A man with long black hair emerged from the water in a wet silk robe straddling loosely against shoulders.

His skin was so fair it almost had a bluish tint. His cheeks dusted with a soft pink, long lashes fluttering against his under-eye whenever he closed his dark eyes.

"Nice of you to join us Apollo." Selas said from the shore. The man had a leach in his hand and at the end was a human child covered in hair and spots.

"You're still making your abominations then?" Apollo asked as he steps out of the water and onto the shore himself.

"You know me, I've always loved mixing flavors, getting my hands dirty and so on."

Apollo pulled at the scales on his hand that hadn't sunken back into his skin as they should have. Black Ink flows from the spot he ripped the scale from.

"Why did you summon me?, surely it wasn't because you wanted to show off your new pet."

"You are the prettiest of the sirens, a siren capable of bringing the earth to her knees and you are asking why I wanted to see such a beautiful creature?"

"Spare me, I'm not mother. Just because you falter me doesn't mean I'll let myself trust you for even a second."

"How is the queen?, still mingling with the ocean king?"

"This is what this is about then? You want someone who'll get to the ocean king for you?" Apollo asked monotony staring blankly into the dazzling blue sea.

"You'd think me and that guy would get along better. It's actually quite the opposite."

"He's not a trusting guy, anyone who makes business plans with you has to invest a great deal of trust in you. You have to be trusting to dance in the ballroom of the devil after all."

"You think of me as the devil?" Selas asked wrapping an arm around the siren's thin waist.

"Oh honey I know the devil and believe me, you're far worst. besides the ocean is sustained by the earth and is very protective of it and it's ideals. You on the other hand want to turn all the earth's beloved humans into slaves."

"I just get so bored, watching them farm, cook, fuck and wash everyday. The only time I get excited is when I can feel their fear, nothing to me is more exciting than hearing their voice give out from pure fear." Selas said letting his fingers dip into the hips of the man before him.

"Don't pretend you don't enjoy all the fucking." Apollo said before sending a dainty hand to rip away the hand that had been placed on his hip.

"I wish I had been the first to create you creatures. I wish I had been the designer of such a flawless being." Selas said his hand gripping the siren's hard jaw.

"Whatever you want I won't do it" Apollo said before promptly feeling a nails enter his pale skin.

"We are on the same side, we are chasing the same goal."

"Goal?, ha-" Apollo said as another set of fingers wrap around his neck.

"You know feeding season is coming for your kind... and I heard drowning precautions are getting better and better. Humans are even training themselves on how to do it. It'd be a shame if I helped aid the destruction of the hungry horny sirens." Selas said into Apollo's neck.

Apollo's graze remained on the beautiful blue sea.

"What can I do to help?"

"Bring me the ocean king." Selas said.

"That's all?" Apollo asked and selas releases him.

"Yes that's all." Selas said smiling as he picked up the leach of the withering human on the ground. He starts to walk dragging the crawling whimpering child behind him.

Apollo stares at the scene before snickering to himself.

"What have I gotten myself into?"

-

"Then I choose to resign from my post." The general said throwing his badge of honor on the table near the king's plate. The room seemed to be shocked into pure silence. The queen's eyes wide and her mouth slightly open as well as everyone else's.

"ARTHUR HAVE YOU GONE INSANE?!" General worship yells at his beloved friend.

Guards all over the room pull out their swords. The king laughs casually before picking up the gold badge and gripping it in his hands.

"Let's not be drastic now, as you can see she's safe, well fed and happy. Isn't that right akialine?" The king asked facing Akia who swallowed harshly and moved to snuggle her face in closer to her father's side, avoiding the king's hard eyes.

"A kingdom that steals from the working, law abiding citizens is not a kingdom I'd like to serve." The general said and the king snickers.

"Aren't you taking this a bit far, general Kenya it's me. You and my father used to spend every second together, you helped me fight the mutation war, you helped nurse my wounds and talked me to sleep on those dark nights. How can you abandon me for something so pitiful?" The king asked a kind of darkness in his words.

"That's why it's even more painful that you'd steal my child." The general said, his voice steady without fear at the edge in the king's voice.

"You know what happens to deserters. do you still under the eyes of the sun want to desert your post general?" The king asked resting back against his dining chair.

April stops eating, her jaw harden as her blood starts to pump.

"Yes. I said I'll protect this country until the day I die on the terms that it was fair and just and I believe that I've done just that under the eyes of the sun."

"You know what happens to the family of deserters too then I presume." The king said a vile smirk visible on his face.

"They are made into slaves for the palace for generations and generations to come, they aren't allowed to enlist or own property. The daughters are married to warriors to compensate for the disloyalty." April recited jumping up from her seat.

"Your daughter won't even be treated like the royalty she'll become by my side. no instead she'll become a common slave, not even a maid."

"By the elfton clause of desertions it say that if the man is a General over the years of 50 then he will be excluded solely. The honor stripped from his family but their high rank remained for his years of service." General Kenya recited. Akia shakes her head, tears glossing her bright eyes.

"Father what are you doing?!" April screams.

"Hmm, is that so?. As you can see me and General worship were just changing a couple laws and we didn't think it was appropriate for high rankers this much favoritism from the monarchy. So I'm sorry General Kenya but your crime of desertion will be punished just like the common man's." The king said twirling his spoon in his hand.

General Kenya gets on his knees, with his hand extended to the heavens.

Clast felt air trapped in his throat.

