Fight For Democracy

Fight For Democracy 

Dave Monett, the King of Kingdom Monett, has been seeing a lady who everybody thinks will be the future Queen. Her name is Nina, and she is obsessed with King Dave. She would do anything  in her power to please the King. One day, she receives a note from a messenger pigeon, with the news that King Dave is no longer interested and she can leave the Kingdom immediately or be forcefully removed by soldiers otherwise. She chooses to leave without force, but insists that the soldiers inform King Dave that he will be hearing from her shortly.

[Ten years later.]

As the soldiers of King Dave are preparing their weapons for battle, there are whispers of some unknown rebellion on the other side of the lake at the Kingdom of Dasharatha. This causes confusion because the Dasharatha family has been in power for thousands of years. Their current leader, King Dasharatha, has been the most ruthless one of all. It is a total dictatorship, and the civilians are treated as slaves. They either take the role of growing crops for the kingdom's food, or battle as a soldier to protect. The soldiers of Kingdom Monett seem distracted, and this infuriates King Dave. He storms from his chambers down to his men. They tremble in fear of him and are anticipating a ruthless punishment.

"THE NEXT PERSON TO SPEAK OF REBELLION WILL END UP IN THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE" shouts King Dave, from the top of his banister. As he finishes his remarks, the Kingdom is washed in silence. From across the lake, everybody stares into the flames of the Kingdom of Dasharatha. It is in total destruction. King Dave and his soldiers remain silent for a couple of minutes, until thunderous footsteps appear to be approaching. An army of thousands of soldiers is riding in from the distance. Screeches from the approaching army and getting louder and louder. Everybody scrambles for their weapons, and get ready to battle.

The stampede stops at the gate of kingdom Monnett, and only six people walk forward. Nobody from the kingdom can recognize these people. The guards make them halt and identify themselves. Suddenly, King Dave notices a beautiful woman that looks familiar from the top of the castle, and walks out of the Kingdom to approach her and five others. His heart skips a beat, as he realizes it's Nina. It also appears to be King Dashartha's four sons, and another boy. Nina begins to speak, "Dave, meet Brandon...Brandon Monett. He is to be the King after today. Once you are finally gone." King Dave is silenced in shock of his young son. Brandon walks towards his father, with an angry stare in his eyes. King Dave reaches out to hug him, only to find Brandon driving a knife into his heart. King Dave drops to the ground.

King Dave did not know that Nina was pregnant when he broke up with her. And now, he is gone. Nina, Brandon, and King Dashartha's four sons overthrew both kingdoms and set a democracy for the people of both kingdoms, and it is now one united country.

Kingdom of Monett: (Wikipedia) 

Author's Note: I decided to combine two of the readings last week. The first one was about King Dasharatha and his four sons. I also read about King Dave breaking up with Nina, and added the twist that she was pregnant with his son. I haven't combined two different kingdoms, or even two different families yet, and I thought it would be fun to do so. In the original story, Sita told Rama that she is pregnant, and this is what sparked my idea to change that to Nina for a more epic twist. King Dasharatha had three wives, but I thought this would cause too much confusion in this story. King Dasharatha actually died in his sleep due to pain and misery of his separation with Rama. In my opinion, this made him seem too weak (and also that's not very exciting to read about). So I decided to have his four sons overthrow his kingdom and burn it to the ground. Then they join alliance with Nina and King Dave's unknown son. When King Dave broke up with Nina in a disrespectful manner in the reading, I thought this called for some dramatic revenge, which Nina ended up fulfilling!

Bibliography: Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley (Link)