"I know a short cut, but if we'd have to go there before dawn." The woman said.

"We?" April scoffs backing up.

"The path is hard to find and sending you there alone would just be asking for something horrid to happen to such a youthful woman."

April eyed the girl, although something about her was vaguely familiar and it slightly comforted her. It also made her very uncomfortable.

"Why would you do that for some stranger?"

"Stranger?, stranger where?. I thought you were April Kenya the daughter of Royal General Kenya." The woman joked and April eyes her some more.

"Alright then, we should embark together but first I must go get my traveling partner." April said and the Woman laughs.

"Your horse is right behind you."

April walks out of the forest and onto the ground clearing she'd left Donovan at.

She hears the sound of soft sobs.

April looks around for the cause when she sees Donovan leaning on a large rock crying his eyes out.

"Did something happen?, are you hurt anywhere?." She questioned before bending down in front of him to look at his body.

The man looks up at her and more tears welled up in his blue eyes.

"Y-you came back." He stutters out and April froze.

"What?" April asked confused.

"I thought you left me.. but you came back-" Donovan says and April stands up.

A bitter laugh leaves her chest.

"Are you some kind of idiot or something?, a mistake of birth..? " She asked and Donovan shook his head with a dopey smile on his tear stained face.

"Wow... I'm Wow- I- get your ass up before someone sees you. What kind of man?, what kind of man cries out like this in public." April asked completely flabbergasted.

"Don't judge me.. you're the woman who carries three knives with her at all times."

"What's wrong with that?" April snapped.

"Nothing.. I just meant you were special to me because you were the woman who carried knives, if I lost you who will I meet like that again. I really don't find anything wrong with your uniqueness so why do you find my sadness over being left alone mockable." Donovan said and for a second April felt her heart skip a beat.

She clears her throat.

"We have to go, The woman I just met said that's a path that can get us there before night falls."

Donovan nods and smiles brightly at her.

She clears her throat once more and looks away.

"Did you hunt well?" April asked walking in the direction she just came from.

"I ate a deer." Donovan said proudly following behind her.

"What'd you use to kill the deer?"

Donovan looked around, suspiciously.

"A rock?"

"You killed a deer with a rock?"

"Yes?"

" are you asking me?" April asked and Donovan avoided eye contact.

"I killed the deer with a rock, it wasn't paying much attention."

"Wow, sometimes you can be cool." April said and Donovan smirked.

"Did your heart flutter just now, now that you've seen how manly I can be?."

"You'll never be manly to me after seeing you cry like that." April said and Donovan bit his lip. "Back home.. did you have any suitors?" Donovan asked and April turned to him with furrowed brows.

"What's it to you?"

"Just curious."

"I used to have suitors when I was a girl, men would line up just to see me." April said as if it was all a distant memory, to Donovan she still looked like a girl.

"And now?"

"Now, men know better than to try to pick a flower with thorns." April said patting the knife hidden on the side pocket of her dress.

"That's a lesson I don't think I've learned yet" Donovan whispered and April hears him but doesn't respond.

It was only when Donovan had started talking about some magically story that she had responded to his earlier statement.

"It's a very painful, useless lesson."

The queen started to calm down and the blood continued to roll down from her body.

"How could you suggest such a thing?"

"Darling, the minute that child comes out of you our world will be plagued into destruction."

"Mama..."

"You don't deserve to be in this castle, you deserve to be in a mansion somewhere being loved and taken care of. You deserve love and happiness and I'll make sure you have that once you've rid yourself of this bad omen inside you."

"It's just a child mother, Besides the kingdom needs him." Akia protested. She has never talked back to her mother before.

"Hush up child, When the moon and the sun fight for power what do you think is going to happen to us?, to our environment and our way of life?, they will fight without thinking about causalities, humans will be raped, killed and enslaved by the millions. Even if the sun king wins, people would have lost families and everything they own. Don't you want to prevent a war?"

"I don't know if I can do it Mother." Akia said and Lady Kenya holds her face still to her own.

"You are your father's daughter and I've never met a man stronger."

Akia's eyes watered, She didn't want to kill the king's child, she didn't want to kill any child. But what if not killing the child would cause the death and destruction of the home she loved so much. What would she tell her dead father once his body is imported home after a long war against the moon.

"Don't cry, you're a woman now. Women don't cry in public, they make hard decisions and then cry in their homes. You're no longer a girl so dry your tears."

"I feel amazing.." the queen said before a crackling laughter left out her mouth.

Everyone was shocked.

"You're still bleeding your majesty-" Mina said while frowning and lifting the queen's dress so that no more blood would ruin the expensive outfit.

Michael looked around everywhere making sure the hall was vacant before he put a hand to his head opening his gem, his third eye.

With it he could see everything, anything he wanted and for however long he wanted to see it for.

He scans the halls of the palace heating the sounds of racing footsteps and the sound of heavy boots slamming against the concrete under them. Michael could identify the person just from the sound their feet made when they touched the ground underneath them.

The witches were in the queen's chambers so much was declared after the running sound of their heavy jester shoes.

"What are their plans entering the castle. What level of stupid bravery is that." A man who's just emerged from insides the rock walls said.

Michael bows greeting his superior.

"Witches in the palace, the queen is pregnant couldn't you take a guess?"

"The moon king.."

"You must break the spell if that can't be done. Execute the child-"

"Children are part of the innocent, we must not kill the innocent."

The old man who'd been stroking his thigh Long beard stops.

"A child meant to plunge this world into darkness is much more than just a child. Do not fail." The man said staring into Michael's deep green eyes.

Michael started to run, slowly his surroundings started to warp meaning he was going at full speed.

Faster than humanly possible.

With his sword by his side he pushed open the chamber door just to see the coven of witches sat in a circle on the ground.

The room was freezing cold and the coldness of the small room

Was enough to pang Michael's heart and stop the flow of energy coursing through his veins. His organs were slowing down.

The witches were getting smarter and more powerful.

Michael needed some kind of heat to Function properly and without a single trace of it in this room he was breaking down from frost.

He slides down to the floor quietly. If he was going to rest temporarily then he might as well gather information

For the court.

"We believe that the spell is complete.

We've decided it'd be better to hide the moon king's existence in case someone dares to think about termination."

"What now... you can't surely think that the king is going to let us walk out of here scot free."

"Only one of us needs to be alive for the spell to stay active, but whoever it is must stay in the palace-"

"I'll do it-"

"No it'll be too suspicious for any of you to suddenly want to work in the place, besides the king is going to use his powers to hide the palace for a little while." A familiar voice said,

All too familiar to the king's guard laying powerlessly on the floor.

"There's a young witch already living here, transfer her the spell. She's new to the coven and still very unaware of her powers so the spell will be protected by her innocence."

"Yes goddess." The witches replied and started chanting foreign words once more.

Goddess?.