"It was your duty to protect the willow wand!" Someone yelled in the indistinct chatter making everyone go quiet.
"We did our best to protect it an-"
"Best?" A man scoffed as he interrupted king Oceanus.
He stood up from his place, appearing the oldest among all because of his white uncombed long beard and moustaches. He was wearing a heavy red cloak with work of diamond while his head was covered with a big crown.
"This...was your best?" He said in a low voice sarcastically making others laugh while The head of this meeting Madame Evangeline and the people of Montiara Kingdom looked down with a bit of guilt in their eyes.
"This time...it was your responsibility to keep it protected from dark or evil forces as we did in our past eras. Do you...think that our ancestors...were a fool to keep it away from everyone?"
Till now he was acting all politely when all of a sudden he banged his fists on the old wooden table and yelled,
"Answer Me!!"
And again all those people who were quite started to chatter and ask questions,
"Yes, yes, tell us!"
"Answer him!"
"You can't hide anything from us!"
Once again the council meeting was in chaos, everyone who was against the Montiara Kingdom got up from their seats and started yelling on the people who were sitting on the right side, belonging to Montiara.
The Amphitheatre had a huge door as an entrance while on the opposite side of the door was sitting the head of the council, Madam Evangeline.
Rest of the sides were filled with people belonging to different royalties. Madam Evangeline sat there being silent as she knew this time, Kingdom Montiara was at fault. She knew that this time she won't be able to defend like that she did in the past, as, it could be clearly seen that carelessness has brought a great disaster in the lives of uncountable civilizations.
Everyone was shouting when all of a sudden someone from the crowd yelled in great pitch,
"Kingdon Montiara is a disgrace!"
At this point, Madame Evangeline's anger burst out and she yelled,
"Enough!"
The whole hall went silent and everyone looked at her.
"It's not a moment to blame each other!" Her voice is now echoing in the hall.
"What happened, happened in the past but now!" She looked at the old man.
"It's time to come up with a solution to stop whomsoever has stolen the wand."
"So...stop fighting like teenagers."
Her voice was bold and dominating enough to take control of the royals of different realms. She stood up from her seat and said,
"Let's call it an end for today."
And she moved further towards the stairs. The long layers of her dark green gown were flowing behind her on the stairs as she kept each step in a hurry but elegantly and carefully. Everyone started leaving the hall along with her.
As she passed by the royals of Montiara, king Oceanus came in front of her, bowed down and said,
"Thank you, Madam Evangeline, for protecting our and Han Gyeol's name."
She looked up through her spectacle and bowed her head a bit and went out of the hall along with two officials.
***
"It wouldn't have happened if...if mother queen was alive." The king Oceanus' wife, Frances said being worried.
"I know, I know, you don't need to mention it," Oceanus said and covered his face with his hands.
"I will never be able to handle this, if just...just the prince was alive..." His inhaled heavily.
"He could've handled everything as your highness used to do in the past."
Frances patted Oceanus' back lightly and said,
"Everything will be fine, it was us who also survived the emergence twenty years ago. We will survive through this too. Don't worry Oceanus."
Oceanus nodded and someone knocked on their chamber.
"Come in!" Francis ordered.
"Queen Francis I..." The official head was panting.
"I...have news from the foreign affair minister, Mr Yun."
"What...what is it?" Oceanus asked as he came forward standing from the sofa.
"Han Gyeol...Han Gyeol is in his realm..."
Oceanus' eyes widened and he looked at Francis while she whispered being afraid,
"Not...not again..."
***
"Where are you?!" He screamed looking the sky.
"Where are you, Kang Yu Jun!"
Standing at the flat railing of the terrace the wind was blowing quite hard making his nose, and ear red. He looked furious as he had been finding him everywhere the whole day. Everywhere Han Gyeol thought he could be hiding, but, to his surprise, he was nowhere to be found.
"I guess..." He was breathing heavily.
"You've disguised yourself very well Kang Yu Jun."
"But you know what!"
"I am HAN GYEOL!!" He yelled.
"Han Gyeol, who...who owns the willow wand!" He yelled out each word being frustrated.
He looked down on the busy roads who didn't even know who on the terrace was watching them. He as he looked, he said,
"Are you there, my brother?"
"Riding in those cars lavishly?"
"I know you are here, I know!" He said and took out the wand from his cuff of the long coat and pointed it above at the sky.
"Let's see how can you hide from the after-effects of this spell." He said and yelled,
"Aufspüren Kang Yu Jun!"
An orangish-yellow colour beam escaped from the wand and got absorbed in the clouds. Soon, a great thunder occurred and lightning strikes one by one.
Everyone looked up in the sky confused about the current weather change occurred suddenly in the evening.
Here Hyun Soo looked out from the glass walls of the cafe and said,
"Ah! What's wrong with this sudden weather change..."
"This isn't good, something evil is coming." Sang Hyeon mumbled within herself.