THE KING'S REVENGE AND THE END OF THE GLORIOUS CITY
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" THE KING'S ARMY WAS MARCHING AT FULL SPEED TOWARDS "SHIRABAN". THE KING'S ANGER KNEW NO LIMITS AS HE WAS BURNING WITH RAGE ON "SHIRABAN" FOR GIVING SUCH A MISERABLE STATE TO HIS BELOVED SON. AS THEY CROSSED THE FOREST OF THE DOOMED THEY COULD HEAR FAINT VOICES THAT WERE IN INAUDIABLE WHISPERS BUT SOMEHOW MADE THEM FEEL MORE ENCOURAGED ON THEIR MISSION. IT WAS THE VOICE OF ALL THE SOULS TRAPPED IN THEIR TREES THAT WERE HOPING TO SEEK LIBERATION AND WERE OVERJOYED ON SEEING THE KING GOING ON LITERAL WAR TO CONFRONT "SHIRABAN". THE KING'S ARMY STOPPED JUST OUTSIDE OF "SHIRABAN" AND THE KING DISMOUNTED HIS HORSE STILL FUMING WITH FURY. "
" THE CITIZENS OF "SHIRABAN" WERE SURPRISED BY THE SUDDEN VISIT OF THE KING BUT SOMEHOW THEY WERE AFRAID THAT THEY KNEW WHAT HIS PURPOSE OF ARRIVAL WAS. THE FURIOUS KING WENT TO THE CITIZENS GATHERED OUTSIDE THE GATES WHO HAD COME TO SEE HIS ARRIVAL AND ANGRILY SHOUTED , ' WHERE THE HELL IS THE MAYOR OF THIS PLACE? WHERE IS THAT COWARD WHO COULDN'T HELP MY POOR MISERABLE SON? SHOW YOURSELF ' . THE MAYOR SLOWLY EMERGED FROM THE CROWD WITH FOLDED HANDS AND A BENT HEAD. HE QUICKLY WENT FORWARD AND FELL ON HIS KNEES INFRONT OF THE KING AND BEGGED FOR MERCY. THE RAGED KING YELLED AT HIM FOR NOT COMING TO HIS ONLY SON'S AID WHEN HE NEEDED HIM THE MOST AND IMMEDIATELY ORDERED HIS SOILDERS TO ARREST HIM AND THROW HIM INTO THE DUNGEONS. WHEN THE MAYOR WAS BEING ESCORTED BY THE SOILDERS THE KING TURNED TO THE FRIGHTENED CITIZENS AND DEMANDED ALL OF THEM TO GIVE HIM THE CURE. WHEN THE CITIZENS WERE REPEATEDLY DENING HAVING ANY CURE FOR SUCH A MAGICAL CURE, A VERY TEARFUL VALKYRIE ARRIVED QUICKLY ON HORSEBACK AND KNEELED SILENTLY INFRONT OF THE KING. THE KING ASKED HER WHAT WAS THE MATTER BUT THE VALKYRIE KEPT SILENCE AND SHEDDED TEARS AFTER TEARS. WHEN THE KING COULD NO LONGER BEAR THE SUSPENCE HE THREATENED TO BEHEAD HER AND IT WAS THEN THE TRUTH CAME OUT....... ' YOUR MAJESTY... THE PRINCE IS NO MORE...' "
" THE KING FELT HIS WHOLE WORLD CRASHING TO THE GROUND AROUND HIM. THE VALKYRIE CONTINUED TO COMPLETE THE MESSAGE , ' ... YOUR MAJESTY. THE PRINCE TRANSFORMED INTO A WILLOW NOT LONG AGO AND THE QUEEN WAS SOO GRIEFSTRIKEN THAT SHE SCREAMED HIS NAME SEEING HIS PAINFUL TRANSFORMATION AND LOST CONCIOUSNESS' . THE KING'S FEET TREMBLED AND HE SUNK TO THE GROUND IN TOTAL GRIEF. HIS FACE FLOODED WITH TEARS AS HE FELT HIS SOUL TEARING APART IN SORROW. THE CITIZENS WERE IN TOTAL SHOCK, STRUCK BY THE TRAGIC NEWS BUT WHAT WERE THEY TO DO? THEY ACTUALLY DIDN'T KNOW ANY CURE FOR IT. "
" A FEW MOMENTS LATER THE GRIEVING KING WIPED HIS EYES AND LOOKED UP AT THE CITIZENS IN SUCH A WAY THAT WOULD HAVE EVEN BURNED THE BLACK HOLE APART. WITH PURE VENGEANCE DANCING IN HIS EYES THE CITIZENS ALMOST HAD A HEART-ATTACK WHEN THEY LOOKED AT HIM GRINDING HIS TEETH AND LOOKING AT THEM WITH PURE HATRED IN HIS SOUL BULGING IN HIS EYES. HE STOOD UP SLOWLY, PICKED UP HIS SWORD AND POINTING AT THEM SAID WITH THE MOST MERCILESS COLD TONE , ' YOU ALL ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS AND I WILL MAKE YOU PAY. I WILL AVENGE MY SON' . AND TURNING TO HIS ARMY HE ROARED , ' SOILDERS. RIP THIS PLACE APART BRICK BY BRICK. NONE OF THEM SHOULD SURVIVE TO SEE ANOTHER LIGHT OF DAY. DESTROY THE WHOLE PLACE. CHAARRGEE!!!. ' "
" THE GRIEF EMPOWERED SOILDERS WHO ACTUALLY LOVED THEIR PRINCE ( AS HE WAS A VERY FRIENDLY SOUL TO EVERYONE AND TREATED EVEN THE SERVANTS AS A PART OF THEIR FAMILY) CHARGED AT FULL SPEED INTO "SHIRABAN" AND COVERED IT FROM ALL THE SIDES. THE ARMY BROKE THROUGH THE GATES AND WREAKED COMPLETE DESTRUCTION. IN THE RAGE OF AVENGING THEIR PRINCE THE ARMY RIPPED THE WHOLE "SHIRABAN" INTO A COMPLETLY UNRECOGNISABLE STATE AND LATER SEALED EVERY CITIZEN IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. THE KING SLOWLY CAME IN AND WITTNESSED THE CITIZENS DOWN ON THEIR KNEES, BEGGING THE KING FOR MERCY AND FORGIVENESS BUT THE EMPTY PLACE WHERE HIS SON ONCE WAS SWALLOWED THIER CRIES INTO NOTHINGNESS. THE KING LATER ORDERED THE WHOLE PLACE TO BE COVERED UP IN OIL AND THE CITIZENS ESPECIALLY TO BE WRAPPED IN THEIR VERY OWN CLOTH MATERIALS. WHEN THE WHOLE THING WAS DONE HE LIT A TORCH WHICH BURNED BRIGHTLY REPRESENTING HIS PAIN AND LOSS AND SET ONE END OF THE CLOTH ON FIRE AND MOVED OUT OF THERE. "
"HE WATCHED FROM AFAR STANDING ON THE CLOSEST HILLOCK WITH WIDE AMUSED REVENGE SATISFIED EYES AS THE SCREAMS OF EVERY CITIZEN BURNING ALIVE REACHED HIS EARS AND THE BRIGHTLY BURNING CITY OF ONCE A GLORIOUS AND PROSPEROUS "SHIRABAN" WENT UP IN ASH AND SMOKE. THE KING LOOKED UP AT THE SKY WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES AS HE REMEMBERED HIS BELOVED SON AND PRAYED THAT HE WOULD SEE HIM BEING AVENGED. "
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