Traitors

Two men hid in the darkness of the shadows awaiting their prey, their bloodshot eyes gleamed as the moonlight passed over them.

They had prepared for this moment with great care, so that their plan would not fail, it would not fail! "he should be here soon", " this is the moment we've waited for, it will not pass us", their voices sounded it in the dark making it hard to know which of them was speaking.

"Your Majesty should you be out this late at night?" asked the Okyeame( linguist), " of course, there's nothing more better than breathing in the night air of this beautiful kingdom, besides the royal guards are always on wat.....", BOOM!, "Your Highness are you ok, ALL GUARDS TO THE GARDEN NOW!", the Okyeame shouted, his voice traveling across the entire palace. Two shadows jumped out from the smoke created by the explosion, landing in front of the king, quickly one of them pulled out a black dagger, in the blink of an eye he'd drawn a circle around them, a black dome immediately enclosed them, leaving the linguist on the outside.

The guards rushed to the garden in their numbers attempting to break the dome, but each strike on the dome proved ineffective.

"Stand back" the linguist said as he took a stance, all the guards there immediately covered their ears as hard as possible, taking a deep breath in he unleashed a powerful scream at the dome but it bounced off it and made its way back at him, but he unleashed another scream which collided with it and they cancelled each other out. Meanwhile inside the dome a battle was ongoing, the inside of the dome was larger than it seemed on the outside, inside the dome was the palace but no one except the three of them were inside. " c'mon let's end this quickly, we don't have much....", boom!, his sentence cut short as he was sent flying into the palace.

Before the other one could react, he was grabbed and tossed into the air, a massive blow to his face sent him back crashing into the ground. A massive figure landed next to him with a loud thud, the king walked up to him and pulled him up by his hair, "who are you people" he growled at the man. "we are the ones to take the throne!" said the man as he vanished from the king's hands and reappeared on the roof of building. "And how do you suppose you're going to achieve that when you can't defeat me" shouted the king as he started transforming into a giant bear like beast, he swung one his paws at the roof and it came crumpling down, it was as if a giant claw had ripped the roof apart. The man had teleported to another roof but in a flash the creature had leaped from the ground and swung it's claws at his face, hitting him to the ground. As quick as it had jumped the creature was back on the ground hovering over the man, it grabbed him by the back of his cloak and turned him around, but it was met with shock. With a sad voice it growled" wh.., why did you do it, of all the people to betray me, why did it have to be you", the man laughed,"why!, why did I do it, hahahaha, because I wanted to and now it's too late for you", the moon in the dome started turning red and as it did the creature started turning back into the king, "what.., what's happening?", he asked as he dropped the man and turned back into his human form. "haha, it working, the spell is weaking you to a regular human", the man quickly pulled out a dagger and slashed him across his body, his partner walked out of the palace holding a black pot.

" The spell is finally working, any later and you might have killed us" he said as he stared at the king, the king on his knees looked up at him and said " you think killing me is going to get you the throne, daabi(no), the gods would never allow it to happen. There will always be someone ahead to take the throne, it will never be yours", the man's face showed signs of anger as he took the dagger from his partner, "what's wrong, did I hit a nerve,... Okyeame", "you sure did", he said as he slashed the king's throat.

The guards had brought the priests to try and remove and the dome, but as they started chanting the dome started falling. The Queen and Princess had arrived just in time for the dome to fall, revealing the lifeless body of the king, his assassins nowhere to be seen.