Note: Same thing as last time, don't own anyone except for myself and my
made-up char...just...R&R...
Ch.7-The Banquet
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Legolas continued to run through the hallways to find Estel or Audra, he then saw them with their mother all dressed for the banquet.
"Estel! Audra! Queen Meridian! I must talk with you right now!"
"Oh Legolas, come and walk with us to the banquet!" said Estel cheerfully.
"This is an important matter, I must warn you...I saw the shadow...the one that possesed Audra before."
"What?! Where?" asked Audra.
"In the gardens...she wanted to possess me, I got away so I could tell you."
"It wants to come back to me...I heard a voice awhile ago...it wants my body." said Audra.
"What are we going to do?! The banquet is about to start and our coronation is tomorrow!" exclaimed Estel.
"No...no...no...this can't happen, I won't allow it, the shadow tried to ruin our lives before but it stops here.." Queen Meridian stomped her foot down to show she meant it.
"Come on, let's just go to the banquet, we'll just have to keep our eyes open, we must tell everybody." said Audra, the four of them headed for the dining hall.
***
In the garden, the shadow, who is called Potentia, paced around to figure out a way to get at Audra.
"What can I do...what can I do...what if I get her tonight? At the banquet? In front of people...no......I know! The coronation tomorrow, right before the crown touches her head, in front of A LOT of people...to show how powerful I am...I will live again...Audra...I will be back, your body is healthy, you are not in a relationship, that is a good thing...I can get Legolas finally...but he is with Estel...that scrawny little..." Potentia suddenly stopped, she (yes Potentia's a she) heard the bush move slightly. "...someone else is spying on me?..." Potentia disappeared and stopped in front of a servant from the castle.
"Wh-who are you?! What do you want?!" cried the servant.
"The question is...what are YOU doing here? You are a servant, shouldn't you be inside?...Inside...hm...you er...you seem pretty healthy to me...running around the hallways...you get to go anywhere don't you?" Potentia moved towards the servant, who started to back away, Potentia didn't waste time, she went inside the servant's body. A scream could be heard in the night.
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"Did you hear that?" asked Legolas, who looked around the dining hall.
"Hear what?" asked Audra.
"I think it was a scream." said Legolas.
"I don't like this...what if the shadow comes back? What if she tries to kill one of us?!...Audra, I really don't think you should be out in the open like this..." Estel was very worried.
"Come now, we must go and tell everybody." stated Queen Meridian. They went to the dining hall so that Legolas and Queen Meridian could take their seats. King Hector was already seated at the head of one of three long tables. Queen Meridian sat next to him while Audra and Estel had to stay at the top of the stairs so they could walk down, this wasn't as big of a walk as it was going to be at the coronation.
"Keep an eye out, but don't look worried, we'll tell everybody at the toast." whispered Audra to Estel's ear as Audra began to walk down the stairs. Estel still looked nervous but tried to keep her composure. Down at the tables, Legolas was sitting near Queen Meridian, they whispered to King Hector about what was happening but King Hector didn't want to hear it.
"Why are we worrying about this now? This is a banquet! Everything must be in order!"
"You must listen your highness! This shadow will take over your daughter! Like it did before!" whispered Legolas.
"Please my love, listen to what we have to say, for it is true, please, tell everyone when you give your toast." Queen Meridian was trying her best to pursuade her husband.
"All right, I'll tell them at the toast, after that, noone is to speak a word about it!"
"Oh and please my love, try not to panic everyone."
"You think I never thought of that? This topic won't be anyone's fancy!"
As Estel came down from the stairs, she took her seat by her mother, across Audra with Legolas beside her.
"Is my father going to tell everyone as he gives his toast?" whispered Estel to Legolas.
"Yes, I just hope he will...he seemed quite reluctant to believe us."
King Hector raised his glass and then everyone began to look at him.
"I just have a few words to say..."
***
In the gardens, Potentia was in her new body, the servant. She dusted herself off and began to casually walk into the castle. She saw other servants walk around in the halls and just barely heard King Hector's toast.
"The dining hall, my body is waiting for me..." Potentia began to head for the kitchens. "My pretty...I shall serve glorious food to you..." Potentia reached the kitchens and walked around to find the food that was to be served, it was soup as the appetizer..."Perfect..."
***
King Hector meanwhile, was going on and on about the coronation and his daughters when Queen Meridian nudged him. "...and I just have one last thing to say..." he looked around at everyone's smiling faces and then he looked at Audra, he looked at her pleading eyes. King Hector did nothing but gave her apolegetic ones. "...enjoy the banquet and eat well!" Audra, Estel, Legolas and Queen Meridian looked at each other in disbelief.
"Sir, your highness, why didn't you tell everyone?! You said that you would! This is a very serious matter! You daughter is in danger, do you not care?!" Legolas was trying not to raise his voice as he was very angry indeed.
"Please! Daddy! Why didn't you do it?! You had the chance!" exclaimed Estel.
"My love, please, tell us why..!" Queen Meridian was almost begging her husband and was almost in tears. Audra, couldn't believe it, she just looked at her father feeling distrust, she felt as if her father didn't care about her at all, a tear began to roll down her cheek. King Hector, was feeling very irritated, he too had tears and looked upon his daughter again..
