Duty and Freedom????
By Beckylove
Chapter 1
~The Prologue~
“His highness”, the palace guard announced the prince’s presence.
His mother, Queen Aimee smiled as he walked in.
He genuflect to greet his father, King Noah.
” Father, do you have to go to the battle ground? Aren’t you the king?”, he asked the king.
King Noah shook his head.
“I’m the leader if this country, Alexander. I have to lead the war”, the king explained.
” Your people won’t mind it if you stay at the palace, will they? After all, we have so many warriors”, Princess Amelia puts in.
The king Pat her head.
“It is only right that I lead this war. That’s how it’s done. A king must be Br@ve and courageous. A weakling cannot be a king”, the king said.
” I wish you good luck”, Queen Aimee said.
King Noah ki-ssed the queen forehead and hu-g the kids.
He walked out of his chamber and saw his five mistresses there. He gave them a smile and left a word.
“Behave”
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If queen Aimee had known, she would have stopped her husband from going to the war. He conquered but he came home weak. He was stabbed and he gad lost so many blood. The stab wound was very de-ep that the physician couldn’t stop the blood. The king insisted on coming back to the palace.
“Call Alexander, I want to talk to him”, the king said.
The guards went out immediately to call the prince. Everyone knows the king will die. He has lost so much blood already.
Queen Aimee just stood there, her eyes red.
” Father, I’m here”, the young prince genuflect the moment he came in.
The king gesture that he come closer and the prince went closer to him. The king then asked everyone to excuse him. The Elders of the kingdom, the physician and the guards that are in the room walked out immediately.
“Alexander”, the king called.
” Yes father”, the boy answered.
“You have to be a Br@ve king. Be courageous and always remember that your duty as a king comes first before anything”, he paused so that the ten year old boy could digest his words.
” A king should do his duty no matter what he faces. Sometimes your duty as a king will stop you from doing personal things but that’s why you are royalty. You lost the freedom to make choices that will benefit you the moment you’re born into the royal family. The kingdom always cone first.
The young prince frowned.
“Father”, he called.
” Yes son”, the man gr-unted.
“Why are you telling me all this?”, he asked.
The older man smiled.
” Because you will be king after me”, the man replied.
“You have to get well soon. You still have a lot to teach me” the prince said.
King Noah smiled looking lovingly at his son.
He said nothing.
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The king pas-sed away that night. That raining night, the great king kicked the bucket.
“What should I do? Father isn’t dead, Is he? He promised to teach me a lot of things!”, Prince Alexander cried.
His mother drew him closer as she wept.
Prince Amelia closed her eyes.
She did not know how to react. She is quite close to her father and she didn’t want to believe that her dad is really dead. She is twelve years old and she is older than her brother but he is more un-derstanding than she is.
She just watched.
A man moved closer to him.
He is Sir Greg. He is the closest advisor of the king.
” Wipe your tears, your highness. The whole kingdom is in your hands now”
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“All hail king Alexander Germaine”
Everyone stood up and bowed to the ten year old king.
The king is not happy. He is angry. His father lied to him. He died and left him alone. He felt betrayed and he also missed his father.
So his duty as a king started so soon.
How is he suppose to rule such a great kingdom?
The burden will be too much for a young lad like him but who says he should be born into the royal family.
He will have to ignore his own personal desi-re and live for the people.
At ten he lost his father!
At ten He became a king!
At ten he lost his freedom.
Queen Aimee watched her son. He is too young to carry this burden. Shelagh is a very big kingdom and her young son have to rule such a great country as the king.
Duty and Freedom????
By Beckylove
Chapter 2
~Royal world~
Ignore typos and errors
In hu-gh kingdom
Princess Cheryl woke up early in the morning and saw that it is snowing outside. How much she love to watch it snow. She quickly stood up. She wants to rush out but she is in her night robe. She dare not walk out like that.
“Kayla?”, she called.
Her personal slave rush in.
” My princess, you’re awake. It’s snowing. Do you want to go watch it?”
The princess smiled.
“I saw already. Get my garment before it stops snowing.”, Princess Cheryl said.
