Cursed King
By
Necoroth
&
Exploded Condom
Copyrighted
Necoroth
&
Exploded Condom
Copyrighted
((Rough Draft))
It has been two years since his father's assassination. Two years of fighting and war to protect his fathers land. From the northern mountains, the savage werebear tribes continue to defy and attack his kingdom.. To the south, the wereboar’s numbers continually grow. To the east and west, most of the other lycon factions had fallen to the power of the wolves. The proud kingdom of the Silver Mane has nearly controlled three fourths of the world. King Roland was known for his great ambition and had spread the boards of the empire. A powerful man, who was breed for greatness, soon fell by unknown assassins. His only son Lucian, now bares the weight of the kingdom on his shoulders. Even though he is only thirteen, Lucain managed to maintain his kingdom after two years of war. His skilled strategy of war and unquestioned power has given him the rightful title as the empires leader. Like the previous kings before him, the empire follows his word with absolute loyalty. For that reason, it is custom that the king is treated almost as a god in the peoples eyes. They do not speak unless addressed by the king. They lowered their head before him and if he bows to them, they bow even lower. His word is law and none have the right to defy his command. However, over the course of time and history, People tend to change and their own ambitions grow that demand change. This kind of idea is an abomination to the royal court and has deemed such things as treason. This caused countless rebellions but the loyalist easily overpowered the rebels. In time, the rebels disappeared within the kingdom and rumors of the former kings death was done by the rebels. These claims have no solid proof of the rebels rising again.
Within the third year of Lucian's rule, the kingdom had gone into a state of peace. Now turning sixteen, he mainly tends to small matters of the kingdom. That is until an urgent report had been sent to him by the eastern province of the empire. The letter speaks of a rare discovery of a dying breed that would please the great king. They had managed to capture the being and will arrive within a week. Lucian was most curious of the discovery and awaited for its arrival. After a week the anticipated day had arrived to witness in front of him a dying breed.
The land had gone through great change, great change indeed. Many warlords had tried to capture it for years. Before all of this, a great king ruled, gentle, kind, accepting. This was why different breeds started showing up in these lands. They had been in hiding, most of them, for fear that they would have been killed or put into slavery by the horrid king that had ruled ages before. About fifty years ago a horrible man took over and he ordered the execution of many beings, ranging from werewolves to vampires to nagas to nekos. Many beings went into hiding after their societies had been raided and burned. Those who managed to get out alive, were many times badly wounded or just children. They lived in hiding, afraid of being caught and executed.
Assassinations were becoming more and more common so that people could become king and all, thus the evil warlord that had caused the races to go into hiding was soon assassinated by rebels. A different warlord took over, one that didn't govern his people the same way, one that didn't have a certain hate towards races. More than once people tried to get the races out of hiding, but the trust was lost and many were frightened of being hunted and killed once more. Kitsa was among those in hiding and she was pretty good at it too...
Although the female was only fifteen, she had to fend for herself, had done so for the past four years. Her parents had been killed when she turned eleven by some hunters, thinking that they could be made into a meal. Her mother and father died, giving Kitsa a chance to run. Now, the female was sad because she knew that she was the last of her kind. In the shadows, she had hunted for others like her, but she couldn't find any. This saddened her and caused her to go deeper into hiding. It was a rare thing to see this female walking around where the forest wasn't plentiful.
Kitsa lived in a cave, being careful as to where it was located. She made sure that when she needed warmth or light, that no one could see it. The cave she lived in was well hidden and she had only been discovered once...by a wolf. She had somehow managed to kill that wolf and it had been her food for three days.
It was on a rather sunny afternoon that the female had been walking around, her ears not paying attention as she walked. If she'd been paying attention to her surroundings, she would have heard and smelled them coming from a mile away, but, she noticed way too late. The capture hadn't been easy, she'd put up a rather difficult fight. After wrestling with the female for about fifteen minutes, they had finally managed to get her under control, instantly tying her up so that she couldn't get away. Within the next week, she was bathed and fed and prepared for the meeting with the king.
One day, she was brought to the castle and pushed into a room where the king awaited. As she peered at him through chocolate eyes, she saw that he couldn't be much older than her, so she just stared, her black tail swishing about as if she were angry. Her black ears were perked up, listening for any and all movements.
