chapter 10 free
Erik and Angel waited in the throne room patiently for the sultan.
"are you ready to get your collar off?" Erik asked and looked at her knowing she would not answer him outside of his chambers.
she nodded and smiled at Erik.her hand went up and she ran her hands through her spiky hair.
Suddenly the sultan came into the throne room, his pace was quick and he seemed rather agitated. He had a set of keys on rings in his mouth, and another two pairs of rings in either hand, he was flipping through one as he walked in. Upon his arrival he took the key ring out of his mouth.
"I have so many blasted keys, forgive me I am having a hard time finding out which one is hers." he said. "have you found anything out from her yet, the sword, is her attitude any better?"
"She is doing better, she is learning. and why don't you ask her?" Erik said while offering his hand to the sultan to try to help with the keys. The sultan took the offer by handing him one set of the rings, Erik took it and turned to her. she tilted her head and he gently grasped the metal collar before trying the first key.
"Are your manners any better, Angel?" the sultan asked her, while continuing looking at the keys as if looking at them would tell him which one it was.
She nodded and did a slight bow to the sultan, to show that she was indeed learning. the sultan smirk and nodded his approval at her while Erik, continued to try key after key.
"How long has she had this collar on?" Erik asked the sultan. "I mean it must have been a long time if you don't even know what key it is?" he stated.
"yes, it has been on for a long time. Since I've been ruler here, that would be about 10 years. Why do you want her collar off any way?" the sultan asked Erik.
"I already answered yesterday. She is a human and not an animal." he stated cursing as he tugged at the key he had just put into the mechanism on her collar. "its stuck."
"try to wiggle it." the sultan said. "Well if she gets away, I will hold you fully responsible."
"I will account for her" Erik said wiggling the key and pulling. it finally came out with a jerk and Angel gave him a nasty look from the harsh tug she had received.
"Sorry." he said looking at her before trying the next key.
"You don't believe she will run away do you?" Erik asked the sultan.
"She has before." he stated going back to the other set of keys and looking through them. "try this one." he said and handed Erik a key.
Erik grabbed it and tried it in the lock but it did not work.
"nope." Erik said and handed him back the set of keys.
"So why did you keep her here? Why is the sword so important?" Erik asked.
"The swords name is Thorns, the one that I want, Its brothers name is Blood and the last ones name is Doom. Those swords have been in the desert since anyone can remember. they are very powerful swords. The royal family that was here, that I took over from knew of them, and found them, that was why I came here. Thorns is a very powerful sword, when touched vines with thorns come out and crawl under your skin, and into your very soul. According to the royal family, thorns has the ability to wrap its thorns around you mind and speak to you. I have heard from others, that thorns can control you or it may tell you what to do, either way I hear the sword can speak to you. Blood is a sword that was the kings, it is said that a dragonlord, his blood is half dragon, and the other half is half human, it is said with that sword he may cross into our world. he is in human form when he passes into our realm but when he is angered he turns into a terrible fire breathing dragon. He is used mostly for war. and doom no one ever bonded to doom, it was said that that sword would cause something similar to the 10 plagues and the world would end. Hence the name doom."
"so the swords are from this land?" Erik asked and continued with the keys.
"Oh, yes they were found by the royal family, here deep under the castle in tombs. they said they were given to them by the gods."
"You said that only the royal family bonded to them?" Erik asked and tried the next key.
"Yes...yes I did. Try this key, I'm sure this is it."
Erik stood frozen looking at Angel after the sultan had answered. for what she was finally dawned on him, with their conversation in his chambers and his eyes went to her neck where the lightning like scar was around her open throat. Thorns had left that when she had bonded to it which meant that she was...
Erik turned and took the key from the sultan and entered it into the collars mechanism it twisted and opened. Her collar fell away and Erik grabbed her throat in his hand before gently running his hand down the lightning like scars. he heard her sigh her relief and realized where he was.
"So she is the queen then?" Erik asked.
"She was supposed to be, yes." the sultan asked. "until I took over and her father died in his cell."
"She's...she's the princess? I heard she had died during child labor with her mother." he asked turning to look at the sultan.
"Ah, yes...her father wanted it that way to protect her, once the swords were found, which were shortly after her birth, there were many people threatening the kingdom, others requested to be betrothed to her. the king not know who to trust he was worried that the swords power would fall into the wrong hands, so he hid her away. And here she is. "
"you let me sleep with the princess, why not do it yourself?" Erik asked.
"I have, I took her virginity. she is strong willed and defiant, there was no breaking her." he said. "No amount of beatings, torture, or even threats and mind games could break her." the sultan said taking the metal collar from Erik. "There my promise was fulfilled, now fulfill yours."
all Erik could do was stare at her, all he could do was ask himself, why she hadn't told him.
"as you please." Erik said, "oh, and what about our new home? You said whatever I needed and you were going to move her and I to a new home?" Erik stated turning to the sultan.
"Yes, I will show you personally tomorrow, pack tonight, I Will have some guards escort us in the morning." he said.
Erik nodded and turned to leave the throne room, Angel followed closely behind. Once they were in the safety of his chambers and away from ear shot, Erik waited for her to close the door before he started on her.
