Long Live the Queen...

((For Amarisa, cause she roxorz hard core))

"I'm sorry sir, Both King Frenz and Princess Arenava are..." the the sergent broke down, his face contorting in pain. Captain Yezik grasped the man's shoulder in empathy.The city burned, the Nox knights were decimated, his rangers were dying by the minute in their atempt to help the townsfolk escape the slaughter, and the King was dead...

Another ranger came hurteling out of the battle, In her arms was the lifeless body of prince Danid, the queen's tira atop the young boy's stomache. The ranger set the child's body down, stood, saluted, then collapsed in tears. Yezik closed his eyes. The entire royal family had been slaughtered... What was left for them now? did they surrender to Lord Hannis? A last stand? did they retreat and regroup and attack again? But to what end?

"LOOK!!" someone called out. Yezik's eyes shot open and he spun around towards where the ranger was pointing. At first he saw nothing, then, emerging from the flames strode Captain Riorius. The flames in his eyes hotter than those he walked through. A man who strode only a few steps ahead of hell. And in his arms...

Yezik's jaw dropped. How could he have forgotten?!

Riorius stepped up to his commander, hugging the battered, broken body of Princess Kaleena. Yezik couldn't speak, "I... is she..." he couldn't finish, he didn't want to hear if the answer was...

"Long Live the Queen. " Riorious whispered quietly.