I had a guess reviewer ask why I had Elena use a wand against Shuriki instead of her Scepter. Honestly I hate to admit it but it never crossed my mind. Even though I do watch Elena I don't watch it as much as I do Sofia so it didn't don on me that Elena's scepter could actually counter Shuriki. I apologize for that mistake, I will make sure next battle she is in I will use Elena's scepter.

At some point after her abduction Amber had fallen asleep because when she woke up she found her wrists shackled to a wall with her feet dangling a couple inches off the ground. Sitting on his throne to her right was Malcolm who was repeatedly making and extinguishing fireballs in his hands. Despite the fact that his head was turned away from Amber, he heard her struggling against her shackles and knew she was awake and trying to escape.

"You'll find those shackles impossible to break from." Malcolm said calmly. "Shuriki made those with magic, and only magic can break them free."

"Why, why are you doing this to me? Where did you take me?"

"You are back in my kingdom of Anakar." Malcolm replied "And as for why you are here, I'm pretty sure it would be obvious by now."

"You're going to kill me?"

Malcolm laughed "Kill you? Oh Amber if I wanted to kill you I would have done it when I had you pinned in your room. No, you are just bait, so that your sister brings me what I want."

"Sofia will never give you her amulet!" Amber hissed

"Oh but I am sure she will. If she ever wants to see you again alive that is."

"But you said you didn't want to kill me?"

"Oh I don't, but sometimes in life tough choices have to be made. See I didn't want to kill my brother, but he just had to be given the kingdom instead of me, the rightful heir."

"Well seeing the type of person you are it's no wonder you weren't given the kingdom."

"My tough personality has nothing to do with the fact that the throne was my birth right. Yet father chose my younger brother Stephen over me. Claimed I was not worthy and he had to put what's best for Anakar over birth rights. I was heart broken, I was furious! Can you imagine being denied something that was rightfully yours by birth and having to watch as it was passed on to someone else."

"No," Amber replied "I cannot. I have always been given what was truly mine. But that still doesn't excuse killing your own brother." Amber then saw King Stephen still as stone parked on the left side of the throne. "Especially like that."

"You say that now Amber, but what if your brother Prince James was given the throne instead of you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Your the rightful heir aren't you?" Malcolm pushed forward, getting a inch from Amber's face to intimidate her. Amber cringed and nearly gagged at the smell of Malcolm's breath, he had fish for lunch and his breath still reeked of it. "You are the first born are you not?"

"Yes I'm the first born but what does that have to...?"

"What if dear ol' daddy decided you weren't fit to rule and decided James would be better suited as king?"

"He wouldn't."

"I thought the same thing, then BAM!" Malcolm clapped his hands loudly in Amber's ear, Amber flinched at the sudden burst of loud noise "My father made my brother king instead. What if your father made James king over you? Or even worst, Sofia? What would you do then? You would be furious wouldn't you. You train all your life to be a good ruler only to have it all taken away from you all because dear ol' daddy was scared your violent and angry nature would be hurtful to the kingdom."

"I would be angry!" Amber admitted "But I would never... I couldn't..."

"Oh trust me Amber you and I aren't that different." Malcolm grabbed Amber's chin and forced her to look him in the eye. "I look at you, and I see myself. You would be broken if you didn't have the kingdom, just like I was. And you would go to great lengths to take what was yours. What you deserved!"

"I am nothing like you." Amber snapped "You are a monster, a murderer!"

"None of us are born monsters love." Malcolm laughed as he walked off. "It is the people around us that turns us into them." Malcolm turned to Shuriki who was fiddling with herself in the throne room mirror, trying to rid herself of some wrinkles. "Watch the princess will you? I need to make myself look as kingly as possible for when Princess Sofia arrives with the amulet."

"Since when did I suddenly become a baby sitter?"

"Since I threatened to burn you alive if you don't do what I say!" Malcolm growled creating fire in his palm.

"Oh all right but please hurry up. If there's one thing I hate more then music it's annoying little princesses." Shuriki growled and cursed to herself as she marched over to where Amber was chained up.

Amber noticed that Shuriki had a wand in her hand and remembered that Malcolm said only magic could unlock those chains, a idea then popped in her head, and she prayed that Shuriki wasn't as smart as Malcolm.

"Shuriki can I go to the bathroom please? It's really a emergency."

"Oh for crying out loud. Malcolm told me to watch you and that's exactly what I am doing."

"But I really need to go. I've been holding it in for hours but I don't think I can hold it much longer. Do you really want to explain to Malcolm why there is a puddle on his shiny throne room floor?" Amber did the best to sell her act, even crossing her legs and started shaking violently to make Shuriki believe her.

