5 Oracle

After the baby was taken away from the room that composed of Queen Hippolyta and other few women, no one spoke as each of them remained silent.

Everyone's attention were now fully focused at their queen, and each of their expression has something in similarity. Concern.

Their Queen has been stuck in a daze ever since she ordered someone to take her son in the dungeon. Everyone could only imagine the pain she felt, but they still thought that it was the right decision rather than killing him.

Everyone remained silent as they all looked at their queen with worry and concern. It was so silent that only the faint sound of their breathing could be heard.

A few minutes later.

The silence was finally broken when queen Hippolyta finally could not hold it anymore as she let her tears fall down from her eyes and started sobbing.

Realizing that there are still other people in the room, hippolyta then dismissed everyone and ordered that no one should disturb her unless she said so.

Now that she's alone, Hippolyta silently cried despite the room composing only of her, as she thought of the cries of her newborn baby. She hated herself for doing what she did. She really do. She was clearly tied in choosing between her child or Themyscira.

But in the end, she still chose Themyscira. Because no matter what happen, it is always her responsibility as a Queen to keep the people under her rule to safety.

She is a Queen before she is a mother, is what she was repeating inside her head to keep her guilt in bay.

But no matter how hard she tried, the cries of her newborn baby would certainly continue to hunt her even in her dreams, and would still continue for more thousands of years to come.

The idea of killing her own child or even ordering someone to kill him was too hard for her to stomach. Thus, instead of killing him, she instead decided in imprisoning her own child in the dungeon.

The dungeon may be a very dark and gloomy place where they keep other people captive, but as gloomy as it may be, it is also one of the safest place in Themyscira.

She could keep her child safe that way. She could keep him away from outside influence that might one day corrupt him and make him to the very person that he is that their Oracle saw in the future.

All of this wouldn't have happened in the first place if Penelope, the high priestess and Oracle of Themyscira, have not seen the future where Themyscira and its people were all gone from the face of the earth.

Not the gone where the island was hidden from everyone, but gone, as in obliterated! Its people dead, rulers killed and it's landscapes were reduced into nothing but deep scorched craters.

The once mighty palace of Themyscira was destroyed beyond redemption! But the scariest thing about what the Oracle saw in the future was the fact that Themyscira is not the only one that have ceased from existing.

There are many more!

People with powers that mortals could only imagine, Gods and Goddesses that has the power to rule the earth, and even the people not belonging to this world, all layed lifeless under one person's feet.

And that person, is Queen Hippolyta's only son.

After their Oracle relayed what the Gods let her see in the future, all Amazons tried to convince their Queen to kill her unborn child from zeus to stop the dark future from happening.

But Hippolyta always ignored their words. She said that she wouldn't let her child die without at least being brought out of this world.

He at least deserved that, is what she said. But when the time has finally come for her child's death, Hippolyta immediately changed her mind and instead decided to imprison her child in the dungeon.

Though not everyone think that their queen's decision was right, they still let it be as the queen's words were always absolute.

...

An hour has passed.

Queen Hippolyta finally came out of her room after crying her eyes out. She made sure to look completely alright before going out as she doesn't want a certain little one to see her red puffy eyes.

And just as she was thinking about it, she suddenly felt herself being tackled by a little figure.

Smiling, Hippolyta softly patted the head of the little figure that tackled her as she softly reprimanded. "Diana, what have I told you before? It is rude to tackle someone like that. You might hurt them, or worst, hurt yourself".

Hearing that, the little figure who was actually Diana immediately removed herself from Hippolyta as she hurriedly asked with concern. "Did I hurt you mother?!"

Hippolyta's expression melted as she gently shook her head. "No Diana, your mother is the Queen of Amazons, a little tackle like that wouldn't hurt me. But that doesn't apply to other people so be careful okay?"

Diana nodded as she replied. "I understand mother, I wouldn't repeat it again".

Hippolyta nodded in approval when Diana suddenly asked a question about something that she really wanted to forget. "Mother... Did my little brother died?"

Hippolyta's face was immediately painted with sadness and shock after hearing that. Crouching down so that she would be looking at Diana eye to eye, Hippolyta softly asked. "How did you know that you would have a brother?"

Diana averted her gaze from her mother as she nervously answered. "W-When I tried to sneak out that night... I-I overheard you with the others that y-you were pregnant and that... It was a male...".

