The lost princess of the Hashan Kingdom

The old priestess of the Harshan kingdom stood before the huge number of the citizens of the Harshanians with her eyes popped out with no black pupil but full of white. She screamed on top of her voice to call out the slogan of the Harshanians.

"HARSHAN! ....HARSHAN! .... HARSHAN!"

calling out three times to indicated good news approaching.

"Hear me oh men and women! Hear me sons and daughters! "She screamed.

As she spoke the passion and attentiveness of the crowd was evident with their pure interest in what the priestess had to say to them. It has been a long wait for them.

They yearned for news, So desperate that even if it wasn't a good one they were ready to accept and know what lies ahead of them. And finally the old priestess who isn't seen out of her cottage finally came out to deliver news which they didn't even care whether they will like it or not.

The priestess calling them out the third time gave them hope that they weren't planning on letting go. She spoke to their hearing and a victory broke out in the crowd.

Tears of joy and lifted burdens was heard among the people. The king and Queen finally rose from their tensed backs and stood before their people raising their right hands to show power and victory.

The priestesses words of prophecy was all they had been praying to the gods of the skies for. They didn't know why it took this long but they loved the sudden good news. It was midnight when the words of the priestess kept on playing in the mind of King Shegai.

" An heir will be born! Never lose hope she will rule! An heir will rule! She comes with strength of the gods to protect all ye threatened by the kingdoms. She comes to rule with unforseen power. The Forshans will never be a threat! "

As the king pondered on these words he wondered why it was an heir with a female gender and not a male gender. He had been praying for a son but he wondered what a girl can do to protect a great kingdom such as Harshan. Not that no Queen had rule before but it's been very very long. He also thought of why Forshan was going to not be a threat because so far, Forshan has not even shown any interest in subduing Harshan since the other 5 kingdoms raised threats to conquer them after a lie spread through out the kingdoms that the King of Harshan is not potent to father a child. He had been ill for some few days only to find out some intruders had tried to overthrow him while he was on his sick bed, but for the impeccable wisdom of His Queen, Queen Yaran, all attempts of those intruders failed miserably. His thoughts broke when the Queen suddenly rushed out from the bed to throw up in their place of nature's comfort. He looked so shocked and dumbfounded as a thing like had rarely happened to the Queen. Could this one survive?He asked himself looking worried and at the same time filled with hope.

****Two years later...****

" My Queen run !" King Shegai screamed.

What was happening? Queen Yaran had no idea about the chaos in the palace and the outburst outside the palace. The sudden roar of His Majesty the King had made her jump out of her sleep.

" Run! " "Run!"

She looked backed from the voice only to find her wounded husband fighting 3 armed men with masks which could only indicate that the Kingdom was under attack.

She ran as fast as she could to her one year old daughter's room who was asleep in her small bed. The sight before her made her scream as loud as she could. "NO!!!"

Pain was evident in her eyes as she saw her twin sister raising a dagger towards her sleeping baby.

Out of impulse she rushed and pushed her sister to the floor but was stabbed at her back by the approaching dagger towards the same direction of where her daughter lied.

Carrying and limping with her baby girl, she eloped through the emergency exist of the Palace.

The turn that had been her unforseen tragedy ahead was taken by her instincts alarming state. If she had only known she wouldn't have to use that exit area because what lied ahead of her was her most greatest pain she was going to experience.

"Sheyah"*tears "sheyah" *tears*, am sorry I can't protect you but *tears* you will be fine*tears* you will make Harshan kingdom great again. The last words of the Queen to her unconscious daughter in her arms as they lied in a pit.

A smirk plastered face stood close to the pit and turned around after the night had finally been put to silence.

*Next morning *

The Unconscious king who finally gained consciousness in the palace as he was being attended to by the royal physicians of the palace quickly the hands of the chief physician out of impulse thinking it was one of his enemies who survived from his attacks last night. The physicians knowing the kind of reaction this was spoke immediately

" Long live oh King of Harshan, your servant seeks to attend to your wounds please permit me".

The King who had blurred vision suddenly begun to see clearly who was attending to him and left go off him. Suddenly His eyes popped out and asked "where is the Queen? where is my Princess".

He remembered how after conquering his enemies along with his skillfully trained guards, He went in search of his Queen and Princess only to be informed that they were missing. At the hearing of that he lost consciousness.

He asked again " where is my Queen and my princess"? The worried physicians who had no idea on how to break the mournful news to him kept looking at each other.

"The Queen has been found your Majesty" the high ranked security guard spoke.

"Where is she"? asked the King impatiently.

Without waiting for an answer he rose up from the bed in a clumsy manner and as he rose spoke.

" Take me to her now, I need to see my Daughter and Queen, hurry and help me get up ".

Realizing no movement was being made by his most trusted guard and friend, he looked up to find him sobbing silently.

The kind of confusion plastered on the was heart breaking enough to let the maids around him to break down in tears.

"Will someone tell me where my Queen and daughter is? I just need to hug them and see them, I won't die while doing so, just let them inside if you think am too weak to move".

Frustrated by the sobs and tears he shouted which startled the maids but only made his trusted guard go down His knees crying more audibly.

"I am your King and yet you keep me from seeing my wife and daughter? Who the hell are you to do this, I will have you all punished for.... before he could complete his words the words that made him feel like he had been thrown into snow whiles naked sounded in his ears.

"Your Majesty the Queen is no more, the Queen is dead", forgive me I..." NO OOO!!!! NO OOO!!!! NO OOO...!!! SHE CAN'T DIE,SHE IS NOT DEAD, SHE IS IN THE PALACE TAKE ME TO HER BEFORE I BEHEAD ALL OF YOU!!!"

As he begun Roaring and acting like an injured beast, His trusted Guard who knew him better, of how he can never accept this news without seeing for himself, stood up and held his arms to support him as they were moved to the Royal mortuary where the royalties are taken before being burnt to ashes. He was so angry at the direction where the guard was taking him but he kept calm and held into a very big hope of seeing his two precious ones alive and maybe just unconscious but alive.

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"My Queen" *Tears* "my Queen" please rise please...I beg you *tears* *Tears* *Tears*....our daughter and myself need you. Please wake up*Tears*.

King Shegai's tears and sounded in the walls of the Palace as he mourned His Queen after getting to see the terrible state of His wife, he realized that his wife was indeed dead from this kind of horrifying bruises and injuries all over her body .

After sometime of crying He called for his Guard who came to stand by his side and later asked "how is the princess doing?".

He almost went mad when the Guard announce weakly. " Your...Majesty...the Queen was found alone ... in the woods.... without the princess".