III: The March Of The Black Queen III

I closed my eyes thinking she's gonna kill me, yet I didn't felt a thing. Did she take me to the fantasy restaurant again? I gently open my eyes and saw her in front of me, standing and staring, she quickly grabbed my hands and swayed with me while our skin felt the toxic air due to the chaos she brought, yet I was immune. I quickly pushed her away and her face showed a rude expression, well I didn't mind it, because it was her fault anyways. Then I noticed something a bit odd, I was stepping on something and I swear I felt like it moved on its own, I looked at our foot and noticed it's the same color as the Queen's skin tone, I once again looked and noticed something behind her smug face. It was the Queen again, but this time it was her giant body, and I'm currently stepping onto her giant right palm, and I was danced by her clone, her illusion, or her real body. As soon as I made an eye contact to the small Queen, she walked towards me again and touched my chin raising my head to look into her eyes. Then she raised it again and now im staring directly to her face on the giant body.

"You are aware my sweet little Castlevine, that you are in my right hand, that has the power to rule the world, well give me a little showmanship will you?" I shook my head and her eye brow left lift making a wrinkle on her forehead, I felt her palm moved and suddenly I began moving according to her command. I wanna stopped but I couldn't. Her power is visible through my movements, she then took my hand and I touched her right hip and she danced with me… again. Her motion then made me dizzy for a little bit, I'm just not used to it. She made me face the south for a glimpse. She has the power within me, but she can't control my emotions.

I saw the city… people were crying, running, panicking, pressured, fighting, dead… is the Queen that blind to witness these people suffer with the chaos she started? With full power I tried to let go of my hand, and succeeded, her giant fingers raised as I run to jump off her hand, but her palm closed and the darkness became visible in my eye. I couldn't see, but I could feel.  A whip from a belt with various spike, bones, thorns, and shattered glass hit my arm, and I screamed in agony, I could also feel the blood flowing down my arm. I tried to cover it but once again, I'm faced to faced with the Queen. She directly looked into my eyes, and for a second, I saw light.

A light from the sky, slowly raising into the man, he was in a mountain. Was he praying? Was he meditating? I don't know. I must know who that man was.

"Do what I command you and you will be free from this agony." Suddenly it all retuned to darkness as soon as her voice hit my ear. I could feel her breath traveling around my left ear. Her soft voice, sounded like an angel, but her attitude is worse than the devil. I shocked my head as an answer, how many time do I have to tell her that im not interested in working with her? Only my young self would probably enjoy being stepped on by her charm. But im a changed man. "Oh my Sweet Castlevine… you never failed to make me laugh." I heard her sarcastic and forced laugh and then tapped me on my shoulder. "It's never to late to change your mind my sweet Castlevine. I will send some ogres to help you with the battle, I've also comamnded them to travel in the seven seas to handle the other land… you and I will be the ruler of this world, just simply follow my command… will be swimming in gold!"

"Are you the Queen of the people? Or Queen of the dictators?" I asked. Her giant hands slowly opened and as soon as I saw the bloody sky, I felt something strange. Suddenly I felt hungry, alone, and depressed. It felt like I was brought back to my past, as an innocent child begging and working just to eat a small piece of bread. Suddenly I recalled a long lost memory while staring at her black eye.

"You can eat, earn money, drink the finest drinks on the market… as long as you do those things that our parents teach us not to do.  steal, run away, lie, and then kill them. There are so many ways to become what we will never experienced, being rich. What would be the punishment? Death? At lease at death, we won't suffer, we won't be hungry, broke, thirst, worry, fear, cry, be tired."

I remember hearing those words with her childish voice. It was a lost memory of ours, who is she really? Was this her thoughts before she gained the power? Until now, I don't know her enigmatic thoughts. Bad things are never the answer, why would she think that way. Look at the sky, its all blood and darkness. Was her march made this possible?

"So… you've realize!" suddenly she's grabbed my head and lifted me up, I could feel the weight of my body being pulled by gravity and I couldn't breathe properly. I tried to fight back but know that I'm to weak to fight her. "Oh my sweet Castlevine… it is the answer and it was my plan since were very little… now that you are aware! Murder those poor people on the streets with a shivering hearts! You'll be allied with these ogre!" She gave me a sledgehammer and with her power she threw me up into the air and I felt like a bird who got hit by a stone while flying away from the children.

The wind's pressure touching my skin were painful and gave me a sheer heart attack, then the dust touching my entire body while falling marked scars in my body. As soon as I landed into the ground, I felt something. As if I became a puppet, I'm not in my usual self, I began running and hit the poor woman with my sledgehammer. Her head became a million pieces, and her body, well I began to smashed them as well, even to the smallest skin that is still visible. I heard crying near a destructed house, I saw three children, who girls and a boy. As much as I wanted to help them, being under the Queen's control, I became a bad boy.

