The Cursed Queen

Ashes

Back in Pyran, every single Royal assembled before my father and I to go over how to protect our borders. While I had been coronated my father still stuck around to provide his guidance.

"I say we let the children fight, they have not seen any action, let them have a go" a pudgy man I assume to be my uncle chuckles.

I raise a brow, this man wants to put child soldiers to fight a battle that has nothing to do with them. I clench my fist, everyday these royals get more and more entitled- they rather innocent children die than send out the proper troops for the war.

"That will not be happening" I start, taking a deep breath" These children have no place in OUR war"

My "Uncle" scoffs before rolling his eyes. As if the very thought of sending trained troops was revolting.

"Why are we allowing abominations to speak for us " another man barks slamming the table.

Tunji stands and nearly dives over the tables, and the others gasp at the sudden motion.

"Because she is your Queen and shall be addressed as such"

The man looks around in support and shoves his fingers in Tunji's face. Tunji's face scrunches up into a pure white-hot rage, it almost looks like he would kill him.

"Nobody wants your opinion, mutt if we wanted it we would ask"

I was so close to slamming this man's head into the table. I feel my control slipping as shadows fill the room, a shadowy hand grabs the man and holds him by his neck effectively choking him. I rise from my seat at the head of the table and slam my hands on the table.

"Enough! Behave yourself or you shall be thrown out" I growl out," Disrespect the third prince again and you won't like the consequences "

I give one last squeeze before dropping him in a heap on the floor, he gulps before carefully taking his seat once more. The room goes eerily silent as everyone in the room whispers amongst themselves, my father turns to me and motions for me to move on.

"Our focus should be to have a strong defense against Nyx, we need to train our soldiers against their gruesome shadow eaters, we will not involve -" I start

An alarm goes off and my heart drops we were being attacked. Chaos erupts in the room as the royals begin wailing and screaming, it was pathetic watching them bump and smack into one another- these were the rulers of a country. A squire tumbles into the room explaining that the facility has been attacked and both students and staff were trapped inside. Tunji stands up and I follow suit, we need to go now if we wanted any chance of saving anybody. I can hear the panic in Tunji's voice as we rush out of the room, the urgency of the situation crystal clear on both of our faces. Zayn hobbles behind us as we speed past the long dark halls of the castle to the courtyard. The air outside was cold, deathly cold I could the cold air sting my lungs as we stood there.

"We're teleporting over, meet us there" I order

Zayn nods as Tunji and I swirl off into the darkness. We land immediately with a thud, the place was emitting smoke. It was doused from every corner with white hot flames, we gasped as we watched them dance around the building we begrudgingly called home. I called upon the flame to disperse and sucked the flame out slowly with my powers.