Warning: this is dark, might be triggering if you've been in a traumatic experience where you lost a love one or if you ever think about just eating your arm off. This is not a representation of me and my personality but sometimes art is dark.

The king sits up, the scent of the two girls wakes up his hunger once more. He's gripping the streets.

"Juliet- I could kill you for this." He said hearing the young girl begin crying.

"Your majesty, once you have a taste you'll be happy again."

"Juliet." The king warns.

"You'll forget all about Akialine and the queen. You'll forget them all and you'll be happy I promise."

"I trusted you." The king said breathing slowly as his gums start aching painfully.

"Go girl, I don't want you to ever come in my chambers again do you understand me?" The king asked and the young girl nods feverishly.

Juliet felt fear pulsating inside her. Her plan had failed which meant she'd betrayed the King's trust.

"I told you not to let me feed on any human and the first thing you do is find an actual child for me to eat. What goes on in your head you fucking half brain imbecile." The king said laying his head in his palm.

"I just wanted you to feel better sire." Juliet said body shaking when she thinks about the punishment she was going to get.

"Get out of here." The king said and Juliet isn't sure if she's happy about this or not. It's a weak move from him to let her go. It's very weak but she also wanted to leave unharmed.

She bows and leaves.

The King's looking at his shaking hand. He's so hungry now that he can't even think. He looks at his hand and the brings it to his lips. He bites down, his fangs entering his wrist. He's in pain but having his fangs in something made him feel better. He wasn't actually gaining anything from this, his hunger didn't even subside but it was a warm place to put his aching fangs.

He looks down at the box and sees the frame with the sunflower. He pulls his hand away from his mouth. He's bleeding all over himself but it doesn't take long for the blood to travel back into his wound shutting it back up.

He picks it up and puts his nose against the frame. It's been so long now and the scent is barely there but he can still smell her in it. The her that he had fallen madly in love with. It's such a tiny satisfaction that leaves him practically drooling.

He drops the frame and it shatters.

He doesn't regret it.

He pulls everything out of the box. The stupid love letters he'd rewritten Everytime she'd passed by him. He'd written love letters to her only to find out she couldn't read. It just shamed him more to know that she couldn't read. He was so embarrassed about how much he liked her, How much he wanted her.

Now his stomach bubbled at the thought of her. His witch side wanted to rip his skin apart just to kill her. His siren side only wanted to eat, anything and anyone.

And his human side was rational enough to know that he'd ruined her life. He'd completely ruined her life for nothing but his own selfish desires. He made himself sick but being king and not being allowed to show weakness. Left him internalizing all his pain.

He had so many thoughts in his brain all the time that he couldn't express himself at all.

Now that the queen was gone the barriers of comfort she provided by just being around was breaking down.

His siren was going to drive him mad with hunger, he was eventually going to be just like his father. He just had to accept it.

"CLAST." The king yelled knowing the young boy was the one on shift for guarding his room early morning like this.

"Morning my king." Clast bowed.

"Get The witch doctor for me." The king said and then laid back into the bed.

"Yes sire."

A couple moments passed, the king lays down debating wether or not eating his own hand was a sound idea. It would grow back sure but it would only make him more disgusted in himself. It would also be an overall excruciatingly painful experience and wouldn't satisfy him at all.

The witch doctor comes into the very large room.

"Where's Akia and the Queen?" The older man asked.

"Unavailable." The king answered plainly.

"And I was just starting to wonder why I was here." The man said.

"I'm hungry... I'm really hungry. I'm so hungry that I'm thinking about eating myself." The king said and the older man laughed.

"I suppose you would be. Especially if the queen is unavailable."

"What's that supposed to mean?" The king asked.

"You two are emotionally linked."

"What does that have to do with my hunger?" The king asked.

"Sirens tend to stray away from human emotions. The more they feel the weaker they are. If a siren falls in love the way us humans do, they risk even death. So the queen kept your siren weak. Now that she's going away it's coming back full force."

"What are you saying?, my father loved my mother but he eat people left and right constantly that's kind of the reason I'm in this position in the first place."

"Your father loved your mother sure, but he was never bonded with her. He never swore himself to her." The witch doctor retorted.

"I'm not following." The king said and the witch doctor smirked.

"Oh?, you don't know do you?" The witch doctor asked and the king didn't look like he wanted to entertain his theatrics today so he continued.

"You jumped far ahead of yourself and bonded with the queen out of pity, missing out on the years of passion you could've shared with Akialine."

"Do I look like I'm in need of entertainment?, Did I ask for jesters or did you forget that I'm not your peer?" The King's voice is sinister and threatening and this shoots an unnatural feeling of fear through the witch doctor who has never feared the king.

"Octavius- I'm not here to entertain you. You asked for my guidance and I'm guiding."

Hearing the sincerity in the witch doctor's voice crushed the king. His chest falls and he starts to sweat.

"I bonded with Marilyn.. that's why I'm losing control then?, because she's not here anymore?" The king asked. He doesn't have much knowledge about the creatures that lived inside him. His father taught him very little.

"It's not that she's not there anymore, The bond is simply breaking."

"Why?" The king asked and the witch doctor shrugged.

"Did she do something to you?" The witch doctor asked "like what?"

"Anything painful or that made you uncomfortable?"

"Yes sure but I still love her."

"There are a lot of new factors in your life, maybe a couple years ago, the Queen doing something unfavorable to you would've gone unnoticed but with Akia walking around she could've stepped on your toe and you would've broken the bond."

