Hoooooonk!!!!
Three consecutive blown of a trumpet. All the soldiers in Thallerion rushing and preparing. Meanwhile, in the Thallerion's border, there was shadowy presence writhed between the towering mountains, rushing through the valley, cloaked by a cunny thrifty fog.— Screeeech!
The piercing blare of a Thallerion soldier's trumpet tore through the mist, its defiant echo reverberating through the very heart of the mountains. Then, a rhythmic thud approached—not one, but a legion!
"Aye....as the Queen of Thallerion, Queen Xurien Wrez, I heard the incoming sounds, rumbling between the two mountains, yet, my son Prince Xerxez still not at home, I'm worried." The queen stood, watching, as the king and the soldiers, were busy, identifying the object in the borderline. "And I'm worried too, those crawling things hiding beneath the shadow haze, might be an infested soul. Perhaps, possessed by Entity?"
"My king, what that sound??" The queen approached to the king in protruding corridor holding a telescope. When she saw the rushing reporter. She noticed the unexplainable worries on her husband's face.
"If you find the boy, tell him, hide." The king said to the queen, as his face laced with worries then he immediately meet a reporter. "Those objects moving on the valley looks strange." The king thought heavily.
"Was it a crawling reptilian, moving in a grim unison?" King Cerceux asked. Standing on the upper floor in the Thallerion palace. His eye in the telescope still puzzled by the presence of unknown things moving in the distance. "Are they Lacerta clan?" The king presumed.
"We weren't so sure, the gatekeeper, confused too." The reporter said, his voice laced with dread.
The king of Thallerion, thought it was a reptilian mountain-beast or the nuisance Lacerta clan, but in the blurry, foggy valley, there was a murmuring, mammalian growled. Confirmed otherwise. Then, from the swirling mists of the colossal flock, bearded legs stood, clumsy, chubby-bellied beast. Its sharp claws poke at the mountain's foot—a fatted beast, covered in soft fur and feathers, unequivocally quadrupedal!
"Oh, are those abyssal beasts returning on this current generation? But the book of history, stated that, after the Orion entity was gone... vanished....abyssal beasts, also disappeared." The queen explained.
"Wait, the growl become silent, the rumbling thud, become calm... what's happening?" The queen wondered as they notice the sudden pause of the rumbling sounds.
It blinked, and like tear drops that vanishing into verdant fogs , the grotesque, visceral beast dissolved, its bestial shadow shrunken and consumed by pollen-flakes. Then, BOOM! The clang of metallic, rhythmic planks and blades, resounded, shattering the eerie silence. Then, the aftershocks of the beastly growl, the thud of the hooves, appeared too.
"BEHOLD! All of you, Citizens of Thallerion!"
"Who is that shouting? What are they wearing?" The queen said, holding a telescope.
"It's a vanguard!" The king replied.
"Wait? Where did the mammalian, growl go? It disappeared? I thought, it was a beast? Those arrogant people standing in the border line. Look, they are too fat, the clumsy chubby bellied-warriors, what are they doing here?" She amazed with a hint of suprise.
"See their war-fashion? They were wearing white armor, with crescent shaped, feathery. Bulbous chariots, like onion bulb, clean milky frostbite horses—is that a Moonatorian?" The queen eye clearly seen the figure in the border using the telescope.
"Aye! My queen! They are indeed Moonatorians." The king answered. Reloading his pistol with bullets. "I'm sure my pistol now has a good use for." He mused with a hint of courage.
The Moonatorians stood, valorous, clad in moonlit-feathery armor. They glinted toward the hazy valley like a crescent moon ascending in the dusky, icy mountains, like ominous stormy flakes revealing cantankerous, yet bladed men.
"It was human, after all, not beastly!" The queen concluded.
"what on earth they were here for?" The king also said. His brows sharply touches his forehead. "Come with me, my queen, let's meet them."
The queen and King Cerceux, arrived in the border line to greet this unexpected visitor. "I heard the name Moonatoria before, I heard about this people, they said, the legend once said, they have power from entity?" The queen said as the king drove the chariot with four black horses.
