The Queen

1.

All I hear is the slinging sound if metal being forced out of sheaths as the army surrounds me and my creatures. My hood is still up, and I dare not move to try and lower it. It appears every soldier of the Dark Army is a man, and they all have either a sword or staff pointing right at me.

Bandie is up above me at his full height, large black fangs snapping towards the soldiers. My three wolves are in front of me, following his lead. Sapphire is across my shoulders, roaring at anyone who dares to inch closer to me.

I am sitting on my ass on the cold earth, shackles still around my wrists and in my Goddess dress. I stay perfectly still, so no one charges. I don't even think I'm breathing.

"Who goes there! Why did you cross the barrier!?" A solider yells out to me.

I don't answer. I'm afraid to move.

"We won't ask twice!" Another soldier yells and moves his sharp blade towards my face. Sapphire snaps her jaws at him, threatening to breathe her blue flames at him.

"M-my name is Luna....I was told to come here," I say timidly and hold my shackled wrists up to tell them I mean no harm.

"Lower your hood!" One of the soldiers commands me.

I shakily reach up and lower my hood down to reveal my face and long dark brown curled hair. My violet eyes look up at them and I bat my eyelashes, hoping to appear as non threatening as possible.

The soldiers lower their weapons an inch.

"Its a woman?" One of them breathes out.

"She's pretty," one says dreamily.

"It doesn't matter that it's a woman. Someone go get the commander," one of the soldiers barks out.

I watch as two soldiers run off somewhere into a dark forest while the rest keep their eyes trained on me.

I keep my attention on them just as much as they are me. I hear rustling in the woods and watch a man in his late twenties with shoulder length white hair and sharp teeth come from the woods. He has on the same uniform but no helmet like the rest of them wear. He looks at me with piercing red eyes as he walks into the circle to stand in front of me.

"What is your name girl?" He asks me in a tone that says he isn't in the mood for nonsense.

"My name is Luna," I tell him.

He looks at my creatures and then back at me. "You control these beasts?" He asks.

"Yes," I say simply.

"Tell them to stand down," he commands.

I place my shackled hands on each of them with a soft pat. "Calm down everyone," I tell them softly. They all stop their snarling and screeching but still stare daggers at the men.