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Saparata couldn't be more scared, he truly couldn't. trying to find a place to hide away from the masses of people trying to murder him. He ran through the Dense forest hoping he won't trip over or even if he does he will manage to get up before they catch up with him. He didn't know what was happening one moment he was living peaceful life away from everyone another he's being chased by a bunch of angry people yelling something about "betrayal" he ran until he noticed an Abandoned looking house, immediately he rushed inside slamming the door shut and pushing a small table standing next to the door over it to make sure nobody opens the door. He took step back panting heavily, now that he had a moment to think he finally felt the ache in his lungs from the long run, yet his short time of relief was stopped when he heard a male voice coming from the ceiling , looking up he saw a man his size, his dark purple eyes staring deep into him while sitting on Beams supporting the ceiling, his legs hanging loosely over the edge

"Having fun?" The man asked not moving a bit from his place. Saparata immediately stumbled back, there were masses of people trying to murder him right now…this could be one of them.

"What's with the fearful eyes?" The man asked again. Saparata shook his head trying to cloud his mind.
"No…I mean what…who are you?" He asked. The man on the beams smiled before pulling himself up.

"Your savior." He chuckled before getting off the beams onto the floor and stepping In front of saparata, now he could notice the man who introduced himself as his savior had black hair and was wearing black jacket with golden decorations.'your savior' took his hands and brought him closer.

"I'm fluxion or flux for you." saparata pushed him away. "Don't touch me, I don't know you." He said stepping back away from the man. Flux chuckled again trying to Shake off the dust from his jacket. "Welllll I know you and I know I can help you saparata" he said and winked at saparata. Saparata took out his sword aiming it at flux chest ready to strike. Flux did not look impressed, he pushed the tip of the sword away from his chest.

"Wow saparata not only you want to get executed for my father death but also for mine huh? You aim high"

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A couple of days had passed since the murder of the king, found in his room by his two kids: cynikka and fluxion. the doctor soon after that confirmed that the man was poisoned. Now standing In front of his brother bedroom, fluxion thought about what to tell him. The crowned prince hasn't left his room for the past 2 days. cynikka told him to not worry, out of the two of them fluxion always seemed to treat ender as more of his younger brother, cynikka has been always more cold and even if fluxion also had this problem he did care…maybe cynikka also did? Tho he doubted that. if she did their father wouldn't have been dead right now. He knocked on the door of his brother...no answer. He knocked again and then 4 more times but there was still no answer. Finally with a sigh fluxion turned and left, there was no reason to continue if his brother wouldn't answer anyway. He walked through the halls of the castle until he arrived and stepped into the meting room, there was she: cynikka, his twin sister with a smug smile that didn't tell anyone that this was daughter grieving her father. She looked up at him not even trying to hide it.

"Hello flux." She said putting her chin in her hands and leaning forward onto the table. "Come on sit down. I guess ender was not feeling good about joining us?" Flux nodded and sat down in the chair, in front of cynikka a long table separating them.

"What do we do now cyn ?" He asked simply looking straight into cynikka eyes. Cyn raised an eyebrow in amusement. "Continue our game." She said gesturing her hand in the air. "Blame someone for it and live the happy life that we and everyone in this Kingdom deser- cynikka was cut in mid of sentence by flux, who was weirdly annoyed with her. "I mean what do we tell end? what do we tell people? who do we blame? Cynikka we can't just ignore it now!" He snapped at his older sister which made her squirm back into the seat, before she composed herself and her smile returned. "Relax a bit brother…" she chuckled again "we blame some outcast, somebody nobody knows so no one could have word against his 'crimes' talking about how awesome he truly is. People will be outraged, if they don't rip him apart themselves then our younger 'brother' will."

Fluxion was the one to scoff now. It was an absurd to think that their younger brother would rip anyone apart. "What if people won't believe us ? sending murders on him is one thing , the overall public believing us is another. Angry people are one of the causes of chaos , if not the main one" cynikka grin widened.

"Why wouldn't they? We are the king kids aren't we?"

"Yeah his kids from an affair. I don't think people will want to believe us Cyn, especially in a kingdom where the belief of 'Pure blood' exists." Cynikka rolled her eyes, leaning back in her chair.

"Then we make ender tell people that, they trust him" she responded shrugging. All flux did was stand up from his seat with a sigh and turn around to leave. "Fluxion." Cyn suddenly said. the man stopped in his track, not sparing her a glance.

