A Fitting Punishment
"Sorry, Princess Maria," Amy said. "you lose!"
"Hey," Maria shouted at Amy. "what do you think you're doing?"
"I am honor and duty bound to protect Princess Layla, Princess Maria," Amy said. "and I will protect Princess Layla like I promised your parents I would!"
Amy in anger for what Maria had done, took the Amulet of Tangu with Layla within it back to her workshop.
Zandar and Sofia saw Rashid and Akilah racing off.
"Where are you two going?" Sofia asked Rashid and Akilah.
"We're going to try to help Amy free Layla." Rashid said.
"Good, and while you're both doing that," Sofia said kindly but firmly. "your father and I will have a little talk with Maria about her punishment."
"Okay." Akilah said.
Once Rashid and Layla were out of earshot, Zandar and Sofia turned to the youngest of their twin daughters.
"Pack your bags, Maria." Zandar said firmly.
"Why?" Maria asked Zandar.
"For what you did to Layla and Rashid," Sofia said to Maria sternly just before Zandar could even speak. "your father and I are sending you on the returning train to Toron Prep early!"
"Okay." Maria sighed.
Maria trudged up to her bedroom to pack her bags.
Over in Amy's workshop, Rashid, Akilah, and Amy were looking at the Amulet of Tangu.
When suddenly, Rashid touched the jewel of Akilah's Amulet of Angelor and began to glow around him.
"Rashid? Rashid," Akilah asked in a worried tone of voice. "are you all right?"
Rashid was standing still as an energy that was not his own began to course through his entire body.
When the energy was finished coursing its way through what Akilah now thought was Rashid's body, the body of a teenage boy with wings was in its place.
While Rashid was tan complected, black haired, and brown eyed and still a tween, this boy was fair complected, dark brown haired, green eyed, and wore round framed eyeglasses.
In addition to the eyeglasses, the teenage boy was clad in white.
"Princess Akilah... thank you for freeing my soul... Rashid, my other self has no idea that I even exist... the only things that kept me alive within Rashid were his bond with Princess Layla... and my link to your Amulet of Angelor... Angelor being my home kingdom." the boy said.
"So... you are... an angel?" Akilah asked the boy, now curious.
"Yes, I am." the boy acknowledged, removing his wings from his back.
"Well, it would seem that you know my name," Akilah said to the angel. "what's yours?"
"It is Hideaki Reed." Hideaki answered Akilah.
"You were inside Rashid's body this entire time? But how?" Akilah asked Hideaki in amazement.