Fire and Ice

Two Kings

~Third Person POV~

The soldiers on horse back removed themselves from their transportation and headed toward the men surrounding the stage.

The group of males that assisted Wendy in her crimes, who dropped their weapons on the ground previously, were now shackled and brought to the prisoner carriages to be put in a bastille.

The second royal carriage that pulled in after the Fire Lord's was the Ice Palance's.

When that cart stopped out came the Ice King Lord Gray. He joined at the Lord Natsu side down on the ground a few feet from the stage.

Lord Gray glared at all the shackled colonists, as they were brought to the carriages, in disappointment for their impertinent actions.

But soon enough these aggravated emotions quickly changed to horror and remorse. Glancing up to the stage at his son and wife in the state they were in and the message they were portraying to him.

The Ice King ran up and onto the platform to see what had happened to his motionless wife and distraught son.

The sight that he beheld was what he feared the most in this situation.

His wife was missing for week. The whole kingdom, from every soldier to the poor, was looking for their missing queen.

Lord Gray himself had taken the situation gravely. With little sleep and mountains of stress he began to loose hope on what his families condition would be in the future.

His daughter was the only person he knew was safe and out of danger.
Lord Gray's son and wife's location was what he didn't know.

The king was grateful that he found about what was happen down here in the lower level of the kingdom.
If it wasn't for the annual tax collection for the Ice colony then he would have never been informed that weird activity was happening there.

As soon as The Ice King heard about Wendy and her spotted location he left the castle immediately.

But never expected.....never wanted....this.

The demure King gazed down at his beloved queen, beautiful wife, in her state of peace.

Storm then looks away from his Mother and into his father's eyes.

The prince's eyes, the ones he got from his mother, began to tear up in dismay.

The Fire Lord on the other hand was not involved in the passing of the Queen.
For he was in his own predicament at the moment.

His only daughter was still on edge — rope around her neck, gun against her head, and his..... son at her side.

Lord Natsu stared intensely into his son's eyes as the blonde prince looked back.
They glared into each others eyes fiercely with much tension.
No words were exchanged as they stood a great distance from one another.

Nash slowly removed the rope from Nashi's neck but kept the gun in its place.

The Fire Lord watched this, exchanging no words. He was worried what lengths the prince would go but he couldn't show it. If the king showed weakness the missing prince may be provoked.

The King took a few steps closer towards the platform but Jude did the same but a few steps back.

"Jude....." the king began to say in a serious tone.

"It's Nash you Ba-..."

"MMM!!!" The princess muffled out of her gag, interrupting Jude's sentence.

"Nash...put the gun..."

"Down?" Jude said finishing his father's phrase.
"No."

"Nash...." The Fire king began again before Jude added,

"Why did you let this happen? I left so Nashi wouldn't have to come here!"

Lord Natsu sighed, slumping his posture.

"To make peace, you know that Jude! Now drop your weapon!" The king demanded.

The Fire Lord had not seen his daughter in weeks. No clue where she was, no idea if she was safe, all he could hope in that period of time was that Nashi was happy and secure.

But she was here....in this mess.

"Wow. You haven't seen me for years and all you have to spout is demands! You're definitely a king then!" Jude called out, holding the rope that tying the princess' hands in one of his and a gun in the other.

The conversation was escalating quickly and the expression on Nashi's face confirmed that she knew it too.

She had to do something.....

and fast.