Authors Note: This is the last part of the Sasha arc for a while, I hope this has been enjoyable, its hard to tell sometimes wherever something I enjoy writing is good when someone else reads it out. So I really appreciate the feed back I get from you guys.


Chapter 7 Don't runaway

"You runaway and you runaway, tell me Sasha, have you ever once even considered gathering the strength needed to stand up and fight!"

Lady Olivia's words pierced through Sasha like a hot knife through butter. She wanted to rebuttal, wanted to scream and yell, about how wrong the high and mighty blue Newt is, but her mouth just hung a gap unable to utter a word. Grime grabbed her arm lightly yanking her out of Lady Olivia's grip "we must act quickly or else our slim chance of escape will pass us by"

"If you flee now then you will never be strong enough to reunite with your friends"

"Shut up!"

"You will spend your entire life running, not from me or Andria's but from your worst enemy, yourself!"

"I said shut up!" Sasha yelled, as her eyes glowed a crimson red.

"Lieutenant calm down"

Sasha snatched her hand away and moved towards her as a furious aura began to began to grow around her. "You keep running your mouth, talking like you know me but you have no idea the things I've had to endure. I played my part! I kept my mouth shut! I was the perfect little daughter but that wasn't enough for them, she still blamed me, hurt me and he didn't do damn thing about it. Instead, he just packed his bags and ran away with some skunky bitch. I did everything I could to be the perfect little daughter and where did it get me?" Sasha swung her fists down, crashing into the remainder of the wooden cage shattering it to pieces. "Here with you, one of my best friends dead and the other missing. I tried okay, I really did but I couldn't do it any more I had to escape. So yeah, I ran away and I'd do it again!" Sasha yelled, as she placed her hands on Lady Olivia's shoulder. The Lady's gaze didn't change rather she noticed Sasha's legs were beginning to buckle and tears were dropping from her face.

"I fought, I-I tried, I really did but even that wasn't enough, I thought I was doing the right thing, I thought I was being brave but you keep standing there telling me to stop running away like some kind of coward" Sasha crumbled to the floor as her anger turned to sorrow and the menacing red aura slowly dissipated.

"The worst thing is about this, I can't even deny it, the more I listen to you the more I realize how much I fucked up. I could have talked to Anne and worked things out but instead I tried to control her, if I had done that then maybe we might have found out about Andrias sooner and Marcy" Sasha punched the floor again and again as she recounted all the things she could have done better.

Lady Olivia looked at Grime who just stood there unsure what to do, she placed her hand on the girls shoulder. "There is no shame in running away when the situation calls for it but you must also be willing to stand and fight. You carry with you a tremendous weight of guilt, brought on by your own cowardice but the fact you can recognize these mistakes means you may be able to over come them in the future.

"Huh" a teary-eyed Sasha looked up at Lady Olivia as she turned to her people. "I have made my decision, Sasha Waybright will, serve under me as a temporary knight"

"What? But all the people she killed!"

"Yeah, they deserve justice!"

"Just execute the bitch!"

"Enough!" Lady Olivia yelled, over the bickering crowd. "Do not misunderstand me, I to am filled with unspeakable rage towards the human girl and never will I forgive her. Having said that, we cannot deny the power and potential she posses, if we are to take back Newtopia we will need her aid."

"Take back Newtopia?"

"Can we really do that?"

"No way, the king would kill us all"

"Sasha posses a unknown power, I have seen it in action myself as have some of you, with that power we will take back Newtopia and over throw this traitorous King. However, that will only be possible with her help, if we kill her now then it will only be a matter of time before the Toads or Andrias tracks us down and when that happens I am regretful to say it will be impossible to protect you all. But that is why I'm asking you all to put your faith in me, for if we strike first and take the fight to him, then we may yet stand a chance of reclaiming our home!"

After that the crowd slowly went quiet, still unsure about her decision but unable to come up with another solution they were forced to accept her decision. Everyone slowly left the tent until only Grime, Sasha, Yunnan and Lady Olivia remain.

Sasha stood up from the floor, wiping tears away from her eyes, "I don't know what to do? I've always managed to keep some kind of hold over my life, even when I was back with my parents I still felt a small slither of control, but now… Now I just want to runaway, everything has turned upside down and I just, I just. Tell me, what am I meant to do now?" the tone of her voice was no longer full of sadness or regret, neither did she break down into tears, instead she just seemed lost.

"You fight. No more looking back, from this point on you will serve under me and follow out orders to the T. This will be the first step to earning redemption and perhaps in time you will learn to stop running away."

Sasha paused before getting down on her knees "… Okay. I'll fight for you, I don't know if I'll ever be forgiven or if I will ever forgive myself but I want to become stronger, so please let me fight for you"

"Sasha are you serious?" Grime asked, she didn't answer but he could tell how serious she was being. "Then I to will offer my services but I have no intention on bending the knee or earning your forgiveness"

"That's fine, then from this moment forward you both can consider yourself temporary knights, General Yunnan will be in charge of keeping watch over you. Now with that settled I ask that you leave and get some rest, the General will have work for you tomorrow.


Still to come:

Evil lurks in all corners of the world.

But as new friendships begin to form,

A different kind of relationship blossoms.

One that threatens the lives of many.