Brother's Trial

Samuel wondered where his younger sister (Ann,) was?. As he loved both Ann and Mia so much, and he knew now that his uncle had taken over his late father's position, They would be subjected to suffering while his uncle created a facade that they were living peacefully in the palace.

Samuel has heard his uncle laughing out loudly the same night the guards had returned back home to the palace without his parent nor sister. And he had to looked after Mia, as he feared to ate whatever was given to him.

His Uncle automatically took over his late father's position, And Samuel and Mia both became as a stranger in their owned father's house.

Even his uncle's son, Josiah Maverick had mocked Samuel and laughed at Samuel saying, "How pathetic to think you will become the next ruler Samuel. Just few months from now, the people will forget you ever exited. And I, Josiah Maverick will become the next King of Gold City kingdom, right in your presence."

Samuel thought of what to do, And escaping was the only option, but he couldn't left Mia behind, as Mia was only six years old, and she cried a lot not seeing Ann nor their mother around, whom used to told her bed time stories.

Samuel felt pitied for Mia as even Mia's maids were beginning to neglected her.

It was only three days after his parents death were announced and confirmed to their citizens, And now they were already been neglected, While Josiah and his only sister, Ivy were treated with loved and cared.

"Brother.. Where's father and mother and sister?," Little Mia walked up to meet Samuel, As she held him and tugged in his shirt and she sobbed, staring at the huge crowd gathered in front of their mansion.

"They will be back Mia, Don't cry okay. Ann is fine and she will soon be home," Samuel spoked to Mia's ears, feeling his anger arising.

"Are you sure?," Mia asked, with her shinning yellow eyes staring up to her only brother, As their eyes coloured were so different and yellowish, but their mother had told them it was a genetic disorder.

"Am sure Mia, don't cry okay," Samuel affirmed.

"Okay," Mia nodded and they witnessed the final burial of their parents and sister..

Mia was young and she didn't understood a thing, And Samuel felt his anger arising as he stood and he kept his cool, remembering his mother had always advised him not to let his anger took the best side of him. That he was a ruler and whether anyone liked him or not, he should also kept his cool and focused as the next ruler of Gold City kingdom.

Samuel and Mia finally walked back into the mansion as their uncle had finally dismissed the crowds gathered in the palace premises.

As they walked back into the grand hall, Samuel held Mia's left hand and took her back upstairs to her room on the second floor to spoke to her.

"Mia.."

"Yes brother," Little Mia stared up to meet Samuel's gazed in her, with hope clearly written in her eyes.

"Mother and father travelled okay. And Ann followed them too."

"Okay," Mia smiled in relieved and hugged him.

"When would they returned?," Mia asked still hugging Samuel.

"I don't know. Maybe next week or two, or years.." Samuel stammered.

"Okay" Mia squealed and she finally let go off Samuel.

"Am hungry brother," Mia spoked and Samuel replied, "Fine, I will go out now, To get you something to eat from the kitchen, wait here."

Samuel left his youngest sister's room and made his way downstairs to the kitchen to prepared food for Mia.

But just then a maid stepped into the kitchen and spoked to him,

"You're not allowed into the kitchen young master leave now."

Samuel stared back to the cook whom was a middle-aged woman, And Samuel's yellow eyes burned at her, still feeling the pained his parent were betrayed by same people surrounded in the palace.

"Why shouldn't I enter into the kitchen?. Who're you?, And step aside now," Samuel commanded, but the middle-aged cook rather laughed out in a menacing laughter and spoked,

"Don't waste your time standing there Samuel or should I call you Sam?. You're not allowed into this kitchen. The next ruler of Gold city isn't allowed to cook for himself. So if you don't want to eat the food served to you, you can as well go and join your parents in their grave," The cook smirked, And Samuel's fist tightened in rage, and in a flash, sharp clawed fingers grew out from Samuel's nails, without his knowledge and jumped to the cook, And gripped on her roughly, tearing off her to pieces, While the middle-aged cook screamed out loudly in horror, alerting the guards that immediately rushed upstairs and into the kitchen, To got Samuel away from the bleedîng cook

Samuels nails had already returned back to normal, sensing the guards rushing up to him and separated him away from the cook, While the cook continued bleeding seriously.

