ipl-logo

King Oedipus The King

1784 Words8 Pages

As the snow falls beyond the rusted bars, the King laughs alone in the dungeon. His guffaws echo against the moist cobblestone and bounce off to nothing but the warm body of the dead on the bloody, wooden table. Right beside the sticky red, there is a shiny crown and a bubbling matte bottle. As the cold breeze turns into a gale, the King picks up the bottle with sickly sweet poison and pours it down his throat. Once upon a time, there was a young boy who had the ability to freeze everything with his mind. Although he had the heart of a saint, but he never revealed his secret to anyone in the village. He secretly helped and protected everyone around him, but the consequence of his strong power was the exhaustion of his physical body. Whenever …show more content…

One of the most important item on that day’s agenda was to talk to the protesters in order to make a better community. He had faith in his citizens and would use his own actions to prove who he really is. However, the only thing he did wrong was to invite too many people to the castle. As soon as the ball began, a well-dressed gentleman walked up to the King and indicated that he was an explorer from a nearby kingdom and respected the ways King treated his citizens. After a few introductions, the explorer presented a matte bottle to the King. He secretly told the King about how the liquid contained in the bottle could help achieve immortality and hoped to see more transactions between the two kingdoms. The King was so happy about this precious gift and wanted to know more about its function. The explorer asked the King to follow him to a quieter place, so they could have a deeper conversation. Lead by the explorer, both of them walked down to the basement level of the castle. Just as the King wondered about how the explorer knew so much of the place, he was pushed and locked into an acidic dungeon he never knew before. The explorer told him that he was the brother of the former Queen and his hatred never decreased after the day his sister died. At the meanwhile, he ran up to the ballroom and saw the Queen was looking for her majesty. He went up to her and introduced himself as a diplomatic explorer, but the Queen turned back to her search, so he pulled out a dagger and stabbed in her chest. People started to scream and rushed out of the castle as they saw Queen fall into a pool of blood. On the lower level, the King used his power to freeze up the lock and broke out of the dungeon. But when he ran back to the ballroom, he saw the body of his wife laid down there, right in the center with a note saying revenge. He tossed the note aside and

Open Document