Reunited

Epilogue

"DAMMIT!" he screamed. He quickly removed his long black hair from his forehead. "Twenty-three prisoners ESCAPED. How?! WHO WAS THE GUARD IN THAT PLACE!?" he bellowed. The blue suit he was wearing glimmered in the vast sunlight, and the golden decorations on his shoulders showed nothing but pride. "I-I don't know, sir..." answered a poor citizen captured by the threatening Prince Vials of the Fire Kingdom. Vials glared at the man with his deadly yellow eyes, the pupils were slits like cat eyes, which made him even more terrifying. "I know you were a witness. Now TELL ME, WHO GUARDED THE PRISON CELLS THAT NIGHT!!? So I could rip their head off."

The man swallowed the lump in his throat. "...I-It was Megumi Rathaway, s-sir...N-Now please, l-let me g-go....!" his voice shook. Vials looked taken back. "Hartley had a sister?...Impossible-" Before he could finish, a soldier came in and shook his head. "Hartley Rathaway was confirmed as an only child, but suspects are confessing he had a sibling." he declared, looking at his golden watch. Vials stared at the guarded citizen, then looked back and forth from the soldier.

"For what reason did she let the prisoners go?" He asked slowly, keeping his steady tone. The soldier shook his head once more. "Relatives and coworkers say she was once a robber, and let the prisoners go to destroy the Kingdom, sir," he said. Vials growled and punched a nearby glass figure of a macaw, which rattled to smithereens because of the harsh punch. Vials took a moment then sighed.

"Bring out every detective in the Kingdom. Anything suspicious, anything, should be sent here immediately," Vials demanded. The soldier nodded and swiftly turned around, leaving the empty courtroom they were in. The citizen was baffled by the conversation, and turned his head to glance at the Fire Kingdom prince. Vials grunted and ordered the guards holding the man to throw him out. "Damn politics," he spat.

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More than an hour later, Vials heard something coming upstairs to the courtroom. The steps were slow and crunchy, like somebody was walking in the snow. But it was impossible, since the stairs were made of stone. Pause. Vials looked up and saw something like a black snowdrop swiftly falling onto his nose. He sniffled and brushed it away, unaware of the events that are about to happen. The walking paused. Vials was beginning to get suspicious about the person and decided to come up the stairs to kill them. As he walked up slowly, he saw nothing but small gears in the corners of the stairs. "What the hell?" he whispered. Vials started walking faster up the spiraled stairway, continuing to follow the gears in the stairs.

He bumped into someone. The person turned around, and grinned evilly. She has long orange curly hair, part of it was in a large bun. She wore gray goggles on her head and a skin-revealing green dress. "Looking for me?" she said insanely.

A loud 'clang' was heard through the corridors. The people around the Fire palace became alarmed. The orange haired girl was out of sight the moment somebody saw Vials on the floor, calling for help.