"And he went on.. exploring, and taking adventures all over the world. The end"
Maybell reads to Azrael while they sit in a library. Azrael looks up at her, his 5 year old energy creeping on him.
"Again! Again! Read it again!"
Maybell smiles softly but behind that was a slight hint of agitation.
"No Azrael, you've read this one book over 20 times already. It's time for you to choose another book."
Azrael freezes for a moment in surprise.
"but-"
"Don't make me go get uncle Darren again."
She smiles at him but Azrael knew that smile didn't show him any remorse, and her threatening to get his uncle causes him to flinch a little. He knew that his uncle is a good person, but he's the type to put you through hell if you did something bad. So he decided to not throw a tantrum now. Maybell sighs before taking Azrael off her lap onto the ground and standing from the chair. She looks down at Azrael and notices that he's a bit down now.
"I know you like the book Azrael but you should give other books a chance you know, you can't always pick the same one just because you like it a lot."
Azrael crosses his arms and looks from her clearly mad about it. But Maybell crouches to his level and grabs his arms making his body turn to her but he still refuses to look at her.
"Azrael, look at me."
Azrael hesitated but slowly turns his head towards her after hearing her serious voice instead of her playful voice.
"Look, Azrael, you can't always choose the same thing over and over again, more than not it's better to pick something else for once. Who knows maybe you'll find something better than this book, maybe you'll find another book from the same author, who knows. But you can't pick the same thing no matter how much you like it, ok?"
Azrael nods silently.
"Speak Azrael, you can't always be quiet."
"OK mom."
Maybell smiles softly as she kisses his forehead.
"Good, now let's go find your sister."
Azrael lights up at the mention of finding his sister as he then runs towards the door with Maybell following behind walking.
"Suzy!"
Azrael excitedly yells out her name, thoughts running through the time he plays with her. As Azrael opens the door and runs out of the library, a butler then approaches Maybell suddenly.
"Some people at the front gate wish to speak to you at the gate miss, moreover; they look to be from varkesh."
Maybell looks disturbed by this. Azrael on the other hand wasn't even aware of this.but when he turns his head towards look at her he notices her face looked disturbed about something.
"Mom?"
This causes her to look at him, his face showing worry and confusement. Seeing him like that made her feel worried of what might happen since people of Varkesh are here. Known for their brutality and orcish manor, that kingdom is always called the kingdom of savages where only the strong can rule.
"It's nothing Azrael, just go on and find your sister now."
Azrael hesitated slightly but just ran off to find his little sister, meanwhile; Maybell rushed towards the gates of their manor. Walking outside she sees around five orcs standing there with weapons out as if they were about to attack. Maybell looks at their weapons and pauses a bit before slightly turning towards her butler.
" assign one of the battle maids to Azrael. I don't have a good feeling about this."
The butler nods and quickly heads off. Maybell then approaches the five armored orcs outside the gates.
"What business do you gentlemen have here?"
The one in front steps forward looking down at her from his large size.
"Ahem, we have been ordered to execute you and your family for the following crimes, which are, high treason, regicide, and usurpation."
This left Maybell utterly confused. What does he mean getting executed, they did nothing wrong. And the absurd crimes were the most confusing, high treason? We've never killed a king before, not even the one they're under right now. Regicide? Again we've never killed anyone before, and usurpation? Why would we ever try to take over a kingdom?
"Um, kind sirs? Are you sure we did that?"
The four orcs behind the one leading mock her while laughing in the process, one even had the audacity to comment on her looks commenting that she's worthy of the title of 'top five most beautiful women' that live in the human kingdom. The leading orc busts the gate open causing Maybell to jump back.
"We don't care what you did or what you didn't do. We're only here to execute you and your family. "
The leader then swings his large greatsword down at her but she gracefully dodges the attack. When she lands on her feet she notices that they surrounded her in that short exchange. Realizing that there's no other way out of this she grabs her dress and rips it off her body revealing underneath a catsuit that looks tight but comfortable to move in . The other orcs except the leader then look at her lustful glares. She then pulls out her rapier from her hip. The leader's eyes narrow as he grips his sword even harder.
The standoff between them felt like time slowed for a moment. Until one of the orcs charged at her with axes in both hands, unable to control his temptations. Maybell quickly turns to him and deflects one of the axes while turning her body to dodge the other, and just as she about to counter attack the orc, a mace comes flying at her face but she just narrowly dodges the attack by moving back with only just a cut on her cheek. The one that first attacked her looks at the cut on her and angrily turns to the mace user.
"Hey! Don't ruin her fucking face for me you fucker!"
The mace user looks at him with angry annoyance.
"Bitch! Who fucking cares if her face gets damaged! Her exquisite body is what we should look for!"
Maybell confusedly watches the two bicker back and forth. Then she feels a sinister glare at the back of her head. Quickly turning around she looks at the orc with a much skinnier frame than the others as it's licking its daggers with a weirdly long tongue that sends shivers down Maybell's spine, slightly unnerved by it. But it suddenly lets out a sharp hiss like laughter causing Maybell to feel a bit creeped out by him.
"I can't wait to see her face contort in pain ha~hahah."
He surged at her on all fours and began to wildly swing his daggers at her. She keeps on the defensive but gets pushed back more and more. Some attacks get through her defense, cutting her body bit by bit. His relentless attacks didn't look to be stopped anytime soon, and just as she was tired and worn out from the endless attacks this one person, an arrow gets shot at her but she narrowly dodges it but another follows behind hitting her in her left shoulder. The force of the arrow was enough to bring her to the ground a few meters away from the rest of them. But a shadow peers over her which is the leader of the orcs. Unable to use her left arm she struggles to get up from the ground to her feet. Then the orc leader grabs her neck in tight grip, practically choking her while lifting her body in the air. She tried to attack him using her rapier but he grabbed her arm before it could land.
"Give up. Fighting us won't change anything."
She slowly grinned and that alone caused the orc leader to break her right arm. She yells out in pain as he drops her to the ground.
"Where is he?"
She just glares at him and doesn't say a single word. He then stomps hard on her right leg breaking it completely as well, making her scream in pain.
"Just tell me where he is and you won't have to go through this."
She then spits blood at him with eyes that shows her resolve to keep quiet.
"Never.. not in a million years."
Seeing this the orc leader cuts her head off as her last thoughts were Azrael's bright smile.
(Live Azrael.. and don't let anyone take from you anymore.)
Those were her final thoughts as she drifts into endless darkness.