Kingdoms #9 - Messenger (Patreon)

It was a bright day, the weather was good, Vera walked around her capitol, collecting tribute from her people.

She wasn’t particularly cruel, her tiny worshippers vastly adored her, even when she occasionally stepped on them by mistake.

Vera had twin daughters, Rani & Dani, who turned 18 years old a few days ago, they were known far beyond the kingdom’s borders.

The whole goddess queen’s family was known for their beautiful blonde hair.

Apart from the twins, there was Sheeran, Vera’s eldest and the pride of the family, a fierce warrior, “The Protector”.

After her stroll, Vera walked back to her palace, content and peaceful, prepared to share a meal with her daughters.

Sheeran hasn’t shown up today, but it happened a lot. She patrolled a lot around the border, making sure the kingdom was safe. Stories say she once defeated a tiger who almost crushed an entire city, using only her fighting stick. She was also known for defeating 3 invading warrior goddesses all by herself, beating them up and sending them crying back to their kingdom, never to come back again.

As Vera entered her chambers, a messenger was kneeling in his dedicated place, Vera noticed that he’s shaking, looking forward emptily with a pale face.

“What is it?” She asked impatiently, “I thought I was clear never to be disturbed before breakfast”.

“G-Goddess…” he started and gulped, then he burst into tears and cried.

Vera kept looking at him impatiently, but then it was like she realized something. Something terrible.

“What happened? Speak, NOW!”

“G-Goddess.. it’s.. it’s Sheeran…” he started, choking on tears, his whole body shaking.

Vera grabbed him immediately, holding him tightly in front of her face, “what about her?! Where is she?!”

“S-She’s near the west border, Raniaria”, he gulped, “goddess, she lost in a fight”.

Something got soft in Vera’s eyes, a tear came out, “is she ok?” She asked in a high pitched tone, choking with tears.

The messenger bowed his head down and shook his head.

“Kk..k..” she made a devastated sound, you could almost hear her heart break, she tightened her grip, “who?”

The messenger moaned in pain.

“Who did it?” She asked in her terrifying godly tone.

“Ah…” he moaned in pain louder, about to break, squirming in her hand helplessly, she released the pressure a bit.

“Was it Zyrah?! Answer me!!!” She screamed at him.

“N-No, it was her daughter, Yen”, he quickly replied, “g-goddess I’m sorry, I’m just the messen-“ *CRACK*

She crushed his head using her thumb, then fell to her knees and placed her hands on the ground, crying, breaking. She looked up and gave a scream that could be heard throughout the kingdom, all the tinies in a radius of kilometers started bleeding from their ears, never in their whole life they heard something so loud and sharp.

“NO!!!! NOT SHEERAN!!” She screamed and punched the floor, squishing the messenger further, “you want war Zyrah? I will give you war, I will feast on your blood”, she whispered in a terrifying voice.

The twins ran inside her chamber, looking at her with dire terrified faces, they never saw their mother acting like that.

She cried like a baby, caressing the floor in tears, Rani approached to hug her, they didn’t need her to explain, they knew what happened.

“Yen will pay for this, I will bury her whole family, I swear to the big goddess in the sky - they won’t live another day”, she chanted like a demon went inside of her, then broke in tears again, “I have to go to her, I have to see her”, she said in broken voice, gently pushing the twins away and running out of the palace.

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As she got to the border town, Raniaria, she saw her.

Sheeran’s dead body, thrown like a dead beast on the town, crushing almost half of it, her neck was completely broken, some of her limbs too, the people started walking inside their homes, scared to their bones from Vera’s expression.

She fell to her knees, breaking homes, squishing tinies, she didn’t even notice them.

She caressed Sheeran’s face, closing her lifeless eyes.

“Daughter, I will avenge you, I give you my word”, she whispered to her ear, then picked her up with a shaking body, she started walking back to the palace.

There’s a funeral to be made, and a war to prepare for.