THE THRONE

"Sister....!! Sis.....!!!" A small child named Lorene ran home from the market, when she arrived she went inside and found her sister in the kitchen.

"Where were you Lorene?" she was asked

"Read this!" she was shown a piece of paper and she took it, looked and saw an advertisement

"What is it about Lorene?"

"Oh sister, don't you see?"

"I don't know how to read my little one" the sister replied sadly.

"ooh, I forgot sister, it is written here that there is a competition for the best chef that will be held tomorrow and the winner will enter the king's palace, that is, she will be a maid in the king's palace" the child replied

"Are you really reading what was written Lorene?!" the sister asked skeptical

"Yes, Sister Emily, how can I lie to you?"

"Dude, I have to go and..." she started saying but then,

"What do you think you're doing??" they heard a voice behind them asking before she finished her sentence, they all turned and saw aunt Eliza standing with her stern face looking at them. Emily and her younger sister, the aunt's daughter, looked at each other while Emily was holding the paper in her hand and hiding it behind her back

"No mom, I was telling Sister Emily that we will go, we will go..." Lorene stuttered, unable to speak in front of her fierce mother.

"Lorene, come out and play with Emily, what are you hiding behind you?"

"I'm not hiding anything aunty."

"So I don't have eyes and I'm lying, right?"

"Actually, aunty, I'm not hiding anything" Emily answered while shaking her head, denying the fact that she was afraid of her fierce and merciless aunt, who followed her slowly and approached her. Then she stretched out her hand asking for something that Emily had hidden behind her hands, and Emily had no choice but to slowly take out the piece of paper that was brought to her by her younger sister, Lorene, for the cooking competition advertisement

Emily, a very attractive and beautiful girl, was a talented cook with a unique talent that she inherited from her late mother who was a very talented cook.

Aunt Eliza took the advertisement and read it, she looked at Emily with a sharp eye and then she tore the piece of paper into pieces and threw them on the ground.

"Do you think you can cook that well? That you can go where you think you can go?" aunty Eliza asked her mockingly.

"I want to go try aunty" Emily answered.

"Just trying, who do you think will adopt you again? a poor girl without parents who even I took in when you were little just as a help so that you could live with me because even your late father is not related to me, he is only a distant relative and I only brought you here to work and not to play around. You're not a family member here, you're just a maid, make sure you cook good food for us to eat, because that's what keeps you here in town, understood??!!"

"Yes aunty"

"Yeah, that's right; forget about something called marriage or going to any competition. Firstly you don't even know how to read and write, you don't know where you are, who do you think will accept you and come to marry you, a stupid, stupid girl like you?" her aunt said slanderous words to Emily, the girl remained silent and had nothing to answer in front of her aunt, at the same time the woman's eldest daughter named Linda came to the kitchen and found her mother scolding Emily.

"Mom there are visitors" he told his mother

"What guests?"

"I don't know but they seem to be very important people" she answered.

"Okay let's go" the woman answered her daughter and left the kitchen, leaving Emily alone. She took a deep breath and scratched her head; she turned back to her chores and continued with the cooking while thinking a lot in her head.

Emily had no parents, both of them had died. Her father passed away first and then followed her mother. She had brothers on her father's side but they did not like her because it was said that her mother was the cause of her father's death, and Emily was not her father's biological child and he met and married her mother who had a child with her already who was Emily. So after their death Emily was taken by one of these brothers of her late father (stepfather) and made a domestic worker being used as a donkey for all kinds of work all day long

"Welcome guests" Aunt Eliza welcomed in four men, three adults and one was a young man in a shirt, having come with a carriage (horse), the main transportation in the country in the eighteenth century (A. D).

"Thank you very much" an old man who appeared to be the boy's father responded and they went inside and sat down as they seemed to have something important that had brought them to the house.

"You're very welcome!" Aunt Eliza smiled.

"Thank you, we are not residents of this place, we have come for a specific reason, we need to see the father of this house, is he here?"

"He is resting in his room, let me wake him up" Eliza replied.

"Before you wake him up we need to know about the girl Em..." the old man seemed to forget the name he wanted to mention

"Emily, father" his boy helped him with the name.

"Yes Emily, I'm sorry, I missed it. is she here?" the old man asked them, aunt Eliza and her eldest daughter Linda turned and looked at each other, Linda winked at her mother.

"Emily has not been here since yesterday, she left" the mother lied.

