The king ends the story, and stealing my job, with his eyes closed. As he goes to open them expecting an amazed look on the girls faces, he’s met with what only can be described as a shocked yet disturbed look of their faces. “ you should write comics..” ,Lara says as she nods her head slowly. Lyan: “or manga!” , she chimes, Lara continuing after her , “ yeahhhh, you seem to have a lot of imagination for that” ,she gets up and walks away from the couch , that feels like they have been sitting on it for centuries. “ and you know that’s what they like ,a rib and creative mind” she says to him . “ hah ,would you look at that the child doesn’t believe me” the king responds. “ yeah sorry it doesn’t, in fact non of them do. You can reveal the hidden cameras now!, we’re done !, it’s a very nice set, i applaud you”, she says with confidence in her voice, as she looks around the room waiting for it it all be revealed a tv prank or anything thing that would make the slightest bit of sense , but nothing happens .
The dad approaches them , holding Lara by her shoulders , “ I know this is hard to grasp, but it’s the truth” , disbelief still wears her face , she shakes her head slowly in refusal and pushes the dads hands off her shoulders. “ enough of this!” The king shouts as he takes the now glimmering shard out of the dads hand. “ if you want them to believe you , you have to show them!” He shouts before unleashing huge stones from ground all around the room. Many screams can be heard from all around the room. A loud laugh leaves the king’s mouth filling the room as he stops his little display. Turning around to see the irritated look at the queen face. “ oh don’t sweat it, just send the bill”, he says , brushing off the anger of the queen. Then turning around to the girls, “ well what are your thoughts now kid-” he stops to see Lara has fell down , hands on her face , looking at the ground and she says ,“omg, are you telling me , we’ve been Isekai-ed!!” , she shots as she gets up with her hands on her head. “Ahhhhhhhh!!” ,Lyan yells and starts to run back and forth, Maya’s eyes widen ,she puts her hand on her mouth ,unable to move , stunned in place she was . The only thing she could muster is to raise her fist and punch Vernons shoulder whose standing right beside her.
Lara began to walk back and forth , messing with her hair as she mumbles to her self, “what does this mean for us?, do we have to go through a hero’s journey, god i can’t handle a hero’s journey” , “ uhh girl?” , says the king trying to break the mumbling. “ do we at least get the harem?, say we get the harem!”, She shouts at the king but before even giving him the chance to answer she continues, “ actually I don’t want it, if it starts with him-” ,she points at Vernon, “ then I don’t want it!” . “ what’s a harem?” Vernon asks maya, “ you don’t wanna know” , she responds still aimlessly staring into the ground.
“ in every isekai there’s a way out, so their must be a way for us to get out , right?”, she asks the king in a desperate manner. “ well in the past their was a device- but no that’s not possible anymore, ah will the tales state that it took the power of the three to open the realm, maybe if we’re able to get the same power back , it’ll be possible to open an entrance back!” The king responds and starts to examine the stones. “ but that’s impossible the magic is gone, even if a little shard somehow regained power that doesn’t mean that the magic is back” the queen says making her way to the king , he gets closer and directs her attention towards the rocks, “look at the direction the rocks are pointing , they’re all aiming the same way. The gems always yearn for each other , if moon gem is leading somewhere it is to the sun gem” . “You can’t be sure!” ,The queen responds , “ can’t you see ,the age of the magic is back!” The king shouts .
Their conversation is interrupted by a guard that comes bolting through the halls , “ your majesty!” ,The guard calls out ,sounds of footsteps following. And before the guard could even take his breath , a horde of people come bursting into the room, screaming and crying , yelling all over each other. Their attire similar to that of the girls .the guards try to stand in their way, but they were no match to this many people , the people make their way through them, breaking their weapons like they were small twigs off of a tree.
