He was panting in his sleep, sweat beads forming on his forehead , he kept shooking his head in denial for what seemed to be troubling him.
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He was inside a very dark cupboard with clothes hanging on the hangers, he covered his mouth as told with his little hand so as not to make a sound even by a mistake.
He was scared, but he was able to see what was going on outside even if it wasn't a whole scene throug a keyhole.
He placed his eye watching warily at the bloodshed that was getting spilled, his personal maid's head rolled down to the ground before her body followed with a loud bang, blood gushing around her. He gasped, tears shimmering on his eyes, he pulled away from the hole his heart drumming , he was shocked to witness such massacre before his eyes at such young age, he knows about dying but he never saw one dying before, his body was trembling in fear.
"Brother Levy.... I'm scared " came out a voice of a little girl that was sitting beside her this whole time squirming whenever she hears a weird sound. He hushed her so as to not make a sound or else they'd get caught., he held her little hands in his "Don't worry.. big brother will protect you, you just have to stay quiet until the bad guy goes away" he whispered, the little girl nodded her head a point out her pinky finger "Promise?" she said her eyes scared but sparkling "Promise " he replied and they locked their fingers to seal their promise. The little girl then stopped talking and just moved even more closer to him tagging his shirt.
Levy moved back to peek at the hole again and his eyes widened to see his own father fighting a strange creature , its features alone were terrifying he never saw such kind of creature before. He got even more worried for his father now , he could die in the process cause the creature was way too stronger than him. In the next second "No!" he murmured, the next thing he saw was his father's limbs being ripped from his body falling to the floor just like a meat at the butcher, he gasped tears streaming down, the creature turned their side where they were hiding, he moved back quickly the moment he locked eyes with the creature, his heart almost jumped out of his chest, he covered his mouth trembling and used his other hand to cover the little girls, they could hear its heels tapping the floor and it was nearing the cupboard, he shut his eyes his mind already anticipating what was about to happened, but to his surprise came out a very loud scream of the creature, the little girl side hug him in fear and shut her eyes tightly "Big brothe!" , it was too loud that he thought his eardrums would burst, he slowly opened his eyes and was consumed by a blinding white light, it stayed for a while before a defeaning silence took over and the light was gone.
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He kept shooking his head "No! No!", "Your highness " said a female maid knocking the door , he opened his eyes shocking himself, he could still feel his racing heart and the sweat soaking him, he stayed quite for a while trying to calm himself. The maid kept knocking until it became too noisy, sighed "Come on in" he said with his deep voice not moving an inch from his big bed .
The maid entered and placed a tray of food on the table "Good morning my Prince " she stood up quietly with her head hanging low , the Prince was covered with a big and colourful duvet from his head to the toes, the maid cleared her throat when she saw the young man seems not to be planning to move at all, "My Prince, you have to eat your breakfast cause the Queen had called for you" She paused and moved her head forward looking at him before continuing "She said it's urgent my Prince " annoyed by her continuous attempts to make him wake up he threw a pillow and sighed, the maid squirmed "What could it be?" saying this he sat up making the duvet fall to his laps, his sparkling eyes on the maid with a lazy attitude waiting for a response.
The maid shook her head "I'm unaware my Prince " her eyes went down to his Adam apple and then to his toned chest , she gulped, he was a young man but he was so manly with hardened and vigorous body, Prince Levy noticed the maid oozing over him when he just woke up! for god sake! he shook his head, he was used to this type of attention from both females and males, he kept getting compliments and to him it wasn't that surprising at all.
He raised his hand to dismiss her , just when she was about to close the door she was halted "Stop! ..... My bath?" she turned to him and bowed with a smile "It's already prepared your highness, of course to your liking" , he dismissed her again.
He pulled away the duvet and reached his legs to the floor, a big yawn and body stretch followed, he walked to the rack and ran his fingers through his silky hairs before pulling a robe and put it on. He stepped out of his room walking through the corridors that had painted walls as his robe sweep the floor, he finally reached to his destination, his favourite area in the castle, although he had his own bath chamber in his bedroom .... he loved coming here, a big steam bath pool with steaming water falling from an Eagle shaped water fountain, the female maids were already in the pool waiting for him, he took off his robe and then his undergarment only to be welcomed by giggles , he was naked and sexy the maids couldn't hold in their glee, the worst part was that the young man wasn't even ashamed of anything, he walked inside the pool not caring about being naked at all.
The maids took their time bathing him before he went back to his room. His clothes were already arranged on his bed, he wore them with the help of an old woman, she combed his hairs backwards gently until the comb left some lines behind making him look even more breathtaking. "You keep shining my Prince, I'll have to be jealous of your wife soon" she chukled along with Levy, he pulled her hands and kissed the back of her palms "It's funny my wife is jealous of herself " he uttered his smile broadening as he teases the old woman, he then pulled out a chair and made her sit on it like a gentleman, "My Prince... her highness would not like this " she was about to stand up when Levy stuffed a bread into her mouth "Shhh! let's just eat and leave my mother to me, Okay?" he smiled at her and eated some fruits, the old woman felt a hot tear stinging on her left eyes, touched by his action, she quickly wiped it , 'You haven't changed a bit my Prince' she thought to herself.
After a breakfast Prince Levy made his way to his mother's quarters which was a little bit separated from his own, he was greeted by the passing maids and finally arrived, "Your highness, Prince Levy is here" announced one of the three guards by the doors, "Let him in" came a soft voice from the room almost like a whisper, the guards moved their spears that was blocking the way and bowed for him to enter.
Prince Levy entered as the first door was opened, after some few steps a second door was opened for him, he found his mother with several documents scattered on the table , her loose bun saying it all that she was tired , he walked and gave her a peck on her cheek "Good morning mother " she smiled at him and gave him a quick side hug "Morning son... I hope you had a peaceful night" she took off her glasses and placed them on the table, Prince Levy pulled out a chair and sat facing her, "It was fine .... and how about you? How are you my Queen?" she let out a tired sigh "How can I have a peaceful night when I'm ruling the Kingdom of Ximpton, its always tiring and complicating, I can't wait to hand you over your throne!" she complained and a chuckle escaped Levy's fuller mouth "You have to bare with it Mother, I'm not ready to get old at such young age" Queen Jene shook her head at her son's cheesy jokes before remarking "Goodness... a scaredy cat are you? it's your throne remember...." Levy shrugged his shoulders, suddenly her face became gloomy and the smile she had this whole time vanished making Levy curious "Son... there is some place you have to go and trust me it will be worthy of your time" she got up from her seat heading to a cupboard and pulled a drawer, she took out a certain paper, Prince Levy couldn't understand what his mother was talking about, his eyebrows furrowed "Somewhere? Where? and why mother?".
Queen Jene placed the paper on the table, it was a map of another Kingdom and for a moment he wondered what was going on his mother's mind right now, and why does he have to go to Dillonia leaving her alone? what's so special about there? "Son I've found someone to train you to be a better King as I can't be of much help here" she paused looking at confused and annoyed face of her son who was looking back at her with unfathomable look.