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The little boy was never supposed to enter the arena.
Children weren’t even allowed beneath the royal coliseum, where the stones sweated with blood and the walls remembered screams long after the crowds went home.
But that morning, nobody noticed one more servant running through the underground tunnels.
Especially not one wearing the prince’s armor.
The metal plates dragged against the stone floor as the child stumbled forward in panic. The armor was far too large for him. Every step echoed loudly through the torchlit corridors.
His breathing came in terrified gasps.
Behind him, soldiers shouted.
“Protect the prince!”
“The eastern gate is compromised!”
“Find His Highness!”
The boy nearly fell.
He caught himself against the wall with trembling hands.
Blood dripped from the gauntlets.
Not his blood.
The prince’s.
The child squeezed his eyes shut for half a second.
Then kept running.
Because if he stopped now, they would both die.
Above the tunnels, the Kingdom of Valeris roared with celebration.
Nearly fifty thousand spectators filled the grand coliseum carved into the mountainside. Noble banners snapped violently in the wind. Drums thundered through the arena.
Today was Ascension Day.
The day Prince Lucien would fight the kingdom’s sacred trial.
The king sat high above the arena upon a black marble throne, draped in crimson robes lined with wolf fur. King Theron the Iron-Handed.
The conqueror king.
The butcher of the southern rebellion.
Beside him stood generals, nobles, and foreign ambassadors from distant kingdoms.
Everyone had come to witness the prince become a man.
Or die trying.
Because in Valeris, princes earned the throne with blood.
Not birth.
The iron gates beneath the arena remained closed.
The crowd stomped impatiently.
“LUCIEN!”
“LUCIEN!”
“LUCIEN!”
The king raised one armored hand.
The arena fell silent instantly.
Then the announcer stepped forward.
“Today, Prince Lucien of House Valerion faces the Trial of Beasts!”
The crowd erupted again.
King Theron smiled proudly.
His son had trained for this moment since childhood.
Lucien was strong.
Fast.
Merciless.
Exactly what the kingdom needed.
The announcer continued.
“If he survives until sundown, the prince shall be named heir to the throne!”
Thunderous applause shook the stone walls.
Then the underground gates opened.
And the figure in royal armor stepped into the sunlight.
Something felt wrong immediately.
The prince walked strangely.
Unsteady.
Small.
King Theron frowned.
Lucien was seventeen.
Broad-shouldered.
Tall.
But the armored figure entering the arena looked…
tiny.
The crowd noticed it too.
Confused whispers spread through the stands.
The figure stopped in the center of the sand.
The oversized golden helmet tilted awkwardly.
One gauntleted hand trembled violently.
Then Captain Marrow, commander of the royal guard, went pale.
“The crest,” he whispered.
King Theron looked sharply.
The royal crest was missing from the armor’s chestplate.
Not removed carefully.
Ripped off.
Bloodstains covered the broken metal beneath.
The king rose slowly to his feet.
“Stop the trial,” he ordered.
But before the guards could move, the helmet slipped sideways.
And everyone saw the face underneath.
A child.
No older than ten.
Terrified.
The crowd gasped as one.
King Theron’s face drained of color.
“That’s not my son.”
Panic exploded through the royal stands.
Guards surged toward the arena floor.
The boy looked up toward the king with wide, frightened eyes.
And for one terrible moment—
the king recognized him.
Not by name.
But by the eyes.
Gray eyes.
The same eyes as the woman Theron had executed eleven years ago.
“Close the beast gate!” Captain Marrow shouted.
But it was already too late.
The chains had been released.
Deep beneath the arena, something massive roared.
The sound silenced fifty thousand people instantly.
The iron gate behind the boy began to rise slowly.
Metal screamed against stone.
Dust drifted from the ceiling.
The child turned.
And froze.
Two burning yellow eyes appeared in the darkness below.
Then claws.
Then teeth.
The beast crawled into the sunlight.
It was enormous.
Twice the height of a warhorse.
Its body resembled a lion twisted together with something far older and crueler. Black scales covered parts of its flesh. Heavy chains dragged behind it like broken tails.
The crowd recoiled in horror.
“The Varkros…” someone whispered.
The kingdom’s sacred monster.
The beast no one had survived against for thirty years.
The child backed away slowly.
