I : The March Of The Black Queen I

For the past months I've been asking the same question in my head. Questioning, how did this happened? She was supposed to be the 'greatest woman' to exist in this world based on stats and record. The others might be happy about it, and it felt like they have been manipulated by some sort, or to lazy to read your background. I would honestly prefer to just end the very old tradition than to choose you.

I don't know either if you are aware of my existence, since every time we met I feel like a man who doesn't exist, even of we have a little background that I hope you remembered me, but I doubt. The Royals who was on position, died trying to escape the hell of this country, or even the world. Even they we're aware of the hell we're living in, the royals had no more direct bloodline to continue, the teen aged prince who sort of had potential committed suicide a few years back, their daughter who was next in the royal throne, died together with the King and the Queen. When their ship sank and marked as "accident" the law chose her.

The apparent accident of the royal blood we're scripted, If the people we're just aware of the news that I've created they would know the truth, but I failed to make them listened. Recently due to the sudden increase of the population, the economical crisis grew bigger and bigger as the price of a single piece of bread became more and more expensive. The royals we're the one who was blame for apparently stealing the people's gold and silver coins, to became more richer and richer over time. However the accusations we're never proven to be true.

The land needed a new ruler, and that's where you came in, but why? Why did you accepted the offer? You are the closest descendants of the royals, but have they seen your background? The upcoming Queen, a scandal spreading around of leaks for years now, has been blooming again recently. Apparently she was seen eating the heart of her own brother raw in a dark alley, and in a golden cup who belonged to the royal family, contains the blood of her brother and apparently drink it as if it was a juice. It was still a mystery up until now, for some people point that she had slaughtered a pig earlier that day, some said that his brother would be a skeleton at that time for he has been missing for years when the issue first spread.

No matter what, it's clear that she was never worthy of the throne, what a dirty Queen she was.

"Do you mean it?" Those simple words kept on looping in my head every second passing, repeated questions that I've been wanting to ask you, but can't for some reasons. Do you want to rule this country? What we're your plans? Asides from that there's also one thing that I feared the most, I shouldn't have known about it, but I was informed by someone who seems to have been an expert.

He told me about this book that cause the population to grew up, I don't know it's history I was just an innocent teen ager when that event happened, I also barely remembered it. The prophetic book quotes "A Queen would rule the world, selected by the government by law. As soon as the power starts, the land to be destroyed by its own ruler." Which already matched your description, chosen by the law. Looking into the background of the author, he was killed by a mythical beast, beheaded in public while preaching his own words in a small town. Some accounts said that it was an false prophet, some said that the author never truly died but rather lived in somewhere far.

What ever it is, I just hoped nothing but a false alarm against the people, but because of him, the crisis begin, after doing a little digging by the story telling elders, his prophecies we're in fact real and the reason why the population and the crisis of the economy grew was a prophecy from thousands of years ago being fulfilled, the people from the east county flee to avoid the chaotic war against the monsters, causing a huge population impact and an economical destruction. After the events of the prophecy his works we're spread around the world, making him a prophet and some even making a religion out of him.  The believer of his works became an successful authors and writers but I still wouldn't believe it.

It's a waste of my time to worship a poor old man, killed by the beast.

I have read a few but they we're all stupid.

"A great war against a man who knew the world and a devil would clash, in one of the kingdom, the one who would end, would be the most unexpected, a surprise visitor from the light would shine and scared the devil away."

I quickly adjusted my bowtie as you entered the door of the kingdom, I gazed into your body from head to toe and I would admit that I didn't recognized you at first, you are indeed extremely beautiful.

You we're a friend of mine, for only a small amount of time when we're so young, to the point that even I barely remembered it. I didn't knew you had the blood of the royals that time, for I was innocent in the world, and I didn't know anything about it. I remembered before your blood changed after a thousand years past and we we're both grown up teen agers. you've said you have "loved the people" but you are a great liar. You wanted power which I'm so proud to see you've achieved. First evidence of lusting at the power as at your own school. You run for the highest position without any background and yet still won.  Second evidence is a secret party you held after the news of the death of the previous royals, you we're proclaimed as the princess and you've enjoyed it so much.

What more as a Queen?

I was always at your achievements, since you've became a hot topic in the world of media, You even 'forgotten' about my existence, when you saw my ugly face; you smiled and left me hanging. Not even mentioning my name when you have the moment, as if we didn't have an background before. You don't deserve to be the Queen of this land. No Queen can handle the land alone. You don't even have a king, that so depressing of you. I pity you poor girl, I wish someone love you.

