The card game

WARNING: This chapter depicts gruesome and bloody scenes which might be seen as triggers.

Batria P.O.V

Getting back to Neodessa, Toketa isn't at the throne but probably at the room i hate the most, The Torture Room.

I knocked then walked right in, spotting her torturing him, he is chained to the wall, he'll probably lose conciousness soon with all the blood he has lost.

"Batria you're back" she gives a wicked dark smile.

"Yes My Queen" I bowed.

"Seeing you came to this room willingly and interrupted me, you must have good news to tell". She walks towards me in her blood stain flowing gown.

"I found the Princesses". I muttered

She holds me by neck, chocking me as she lifts me up above the ground.

"Did you just call them 'Princesses'?, how disloyal you are, seems you no longer know who your master is" she sends me flying across the room as she flings my entire body away, my back hits the wall, spilling blood from my mouth.

She walks up to me as she slightly cracks her neck,

"Darling, you need to be punished for the interrupting me" she uses her long sharp nails and cuts her wrist.

"Open up" she orders

I open my mouth as she drips her blood into my mouth, countless times have a tasted it but still not used to the traumatizing effect, it hurts, it burns my throat, like a thousand needle pricking my skin as i'm being burnt by her invisible flame.

"Next time you mention the word Princess, I will drown you in my blood and watch you shrivel and die". She walks back to him, he whimpers and the clanging sound from the chains make my body hurt more, it's painful, I don't want to take anymore of her blood, though it gives more power it also kills me, it hurts like I'm been turned inside out.

"Master, make it stop, please!" I cried out.

She turns to me,

"I just increased the dose by a drop and you act this weak in my presence, how pitiable!". she looks at me in disgust.

"You must be so delighted hearing your pretty daughters are alive",

"But it's a shame you won't be able to see them judging by how I gouged your eyes out, Brother!". She laughs out menacingly.

The king seems lifeless and useless as he kneels on his pool of blood, in a room cover with the trails of his blood, with the eerie candles around the room that flickers green light, I hate the very existence of this room.

"Brother should we play a game?, it would be a very fun game" she bends over as she touches his face.

"I'll show you a card sheet, and you guess the colour and if you don't, I have no idea what I'll do to you".

She's a lunatic who toys with people's body in very painful ways.

"Toketa... no matter how much power you gain, when they revive you can't stop them, you maybe stronger than humans, stronger than monsters but you'll never be stronger than a goddess".

"Brother that's not part of the game, don't interrupt me" she slaps him.

"Shall we begin, BROTHER".

"Why are you doing this, just kill me, you have the kingdom, my daughters have no reason to come back, just let me go" he pleads.

She drew her hair pin as she stabs right in his eye socket making a squishy sound, he immediately releases a loud scream as he fell on his back.

"Foolish brother, you really think I'll let you go easily, just focus on keeping me entertained, now let's begin our game".

She pulls out a red card,

"Now brother, what colour am I holding up".

he stayed quiet...

"You're testing my patience, Brother!!!".

"Re... Red, it's red" he groans in pain.

"For guessing the colour right, I'll take out the hair pin from your eye socket" she pulls it out as he cries in more pain, blood gushing out.

"Next... what colour is this?" she pulls out another card.

"Toketa let me be, I can't see, I feel dizzy, I've lost a lot of blood and I'm feeling so much pain, I just want to die, how can you do this to your brother?". he cries out, begging for her to end him.

"Since the day you tried to kill me, you became nothing but my plaything, but still I expected a little more fun from you" she picks up the steel rope as she strikes him over and over again, till it was covered in his blood.

She finally lets him be, after he lost conciousness.

"If I go further he might die, call the doctor and get him treated, I'll visit him tomorrow morning,"

"Yes my Queen" I bowed

"Now for the important news, where exactly did you find my dear nieces?".

"In the Empire of Ztoa".

She looks at me from the corner of her eyes.

"Foolish girl, I know it's the Empire, I mean where exactly in the empire?".

My body twitches when she calls me foolish.

"I saw them at the banquet, The King's birthday".

"Do you think they've revived their powers?". she asked.

"Yes... I sensed a bit of mana in the brown haired one with blue eyes but it's still very weak".

"Ohh, that's the one with the power Lial, the strongest one",

"Seems our dear Princesses needs to come home now, they've been away for too long" she smirks

"I have new things to check on, come to the dark room after you're done with him" she points at her brother's unconscious body.

"Yes My Queen"

She walks out gracefully, her black gown flowing down to the ground as it mops up the blood from her brother.