The Seventh Son

TIME TO COLLECT

After days of turning the library upside down they all came up empty handed. They finally came to terms with the fact that there was no solution to their curse. King Jerald had never been this depressed and tired. He looked at his wife and almost cried. 

“If we do not get intimate, I won't be pregnant and she will have no six sons to collect,” Rachel broke the silence.

King Jerald looked up at her in shock.

“We can try, you can sleep with the servants to quench your thirst.”

“That's absurd!” King Jerald yelled out.

Rachel walked to where he was seated and knelt down, “my King, if we can not find a supernatural way to deal with this curse then let's try physically. 

“No!” King Jerald Yelled out.

“I will not cheat on you with other women.”

“I was just making a suggestion, if we stay away from each other, she will not get her way,” Rachel pointed out.

“What of Mark, Messan and Maximus? She will come and get them, she will come and get our son's,”

“Maybe the sorceres we've sent to Meilland will come with something, I have no idea??” Rachel replied. The couple just stared at each other with no hope in their eyes…...

Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months and they still came up with no solutions. The sorceres that had gone to the land of Witches came back empty handed. No witch wanted to talk about Clarris. In Fact they were all scared of her and did not want to be connected to her name or king Jerald.

The queen and king were left hopeless, even though they had planned never to be intimate and decided to sleep in different bedrooms. Every night around midnight they would wake up in one bed n***d with no recollection of whether they had been intimate or not.

The sorceres had tried locking spells on them, but to no avail, soon Rachel was pregnant again. She hid the news from King Jerald because she was scared of what he would do. He was now just a reflection of the gallant king he once was. He usually spent his days in the Deadman's Forest talking to the burning armies and elder Lee. He rarely spent time with his sons. He couldn't look them in the eye, he blamed himself for everything. 

After getting confirmation of her pregnancy, Rachel began panicking. She ordered the senior midwife to her Chambers and ordered her to fetch the most potent abortion medicine. At the mention of that the midwife froze, everyone was aware about the curse and the consequences that befall anyone that interfered. The midwife began shivering, “Your highness… I have….. a…. lot of….. orphans that I'm looking after.” 

Even though refusing a Queen's request was punishable by death, Rachel understood and realized how selfish it was for her to even request such. She allowed the midwife to go and went in the library in search of the most potent abortion roots which within minutes she got her answers. 

Under the veil of darkness, she got her horse and went to the Market in search of it. It wasn't easy because few traders traded at night but she finally found the roots. Without waiting for instructions she began chewing on the all bunch. “Ma'am, you need to boil in hot water,” the trader warned her.

But Rachel did not want to give time to the curse, she chewed all the roots, got on the horse and went back to her castle like nothing happened. Upon reaching her chambers she felt a sharp pain and blood began dropping down her leg. Rachel smiled at the sight of the blood. “Screw you witch!” she yelled out but then was hit with a Burning sharp pain and she screamed out in pain. Her sons rushed into the room and called on her, “Go get your father?” she cried out.

The eldest ran out and soon returned with king Jerald. He found Rachel screaming in a pool of blood. He ordered his servants to take the little boys while he lifted Rachel off the floor and placed her on the bed. Blood was coming out like a water tap, the midwife came in and explained the abortion to King Jerald who got up and held his head as he watched his wife in pain.

“I'm burning I'm burning, there is fire in here,” Rachel cried.

The king and the servant just stood in the room and watched as she screamed, blood kept coming until the entire bed and room was filled with blood. “Do something?” king Jerald finally spoke up.

“This is not normal sir, it's the curse,” one of the servants yelled out.

Rachel got up in a sitting position and screamed with all her might, then the blood started reversing back into her body in a swift and the pain disappeared.

Everyone present in the room, held their hands on their mouths in shock. Except for king Jerald they all ran out of the room in fear. 

Rachel held her tummy in shock, she quickly got up and run in king Jerald's hands, “she reversed the abortion, she reversed the abortion, we are dommed for enternity” Rachel cried out. King Jerald had no words he just held her.