Three Empires

The TECHNOLOGY EMPIRE is owned by the King of Innovated Brain. He has unpredictable knowledge to create many new technology and develops his empire to be the top 3 per hundreds empires of the world. Not only his perfect brain, he also has such good looking appearance and well management to his people. He restructured his city to be very modern and even created Robot Soldiers who could read people mind, so great he is! He has a trustworthy assistant who respects him sincerely and could complete all his assigned mission efficiency and effectively. They have very good and closed relationship that people thinks they will become couple one day. Regardless to what people thought, they are closed in term of honesty one, no lover feeling is included. Her name is Cinde. She has charming and cheerful face, lovely smile, friendly, talkative, yet is understandable, work result-oriented, creativity and socialize but a bit sensitive sometime.

One day, the king is having the meeting with a Representative Officer from another empire and the discussion is about Cinde. Her name is popular and is spread to other empires while this empire comes and requests the king to get her in exchanging for more supporting power-enlargement to the king and proposes a nice huge land near the border. Cinde hears about this discussion while she is about to walk into the room. She pauses near the door, waiting to hear the king’s response. She trusts the king would reject this proposal since he is the kindest to her and treats her as family members. The king real rejects the proposal and she feels very blessed so she opens the door and walk-in with smile. The king calls her to stand next to him and joins the discussion. However, things have been changed in next hour, the Representative Officer proposes more and more until the king accepts with gladness. Cinde is pale and about to collapse with heart-broken into pieces. She finds it too hard to believe what she just heard. The Representative Officer leaves the king’s room with his proud of successful convincing. Cinde looks at the king and asks him “Why?” The king replies he real loves her as his sister that this nation is belonging to him, just a like belonging to Cinde. Hence, her sacrifice is for the whole nation. He says that he is so proud of her and the nation would always remember her. He trusts Cinde would be in another empire with honor and respect. Cinde gets no words to reply and her lips are automatically zipped. This is the King’s order; actually, she has no right to ask for reasons. The people in the Technology Empire all think she will become the queen of that new empire and they feel very thankful to her sacrifice from all their respectful heart.

Cinde then is sent to the assigned empire. She has no ideas what kind of place she is sent to and this is the second time she gets so disappointed since her expectation is hugely opposite to what it real is. She is standing in front of the empire’s gate, in the name of “BLACK MAGIC EMPIRE” with her surprised, thrilled emotion. Her birthplace of Technology Empire is a democracy one even the leader is called the king; while here the Black Magic Empire is the communist place which is owned by their scary king. The internal information in the Technology Empire can be spread out very freely while the internal information in this empire is not allowed to be leaked or the one who spread it will be sentenced to death. The empire is covered by the black magic where the empire’s people cannot go out at all if there is no their majesty’s approval. This empire is so strange since there is no day time but only the thick mist dark environment and cold. 

There seem full of spirit and soul. Instead of being the princess or queen as Cinde is judged by her people, she is assigned to be the Bury Lady who responds for burying all the dead people in this empire. No comments can be said nor the complains; Cinde is in her black custom with a mask on her face and a shovel in her hand. Day by day, she is working tiredly, from at first of being so frighten to those dead body until she has no more feeling toward this job. She is living in a room that is even darker than the outside and has only a candle to bright the room blurrily. In her room, there is one mirror box in the size of one meter square that has a floating pale man’s head inside, only the head! Well, she was crying with haunting feeling at first but sooner, she could adapt to the environment there and because that man’s head has no reaction at all; seem like the dead one and keeps closing his eyes. Cinde always talks to that no-reaction head; she considers him as her friend who she can share everything (Actually, she is alike talking alone but it is better than she is talking to the wall or totally alone…). She tells him of how she was living in her birthplace, jokes, things have happened in this Black Magic Empire, her complaining, her fussy and even shares him of how sad she is while is sobbing and hugging that mirror box and the pale floating head is still that no reaction as usual.

