Forest's Ends

Twelve

  Derek walked up to the fairy queen with his head held high, Dragco and Coal on either side of him, all three glaring at her, looking cold and fearsome. The queen glaring right back.

"I would welcome you as guests, but because-" the Queen was saying until interrupted by Derek.

"But because you're a bitch and we-" Derek was saying being a smart ass, but then a guard came over and hit him in the gut with the hilt of his sword.

The queen stood up making very one gasped and silence. She never stands up during things like this, she is really angry.

She spread her huge monarch butterfly wings and walked in front of Derek. She motioned to the guard to make Derek bow, otherwise he was looking down on her.

She grabbed his checks in her hand as though she would chastise a child. "Never use that foul language in my court. Never use it towards me." She then squeezed his checks making his tongue stick out and I started to pull against the guards holding me. "Do it again and I'll make you cut your own tongue off." She released him and sat back down on her thrown.

"Now, what would be the best for you three?" She ask with a smirk on her face. Derek moved to stand up, but the guard hit him in the gut again.

"Ah! I know," the Queen started to tap her fingers together, "We'll put you in the dungeons as well, but I need information, so it will be a bit more, oh you know, gruesome." She said, drawing out the word.

This time I cursed at her, with fairy cursings, then I said. "You stupid whore! Maybe you don't even have to torture them to get what you want to know!" One of the guards smacked me so hard that I hit the ground.

"You little discrimination, how dare you call me such things!" She shouted standing up again,making her way towards me, "You are the stupid whore! These are dark fairies! They tricked you into bringing them here so they could invade!" She was right in front of me now, she bent down to be eye level with me, "I should have killed you the day you were born, but my sister's last wish was for me to give you a chance." Her eyes started to get wet and sparkle with tears. She closed them and looked away, when she looked back her eyes were completely cold. "She's dead, because of you. Because of you my sister is dead. It was all your fault." She said the same thing she's been saying for years.

I looked her straight in the eyes with the same coldness. She stared into my eyes for to long. She twitched and her face fell showing she is completely afraid. "Misty please, stop." She pleaded, then she jumped in pain. The guards came and pulled her away from my gaze, but she wasn't perfect anymore. Now she had small wrinkles at her eyes.

"Bring her forward." She glared, then she pointed to the middle of the room and said, "And bring me my sword."

The guards grabbed me and dragged me across the room. Derek and the others were shouting at the queen and guards. I looked up and saw that the queen got her sword and was waiting for me in the middle of the room. I continued to pull against the guards, but it was hopeless. Eventually they brought me to the queen. They shoved me down onto my knees, held my arms out, and unfolded my wings. I looked up to see the queen stocking towards me with her sword, a smirk on her face. She bent down and in my ear whispered, "I always wanted to do this, my niece." She stood back up and glared down at me then smiled sickening. She slowly grabbed for my left wing, I close my eyes, and as I felt her cold hand grab my wing I knew it was all over. Then a boom went threw the air and she released my wing. Wait a boom?

The guards released my arms and the clank sound of a sword hitting the floor made me opened my eyes. I couldn't believe what I saw. The queen was bleeding from a shot wound on her chest, her perfectly white rose petal dress was being stained red with her blood. She looked down at the wound confused then she looked up. I turned in the direction she was looking and there was Derek with his gun pointed at the queen. His face nothing, but seriousness.

The queen fell to the floor and continued to bleed out. The guards went running at Derek, but we're getting shot down by Coal and Shkya, Leaf had gotten the others their weapons and was holding mine for me.

I looked around and noticed all the guards. The others were going to get other whelmed, we are greatly outnumber. I closed my eyes and focused on only the guards. I opened my eyes and stood up. The guards closest to me looked at me and bolted. They didn't get very far before turning to dust though. Slowly one by one the other guards were turning to dust. The other guards began to notice and turned around. When they saw me they too tried to flee in terrier, but turned to dust. When there were enough guards that wouldn't over whelm the others I stopped. I fell on my knees next to the queen. I looked over and noticed she was still alive.

"I've always wanted to do this, my aunt." I said putting a hand over her heart. I stared into her eyes and she jumped, afraid. Then blood was running out of her nose, ears, and eyes. Death was creeping over her skin from underneath my hand and she screamed. Then she turned to dust and I swayed. I turn around and saw that all the guards were dead, but warriors were on their way.

The edges of my vision were going black and I couldn't stand up no matter how hard I tried. I couldn't even fly. Derek coming over and grabbing me, flying out the doors following the others, was the last thing I saw before everything went black.