Chapter 2-Tale Of A King (Part 2 of 2)

5 Years had past and a special boy had been born. His 6th birthday was drawing closer and closer. One morning he had awoken in his room, the room he wanted to decorate himself, a room that was filled with toys and such nice things. In the middle of the room stood a massive bed, the bed was made with silk and these big fluffy pillows and he had this room all to himself since he could remember. All around his room was paintings that the great king had made for him for every time he had a birthday. These paintings were stories that were of this young boy as a king, a great ruler and a brave knight. This boy believed strongly that one he would be a king and a ruler to a world that was broken and damaged. He had dreams every night of these adventures and he wanted these dreams to come true. On the morning of his 6th birthday he was playing with the present the king had given him, while he awaited his painting that he knew was being made for him he felt an intense and sharp pain in his chest and he started to vomit this black like substance and it started to pour out of his nose as well, he then stood up and starting coughing and screaming, the servants went to go see if he was okay and just after that his father had arrived as well. He looked at them and stared at his father with a grin, put his hands around his head and started to scream to scream and gave an excruciating yell "SAVE ME, SAVE ME, SAVE ME" as he said this he collapsed and a black plague like substance imitated on his skin and was rushed to see a doctor. This boy's name was Arthur.

Days had passed since the blonde blue eyed boy who all the kingdom adored had fallen ill and no one could say what was wrong with him. Doctors from far and wide had come to bear witness this child who had a plague like substance on his body that was every day was being spread. Arthur had been sick and he was just getting worse and worse, at a time it was believed that he was going to die, everyone had given up hope on this boy and was awaiting the king to notice he had died. He was getting extremely thin and looked like a 90 year old man yet he was only 6 years old. His father had given hope on him as well and went to seek the advice from the king about whether or not he should just end his sons misery or have hope that one day he would get better and survive. The king had told him that he thought there was no hope and should just end the child's suffering.

Uther was walking in the castle and thinking about the life of his child and the idea of carrying and living without him there, he then remembered the conversation he had with the king in the throne room that was covered in gold, a beautiful room with all the previous knights that had fallen amour nicely shined and polished in a corner with their names on the chest plates. No one but the king and the knights are allowed in this room. Uther finally got to Arthur's room and opened the door and found an empty room and a note laying on Arthur's bed that read, "Uther I am taking our son to live the cabin you and the king always go to when you guys go hunting, I have spoken to the queen and she will be sending us food and medicine to look after him, I know you have given up all hope but I have not and I will be praying to the Gods to heal our beautiful boy".

Nine years had passed and on a beautiful day, Arthur's mother had woke up by the noise of a bird singing and looked at Arthur's bed and she noticed he didn't lie in it sleeping. She jumped out of bed and kept calling his name as she ran frantically around the cabin and then she saw the door open and thought her husband had come to fetch Arthur during the night and taken him to kill him. She got outside and had seen this boy standing in the fields, blonde and a handsome boy with a little bit of muscle, healthy as well. She wondered if this was Arthur but she remembered that Arthur was busy dying and looked like a 90 year old man. The boy then turned to her and smiled and she then only saw it was Arthur. Ran to him and gave him a hug, inspected him for any of the plague like substance that was on him and she asked him with tears running down her cheeks "how do you feel by beautiful boy?"

He smiled at her and said "I feel amazing mother and told her, thank you for not giving up on me" and as he said this she started crying intensely and just grabbed him and hugged him extremely tightly as this was all happening the royal guards had arrived to bring them there weekly food and medical supplies, they were all shocked and surprised to see Arthur alive, well and walking. She grabbed Arthur by the arm and ran towards the horse carriage and hoped on it and demanded that they take them back to the castle and the guards were so happy to see Arthur looking so good again, she looked back at Arthur and got such a good and warm feeling in her heart to see her son happy again.

As they were on the way back to the castle she asked the guards ho her husband was and she wanted to find out form them if he had asked about their son after he got sick or not. The one royal guard told her that Uther was fine but there was problems at the castle with the king and people trying to over throw him and take the kingdom and rule but the king of course fights for his kingdom and his people. They arrived at the castle and got off the carriage and noticed that knights were busy gathering together and they were all getting geared up and looked like they were busy getting ready to go into battle. Arthur's mother had stopped one of the knights and asked him, "what's going on? what's with all the commotion?" he looked at her and saw Arthur get off the carriage looking healthy and better and than ever and couldn't believe his eyes, shook his head and told her "They are attacking us the king and Uther have gone ahead this morning into battle and told us that we should follow afterwards for a surprise attack".

She thanked the captain she was speaking to and walked into the caste with Arthur and as they walked in she heard a voice all around her and stopped and looked and realized that she he was hearing a woman's voice and noticed that she was the only woman that was there so she just brushed it off and the door had closed shut behind them with the echoing of boots on the outside. There was an intense battle commencing not much further away from the castle, the king and Uther were in an enormous battle. Uther was of course out whittling everyone on the battlefield because he was a great knight and had many years of experience and he only battled those were strong because he was a true warrior.

He was about to strike an enemy and as he ran towards his enemy ready to strike, the king was looking at him and noticed a shadow moving towards Uther but didn't think anything of it because he had to focus on the enemies that were busy attacking him, Uther got at arm's length and just froze and felt a sting in his ear and heard a voice telling him that he is useless and was good for nothing for wanting to give up on his one and only son. He was struck in his chest and felt an immense and excruciating pain. The king swung his sword and cut this foe down and looked at Uther and screamed at some knights to come and take Uther to safety and back to the castle to get some treatment.

Uther was looking down and saw the sword in his chest and saw blood running down her body and down the armor and wondered how any sword could penetrate such an amazing armor but remembered something about the sword and felt a burning sting where the blade had been in his chest and noticed that where the sword had been sticking out of and noticed that his chest plate was burnt and smelled of melting steel, he felt light headed and just fainted and as he was collapsing he saw the king and other knights surrounding him and picking him up as he felt he was busy dying and heard one of the knights say the kings name which he hasn't heard in ages Apollo. The kings name was Apollo.

They got back to the castle and saw his wife crying and as they got around the corner he noticed his son standing there alive and well but couldn't believe is eyes because Arthur was busy dying and thought he was just hallucinating and had fainted from exhaustion.