Happy Birthday to me!!! It is snowing and we have no school!!! I am happy!!! Hey you guys! I have updated after only five days…I got so many reviews!!! Like 25 or so!!! Please keep it up and I'll continue to update very soon after I get the number of reviews I am aiming for (if not in a week) This chapter is probably the second to last of the depressing plots…and I'm sorry to those of you who hated it, but what can I say? I put a pen to paper and this is what comes out…don't hate me for it… here is to all who reviewed, then on to the chapter:
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I hope that was everyone…that took forever to type out…I am a bit of a slow typer…so I hope all of you reviewers take those comments to heart, since you took the time to review, I take the time to respond…here is the chapter…read the note at the end for more…and I hope you enjoy it…
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Sacrifices
When Amanda awoke, it was almost dawn, and she heard footsteps above her. She straightened as Ozorne strode in.
"So my dear, have you decided?" asked the emperor.
Slowly, Amanda raised her tear-stained face to look defiantly into his eyes. Until this moment; she had not known what she would do. Now she did. Though she may be young, she would not give in. She would fight until she could fight no more, and die as Numair had, upright and proud, to the very last moment.
"I will die before I cater to your wishes."
Amanda was thinking fast, she would have to act swiftly, before anyone else could come down and stop her. She gathered every current of wind in the Carthaki harbor into her hand, and twirled her fingers. The huge water tunnel had begun to wreck the Carthaki navy, presumably distracting the residents of the palace. She gathered sparks into her hand; ad threw them with all of her magic into a lightning bolt. It hit Ozorne, the stone around his neck flashed, and the spell re bounded upon Amanda. She was thrown back against the wall, and got to her feet, wincing as her soon to be bruised skin ached.
Ozorne smiled, not even shaken. " I thought you knew better. I am protected by the gods, you cannot harm me. "
Amada smiled despite herself. "Uuosae is no god," she spat. "Chaos has no power over those who do not fear it." There must be something connecting him to Uuosae, she thought desperately, to protect him. Gathering every bit of power she had, and hoping that she was right, she burned the chain of his necklace, and darted forward to grab it. She turned to look at Ozorne, who looked afraid, and said.
"How could you have killed him? He was your friend." Then she said something barely audible, and more to herself than anyone else. "I loved him."
Then she smashed the stone against the hard, marble wall.
Ozorne screamed, and fell to the ground, clutching the place where it had been. The earth began to tremble, than to quake. Amanda fell to her knees, and prayed that the falling slabs of marble from the sides of the room wouldn't hit her. The quake finally ended, and Amanda wretched again and again onto the stone floor. She realized she was still holding the black stone, and it had cracked, a black, acid like fluid covered her hands and wrists. She gasped in pain, and tried to scrape it off, to no avail.
Her vision had gone dark and her mind blurry, she suspected the fluid must be deadly, but she didn't even care anymore. She would see Numair again soon. She groped over to where Ozorne lay, under a large, marble slab. She spat on his dead figure, and whispered.
"I guess I'll never know" and collapsed beside Numair.
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That was a bit of a cliffy ending too…is she dead? Is she just under some kind of spell? What will happen? Sorry I keep doing those, but they're a bit addictive, and once I start it is hard to stop…it's fun writing suspense…How did you like it? The next chapter will be the last of the depressing ones for a while, so just keep reading and it will get better for those of you who hate depressing stuff…I will try to update within 5-7 days…depending, of course, on the number of reviews I get…and feel free to give me suggestions…like as to plot, or chapter length, or anything else…like if my notes to reviewers are too long…so…I think we'll aim for 95 reviews…(that's only 7 more…you can do it) if I get more …I'll update before Saturday…if I get less I'll update within the week (depending on my schedule or how much less it is…) so Review! Review! Review! And I'll see you then…
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-Queen of Connaught
