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Chapter 2: An Unexpected Turn
Motoki paced back and forth at the doors of the Throne Room
waiting for the audience of the king. Normally, as the King's Royal
Advisor, he would just walk in but the Palace Guards would not let him
this time. Finally, the doors opened. He rushed in and bowed as he saw
the King sitting comfortably on his throne.
"My King! I've just been informed that hours ago, the Moon
Kingdom was destroyed and so was the Dark Kindom!"
King Gaia smiled, "Good. That takes care of that."
Motoki looked puzzled. "What? You're not even saddened that
our ally the Moon Kingdom was attacked and destroyed?"
"I feel sorry for the poor folks, but there is nothing I can
do about it now. What's done is done."
"What's done is done?!?!? What about the survivors?? Are we
not going to help them??" Motoki was enraged. He had never seen the
king so indifferent about a war.
"I will set up a conference with the other kingdoms to talk of
this matter. It will take place in one week."
"What about the people until then-"
"UNTIL THEN," the king interuppted, "they may take refuge
here."
Motoki sighed. 'Good, at least that got through to him,' he
thought. But he still wondered why King Gaia did not take his advice
on helping the Moon Kingdom. "Your Highness, I wonder, why did you not
take my advice on this matter? You have never questioned me before."
"That is because I had received another piece of advice from
someone." The king leaned back into his chair bemused.
Motoki looked puzzled, "From who?"
The King smiled and clapped his hand. "From my newly appointed
Royal Advisor, Krill."
A tall black cloaked figure stepped from the curtains behind
the throne. Nothing of the face could be seen except for the golden
brown mustache and beard that fell to his mid section.
Motoki stepped back, surprised, "But King Gaia! Haven't I
served you and the late Queen Erde well??" He bowed in humbleness,
"I've never done anything to displease you!"
The King sighed, bored. "I've grown to not like you Motoki.
You are still young an inexperienced while Krill here has given advice
for well over a decade. Guards! Throw this man to the street!"
demanded the king waving his previous advisor as if he was some
beggar.
Motoki turned and saw the guards coming towards him. He
kneeled in front of the king, "Sire, please! Whatever I have done to
offend you... Please don't just throw me out!" But it was to no avail.
The King simply wasn't listening. The guards grabbed Motoki by the
arms and started dragging him out. "You can't do this! I'm the best
healer in the palace! I apprenticed under Mehrin!" He screamed as he
was dragged out of the throne room.
Krill grinned as he pulled down his hood showing his scale
like yellow skin. "That was a very wise choice, your royal excellancy.
I shall serve you well."
King Gaia smiled blankly, "Yes. I did make a very wise choice.
Besides, you are the best alchemist around so I hear. Now everything
should get back to normal now that the Moon Kingdom has been
destroyed." Gaia grabbed his head, "Arg..!"
"Another headache sire? You should go rest. I'll arrange the
meeting for you," Krill mocked worridly. But the King didn't notice.
"You're right, I'll just retire for now." With that said, King
Gaia slowly walked towards his chambers.
When Krill was left alone in the Throne Room, he began
laughing hysterically. "That fool! What an easy mind to control!" He
kept on laughing, filling the entire room with his horrendous voice.
"The Dark Kingdom ALWAYS SURVIVE!" he bellowed as he disappeared in
the shadows.
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Outside the palace there normally is a bustling marketplace.
But since the Dark Wars began, people were afraid to venture out their
house in fear of spies or lurking soldiers. So it surprised everyone
when a commotion began as the palace gates opened. Residents began
peeking through their windows to see.
"Something's wrong here! He wouldn't do this!" screamed
Motoki, the now ex-Royal Advisor as he was literally thrown out of the
palace gates. He stumbled up and tried to get get through the gates
but they were shut quickly. "WAIT!" But the Royal Guards just headed
back to the palace. He just stood there dumbfounded untill his sixth
sense told him that he was being watched by the commoners. 'This is
just not my day...' Motoki cleared his throught and began brushing the
dirt of his robes. He sharply turned around and began heading towards
the nearest pub.
