Ⅲ - Siblings

WARNINGS!

= OOCs

= Wrong Grammars and Spellings


DISCLAIMER!

~ I DO NOT OWN KHR and OKH ~


"Talking"

'Thoughts'

Flashback / Previously


He claimed that he wanted to see if humans were able to fly and produced fire because he once saw someone with long blond hair flew across the Kingdom with fire engulfing the flying man's hands.

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After finally calming his fast heartbeats, he turned to Ilyas. "Well, what do you know... Flames DO exists here..." He grinned sharply. He couldn't wait to see what flame he possessed, hopefully still Sky -Wrath-, Storm would be an OK, although not preferable, as long as he could destroy things easily, he's fine.


For those who hope Haine is Reborn...

❀ Seriously? Are you trying to kill the princes? *sweatdrop*


= 3rd Person's POV =

Few years had passed since Ilyas almost lost his life and both him and Eins finding out that the current world they were living in possessed flames. Although the two sometimes wondered if that fire was a different kind of fire, not their elemental flames, like ...fire magic for example?

They managed to confirm that the flames their father mentioned were the elemental flames they once possessed during the incident when their younger brother, the fourth prince, Bruno, was born.

There was a party after the King and Queen announcing that their kingdom receiving a fourth prince, which led to the attempt of assassination of the fourth prince when the adults were occupied and the four princes -Eins and Ilyas escaping loud and annoying party- were in the playroom.

Seven years old Eins had fallen asleep on the leather chair while the four years old Ilyas was playing with a one-year-old Kai and baby Bruno when two adults -their faces were covered to avoid recognition- barged into the room, effectively waking Eins up and Ilyas snapped his head towards them as he pushed young Kai behind him.

"Heh. Such luck. Our target is that baby but the other three are also here..." The taller one said as he pulled out a gun, pointing towards the growling Eins.

"If we want that baby, the package came in a set of four, I see~," The shorter one said gleefully. He too pulled out a gun, pointing it towards Ilyas, who was standing in front of a trembling Kai and a confused Bruno staring at them, wondering why they stopped playing with him.

"...May I know who you are?" Ilyas calmly -not really- asked.

"Well, I supposed it's okay to tell who we are to the soon-to-be corpses..." He tapped his chin. "We are people sent from Neid* Kingdom. Your kingdom is too big, you see? And ours are small. We will be taking this kingdom after eliminating all of you royalties of Granzreich! Of course, starting with the easiest targets, the children!" The taller one exclaimed.

'Such foolish arrogant adults... Children we may be, soon-to-be corpses we may be -not really-, you shouldn't reveal your intentions that easily...' Both Eins and Ilyas thought.

"But well... That baby is our main priority, so hand him over, child," The shorter one said as he stepped forward, approaching Ilyas.

With a glare, Ilyas dashed forward and tackled the man. "Don't you dare touch my brothers!" He snarled, ramming onto the adult's stomach.

The man coughed when he fell to his back, rendering him unconscious -'what- so weak...' Eins and Ilyas thought- and a scream from the child followed after a second later.

"Ilyas!" Eins widened his eyes when he saw blood blooming on Ilyas' shirt on the shoulder and turned to the taller man who opened fire -with a silencer attached- the moment Ilyas tackled his partner.

Ilyas laid on the ground as he gripped his shoulder, hopefully able to ease the pain as he gritted his teeth. He was lucky that the bullet hit his shoulder because it was supposed to be his head if he didn't manage to take a quick step back.

He just narrowly escaped instant death.

"Bro-brother..." Kai sobbed as he shook his fallen brother. He was scared. Who were they? Why are they hurting his brother? He froze when red water oozing out from his brother's shoulder.

"Bro-brother...?" Kai stuttered when Ilyas slowly sat up and smiled towards him, ignoring the two adults, and patted his head.

"I am okay, Kai..." His brother smiled softly. "Take care of Bruno and turn around for me? Everything will be okay when I told you to turn around again, okay?" His brother said softly and he could only nod as he took his younger brother to the corner, facing the wall.

Ilyas smiled before turning into a dark scowl as he turned his attention back to the laughing adult. "Aren't you kind, preventing your dear baby brothers to see your deaths?" The man laughed as he went to his unconscious partner's side and picked his partner's gun up as his own was still pointing at the growling Eins.

Ilyas narrowed his eyes as he growled, glaring at the man when the man pointed that gun -it too with a silencer attached- at his head. "Any last word, prince?" He smiled.

"Yeah. Go to hell, will you?" Ilyas snarled.

The man scowled. "And here I am being nice before you die. Fine! If you wanted to die that badly!" The man pulled the trigger.

Click.

Click.

Click. Click. Click.

"Huh? Why the-" The man widened his eyes when he saw his gun was frozen. "What kind of game are you playing now?!" The man snarled but immediately froze when he saw the child's supposed to be azure blue eyes were now icy blue.

"Gaaah!" He screamed in pain when he felt as if he was being burned. 'Did the older one f*cking put my hand on fire?!' he thought.

When he turned around, he widened his eyes in fear when he saw his hand received a second-degree burn. Dropping his frozen gun, he fell to his bottom. "What-" He trembled in fear when he saw a ball of flame on the black-haired boy's palm.

Eins stared at the familiar ball of flame in his palm for a moment before he lifted his head, a feral grin appearing on his face as he faced the trembling adult. "Oh... How I missed this..." Eins grinned before eyeing the unconscious one. "...Well... We only need one to talk..." He muttered.

"Mo-monst-!" He didn't manage to scream it out when he was immediately frozen from head to toe before Eins blasted his flames towards the man trapped in ice, right after Ilyas went and covered Kai's ears as the boy questioningly covered the baby's.

