Chapter 42: Wedding Crashers

Since the tragedy of the murder of the Guild King devastated Silva to the point she could not leave her room most days. The Guild King was someone she always sees as the only family she had after what happened to her family, now that he is gone, she has herself to take care of for now on.

Due to this recent tragedy, Lord Julian gave her a few days alone to prepare for the wedding alone and he went back to his own work. At least the wedding preparations are a good distraction and manage to ignore Lord Julian whenever she gets the chance. With all this time alone, Silva went into the city to look at dresses for the wedding. She will do anything to avoid her mother and family for the time being. Sadly, her mother managed to track her down at the shop.

“Silva, are you going to pick a dress or not?” her mother shouts.

“Mother, seriously, there are no amount of dresses here that will show my love for that evil monster,” Silva argued.

“Sometimes, love does not develop so easily, but it can bloom eventually,” her mother comments, a bit scared.

“You don’t get it do you. I will never love him. I am only going through this marriage to save my friends and the real man I love,” Silva continues to shout.

“I know dear.”

“You do?”

“Yes, I remember that boy Terrance was it? You both truly seem in love,” her mother said, wondering of the idea.

“We are in love. I just hope what I am doing will save him and one day we can live the life we want together,” Silva said about crying.

“Then why don’t you pick a dress, so we can get out of here and finish the rest of these errands,” her mother said.

In two hours, Silva settled with one white dress with flowers surrounding the hemline. It was an ugly dress she could find in the entire store. It will have to do for now. Next they went over to the flower shop choosing the flowers for the wedding to match the color theme. She went with lavender, purple orchids, irises, and white roses. These are flowers she will never choose for her actual wedding, but they will do for now. Finishing up at the flower shop, they return to the mansion and to their rooms waiting for this wedding to come.

Her days are soon numbered and all she can do is to figure out how to get rid of Lord Julian and finally be free from him once and for all.

Before the wedding day, the capital held a mourning ceremony in his honor and many guilds will be attending this event. They each were given a candle in the entrance to be placed in front of the palace. It was a kind of ceremony where every guild member makes a wish for him to have a safe trip back to the heavens. If there is a true celestial being to welcome a king who truly was a kind soul. There was a party being held in the palace for the guilds and many left after the party in the night.

Since this wedding is going to be huge, the capital decided to assist in preparing for this celebration. The citizens worked around the clock to get the flowers, banners, family crests, confetti and streamers already for the big celebrations. The guests arriving for this event were having trouble entering the city due to the high traffic on the main roads of the forest, sea, and sky for people to attend the event of the year. In the meantime, Lord Julian and Silva are getting ready for the ceremony in separate rooms to at least try to keep this traditional.

Silva was in a room in the east wing with her mother putting on her wedding dress.

“Oh, Silva, you look so beautiful,” her mother said, about to cry.

“Thank you mother, but do me a favor and do not speak to me the rest of the day. I still do not forgive you for what you did,” Silva warned.

“Yes, dear,” her mother said, losing her happiness.

There is a knock on the door and Silva quickly opens it.

“My lady, the ceremony is about to begin. We better make our way to the stage now,” Alicia, the maid, said kindly.

“Yes, thank you, come along mother,” Silva ordered.

“Yes, Silva,” her mother said, following her daughter out the door.

On Lord Julian’s side, it seems he was already dressed for the ceremony and waiting for the ceremony to begin and for his plan to begin.

“I cannot believe after all this time, my plan will finally come together,” Julian laughed hysterically.

“Yes, and we can finally be together,” Alice said purring next to him.

“Yes, my little kitty. Save your love for me once we rule the world together,” Lord Julian said brushing Alice 's hair off her face.

“Yes, master,” Alice said brushing away.

“My lord, it is almost time for the ceremony,” a guard shouted behind the door.

Lord Julian and his friends walked towards the door awaiting for it to be opened and Lord Julian was first to exit the room.

With the wedding about to begin, Silva’s friends finally arrived in the capital with a plan to save Silva and take out Lord Julian. It might have taken weeks to get to the capital with the numbers they have, but it was worth it if they wanted to take out a tyrant. Making sure they were not discovered, they split into teams of four spread across the city trying to get to the mansion.

