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Iceshadow911247: Yeah, it was. The longest one yet. And I like Bolin to! You'll find out this chapter.

Mai-Lee's POV…

"Highroller wants you to join his army!" Chen-Po shouted as I he read the letter.

"I'm just as surprised you are!" I shouted back. Mei-Ting gently grabbed the letter from my brothers' hand.

"To: Lee of Decembance,

Under no authority of my own, I am order to offer you a postion in the winning side of The War between Humans and Animals. If you accept, thouh I know candy won't intice you in anyway, I will pay you a handsome sum of Ten Silver Yuan's. A day. If you wish to discuss this topic more, come to East Citadel within the next twenty-four hours.

Signed, Highroller." Mei-Ting read.

"I can't believe this!" Chen-Po huffed.

"I know! Position, though, and entice are spelled wrong." Mei-Ting said. We all gave her odd looks. "I'll go check the fire." She said handing the letter back to me.

"I got no sleep cuz everyone make loud noise." Tenzin said.

"Sorry, baby, we're just having a problem." I said to my nephew.

"What kinda poblem?" Tenzin asked

"With a mean man named Highroller." Tai-Ping explained.

"Who Highroller?" Tenzin asked

"No Clue." My daughter and nephew turned to the rest of us. "Who's Highroller?"

"Sweetie, remember this morning when I was thinking about how much I hate the man who sits on your brother's throne?" I knelt down to her height.

"How could I forget? You practically spat out his name." Tai-Ping pointed out.

"She takes after you." Bolin said. I smacked his arm.

"This is serious, you dork!" I snapped.

"Ok, ok, calm down. It's not like you were considering taking up on his offer." Chen-Po smiled in relief. I glanced down to the floor quickly. My eyes landed on my shoes and I suddenly took a great interest in them.

"Since when am I so easily flustered?"

Chen-Po gave me a questioning look. "You're not considering taking up on his offer, right?"

"Well, it does sound pretty promising…" I said fiddling with my braid.

"Mai-Lee! I can't believe you! You actually want to go and work for that-"Chen-Po started to shout.

"Just here me out! Ok, first of all; ten silver Yuan's a day! A DAY! You wouldn't even earn that much in ten years!"

"That's because I earn ten copper Yuan's a week. And that's not much." Chen-Po states.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah! Second; I can find out if there are any other family members left, besides us and track them down. Third and final reason; I can find all of Highroller's weakness and see if I can't mess with him a little on the way. Don't you get it? This could be our chance to take back what's rightfully ours!" I smiled.

"I don't want you doing this. It's too dangerous." Chen-Po told me sternly.

"But, Chen-Po! I could-"

"No butt's, Mai-Lee! I don't want you going there to work for that monster! End of discussion!" Chen-Po started to stomp upstairs.

"Why are you always bossing me around?!" I shout

"Because you refuse to grow-up, I need to be the father figure." He shouts down.

"But you're not my dad! And you'll never be him! You'll never be what Papa was!" I clamp my hands over my mouth, buts it's too late. He turns and glares at me. Everyone is looking at the two of us.

"Chen-Po… I… I am so, so sorry." I say just loud enough for him to hear me.

"Can't you just for once start to think about anything?" He snarls before stomping up the stairs.

"Daddy?" Tenzin croaked out.

"Honey! Honey!" Mei-Ting called up. She turned to me. "I expect you to behave more appropriately when the baby comes."

"Mei-Ting, you know me well enough to know I'm-"I start

She smiles softly and kisses my cheek. "Good Luck." Mei-Ting heads up stairs.

"Ok, so… what's gonna happen now?" Bolin asks. I frown slightly and hug him.

"Keep them safe and fed. I head out at dawn." I whisper in his ear.

"Gotcha, Penny Head." He hugs back. Just as he leaves the house, I turn to my daughter and nephew.

"Time for bed you two." I smile as the two kids groan.

Later, the next morning…

After putting all the money I had saved up, which admittedly wasn't very much, and stuffing it my coat pocket, I pulled on all my clothes headed down stairs.

I poured myself a half glass of milk a cut up a third of bread for breakfast when;

"Momma?" "Aunty?" I turned to see Tai-Ping and Tenzin, still in there PJ's, crouched together on the steps.

"What are you two doing up?" I asked

"I wake up early." Tenzin said.

"I wanted to see if we had a job to do today, because we shouldn't have one today. I've got school." Tai-Ping told me.

They both joined me at the table. I noticed Tenzin was carrying the stuff bunny I gave him when he was one.

"What you doing?" Tenzin asked

I sighed. "You remember yesterday? When I got that letter?"

"You're going? Without me?" Tai-Ping pouted.

