(After reading please tell me which trigger warning I should use because I'm pretty sure something I've written here deserves one!)

Mina had held Akia to sleep that night too. Telling Akia not to cry and that things weren't so bad.

Akia had woken up and had taken a bath, washing, shaving and braiding her hair too.

The day was meant to be relaxing, meant to beautify her and make her happy when she looked into the mirror and saw her skin glowing.

Akia didn't feel beautiful not with her hair braided, her teeth and tongue scrubbed until just the sparking whiteness and pink remained. She didn't feel beautiful after oils were massaged into her skin and wraps of plantain leaves placed over them.

She felt trapped, imprisoned and worse of all alone.

It only made it worse when the maids had told her the king had ordered this treatment just for her as they had brushed her bare feet.

"A king's woman should be treated as such." Brenda said as she applied the red stained ink from some flower whose fragrance Akia vaguely recalled on her lips.

"I couldn't imagine being in your position, I wouldn't ever stop smiling if I was to be wed to the king." Hazel said.

After that Akia didn't want to be touched by them, the mere feeling of their arms reminded her of the nights the king had entered her forcefully.

When Akia got back to her room and saw her breakfast had already been placed in front of her. She didn't hesitate this time to run into her closet and pick up the potion from the floor.

She poured 5 drops onto of her soup and lifted the bowl up to her lips and downed the soup.

Once she finished she dropped the bowl on the tray and went back to her closet to put the potion back into her dress.

She tucked it in into the waist band silk before straightening it out.

She turns getting ready to get out of the place when an unsettling feeling pierced through her whole body. She lets out a gasp of air before a sharp pain erupted from her stomach. Her knees weakened and she fell to the floor. She bites her lips struggling to muffle her own screams of agony. her maids were standing right out side the door, any sudden sound would cause them to run in.

She feels sweat dripping down from her face, some drops falling into her pouted mouth.

She clenched her jaw and held on to a coating hanger against the wall to stand her self up.

She walks slowly and carefully towards the bed holding her stomach as she walked.

She closes her eyes as much more pain is emitted from her stomach to her chest.

"The king has requested your presence in the throne room." Ophelia said to deaf ears. Akia refuses to even turn to look at her as she spoke.

"Lady Kenya, the king has requested your presence in the throne room." Brenda said from besides her.

"I'm not feeling well." Akia said but her words fell on deaf ears.

"We should visit the doctor after then." Ophelia said.

"I'm really not feeling well, p-please tell him I'll come later." Akia said biting tears back. The pain in her stomach hasn't stopped or waived even for a second.

"Lady Kenya, your father embarrassed himself yesterday in Front of the king. Our king is very forgiving so he let him get away with it but perhaps those feelings might change when you don't come forward to apologize." Ophelia said narrowing her eyes and looking at the girl's back.

She took off the covers from Akia's laying frame. She saw a purple circle on the back of her neck.

Her eyes shifted around the room, looking for the cost. She looked down on the floor to see that only a bowl of soap had been eaten from the young girl's breakfast.

A smile presented herself on the Ophelia's lips.

"Lady Kenya, the king shall not be kept waiting!" This time it was the court lady bashing into the young girls room.

Akia struggles to sit up, she turns around and slips her shoes on and stumbled a little with each foot she tried to place in a shoe but eventually she walked her way to the now 8 awaiting women.

She walks slowly in front of all 8 of them with the court lady behind her.

"What drove the king to such a difficult young girl?" One of the court lady's maid whispered and the other maid whispered.

"You think she's difficult, you should've seen the queen she first got here. I still get shivers thinking about it."

Akia tried not to clench on to her stomach that swirled and ached as she walked to the throne room.

She tried to keep her back and her shoulders straight but the pain.

The pain was something the young girl had never felt before and it took every ounce of strength in her soul not to fall to the floor and sob uncontrollably.

"Your highness, Lady Kenya has arrived per request." One of the king's guards said before opening the door to allow the 9 women in.

Akia was in an olive green dress, her hair held up with braids and beautiful decorations.

Akia noticed the queen and the king both sat side by side on their thrones.

She bends her knees and does a full body kneel.

"Stand now child." The queen said.

Akia looked up surprised the words from the queen had even been directed towards her.

"Have you eaten already?" The queen asked and akia answered.

"Yes Queen Mother." Akia said raising her head to face the ginger woman.

"Bath and massaged?" She questioned again with an unsettling smile and akia avoids her eyes but answers anyway.

"Yes Queen Mother."

"You must feel amazing right now then?, I woke up very early to speak to the woman of our world. I didn't have the pleasure of joining you." The queen said and akia looks up to find her eyes.