"He's a beast, he's a beast!," The middle-aged cook cried out as the guards arrested Samuel and took him away with the cook away, And as they stepped into the grand hall, coming downstairs, Joel Maverick and all elders in council meeting in the grand hall, gasped in shock, seeing blood dripping down from Samuel's mouth and down to his jaw and chest, Staining off Samuel's white shirt and trouser.

"What.. happened?!," Joel questioned in horror, As the two guards finally stopped in front of him, One holding Samuel and another the cook, whom couldn't spoke properly and next she died.

"What happened to her?!," The elders in council screamed out and Joel stared to Samuel unbelievably.

"Samuel, What did you do to the cook?," Joel questioned Samuel, as he stared to his nephew with burning eyes, While Samuel calmed, breathing heavily as he didn't also knew what he did.

"It seemed she was attacked by an animal or what did you use to cut her to pieces?, What happened?," One of the council elders asked, And Samuel remembered the man to be his father's trusted assistant, Juda Matteo.

"I didn't do anything to her.. She refused to let me into the kitchen," Samuel replied..

"And you chosed to eat her, with what did he he used to tear her flesh like this, Was he with a knife?," Another elder asked in horror, While the guard whom had caught Samuel, shook his head.

"No elder. We found him on her."

"What!, Then throw him into the dungeon. He's dangerous and a threat to our existence, how did he injured the cook to this extent of killing her with his bare hands?!," Juda Matteo questioned out loudly, and the hall fell in great silence.

"Samuel is the next Ruler, Juda. You cannot just throw him into the dungeon when we're still mourning his parents dismissed. I guess his only hurt about their dismissal too," Another elder spoked, And Samuel stared to the elder and recognized him to be Luca Carter.

"Hmm.." Joel hummed as he breathed out his seized breath, still finding it hard to believed that Samuel had kîlled the cook with his bare hands alone.

In as much as Joel hated Samuel, Samuel was still his elder brother's son and he hated to think that getting rid of the Samuel was also hard. As he had personally poisoned Samuel before, to kill Samuel, and got Samuel out of the throne seat, but the poison didn't had any effect on Samuel, And he wondered how that was possible as the poison had killed a rat, dog and even goat. So how come the poison didn't killed Samuel.

And like the boy knew, Samuel had gone to the kitchen by himself to served his meal and Joel's brows furrowed at Samuel as he wanted all of them dead except for Mia, As he saw his son liked Mia, and Mia wasn't a threat to the throne as female didn't ruled.

So Joel decided to leave Mia, even though he had warned his son (Josiah) that he couldn't marry his cousin sister in future, but Josiah was still infatuated with Mia and her yellow rare colored eyes, As no matter what Joel had spoken to Josiah about forgetting about Mia, Josiah is still overly protective of Mia and waiting for Mia to grew up, so he could've her.

Staring to Samuel for the last time, As the elders waited for him to pronounced the final judgement on the boy, Joel felt like king already and he knew getting Samuel away now, was the best option left, as Samuel has already made it easy for him to eliminated him without raising any suspicion.

"Well since the cook has already died. Samuel will be jail, as if he cannot explain to us how he tore the cook's flesh, Then we're all in trouble, living with a beast like him?. Samuel looks weird, with his yellow coloured eyes, and silver hair, and I don't think against that, As I have seen some few with his kind of features before, but they're very kind and harmless. So Samuel is hereby sentence to jail for the murder of the cook. Until he's ready to confess what he did to the cook and how he killed her then he will get his release. Ten years imprisonment from now, and untill ten years time that he will be released."

"What!. You cannot do this to your own nephew Joel!. Don't tell us that you so much want your brother and his family out of the way, So you can take over the throne?," Luca Carter questioned out.

"Watch your mouth Luca Carter!, Don't tell us you don't find it strange that an eleven years old boy like him, would kill an adult with his bare hands. How are we sure you're not even like him too?," Juda Matteo questioned out.

Luca stared at Juda in shocked and lost words to refuted, As he watched the guards handcuffs Samuel and took Samuel away.

Mia stayed in her room waiting for Samuel to returned, and not seeing him around, Mia sighed and walked downstairs, and she saw the guards dragging her brother away, As they carried him up and took him away. While she screamed out, "Samuel!."

As Mia didn't knew what Samuel did.

Mia started crying and ran downstairs to stopped the guards, but Josiah immediately caught her little hand, as Josiah was 13-years old, and he handed Mia back to his younger sister, Ivy.