II : The March of the Black Queen II

At that time the only thought that went through my head was one simple yet deep word, death. I could never imagine and I was always curios about its concept, what actually happens to the free spirits not trapped on the bottle of the lords. Yet here I was alive sitting down in front if the Queen that if never expects that I'd be face to face to, there were a lot of food as if a feast was being held. The surroundings were beautiful as heaven. I didn't know that happened. I didn't felt any pain; I didn't even felt my body move to sit in the most comfortable chair that I've seat on in my entire life. As if I as teleported here for reasons. Technically I'm sitting in the most powerful, most beautiful, Queen, yet she's the most evil out of all, the three Queens that past in my entire life. She's just simply a monster.

A man with a handsome face approached the Queen, they whispered at each other for a moment before the man left us alone. She saw my body language just wanting to leave this unknown place. I've explore every single corner of this land, yet this was new to my eye. Did she take me to the different county? In a blink of an eye. Is that even possible?

"I know you are curious dear Castlevine but you need to stay in this place for I need to talk to you... you are my beloved selected king and the future ruler of this land. For I, believed that my reign won't last long. I don't want the people to suffer." There was a bit of flirty tone on her voice as if she's ready to commit a scandal, which she already did.

What a great liar she was. Don't want the people to suffer? How come those words came out of her mouth when she literally started an entire apocalypse?

I want to leave this place. I wanted to hold my mother's hand, if this is the end I want to thank her for everything at lease for the very last time. I know that this event won't have its happy ending. It doesn't exist, even in the old man's books. There is no end to the chaos that the Queen started. If I've only knew its happening, if the people listened to my word, would this happened? I don't know. I don't want play as the hero either way.

"Don't you worry my sweet Castlevine, don't have second thoughts. Go on ask me questions that are in your mind." She said with a flirty tone again. "Trust me, being the queen if this land was the best feeling ever. I get to command every single person to my power, they can entertain me when I want, which can be revised as what we want. Come with me sweet Castlevine." I just simply shocked my head. Id rather be dead than to rule the world with you, filthy Queen.

"What were you doing?" I simply asked. Her back began to lit up in blue fire, her face went from being happy to serous, her forehead curled, her mouth were closed, her eyes became darker, her mood felt like the death. However I'm no longer afraid of you. You are beautiful, yet I can't love you I will always deny you. "Answer my question, Black Queen." The man returned with a golden cloche, his assistant then gave us fancy utensils used by the rich, which looked the same with various sizes. A white handkerchief and some knifes, also in various sizes.

"I'm going to start all over again, in my own set of rules and change the history of mankind. The old need's new. The broken needs, to be repaired. The split needs to be united. The dead should be resurrected. You don't yet understand my sweet Castlevine, you are just a human, I have a secret that I can't tell to anyone, that's why you are blinded to what I did. I made my own prophecy... and you can, with me." She toss me a fruit and I've cached it. The butler then opened his cloche and revealed me a giant meat that is plated in edible gold and it smelled good. "don't think that I'm plotting something right now my sweet Castlevine, I did not put any poison in that food, I just simply noticed you are hungry, after all, the procession did take years to be finished. Go on, eat up my sweet darling."

She was kind of right, I am hungry, and it felt like the first time I've eaten in my life, I envisioned myself similar to those slaves during my childhood, were we're so poor, hunger was our main concern, we looked like walking skeletons, She used to be our heroes, but now she's our enemy. Maybe that's how she remembers me. For being, a homeless family almost passed away because of poverty.

The meat was so flavour full and soft, every single ingredient present in the dish, they were all visible in my taste buds. The meat felt like butter melting in my mouth, and the overall dish felt like a dinner in heaven. The spice if the sauce were perfect for me, it's so hot yet so packed in flavour, the butler then recommended me to pour his honey on the meat, and I agreed on him, I took a bite and I knew from that moment on, the Queen was manipulating me by fooling me with a dinner.

I need to escape somehow.

She's powerful, as if she owned the power of their gods, I know nothing about her powers yet, I've seen some small glimpse of it. And I know for a fact that those powers cant be trusted by the people. I don't want to be her King to get a fair share of power.

Can I distract her? Im fully taking the risk. A risk of my own life.

"Oh my sweet little Castlevine, do you want some spice?" She asked while shaking a chili garlic oil, I simply nodded, and grabbed the most sharpest knife that the butler gave me, I took a deep breath and threw the knife directly onto her body, but something odd happened. Everything felt slow, while I can move fast, I can move around normally, but everything around me, its so slow.

What the hell is going on? Am I being trolled by the Queen's power. I don't know if this is her power. I was about to stand up from my chair to abused the power, I can cut her head off now, but I heard a whisper from my back, the voice wasn't clear, so I looked behind, and saw a strange light, behind my chair's splat, the light was in a shape of a diamond, it was bright as the former heavens, yet my eyes were not blinded. There was heat coming from it, but it didn't burned the chair I was sitting, made out of the finest wool and wood.