The grand court all stared down at the last breathing Neko. Mean while the orchestra filled the court hall with music. It was a request from Lucian that court would be filled with music to keep them relaxed and comfortable. By Lucians own words said, "A claim and clear mind will solve any solution faster then a tempered one". "So this is the last savage of its kind," said an oversized man. "Now now, Lord Ferral. One should not be hasty to judge her," replied Lucian. "She might be more intelligent then a savage." The pompous fat man nodded his head. Lord Ferral might not have been a great man spiritually or military wise but he managed the trade within the kingdom. His support had help the Silver Mane Empire greatly and earned the title and seat of the court. An older looking man that sat to the right of Lord Ferral was simply rubbing his long white beard. The man was Vickter Valdrin, the council elder and Lucians teacher in education and philosophy. To the left of Lord Ferral sat a long white haired man and wearing a black and white outfit. The man was Lord Marcus, The Grand Judge of the kingdom who takes in half of the major cases organizes it to several lower judges. Lord Marcus is honest and helps relieved Lucian of half the burden. The Empire is too large for a child let alone a teen to manage. Last on the right row was a priestess with long white hair. She was Hellen Valdrin, head priestess of the Fang and daughter of Vickter.
On the left hand side sat four other individuals. The closet one to Lucian was a young lady with an eye patch as well, except she was well armed with a find suit of armor. The young lady is the legendary eastern general, Mikka Silver-Tail who had won fifty battles and had never lost a single one. The next council member is Allizar D. Katrono, who is the lead holy man and arch mage of the kingdom. He is also the tutor of Lucian in the arcane arts. The man next to him is Dante, who is the leading engineer of the empire. Dante had produce black powder and made the new innovation of weaponry, Guns, which most of the castle guards now carry along with their sword. Last is Akatsuki Yuhi, who is the head cultist of the court.. Although most of the court lack trust in her, Akatsuki has helped in more then one occasion of dire need. She is also the head of the empires secret police. The court was all in their on little discussion about the Neko. Some seemed to resent her and other interest in different ways.
In the other hand, Lucian paid little attention to them while he looked down at the neko. He was fascinated at the girl even though she was wearing half decent clothing. She was the last of her kind yet not what he imagined to look like. Lucian was expecting more of an animal or bug that had just been discovered. Never would he expect that this girl was the great discovery. "Does she have a name?" asked Lucian while waiting for the answer.
The female didn't know why they had wanted her.. She knew that she was the only remaining neko, at least, in these lands and this kind of frightened her. It was up to her to keep the neko's alive and all, but she found she couldn't do it. She didn't know how she was supposed to do something like that... The small teen looked around the room, hearing the soft music, but it was rather loud to her ears, making them twitch slightly. When some pompous man spoke, she looked over at him and frowned, she wasn't a savage.. If anything, he was savage enough...having become that big...it kind of frightened her to look at him so she quickly looked away.
Kitsa hoped that she wasn't going to be kept here to be studied and become someone’s pet or something of the sort. Soon she learned that the man's name was Ferral as another male spoke. This one didn't look too old and considering the fact that he was in the middle, she assumed that he was the one in charge. But... how could someone that young be in charge of these people!? She looked around the room, spotting the orchestra and makes a small face, reaching up to rub her ears because of the sound before she looked back at the people looking at her.
As a matter of fact, she didn't feel at all comfortable having people stare at her like this and she didn't appreciate being talked about like this. She couldn't trust these people after what they had just done to her. I mean, would you really trust someone who just basically kidnapped you!? That was basically what had happened to her....
There was a man with a long white beard and she figured that he must have been the oldest. Seated next to him was someone with long white hair and a black and white outfit, she raised a brow at him and watched him for a moment longer before her eyes looked next to him. Finally there was a female and this caused the girl to relax just slightly. For some reason, she trusted females more than she did the males in this room.
To the other side of the young man there were four more people. There was a female in heavy armor and she figured that the lady was part of the army here or something. Next to that female was a man that really freaked Kitsa out and soon she darted her eyes to the next person. The next man looked really friendly and this caused the female to stare at him for a while before her eyes moved onto the next person, another female. She didn't look that bad...at least she didn't have some heavy armor on or something.
When the youngest spoke once more, she looked at him for a moment or so before she thought, wondering if she should speak or not. The male who stood next to her, holding the chain that kept her shackled, spoke, "...Her name is Kira and her age is 15 my lord." Kitsa's outfit was very revealing, since she didn't have money to buy clothes and all. Before coming here, she had been inspected, having all her weapons taken away from her.