"Why do you keep bring her up?"

"She's your soul mate, it's not strange that she'd pop up in a conversation about bonds."

"She's so young."

"Didn't Stop you from impregnating her but go on I guess." The witch doctor said and the king glares at him.

"You told me to." He yells at the man.

"I DIDN'T SAY RAPE HER" The witch doctor yelled.

"You could've done well enough courting her and sending her flowers like any other man who wants to impregnate a woman."

"Forget it, whatever. I don't wanna talk about her anymore. I can't even think about her without my body burning me up from the inside." The king said turning away out of guilt.

He'd made a bad decision based on the idea of protecting the queen's feelings.

"Oh?, hmm that's interesting. Have you been having any suggestive dreams?" The witch doctor asked.

"Suggestive? Sexually?"

"No suggestive-"

"I will personally cut off your head if the next word that leaves your mouth carries a sarcastic tone."

"Yes suggestive sexually."

"No. Not at all."

"Have you been able to get it up?"

"Get what up?- you mean my manhood."

"No I mean my manho- I'm sorry. It's a nasty instinct and I'll try to do better from this moment on."

"I haven't tried."

"when was the last time you had sex?"

The king thinks back to the knightlac betray and feels chills run through him.

"A while. Months I suppose." He answers.

"Well there's your problem. Just have sex. Sirens feed off sex just as much as they feed off the soul."

"I can't." The king said remembering his promise to the queen.

"You can, unless you want to turn into your demonic father."

"I can't-"

"It's up to you just give me the heads up when you start having human heads for dinner so I can get far far away."

"Would anyone do?" He asked looking at the man, he replies "don't look at me." In a humorous tone but the king doesn't seem to be interested in humor.

"Akialine would be the best choice. In fact just being around her would help the bond break faster while shielding your siren from the surface."

"I don't want to be around her." The king said and the witch doctor straightens up and bows.

"I should get packing before lunch then."

The king feels his stomach growling, it's a terribly loud grumble that leaves his whole body in throbbing pain. He crunches over and squeezes his eyes.

"Your majesty your tea is ready." A young maid walks in and the King's head snapped towards her. The witch doctor laughs awkwardly before lightly gesturing her out of the room.

"I think the king is looking for something more lively than tea today." He said shoving the girl out.

The king thinks about all the times he'd walked in on his father sucking woman dry and then feasting on others and he thinks maybe paying Akia a visit wouldn't kill him.

-

"You stupid girl. I should've killed you when I had the chance. What have I done?" Lady Kenya said pacing back and forward on shaky legs.

Akia wasn't sure what was going on.

She grabs on her mother's forearm and spins her around but her mother yanked her arm out of the girl's small hand.

"Who'd you give it to?!" She said, venom in her voice.

"I gave it to this person, he promised to take care of it and even bonded with the baby so he couldn't get away or harm anyone.. or something I forgot." Akia said nonchalantly.

"she gave it to me." The siren walked in, Akia gasped as their now distinctive male appearance.

"A siren?!, why in the name of the goddess would you do that?"The woman asked.

"I saved her life, twice, the life you tried to take equally as much." The siren said leaning against the doorway.

"What?!" Akia asked unsure of what was really happening.

"Your mother poisoned you, she wanted you dead from the start. I knew someone was poisoning you indirectly or not. But I couldn't figure out who. Coming here now and seeing her like this, I know now that she's a devil woman."

"What?- she told me, she told me that it was to get rid of the baby." Akia has never felt stupider. She couldn't understand what was going on in front of her at all.

"The sun king can't die, at least not until he's born. Even then he's going to be a bitch to kill. She didn't want you to live to give birth because she knew the sun king would've absorbed all the stone's power."

"Akialine don't listen to a snake."

"You wanted to kill Your daughter because you knew this would happen to you if the Stone stopped being in the possession of your bloodline. You knew that the sun King's powers came mostly from his father and the goddess and you thought that that meant he wouldn't be apart of your bloodline but you were wrong. You would've remained if the sun king had absorbed the Stone's power and You would've killed your daughter for no reason at all. But this is how your bloodline got the Stone in this first place isn't it. You stole it from The goddess it originally belonged to. It's good that I have it now, I'll get to watch you and your generation of thieves die a very painful, slow death." The siren said before smirking.

"You give me that stone right now!"

Akia stands trembling in horror as her mother makes an attempt to get to the siren. The siren dodged and her mother falls. She rushes to her weak mother's side out of instinct. She pulls away though, she's unsure of what she should do now.

All of a sudden there's a hand on her neck. It's a thin boney hand holding her neck tightly.

"I'll snap her neck right now. You need her to keep your connection to the sun king. If he rejects you, you'll die." Lady Kenya said, her voice is scarily unfamiliar and Akia's heart is ripping apart every moment of this interaction.

The siren and Akia meets eyes, her brown eyes widen as the siren's pupils start dilating, the dilation continues until it fills his whole eye. There are sunken in dark holes where his dark eyes used to be. Akia is horrified as he lunged towards her mother.

"LADY KENYA, YOUR MAJESTY HAS ARRIVE!" A servant yells from down stairs.

Akia's body starts shaking as she stares at her mother's lifeless body. The siren had easily twisted her neck to an impossible angle.

Her world froze and she's overwhelmed, too overwhelmed with shock to react.

Strong arms wrap around her lifting her from the floor.

She looks up and sees him, the king looking at her. Making sure she's unharmed.

Guards surround the siren, as the king pulls her in closer shielding her from the view of her mother's corpse.