The Throne of Arbediin

Chapter Nine

Aileen, thinking about what she wants to ask, while Aiden is waiting, still looking at her, Fenrir is sitting beside her, while Caleb leaning into the desk, Emir enjoying the cigar with Daniel, sitting opposite Aileen and Fenrir.

“Why are you stalling? Just ask the damn question, I can assure you, Aiden will not keeping anything from you anymore.” Fenrir got so bored waiting for Aileen, who just sitting there sipping her second hot chocolate in the big mug, courtesy of Fenrir.

“I don’t know how to ask the question, I don’t want to sound like I’m pushing you guys.”

Daniel cover his face and gave a long sighed. “Oh honey, after all, that you've been through, why are you still being so polite to these b*stards?”

“I… Oh, you know me! I just don’t want to be looking like I'm so pushing in for a story.”

Aiden smiles warmly at Aileen. “It’s okay Aileen, it was our fault in the first place, you don’t have to hold anything back.”

Daniel chuckles. “Yeah dear, do not hold back, like what they were doing to you.”

Emir punch Daniel’s arm. “Oh, just Shut up gramps.”

“Hey, I’m stating the facts here!”

“Okay, okay, I got it… Aiden, I want to know everything, from the moment you guys becoming Naura Amyra's guardian, until…” She paused and look around her nervously. “Until her timely dead.”

Aiden, lay his head in his chair, staring at the ceiling. “it was the stellar moon day, the day for all of the royalty to choose their guardians, every lords and ladies got two guardians of their choosing, and the Amyr and Amyra are granted four guardians of their choice as well. Guardian means Sakhsiyun. Four of us lived as Peasants, Nobles, and Slaves in our respective clan, I’m from the Nephilim clan, the clan who got bestow a wing as their power along with powerful healing abilities.”

Caleb continued the story. “I am from the Vampyr clan, a clan that bestows a powerful attack by controlling blood, but also cursed to have to be satiated by the blood.”

Fenrir turn, he sits comfortably with his two hands behind his head. “Me, I am from the were clan, technically from the werewolf branch, my clan has the ability to turn into some of the wild beasts, their strength and also we have a speedy healing ability, means that our body can withstand to be crushed and it will be completely healed in a matter of hours or days.”

And then there’s Emir, he still has a cigar in his mouth, he puffs it and then tells his story. “I am from the sorcerer’s clan, the elements branch, I have a magic of the elements and to summon mythical animals, but we don’t have much of a healing magic or healing capabilities.”

Aileen then looks at Daniel. “What about you Daniel? You’re from the same clan of Emir, right?”

“Not exactly, my clan is the sorcerer’s clan, but mine was a soul reader branch, we have the conjure ability and prophecy, the latter being the most dangerous ability, because that was the main reason my branch become extinct.”

“Yeah, I heard a little about that, what exactly was the prophecy that makes the royalties hunted your branch back then?” Aiden got curious, he even raised a bit from his comfy chair to ask the question, Daniel.

“Ugh… that stupid prophecy? Actually, I don’t even know the damn prophecy, I was a young soul reader back then, still an apprentice, my master never told me about the prophecy, he just opened the forbidden portal and gets us out from Elven Realm.”

“Us? Means that you’re not the only soul reader in Human Realm then?”

“Back then it was us, now, it’s just me,” Daniel answered with some questionable tone.

“Thank you, Daniel, you don’t have to talk about it anymore if you don’t want to.” Aileen touch Daniel’s hand to gesture her understanding, she then looks at Aiden. “So, the four of you got picked by Naura Amyra, and then?”

“Then, our adventures begin, she was a young Amyra back then, but she was brave, independent, and hard-headed. She was a true warrior Amyra, even her twin brother couldn’t be compared to Naura Amyra’s capabilities.”

“Twin brother?”

“Yes, the first in line to the throne was actually two elvens, an Amyra and Amyr. Malyka or the queen, got pregnant with the golden twin, Amyr and Amyra, Malyk or the king was rejoiced, there’s never in the history of the royalties that they will bore a twin, a rare occasion that will turn out to be a disaster afterward.”

“Disaster? Why? What happened?”

Fenrir answering the curious questions from Aileen. “A f*cking civil war, that happened!.”

“The Senate of lords wasn’t having the best time to decided who was the better choice for the throne, you see, Malyk has been killed by some unknown assassins, hence the empty throne. Because there were two legitimately children of the Malyk, the Senate couldn’t decide between Naura Amyra and Darn Amyr, her twin brother.”

They all went silent, Aiden stands up and pours some drinks, Aileen looks into her empty mug of hot chocolate, asking another question to Aiden. “Naura and Dagna, they weren’t on the best term to each other?”

