The Lost Princesses

"Zhan Tiri's Demise..."

Kerrigan was still standing behind the blue curtain debating whether or not she should go in. She opened the curtain and started to walk through it, but she paused in her tracks and closed it again. She was torn.

Suddenly, she heard barking behind him and turned and saw Ruddiger running outside.

"Ruddiger?" She followed the little dog to the gardens. "Ruddiger?"

She looked out and saw Ruddiger running into the hedge maze and followed him in, not noticing the entrance close up behind her.

Kerrigan walked into the center of the maze and jumped when she heard a noise behind her. She noticed that the way she came was blocked off.

A purple light glowed on to another path and Kerrigan heard Ruddiger's barking and ran towards it.

"Ruddiger? Here boy!" She called.

She flinched when she heard rustling and saw that her path was closed off again. Kerrigan heard more barking and turned to see Ruddiger running towards her.

She knelt down and picked him up. "There you are."

"Kerri." A voice whispered. It sounded like Kathryn

"Kat?" Kerrigan looked around, before running off, with Ruddiger in her arms.

"Kerri." The voice called again.

"Kathryn, is that you? Where are you?" He asked.

Kerrigan kept running as vines with thorns shot out of the ground and tried to grab at her. She screamed and dodged the vines and ran out of the maze, tripping and falling on a bridge. She stood up and began dusting herself off.

"Kerrigan."

Kerrigan gasped and saw a tall, thin man bowing to her.

"Your Imperial Highness. Look what ten years has done to us. You, a beautiful, delicate young lady, and me, a rotting corpse."

"That face." Kerrigan whispered.

"Last seen at a party like this one." The man continued.

"A curse."

"Followed by a tragic night on the ice." Zhan Tiri lifted his Reliquary. "Remember?!" Magic poured out of the Reliquary covering the bridge and the water below it in ice.

Kerrigan's eyes widened. "Zhan Tiri!"

"Destroyed by your despicable family! And your little sister!" He growled.

He lifted his Reliquary and smoke appeared out of it. "But what goes around, comes around! And around and around!"

Zhan Tiri's minions swarmed Kerrigan and began tearing her dress. They ripped off her sash and her crown, ripped holes in her sleeves.

"I'm not afraid of you!" Kerrigan yelled once they had stopped.

"Oh, I can fix that! You took everything away from me, now I will do the same to you!"

A thick cloud of smoke appeared from the Reliquary again, and landed a few feet in front of Zhan Tiri.

"Starting with your dear sister!"

The smoke cleared and Kathryn was standing there.

Kerrigan's eyes widened in fear. "Kathryn!" She tried to run to her, but smoke wrapped around Kerrigan and lifted her up into the air.

"Care for a little swim, my dear? Under the ice?!"

Zhan Tiri pointed his Reliquary at her and a big chunk of the bridge where Kathryn was standing broke and started tipping towards the water.