Kingdom of Crestoria! 9

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Kingdom of Crestoria! 9

I take my distance form the turtle and the lioness and watch them talk with lots of slashing hand gestures. My scary mind is again stirred up with a possible conversation and it frightens me as it thought of the possibility they would just chop of my head soon as they would found out I was not the hero they had found.  

Just shook my head and never even noticed where they were taking me. By the time I noticed I found myself walking in flower scented hallways and corridors rich of sun light that came through large arched windows as you would find in western churches. The fragrance came from a gentle breeze through open windows and had me consumed so much I took a step closer and take a deep breath. 

The view was something I never had seen before. The golden sun shone above a mountain peak and lit up a vibrant green as far as my eyes could reach. Closer by the fields were covered in different colours. There are also a lot of bridges, but on second look they seem to be either shorter or longer Gold and purples, every colour of the rainbow just mixed and matched in no order. For an instant I was so close I could see the wind make the petals dance and lift the fragrant mist up with it. 

“No, no. I couldn’t have seen that” I turn my head towards the princess and Grub who are just smirking. “I must be losing it for sure.” 

-“You coming or what, we don’t have all day you know and I have a surprise for you after you met the scholar. Kind of a celebration to welcome you.” 

I keep my lips closed and walk silently towards the two only to see them move away from me again as I got closer. I won’t give it anymore thought, guess I just have to go with what ever comes my way in this freak show. Lions with wings and hair on fire. Turtle like dwarfs with a shield of hair. A queen, “arrrrrrrg” 

“We are here, pull it together. You wanted answers, this where you get them. You can find master Scowler inside.” The princess points at a large door with a tag that reads ‘booklatory’ with several visible nails that were bend and crooked. It was an half assed attempt on carpentry, most likely by someone who had no idea how to hammer a nail. 

-“Wait what, your not coming in?” My face was sure to show fear of the unknown hiding behind this door. But it didn’t matter to Grub who was already pushing open the door. 

The princess just smiled with her arms crossed in front of her. “Don’t worry he isn’t as scared as my mum so you’d be fine.” 

“Haha Princess you sure are afraid of him.” 

-“Grub shut up, you little weaslish. Mmmpfff” The princess snuffs and turns her head away. “Besides we need to prepare for your welcome party.” Her voice changed as she spoke those words. There it was again. That smile and glistening in her eyes. Just her stare ran like a shiver up my spine. 

But for now lets get some answers. I walk slowly and carefully into the room. Just to be sure I put my toes down first and sneak in. I look around me and hope for no more surprises as the sound of the door closing was heard behind me. The slam was loud and startled me and I look back at the door. 

“Nothing to see, thank god…. “

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Kingdom of Crestoria! 8

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Kingdom of Crestoria! 8

“I can’t be bothered with this kind of insolence, it is just giving me a headache. What do you know, human?” The queen reacts agitated turning her hand at her wrist as if to say I need to hurry and speak up. 

Though what am I to say, I do not know anything. I just woke up with a lump on my head in a prison. All these thoughts rushed through my head on lightning fast speed. Guess all I could do it tell the truth. 

With a deep breath I start to tell them what I known had happened so far. 

“Last thing I remembered was that I was hiding from a group of bullies. I didn’t want to end up beaten again. So I ran until the ground was swept from underneath me and I fell down head first in a puddle of mud. I was stuck knee deep inside a hole. Near a cliff. As I crawled up I saw a small cavity in the wall. With the screams getting closer of those few that followed me I climbed up and kept silent until they all gave up and left.” 

-“Can you hurry up already, I have no idea where this is going. What does that have to do with us?” The queen can’t sit still as she tries to listen to what I am telling her as what happened prior to coming here. The Princess is playing with her curls and dress. Uninterested she is just present. 

“I only know that after they left I sighed loud and slammed my head back into the wall. Hurting my head and looking up. IN the rock bed was something stuck and as I tried to remove it from its prison a rock fell and hit me in the head knocking me out with a  right flash. After that I woke up in a prison and not much later I stand here before you. I do not why I am here or even how I got here. I am asking you… what the hell is going on with me. Am I crazy, are you all figments of my imagination. I DO NOT KNOW.” 

