Love Speaks...

The group arrives

Five months pass and the group arrive at Candice's hometown, noticing civilians fighting to protect the royal residence. Candice goes to one of the civilians.

"Hi there, what's going on?" Candice asks, concerned

"I'm so glad you're here, Charlotte has been causing trouble for the past five months, breaking royal property and poisoning those who try to oppose her with thorns." The civilian answers

"Your highness, she's overthrowing the monarchy and trying to destroy your family's heirlooms. We need to get to the royal residence immediately." One of the royal guards approaches, informing

"What about us?" Marie asks

"Everyone excluding Lancelot, go to the royal residence. Lancelot, you're required to get as many civilians to safety as you can; Charlotte is going to get much more power hungry and violent. I'm going to go with the others."

"Understood, sire." Lancelot responds

Lancelot then gets to work getting the civilians and their children to their homes and the guard goes away to join Candice, Excalibur, Marie, and Niamh. Candice is first to step forward and face Charlotte, again.

"Charlotte, what are you doing?" Candice asks, unimpressed

"You said clean up the royal residence, I did that." Charlotte responds, acting dumbfounded

"Charlotte don't play dumb with me. I already knew of your plan to overthrow the monarchy, long before you left to clean this residence up."

"Wait... how?!"

"What you've forgotten, over the time you've served me and my family, is that I was born with psychic powers, alongside the powers I used to defeat you in the woodland. Not just that, everyone knows you and your deceptive nature."

Charlotte is quickly speechless, unable to find a response. Soon after, she fires her thorns at Candice, knocking her down and causing her to quickly deteriorate.

"Hey, what was that for?!" Marie asks, infuriated

"What's it to you? You're just a lesbian courtier, powerless and weak."

"You really think that?"

Marie soon powers up, becoming stronger than before, making Charlotte jealous.

"Never underestimate one of your fellow courtiers, let alone the royal that has bailed you out of so much. How about a fight? You against me; winner stays, loser steps down from their position and leaves this town and its people alone."

"Let's dance."

Soon, the two women start fighting, with Niamh using her powers to heal Candice enough so that she awakens.

"Oh, what's going on?" Candice asks

"You were put to sleep by Charlotte's thorns; Marie is fighting her as we speak." Niamh answers

"What are the conditions of the fight?"

"Winner stays in this town, loser steps down from their position and leaves the town and its people alone."

Candice then watches on, noticing that Marie is winning, with Charlotte getting weaker with each thorn lost.

"Your poison from your thorns doesn't affect me, Charlotte. You're better off surrendering if you want to survive."

"I'm not letting you trick me into losing, Marie; I'm not easily fooled."

"Charlotte, Marie is right. If you throw any more attacks, you will end up dead on the floor since you can only produce so many thorns before your power kills you." Candice informs