Sol
A Blaze Tangle Story
Book 3: Ascension
Chapter 1: Coming of Age
It had been six months since Tangle defeated Princess Marina and restored the Water Nation to its former glory. With her newfound status as a princess of the Air Syndicate, the lemur has spent her time with the other air movers perfecting her talents alongside her mother, Queen Zephyr.
Blaze and Marine were arriving in the Air Syndicate along with air mover ally, Bernard. He escorted them to the central garden where Zephyr was tending to the plants along with Tangle.
Bernard steps forward addressing his queen. "Your majesty,…I've come with visitors for your daughter."
Tangle looks up seeing them. "Blaze! Marine." She goes over to them hugging them both.
Blaze smiles hugging her back. "It's great to see you, Tangle. The garden is looking nice."
"Thank you. I even planted a special flower in honor of both our kingdoms. It will be some time before they bloom, though."
"That's okay. I'm just glad to see how well it's come along."
Marine uses her canteen of water and lightly sprinkles it among the plants with her abilities. "Just to lend an extra hand."
Zephyr steps forward to them. "Did you come for the celebration?"
Blaze then realizes what the occasion was. "That's right. The coming of age."
"Indeed."
Marine scratches her head. "What's this coming of age?"
"When the princess of the kingdom reaches a certain age, she will be granted the status of queen."
"No way. Tangle a queen?"
Tangle smiles with a bit of a nervous laugh. "It was a bit overwhelming at first."
Zephyr places her hand on her daughter's shoulder. "There's nothing to worry about. You'll make a great queen, Tangle."
"Really? Even though I've been gone so long?"
"You were a lot like myself at your coming of age, hun. Even if you don't think you're ready, you'll find your way and the people will support you."
Blaze nods. "That's right. It was something I worried about myself as well."
Marine looks at Blaze. "When do you reach that time, Blaze?"
"My coming of age arrives in just a few days."
"You can Tangle have birthdays close together?"
Tangle steps forward answering her question. "My birthday was actually about seven months ago, Marine."
Zephyr adds on to her statement. "Given her late arrival, I delayed her coronation so that she may reconnect with her roots."
"It's really paying off. Watch this." She puts her fists together as she forms a ball of air below herself.
Blaze and Marine watch their friend seeing her balance on the sphere and slowly move herself around on it.
"Isn't this incredible?"
"I want to try that. Can I try that?" She puts her fists together and jumps up only to fall over when the air ball didn't form.
Blaze couldn't help but laugh at her friend's attempt at controlling air.
Tangle helps her up smiling. "Don't worry. If you can control water and earth, then I'm sure air is up your ally too."
Marine smiles. "Thank you."
"Who knows? Maybe you'll even be able to manipulate fire like Blaze."
Blaze remained silent at that thought.
Zephyr smiles. "Well, lets go to prepare for your coming of age, Tangle."
Tangle nods as she leads Blaze and Marine with her.
"Blaze, are you alright?"
Blaze snaps out of her silence. "Oh. Sorry, ma'am. I was just in thought about something."
Marine pats her back. "No worries, mate. Everything will be fine."
As they leave for the preparations, three figures in black hoods were hidden in the vegetation observing them.
One of them spoke. "So that's the multi-mover raccoon. She seems a bit young."
"Element controllers are born with their power. Their age of when they learn to use it means nothing. That's raccoon is the multi-mover as legend tells it."
The other figure places a hand on their frontman's shoulder. "When do we make our move?"
"We strike at the peak of the air princess's coronation."