I smashed the young girls face, and the two were screaming from the top of their lungs, they had a trauma just seeing what I did. Don't worry children, you wont have to suffer anymore. As they began to run, I slowly walk towards their directions. Until a fearless man became their human sword and shield, he blocked my path and stabbed me on my chest. I felt uncomfortable not because of the pain, but because I literally felt no pain. But I could feel the metal, vibrating with my heart beat. He looked into my eyes and pulled out the sword, he stabbed me by the stomach and once I again I didn't felt any pain, but my left eye was blinded by my own blood.

"I want you to became a Woman, my dear run with your brother! My son!" He screamed. But it was his last words. It's my turn. I punched him in the stomach, and pulled out the sword in my own. I slashed his head off his body and I heard the children screaming even more, but the ogres killed both of them. Lust in blood I killed by ally brutally.

I left the house and run towards the witnesses. Just like she taught me before frim the lost memory.

Steal their souls, run away to chaise more, lie to my self, and then kill more.

Lie to my self… this isn't me.

I killed another man, and another, and another. They can no longer run they just chose to be killed by me. I swing my hammer and killed them instantly. My body were covered with everyone's blood, including mine. I turned around and saw the Queen's face, smiling towards me. Is this want she wanted? For her I'll do it.  "My Sweet Castlevine!" I saw her hand snapped and in a blink of an eye I was beside her again. She wipe my face with a clean white towel, and instantly it turned red because of the blood of strangers. "I'm satisfied with your beautiful work, specially to that family, as a reward I baked you a pie… and this." She showed me the towel used to wipe my face, she squeezed the blood, dropping into the pie as if it was an icing. "Eat the pie and go back to work." She sliced it in half and gave the to me.

I didn't like the taste, but because I was under her control I ate the whole slice. I badly just wanna vomit it in front of her to show her that I have everything she's done. But as soon as she snapped her finger, I was back into the ground, this Time onto the southern part of the island. I turned around to saw Mt. Nevermore. There were people hiding behind the trees, but when they saw me they instantly run away. Well, I eventually chased them, and killed them after a long run.

I killed a bunch of people but when a kid threw a stone in me, It felt painful. I fell into the ground dropping my sledgehammer along the way, l looked into the kid but as soon as my eyes landed on his body, he ran away scared of losing his life. Strange, earlier I didn't felt any pain, but now I did. I look around and saw the red ocean, still endlessly waving. I took the stone and threw it there. I felt a bug crawling into my feet and bit me. I instantly swiped it away and squished the blood out. It was painful. Again, I felt pain.

What the hell happened? Earlier I felt immortal. Am I just a mortal now?

"Who's our leader?!" I looked around as soon as I heard a deep voice that felt came from the tribes of this point of the island.

"The Black Queen!" the crowd cheered.

"Then, Danced and sing her lullabies, sung during her coronation day!" The deep voice man said. Then I heard the crowd sing, I also heard an animal crying  and sounded like its being killed. I don't know where these noises came from. I stood and walked around, and then saw a kid running towards the deep jungle. I followed him, leaving everything behind. And to my surprise I saw them, dancing happily while the rest of the country is om chaos. The kid ran towards what seems to be their leader and he pulled him down as the kid whispered something to their leader. "Everyone!" All of a sudden everyone stopped, they all looked into their leader and I slowly walked near them. "Please hold everyone's hand for I have an announcement." I took a small rock and with a grip from my hand I waited for the time. I don't wanna do this. "The Queen's Lover is near, as this kid says. You've seen him during her march, the man named Joseph Castlevine… he's here… he's there-" Threw a stone into his head and he quickly fell to the ground.

The people looked into my eyes, and I knew for a fact that I won't be safe.

I run as fast as I can to get my sledgehammer to at lease fight back, but because the ground is muddy and im not used to it, it kind of slowed me down, luckily only small amount of people catches up to me and threw a punch on my face, but I just simply pushed them away with my elbow and as soon as I got my sledgehammer I looked into them one by one.

The dark turned darker, they looked like glowing in my eyes, similar to a firefly.  I run towards them, but they didn't fight back this time, I just simply killed them off, a simple hit from my hammer killed of their light, their dying noise felt like screams from hell, it disturb me, and the fact that they are still holding on together just honestly killed my heart. Why me? Why do I have to do this?

Im the bad boy.

I saw the last three duo, holding their hands, they are facing me, while they cry. Then I realized. I'm a monster. I forced them to go to hell for no reason. I'm not  controlled by the Queen anymore, I just think that im being controlled. That's why I'm feeling pain earlier. I landed on my knees and I saw them running away thinking that I'm going to hurt them. But no. I'm done. I want to smack my head with the same hammer that smashed the heads of others… but I couldn't do it.

Is it gonna be like this forever?

"La, la, la, la~"

"La, la, la, la~"

"La, la, la, la~"

I opened my eyes, when I felt light. I instantly felt goosebumps, all my body hair stand as I witness this man.

It was the man. The prophet.

The March of the Black Queen Arc.

Ends.

The Prophet's Song Arc

Starts.

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Queen - The March of the Black Queen

Verse 4 (Roger's Vocals) - Outro/ending.