Gorkha
Bella was learning the reality of the world, she was full of all the qualities one should have. She was best in archery, true with her word, knew to respect her elder and love the junior but still, there were quite the worldly things that she was unknown about.
She often used to ask Akanchya if she also came by the fire, or fall down from the sky, or generated by a flowing river
"Bella, children are born when a boy and a girl meet and they love eachother, god then will give them the gift of a child", said Akanchya
"So one has to love the other to give birth to the child"
"Yes"
"So if I want a child I should love a boy and he has to love me back right"
"Yes"
"Will there be someone in this world who will love me?"
"You are very beautiful Bella, anyone would love you"
"Am I?", she stammered
"You are", said Akanchya taking her to the nearby stream where Bella was seeing her reflection
"Look at yourself, you are the most beautiful girl in this world. You are yourself an emblem of fire and purity"
"I am beautiful", Bella says touching her face and smiling at her reflection, "There will be someone who will love me and he will come for me right?"
"He will", Akanchya said smiling at her. "You are just 5 how can you know everything"
"You are just a day old, you are learning everything right?", she smiled and Bella smiled back. Akanchya was the only one with whom Bella was bonding the most.
Meanwhile, the king was busy with his son Beatrice, he had inbuilt qualities of using all the weapons in the world, he knew politics, he knew how one can win over his enemies, he knew not to trust anyone but not be skeptical enough to the extent that nobody will be beside you. Still, apart from all that the king was teaching him the wordly things, the value of relationships. To befriend stronger nations rather than making them their enemy.
"dad, my eldest sister who was sacrificed in the fire, wasn't she supposed to marry the prince of Sloak? It is one of the strongest nations, they will soon realize that their future daughter in law was sacrificed by you and the years of friendship with that nation can shatter in a second"
"I know, I am worried if that will happen"
"I have an idea dad, if you give me the permission I will share it with you"
"Common son, you don't have to ask me for the permission every time"
"Dad, what if we give them Akanchya in place of Sivnya, I know she is just 5 but they will become happy getting a younger daughter in law whom they can shape in whatever they want"
"You are right, but she is the last souvenir of my wife. I am having mixed feelings about that"
"dad, right now the thing that is important is to make our kingdom stable, for those, politics says we should be able to do whatever it takes. To protect our nation from war you sacrificed your 9 daughters and even your hand and now to protect our country from another dispute we have to trade our younger sister. Anyway they are a strong nation they will keep her happy"
"You are right", the king said but he was still not happy about that. The king and prince of Sloak were going to be there after 3 days and for that, the whole country was being decorated. The king and his prince Beatrice called for an urgent meeting in the palace and many legal advisors were called there. Along with them, Akanchya was also called there and along with her Bella came too.
The king went toward his throne and everyone stand in respect,
"Everyone might be surprised in regard to this urgent meeting. Everyone knows my eldest daughter Sivnya who was sacrificed in the fire was promised to the prince of Sloak and they might be coming within 3 days for the marriage. In this condition to avoid the dispute that may happen when they realize what happened to Sivnya my son and I have decided to give my youngest daughter Akanchya in the place of Sivnya", said the king from his throne which gave a huge shock to Akanchya and Bella. They both were holding each other's hands tightly and kept on looking at the king in denial.
"I want to know what everyone thinks about this decision", asked the king when most of the legal advisor sitting there shouted in agreement, "This the only thing we can do to save our country from a war"
"In which religious book is it's written to trade a daughter to save the country from the war", Bella shouted when she saw the true color of the politics for the first time with tears in her eyes while Akanchya stood numb.
"You are not allowed to talk here", shouted the king
"I will talk, I can't see this injustice happening infront of my eyes. Look at the past every war took place to save a woman, to save a daughter, to protect a girl but you are going to trade your own daughter to avoid the war. What type of justice is this, why this young girl has to bear the consequences of your act. Is this why your wife gave birth to her", she kept on shouting
"enough, throw this girl out of the palace", ordered the king, and all the soldiers began to proceed toward her
"Stop", Bella shouted hitting the floor with her leg spreading the radiation of anger all over, due to her anger the fire mark which was in her forehead began to glow and the soldiers in fear stopped their feet from going toward her, "You yourself said that she was the souvenir of your late wife, then why are you giving her the curse of sending to the another nation", Bella said this time in more agony than anger
"Because I have to do that, and they will keep her, protect her from danger. It may be a blessing"
"It may be or may not be. I am your daughter to trade me instead of her, I am begging you", Bella said kneeling down on the floor
"No, Bella", Akanchya shouted coming toward her, "There are still many things you need to learn about this world, this world is not just about happiness, truth, law, and justice here in every path one should have to go through injustice and when you are born as a daughter more."
"Don't worry Akanchya, they will keep you happy", said the king smiling at her, "I am proud of you".
