"MY EGG! WHERE IS MY EGG?!" Queen Coral was frantically swimming through the Hatchery, checking everywhere.
She took a deep breath and called for the soldiers who had been guarding the hatchery the night before. The appeared instantly and fell to their knees.
"Please, be merciful Your Majesty." Gilda pleaded.
"Yes, we must have been drugged, when we woke up the egg was gone!" Clam assured.
Before the others could plead, the Queen roared, "SILENCE! You have failed me, and for this, you must pay the price."
She leaped into action immediately, quickly ripping the first soldier's throat, leaving him to die. She gripped the second and crushed his skull into Clam's, white fragments drifted into the hallways along with the currents. Gilda was petrified; her fellow soldiers were slowly dying by the Queen's talons.
"STOP!" She flashed, was she crying? Gilda didn't care, she must stop this.
Coral lit her stripes in a bright flash, "You dare talk back to your queen?!"
"You are no longer my Queen!" Gilda used her tail to propel herself forward, smashing through the walls out into the ocean.
Even underwater, she could hear the Queen's roar.
What will happen to Slug? She quickly answered her own question; He'll be killed as well.
As she swam with the currents away from the palace, she wondered where she would go.
Maybe I could find the Talons of Peace! She Thought.
And her mind was set, she burst out of the water with a flap of her wings, But I have to find them first.