?MEILIN
REBORN?
( Battle for the heart and throne )
CHAPTER 52&53
By Authoress Rhema ?
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Nevaeh slowly looked up to see that blue guy again but this time he looked different.
He looked a lot more older and thefu-ck!!, What was he wearing??
“What is with your blue outfit?” She asked.
“What is with yours too?” He fired back and she could only just sigh in defeat because she was also dressed like him but compared to her, he looked like a clown.
Blue hair, blue eyes, blue eyebrows, blue long garment, blue long peaco-ck fan, infact everything was just blue.
She cleared her throat to distract herself before asking the same question again.
“Where am I and why do I look like this?” She asked, pointing herself from head to toes.
“You’re back home” he replied and she gave him a confused look.
“Can you elaborate on this a bit more, what do you mean by I’m back home, why am I here, why aren’t I in bliss college, what is this place and why don’t I look like myself anymore?” She asked all at once.
Rennie sighed and motioned the maid to leave, she bowed and left then he moved to sit on her bed.
“Remember what I told you about yourself back then when we were still at bliss college, I said you were one of us, you’re a princess here and by the time your powers unlock, you will turn back to your original face which means, you won’t look like the Nevaeh in bliss college anymore” he said.
Nevaeh sighed tiredly and went to sit beside him.
“And Anna?” She asked.
Rennie closed his eyes, when they all transported back to the Ming dynasty, his wound healed and he has been trying not to think of Gianna because that last time he saw her, she was dead.
“Why aren’t you answering, is she really dead?” She asked again, tears slowly forming on her eyes.
“I’m afraid so” he muttered and Nevaeh burst out in tears.
He shifted closer to her and hu-gged her to himself as she cried her eyes out.
“It’s also hurting me too, we were supposed to get married thousand of years ago but she died and now I was given another chance to marry her again, she died again” he said painfully.
Nevaeh didn’t reply, she kept on crying.
She doesn’t want to believe that her best friend was dead but what can she do when she saw her on body with her own eyes.
“Anna!!” She cried loudly and Rennie ru-bbed her shoulders lightly.
“You should stop crying, I get that you just lost your best friend but you’re now a princess, you will experience more of this often” he said but she kept crying.
Who is she without Gianna?
“If one day you’re given the opportunity to rule a kingdom and your husband die, will you give up and cry like this? Just look at me, my future wife died twice, I’m not happy but I’m still trying to stay strong so can you just stop crying and learn how to be tough” he added.
“I’m trying but I can’t help it, we’ve been friends like forever, what will her mom do when she hear this and what will my mom do to?” She asked in admist tears.
Rennie sighed and left her shoulders.
“I feel sorry for all the parents who’s child attends bliss college because the college had been burnt down already, at least that’ll be a logical explanation for most people death because the humans can’t find out about us” he said.
Nevaeh stopped crying and stared at him.
“You guys burnt down the college?” She asked and he nodded.
“What about the alive humans?” She asked again, with wide-ned eyes this time.
“We made them p@$$ out then we erased their memory and send them out and the rest were left to burn” he replied.
“Including Anna?” Nevaeh asked, fighting back her second round of tears.
“Hmm, it was so painful for me to watch her body burn” he muttered.
A tear drop fell from Nevaeh’s eyes and she immediately wiped it off.
“It’s all because of Zachary, Anna has done nothing but loved him, how can he be so heartless” she said, squeezing the bedspr-ead painfully.
“That was because Zachary had just found out that he was a demon and Xia Meilin wiped his family so what ever he did, he did it for revenge” Rennie replied and stood up then looked at her.
“Don’t think too much about this, I’m sure you’ll be fine one day and also you should freshen up, I’ll tell the maids to set you some warm water for bathing” he added before leaving the room.
Nevaeh’s body began vibr@ting angrily as she recalled everything, how Zachary was about to kill her back then, she also remembered how he stabbed Gianna with his sword without any feelings or emotions and she clenched her teeth painfully.
“Zachary Chen!!, I will be the one to kill you” she said angrily.
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DAYS LATER, JADE HEAVENS**
“Anna please don’t go, don’t go…” Den kept talking in his sleep.
“Please stay with me Anna” he muttered and a tear drop fell off his eyes.
“Don’t go” he cried slowly.
Fen dropped the bowl of warm water on the table and looked at Boi sadly.
These past days, Den hasn’t been himself, he doesn’t talk to anyone, he’s always at the garden, training and once he’s done, he’ll go to the liquor collection and drink over ten jugs.
Get drunk, stagger himself back home and lay on his bed then sleep, he still can’t sleep peacefully without dreaming about Gianna.
