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Bedroom Kingdom (Writers Jam 1)

Posted by AmazingArsonist - September 2nd, 2023


In Jack's room, across no man's land two forces of Lego warriors faced one and other, the barbaric Verg hoard, and the kingdom of Albion, Albion had the numbers, the skilled warriors, and powerful siege weapons, but the Verg had numbers, beasts, and a Dark Wizard with them. Both forces occasionally had its out of place ally, the Verg's for example had the giant plush snake, "Kandoor the world eater" he'd been named. The Albion forces had a remote controlled robot called "Gage" who towered over his Lego allies.  


The Verg’s were the aggressors launching, attacks from their bookshelf fortress. Their forces positioned between books and nick nacks, the Albion's kingdom stood on top of the windowsill opposite. The space between serving as battlegrounds, no man's land, and occasionally other scenes as needed. 


The war had been going on for nearly two whole months, the Verg attacking, the nights going out to fight them while arrows rained from above, so far the Verg had been forced back each and every time. 


Both sides had setbacks, the giant cat monster Milo, had gotten into Jack's room and had messed up his carefully arranged Verg warriors, then there had been time he'd left the windows open, and Albions forces got wet from the rain.


Since the war started there had been tragedy, drama and action! King Randle had been assassinated at his own banquet, Ze, the warrior princess had abandoned the Verg’s and joined Albion after she fell in love with Alex the Strong, leaving the forever scowling Dark Wizard to lead them. However he died fighting Kandoor to stop him eating the villagers, and she had vanished, heartbroken. 


Now leading the Verg, the Dark Wizard had attempted a ritual to unleash a curse on Albion, but had been interrupted at the last minute by the White Knights, Albion's elite warriors, he had gotten away, but had lost a hand in the fight. 


So much more had happened, and so much more was to happen! But mum wanted him to tidy up, so Jack led both forces in their final battle! 


The Verg started first, marching across the floor to the wall, Albion's ground forces waiting for them, miss matched Lego forces and other toys clashed while the catapults fired, taking down a good number of their forces, but then a dragon appeared! 


It flew across the wall, and with its fire breath wiped out most of the weapons, before flying away. Using the distraction the Verg pushed their way though the ground forces and reached the base of the wall, and with the cunning use of blue tac they climbed. 


Gage, seeing this moved in, any that had not started climbing were knocked down by him, as Jack used the remote to make him charge, slightly awkwardly forward. Bulldozing his way through them, before turning 90 degrees and moving forward to the Dark Wizard. 


The dragon meanwhile came back! But this time the Albion knights were ready, they fired the catapults, and hitting the monster it fell, crashing onto the windowsill it was finished off by the White Knights. 


The climbing Verg managed to reach the top, skirmishes broke out between them and the defending Albion forces, with their superior weapons and armour they made short work of them, but more kept coming! 


The Dark Wizard meanwhile took down Gage with a fireball before advancing to the battle himself, raising his one hand and firing lighting at the wall's forces. Albions forces were forced to fall back to the far edge of the windowsill, behind the yellow brick barricade as the Verg forces advanced. The Dark Wizard ordered his pet, Kandoor to advance, it slithered its way up the chair and desk, almost level with the knights, Albion was doomed, once the windowsill was lost, the kingdom would fall. 


But then, a horn sounded in the distance! The Dark Wizard looked over, it was Ze! She was leading a mounted squad, they charged and the Verg on the wall were thrown off as the horses charged through them. 


Ze jumped and landed on Kandoor, the two struggled but she stabbed it in the head with her spear!


The Dark Wizard tried to run, but a catapult fired, and he was crushed under a boulder! With his last breath he cursed Ze and the kingdom of Albion before dying, and a mighty cheer went up from the warriors. 


Just like that, the battle was over, the kingdom of Albion had won! However despite their victory, the kingdom would not last, Verg and Albion forces alike, packed away in the same toy box. Lost limbs reattached, weapons removed, and moved under the bed until summoned again, to play new roles, to carry out new stories the next time Jack needed something to pass the time. Their struggle may not have been real, but the joy Jack felt he would member for years too come.


The end.



Short story for Writers Jam, using the prompt Kingdom, I hope you enjoyed this, I enjoyed writing it and drawing on my own memory's of bedroom kingdoms and battles, I'm sure we all have memory's of elaborate toy set ups.


I'd like too thank Jamriot for putting this together and I look forward to reading the other story entries.


P.S. Sorry for any spelling issues, I am dyslexic and as per the set up I did not have as much time for spellchecking as I would have liked.


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Very fun!! Love the atmosphere of childhood playtime! very much feels like a story a child would come up with!

I don't know if this was your intention, but I thought this was a really clever way of interpreting the grand expectations that come with a term like "kingdom". I remember when I saw that was the prompt, I couldn't really wrap my head around a way to make something so colossal work for a short story, but you nailed it! Not only did making the story about a kid and their toys shrink down the scale, the character's own imagination still managed to stay true to the epic storytelling you'd expect from a prompt like "kingdom". Really smart stuff!

Thank for reading and the kind words, it means a lot.
I did struggle to know what prompt to go with and keep it to being a short story. I agree "Kingdom" dose loan itself to more large scale story's, and this was a fun way to do that story but scaled down to in a kids bedroom.

I really enjoyed writing it and I'm quite happy how it came out.