"I didn't tell them because I didn't care about you Audra..." he began...he paused, and looked down at the table. He was speechless.
"Your highness? Are you all right?" asked Legolas.
"I'm fine, but...Audra, if I had told everyone about the shadow, or Potentia.."
"You knew about this shadow your highness?" said Legolas.
"Yes...and I knew that she wanted my Audra so that she could take you Legolas, Potentia wanted Audra and you..."
"M-me and Legolas? But why? Why my body? Why not Estel?" asked Audra.
"When Potentia took over you, the real you had feelings for Legolas, yes, I shouldn't have said that but its true, isn't it Audra?"
"Y-yes, it's true..." Audra blushed a deep crimson red, since she was in the presence of Legolas. Legolas smiled at her and it was that special smile. Audra just blushed even more.
"...well as I was saying, she didn't want to take Estel's body because Estel was actually in love. Audra just liked Legolas but didn't feel that love. Potentia was just all jealosy, she was jealosy and she reacted to jealosy. She would never love. That's why it was only Audra."
"Wow...I guess that would explain everything...but tell me father, how do you know all of this?" asked Estel.
"Well it is my castle isn't it? I have my ways, lets just say I'm at the right place at the right time when Potentia talks to herself in personal conversations." Hector winked at Audra.
"My love, you didn't tell me any of this before!" exclaimed Queen Meridian.
"That's because you were at the village before and I had just gotten all of this information this morning."
"...so you didn't want everyone else knowing this didn't you? It didn't involve them..." said Legolas.
"That's quite right."
***
In the kitchens, they were all doing last minute preparations, Potentia got ready and made sure she had the right dish...for she had poured some Essence into a bowl for Audra.
"I will get you...this is just to prepare you for tomorrow...tomorrow's going to be a very big day indeed..." Potentia put the soup on a tray and began to walk out of the kitchens into the halls and headed right for Audra, she placed the soup in front of her and said, "Enjoy". Everyone else got their soup and began to slurp off their spoons, Audra took her spoon to her lips and drank the soup, as it went down her throat, she began to cough.
"Audra? Are you all right?" Queen Meridian began to look worried and started to pat her daughter's back.
"W-water! I n-need water!" said Audra clutching her throat. A servant came rushing with water and Audra began to wash it down, she took several deep breaths and she calmed down.
"Are you all right?" asked Legolas.
"I'm fine now."
Potentia saw what happened and smiled. "See you again tomorrow Audra, Legolas, you shall be mine as well..."
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didn't really make sense did it? That's what I thought, just review please.
Ch.7-The Banquet
***
Legolas continued to run through the hallways to find Estel or Audra, he then saw them with their mother all dressed for the banquet.
"Estel! Audra! Queen Meridian! I must talk with you right now!"
"Oh Legolas, come and walk with us to the banquet!" said Estel cheerfully.
"This is an important matter, I must warn you...I saw the shadow...the one that possesed Audra before."
"What?! Where?" asked Audra.
"In the gardens...she wanted to possess me, I got away so I could tell you."
"It wants to come back to me...I heard a voice awhile ago...it wants my body." said Audra.
"What are we going to do?! The banquet is about to start and our coronation is tomorrow!" exclaimed Estel.
"No...no...no...this can't happen, I won't allow it, the shadow tried to ruin our lives before but it stops here.." Queen Meridian stomped her foot down to show she meant it.
"Come on, let's just go to the banquet, we'll just have to keep our eyes open, we must tell everybody." said Audra, the four of them headed for the dining hall.
***
In the garden, the shadow, who is called Potentia, paced around to figure out a way to get at Audra.
"What can I do...what can I do...what if I get her tonight? At the banquet? In front of people...no......I know! The coronation tomorrow, right before the crown touches her head, in front of A LOT of people...to show how powerful I am...I will live again...Audra...I will be back, your body is healthy, you are not in a relationship, that is a good thing...I can get Legolas finally...but he is with Estel...that scrawny little..." Potentia suddenly stopped, she (yes Potentia's a she) heard the bush move slightly. "...someone else is spying on me?..." Potentia disappeared and stopped in front of a servant from the castle.
"Wh-who are you?! What do you want?!" cried the servant.
"The question is...what are YOU doing here? You are a servant, shouldn't you be inside?...Inside...hm...you er...you seem pretty healthy to me...running around the hallways...you get to go anywhere don't you?" Potentia moved towards the servant, who started to back away, Potentia didn't waste time, she went inside the servant's body. A scream could be heard in the night.
***
"Did you hear that?" asked Legolas, who looked around the dining hall.
"Hear what?" asked Audra.
"I think it was a scream." said Legolas.
"I don't like this...what if the shadow comes back? What if she tries to kill one of us?!...Audra, I really don't think you should be out in the open like this..." Estel was very worried.
"Come now, we must go and tell everybody." stated Queen Meridian. They went to the dining hall so that Legolas and Queen Meridian could take their seats. King Hector was already seated at the head of one of three long tables. Queen Meridian sat next to him while Audra and Estel had to stay at the top of the stairs so they could walk down, this wasn't as big of a walk as it was going to be at the coronation.