Here I saw myself in one mirrored wall in your royal kingdom, which you don't actually owned. At any moment the program is about to start I am ready to finally see you  took a step in the royal hallway, in the gown you have been commissioned and waiting to wore for the past thousand years, as the priest finished his prayers for you.  The trumpets roared like a beast in the kingdom, marking the start of the March of the Black Queen,  you we're offered a rising applause by the people. I didn't. Immediately, I stared into your black eyes, those black eyes we're as black as your beautiful dress. You we're holding a book of your god. You're walking slowly eyes we're all focused on you. I remembered asking you asking before. "Where do you go?" You ignored my question.

I wish I can ask you the same question again. Where are you going in this path? Being a royal all you a sudden in a blink of an eye. A ceremony held two thousand years to the death anniversary of the original royals. The rusty crown dived by the greatest magicians known in the country, to recover and restore the ancient tradition of this land, soon will be putted onto your head.

Your now, royal guards chose the best musicians in the country to play her harmonic theme while producing an entirely new piece of classical music. Everyone is dancing with partners from their lovers. The magicians perform their best and most distinctive magic tricks to present to the Black Queen. It feels like heaven, if I'm going to be honest. You've finally reached the pillar standing in the middle of the hallway, the applause continued; in fact they we're now louder. The golden floor made of pure gold shined as you step in. It was a stunning view, but once again, I gazed into your eyes, its still beautiful, pure black. The music suddenly changed tone, the choirs, and the sound of the guitar blending in to the voices of the choir, and the sound of drums echoes through our the country.

I looked around and saw the performers, they we're babies playing in the water, swimming and having fun, trained monkeys we're also very cheerful with blue dresses to make them colorful. As the people around, cheered for you. I was here, staring at the eyes of the royal Black Queen now marching to the long-long hallway of this kingdom. You're smiling at strangers, with an expression of love in your eyes.  They have been fooled by your fake smiles. Slowly she started approaching me. She instantly saw me and gave me a smile, but instead of smiling and gazing into the others, she stared at me, with a beautiful smile on her face, I could tell it wasn't for me.

 She continued looking at me, until she surpassed me.  Behind her we're notable people like the highest priest, her cousins and relatives all dressed in a very dark variation of black to match yours. Behind them we're the government officials, and special guess like the quartet: Tawal Alshamas, Lurex Melina, T.E. Conway, and Galileo Cross, named and titled as 'The White Queens'. Behind them we're more people, they we're crowded, but the one who stands out we're the little boys, carrying the rusty crown on a golden arc, also covered in various gems. And lastly behind her march we're chained prisoner, slaves. Innocent men, going to be executed on this day, their blood is going to be the ultimate offerings to their gods, those men would be beheaded by the Queen itself, with the royal sword. Legends believe that the sword is possessed by a soul of the royal Rose, who took her own life as a symbolism of end to the war.

The processional march took a whole year to finish, she finally stood behind her throne and the highest priest spoke. "Oh the Supreme being of the land, you have called all these people to witness the coronation of our lady, dear Queen, wearing in full black dress, we ask you Supreme for guidance and silently ask you, giving us hope for our tomorrows and the future of our children. We ask to simply guide our upcoming Queen to continue the journey of the previous royals. We offer you the mixture of blood of all these criminals, and let their souls be guided to the lakes of fire in hell as a punishment for their sins. May the blade of Rose, stained by blood, slay these criminals under your mantle of blessings and your love… may I request the Black Queen, to take the sword of Rose and proudly raise it high up to the in to the direction of the heavens."

The blade reflected the light of the heaven, and its beams where shined into our bodies, some of them burned to ashes, some we're blinded, people where screaming in pain as the beam hits them however, some people had no reaction at all. Like me, the beam hit my full body from head to toe, nothing happened. The blade was so bright and colorful. The Black Queen then raise down the sword and the high priest guided the Black Queen, towards the slaves. She started poking the lumbar of each slave one by one, using the tip of the blade. They we're screaming in agony as the blade looked like it was heating up; to add the additional pain, their blood we're boiling as it leaks and the slaves we're on their legs couldn't stand up from the pain they are encountering. At that point they just wanted to die.

After poking the slaves one by one, the high priest took a golden bowl and locked their heads on a guillotine and the Black Queen listen to the final prayers of the criminal, it took seven days to finish one prayer, and as soon as he end the prayer, the Black Queen raised the sword in the sky and beheaded the slave. The High priest then collects their blood on the golden cup and using a million year old wooden spoon the priest mixed it with herbal medicines and the body and head of the criminal we're cremated, and the ashes we're mixed in the blood. The second slave prayed, and after his prayer, the Black Queen again beheaded the criminal. They we're lined up, and one by one, they we're killed.