Tenzin crawled up on my lap. "Aunty no buh-bye."

"Oh, kids." I pulled them into a hug. "I'll only be gone for a few months-"

"Easy for you, I no tell time." Tenzin said

I laughed "Look, if that Eagle could fly a letter to me, I can get him to fly a letter to home. That way I can still talk to you. And you guys can get a messenger bird to send a letter to me." I smiled at them.

"We'll miss you..." Tai-Ping sniffles. I kiss her temple and I kiss Tenzin's fore head.

"I'll be back home before you know it." With that, I layed them on the couch and walked out of the house. Only one tear slid down my cheek as I walked toward the train station.

At the train station…

"NEXT!" The ticket man called.

"One ticket to East Citadel, please." I told him. Everyone gave me surprised looks.

"Alright, exit visa please." He held out his hand.

"Um… Exit Visa?"

"You don't have an exit visa?" I shook my head. "That's fine. You can purchase one for twenty copper Yuan's." He smiled

"Oh, um, about that… How much can I get for three Yuan's?" I smiled at him hopefully. He looked at the coins, then back at me.

A few minutes later…

"AAHH!" Two guards tossed me out into the snow.

"And don't come back without proper money!" The ticket man called out before shutting the train station door on me.

"Rude!" I stood up and brushed myself off. I noticed that behind a gate was a train.

"ALL ABOARD TO EAST CITADEL!" The conductor called. Wasting no time, I hoped the fence and stowed away in the luggage cart. Before I knew it, we were on our way.

About twelve hours later…

It takes a train twelve hours to get from Decembance to East Citadel and vice versa. It takes a twenty-four hour journey to get there on foot and vice versa.

Luckily, I stowed away on this train and would be there within the next few minutes. My thought wondered to what my brother was doing at the moment. No doubt he had noticed I was gone. He probably blew a fuse along the way. What about Mei-Ting? She's the only woman of the house now. That will be especially difficult for her, mainly because she's three months pregnant with her second child. Tai-Ping and Tenzin will be pretty sad for a awhile, they made that clear this morning. But, Tai-Ping loves her cousin and won't let anything hurt him or her Aunt and Uncle. And then there's Bolin. Ever since we met in school, we've been a team. Feeding our families, taking care of their needs, and messing with the local authorities. That brings a smile to my face and a slight chuckle.

"Attention ladies and gentlemen and animals of all kind," Huh, so animals can get on for free, but I get thrown into the street for only having three copper Yuan's. "We'll be arriving at East Citadel Train Station very soon. Our train staff will do you the kind honor of retrieving your luggage from the Luggage Car. And we hope you enjoyed your ride on Decembance Railways. Please, come again." The conductor's voice was no longer over the intercom system.

"Well, that was nice of the staff. Retrieving everyone's luggage from the luggage ca- wait a minute, I'm in the luggage car!" I realized

"Hey, you!" I whip around to see two staff members glaring at me. "What are you doing here?"

"Leaving!" I run to the luggage car door and pull it open. I'm greeted by the train car speeding along a grassy terrain.

"Stop! What are you doing?" One man calls.

"Something stupid and dangerous!" I call back nervously before jumping out. I roll all the way down a hill, hitting many rocks and logs along the way.

I groan and lazily lift up my head. "That could've gone better." That's when I see all the animals surrounding me.

A bobcat, a few songbirds, and some squirrels. "Um… hi. You saw that entire thing, didn't you?" They all nodded and went to pick up my money that I dropped. "Wow, uh thanks. Hey, do any of you know the way to East Citadel?" The entire animals look shocked at my request, but the bobcat lays my hand on its head and leads me away. "Thank You." I say stroking the bobcats back.

I don't know why, but ever since I can remember, animals have always loved me. That's the last thing I think about before I come to the edge of the forest and I take in the enormous size of East Citadel. Before I can thank the bobcat once again, I notice he is gone.

"Odd. But, I've got a mission." I said walking confidently into the Palace.

Later…

A big, burly bear wearing a lot of metal had me in a tight grip. He held me by the upper arms as I tried to struggle free of his grip.

"AGH! WHERE IS BEARSTOMP?!" I heard a man scream. No doubt Highroller. The bear grunted something as he stepped in front of Highroller. I noticed he was sitting on my dad's old throne and he also put wheels on it! Wheels! UGH!

"A human! We'll take care of her, Master Highroller." A grayish zebra with white strips said.

"Hold on a minute! She's no harm to us! I… ugh… I was told to offer her a position in our side of the war." Highroller groaned.

"WHAT?!" Two zebras shouted.

