Let me be your Hero

(Intro)

Once upon a time, long long ago, in a land far far away, five kingdoms lived among each other. The Kingdom of Rus led by King Ivan, The United Kingdom led by King Arthur, The Frandic Territory led by Sir Mathis, The Chi-Empire led by Emperor Yao, and the Germaine Kingdom led by Sir Gilbert. These kingdoms lived in war though, always attacking one another, never having peace for centuries. The Kingdom of Rus always wanted control and so continued to attack all the kingdoms. Germaine has always fought back as well as attacking Frandic as well as a one-sided war against the UK. Frandic seemed to only be at war with the UK, lasting for centuries before any other war. Chi constantly tries to avoid all wars and trades, isolating it's self from everyone….

Our story focuses on the United Kingdom, it's people and royal family, all led by king Arthur Kirkland.

They tried their best to live in peace, but most boys by the age of eighteen were enlisted in their royal army for at least five years, the army was the best of the five kingdoms. King Arthur was in control of the UK since he turned the young age of twelve. He married at sixteen to a beautiful young maiden by the name of Amelia and the people greatly accepted her as their queen. Years and years began to past as peasants expected a young prince or princess to come into the royal family, but one never came. Over and over again the two tried to conceive a child, a heir to the thrown. Each time was as useless as the last.

But a few years more as Arthur came home from their war, he was greeted by his wife with a blissful smile. He looked as Amelia held her hands on her stomach, he began to smile and the two laughed in delight, their lips met, and Arthur lifted her in the air, twirling her around. Months began to past like days as the queen rested for her child's birth. They had hired a doctor who had claimed to specialize in child birth, a young man with the brightest blonde hair that reached to his shoulders, to check on the birth, along with a young magician by the name of Lukas; they smiled a bit. "Two hearts," the blonde man said, "Two hearts beat together." Two heirs were to be expected for the first time in the UK's existence; the king and queen couldn't be happier.

The people celebrated the coming births, offering what they could, hosting parades, dances, songs, poems, everything they could do they did to honor these children. More time began to past, just a month before the children were expected, and the most dreadful news rung through Arthur's ears.

"There is a strong possibility she will not survive the birth." The doctor has said. Arthur's heart shattered into a million pieces with just the thought of losing his love, he couldn't bear it. Amelia smiled though and weakly held her husband's hand.

"As long as the children are safe." She stated. "All I want if for them to be safe, alive." She wiped her husband's tears away. "And you must promise me this, if I am to die and leave my children, you shall live on and protect them with your strength, give them all the love in your heart, and help them grow to be noble people." Arthur smiled a bit and kissed her hand, promising on his life that he would do this if, and only if, she was to die.

Just two days later, she began to give birth, almost a month too early. She pushed and pushed, screamed and cried, giving whatever strength she had for these children. Doctors surrounded her, the blonde man with no name, Lukas, their maid Alice who was in charge of anything that involved the children, another young lady with her long brown hair pulled back who had named herself Michelle, and a Asian doctor by the name of Kiku who had escaped the Chi-Empire to be more help to others. They all surrounded and helped the queen as she gave everything she could, all the king could do is hold her hand and pray, hope for the best. For the first time in his life, the situation was out of his control. He closed his eyes and prayed as his wife screamed and their hands gripped around each other.

The screaming stopped and she gasped for breath, the sound of crying filled the room. Arthur opened his eyes and looked as Alice cleaned the baby off and wrapped him in a towel. Amelia looked toward Arthur, "It's a boy." He told her, he could see Alice smile at him. "A healthy baby boy." He smiled. Amelia smiled weakly but continued to breath heavy.

"Alfred," she whispered in a dull voice. "His name is Alfred."

"Alfred is perfect, Alfred it s." Arthur said, he looked down toward the doctors as they peeked in. "T-There's two children." The doctors talked, saying the cord was wrapped around the other child's neck, Arthur could overhear their conversation of what to do.