"Me too, I am uncertain about that. What kind of entity they're hiding from us?" The king flustered, staring at the distance, as he saw the obese warriors at the back.
"I am certain, they're presence was unwelcome in my eyes." The queen looked in the Moonatorians group.
"Prepare yourselves, oh Citizens of Thallerion, you, an innocent and forgotten country, perhaps the lowest nation with no Constellar-protector! Without Orion's help, winning is impossible!" The Moonatorian's vanguard shouting from a far.
"How dare you!!!" The king forehead was furrowed, and his jaw tightened strongly, when the vanguard declared.
"Such a bully vanguard!!" Her biting tongue striking like a viper. "Hmph, he really think we are scared of their presence? He think, Thallerion— is the lowest nation?" Her gaze was sharply pointed at the vanguard face.
Now, the phalanx of masculine, lion-hearted men, with corn-silk hair, curled like an apron on their chests. Their brute waists, ornamented with swords and pistols, stood upheld at the Thallerion border.
"STOP!" A loud, yet dignified, shout from a Thallerion gate-keeper soldier echoed through the Moonatoria Vanguard's ears. A low murmur rippled through their ranks.
"That's great, they must not come to pass in the border line, such a bully...we must rebuke them!" But suprisingly, the voice of our gate-keeper, amazed the queen, after the flocks of Moonatoria, stop." The Queen head showed authority upon the arrival of the Moonatorians.
"So, Moonatoria. What foul spirits, drag you here, such an audacity to come here, without our consent?" Her tone impulse with venom, hinted her displeasure.
"King and Queen...of...Thallerion!" The vanguard stood , etched with a bitter smile, with low guttural, hinted with malice. "Presenting to you, My honorable king, the crown breaker, most powerful among kings. Killer of forty-three kings."
"Such an evil king! Killing such number of kings, was undeniably, wicked, merciless conqueror!" The queen said clutching her chest. "Where is that King?" Her head searching a face of Moonatoria's king among the Moonatorians retinue.
They can't see who among of them was their king, but perhaps, in the bulbed-onion detached on the wheels, ten men, slaves, chained, and lifted the golden canopy chariot, like onion bulb. Inside, one chubby bellied man, clad in silvery silk, belted with many decorative weapons, no doubts, he is the king, seated lazily.
"Behold… King Hedromus[1]. Lord of Moonatoria. Conqueror… and perhaps, today… executioner."
"Ow, he is too undeniably obese, how can a man like him, kill 43 kings? Well, not to judge by the appearance, he—" Her impulse hinted with teased, then she laughed. "Hahaha...look at his belly? Is that a balloon? He actually a neckless, conqueror!"
At the selfsame hour, as the Queen echoing infront of the Thallerion soldiers, the king of Moonatoria lips etched with curved line. His eyes, stare at the queen with cold gazed. He snorted with a displeasure.
"Listen, everyone.... today...my king Hedromus... give you a chance to live. He wanted to offer you a spare life....surrender this land to him... and follow our mighty Constellar Protector."
"hah, what an idiot!!" The king shouting.
"Moonatorians, our land Thallerion is not accepting king, with infested by an unknown Constellar entity!" The queen tone was loud and firm, then she breathes. "Unless, the king of Moonatoria come here to build a better alliance."
The Queen, her crescent robes flowing, bestowed an unwelcome greeting upon the visitors. The Moonatoria nation, its familiar furrowed brow turned toward Thallerion's defiant head.
"Well, the Orion here in Thallerion, neglected his own people, yet, here comes my king, sympathize, give compassion to those, abandoned, forgotten people by their own protector."
"We don't believe you, Orion entity never been neglected us without a reason." The king defensive reaction was like a sharp blade.
"That is exactly what we've come here for." A vanguard of Moonatorians stood, clutching his bearded jaw. "We are here to prove to all of you: If we are going to destroy the very heart of your kingdom—will the Orion entity come and rescue you?"
