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Raphael 6
I was mad at the thought of my so called brother. I wasn't expecting to meet him like this. I didn't want to meet him like this. And most importantly, I didn't want him to force me to meet my biological Father. I do not want to meet him now. All I wanted to do was to keep the promise I had with his majesty. To protect the Kingdom and her majesty.
But that didn't mean that I do not ever want to meet him. I want to meet him. He is my father and what kind of idiot wouldn't want to meet their father? It's just that I have a war to lead. A payment for his majesty. That is why I let him live and run away, to tell my biological father that I'm alive. Hope he got the message though.
"Sir, there's a spy." A soldier reported. I cursed under my breath and walked out of my office and headed to the chamber. I slammed the door open and I froze at the spot. Another Turtle. Is the Dragon trying to make my life complicated than any other turtles in the world? What did I do to him? Or is he just trying to make me meet every turtle in the world?
He looked up and started to blabber that he forgot about the rules and was desperate to make money. I told him to sit down and then he looked at me with funny look, "Hey, you are a Turtle too." One of the guards told him to respect the Spade Imperator. I told him to get out. He looked like he wanted to protest but I growled, "I said, Get Out." He saluted and walked out of the chamber.
The Turtle started to talk that he is innocent and I shut him up. "You aren't from Spade, right?" I asked as I sat down in front of him, and put my arms on the table. He gulped and shook his head. "Don't lie." I said and leaned toward him. I saw him gulp once again but he still claimed that he's from Sarotine.
I stood up and I walked toward him. "Take your shirt off." I said. He looked at me if I was crazy. "It's not that! I'm going to check if you have tattoo." He grunted and took his shirt off. If you see him from far away, you might not notice but I could see little lighter shade of green on his shoulder.
I spat on my hand and scrubbed the spot with it. While doing that, he looked horrified and sure enough, mark of the Nation was on his shoulder. I raised my brow and pointed on the tattoo. He shook his hand still making up lame excuses.
I was about to call guards so I put my hands up but just wanted to check…. "What's your name?" I asked. He blinked, "Mikey Coring." I frowned and was about to call the guards but he stopped me, "Michelangelo Hamato. If you were wondering my real name…" He said. I lowered my hand and stared.
I stepped closer to him and he looked frightened. I'm good at frightening people. "Are you sure?" I asked. He nodded. "Michelangelo Hamato." I said and he nodded then noticed something. "You are Hamato." I slowly nodded.
He stood up with face brightening like a sun. "You are my brother!" He exclaimed. He spread his arms and hugged me tight. It felt unpleasant getting hugged by a man. He is the third person who hugged me, first was his majesty and the second was her majesty.
I pushed him away slightly. "Please don't do that again." I said and he nodded. His eyes were sparkling like the stars at night. "Bro, I will have to since you are my brother." Just then the door opened and her majesty walked in. Mikey fell on his chair and shuttered.
"What's this?" she asked, looking at Mikey. I told her maids to get out of the room. They obeyed but her majesty didn't seem to approve it. "What are you doing?" She asked as I closed the door. Now with only three of us in the room, I told her majesty what she didn't know about me; that I have brothers. She scowled and asked Mikey if he is my brother and Mikey nodded.
"I see you are from Heart though." She said to Mikey who gulped and whimpered. "Your majesty, please understand that I came here to look for my brother." Mikey said with very small voice. "Yeah right." It's hard to convince her majesty and unfortunately Mikey didn't know that.
"What do you want from us?" She asked as she took out her dagger. Mikey shrieked and looked at me with tears in his eyes. But I could see anger in his eyes as well. "Your majesty, I need to talk with him alone." I said. She frowned, "I'm the Queen. I have right to-" "Your majesty, please…." I pleaded. She glared at both of us and left the room. She opened the door and slammed it behind her.
After she left I turned toward my brother, "Now, explain why you came here." I said. "Well, you aren't going to be mad, right?" He asked. Depends. "I don't want you to be mad." He whispered.
"Just explain." I growled and he whimpered again. "I can trust you right?" he asked. I nodded. Even if he came to kill her majesty, I will let him live. He's my brother. "I came to take revenge on her highness."