"Joseph!" I heard the whisper once again. It was a voice of a woman, a very familiar woman, I just can't remember her name, and where I heard her voice. "Do not leave this place for this would cause your life in danger if you do... you are my ally, and you might possibly became the chosen, its hard to explain it to you yet, but this is the Queen's power, she's the one who activated this, I don't know why, but I just wanna let you know that no matter what you do, do not blink, I am with the death himself." She explained. Why cant I blink? I do feel my eyes kind of sore.

"Joseph, I've heard from you from afar." Then a man with a spine chilling voice talked. "The war of man against the royal has began, you are the only one in her dream world as of now, everything you do there is fiction. However, emotions are not fiction, give her some love and joy, while you are there. I am cleaning up the souls if the past, to be used in the war on the future." He said.

I don't know those people, the light suddenly disappeared, and the time resumed normally, I heard a scream from the black Queen, and I watched her bleed out from her chest, and cried as if she turned back into a little baby. I followed the command of the prophet, I rushed into her and I grabbed onto her nape and tried to cover up the bleeding wound using my white handkerchief, that instantly turned into bright red.

Everyone around me was panicking, but into the black eyes of the Queen, it was pure love and joy. She's acting weak, I could feel it, she's hiding a beast with multiple lives inside, I just know about it. She touched my cheek and smiled.

"How sweet of you, my little sweet Castlevine." She closed her eyes and her lips were fooling my eyes, teasing, my mind to gave her the love she's wanted. "Go on darling, don't be a little shy." She whispered. I didn't answer, I just adjust her shiny hair and pulled out the knife on her chest, I stabbed her again, and gave her the kiss she wanted, but she's still conscious. She touched the back of my head and tried to suffocate me with her kiss. I didn't know what to do, I closed my eyes and after that, I heard an explosion.

I opened my eyes and saw my self standing in front of the Queen's altar, she was behind, staring as us, I was at the very back together with a man with a yellow cloak, he had two black bodied snakes and their head was red as blood, on his left was a woman, holding a giant axe, she's not wearing any armor even after looking like she fought a battle a million times, and not a single scar has been marked.

"Didn't I told you Joseph to not blink?" The woman warns me. The Queen just laughed and stomped at the floor. It caused a massive vibration that were levitated and pushed back at the end of the hallway, but the man with the cloak were just standing and not affected. Even the air, didn't blew his cloak. Who the hell is he?

"The greatest musical sonata, has began." He whispered yet we heard him, I stood up and I helped the woman, she grabbed onto my hand and I pulled her up. "Spread out your beautiful wings angel, and sing your little sonata." There was silence in the fallen kingdom, I looked around and everything is just covered in dust and blood, broken windows, and rotting bodies. The smell was horrible, and visually it was disgusting. "Start now." The man said.

"Who are you to command the greatest Queen?" She asked. The woman, was about to moved, but I stopped her, I don't trust that man, I don't wanna distract his own movement, if he dies, its his fault. My mother told me to never kill, which I almost did, earlier. Just because of my emotions, mixed and stressed.

The man, just slightly looked up, to see the face of the Giant monster. There was silence for a few moments. But then, the Queen started humming, it was beautiful, as if it was opera. Then she started singing. "Aaah! Ah, la, la, la, la... Aaah! Ah, la, la, la, la. laaa!!!" we we're just stunned at this point, how could an angelic looking queen, having the voice of an angel, with the heart of an devil, be that good? And who is that man powerful enough to command the Queen her self? I haven't seen anyone like that before.

"Enough of this sonata! Die!" She raised her fist and punched the man standing, blood spatter all around, and it even hit the eye of the woman beside me, she screamed and I instantly checked it. She's now blind, and I could see the agony of its sting. "Weak." The Queen laughed.

"You are aware that you don't have a lover?" I looked into the Queen, and at her right ear, the man was just standing there. I thought he died?

"Die." The man whispered. And in a blink of an eye. The Queen's head exploded. Her blood covered the entire ocean, and the lighting hit back to back, her giant body falls to the ground and I was just watching... is she's dead? Is it over?

There was silence.

Even the woman in pain, did said a thing, she's just staring at the man, somehow not a single stain hit him.

"This isn't the true faith you are bound to... Joseph Castlevine." He whispered. My eyes went wind and light shined into my eyes, causing me to close my eyes.

Until I heard it again.

"Who are you to command the greatest Queen?" I opened my eyes, and she's alive, doing what happened a few moments ago. She punched the man again, and blood spatter around, again, this time I covered the woman, and his blood burned my back. I didn't know the blood was boiling. I screamed in pain as I look at the man standing at the gate of the fallen kingdom.

"Go and decided the reality of your faith, Joseph Castlevine." He said and walked out the kingdom. I uncovered the woman and saw the Queen raising her left hand into the heavens.

"With the power of the gods, may this hand, be used to reign the world." The Queen said. She's took the sword of rose and raised her right hand into the heavens. "And again, by the power of the gods, may this hand be used to rule the world... for I, the Black Queen, am the lord of the darkness, and the queen of the night." She looked into my direction and she smiled.

"My sweet little Castlevine." She called.

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Queen - The March of the Black Queen.

Post chorus - Verse 4