SWNOVELS Chapter 33
Entry; 13375
Booravia landing
The child
It is a bit of a long journey to this tiny insignificant planet by myself and my three shoulders. We have arrived safely and to none are our disguises known. They actually believe we are who we say we are. Now meeting the queen, I can confirm that she is indeed a fool.
There is a video attached to the file and I clicked on it. I saw the inside of the throne room of my childhood home and my mother and father placed before the men.
"I do not know why my wife has contacted you," my father oh how I missed him, "I can control her just fine there is no need for Commerce interference." he says. He looks over at my mother seated beside him with an uneasy glare that made her squirm a bit.
"All the same I cannot report nothing to my commanders. I must few the child and her powers, if any, and report my findings back to my command. So please if you would may I see her." The man in front speaking must have been the same person who had written the journal entry. I don't really remember much of the group as I watch my guard, the same one that had died for me, enter the room with me.
"Laoonica, sweetie can you do something for daddy?" He asked as I watch my innocent child self-look up at the man I had always loved. I hit the screen pausing it on his face as I wiped my tears from I eyes. I didn't need to finish the video; I knew what happened next. My father made a bee land on me and before its last leg hit my skin a small burst of flames disintegrated the tiny bug.
I turn away from the panel slowly setting it on the control panel in the center of the hologram room. I turn and began to pace back and forth. Was this real? What is all this? The Respites, they have known about me from the start and that meant, Patrick, err, Patrick is a liar. I don't stop my steady pacing with my arm across my stomach and my other bent up with my fingertips resting on my lips. I look back down at the panel read the writing under the frozen video.
It was only later that we found out the extent of what she is through a wise man priest type person who read us the actual prophecy. The prophecy went as follows: to your race she'll be born a child with the powers of the Sun hidden inside. Alone she will be unstable uncontrollable and a source of unending chaos. When she comes of age she must freely give away everything that she is to another. Her body her mind and her soul must connect to another living being. But be warned in the wrong hands she will become a weapon more powerful than any other this universe has ever seen. In the right hands she will become the greatest source of hope and light for all that she serves. This information is most prudent and must immediately be brought to the king's attention. We must be hasty in order for our people to gain control over such a device.
I have never actually heard the entire prophecy only the parts that my father had told me in order to sum it up. Wait, a device, he called me a device. I am a living breathing being not a device. Is this how Patrick sees me as well? I can't help but question his motives now, and worse as the pain in my chest increases at the thought, his love. As I scan through the hundreds of entries my stomach fells ill at the idea that all of this is fake. Nothing that has been said or done on this ship is real. There are several between my mother and the Raspite king. One of these is labeled 'Queen's hired assassin' I click it and it is all I can do not to vomit then and there.
A picture of the man from the other ship and his information lay there on the screen with my mother's signature on the hiring contract there is also a video attached. She has already confessed to this but it is still as heart wrenching as before.
"Are you mad she will kill everyone on that ship if she is attacked?" The king yells at my mother as soon as her face appears on the screen before him.
"Well I have already sent him so it is done and I will not call him off. He will attack during the journey once he is in the middle of neutral space. I would make sure your son isn't anywhere near when it happens her defense mode is quite destructive." She is so cold and uncaring. How could a mother see her child this way?
"I assure you he won't be; he will still be a few days away by the time they reach the spot you have indicated. Your husband and hundreds of innocent people will die, for what?" The king demands.
"Why for diplomacy of course, our planet will forever provide you free and abundant food supplies for simply ridding us of the dangerous creature aboard that vessel." She says unmoved at even the slightest hint of her motherhood.
"You are a cold woman. I will notify you when we have her." The screen of my mother went blank and the Queen of the Respites look at her husband.
"Seems we are doing this poor child a favor." The screen went black after her words.
My own mother, my head is spinning out of control. I have to turn away and lean my back against the control panel post. What is Patrick's role in all of this? I set back up and look for any entries that have Patrick listed as the contributor. I saw one, 'conversation with Booravia queen.' I click it to find it is another video.