Today, she comes back to her room very late at night. She sits down near the mirror box and tells the floating head as she is so exhausted with her tasteless life here, she has neither hope nor no one beside him here and she wants to end her life here and right now… She takes out the knife and is about to cut her throat; immediately, the floating head opens his eyes in such so bloody devil eyes and starts talking to her while the moments he talks, the black smoke comes out from his mouth and fills the mirror box with all this dark smoke…. He tells her not to commit suicide, she is not alone, she has him and she is the most precious person to him, she is so lovable to him…. Cinde opens her eyes big and finally is blackout. The moment she wakes up, she finds herself sleeping on the bed, covers by the blanket and has no single clothes on her body. She is hugging her blanket tight with a lot of crying until there are no more tears to be shed. She dresses and walks to see her friend but he disappeared so she walks out the room soullessly. She cannot remember what has happened or who did that dirty act on her while she was unconscious. On the way she is walking, no matter who see her, they are astonished and bow to her with highly respect. She again has no ideas of what extremely has happened. She continues her way until there is a big door in front of her. She thinks of open the door and suddenly it opens itself with the black smoke… Cinde just goes through the door with a bit doubtful. She now is in the garden of black and brown flowers with sharp thorn under the warm moon light… Everything here seems lack of colorful colors but only the white and dark colors. She then thinks of picking the flowers while they are cut by themselves and fly to her hand… She is more doubtful and thinks of doing other things and they are not different, they all come to find her themselves. At the same time, they are coming to her with the black smoke…

A voice comes up to disturb the silent atmosphere…  “My Queen Cinde, what are you doing there alone?” Cinde is finding the voice’s owner and sees a tall good looking guy in white shirt and black trousers with a pale face and that is her friend, Mr. No Reaction who was the Pale floating head in the mirror box… She later learns to know who he exactly is… He is the King of this Black Magic Empire and he was cursed to stay in that mirror box with a scary image; without knowing how he could leave it. He was cursed not to have serious relationship with anyone as well or his power will be faded. The Black Magic King once loves his power and his black magic more than anything that he decided to close his eyes and avoid from communicating with people. He leaded the empire through his thought and his black magic. Because Cinde was the main reason to support the king of Technology Empire, he ordered his officer to take her a way from the King. Though, his heart started changing after Cinde appeared and was living next to him. Even he closed his eyes but he did listen to every word from her and love did grow. The moment Cinde decided to take her own life; he didn’t regret to lose anything else and opened the eyes, talked to her. It was the surprised moment for both of them while the Black Magic King could release himself out of the mirror box and Cinde was blackout from what she saw. It was the first night he spent with her while now she is officially his queen and the queen of the Black Magic Empire. He is not cruel to her as how he is to other. He also didn’t meant to take her body but he thought this way would help her to stop thinking of suicide since she will automatically become the Queen; simultaneously, his at least 50% magic will be transferred to her body. That is why she could do anything just from what she thought of it. Even though, this is not a kind of love which Cinde have ever dreamed of. She doesn’t feel right at all but she hid her unpleasant feeling secretly.

No one dares to suspect what she is doing now. She is freely going everywhere in the empire. No longer later, she walks in to the forbidden area while there is an extremely huge gate which is the empire’s gate. She tries opening it and it real open which lets her see presence of her two friends. They three are very excited to see each other. Cinde invites them to go inside and they follow her. On the way they are walking, her friends tells her of their real purpose to come here, they want to take her back… Cinde decides to follow them and three of them start running toward the empire gate. Cinde orders the gate to open while the Black Magic King and many soldiers are running to stop her. “Please stop my Cinde!!! Please!!!”, the Black Magic King shouts and uses his magic to close the door. Those two friends already pass the door while Cinde is the last person to run after them. The door is almost closed but she tries faster to go through the door… She fells down to the floor and she could successfully escape.  There is a long wooden bridge that connects the Black Magic Empire to another mountain (The Mountain belongs to Technology Empire) and under the wooden bridge is a large dark deep gorge. One friend leads the way and runs on the bridge while another one helps to lift up Cinde to run together on the bridge. The Black Magic King is out to follow Cinde, he cut the bridge magically and the bridge is falling down rapidly. He is trying to take her back while she uses magic back to against him. They almost fall down but their luck still exists, they could reach the mountain with their shaking heart. These two friends jump from the mountain to the ground and it is so high but they can do it. They persuade Cinde to jump and do not scare since she also has magic… This moment, the Black Magic King is standing in front of the empire’s gate and is looking at her with the saddest eyes. He cannot follow her more, he is not allowed to bother his neighbor empire. He is at the Black Magic Empire while Cinde is at the Technology Empire; they are separated by that huge gorge. Before jumping down, she turns back to see his face the last time and falls her body free in the air to the ground. She feels hurtful without recognizing reasons, though, she already decided to come back to her world. 

