Chapter 4: Wind Queen
Just outside of the Machine Labyrinth, the group of air movers touched down on the shore of the island. Blaze and Tangle scope out the area as Bernard sits down closing his eyes.
Blaze looks down at him confused. "What are you doing?"
"Focusing. I'm trying to feel Queen Zephyr's natural energy."
Tangle looks up at the sky seeing some mechs overhead making their way to them. "Looks like they found us, Blaze."
The feline readies her flames. "Keep then away from Bernard." She fires a few of them down from the sky.
Tangle leaps up and latches her tail onto one of the mechs swinging and kicking around other mechs around her.
Bernard grows a bit tense as he concentrates. "Her energy is strong. It's as if…" He then felt a large gust of air shoot passed him destroying a mech close to him. He turns to see the source.
A figure in a black hood stood before them with her arms up and ready.
"Your majesty." He kneels before her.
"Always a pleasure to see you, Bernard. I see you've made acquaintance with the princess of the fire kingdom."
Blaze lands beside her on top of a totaled mech. "You must be Queen Zephyr. I'm Blaze."
Tangle touches down as she walks up to them both. "I think that's all of them for now."
Zephyr goes silent seeing Tangle for the first time. "Are you…a friend of the princess?"
"Mhmm. The name's Tangle. I'm Blaze's friend from another world."
"I thought you had a blue friend."
Blaze let out a small laugh. "That's Sonic you're thinking of, your majesty."
"You may call me Zephyr, Blaze."
"Yes, Zephyr." She smiles a bit.
Tangle laughs a bit as a mech slowly walked up behind them.
Zephyr gasps a bit as she attempts to stop the mech.
The lemur takes notice and immediately turns to throw a punch only to send a force of air at the mech sending it hurdling into the ocean.
"You're…an air mover?"
Tangle looks at the queen. "Kind of. I sort of just found out about it."
Zephyr moves closer to the lemur placing her hands on her shoulders. "Have my people compared you to the lost child?"
"You too?"
Blaze intervenes. "Zephyr,…is she really…?"
The queen nods her head. "Yes. Your friend is the same girl who was lost to the other world fifteen years earlier."
Tangle started to feel a bit overwhelmed. "H-How do you know?"
Zephyr reaches up and removes the hood from her head revealing herself to be the same woman from the shrine in the Air Kingdom.
"You? You're the woman in the shrine?"
Blaze could only look in shock at the realization. "So that means…?"
"Yes." The Queen answers her. "I'm your mother, Tangle."
The lemur stood before the queen in silence realizing not only that she was Zephyr's daughter, but that she was also originally an inhabitant of the Sol Dimension. "How did this happen?"
"I believe it's time I told you the full story of the lost child, Tangle."
