Chapter 11 Separate Ways 10

• ❤️❤️ Separate Ways (Part 10) ❤️❤️
• Warlord Emera was out of his seat and ran inside together with Emperor Ariadne. They ran towards Rumi room and the sight that welcomed them was terrifying. They saw Rumi covered in blood. Crying and pointing at the horrifying sight. The wall that led outside and which was conjoined with the room window was broken into many pieces.
• At that moment, Warlord Emera noticed the guards hurrying past him and running outside the now broken wall. Hoping they would catch whoever did it.
• Warlord Emera couldn't believe his eyes, he went to the scattered and fallen pieces of Grace and tears began to roll from his eyes.
• "What happened? Who did this to my mother?" Juno demanded.
• "I w-as ab-out t-o e-at t-he so-up mo-ther bro-ught t-o m-e wh-en so-me peo-ple co-ver-ed in bl+ack ma-sks al-l jum6ped fro-m t-he win-dow. Th-ey we-re loo-king fo-r so-me-one an-d wh-en mot-her tri-ed t-o st-op th-em. Th-ey di-d th-at t-o he-r. I tr-ied to fi-g-ht th-em bu-t....th-ey we-re mu-ch and co-uld-n't st-op th-em. I a-m so-rry I fai-led y-ou fa-th-er," Rumi said in a convincing tone as she started crying. She fainted afterwards and the female servants there started to stop the blood. They carried her out of the room.
• They believed her. She was gravely injured.
• "Please leave us," Warlord Emera said in a hoarse tone. "please."
• Emperor Ariadne understood his friend.
• "I am deeply sorry for your loss old friend. If there is anything you want don't hesitate to tell me," Emperor Ariadne said and only received a short nod from Warlord Emera. "Come on Storm, let's go home." he added and left with Storm.
• The guards who had gone out all returned with no positive trail. It was a dead end.
• Warlord Emera couldn't leave the room as he continued to stare at his wife's body. Juno went to her room and locked herself in it. Hardly does she cried. But this really shook her as she couldn't control her tears.
• Why her mother? Why her?
• None of the households in Warlord Emera House slept that night. Rumi still hasn't woken up.
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• Emperor Ariadne Palace: Ariadne Room;
• Emperor Ariadne and Empress Rose were seen seated closely to each other on the bed.
• "I can't believe this, Ariadne. So my friend Grace is really dead?" Queen Rose said. "How could they be so wicked to dismember her body in that way. I hope Emera will have caught them by now." she added in concern.
• "I hope so too. I haven't seen him sad for a long time."
• "This means that no one is safe. If they could break into his house even with his heavily guarded guards around then they could easily break into this Palace." Queen Rose told her husband.
• "They won't, I have my Ninja assassin's with me all the time and they are always here protecting my children and us." Emperor Ariadne assured his wife.
• "Speaking of children, when are you taking that disgusting thing out of this Palace before it becomes too late."
• "Rose, get out of my room before I strangle you to death with my bare hands."
• Knowing that her husband wasn't joking, she quietly stood up and left the room in an angry manner.
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• Early the next morning Storm had woken up. The room he had first spent the night in was now his. The royal tailor had come and measured him before bringing his new clothes to him that same day. Opening where he had seen the maid putting the clothes, he took a pair and wore it. Looking very princely in it. He combed his washed hair and left it.
• Leaving his room he remembered the way to his father's room and knocked on the door. He opened it when his father said whoever it is should come in.
• "What is it, Son? Are you hungry?" Emperor Ariadne asked, sitting upright in his bed.
• "No, I'm not hungry yet Papa. I want to visit Juno so I am here to seek your permission. I won't try to run away," Storm said.
• "You have my permission but you will have to take some guards with you for security purposes. You haven't mastered the art of fighting yet."
• "I know Papa. Thank you. When I return I will eat," Storm said with a large smile.
• "Okay, tell Juno father I will be visiting him late in the afternoon," Emperor Ariadne said and called a guard to tell him to arrange some guards for Storm.
• "I will Papa," Storm said excitedly and left his father's room with the guard. He left the palace with ten guards.
• They were almost half way to Warlord Emera House when they met Juno and some of her guards blocking the road.
• "I know you would come, that's why I am here," Juno said to him.
• "I came to see you Juno, to keep you company. I am so sorry about your Mama," Storm said as he walked closer to Juno.
• "If it wasn't for you, my mother wouldn't have died. My father and I could have been there to save her."
• "I didn't do anything Juno," he said when he reached her and gently placed his hands on her shoulder.
• "You did, if you had kept quiet about the Dwarfs, none of us could have left the house and left my mother at the mercy of her Killers. You hideous Storm killed my mother."
• That stopped Storm from breathing a while.
• "I am sorry Juno, please forgive me. It was my fault. I should have kept my mouth shut."
• "Yeah, so you will also forgive me for doing this to you too," Juno said to him and without warning slash her sharp fingernails into his face, her nails tearing some part of his left cheek open. The blood pouring out from his left cheek which stained his clothes didn't stop Juno from punching him. Venting all her anger on him. She pushed him to the ground and continued.
• None of the guards that followed him tried to stop Juno, they didn't want her to break any part of their body so they stood and watched.
• When she had made Storm's handsome face bloody, she looked at him with hatred and disgust. "I don't want to ever see you near my house or around me again." She warned him and stared at his guards. "Take this sorry excuse of a black beast and get out of here before I kill him."
• One hurriedly picked up Storm and they all ran back to the palace.
• As soon as they were out of sight, the guards with Juno started fading one after the other. Juno smirked devilishly as her face began to change from Juno to Rumi.