“Nope, it was the damn opposite from that.” Fenrir was answering her question while taking the empty mug from Aileen and goes away, presumably to make a new batch of hot chocolate for her.

“Really? They were on good terms?”

Emir smirk, his face is now closer to Aileen’s.“Good terms? they were closed, Naura Amyra adore her twin brother like a sister to her brother, Dagna Amyr… well, let’s just say that he loved his twin sister a bit much to be called a siblings love.”

“What? Really? Oh ho, now that’s interesting.” Daniel got intrigued by Emir's story about Dagna Amyr.

“You mean, that this Dagna Amyr, love her like…”

“Love her like a man loves a woman, even on a concerning level of possessiveness.” Caleb speaking his mind on the take about Dagna Amyr's feelings.

“Why they have initiated the civil war then? If Dagna Amyr loves his twin sister so much, he should be protecting her, not fighting with her?”

“Dagna Amyr wants something that he will never obtain in his life, that was driven him into the madness, for him if he cannot obtain the items he might as well destroy it.” Caleb looking somber, staring into Aileen directly. “It was Naura Amyra, he was so obsessed to have her, he will do anything, even if it just her lifeless body.”

A shiver came down to Aileen's spine, a mad man indeed, and she feels if he knows that Naura Amyra is practically alive now, he will do anything to obtain her back. She looks into Aiden and Caleb, both of them clearly have similar thoughts.

Fenrir is back with a mug full of hot chocolate anymore, he warns Aileen that this is the last cup for the day, Aileen gulps the richness of the melting dark chocolate because of how nervous she is right now.

“Then let me ask you the next question.” She asking the four of them again. “Who killed Naura Amyra?”

Fenrir already sits back on his chair, looking at Aiden, Caleb, and Emir, he decides that it is time for him to explain it, he knows that Aiden still has a hard time talking about Naura’s death.

“It was that f*cking Dagna, he killed her in front of Aiden. Caleb, Emir, and I were not there at the main chamber.”

“Main chamber? In her bed? Oh my God, that was awful, I guess you were on duty then Aiden, that’s why you were the one who saw the whole situation.”

Aiden suddenly shut his mouth and get awkward. “Err… actually there’s not the reason I’m in her chamber, Aileen.”

“Oh, what then?”

Daniel laughs and gives a smirk to Aiden. “Oh honey, it is simple, they were f*cking.”

Aileen's gasp and try to control herself. “What?? You’re kidding me?? You slept with your Amyra.”

“Not just that, it wasn’t just physical, it was more than that.” Aiden glared at Daniel who was still uncontrollably laugh from the revelation. “Would you shut up?”

“Okay, okay, I’ll shut my mouth now.” Daniel raised his two hands but still maintain a little bit of naughty smile to Aiden. “No wonder you guys were willing to do the dark ritual.”

The four of them give a quick glance at Aileen, trying to see her reaction.

“Dark ritual?”

“Don’t worry honey, the story is getting there.” Daniel winks at Aileen and then focusing his attention on Aiden. “What happened after Dagna murdered her? I figured that he wasn’t going to let her beloved sister's body laying there with you.”

“Exactly, he took her body first, and the four of us steal her back, we actually just want to give her a proper burial, but…”

“But you found another treasure alongside your Amyra's body, right?”

Caleb smirking towards Daniel. “No wonder you are a Soul Reader, you practically get it.”

Daniel wink to Caleb. “Oh yes handsome, I know it all along, The book of the forbidden rituals, a sacred and a cursed book, only me the soul reader have a knowledge about the book, why your Amyr had it, beg for another question.”

“So what exactly the type of dark rituals that you guys do?”

Daniel chuckles after hearing the innocent question coming from Aileen. “Necromancy! What else.”

“Necromancy? For real?!” Aileen's eyes widen from the sudden truth that got unfolds.

Emir hurries himself to goes in front of Aileen, he crouches and holds her hands. “So sorry, you have to hear this, but yes, it’s the truth, the four of us were doing the necromancy dark rituals to resurrected Naura's.”

Aileen touch Emir'a cheek softly, she smiles warmly at him. “You all really love her, love her that much that you want to undergo the forbidden just to see this body breathing again.”

Emir touches Aileen’s hand he smiles back at Aileen, Fenrir sitting beside her looking in awe at her, Caleb and Aiden looking at each other and see towards Aileen. They all have the same mind, this woman, a kind and fragile woman, after all the lies and the harassment that they were giving her, her smile still as warm and generous.

For all of them, she may be in Naura's body, but she isn’t Naura, this new Amyra is different from their old Amyra in that they were in love and respect. They have a new respect for this new Amyra, respect with a tinge of a feeling that blossom in their hearts.