Her husband Cerceux, clutching his silvery rounded-bullet gun, as the vanguard stood forward arrogantly. While, the king of Moonatoria seat comfortably on his golden chariot. "I can't bear watching his slaves... lifted it...agonizing due to his obesity... how such an oppressor!!!" Her voice laced with heavy tone like bearing a giant boulder.
"You, bearded vanguard! Step back or I won't hesitate to fire a gun!" The King of Thallerion declared, poised, holding his holstered pistol. The vanguard meticulously plucked dirt from his nails with a hint of a grimace, then spat, and stood arrogantly, counting the lives of every Thallerion soldiers.
Then, the King of Moonatoria[2] coughed sarcastically. "Ye forsaken folk, and chieftains of craven blood! If ye desire to preserve thy lives—Surrender"
A unison clang of Thallerion's shields resonated from its umbilical formation, clanking loudly! Forming a solid defensive wall with spears protruding!
"We don't need your filthy Protector!" the Queen rebuked, her voice sharp. "Surrender?!"
"Have you lost your mind?" She said infront of the Moonatorians, like an arrow piercing through their ears. "We, Thallerion, perhaps the other nation thought the same thinking, the lowest or whatever, as we don't have Orion's help... but... Surrender?—that is not our vocabulary!"
"Hmph, we won't surrender!" King added loudly. "Well, look like the king of Moonatoria doesn't want any alliance." He thought.
"Ah-ah-ah-ah! Enough with your words, vow before my king!" The vanguard roared, reacting with furious indignation. "It's your choice!"
"Huh, I'm sorry to tell you, we don't vow at any king with unknown Entity!" the King of Thallerion clarified, his voice unwavering. At the same time, the king of Moonatoria, smile with a bellicose stare. "And we are not afraid, even if no one is taking care of us. For we are Thallerion, we won't be afraid of anything!"
"Hahah, really?" The Moonatorians chuckled insanely, their laughter chilling. "Are they weren't afraid?" The vanguard said in his mind.
The queen and king of Thallerion noticed the king of Moonatoria signaling his slaves to move the chariot forward then, his lips with a line of pride, spoke. "King of Moonatoria, looks like you're willing to bully us...but, if you don't mind...why we don't talk about alliances? Or... let's negotiates first."
"My king, need no time for negotiation...it is a waste of time!" The vanguard scoffed.
"I will tell you, Moonatoria... Thallerion will not surrender!" The king, authoritative manner lace with grim. Then he tried to recall the name of Moonatoria entity on his mind. "I hardly speak of their Constellar's entity...It feel like, the name of their entity seemingly in an edge of my tongue."
"If 'tis so, then shall we not in earnest fray declare the veritable well of our spirit and flesh?" The King of Moonatoria spoke in his archaic, comfortable accent. Then, the king of Moonatoria declared. "Assail!!!"
Without any a do, he then, declared a war. The vanguard and the frontier soldiers ran towards the Thallerion soldiers' formation. The swoosh of swords begin, and the burst of a gun shattered the air.
"Wait..what!? Instantly!?" The King shocked.
Her husband drive the chariot as fast as he could, they were now hurrying in the safe place, as they moved away in the chaotic borderline, the queen saw them, shooting, and swooshing, and thrusting, all were in chaos, and then, here the vanguard, shouting and laughing at them like a barking dog.
"Hahahha, why are you running?"
"My king, we must act! The Moonatorians are ruthless—they scorn peace and mock every call for diplomacy." The queen's voice faltered as she sagged within the chariot, the borderland dust swirling around them.
"We are powerless in this," the king answered, his tone heavy with resolve. "Their oppression is plain to all. They will never treat for peace, not while they draw strength from the Constellar Protector." He snapped the reins, urging the steeds to greater speed, his pistol rattling at his side.
The Moonatorians stepping into Thallerion like kicking an anthill, unleashing a maelstrom of violence. "Destroy their defenses!!!" The vanguard said. If Moonatorians thought, Thallerion will be threatened, they were gravely mistaken. "Thallerion, fight with all your might!!!" The Chief Commander shouting. Thallerion were not coward! When threatened by oppressors, they were not simply avoiding them—they will destroy it!
