The old man looked up saying: "Athlean watch out for him who has a butterfly mask for he will catch you like he did with me."
"Don't worry Luca, I will not and you will neither again." said Athlean and tears had begun to trickel across his face, with a bloodied hand he had gone and wipe away the tears.
"Don't cry Athlean, for I will always be there." and with that he pointed his finger at Athlean's heart and without haste the man had begun to tell...
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"Luca I have something to tell you." said the queens mother as she looked at the old man where he stood "Go and see if my grandson is all rhight and if he is, come back and report back to me."
"Right your majesty" and with that Luca turned around and marched out, because he knew the queensmother had enemies he dressed himselve as an commoner.
And had begun to run through streets and corners that he knew realy well and came to stop in front of a great palace sort of house and he came to stop against a tree, that overlooked a valley.
"Wait for me." cried a child as he ran acros the snow towards a forest, the old man smiled like there's no tomorrow.
And like a mirrage he had disapeard as if he never existed before, leaving the scene behind.
"Well?" asked the queen mother as her two became as white as snow.
"All is well your majesty." and the first time in years Luca saw the queen smile.
And so years passed one day, the old man heard how a group of men planned to kill the queen mother.
As swift as the wind Luca had begun to run, without any sighns of haste, and so evryone thought that he had a child that is sick or so, so no one payed mind to his actions.
Al most there was the last thought of the man before he felt how he flew through the air.
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"You had saved my life Athlean and so I have to tell you the truth." said Luca before gasping for air.
"What truth?" asked Athlean, as he wipe away the dust of, the old man's face while evryone would think Athlean doesn't cry, he does cry-in his heart.
"Your-Your the queensmother's grandchild, many years ago your father who was the queens mother's oldest son, who died in the war, had in his drunken state one night atacked his wife and she was pregnant with you. Because she knew the death of your father was no acident she had gone and beforehand asked her personal maid to take you when you no longer needs her. You were only a month old when an ambush was planned on the palace, the maid ranned away with you to the man whom she later married, because the man was a real known visitor at a you-know-what place and the maid had worked there before becomming a maid. She made him wise that you where his son and so he married her, we only found when the princes told us that she marked you, as a baby, by making a cut that looks like an "X" on your cheek, she also told how her had broke when she had done that. And so after your mother died..." he interupted himselve with a cough and before his eyes flutterd close he whisperd."She loves you very much."
Athlean looked down at Lucas who laid in his arms, shocked by the news he heard, he was a prince and he never knew.
He stood up whisperd, to no one in particuiler. "I will go and save our country, mother."
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A movement by the bed atracted Louword's antention and he ranned to Athlean's side and in the run he grabbed a wet fabric and replaced the warm fabric with the cold one.
"What had happend to you, brother." he whisperd, sundely the window flew open and a man in a silver butterfly mask jumped towards the sleeping Athlean.....