Our first
Fiction Friday is here!
I am so excited to share with you all today. I have been working on a new Fantasy since early this year, I am just about to sum up the last few scenes. I thought it would be fun to let you all in on a small scene.
This excerpt involves a father, blinded by his duty and commitment, turning against his family in search of the true Chosen One to rule the Realm. He does not realize he is in fact injuring the very people he seeks to protect as he helps a wicked ruler take control.
~Family Betrayal~
The door behind Samuel
kicked inward and slapped him hard knocking him into the table. He looked up in shock as four soldiers of the council entered, stern
faced and determined. They instantly headed for him and he put up little defense as they roughly took hold of him.
“So now our father will
even treat his own son as a criminal.” Samuel seethed at Emily were
she stood mute, face set with no emotion.
“When a son acts like
one he must be treated as one.” Rainer's voice snarled as he
stepped into the cottage.
Samuel caught his eyes and
glared at him angrily wondering what to say to such a turn of events.
“Where is the girl?”
Rainer stormed up to Samuel and towered over him.
Samuel tried pulling from
the grip of the two guards. His father gripped him by the chin with
his gloved fingers forcing Samuel to face him.
“I said, where is she?”
he yelled into his sons face, eyes blazing as he glared at him.
Samuel tried pulling his
face from his father, but Rainer's grip was tight. Samuel relented to simply staring back unable to move and refusing to speak. He glanced back at Emily
who looked more concerned then before, where she stood against the
wall watching.
Rainer snarled as he ripped
his hand away from Samuel. His fist came up hard into Samuel's stomach. He gasped in shock and pain as he doubled over, unable to
fall from the guards iron grip on him. He groaned as he tried pulling
himself up. He caught sight of Emily's horror stricken face just as
he felt another stab of pain slap him hard against the face.
“What did you do with
the girl?” Rainer stormed yelling over Samuel's hunched form.
The guard next to Samuel let
a fist out at him and smacked it against his eye. Samuel relaxed in the
guards grip unable to fall as the blood began streaming down the side
of his face, gashed from the guards metallic glove. He could slightly see out of it as
Rainer stormed out of the cottage following guards who were sure to
find Luna.
The guards holding Samuel
quickly bound his hands behind him struggling to keep him standing as
they did so. At last they finished at let him drop to the ground. He
buried his face in his knees as he struggled to contain the confusion
in his head. He could here a slight sob from Emily, and he turned to
look up at her. She covered her mouth with her hands and cried softly
as the guards stood over him.
“Emily.” Samuel
whispered as he cringed, fighting the nausea.
She stepped forward a little
but kept her distance from the guards, “I am sorry, Samuel. I am so
sorry. I had to.” she gasped in her tears, “I had no choice. I
had to.”
Samuel groaned and buried
his head back into his knees, pulling at the ropes that bound his
wrist. “I know, Sis. I know.” he assured her with a moan.
He heard heavy footsteps
approaching the door, they soon stomped into the cottage on the old wood
floor. Samuel could see his father's boots in the doorway. He pulled
himself up to look at his father who stood just inside the cottage, grim
looking.
“Where is she?” he
questioned with a hiss.
“Father, please.”
Samuel moaned, “Why are you being so blind?”
Rainer frowned deeper and
marched up to him, “She is nowhere on the property so far as my
men can tell.” he stated, “Where did she go?”
Samuel shook his head, “If
I knew I still would never tell you.”
He watched through his
cracked eyelid that was still seeping blood, as his father marched up
to him, “Ember knows.” he muttered down at his son, “You know
it. He knows where she would go.”
“Ember and I hardly even
know the girl.” Samuel called after his father as he turned to
leave.
“Then why in the name of
the Realm are you hiding her?” Rainer yelled at him with a snarl.
“Because, she is Chosen,
she must not be hurt.” Samuel whispered up at his father who was
breathing heavily.
“Are you saying... She
is the Chosen One for.... for the anointing?” his father asked with
a quiver in his voice mixing with anger and shock.
“Ember knew she was, he
needs to keep her safe. Ulrica has passed down the appointing and
Ember knows.” Samuel winced as he spoke watching the horror of rage
light his fathers face.
“He obviously does not
for he will not anoint the one who should be King!” Rainer screamed
at last into his sons face, “How can a boy like him have any idea
of who should be the anointed. How can you make such statements so as
to claim a orphan rat like her is to be.... anointed?”
“Because Ulrica knew she
would come.” Samuel whispered.
He starred into his fathers
blazing eyes begging for a heart change as they stared at each other.
His father straightened and starred down at him, “Ulrica was a
fool. Now he has led my son down his same path.” he waved a hand at
the guards as he turned to leave, “Put him with the other one.”
They pulled Samuel to his
feet and dragged him out of the cottage behind his father. Samuel
could see little from his damaged eye but could see with his other clear one that the sun was nearly set completely. Only a faint hint of it's
light crested the hill where his flock stood watching the group at
the cottage. Emily's soft sobbing could be heard in the cottage as
the door was shut behind them. Samuel cried out inside, wondering
where in the name of the Realm, Luna had escaped to.
~
Make sure you check in next week for another Fiction Friday!
-Melody
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