Kayla smiled.” We are in it’s season my princess. It’s not stopping anytime soon”
Cheryl make a tick tick sound in her throat and kayla rushed to get the dress.
She helped the princess with the dress.
“How do we go out? The guards are our enemies”, Kayla reminded.
” We will outsmart our foes as usual, don’t worry”, Princess Cheryl as-sured and hold the hem of her garment.
“I wish I could wear a lighter dress. This heavy royal garment su-cks”, she said.
Kayla shook her head immediately.
” No my princess. I can’t stand his majesty scolding you again”
Princess Cheryl smiled.
She got out of her chamber and her retinue (attendants, slaves and guards) bowed to her.
“I’m going with just Kayla”, she told them.
The only problem now is how to outsmart all those guards in the hallways. She nee-ds to get to the garden and have fun and be free_ like a commoner.
She loves freedom and she craves for it so much. Her dream is to just be free and live her life like a commoner. Perhaps, her dream will come to pas-s one day.
Immediately she stepped into the hall ways, she squared her shoulders, walking briskly like a royal princess she is. She walked pas-s the guards with a straight face. The guards didn’t stop her and she was glad. Alas, when she was about to get to the garden a guard stopped her.
” My princess, it’s snowing outside. You can’t go out”
Princess Cheryl turned majestically to look at him.
“Are you saying I’m prohibited in the garden?”, she asked him.
” No, my princess”
“Then?”, she asked.
” I will be punished if I allow you to go into the snow. You might catch a cold or something”
She was about to speak when someone said.
“Don’t worry about it. It’s none of your business”,
Princess Cheryl smiled when she heard that voice. That’s her twin sister, Princess Shirley. The two sisters looked nothing like each other.
” Hi Cheryl”, she greeted.
“Hi”, Cheryl replied.
Shirley glanced at Kayla who bowed to her.
Shirley didn’t like it each time she saw how close Cheryl is to this slave. She felt that it’s not right. Royalty and slave does not go.
” You are watching it snow again?”, she asked.
Cheryl waltz into the garden.
“I’m not just watching, Shirley. I’m playing in the snow”
Shirley sigh. She is the eldest of the two. Yeah, she is the eldest because she came out a minute or two before Cheryl.
“You know father and mother doesn’t like all this. They must not see you”
“Why?”, Cheryl asked. She spread her palm and watched as snow flakes fall on it.
” Still asking “, Shirley scoffed.
” cause you’re royalty”, she half yelled as she watched Cheryl playing like a commoner in the snow.
Cheryl paused and rolled her eyes.
“You can leave already, Shirley”, She said.
“I’m going for the courting week”, Shirley said after heaving a sigh.
Since Shirley is the eldest of the sisters, she is also the heir.
Their father, king Lance did not have a male child. He had three mistresses and a queen and one of his mistress gave birth to a son but he died as a still birth.
The queen gave birth only after the king’s mistress Karen gave birth to the twins. The queen gave birth to a girl too, Princess Pamela.
The third mistress is not allowed to give the king a chance because of her family background and many other reasons. She has to take a certain herbs each time she had se-xual intercourse with the king. The other mistress is the mother of the dead prince and she couldn’t give birth again after that.
In the Royal world, only the queen is allowed to give birth freely to as many children as she wishes.
Any mistress that conceived without taking order from the king will be killed with her child.
” Good for you then”, Cheryl replied.
Shirley husband will be king after King Lance pas-s away and Shirley will be Queen of hu-gh.
Cheryl is expected to marry a prince from any kingdom there is a rule in the royal world: royals must marry royals. A mistress can be from any background.
On no ground should a royalty marry someone with no Royal blood. A royalty can be a mistress but it must he a mistress to a royal blood.
Shirley smiled.
“I will be leaving tomorrow”, She said.
” Safe journey”, Cheryl said, blowing the snow flakes on her palm that’s already melting.
Shirley sigh. She turned and walk away from the garden. She is feeling the cold already.
Immediately Shirley left, Kayla joined her master and they started chasing each other in the snow having fun.
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Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. It may not seem interesting to you now but I’m very confident that you will grow to like this book.
It has just started.