The Bastard's Bride Book II Knight

CHAPTER 15

Earlier in the morning, the blue that stretched into the horizon had only been broken only by wisps of white. Now it threaded across the sky in thicker bands. It was again a cloudy day. When will people taste a sunny day? Watchmen and soldiers are back to their routine, they have tripled the security area and maidservants are also busy on what they are doing, some are cooking, washing clothes, and cleaning all the surroundings and even though it was a busy sight, there was still happiness in their eyes, they are happy of what they are doing and that also makes Helios and Hades happy.

“So, you’re still going to do it?” Hades asked as he took a seat and comfortably stretched his body out, it exhausted him for no reason, exhausted thinking about Knight, their once best friend of Helios. He was disappointed and sad about what happened to their friendship since his father arrived and fetched him. He was completely changed, everything about him changed. Hades massaged his temple, Knight was giving him a headache but he can’t help himself not to put a smile on his lips, Knight had always been like that since they were kids, Knight was always who put trouble and headache on him.

“Are you a king by yourself? Because you sounded not, this is the perfect time Hades, she is here on our roof and she is the precise pawn. We will be able to catch him as soon as possible. I will train her to fight of course so she can defend herself on her own. And if that happens when the day comes that we both catch Knight in our hands by using her we are totally free Hades, this town will be free and we can soar high and people will trust us more and of course there will be more merchants to come, it will bring the kingdom wealth Hades,” he said as he looks at Hades eyes, Hades was a bit hesitant about his plan but he trusted him so he might just go with it.

“You will teach her how to combat, huh?” Hades asked and sat properly and now he was serious.

“Yes, I also have a heart. Hades she is still a girl and we can’t protect her anytime, she should learn to fight,” he answered and there was a querying look written all over his face.

“Tell me you are not attracted to her, Hades,” he added while looking at him and Hades slowly lifts his head and his eyes went cold.

“It’s not what you think,” he coldly stated, making Helios grin.

“Easy there I was just asking and besides I can’t see no mistake if you are completely attracted to her. She’s beautiful, amusing, fierce and definitely had the body that every man would die for, I can’t tell a lie Hades she was a complete package except that she is not a royal blood,” he added and took a deep sigh and lay his both arms up in the seat.

“That was deep, something’s bothering you?” Hades asked and also copied his position.

“Nothing about this entire thing we are doing is a mess, I must say, it’s giving me a dilemma, but this is our job,” he answered and they both smiled.

Hades could not admit to Helios the strange feelings he had with the girl Ysabella, but he could not tell him it was much better to keep everything secret for now. 

Hades and Helios have the same father, but the mother is different. Hades was the son of a noblewoman who was the first woman of their father, others say that Hades mother was the first love of the king even though they have a different status of life, his mother was a peasant and the whole people of the palace consider her a concubine which was completely fine to her, it doesn’t matter what they called her that time she was used to it as long as the king and her still love each other, they can conquer all but comes a tragic event, Hades mother died mysteriously and some says she killed herself but at a young age of Hades he can tell that someone killed her, and it is no other than the queen who is in love with their father, the mother of Helios. It was all planned that night, the queen pay someone to kill Hades mother. The queen Zabeth was jealous of Helena, Zabeth was in love of the king but the king always ignores her presence and when she confesses her love to him he had got cold to her and every time, she announces a meeting he was not attending and only his personnel was present which makes her mad and planned all of that but after that the king and queen got married and Zabeth also planned that he makes the kingdom of the king scourge until the king begged for help, and being a king he would not just ignore his people and die in hunger. So the king took all of his courage and knelt his knee and asked for her hand for marriage, exactly what the queen had planned. But later on someone poisoned her, an assailant that until now nobody knows who. The two deaths were still a mystery.

“How is she now?” Hades asked, breaking the silence.

“She’s okay, and she is having a friend Xevy and it was nice not to get bored herself out here. They are getting along I can tell, she’s very comfortable with him. And I was thinking if we could move her room next to ours just in case you know something happened it is better that she is near, don’t get me wrong I just observe that her room is way too far from us and I can’t walk or run errands on her room everyday just to check up on her. I am just say-” Helios stated and waving his hands like he was explaining to a child or something which makes him chuckle, he was being defensive or what?

“I get it please don’t over defend yourself okay? I get it. Tomorrow we will move her next door to ours. I will ask someone to clean the room she will use,” Hades answered and a playful smirk slips on his lips which makes Helios twitch his lips for no reason.

“Oh Hades you’re thinking such dirty little thoughts now huh,” he chuckled, giving him a grin.

“No I am not, you’re the one whose putting definitions and besides you are the one who brought this up so I might say that you’re the one whose into dirty little things huh Helios,” he grinned and they both laughed.

