Chapter 7 - My Liege

                                    

                                          

Meanwhile, in the Castle, King Denmark the Lion King received information about his brother Arthur that he will destroy the Pillars of Creation, through the use of unknown forces. While Radiant continues to grow and become a more powerful Astral. The darkness is also moving quickly to become stronger before Radiant could banish them all.
"My Liege, Arthur." Arthur turns around and is greeted by his scout. "We have spotted him at the top of a mountain."
His face contorts in a grim smile. "Found you~" He sent out five of his best fighters to kill Radiant. Though, the Kingdom of Nomara had already visualized his plan by using Time Astrals to foresee this tragedy.
"My Liege, Denmark, the Dark Assassins will arrive in approximately two weeks." The King has a look of concern in his eyes.
"Oh, brother... What have you become?"
The Prince and the Princess are out towards said mountain, where they meet up with Radiant and his brothers, and the first week has passed and Radiant had grown stronger. He learned Lustre and Blazer's technique in casting their spells.
"Haro Torga!" The cold wind picks up and the moisture in the air starts to solidify.
"Imse Ziwali!" Ice Shard spell. Though he didn't quite master how to use magic without incantation with Hannah yet. Though he is very thrilled to learn.
After the first week is gone, the King sent out his messenger to warn Radiant and to move to the Kingdom as soon as possible. After Ryker heard that the King knew such a thing they must move away, Radiant is hesitant about leaving their home. If it gets destroyed the memories will stay, and he will continue to be hopeful that someday, the darkness will be purged for good.
✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* Radiant's POV *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
"Papa? What did the King say?" I still feel like he's hiding something. Why did we need to move away from our home? Are we in trouble?
"Papa, tell us the truth," Blazer says, the messenger looks distressed at how Papa handles the situation. "We will know soon enough anyway, just tell us." He opens his mouth and took a deep breath.
"The King said that the darkness is after you and the Pillars of Creation. And he is willing to protect us." We start walking again. The messenger looks toward us again. "He said that the King will tell us everything once were there."
"Satisfied?~," Ragire says. He works his wonders to defuse the tension that hovered over us.
More walking later, we soon arrived at the gates of the Kingdom. "It's huge!!" There are floating towers, and many soldiers and the castle walls are kept purely clean. Soldiers seemed to stop their training and bow toward us.
"We are honored to work with you, Sir!" Are they talking about my Papa? I look over at him and he looks like he's remembering a bad thing in the past.
"Papa!" I shake him or tried to. "Papa, we must move now the King is waiting." I try to push him. Until I realized, that everyone is not moving.
A different voice now answered, "Impressive, you can move while time is stopped, great work." This isn't the man that told me about my mom but, he doesn't sound malicious. "I am Feront, the being of Fire. I am here to warn you about your soon role in this world."
"What role?" He seemed to not take interruption well. But, he continues nonetheless.
"That role of being our savior. Can you do it? Will you be able to stop him from destroying the Pillars of Creation?" I have no idea who he is talking about but, destroying the Pillars of Creation? "His name is Arthur, the King of the darkness. But, what you need to worry about is getting ready for what the King is about to say and the sparring the King would set you up." I only nod.
"I will try my best, thank you, 7 Beings for looking out for me." Time slowly flows again and Papa quickly strides inside the big doors slamming them in the process but, he quickly composes himself.
"Welcome, Prodigy Astral." The Queen is the first to greet us or just me.
"Welcome back to my humble Kingdom, Mr. Ryker." The King smiles while saying this. "Long time no see, Knight." He gets up from the throne and walks toward Ryker and hugs him.
"Long time no see, My Liege." He returns the hug, firmly.
"Wait, Dad? You're from the Knights? You didn't tell me that!" I thought I knew Dad more than anyone else. I knew wrong. "What other secrets have you not told me?" He rushes over to me and puts his paws on both my shoulders.
"A lot of things but, you will know this once you'll become a Knight yourself." I tilt my head. "Isn't that why you brought my kids here? To prepare them for a war they don't deserve..." This is the first time I see the deep sadness in Papa's eyes. He's no longer looking at me but, I can feel his sadness. I would be too if my brothers dies in a war, were too young after all.
But, it also sounds exhilarating, "Don't worry Papa." I hug him and pat his back. "And like you always have told me, life can throw all those bad things at us, even if we fail, as long as we're standing, as long as we feel the pain, we must stand up." Papa smiles and chuckles.
"I did teach you well and you even gave that wonderful speech." The King lets out a hearty laugh, and Papa ruffles my hair like it couldn't get any worse than the sudden need for us to the Kingdom this early.
"Mama, Papa!" Two familiar felines run down from the spiral staircases at the sides of the throne. Once Lustre was at the bottom of the stairs he froze when he saw Ragire. "O-Oh! Visitors! M-Mama, you didn't tell us they were visiting." The Prince was wearing pretty elegantly, and his mane is cleaner than when we met him. The Princess is wearing the same gown.
"Prince Lustre!" Ragire bows elegantly like he had been practicing his bow. Everyone in the room lightly laughs from that small shenanigan Ragire have shown.
We may be facing a deadly enemy but, at least we can still have fun!
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