8: Parental overrule

As it came to the time for the students to slumber, Reyna and Avery were alerted that they had intruders in the school grounds. They both went to the school gates together only to see that it was their parents. Avery's parents shook their heads seeing what had happened to their eldest son.

"Why didn't you leave with your siblings?" His mother said with a sad sigh

"Mother, I don't want to take after father! I am nothing like him! I cannot express myself in the kingdom that he has laid out. I refuse to go through with the same type of nonsense that he has forced upon the younger ones onto me! Here I can be myself and I am with someone that cares for me for myself. Not just because of me being a damn wraith!" Avery said as he placed a hand on his chest firmly

"You are the eldest which means you are going to be king! You are going to need to deal with that!" His father said sternly

Avery pulled Reyna closely to him by her waist. "I don't care. I love Reyna! I refuse to leave her just because you guys want me to be miserable with someone who doesn't care for me!"

Reyna looked up at the male stunned, she didn't expect him to say that he loved her. Reyna then looked at her parents. "Why are you two here, you two have no reason to be here."

"We were told by many that you have been taking up a roll as a death queen here. If you are to be royalty then you are to come home and go through the trial to be the queen of your true kingdom!" Her father hissed annoyed

Reyna shook her head as she held onto Avery tightly. "This is where I belong! Had you two truly believed in me then you two wouldn't have placed me and the rest of my siblings in this slaughter house! Do you know just how many of my siblings and cousins I've had to see get killed because you all chose to place us here?!"

Her father was irate and went up to her, as he went to take the crown from her head his hand turned to bone as he got close to the crown. As he pulled his hand back it went back to normal. "Take that damn fucking thing off you bitch! You are just a fucking child! You are no queen!"

"I highly doubt that, to be a queen I need to have people who will obey me and my rules. I must have people who respect me and will do as I say. I can tell you that I have more people who will respect and obey me than you will ever have respect and obey you father." Reyna said seriously

"I doubt you have anyone who'd ever want to follow you."

Reyna let out a loud hysterical laugh as she held her sides. "Oh you're funny father! Allow Avery and I to show the four of you just how many people respect us and follow us. Come tomorrow morning you will see just what type of kingdom this place is."

Zavier glared at Reyna. "I don't believe that you have what it takes to be Queen, so I will see what you speak of. But you must promise me that if there is at least one person who does not follow you-you will come home!"

Reyna shrugged. "If the crown allows me to leave...sure. I'll work with that."

The two of them allowed their parents to stay in one of the buildings for the night. As morning came around Reyna went to the intercom room and she made a rather loud announcement for everyone to hear.

|Attention all prey and reapers, everyone is to meet in the cafeteria for a morning meeting. Will Kayla and Ruby go to the infirmary and get the four that are there. Be sure that the wounded are treated properly and are not wounded anymore than they already are-thank you.|

When Reyna finally made her way to the cafeteria, no one spoke as they saw the king and queen of Oakheart and Militia on the side of the room with their arms crossed. Reyna stood beside Avery as the other reapers were standing silently on either side of them.

"Good morning all, as you all should be aware. We have four people who have made themselves known from the kingdom of Oakheart and Militia. My dearest father believes that I should leave this place and go back to Militia since he doesn't believe that there are those who are loyal to me. I wish to prove him wrong. All of those who wish to stay here and remain loyal stand up and go to the left side. Those who wish to leave go to the right side. There will be no judgement one way or another, just know if prey goes to the right they must forfeit what they've found and the items will be rescattered and a new prey will be picked out in their place. You all may now move to the left or right."

All of them got up and moved to the left side of the room without a word, Reyna smiled as she saw what had happened. Not one person chose to go to the right side which made her rather happy. She then looked at her father. "As you can see everyone here is loyal to me, which is more than I can say you've ever had be loyal to yourself."

Her father growled out angered. "This is bull shit! I can't believe you've made a kingdom out of nothing!"

"This isn't nothing! Allow me to place this out there. If your beloved 'angel' of a daughter Astra hadn't been such a bitch to people-I wouldn't have had to do this. I would have let everyone go and they would have gone home without a worry and care in the world. But that wouldn't have made you happy would it? A new kingdom that is stronger than your own." Reyna said before she looked to the left of her. "Joel and Amber please come forth."

The two came forth and Reyna went up to the two of them. "How many items have you both found?"

"Seven." Amber stated

"Seven."Joel stated

Reyna's eyes lit up happily. "Oh good! You two were quick! Now here's what I will do. If you two can properly match the item to the person I will dissolve the kingdom of the dead and everyone will be allowed to leave today. But if now you two will be killed and the items rescattered. deal?"

Both of them nodded their heads and the two of them placed the items out one by one as the reapers stood on either side of the table with their hands behind their backs. The first to guess was Amber, she gave a wand to Reina, a blue book to Julia, a vile to Nala, a dagger to Toro, a short sword to Shadow, a bracelet to Avery and the pendant to Reyna.

Reyna made no notion as to whether she was right or not until Joel had made his choices. Joel gave Melody a pink notebook, a bottle of strawberry milk to Kayla, a silver ring to Kalin, a red and pink book to Jayden, a choke collar to Hyun, a black binder to Axe and a rose necklace to Ruby. Reyna then clapped her hands as she wore her pendant once more. "Well done the both of you, even though it's a pity that I couldn't kill Joel for following in the foot steps of Astra-A deal is a deal." Reyna said before she took the crown off of her head

As she did so, she saw that those who were reapers turn back to their usual selves once more. Reyna then looked at Avery. "I apologize for this...our parents are cruel and will probably never allow us to be around one another Avery."

"That's a given fact, but it doesn't have to be that way."

She looked at him confused. "What do you mean?"

He pulled her into him and the two of them teleported elsewhere. Reyna had held onto him for dear life until their feet had hit the ground once more. Reyna looked around and nothing looked familiar to her. "W-Where are we?"

"It's an old temple of sorts, this is the temple of the goddess Tina. She should be able to help us out, we just need something of magical property to be able to get her to be summoned." Avery stated

Reyna looked down at her pendant and sighed out. "This pendant should be able to do the trick...it's how I masked that I was half angel, half demon." She said as she took it off of her