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It's about noon, a new day.
The weather is nor too bright neither too dull, however the sun is not that shinning. The cool breeze flowing with ease making it a perfect relaxing day at the town of Baros, amidst the kingdom of Massalia.
The people of the town of Baros going around with their business with less hope, while most of them are sitting at home not knowing what to eat , or , how to pay the king's tax.
Then, the voice of a boy running and shouting woke the cool town to life giving them joy again, for the arrival of the princess.
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A boy : - (running and shouting) Mother! Mother! Mother! Mother! Mother!
Woman : - W - W... What is it???!!! What happened?
Boy : - (breathing heavily) The king's...
Woman : - (breaks in) The king's troop? gods! ....What can i do now, i don't have the tax yet, gods! gods! gods!
Boy : - No mother,,,,, Its the princess, the..... the princess is here mother!
Woman : - Thanks to the gods!!! I am so happy!
Boy : - Let us go mother, let us go before she finishes giving out all the things she brought.
Mother : - Thanks to the gods, i have been thinking of what we will eat today. Run to the back street to inform others, i will also inform everyone on my way to the town square.... Go now and come join me quick!
Boy : - Okay, mother!
@the town square, Baros, Massalia.
Crowd : - (cheering and rejoicing) Blessed are you princess, good princess blessed are you.
Man from the crowd : - The princess is our queen, princess Agnes is our queen.
Woman : - Alanis is not our king! The princess is the only queen we have.
Crowd : - Hail the princess!!!
Agnes : - Calm down please! I am not here to claim my father's throne and i am not giving arms to you to claim his position. Also my father is not a bad king as you think. It just, it, it just that.... You know, it just, see, i am only doing my own, i am only doing the things that i can offer within my power. Just doing these things to assist the people of this our beloved kingdom, not to spoil the relationship between you and my father, and it is also to make sure you complies with him to move this kingdom of ours to a better height, please! Blessings to you all, the guards will share the goods, please make it easy for them. Thank you!
Crowd : - Blessings to you our princess!!!
Man : - Hail the princess.
Crowd : - Long live the princess!!!
In a tavern, Town of Spar, Massalia.
Drunkard : - Somebody tell me who Alanis is!!!
Drunkard 2 : - He's a boy who flee to my beloved city when the gods have their vengeance upon him, i told him you are save now boy.... I will, (drinks his beer) ,i - i will, (belched)
Others : - laughs!!!
Drunkard 2 : - (continues) i will help you deal with them gods... You can rely on my cup of beer!
Others : - laughs!!!
Drunkard, woman : - Aye!, he's right, because, Since that time i have been sending around, he washes my garments, he sweeps for me and i fucks his pretty cock anytime i wants... (Yells)
Others : - laughs
(they continue saying bad things about Alanis)
Dennis :- Zailas!
Zailas : - Yes!
Dennis : - Those drunkard over there, they are drunk, however they are saying the right thing perhaps, the king should be destroyed, killed, taking out, banished or something, he should not be there in the capital, sitting on the throne room... He is too bad to be there!
Zailas : - Dennis! Dennis!, reminds me of what got the whole city of Voltis and its people and animals burnt down to the ground.
Dennis : - They don't like the way the king rules... They disagree with him, they fought for their freedom, starting from not paying taxes.
Zailas : - And?
Dennis : - The king burnt down the city.
Zailas : - Do you want to get town of Spar burnt down too?
Dennis : - The king claims the Voltisans act was treason, i am not a traitor and the Voltisans are not too, a good king should make peace with his angry people not to destroy them, Zailas, a whole city, the most populous in this kingdom over a million was burnt to the ground by that stupid king, do you think that was right? Tell me, you think the king did the right thing!
Zailas : - I am not saying he did the right thing, perhaps the king is protecting his throne.
Dennis : - Protecting his throne?.... Zailas, you know how often i travels around the world, last full moon the place i traveled to, west africa, there's this tribe there, the Yorubas, i learnt something from them, they says, "cutting off head, is not the medicine for headache ".
Zailas : - (thinks for a while) Hmmmm! The king shouldn't have killed them, Yes, you are right... perhaps he thinks they getting too much, and he may thinks a new kingdom could emerge from them... so, he des... destroy???
Dennis : - He destroyed them Zailas, destroyed! And now that our town is turning to city.... is he going to destroy us too, so we won't grow to form new kingdom? Wake up Zailas!
Zailas : - Wait, you are right, that could also happen to our town if care is not taking.
Dennis : - That is exactly what i am saying! if we don't want the same fate as the Voltisans, something must be done quickly.
Zailas : - Trust me, it is done!
Dennis : - I trust you, one of the reasons you are my best friend.
(they both emptied there cups and left)
Drunkard : - (drunk voice) More beers over here!!!
Waiter : - In a moment!