Raising her head, Diana nervously asked. "What happened to him mother?! Is... Is he dead?" Diana said with sadness in her voice.

Hippolyta heavily sighed. Diana doesn't have to carry the burden with her, thus, she decided to tell a lie. "Your... Brother... He was already dead before being born...".

Diana widened her eyes as she tried to reason. "B-But that's impossible! Mother, you are so healthy! We only eat the freshest and healthiest food! Why would my brother... Die? T-That's impossible!"

Hippolyta tried to hold her tears back after seeing the red-eyed Diana who was actually very sad about knowing of her little brother's death, when she actually never meet or even saw him.

Hippolyta cleared her throat to stop her voice from shaking as she softly replied to Diana. "Nothing is impossible Diana. We could not control everything, Death would always be on our doorsteps. Your brother was just unfortunate to be taken too early".

Hearing that, Diana dived and cried at her mother's arms. She only heard from the passing people at the hallway about her mother giving birth today.

So she hurriedly sneaked her way to her mother's chambers, expecting to see her little brother, but what greeted her was not the cries of her newborn brother, but her mother's cries instead.

No one was guarding the door as Hippolyta dismissed everyone earlier to leave her alone, thus Diana witnessed her mother crying through the gaps in the door.

She didn't know why her mother was crying at first, but after remembering that her mother supposedly gave birth today, she assumed that it was related to her brother.

And it was only confirmed when she asked her mother herself after waiting for an hour outside of her mother's chamber.

She is really sad, to think that her brother could not at least see or experience the world like her, filled her with sadness.

...

{{Mission Accomplished}}

Rewards: +1 Status, Ability and Skill Points

{{Status}}

Name: ???

Age: 9 months old

Physique: 2 ---> 3 ---> 3.5

Dexterity: 1 ---> 1.5

Intelligence: 12

Energy: 0

Bloodline:

• Demi-God

Abilities:

• Observation Haki (Locked)

• Armament Haki (Locked)

• Conqueror's Haki (Locked)

• Eternal Arms Mastery

• Electrokinesis (Locked)

Skills: Reading 15, Cooking 14, Socializing 9, Drawing 16, English 16, Science 15, Math 14, Boxing 9, Taekwando 8, Muay Thai 10

Equipment:

Status Points: 1

Ability Points: 1

Skill Points: 1

Equipment Points: 0

...

The screen once again appeared in front of the baby, this time, telling him that he completed the mission.

But his attention was currently not focused at the system's notification, but at the woman who currently has her huge hand tightly covering his mouth, as though she was about to crush it any moment now.

She did that a couple of minutes ago when he was still yelling in denial, refusing to believe her own mother ordering someone to put him in the dungeon.

He was yelling about him being their prince and his identity of being Diana's younger brother. But what came out of his mouth were only annoying crying sounds, thus the woman that was carrying him covered his loud mouth with her huge hand full of calluses.

It was so painful at first, but he suddenly felt his body slowly becoming stronger, thus slightly reducing the pain at the lower part of his face.

Remembering about what the Physique stat stands for, he didn't hesitate any longer and immediately used his only Status Points to raise his Physique stat as he wanted the pain at his lower face to be gone faster.

{{Successfuly added Status Points in Physique stat}}

Physique: 4.5

'Aggh!!!' The baby mentally groaned as he felt the hand tightening its hold on his face. Instead of the pain going away, it instead came back stronger as he felt his jaw almost breaking and his nose being blocked from breathing air.

The only thing that he could do was moved his limbs to protest at the woman who was hurting him.

But the woman only stared at the baby in her arms, her face showing contempt as she slowly said. "So you're the future bastard huh. Heh, we arrived".

Saying that, she then opened the cell leading to a very dark room, not a single light could be seen but only pure darkness.

The woman could feel the baby in her arms weakly protesting, but she ignored him and immediately threw him inside without hesitation.

'Aggh!!!' The baby groaned with its little voice after being thrown across the room and meeting himself with the cold hard floor.

'Why!!!!!' He mentally yelled.

The baby was bleeding. Its left arm was twisted in a wrong way and so is his leg, he was attacked with unbearable pain he had never felt before all over his body!

He weakly opened his eyes and tried to ask for help, but what he got was a loud thud instead as his cell was tightly shut by the woman. Leaving him in the very dark cell, alone.

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