They three are now in the Technology Empire and are invited to meet the King. The King greets them nicely, especially to Cinde. He shows his gratefully excitement to see her. Cinde doesn’t really understand him, his act, his smile, his behavior are alike the illusion to her. If he loves her as his family, he won’t sell her in return of power and many other advantages. She won’t trust him anymore. After their discussion, Cinde and her friends leave the conference room with strange suspicion because all the robot soldiers are indirectly trying to follow them and look like they are reading their mind and sending data out. The three friends start to pay attention on them and find out it is real; so a friend suggests Cinde and another to be careful by not to have eyes contact with the robots, escape from their eyes and use the palm to cover on the chest where their heart locate. Then, the robots cannot read them more. Unfortunately, it is a bit late to be careful since there are many soldiers who seek around to find them. The three friends are hiding in a small room behind the giant trees and hear what soldiers are talking. The soldiers are commanded to catch them and the special case is Cinde, the king plans to send her back to the Black Magic Empire in order to maintain all the advantages he once got from sending Cinde to that empire. The king was the one who ordered the robots to read them too that he already found out what had been occurring. To Cinde, she finally lost all the positive judgment to the king, her respect and her love. Her tears are falling down painfully. She feels too jade and hurtful to her respective king who treated her as material, not humanity.

When the soldiers disappear from their hiding place, Cinde tells her friends she would not stay here and she is asking them to go with her. Yet, she doesn’t know where she should be. Her friends show their so sorry to her persuading and reject her request since they want to live in their birthplace. Cinde could understand this feeling very well that she could smile and accept their decision. She’s ever heard of one Empire where is next to the Technology Empire, the closest one and there is a transparent door to link between that place and her birthplace. Back then, it is quite rare that people could go through that door since people all are heard that only the person who has fate with that empire, they can go through. The king of Technology Empire did try many times to go to that unknown empire for his purpose to visit the King there and to find out what the name of that empire and what kind of place it is; however, he never gets success to go there. This is the last hope of Cinde, she decides to go to that empire since it is the nearest one which could help her to escape or if she cannot manage to disappear quickly, she would be caught. Saying good bye and after hugging her friends, she goes into that door but she does fail many times. The soldiers come back and see her, they all run toward her urgently … The more the soldiers walk toward her, the more she is stepping backward with panic until she cannot see those soldiers, they all disappear. She turns around to find them; at that moment, she finds out she is at the new place! Fate brings her to access the door and reaches the mysterious empire and its name is "GREENLAND EMPIRE". She walks in and sees this place where is covered by the beautiful nature, totally the green forest. She continues her walking; she meets wild-animals and later, the empire’s people. They all are friendly and living their life depending on the nature. She is guided to meet the King there who welcomes her greatly since he says that all the people who could come here are the people who have fate with his empire. Cinde tells him all the story so he tells her to feel free and she can stay here as long as she wants. She can do anything here, it is her fully right as Greenland’s people. Here has no much rules, the Empire’s vision is “If they are fated to meet, they would help each other and live well together”. This place is full of beauty, none greed and freedom.

Cinde leaves the King’s place and goes to rest under the big tree with the very gentle weather and the warm tree’s shade. She closes her eyes for a nap but the sad face of the Black Magic King appears. Her heart is in sorrow, she could feel how that face is feeling. She doesn’t have love for him but such an unpredictable sympathy to him. She is unexpectedly missing him a lot. She cannot hold back her tears… She does miss him! Immediately, she feels so heavy on her chest, look like there is a little baby bear laying on her… Cinde opens the eyes and sees no baby bear but her second baby boy who hugs her and sleeps on her…. She is back to real world… And all has happened so far, they all were her long, very long dream….