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The Hetallious Chronicles

Part 9

Daughter of Evil

Now, bow before me!

The Kingdom of Lucifenia did not have a pretty history.

It was well known for its savagery, ruthlessness, lack of mercy, inhumanity, and many other titles that the country had earned over time.

But most of all, it was known for its power struggles. These fights for control occurred most often, each labeled with bloody results and heavy tolls.

Eight years previous, in fact, there had been a terrible plague in the country. The death toll reached the thousands. Many lost their families, relatives, and loved ones that had not been lost to war or power struggles already.

But the most devastating losses came from the loss of the King and Queen of Lucifenia. They left behind their two six-year-old twin children, Feliciano and Chiara. The King and Queen's last will was that their children would succeed them to the throne, and rule equally together.

Unfortunately, there were others that did not agree with this plan. Power hungry lords rose up to try to seize the throne for themselves. The country was once again forced into open war.

However, there was a large group of the people who were loyal to the former rulers' last wishes. These loyal citizens fought for the young twins, and defended them from the attacks against the castle.

Sadly, one day, the castle was broken into. The other contenders for the throne and their followers stormed into the castle, with the clear intention of the disposal of the young Prince Feliciano and Princess Chiara. The children's defenders fought valiantly against the enemies' large forces. There were large casualties on both sides, and the hallways were permanently stained with crimson blood.

Finally, at the end of the battle, an army was annihilated and a single person sat on the throne. The new official ruler of the entire Kingdom of Lucifenia was none other than Princess Chiara Lovina d'Autriche.

Grieving the loss of her twin, the six-year-old princess had survived to fulfill her parents' wish, though Feliciano had not survived. However, there were others that did not give up their quest for the throne.

On one similar occurrence, the princess was attacked and nearly killed. Apparently, a foreign witch with short black hair and brown eyes had cursed the young girl by possessing her with a demon. Fortunately for Chiara, a visiting sorceress with strange peach colored hair had been able to expel the demon.

Unfortunately, the event caused Chiara to lose all of her memories. The ministers decided to prevent the sorceress from restoring the memories, so that Chiara would not have to deal with the loss of Feliciano again. They could not afford for their sole ruler to fall into despair once again. The country's status was already dire.

After this quite strange event, there were no further attempts on Chiara's life, and she grew up as the ruler of the country. However, at this point, she was only the ruler by name, as a six-year-old cannot be trusted to rule a country right away. The ministers had all the power, forgetting about her and not bothering to teach her how to run a country. She grew up spoiled by the women of the palace, as a figurehead doll, with the Minister-in-Chief making the decisions of the country. In the name of the Princess, of course.

However, this all soon changed soon after Chiara had reached her twelfth birthday. The ministers had decided that it would be for the kingdom's benefit to form a merger with one of the neighboring monarchies. Therefore, there was talk in the palace of an arranged marriage between the son of a powerful nobleman in the Belzenian Empire, and the Princess Chiara.

Chiara herself was not a fan of this idea. Instead she had her eyes on the young, unmarried, and handsome King of Marlon, Antonio Fernandez Marlon. Because of this, fights broke out between the ministers and Chiara. Very quickly annoyed by all of the meaningless arguing, Chiara decided it was time she took her place as the true ruler of the kingdom.

One day, the ministers walked into the Throne Room to find Chiara already sitting down on the throne and waiting for them. A new servant was at her side, a young boy, who looked incredibly similar to her.

The Princess smiled sweetly at the approaching ministers, but a scowl soon appeared on her face.

"Bow to me!"

The ministers hesitantly obeyed, shooting each other looks of confusion. They knelt down on the ground, nervously eyeing the large number of guards that were now pouring into the room.

A smile of amusement on her face, the Princess motioned for the guards to surround the trembling ministers, and then waved her new servant forward. He nodded back at her and turned to face the ministers.

"Her Majesty Princess Chiara Lovina d'Autriche has requested that I inform you this. From this day forward, she is assuming full control of Lucifenia. Therefore, you are no longer necessary, and not worthy of Her Majesty's attention."

The ministers still knelt, too shocked to even speak. The servant turned towards the guards.

