‘What’s she going to do with us,’ Zoltar thought, his talons shaking
with fear.
He stood frozen with fear before the Queen. She stared
intently at him as if trying to obtain information from his mind. Blinking once
she shifted her gaze, her menacing golden eyes locking onto Felistia's, who'd
seemed to have gained some energy and was glaring at the Queen with pure
hatred.
"Felistia," The Queen drawled, spreading her
wings to full height, causing the millions of silver scales to sparkle in the
sun light filtering through the ceiling above. "It's a pleasure to see you
again, little sister." She hissed in false greeting.
Zoltar stood speechless. 'Sister?'
"The pleasure is all yours, Shiler," Felistia
snarled angrily through her mouth clamp, straining against the chains holding
them to the floor. Her claws scrapping the smooth ice floor as Shiler glared at
her with a look of annoyance. "And don't call me little sister. Not
anymore. Not after what you did."
“Please, you would have done it if you were in my position.
Any Ice Talon would. Kori wasn't running the kingdom like a proper Ice
Talon should." Shiler growled with a note of irritation, arching her neck
like a snake about to strike.
“But she was your sister,” Tears were welling in Felistia
eyes as she growled, “And just because she didn’t want war for our kingdom
doesn’t mean she was a bad Queen. She was looking out for our people.”
Shiler rolled her eyes and yawned, “Oh Felistia. You poor,
foolish dragonet. You don’t make your kingdom the most powerful dragon tribe in
the land by keeping the peace. The Wind Talons were weak, even with their
precious Lightning Diamond. Their land was ripe for the picking, but Kori
wanted to keep the peace,” Shiler said mockingly, “She had to go.”
Felistia glared at Shiler, but didn’t say anything more as her
chest heaved with suppressed sobs.
Shiler bared her teeth in a sadistic smile, “Well now that
the pleasantries are out of the way, I must get onto the business at hand,” She
paused, the rage building in her eyes before she barked, "What are you
doing here? I told you to never come back and yet here you are. Why?"
Felistia remained silent, tears still streaming down her
snout. Zoltar longed to walk over and comfort her, but his chains held him in
place.
"Fine then," Shiler breathed, her tail lashing
from side to side. She slowly stood up, letting her eyes dart from Felistia to
Zoltar. "I see you chose to bring a friend. A Shadow Talon no less.
How’d you manage that?"
Her glittering snake like eyes fell on Zoltar, who
immediately felt like a rat cornered by a large cat, "What a shame for
him. I hear Shadow Talons can only last a week in the ice talon kingdom before
they die a painful death when their fire dies."
She smiled wickedly as she walked up to Zoltar, her
long tail trailing behind her. She circled around him, purring like a big cat,
while Zoltar cowered under her steel glare, "I'm going to enjoy seeing
Felistia's face as she watches you die." She growled quietly, running
a serrated claw gently down his snout while snarling. "Then I'm
going to execute her seeing that she insists on disobeying her Queen.”
Felistia didn't even flinch and simple turned away
from the queen, her tail curled over her chains. But the remake turned Zoltar's
blood cold as the queen's glittering gold eyes pierced his.
"You can't k-k-kill me." Zoltar stuttered
fearfully, trying to squish the trembling in his voice. "The S-s-shadow
talons will attack the palace if you do." He instantly regretted saying
anything. Even he could hear how pathetic he sounded. The Shadow Talons were
the weakest dragon tribe in Megalonia. They would have been wiped out by a
rival dragon tribe long ago if it hadn’t been for their land not being worth
the effort.
"Pha. You think I'm scared of a bunch of scrawny
Shadow Talons. Please, they'd be crushed like little pansies under my army’s
claws. Your tribe is nothing. I'm afraid there's no hope for you or Felistia
here." She hissed cruelly, her crown of horns gleaming like knife blades
as she lifted her head and roared, "Guards!"
Instantly the same two guards from before marched into the
room. They bowed once they had entered as they waited for Shiler's commands.
"Take these two to the prison, I'll deal with their
fates later." Shiler instructed, flicking her tail as she shot a mocking
smile at Felistia, who ignored her as she and Zoltar were led away.
As he was led out the room, Zoltar's eyes caught on a glass
case embedded into the wall on the far corner of the room. His heart skipped a
beat as he realized that resting inside the casket was a sparkling snow
blue diamond. The Queen’s Ice Diamond. It was here.
Zoltar's head was whirling as the guards led them through
the winding corridors of the palace back to their cell. Shiler was
Felistia's sister. How could she not had told him this? He’d have never let her
go her own way if he’d known this. Maybe that was part of the reason why she
hadn’t told him.
These thoughts kept spinning around and around his head, so
much that he barely noticed the guards stopping in front of the dark iron door
and unchaining his and Felistia's muzzles. But when the door was unlocked and
opened with a screech like thousands of dragons being tortured, Zoltar snapped
into attention.
He had only a few days to think off and execute an escape.
The Queen had said that she was going to wait for him to succumb to the cold
before she killed Felistia. He had five days to escape.
The guards closed the door behind them, leaving Zoltar and
Felistia chained to the hoops in the floor. At least their muzzles were off for
the moment. The hard iron had begun to rub his scales around his snout raw.
He looked over at Felistia. She was hunched over in the
corner crying softly.
Zoltar couldn’t imagine how she felt. It was one thing to
lose your family, it was another to have them betray and want to kill you.
If his chain hadn’t been so short he would have reached
over and stroked her with his wing, but she was too far for him to reach. He’d
just have to wait until she’d let out her sorrows. Then he could talk to her
about their escape.
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