
***
Xen'ah opened his eyes. Room with lighting from small candles on a table. His body was sitting firmly on a wooden chair. Xen'ah tried to look around. But his body could not move. Even his fingers.
"I where?" ask in the heart.
Someone emerged from the darkness. Stand behind him. Arian gently stroked Xen'ah's hair.
"You Your Majesty?" he nodded backwards. The person behind him nodded. That cold aura was enough to make Xen'ah silent. He doesn't want to talk much.
"Say, speech is like a rope given to the interlocutor. If the person is good, then the long rope will further strengthen the relationship between the two."
Arian brought his face closer to Xen'ah's ears. "And if the interlocutor is evil, the rope can be used to strangle your neck."
"Uhuk."
Something wrapped around his neck. As Xen'ah knew, it was a heavy iron necklace. Arian grabbed Xen'ah's hair. The boy tried not to cry. A cube-shaped stone floated in front of him. Now his body was shrouded in black shadows. The shadow absorbed his energy, then inserted it into the rock floating in front of him.
***
The morning...
Xen'ah put on an expressionless face. He was trained to deal with his own problems. Also live in reality no matter what. Free shouting. This place is too quiet. No one will help him here. It could be an enemy coming. That's too risky.
Xen'ah sat up straight as he looked up with round eyes. Arian who noticed him smiled happily.
"I will make you my hope. That guy raised you well, yeah."
The next morning, Xiota took Lixe away to the Palace with doubt. Xiota never went there. He also did not know what they would meet there. As they strengthened their resolve, the two children stood by the roadside.
A car stopped. It's an autonomous car that can run on its own. Car glass open. Zenith smiled. Lixe glanced at Xiota. Lixe pulled the door of Zenith. That door is open. Lixe pushed Xiota in. Then come in.
"You can take us to the palace?" ask Lixe to the point.
Zenith nodded. He doesn't know knowing. But fine. The car was headed for the palace.
***
Ciiits.
A car with three small children stopped in front of a parking lot inside the palace. A guard called out loud when he knew the car was parked. He walked over to the car. Unfortunately there was no one as soon as he peeked inside.
"Who was that? A ghost?"
The guard turned to the desolate surroundings. Today only a few people are still working. The king gave them a day off. Only people with a lot of debt still work on public holidays.
Criy.
A portal of light appeared. The three little children appeared inside the desolate palace.
"Who are you?!" a boy Lixe knew appeared. Lixe stood sculpting. He looked at Riyal in disbelief.
Riyal ran and hugged her. Both are happy to meet again.
"What are you doing here?" riyal asked after loosening his embrace. It was like knowing Zenith. But Xiota. He doesn't remember meeting the boy. But Xiota looked at him as if he knew himself.
"Did you see Xen'ah? Little boy your age.., with a face very similar to yours." asked Xiota doubtfully. But that's the truth. Xiota could no longer look at him. The person wearing a clean white shirt and shiny blue pants, could not have been her brother.
Silent riyal. Not answering. But the feeling is bad about this. Riyal. Forget moments. Riyal offered them a meal. But Xiota shook his head violently. He ran down the palace. Others are chasing. But Riyal was just quietly glued to the spot.
"I wish I could be a normal kid like you. Unfortunately, this body was unable to even run for five meters. Excuse me. Hope you fail." Riyal waved his hand.
Xiota stopped after running around in the palace for more than three hours. Zenith and Lixe were getting tired. Xiota sat down with teary eyes. Can't do. He was taught not to cry. To be cold to face problems.
Zenith spread a glance. His eyes are more
the other two children did not find Riyal's whereabouts.
"It looks like Riyal really isn't here" Zenith said.
"You're looking for a boy dressed in a tangle and with a withered face?" ask a child who is standing while leaning against a wall not far from them.
Roy'ah looked down. Lixe did not like that look. So is Zenith. But both of them were aware that the strength of this child in front of him seemed to be far above them.
"He's not at the palace. He was taken to the Abta Tribal Laboratory."
Xiota no-nonsensely ran. Zenith and Lixe chased after him. They came out of the palace and without a doubt ran across the crowded street. No matter the light is green or red.
***
"Why are you leaking secrets to them?" riyal asked a little at Roy'ah.
"I just don't want anyone to replace Big Brother! You're my real brother. My only brother. There's nothing else. No one can replace you! I won't let it!" Roy'ah answered with all his heart.
Riyal does not believe his sister can love him which is only a family disgrace. Riyal. "I deserve to be replaced."
"My body's weak! You know for yourself, right! Everyone looked down at me! I hate a life!"
Riy'ah quiet. Tears flowed out without him noticing. Roy'ah tilted his head. His sister was crying too. Riyal wiped his tears.
"Be a strong man. So you can't be replaced by this waste system." Riyal walked away from Roy'ah.
Roy'ah nodded in understanding. He will remember it until his death. She would no longer hinder the person who would replace her brother. "As Brother wishes."
***
Xiota did not stop until he reached the front of the laboratory where they could play together.
In front of the entrance gate alone were enough bodyguards. Aizla said as the son of the owner of this laboratory, there will be an experiment in which they will use a human as the experimental material.
"Sister!!"
Xiota who remembered that thought Xen'ah would be used as an experimental material. He won't let it. Xiota did not think long. Run towards the body guards. He pushed the burly man with his small hands.
"uh."
Xiota clearly bounced. One of the bodyguards kicked him. Lixe ran to catch Xiota's head that was about to hit the pavement paving. Lixe sat on Xiota's side.
"Yahoo!!!" Xiota exclaimed loudly.
The bodyguards bite the lips. One of them approached.
Mum.
Zenith jumped first, spun in the air, and kicked the heads of adults much taller than her. But the difference in body size did not make him weak. That guy sat down. Friend's angry.
Lixe pulled Zenith's hand. Body glowing. The light enveloped Zenith and Xiota.
Dor.
Bullets were fired at them from the second-floor window of the laboratory. All three looked up. The shot missed.
From the open window, Gusion appeared to be throwing a fist at someone who had tried to shoot his friend. That guy fainted in one blow.
Gusion looked at her friends. Ignore it, then close the window.
"What's going on inside?" ask Zenith. He had already seen the situation inside with his eyes. Every turn, the stairs, the corners, everything was heavily guarded.
"Come inside!"
All three disappeared. Security alarm sounds.
"I'm sorry." Gusion bowed her head to Xen'ah who was already lying on the iron bed with thin hoses stuck in her arms and legs. The boy now wears a thin short-sleeved shirt and all-white shorts. Even his pale skin made him look like a corpse.
Gusion brushed her mind off. It is not good to call someone alive a corpse.
Xen'ah smiled. "Do your duty. But don't kill them."
The commandment cut his heart. Gusion Wist, a small soldier who works under the leadership of Arian. No one knows his name but Arian and his friends. He's Arian's pride at the moment. The one who was ordered to capture the people who were related to Xen'ah alive.
"I'm ready to follow orders."