??? Pov(Third person point of view)
"Did you not hurt him as I asked?" A commanding female voice echoed through the throne room, cold and unforgiving. The queen sat on her throne, a figure of dark beauty. Twin tails of bck hair with small pieces of yellow hair cascaded behind her, and a single ruby-red eye gleamed with quiet fury while her other eye was hidden beneath her bangs.
A man wearing military clothes stod before her, the isignia with a bird marking his rank. He hesitated before answering.
"My apologies my queen we tried to not harm him, but...he was very difficult"
The queens gaze sharpened. "Don't you dare bme him. Besides..." Her coice dropped, dangerously soft. "you had been hiding some key details from me, havent you" She leaned forward. "Did you think I wouldnt find out?"
The general swallowed hard. "My dy, I-"
"Do not apologize to me for your inadequacy General, did you not hear what I said before you left!?", the queen spoke: pissed.
The general swallowed hard. "My dy I...."
“I gave you clear orders,” she snapped. “I told you he wouldn’t harm you, even in chains. And yet you not only restrained him with brutality—you used an eldritch staff to tase him.” Her voice turned lethal, cold, and murderous. “Do you take me for a fool, General?”
The mans composure cracked. "N..No of course not my dy, I-"
"Then why," she interrupted, her voice like a bde. "did i see footage of you and your men unleashing tanks on him- right after he saved your fucking ass from one of the eldritch deities!?"
The general flinched. "I....Your right. Its my fault. I couldnt control my mens fear of him. Even knwoing he wouldnt hurt us, ....its his appearance my dy....I dont know why, but his horrific aura had a horrible mental effect on my men... instincts told us to hurt him...and... it didnt even feel like us."
“Excuses.” The queen’s voice trembled with restrained rage. Then she paused. “…But if what you’re saying is true… then the rumors are right. That thing cursed him even in death…” She clenched her fists, whispering, “That Motherfucker… Even now, he torments the man I adore.”
Silence.
The general lowered his head "My dy...I-"
"Be quiet....I dont want to hear anymore excuses....you and your men will be punished for hiding key details such as your fuckery of messing up my orders...leave before I decide to permanently strip you of your status or even putting you on an executioners list. You are temporaily on leave for 6 months and you will not be able to use your status in any way during these 6 months"
The general bowed low, his voice ced with gratitude and shame. "Thank you for your mercy, my queen."
"Is he still in the box?", the queen asked with a rare hint of worry despite the cold tone her voice exudes.
"...yes...he....all i can say is thank the gods we didnt inflict much pain to him before sealing him inside."
"Leave. All of you. Now."
Now alone, the queen approached
At her command, her guards, her soldiers, and even the maids quickly bowed and left the pce.
"Well then....its been years huh..100 years, 6 months, the 20th day, and 13 hours in, 56 minutes and 23 seconds-exactly." Her voice trembled. "Tell me….am I so useless in your eyes that you didnt ask me for my help when you returned.....please tell me...Val....am I no longer someone dependable in your eyes? Do you.... hate me for being unable to save you before you died", The queen spoke to the box as her voice trembles.
With inhuman strength, she tore open the box as if desperate to see whats inside.
The stench of decay and death filled the room, but she didn’t flinch. Ignoring the corpse’s rotted flesh, she reached inside and pulled it close, holding it as if it were merely asleep. Its attire was tattered—a long coat over damaged knight’s armor, a shattered mask revealing a single empty socket where an eye once rested. The left gauntlet was broken, exposing decayed, bckened skin.
"Wake Up! Wake up!" Her voice broke. "I pnned so many years to revive you and you think I would let this just end?!"
As the queen shook the corpse while she trembles herself....the empty socket over where the left eye is on the corpse slowly opens up revealing a bck and red spiral eye. The bck and red spiral eye stares at the beautiful ruby gem like eye of the queen and gets stiff.
Her lips curled into a smirk, though her voice trembled with raw emotion. "Oh, yeah. It’s me. What’s up? No words? No ‘Sorry I died’? Or let me guess—you woke up and immediately got to work without even considering asking me for help."
The corpse squirmed as if stating that to the queen that it had no choice.
"And dont think you can escape...even if you cant talk, I can still know what your saying without you even saying anything fool"
The corpse tilted its head as if stating that it never had the idea to escape from the queen.
The beautiful queen sighed and gave a groan.
She sighed, pressing her forehead against the cold, armored chest. "Of course, you’d say that. Why am I not surprised? Maybe I should punish you... chain you to my bedchamber? Or better yet—"
The corpse squirmed in her arms, wordlessly pleading against the idea.
A chuckle escaped her lips. "Fine, fine. But you’d better tell me everything. From the very beginning."
"Tell me... was it really your idea to hunt eldritch deities, dismantle the forces of light and dark, and challenge all of creation itself using only your soul? Don’t think I haven’t done my homework. I know damn well this world is corrupted beyond repair. That’s why you’re here, isn’t it? Why I exist at all. My blood is proof of this world’s twisted fate.
"You’re trying to stop something, aren’t you? Or more accurately... you’re preparing to fight everything. Just to protect me."
Her voice softened to a whisper as she tenderely pced a hand on the mask. "Don’t think I don’t know... My very existence was an anomaly from the beginning. Wasn’t it. Why did the original heroes and vilins of this world perish when they weren’t meant to? Tell me, Val... what are you hiding from me?"
Author note: Please write what you all think in the comments about the prologue so i know what to improve on and how all of you think of this. Please give any corrections or criticism so I may improve myself in grammer, writing, and wording. Also this story I am writing is a way for me to also learn and use new words so I can also improve making sentences and improve my own vocabury. You can also add in the comments words you feel like that would make the story even more enticing and more enjoyable. If possible, an example of how a word is used can also help effectively help improve my own writing. Also I dont know if I will continue writing this story or not, but I will do my best to continue the story. If I show any inconsitency in me uploading any of the chapters, its mainly me studying for my exams or te night HW. This is my very first story so it may be terrible just to let you know. But despite it all, thank you for your patience with me and I hope you enjoy reading the story as you all continue to correct me on my mistakes. Also I would like to hear from your experience as to whether a story is more interesting if its a First person point of view or a third person point of view. Or both in that matter.