"I've never been expected this to come, at this very morning, the Moonatorian's soldiers run in our defensive barriers, reckless moves, untrained, somewhat—unskilled soldiers?" The queen pondered. Yet, they are still strong mob that clang against metallic shields.
'"Hmph, did King Hedromus really think, our soldiers are weak? He only commanded the front-unskilled-pawns to attack?" The king said, snorting with volcanic grumbled.
"Look, they were just standing there, behind, watching, like an audience?" Her eyes gaze at the distance wherein the Moonatorian's warriors stood behind king Hedromus.
"Huh, if that so, Moonatoria, don't ever try to blink, whoever spat on our unyielding heart would find arrows diving like a peregrine's spotting prey!" The queen bellicose growl hinted with intent anger.
Her husband, ordered to all Thallerion soldiers to attack. "FIRE!!! Release all the cannons .... Shoot them with your guns!!!" Flick! Thunk! Thunk!!!! Boom!!! As long as death had mercy, their soldier's knees would not tremble. BANG!!! A continuous shot of guns tore through the air!
She heard her husband, uttered the unyielding principle of their ancestors before: "If you take blood from our lives, we will also take blood in return."
"Hahahha," the vanguard laughed upon hearing, what the king said. "We already did, it's your turn now! Take blood, if you can!!!" The vanguard was commanded by the king of Moonatoria to summon all the front pawns to unleash their powerful attack, using their arsenal weapons. The king of Moonatoria, smile brutally, watching the war, as if, it dancing infront of him.
Queen Xurien was sure, that no mortal one, wants to remain in a dismal past, but here in Thallerion, she can't change the reality. The bitter truth was already etched in their palms. "For we are not so sure, if there is still protector will come for us, to dignify. Maybe, we will not be bullied."
While, King Cerceux feels that his land is like an orphaned land for abandoned people. Invaders would simply come and snatch their lives, so many lives, were killed, wounded, but they are still breathing, hoping, and praying that one day, their protector will come and rescue them in a darkest moment.
"Fortify the defenses! Those, front pawns of Moonatoria, no match against you with experience, you elite warriors, and soldiers. Don't be afraid if they were so many!" The king of Thallerion shouting. while, the Moonatorians tried to break the barrier like a deluge water surging strongly, unable to stop them, but Thallerion soldiers still holding their weapons to fight.
"Reload all firing weapons, sharpen all blades, resupply the cannon balls!" The queen added. All the soldiers hurrying in organized , systematic, and active.
"Yes, your Majesties." They replied courageously.
The queen stood in the corridor, waiting for her young boy. "Where is he now?"
Perhaps, this is the time, to accept the reality, human life, exists—depends on the ugly lines of palm, not by the moves of the Orion entity's plan, or even by the presence of other Constellar's entities. Believe it or not, every life born in Thallerion was merely a pawn, in the game of war.
"Aye, this is the inescapable reality borne through the next generations in Thallerion. Whether Thallerion would avoid conflict or not, our time will explode uncontrollably, because everyone thought, Thallerion was a formidable foe." The queen said on her mind. Standing and watching below where the battle was in chaos. While, the king of Moonatoria just stood seat on his bulbous chariot.
"They believed, we are still the Orion entity's chosen people—known as the great Hunter, but that Constellar entity, maybe, forgotten us, and his responsibility upon us, neglected!" The king of Thallerion also thought. His finger directed, pointing, and his mouth continuously open as if there were no time to keep his mouth, pause. "Abandoning us like a worn-out tattered vessel!"
While the king of Moonatoria seated, he thought: "Although, they were acting, like...they were still empowering by the Orion. Proving that their hearts beating, like the Constellar Orion, who once never been shaken, and defeated. They still can't defeat my front pawns...I'm just giving them a good fight."