"Ugh, fine but I'm not letting you out of my sight." Shuriki waved her wand and unlocked the chains.

"Thank you." Amber laughed before throwing a punch to Shuriki's face and snatching the wand. Amber fired the wand at Shuriki, turning her into a frog. Amber then ran for the exit as Shuriki let out a horrified scream at her situation.

"What's going on out there?" Malcolm growled hearing Shuriki scream. He ran to where Amber had been chained up only to find Amber wasn't there. And Shuriki had been turned into a frog.

"What in the world happened to you?"

"Never mind that go find the brat!"

Amber ran as fast as her legs could take her across the dark kingdom of Anakar. Hoping beyond hope that she could escape before Malcolm found her. That wasn't the case. Because merely three minutes later Malcolm came flying over her shooting fire in her direction. Amber screamed and fired Shuriki's wand at him, missing Malcolm by a good couple inches. Malcolm quickly returned fire by shooting a fireball at Amber and knocking her to the ground. Amber quickly forced herself up on her feet as Malcolm landed in front of her. She fired the wand again, and although her aim was better this time the blast hit the amulet and did nothing. Panic starting to take over Amber, she turned around to run, only to feel her legs suddenly go heavy and she fell face down on the dirt. Amber rolled around on her back and to her horror, she saw that her legs had turned completely to stone.

"You can't kill me Malcolm!" Amber screamed "Sofia will never give up her amulet if I'm dead!"

"True," Malcolm said calmly. "But now at least you want try to run off." Malcolm grabbed Amber by the arm and started dragging her back to where she was chained "Don't worry, you will get your legs back when your chained back up."

A tear fell from Amber's face as she closed her eyes and hung her head low. "I tried Sofia, I tried to fight back."

In the castle garden Sofia sat down and moped, not knowing what to do. She couldn't just give up her amulet to that mad man, but he had her sister and was going to kill her if she didn't hand the amulet over. Inside Cedric, Roland and his men were going over strategy plans for their next move, but knowing how strong Malcolm was Sofia doubted it would do any good. There was only one sure thing that she knew of that would win Amber's freedom, Sofia's amulet. But doing so could also quite possibly come with the end of her own life.

Sofia was so lost trying to figure this out that she didn't see Elena coming from behind her until she was already there.

"Don't know what to do huh?"

"I can't let Amber die, but at the same time, if I hand over my amulet, Malcolm wins and I might possibly die. I have never once been one to give in to the bad guys, but I am so lost on this one."

"I wish I knew what to tell you Sofia." Elena said as she sat down next to her on a rock. "But if that was Isabel in Amber's situation I would be in the same shape you are. All I can say is that whatever you make, I will back you all the way."

"That really doesn't help Elena."

"I know, I wish I could help you farther in making the right decision." Elena suddenly noticed Sofia's amulet glowing, and she knew what was about to happen. "But I believe someone is coming who can help you."

"Huh?"

"Hello Sofia." A new voice said from behind the two Princesses.

"Princess Anna?" Sofia gasped

"I take it your sister is in danger huh?"

"How did you know?"

"Your amulet told me."

"But how?"

"That's not the important, the important thing is saving your sister."

"But how?!" Sofia demanded "How can I save her without letting him win? Malcolm wants me dead for what I've done to him. How can I stop him without sacrificing myself in the process?"

"Sofia one time my own sister Elsa was in danger. There was a evil prince that wanted to kill her so that he could take the throne. I was weak and close to death after Elsa accidentely struck me with her powers. But at the moment I saw Hans raise his sword to kill Elsa none of that mattered. All that mattered was saving her. So I jumped in front of that sword ready to die in her place. My body turned to ice and it stopped him. My act of true love not only saved Elsa's life but also my own for it thawed my frozen heart. You love your sister don't you?"

"Yes, with all my heart."

"Then you should be willing to risk your own life to save her. I don't know what will happen to you Sofia no more then I knew what would happen to me. But if you truly love her, you will risk everything. See this through the end, your amulet has never let you down before, I doubt it will let you down now. Have faith Sofia, and believe."

Anna then disappeared, and Sofia knew what she had to do, it wouldn't be easy, and she didn't know if it would work, but at this point she had no choice. Luckily she had a plan.

"So what are you going to do Sofia?" Elena asked

"The right thing. I'm going to give him my amulet... And myself."

You didn't think I would write a Sofia story with this much as stake and not have a Disney Princess cameo in it at some point did you?