Each times he talks in his sleep, he calls her name and cry.
The king and queen were really worried about his behavior, they have called a lot of physicians and they all keep saying the same thing.
They kept saying that he was love sick and he won’t stop behaving like this till he moves on.
“Will his highness ever change, why did Gianna had to die” Boi muttered and sat on the small stole.
“Everything happens for a reason” Fen replied and sat on the other stool.
“But I really feel for his highness, each time I see him like this, it really breaks me. I feel like crying, is love that strong to make someone like this?” Boi scoffed lowly.
“You won’t know unless you’re in love too, love is the greatest weakness of a man” Fen replied again and Boi stared at him.
“Ever being in love before?” He asked.
Fen smiled shortly and looked at the ceiling.
“I’m just like his highness, I fell into the unlucky category” he said sadly.
“Why, did she die?” Boi asked and Fen nodded.
“We were both slaves on an already perished palace, I promised to protect her with everything I’ve got but I couldn’t do anything when I watched them slaughter her” he said and wipped the tears that fell from his eyes.
“Well that was years ago and I hate remembering how useless I was, I was really broken but I had to just face reality and moved on. We the slaves planned among ourselves to escape and we did, he escaped but they were chasing after us, they killed a lot of us and luckily I meet his highness, he was in a horse carriage he let me stay inside, he saved my life and he made me work for him” Fen narrated.
Boi blinked and looked up.
“Normally I was from a poor background, when my mom saw that they were looking for another bodyguard for the angel of light, she for-ced me to go there, I went and did some interview and I was picked” he shurgged.
“And that’s why you’re lazy” Fen chuckled.
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THE KING’S CHAMBER**
He was sitting on his throne and doing some paper works when the queen entered.
“Greetings my king” she greeted and he smiled.
“My queen, come sit beside me” he replied.
The queen went to sit beside him and sighed.
“I’m here to talk about Den” she said.
The king sighed and dropped the feather stick he was holding.
“He keeps getting worst, I’m afraid our son is slowly transforming into someone we doesn’t know, I hate seeing him acting like a sadist, we nee-d to fix it” she added.
“I’m also worried about him too, seems like he’s not acting this way because he failed but because he fell in love with that human the gods asked him to protect” the king sighed and continued.
“And it’s really not a good thing because she’s dead and the gods might pair him up with someone else and if he refuses then he might suffer the same fate with my father and I don’t want that” he completed.
“Is there a way we can make him forget about her, at least let him just be himself?” The queen asked.
“I don’t really know but time heals pain, let’s give him some time and let’s wait to see what the gods will have to say about this”.
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PEAco-ck PALACE**
These past days, Nevaeh had used it to blend around a bit in the palace, though she’s still sad about Gianna’s death, she’s trying her best to stay occu-pied by loading herself with a lot of works to do.
Currently she’s at her grandmother’s chamber, helping her to paint
“Grandma look at what I painted, how’s this?” She asked.
Grandma Susan collected the painting from her and smiled.
“My grand daughter do knows how to paint really nice” Susan said in pure amusement and Nevaeh just smiled.
“Grandma, I would love to visit the training room I want to learn how to fight like a pro with a sword” She said slowly.
Grandma Susan dropped the painting and stared at her.
“Why do you want to learn how to fight?, Aren’t your personal bodyguard doing well?” She asked.
“They are but I don’t want them to be fighting for me everything I want to fight for myself too grandma” Nevaeh pleaded, batting her lashes.
“Listen dear, I’m not against you learning how to use a sword but you know you just recovered your powers and body, I’m afraid that it might be too dangerous for you maybe we can try discussing about this later okay” grandma Susan replied with a pleading smile.
Nevaeh wanted to talk but she just decided to keep shut because she knows that her grandma won’t answer her anymore.
“Okay grandma” she gr-unted lowly.
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After spending some time with her grandmother, Nevaeh stepped out with a scoff.
“If Grandma won’t answer me then I’ll just have to learn myself,I will avenge Gianna” she said in her mind as she stepped out of grandma Susan chamber.
Her personal maid and female bodyguard were waiting for her outside, the moment they saw her, they straightened up.
“Princess, how was your meeting with Grandma Susan?” The maid named Oprah asked.
“You know it was boring” Nevaeh replied and walked p@$$ed them.
They immediately ran after her and she stopped then turned back to look at June, her female bodyguard.
“Who taught you how to use the sword?” She asked.
“I trained with the armies before I was @$$igned to work for you” June replied.
“Can you teach me how to fight with it?” She pleaded.
“Well Princess your brother and your grandma said…
Nevaeh immediately went on her knees.
“Please, just teach I beg you” she pleaded.