"I, ARTHUR KENYA FORMALLY UNDER THE EYES OF THE SUN NO LONGER IDENTIFY AS THE GENERAL OF WAR." The general said.

"You heard him boys.. kill him so we can get back to breakfast." The king said ushering the guards on.

Clast remained still, feeling like his feet were stuck to the floor.

A guard named Samuel who was right behind the general pulled out his long sleek sword and placed it against the man's neck.

April's stomach churns and she struggled to swallow the acid back down.

Akia started to shake with fear.

She knees near her father and starts sobbing into his guard suit. "Father, I w-want to s-stay." She said wiping her tears.

"They give me all I want to eat here and everyone treats me like royalty and I want to stay father, I don't want to go home. I wanna stay with the king."Akia said her tears shining on her dark skin.

"Darling-" the father turned to cup his child's cheek.

"We'll get married and I'll give birth and live happily ever after okay."

"Akialine-"

"HE SAID HE'D TEACH ME HOW TO READ... heh so you don't have to do it anymore. "

"Akia-"

"If you die father.. I won't smile ever again, I won't eat and I won't sleep. I'll die with you I promise you." Akia said tears now completely blurring her vision.

The king starts cutting into his sausage, enjoying the show.

"Your death would be stupid and irresponsible. There are kids on that wall that won't be able to properly fight without you, people who praise and feel protected by you everyday. There's no such thing as an honorable suicide father and that's what you're doing." April said her small hands against her father's broad shoulders.

"A warrior won't die to save one person, no a warrior will live to safe billions." April continued lifting her father to his feet.

The king sips his wine.

"Is this charade over?, can you get the General a plate now. I had three whole cow slaughtered for your arrive dear friend." The king said before putting a roll of soft plush bread in his mouth.

"I'm afraid I'm not hungry your majesty." The general said with a clenched jaw.

"I expect so, especially after such a long trip you must be exhausted. Please prepare the General a bed to lay on." The king said and the General shook his head.

"That won't be necessary." General Kenya said and the king's eyes narrow.

"I wouldn't refuse my hospitality if I were you." He said the darkness once

Again.

Once the king was done was his breakfast he excused himself from the table. April follows him to his throne room where he had spread with his legs wide open letting himself lay sluggishly on the throne.

When he saw her he sat up straight.

"I would like to speak to you privately sire." April said and the king ushers the maids and guards out with a nudge of his head.

"I met your son on my journey to the wall" April said starting blankly at the paintings of previous kings and queens on the wall.

"You must be mistake April, I do not have a child."

"I saw it you know, the royal marking it was one of the only things the scales weren't covering." April's voice had dropped octaves. The king stiffened in his chair.

" what'd you do to him?" He snapped, feeling the green energy once again coursing through his blue veins.

"Is that the appropriate question to ask your majesty?" April asked turning towards the king.

"We were almost eaten like in those terrible children stories. She almost put us in a pot and served us for dinner." Her honey green eyes were cold but still familiar to the king.

"What do you want?" He asked, negotiating had began.

"It's pointless to ask for my sister's return home isn't it?" April asked and the king didn't move a muscle.

"There's nothing else I want aside from that really.. oh I almost forgot..I just wanted to know how long you've been putting on this play. This righteous human king who exiled his own brothers into the moon's side purely because they were magical beings. The king who fought for humans everywhere to be free in the night and to lay comfortably at home. The human king.."

"I don't know what you're implying."

"No man can bare a monster unless thou too is a monster." April recalled like it was a nursery rhyme.

"What is it that you want?"

"I want to know how many people you've killed to keep you lizard alive, I want to know where the 5 other children are AND HOW YOU DARE TO SIT ON THAT THRONE AND CALL YOURSELF OUR SAVIOR!" April screamed, her voice echoing in the hollow bricked walls.

"Monsters can be men you know?, monsters can sometimes feel an ache in their hearts, sometimes it's even painful enough for them to want to rip it out and bury it. But I'm a monster who is weak.

I reached in to my chest and my heart tightened up like it was in a vault of tar and wouldn't let go no matter how hard I tugged.

The first time.. my baby girl she was beautiful.. they.. they were all beautiful to me. They cut her head off and burned what was left of her body." The king paused his glossy eyes wondering to meet April's.

"I couldn't sleep, I couldn't eat, drink, I couldn't even breathe. They had taken my little girl because she had an extra eye and claws. The next year I couldn't bare it I could bare to see them rip my child from the womb of her mother because her legs were hooves and her eyes just bleak black circles. I couldn't let them take this one too so I did what I could and I saved them. I saved them all after that. They're my children. I created the abominations with my own manhood and I'LL BE DAMNED IF YOU OR ANYONE ELSE THINKS THEY'LL KILL THEM FOR SOMETHING NOT EVEN REMOTELY THEIR FAULT."

"A king like you, A king willing to kill many for the salvation of his own. A king like this is without honor. I'll be damned if I were to worship a king without hon-" April started to say but her sentence came up short as an invisible force gripped her by her neck and lifted her off the ground.

The force seemed to tightened around her delicate neck as the king stood up his eyes no longer holding orbs of any kind.

An empty whiteness, but April refused to be Afraid.

"I'd be careful if I were you." The king said and the queen from where she hid gasped before covering her mouth with her manicured hands.

A smile graced her porcelain face. Her heart bursted in a fit of energy and joy.

April starts choking as her eyes started to roll back to her head. Her body losing hold of her consciousness as oxygen was restricted from her lungs.

"With the moon on our side my love. We'll bring back all of our children and serve them a buffet of humans whenever they want."