"Oh, okay, we have come for her because my son loves her and wants to marry her" the old man spoke to his young man and he shook his head while smiling, the act hurt him.

Linda who was jealous and heartbroken when she saw Emily had visitors at home who had come to ask for her hand to the young man who had a good life from the look of things while she was still at home. She left her mother who continued to entertain the guests and went to the kitchen while Emily was cooking. She found her cooking while she was singing songs, comforting herself.

"You stupid idiot!" Linda shouted at her

"Yes!" Emily turned weakly, being called strange names was normal for her and everything was done just to humiliate her.

"What did you do in the city? Where did you go when you said you were going to the market?" Linda asked her harshly.

"Why sister, what happened?" Emily asked innocently.

"The police have come to the house and they are asking for you Emily!"

"Soldiers??" Emily was shocked until she dropped the bowl of vegetables she was holding in her hand, there was nothing she was afraid of in her life as a soldier, even when she met them in the market carrying their weapons she avoided them and ran away.

"Yes, soldiers so don't come out. It is quite possible that you have done something and they have come to capture you. Don't talk or make a sound, alright?!"

"Yes sister" Emily responded to the girl who was just the same age and several months older than her, but since she lives with them and she is a servant, she called her sister and the rest is just due to Emily's good behavior.

Linda went back to the living room where her mother was with the guests

"Did you find Linda, Emily?" her mother asked.

"She's not here, she's gone" Linda answered her mother as they winked at each other.

"Yes, as you heard, Emily is not here, she has gone out, and she is not ready to get married, someone else loves her. And this is my beautiful daughter, her name is Linda, she has no one, she is ready to get married" the woman Eliza smiled as she held her daughter by the shoulder.

Inside the palace of king Sebastian, his three young identical twins, the eldest prince Pascal, the next Henry and Kendrew respond to the call of their father who calls them through his chief bodyguard General Mathew, they move in front of their father's throne and bow their heads (a greeting of respect)

"May you live forever, Your Highness the king" they greet him calling him the king even though he is their father, the king coughed a little and was given a tissue by General Mathew and wiped himself because he has been sick for a long time and his age has gone.

"I have called you here, I want one thing from you. I want to see my in-laws, I want you to marry so that you can have children, bring my grandchildren here so I can bless them before I go to the graves of my fathers. I was late to give birth to you because of your mother's reproductive problems, but I remember that I have a child somewhere outside of you three, in my struggle to get a child I was lucky to find a woman outside and I got her pregnant and she gave birth to a girl but unfortunately I was not a king at that time but just an ordinary soldier, even though I was a prince like you, I secretly joined the army to fight for and return the kingdom that was stolen from us. My father and his general died and I did not manage to take the woman or my child because of the war but I know she is girl. I never told you anything like this but today I am telling you that you today that I did not just have men but know that you have a sister even though it is from another mother ..." king Sebastian coughed a little and then continued,

"But that's not why I called you. I called you for only one thing, I want to see my grandchildren before I leave the face of this earth, Pascal, Henry, Kendrew, can you hear me?"

"Yes father we hear you" they answered together with their heads down

"You can go" he allowed them to leave, they each slowly started heading out in front of their father.

Pascal went straight to the garden and sat, thinking about what his father had said, Pascal already had a girlfriend who he loves very much called Cynthia who was the daughter of the Prime Minister of the country of old Gonde.

Cynthia, Pascal's fiancée and lover, was a very beautiful girl who was not ready to marry Pascal at the time and for her personal reasons. This hurt the prince who needed to marry the girl he fell in love with but Cynthia asked Pascal to wait first

Henry, on the other hand, loves to swim all the time, he has a fiancée and lover who is a princess from a neighboring country, but Henry has no plans to get married because he doesn't have one girl at his disposal, but several. He is enjoying his youth first.

On Kendrew's side, he has absolutely no plans to marry or have a girlfriend at all at this time. He has always been a person who practices fighting physically and with weapons, yet he does not think at all about having a girlfriend.

Kendrew had a plan to sneak out of the castle to go to the forest and do his personal training, which was forbidden for a prince to leave the castle without the protection of soldiers. The young man decided to wear women's clothes like a maid and changed his hair and put on make-up to cover his face a little, and then quietly went out through the window without anyone seeing him. He went to the main gate of the castle, where the soldiers were standing at the gate with their weapons.

