17 Pure Blood

Helena looked at the boy with wide eyes, he stared at her blankly as if he knew her from the very beginning. Something about him reminded her of someone, that stare sudden turned into one that she didn't know how to describe, he tried moving and Helena shouted. " You have no idea what could happen to you mutts if you touch a single hair on my head! The king will kill you and serve your head to the starved rats of the palace!" She said taking a step backwards. The guards shielding her all the way, the boy chuckled shaking his head. " Fine! Its not like I want to hurt you, am not scared of your king also. My mother hates the fact that am not scared of anyone though..... let's just do with it, give me everything!" He said with extended hand, his pale palms in view. Helena was so angry at the moment, were they going to be robbed by a group of teenagers? What in the world was happening in this side of the kingdom, she had no idea of it.....she didn't care also but now she was in this situation. " Take what you want then!" Sh said and the boy didn't move, " we don't take orders, we give orders over here!" He growled. He moved even closer and the guards in front drawled their swords ready to attack him, he was fast to clear off two of them and was dusting his hands now their jaws dropped at the sight. He raised his brow at them, " we are not here to kill anyone or fight because I can do this all day!" He said in an irritated tone, he could take all of them in a short period of he wanted to. They gave him passage to Helena and she shivered when the boy came closer, his dark aura was strong enough to intimidate anyone, he frowned when he realized Helena possessed black magic. He grabbed the only necklace around her neck and pulled it, he looked at satisfied with it's beautiful, he placed it in his trouser pocket, before he signaled his friends to take the rest of the things from the carriage. They had sacks filled with riches and they placed it on their shoulder, " you mutts will put your whole village in danger because of what of what you have done to me, the king will not spare y-" her words cut short by the boys laugher. " Go ahead and tell your king! We will be waiting for you....does this place look like your palace? This jungle belongs to us and not you!" He said sternly. Helena was feeling dizzy at the same time, the necklace was a gift from the king, it was compulsory for her to have that royal jewelry around her neck. Queen Esther would have been the one wearing it, if she was to be alive, alive?

" You speak as if the kingdom belongs to you, Devlot belongs to all of us. Without us you are nothing...one more thing, stop calling us mutts!! I will explode the next time you repeat that again?" He said with a raised brow, Helena went backwards again almost falling if not for the help of the guards. He smiled at her actions, all this while she didn't get to see his face clearly, his hair wouldn't give way to his eyes. Only his pale red lips was not affected by his hair, the others had their faces painted with charcoal, like how they came, they left. Their chatter filling the forest and they swang on the branches in different directions, the boy turned to look at Helena and her men, he threw a piece of of bot to the ground and he smiled. " I like you, the king's wife..... hope to see you in the future!" He said and waved his hand leaving them all staring at his back as he walked his way out of the place humming a song they had no idea of.

Upon reaching the back yard of their house, Helel was startled when he saw a seriously angry mother, standing there with her hands on her waist. She stared at him not saying anything and he smiled sheepishly, " where are you been, Helel?" She asked him and he came closer to her. " Mother! I was in at the river side" he said with his right hand behind his back, she narrowed her eyes at him. " Oh really! Dressed like that? Why do you keep doing what I ask you not to?" She said before grabbing his arm and pulling him to the house. He was always like this, doing what was said not to do! " You were surely with those homeless boys, for gods sake Helel! You are not homeless..... you have a family who loves you!" She said in a sad tone, still dragging him back to the house and he didn't say anything but he stopped when the necklace fell from his pocket. He was going to pick it up but Esther was quick to pick that up, her grib on him loosened and she stared at the necklace for a while. " It's beautiful right? I got it for you mother!" He said with a beautiful smile on his face but Esther raised her head to look at him, tears in her eyes, she was trying hard to hold it back. " Where did you get this?" She asked him in a high tone and he was shocked by this, he had a frown on his now. He hated to see tears in her eyes, he could piss her off but not enough to make her cry. " It's just a gift mother, if you don't want it that's fine but please don't cry" he said actually not answering her question and she grabbed him strongly and he winched at the pressure she used. He stared at her like he had never seen her before, " don't fuckin act smart with me!" All her morals slipped out of her hand and Helel jaws dropped. She was always on him concerning his language and tone, he was always punished because of that, his mother was a role model he could never be and now...she looked strange, different, like a totally different person. Its how she behaved when he asked something concerning his father, he wondered what happened in the past that hurts her so much to even talk about.

She pulled him closer and asked him again and he didn't say anything, " did you rob from the royal family?" His eyes widened, so that lady was speaking the truth! Esther couldn't believe that her son had had an encounter with a royal, this was feminine Jewel and only those close to the king could wear it. She had seen this before, thinking of it made her clutched her chest, her wounds were been opened again. She threw the necklace to the ground, " I don't want this! I don't want anything, I have told you....why can't you just be a normal child!!!" She shouted at him and he raised his head to look at her. He blinked away the water that formed in his eyes, he refused to believe she was the one talking, he pulled his arm from her only to be grabbed and yanked backwards. She was angry so was he, she slapped him on the face when he tried to walk out on her, " how dare you!" She said and kept hitting his arm and her cry broke from its cage. Her impact became useless and weak, " dear! What happened?" Lady Norma came running to them and she pulled Esther in her embrace and looked at the boy who looked lost and angry. He turned to leave in the opposite direction without looking back, he found himself in the market he was seated at the center of the market and was throwing stones into the flowing fountain. When a group of boys came to annoy him....