Her Cursed Prince

Moonlight Kingdom

    “You are the greatest king we have had in the history of Moonlight kingdom” A Minister said and everyone chuckled.

      “You shouldn't say that, there are great kings that reign before me,” the emperor said, smiling. He was at his parlor with his ministers having a drink after conquering in a war.

      “You are really the best king, even the people are happy,” the general said.

      “It's all because of you, if not for you that fought our war, our  kingdom can't be in this position,” the emperor said and served the general a drink. Everyone knows that they are best friends. They have been together right from when the king was very young.

     “I don't want to learn,” they hear a tiny voice yell. It was the crown prince, he was running while the maids ran after him and it was surprising that none of them could meet him even though he is  just five years old.

     “I can foresee it already, prince Raven will grow up to be a very strong king,” one of the ministers said as they focused on him.

      “I know, but he is quite lazy,” the king said and they all chuckled.

      “That's because he is still very young, soon he will realize his purpose and focus more on it,” the general said as they watched him run around the whole place.

      “My prince, your teacher is waiting for you,” another miad said. They are panting already so they give up chasing him since it's obvious they can't catch him.

      “I want to swim, we can go after that,” the little cutie said and smiled broadly, before they could stop him, his clothes were gone and he jumped into the large stream.

       “My prince!!” The maid yelled fearfully since there was no movement from the water, the king and the minister quickly rushed toward the water but she came out before they could get there. They all stare at the boy in shock.

      “Dad,” he called and smiled at the king, his father bent in front of him and patted his hair.

      “You guys should be careful when dealing with him,” the king told the maidens. They bow their heads respectfully. Little Raven went to meet his maids and that is when they noticed the mark on his back. It was the shape of a red dragon. The king look shock while looking at the back of his son, without being told by anyone, he knows what the mark means, it was the demon mark, while is the mark suddenly on his son's back, he can't explain, those with the mark were born with it, they were kill immediately they were born so why is the mark suddenly appear on his son's back. He can't say.

     The minister whispered among each other but none of them said anything.

      LATER IN THE NIGHT

   Little Raven was carried by his father, he was asleep but woke up when he was being dropped in some one arm, it was one of the king's guards.

     “Please make sure you protect my son,” he heard his father's voice before his father ran away.

     “What is going on?” He asked while raising his head from the shoulder.

     “That will be later my prince, you have to be saved first '' the man said and used the back gate of the palace, he was dropped in the palanquin, he can see his three months old sister also lay in the place, soon they leave the flower premises.

      “What is going on? Where is mum and dad?” He yelled but he was ignored. He stares out of the window and saw the general leading hundreds of armies to the palace, they quickly cover the palanquin so he wouldn't be spotted.

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       “We want the traitor out now,” the general yelled loudly, they were in front of the king's palace. The king came out with his queen and was shocked to see his friend leading the armies.

       “Why are you guys here?” The queen asked.

     “Emperor, we want you to bring out your demon of a son, so that he will be executed.” The general said.

      “My son isn't a demon, he hasn't had the mark before, I don't know where it came from,” the king said.

      “Do you expect us to believe that? You know your son bears the forbidden mark  but you hid him for five years, I want you to bring him out now or I will drag him out my self,” the general said and brought out his sword.

      “No one will touch my son,” the emperor said and bringing out his sword. He started fighting with the guards, one suddenly stabbed him in his belly and he groaned before vomiting blood.

      “What is your problem, how can you hurt your king!!” The queen yelled and carried a gun but he was stabbed in the chest by the general.

       “My queen,”  the king called in tears as he moved toward his wife, she could barely talk until finally her eyes dressed.

      “I will kill you,” the emperor yelled and carrying his sword, he started running towards the general but was stabbed by one of the guards.

     “You will surely pay for this,” the emperor managed to say before falling to his death.

     “The child is not in the palace,” some guards report after checking everywhere.

      “Look for that child and kill him,” the general said.

     “Yes sir,” the guard said before running out of the palace.

      “What are we going to do about them?” The assistant general asked while looking at the dead bodies.

     “Spread rumors that they killed him and his wife was because they committed treason by hiding their son who has the demon mark,” the general said.

     “Okay general,”  he bowed before going.

      The general looked at the body of the king and smiled mischievously.

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        The death of the king has spread throughout the whole kingdom, some were crying while feeling pity for their king while some said he deserves what happened.

     Raven hears everything that people say around him and he also learned that his parents are dead, he started crying inside the palanquin.

     They wanted to go out of the border but they saw some guards watching, they quickly turned back and used the deep forest.

     The guards journey for days, they also stop to feed the kids and sometimes they hide from the guards that are looking for them.

      They finally get to a town, it was very small and peaceful, they didn't know anything about the demon mark so they accepted them. The woman in the town takes care of the king.