Why? #8

A few hours after King Wonder had left for his journey...

There was silence, for a few moments. Then came

wailing songs of torment and blistering horns, signalling a threat to the kingdom.

Obedient yelling towards the surrounding peoples, as their attention was not notified of this cause.

"We are perishing! Alert the king!"

But the king wasn't found. Nor had anyone seen his whereabouts.

He was a ghost among the living.

Invisible and escaping

Of sight.

Nowhere to be seen.

"This is DusGoria, Huh? Pfft, I thought it would be more 'grand.'"

"Save your bickering for another time, boy. We've come for one thing in particular, remember..!"

Two unknown... people?! Arrived. Among the onslaught

Hidden, but visible.

Cloaked in a robe covering their neck and face, up to their noses.

One had a bigger figure than the other. Muscular from the sounds of it.

He was broad, striking.

I hoped he had been on our side,

And not theirs...

Both of them for that matter.

"We can find it in this damned 'Kingdom' if we keep looking..."

"You bettered be right or I'll have the clean the blood off your body."

A scout was hidden beside these two people. Still unknown of their characters or reasons for being here. All he had to go off of was that the kingdom was being attacked. So these two... were not friends of ours.

"Huh?"

But he was noticed...

"Looks like a spy to me!"

"Fresh meat! Hahaha!"

The larger stranger laughed in a taunting way which shown intimidation, with grunting and hefty breathing.

But who was the other stranger?

A tall person. Clever and extremely well experienced with a blade.

A danger to the kingdom.

Even him alone would have caused enough trouble for us.

"Tell us... why are you here?"

"You're intruders!"

*gulping*

"Ah would you look at that! He's scared of you Cleo!"

We learned the tall intruders name.

"Why would you say my name in front of a spy you dimwit?!"

When they turned around, our scout was gone. He made it away thanks to the two strangers arguing.

"Urgh, I'm sorry Cleo."

"Think before you speak you batholith!"

What's a batholith?

Cleo was calling him fat...

Oh. Haha.

So... where did the scout go?

The scout made it back to the kingdom, once he was behind the skying walls of peace - he informed the guards of the information he had now possessed.

"I need to talk to the king about this!"

"The king is not here! He's gone! No one knows where he is!"

A guard said in a panicked manner

"Surely someone knows?!"

He exclaimed

Then rumbling was heard...

Voices from a distance....

"Here we are!"

Silence.

Hearts beating.

This was the only thing heard in that moment.

The beating almost echoed due to nothing else being paid attention to!

Then the rumbling started again.

*Whispering*

"The walls are shaking..."

"Be quite!"

Trying to speak softly, they shared their concerns...

"Huh?"

But our guards were too loud. Panic struck through them.

Within moments, the two men climbed the walls.

"Peekaboo!"

The large stranger shouted

Now trembling, the guards took their stances in defence.

"We will not let you enter this kingdom! This is the end of your invasion!"

"Hey! Did you hear that Cleo? They think this is an invasion!"

"They are not well informed it would seem..."

"What do you mean?"

The guards asked surprisingly

"We were paid for this... that's all you shall know."

What do you mean it wasn't an invasion?

Then... who were they?

You'll soon find out.

With Cleo's command, he ordered his companion to slay our guards.

"Kill them."

"Gladly."

With a few swings of his mace, our guards were defeated.

They put up a fight, but were severely overmatched.

"What now Cleo?"

"We keep searching. The child must be in the royal chambers."

Child? Why are they looking for a child?

They're monsters, that's why.

With the invasion still happening, people screamed for help as their family's were being brutalised.

"WHERE IS OUR KING?"

"WHERE OH WHERE MUST HE BE?"