"Your Highness, when will the time you are going to let us fight against this Thallerion people?" The warriors on his back, asking. "Our front pawns, almost outnumbered." But the king of Moonatoria just give him a hush. "Not yet!" He replied silently.
Thallerion warriors, and soldiers now raging in the midst of the battlefield like a berserker strikes, hurrying bites like straight darts! The clang of weapons, the metallic shield, ringing, and banging as the battle igniting time to time.
If the Thallerion were condemned by fate to testify before them— the queen would tell them: "Our ancestors are born to kill beasts and demons, but you Moonatorian, whatever you are? Even if the blade of our weapons turned into rotten, we will not surrender!"
The king of Moonatoria heard it, and scoffed, while his chubby bellied men, their teeth gnashing with bellicose growl. They are ready to use their ultimate ability. But the king of Moonatoria hand, still on hold.
The tears of the Thallerion would not flow like hardened butter and as hard as komodo-dragon's skin. They were merely numbed, by the many wars they had faced. A carved oath on a stone was proof of their unbroken promise before and then—to escape nothing from the enemy's challenge.
Thallerion soldiers in every district accumulated enough defenses, but in the Mintaka District, the gate border were destroyed. And now the Moonatorians soldiers harrassing all the citizens there.
But, the Thallerion soldiers were willing to face the Moonatorians, even if their lives were sacrificed. Even a driving force, might hinder until death. "Even if countless beasts, might stride across the Thallerion's wall, the sword would stand still. Even the Moonatorian soldiers might scuffle Thallerion's freedom and continue, we will not cower!" Thallerion soldier shouting at the Mintaka District.
Moonatoria and Thallerion were now like two stones engraved by war, with a blazing bond never to be broken.The queen worried as she heard the news about Moonatorians in the district Mintaka.
Both embraced the fangs of war! This inescapable bite of the battle they faced now was bloody, like a woman giving birth and suffering.
"Moonatoria, how long will you understand, violence brings nothing good to mortal beings?" The queen said, she knew that other nations gambled their lives too in death's game; whenever the roulette of war spun, then, she saw everyone shouted with intense anger—was vengeance the true companion? "Yet, here you are, gnashing in wrath against us."
Clang! Crink!!!!
"My king... We have to add soldiers in the other districts... Or else, all district border gates will be destroyed like the Mintaka." The Queen said, her eyes lit with greasy sorrows as she think about the situation in the Mintaka District.
"Yes, your majesty...some of our soldiers in every district were slain. Only here on Betelgeuse will remain strong." Chief Commander said.
With every clang, so many soldiers were slain. "My heart ache when this unbearable truth, blew a venomous omen: we are haunted by so many ferocious nations with Constellar entity back then, and now the Moonatorians, I don't know what Constellar entity they were hiding from us?! But even so, we will not stop, whatsoever! Even hatred begot more hatred!" The king of Thallerion sagged on the throne as he plan a new tactics."
"Why the Mintaka District soldiers let the Moonatorians destroyed the gate border? If so ...tell all citizens to add barrier and fight against Moonatorian. We can't send soldier from the Betelgeuse district.. It's dangerous, if we deduct the number here."
"But my king..." Her guttural voice was deepening hinted with understanding.
Even if they were wipe out as numerous as sand or stars, this blazing war would not become dew. This is like, their eyes gazed at the sun to come, a mere illusion of the hope, that the Thallerion soldiers continued to fight for, towards the abyss prepared by Moonatoria. "Where are you, Orion? Did you really abandoned us?" The queen said on her mind.
No inscription could reveal, where he is? This war, an unexpected war, when will the clashing shields would end? but as long as no one losing between the two opposite sides, the chaos will continue.
"Haha, don't ever retreat, kill, and kill, as long as the Thallerion still alive! " The vanguard, shouting.
"Queen of Thallerion, are you just watch there? I heard you know how to sing, why don't you sing up there for us." The vanguard stared at the queen.
"Hmph, he's crazy!!!" She mumbled with a bitter gazed at the vanguard. "Our people, warriors, and soldiers, can take advance against the front pawns of Moonatoria...that sounds relief."
