Safe

Chapter 27

Mon-El

I can see it in Kara's face. shes terrified. i don't think its actually hit her yet that that's our daughter. That someone from our family could be so cruel. I don't think its even hit her she has a daughter. I think shes crying because of the sad and horrific event that just happened in front of her. The reason shes upset is because she's Kara. She couldn't help that poor family, and that is going to haunt her.

"Kara" I can still feel her shaking slightly in my embrace. "Kara. It's not your fault. None of us could have done anything. " Barry helps me.

"We have to stop her." Kara says bluntly.

"Hope?" Alex chips in.

"No. The woman who corrupted her. "

"My mother." I say bitterly, the words stinging my tongue.

"We have to get into the palace. I have a plan. Queen Rhea is hosting a ball for Hope as a coming of age gift. At the end of the night Hope will become Queen of Daxam. We need to stop her before it happens."

"And by 'her' you now mean Hope." I say.

"Yes. By any means necessary." Kara and i gulp at Ardens harsh words.

"That's our daughter your talking about. NO! We have to try and stop her without force without violence." Kara counters,

"Do you know what shes done? No. You don't. You don't know about her cruelty. You don't know how she's worse than Queen Rhea herself. She was raised by Rhea to be ruthless cunning and heartless. She is the opposite of you both put together. The daughter of the almighty Kara Zor-El and Mon-El of Daxam forced into the darkest shadows of hate and destruction. You can't even begin to understand what she did to my own family...you...we need to go."

"Arden..." Kara tries.

"No I've already just told you too much. we need to go."

Everyone follows her as we sneak past the guards and head towards the main city. There we find a store full of lavish ballgowns and suits and guess what. This store serves the Royal family. Cisco, Barry and I pick out matching suits. Kara picks a strapless blue ballgown whilst Alex picks a red, laced, staight dress and Arden picks a black mermaid dress with a leather jacket.

"You'll all need these." Arden hands us all masquerade masks.

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Kara

We get to the big golden gates of the palace entrance. The guards are all armed with high tec looking guns. Arden had fitted our masks with Coms so we can all stay in touch at all times. She hands the guards our 'invitations' . One guards looks me up and down and i feel very uneasy. Its like he recognises me. however, he dismisses his look of suspicion as we are all let in.

"Kara you need to go and find Hopes room and see if you can find out anything about what they're planning." I nod and loose myself in the crowd. There are already so many people. I keep making sure my mask is on. Even though I haven't met Rhea yet in my timeline, I'm in her past. If she recognises me, we're all finished.

After looking at a lot of feet and barging my way through floods of people, I manage to get to some stairs at the back of the room. I lift the bottom of my dress up to my knees and start to hurry up the staircase. I'm confronted with a labyrinth of corridors, all leading some where different. I follow my instincts and turn left then left again until the amount of rooms start to die down and there's only a few left. I turn round a corner once again and see one last door. This must be it. I turn the handle slowly, I have no idea what I am going to see.