Spectacular World

Queen Cinder

Harrison Avalon was many things. A genius. A prodigy. A traitor. A good-looking old man. A cool sword. Really, the list could go on. One thing he wasn't good with, though, was people. Despite how far he had come, despite how many lies he told, and despite how much he loved to make people do what he wanted, he just was never able to quite understand what made people tick.

That especially included someone like the Emperor. Over and over, he constantly tried to get a read on the man known as Nier, yet it always came up short. Nier was a bundle of insanity who seemingly never made sense. The man was just lashing out at the world out of frustration and spouting off utter nonsense constantly, yet because the Emperor had power, people listened. Not Avalon, though. He followed, not out of some sense of loyalty or fear, but instead a deep-rooted hunger. A greedy soul like him just had to know.

What was going to happen next?

Perhaps it was because of his very nature that he had been punished for his current task. He was far too useful to the Emperor to ever actually be killed, but Nier still wanted to torment him, so instead of being put to good use like Avalon would have wanted, he found himself holding a mirror up for the person he had been assigned to work with for this quest.

"You missed a spot," Avalon said in a dry tone as he shifted the full-body mirror he was being forced to hold up.

Cinder ignored him and stared at her reflection. She ran her fingers through her blonde hair and batted her eyelashes at herself while she applied some makeup. "It's hard to really get this body to look cute sometimes." The false Lord said, letting out a heavy sigh. "Its face isn't really anything special, and these eyes and hair glow so much that it draws attention away from the outfit I wear. And this body is more athletic than cute. Why can't I just tweak it a tiny bit?"

"Now, now, Skin Walker, you know what the Emperor asked of you." Avalon let out a dry chuckle.

"I don't understand why he wants me to stay in this form constantly." The shapeshifter hummed and casually flipped her hair. She was in her private room. With Avalon's help, the building she was in would shift and constantly change, able to appear in any city within the realm they resided in. She used this building to pop in and out, as she was pleased when it was time to give a speech and start the 'preparation' for the event, despite the fact that it wasn't impossible to find this place if someone looked hard enough.

"I've met Cinder only once." Aarush Brenner casually bit into an apple. "She's strong and seemingly quick to anger. Normally, making someone angry in a fight lets you use that emotion against them, but when it comes to Supers like her, it gives them quite the power-up."

Aarush Brenner, father of Kyle Brenner, had been the first to discover the false Cinder. Now here he resided within the woman's room. It was a large, square room made of a plain-looking white metal, similar to the prisons that held some of the Super caught by the police. The room had a large king-size bed, several cabinets filled with expensive and fine clothes, as well as a desk and table, which he sat at. At any moment the room would be placed within a castle that resided somewhere in the realm. There was a door in one of the walls that, if one were to open it, it would allow them to step out onto a balcony in one of the ten cities.

Maybe it had been pure dumb luck, or maybe he had actually cheated. It was hard to say, really, but he had somehow managed to find the Queen that all the people of this world talked about. He wasn't alone either. Flanking behind Aarush were two figures who wore long red cloaks that covered them from head to toe, as well as a white mask that had golden coins sewn into it.

Casey and Hannah. Two out of the three warriors created by the previous Lord of Life, known as Wish.

Cinder rolled her shoulders and stood up. She snapped her fingers, and fire seemed to swim across her form. The flames went out as quickly as they appeared, and she was suddenly dressed in a long white gown with a red cloak over her shoulders and a large golden crown.