"Remove this filth from Her Majesty's presence immediately."

As the guards obeyed and dragged the protesting ministers from the room, Princess Chiara watched without the slightest emotion, and then turned to her servant.

"Feli, I want you to send a message to the Marlon Kingdom for me. You already know what I want the message to contain."

Feli smiled and bowed slightly.

"Of course, my Princess."

Year 500

It had been two years since Princess Chiara had seized full control over the affairs of the kingdom, and she was now fourteen years old. However, Chiara had neither the knowledge nor the experience to run a country. These two years had resulted in a tyrannical rule by a spoiled brat who used her power to get what she wanted.

Her solutions to her problems were simple. If she needed money, then she took it from her subjects. If there was someone who was speaking out against her, she would order for that individual to "disappear".

In her mind, her subjects were there to serve her, and not the other way around.

All Chiara cared for was for her own pleasure. Her palace was decked with lavish furniture, and large stores of grain and jewels were kept in the treasuries. The most beautiful horse all of the countries, Josephine, belonged to the Princess as well. To her, all the riches in the world were there for her, and her alone. They served no other purpose to anyone else!

Throughout these two years, Chiara's servant, Feli, remained faithfully by her side. He was the son of one of the knights of the palace, Sir Avadonia, one of the original guardians of the Princess. When his father brought him to see the palace, Chiara had instantly taken a liking to him. And therefore, he came to be her servant.

Other servants would marvel at the strong resemblance between Princess and servant. Their facial features were incredibly similar, but his hair had more of a reddish tint to it, and his eyes were much lighter as well.

Although their outward appearances were the same, that was where the resemblance stopped. Whereas Chiara was fiery-tempered, pessimistic, and unforgiving, Feli was much harder to push to anger, very optimistic, and caring.

However, he would do anything to please the Princess, and followed her every order without question.

Inside the palace, things were beginning to get quite exciting, especially for the young Princess. The Marlon royal family had accepted the proposal for a marriage between Princess Chiara and King Antonio! The two were now betrothed. The wedding was to take place on Chiara's sixteenth birthday. The people heard this news with relief, hoping that in a few years time there would be a new influence on the government, and maybe the Princess would start to treat her subjects better.

However, that winter, a famine started in the land that started a deadly chain of events. The people were running out of food, and the death toll from starvation was steadily climbing. Once again, people were losing their loved ones to the harsh winter and horrible circumstances.

While the subjects were suffering, Princess Chiara sat comfortably back in her palace, not caring in the slightest. She did care though, when a hero of the people opened the palace grain stores to the hungry commoners.

That day, Feli received a small glass bottle with a slip of paper inside, sealed with wax at the top. This was Chiara's way of secretly communicating with him. When she wanted to tell him something confidentially, or give him orders that she didn't want others to find out about (such as scouting among the people for rebellions), she would send him a bottle with her orders plainly written inside. They were immediately carried out every time.

This particular piece of paper was an order for the removal of the one who had fed the hungry masses the grain from the palace. It was an order for the death of Sir Avadonia, Feli's father.

A few days later, the slain body of Sir Avadonia was tied to a post outside the castle. A young teenage girl in a red dress could be seen sobbing by his body.

Soon after this event, Chiara learned that King Antonio was visiting the nearby country of Elphegort. Wanting to know more about his personal life, she sent Feli to Elphegort to survey the young king.

To Chiara's great dismay, Feli's report was not a happy one. Apparently, while staying at the house of a very wealthy merchant in Elphegort, King Antonio had fallen in love with one of the servants there. She was a girl with incredibly beautiful short blonde hair and stunning light blue eyes, a very popular look in Elphegort and the Belzenian Empire. Soon after this report reached Chiara; a message was sent from Antonio. The message informed the Princess that he was calling the marriage off for personal reasons.

Chiara did not take this well at all. Anger and hatred welling in her heart, she issued two official orders. The first order was to her army. They were to immediately go to Elphegort and lay waste to the kingdom, destroy all of the villages, and kill any woman there with blond hair and blue eyes. The second order was for Feli. He was also to go to Elphegort, but his job was to track down the particular girl that King Antonio had fallen in love with, and to ensure her demise.