"Keep an eye out, but don't look worried, we'll tell everybody at the toast." whispered Audra to Estel's ear as Audra began to walk down the stairs. Estel still looked nervous but tried to keep her composure. Down at the tables, Legolas was sitting near Queen Meridian, they whispered to King Hector about what was happening but King Hector didn't want to hear it.
"Why are we worrying about this now? This is a banquet! Everything must be in order!"
"You must listen your highness! This shadow will take over your daughter! Like it did before!" whispered Legolas.
"Please my love, listen to what we have to say, for it is true, please, tell everyone when you give your toast." Queen Meridian was trying her best to pursuade her husband.
"All right, I'll tell them at the toast, after that, noone is to speak a word about it!"
"Oh and please my love, try not to panic everyone."
"You think I never thought of that? This topic won't be anyone's fancy!"
As Estel came down from the stairs, she took her seat by her mother, across Audra with Legolas beside her.
"Is my father going to tell everyone as he gives his toast?" whispered Estel to Legolas.
"Yes, I just hope he will...he seemed quite reluctant to believe us."
King Hector raised his glass and then everyone began to look at him.
"I just have a few words to say..."
***
In the gardens, Potentia was in her new body, the servant. She dusted herself off and began to casually walk into the castle. She saw other servants walk around in the halls and just barely heard King Hector's toast.
"The dining hall, my body is waiting for me..." Potentia began to head for the kitchens. "My pretty...I shall serve glorious food to you..." Potentia reached the kitchens and walked around to find the food that was to be served, it was soup as the appetizer..."Perfect..."
***
King Hector meanwhile, was going on and on about the coronation and his daughters when Queen Meridian nudged him. "...and I just have one last thing to say..." he looked around at everyone's smiling faces and then he looked at Audra, he looked at her pleading eyes. King Hector did nothing but gave her apolegetic ones. "...enjoy the banquet and eat well!" Audra, Estel, Legolas and Queen Meridian looked at each other in disbelief.
"Sir, your highness, why didn't you tell everyone?! You said that you would! This is a very serious matter! You daughter is in danger, do you not care?!" Legolas was trying not to raise his voice as he was very angry indeed.
"Please! Daddy! Why didn't you do it?! You had the chance!" exclaimed Estel.
"My love, please, tell us why..!" Queen Meridian was almost begging her husband and was almost in tears. Audra, couldn't believe it, she just looked at her father feeling distrust, she felt as if her father didn't care about her at all, a tear began to roll down her cheek. King Hector, was feeling very irritated, he too had tears and looked upon his daughter again..
"I didn't tell them because I didn't care about you Audra..." he began...he paused, and looked down at the table. He was speechless.
"Your highness? Are you all right?" asked Legolas.
"I'm fine, but...Audra, if I had told everyone about the shadow, or Potentia.."
"You knew about this shadow your highness?" said Legolas.
"Yes...and I knew that she wanted my Audra so that she could take you Legolas, Potentia wanted Audra and you..."
"M-me and Legolas? But why? Why my body? Why not Estel?" asked Audra.
"When Potentia took over you, the real you had feelings for Legolas, yes, I shouldn't have said that but its true, isn't it Audra?"
"Y-yes, it's true..." Audra blushed a deep crimson red, since she was in the presence of Legolas. Legolas smiled at her and it was that special smile. Audra just blushed even more.
"...well as I was saying, she didn't want to take Estel's body because Estel was actually in love. Audra just liked Legolas but didn't feel that love. Potentia was just all jealosy, she was jealosy and she reacted to jealosy. She would never love. That's why it was only Audra."
"Wow...I guess that would explain everything...but tell me father, how do you know all of this?" asked Estel.
"Well it is my castle isn't it? I have my ways, lets just say I'm at the right place at the right time when Potentia talks to herself in personal conversations." Hector winked at Audra.
"My love, you didn't tell me any of this before!" exclaimed Queen Meridian.
"That's because you were at the village before and I had just gotten all of this information this morning."
"...so you didn't want everyone else knowing this didn't you? It didn't involve them..." said Legolas.
"That's quite right."
***
In the kitchens, they were all doing last minute preparations, Potentia got ready and made sure she had the right dish...for she had poured some Essence into a bowl for Audra.
"I will get you...this is just to prepare you for tomorrow...tomorrow's going to be a very big day indeed..." Potentia put the soup on a tray and began to walk out of the kitchens into the halls and headed right for Audra, she placed the soup in front of her and said, "Enjoy". Everyone else got their soup and began to slurp off their spoons, Audra took her spoon to her lips and drank the soup, as it went down her throat, she began to cough.
"Audra? Are you all right?" Queen Meridian began to look worried and started to pat her daughter's back.
"W-water! I n-need water!" said Audra clutching her throat. A servant came rushing with water and Audra began to wash it down, she took several deep breaths and she calmed down.
"Are you all right?" asked Legolas.
"I'm fine now."
Potentia saw what happened and smiled. "See you again tomorrow Audra, Legolas, you shall be mine as well..."
***
didn't really make sense did it? That's what I thought, just review please.