Ilyas looked from his uninjured shoulder when he heard a shuffling sound. Eins was throwing soft toys and blankets at the small black spot. It seemed like Eins accidentally burned the carpet a little when he eliminated the frozen threat. Thank goodness Eins didn't accidentally burn the unconscious one too.

Both Eins and Ilyas snapped their heads towards the door and narrowed their eyes when they heard an uproar that seemed like coming from the ballroom, seeing that that was the only room nearby.

They jumped a little when gunshots and screams came after.

Ilyas was glad that he was still covering Kai's ears and the boy hadn't removed his hands from Bruno's ears yet.

Eins immediately stood by his brothers' side when silence came a few moments later. Both older princes glanced towards each other and then to the door warily when they heard footsteps approaching the room.

Eins slowly summoned his flame when the footsteps became louder and louder before stopping in front of the room they were occupying and slowly twisting the door handle.

It was up to him to protect his brothers' because Ilyas was unable to help him as he prevented their two youngers to hear any terrifying sounds.

He was about to throw the ball of flame in his hand when he saw a glimpse of his father and immediately extinguished his flame and it fully vanished when a guard stepped in cautiously with the king and two other guards behind him.

The guard widened his eyes when he saw the injury on the second prince. "Prince Ilyas!" He rushed forward, ignoring the unconscious man as he stepped on him.

Victor -the king- and the two guards too widened their eyes before the guards went and secured the unconscious man as Victor stepped forward towards his sons.

"Ilyas..." He crouched down and one knee on the ground as he looked for another injury on him and his three other sons.

"I am fine, father," Ilyas softly smiled, ignoring the blood stains on the king's attire -Eins and Ilyas knew the blood wasn't the king's- as he released his hold on Kai's ears, which the boy too released his hold on Bruno's ears before turned around, hugging his injured brother.

"Brother..." Kai sobbed as he shook in fear, Ilyas immediately hugged back, wincing at the pain sparked from his shoulder. "I am okay, Kai. Don't cry..." He said softly, trying to calm the boy down.

"Are you injured, Eins?" Victor turned to his eldest.

"I am unharmed, father," Eins said as he shook his head with a sigh. He wondered why he felt so tired. Was it because someone was finally there? "Only Ilyas. Please give him medical attention, father." He muttered, not caring that Victor picked him up and Bruno on his other arm as one guard carried Ilyas and Kai who refused to release his brother to the medical ward. The other two guards guarding them.

After a long torture and interrogation, it was revealed that the heir of Neid Kingdom wanted to have a larger kingdom when he took the throne right after the king of the kingdom passed away.

Many, of course, opposed the order to take down Granzreich, not when Granzreich was a lot larger than theirs and also especially when both Kings and their predecessors were close allies and friends. But it seemed like the current king of Neid refused to acknowledge that and executed few of those who opposed him, none were brave enough to do it again after that horrid action.

This action, of course, threw the king and the nobles -and Eins, who sneak in but thankfully wasn't caught and still in the same room of the adults, out of their sight- in Granzreich into anger.

Some wanted the alliance between the two kingdoms to be broken, else the same attempt of assassination happened again. While the other wanted them to attack back.

After many debates and arguments, it was decided that they would send a warning letter of the action and all captured assassins and troops would not be returned back to their kingdom as they would spend the rest of their lives in Granzreich's prison.

Eins wasn't really satisfied at that but decided let it go before sneaking back out and went back to the room where his siblings were put together to tell Ilyas about the decision made.


Six years had passed since then and Eins had reached thirteen years old, Ilyas was ten, Kai was seven and Bruno was six. They also received two younger brothers within that six years, namely Leonhard, who was now five and Licht, who was four.

All five eldest were currently on their way towards their youngest's room for a visit as Licht was born with a weak body, resulting in the boy being very sickly and unable to leave his room most of the time.

Upon seeing Licht's room door, Leonhard immediately ran forward and clicked the door open without knocking before rushing inside. Kai and Bruno ran to the room the moment Leonhard went in.

"Leonhard wishes to become a king but didn't want to learn manners," Eins muttered. Ilyas chuckled at that as he patted the older's shoulder. "He's still five, brother. Leave him be." He smiled, making Eins sighed.

When the two eldest entered the room, Licht, who was dressed as a girl -because it was believed since girls represent life and fertility that if he dressed as one, his illness would go away- was listening to Leonhard, who was telling his day excitedly with Kai and Bruno added a few sentences here and there in Leonhard's story.

"Brothers!" Licht brightened at the sight of the two eldest, after all, Eins was rarely in the mansion and Ilyas kept being taken by the adults for private tutoring, which he immediately crushed those tutors with his knowledge -few years later, Bruno following his footsteps in crushing the tutors- but when he thought he was finally free, he was taken by another tutor for his outdoor activities.

He inwardly cursed many times because of that.

"We come to visit, Licht," Ilyas said with a smile as he approached the youngest before he blinked when the youngest seemed to be looking around.

"What is it, Licht?" Ilyas asked.

"Uum... Where is father?" Licht nervously asked.

All four eldest froze at his question, while Leonhard just blinked at that. "Father? He's in his office...?" he said questioningly.

Licht's mood immediately dropped. "Just as I thought. He loved his work more than me..." He said softly.

"Licht..." Bruno called.

"But I guess it's fine! Brothers are here to visit me after all!" Licht grinned and back to listening to Leonhard's stories.

Eins and Ilyas glanced at each other when the four youngest turned their attention towards each other. Both of them frowned as they could see the fake smile on their youngest's face.

If their father couldn't be there, then they had to make efforts to visit their youngest as much as possible.

Being sick was not fun, it's boring and sometimes very lonely.


* Neid means envy in German.