KING NAMOR #2
By: Stephen Kelley
In just a few short days of being in the mer-people kingdom, namor started to realize just how badly other kingdoms of the sea had suffered, "Atlantis has prospered but at what cost, the King here in this kingdom can barely afford to help even the poorest of his people, though it is not directly my fault I still feel that I am at fault" namor said watching a group of people fighting over who would get to spend their last coin on food. "Suddenly the wealth and luxury of Atlantis doesn't seem so great does it"azaer said "do not twist the knife any further old man" namor said not even looking at him "though I was the king of Atlantis I was not aware that other kingdoms had suffered like this" "that submariner is because you didn't even BOTHER to visit the other kingdoms" "if you have a moral lesson be out with it, I am in a rather volatile mood and do not wish to be angered" azaer sighed "again with your temper, I swear it's no wonder the denizens of the deep actually hated you so much" azaer spat "you were supposed to during the World War II era on the surface world be an ambassador instead you ended up being a tyrant, all these years name or you could of help to the people of the deep, could have helped the surface world, instead you sat on your throne your pretty little kingdom and" name or he yanked azaer by the cloth of his robe and lifted him off the ground till they were meeting face-to-face "listen very carefully azaer, for i will only say this once, if you make any other remark about Atlantis, make any remark about me, I will take your walking stick and I will not only break it over your head but I will use it as a pike and leave you in the deepest darkest part of the oceans that I can find" namor said with a slight snarl in his voice "you want me to change but yet you are so easily willing to insult me every chance that you get, perhaps instead of insulting me you should actually try and help me for a change". namor put azaer down and walked away leaving the old man to sit there a moment, azaer smiled "there might be hope for you yet submariner, there just might be hope".
Later in the day namor went through his training regiment to prepare to take back his kingdom, "my kingdom" namor thought pausing a moment "do I even deserve the crown that was placed upon my head, have I really done this much damage and caused this much suffering in the deep" namor said bowing his head to contemplate on the matter, "perhaps I am not worthy of the crown, but at the very least attuma shall not inherit the throne no more, for if this is the damage that I have done to the denizens of the deep I shudder to think what HE would do".
After many more meetings with the king of the mer-people and spending time with the common folk of the kingdom, namor at last set out to reclaim Atlantis from the clutches of attuma, "I only hope that I am not too late, for the sake of Atlantis and possibly the surface world" namor said swimming faster than he had ever swam. Meanwhile in Atlantis attuma was preparing the ritual to raise not only tintuka but the other lost and nearly forgotten Atlantean God's, "soon" attuma deviously smiled "I will have power beyond imagination, and unlike that foolish asgardian god who manipulated me, I will be in control this time MWHAHAHA.
To be continued