Here it goes again.. DISCLAIMER ON PROLOGUE! Ahhh I feel better now after I got that out. YESS almost done!
Chapter 8: Life and Death
By: Koumiko
One month before Angel's child was due, a war broke out between the Kingdom of Courage and Friendship and the Kingdom of Hope and Light. The meeting held on the day Violet was born was meant to solve their problems, but unfortunately, it was only temporarily. Andrew was nominated by the Kingdom to be the general of one of the infantries, that he named Priness Angel's Light Infantry.
"I'll come back, Angel." Andrew said, kissing Angel on the forehead. Then he patted her belly. "And I'll try to be back for this little one to be born." He smiled, mounted his horse, and he led a large group of burly men out of the Kingdom gates, as Angel just stood and watched.
Two weeks passed, and Angel just lay in her bed, silently mourning for her beloved's call to war. She then fell ill, and Lilly and Bijoux became worried. They called Dr. Yuko.
"Princess!" She cried as she examined her pulse and temperature. "You are very sick."
"Andrew?" Angel mumbled weakly. "The…baby… it's coming. I feel it..." Panic filled the room instantly as Angel just lay in a daze, unfeeling. Dr. Yuko had no choice.
"Princess, when the next pain comes, I want you to push your baby out into the world, ok?" She tried to sound cheerful and excited for Angel. Angel weakly nodded in reply. She bore down to no effect. Without the strength to control her instinct to just get the child out, she kept on pushing and pushing, without any control.
"Andrew!" Angel screamed, unable to control herself. Her hair and face was covered in sweat.
"Your majesty! Please stop!" The doctor tried to calm her, but suddenly halted. "No — you're bleeding. Towels!" Bijoux and Lilly ran in distressed carrying large piles of towels. The doctor used them up quickly, blood soaking them, s she tried to calm the thrashing Angel. She then suddenly screamed a blood-curdling scream. Her skin tore and the baby slipped out.
"It's a boy! A big boy your highness!" Bijoux cried. She took the baby and wrapped him in a blue velvet blanket, and carried him to Angel. "Your majesty?"
Angel was pale, her eyes half closed. She had lost too much blood. She knew it. She knew she was close to death.
"Christopher…" Angel mumbled. She used all her strength to hold Christopher. Bijoux laid Christopher down beside Angel. His blue eyes stared at his mother. She kissed him and he smiled. Angel smiled also, her breathing becoming shallower. Lilly suddenly ran in from outside.
"The Prince, Princess Angel – he – he was killed… he sacrificed himself to win the war." Lilly wept and Bijoux knelt, tears in her eyes.
"Bless him." Bijoux said.
"Angel? Angel!" Yuko was beside Angel, pressing her ear on her chest for a heartbeat. "No! Not her!" The doctor collapsed and cried. "She's going, ladies."
"Andrew…" Angel whispered, and she closed her eyes. Silence filled the room. Then Christopher started crying, his mother had stopped caressing him.
"No!" A chorus came from the room, and soon after, the whole kingdom.