The great hall stretched before Carlos, its towering pillars casting long, flickering shadows in the moonlight. That man's boots echoed against the cold stone floor of the castle, each step a drumbeat of fate pounding in his ears.
Tap tap..
As the sound echoed through the wall, Carlos' mind was crazy with thoughts.
*What does his comrade mean. Why would his comrade try to stop even the point that ends at killing him. Just why?"
" Did he make the wrong choice…"
Thinking about it more and more, Carlos knows it, he needs to stop now. After that Carlos slapped his face as the sound echoed through the walls as a reminder of how hard that slap is.
"Forget about that Carlos, You had already made this choice"
The weight of killing his comrade pressed upon his shoulder. He was not supposed to be like this. It was not supposed to end like this.
"But he is the one who crossed the line" Carlos said,yet he couldn't understand the pain that he had been feeling.
He had been to war. Not only as a soldier but also as a leader. The battlefield had never weighed on him before. He is a killing machine, he belongs in those merciless wars. That is what the king,No…, his brother, said.
As soon as those thoughts end, Carlos looks at the window beside him. The air howled as a mysterious beast is roaring through his heart as it surged through the night, a restless phantom weaving between trees and slamming the walls of the castle, rattling windows and stirring the dust of the castle as if it is leading the path for the royals that died fighting for the throne, no it should be survival.
No child wants to be a killer, not even royals. But unlike normal children, royals were born to fight since they were born, they don't have a choice, do they? The day they are born, they need to survive. If they win, they become legendary with many prizes. If they don't, they become forgotten.
" I was supposed to lose, wasn't I" Carlos whispers the sound for only him to hear in these silence echoing walls.
Carlos was not supposed to survive. He didn't even have the king's favor. The only reason he had survived for that long might be… because of his brother.
Carlos' brother,the king of the Moonier Empire, the saint chosen by the god, the greatest being of the empire,is the most angelic yet not a divine marvel nor an untouchable force. The king is just simply his brother for Carlos. Yet even for Carlos, he had to admit, his brother is a perfect being to descend to this world.
He is handsome, beautiful if not looking carefully you might even have to determine whether he is a man or woman, he is smart, dedicated. He is the owner of his story… no not even his story but even Carlos story. He is the writer, the reader and even the protagonist of Carlos' if he wants to be. The thing is he just needs to ask and Carlos will give it all away for him. Everybody wanted to give their story to him yet he only had eyes for Carlos' story, his little brother's story.
He is the perfect human. Everybody said that there is no perfect human, maybe there is a divine but not human. Yet he had been chosen by the priests to rule the empire hell.. even the god responded when he prayed to rule the empire. He is surely the perfect being with those facts following him everywhere he goes. Well, the chaos also follows him, but it is not his fault. The other beings want him, he is just protecting the kingdom. Even if the result is a war. As long as the kingdom is in a good situation, it is fine. And Carlos' duty is to kill the one who stands in the way of his brother.
Maybe that is why Carlos' father loves him the most, no, everybody loves him the most. Even Though Carlos is the son of the king's official wife, even though Carlos' mother is already carrying the king's child when the king returns home with another woman and her child and announces to the world that that child is his first son and the crown prince of this kingdom as his pregnant wife, the one he swore to protect and never betray, watches that scene. Hell, even the god doesn't respond to him a little bit. Every royals got a response for one god or even more, even a sick prince or a forgotten prince got a response. Yet he, the king's official son doesn't even get a response while the other unofficial son got most of the gods' response. And that king , that bastard king, like that. Even though he is the reason, the king also got the response by killing his younger brother. If he doesn't, he won't get any just like his own son, Carlos. Yet that bastard still thinks that it is my mother's fault for not living as the gods like.
" What a scumbag"
His mother suffers under that stupid man because she loves him.She gave birth to his child. And, the worst part is that she knew that she would get humiliated as well as his own son, she still could not leave him and that he still loves her because he is not taking her place as a queen.
"Your father still think me as his queen, and i am sure that he loves you Carl, he just don't know how to show"
And what does that "don't know how to show" man give.He dethroned her from the queen place for his new wife. Said for the sake of the crown prince. Sometimes Carlos thinks his mother is a fool. But as time passed, he knew that his mother was a fool.
" The crown prince's mother cannot be a concubine, That will dishonored our bloodline, when the crown prince becomes a king, he can't be rumored as a concubine's son"
Carlos still remembers those words as they were said yesterday. That day is the day his mother stop being a fool for his father, it is also the day that his mother announced that she would not give up the queen place in front of the nobles to secure her place.The queen might be madly in love with the king, that does not mean that she is dumb enough to give up her place easily. She had known that if she gave up that place, there wouldn't be a place for her son in this kingdom. If she can secure the throne then maybe, just maybe, her son,Carl, might have a place to live instead of getting killed or chased by those concubine lap dogs without any people to help. It does not matter if Carl has to be far away from home or has to become the duke or just a farmer. At least he still will have a place to live, stay and regard as home, right. She might have thought like this.
But the king is more cruel than she might have thought. She forgot that the man she had married while smiling at her has already changed. After the securing day passed, my mother got beaten day by day by that mad man in front of him as his mother covered him with her own body so that he wouldn't get hurt. And one day, things go wrong too much, his mother is not responding nor breathing at all, the only thing Carl had seen is blood pouring like rain above Carl. That day the queen of the Moonier had died beaten to death by her own husband. Carlos doesn't know if he should be sad that my mother died or should be glad that the king didn't kill him. He can't even decide, he just stays there trembling and not moving.
And the king said, " I go too hard, I see. Well, the problem is solved. Guards, the queen is dead, announced that the queen had been assassinated"
" And, you" the king said while looking at the trembling boy. The king's face is dark, the only thing that is making him see is the blood eyes that have no emotions. And it's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary.
" Do not"
It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary.
"…Stay in my way"
It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary.
" If you don't wanna end like your mother..."
It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. Please, it's scary. Mother, please I'm scared.
The boy sobbed harder and harder as he watched his mother's lifeless body unaware of the monster that was leaving.
It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary.
It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary. It's scary.
Why does that man have to be his father? Why does that man have to be his mother's husband? Why does his mother fall in love with that monster?
As the millions of memories and thoughts tangled in his mind, the darkness had already taken the boy conscious. And before everybody's sight, those words and memories had already left a scar in his deepest heart and soul and it can't be healed anymore.