The helmet fell from his head and struck the bloodstained sand.
CLANG.
The beast stared directly at him.
Not roaring.
Not charging.
Watching.
The king stood frozen above.
Then he shouted the words no one expected:
“DO NOT HARM THE BOY!”
Every guard hesitated.
Even Captain Marrow stared in shock.
The beast lowered its head toward the child.
The boy squeezed his eyes shut.
His lips trembled.
But instead of attacking—
the creature sniffed him.
Then something impossible happened.
The Varkros knelt.
The entire coliseum fell silent.
King Theron gripped the stone railing so hard it cracked beneath his fingers.
“No…” he whispered.
The old stories flooded back instantly.
Stories his father had ordered erased.
Stories about the royal bloodline before House Valerion stole the throne.
Stories about the Beast Kings.
Rulers who could command monsters.
Rulers exterminated decades ago.
Or so everyone believed.
The boy looked just as confused as the crowd.
Slowly, carefully, the Varkros lowered its massive head until it touched the child’s chest.
Like a dog greeting its master.
The crowd erupted into terrified shouting.
“WITCHCRAFT!”
“HE’S CURSED!”
“KILL HIM!”
The king remained motionless.
Because he finally understood exactly who the child was.
And why Lucien had disappeared.
Two hours earlier.
Prince Lucien had been bleeding to death beneath the arena.
The attack happened moments before the ceremony.
One of the prince’s own instructors stabbed him in the ribs inside the preparation chamber.
Lucien barely escaped.
Half-conscious, he stumbled through servant corridors while soldiers hunted him.
Because the assassination had come from inside the palace itself.
And someone powerful wanted the prince dead before the trial began.
That was when Lucien collapsed beside the kitchen quarters.
At the feet of a servant boy carrying firewood.
The boy’s name was Elias.
Ten years old.
Orphan.
Invisible.
Lucien grabbed his arm weakly.
“They’ll kill me,” the prince whispered.
Elias tried to call for help, but Lucien stopped him.
“No guards.”
Blood spread across the prince’s armor.
“They’ve already betrayed me.”
Elias stared in terror.
Then soldiers began searching nearby corridors.
Lucien looked desperately toward the child.
“Please.”
One word.
One terrified word from a prince raised never to beg.
Elias made the decision in seconds.
He helped Lucien hide inside an abandoned coal cellar.
Then he took the prince’s armor.
Back in the arena, the Varkros rose protectively beside Elias.
Guards surrounded the sands with spears trembling in their hands.
Nobody dared approach.
King Theron descended slowly from the royal platform into the arena itself.
The crowd watched in stunned silence.
The king stopped several feet from the child.
Up close, Theron saw it clearly.
The gray eyes.
The same eyes as Lyra.
The healer he once loved.
The woman executed for treason.
Or rather—
the woman he allowed to be executed.
The realization struck him like a blade.
Elias was ten years old.
Lyra had died ten years ago.
The timing.
The eyes.
The beast’s obedience.
Theron’s voice came out barely above a whisper.
“What is your mother’s name?”
Elias swallowed hard.
“I… I don’t know, Your Majesty.”
The king closed his eyes briefly.
An orphan.
Of course.
The nobles shifted nervously above them.
Because they understood too.
If the old bloodline survived…
then the throne itself was a lie.
Captain Marrow descended into the arena quickly.
“Your Majesty, we must kill the creature before panic spreads.”
The Varkros growled instantly.
The sound shook the sand.
Elias flinched.
But the king raised one hand.
“No.”
Marrow stared at him.
“Sire?”
Theron looked at the child.
“Where is my son?”
By sunset, Prince Lucien had been found alive beneath the palace.
And by nightfall, three royal advisors had been arrested for conspiracy.
But none of that mattered anymore.
Because rumors spread faster than truth.
The Beast Child.
The Lost Bloodline.
The Boy the Monster Obeyed.
The kingdom descended into fear overnight.
Some claimed Elias was a demon.
Others claimed he was the rightful king.
Nobles demanded his execution immediately.
The people demanded answers.
And King Theron found himself trapped between truth and survival.
Elias was brought before the king privately that night.
Without armor.
Without chains.
The child sat nervously inside the royal chamber while rain battered the windows.
King Theron dismissed the guards.