Another cloudy night rolled in covering the last of the twilight sky, when was the last she had seen a clear sky, ever since she was here the weather was always gloomy and stormy. Ysabella couldn’t get her to sleep, she’s not even sleepy or anything. She kept walking around in her room as if she were uneasy. The four corners of her will be dizzy from her walking. She doesn’t know but something will happen, she can feel it. And now that Hades and Helios are out of the palace and only few soldiers are on the palace guarding. Something was up.

“Take a deep breath Ysabella you’re thinking too much, you just need a sleep. You didn’t sleep well last night, right?” She cheered herself up and combed her hair using her hand just to ease and calm herself. It was her way to calm, combing her hair.

Like hail on a glass pane, the drumming of her fingers was as relentless as it was loud. Each click of the polished nails on her table echoed the tumultuous thudding of her heartbeat. 

“Why are they not back yet?” she asked herself looking through her window hoping she could see them but no, the lane was dark.

She sat down on her bed and groaned, she’s feeling odd. A moment later she heard a soft crack in her window. She was immediately taken aback and didn’t know what to do. The feeling that she had now deepened, she knows something was wrong. She can’t even move her feet or feel her muscles. She doesn’t even know if she is still breathing normally. She searched for her blade on the back of her dress and grip it tightly. And when she blinked, a tall person was standing with a mask in the face and looking straight into her eyes.

“I come to take you to him.”

She knows she's scared when those old fears run through her head.

She couldn't breath, it felt as if someone was choking her. Her heart was racing and all she wanted to do was curl up into a ball and wait for someone to save her. But no one would, no one was there. A choked cry for help forced itself up her throat, and she felt a drop run down her cheek. It seemed as if this was the end of the road for her.  

Ysabella didn't know that she was now inhaling a poisonous scent of a flower.

And with that, Ysabella felt dizzy and as when she was about to say something, her vision blurred and she passed out.

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“Hades are you sure this is the way?” Helios asked as he looked at the way they were going. They are riding with their horses and horses can tell if something was off or if there is trouble.

“Yes I am sure, this is the way and it will not be long until we will arrive there,” he answered and just continued to look at his way. 

Later they heard footsteps on wet leaves.

 Hades and Helios first felt around.

Something had followed them.

Hades immediately signaled for Helios to get off their horse. They have to contend with their followers, otherwise they will only have more difficulty if they run the horse in a direction they do not know. 

“Seriously, we will fight them?” Helios asked, looking at him ridiculously.

“You have no choice because this road is cliffs,” he answered and Helios cursed under his breath.

“Then why did you answer me that this is the right way and you are so sure, you sounded so sure and yet here we are facing our tss,” Helios muttered looking pissed and looked at the woods, it is all restrained now.

“Are you ready? Here they come,” Hades asked, preparing himself.

“Damn yes I am ready,” he answered and positioned himself ready for a fight.

And without a minute five men showed up, they were big and muscled men.

“Hey punk this might be your end huh,” the man in the middle said and his hand formed a fist ready to attack.

And charged. He threw up his forearms like an offensive lineman blocking a defensive back, but Hades slipped to the side, pushed the man’s elbow down and away, caught his head, and rolled him into the floor. Third of a second once contact was made, and Hades was on his feet, watching the muscular man rush toward him in slow motion as the three other men, even more slowly, jumped to their feet.  The muscular man reached under his cloak. Hades did not try to stop the knife, he rolled his hand under the man’s wrist, drove the man’s arm over and back, and pulled him backward and down. Hades had the knife before the man slammed into the muddy ground and hit him on the forehead with it two hard times.

Helios put out a nice stiff left, which he planned to follow with a right cross. He slipped to the left, which threw him off enough so he could step inside the right cross and get a handful of his hair. He pulled his head forward and broke his nose with his head. Still holding his hair in one hand, he got his other hand into his crotch and put his shoulder into him and lifted him off the ground and slammed him down on the hood of the muddy ground. He grunted and went limp. When he stood back, he slowly slid off the hood and looked at the three guys who are now slowly approaching.

Hades yanked back with his right forearm, snapping the man’s neck like a tree branch. 

Helios hit the man with a bad breath, a left hand in the V under his ribs where the sternum ends. It paralyzed his diaphragm, and he gasped and doubled over and then pitched forward onto the sidewalk. 

Hades tackled the last man standing, a linebacker drilling a quarterback from the blindside, a clean shoulder-to-shoulder hit that arched the man's spine. The knife clattered from his hand and skittered into the ground. He kept coming, driving his legs, finishing the hit.

“That was heavy,” he breathes looking at the five men who are now grunting in pain.

“We should go, pile of bodies, pile of men,” Helios stated and fixed his coat and he grunted as he noticed that his boots were now muddy and wet.

“Yes we should, Ysabella might be in danger now,” he said and Helios suddenly got worried that Hades found something but he completely ignored it, it was not time to think such a thing. 

Knight surely did this.