The Cursed Throne

Chapter 1

Scott Barney was just a normal policeman. Today was his turn to go on Patrol. It’s been two years since he got transferred to City Z’s police station. Previously he was at the headquarters in city S, but because he offended one of the senior officers there, he was transferred over to this small city. And even here his position was not very high. As he was not a local, most of his colleagues treated him with indifference. He truly had a difficult life.

Thinking of all this, Scott sighed with sadness. When he passed the exam and was accepted in the police force, he thought his time is finally here. He always wanted to serve the country wholeheartedly. But after he joined, everything was different than he thought. There was no one who was seriously trying to do their job. They will just ignore the small cases, or take some commission to study the individual’s case first. It was beyond his thinking. At first he tried to do justice and solve things with fairness. But it soon became meaningless. It doesn’t matter what crime it was, as long as they have a good enough background they will get away with just a small warning. Although he cursed the unfairness at first, but he got used to it soon after. This is how the things work, no matter what this is the way of the world. He told himself, and carried on with his life.

As Scott was thinking all this, he just happened to pass by a dark alley. As it was still raining and it was still night time he couldn’t see clearly, but he could still see a vague small shadow lying at the edge of the ally. He hurriedly stopped his car, and went over to check. There he saw a boy barely 7 years old, lying there in a horrible condition. The boy was in a very bad state. Just one look at him and you can tell that someone had cruelly beaten him up. As he checked the boy, he found that he still had a breath left in him. He hurriedly picked him up, as there was no time to call the ambulance he just put him in the back seat of the car and drove to the hospital.

He soon reached the city hospital. He quickly called for a stretcher and the boy was taken to the emergency ward. When doctor saw his condition, he was shocked as he said, “Who can do such a horrible thing to such a little kid? It’s a good thing that he is still alive. Otherwise, with so much blood loss it’s almost impossible to be alive.”

“I have no idea. I found him lying at the edge on an alley. He was lucky, that I arrived at the time, otherwise…” Scott replied with a bit of relief. Now that he knew that the boy was alive, he felt relieved.

At the same time he felt anger at the person who beat him up so badly that he almost died. He resolved himself to catch these people, no matter the price. Although he has already given up to try and do justice, but that doesn’t mean that the hot blooded dream is dead. He still dreams of beating up villains and providing justice to civilians.

The boy was taken to the operation theater while Scott waited for the doctor to come out.

After a while, Doctor came out with a serious look on his face. He said, “Although his life is not in danger anymore, he still lost too much blood. I can’t say if he will wake up or not. And even if he did he will probably be traumatized by the event he went through today.”

“By the way, do you have any idea where might his parents be? Judging from the clothes he was wearing, he’s probably from some poor household. I doubt they would be able to pay the fee.” Doctor asked Scott.

“I have no idea who or where his parents are. I would like to request you to keep his treatment going on for a few days. I will try my best to look for his parents or relatives during that time. Is it possible?” Scott asked as he looked at the doctor to see if there was any change in his expression.

Although on surface, he looked like a nice Old Man, he was still a member of modern society. And most of the people in the modern society won’t do anything for someone without any benefit. If he was that kind of person he will probably throw the boy out first thing in the morning.

But contrary to the expectation of Scott, Doctor said, “Well, it goes against the rules to do this. But I can’t leave a little kid like this to die. We will see his treatment till the end.”

Scott was surprised by the answer. ‘This old man is a good person’ he thought to himself.

He thanked the doctor and went back to the station to check if there was report about a missing child whose description matched the boy.

Unfortunately, he couldn’t find anyone in the city records who matched the boy. Scott felt it was strange. But he didn’t mind it too much, and continued the search. But, even after looking around for three days, he wasn’t able to find any information related to the boy.

Dejected, he went to the hospital to check on the boy. Just when he entered the room, he found him looking out of the window. When he was injured, Scott didn’t pay too much attention to his face because it was an emergency. But now that he looked at him clearly, he found that this boy was too beautiful. Yes beautiful, that was probably the only way to describe his looks. With black hair, deep blue eyes and fair skin. If he took proper care of himself, he will definitely be extremely handsome in future.

While Scott was studying the boy closely, he turned to look at him. Although his eyes were beautiful, there was no emotion in them. Just like that of a dead person. Scott thought it was strange, he couldn’t think of anything which can make a kid this young so emotionless.

Scott came forward and said, “Kid, How are you feeling? Are you hurt somewhere?”

He replied politely, “I’m fine, thank you for helping me that day.” Although he tried to polite, his voice was still emotionless.

Scott sighed when he saw this. ‘Just what can make a child so small like this?’ He thought to himself.

“Well, don’t mind it. That was my duty. That aside, what is your name kid? And where are your parents?”

Scott was truly worried about this kid. No matter how much he looked he couldn’t find them. If he couldn’t find them, it will be difficult to pay the bills.

The Kid looked at Scott for a second, and then replied emotionlessly, “My Name is Sid, and as for my parents I don’t know where they are.”

When Scott heard this, he thought the Sid was an orphan. He felt slight pity for him.

“Well, it can’t be helped if you are an orphan. I will talk to the doctor about the bill. Let’s see if something can be done.”

Scott said, and left the room to find the doctor.

Sid once again looked out of the window. He thought back on the night when he was being beaten up by those scum and killing intent flashed in his eyes for a second, but it soon went away as his face returned to being expressionless.

Scott soon returned to the room, and said to Sid, “There is no need to worry, the Doctor said that money for the treatment of poor or orphan children are taken from the charity. Isn’t that a good news?” He said with a big smile on his face.

But contrary to Scott’s expectation, Sid just replied with a few words, “I see, that’s good to know.” With his usual expressionless face.

Scott was a bit shocked. He never thought that a kid so young can be this indifferent. He thought it was out of ordinary as he asked him, “What’s with the ‘I don’t care’ attitude kid? At least be a bit happy about being able to get away without any kind of problem even without being able to pay the money.”

“You are a kid, so you should act like one sometimes.” Scott said seriously to Sid.

“I will pay attention to this from now on. Thanks.” But Sid still replied with his usual indifference.

As Scott saw this, he sighed and shook his head helplessly as he left the room.