1 Chapter 1: * Prince *
It was a normal mid day of august for Karen and her husband, Joseph, the farmer .
" Honey, I think it's time for me to give birth", Karen while touching her tummy, told Joseph.
" Really?", he suddenly was in a panic, he don't know what to pick up but decided he was looking for his car key.
" Honey, it's okey, I had already prepared all the things I needed to be brought to the hospital, can you just please bring that bag for me?" , Karen said pointing at the big blue bag nearby.
" Okay, let's go to the hospital" , he carry the bag and lead his wife outside to the direction of the car ,parked outside of their house. On the way to the hospital he opened the car stereo to listen to the music to lessen the tension and nervousness he felt right now. Fiften minutes more before they arrive to the hospital when a spot report intervene with the mellow music.
" Mount Canla suddenly shows signs of developing magma ashes as of this time and at the brink of exploding", the news said.
"What? Oh no! not at this time!", Joseph said.
" Honey, please calm down, I'm getting nervous because of your reaction", Karen reprimand jokingly at her husband.
" I' m a bit worried for the possibility of Mt. Canla explosion, what will happened to our home and farm products, our livelihood, it will be difficult for us specially now that we have a little baby to take care of ", he is getting frustrated upon hearing the news.
When they arrive at the hospital she was taken directly to the delivery room, luckily there will be room available for his wife after the delivery.
. Before midnight Karen had already given birth to a bouncing healthy baby boy. He had fair complexion and few curly hair, but when the baby started to cry everybody panic because his skin color change, and divided into two, the other half was black and the other half was fair complexion.
" Put him under observation he might be sick, this is the first time I encounter this case", the doctor said.
" Doc, can you please give me my son? I want to hold him", though very weak Karen requested she know whom he got such physical attribute, then the doctor gesture to the nurse holding him to give the baby to his mother. When Karen held her son, the baby stop crying and in a few minutes his color was back to normal.
" Is that true? that his color changes?", the nurse waiting for the baby to be put at the nursery, whisper to his co nurse.
" What a miracle, the first time ever I'd seen in my whole life", the other nurse agreed.
Even her excited husband was still in awe upon witnessing just what happened she was telling him about Sultan Sota, the man who had two divided colors but he is happy when his color become normal again.
Both parents are happy to see their first born for the first time.
" Honey what a wonderful gift from heaven, the best gift ever you had given me", Joseph lovingly told his wife while watching his newborn son in complete fascination and Love..
" Just like what we had agreed we will named him after you, your junior but he will be nicknamed as prince is that okay with you?." Karen said, she couldn't tell her husband that nickname is requested by Sultan Sota.
" Okay, you're the mother, you knows best, besides you're the boss", Joseph said.
" Honey, what if we request for a DNA test to be sure he is your son?", Karen suggested to her surprise husband.
" Where did you get that idea? I never doubted he's my son, I know you will never betray me, I trust you that much?", Joseph irritation was visible in his voice.
" Honey, please for my own peace of mind, I swear I never have tried to have a relationship with other man other than you, but my nightmares bother me so much, and you see what happened to prince, Sultan Sota in my dreams looks like that, he was divided in two colors, black and white.." Karen explained.
At the end of the conversation, Joseph had give in to his wife request though it was against his will, he had decided that Karen was right, he will definitely be more at peace if proven he was the father.
The doctor look at him with pity when Karen had requested for a DNA test for the newborn and Joseph on the next day.
Joseph was watching the news at the television on the private room where Karen and the baby stay , it tackles about the volcanics movements the other day.
" The volcanic threat immediately calm down at eleven fifty seven last night", according to the newscaster.
" That's the same time my delivery was due , eventhough I am very weak last night, I hear the doctor said 'it's eleven fifty seven'", Karen told Joseph.
After settling the bill they had been given permission to check out of the hospital on the third day because Karen had undergone normal delivery so no reason for them to stay at the hospital . Prince was proven healthy after a day of monitoring, they decided to pick up the DNA test result on the date it was suppose to be released.
" You see! I told you he is my son, our similarity is very obvious!", Joseph proudly exclaimed when they saw the DNA result, that prove positive but some unexplainable DNA was present in his son that Joseph disregarded.
" Yes I know, he is really our son", Karen was more relax upon knowing that the child was her husband's baby. She no longer in doubt that there's someone from the other world that impregnated her that inspite of her reluctance had always hipnotize her to be brought to his home which is a palace surrounded by golden furnitures and in her dream he was the king of the Volcano , In Mt. Canla, everybody call him sultan Sota.