The dad hides Vernon behind his back , Lara steps in front of her sisters, covering them with her arms. The king steps to the people, “ please nice folks control your selves!” He orders of them. “ where are we?! , how did you get us here?!” A panicked man steps in front of the kings face and demands answers. With smile on his face the king answers, “oh, will you good sir are in the kingdom of dawn, and you most likely were summoned here by some sort of magic-” ,he’s cut off by the man gripping him from his shirt , violently pulling him closer , “what kind bullshi-” . the king pulls a sword slashing the man’s arm causing him to fall to his knees. “ you show respect when talking to your higher-ups” the king says with sharp eyes as he towers over the man. Panic ensues between the crowd. “ guards escort them out of the room , but keep them in the castle” the queen commands . Running over to king Frederic standing in the way between him and the man, refusing to let any more of this altercation go on . Head blurry, but heart burning with anger , the man jumps to attack whoever is in front of him. Before he could lay a single finger on the queen, Vernon dashes in between them , shooting him in the face with unknown powder , the man falls straight to the ground not moving a single muscle.
The queen from behind holds Vernon’s hand and roughly pulls something out of it . She approaches the man kneeling down getting closer to his head, “don’t hurt him!” ,Lara yells out. “I’m not” ,the queen replies as she reaches to checks his pulse , her face expressions relax, she stands back up, the guards carry the man out. The queen turns to Vernon’s dad and stretches out her arm to give him a small , glass test tube. “ I have entrusted you with this ,don’t make me regret my choices ”, with a stern and irritated tone she says, the dad reaches his arm and takes the tube , “ yes, my apologies your majesty” , he responds as he bows down.
The king putting his sword back he states, “ what savages” with disgust in his voice. Irritated looks fall upon the girls faces. Not taking the king’s comment too well , Lara says with fury in her voice “ well you weren’t no merciful saint either, you slashed man’s arm open!” , looking at her from the side of his eye with a sharp look , “when the people step out of line they must be put back” he responds, “you say crap like that then have the nerve to call THEM savages!” She yells back . He waves his sword out at her face, rising the tone of his voice ,“ the arrogant ones who stand in front of their superiors and forget themselves only end up with their tongues off” . Threatened by what he said she holds back for second before trying to talk back but before she can get a word out she feels hand on her shoulder, it was Maya’s . She turns her head to see a look on maya’s face that urges her to stand down, and as so she does.
“ Frederic!” The queen calls out , as he turns to her direction to see the commander of the guard’s standing near her ,with a worried look of his face ,it obvious that his mouth held bad news. The king makes his way to them “ Cyrus” he greets the commander. “ your highness”, the commander bows in greeting back . “ my deepest apologies for interrupting, but this is critical. Many unknown people have started to appear in huge amounts around the out skirts of the town. No matter what or who we asked they all seemed to be lost and with no recollection of how they made it here.”.
Their expressions tighten, “ looks like the situation is lot more critical then we thought” the queen say with worry in her voice. “Well then you must excuse me, I’ve got to get back, if they start to appear here, I doubt they won’t everywhere else, after all ‘the non children’ were people from all over the land” the king says, as he starts to make his way to the door . “ that’s only reasonable with the circumstances at hand, then we’ll just have to reschedule. It was an honor, hope to see you again king Frederic” ,the queen responds as she goes to check the documents in the commander’s hands, “farewell then,” the king replies, making his way out of the room but before completely leaving he stops, with his back turned to them ,he says in a somber manner ,“ trouble will ensue if not controlled , with all due respect, i must say the ‘dawn way’ may not be the most effective course of action moving forward ” . The girls turn their heads to the queen with distressed look on their faces . They didn’t know what the ‘dawn way’ was but they knew if it came out of his mouth it couldn’t have been good.