" you were doing much more important things." Akia said.

"What's more important to a lady than beautify herself?, especially when she belongs to the king?" The queen said.

Akia didn't reply because of the sharp pain coursing over her body.

She clenches her legs and thighs to keep herself from screaming.

Her eyes shut tightly, feeling tears welling up in them.

"I invited you here really.. the king felt you'd be too embarrassed after your father's revolting childishness yesterday. I figured you might sleep better if you had the chance to beg the king for forgiveness." The Queen said.

Akia made eye contact with the king, the man had been staring at her for the entirety of her and the queen's interaction.

Akia bites her lip as she kneels.

"My father is an emotional coward and I beg that you forgive him just this once." Akia said and the queen snickered.

"Surely you can do better than that. Come up here child." The queen said and akia starts to stand.

"No, crawl the king might feel even more forgiving if he sees how pathetic you are." The queen said and akia starts to crawl.

Brenda and hazel turn their backs, Maids weren't allowed to see their masters in such a state.

Clast's gaze shifts to the floor, he's unable to look. Michael notices but ignores it to face forward.

"My father is a pitiful man your majesty. Please I beg you forgive him this once." Akia said tears streaming down her face in waterfalls.

The lip she'd been biting starting to bleed as well.

The king bent down to retrieve her from the floor. His large hands wiping off her tears.

"I had forgiven you the moment you walked in here looking so beautiful."

The king said silently into Akia's who froze at how cold his breath was.

"Now that that's over, I would like to introduce you to your new guard." The king said gesturing to a man who stood across from him.

The man bowed and shot Akia a small smile.

"Thank you your majesty." Akia said without missing a beat.

"As for you maids, I had planned to rid you of them but the queen said you'd need the extra assistance since you were expecting." The king said, Akia didn't respond.

"Oh and your sister has been appointed to the wall as a lower rank general. She begged and begged and your father confirmed her strength as a warrior and a leader so I thought I'll take their word for it." The king said.

Akia's eyes widened.

"She's a woman.. your majesty." Akia said and the king nods.

"I was told she could handle such a thing." The king said and akia's eyebrow knitted.

"Yes sir. April is strong." Akia said her statement sounding more like a question than anything else.

-

(The '-' means a different settling and character point of view)

April smelled the reck of human feces besides her. She had been smelling the waste for hours now since the guards had tossed her into the unforgiving darkness.

The man besides her was deathly ill, his body fluids spread all over the floor was too evident of that.

April had been choked and thrown against the wall by the king. She had heard something in her crack and felt the pain even with gentle movements.

The guards had scooped her up from the floor and discreetly took her to the dungeon where she was stripped naked and flogged.

"The king has made preparations for you to serve your country. He must really like the tightness of your younger sister's pussy. Why else would he be showing this mercy?"

The guard said as he shoved the tray of rice through the small hole through the cell.

"Maybe if you showed him yours he might show even more mercy and marry you." Another guard said flashing rotten teeth.

April pushed the tray to the man on the side of the room. The man's eyes flashed opened at the smell of the mushy rice and Tomato stew.

He scooped up the food with his fingers and shoved it into his dirt covered face.

"Why would you go and do that angel?, that Food was meant for the flower of the south. Besides jack here doesn't need food anymore does he?, the king said to stop feeding him." The first guard said as the man started groaning.

Terrible bowel sounds leaving his body after.

"He has a serve case of the stomach bubblies "

April groans as the smell hits her.

"What's wrong with him?"

"He's what you call a half blood vampire. He doesn't have an appetite for blood just yet and probably will never get it but his body.. his body processes things in seconds. The moment Food touches his stomach it's ready to go. Which as you can see leads to many unfortunate accidents. He'll turn fully once he has blood. But jack's very stubborn." The guard said.

April looks over at the man whose hair was once again covering his face.

"But don't worry sweetheart, your ride is almost here." The rotten tooth guard said.

"What do you mean?" April asked.

"The king has decided to throw you out to the wall to serve him."

April had always wanted the opportunity to fight alongside her father on the wall but then she didn't know the king was so disgraceful.

"A woman warrior, wonders shall never end." Jack said.

April eyes him.

-

"I told you not to eat like that!" Donovan said as the girl ripped into the deer's stomach. She had ripped apart the guts and continued digging face first.

Donovan's stomach turned.

He had never eaten raw wildlife in human form. He was the traditional wolf after all not a Lycan like the blonde in front of him.

"So good." She said slurping more intestines into her mouth.

She let out sighs of relief.

"Need more, feed me more!" She growled.

Donovan sighed.

She was an alpha.