Drunkard, woman : - Get Alanis to assist you with some, he's my errand boy... Tell him it's me.
Others : - laughs!!!
Drunkard 2 : - (drunk voice) You can also tell his pretty daughter to assist you..... Bring beer for us here you fool!
Drunkard 3: - (angry) No! don't mention his daughter!
Drunkard 4 : - (angry) Why mentioned his daughter, the princess have a good heart..... (threw his cup of beer at him)... to hell with you!
(they all engaged in fight, everyone in the tavern)
@the Palace, Massalia.
Elias : - Here is the bow you requested for my king.
Alanis : - Guards! Release him, Kearyhaz come forward...... For thousands of years which this kingdom has been in existence, hundreds of years the tournament has started, no one, no one ever killed his counterpart.
You broke the law, you, Kearyhaz, broke the law!
Kearyhaz : - My king, I-I have some....
Alexopoulos : - Silence!!!
Alanis : - You came from nowhere and you came into this our beloved kingdom, arriving for the tournament, and now, you make the tournament a more interesting by doing what everyone are too weak to do, you bath your sword with the blood of one of the best knight of ours.
It is a sign that the gods are on our side! the gods have given us another good sword man..... I present to you my most precious gift of all time.... THE BULL HEAD!
Antonio : - My king???!!!
Hector : - (Lamenting angrily) Perhaps my king, this man should be punished or killed not presenting him with a gift... He should be killed f....
Alanis : - For what?.... for making us proud?
Frangos : - Proud?! He did not make us proud. He makes you proud perhaps, probably because you have same habit of killing innocent people!
Alanis : - (angry) Watch your tongue !!! I am your king!
Antoni : - This is not the best decision.... King!
Alanis : - What he did will pass around the neighboring kingdoms, people will talk about this, it will gain us more respect..... It will show other kingdoms our strength, it will make them respect us, fear us and even come for our aid!
Kearyhaz : - Thank you my king..... Ready to be at your service!
Alanis : - You are welcome to the palace, you are now my favorite in the tournament, please win the tournament and make me proud!
Kearyhaz : - (happy) I will my king, that is why i am here..... to win the tournament and win the kingdom (opens his arms wide) and makes everyone bows to my queen!
Alexopoulos : - What did you just say?
Alanis : Leave him alone Alexopoulos!!!
Kearyhaz : - My king (bows arrogantly)
Elias : - The family, my king..... What message shall i pass to his family on your behalf.
Hector : - Inform the family of the knight that a stranger came to our kingdom, partaking in the tournament has killed their beloved and the stranger is now the king's favorite soldier.
Alanis : - No, i will see into that after the tournament.
Elias : - Yes, my king!
Alanis : - ( turns to Kearyhaz) Watch your tongue around them, they would not like you from the start, the same way they don't like me from the start..... And, now, they all love me!
Frangos : - (shakes his head in pity) Hmm!!
Alanis : - Take the boy, get him a good chamber at the upper level of the royal castle.
Kearyhaz : - Thank you so much, my king! (turns to Hector) Thank you, my lord!
Hector : - (angry and stammering) Thank, y... y... yourself not not me!!!
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Everyone left the palace angrily, very disappointed, they all wish Alanis has never become their king.... Hectourrous, while going out, he met the princess, and she immediately noticed something terrible happened in the throne room due to the look on Hectourrous's face.
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Hectourrous : - My lady, Where have you been?
Agnes : - The look on your face, and, the question you asked shows my father has probably done something wrong again!
Hectourrous : - Why did you said that?
Agnes : - (cuddles him and kissed him) Because....
Hectourrous : - Did you just did that!
Agnes : - Can i not touch or kiss you again?
Hectourrous : - You knows your father, you knows what he can do.... please don't get me killed!
Agnes : - He will rather kill me first..... back to our discussion.
Hectourrous : - Okay!
Agnes : - Because, i told you i was going to give out some goods before i left, you know i won't go anywhere without letting you know of it my love. However, you forgot and that always happens whenever my father did something terrible.
Hectourrous : - There is a stranger in the capital , he killed a knight in the tournament and the ki.....
Agnes : - Killed!!! gods!
Hectourrous : - And the king did nothing but praises him, present him with a gift and even gave him chamber.
Agnes : - Why on earth is my father like this!!!
(Hectourrous left angrily)
Agnes : - W.... Wait, my love?
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Agnes headed to her chamber angrily and disappointed weeping. Regretting the act of her father.
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A day later,
@the Arena.
Hectourrous : - My lord?
Gabris : - I have told you on many occasions ...don't call me that.... Call me Gabris!
Hectourrous : - Don't you witness what happened @ the palace yesterday?
Gabris : - I was not there, but, i heard...... The king, he handles things like that often?
Hectourrous : - He has always been stubborn human being, but, he is now finally out of his mind.
