Chapter 18: The Twin Dragon Sword
When they arrived at the Dining Hall, there they saw a man sipping a glass of wine.
"Hello! Welcome, welcome! Finally, my companion was here!" he greeted energetically and stood up from his seat.
"What are you doing here? This is not your house," Leonard interrogates him instead.
"Ah, senior! I am glad to see you!" the guy throws his arms but Leonard dodges him instead, avoiding a hug from him. "How heartless." He acted hurting.
"Hmm." Leonard ignored him and walks towards the table.
"Well, you know that when there are food and wine I won't miss it! Sadly, the madam of this house did not prepare any appetizers," he complains. He was talking about women entertainers.
Anna glared at him then pointed to the door, "You are free to leave Master."
"Oh! I am just joking madam!" the guy makes a funny face when he notices the girl behind Ashley.
"Ah! You invited one!" he exclaimed excitedly. He rushed towards Harrahina but Iore brings forth his staff and knocks his head.
"Stay behave, Kihero!" Iore shouted at him. He sighed. This stupid student of his.
"Ah, Master Shaman!" Kihero whimpered, in a kidding way. "Are you not happy to see me?"
"I do always question myself how you become my student once," Iore sighed.
"That harsh of you, Master..." Kihero acted broken but ended up grinning. "Then who is she?" he asked.
"She is our very important guest. Stay away from her!" Iore pointed his staff towards Kihero.
"Eh? I just wanted to introduce myself to this beautiful lady!" he tried to step closer to Harrahina, but Iore blocked the way.
Kihero stepback hopelessly. Leonard pulled him away and pinned him to the seat he was seated before.
The Royal Knights Riders began eating. The table filled with laughter. Harrah eats slowly enjoying the food prepared. She often glimpses at her company. Inside in her heart, she felt a little happiness to see their smiling faces because she believes that deeps in their heart, is loneliness and bearing all the hardships all these years.
But soon, she will end it all... the sufferings and weariness her people feeling in the present, she'll become stronger soon.
She learned that Kihero Williams and Zen Coles are the same age, they are juniors of her father Lionel and Leonard Ming. That is why they have this kind of closeness.
Iore whispered to her, "I guessed, your father also told you about the Williams family?"
Harrah nod. "Father said, I should avoid getting close or be near to the queen's younger brother.
It is not suitable for me as a candidate to be my husband." She whispered back.
She and Iore laugh softly. If they haven't noticed, there are a pair of eyes always checking on them both across the table.
Across the table is lightly gloomy, Leonard's brows twitch. He is a bit upset Iore keep whispering at Harrah thinking, 'what the heck these two talking about'?
When he realizes, the question himself as well why he is concerned about it? He sighed, drank his cup in one go.
Across in the table as well as Anna. She also thinking that it seems, Iore and the young girl they brought along is somehow very close. Anna thinking, if he already got over? It's been too long already that Iore only loves one woman. Is this a new door for his brother-in-law to fall in love again? She's hoping for positivity. Sixty years of being alone are too much longer already. He is 100 years old now.
Then so what? Iore still looks like a young man. He doesn't age at all. Same to Leonard, he still stayed single which is, he's 60 years old now. Her twins now are 20 years old and already have engaged.
Not long ago, David arrived and throws a big hug at his older brother. The merry dinner continued. Ashley leads Harrah to her chamber to get a warm bath and get a change of clothing.
Later on, four figures leaving the Dining Hall and went to the tea room. David lead Iore, Leonard, and Kihero towards the room.
"Are you certain about this, Kihero?" Leonard asked in a very serious tone.
"Yes, General Ming... I've seen a lot of changes and strange things going on. I also witnessed and heard it all that time."
Leonard can't hide his anger. What's going on here? He thought.
"I am going to meet the king tomorrow, arrange it for me."
"Understood. The king doesn't accept any audience anymore but I will do my best to convince him." Kihero promised.
"He can't refuse to not meeting me. That's an offense to the main kingdom if he will just ignore me." Kihero nodded. They continued talking about serious matters.
Meanwhile, Harrahina finished taking a bath and changed to one of Ashley's clothing, she feels comfortable.