“Alright, remember, stick to the plan and we will have our Silva back. Stay on the comms and report back if anything changes,” Rufus offers.

“Yes, sir,” everyone shouted while talking about the task at hand.

Silva painfully walked through the dreaded halls of this palace she hopes to never to see again and walked to the courtyard in a carriage to the area where the ceremony was going to take place. She is just glad she is taking her own carriage rather than sharing one with Lord Julian or she might want to throw up on the dress to postpone the ceremony.

As the carriage drives through the city, she sees many familiar guilds and faces cheering her on for finally being conquered by someone for a change. Other faces from the capital were also present she knew of and glad they could show some support on this fake wedding. It was nice, but she wishes Terrance was here to save her.

A little while later, Silva’s carriage arrived at the ceremony grounds and a footman opened the carriage door and extended his hand to help her down. It seems Lord Julian has already arrived at the ceremony grounds before her and begins escorting her up the stairs. From there, they walk up the stairs together to the balcony where the ceremony is going to take place.

The cheering fans can be heard all over the city as they walk up to the altar to be married.

Silva starts to feel something strange around her, but hides it as they face the priest who will marry them.

“Dear beloved, we are gathered here today in celebration of joining Lord Julian and Princess Silva in holy matrimony, if there are no objections, let us begin. Lord Julian, would you please recite your vows,” the priest began.

“Yes, Silva, from the first moment I met you all those years ago, I fell in love with you. You were not like any woman I have ever met. Since that day, I can never get you out of my head. I promise from this day forward, I will love and protect you always. I am more than happy to be the husband,” Lord Julian said as he tried to be romantic.

“Do you take Princess Silva as your lawfully wedded wife?” the priest asked.

“I do,” Lord Julian replied.

“Princess Silva, would you like to recite your vows?” the priest asked.

“All I can say is. I will be honored to take you as my husband and will always love you,” Silva says.

“Princess Silva, do you take Lord Julian as your lawfully wedded husband?” the priest asked.

“I don’t think so,” Silva rejected.

“You insolent girl. How dare you? Say those two little words or you will pay with your life,” Lord Julian threatens.

“Really? Now you want to kill me after everything I am giving up to save my friends and family. I am Silva of the Desert and part of the Guild League. If you try killing me in front of the entire league, please they will kill you before you even lift a figure on me,” Silva threatens.

“You little bitch. You will pay for this. In fact how about I just take what I want and let you die,” Lord Julian warns, holding up a strange orb.

The orb begins to glow and slowly is sapping away her magic. Silva falls to the ground feeling unbearable pain that it was too much for her to handle.

“What are you doing?!” Silva shouts, crying in pain.

“I am taking away your goddess magic. It should have been mine. You do not deserve this magic,” Lord Julian said angrily, sucking the magic away.

“You are not going to be able to control it. You have to be chosen,” Silva shouts, still in pain, wanting to die.

“Silence or you will be killed by me,” Lora Julian said.

He walks up to her ready to stab her only to be interrupted by an arrow shooting right through his arm. He looked up to see where it came from and it seems that some party crashers came to attend.

“Get away from my girlfriend!” a voice shouted.

“Terrance!” Silva shouted weakly before fainting.

“Silva, hang on,” Terrance said, rushing to Silva’s side. “We came to save you.”

“We?” Silva asked, confused.

“Long time no see Silva. Anyways, Lord Julian, you get away from her or I will kill you myself,” Julius said coming from behind.

“You? You’re still alive, I guess I should have killed you when I had the chance, huh little boy,” Lord Julian said, blasting him away with god magic.

“I would love to see you try,” Julius said dodging the attack.

“Silva was that…?” Terrance asked.

“Yes, Lord Julian has my goddess magic. He is a god now,” Silva explained before fainting.

“We better go, the others are waiting,” Terrance said, carrying Silva in his arms and whistling for Rajah.

Rajah appears before them and quickly places Silva on his back.