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It has been nearly a whole week since Princess Serenity was
left to be cared under in Naru's hands. She has been "relearning" the
Earthian language and already becoming close friends with Molly. To
celebrate Serena's quick recovery, Naru went to the market to pick up
a few special items.
"Now I'll be back in an hour. You two behave towards Mr. and
Mrs. Anaim while I'm gone now, you hear?" Naru announced sternly.
"Yess'm," they both went and waved at Naru.
"Bye momma!" hollored Molly as she and Serena ran back into
the house.
Naru chuckled as she began walking down the road towards the
marketplace. Another reason she was going was because today there was
to be a post about Dark Wars. Everyone knew it was over but only a few
knew how. Just as she was nearing the market place she saw a beggar
sitting on the ground with a small sign written in broken Earthian.
Just as she was passing, the beggar spoke.
"Please ma'am spare a few coins?" asked the beggar half in
Earthian and half in Moonarium hoping someone might understand.
Naru stopped dead in her tracks. 'A Lunaric? Here?' She turned
around and crouched towards the beggar. "Are you Lunaric?" she asked
properly in Moonarium.
The beggar was surprised to hear an Earthian speak in his
tongue but he still nodded. "Yes, just came in from the last cargo
ship."
"What happened on the Moon? How come you're here?" inquired
Naru. She wanted to know any kind of information of what has happened
within the past week.
Normally the beggar wouldn't have answered such a straight
forward question but since he knows no one else that speaks Moonarium.
"The palace is destroyed, ma'am. The Dark Kingdom armies began heading
towards villages, towns, cities! We all began to flee towards the
nearest ships heading anywhere. Just as some of us began boarding, a
huge light exploded near the palace ruins. The ground shook for miles
around and all of the Dark Kingdom Armies just disappeared! But the
lands were devastated. Whatever that blast was and the damage done by
the armies will never allow the moon to be successfully inhabited for
a long time," the beggar sobbed.
Naru was astonished. "You mean the whole moon is being
evacuated?" All she got out of him was a nod. "And Queen Serenity?"
He shrugged his shoulders, "I heard some say she went to the
palace and others said she too has fleed and gone into hiding. But no
one knows." He looked down, ashamed that his own queen might have gone
into hiding.
Naru began picking the man up to his feet.
"Wha-What are you doing?"
"Come on, there's to be a post in the marketplace telling us
what happened and how the Dark Wars ended. And I'll buy you something
to eat." She helped the man pack his things and they silently head off
towards the marketplace.
Now the city that Naru lived in was the second largest in the
country of panJa. The largest being the country and world capital
known as Maju Piju. So when Naru, and the beggar man who was called
Mithal entered the marketplace, it was no surprise to see almost half
the population of Kuzco standing around the Royal Message Board
reading the new Declaration of the King. Both Naru and Mithal had to
shove their way to the front to get a chance to read the Declaration.
"Here, I'll translate it for you," Naru offered to Mithal. She
cleared her throat and efficiently began translating the text to
Moonarium."
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"Get out of here you bum!"
Once again Motoki was thrown out of another pub. For the past
six days he has been going from pub to pub drinking untill he could
drink no more. He stumbled down the road trying to remember how to get
back to his room at the nearby inn. Sadly when Motoki was thrown out,
he wasn't given any of his belongings other than what he had on him.
Accidently Motoki took a wrong turn and found himself in the town
square where some Royal Messangers finished posting a new declaration
onto the board. It was the crack at dawn so not many people were up
yet but the ones who were began reading. Motoki, too drunk to read
asked someone to read the declaration a loud.
"The Planet Kingdom Alignment has been informed the cause of
the destruction of the Dark Kingdom was the power of Queen Serenity of
the Moon's Silver Crystal. By single handedly destroying the enemy she
has rescued us all but with the cost of her life.
Since the destruction of the Moon Kingdom was so great, many
of the inhabitants have fled and went to nearby planets. All planets
must allow the migration of the entire Moon Kingdom to any planet the
residents wish to live thus leaving the Moon uninhabitable.
