Chapter 39

The Imperial Wars

79 A.D

The Pax Romana was officially Dead for the last decade the two European Empires had been at war both sides had suffered casualties but with the might of the Imperial navy under Princess Diana the Roman fleet had all but abandoned the eastern Mediterranean.

In Africa to Roman legions had been pushed out of new Judea making the city effetely a no-man's land on the spartan roman borders in Europe the Roman legions had been crushed and forced to withdraws all the way to Italy itself hell even Sicilia had fallen to Spartan forces it was believed by the Spartan High command that Rome would soon sue for peace.

But that was not to last Rome had instead decided to try one last offensive to forces Spartan forces back by marshalling a grand army, hundreds of ships and thousands of legionaries had been pulled from the western provinces or drafted from the tens of thousands of slaves.

In total the romans had marshalled 20 Legions just over 100 thousand men to invade the Empire, however with the Imperial navy effectively preventing ships from gathering in any eastern Port as such the Roman Fleet was docked in the City of Pompeii on the western coast of Italy.

This invasion may have worked the best place for them to strike would have been the region of Cyrene from there they could have marched on Egypt however this particular year was not a good one to be near Pompeii.

The Mount Vesuvius eruption destroyed the city of Pompeii burying the City and its inhabitants under piles of ash killing most of the legionaries posted there of course when news of this reached Rome the Senate was in full panic mode only 4 legions had survived the eruption and that was imply because they had not yet arrived at the gathering point.

Rome was bled dry its coffers were empty its legions decimated and Spartan forces slowly making there way further into Italy Emperor Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus decided enough was Enough he sent word to his frontlines ordering his armies to stop fighting he would seek peace with the Spartans.

1 month after the eruption of Vesuvius Emperor Titus met with Crown Princess Diana on board her flagship a monstrosity of a Trireme that was easily larger than any ship in the Roman fleet, they were part of what the Spartans called a Poseidon-class Dreadnought.

"Your highness it's a Pleasure to meet you". Titus said to the Spartan Princess who sat on her Throne donned in the Armour of a Spartan it was clear this Princess took after her mother the Immortal Queen.

Hell, she looked like her mother donned in Full Armor her helm on her head her spear in her hand with a red cloak. Said princess looked upon this Roman with disinterest personally she wanted to crush these foolish Romans who dared to stand against her Mother but her orders were clear if there sued for peace, she was to take a deal if it was good.

The peace deal was signed Rome was forbidden from having more than 2 legions in the border Provence's near Sparta and forced to pay 2000 talents of gold every year for the next 20 years effectively bankrupting the already crippled Empire forcing them to desperately expand their Empire in search of more wealth.

Modern timeline

City of Sparta

Kassandra Agiad sat on her Throne pondering the letter that had been sent to her from Albus Dumbledore it seems to old man had a suspicion of who she once was or at least knew more than I let on.

To her Imperial Majesty

I write to thankyou for assisting the Potter family in finding their Daughter however I wonder if you could help calm them by sending them a letter from her it would do much to aid there worries.

Yours sincerely

Albus Dumbledore

P.S thank you for the lemon tarts its Been years since I had one.

Kassandra chuckled it seems the young man had an inkling as to who she used to be it didn't matter to her thought she had no memories of Lily and James potter her youngest memory she could remember was meeting Ikaros as a little girl.

These potters had a child a son and sure it may have been over a decade for them but for her it had been over 2 thousand years those that she knew as her parents were long gone, she was a mother a wife a General a Queen a living Goddess but most importantly she was a Spartan, she didn't need some random mortals to come into her life and act as her parents.

Yes she would meet them when the time came but depending on how they acted would depend on weather or not she kept in contact with them or just erased there memory of her entirely, she had already formed a backup plan should she need to she would erase there memories of meeting her and replace them with a memory of meeting the adoptive parents of Kassandra and seeing their daughter happy in her new life and choosing not to disrupt it.

Their memory would show a 14-year-old Kassandra playing on the beach with her friends using magic to throw water at each other, the best bit was due to her age and power no one not even the great Albus Dumbledore would be able to tell it was a fake memory.

Hogwarts

Headmasters office

Albus sat with the staff ministry personnel and the potter family as Ikaros dropped a letter before them seeing the majestic Eagle up close was amazing they had been talking about Princess Donna Agiad little incursion into Hogwarts.

Naturally some members of the ministry wanted her arrested the strongest supporter of them being Senior Undersecretary to the Minister for Magic Dolores Umbridge.

"she should be arrested at once entering our nation and killing a Hogwarts Professor we should dispatch Hit-Wizards to arrest her at once."

What people didn't expect was Lord Lucius Malfoy to respond by laughing so hard he fell from his chair Dolores face grew red with shame and anger as the Pureblood Lord continued to laugh his ass off.

"Lord Malfoy I fail to see what is so funny about my suggestion." She growled out only to see Lord Malfoy had stopped laughing having regained his sense of decorum.

"You forget Dolores that if we were to try something as stupid as that we would bring the Immortal Queens swift vengeance upon us lest you forget the last time the ICW stood against the Spartan Empire."

Albus gained everyone's attention with a quick clearing of his throat although he to remembered what happened the Last time the ICW and Sparta clashed it was not pretty looking down at the letter he opened it.

Albus Dumbledore

You surprise me greatly I do believe age is catching up with you my young friend as the subject in question is a citizen of the Spartan Empire as such she is protected by our privacy laws but also I am forbidden by the gods themselves to give you any information.

As foe the potter they have no choice but to wait the god's acts may be cruel but it is all part of a greater plan.

Your sincerely

Kassandra Agiad

The immortal Queen

Queen of the Spartan Empire

Pharaoh of Egypt

Queen consort of Themyscira

Supreme Commander of the Imperial Military

Head of the Imperial House of Agiad