"Yeah, now… um… Highroller, was it? Mind telling Big Boris over here to put me down?" I didn't have to turn around to know Bearstomp was glaring at me. Highroller nodded to Bearstomp and he dropped me.

"OW! There are nicer ways of doing that you know." I told him.

"Now, Lee. Before I can hire you, I need to know a few things." Highroller rolled his way up to me. "How old are you exactly?"

"I'll turn seventeen this December."

"Have you ever heard of this war we've been fighting?"

"Not until yesterday." I lied.

"Do you know who Big Green is?"

"Who's Big Green?" I lied even further.

"Do you have any… special fighting skills?"

"I'm a Chi Blocker. A very good one at that."

"Now, to understand this a little more and make sure I get this… paycheck thing right, what is your last name?" Highroller asks

"Ok, this is going to sound crazy, but, I don't know my last name. My brother, sister-in-law, and I were found wandering around when I was twelve. We don't exactly have any memories before that." I lie slightly.

Highroller laughs evilly. "Well, I believe this is the beginning of the end, for Big Green!" This causes the two zebras to whoop with joy. Highroller snarls at them and they shut up instantly. "Leave your jacket and other crud here; we're going to go show our new recruit to Twin Masters." Highroller then hops onto Bearstomp's back. I set my jacket, hat gloves, and scarf aside. That's when the two zebras walked up to me.

"Sparky Black, the smart brother." The grayish one with white strips said.

"Sparky White, the smarter brother." The white one with grey strips said.

"Lee, the… the red-head." I smiled.

"I'd never though Master Highroller would hire a human." Sparky White said.

"So, who's this Twin Masters guy anyway?" I asked.

"You'll find out." Sparky Black said.

A few hours later…

This was probably the weirdest day of my life. I was currently bowing before a creature that seemed to be half water and half lava. Twin Masters.

"So, I see you took our advice, Highroller. Who would've thought you would ever do something right?" Twin Masters said. They motioned for us all to stand. "Lee, you must understand that you are this side's last hope." Twin Masters told me harshly.

"I'm this side's last hope? No disrespect intended Twin Masters, but that's pretty sad." I told them.

"It is not any fault of our own. This side is nothing more than buffoons trying to win a war of no intention." I stifle a little laugh as Highroller fumes.

"Ok, I accepted this position, but, what is my job exactly?" I ask them. Twin Masters somehow manages to conjure up a pure black hooded robe which appears above me.

"This is the famed robe of the thief Black Shadow. With our chaotic energy, it has become the ultimate defense weapon." Twin Masters says as the robe is draped over me.

"A plain old black robe?" I ask doubtfully.

"It will enhance your ability of disappearance and will mask who you truly are." Twin Masters explains further.

"It's true, Lee!" Sparky White says.

"Yeah! If I didn't know it was you under there, I'd say it could be anyone! Even an animal!" Sparky Black says

"Mask who I truly am? What I truly am is a girl who's very confused!" I tell him.

"Well, Lee, we don't want Big Green to figure out who you are just yet." Highroller tried to explain.

"What are you talking about?" I ask.

"If Big Green was to figure out a human was working for an all animal side of the war, our advantage would disappear." Twin Masters hissed.

"But, what if someone in Big Green discovers I'm human?" I ask

"They will eventually find out your… origin, but not before we can gain the upper hand!" Twin Masters shouts. "But, for now, your only mission is to bring First Squad down."

"First Squad?" I ask. Twin Masters conjures up a blue and red ord.

"Gaze into the orb, to see your new enemy…" I do as I'm told.

I see the same people who came to arrest me yesterday sitting in what appears to be a cafeteria, eating.

"Hey, I've seen these people before! They came to Decembance to try and arrest me yesterday!" I growled.

"Then you are aware of their skills." Twin Masters said

"I'm aware that they're easier to beat then they look!" I smirk.

"I'm beginning to like you, Lee! Make sure we keep it that way." Highroller threatens.

"Maybe you'll defeat First Squad and Second Squad!" Sparky Black and Sparky White high-five. Bearstomp grunts and shrugs.

"This is the beginning of the end, of Big Green!" Twin Masters shouts.

Later, that night…

"Well, here's your room." The Zebra Brothers open a door.

On the inside, I'm overwhelmed with joy to see my old room again (It hasn't even changed since I last saw) Everything in the same place, but on the outside, I pretend to n=be surprised by the size of the room.

"This place is as big as my house! Maybe even bigger!" I shout happily.

"This room is one of the only bedrooms unoccupied." Sparky White tells me.

"This room looks as though someone wanted to leave here in a hurry. What happened in here?" I ask even though I know the answer.

"Didn't you ever here about the Last royal Family?" Sparky Black asks me. I shake my head to continue on with my rouse.