Both her orders were carried out. Towns and cities were burnt to the ground, and thousands, if not millions, were killed. The people cried out for mercy to Princess Chiara, but did not seem to reach her ears. Chiara's only response was to continue looking at her reflection in one of the four mirrors that adorned her chambers. These gold mirrors embedded with yellow gemstones were an engagement gift from the Marlon Kingdom. Chiara did not go one day without examining her reflection for an extensive period of time in them.

Finally, Feli returned, informing her that the girl that King Antonio had loved was no more. Chiara turned from her place in front of the mirrors and looked past Feli to the clock that chimed three o clock.

"It's time for my snack, Feli."

Feli nodded and left for the kitchens to bring the Princess her afternoon snack.

Very soon afterwards, the clock of events started to work again, ticking and setting everything in motion.

Chiara eventually had to atone for her actions. Revolts started to crop up throughout Lucifenia. News of what had transpired in Elphegort enraged the people, and the royal forces were losing the will to fight against the revolts. Farms, villages, and towns were being overrun and taken control of by the revolutionaries every day.

Finally, the separate revolts combined into one large rebellion against the tyrannical princess. The young woman who had been crying at the body of Sir Avadonia led this rebellion. She was now a mercenary dressed in blood red armor. Along with her was a young man in a blue mask. If he happened to remove that mask, he appeared to look quite similar to the young Prince Antonio...

The rebellion soon pressed against the palace gates. The whole kingdom was fighting against the rule of the cruel Princess Chiara. However, Chiara's forces were still weary from the war with Elphegort. The rebellion pushed into the palace without much effort, and all of the servants were allowed to flee.

Supported by a small group of fighters, the lady red mercenary and the blue masked man made their way to the Princess' chambers. The doors were flung open to see a young figure wearing the crown of Lucifenia, staring at a reflection in a mirror on the wall. Chiara's loyal servant was nowhere in sight.

In unison, the two leaders of the rebellion held their swords to the neck of the Princess. Without lifting her head, the two heard the Princess say softly…

"How insolent of you…"

Later

The rebellion had been won, and the tyrant Princess was in custody. The execution was set to be at three o clock in the afternoon that day. Alone and deserted by everyone, the Princess sat in jail, waiting.

Soon enough, it was time for the final blow. Brought out in commoners' clothes, the people booed and jeered at the one they claimed had brought the country so much hardship. As the blade of the guillotine was positioned over the neck of the young former ruler, the lady red mercenary turned to the Princess.

"Any last words, your highness?"

Without looking to the faces of any in the crowd but one, a hooded figure with tears streaming down, the "Princess" smiled and looked at the large clock tower, seconds away from chiming three o clock.

"Oh, it's time for my snack!"

The crowd yelled in outrage.

The chimes rang out.

The blade fell…

Now whenever the people speak of Princess Chiara, they always say, "She truly was the Daughter of Evil."

TruDivination: Well, that certainly was interesting!

FlyingElephants: That was the most fun I've had writing a story in a long time!

TruDivination: Well, time for the cast list!

FlyingElephants: Shouldn't we get MasteroftheMidnightYard to help us out?

TruDivination: Well, she's kinda incapacitated right now…

MasteroftheMidnightYard: *sobbing in back corner* WHY YOU NO LOVE LOVI-CHAN, ANTONIO? WHY?

FlyingElephants: oh. Spare her the pain?

TruDivination: Spare her the pain. Now, here's the cast list:

Chiara: S. Italy (wait, didn't we tell you this last chapter?)

Feli: Nope. We're not telling until chapter 10. Even though it could be obvious for those who know how the story goes, or maybe everyone, we're not spoiling ANYTHING!

Lady Red Mercenary: Again, we'll tell you next chapter.

King Antonio: Spain (hence why MasteroftheMidnightYard is having a meltdown)

Elphegortian Servant girl: NEXT CHAPTER!

FlyingElephants & TruDivination: REVIEW!

MasteroftheMidnightYard: *still sobbing*