“Aileen, you have to know this, all of us apologize for everything that you have been through, and for eternity we will redeem our fault to you.”

“Wait, the eternity? So, all Elvens are immortal?”

“Well, if you think longevity life, yes, immortal, not so much though, sickness could kill us, and as you can see so does being murdered.”

“How about if I am healthy and no other Elvens want it to kill me.”

“Oh honey, Elvens actually have a violent tendency, never believe anything you saw on TV, most of them are the bunch of savages. Though the longest-lived elven that I know, lived until five thousand years old.”

“Oh… I see…”

“Honey, what’s make you worry, you will have that pretty face forever, never wither away like humans.”

“It’s not that Daniel.” Aileen gave a sigh but look into all of them in the room. “You know, let’s just continue the story first, okay, so what exactly did you guys do on the ritual, and what exactly will happen to me.”

Caleb answered her question. “Dark ritual commands us to find another soul for the body, the soul has to be a match, if it’s not a match, the soul will burn away and never got sync with the body.” He stands up and looks into the window, while Aiden still sitting on his chair, cupping his hand, thinking something. “We were wondering the human realm for a hundred years looking for a perfect soul, but never got a match, the candidates mostly from patients of a hospital, critical patients with no family, sometimes no family and friends at all.”

“People with nothing left to lived~” Aileen whispered.

“You could say so.” Fenrir’s muttering beside her.

“All of their souls got dispersed, we never have a successful ritual, until we encountered, you, the most innocent and pure soul we have ever seen, we hesitant at first but, after all, you were doing, protecting Aiden, we have to give you a chance, a second chance to live a life.” Caleb smiling down at Aileen with the moonlight so beautifully shine through his face.

“Even though it will not be smooth sailing life though, I have to tell you that.” Emir jokingly told Aileen, and then he smiles reassuringly. “But, all of us will always be there for you, that I can assure you.”

Aileen, look at the four of them, the playful but a gentlemen Emir, the grumpy but a considerate Fenrir, the silent but a kind Caleb, and there he is, Aileen first men, the Nephilim elven, the broody but a sympathetic Aiden.

She stands up and goes in front of Aiden, she looks at all of them again and has determination in her eyes.

“I for whatever reason met all of you, I hate to think it was all of a coincidence, but one thing that matters now, that I’m going to try this life, it will be uncomfortable at first, since you all now know my story.” She smiled widely. “But I will bravely walk and try to be the best as I can be as the Amyra that you need.”

All of them have a huge sigh of relief, Emir even holds me up and cheer. Aileen got scared and told him to let her down, he doesn’t listen to her, until Fenrir come and take her away from Emir, of course, he let Aileen down immediately.

“Wait, before that, I have a set of rules.”

The cheering dies down, Aileen feels all of the eyes are on her.

“First, I want you to teach me self-defense and how to control my power, if I want to become a proper Amyra, I have to be strong.” She paused and saw everyone, they were listening, she continued on. “Second, I… I need some more information on how to control my stamina so I will not lose a lot of energy at the same time.”

Caleb's eyes have a glint of amusement in them. “We already talk about this, relax, we are going to teach you everything.”

“Of course, about the transferring energy thing… Errr…” She nervously looking around, everyone still waiting. “I… I need to choose the partner, so, so I can feel comfortable about it.”

Daniel laughs so hard. “Oh honey of course you will be choosing them, after all of that you’ve been through, I will guarantee it.”

“Of course Aileen, whatever makes you comfortable, we are going to do that, don’t you worry.” Aiden gave her a reassuring smile.

“Last one, no more secret, everything has to be in the open, all of us if we are going to be work together.” She then pointed at Daniel. “That’s including you, Daniel.”

Daniel shrugs and says okay, he was still chuckled a bit. Suddenly, a cellphone ringing, it was Caleb's cellphone. He hurries himself to pick it up and then goes out of the room.

All of them try to relax a bit after the heavy conversation, when suddenly, Caleb goes back and looks at Aiden.

“Sh*t, Aiden, Mona call me, she’s in danger!”

Aiden out his leather jacket from his chair, and hurry himself along with Caleb, he shouts orders for Fenrir and Emir.

“Both of you, stay, we cannot leave Aileen and our guest alone unprotected.”

Aileen hurries herself to the front door, she shouts to the two of the elven men who are already getting inside of the phantom. “Aiden, Caleb!”

Aiden and Caleb turn into the source of the voice, Aileen looks at them with a worried look. “Be careful…”

Both of them smile at Aileen and told her that she shouldn’t worry much. Aileen now staring at the behind of a black car that speeding through the forest road.

-End of Chapter 9-