History and Revelation

"What is it?" Pan asked confused as to why it would require everyone to be present.

"Are you a native of the Raila kingdom?" The elder asked.

"No I am not, I am a native of this world." She responded her curiosity aroused.

"What do you know of the kingdom you serve?" The elder spoke again.

"The kingdom was forced to leave their world and come here, through the rifts." Pan responded starting to feel irritated at the elder's round about way of talking.

As if he could feel her irritation the elder got right to the point, "The Kingdom of Raila is not as it seems, young Chieftan, please listen." The elder said feeling relief that this new Chief was not in knowledge of the kingdom yet still helping it.

"Go on." Pan gestured getting off of Chaos sitting down and using him as a back rest, seeing so the elder to sat down on the bench by the village square.

"The Kingdom of Raila told you that they came through these so called 'rifts' right? But then how could they have brought their entire capital here? And the houses and the castle?" The Elder said hinting towards Pan.

"So they didn't come through the rifts?" She said, finally noticing the massive loophole in their story that she had blatantly ignored.

"Exactly, the Raila Kingdom did the unspeakable and abandoned all of their people outside the capital, using their souls they powered a formation to randomly transport themselves into a random world, escaping the terrors plaguing their world." The elder said in an incredibly disgusted tone, practically grinding each and every word out.

"Then what about the princess?" She asked anxiously, the princess was her direct superior, so if she was in on it as well then it would be horrible.

"The Princess and the healer Yori both were against the idea to abandon their people and wanted to fight till the bitter end, but the nobles and the king wanted to escape, the pieces of trash!" The elder said, his face red with hate filling every pore of his being.

"And how do you know this?" Pan asked finally, as she wanted everything in order.

"We are the survivors of that incident, I was a merchant travelling around when I heard the news of the King's decision to retreat, It was only after transporting here that I found a dying noble of the king's side who told me the rest of the story, the only reason neither of our villages fought to the death when you mentioned the Raila kingdom was because you are the princess' retinue, who fought till the bitter end against the terrors." The elder said, a wisp of reverence and respect showing in his eyes at every mention of the princess.

"She must want to gather all of you, as her orders were to conquer the surrounding 'barbarian tribes.'" Pan said deep in thought, only to have it broken.

"Indeed, I want to gather all of you." A voice said ringing out inside of the village.

"Elara?!?!" Pan and Chaos both said surprised at her sudden appearance.

"Princess!" All of the former people of the Raila kingdom too stood up looking towards the village entrance.

"Please don't, I don't deserve it." Elara said softly, her entire aura and voice different than her cold and concise countenance of before.

"I'm sorry for being so cold and distant before, I couldn't afford to slip up as Borgen is a spy of the king's faction and Ferae is a also spy, but not of the king, rather of my brother, Turin El Raila, we were born in the same year to two different mothers, he the official wife, and me the concubine." She said calmly with bits of sad emotions mixed in.

"I've been trying to gather all of you in order to establish my own kingdom, away from the disgraced Raila name, but for that we will need man power, and lots of it, as well as brave and moral commanders." She said first looking towards the former people of Raila, and then looking at Chaos and Pan at the mention of brave and moral commanders, respectively.

"We will follow you to the death!" The elder said dropping to one knee in front of the princess tears in his eyes at her words, several others too kneeling, all accept for Kuren and Farra, who stayed standing next to Chaos and Pan, clearly showing their loyalties.

"I do not want you to follow me to the death, there has been too much death, I want you all to follow me to Life!" The princess said feeling emotional at the sight of her people still being so loyal to her despite her failure to take care of them.

"I'm sorry to interrupt but, we cannot stay here forever." Breaking the entire atmosphere was Chaos who spoke out words completely against the entire flow shocking the people, but not the princess.

"I always knew that you would never stay here, it is too small here, but I ask that you help us until we manage to create our own kingdom, I ask this of you not as a princess, but as a citizen of Raila!" Taking a deep bow Elara said in a heart felt tone.

Feeling her sincerity Pan looked back at Chaos as though for his thoughts on the situation to which he nodded, a flash swimming past his eyes, Pan's own eyes growing bigger after receiving his transmission.

"Then, we will help you, however, you need to destroy the Raila kingdom, as well as becoming our allies."