Chapter 26: murderer

The king lay on the floor in his pool of blood with his daughter laying down beside him with blood in her hands and clothes.
Sarah approached Queen Helen and sat close to her with a sinister smile on her face. Sarah is her elder sister and she knew her quite well more than any other person. She know that whenever she wear that smile on her face she is up to no good.
" What do you want?" Queen Hector asked covering her
nose with her palms trying not to breathe in Sarah strong cologne.
" Chill sis. I don't bite" Sarah said stroking queen Helen's hand gently with her long nails and Helen pushed her hands away.
" Don't touch me" Queen Helen glare at her trying not to draw the attention of the audience.
" Fine! " Sarah lift her hands up in surrender and the queen wonder why she is acting all strange. The Sarah she knew never surrender easily or is she drunk? No she doesn't looks like someone who is drunk to her but she is acting strange.
" Come on sis, it's you daughter's birthday and it's a new beginning for all of us at the royal family" Sarah said and let out a sarcastic laugh at the end of her sentence.
Queen Hector wonder what she means by another new beginning for the princess. As for her life continues from where it stopped and it will only be a new beginning for the princess as she will to start another phase of life, take responsibilities which she had never taken before, receive lectures and undergo training. Apart from that, she don't see any new beginning for the royal family except Sarah is up to something fishy.
" Whatever you're trying to say, I don't want to listen to it. Rest assured that if anything happens to my family, I will get your head cut off without minding if we're of the same blood or not. " Queen Helen threatened her and Sarah act like who is scared to death.
" Goodness, she threatened to cut my head off of anything happens to her family. How powerful it is to be a queen" Sarah said acting all scared like a weird and that instant the queen knows something is wrong somewhere. Sarah won't be acting this way on a normal day and on a normal circumstances.
Queen Helen was about to say something when two royal guards run to where she is standing. Fear gripped her immediately when she saw them running towards her. A lot of thoughts runs through her mind and panic was all written all over her face.
It's rare to see royal soldiers running that way especially on a banquet like this. The king left some minutes ago and she had been thinking on going to the princess room to check on him and the princess because he told her he won't take long. She would have gone to check on the princess by herself but she knew how much the king loves his daughter so she allowed him to go. A smile appeared on Sarah's face and she quickly disappeared into the crowd .
" Speak!" Queen Helen yelled more like an order with her heart racing in her chest.
" It's the king" one of the guards said and she felt her heart stuck in her throat as she struggle to breath only the gods know what she will do if anything happens to the king or her daughter.
" What about him?" She asked calmly trying to convince herself that everything is alright and not to have negative thoughts. The soldiers remains quiet and bow their heads.
" I said what about him?" She asked raising her voice so high this time around and the people around turned to look at their direction.
" What could be going on there?" Sarah asked one of the women who came to the banquet in the crowd and the woman just shrug her shoulders telling her she don't know which irritates Sarah.
" We found the king dead in the princess chamber with a knife on his chest" One of the soldiers said holding his breath and the queen felt a pang on her chest. Everything stopped working that instant and her head start spilling around. Her eyes well up with tears as she let out a heart piercing scream which draw the attention of everyone.
" Nooooooo" she screamed and at first every one thinks she is going crazy as they wonder why she would have to scream that way in front of everyone and in her daughter's birthday banquet.
Without thinking twice she ran out of the hall with her maids running after her and all she could was to say a silence prayer before she gets to the princess room.
" Be safe Hector. This can't be true, please be safe for me and Diana" she pleaded in tears as she climb the spiral stairs and get to the princess door where she stopped to catch her breath before pushing the door open with shaky hands.
Diana who was awake looked at herself in confusion as she found herself on the floor with blood stains in her hand and dress. If she can remember she was lying on the bed when she came to the room and it's not time for her period to come yet.
She looked sideways where she found her father lying lifeless in his pool of blood beside her. Her body starts shaking as she hold her father face with shaky hands and pray in her mind that it should all be a nightmare. Her eyes turned wide when she see the knife piercing into the kings chest and she was struck by shock for a while as she was traumatized that instant.
" Diana what have you done?" Queen Hector asked as she rushed towards where the king is lying in his pool of blood with Diana sitting beside him with blood in her hands and dress.
" Mother thank God you're here. I didn't know what happened. I.. I.. I just woke up and found myself in the floor laying close to father with blood in my hands. I really don't know what happened" tears stream down Diana's face as she tried to explain herself.
The queen ignore her explanation and shoke the king violently asking him to open his eyes and wake up. She can't believe the person she was dancing with few minutes ago is gone.
" Liar!" A husky voice roared from the door step and Diana's eye shift to where the voice came from. He was the last person she wants to see now as she really don't know what's going on. Everyone's eyes were on her and she looks like some kind of outcasts.
" She killed the king." He said and everyone gasp. Covering their mouths with their palms. Diana body froze for a while and she went Into another 4ound of shock.
" She killed my brother. The princess killed him" Claudius said acting all pitiful and Diana rose up to her feet and rushed to where he is standing with anger written all over her face.