"What do you want now?" He asked.

"Could you take my half of the paperwork tomorrow? I will be visiting the coalition so you know, I won't be around" flux smirked and let out a low chuckle. "Visiting your girlfriend?" He felt weird satisfaction knowing he just ripped smile off her face.

"Sometimes you should keep your mouth shut." She said suddenly sternly. Flux responded with another chuckle. "Same goes for you. I take your paperwork but you owe me…again." He said and left the meting room.

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"so will you put it away or murder me too Saparata?" Fluxion asked with a smirk while Saparata took a moment to calm down. he could feel his sweat gathering under his mask, after another moment of thinking he lowered his sword and then lowered himself to ground before hugging his knees to chest. He was slightly panicked.

Flux noticing that crouched down to sap eye level, before grabbing the other man chin into his hands, looking at the white mask that had something that looked like cracks with gold running through them.

"What's with the mask Saparata? Is it supposed to make you look prettier than you already are?" He asked and then proceeded to nod Saparata head with his hands. The other man just kicked him away making fluxion stumble back with a grunt whatsoever sap didn't notice that the man managed to take away his mask, it took a minute for him to realize it's off and immediately push himself up.

"Give it back!" He demanded red slightly appearing on his face. Flux just stayed looking at the white haired man, stunned. Did the man really hide two pair of wings on the sides of his heads with the mask? Fluxion shook his head regaining composure and instantly smirking looking at the frustrated sap.

"Why is Saparata hiding such beautiful things?" He asked but was not allowed to continue as sap threw himself at him snatching the mask away. "You should get better sense of humor." fluxion said grumpily.

"Stop smiling and acting all friendly! I need to get out of here…" sap gasped still panicked. He just wanted to get away from this place as far as he cou-

"We could stay at my place!" The other man cut his thoughts short with the happy response and it made sap eyebrows narrow. "I'm getting hunted by your people. I'm not even sure why you are here, you could as well be trying to drag me to your people." Sap said trying to find anything that could help him in his escape other than the sword he carried but, fluxion of course decided to invade his private space, pushing sap against the wall trapping him.

"Well I don't think anyone will notice if you take one certain thing off." Flux said as his hands reached to grip sap mask wanting to pull them off.

"Absolutely not." Sap responded annoyed. Why was the man so persistent on touching him and his things?

"Come on Saparata, it's just a mask and I have to say you look quite pretty without it." He winked again. The man was honestly getting tired of the constant nagging and invading his private space. He pushed fluxion away and kept searching for anything that could help him with the escape.

"Come onnn" "no" "Please" "No"

"Come on sappp, you get murdered really quickly this way! your masked face hangs literary everywhere. Anyone you met might rat you out to us and then? it's done, curtain falls, execution." Fluxion tried to reason with him. It was that weird feeling of wanting the white haired man to actually agree and come with him. After another 10 minutes of nagging sap annoyance was reaching it peaks, suddenly it was too late to turn back as he snapped a the man.

"okay! Fine! I go with you to your stupid castle! I parade around without my mask! And I will act as your personal bird in cage or something!" He excepted a glare maybe a laugh but looking at flux…it was happiness? The black haired man seemed seriously happy as he grabbed sap wrist and pulled him closer, before snatching his mask off and throwing it to floor.

"Great you finally agreed!" He simply stated, before he began to drag him somewhere, leaving both sap's sword and mask behind.

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Arriving to the castle was not easy, especially for saparata who needed to stay extra cautious while being dragged by fluxion who didn't agree to stop even for a moment. At some point he tripped and fell straightly at flux, opening his eyes revealed the dark haired man staring into him with lips pressed into thin line. Saparata wings spread themselves and pressed to his eyes covering them.

"Wow, you really fell for me Saparata." Flux said without the grin he used to have. Sap didn't respond just stayed like that, like he could play dead.

"Hello? saparata? Are you still here?" He asked and bopped the other man nose. He was about to continue his poking but hearing footsteps approaching made him panic, immediately he stood up and took off his dark coat and dressing sap in it. What if the people would recognize saparata? He wanted the man to come with him to castle, not to grave. As the footsteps finally stopped revealing a guy dressed in his knight uniform.

