Princess Selenia x Fem (Arthur and the invisibles)

Chapter 9

King: Oh my goodness!

Malthazar!: What a pleasure to see you again, young Y?N.

Y/N: The pleasure isn't mutual.

Malthazar!: I know, but don't hold it against me.The necklace you wear around your neckis a reminder that we are all part of nature's great circle, my dear cousin.

Y/N: Perhaps, between cousins, we can reach an agreement. I'll give you my life in exchange for Selenia's.

Selenia: No!

Malthazar: Silence!

Selenia tried to get out of Malthazar grasp but he had a good grip on her.

Malthazar: Silence!

Y/N: Selenia!

I try to run to her but the king and Arthur hold me back.

Malthazar: Sorry, Y/N. Not so long ago, your little swap might have tempted me, but I have better plans now. I'm tired of your little world. I want size. I want scope. I want big!

Y/N: You sent the SOS message! You knew I'd come and that I'd have to open the passage to do so. Which would leavethe path open for you to take the return trip and grow to your full size.

Malthazar: Bravo! How perceptive of you! If I had a hand free, I'd give you a round of applause.

King: I have never heard such a dastardly plot!

Malthazar: Thank you! It wasn't easy and it took all of my genius to bring my plan to fruition. After the bitter defeat Y/N inflicted upon me, I wandered the lower levels for some time with one single idea in my mind. I would find her and make her pay for her insolence. The Bubble Smuggler had mentioned a good vantage point from which to observe the comings and goings of everybody in the house. Smuggler was right. It didn't take long for me to get to know the wonderful Daisy. She initiated me into all the wonders of your world. That fabulous box that manufactures cold and the smaller one that generates heat. And all that food that she brought in from who knows where. But the most amazing thing about her was her constant good humor. She seemed to do everything with love, which is a foreign concept to me. Even when she had all of her tools of torture lined up on the counter, it was just to transform vulgar vegetables into works of art. It was a fascinating spectacle and I could sit for hours just watching her. And then I encountered your mother. I have never met a specimen so unadapted to her environment! Fortunately, your Grandfather, the gallant Archibald, was always around to keep things ticking over. I was able to watch him repair the machine that made fire, the one that made sun and the one that made water. My desire for conquest was reignited. The warrior that I am had regained his appetite. Nothing and no one could stop me now! Not even your father and his ridiculous offensives. I am so rotten inside that only effect his spray had was to rid me of a few parasites. But your father did reveal to me my only weakness in this world...My size! And this is where you come in! All I had to do was be patient and wait for the day you'd visit the Minimoys, so I could take the lightbeam back, as you so shrewedly pointed out. Finding out the date was not difficult because the kitchen was not only the nerve center which everybody visited at some point, but it was also the perfect spot to listen in, on conversations upstairs. These are the eternal codes of the nature. But then I find out you're leaving before you visit the minimoys. This last minute twist threatened to ruin my plot! The idea of vegetating for another ten moons in this cabinet was unbearable. I had to find a ploy to make Y/N disobey her father. And what better than love to make a young woman do something silly? How could Y/N possibly resist a call to save her Princess from mortal danger? So I found something to write onand carved the message into it myself.