Gabris : - This your king cannot live long... don't worry, I will make you my second when he dies and i became the king we would make good leadership you and I, drinking plenty of wine together, feasting on royal meal and having a lot of women... Come on, don't you like that?? Tell me you don't!!!
Hectourrous : - Yours is all about food and wine..... Do you want him dead? The king, you want him dead!
Gabris : - He would be dead soon if he continues doing like that, making those stupid decisions!
Hectourrous : - You know, almost everyone in the kingdom want him dead.....if not everyone.
Gabris : - Then he should be killed!!!
Hectourrous : - The Oracles have forseen and said the time will come when his blood will be the only thing that saves us... That is what is still keeping him alive.
Gabris : - However, he can not live long only if he changes his ways.
Hectourrous : - Perhaps we could change him.
Gabris : - Perhaps, we could rule better than him..... If you join me!
Hectourrous : - Gabris my lord, how is the tournament going... Tell me about how you making the draws.
Gabris : - Okay, Everyone i picked against Kearyhaz refused to fight him.... so, i make it a law, killing is allowed!
Hectourrous : - (surprised) gods! Why? But why?
Gabris : - No one was willing to fight until i made the law..... And, they all accepted!
Hectourrous : - They all accepted?
Alexopoulos : - (joins them) They all accepted what? (takes an apple and bites)
Hectourrous : - My lord!
Gabris : - That apple was meant to keep me away from getting hungry.
Alexopoulos : - Oh! I will tell a soldier to replace it with five!
Gabris : - Replace it now, or replace it with ten later.
Alexopoulos : - Seven!
Gabris : - Ten!!!
Alexopoulos : - Ten it is..... They all accepted what?
Gabris : - No one was willing to fight until i made it a law that they can kill their counterpart if the are willing to.
Alexopoulos : - The king has turned this kingdom into something else... I just checked on you, i have places to go.
Gabris : - When am i getting back my apples???
Alexopoulos : - gods! As soon as i see a soldier!.
Hectourrous : - (chuckles) Gabris!!!
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The Arena ground was filled with lots of lots of spectators for the next match.
Everyone was anxious about what will happen next, they were all cheering and shouting.
Calling the fighters by names to cheer them up.
The match between the next two fighters were so much interesting, the fighters moved with skills and when one of them won he didn't kill his counterpart and the crowd hate him for that. However, it was a good fight between two of the fighters.
By evening that same day, a group of people came to the palace with a woman carrying a half dead boy.
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Alanis : - ( Speaks silently with Elias) What do they say they want?
Elias : - They believed you shot a boy, and the boy is seriously wounded which he might die soon.
Alanis : - Me? I..... I do not shot anyone... Let them in anyway!
( goes to call them)
Elias : - Here they are my king.
Alanis : - Where is the boy.... I, I can't believe this..... Who do you think did this?
Alexopoulos : - Perhaps, It is Kearyhaz, my king!
Antoni : - Why did you suggested it is him?
Alexopoulos : - Three days back, the king gave him his bow as a gift for killing a knight, my lord... And, these are its arrows.
Hector : - The boy can still be saved if you let me my king!
Alanis : - I know how good you are Hector, but, this boy will surely die no matter what you try on him.
Frangos : - My king I.....
Alanis : - It is okay Frangos, Elias! Get Kearyhaz for me now.
@ Kearyhaz's Chambers.
Elias : - The king demands for your presence Kearyhaz
Kearyhaz : - What happened?
Elais : - Some people are in the palace and you need to be there to confirm something.
Kearyhaz : - (chuckles) Go, i will join you!
Elias : - See, i don't know what kingdom you come from, but here in our kingdom, you answers whenever the king requested for you!
Kearyhaz : - Okay, wait for me!
@ the palace.
Elias : - Here he is my king!
Alanis : - What can you say about this??? (pointing to the half dead boy on the floor)
Kearyhaz : - I was only testing the bows, my king!
Alexopoulos : - By putting three arrows into a boy??? Are you insane?
Alanis : - (shouted) Alexopoulos! Are you putting yourself in my place! You heard him, he said he is testing the bow.
Alexopoulos : - (bows) my king!
Alanis : - Take the boy away and burry him.
Hector : - What?
Frangos : - My king, he is not yet dead, you can be a hero if you let Lord Hector save him.
Alanis : - (shouted angrily) I am a hero!!! I am a hero!!!.......i have won so many battles, i have burnt down cities, i made this kingdom a powerful one get out of my sight all of you!!!
(the princess rushes in to comfort his father)
Agnes : - Father!
Alanis : - Get out!!!
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Meanwhile, Hector told the boy's parent to bring him to his medical room, after some surgeries on the boy for a while, he get the arrows out and saved the boy's life.
But, he did all these secretly without the knowledge of the king.
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