Tails of Acalarah - The Young King
This is the story of a King who obtained the throne by his own hands and his own means. fighting war and many battles, but the biggest battle he ever faced was himself. A lover of many women and the Kingdom's known playboy, flirty and confident on the outside, but inside, he was fighting the internal struggles of the darkness raging inside his heart which he battled with anger, hurt, pain, loneliness, evil thoughts which he battled against every day to not give in to desires he fought with, to dealing with betrayal by those within his own family. From being a prince, to now becoming King in his father’s place, King Leon, was his name. His unlikely friendship with a servant by the name of Maia, who is one of the most highest-ranking servants to be close to the King to serve him as he needs and seems to bring some sort of comfort by her presence whenever she is around him. She has a secret that she cannot tell anyone: she is a warrior of the night, serving and protecting the crown in secrecy, along with her selected few servant friends who are faithful to the crown. She is both servant and warrior of the night. The unlikely friendship of a powerful King and his servant leads to a special bond that no one can understand between the two, a bond so close, that cannot be easily broken. This in turn leads to conflicting feelings to develop within the troubled King and this kind-hearted servant, willing to do anything for her King, where a relationship between royalty and servants is forbidden and are banish able from the Kingdom by the laws of Acalarah, even the King himself cannot break the Kingdom's own laws. On the brink of war, through much trial and challenges along the way, will their bond develop into something much deeper than that, than just a servant and King relationship?
Chapter 61: Forbidden fruit partaken
That same night, after Leon and Radeon parted ways from their meeting place deep within the palace underground, Leon went to another secret room he had constructed before he became King, where he could train his powers and do his own personal training to build up his strength and skills. No one knew about this room, except for Radeon, as it was not far from their meeting place deep underground, where Leon could exercise his powers which were inherited from the bloodline of the Kings.
Leon walks in and locked the door, looked at the scroll he had obtained from his journey. In this scroll, was a piece of cut fruit, it had never withered despite it being separated from a long-lost tree.