110 Death of Prince Nikalas (2/2)

Hearing Uncle Steve and looking at the shivering girl, King Harold rushed towards Nikalas's room followed by his guards and the princesses disregarding Don and Arrora who were standing there.

”Let's go and see what's happening”

Don looked at Arrora and followed King Harold with Uncle Steve and the servant girl.

Prince Nikalas's room was located at the far end of the castle near the servants' quarters away from the members of King Harold's family.

To get to Nikalas's room, they had to step out of the castle in the rain and go through the gardens. As they got closer to his room, the smell of burnt wood and smoke started to fill the air. Don could see in the distance that the orange flames were still engulfing the room and surrounding area despite the heavy downpour. The maids, servants, and guards were running around and pouring buckets of water onto the flame to stop it from growing.

”Useless”

Darlene said when she saw the efforts of the maids, servants and the guards as she raised both of her hands towards the fire.

”Aqua blast”

The moment she cast the spell, a huge ball of water formed on her hand as she threw the water ball at the burning building. Aqua blast was much more effective than the downpour and the buckets of water combined as the fire was put out by Darlene's spell with a loud hissing sound.

Since the fire was put down the only light source they had was the lighting but fortunately, some guards arrived with a bunch of torches. Seeing the burnt place nobody could guess how the explosion happened. The old brick walls still stand, blackened around the empty openings that were once doors and windows before the fire.

”Your majesty”

King Harold heard a guard calling him as Uncle Steve rushed towards the source of the voice. The explosion was so powerful as there was no more a distinction between the second floor from the ground floor, except a couple of steel window frames and doorway there was nothing.

While navigating through the ruins, Uncle Steve saw a couple of guards lifting something from the ground but when he stepped closer, he was welcomed by a dreadful scene.

”Prince Nikalas”

The guards were carrying Prince Nikalas or his burnt body with his wheelchair but before Uncle Steve could breathe again, he saw another group of guards carrying a second body then the third body. He could only assume that the small body was Riya, the maid girl and the other one was Vivian since their bodies were completely or mostly burnt.

”Poor souls”

Uncle Steve never expected that this would happen to these three good people

”Place them there” he pointed at the empty place away from the burnt portion of the building while Uncle Steve turned back to go to King Harold and tell him the unfortunate news.

”Steve”

Seeing Uncle Steve coming towards him King Harold shouted at him because of the sound of thunder and downpour.

”Your majesty, they are gone. Prince Nikalas, his mother, the servant girl all of them”

”Oh, did you see how the explosion started?”

Don and Arrora were surprised and shocked to see King Harold's reaction to the grave news that Uncle Steve just brought. Not only King Harold, but the princesses too seemed very calm and it was clear to Don by looking at their faces, they couldn't care less about Nikalas or his mother or Riya.

”No, your majesty I didn't”

There was a hint of anger and frustration in Uncle Steve's voice as he said

”That guy might have drawn the wrong rune”

Prince Kate said to King Harrold as he nodded his head

”What a bitch”

Fortunately, the sound of thunder prevented Kate from hearing Arrora but Don did and he thought the same

”Let the guards be on full alert tonight I don't want this to happen to my family”

”He's your family too”

Uncle Steve mumbled under his breath as King Harold shouted at the guard beside him

”I want a full report on what happened here tomorrow. I want to know this happened accidentally or someone did this”

”Well I'm going to bed now” as she said, Kate walked away from the scene with few guards following behind her without even noticing the bodies lying on the ground just a few feet away from her path.

”As far as I can tell, it's them”

After Kate left Princess Darlene went to take a look at the bodies and after a few moments she came back and said

”We should go inside Darlene before you catch a cold”

”They are something else”

Arrora said when she heard King Harold and saw the father-daughter duo leaving the scene without a hint of sadness or remorse on their faces.