Taehyung lowers his head as the priest chants the spiritual moral rights and finishes with amen, Taehyung's blank face remains still during the the process of burial of his queen. The priest requests their king to places the flowers and other last words to the former queen.
Taehyung maintains his acts of sad face before slowly moving forward to the coffin, he slowly lifts up the flower and bends down to place them on his dead queen but before he could do so, a deadly voice screamed his name which halts his movement.
Taehyung looks up to the person who dares to stop his work, his icy cold eyes meets up with the person whom he hated the most after his father.
Kim Namjoon, the first born Royal prince of the cayor kingdom, he was the first born of Taehyung's father's brother. Namjoon was loved all people in the kingdom due to his kind and loving nature which git the attention of most people in the kingdom but goodness never last long as long as Taehyung reamianed with his dark thoughts and jealousy towards his cousin to whom his father preferred and loved than him.
Namjoon clenches his fist as he glares at Taehyung, his hands moves to his scabbard tightening his hold over it, ready to attack his enemy, the person who is responsible for the death of his father and his love.
"How dare you stay next to Lana after you killed her!!!! You heartless bastrad!" Namjoon screams, tears glittering over his red angered eyes.
Taehyung maintains the same calm expression, eyeing Namjoon casually.
The guards immediately surrounded Namjoon, alarmingly pointing their sword at the royal prince for offending their king.
Taehyung raises his hand signalling the guards you down their weapons, the royal guards bow and down their weapon upon their king's signal.
Taehyung slowly walks to Namjoon and intensely stares at him.
"How dare you interrupt the queen's funeral" Teahyung says as his voice coats with hatred.
Namjoon grabs his collar in angry.
"How can you ask such thing after killing the girl whom you loved and chrished!! Why!!"
Hoseok immediately steps into action, pulling out his sword and pointing at Namjoon.
"No one dares to hurt the King" he speaks up, Namjoon scoffs at hoseok's words.
"Throw your king to hell! He doesn't deserve the throne after killing his father, he is a murderer, he doesn't deserve anything" Namjoon spats through his teeth as angry fuels him after witnessing hoseok, best friend's betrayal.
Taehyung lost his capability to listen to the nonsense Namjoon is sprouting against him. Taehyung pulls Namjoon's hands from him and throws him on the ground.
"How dare he disrespect the king and the accuse him of such treason, hoseok arrest him and throw him in dungeons. I don't want any disturbance in my queen's funeral" Taehyung says with his icy cold voice before moving back to the ceremony.
"Yes my king" Hoseok bows.
"Wait!! Kim Taehyung! You coward! Argh" A harsh kick was landed on Namjoon',a face before he could spat his words, he angrily looks up only to see hoseok starting at him with a blank face. Hoseok instructs the guards to take him away. Namjoon glares at Hoseok as he is been dragged away by the royal guards.
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Namjoon is tied to the wooden stand, the slash of wipe is swiped on him repeatedly, jerking his body as each hit soon he become numb to the feeling of whip hitting him, his energy drains off as his eyes remains barely open, several buries and blood covering his body, he expects soon death because that's the only way he can be with the girl he loved, Lana.
"Lana I love you" he mumbles at each beating his body is bearing, he doesn't know up to when he can stand this torture, it was been two days since the funeral and he has been going to through this without any pause.
The rusted cage door open and the man stops his beating when he caught the eyes of his king.
"How is he?" Taehyung asks
"Barely alive" the man says.
"Don't let him die, heal him and beat him again" Taehyung says with his deep voice, the man nods his head and walks away to call the physician to aid the beaten male.
"How is things for you Kim Namjoon?" Taehyung questions with a smirk, Namjoon barely could open his eyes and he doesn't want to waste his remaining energy on this bastard hence he looks down.
Taehyung is angered by his ignorance and grabs him by his jaw.
"Who are you to ignore me you useless scum!" Taehyung grits out, glaring through Namjoon's soul.
"You're nothing that's why I ignored you" Namjoon whisperes silently as he takes a deep breath. Taehyung scoffs to his response and roughly withdraws his hand.
"You won't die Namjoon, you suffer till your life, you will live but you will suffer as well, it will a living hell for you" he grits out before walking from the dungeon.
Namjoon lowers down as tears stain his cheeks, not because of the physical pain but pain created by his cousin whom he considered as his real brother, the betrayal of his brother and the death of his loved ones. He witnessed them die before his eyes and he couldn't do anything to save them.
Suddenly, the sound of door opening catch him, not again he thought as he weakly look up only to find his former best friend standing before him, Jung Hoseok
"Why are you here?" Namjoon grits, after all even his so called friend betrayed him and slid along the side of evil.
Hoseok stares at him for few seconds before bringing his sword up.
"Let me help you Namjoon"
He slashes the iron chains and frees Namjoon from its clutches. Namjoon gaps at him unable to believe what Hoseok just did.
"Why did you do it?"
"I just repaid back my debt to you Namjoon, you saved mine and I @aved yours now, escape through the hidden route of the royal place. I'm sure you must have known the way out since you were brought up here, I have cleared the way and a horse would wait for you at the exit, escape and never come back" Hoseok says as he throws a medical paste for the wounds and leaves out of the bloody place.
Namjoon clenches his fist, he never wanted to be saved or given a pity to his life but it was not the time to sprit up his ego, he needs to save his kingdom from Taehyung, for that he needs to help himself to dethrone Taehyung. He slowly gets up and takes the ointment and applies on is wounded skin, couple of hiss escapes from his lips but he endures it and applies the the cream to his wounded parts. Once he finishes applying the medicine he walks to the wide open door and finds his way out of the dungeon.
Namjoon walks through the hallway and checks for the guards, when he notices the empty space, he makes a run towards the hidden passage, finally after a huge moment of action he comes out of the palace, just like Hoseok said a horse was waiting for him at outside, before he could proceed, a alarm warning blew in the castle, the guards must have found out that he escaped, he immediately climbs up the horse and escapes the palaces.
Few royal guards notices a different scenario outside, a person riding the horse, it must be the prisoner just as they expected, they immediately get ready their horses and follow the intruder.
Namjoon rides his horse, urging the horse to run faster, he looks behind to check for the royal guards who are chasing him. Alarmed, Namjoon looks forward and rides faster, soon his horse stumbles upon a heavy rock which slips the horse and him, Namjoon falls on the sliding ground, rolling down due to the gravity force pulling from the sloppy region where he fell.
Namjoon tries to grab the fallen leaves in an attempt of stopping himself from rolling down but it doesn't seem to work as everything single effort of his goes in vain. He slips through the rock and falls from a cliff, he falls through the tree branches, couples of scratches occurs on his body, he tries grabbing the edges of the branches but fails due to irregular view of his sight.
He falls straight into the bank of water, splashing it's content, he jerks up from the water and shakes his head clearing his view, he could hear a small high pitch sound of help, he looks around to see if someone is in danger but his eyes couldn't find any movements still the sound of help echoes through his ears, after few moments of searching he spots water bubbles forming at the point, someone must have drowned, he rushes towards it, he sinks insides and his eyes spot a tiny human drowning inside the pond, fighting for it's life.
He immediately stretches his arms and pulls the little girl in his fingers and gets out of the water.
He gently places her on the ground, afraid that he might hurt the little one.
"Little one! Hello" Her hair covered her face hence he couldn't get a proper view of the tiny human.
He slowly shifts her hair and takes a deep glance at her, his face gaps in shock and his hands tremble in disbelief. Why does this little thing resemble like his love Lana?
"Lana"
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