The Last Emperess

Prologue

1515,The Sacrifice

 My name is Tecuichpotzin , and I am a princess ,why ? well because my father is the great  emperor Montectezuma II .  I am  ten years old and we live in the capital of his empire,Tenochtitlan.

My father accompagnied me to the to top of our greatest temple, El Templo Mayor, to witness a "great sacrifice" in which my mother would play an important role.My father had tried to explain to me that to live in peaceful existence with our gods we had to make sacrifices to appease them and today we were making a sacrifice to Huitchilopostli,the god of the sun.I was still rather annoyed ,as my guards had rudely interrupted me while playing with Chicahua, my pet dog. I had screamed at the guards that had taken me away from him, usually they would obey my every command ,afterall I am the daughter of the emperor.But to no avail they hauled me along until they reached my father and left me with him.

  All of sudden  a loud pounding sound coming from the drums could be heard and as I looked down I saw  my mother's  guards opening a path up to the temple whilst my mother slowly but steadily  started climbing up the staircase that lead to us.She  pinched herself with a thorn of a cactus on her leg, and as her blood left a trail behind her everybody below started to do the same thing.When she reached the high place the Priest started murmuring to her, he pinched her whilst saying "Huichilopostli is expecting your pain and screams like any other woman,otherwise we will live in darkness,I beg thee".She finally started to scream and the crowd down below applauded in approval.

The Priest stopped , took just a bit of her blood and rubbed the leg with  a potion for wounds and she stoped bleeding .Then he spilled calf blood on her  and asked her to keep yelling."The god requests less sacrifice from the Pochtecas* milady,go down I beseech thee and show thyself to the crowd, tell not about this,keep the faith of the people"

    As she descends the staircase and the crowd bows down to her ,she keeps her head up high ,nods to my father until she  falls .A red ,hot liquid escapes from her head ,creating a crimson pool , my eyes started to get blurred from my tears. I ran down the steps as fast as my chubby little legs would let me , whilst my father was screaming at me to come back,but I didn't stop,I fought through the crowd of people surrounding my mother ."Get away from her !, I screamed to everyone around me,my shrill voice barely audible,Mama wake up!Wake up!please!" tears were spilling from my eyes, my breathing became irregular and I started to choke. She lifted her head to look up at me ,smiled ,not a hint of fear in her eyes and fell back to the ground.

    My father approached me and tried to put a hand on my shoulder.

"No!Get away from me! This is all your fault!"I hit him as hard as I could, pummeling him  until his guards ripped me off of him and pulled me away.For the very first time in my life I felt helpless ,but unfortunately it wouldn't be the last.

*Pochtecas-Nobles

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