My Rebirth as an alien Queen

Episode 9-Prince Zioko

I was still chatting with Barb as we stroll down the hallway heading to my room ready to research on the list of names Hero gave me but I met an unfamiliar alien that I would have sworn was the Alien prince Hero and I worked together to fight against if he wasn't taller and older in look to that one.

"Queen Aira" He called and I immediately halted watching him make a flat bow, he was bent such that his back was straight enough for anything to stay on top. I was about to make the same gesture when Barb stopped me.

"The Queen bow to know one" She voiced almost immediately to stop my action.

"He awaits your command to rise" Barb told me and I froze not knowing how to tell him.

"Rise, the queen has ordered" Barb ordered in Ghafilan but the Rafik (male Ghafil) refused to stand.

"I would take the order only from the queen" Why does he really have to make things complicated? I wondered and looked at Barb for a solution since I only understood the language; I couldn't speak it.

"Kivirok" I heard Hero's voice behind me and the Rafik in bent in front of me in a black robe stood bringing my attention to the brown and white plaid gown under his cloak. He smiled at me and I returned it warmly.

"Prince Zioko...to whom do I own this delight visit?" Hero asked hands folded behind him as he stood straight and tall to match with the prince height, wait what? He's a prince! My mind took a moment going around that information.

"My liege" Zioko smiled wryly eyes raking me through and I I saw one particular tentacle on his head tightened and knot up but when he caught me staring he immediately loosened it up. His tentacles where neatly packed by a golden metal adornment that had a emerald like stone embedded in it.

"I have come to pay may regards to the queen pardon me if I had been of disturbance-

"Not at all, you're welcome to visit" Hero replied plainly and I wondered what sort of relationship he must have with this particular brother of his.

"Barb bring the queen into her chambers" Hero commanded and like a powerful wind of force he willed me to go to my room making me lose track of the conversation he was having with his brother.

"What the hell was that?" I couldn't help asking Barb immediately I was willed to enter into my room and locked the door.

"The king has the ability to make anyone do his bidding-

"Yeah I know but I hate it when he used UT on me that's so rude" I complained kicking the edge of my gown and moving to my bed.

"So, who was prince?" I asked Barb as I adjust on the bed making myself more comfortable with my back rested against the soft pillow and the headboard.

"Prince Zioko is the eldest prince of the previous King, he was also an older brother from the ex-queen and was supposed to be the grand chief after the king’s two brother eligible for that position was banished away from the palace but the king shot everyone out and made the position vacant” Barb completed and I let out a loud sigh.

“What does the grand chief do?” I was curious though I know about a Hero’s uncle who was the last grand chief, the psycho wanted earth for himself…he wanted to rule it all and it thought that could only be ensured if he wiped out the entire human race. But Hero’s step brother, the prince who had once brought my soul back from the past was against his idea…but they were still both psychos that wanted earth for themselves, just this time the prince wanted humanity for s*****y. Because of the their two different ideas the Hero’s step-brother whose name I could not remember since he had such a complicated name like Hero, whose full name was Herochuvon…at least his could be shortened. I created the short form of his name.

How I had met Hero was an unpleasant situation, he was a young defender alien sent to kill people that knew about them and he had attempted to kill me and my group of rebels who wanted to fight against them. Well, the Ghafil race according to what I’d learnt from the past were divided into five groups, their royals who had the ability to manipulate and have powerful telekinetic ability, the warriors who were taller, strong and built…they had a strength of 50 average humans, the singers had the ability to control minds using their powerful melodious voice, it was their defence ability, the defenders who had the ability to imitate any nature, they could take anyone’s form, it was their defence ability, then the workers who are very intelligent…the largest in their race. The most rare of the Ghafil diversities is the royal and singers…Rofiks (female Ghafils) are dominated the singers group, according to what Hero told me it’s very rare for a Rafik (male Ghafils) to be amongst the singers.

“If he was a biological brother to the psycho prince that wanted my planet for himself…why did Hero give him a chance to be this close? He could harbour ill-feelings about what was done to his mother and brother-

“Prince Zioko haven’t been really close to the family, his mate was from the light race and he loved peace at least that was what the king thought” I scoffed not believing an inch of it. Hero had no idea what it likes to be someone’s family…if he knew he wouldn’t allow Zioko to step a foot inside the palace.

“Tell him about Zioko Barb” I requested suddenly curious about the alien that shared the same gene as the prince that wanted to ruin my planet.

“Prince Zioko was very close to the king when he was growing, everyone had neglected the king but he was his mentor and role-model, he would practice his ability with him and slowly he learnt to perfect it. Prince Zioko was in charge of Zullion galaxy as an emperor when most descended to earth to take it over but wasn’t successful.

