Garlox quest

Chapter 8; Off with her head!

'M'lady?' A guard poked his head out of the door. 'It's time.'Quenly turned her head. 'Already?' She said playfully. 'Come darling, you're on trial.' '..Trial?' Lisai asked. 'I thought you weren't going to hurt me!' 'Well, i'm not. However! I never said that the Fair and honest courtroom couldn't.' Queenly unlocked the cage Lisai was in, and threw they keys somewhere on the floor. She knew she wasn't going to be the one looking for them anyway. 'You see, if I let this trial have an 'honest' way of hurting you. I'm not the one held responsible.' 'You will be if I tell them!' 'And.. When will you have the time to do so?' Queenly let out an obnoxious laugh. 'Y-you can't do this to me! This is inhumane!' 'Lucky for me, you aren't human.' Lisai was being dragged away by two guards, but Queenly wasn't taking any risk. 'Move it.' She said in a cool voice, her lance poked in Lisai's back. One strange move, and she would be pierced, like a needle would pierce through a piece of cloth. 'Don't even think about doing anything funny, understood?' 'My sense of humor always drops to zero when I'm with you, Queenly.' 'I wish I could stab you right in the back, right here and now... But you're so.. So lucky..' She twisted her lance into Lisai's back.

'Why must you hurt me like this?' A slow, low pitched whaling came from somewhere within the forest. 'I must get some sleep, this isn't good.'  'Answer me, son of witch.' 'T-this is real?'  'C-christopher?' Mex tried to wake him up, but he didn't seem to be asleep. His eyes were closed, like had found an eternal rest. Mex put his hand on Christophers chest, his heart was pounding, slowly. But he was alive. 'ANSWER ME!' The voice turned angry, unlike the calm he carried before. 'Why are you hurting me?!' Mex stepped out of the tent, shouting at the voice. 'Not only me, but also my father! You don't know how wounded he returned sometimes, he even lost an arm thanks to this place!' 'Because of... me?' The voice spoke. 'Your father came here, murdered my childeren, and trashed my environment. All for you puny humans to stay healthy... And you blame.. Me? PITIFUL!' A heavy wind blew from the east.  'It seems like you have figured out what my weakness is. I didn't stop your father, why should I stop you? You both are my childeren as well. I see no need to delay you any further... Unless you hurt more of your brothers and sisters.. In that case.. I must punish you.. BEWARE! The voice echoed away, leaving a fair warning. Mex hadn't noticed that the forest turnes silent, and only did so when the forest started to make a sound again.  'Mex?' Christopher said. 'W-what happened?' The floor in the forest was dissapearing underneath Mex and Christophers feet. 'There is no time Christopher! We have to run, now!' Mex grabbed him by the arm, and with a blade on his back he quickly ran away from the dissapearing ground. But they didn't have to run far. Other blocks of ground quickly filled the void. Suddenly, they were in the centre of the forest. 'Mex! We found it!' The house wasn't very good looking. It seemed rotten, and like no one had lived there in ages. 'N-no.. This can't be it?' Christopher said. 'This can't be the house!' 'It is.. I know..' Mex let go of Christophers arm, and started to walk to the house. He seemed to be in a trance. the only reason was because he was never so sure of anything in his life. 'We're going in, no matter if you believe me or not.' 'Staying out here all by myself isn't a good idea isn't it now, huh? Haha..' Christopher tried to laugh it off, and make the atmosphere less tense. But it didn't appear to affect Mex. 'Alright, alright. I'll follow you, just don't walk that quick!'

'Miss Lisai Cordelia Wanterbrough, please come to the stand.' Lisai remained silent. 'Miss Lisai Cordelia Wanterbrough?' The judge repeated. 'Please come to the stand.' Again, Lisai didn't reply. She held her hands close together, and whispered to herself. 'She's right here.' Queenly kicked her from the bench she was sitting on. 'Please, no kicking in my courtroom.' The judge said in a monotone voice. 'Well, well. Who do we have here?' She bend over from her bench, and took a closer look. 'I.. I am Lisai Cordelia Wanterbrough, miss.' Lisai kept her head down. She was to affraid to look at the judge's face. 'My my.'' The judge said, while opening a scroll that was just handed to her from one of the guards. 'Am I glad that I didn't wake up to be you. I'm still not thrilled that I woke up to be me, but hey. You give some you take some, right?' It appeared as if the Judge was rather talking to the scroll, than talking to Lisai. 'W-what? I'm only her for assault. Right?!' She started to panic. 'Well...' Queenly said, grinning from ear to ear. 'I might have added some other charges to the list.' She winked at Lisai, and blew a kiss. Only to taunt her even more. 'Let me read them out to you. Don't worry, i'll read extra slow for the both of you.' The judge said while first looking at Lisai, and glaring at Queenly. 'We start off with Arson, followed by witchcraft, theft, insulting an officer, something with trouble during arrest.. And.. Something about being a little bitch. I'm sorry, Queenly, I can't convict her for that last one. If I could, you would all  be in jail, honestly.' She seemed to be daydreaming about that very moment. 'Ahem.' Queenly cleared her throat. 'Can we just... Go on with the trial?' 'What? Oh, yes, yes. That's why we are here. For a second I was thinking that we were all having a nice tea party.'' The judge was about to raise her hammer, and convict Lisai. 'Hold on!' She screamed. 'Can I say something, before you sentence me?' 'Well..' The judge said, bored, her head resting on the palm of her hand. 'I don't know, can you?' 'Please, allow me, your honor! There is no proof that I have done any of this!' 'And why should I believe you?''