Author's Note: We're reaching the end here, I hope you're all having a good time, thanks for enjoying the ride, and I hope to see you through the very end.
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I was going to kill her. The Queen of the Mutant's Age was going to be Queen of the Nothing when I was through with her. This was the last straw. She had taken my friends, my family, and perhaps more. This time, she was going to pay with her life. No one has ever attempted to take the Queen's life and lived. I had to, or die.
I wanted to free my friends, but who knows what they would do, now that they were Mutants. My mind kept wandering back to Wolfgang. He was my closest friend, almost like a father to me. Sometimes, I wish he was my actual father. As I exited the room, my vision started to blur a bit. I wiped away the tears that had gathered in the corners of my eyes. I ran off quickly, hoping to reach the top of the Queen's Tower as soon as I could.
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It felt like hours when I finally reached the seventh floor. At least, I think it was the seventh floor. The stairs were always in a different place each time, and the floors were at least a mile across, from one wall to the other. I could feel the sweat that matted my thick fur in clumps. Ew. My fur needed a trimming.
I tried to ignore my own problems and tried to find another set of stairs. Before I found it, though, something white and shining caught my eye. Upon closer inspection, I found that it was a porta.
The portal was basically just a halo of pale, blue light. It was about a meter wide, and was a perfect circle. In the middle was a small ball of a white light. I used these before when escaping this tower. But I never knew the Queen's Tower had any portals. Portals were usually considered to be slightly ineffective sometimes. Some of my "mutations" proved that, including my wings, which later "shed". Basically, they just fell of with a sickening splurt.
I shuddered at the memory of those wings coming off. . . Hopefully, nothing would happen today that would hinder me in my final fight. Taking a few deep breaths, I stepped into the halo of light.
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My head throbbed a bit as I opened my eyes. Common side effect of portals. I gave myself a quick check to make sure I hadn't "mutated" in any way at all. Luckily, everything seemed normal. With that out of the way, I decided to see where I was.
My surroundings were dark, as if the portal had closed off as soon as I woke up. The room was square, or maybe rectangular, I couldn't tell. The walls looked like an unhealthy yellow, and there was a small, mechanical tower that controlled the portal. Directly in front of me was a thick, heavy steel door.
Looks like there was only one way left to go.
Taking a deep breath, I stood up and walked to the door. I could always wait for the portal to reactivate, hopefully soon, go back to where I came from, escape. I could run as long as I needed to, and more. Leave this life behind me, find a new place to live in, start a new life. . .
No, I can't turn back now. Not after everything I've been through. I had to do this for my friends, for my fallen comrades. . . And for my parents that I never knew. . .