"You're Majesty." Patrick greeted my mother.
"Well, well you certainly are a looker aren't you Prince Patrick. Well is my feeble minded daughter in love with you yet?" My mother wasn't anything that I thought she was. She is horrifying.
"I am doing my best, she is reluctant in opening her trust, and her emotions although she seems to be breaking." The look on his face is somewhat worried. Or so I thought but I am apparently a bad judge of people.
"Make up something tragic. Show her your softer side let her see that you can care about something other than your Raspite self." She says coldly. He sneers at her assumption of his people.
"You are a cruel and heartless woman." He says.
"Find a way to make her love you or send her to an isolated pile of dirt floating endlessly and space. Either way I don't care she isn't coming here or is it perhaps something else? Have you fallen in love with her?" He doesn't answer he just looks at her for a second.
"Are you sure this is the only way?" He asks finally.
"Yes it is the only way to get it done." An abrupt knock at the door and the recording ends. I quickly scan through some more entries and see one labeled 'faked dream'. Do I dare open it? Do I really want to see more of this horrific layout of my life that has been altered to fit their needs?
I look at the screen for what seems like forever trying to decide rather or not to push play. I finally do and I see myself sleeping, only to see after a few minutes Patrick walk in and inject me with something as I slept. The doctor then came to the door with her medical board and I am placed upon it while she and Patrick lead me down to the elevator. They proceed to make their way to the hologram room and pull me off of the board then injected me with something Else. This must have been to wake me up as a stir and leave the room quickly. I remember the dream as it plays out before my eyes. It is the one where my father had come back to me and said that it was okay to be with Patrick.
I watch in horror as the dream played out just how I remembered it. There was a strange gas that is released into the room and in a few minutes I fall back asleep on the floor. I watch as they drug me back down to my room and tuck to me back into bed. At this point I am not even sure if Patrick's father is really dead. I just stare blankly at the screen for a second and then I hold it in my hand as I stand up and walked around the room. I am so angry and hurt and so unsure of anything that is going on around me. I heard the door slide open without hesitation the glass panel that was in my hand went flying in the direction of the door missing Patrick by a mere centimeter.
"Well um..." He says looking at me.
"You are a liar a disgusting fat liar." I scream at him. "You knew who I was the whole time." He had tricked me into falling in love with him. To be honest I'm not sure if I am hurt more at the fact that I was trick or at the fact that I have truly fallen in love with him.
"I was looking for that." Patrick says as he looks down at the shattered panel that had merely missed his head by a few inches. The screen is cracked into a thousand pieces and displayed his face pause in pieces on the floor.
"This whole time you knew who I was this whole time everything you said to me was a trick." I say as I stare at him angrily.
"Yes I'm a liar and use every trick I could think of to make you fall in love with me." He comes towards me as I back away. He presses the button and the room is just an empty open space again. "Let us be honest with ourselves, I didn't have to try very hard. From the first moment you woke up in the hospital bay you felt something for me." He says smugly.
"I didn't even know you then. I felt nothing for you, and I wish I didn't know." I reply as I can feel the anger and my powers growing within me.
"If you didn't feel anything for me then how was it able to calm you? How did I stop you from killing my sister?" He asks. He still has this look in his eyes, and it angered me even more. I am attracted to him even now, but I'm not going to admit that at this point. I want to unleash all of my anger on him. The fact that I have grown up being taught to hold everything in as much as possible somewhat prevents me from doing so. I guess it is still in me to hold it in, or worse. I look at him as the thought entered my mind I try to hold back my fear that it is Patrick who is causing me to hold back.
He tries to move towards me, with every step he takes toward me I take two away from him. I didn't want him to touch at this point. I have given myself to him only to find out too late the truth behind it all. It is a lie; my mother is right I am a foolish child. Why is all of this happening? Is this part of my curse? Is there some past life of which I was evil or something and deserved this much pain?