May the day never come when a glass is overturned! Folded like a tectonic fault collides!
It had been thousands of years since beasts, entities, and miracles had emerged through the mortal world, But, that was the time, Orion, came, rescued her ancestors too. Thallerion people became dependable to their own protector. All wars, huntings, and survival, triumphantly done with the Great Hunter— Orion.
Thallerion name was derived from 'Teller of Orion, or said by Orion....but many pronounced it, 'Tell'Rion'. Until one day, the very heart of abyss, disappeared, many people believed, Orion sacrifices himself to kill the abyssal power. The Gifts of Orion, became powerless, useless, and so, they thrown it away, after so many years had passed.
The legend said, Thallerion—the abandoned one, seemed to merely circle in the desert's whirlwind. There seemed to be no longer any glimmer to clarify the future. A place without hope forever!'
Thallerion people stop, when the king Hedromus, begin to move in the center, and her husband lead his men to confront the king again. The king of Moonatoria seated in the bulbed-onion chariot, lifted by his slaves.
King Hedromus, the master of archaic accent, now moved forward, and gazed upon Thallerion people, his belly, his golden chariot lifted by his groaning slaves, and his warriors stood behind him, underestimated the very essence of the Thallerion's defenses. After so many hours of standing, ignoring the Moonatorian front pawns —the rioters—to create unexpected chaos here in Thallerion.
She wondered, why they are not fighting? "Is King Hedromus come here to watch his pawn to be killed? Yet, they were still smiling? What are they planning?"
The king of Thallerion now stood in front of the Moonatorian's leader, while the queen at the back, observing and listening to the feasibility of their confrontation.
"How long shall thou realize that thou art no match for me and Moonatoria?!" King Hedromus, the King of Moonatoria, just watched the battle like a referee together with his special warriors, with enormous muscular shapes. The King of Moonatoria, just scratched his head at the Thallerion's resilience.
"Hahaha....what? Just stop talking with an archaic accent, but watch your front soldiers… almost outnumbered.... look…. My soldiers are still alive!" The King of Thallerion scoffed.
"These are but scum of the soldiery, devoid of Moonatoria's true nature!" The king of Moonatoria fat lips stretched. "Hmm, the king of Thallerion face was perfectly shaped like a boulder, and his chest was intimidating." His eyes rolled from head to chest, as he thought.
"What do you mean?" Thallerion King, flustered. "Is he referring to their ability?" His eyes deepened. As the king of Moonatoria moved out in the chariot.
"Hahaha!!"
Then, during the raging chaos, Moonatorian warriors dropped their weapons on the battlefield, after the king of Moonatoria released a hand signal. But it was not defined as their defeat; instead—it was a parody! A play!
And before their eyes, the king can't understand, why they cast their weapon on the ground, and he heard the king of Moonatoria, shouting.
"Growl, grow grotesquely!!!"
"What are he saying? Grow? Wait? What's happening to them? What are they—?"
Look! The Moonatorian's skin, begin to darken, from chubby bellied men, now coated with earthly beard. Their muscles trembled with abomination, screeching cryptically.
GRAWRR!!! SCREEEECH!!!!AWOOO!!!!
Every Moonatorian warrior's bone, swell, and their muscle, shifted into an enormous bestial form. With the true form of beast with fangs, claws, and their quadrupedal, stretched.
The queen who stood nearby, her knees trembled, she was worried as she saw them transforming into a bestial form, she read a lot of books about Constellar entity back then, now, her understanding was now forming a single truth, as she saw their true form, is a testament of a beast in human vessel. A true colossal form of an Ursa-entity in Moonatorian warriors' bodies.
This is no longer a glimpse of disguise in the shadow, this is the true color of the Moonatorian bloodline, a shape-shifter, a mere-bear. Their hands were like wrecking balls that screeched and punched. The walls shattered like blocks into sand. Thallerion's shields were just brittle glass scattered on the ground.
GRRRRRRR!!!!