Inspite of his divided colors, the other half is black and the other half is white his good looks is still very obvious. The way he move and speak is that of a respected leader, he had the body of a gigolo, in her dreams he had wives not just one but three, the first wife is Sanna,.a very beautiful and regal lady ,while the second is Rosie, as beautiful as well but a bit naughty and carefree, while the third is Simone ,equally beautiful and very kind and hospitable among the three. The other two wives glare at her with threat in their eyes but the third was very accomodating and very friendly toward her.
" Please help me! I am married and I love my husband very much. Help me so your husband will no longer hipnotize me to be brought here in your palace", she begged at the third wife which just nod at her as if reassuring her of the help she badly needed.
Even during her pregnancy she was taken away from home then send back home again, she feel as if she was committing adultery against her will,until a month before she give birth, she couldn't refuse him and he had requested to call the child " Prince " she doesn't know why he is so sure she will give birth to a baby boy inspite of the fact that both she and Joseph decided they want the gender of their child a surprise for them both. But because of sultan Sota she is secretly aware of her child's gender.
Eventhough the child was proven to be Joseph's son according to the DNA test, still the qualities of Sota was visible in her son. Everytime he is crying or uncomfortable his body coloring change into two separate colors as if from head to foot and just return back to normal when he calm down.
A year after Prince was born, she and the baby was brought to the palace by Sultan Sota, when they arrive a big celebration was waiting for them. The tarps says, 'Happy first Birthday Prince', It was a total surprise for her ,it never occur even in her imagination that they're also using tarps and celebrate birthdays. The sultan carry Prince as if he was really his son.
" You are a very lucky boy, Prince", Sota told Prince as he kissed him on his cheek that makes the child giggles in pleasure.
The sultan shows much affection to the child as if his own,inspite of the fact that the child was proven to be Joseph's own flesh and blood. The sultan smiled as he stares in Karen's direction as if reading what's in her mind but he made no comments to contradicts her thought. The celebration was a festive one, each children of the sultan attended and they gather around Prince as if he was their little brother. He had eight daughters and three sons in his three wives .
But Prince enjoyed the presence of each child and that of sultan. He is just laughing and giggling, no discomfort can be sense in him surrounded by those creatures.
" Please Sultan, I wanna go home with Prince now, my husband might be very worried as of this time," Karen begged.
" You and Prince can stay here with me forever in the palace if you want, you will be my forth wife ", the sultan replied.
" No! I love my husband very much and I will never abandon him!", Karen angrily retorded at the suggestion. The sultan intense look was focused at her and after a few minutes he nodded as if convince of the love she had for her husband . Sultan Sota,was so goodlooking and charming he can be likened to the lead star of 365 days Massimo, inspite of his two divided colors.
Any woman will be dying to gain his attention and love, but she already have a very loving and responsible husband that even a wealthy and woman's man in his own world like sultan can not replace in her heart.
" Joseph's was so lucky to have you, your love for him was so pure and intense that I envied him", the sultan said.
" You're also very lucky to have three wives that loves you as well and childrens that looks up and respect you, better reconsider them and don't worry about my son Prince, he will be loved and well taken cared of by me and his dad , my husband Joseph", Karen told Sultan Sota.
" I know how good parents are both of you , okay, I will let Prince to return home with you, but rest assured I will always watch after the welfare of my son, stop disagreeing with me about the truth of Prince DNA, I know him better than you." sultan replied..
Karen was so stunned when she heard what the sultan said. She couldn't beleive what she heard but she had chosen not to argue with him. For sure Joseph was so worried about them right now.
Just in a blink of an eye they were back home and her husband was still in heavy sleep. After putting her sleeping son in his cot , she lie down in her side of the bed and embrace tightly her husband. How she wish Sota will no longer bother her and her son. She is not comfortable with the feeling that she was betraying her husband even in a dream that was seem to be so real, because she can see the similarity of Sultan and his son, even at a young age his son seems so charming and his good looks seems visible at such a young age. He can charm both their extended family their family usually called him 'guwapo', and they love to hear that they appreciate his good looks or is it just in a parently point of view? they see their offspring as a handsome little one? whew, no matter what my son is 'gwapo' in my sight, Karen thought.
