The King's Castle: A Short Story

The evil King, who was rumored to have set up the assassination of his mother, father, and brother. The King ruled with power over his poverty stricken and plague ridden kingdom. There was mass amounts of peasants who lived off of bread scraps and leaves. Those who lived, lived in huts made out of the trash that was thrown onto the streets. He believed in no other God but himself. He would torture, burn, and kill the people who opposed him, there was also large grey-brownish from the smoke of the burning of people. The King's Castle stands on a mountain which can only be seen on a day without a single cloud in the sky, which hadn’t happened ever since he had taken control over the kingdom. It's said that the castle had over one million steps …show more content…
He ran anxiously, terrified of what was following him through the darkness. He ran feelling the wall only able to see every time Lightning flashed. The King continued to run until he found a door, he recognized the door he knew it lead to an abandoned part of the castle that lead to an old catacombs that was closed because of rumors and stories of ghost haunting those servants who tortured the innocent. The King sprints down the gigantic flight of stairs until he slips panicked from certain death by the shadowy figure. The King falls to the bottom of the stairs and is knocked unconscious. The King dreams. The King awakens to find himself in a catacomb surrounded by shadowy figures not like the one that had been chasing him. He quickly realized that he was still being chased by death and that he had to find somewhere to hide. The King was too mortified to understand what was happening. The King found somewhere to hide it was a coffin, it was a rather large coffin at that. He knew death would soon find him so he had to act quick he to as second look at the coffin and noticed it had the word Pride carved into it. He opened the coffin to find a dead body a body that had been burnt so badly that he could barely recognize it. He noticed the bodies rather …show more content…
The king runs until he comes up to a door with the word “greed”, carved into it. He opens and walks thru, as soon as he walks through the king is in his bed. He is overflowing with excitement and happiness he thinks to himself “is my torment really over, was it all just a dream?”. He walks around his room to his gold, to the window where there are still a few clouds, and to his door which he tries to open however, the door it won’t budge it's locked from the outside. Then a shadowy figure appears whispers “Give to those who you’ve taken so much from…”, and then disappears. The King at first doesn't understand the figure until he takes another look around his room and realizes that he has to give up the money he cares so much about. He cries and begs for a different way. He forces himself to throw all of his gold out of his window so that it falls to the peasants at the bottom of the castle. After he emptied all of his precious gold a hatch is revealed in the floor under where the pile was, he questions himself if this hatch had always been there. He