"it's not for us to decide how should our story goes nor how should a tale end, though sometimes best scenes happen after the conflicts"
In a faraway land, there was an Empire, blessed by the sun, with it's first Emperor using light magic to protect it's people, the Empire was held in peace despite of many wars it has been a statue of glory in the land,rising upon the blessed sun ,politics are being held down by power of the royal family, with the church's support that has been with them throughout the years igniting the presence of God bestowed upon their rulers who's been using light magic for generations.
Until one day, the current emperor happened to fall in love with a commoner. Despite of issues of the against nobles and warning of the priest, he choose to marry the woman, completely abandoning the harem that was meant for him.
He love the woman alone, and so the woman loved him the most, their undying love brought a life of a child who was born in the cold winter night, having the raven hair of the empress and the ocean orbs of the emperor. But not all fairytales with such a happy ending, seconds after the Prince's cry, the Empress died after giving birth to the son and the sole heir of the Empire.
Due to the pain of having his woman dying on his arms, the emperor lock himself in a dungeon full of beasts and monsters for a whole year, leaving his son in the hand of the royal servants.
Soon, the Emperor return, killing everyone who came in his way, spending everynight in a room coated with blood. Again and again, soon the Prince turned two, and everyone was horrified , for the Prince was not blessed by the sun, his power was a complete hollow darkness,enough to send everyone everyone in the room right in the bridge of abyss the first time his element reach out of his body.
The empire was a mess, no one wanted to die in the hands of the Emperor but there are also no one who want's to reach a hand towards the Prince who was known then as the Prince abandoned by the sun.
Everything was a chaos, like a storm in the ocean, tornado in the field, no one knows what to do. For a death after death is being folded again and again.
Not until she speaks,
"Your Highness, blood was the rhythm this night yet for the thousand of times, isn't this life have done something good to you too?", the cold palace started to feel the ambiance of the dim light given by the pale blue moon who was been with the Emperor from the beginning of his everything.
"Goodness? What's that?", he ask as he stabs one noble again making the latter flustered with pain and agony as life was being taken by Grim himself, "I remember no such a thing".
"The Prince is still here your Highness ", the phrase makes the emperor's eyes follow the voice of the servant who never dare to leave him even after becoming someone he isn't used to be.
"His black hair was dark as the Empress's locks, his eyes was brightens like blue aquatic ocean similar to yours, he is still here your Highness, and until now he looks like a cub waiting for a phrase from you, his Father",
"What's good will it give me to look at him who clearly resembles his imbecile mother who didn't hesitate to leave me?!", his voice echoes like a humn of lonely drum. Chaotic yet a voice in agony and distress.
But still with a quite voice she replies, "isn't much better to look after who's here than to blame someone who didn't dream to leave your Highness's side? ",
"But I need her! I want her! She's my salvation! She's my hope! My light! ",
"Helios", the Emperor was taken aback when she called him with his name, for the first time even if he insisted for her to call him back then, "wake up, she not the only light you see back then", when she open her eyes, her red orbs was dripping with diamond like drops, falling straight down her cheeks, glistening in the middle of light.
He was stopped, after years of being with him, this is the first time she cries and he, a great Emperor, doesn't know what to do.
"I'm not bright as the moon but rain and night , I become you Northern Star, I'm always here your Highness, I'm not enough to replace her, but didn't I swear? Back then?", she looks at his eyes, "I will not leave you…
So please, stop thinking as if you're hope is gone, you may shed thousands of blood, you may even kill me, but please stop thinking that your life has no hope anymore… ",
"Because you are our sun", you are my sun.
"You're our light", you're my light.
"We need you", I need you.
With brave look in her eyes she raise her head to look at his perfectly sculpted face before taking a step,
"It's alright to cry, to feel tired, to express pain", a hand touches the emperor's golden locks giving a dim warmth upon the cold soul of the broken sun.
"Your highness,it's alright to stop now, your heart needs to rest", tears escape from his eyes as a hand dare to wipe it up, following a warm embrace that the emperor almost forgotten how to feel.
"You've work hard your Highness", his back was patted like a child in a mother's embrace. Comforting him from all the pain he feels, "it's alright, please don't lose hope, everything will be alright before you know it".
From the memory of the smile he won't see anymore, the laughter he won't hear and the light he won't see now.
"I will never leave you your Highness, I will stay just like I always do since the beginning , you don't need to worry, you are not alone, it's alright to breath after few wars against your pain", his body finally given up upon the warm exceeding in his soul , his eyes all see the room of dark yet warmth feeling, as he continue to hear some fainted words,
"Sleep tight your majesty, you need to rest your heart in order to heal it"…
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