She decided to walk around and she came across the Tea Room where she had a few glimpses of the gentlemen seriously talking. She believes they have very important matters to discuss. She left them alone and went to the garden instead. She saw it while at Ashley's chamber and so she was excited to go down from the second floor.
She's now strolling the mansion garden. The Chen family spent to have this spectacular gazebo, which has a clear view of the Hemera Castle from there.
The castle stood majestically but, there is that darkness looms somewhere. She could feel it, yes. Harrah reaches out her right arm, she was once wounded badly by the Dark Lord's sword.
"My queen, what are you doing here on this cold night?" Iore put a blanket around her.
"Thank you, Iore." She thanked the shaman. "Do you have a report for me?" she asked seriously.
On occasions like this, she chooses to act as the Queen. Iore reported what Kihero reported to them. Harrah closes her eyes while listening to Iore. She can't avoid not feeling any frustrations.
She brings forth her Twin Dragon necklace. She stared at it and hold it tightly on her palm. "Dad," she cried inside.
This is the only thing now that gives her strength the most. She misses her family already. For her, this necklace is a memory of her dad. She always wished for it to have the courage and strength to move forward.
She thanked Iore for his report and Harrah stayed watching the Hemora Castle. Iore bid goodnight first.
Harrah suddenly feels a tormenting pain inside her heart. It was like a fire, burning...
'Ah, the Blue Dragon Sword.'
The Red Dragon Sword is reacting towards it. She pressed her chest, trying to bear the pain. She needs to calm down her red dragon sword inside her.
"Harrahina? Is something wrong?" Leonard speaks behind her. He seems to notice she's having difficulty breathing.
"General Leonard!" she was startled a bit.
Leonard scans her face then down to her chest.
"Are you alright?" he asked.
"I am fine," Harrahina tried to recover and shows she's okay. "Probably am just still a bit tired."
She thinks of an alibi.
"Then you must go back to your chamber and get some rest."
Harrahina could sense concern in his voice. She looks up at him and stares at his face. Her heart beats is strange.
"Alright, I'll head back now, General." She agreed on. But before she could take two steps, she suddenly felt dizziness then she's losing consciousness.
"Harrahina!?" Leonard quickly catches her. "Harrah! Wake up!"
After of few attempts to wake her up, Leonard decided to carry her and bring it into the house, up to the room she'll stay.
Iore felt the troubled presence coming from the queen and so he immediately turns back.
"Hurry! Let's put her into the bed."
Leonard followed Iore. He then carefully lay Harrah in the bed.
"Please summoned, Zen to come here," Iore asked Leonard. He nodded then leave the room.
Leonard calls one of the chambermaids who's standing in the corner of the hallway, just waiting for a call if needed their service. He right away instructed to get Vice General Zen.
The chambermaid bow then leaves in hasty steps.
Not long, Zen arrives, and Iore quickly instructs him of what he needed to do.
As Zen is a host of Suzaku, he inherits the healing power. Zen release some of his energy and that energy Iore used to heal Harrah's body.
"What's wrong with her?" Zen asked curiously.
Iore take a glimpse at him first before he answered.
"I've found her body is weakening, that's what makes her unconscious often."
"Why?" asked Leonard
"I can't determine for now, but maybe I could find an answer after I'll take a look in the Mirror Hall." Iore have to lie. He needs to. It is not yet the right time to reveal anything.
The queen will be healed completely once the guardians ascend to this world soon... she will no longer feel the pain from the wound she got from the Dark Lord.
Leonard and Zen ask no more as they trusted Iore's wisdom. He knew more than anyone else when it comes to looking at one's memories.
"Daddy," Harrah murmured between her unconscious state.
The three men at that moment take glances at each other.
In Leonard and Zen's mind, this girl seems to have bad experiences. But Iore knows, his heart was troubled a bit and so he made a swear that he'll serve the queen all his might.
She must be missing King Lionel. Iore thought.
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Elise_Elleneth Sorry for so much delay!
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Few things I wanna clear out... this story was written first before I wrote my other stories published here. So there are similar names I've used. I think, am not lazy to look for new names... lol,,
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