Also, King William and Princess Serenity were killed when the
Moon Castle collapsed hours before the Dark Kingdom's demise thus all
Royalty hath died.
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"The Decree of the Planet Kingdom Alignment is this:
Since no heirs of the Royal White Moon survived, the Moon is
now rightfully the property of the Earthian Kingdom and shall forever
be. Inhabitants of the Moon Kingdom now are rightfully citizens of
whatever planet they believe to reside in.
However, any property of the moon that belonged to residents
will now be the property of King William the Third," Naru finished
translating. 'The poor Queen!' she thought, 'Dead. Oh Serenity!' She
slowly turned to Mithal who became white. "Are you all right?
"All of the Moon Kingdom will mourn this day ma'am. We will
never forgive this." With that said, Mithal firmly walked away.
"Mithal wait!" Naru protested. But she soon lost him in the
crowd. Everyone had begun muttering some saying what a tragedy and
others saying it was unfair. Talks of taxes being raised began. All
Naru could do was sigh. "This was unfortunate," Naru muttered. 'O
Serenity... Do not worry, I shall protect your daughter and raise her
properly." The grief stricken mother fought back the tears and began
to look for the items that brought her to the marketplace.
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When the stranger had finished reading aloud the Declaration,
Motoki had quickly sobered up. "They're all dead?" he though out loud.
He couldn't believe it, and he couldn't believe that no where in the
declaration stated that the people of the moon will be helped, only
tolerated. He shook his head and began walking the correct direction
to the inn.
He eventually found his way to his room and fell onto the bed
letting sleep sober the rest of his body up. But he didn't sleep for
long. A strange vision had passed through him. He woke up with a
start. "What was that?" he mumbled aloud as the vision quickly
vanished from his memory. He looked up through the window and saw the
waning moon shining through the thin clouds. He snapped his fingers,
"That's it! The moon princess is still alive!" he exclaimed.
End of chapter.
Chapter 2: An Unexpected Turn
Motoki paced back and forth at the doors of the Throne Room
waiting for the audience of the king. Normally, as the King's Royal
Advisor, he would just walk in but the Palace Guards would not let him
this time. Finally, the doors opened. He rushed in and bowed as he saw
the King sitting comfortably on his throne.
"My King! I've just been informed that hours ago, the Moon
Kingdom was destroyed and so was the Dark Kindom!"
King Gaia smiled, "Good. That takes care of that."
Motoki looked puzzled. "What? You're not even saddened that
our ally the Moon Kingdom was attacked and destroyed?"
"I feel sorry for the poor folks, but there is nothing I can
do about it now. What's done is done."
"What's done is done?!?!? What about the survivors?? Are we
not going to help them??" Motoki was enraged. He had never seen the
king so indifferent about a war.
"I will set up a conference with the other kingdoms to talk of
this matter. It will take place in one week."
"What about the people until then-"
"UNTIL THEN," the king interuppted, "they may take refuge
here."
Motoki sighed. 'Good, at least that got through to him,' he
thought. But he still wondered why King Gaia did not take his advice
on helping the Moon Kingdom. "Your Highness, I wonder, why did you not
take my advice on this matter? You have never questioned me before."
"That is because I had received another piece of advice from
someone." The king leaned back into his chair bemused.
Motoki looked puzzled, "From who?"
The King smiled and clapped his hand. "From my newly appointed
Royal Advisor, Krill."
A tall black cloaked figure stepped from the curtains behind
the throne. Nothing of the face could be seen except for the golden
brown mustache and beard that fell to his mid section.
Motoki stepped back, surprised, "But King Gaia! Haven't I
served you and the late Queen Erde well??" He bowed in humbleness,
"I've never done anything to displease you!"
The King sighed, bored. "I've grown to not like you Motoki.
You are still young an inexperienced while Krill here has given advice
for well over a decade. Guards! Throw this man to the street!"
demanded the king waving his previous advisor as if he was some
beggar.