"Oh? isn't it the fake prince?" The man laughed but flux didn't seem to mind it, like he was used to the nickname. He just nodded and grinned, earnings a weird glance from the guy. It was unusual for fluxion to smile so openly.

"Right…hi drew, my friend got a bit flustered and I need to get him to the town could you pretty please help me?" The tone he used was so sweet that even the blond man who moment ago was laughing at him raised and eyebrow, then smirked, stepped closer and ruffled fluxion hair. "Alright kiddo" he chuckled and picked up Saparata ignoring that the man looked weirdly familiar. "So is he like your close, close friend?" He asked as he started to walk with the man in his arms. Flux flushed. "What ? No!"

Drew just rolled his eyes and continued to walk with flux beside him. "So how are you holding up?" The blond man suddenly asked, flux titled his head to the side.

"Huh?" Was the sound that left flux mouth as he glanced at the larger man.

"How are you holding up? You know after your father death? Losing one parent must had been rough and now both are gone." He stated not even looking at flux.

"Oh right!" It suddenly came back to him, through the whole story with Saparata passing out or whatever happened to him, he completely forgot about the death of his parents."I've been holding well…I'm more worried about ender, he hasn't left his room since the incident." He sighed. Ender tended to protest against their father but, it was still his dad.

"I see…what about cynikka? I haven't seen her around recently." Drew wondered if cynikka also mourned her father. Flux wanted to be honest, drew was one of the only people who didn't judge both him and cynikka for being kids from an affair, despite constantly Calling them "fake princess" or "prince" it was nice change from the people who act nice to them only to make disgusted face every time he and cynikka weren't around but, even if he wants to be honest the truth about cynikka being happy about their father death might be suspicious.

"She's away for some time, things been hard on her too" flux answered bitting his tongue trying to not tell the truth. Drew just nodded.

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The room where sap woke up was dimly lit by candles standing on the drawer beside the bed. The man couldn't describe how comfortable were the sheets, smelling like they just had been washed but then he froze. This wasn't his room was it? And for sure it wasn't his bed…his sheets didn't smell like someone had tried to clean murder scene off them with chemicals.he instantly pushed himself up looking around ,then down at himself to check if they haven't done anything to him like tie him up ,but there was nothing he was looking the same as before the only new thing was….oh god fluxion jacket around him. It hit him like train as he remembered what had happened before, he was hoping it was just a nightmare but of course it was reality. Suddenly the door to the room flung open as fluxion walked in without his jacket of course in red Shirt. He was holding stack of papers in his hands, which would explain why he just didn't open the door calmly like any other person. The dark haired man without sparing sap a glance, placed the papers on his desk before slumping into chair that was just beside it. He wouldn't say it loud but he was annoyed as hell, it was 4 time cynikka decided to dump her paperwork on him.

"Umn…hello?" Sap said trying to make the other man notice that he's awake , he felt a bit Frightened he just slept in the man bed wrapped in his jacket and…he's still hunted by many people? Oh god, I totally forgot about that, sap through to himself. Fluxion chair turned and stopped when he was facing sap and like mantra his smirk was there again.

"Enjoyed your sleep?" He asked trying to not show his frustration due to cynikka deciding to dump everything onto him suddenly. Sap wanted to admit, it was one of the best sleep he got recently but, he shook his head. Flux chuckled at it and rolled his eyes."For sure."

Sap didn't respond to that verbally at first, instead he took off the jacket that once belonged to flux and threw it straight into flux face. "Idiot." sap snapped annoyed. Fluxion didn't move and just let the jacket fall onto the floor he then moved his gaze to look at the jacket on the floor* "have some respect…my siblings bought it for me." He calmly said picking up the jacket gently, like it's something precious. Saparata just stared at him, it looked like the man just suddenly lost all the life he had moment ago before he threw that jacket at his head. "Uh…I'm sorry?" Sap apologized confused. He didn't know what happened, of course he didn't…he's confused as hell, because he did nothing wrong and there bunch of people trying to murder him for the murder of the king ,while he's sitting in what appears to be the messy room of one of the kings sons and the son himself gets angry for throwing a jacket at his head. He's confused as hell and all of that made him just collapse onto the bed again and ignore anything just trying to sleep.

