The next day I told all the orphans that I had to leave, and left them the $500 dollars I was saving. I left Rufus, 20 years old, in charge of my jobs. I packed 2 blankets, a loaf of bread, and some normal survival stuff in a backpack and the three of us were set. When we reached the border of spade and hearts, there wasn't much difference. Besides the clearer view of a mountain. There was death poverty, and a broken castle. The mountain was pretty close to the border of spade and hearts, but more on their side. The girl must have noticed me looking.
"That's Mt. Death," the girl whispered, "It's where the forbidden come from."
"Pleasant name." I replied sarcastically, "So, what's your names anyway?"
"Easy, I'm Harry, and this is my sis, Helen" Harry piped up.
"Good to know." I said less sarcastically. We walked around for what seemed like eons, finding nothing that wasn't already burnt or crumpled to bits.
"Maybe try diamond now?" Helen asked. These kids got sucked into this way to young. They didn't know anything outside their own kingdom.
"Too long, we'd have to rest at the border." I replied. We set up camp in an old barn and try to forge out the cold. Which was easy with the beds of straw and the 2 blankets I brought. Harry apparently knew how to make a fire, a useful skill for a young kid.
When we wake up we go to the border and are greeted by the diamond army.
"Who goes there?" of of them boomed.
"We are from the spade and heart kingdom, looking for survivors, we request to entrance for supplies." I mumbled.
"Take these 2 to the prince for questioning." he whispered to some other guards, who grabbed us and led us through the village. Everyone either evacuated to club or went to the public base, the forbidden army declared their next kingdom.
"At least they can't see Helen." Harry whispered, covering his black eye with an eyepatch
"Clever kid." I mumbled, he was beaming as we entered the main door to the throne room, prince Diego must have been notified of our arrival, because he was seated in the king's throne. Diamond and spade were friends, he was a toddler when this war started 18 years ago. I was just born and turned to an orphanage.
"Prince Harry!" Diego exclaimed, running up to Harry.
"What happened? Where are your parents? Your sister?" He paused to turn to me. He was older than me, but not by much. He grimaced as he turned to me.
"What did you do to them?" he asked.
"Whoah, slow your roll hot-shot. I didn't do anything." I responded, backing up.
"Diego, we need to talk, in private." Harry proclaimed.
"Let us go then." He said, turning away from me.
"Kay too." Harry pointed at me and smiled. Diego rolled his eyes, the rude ass. We walked to the conference hall, no army escort this time.
"So what did you need to talk about?" Diego asked, Harry lifted his eye patch, with Helen floating out meekly.
"Oh god," Diego said. He was absolutely horrified.
"Hey," Helen said, heart glowing "look." She showed us her wrist, revealing half a yellow glowing heart. Harry did the same, I followed to reveal a red glowing spade. I stifled a laugh as Diego had the most shocked expresion on his face. He looked down at his had and revealed to us a blue glowing diamond.
"So you really are Kay, I remember when you were just born. Before this all started." He said, smiling at the ground.
"Treat your guest before accusing them, sir." I said in a posh club-like voice. This eased the tension as we all chuckled.
"So, where did you go?" Diego asked, pitifully. I felt so bad for him, he lost his parents and had no idea what to do.
"You ruled diamond since you were 13. That means I would have been 11, I was abandoned for some time because everybody was in diamond celebrating the land of life. That's when I just discovering a fence that opened to a secret place. I was in an orphanage, but come age 11, and they kick you out. I was all alone, a little me fighting off gangs only to find a shipping container. I then took a moth-eaten tarp and make a door and build my own bed. I then turned them into bunk beds as more and more kids came, adding them to more and more boxes and overturned, clean dumpsters, anything we could find. Years passed, we would eat in a circle and I would tell them bed-time stories." I paused, shedding a tear. I actually missed taking care of the little shits.
"I would have to leave them during the day to make money as a DJ, I even did some of your parties, Diego. It went like that for some time before these kids stumbled into my life." That's when I ended my super long speech with one final note,
"Spade has always been the land of death." I choked the words out like they were bitter.
"Were so sorry, Kay." Harry, Helen, and Diego replied at the same time. It fell into an erie silence after that.
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