Max and the adventure

Chapter 25 3.5 weeks

I ended up not risking wishing for anything, im so close of defeating Nevar, well. As close as I ever got. We gotta get ready to storm into Nevar's castle. If we kill him, wait. Would we be better than him if we killed him? Would we? Im talking nonsense again. He killed a lot of people. He deserves it! "Are you ok, Max?" Lavender walks up to me nervously. "You have just been sitting there, agitated..." she ads, coming closer. "Im sorry, i was just lost in thought, sorry..." i say nervously. "It's fine. We are just worried about you. It's like you are lost in your thought, as if it is it's own place." She ads worried. I chuckle slightly, it's awkward. "Good describtion, it's accurate..." "Ray has been worried sick, he doesn't want you to get hurt." She says. "I wonder why." I say coldly sarcastic. "I know there was an argument between you, and then you got kidnapped on your rescue mission to rescue-" "Ray told you?!" I interrupt her. "No, Bellflower did. She found it quite funny." She chuckles a little "Of course she did..." i answer. "Must have been real awkward, I assume?" I can tell she's trying not to laugh. "It was. The real problem was that Frank got seriously injured as they tried to torture him out of information. He was real brave for telling them anything." I say. "I know, i was quite shocked when i firt saw his back for the first time, i just came back from getting the smores. It looked like as if he was grilled." She says. "That's an accurate depiction of what happened..." i say, slowly muttering to myself. 

Frank walks up to me, looking healthier. "Max! I need to tell you something-" he notices Lavender and stops talking. She leaves, understanding that Frank wants to have a more private conversation. "Max, one of the mines went off near the battlefield and..." "what happened?." I ask, wanting an answer. "I might have found a graveyard of Nevar's soldiers underneath... and they might have come back from the dead..." "what!?" He basicaly saw the first zombies coming back through the mine field exploding through some stick that fell or something. 

Im not looking forward to Nevar getting more in his army, the army that is actively stronger than us. We explain to Marigold the Situation, which naturally freaks her out. She already saw so many of her friends die, just for all the previously defeated soldiers to be revieved. It makes it feel pointless. We go up to Queen Verbena who can tell that there is tension in the air. "What is it, Marigold?" She asks, knowing something bad will happen. "My queen, there has been a report of zombie like soldiers, Nevar's killed Soldiers are back somehow. Im sorry i couldn't prevent it. Im sorry Majesty..." she looks surprised and worried after hearing the news. "I doubt there was anything you could have done to prevent it. It feels inevitable. I did know that the mines were put over the graveyard of previous battles." 

Holla who is Guarding the entrance gate yells. "WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!!" and immediately after that the shield flickers on and off repeatibly as i assume She is fighting with one of Nevar' soldiers for the pink shield. I see one of the soldiers kreep behind Queen Verbena and stab her in the Neck. She screams hits the guard with her fist, knocking him out. "Marigold..." Marigold runs up to her, Crying her eyes out. her beautiful brown complection glows in the sunlight. "My Majesty... I failed... I Failed my Job to Protect you, to save you, to prevent from anyone to get harmed, for you not to be harmed... I failed..." she cries over the queen's body as Verbena's life fades from her eyes. 

The two soldiers flee the scene. "And Now you're Leaving!!?" Marigold yells broken at the fleeing guards. "WHY COULDN'T YOU'VE TAKEN ME WITH HER!!?" she starts tearing up like a water hose, which is an insensitive description. I can completely understand her feelings. She sworn to protect her, so it naturally breakes her when she isn't able to and ends up failing. All of the Fairies look at their dead queen, devastated. She was the symbol, the hope for peace for them. Now she's dead.

For all of the fairies was queen Verbena's death the breaking point. They are not safe anymore, well they weren't safe anyway, but now they are even less safe. They Hesitantly do a funeral for her, as they don't want to believe that she's dead, even when they see her dead, bloody body in front of them. 

There used to be something called Balance in the fights. No deaths, No major distruction and everyone is equal in strengh. What happened? Moonchester's replacement happened. Nevar took over after He got sucked into a black hole void for a decade. And Nevar does not understand the word "equal".  Verbena's death solidifies the fact that balance and equality in the fight died years ago.  I know i'm scared of the thought that nothing good will ever last, but seeing the hope in Marigold and the other's eyes fade makes me scared and sad. They've always felt real to me, even when they were just toys i played a story with, but seeing their happiness, hope and trust get crushed will always be hard for me. 

Ray and Frank are talking to eachother. "Frank, I don't know anything about this place! I shouldn't have even thought about opening portals!-" Ray stops talking when I walk to them. "What are you guys talking about?" I ask. "None of your bloody Business!" Ray snickers. "We really haven't had an actual conversation, did we?" I say, calmly as i just want to know some things about him. "Like, what's your job? Mine is not that spectacular... im a secretary in an office." I say trying to get the conversation started. "Im a lame scientist, for all intents and purposes." The way he phrased it makes me feel like he is trying to hide something. "That's cool!..." i try to keep the conversation going, but Ray isn't interested in doing it. 

"Look, we may have fude against each other, and we have tried to make amends, just calm down so we can talk like zivilized humans-" I try to calm him down, but he interrupts me. "You don't get it." "If I don't get it, then you don't get the point i'm trying to make!" I yell angrily. Ray get's into fighting stance, I try to calm myself down, but then he punches me hard in the guts. I yell in pain and Frank goes between us. "Stop Fighting! I can't believe i'm the only sane one here..."  he snickers.

im on the ground as Frank goes Between us. "Ray, What has gotten into you!?"  He yells at him. Ray seems to finally calm down, ok it just looks like it, but Ray seems to have calmed down, slightly. "Im sorry Max, i don't know what gotten into me..." Ray half hazardly apolagizes, which i accept as i don't want to get into another fight. I go to Marigold, who is still crying by Verbena's grave after a few hours. Holla is sitting next to her. The Queen was one of the few people she truly cared about. "Are you good?..." she asks Marigold and she insists that she's fine even tho we both can tell she's not. "Yes, im good..." "don't lie to me please." Holla says to her calmly. 

Holla acted similar to her after Rosemary's death. They both lost important people in their lives recently, something not many understand. The worst part is, is that it could always get worse, something that seems to be the case for the last month here. It's barely been a month, but it sounds better than 'the last three and a half weeks.' 

"Do you think it will ever become better?..." Marigold asks, looking as if she just was in an emotional party scene in a drama show, which sounds mean. "It will, i promise." I answer, trying to reasure her. It is getting late again and we all go to sleep. I'm on the same blanket I slept on earlier and look at the stars. The colors are regular here, Nevar was the reason they looked the way they did anyway and they're only normal here. I should really sleep, but i can't shake the feeling off that something's wrong, i suppose that's life.