"Your majesty." he said and bowed lowly to her.
her hand went to her throat to cover the hole so she could talk."I am no such thing, well...at least not anymore. the sultan took my title."
"So why didn't you tell me?" he asked.
"I just did, I am no longer ruler of these lands so I am not the princess." she answered.
"But why didn't you tell me you were of royal decent before?" he asked her.
"It would have changed nothing. what would have been different?" She asked.
Erik knew she was right. there would have been nothing changed, there would have been nothing he could have done.
"Do you know where the swords are? have you lied to me about that?" he asked her hoping she hadn't but had some understanding of why if she had. He tried to swallow his pride and tell himself he would not be mad at her if she had lied to him about it.
"No...I don't know where the swords are, my father hide them away when the sultan took over, there was a battle we got separated, he tried to tell me later but there was no time, the sultan watched us. it was my father who told me to act as though I could not speak, for my protection."
"Why do you speak to me then?" he asked his golden eyes settling upon hers, his voice was calm and gentle. he felt better knowing that she had not lied to him.
"because you treated me as a human, you did not hurt me, you came for me when the sultan himself did not, and you removed my collar, I have seen no acts of kindness since my father." she said.
Erik nodded understanding, there was silence before angel spoke again, both of them seemed deep in their own thoughts.
"I'm afraid you will never fully fulfill the contract with the sultan." she stated finally.
"What do you mean by that?" Erik asked and went and sat down on the bed, he removed his shoes as she continued.
"you may be able to get me to show respect for the sultan I will never have respect for him for what he has done to me and to the kingdom. But most of all, I will NEVER tell him where the sword is at. He must not find it." she said.
Erik looked up at her, upon hearing the sorrow in her voice.
"Why not? there is nothing left for you here. if you negotiate, perhaps he will give you what you want as well. the sword for your freedom and you can leave." Erik said.
"I wish it were that simple." she said. "But if the sultan were to get the sword who is to say he will use if for good and not evil?" she asked him.
"What's the worst he is going to do, cut someones head off?" Erik asked her, while standing to remove his pants.
"You don't understand. The swords, are alive, their are souls trapped in them making them immortal, they can come to our realm and destroy things or they can be used for good things. it depends on who weilds the blade. the sultan has no kindness in his heart, only greed. nothing good ever came of that." she said.
Erik knew she was right in a way, the sultan when angered did drastic things, and Erik could only imagine what Angel had been through in the last 10 years with him. she would have been only a teen then. Erik also thought back on what the sultan had said about her in the throne room, that she had not broken. all those things that he had done to her. Erik was surprised her spirit had not been broken and she had not given up hope.
"I don't understand you." he said sitting down again and putting his head in his hands.
"What's not to understand?" she asked coming over to him.
"Why fight him?" he asked.
"Because of my people. That is what keeps me going." she said.
Erik sat up and removed his shirt and she put a hand on his chest, her hand trailed up his chest.
"If I were able to find the sword, would you give it to the sultan?" she asked.
"You seem so worried about it." he said, enjoying her touch.
"He mustn't find it, Erik." she said.
"Do you intend to find it before the sultan is that why you are asking me this?" He asked her.
She kissed him gently before answering him.
"I do intend to find it before he does and I want your help." she said before her hand trailed back down to his groin. she smiled, feeling his hard member, apparently he had the same idea she did.
"And how do you intend to find it?" He asked her putting his arms behind his head, while she played with him.
"The sword and I bonded, when I held it, I think if I try to touch it with my mind it may answer and tell me where it is at." she said and then she kissed his collar bone and then his belly and then she pulled him from his drawers before kissing the head of his cock. he shuddered with pleasure beneath her.
"What do you intend to do once you have the sword?" He asked her, his breathing irregular.
"I plan to take the lands back from the sultan." she said and put him in her mouth and took just the head in her mouth before pulling back and releasing him with a loud pop.
"And I want you to help me." she said.
"What's in it for me?" he asked watching her with his golden eyes. they were filled with lust and want.
"You can be king and rule the kingdom with me?" she said sucking him back in her mouth further than before.
"What if I don't want to rule?" he asked her.
"Then you can just stay by my side." she said.
"Your side or your bed?" he asked her his hands came down to his side and he grabbed fist fulls of the sheets, unable to handle the teasing she was doing.
"Whatever you want, I just want you around." she said and sat up.
"lay down, your majesty." he said and he was happy to see that she complied.
"Was that an order?" she asked him while he climbed on top of her.
"I would never order her Majesty around it is merely a suggestion." he said.
"well I like the suggestion so I will comply." she said and ran her hands all over his chest and arms.
"Are you ready for me your majesty?" he asked her pumping his cock in his hands a few times before positioning himself.
she nodded and with one swift motion he entered her. She gasped and held on tightly to him.
"I better be careful or I may fall in love with you, and then what would a queen be without her king?" she asked him.
he pumped into her a few more times before answering.
"we shall see my dear, for now lets make sure you can respect the sultan."
she giggled and let him ride her into sweet extasy.