"Where are you going girl and with whose permission?" he was asked

"I'm going out, I've been ordered by Prince Kendrew, there are some things he's ordered me to get for him" he spoke in a feminine voice.

"Give us the permission" was asked and he produced a permission paper with the signature of Prince Kendrew, the soldiers satisfied themselves.

"I will accompany you beautiful" one of the soldiers said

"No, I will accompany you" the soldiers started arguing about who will accompany him, all of them were crazy knowing that it was a girl but it was a prince.

"I want you to accompany me there" he grabbed one of the soldiers with his finger in his chest.

"ha ha ha, haven't you seen for yourself, a beautiful girl has chosen me here" the soldier laughed at his colleague, he got on a horse, prince Kendrew (who pretended to be a woman) also rode up behind the soldier and they left the castle while the other soldiers were very angry.. .

The horse slowly walked towards the outside of the king's palace, the soldier on top of the horse was laughing as he turned around and looked at the girl who he thought was a maid in the palace.

"Brother, why are you looking at me so much, huh?" he asked him in a tight, feminine voice

"Because I love you so much, are you married or do you have a boyfriend?"

"No, I don't have any, I ask you to stop the horse here so I can relieve myself, please, and my bladder is killing me"

"ha ha, beautiful, why are you giving me temptations, man, oh, it's okay!" the soldier first got off the horse when they were on a road with tall trees on the side, but when the soldier just got off the horse, he was surprised that the horse was being yoked away and he started to beat the pace while he was on the ground and started chasing the horse without any success.

Prince Kendrew, while on the horse, sped up the mountain path, heading to the top to find a secret place where he would practice well and in secret. He had with him a small secret training book from the SOUTH country. He didn't want anyone to know if he has that book because of the great hostility they have between their country and that SOUTH country that led to war and the closing of the country's borders between them.

Prince Kendrew came to the mountain in the forest in a quiet place where no one was seen he got off the horse, there was a wilderness and some bushes he got off the horse and looked right and left then he took out his book to start training but before he did anything

"wrrrrruuuu!!" The horse that came with him cried raising his forelegs and turned and ran away.

"You come back here!" Kendrew called to the horse trying to follow him without success.

"Ggggrrrrrr!" then he heard the heavy roar of the animal's voice beside him which made him shiver until the hairs on his body stood up. Kendrew, trembling with fear, turned his neck and opened his eyes when he met a hungry lion looking at him, he was the one who made the horse run...

"ooh, I'm so sorry but you're on the hunt, I didn't see you, I'm so sorry" Kendrew laughed, talking to the lion as he went backwards with his knees bumping against each other and feeling a sudden rush of urine.

"Ggggrrrh" the lion roared in a low voice, walking slowly, following Kendrew in no hurry.

"Hahaha, why haven't you followed that horse, just run after him, he hasn't gotten far and he has more fillet than me, please don't tear me apart" Kendrew spoke to the lion who didn't have a mouth to answer, he quickly turned and ran, the lion also started to chase him at an unusual speed....

Emily continued cooking in the kitchen without knowing what was going on in the living room because her Aunt Eliza and her daughter Linda did everything they could to make sure that she did not find a fiancée like the one who was at their home who had the financial means, eventually the guests left without seeing Emily being told that she was not home but the poor girl was in the kitchen but only the tricks of a daughter and her mother have caused that palm tree luck that she got to fly like a feather in the wind.

The father of the house who was sleeping woke up after hearing voices in the living room as if they were strangers, then he went out and found his wife Eliza and their daughter Linda at the door as the strangers were leaving.

"What is going on here?" old Tando, asked his wife

"There were just guests who came to the house"

"Why wasn't I woken up?"

"I thought I would disturb my husband"

"What do they want?"

"they had come to see Emily, their boy wants to marry her, but Emily has flatly refused, she said she doesn't want to marry poor people like them" Linda answered before her mother could because she ran out of lies and was looking for lies to deceive, so her daughter had to help her in front of her father.

"So Emily has refused to marry these poor people. Now that Emily is rich, why is she only in here doing domestic work, Emily.....!!" the old man called harshly

"Yes uncle" Emily responded in the kitchen.

"Come here quickly you savage"

"My husband, slowly, don't hurt that girl" Aunt Eliza pretended to sympathize with Emily who came running holding her long and big dress.