That, needed some background information. I told him that it wasn't planned and it was just impulsive murder. He didn't seem to believe it though. "I came here to kill that woman. Where is she?" he asked with rage.
"Downstairs." I answered, for I was regretting that I brought her to Laia 4 years ago. He stood up and was about to walk out of the room before I held my sword toward him. "You are not going to kill her Mikey. She's my follower and you can't kill her." he was silent and then I saw tear falling out of his eyes.
"You don't know how you feel losing someone you loved like a family." He said and tears were streaming down as he turned to face me. "I'm about to lose one." I responded and he looked at me with strange look.
"I was raised by his majesty and I'm about to lose him." He looked down but didn't say anything. "I am letting you go. Leave before I change my mind." I said and left the room. Her majesty was standing in front of me with her arms crossed in front of her chest.
"What did he say?" she asked with firm voice. I didn't respond. "Raphael Hamato, I am asking you-" "He escaped. I won't say anything other than that." I walked past her. I never thought I would act like this to her majesty but I did.
She followed me but I kept on walking. I walked, her majesty followed me and her servants followed her to my house. Probably the first time she walked that much. "Raphael, I am ordering you to stop." She said as I reached my study.
"I don't think I have to your majesty." I turned toward her. "Raphael." "I am his brother and he is mine as well. This is the first time I am meeting him and I am not going to let him die because of some revenge." I said with glare. She raised her eye brow, "What do you mean?"
"She came here to kill Erlene to avenge Princess Opal." She frowned. "Doesn't that mean he will kill me too?" I shook my head, I hoped it wasn't a lie. "Isn't it dangerous to tell me all that?" She asked me. "I trust you with his and my life." she didn't say anything. All she did was to glare.
"I am Spade Queen, the ruler of this Kingdom. I have right to kill him if I have to." She turned around but I grabbed her wrist. "Your majesty. I don't want to lose him. I've only known him for few minutes but he is my brother and I want let him live. Please, imagine if you lose Princess Riliane."
"If I will have to, I would choose my Kingdom other than her. I will rather save millions of people than to save one." She answered and after shaking off my hand, she left the room.
Surprisingly she didn't order to look for a Turtle. Mikey did run away. And I hoped he didn't try to look for Erlene and kill her like she did to young Princess.
In return, she didn't let me enter the castle for a while. So I went to the military center and told the generals that we are attacking Timantti to conquer the Empire. "They thought they would be safe after they attacked the Kingdom but we will teach them something very valuable, Do Not Attack the Kingdom."
Few of the generals agreed, they were all Animals. Humans never agreed with me. "I think we should attack Heart first. They started it." One of them said. "We can do it later but we need to destroy stronger being before it gets stronger. That's Diamond." I said but human generals started to retort to my idea.
"We have to destroy Heart since they convinced Diamond to attack us."
"And it was Diamond who decided to attack us."
"We need to take care of the weed's root before it can be a bigger harm."
"Diamond itself is a root as well."
The argument ended as we agreed that animals and my followers will attack Diamond while the rest will attack Heart. I can't go to her majesty so I sent Pecar to report to her majesty. I couldn't believe that they disobeyed me when I'm the Imperator. Curse my rank and the law. 'No Animals can go over Rank Jack'.
I sat on the couch in my study. I can finally relax. I closed my eyes and without myself knowing it I fell asleep.
The younger self of me sitting on the garden with young Lucas, Riliane and Raina. I walked toward them but they didn't seem to notice me.
"Raina, are you going to be the ruler if there won't be a prince?" Little Lucas asked Little Raina. "Of course! I am sure that I will be a better leader than the male rulers." She said proudly and confidently. I smiled, remembering this conversation.
"You are saying like all the Kings weren't a good ruler." Little Me said. "I didn't say that. I am just saying that I will become a better one than my Father." Little Me and Little Lucas looked at each other, we knew that becoming a better ruler than his majesty will be hard.