-“How Dare you raise your voice to me, you lowly life form. It is clear you are a nobody.” The queen sits back down and rubs her head in pain. “Adelina, take him to the scholar, help him understand our prophecy and what it is that is needed of him. And hurry, I am going back to my quarters.” 

“For real, but daddy.” 

-“Stop asking your dad to give you a break, do as your told” The queen gnarls at the young princess who is clearly isn’t pleased with the task that was brought up to her. 

“I do not like the scholar, mister know it all. You come with me. Grub hurry up and get over here.” 

Grub comes in swiftly and stands beside me in no time. “Lets go. So what do you think of Matti, scary right. And that voice,  she squeaks like a bird. Oh and if you ever find her laughing you will be in for a surprise. Hahaha.” 

-“Grub will you just hurry and get this over with. I wanted to meet the hero not babysit him. And now I have to meet him as well.” 

“Ooh come on princess, what’s keeping you from testing him. It could be fun.” 

The face of the princess changes into something dangerous and with a  deadly intent. A lust to fight and anger rises just like I could sense from the bullies. My legs just shook and were ready to make a run for it. 

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Kingdom of Crestoria! 7

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Kingdom of Crestoria! 7

“You two!” Her eyes rolled inside their sockets, leaving the face unmoved with a voice that skipped up a higher pitch. “Are you enjoying yourself Grub, should you not be held up in that prison, keeping the insects from escaping.” 

“I would clearly be doing so if your High n Ass would be so kind to be locked up.” Grub answers with a sneer. 

-“I see. Still the moron. Why don’t you remove yourself before we all start acting slow from stupidity and smell like you.” 

 Couldn’t believe my ears, hearing this small man talk like that to his queen. ‘What was going on here?’ Grub moves away, though not in silence. “Wouldn’t make much difference in your case snowflake!” His face changed as he looked at the princess. His smile had something about him. He looked pleased, happy about it. While the Queen was clearly irritated by the way he acted, something was held her back from being ruthless, after all she was a queen right. 

 “As for you Daughter of mine. Who gave you permission to visit the prison and seek out this… this… whatever he is.” 

-“I am sorry mother, I got curious when I heard Grub mention him.” 

“That imbecile and his big mouth.'” The queen turned around and walked back up to the empty throne to take a seat. “I can’t believe you recommended that filthy fat Turtshell to be a guard Leon.” 

The king just lifted his shoulders and let out a small pleasurable grunt. 

The princess pulled my hand and dragged me closer to the king and queen. Her hands were soft and her fur satin like. It made me blush as I never had been touched by a girl before. I am a sad person at the age of twenty and neve have been with a girl before. They scared me like many other things. Or maybe it was just me not able to start a conversation, if only I knew what to say. 

“Well what race might you be born from Duncan? You do not have a tail, have a very pale smooth skin.”  

Shocked from the question, my bubble I was residing in was popped, suddenly need to answer in this state. 

“Me… well… not sure…” Turn my thumbs and fingers into each other over and over while my brain worked hard to think of an answer worth to tell. I wouldn’t want to mess this up. 

-“Well what is it… SPIT…” The queen roared in anticipation. 

“I.. Am uh… H-human” Sweat started to show their little pearls onto my head. 

-“What is a human? Never heard of a human. If you would have said Monktail, or Chimpty maybe Gorilents. But than again you do not have nearly enough hair to be either of them. Human? No never heard of that. Let’s move on. As a hero what are you good at? Sword, Spear rather fight with a bow?” 

“Wait, could we go back a little. What do I have to fight, more precisely, why do I have to fight. Could we start with what is going on here?” I am a little anxious and look across the three others there with me. The King and Queen and also the princess. Their faces just froze looking stumped. 

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Kingdom of Crestoria! 2

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In continuation of last week Kingdom of Crestoria!. A new adventure of unknown as It is written as it goes. Never knowing where it will take me.

Art by Rusty001

Kingdom Of Crestoria! 2

I leap back in shock ending up on my ass and look at the character standing in front of the holding cell. My mind was in a rush to figure out what has happened, whether or not this was a dream or could even become a nightmare.

“Oh scared now are we? But get your ass up, the princess is here to see you.” His hand wave up as to say to have me stand. Unable to understand a single word I just follow his movements.