"Come on, we'll show you something that can explain it better than we can." The two zebras said leading me down a long hallway.

They stop at a long doorway that reaches the roof.

"What's this place?" I asked as the two throw open the door.

"It's what used to be the Royal Library. We don't really use this room anymore." Sparky Black said as he grabbed a book and dusted it off. He handed it to his brother. "This it?"

"Yeah, this will tell her." Sparky White hands me the book.

"The Jing Family: A Biography on the last Known Royal Family. What am I looking at here?" I ask them.

"Just read the last chapter." Sparky Black yawns

"Yeah, it'll explain everything." Sparky White mimics his brother. As they leave to go to bed, they leave a light on for me. I wait a few minutes to make sure everything is clear, and then I sit down on the table and start to read.

"Maybe this will help me remember who my family was…" I said as I check the table of contents.

Prologue… Pg: 2

King Jing Li-Zhou II… Pg: 4 (also see Crowning and Marriage, Pg: 7)

Queen Jing Tai-Ping III… Pg: 14 (also see Crowning and Marriage, Pg: 17)

Princess Jing Tai-Ping IV… Pg: 24 (also see Marriage and Children, Pg: 27)

Princess Jing Su… Pg: 34 (also see Marriage and Children, Pg: 37)

Princess Jing Ki-Sing… Pg: 44 (also see Marriage and Children, Pg: 47)

Prince Jing Chen-Po… Pg: 54 (also see Engagement, Pg: 57)

Princess Mai-Lee… Pg: 64 (also see Rumors of Survival, Pg: 70)

Family Time… Pg: 73

Last Public Appearance… Pg: 83

Highroller's Side… Pg: 93

Survival of Three… Pg: 95

Epilogue… Pg: 100

"Well, I'll start with Papa. I guess." I flipped to his page. And read silently to myself.

King Jing Li-Zhou II was the first out of three children to King Li-Zhou and Queen June. He took the throne after his father died when he was eighteen. He was the married to his beloved wife, the youngest Princess from the Neighboring Kingdom, Princess Tai-Ping III.

"Papa never told me he took over the kingdom when he was eighteen." I mused. "Wonder what it says about Mama…"

Queen Jing Tai-Ping III was the third and final daughter of King Chio Jon and Queen Tai-Ping II. She was married to her beloved husband at age sixteen and took the throne at the same age. She was, at first, wary about marrying at such a young age, but later grew to love her husband.

"Eh, kinda boring, what about my sisters?"

Princess Jing Tai-Ping IV was the eldest daughter of King Jing Li-Zhou II and Queen Jing Tai-Ping III. She was named after her mother, due to the strong resemblance to her. She was consider to be the most beautiful out of all her sisters. And even though her mother loved all her children equally, it was no doubt that Tai-Ping was her favorite.

"I already knew that."

Princess Jing Su was the second eldest daughter of King Jing Li-Zhou II and Queen Jing Tai-Ping III. She was often very quiet and often shy. She was the one her sisters sent in to negotiate things with their parents. When she was younger, she dreamed of marrying a handsome man and having a big family.

I laughed at the memory of me sending her to try and tell Mama and Papa about not spoiling me so much. It didn't work the way I wanted it to.

Princess Jing Ki-Sing was the third eldest daughter of King Jing Li-Zhou II and Queen Tai-Ping III. When she was born, the family and extended family were disappointed to have another girl instead of a boy. Her father took a long walk to compose him before coming to greet her. In her younger years, she was not as beautiful as her sisters were. In fact, she was quite plain. But, when she turned seventeen, she seemed to have grown into a beautiful young woman.

And indeed, she did. "Wonder what it says about Po-Po?"

Prince Jing Chen-Po was the first and only born son of King Li-Zhou II and Queen Tai-Ping III and he is also the last birth child of the King and Queen. When he was born the King threw a massive party in honor of him being born. He is known to have the rare Bleeding Disease, just like his Mother.

"Bleeding disease? Oh, yeah. He couldn't get cut at all, or he would bleed more than a normal person would." I yawned. I also remember now that Tenzin has the disease too, it's even a possibility the new baby might have the disease too. I yawned once again. "No, gotta stay awake. Gotta get my memory back." I flipped the pages and found one entitled: Rumors of Survival.

To this day, no one knows if the youngest Princess survived or if the Prince survived. At the early stages of the war, their cousin and friend, Alpha Girl and Kow-Loon, offered one million gold Yuan's to anyone who could bring their friends and cousins back. But, after seeing numerous fakes and imposters, the two friends decided to no longer continue with the search.

After reading this, I couldn't take it anymore. I layed my head down on the book, closed my eyes, and fell asleep.

TA-DA!

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