"The Ursa beasts!!!" Thallerion was shocked. The grizzly bears growled in front of them. King Cerceux was flustered. "Oh, yeah, the mammalian growl, was indeed an Ursa growl. Why I didn't realize it early?" He think, remorseful.
"You are a bear?" The king of Thallerion shocked upon seeing the sudden transformation of Moonatoria. His eyes bulged, even he was a king of Thallerion, his face turned pale like his blood was sucked by thousand leeches.
"Ye ken us now!" Even King Hedromus transformed into an enormous bear; his voice became deeper and growling. His beastly big eyes, glaring like an ember iris. Thallerion soldiers was stunned like they were petrified by the sudden transformation. There were black grizzly bear stood up two meters high from the head of a human. There are also green, white, and brown group of bears at the back of king Hedromus. The queen of Thallerion, fell on the ground as her knees weakening by the truth in front of her.
"My king, get out there!" She hoarsely cried out. Her husband, Cerceux, king of Thallerion, still standing. 'I know he was afraid, as he stood in front , leading his men, but I can see how his face become pale, like a bloodless man froze in front of the beastly bear. A colossal tank-bear roar at him! But— my husband's his hand, I know what his mind planning..." She remembered something as she
"Please don't do it!!" The queen understood that Ursa beasts will become ferociously wild if they were hurt. "NOO!"
BANG!
The King of Thallerion triggered his holstered pistol, and Hedromus' head was hit. There was blood after the bullet exploded on the forehead. But his closed mouth with large fangs just smirked with the bullet.
"Yow! He is impenetrable! Whoa, bullet didn't kill him!!?" Xerxez appeared from that very moment, shocked and amazed. "Yeaks! Ursa! Ursa!" The dagger talked pitchy. Only Xerxez can hear it.
Well, it was useless. Her son finally came. "I was so worried at him, but look at him... he was unfazed by the appearance of the beastly being?" The queen knew what the boy was holding, those are the most delicious food she ever tasted. He then run towards his father—
"OH NO!" Her husband suddenly hit by the immense blow of black grizzly bear claws at the chest, bleeding, and it was severe, though he can still endure the pain. But, he felt a hot sensation like an iron ember biting his chest.
"Release the cannons!" ordered by the King, while holding his chest, three wounds scarred on his chest. "Close the palace gate!" The agonizing pain writhed him in. The boy ran disparately thinking he could help his father. Then, he grabs his dagger to stab the grizzly bear, but his father stopped him.
"Xerxez, NOOOO! Don't go there?" The queen shouted, her lips trembled. But her worries, still on his husband, as her eyes stared at the king, trying to move away from the growling bear.
"Dad, you're wounded!" Xerxez, the son of a king, came with a pouch full of eggs, trembling in fear as he saw a flowing crimson on his father's chest, and spilled all the eggs on the ground scattering, some are cracked and but many were rolled on the ground, chaotically. "Why those beasts attacking you, dad!?"
"You reckless!!!" The king angered but filled with fear, his innocent son might be attacked by the Ursa beast too. "What are you doing here?" His hand grabbed him forcefully, away from the beasts. "Go to your room and hide!"
"No! I want to help you fight monsters, dad," Xerxez said, forcing himself to stay.
"Get the boy here away!" The King of Thallerion commanded the queen, while he was panting, and his face was twisted in pain. He saw the queen ran disparately grabbed their boy's hand.
King Cerceux, pushed them insistently, even his chest was severely bleeding. His hands were cold, wetted by crimson red, as the Queen felt it. Xerxez stubborn act forcefully loosen her grip on his hand. "My son didn't you understand, how dangerous those Moonatorians are!?" She said harshly, as she was overwhelmed by fear and concerned while the boy ignorantly thought, it was just a wild bear that lost track here in the Thallerion.
"My dagger can kill it!" The boy said forcing himself to stay.
"My bullet didn't even hurt the bear head, and that dagger was useless!!" The king said, then groaned in pain.
