"She bewitched him... Arggh!"

At the Palace.

"Where is that bitch."

Came the thunderous as well as pressured shout coming out of the palace. Entered through the door was Prium, with long face and blunt reaction hurrying towards the throne. You would think that she had been hired to kill at sight.

But at once, she choked on all her advances and rage and shouts as soon as she noticed the man on the throne and the lady seated next to him. She didn't even bother looking at Ayla nor Tahni who were standing opposite the throne but in parts. She hurried instead towards the throne.

But the guards before the throne reached out there spears to the middle and made an X-shaped barrier, preventing her from advancing forward.

"We now have limits, you can't just go up to father of your own freewill anymore."

Prium's jaws dropped at Tahni's comment as she looked away from the young man on the throne to Tahni. She walked towards Tahni instead,

"No, that's not right. Where is father?"

"I'm here."

The young man on the throne called at her. The voice was familiar but the form and figure and shape wasn't what she expected. She turned and looked in the young man's direction.

"I don't know who the fuck you are. But you're no one close to my father. Even if you have fooled them, you'll do more than cut your head to fool me. Because that's the only thing that would appeal me."

She said trying to fight her way through the guards but she was restrained again. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't pass through the guards.

The man on the throne stood up and walked off the stairs. He walked to stand behind the X-shaped spear barrier made by the guards, almost opposite Prium who for the love of nothing, felt nothing close to being convinced.

"You know too well that this is my voice which is enough proof that I'm Vulcan. Believing then is up to you."

He stated and turned his back. He walked back to the throne and sat next to his lover.

Athena stood up at that and Prium looked bedazzled from Vulcan to Athena who was walking towards her.

"Maybe there is something to prove that this is your father. I could turn him back to who he was but it would take another decade of processes to get him back to this new self. Do you mind that?"

Prium didn't respond. Her face said a little of her miseries. Vulcan was the one who came on,

"You won't do that without my permission. And I say that, leave Prium to choose what to believe. She is best at doing that. It's what she does best. Let her choose to believe that I am the one or not. Nobody changes to nothing."

Athena looked towards him and back at Prium then she smiled,

"I hope this, in-law, would not mar the connection I would love to build with you. Even I can't explain it, I feel this strong pull towards you."

Prium scoffed out of the several emotions ripping through her veins. She nodded her head,

"Of course, you should feel a pull towards me. I shall be your bane. I will destroy you and return you to wherever the fuck you've come from. You might have fooled them that you're Athena. And even fool my sister, who doesn't even know how to make her own choice. But I know for sure that you're nothing but a witch banished from whichever land you came from and had bewitched my father, turning him with your spell into a young man, just to assert your evil ways and become a ruler. A queen."

She blew raspberry and stomped out of the palace. The light chuckle of Athena followed her out of the palace as she cussed on hurrying off the palace door.

After she had walked way past the fort of the palace, she halted. She bit her lips and argued,

"No, that can't be father. How could he be? He's too hot to be father. Is this what I am going to miss. Never. Even it will be my death, I shall do all in my power and might to stop that wierd lady."

She grunted and screamed in frustration. She resumed walking. She was headed towards the forest through which she had come. She needed reinforcement.