"Please trade me instead of her", Bella shouted again
"You are not my daughter, you are just a random girl who came out of the fire. You are of no use to me"
"If Beatrice who came out from the same fire can be so special to you then why can't I?", she shouted again
"Who are you to shout at the king, You are a girl, Beatrice came to save this nation, and you came to remind me about my old bad memories. Remember you are not my daughter, I can give you death punishment if for a one more time you shout at me", he shouted when Akanchya joined both of her hands and kneeled down infront of Bella
"I apologize to you on her behalf your majesty. She just came into this world yesterday so she doesn’t know anything about the rule. She needs love she needs a father, please don’t be rude to her", Akanchya begged
"You are begging me so I am forgiving everything she nagged till now, but I am telling you I will not forgive if she repeats the same mistake again and again."
"She will not", Akanchya said again keeping one hand at Bella's head
"And yes, I am not your father and you are never going to be my princess"
Bella was broke listening to all that, because the thing she thought when she came to the world, the world was nothing like that.
Dark cloves
"Your majesty", The prime minister Sanga addressed Dravya who was already 35 years old and was ruling the kingdom for 20 years. He was already married to the princess of Ozoa and has two sons.
"Yes, Sanga what information have you brought with you this time"
"Your brothers, Tyler, and his brothers are already 20 years now, they must have already known who they are. Because they are also the sons of late king Sivang, They also will have the qualities that you gained from your father. The whole world is praising them for their skills of weapons and their bonding. They are living on Levia in the shadow of their martial uncle. I have been hearing rumour that Tyler and his brothers are soon attacking our kingdom and claiming the throne"
"Why are you afraid Sanga, even they come here they can't defeat us"
"According to people who have seen them, they are like five gods walking together, Their brightness, their gracefulness, their skills, their fights everything is worth watching. I am not saying it the one who saw them told me that. So I think we have to think about something because even the magnificent sage blessed them that if five of them together come in the war ground no one can stand infront of them. And see how Levia is becoming stronger in the past 5 years, it had won over 12 strong kingdoms and that is all because of them. Their glory is spreading worldwide day by day and if our citizens came to know about that I am afraid they will also revolt against us because since they were born for citizen they are the true rulers of the country"
By that time, Dravya was already red out of anger he capsized the table infront of him and broke it with his legs, "Calm down your majesty", Sanga said joining his hand together
"No matter what I do for these citizens they are never going to stop taking those idiots name"
"Your majesty, that is why I have an idea"
"What?"
"What if we send our swordsman to kill them without them knowing about it"
"It's Levia Sanga, as our late father married the princess of that country we can't send swordman to that country neither by ploy nor by gait. It is the rule"
"I knew you would say that your majesty so I have another plan"
"What?"
"Send them the invitation, to this kingdom. Show concern for them as a big brother. Tell them you want to see them and will organize a huge feast to welcome them."
"Do you want me to kill them or accept them as my brothers", Dravya shouted
"While they will come here it will take them 30 days straight. They will neither have too many solders nor any shelter to hide, in that condition, we will attack them and kill each of them"
"Oh my god, why didn't you tell me about it earlier", exclaimed Dravya laughing looking at Sanga. "This is an amazing plan, we have to execute it right here right now. I can't wait to hear the news of their death, my ears are already craving for it"
"My majesty, it is going to happen soon. Then noone in this world can dare to stand infront of us"
"You are right, Sanga", he said pulling a diamond jwellery from his neck and giving it to him.
"Long live, my majesty", said Sanga going out of the king's room.
Levia
"Gracious, where are you?", Tyler shouted running on the blazing hot sand
"I am here", a sound comes and Tyler ran toward it but could find noone there. "Where did you all hide"
"I am right here brother", another sound came from the opposite side and Tyler again followed the sound and again miss.
"Vigour, come outside", Tyler shouted again but no sound came this time. Meanwhile he saw someone's shadow behind a coconut tree and starts toddlering toward it without creating sound from his steps and holds Allure's ear as soon as he get there
"Brother, please please leave it", Allure screams with his face so handsome that even the god of beauty would hide his face infront of him.
"Tell me where are your other brother's hiding"
"Who knows we were just playing who will get caught by you at first and clearly I lose"
"Vigour, Gracious, Aven", everyone gather here shouted Tyler and all three of them came to him with wicked smile in their face
"You are not a child to play such kind of games", he said
'Big brother, apart from all the war, lession of weapons and bla bla playing with eachother is the only thing that rejuvenates us", said Gracious keeping his hand on Tyler's shoulder
"we could have hunt on our wolf's shift but you have restricted us to shift too", Vigour said confronting him
"People in Levia doesn't believe in werewolves. It's the quality that we got from our father we can't show it to this world"
"The only good thing we got from our father who gave the throne to his bastard son", Vigour shouted remembering about the betray their father did to him clenching his fist
"How many times I have to tell you stop crying for the throne which was never ours. Aren't we happy here?"
"We are just limited to a soldier here but there we could had rule"
"Still, I don't want you all to go against our father decision. Our mom must be waiting for us we have to go to the palace", ordered Tyler and all four of his brother followed him.