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King Phil Craft, a name known through every kingdom and every realm. The man who slayed the ender dragon, and the wither, and gained the grace of the goddess of death herself all while running a̶ ̶k̶i̶n̶g̶d̶o̶m̶ an empire.
He was successful in most things he did, if not all and he was a kind benevolent ruler who loved all his people.
But even kings get lonely. He had nobody to share the empty hallways of the castle with. He had nobody to wake up with, nobody to share meals with, just himself. He didn’t find much interest in finding a wife, he thought of all the people in the kingdom as his children, even if they were older than him.
It wouldn’t feel right to marry one of them and to marry someone from another kingdom would be a little chaotic. He’d always wanted a child or two but without a wife that dream seemed impossible.
Then again he needed an heir eventually because whenever he died, he didn’t need the nobles fighting over who should take the position. (It would be his right hand man Callahan, of course. If he was still alive by then.)
That dream seemed impossible until by some stroke of luck, it wasn’t.
The king liked to take time out of his week to walk through the kingdom. Sometimes he went in his royal get up, sometimes he would use magic to hide his wings and wear a nice jacket and a bucket hat and just roam as if he was a normal citizen of the empire.
Today was one of the rare days he went in his royal get up. His head knight, Sam, was forcing guards to go with him since he was going to one of the rougher parts of the empire. It was a 2 day travel from the capital to this part of the empire but Phil liked to visit all parts to make sure they were prospering.
The town he was visiting was called Eco. Eco was 5 towns away from the border on the east side so they got a lot of newcomers. It wasn’t by any means a poor town, none of the towns in the empire were poor. They all got pretty much equal amounts of funding.
However, since a lot of newcomers came to the town, they liked to break laws which made it a bit more dangerous. The king couldn’t spare many guards to keep all the towns in check so they had a small police force in each of the cities that were more than 2 hours from the capital.
Thats how he found the kids. One was fighting off some officers while the other ran with a bag of what he assumed to be food from the market. Once the first kid had slowed the officers down enough, both kids ran giggling and not looking where they were going which caused them to bump into Phil.
“Hey!” One that looked like a piglin said. “How dare you be where we were running! Don’t you have man- oh.” The other kid looked up at the king who looked very amused by this situation. “Y-your majesty!”
Before Phil could say anything the officers caught up to them. “Sorry your majesty. We’ve been trying to catch these two for weeks. They keep stealing from the local shops.” One of the officers explained while the others reprimanded the two. “How much?”
Everyone looked at the king confused. “For what they stole. I’ll pay.” Phil offered. “Are you sure your highness?” One of the guards muttered. “Positive. So how much?” The officers told them a price and phil paid them extra for their troubles before sending them off and making the guards go stand somewhere else so he could talk to the kids.
“Hey mate. My name is Phil. Whats your names?” Both kids looked confused as to why the king of the biggest empire in the world was talking to them but decided it would be rude to stay quiet. “I-I’m Wilbur, that’s my brother Techno.”
“Where are your parents Wilbur?” Both boys gave each other a weary glance. “We’re orphans.” Techno spoke up. Phil felt bad for the boys. His dad was hardly ever around when he was still young even if the empire was just a small kingdom back then, he had to work to make it an empire so he never had time for phil.
“How old are you both?” “We’re both 7. Twins.” Phil was surprised. A couple of 7 year olds were able to evade the police and hold them off. There was no way he could let them stay on the streets. Adorable and talented and they seemed nice? No way in hell phil was going to leave them here.
“How would you like to come home with me?” Both boys jaws dropped in usion. “As in...you adopting us?” Wilbur asked for clarification because there was no way the king just asked that. “I don’t see why not. I need heirs and I’ve always wanted sons.” Phils kind and genuine smile was making it very hard for them to say no (as if they actually would say no).
“B-but we’re hybrids.” Techno blurted without thinking. “You are?” Phil could tell that Techno was a piglin hybrid, he had slight tusks and sharp ears. He didn’t understand why he thought that would matter. More than 50% of the empires population was either a hybrid or had some kind of magical abilities (that you needed to be registered to use).
“Phantom and a piglin.” Wilbur explained. “Well...I’m an avian.” Phil smiled moving his cloak aside and showing off his black wings. “Woah.” Both boys said in usion. “Yeah. Plus tons of people are hybrids. Why would you think we wouldn’t want you both because of something you can’t control.”
“Eco doesn’t have a lot of hybrids so the orphanage lady was mean to us. Its why we ran away and started living on the streets. She said nobody would ever want a couple hybrids and that if we did get adopted we’d get separated because wilbur looked somewhat normal and I don’t.”
Phils eyes darkened. He would clearly need to have some conversations with some people. Conversations they very much wont like. “Well I can assure you, she’s wrong. I have tons of extra rooms in the castle and we’ll be able to have you clothes made by the morning.” Phil promised.
“We’ll come with you but only if we can share a room.” Wilbur negotiated. “Of course mate. I always thought the rooms were a little too big to be alone in anyway.” Phil reached both his hands out. Wilbur smiled and took the left one and Phil looked at techno who was a bit more hesitant.
“Promise you wont leave us?” Phils heart broke for the boy. He’s only 7 and already has abandonment issues. “I pinky promise mate. And if you come, you can have all the gold you want.” Techno smiled and grabbed his hand. Phil was glad he did his research on hybrids years ago. He remembered something about piglin hybrids liking gold and treasure.
And that day the kingdom gained their beloved princes but that year they also went to war. One of the neighboring kingdoms, El Rapids, was apparently planning to assassinate Phil and somehow get the kings son Quackity in as the new king while all the Nobles fought but since Phil adopted kids and officially had an heir the place would be held by his advisor Callahan until the kids were old enough to rule.
They decided to go to war in attempts to kill 3 birds with 1 stone. They clearly underestimated the strength of the empire though. The only semi important result of them going to war was the kingdom not catching any glimpses of the princes.
The boys stayed within the castle walls for their safety and Phils sanity. The war lasted for 5 long years before Phil managed to get in contact with Karl, who was apparently the princes best friend, and they made a plan to overthrow the king and get quackity the throne.
Since quackity was always against what his father was trying to do and the people liked quackity way more, a coup d’etat was easy. Both kingdoms rejoiced as the previous king was banished from both lands and peace reigned once again.
Along with peace came new agreements that needed to be come too. Phil had to stay in El Rapids for 6 months at most in order to to build trust, come up with a proper peace treaty, and oversee the construction of the Artic Embassy.
“Do you have to go dad?” Wilbur asked as Phil was loading up the limo that would be taking him. “I’m sorry wil but I do. Callahan will run the kingdom while I’m gone and you guys are no longer confined to the castles so you can leave, with the guards of course.”
“I don’t understand why we can’t come with you.” Techno spoke up. “I don’t want anything to happen to either of you. They still haven’t found everyone whos still loyal to the old king and I couldn’t live with myself if someone tried to harm either of you.”
They both sighed and gave him a hug. “Be back before our birthday?” Their birthday wasn’t for a few months but they still wanted the reassurance. “Of course.” Phil smiled. He let them go and boarded his ride. “Bye dad!” Techno shouted. “Be safe! Love you!”
“I love you too.” Was the response they received before the limo was gone from sight. They turned to each other after they went back in the castle. “No dad for at least 4 months. What do we do now?”