"What's wrong?" Amelia questioned. "Where's my child? Why is there no second cry?" Arthur tightened his grip on her hand. "Where's my child?" Kiku directed her to push again and she tried, screaming once again with more pain. Slowly, they took the child out but there was not a single cry. Amelia began to cry and question about her child once more as Kiku and the blonde man tried to help the small child. Arthur tried his best to calm Amelia as Alice tried as well, bringing over Alfred for her to see, to distract her as Michelle tried to stop her heavy bleeding. Amelia tried reaching for the small child, Alfred trying to reach back and even smiling at his mother, but her mind couldn't be taken away from the concern of her other child. She was too weak and hand to put her hands down and began closing her eyes as Arthur desperately tried to keep her awake. Just as her smile faded, a soft cry filled the room. Amelia opened her eyes for the last time and smiled at Arthur.

"Matthew," she whispered. She took her last breath and her hand slipped from Arthur's, though he tried to hold on…..

Months began to pass after the queen's funeral, Arthur seemed to change after that; he didn't once look at the two children. Alice took care of them, both healthy and happy, giggling and smiling all the time, three days before the children's second birthday. Alice was beginning to place the two into their bed, singing the small song their mother had for months when the children were inside her, the song that had been passed down through the family for years:

This will become our final stand

Blades are dripping with crimson blood

Endless suffering I can't stop

How I wish that I could help

I will not fade

I will step up

I'll discover the true meaning

Of the word "sacrifice"

Please let me become your "Hero"

I'll protect you my dearest friend

I will give my all

She sung the words out in her softest voice, which she wasn't so used too, and could never finish most of the song because she never had learned it, just those few words. The two boys were slowly falling asleep as the king came in, peeking over the bed at the two boys for one of the first times. Alice gulped a bit and looked at him in shock. "That song, it always puts them to sleep?" He questioned quietly.

"Y-Yes sir." Alice nodded. Arthur smiled a bit and walked over to the side of their bed. He looked down at Alfred fast asleep, then bent over and kissed his forehead. He walked over to the other side, looked at Matthew, and kissed his forehead as well. He smiled.

"Happy birthday my little angels." He smiled.

Night settled over the kingdom, most of the villages were asleep by now. The king had fallen asleep in his bed, the rest of the castle's workers had been asleep for a while now, all except for the guards who watched at every door, especially when it came to the king and the children. But one pair of guards wasn't doing their jobs….

The window creaked open in the princes' room, the curtains flying with the breeze it had let it. Alfred grabbed onto Matthew's hand more tightly and cuddled up to him, trying to hide from the cold. As they slept, two thieves came in through the window. A woman with her brown hair pulled back and a clock on her with a hood, covering her face. A man with bright blonde hair, the unnamed man who had helped Amelia give birth, a clock covering himself as well. He slowly sneaked in and around to the side of the best as the woman went to the other side. He looked at her, "Which one?" his accent made it hard for him to be understood when he was quiet. The woman gave him a glare and shrugged.

"Just take one and let's go, the guards won't be out for too long." She said. The man began to pick up the small prince, his hand letting go of his brothers which immediately woke him up. Alfred began to scream and cry as the woman quickly covered his mouth. The blonde man wrapped the child in a blanket as he cried and fought to get out and quickly began to run back toward the window, knocking over the table that held the artifacts of their mother. The woman covered the blankets over Alfred and took off out the window with the man, jumping off the balcony and onto the roof. The guards ran into the room but it seemed to be too late, they quickly alerted the rest of the castle. Guards rushed around to find the two kidnappers, running as fast as they could to cut them off at the exit. One ran past and saw the two hooded figures; he quickly yelled for them to them to halt, only making the two run faster.

The castle was like a maze, they slid at every twist and turn but finally managed to head for the closing gate. The guards yelled to shut it as they tried their best to go as fast as they could but it was too late, the two kidnappers had slid under the gate, just making it. They continued running through the villages until they got to the forest, running in and never turning back or stopping no matter how exhausted they got. They slide back into the underground hole they had dugged to get in under the tall wooden gate that separated the two kingdoms of United Kingdom and Frandic. They ran into their own village and almost collapsed to the ground. The blonde man unwrapped the child who had stayed silent this entire time, but now began to cry.

