36 The Queen part 1 (1/2)

About one year ago.

Mia opened her eyes with some reluctance. She was used to a life of comfort, and sleeping late was common.

*Knock* *Knock*

”Princess, you have to get up, please.” Mia woke up early because someone was knocking on the door and calling her.

”Princess! It has to be now. Something happened to your mother...” The person who called Mia seemed desperate. Mia could recognize the voice of one of her maids, but she wouldn't remember her name.

Mia thought the maid was just calling her for some stupid noble event. But when Mia heard that something happened to her mother, she got up quickly.

Mia opened the door and didn't even have time to ask anything before the maid took her hand and ran. ”What happened to my mother?”

The maid started to say everything she knew as they ran through the castle's great corridors. ”The castle is under attack, and the Queen told me to take you to the secret exit. Two of the best royal guards are waiting to escort you to a safe place.”

”No!!” Mia stopped the moment she knew she wasn't going to see her mother. ”I will not leave without my mother! Let's go to where she is.”

The maid couldn't do much because Mia was always very stubborn and would not listen to anyone other than her mother. ”So, let's go quickly to the throne room.”

Mia and the maid went through some secret passages while hearing various battle noises and screams inside the enormous old castle.

They arrived in the magnificent throne room through a secret door near the throne where the Queen was sat. Mia saw several soldiers near the big door and others near her mother. Everyone seemed very nervous as they listened to the Queen's orders.

”We have to resist! These people want to destroy the order in our city and create an era of chaos. I do not ask you to fight for my life but to maintain my reign, which has only produced peace.”

A knight in shining armor near the Queen knelt as he spoke confidently. ”We will not allow mercenaries or adventurers to damage you, my Queen!”

When the Queen was going to thank the brave words of her most loyal knight, she noticed Mia in the corner of the room.

”Mia! You have to leave the castle! Radical fools surround us. I don't know how long we can resist.”

Mia did not care about her mother's warning and ran to hug her. ”Come with me, mom! Staying here is not going to change anything, so we have to leave together.”

Cassidy, the Queen, is just like Mia but a more mature version. She had straight black hair and big yellow eyes. Unlike Mia, who was still very young, she had a fully developed body with big breasts and an amazing ass.

Cassidy was still trying to convince Mia to leave the castle because she wanted to stay to lead the soldiers as a good queen. Mia insisted that she would not abandon her mother and thought about asking for help from a hooded figure, who was among the knights.

”Astrid, help me to convince my mother to go out with us!”

*BOOOM*

Before the hooded figure, called Astrid, could say anything, everyone heard a loud noise, and the throne room started to shake. Then an angry voice came from the other side of the big door.

”Cassidy, give up those ideas of monarchy! We only want the best for Portgreen. We are going to create a council that will lead the city with more justice and equal rights!”

The Queen knew that those men who said they wanted the best for everyone only cared about their own interests, and even if they did the city well, it would only be to profit later on.

”If I have to die today, I will die fighting, and I will be sure to take you to hell with me, Joerg!”

The soldiers and knights could not want to fight for anyone more than for Cassidy. Not only was she one of the most powerful people of all time, but she was also an excellent queen.

The fact that she was so incredible added to the fact that she was stunning made everyone loyal and in love with her. Some loved her so much that it became a sick obsession.

Even so, the Queen could not fight against two large armies moved by large amounts of gold. The union of mercenary groups and the adventurers' guild was sufficient to defeat all royal troops.

Then the big door to the throne room began to shake when the invaders began to launch attacks on it. Cassidy stood and picked up her big greatsword.

Everyone was prepared to face the invaders. Then Cassidy looked at Astrid with a pleading look. ”My oldest friend... I beg you now, to take my daughter away and protect her until she is strong enough to live alone.”

Astrid wanted to stay and fight alongside Cassidy, but she knew that Mia was more important to her than anything. Then she goes towards Mia to catch her by force if needed.

But before Astrid arrived at Mia, she saw something that scared her. ”CASSIDY! BEHIND YOU!!”

The Queen turned quickly, but it was too late. Her most loyal knight, the man in the shining armor, used a small crossbow to shot a bolt at Mia.

Cassidy could dodge with her high speed, but Mia would be hurt, so she didn't think twice before pushing her daughter away, making the bolt hit her in the shoulder.

”MOTHER!”

”QUEEN!”

”CASSIDY!”

*BOOM*

Everyone was in despair when the Queen fell after being hit by the bolt. Astrid quickly approached them at the same time that the door broke with a big explosion, which sent dust everywhere.

Astrid knew that Cassidy would not be knocked out by a simple bolt, so it must be a deadly poison bolt. She took Cassidy in one arm and Mia in the other as she ran toward the secret passage.

”Soldiers, cover me!!!”

While Astrid ran away with the Queen and Mia, she asked the royal soldiers for help, and they did not think twice before covering her way out using their lives as a shield.

But the knight in shining armor was not a simple person and managed to shot two bolts that pierced Astrid's back. Those bolts were with a super rare poison, but luckily, Astrid is of a demi-human race that had high resistance to all kinds of poison.

Astrid made it to the secret passage, but one of the bolts hit the middle of her back close to her small wings. The other bolt went through part of her wing, leaving scars, which should last forever.

After entering the secret passage, she wasted no time and activated a mechanism that destroyed the entrance preventing anyone from following her...

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