount of red liquid in it.

The ant turns away from the bottom and then disappears.

Michael moves his head up straight, Clast looked at him strangely.

When the king prepared to leave, Michael walks to the side of the bed, pretending to give the queen a formal bow by getting all the way to the floor in an absolute submissive pose.

He grabs the small bottle, and puts it in a small coin bag.

Clast feels It impolite to not do the same before they all left. Michael hesitates to leave, especially after seeing her snuggle contently into her pillow.

The king returns to Akia's chambers.

The girl was sitting on the carpeted wooded floor ripping into roasted chicken.

Mina who was besides her was dismissed.

The king watched as she ate almost savagely.

" I hope you don't eat like this when your father comes, he'll think I wasn't feeding you."

"Haven't eaten in two days."

"Whose fault is that?" The king said, she pouts but continues eating soppily.

The king takes out his handkerchief and wipes the side of her mouth.

Her lips spread into a smile before she says 'thank you' and goes back to biting the meat off a chicken leg.

" here I was thinking you loved animals." The king said, the image of such a small girl eating like a wild baby bear was so amusing.

"I do.. but he's already dead wouldn't it be rude to just let his death be in vein."

"I suppose you're right, can I eat with you?" The king had said jokingly, the girl nods.

"Just don't touch my chicken."

She's cute.

Ophelia enters the hospital room, she looks down at the queen who opens her eyes, to Ophelia's surprise.

"How'd you know she was going to give me a fertility pill?" The queen asked her maid.

"I planted bait and she took it. All I did was pay some servants to tell her about the powers of beets in the 'prophecy'. Selas will be very impressed with your performance my queen." Ophelia said and the queen smiles.

April enters a small village using the directions the last stranger had given her. She was with an injured man tied to her back.

She undos the ropes and climbs the horse while still holding the man still so he couldn't fall. Once she reaches the ground her hands could no longer reach the man so he falls down and right on top of her.

She can't lift him, he's way too heavy.

"Someone help." She yells.

She lays there being crushed for a couple minutes when a wolf appeared out of the woodsy area she just came out from.

April gasps and tries to push the man off her but all her attempts are futile.

The wolf gets closer, baring his teeth and salivating.

It starts to growl and April reaches into her waist band, inside was a very small knife that would only save her if she aimed directly for the eye.

April shivers in fear still trying to reach the knife. The injured on top of her mumbles something and then turns his face to the wolves side.

All of a sudden the growling stops.

"Hey Whose there?." A voice asked,

The wolf turns and runs away.

April lets out a breath of relief.