Motoki turned and saw the guards coming towards him. He
kneeled in front of the king, "Sire, please! Whatever I have done to
offend you... Please don't just throw me out!" But it was to no avail.
The King simply wasn't listening. The guards grabbed Motoki by the
arms and started dragging him out. "You can't do this! I'm the best
healer in the palace! I apprenticed under Mehrin!" He screamed as he
was dragged out of the throne room.
Krill grinned as he pulled down his hood showing his scale
like yellow skin. "That was a very wise choice, your royal excellancy.
I shall serve you well."
King Gaia smiled blankly, "Yes. I did make a very wise choice.
Besides, you are the best alchemist around so I hear. Now everything
should get back to normal now that the Moon Kingdom has been
destroyed." Gaia grabbed his head, "Arg..!"
"Another headache sire? You should go rest. I'll arrange the
meeting for you," Krill mocked worridly. But the King didn't notice.
"You're right, I'll just retire for now." With that said, King
Gaia slowly walked towards his chambers.
When Krill was left alone in the Throne Room, he began
laughing hysterically. "That fool! What an easy mind to control!" He
kept on laughing, filling the entire room with his horrendous voice.
"The Dark Kingdom ALWAYS SURVIVE!" he bellowed as he disappeared in
the shadows.
---------------
Outside the palace there normally is a bustling marketplace.
But since the Dark Wars began, people were afraid to venture out their
house in fear of spies or lurking soldiers. So it surprised everyone
when a commotion began as the palace gates opened. Residents began
peeking through their windows to see.
"Something's wrong here! He wouldn't do this!" screamed
Motoki, the now ex-Royal Advisor as he was literally thrown out of the
palace gates. He stumbled up and tried to get get through the gates
but they were shut quickly. "WAIT!" But the Royal Guards just headed
back to the palace. He just stood there dumbfounded untill his sixth
sense told him that he was being watched by the commoners. 'This is
just not my day...' Motoki cleared his throught and began brushing the
dirt of his robes. He sharply turned around and began heading towards
the nearest pub.
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
It has been nearly a whole week since Princess Serenity was
left to be cared under in Naru's hands. She has been "relearning" the
Earthian language and already becoming close friends with Molly. To
celebrate Serena's quick recovery, Naru went to the market to pick up
a few special items.
"Now I'll be back in an hour. You two behave towards Mr. and
Mrs. Anaim while I'm gone now, you hear?" Naru announced sternly.
"Yess'm," they both went and waved at Naru.
"Bye momma!" hollored Molly as she and Serena ran back into
the house.
Naru chuckled as she began walking down the road towards the
marketplace. Another reason she was going was because today there was
to be a post about Dark Wars. Everyone knew it was over but only a few
knew how. Just as she was nearing the market place she saw a beggar
sitting on the ground with a small sign written in broken Earthian.
Just as she was passing, the beggar spoke.
"Please ma'am spare a few coins?" asked the beggar half in
Earthian and half in Moonarium hoping someone might understand.
Naru stopped dead in her tracks. 'A Lunaric? Here?' She turned
around and crouched towards the beggar. "Are you Lunaric?" she asked
properly in Moonarium.
The beggar was surprised to hear an Earthian speak in his
tongue but he still nodded. "Yes, just came in from the last cargo
ship."
"What happened on the Moon? How come you're here?" inquired
Naru. She wanted to know any kind of information of what has happened
within the past week.
Normally the beggar wouldn't have answered such a straight
forward question but since he knows no one else that speaks Moonarium.
"The palace is destroyed, ma'am. The Dark Kingdom armies began heading
towards villages, towns, cities! We all began to flee towards the
nearest ships heading anywhere. Just as some of us began boarding, a
huge light exploded near the palace ruins. The ground shook for miles
around and all of the Dark Kingdom Armies just disappeared! But the
lands were devastated. Whatever that blast was and the damage done by
the armies will never allow the moon to be successfully inhabited for
a long time," the beggar sobbed.