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While Saparata was asleep fluxion committed back to his duties in the castle, which was mainly doing paperwork and worrying for his brother that still didn't left his room. During his many walks of boredom around the castle one was interrupted, when he bumped into much shorter woman. At first he thought it was home returning cynikka because the woman had the same dark red shirt that cynikka always wears under her vest, but then he noticed the hair, cynikka was not a ginger and she did not had slightly pink hair at the ends. Why was the woman wearing cynikka shirt!? Was cynikka okay? His mind quickly went quiet when the woman straightened herself and looked at him with her green eyes.

"And who might you be ?" He asked already kind of hostile towards the woman, who was potential threat to him or his siblings. The ginger extended her hand with a soft smile.

"Uh I'm cass and you should be…fluxion right?" At his nod she continued. "Right fluxion..it's nice to meet you again." Her smile widened, it looked like she was not only kind but also embarrassed at being caught in flux sister shirt. It didn't matter much tho because flux was kind of shocked himself, he hasn't seen Cass in years too. Last time he saw her ,she was a small child being forced to play with his sister.

"What are you wearing?" He asked with almost no hesitation. The girl responded with an awkward glare and blush on cheeks.

"Cynikka accidentally spilled tea on my dress and I didn't had any spare clothes…" fluxion didn't believe it a bit but he decided to nod and play along.

"So what are you doing here? I thought you and cyn always met in the coalition?" Flux asked and got an amused raised eyebrow in response. "I got invited to your brother coronation just earlier than others." The man eyes widened as he remembered. His brother official coronation…God why do I keep forgetting everything? He thought to himself.

"Well I hope you enjoy your stay Cass ,but do you know where cyn is? I need to have a word with her."

Cass nodded before speaking. "She said she has to go the shrine, some Organizational things." Flux also nodded and turned to leave. Of course cynikka was in the stupid shrine,the volcano shrine was like second home to her. Since she was a kid she used to spend a lot of time there, to this day she talks of the volcano spirits like they are real people and not a fairytale to keep people believing. The only thing echoing in the hall was their steps as they walked away. Fluxion walk towards the shrine was not exactly long. he just needed to make sure that sap will be safe while he's away, maybe locking the man in his room when he's asleep was not a good idea but flux felt like sap would panic and escape when he wakes up and he didn't exactly want that. As he stepped into the shrine the two women in their uniforms would instantly point to one of doors…it's not the first time he had came here for Cyn. Entering he saw her sitting in front of a big circular golden painting with painted volcano.

"I can't believe you still come here" flux said with an amused raised eyebrow.

"You're supposed to be silent, it's the volcano domain." Cynikka muttered not looking at him.

"Don't tell me you actually believe these fairytales." Flux rolled his eyes.

"Not fairytales and I would like for you to have some respect too." She answered in annoyed, hushed tone.

"Fine, I wait for you outside." He finally sighed and turned to leave. "Cyn."

"Yes?"

"One for hundred right?…."

"Yeah…ofcourse, one for hundred."

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"are you sure this is a good idea ?" Saparata asked, he for sure didn't think it was a good idea. They just arrived at the castle and he's still wanted for the murder he didn't commit.

"I'm sure she will like you, Saparata." fluxion stated as he buttoned his jacket. "Beside, you act like you are my lover or something but it's just a meeting with my sister."

Saparata nodded with a sigh. "Yeahh…just a sister that set a bounty on my head without any proof." He shivered while fluxion chuckled, suddenly he took out a wooden box and opened it and before sap could walk closer and see what was inside, flux put a mask on sap face and sap instantly flinched taking step back, making fluxion break laughing.

"It's just a mask calm down saparata." flux kept laughing.

"But I have my mask."sap pointed to a white mask that looked like broken pieces glued together by gold liquid.

"Right a mask that looks like glued by prayers"

"I'm not wearing a different mask." Sap crossed his arms.

"Why?" Fluxion raised an eyebrow. And sap froze…how was he supposed to phrase it? Would fluxion be mad if he said what he wanted to? "…Because I'm…part of the archelics…" this time it was fluxion who froze as his eyes widened and he called himself in his head stupid…fluxion should have expected this but it didn't mean that it was any less shocking. He naively hoped that Saparata didn't hide anything like this but it of course was obvious…what kind of a normal person has wings on both sides of their head, who lives isolated in middle of forest, who wears this kind of clothes….archelics were known for living there before his father and more came. They had their own beliefs , traditions and when his father and his people came here, they didn't mind sharing the land, but his people wanted it for themselves so they drew their blades and slaughtered until none was left.