"No, Dad... believe me ...my dagger can electric him!" The boy eyes were in tears, his face was begging for consideration. "Enough with that, don't ever try to do that again!" He was scolded, after the boy tried to move closer to the bear, a minute ago. Then, on that moment on, someone interrupted, sweat dripping on his cheek and staining his armor with blood. "Go to your room, now!" He ordered firmly.
"Your majesty, the gate was opened and our cannons were destroyed! The Beasts are now breaching in!!!" The chief captain rushed, reporting with a desperate gasp.
The Queen's husband stunned, speechless, his brain was petrified like stone, can't think instantly, but his eyes with grease of tears, still trying to seek solutions, like their Thallerion's men stood firm, clutching swords and spears, thrusting the maw of the bears, though it was nothing but a mere twigs, like gun's bullet but feeble against the Moonatorian's skins?
Luckily, his wound was not severely reach his internal flesh, he seat on, tearing his royal dress, and the queen help him first aiding him. He is agonizing, moaning in pain, writhing, and even clutching his wife's shoulder. ARGH!!! HOOO!!!
"What... this wound, it looks.... burned!" She was shocked upon seeing the wounds texture.
"Just heal it!" The king panting agonizingly.
The wound has a burning flesh, like, a living fire slit it, screeching it three times. Such a powerful blown. "I can't believe the level of Ursa's strength."
Though, Thallerion still fighting even though, they were already exhausted, ceaselessly fighting against Moonatorian soldiers and bear warrior beasts. The Thallerion soldiers will not surrender. Even if raging meteors rained down, their hearts, as dry as blood stuck to a weapon, would not be swayed. Even the king of Thallerion was wounded, they still protecting the defenses. Keeping all Moonatorian outside of the gate.
"Who would be able to defeat the ambitious Moonatoria's Bear-warriors?" The queen stood in the corridor watching. This seemed to be the time when the sun no longer rose in the east. "But even if we offered tears; the claws of war would not pity us." She sighed worriedly.
Simultaneously, the Moonatorians warriors fiendishly erupted inside of the Betelgeuse district, clawing, bumping, and even biting with sharp fangs. The Thallerion were like dogs battered by the bears.
The queen desired peace, so did as the people of Thallerion, their heart beating, each day unfolded. Their hearts shaken in fear for the future of their children, upholding inevitable Perils! As her son, Xerxez, his future is indeed uncertain too. "I wish this battle will not end, in a bitter fate."
But as long as the strident bite of those warrior mere-bears, whispering like a striking viper, and their venomous attacks would never fail. "Our future is dim like a dusk hurrying to fold the day light." The king inhaled, as he tried to lean on the throne chair.
"Your majesty, what are we supposed to do now?" The Chief Commander stood in front of him. While the queen moved from the corridor to the King's seat.
"I know how worried my husband was, he know, they are not easy to be defeated, knowing that, they have Constellar's entity." The queen said courageously on her mind, "Just relax for now.... I'll be the one will manage it." She said, keeping her husband, stay on the chair. "No matter what will happen, I will do my best to support my husband, whatever it cost, even if it all means by sacrificing my own life." Her mind said. Then she said, "I will do it." She breathed.
Meanwhile, the Thallerion felt hopeless as they thought there seemed to be no chance against Moonatorian warriors, like a worm continuously gnawing the mantle of the great Thallerion, were crushing the walls. The impenetrable palace gate, like a shield of Orion, was dislocated like a bone after the Bears bumped into it.
"Solidify the palace gate!" Shouted by the chief captain.
This world was full of intimidating creatures, entities that surrounded human lives. "I don't think we can endure this reality? How can we survive if no one taking care for us?" The queen thoughts.
[1] Hedromus = “The First Stone” or “The Great Foundation.”It suggests solidity, unshakable will, or someone who stands as the cornerstone of an empire or faith.
[2] Legends say Hedromus was born “beneath the mountain’s root,” his first cry shaking the caverns. He grew with a body like iron and a voice like thunder. When he raised his hand, men followed, for he was believed to be the stone upon which fate itself was set.