EVERYTHING BURNS!THE SQUEL!

Hey sorry, so sorry for the long wait on this story. So here it is, I hope you all like it, cus I she hope you will. I known some of the summary is part of the song everything burns.The sequel takes place in the later years of the lioness's life showing what would have happened. In the time of the Scanrans war. Alanna is Queen and Jon's wife and yes the do have children. This is the only chapter that's in first person. NOTE: that each paragrph is in a new persons prospective.Hope you like it and here it is:

Enjoy

Louise

Chapter One: Everything burns.

The wind whipped around me as she stood single and alone in the night air. I wished he was here to warm me from the cold. But he wasn't and I was alone, so very alone. The Riders were passed down to my oldest daughter; Kingdom would go to my oldest, my beloved son. My youngest was already dreaming of being another woman Knight at the tender age of seven. I was the Warrior Queen, Alanna the Lioness. A Knight of Tortall, the fist woman in years to be knighted. I was the first to be knighted by King Jonathan and I was alone in the cold in the snow of the Trebond Mountains.

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The room was dark and cold as I sat watching Ambika. The light from the fire was casting a gold glow on her sweet face. She was so mad that she was not being aloud to fight because she was pregnant. But she in return starred back at me and we waited for the day when our first child would be born. Waiting for happy times in the snow storm ahead, and wanting so much to go back to days when things were simple, when the big thing was weddings, not war, when it was only me and Ambika, the only thing that mattered.

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I kissed my sleeping sons forehead, as sweet tears fell from my eyes. I pulled my-self away and left his room. As I quietly left the room and head down the hall. I only stopped at the door of my oldest room and watched her and Raoul. Her was telling her stories even at the age of fourteen, He kiss her and left for the hall. Both of us were leaving for battle and were going to wish we were in each others arms and home. I held her close in strong arms and smiled down at her, Lani was so beautiful. I asked for her hand to dance and she just laughed and toke it. There we were in the ballroom at Goldenlake dancing. No music, not lights, just the moonlight and stars watching us. I wonder how Jon was tonight without Alanna?

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I watched Gary walk in circles as he mumbled on about Jon being up tight. That made me laugh and he look so offended. I just toke him in my arms and held him there. He was never the same after Isabella died, but he was still Gary, MY YES MY Gary, and I loved him so much.

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We hadn't been to Trebond in along time and Thom says it's not longer safe to go. All he says every time, I, want to go is;

"Rabe you're a Empress you can't go scampering off to battle any more. You have to help look after things here." Then I bring up Alanna and he says that's different. But today I couldn't take it and I stormed out away to my chambers.

"Rabe?"

"What?" I shot back.

"Go, I know how much you want to. So please go."

"Thom… I… come here." And I kissed him like I never kissed him before.

Everything Alanna and I were working toward was burning away, I thought as I work late into the night in my study. The only source of light coming from a lantern in the far corner, pages were every where when I was ready to give up and rip them all. When a small voice, sweet as sugar called my name from the darkness and I looked up. There she stood about three feet, with dark auburn curls every which way. She was rubbing her blue/violet eyes with the back of her small hand and a teddy in the other. I stood and pushed the chair away. I walked over and scooped her up.

"Issa, what's wrong now?"

"The ghost back." She spoke sweetly.

"Oh well, I known one thing that gets rid of all ghosts." I told her as she put her head against my chest.

"What daddy?"

"Lioness stories." And we headed for her room.

CHAPTER SOUNDTRACK:

"Everything burns" Ben Moody and Anastacia

"Remember Me" Josh Groban

"10,000 promises" BSB

"How did I fall in love with you." BsB

Alanna's duagther's nick name is said like this: Is-A. Her ream name is Isabelle, so it's her nick name.