Luna

Chapter 1 (Part 2)

We enter my chambers, and Richards is there with a meat and cheese plate and some tea. Once I sit down, there is a knock on my door. Richards opens it; Jack, my new knight, is standing there. I smile as he comes in, and I put a piece of cheese in my mouth. After chewing carefully and swallowing, I speak, "is it done already? I would have thought it would take longer." I look at him directly in the eyes. Continuing, "I was expecting it to take at least until tomorrow morning." He seems confused while handing me his report saying, "Have I done something wrong?"

I read over his report while eating my lunch. When I finish reading it. I stop eating and smile, saying, " No, you have impressed me, my knight, you have exceeded my expectations and even did extra work I can see. Now I know for sure. When you are fully trained, you will be the best leader for my soldiers." I hear running in the hallway. All of a sudden, My door slams open. Jack draws his sword in defense. It turns out to be one of my scouts. He's badly injured. I look at him saying "report!" he says weakly " t..the vill...age u..under...a..attack." he falls from exhaustion and pain. I look to Jack. He runs to get his armor on I start running saying "moonlight come forth."

My outfit changes to an armored dress that is midnight purple that stops midthigh, then my shoes change from heels to knee-high high heeled boots then as I make it to the outside, Jack is there with the horses. My staff appears in my hand. I jump up to mount my horse. I take the reins and take off the other will follow. I think to myself. There is no time to waste. Jack catches up, saying, "what is the plan, milady?" I say, "tell the soldiers to protect the town and its people and not to back down no matter what, then join me to find the source of the madness." He nods and stops at the edge of the town to give the order. I continue but slow midnight down and quickly realizes that I would make it through faster on foot.

I weave my way through the panic of the villagers to the center of it all. It's a large man holding an even more massive ax swinging it around, then slamming it, causing much panic. I stand there, staff in hand, saying a quick spell. "Strength of my enemy decrease" he then drops his ax on the ground. He then sees me standing there and charges me with his fists, but before he can land a punch, Jack is there and knocks him to the side. I'm focusing on my spell, keeping him weak. He gets injured, but I am using a lot of magic on this spell to sustain it. There is someone else trying to counter my attack, but I don't see anyone else. During my distraction, I see that jack has the ax-wielding man running in pain. I then stop using my magic; I feel slightly weak from using so much magic, but I had to neither jack nor beat him right now I need to enlist the other and now. I look to jack, tired, saying, "call them to my study" he knows whom I am talking about because I sent him to investigate them further. I wanted to add them to each one by one, but I don't have time. The Dark Warlock I closer, and he is ready for a fight, and we need to give it to him.

We walk in, and I go over to my desk to sit still in my armor, a dress that goes to my knees, which is the color of midnight purple, and knee-high high heeled boots. I sit there and grab some papers. The two that I called for come in and say, "princess, have we done something wrong, or are we not strong enough." I smile and shake my head, speaking with exhaustion in my voice, " no, in fact, you three have impressed me, and the three of you will now be working for me as my retainers. So with that being said, I need the three of you to work harder on your training because you will be helping me lead the front lines when it comes time to go up against the enemy himself." Two of them start to object to me. Before I can say anything, Jack speaks up. "The princess is allowing us to see this through to the end. We must do so for this kingdom. This place is all that is standing between the Dark Warlock and his victory. We can't let her down. She must have chosen us for a reason" this makes them change their minds. The first to speak, though, is the archer, and she says, "The elves snuck me away to give them aide before the Dark Warlock could reach them. I'm Flahera Ivaria, and I'm with you until the end." She bows before me. Then Ravensha speaks. "I'm Ravensha, and I'm with you until the very end." She bows as well, then so does Jack.

A year later, we work perfectly together. We're in sync and balanced. We can take on any threat that comes our way. During our trust-building, my mother allowed us to go on some rescue missions to get field experience together because that's the only way we can improve. Today we are on our first solo mission together. We are reclaiming one of the captive villages from the Dark Warlock. The town we are saving is Sillia. It's a coastal village of mermaids and fairies. It's an access point to get supplies to and from our lands regaining. This would be one step in the right direction for victory. I look to my retainers and say, "Everyone ready, it's just us we need to perform one of our miracles that we have done so many times in just this past year. Let's go" Flaherea stays behind to get a good archery point as the rest of us sneak down into the village, pulling our cloaks above our heads. We walk through the town, trying to find the Dark Warlock's general controlling this area. Then we see the general captain Gregory Millstream. I take a step towards him. All we have to do is run him out of here with his tail between his legs. Then the battle will be won.

I remove my cloak to provide a distraction saying, "Hello, I'm looking for the idiot with the ax. It's one that no one can really use, not even him but still carries it around because he thinks it looks cool on him but just make him look stupid...." He then yells, "shut it. I'll show you just how well I can use this ax in the battle against the most annoying brat in the Dark Warlocks kingdom" I look to him, saying, "hold it, his kingdom. I'm pretty sure that he has yet to beat the most fearsome team in all of the MOONHAVEN. My team has taken out how many of your outposts with others, of course, but we still lead the missions. Just imagine how well we will do without anyone holding us back. So until there is nothing left, and I mean nothing and no one from my team, we will continue to fight because we are just that good, and we love our home, but justice must be met! Furthermore, I plan to deliver it!"

I give the signal by firing a beam of light into the sky. With the signal glowing high into the sky, arrows start to fly from every direction. However, it's just a trick then his men get to throw at his feet dead or mortally wounded, we run him out in fear, not realizing what just happened, but I know exactly what happened.

Once the enemy's remanence is run out of the village. We help the villagers get back on their feet and send word back to the castle for one hundred soldiers to be sent to protect the town. Nevertheless, until they come, we will be staying until they arrive, and I am sure the village is saved. If we were to lose this village again, the morale would plummet, and we might not be able to get back on our feet. That is why I saw this through. Jack walks up to me, saying, "Milady, are you all right? You seem in deep thought." I smile, saying, "don't worry, my friend. I'm just thinking of what we can do to prevent this place from getting retaken. If we lose this place again, then it will be the end of the war and not in a good way. I just know that we will..." Jack interrupts me, "we cannot think like that. You are strong, and I will always follow you, and I know that the others will too. We have been through so much in the past year. We will always be at your side until the end." The others come and repeat, "Until the end," this has become their way of saying that they trust my judgment, whatever it may be. We stay the night as the villagers celebrate their newfound freedom. They sing and dance about well into the night as my retainers, and I take shifts through the night to protect them. When the sun rises the next day, my soldiers start to arrive. I start giving them instructions on covering the village and instructions for the villages to start to get food and other supplies ready for them to send to assist with the war to come. Once the job is done, we mount our horses and leave to go back to the castle, back home.

When we reach the village on the castle walls' outskirts, the villagers greet us all happily for our victorious return home. We make our way up to the walls. The guards let us where the welcome party is waiting, along with my mother, the queen. Once we stop, she speaks, "this has become one of many victories we need to overcome to win the war. Each challenge I send your way, you all find a way through the challenges. Tonight there will be a feast to celebrate. Tomorrow I would like each of you to take hold of the studies you have been assigned for when this war is over. I wish for a new leader to reign with a new beginning."

When the festivities begin that night, we are all happy, and it seems that we will win this battle before it becomes a war. Everyone is dancing, and music plays throughout the courtyard. Just as we think everything will go our way, and nothing could go wrong. We are all proven wrong when the plants die. The food on the table starts to rot before our eyes.