Naru was astonished. "You mean the whole moon is being
evacuated?" All she got out of him was a nod. "And Queen Serenity?"
He shrugged his shoulders, "I heard some say she went to the
palace and others said she too has fleed and gone into hiding. But no
one knows." He looked down, ashamed that his own queen might have gone
into hiding.
Naru began picking the man up to his feet.
"Wha-What are you doing?"
"Come on, there's to be a post in the marketplace telling us
what happened and how the Dark Wars ended. And I'll buy you something
to eat." She helped the man pack his things and they silently head off
towards the marketplace.
Now the city that Naru lived in was the second largest in the
country of panJa. The largest being the country and world capital
known as Maju Piju. So when Naru, and the beggar man who was called
Mithal entered the marketplace, it was no surprise to see almost half
the population of Kuzco standing around the Royal Message Board
reading the new Declaration of the King. Both Naru and Mithal had to
shove their way to the front to get a chance to read the Declaration.
"Here, I'll translate it for you," Naru offered to Mithal. She
cleared her throat and efficiently began translating the text to
Moonarium."
+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_
"Get out of here you bum!"
Once again Motoki was thrown out of another pub. For the past
six days he has been going from pub to pub drinking untill he could
drink no more. He stumbled down the road trying to remember how to get
back to his room at the nearby inn. Sadly when Motoki was thrown out,
he wasn't given any of his belongings other than what he had on him.
Accidently Motoki took a wrong turn and found himself in the town
square where some Royal Messangers finished posting a new declaration
onto the board. It was the crack at dawn so not many people were up
yet but the ones who were began reading. Motoki, too drunk to read
asked someone to read the declaration a loud.
"The Planet Kingdom Alignment has been informed the cause of
the destruction of the Dark Kingdom was the power of Queen Serenity of
the Moon's Silver Crystal. By single handedly destroying the enemy she
has rescued us all but with the cost of her life.
Since the destruction of the Moon Kingdom was so great, many
of the inhabitants have fled and went to nearby planets. All planets
must allow the migration of the entire Moon Kingdom to any planet the
residents wish to live thus leaving the Moon uninhabitable.
Also, King William and Princess Serenity were killed when the
Moon Castle collapsed hours before the Dark Kingdom's demise thus all
Royalty hath died.
----------
"The Decree of the Planet Kingdom Alignment is this:
Since no heirs of the Royal White Moon survived, the Moon is
now rightfully the property of the Earthian Kingdom and shall forever
be. Inhabitants of the Moon Kingdom now are rightfully citizens of
whatever planet they believe to reside in.
However, any property of the moon that belonged to residents
will now be the property of King William the Third," Naru finished
translating. 'The poor Queen!' she thought, 'Dead. Oh Serenity!' She
slowly turned to Mithal who became white. "Are you all right?
"All of the Moon Kingdom will mourn this day ma'am. We will
never forgive this." With that said, Mithal firmly walked away.
"Mithal wait!" Naru protested. But she soon lost him in the
crowd. Everyone had begun muttering some saying what a tragedy and
others saying it was unfair. Talks of taxes being raised began. All
Naru could do was sigh. "This was unfortunate," Naru muttered. 'O
Serenity... Do not worry, I shall protect your daughter and raise her
properly." The grief stricken mother fought back the tears and began
to look for the items that brought her to the marketplace.
---------
When the stranger had finished reading aloud the Declaration,
Motoki had quickly sobered up. "They're all dead?" he though out loud.
He couldn't believe it, and he couldn't believe that no where in the
declaration stated that the people of the moon will be helped, only
tolerated. He shook his head and began walking the correct direction
to the inn.
He eventually found his way to his room and fell onto the bed
letting sleep sober the rest of his body up. But he didn't sleep for
long. A strange vision had passed through him. He woke up with a
start. "What was that?" he mumbled aloud as the vision quickly
vanished from his memory. He looked up through the window and saw the
waning moon shining through the thin clouds. He snapped his fingers,
"That's it! The moon princess is still alive!" he exclaimed.
End of chapter.