For several moments, neither spoke.
Finally, the king asked quietly:
“Why did you steal the armor?”
Elias looked down.
“I didn’t steal it.”
“Then why wear it?”
The boy hesitated.
Then whispered:
“Because he asked me to.”
Theron frowned.
“My son?”
Elias nodded.
“He was hurt. He said bad men were coming.”
The king stared at him carefully.
“You risked your life for someone you didn’t know.”
Elias gave a tiny shrug.
“He looked scared.”
Those words hit harder than accusation.
Because fear was something Theron understood well.
His kingdom had been built upon it.
His throne maintained through it.
And now, sitting before him, was a child willing to die for a stranger while kings murdered their own blood for power.
Theron suddenly felt very old.
“Do you know who your mother was?”
Elias shook his head.
“I only remember songs.”
The king’s expression changed.
“What songs?”
The boy softly sang a melody under his breath.
Theron nearly stopped breathing.
It was an ancient lullaby.
One Lyra used to sing.
One only the old royal bloodline knew.
The truth settled over him with crushing weight.
Elias wasn’t merely connected to the old dynasty.
He was connected to him.
The king’s hands trembled slightly.
Because the child sitting before him…
might be his son.
The revelation would have remained secret.
But kingdoms are built from listening ears and loose tongues.
Within days, rebellion spread across Valeris.
Nobles split into factions.
Some supported Prince Lucien.
Others rallied behind whispers of the “True Blood.”
And everywhere the same question echoed:
Who deserved the throne?
The prince raised to rule?
Or the forgotten child the ancient beast obeyed?
Meanwhile, Elias wanted none of it.
He spent most days hiding in the palace gardens with Lucien.
The prince, recovering slowly from his wounds, laughed more around Elias than anyone had ever seen.
“You know,” Lucien said one afternoon, “you’re terrible at sword fighting.”
Elias grinned.
“You’re terrible at surviving assassins.”
Lucien laughed loudly.
Then his smile faded.
“They’ll kill you eventually.”
Elias looked away quietly.
“I know.”
From behind the garden archway, King Theron listened unseen.
And for the first time in decades—
he hated his own crown.
The assassination attempts began three weeks later.
Poison.
Arrows.
Fire.
Each failure only increased panic.
The kingdom stood on the edge of civil war.
Then the nobles made their final mistake.
They tried to kill both boys together.
The attack came during a royal procession.
Masked assassins emerged from the crowd with crossbows.
Lucien shoved Elias aside just before the bolts struck.
Chaos erupted.
Guards fought through screaming civilians.
And in the middle of the carnage—
the Varkros appeared.
No chains.
No commands.
The beast tore through assassins like thunder given flesh.
The crowd fled in terror.
But Elias stood still.
Because he realized something terrifying.
The beast had never obeyed kings.
It obeyed blood.
And if the Varkros protected him…
then the rumors were true.
He was royal.
That night, King Theron finally told the truth.
To both boys.
To the council.
To the kingdom.
Eleven years earlier, he had loved a woman descended from the old Beast Kings.
When the nobles discovered it, they forced Theron to choose:
His throne.
Or her life.
He chose the throne.
Lyra was executed.
But unknown to everyone, she had already given birth.
The child survived in secret among servants.
Elias.
The kingdom erupted after the confession.
Some called Theron weak.
Others called him monster.
But the king only looked at the two boys standing beside him.
Lucien.
The son raised as prince.
Elias.
The forgotten son hidden among ashes.
And then King Theron did something no ruler in Valeris had ever done.
He removed his crown.
And placed it on the stone floor.
“I built this kingdom through fear,” he said quietly. “And fear nearly destroyed both my sons.”
The court stood frozen.
Theron looked toward Lucien first.
“You were raised to conquer.”
Then Elias.
“You were raised to survive.”
His voice broke slightly.
“Perhaps neither should rule alone.”
One year later, Valeris changed forever.
Prince Lucien became commander of the kingdom’s armies.
Elias became protector of the people’s courts.
Two brothers.
Two heirs.
One kingdom no longer ruled by fear alone.
And beneath the mountain arena where thousands once screamed for blood, the Varkros slept peacefully in darkness untouched by chains.
Waiting.
Not for kings.
But for the next child brave enough to wear a stolen crown.
