The Ice Queen and her Knight of Fire

This story will contain girlxgirl content

~Wolfgaurd

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PROLOGUE

      The Queen stood proudly before a line up of fifteen or so knights her adviser, Randal Cenway, had hand selected. Normally, the selection only included her own people, but she was looking for a change. So she had him look and recruit the best for the position as her royal guard. Something of this sort was uncommon and unheard of for it invited her enemies to try for the position as well. Her ice blue eyes scanned the knights calculatingly, judging them,

          "As all of you must have been informed, I, Queen Illyana Sebastion, am looking for a new personal guard as my previous one turned traitor." She allowed a moment of silence to pass before continuing on, "I will not allow such a show of disobedience and you will be killed on sight if I believe you to be a traitor such as Donovan. I can and will protect myself if need be, the only reason I need one of you is to allow me a break instead of having to constantly watch over my back for assassination attempts. In short, you will fight the battles I do not wish to." She chuckled and resumed, her cold exterior making some of the men back down a little, "So, if you came here thinking you could weasel your way into my life and rule then you'll be sadly disappointed." She began to pace from one end of the line up to the other, watching the men who had their helmets on, covering their faces but not there eyes. She looked in one and found scared brown eyes staring back at her,

         "If you are scared," She said pointedly to the man in front of her as she passed him, "Or have an ulterior motive, I suggest you leave now and make this choice easier for me." A little more than half of the men looked at each other before the bravest left first. Then, like a domino effect, the others followed, leaving a handful left. She looked over the five who remained and nodded her approval to each.

     "You may remove your helm if you wish." Only two of them either knew what she was doing or just didn't care if they wore their helms or not. The rest took off theirs almost immediately after she said this, "You three should know that the royal guard must never take off their helms unless alone with me, therefore you a disqualified." They looked shocked, but accepted their loss and mistake, hurrying away before more embarrassment could befall them. Of the lineup, now only two remained to her glee, making the choice rather easier.

      One knight wore armor that was a red and gold with nothing really ornate about them. The other you could tell the other was a noble what with the elaborate designs on his own black armor. His helm was shaped to resemble the head of a crow. He had large, broad shoulders and an odd aura around him that all, but the knight next to him, could not discern.

        All throughout the tests the red knight could tell he was nothing but trouble. Yet decided against mentioning it to the adviser. Now, however, as the man in the suit chuckled darkly and quickly made a move for the Queen. She never saw it coming and gasped as she felt the cold armor of his suit press against her neck and a hidden dagger digging into her back. The guards around the room were too late to act as he drove it in to the hilt, paralyzing her as it hit her spinal cord.

      The red knight snarled and conjured a blade of fire that she then used to cut the black knight down easily. The Queen was busy bleeding out on the floor by the time the others around the room could even register what happened to their liege. Her savior dropped and made sure the queen was still breathing before gathering her flame into her hand and placing it over the wound that would kill Illyana under normal circumstances. The knife wound healed in no time under the pure flames held in the knight's palm.

      Panicking, the guards began to attack the knight for fear of the Adviser's wrath when he hears what happened. She easily held her own and simply knocked the guards out instead of killing them. While they were busy with what they were doing, they didn't notice the Queen shakily rising to her feet, growling,