The Legend Of The Five Queens : Arabella's tale

Chapter 4: Journey to becoming a queen

Lady Arabella walks down one of the corridors searching for Severus. He is the only one she trusts enough to discuss her dark and twisted plans without having to worry about them stabbing her in the back. Her plans of conquering the world will not be easy. Severus must be around somewhere around here? The stone on her chest glows bright and sends heat through her body warming her insides.
All this power she has, it's so incredible can more of these stones exist? What else could Cassandra tell her about this Fire stone, would she be able to find the others and somehow use them all at the same time?
She shakes the thought from her head, no looking for the other stones would take too long. So much was to be done in a short amount of time, she must start her evil plan soon and make sure no one finds about it. Opening the doors she finds a male servant talking to a knight about organizing other soldiers and sending them to certain checkpoints throughout the kingdom. They are just being paranoid King Willams is too much of a coward to start a war, if he tries to do anything then queen Arabella will kill him. The two men are speaking quietly and quickly and before Arabella could get close enough to them to hear the rest of what they were saying. The knight quickly turns around and jogs out of the castle and the male servant turns to lady Arabella with fear on his face.

The princess straightens her back and asks "where is Severus?" The man takes a moment to think about the question.

"He is out in the back with a group of knights my lady," he answers. She nods at him and heads towards the back of the castle, she must find Severus. As she walks through the castle she begins to put together her devil plan to take control of the world. The first step is to become queen and that is no easy task especially when she plans on taking over the world. She opens up a big wooden door and walks down the long narrow hallway quickening her pace. She opens up another door and continues walking towards the doorway that leads to the back of the castle. Out in the back of the castle, she finds Severus talking to four knights with four-horse near them. "All right I need you four to go to the checkpoints that you have been assigned to, Queen Zehn wants to make sure that those points are secure due to the possibility of war happening soon," he explains to the knights. As Arabella approaches him she slowly begins to zone out and think about how much Severus has grown throughout the years. She is proud of the man he has become after the years of fighting she has even come to have feelings for him. Severus tells the knights to report back to him before dawn today and the knights go to their horses and ride off in separate directions.

Severus turns around and smiles and his princess before he straightens his back completely. Arabella feels her heart warm up as she looks at Severus's smile "Why do I continue to feel this way towards him, am I still but a mere child? Have I not learned to grow up yet?" she thought to herself. She shakes the thoughts away before approaching Severus.

"Severus my faithful protector come with me, I must have words with you alone," She tells him. He smiles at this request and nods,

"Yes my lady," he says. Arabella walks past him and stares off into the distance, she is loving the beauty of nature. The sun is high in the sky and the stone on Arabella's chest is absorbing the heat from the sun and converting it into energy.

"My lady?" Severus asks as he notices that princess Arabella has zoned out completely, she isn't aware of what's around her not even aware of the danger of a world war happening.

"Hm?" she askes turning her attention to him.

"You like went to a whole new world inside your mind," She blushes at his comment and puts on her arrogant princess look.

"It's nothing, now then let's go get my horse and ride to my sanctuary," She tells him as she tries to hide her embarrassment. They walk to the part outside of the Castile to where several different horses were kept and taken care of. The princess's horse as well as her mothers' horse is kept in a special stable, the finest one in the kingdom. The stable held the princess's horse and the queen's horse both in their stalls. The stable was made out of the best wood in the world and gave the horses lots of room to move around in. Equidor, Arabella's horse rose from where he was laying and walks over to the gate that separates her from Arabella. Arabella smiles and rubs the top of Equidor's head with her hand.

"Equidor, are you ready for a short journey?" Arabella asks as she looks into her horses' eyes. Equidor starts to move around excitedly as if saying "yes." Severus laughs quietly at Equidor's reaction.

"It would appear as though he is more than ready," he says. Lady Arabella opens the gate and grabs the bit and leads to putting on Equidor.

"I'm guessing we are going to your favorite place to discuss secret matters?" Severus asks as Arabella finishes putting the bit and lead on Equidor.

"Yes, we are. Grab your horse Severus and make it fast we have no time to waste,"

"Yes, my lady," With that Severus quickly runs out of the stable to get his horse.

"I'm hoping he does not go against my plan," She thinks to herself. It's very rare for Severus to go against her for he is her most loyal servant. But there is still a small chance that he won't agree to her master plan.

Arabella leads Equidor out of the stable and sees Severus riding on his horse towards them. His horse has dark orange fur and is proudly named Lily. Severus makes Lily stop in her tracks in front of the princess.

"Are you ready to go my lady?" Severus asks. Arabella climbs on top of Equidor and sits comfortably on top of him.

"Yes let us ride!" Arabella says excitedly. The two of them ride off towards the woods into the distance towards the sun.