After all of them we're killed, the mixture of blood, ash, and herbal medicine, the high priest mixed the golden bowl for the final time, the bodies of the dead slaves we're given to the hungry black children caged from various tribes that have been in the human zoo, they we're rubbed with baby oil and the bodies has been dipped in a black sugar, and they ate their bodies raw marking them as cannibals. He then dipped his thumb onto the bowl and smeared it unto her cleavage, and unto the biggest gem on her crown.

"As we celebrate the smearing of the blood, herbs, and ash into the Queen, we can finally crown you as our Queen." The high priest proclaimed. Everyone stood up and gave her a rising applause. The High priest then took his gloves and carefully opened the arc that the little boys carried. He took the rusty crown out of the box and raised it high while waking around her throne. After three rounds, he stood in front of her. "By the power rested into my hands, I now proclaimed you the new Queen of Foshof.

I blinked my eyes for a second and quickly I felt like I was inside a fantasy world, I was speechless just by simply roaming my eyes around, Where am I? I was transported together with a few people from the distance, their face we're a bit blurry for unknown reasons but the place isn't. Everything was full of white flowers, it felt like heaven, it was relaxing. Out of all the coronation event that I've attended this is my first time experiencing this phenomenon.

Is this heaven, what happened?

Then, from a small hill I saw the Black Queen smiling and then walking to my direction. I took a sigh as the wind blew strongly against us, then from your back what seems to be a two children comes out, their faces we're blurry as well but they seems so young and innocent. The one on the left hold your hand, and the children on the right glowed a shining light, she tried to run away from you but my eyes widened when she exploded and her blood was everywhere.

Everything I've witness, I didn't know how to explain. Where the hell am I. I took a step back and turned away to run away, but before I could even move, you snapped your fingers and everything was back to reality. I opened my eyes feeling nervous and the moment I looked into the stage of the kingdom, the crown was placed into your head, the people was about to clap when all of a sudden the ground shake massively and you shined a very bright light against us, I managed to cover my eyes and I saw the kingdom exploding into millions of pieces. Glass shattering everywhere, debris falling to the ground, the chandeliers falling to the ground, the clean and shining floor all covered in blood. The people we're screaming in agony trying to escape the kingdom, the music stopped and we're replaced by crying mother's trying to grab the hands of their children. Everything turned into a total chaos.

I was about to run away but I was covered in debris; I stood up trying to run for my own life but my foot seems stuck. What the hell is going on? Is this the prophecy?, I saw the Black Queen's glowing eyes. It was scary, yet beautiful. I slowly realize how she got bigger and bigger. She used to be a small kid, but now, she's a literal giant. I always knew about this prophecy, I just didn't believe it would be possible. I didn't know what to do. Can I run, when I get out from this stupid rock? She's gonna see me anyways, she broke the ceiling and I quickly covered my head as the debris continue to fall and as soon as looked up into the sky, I realized that it's the darkest night I've ever seen, instead of a normal rain, the raindrops we're pure blood and, the lightning shines a strong purple color that hurt my eye, and her black dress, became darker and darker as she continued to grew into this giant beast. Was this the march of the Black Queen? Is this the prophecy of the old poor man … Nadi?  Who is responsible to save this world from the apocalypse she's started? How long can I live from this world? Everything is broken, the heaven, the kingdom, the land, the life. Everyone is dead.

"How, dare you?" I whispered to the Black Queen, as my tears slowly flowed into my cheeks knowing my leg is stuck and I would die here helpless. I know she's cant hear me, but a small pressure has been released in my chest, I continued to cry I watch the kingdom fall to the ground, the walls still stood strong, but it wont be long for it to collapse. "CURSE YOU BLACK QUEEN!" I screamed as I punch the stone In front of me, my hands started bleeding and I quickly regretted it. I shouldn't have done it, instead I should have saved my self.

"CURSE YOU!" I screamed out of frustration, I know that panicking wouldn't help, but at this point death is the only option, I gazed into the sky and I noticed that she was looking at my direction, gazing coldly at me eye to eye. My heart started beating faster and faster and I didn't know what to do. Did she heard me? I continued to clear up the debris around me, until I realized that the Black Queen, was smiling at me, she started laughing for and I was confused yet trying.

Her crown became more gold as bright as the heavens before this chaos.

"How are you my sweet little Castlevine?" She Asked. My mouth couldn't spoke a word; I'm stunned by her beautiful eyes, how fool I am? I'm here about to die, talking to the Black Queen. I looked around and saw some of the survivors. She took the head of the highest priest and threw it directly at me. I closed my eyes waiting for the impact. But I didn't felt anything. What?

"Joseph, I am here to guide you." I heard someone whisper.

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Queen - The March of the Black Queen.

Intro - Verse 2