All eyes on her, all awaiting her response , the queen says “I appreciate your concern for my people, but ‘the dawn way’ must be honored no matter who the kingdom deals with!. Now a carriage will be waiting for you at the gates” with a fierce yet clam tone, shutting the king down. With no more then a breath leaving his mouth, the king takes a step out and off on his way he goes. Not having a second to wast. “ alright everyone we must move!,” the queen says as she starts to dole out everyone a part . “ Cyrus, I need troops all round the town to control and bring in the people ,we can’t leave them out like that and you may bring in the s.s if you deem necessary”. “the strongest soldiers too, got it!”, The commander responds then continues before rushing out the door, “and honey take care” he says in delicate tone of voice. she responds “ you too” in the same serious manner. Loud sounds start emerging from outside, as the queen starts makeing her way to the balcony. she yells out “ Cor, Vernon I need you down with the generators this instant” , “ yes your majesty”, they respond, leaving in hurry right after.
The noises from outside begin to get louder and louder by the second. The girls beginning to worry , knowing that it couldn’t be any good. They leave towards the way of the queen who has already made it to the balcony. To see a gut-renching site, people just like them, crying ,begging others on the street for an answer, an explanation and some others who started to get violent , starting fights, resisting the orders of the guards with their fists. those who hid in the corners frightened , the kids sobbing , howling for their parents on the streets and the people who began to swarm around the castle trying to break in, chanting for an explanation all of them had only one thing in common they were all lost.
But It was a riot, one that couldn’t continue on. At the sight of the dire situation the queen shuts the doors of the balcony, the cries of the people can still be heard even so . The queen starts to walk back into the room making her way to a storage cabinet. the girls afraid of what a site like that can make her decide to do to the people, Lara goes with a shaken voice “ hey listen, I know they’re acting a bit crazy down there but I promise you they’re just scared!”. The queen leaning on the captain, eyes locked on the documents she had put on top of it, doesn’t answer.
The silence only frightened the girls more, Lyan yells out with tears in her eyes “you can’t hurt them, ruby-!”, the queen slams her hand on the roof of the cabinet, cutting Lyan off. The girls remain silent waiting for the queen to say word , then she goes “I’m not gonna- I can’t” . She rises her head from the papers , turning to the girls ,“I need your help girls” she says as she makes her way to them. Shock fills the girls but their entire attention remains with the queen as she asks, “what can I tell these people that would clam them down and they’d believe?” , “what?” Lara mutters with confusion as the question seemed weird to her. The queen further explains, “ these people want an explanation, they want something to make sense of this bazaar situation for them. The truth would be completely nonsensical in their eyes, just as it was to you”, her words start to put things more in perspective for the girls, “right” Lyan says in low voice. “So what can I tell them ?” The queen reiterates. Hoping that the girls could come up with something , something that would deflate this entire situation.
Maya looks up, the queen immediately shifts her full attention to her, anticipating the solution. “ nothing!,” Maya yells out , the queen’s face immediately falls, “ theirs nothing you can tell them that they’d believe!”, as Maya says that the same realization hits her sisters, Lara goes “she’s right!, there is no lie we can tell they’d believe. The only thing we can do is show them the truth” she says as she turns her head to the shard, now illuminating a faint blue light.
The queen stares at shard with a grim look , as if she wishes there was another way but the options at hand were clear, she turns her head to the girls and says “ will it at least clam them down” . “ it will… shock them” Lara responds. “ …give me strength” ,the queen mumbles under her breath before she starts pushing the girls out of the room “ now I need you out” she says as she continues pushing, before the girls could get a word out she continues “ I’ll send you a maid to lead you to your new rooms, just don’t go outside!”. * thud* the queen shuts the doors. The girls now standing in front of the gold knobs again. They don’t move not a single muscle, they just stand and stare at their reflection, The only thing in their eyes that has remained the same after entering that room. Their entire world view is shaken maybe even broken, everything they have known is the opposite and the entire world felt so surreal. Before they could even get half of their heads straight the ground starts shaking and trembling. Lyan falls to the ground, her sister run to help her , and just as she gets up the shaking stops. “ an earthquake this strong lasting only a couple seconds like that, it’s weird”, they thought to themselves. But no matter how strang they thought it was ,they knew they couldn’t stay here. With the tight grip on each other hands , they start to run through the halls , unsure of where they’re even heading just letting their steps lead the way.
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