Wonder and Legacy - Wonder Woman

Princess of the Amazons

Diana grew, faster than an average child, into a young woman herself, no longer the only child on the island.

Finally her mother approved her training. Not fully, but some, and that was important to her.

True to her promise, her Aunt Antiope had trained her hard from day one. Diana was certainly a gifted fighter and showed a lot of potential.

Aikaterine was always there for her and became her most trusted friend and ally. Diana had grown up with Aikaterine always at her side as her friend, knew she could always rely on having her there.

Diana currently occupied the training field, her fellow Amazons rushing in with various attacks that she countered and blocked. Aikaterine smiled as she watched her - Diana had come so far.

When she glanced over for approval from her aunt, Antiope nodded.  Diana looked behind her to see her mother on horseback, overseeing the training session.

"Don't let her distract you," Aikaterine said, stepping forward.  "Just keep doing as you are."

Diana nodded, casting one last glance up at her mother before turning to face her friend. The two put their skills to the test against each other, surrounded by the other Amazons who watched their duel take place.

"Harder. You're stronger than this, Diana," Antiope encouraged when the duel ended. "Again."

"Don't let me win," Diana encouraged her friend to challenge her.

"I won't," Aikaterine promised.

The two young women went through the sequence again. And again. Still, despite Diana's progress and consistent victory, Antiope was not satisfied.

During the third try, Diana kicked the blade from Aikaterine's hand. Thinking the battle to be over, she faced her friend. 

Antiope jumped in.  "Never let your guard down!" She swung her own sword at Diana. Weaponless herself, Diana held up her gauntleted wrists for protection.  "You expect a battle to be fair - a battle will never be fair!"

"Antiope," cried Aikaterine, thinking this was going too far, but Antiope kept up her attack.

To block the next fierce swing from her aunt, Diana held up both arms at once, and something remarkable happened: a blast erupted from her crossed gauntlets, carrying across the courtyard and knocking back Antiope.

This seemed to startle Diana as much as it did everyone else.

"Antiope!" Menalippe raced to the now injured Antiope's side.  "Don't move, you are bleeding."

"I'm sorry, Aunt Antiope, I'm sorry," cried Diana.  When no one said anything in response to her apology, she rushed off, looking distraught.

While the others tended to Antiope and her wounds, Aikaterine went after Diana. She found her standing at the cliffside, overlooking the ocean. 

"Are you all right?"

"Yes, I'm fine." Diana was looking down at her wrists.  "How is Aunt Antiope?"

"She'll be fine. Everyone's just a little startled is all.  What was that?"

Diana looked back down at her gauntlets. "I-I don't know."

"What is that?"

"I don't know, it's never happened before-"

"No, that." Aikaterine joined her at the edge of the cliff and nodded out towards the clear sky where a dark shape, almost like the wings of a bird, pierced the vast blue. It fell rapidly before nose-diving and plunging right into the ocean.

"I think there's someone there," Diana cried. "Go, get help. I'll get them."

"Diana-" Aikaterine began to protest, but Diana had already jumped off the cliff, diving  into the ocean below. With that, Aikaterine fled back to the training field.

When she returned a few minutes later, along with the rest of the Amazons, they found Diana standing with someone - a man! More men in rowboats were approaching the shore, appearing heavily armed.

"Diana!" shrieked Hippyolyta. "Get away from her! Aikaterine, go!"

With the Queen's orders, Aikaterine leapt down from the cliff, jumping between Diana  and the intruder with a blade.

"Aikaterine no-" Diana tried to intervene. "He doesn't mean any harm."

"You don't know that."

Bang!

There was a sudden blast from one of the boats, which had now reached the shore.

"Get down!" the man cried, dropping to the sand behind some rocks, the two ladies joining him.

Above them, Hippolyta was shouting out orders to arms. A few Amazons descended from the cliff by ropes, bows ready,

Bang!

Another shot came from the men's weapons. Diana and Aikaterine watched in horror as whatever had been shot from the weapons struck one of the archers, she now hanging limp from the rope, dead.

"Invaders!" Aikaterine charged forward, launching a couple daggers towards the attackers, striking them in the chest and neck.

While perhaps the man Diana had rescued meant no harm, the others certainly did. 

Antiope charged forward on horseback, leading the cavalry. 

Diana struggled to find her footing in the battle; with so much chaos going on at once, it was easy to get lost in it all. She tried to help in any way she could.

"Diana!"

"Diana - NO!

Bang!

"No!

The next thing she knew, she was tackled to the ground by Aikaterine, Antiope diving in front of them as one of the invaders shot his weapon, striking Antiope.

The General now lay bleeding in Diana's arms, who was desperately trying to understand what her aunt was saying.

"Di-ana, go, go-"

"Go, where? Oh, Antiope-"

"Diana, God Killer-"

"Antiope, no!"

But it was too late.

"No - no, no!"

"Antiope!" Hippolyta fell to her knees beside her sister's body. 

"No!" Menalippe let out a devastated cry, also coming to kneel before the fallen Antiope.

Hippolyta was back on her feet again, charging towards the man Diana had saved, sword drawn.

"No, Mother - no!" Diana jumped up to shield him from the Queen's attack.  "He fought at my side against the invaders!"

"What kind of man fights against his own people?" demanded Menalippe.

"These aren't my people," the man insisted.

"Then why do you wear their colours?!"

"I can't tell you that..."

"What is your name?"

"I can't tell you that either..."

"You'd better start speaking," snapped Aikaterine.  

"We should kill him now, and be done with him," said Venelia.

Senator Acantha had the final say.  "If we kill him, then we will never know who they are and why they came here."

(The Amazons vs. Germans battle is so epic!  And I love Gal and Diana so much! :)

Thank you so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed! :))