I crawl back up and take my step forward to the bars. From up here I looked down onto a head with very few hair on a suntanned skull. His fat body covered with small patches of hair from underneath his leather straps holding up a pants. Beside him a ring of keys dragged along side a short sword. As he turned back to face me his eyes glistened a bright yellow.

The shock was complete seeing a small beard perfectly trimmed. ‘This is a guard? Something wrong with this picture. Is it a dwarf, but where are the pointy ears or rather why does his face look like that of a turtle. It would explain why the hairs patched like a turtle shell.’

I shake my head in both disgust and shock. Unable to understand the situation or even where I am.

From the poorly lit corner another person walked over. As she moved into the light another creepy feeling shook my spine.

“I am Princess Adelina Seraphine Leonella of Crestoria. What be your name?” Her face is like that of a lioness with hair being swaying flames as she moves gently into  what looks like a bow. Reds, yellows strung in a yellow bow on either side. She is bigger than the guard dressed in a beautiful dress.

“WHAT IS YOUR NAME!” From behind her wings unfolded making her look even larger then before. A red haze rushed across her bright blue eyes.

Her roar created a tremble in my stomach. Fear got to me and made me sweat like a madman. Doing my best to keep my composure I tried to speak. “I’m sorry but.. Uhmm.. I do not understand”

The princess looks dazed and confused and looks back to the man behind her. He lifts his shoulders as to say he didn’t know either. As her gaze came back to me the fury seemed calmed down in her eyes With her hands on her chest she repeated the earlier sounds and after pointed at me.

I felt stupid and took a deep breath. Mimicking her gesture I tried repeating what seemed to be her name “Adelina Seraphine Leonella of Cresteria”

A smile appeared with freighting teeth showing in each corner. With some confidence I was doing okay I continued and held the hands in front of my chest. “Duncan Nabal”

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Kingdom of Crestoria!

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Just an idea I have been wanting to write about for some time now.

Kingdom of Crestoria!

The light is bright and burns its warmth onto my closed eyelids, turning the darkness into a blood red image with a halo. I turn my head away to see if I can look way from the light. The head is aching with an echo of my heart pounding all around.

With my hand I brush through my hair and find a large lump right at the top. A short burst of electricity shoots through my body as I press it lightly.

As the eyes are adjusted more to the black behind my closed lids I open them slowly.

“What do you know, you are finally awake!” The voice was rough and low accompanied by the sound of metal swung around a iron ring. The ringing was like metal from keys. “You have been like that for 3 days. At least your not dead.”

His footsteps disappear slowly still swinging the metal around until a heavy door slams shut and is locked.

I try to sit up and feel my body ache all over. Black and bruised my bones crack and snap into place. Muscles stiff are stretched and loosened up with some simple moves. Eyes shot I focus to forget the shots of pain tormenting me and find a position I feel comfortable and relax.

‘Who might have been that voice?’ I have found myself sitting on a wooden board hanging from water soaked walls by iron chains. A folded piece of fabric laid beside me with a dent from where my head used to be. On it a streak of light shine brightly from a small window build high inside the wall. A shadow breaks up the light in to two equal square parts.

I start to investigate the room some more as the pain is subduing and find the corners of the room full of a slimy green mould. In one corner a wooden bucket lays smashed in pieces inside iron rings. Rats having  feast on a hard piece of bread. You could hear the sound of it breaking between their teeth. Bars have replaced an entire wall.

This is a prison but not like any I remember. This is like one of those you read about in novels and see in films about the middle ages.

‘How did I get here? Where is here?’ As I try to get up I find myself light headed and fall back on to the bench. The squeak of the rats fleeing through a small crack in the wall.

On my second attempt I walk over to the bars and try to look around the corner. The sound of a lock had me look as far as I could and watch a light getting bigger across the floor with the door shrieking a sharp sound.

There was that metal sound again and more than one voice. A female voice this time. My body reacts by stepping back and wait for those who just walked in to come by.

“This way Princess, he finally woke up. But I am not sure what species he is. He wearing some strange clothes if you ask me.”

-“I know Grub, but it has been like the prophecy foretold. Red lightning will bring forth a hero. And bring piece to the kingdom of  Crestoria.”

“But is he really the one, princess? He is a scrawny little man!” The voice is loud and laughing as he revealed himself in front of me.

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