"What if his majesty choose Kyle as the new ruler?" I asked. Kyle is his majesty's servant in Ace Rank. Ace can be a king when there's no one who can earn the throne. "I am royal. Why would Father choose him instead of me?" Raina asked.
"Because he is older than you and is a man?" Riliane guessed. Raina's face suddenly filled with shadow, "I will prove that I can be a better ruler than any of the kings in the history of the Kingdom and the whole Trump." Raina said as she backed Riliane into wall.
"I wasn't trying to offend you." 5 year old Princess said, scared. I tried to walk toward her and pat her head but my hand disappeared as I touched her. "Father knows that I want to be the Queen. And I will be." 'You will be, in 7 years.' I thought and watched Raina, Little Lucas, and Little Me talking about the things she will do when she becomes the Queen, mainly win the Trump.
The scene shifted into the part when his majesty finally chose Raina to be the Ruler. She looked overjoyed, Lucas looked excited and I looked horrified. I was 20 and she was 17. The first time I realized that I truly love her.
I woke up. I looked out the window and the sun was coming out from behind a mountain peak. "Why was I dreaming that?" I asked myself. I thought about it and all I could get was that I didn't want her to become the Queen the first time. And I still want her to be my friend.
The punishment was over and while I was heading to the castle to get opinion about leaving to the Empire, I saw my brother again. He was choosing an accessory and he jumped as I grabbed his shoulder.
"What are you doing here?" I asked. "Choosing an accessory for my friend." He answered, looking down. I stared at his head. "Want to come with me?" I asked. He looked up and glanced around. "Where?" "To the Empire." He thought for a second and nodded his head.
"Why?" He asked. He should've asked that first than to nod. "To attack. We are at war, don't you remember?" I asked. "Oh, right." He laughed. He reminded me of Erlene a bit and gave me a chill. Well, they are both spies…
"Go to my house and stay there, alright? Tell the servants that you were sent by Raphael Hamato the Imperator." He nodded and skipped away. I wondered if he was acting innocent or he really was.
The time I reached the castle she was in the garden. The one I saw in the dream, well I spent a lot of my childhood in the garden anyway. "I heard that you are going to the Empire and General Sharin is heading to the Nation." She said while touching the petals of the roses.
"Yes, do you disapprove it?" I asked. She shook her head. "I don't care as long as we win. And I think you are right." Finally, a human who agrees with me! "We do need to take care of the country which is stronger." I smiled at her words. "I will make sure that you will become the one who will rule the Empire as well." I said. She smiled.
"Thank you Raphael. I will be nothing without you." I shrugged but blushed. "You will still have your followers to." She looked down. "The court is divided into two." She said as she turned her back to me, "The ones who follow me and the ones who follows father. They don't accept me as the Ruler of the Kingdom. Like Luka."
That bastard woman was against everything that her majesty said. "Ignore her." I said simply. She shook her head, "Sometimes she's right. And she has too much powers that Father gave her. I cannot ignore her."
I thought about murdering her but that will cause more trouble to her majesty. "Raphael." She turned around. "All you have to do is to win the battle and prove that you are worthy of being the true Imperator. I will think about other ways to get you more powerful." She promised and dismissed me.
In the meeting room of the Military Center, I told my followers that we are leaving next week, quickly and quietly. We will not attack Diamente because that will cause more attraction. But we will attack Timantti and then attack Diamente.
I returned to home and saw Mikey enjoying very much. "Dude, this is awesome!" He said stuffing more turkey into his mouth. "Pack your stuffs. We are going to the Empire next week." I said and he spat out his food. Few servants made face in disgust.
"What? You know that I have to stay here!" I groaned. "I thought you agreed to go to the Empire with me." This time, he groaned. "I will just stay here and watch your house." I shook my head. I am not leaving my house with him in it. Especially after I saw broken dishes on the floor.
"You are coming or I will kill you right now." I draw Penetrate to show that I wasn't lying. He finally agreed and asked me why was I dragging him along. I answered that our brother and biological Father is there. He looked excited but sad at the same time.
"We are enemies." He said. I couldn't say anything. Even if we stay close, we are enemies. The Fate had separated us in tragic way. "We are still going." I ordered and then I left the dining hall.