“Princess” June and Oprah gasped at once, they tried raising her up but she didn’t bulge.
“I’ll never stand up till you agree to teach me” Nevaeh faked a cry.
June and Oprah went on their knees too.
“Highness…
“Don’t highness her and agree already!” Oprah shouted and June immediately nodded.
“Fine princess, I’ll teach you please stand up” she pleaded.
“Now, will you teach me now?” Nevaeh asked.
“Yes I’ll teach you now please stand up” June pleaded and Oprah nodded.
“Fine” Nevaeh smiled and stood up then.
“Lead the way to the training room” she ordered and June nodded immediately.
THE TRAINING ROOM***
June silently opened the door and they all stepped in.
The room was covered with a lot of swords and weapons.
“Awesome” Nevaeh smiled and walked closer the stands, were the weapons were kept.
She took a long sword and stared at it with her eyes sparkling.
“I can use this one to chop his heart out of his che-st” she muttered and faced front imagining the image of Zachary standing there.
She made to stab him with it but the scream brou-ght her back to her senses.
It was Oprah who screamed because Nevaeh was about to stab her just now.
“Princess please just put down the sword, I don’t want to die early” she pleaded.
Nevaeh smiled shortly and took the sword cover then covered it.
“From now on, this is mine, I’m keeping it” she said and kizzed it.
“Okay your highness” June nodded.
“I’m not just taking only this sword, the both of you take all these weapons to my room” she ordered.
“All of them?” Oprah asked.
“What’s wrong with that?” Nevaeh crossed her arms.
“Nothing but if we take all of them, the general will find out and when he reports, your brother will find out, not just your brother but your grandma too” Oprah replied and June nodded.
“Fine, take only from this place” she pointed a stand and June nodded.
After they had packed with they nee-d they slowly stepped out and Nevaeh had a devious smile on her face.
‘Zachary Chen wherever you are just wait for me, I’m going to kill you’ she thought and stared at her sword again.
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DEMON KINGDOM**
Zachary and Harmony both arrived at the old kingdom together.
The place looked as tattered as how Xia Meilin had left it.
The bodies of those late armies that died thousands of years ago had turned into skeletons already.
“This was how that hole burnt down all our kingdom” Harmony said painfully.
Zachary didn’t reply her, he kept looking at everywhere.
He remembered where his mother died, the place where Chuyun had stabbed her and he walked closer and bent there then tou-ched the floor.
*Mother* he called in his mind as he looked at floor.
Harmony moved closer to him on the attempt of touching his shoulders but her hand only on the mid air before she folded her fist and brou-ght her hands back down.
Zachary closed his eyes ti-ght then opened it back and slowly stood up.
He looked around the palace and it was really burnt, there was no space left not even a single chance to go in.
He retreated his gaze from there then moved it to where his father died.
The sword his father dipped on the ground was still there, looking, fresh, shinning and neat.
“Father” he muttered and slowly walked towards the sword.
His long fingers trailed around the head of the sword as his eyes glimmered.
This was the exact sword he saw in his memory, the sword his father used to attack Xia Meilin but failed.
He shut his eyes ti-ght and opened it back before slowly going on his knees.
*My… Son..will.. avenge what ..you did .to…me …to…day* he recalled his father’s last words before he had died.
Slowly he brou-ght second hand up and placed it on the sword head, holding the sword with his both hands.
“From now on, I’m no longer Zachary Chen or general Kia, I will bear Lord Draco… I will take after my father and I will kill everyone that wronged him.. I will build up the demons empire and I will resto-re our kingdom” he vowed for the second time.
Harmony just watched silently and the cloud began turning dark, lightning began occuring and some strong wind began blowing.
Zachary shot his eyes ti-ght and began uprooting the sword out of the ground.
It began coming out, slowly by slowly and strong veins began forming on his ne-ck and forehead.
“My lord” Harmony called worriedly.
He let out a loud growl as he pulled the sword out with for-ce.
“My lord” Harmony wanted to rush to him but the strong for-ce that came along with the sword pushed her back.
She flew and landed far away then spat out blood, p@$$ing out immediately.
He finally pulled the sword out and the lightning along with the storm increa-sed.
“Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!” he growled out and raised the sword up in the air then some dark stones began forming it’s way on his forehead.
The rain increa-sed, the lightening increase and the wind blew more ha-rder.
His eyes turned de-ep red and he slowly brou-ght his hands down.
A low and dangerous sm-irk appeared on his face as he stared at the sword.
“Thank you, my son” he said in a de-ep, masculine and different voice.
TBC
N/B: Zachary Chen will no longer ba-re Zachary Chen or general Kia. It’s now Lord Draco