Kingdom of Africa

We linked hands with Amelia and she blinked us straight to the throne room in the African Palace, king Jabari was was waiting for us with servents around him
"I must leave now, your majesty, thankyou once again" Amelia said before she blinked away
"Queen Anastasia" king Jabari greeted with open arms, like he was greeting an old friend, as he walked towards us "king Damon, Dylan, Charlie lovely to see you all again, welcome, welcome to my humble abode" all of us got a hug from him, Damon and I looked at each other, wasn't he one of the kings that thought a witch should not be mated to vampire
"King Jabari? Uhh are you feeling ok?" I asked him trying to figure out what was wrong
"Of course, I'm fine, a meal has been prepared for you and your friends, come this way" king Jabari started walking towards a door behind us, we followed him to lower floor, he opened a door that led to a dining hall, a long table that could easily sit forty people, there were, however, only six chairs, he showed us all where to sit, he sat at the head, I sat on the chair next to the chair on his right he insisted Damon sit on his left, Charlie sat next to me and Dylan sat next to Damon,
"My son will be joining us shortly" Jabari explained, drinks were served first, and then the food, "dug in, dig in" Jabari insisted
"Shouldn't we wait for your son?" I asked
"Dakarai won't mind, I actually don't know how long he'll be" Jabari told us apologetically, I assured him it was fine and we started to eat, around ten minutes later a man joined us, he was tall, black hair, brown eyes and wearing a Jamaican outfit, it was very colourful
"Ahh, Dakarai, this is queen Anastasia of the seven kingdoms, this is Charlie, Damon and Dylan" the king introduced us, Jabari stood to greet his son, and rest of us followed suit, Dakarai took my hand and kissed it
"Anastasia, what a beautiful name" he smiled
"That's queen Anastasia" I told him, pulling my hand away, Jabari just laughed, we sat down and resumed eating once again
"I'm sorry I was late, everyone, a man needed my help" Dakarai announced
"Oh? With what?" I asked
"He had an accident and I helped him get to the hospital"
"I hope he's ok, you should've stayed with him" I told him
"Well father told me you were coming, I couldn't miss this opportunity to meet you, I'll be going to the hospital later to see him" Dakarai insisted
"Oh we'll come with you to meet him, if he's in hospital who knows if he'll be able to come here during the next three weeks, it's vital we see everyone" I told him inviting myself to go to the hospital
"Oh, no, it's fine" Dakarai laughed "I'm sure he'll recover, he'll be well enough to come here to see you" something didn't sit right with me, but I let it go and carried on eating Jabari cleared his throat "but it would be my honor to give you a tour of the coven, queen Anastasia" Dakarai said to me
"Really, that's great" I said with a smile "we'll be ready in about an hour?" I said looking at Charlie, Dylan and Damon
"We? Uhh, I mean yes, that will be good" Dakarai concentrated on his food thereafter.
After the food we were shown to our rooms, we freshened up, I wore a white t-shirt with blue jeans and you know what Damon wore, we met Dylan and Charlie and Dakarai in the corridor. Dakarai guided us outside and the tour began
"Don't you want to go to the hospital, prince Dakarai"
"Why would I go there?" He asked I raised my eyebrow at him "Oh right yes, nah, I'll go later" he told me with chuckle I said it before I'll say it again, something does not sit well with this guy, I said nothing else during the tour, Dakarai would point out different buildings, "I helped build that school, I believe everyone should get an education, I had that factory built, I believe the more people that work the greater the economy, see that playground over there? Someone wanted to build a mall, but the children would not have had somewhere to play, so I made sure the mall wasn't built" this carried on throughout the whole tour, suspicions? Oh yes
We finally returned to the castle around two hours later, and Jabari had gathered the servents, he insisted that the sooner we spoke to the staff the sooner we could open the doors to the public, I told him we would open doors to the public from tomorrow, he was ok with that.
We got to the throne room to see two thrones and three chairs
"King Jabari, I have a rule that the king or queen of the kingdom should not be present during the interviews" I told him seeing the three chairs
"Oh no your majesty I won't be joining you, my son will" the king smiled, I furrowed my eyebrows, is this guy for real?
"King Jabari, let me rephrase that, no king, queen or Prince of the kingdom should be present" I told him once again
"But your majesty my son is learning how to be king, this will be a great way for him to learn"
"I'm sorry, king Jabari, I cannot change this rule, people would not be comfortable talking to us if either you or the prince are present" I insisted, I was not backing down, Jabari and Dakarai left
"I don't like them" Dylan announced
"Yeah, something is definitely off about those two" Damon agreed
"Come on, let's get this over with" Damon and I walked to the thrones and we sat down Dylan and Charlie sat as well, the servents came in and they were adamant they were happy, there was nothing they wanted to change, jabari employed vampires, witches, and warewolves and they were all happy, okay we thought, there must be someone in the kingdom that doesn't like the king and Prince, we just have to wait patiently.
