Queen of Sheba

1. The Endless War

Once upon a time in the period of the ancient Egyptians, in a far off realm in the kingdom of Sheba, there lived a powerful Cat Queen who ruled by the feline of her species. Her name was Spluch and she ruled over the cats, she lived in a magnificent palace by the sea; the palace was made out of the most precious of metals and diamonds.

The Queen sat on her throne sculpted into a form of a fish skeleton, she was a pure black long hair feline except she had a speck of white on her neck, she had green diamond eyes and pointed ears, around her neck she wore a gold pendent in the shape of a fish skeleton.

On her tiny fluffy head she wore a tiny crystal crown made with gems, she had plenty of serving mice, cats and dogs at her disposal. As she sat there with her claws out as she gripped a mouse servant, who she thought was to be a tasty meal.

"Your Majesty, please put the poor servant down." called the Queen's loyal adviser The Duke of Felix. Spluch startled at the abrupt appearance of her adviser and she dropped the poor mouse and it scuttled away into his hole where the mouse servants lived.

The queen grunted "Now look what you made me do Lord Felix; you better have a good reason as to why you let my lunch get away." replied the queen in a frightening manner."Oh but I do your Majesty, encase you didn't know but we are still at war with the dogs."

The queen sighed as she curled up on her fish skeleton throne "Oh what has this Sparto done now?" Sparto was the leader of the Dog rebellion that has raided almost the entire kingdom's dog slaves in a bid to free themselves from slavery and poverty.

But one day when she thought all was lost, she met with sparto on a scorching hot day, flies were buzzing as she tried to swipe them out of her gaze, she demanded that they forfeit their freedom or she would reign terror on them.

She made a frightening speech to terrify them into submission, "I am Queen among gods and I was chosen to be their saviour to rid the world from rabid infectious mutts like you, so strike me down and I will rise from the ashes to enslave your species for eternity!" her plan worked mostly there were few among them who wanted to submit out of fear, but Sparto wouldn't yield.

Sparto was a cross bred Border Collie with who knows what other breed, he was a working dog, so he knew what hard work meant, he growled at her "you will not bully us, I have generations of great leaders in my blood, warriors, do what you will!" she smiled "Interesting," "what's interesting?" he asked "You are brave young Sparto," "Haha," he laughed in her face, "what's funny?" "I am hardly young, my son is in his teens, so what does that make me." she stroked her chin with her paw.

"Son you say, is he handsome?" "What's that to you," shouted Sparto. "I've thought of a way to stop this war with our two species, what if we betrothed your son to my eldest daughter." The dogs gave a vulgar look as if that was the most disgusting thing she suggested.

"ewww gross I am going to barf, let me get this straight you want your Cat daughter to marry my son who is a Dog!" "Yep that's right, if you do this I may build you a monument of you as a great leader." he smiled.

Back to the present "So what has he done Lord Felix?" "He refuses our demands even though we have given them everything they want" "WHAT!" screamed the Queen so everyone in the palace heard, "Why, what does he want that we haven't already given him?" "That which we can't give him!" there was silence the Queen nodded for Felix to continue. "He wants us or you to build him a Palace made of bones, so can they lick endlessly." The Queen sat there speechless as if she was told it was going to be the end of the world, it might as well have been, for that she could of dealt with.

The queen sighed "Oh my lord that is asking for a lot, summon the Feline of the Elders, I would like to seek their council on this matter." "As you wish your grace." he bowed as he turned to leave, but before he did the queen called after him "WAIT!" Lord Felix turned back to the queen "Yes your grace," "Where is my daughter, she should be here?" "She is same place as she always is!"

The queen felt that she should have known the answer but she didn't do that make her bad mother, maybe but don't forget she's a queen too. "And where is that might I ask?" "Your grace she's off with that Moggy" "WHAT, you mean Spikey?" "Yes your grace," "Well have her brought to me at once, she's a Princesses; she can't be seen going off with Moggies!" "As you wish you grace, will that be all?" "Yes, send for me once you have the Princess, home safely!" he bowed and left.