“He had even ruled before, interesting” I stated with sarcasm rolling my eyes because all of a sudden, I didn’t like the Rafik.

“But he is so nice and ruled really well, the king trusted in his teachings and had ruled like he’d watched him ruled before, it’s just sad that the king is finding it hard to trust anyone after what his favourite did to him” Barb floated to land softly on the bed.

“Things are way more complicated than I anticipated it to be, tell me more about prince Zioko” I pressed further extremely eager to learn more about the Rafik.

“He has two young children which the oldest is a Rofik like his mother and the baby Rafik is a royal” The more I learn about Zioko the more threat I think he pose to Hero. I sighed recalling when I collaborated with Hero, at first it had been out of fear that I was gonna shoot him but slowly I made him trust me, and that’s why he’s probably trusting me now.

“Tell me about Nio and Kio?” I urged bad and she was silent about it for a minute.

“I could only find few things about them in my database Claire” Barb confessed and my shoulders sagged feeling Hero purposefully put a limited information about them on Barb and whatever was about prince Zioko which was programmed into Barb was something Hero believe.

“I think I found more information about them from hacking into the palace library database but the knowledge is still restricted and would need the king consent before you can learn about it” seriously, this was starting to piss me off. I groaned and slipped out of bed, I didn’t feel my tentacles glowing another colour until I arrived at Hero’s study with a straight face and an orange glowing tentacles which meant I was upset. Hero was in the front of the study with the prince and it seems he was about to leave.

“Your highness” Zioko was probably shocked to see me in such a state.

“Brother if you will excuse me I need to talk to my wife” Hero did a great job at maintaining his composure because I was certain he was about to panic.

“Of course” Prince Zioko smiled and immediately headed towards the exit while Hero met my eyes narrowing it slight studying me with his fanatic gaze.

“Do you wanna talk about it?” He asked slowly and softly as I tried hard to pretend I wasn’t upset but it wasn’t working since tentacle colour was still orange.

“Yeah” I finally found my voice and Hero lead me into his study.

“Why did you restrict information about prince Nio and Kio?” I asked my face still straight and serious.

“Because nothing about them is worth looking at-

“But I want to know about them Hero!” I bellowed and Hero flinched as I got angrier, all his paperwork started to float on his table and I could feel him holding back his own anger.

“What for?” Hero queried and I feel myself slowly loosening up, my colour returned back to normal. Wtf was that? I wondered as everything drifting in air probably by my rage dropped on the ground creating different noises but I was too confused to comprehend which sound it was. Hero smiled and moved to me to hold my hand.

“Do you know another thing special about the light race Ghafil?” Hero asked playing with a lose strand of tentacle next to my cheek.

“No” I muttered.

“They get aggressive without any reason if they sense danger…they can’t fathom what that danger is but they can sense it and it’ll upset them” Hero slowly and softly explained, I don’t why he was smiling though.

“But, if you track what happened back their day, you could guess what the danger is, Claire…since when have you started feeling…negative, upset annoyed?” Hero asked studying me intensely.

“Since I set my eyes on your brother to be honest, I just feel all edgy since he walked into the goddamn hall, and when you forced to go into my room, I was so upset that I could actually hit someone” I frankly told him and his face narrowed out.

“I don’t want to believe it but I’ve been guessing I might not be seeing things at the right angle” Hero turned towards the circular window behind his desk.

“I’m in doubt Claire” Hero admitted and I studied him closely.

“My brother Zioko had made a big impact in my life, I loved him just as much as I loved Nio and Kio…but he came to talk about the vacant position of the head chief. I couldn’t help but feel the smile on his face was cunning-

“I guess it’s not shocking that I suddenly picked interest on those three brothers of yours-

“Aira had gotten along well with my two other brothers but she wasn’t very close to Zioko-

“And you still banished your two brothers after you thought they killed Aira-

“I didn’t think Claire, the evidence was there in their room” Hero sharply defended.

“Did they admit to it?” I asked and his face paled.

“They didn’t…they didn’t but somehow you were so enraged that you wanted to punish them without a proper investigation, you weren’t even certain if they weren’t framed Hero. Blinded by your own anger you made rash decision, have you considered that Zioko would have actually done that…you f*****g locked up his mother and brother to work in the mines Hero, do you think he was just gonna let you off?” I queried as Hero’s face lowered but his eyes was restless, dancing in nervousness as he considered the possibility. Could Prince Zioko be responsible for princess Aira’s death, I know he was contemplating on it and he looked unsteady, scared that his skin was turning brown.

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