After speaking to the servents Jabari once again insisted we eat, I wasn't hungry, but Jabari wouldn't listen, so here we are in the dining hall, this time, however, Damon and Charlie decided to swap places, so I sat next to Damon and Charlie sat next to his husband, what we found weird was that when Jabari saw this he seemed angry, his eyes, his face showed anger, although he didn't say anything about it we knew he was angry, he didn't speak all through the meal but I did catch him glaring at Dakarai a few times. I did think that maybe he was angry at his son rather than Charlie and Damon, I guess we'll never know, after food we retired to our rooms.
"That was weird, the tension was so high" Damon said as I got changed for bed
"Yeah" I said absent minded
"What's wrong?" Damon came to stand infront of me as I was buttoning my nightshirt
"I don't know, don't you think king Jabari was angry at you and Charlie for swapping places? Or was he angry at his son?" I asked thinking hard
"Who cares? I know I don't, I'm going to sit next to my mate, I don't care what he thinks, Charlie wanted to sit next to Dylan too, it's fine baby, don't worry" Damon shrugged, I hmmed and I got into bed, Damon made sure the door was locked before he too got into bed, I snuggled up to Damon and he kissed me on the top of my head, we fell asleep like this.
I woke up with a gasp
"I didn't know vampires could sleep, fascinating" Prince Dakarai was in the room
"What are you doing in here? Get out" I shrieked thus waking Damon up
"Anastasia, what happened?" Damon said sleepily
"Good morning, king Damon" Dakarai seemed very cheerful this morning
"Why are you here? The door was locked" I told him looking at the door as if I could see if it was locked, it was closed, that's all I knew
"I just wanted to see if you were ready, breakfast will be served soon" Dakarai announced
"Then please leave prince Dakarai, we need to get ready" I threw the blanket off me and Dakarai looked at me from head to toe, I shivered not liking his behaviour "leave" I told him more sternly, he smiled and blinked I shivered again I really didn't like him, I went into the bathroom but I was alert, I did my daily routine but didn't think a shower was a good idea, I mean if Dakarai can blink into the bedroom what's to stop him from coming into the bathroom, that thought made me more alert, I kept looking around wondering if he'd blink, he didn't and once I was done I went back into the bedroom, Damon was up now and he was making the bed
"You ok?" He asked me
"I'm fine, ready to take on the day" I smiled Damon just looked at me questioningly but didn't push me further.
We went down to breakfast and saw Jabari and Dakarai already sat waiting for us, I huffed when I saw that there were only two chairs available one was next to Dakarai and one next Dylan, Charlie and Dylan were sat next to each other, so Damon and I, once again, had to split up, I was sure I saw father and son share a look, what the look meant I didn't know, without thinking I went and sat next to Dylan there was no way I was going to sit next to the prince, there was something off about him, neither father nor son said anything as both Damon and I took our seats, Dylan informed us that meetings started today in the throne room, and I was grateful the sooner we met people the sooner we could get out
"In two days its Dakarai's birthday, so there'll be no meetings that day" Jabari spoke with a finality in his voice that left no room for argument, we just nodded.
The meeting went on all day, Jabari and Dakarai stayed away whilst we spoke to the people of their kingdom, Dylan, as always, took notes. People were happy, with the king and prince, there was no hate for them at all, everyone was happy.
That night Damon and I decided to go to bed but Dakarai had a different idea
"You know, your majesty, you work so hard, you should take a break, you've not seen the coven at night, maybe I should show you?" Dakarai told me with a smile, I raised an eyebrow, I wanted, no needed blood, my mates blood
"Maybe tomorrow night, prince Dakarai, I want to sleep tonight" I told him
"Oh come on your majesty Africa looks beautiful at night, you will love it, trust me" Dakarai looked towards Damon, "Damon tell the queen she should really come to see the coven" he said this without blinking and I knew straight away that he used compulsion, and because we couldn't allow anyone to know Damon cannot be compelled Damon had to listen
"Anastasia you should really go with Dakarai and see the coven" Damon told me
"But, I... I'm tired Damon, don't make..." I pretended to use compulsion but Dakarai interrupted me
"See even your vampire mate has given you permission" he looked towards the lycans and Damon "you guys should stay here, in the palace, and Anastasia and I will go out" he shrugged "come on Anastasia, let's go" he grabbed my arm and before I could say anything the man blinked