The Moon Fell (Zatz x reader)

Chapter 12

You woke up, blinking away to find out that you were on your knees facing a woman on a throne, two macuahuitls crossed under your neck forming an X. From your left Maria was knelt in the same position and on your right Maya and Zatz too were in that same predicament. Zatz and Maya were awake but Maria wasn't, Maya and Zatz were talking to the woman.

"Your majesty you have to understand that we are whom we say we are" Zatz spoke to her.

"You wear good replications of them but you mean to make me believe that revival is indeed possible? If that fact was true then wouldn't the olden gods have risen as well? Why now, the prophcey was proclaimed decades ago by a Teca oracle which never mentioned your return. Sees like an important mention to forget don't you think?" The woman asked pointedly.

"Like we had the choice to be revived, I just fell from the sky!" Maya replied.

"Rocks have fallen from the sky for years and yet the dead have not risen before. Your logic is flawed and your lack of attention to you lies only annoys me" she glared.

"Your majesty, because we can not explain how doesn't make our claims false, there has been always elements of life that are unexplainable even to the past gods. Such is the wonders of life" Zatz reasoned.

"Such a simple argument" the woman rolled her eyes.

"Yet you can't debate it?" Maya smirked.

"If I spent my day arguing with fakes and skepticis then I would end the day with nothing but a headache. Besides you couldn't even fight my people who's training hasn't changed since your supposed time" The queen concluded.

"That doesn't mean-" Zatz started but was cut off.

"I grow bored of this bickering, take these two and their companions to the dungeons, I charge them with impersonation of the dead" She waved her hand.

The guards grabbed all four of you, pulling you to your feet. Maya begrudgingly complied with Zatz who stood up peacefully. Maria had yet to even awake so a guard had scooped her up in their arms bridle style. They stood you up when they realized you had awoken but you weren't happy with this at all, with your hands shackled you elbowed on guard in the nose and kicked the other behind the knee before making your way closer to the queen.

  "That's it! This is your pathetic version of law?" You demanded which made Zatz somewhat cringe.

"(Y/n) you-" Zatz spoke bit you cut him off.

"No, my first time back in my home born kingdom and I get put in the dungeon all because she can't have a proper way to request a meeting with her, have to fight her soldiers, get drugged, and then listen to her bull crap? I don't think so, I've lived long enough to be treated like a human. She hasn't even talked to me or Maria" you spoke which the queen cocked a brow at.

"You have some fire, don't you?" the queen sat forward now actually looking at you.

"My name is (Y/n) born of the jungle kingdom and raised by the mountain kingdom, told to be the maker of gods" you glared.

There was silence in the court room and everyone stood ridged. There was a cough and a groan heard in the silence but nothing more until the queen laughed.

"A god maker? Born from my kingdom? Raised by those stupid barbarians? You like embarrassing yourself don't you?" She chuckled.

"A queen who holds court without her people? A woman who clearly doesn't look into other current events around other kingdoms? Who clearly likes the sound of her own voice? Doesn't even have an adviser in her presence? Your the only embarrassment I see here" You glared.

"How dare you speak to me like that!" She yelled.

"What don't like the taste of your own medicine? I didn't even laugh! Can't believe you talk to people like this, isn't grace and respectability something your raised in?" You smirked.

"Get them out of my sight now!" She ordered.

But it was too late, you had already slipped your wrist out of one shackle and were prepared to the guard who tried to grab you. You stepped to the left and he fell while grabbed his macuahuitl, swinging it at the other guard whom tried to attack you. Your blade clashed againsted their bladed club and you pushed them away with your force. A few more came at you but you danced around the first one, using your shackle chain to wrap around her neck and use her as a shield from the others whom didn't swing. You smirked before pushing her at them knocking down the others like dominos.

"Your right, the training hasn't changed, you continue to only ever be good at bows and cheap tricks" you smirk, "not so bad for a 'barbarian idiot' huh?"

"You little brat" she groweled as she rose from her throne, taking a sword from a guard on the ground and swinging at you which you matched.

"Wish I could say this is the first time I've faught a queen but I guess you'll have to take second place like normal" you laughed.

"You just some nobody that no one knows, nothing but shit in the streets" she sniped striking again only for it to be deflected.

"You shit in the streets, that gross" you laughed.

"That not what I said!"

You continued to laugh as you humored  the fight a little longer, easily deflecting her blows until you grew bored and threw the other end of your shackle onto her blade before pulling it out of her hand. As you did this it clamered to the floor, shocking her. You slipped your had into your shackle again and walked over to one of the guards that finally rose to their feet qnd just stood next to him.

"I grow tired of these simple arguments, just take me to the dungeons already" you faked a yawn.

"What did you just say?" She asked.

"If I spent my day fighting your people with such simple wins all I would gain is a headache" you smiled.

"Get her out of my sight, now!" She demanded.

You rose your chain to the guard next to you with a polite, lead the way. Before following the guards down a set of stairs and into halls of jail cells that lined the walls. The put all four of you into a medium sized one and shut the door behind them rather loudly as they wheeled two crates in that contained the spiders to your suprised. When the halls cleared and you xould no longer hear their footsteps Zatz spoke.

"What was that!" Zatz questioned.

"A smart play if I do say so myself" you shrugged.

"You achieved nothing, you only made our issue worse!" Zatz argued.

"No, I ruffled her feathers which is what I wanted. Angry enough to not even notice what I had gotten away with" you smiled.

"We are ment to be diplomatic and nothing was worth that!" He argued.

"You can't be diplomatic with some who starts the fight unless you beat them bad enough. Besides, you can't argue with stupid" you shrugged.

You ignored him as you glanced around your suroundings, particularly at the cell across from you. There sat what looked like a black panther, sitting on their butt like a human. They wore shorts and a bandana around their neck along with a bone necklace.

"Have you been here before?" you asked.

"Once, didn't take long to get out" he answered shortly.

"What the heck is that?" Maya asked.

"They are a warecat. Secret worshipers and people of the jungle God. They only started showing after his passing in the jungle" Maria tiredly explained as she tried to figure out where she woke up.

"Escape or free?" You asked.

"Escaped" he again answered.

"Care to help us with ours?" You asked.

"And why would I do that?" He asked.

"Cause all I need is a guide" you said pulling out a set of keys and rattling them between the bars.