"Yes uncle" she stood in front of the old man who looked at Emily from the bottom to the top, and then he looked at her from the top to the bottom then the old man said,

"Show me the wealth you have enough to reject a poor suitor?" he asked Emily and she remained surprised because she did not know what was going on.

"Dad, there is..."

"Hey Emily, stop answering your uncle"

Aunt Eliza reprimanded Emily deliberately preventing her from defending herself, uncle Tando gave the girl a heavy slap on the face Emily remained holding her cheek moaning in pain not knowing the mistake she had committed this time.

"You who refuse suitors, with what wealth? You fool, go to your room and get out of my sight" Emily was chased; she ran to her room and lay face down on the bed crying alone.

"Emily!" Her aunt followed her and stood at the door.

"yes aunty" Emily quickly wiped her tears and the cold that never stops coming out of her every time she cries, then she stood up and bowed her face listening to her aunt.

"Just sit" her aunt told her and she sat on the bed.

"Yes aunty"

"Do you know the young man who came here today?" Emily was asked and she hesitated to answer, and she was asked the same question again.

"Yes, aunt, I know him" she answers slowly

"Where does he live?"

"I met him at the market; his father is the owner of a lot of shops at the market"

"I know that, I asked you because I was surprised that they came here, how did they get there?"

"I don't even know how they got here my aunt, it's possible he followed me back and forth and found out because he told me he loved me, and he wanted to marry me"

"That Emily is a very naughty boy, don't be fooled by his wealth, ask yourself why he left all the daughters with their abilities and came after you, he just wants to ruin your life"

"Okay aunty, I heard you" Emily shook her head

"Hey, go to the river and fetch some water, there is no water in here"

"Okay aunty" Emily got up from the bed and quickly left the room holding her long dress that covers her legs but she is very tired with only three dresses to wear.

"You black bastard, you think you can marry a young man from a financially capable family and then my daughter Linda should stay at home? That will never happen unless I am not her mother" Aunt Eliza warned and slowly left the young lady's room with her.

Emily, who doesn't have time to rest all day, came out with her traditional jug for fetching water, a special vessel with a handle beautifully engraved on the outside, large enough to fill with water, and left to fetch water shortly after leaving the kitchen to cook for the whole family.

Inside the palace of King Sebastian, the meal time had come, the king's family gathers at the table, King Sebastian himself and his wife Queen Zoe and their children, and a few close relatives of the king and queen living in the palace, the maids are busy preparing everything on the table and good quality food is prepared. When the family starts having their diner the king asks,

"Where is Kendrew?" the king asks, they all look at each other and realize that Prince Kendrew is not there.

"He hasn't been seen for a long time, Your Highness the King," the chief maid replied.

"Look for him in his room" Queen Zoe instructed the chief maid, before she could turn away from the king's presence, the soldiers ran in

"Your Highness the King, Your Highness the Queen"

"What is it?" Queen Zoe asked the soldier

"Prince Kendrew has escaped and is not in the castle..." he told them all and they turned and looked at each other at the table....

On the other hand, Prince Kendrew in the wilderness at the mountain was running away from the lion who was chasing him, Kendrew folded the long female dress he was wearing to his waist and used it to escape inside the cave without turning back. He was crossing the park while naked, the female shoes he had also thrown away seeing them heavy and the lion's claws were about to grab his feet. He went to the canyon and looked down and saw a big river, he turned back and saw the lion coming at the speed of a hurricane, Kendrew saw that rather than being torn to pieces by the hungry lion, it is better to throw himself into the canyon. When the river flows down, he can die or recover, he threw himself whole and when the lion arrived, he braked hard, nearly falling into the canyon. He stopped and looked down and saw his food falling down the canyon.

"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!" the lion roared regretting missing his lunch, turned and left.

Emily arrived at the river with her big natural jar; she squatted on the edge of the river and began to draw water slowly while singing her favorite songs. When she finished drawing she carried the jar slowly and put it on her head ready to leave but before she turned she saw something coming from above and fell into the water!! Emily opened her eyes in fear and was very shocked, she turned to run and accidentally tripped on a stump that was hidden on the ground, and she flinched and was unable to stop the jar on her head. It slipped and fell to the ground, it broke into pieces and all the water spilled out, Emily kept her mouth closed while she opened her eyes.

"What am I going to tell my aunt, dear God?" she held her head thinking what her aunt will do when she tells her that she had broken the water jar....