Part 16: The Final Battle

8 0 0
                                    

FLASHBACK

     "Mommy, when's daddy coming back?" the little black haired child asked her brown headed mother.

     "I'm not sure Amery. Where's your sister?" her mother replied. Amery shrugged her shoulders.

     Suddenly, she heard her sister yelling and running through the garden toward her sister and mother. "Momma! Momma!" Mya called out.

     "Mya stop yelling and what is so important that you're running all over the place?" her mother asked in a firm but still gentle tone.

     "Daddy's home!" Mya said overjoyed. Their mother looked surprised but concerned, but the two young girls were too excited to notice.

     The queen followed her two running daughters out of the garden and to the front of the castle. At the doors of the castle stood a tall man with dark black similar to his daughter's. He turned just in time to see his daughter jump up to greet him.

     "Daddy!" the two girls yelled. The king, being knocked off balance, stumbled backward hugging his girls.

     "Whoa, girls calm down. There's only so much beauty a man can take, and I still have your mother to deal with." he said laughing with his girls. His wife blushed behind them and the king grinned. But the queen knew why he was home.

     "Has it happened?" she mouthed to him. He kept the smile on his face for the girls but nodded.

     "Daddy, was I right?" Amery asked her father, no longer smiling.

     "Unfortunately yes, my princess." the king replied grimly.

     "Then Mya and I  need to go, daddy. We can save her, but we have to go before it's too late!" Amery said urgently. Mya nodded in agreement next to her.

     The king and queen sighed. "No girls, unfortunately, I think it already is too late. She has already destroyed Nightenia and Komolyn." their father replied sadly.

     "What? What about Angelina and Alicia? They're like our big sisters." Mya said.

     "Don't worry, we're right here." The black haired Komolyn princess said as she walked up the steps. Amery and Mya turned to see her and the light brown haired Nightenian princess.

     "Alicia, Angelina, welcome." Amery and Mya said, curtsying to their fellow princesses.

     Amery could tell they were upset. Angelina didn't even speak, she just kept staring down at the ground. Even Alicia, who was usually the brightest of them all, had a broken look on her face. Angelina looked up at Amery, she hadn't truly awakened yet, but Angelina knew she was close. The Princess of Tragedy only awoken when something truly awful was happening. She couldn't imagine the sweet little girl she had come to know so well coming to that fate.

     Suddenly the ground shook and the castle pillars began to crumble. The king pushed his daughters out of the way of the debris, but he couldn't get out of the way fast enough.

     "Daddy!" Amery screamed.

     The pillars stopped falling and everything stopped. Amery stood there, her body glowing with a deep rose colored aura. Queen Evangaleen ran up to her daughter and wrapped her arms around her whispering

     "No sweetie, don't do this to me. Hold it in, don't let it control you." The aura dimmed and Amery collapsed into her mother's arms.

     Mya cried for her, she hated the thought of not being able to protect her little sister from the wretched fate she was born to bear.

Rise of the NightWhere stories live. Discover now