CHAPTER 9: A LONG AGO TALE ii

Just like her mother,Atlenna had a long set of deep curled wavy hair flowing till her waist. After her mother,the witch's queen's death Atlenna was supposed to ascend her mother's thrown but having being married to a king and already a queen,she didn't and so the witches were left without a leader causing a little rivalry between vampires and witches.

Shortly after the next year,to everyone's surprise Queen Atlenna took in,it was impossible!!! ,It had never been heard in the whole of history where a demon and a witch would meet and produce an offspring. Queen Alexa offcourse was the very first person to point fingers and accuse Atlenna of infidelity and in the blink of an eye,the news spread like wild fire all through the 12 kingdoms but King Zeus never gave a damn as to what everyone said,he knew and trusted his wife and so he helped her in the nurturing of her pregnancy.

But soon after,9 months passed,10 and 11 but still the queen was yet to fall into labor.Alexa took on it again saying that she never really was pregnant in the first place and that she'd only cast a spell to make her tummy protrude,this again caused Queen Atlenna nights of sorrows and pain as she prayed to her god to make her fall into labor.

Late on the 11th month,the vampire prophetess was summoned to for see and tell as to why queen Atlenna was yet to fall into labor but to their utmost disappointment the prophetess couldn't see anything.

They all resumed their daily works, hoping and praying for the best.

A week later,it was exactly 12:00 am when Atlenna fell into labor, King Zeus was quick to summon the palace's midwives who had long been on standby since on the ninth month.

The delivery process was quite long but atlas,she came out, a beautiful baby girl with stern and sharp hazel eyes and with a rare hair color only possessed by possible future queens,they all at once assumed that she'd taken after her mother's powers.

But After the delivery,the midwives noticed something disturbing about the baby, she had no warmth at all ,it didn't even seem she'd been in the womb all these while,she was as cold as ice. This got King Zeus and Atlenna so worried for their baby, they tried all possible means of warming her up but all to no avail,she remained as cold as snow.

King Zeus panicked and summoned the prophetess once more, thinking the reason his baby was this cold was one of the reparcutions of he and his wife's powerful union.

King Zeus handed his newborn into the hands of the old prophetess who held her and shook her head in disbelief,after a moment,a sly smile crept on her lips before she returned the baby. The priestess looked up disturbed as she held on to her staff shaking her head in negativity.

Queen Atlenna who was alredy in tears became impatient to know what the prophetess had seen but she with held herself to wait for the elderly woman to speak,after a moment,she began still looking upwards.

"Yes it is true that the princess would grow in beauty power and wisdom,she is extraordinary after all " King Zeus was about to smile. " But!!!!!" She continued. " Evil lies in the end of the tunnel for her if she doesn't find redemption before her time on the surface is up "

"W-what do you mean priestess" Atlenna cried out, unable to comprehend the things they were saying about her daughter

The elderly woman turned to face her " Your daughter is an half demon!!!!" She confessed and King Zeus and Queen Atlenna looked like their souls had just left their body, seeing them in a shocked state,the woman began to say the good parts of it. ". She shall be of immense power,nation's would bow ,fear and respect her for her power for she yields a kind of power that no one has ever possessed but as she turns 19". She paused and then continued. " She shall transform into a full demon form on the night of the blood moon" she finally confessed and Atlenna was quick to burst into tears while King Zeus looked emotional shaken.

"It was inevitable your majesty, because of your union, you and the queen were way too powerful too meet,you two are also pure blooded royals your majesty,what did you expect"

King Zeus fought back and tried to hold his tears at the thought that their union was the cause of this. " Is there no other way out of this priestess"

"Uhmm,your majesty there is but one way,just like you the princess has to fall in love before 19,she reeks of too much power which is a threat to the surface and without love to leash and tame her,she'd become a full demon beast on the night of the blood moon and the gates of hell would suck her in, don't be surprised if I tell you she is currently the biggest threat to this world right now, although not now but in the future"

"What are the chances of her falling in love Priestess" King Zeus asked

"None your highness, nothing can be guaranteed for a half demon with the powers of a vampire and a witch,I swear to you my Lord I have never seen or heard of such,but then if she doesn't do the needful before 19 her transformation is inevitable and you know the form in which a demon takes" she paused as her eyes constricted of horror " you know very well your majesty that if you hadn't met with the queen in time,the same would have happened to you,I will take your leave now your highness" the priestess said before exiting the Court yard.

Atlenna broke down in tears, after so many years of waiting she finally conceived and bore a child just to be hearing all these,the house of Zeus who was actually supposed to be rejoicing on the birth of the princess actually ended up mourning.

Although the priestess's words were true but that didn't stop Atlenna from trying,she immediately swung into action and started grooming her child with the greatest love life had seen itself,she was determined to puncture her ice cold heart so it would be easy for her to fall in love in the future but Atlenna knew showing her love alone wouldn't be enough so she went extra miles for her.

After seven long years of training with love and affection, Dianne was still the same,the girl Even after spending so much time with her mother didn't feel a tiny winny bit of love towards her,she was all dark and evil and it pleased her to see people die and bad things happen to them. She was overly quiet as well,like an autistic child with no ounce of care or emotions towards anyone.

She wrecked terror and havoc in the twelve kingdoms even at such a tender age and Zeggurat once again retained it's position of the most feared kingdom in the land. As Dianne grew,so did her formidable powers as well as the havocs she created,the girl at a young age developed a form of insatiable blood lust and as time moved,she began to wield the most strongest clips controlled by the most powerful demons on Earth.

But as soon as she clocked 10,she lost her mother and they all knew they were done for,the only person who had been babysitting the wild little beast was gone ,what would happen now.....