A week later the preparation for the battle was finished. It was just like we had wanted. I told the generals that we are heading straight to Diamente, so we have to try our best not to attract attention. After we get Timantti, we will go to Diamente and take over the Empire for her majesty.
The army of Spade reached the port of Cycan. I ordered them to be quiet on the journey and then we abroad the ship. I always wondered how it would feel like to be in the open ocean and now, here I am, on the ship, heading to the Empire to conquer it for the Kingdom.
The sailing was going the way I was planning. Peaceful. On the ship I discussed the plan to invade the city with other generals, 5 to be exact. "Sir, Timantti is made to be fortress so even though they don't notice us they will still have numbers of soldiers." One of them said.
"Yes. We will attack at night when their guards are low. Or at dawn. But I will like to attack at night." I said with smirk and we decided to attack at night. Hopefully the fisherman in Diamond won't notice us.
I could see the land and according to the map, it was near Timantti. We anchored the ships at the beach and marched our way close to the city. On the way to our destination we could see the ruins of old castles. It was beautiful but we had no time to admire it except for my brother who I was seriously regretting that I brought him along.
"It's truly beautiful!" He exclaimed. I smacked his head for the 100th time that day and told him never to stop his horse again. He frowned and nodded. 2 nights later we could see the city of History (Timantti's title given by people of the Empire).
We hid in a deep part of the forest near the city and waited until the night falls. When I only saw few soldiers guarding the city I told Mikey to blow the horn. He did with joy but he did look confused. Like why was he doing it when he is from Heart, not Spade.
We attacked the city at once. The soldiers in the city were too shocked to do anything but to get killed. Complete chaos filled the city. We burned the fortress of Timantti, but not the ruins. It was too valuable to get burned away.
We caught hundreds of people as captives and kept them with us. Most of them were sent to Laia but some stayed to serve the rest of the soldiers. I told them not to torture them too much. But I was sure that they will disobey me in some ways.
The news spread quickly in the Empire and while I set up our base camp in the ruin. "We are heading to Diamente tomorrow. We are going to get there as soon as possible and attack them without mercy. You got that? It is revenge for attacking the Kingdom." The generals nodded and saluted. I was glad that they agreed with me.
I went inside my camp and Mikey was sitting, and juggling. "I was wondering, why are you attacking the Empire when our family is in it?" he asked, his eyes on the balls. "Before being related to them I am the Imperator." I answered and sat on the edge of my bed. I watched him juggle then I remembered something.
Erlene said about almost failing to kill the Princess because of a clown. I looked at him deeply and I suddenly became sure that Mikey, my brother was the clown who could've stopped this nonsense.
He caught the balls and put them in his bags. 5. That was a lot "What will you say when we meet them?" he asked. I didn't say anything. "After we take the Empire over I will send you back to the Nation." I said.
"I am not leaving without killing that spy." He said stubbornly. "I need her and she's probably in Heart right now. I sent her there to work as a spy like what you are doing right now. I am letting you to spy on us because I trust you." He didn't say anything but he looked down at his feet.
"You aren't going to kill them, right?" He asked me. I lied on the bed and said I won't. "Do you promise?" I promised him. I fell asleep and had a nightmare.
I woke up, feeling more tired than usual. I wear my cloth and walked out of the tent. The soldiers were preparing to leave. I yawned and started morning jogging. "Good morning!" I saw Mikey following me. He's too over energetic.
"How can you say that in middle of a war?" I asked him and he shrugged. "I don't know. The weather's fine. And you are jogging in middle of the war." He answered and I tried not to kill him.
After we left Timantti it took 3 days to reach Hizama, the location of the port. It would've been slower if I didn't send half of the army to the ships to surround Diamente. The snipers were sent in to kill the officers and we could easily get the ships on the port.
"Raphael, you are going to spare our brother, right?" Mikey ensured himself once more. "Yes, Mikey. I am not going to kill them. But I need to warn you that I will have to follow her majesty's order. So it depends on her." He gulped and stared at the island, the city that soon will be destroyed.
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