"Shhhh!" The man tried to hush the child.

"Francis come on, we have to take him to Mathis." She smiled. "The king will be happy of what we did, stealing a prince from that dreaded kingdom… his head will make a great trophy!"

"He's a child…" Francis said, the girl only titled her head at him. "Elizaveta, he's just a child. He didn't ask to be born into that life, it's not his fault."

"What the hell are you saying! ? You know our plan! We were to take that child and bring him to King Mathis! A sacrifice! Nothing more!"

"Look at his eyes…" Francis held the child and looked at him, even smiling a bit. Matthew smiled, even giggled, and even reached for the strange man in front of him. "It's not his fault… and all children deserve a life…"

"So what are you saying? We bring him back or we keep him or what! ?"

"I will take him, there's no way we could bring him back now." Francis snuggled the small child. "I'll take him as my son."

"Oh yeah? And who's the mother? The king won't allow this."

"I'll say you brought him over when you came from Germaine." Francis said. "Please, we can't end his life… he's so small… he barely had a chance to live yet, all children, even if their born on an enemy's side, all precious things… his mother died giving birth to him after all…he almost died…" Elizaveta crossed her arms. "I can't let him die… please…" She sighed.

"Your damn speeches." She said. Francis smiled and snuggled the child. "Just don't push it, don't let the UK king know about this."

"He won't, he'll never find out." Francis looked at the young child. "Hello Matthieu~! I'm your papa, okay?" Matthew giggled a bit. "It's going to be okay, I promise…"

OOO

Months began to pass as any information of the stolen prince never came. Arthur's heart was once again shattered, first losing his love then the child they had both wanted so bad, the child he had ignored for the first two years of his life, or almost two years anyway. It seems, he was always too late, nothing was in his control. A year passed and the day he was taken came around once more, Alfred laid in bed with the windows locked and covered in bricks, covered so no one could ever touch Arthur's other son. He sung to the child every night now, tucked him in and always kissed him good night. The day this child's brother disappeared was the day they decided to light the sky. This day every year showed the sorrow of the people, they would burn candles in front of their houses. Every night once it began to get dark, they would put the burning candles into lanterns and set them into the air, along with their prayers of the young son coming back. War went on between UK and Frandic after the child's disappearance, getting worse and worse each year.

On one side of the wooden fence, a young prince grew up happily, running around the castle, tricking the guards and his nanny, becoming a perfectly behaved prince though once his father left he was wild. He grew up never knowing what was on the outside of the castle walls, his father wouldn't let him know a thing. Even as he got older, Arthur would say good night every night. Once, he even told a story to Alfred on his sixth birthday. He had once had a brother, his brother looked just like him with the brightest eyes like his. But babies couldn't always make it and he had gone with Alfred's mother to the afterlife. Alfred never forgot that story, sometimes he even prayed to his mother and brother, asking how they both were and if they were happy. Though there was never any answer, Alfred felt happy in doing so.

Little did he know on the other side of that wooden fence, the other young prince grew up happily, running around the village with other children, even gaining a small pet he had named "Kumajirou", though he changed the name everyday. He helped his papa tend crops for their king, he sung and laughed about every little thing, he never once felt sad. His hair had grown out like his papa's, bright and beautiful blonde. His eyes sparkled everyday with hope and wonder, no matter what happened that day. Sometimes he would ask his papa about his mother, though Francis never had an actual answer. The truth continued to stay hidden, the boy was better off without ever knowing. He was happy, that's all that mattered.

Never knowing of each other's existence, never venturing out to know, always hidden in secrets, that was their lives. This is where our story begins….

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Thank you for reading~

This is gonna be based off another story I'm working on, two young princes separated. Also, the lullaby, I will say now that the lyrics are someone else's, I'm trying to find the source and once I do that person will receive credit, I'm sorry if it's not right away. I think the lanterns things is based off another thing too, like a Disney movie? Idk

But, here we go, another new story! :D hope you enjoy it!~