“Rajah, take care of her and meet back in the forest,” he orders him.

“Yes, I will protect her with my life,” Rajah said as he began to run.

“Terrance, be careful,” Silva weakly manages to say before fainting again.

Rajah begins running through the balcony area managing to pass the guards and continuing his run through the forest. The loyal goons patrolling the city caught word about the runaway bride and the ruined wedding that they began chasing Rajah. Luckily loyal guild members were also in the city protecting Rajah to make his escape.

Reaching the forest, Rajah continues to run through the forest, but begins to be exhausted running with Silva on his back. He loses his footing and one of the goons manages to catch up and blasts him with an energy ball wounding him quite badly. Silva fell a good distance away from Rajah and felt a bit faint.

After waking up, Silva still feels a bit faint still, so she goes around to search for Rajah. Looking around, constantly falling to the ground, she finds Rajah on the floor seriously injured and tries not to lose it, but it does not work. Seeing her best friend injured, she screams on top of her lungs hoping someone was close to help her save him.

“Help, please help, Rajah is hit, Rajah is hit, please help me!” Silva shouted through the forest hoping someone would hear.

Silva hugging Rajah keeping him close made her want to give up her life to save him.

It seems her screaming alerted some guards and were about to attack her until a few arrows passed her killing them with one strike.

“Don’t worry, beautiful, help is here,” Rufus shouted on a nearby tree.

“Rufus!” Silva said relaxed.

“Don’t forget about us,” Celia said, coming to help her.

“Celia, Rose, Rowen, you guys came. I am so glad, but please help Rajah,” Silva pleaded.

“Don’t worry, he is still alive. I will stable him. Once he is stable, run towards the end of the forest, we have a ship waiting for us,” Celia said kindly, getting to work on Rajah.

“Right,” Silva said, continuing to cry.

Once Celia finishes her work, Rowen helps Silva carry Rajah through the forest and arrive at the ship before any more guards show up. Little to Silva’s surprise she was greeted by her daughters.

“Mommy,” Greer said, running to Silva.

“My girls, I am so happy you are safe,” Silva said crying.

“We love you mommy, but please don’t make any rash decisions without telling us first,” Grace said as she hugged her mom.

“I promise,” as she continued to hug her girls.

“Ok, we just have to wait for the others and we will be off. I will take Rajah to the medical ward until her head is back to the guild and the master can save him,” Rowan offers.

“I will go with you, now ladies please behave and let us know when the others arrive,” Silva said, leaving with Rowen.

“Yes mommy,” the girls said as they continued their work.

As they arrived at the medical ward, Silva did not leave Rajah’s side. She will not let him die. She will not allow it. She did not even care when the other guild members arrived and the ship took off. No one came to see her thinking she needed time alone.

Not long after about two hours later, they arrived at the Red Phoenix Flower Guild and they headed straight to the master to help.

“Master, please help, Rajah has been hurt, please save him,” Silva pleaded.

“Of course, ladies bring him to my chambers,” the master said hurrying along.

“Sil, you better get some rest too, you have been through a lot today,” Rufus suggested.

“I am fine. I am self-healing thanks to my family magic. Please send my thanks to all the guilds that help us with my escape. Lisa, Raquel, please help me change out of this dress and burn it. Also, I hope there is an outfit for me to wear in one of the rooms,” Silva orders.

“Sure thing, I think we can help with that,” Lisa said walking into the vacated room Silva walked into.

Terrance misses his chance to speak to Silva, but decides to speak to Rufus about her.

“How is she doing?”

“She seems fine, but she will not be ok until she knows Rajah is better.”

“Yes, she loves him. They are family after all.”

“So, is it true…That Silva lost her goddess’s magic?”

“It is true.”

“Then does that mean….”

“Yes, Lord Julian is now a god and now we have another big problem to deal with.”

“Great, a different problem to deal with.”

“At least this will give us an advantage. He was not chosen for the goddess magic, so he will lose control eventually and that will be our opportunity to stop him, but we have to act quickly,” Terrance explains.

“Right, I am all in,” Rufus agreed to this plan.