Discovery
"Why! Why have you done this!" Balor yelled. Nuada took a breath before answering, he was worried that if he pushed himself too far, he was pass out right there in the court room.
"To set us free, all of us father" Nuada was less than pleased when that sentence ended in a stabbing pain from his stomach, he just hoped this wouldn't end in a fight, because he was pretty sure that he wasn't up to that right now.
"You have broken an ancient truce, between our kind and mankind" as King Balor said this, Nuada started to black out. Nuada collapsed.
Balor stood up. Elves around the room were now standing over Nuada and Nuala.
Balor sat himself down in the chair between the beds where Nuada and Nuala were lying. The healer walked over to Balor.
"What's wrong, what's happened to them." Balor asked the healer, trying to keep his voice steady.
"Well, it's not so much wrong as... well, your son is pregnant" Balor stared for a second.
"Thank you, healer... when will they wake up?"
"You can wake them up now" the healer said as he left. Balor got up and sat down on the side of Nuada's bed.
"Nuada, wake up" the elf slowly opened his eyes. "Nuada... did you know that you're pregnant?" Nuada blinked, slowly, before realising what his father had said.
"What? How did you know that?" Nuada asked as he sat up.
"My son, why didn't you tell us you could bare children. Didn't you think that a child would bring much hope to our people, much more than a war wit the humans" Nuada nodded. He knew his father was right, it had been millenia since the last elvish child was born. Many elves considered themselves to be a dying race, because elves weren't able to carry children.
"I know... father"
"Why would you hide this from us, for so many years?"
"Because I didn't know!"
"Oh, don't be silly"
"But I..."
"I don't want to hear it. You claim to care about your people, but clearly you care more about your war with the human's than helping your own kind. you're obsessed with violence" Balor said as he walked out. Nuada sighed and dropped back down onto the bed.
"Is that true brother? Are you pregnant?" Nuala asked as she ealked over to Nuada's bed.
"Yes sister, its true"
"You weren't taught to prevent conception were you?" Unlike normal elves Nuada hadn't been taught about sex as a youth, he had been too focused on being a great warrior to have a social life.
"No, Nuala, I wasn't taught"
"So... did you even want this child?"
"No, not exactly"
"Our injuries, from about a month ago... was that... were you raped" Nuada didn't need to answer that question, Nuala could tell that it had happened again. "So... are you going to tell father?"
"No... I don't want him to think I'm weak, so will you help me keep my secret, Nuala?" Nuala nodded. "Thank you" Nuada said as he stroked Nuala's hair.
So, that's the first chapter done, what do you think?