p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"emAuthor's Note : This is something me and my friend cooked up. We've been working on it for a while now, excited threads full of walls of text and dozens of sketches, until I finally stood up and said: "Self, this is too good to not share!" So I came up with an idea to make a fic out of it. This is that fic./em/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"emI'm not going to tell you the swaps right away, go ahead and figure them out as the story goes. In fact, I want to play a game: First person to guess every single bloodswap correctly before all the trolls appear gets a prize!/em/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"emAll the art is drawn by my lovely sweetheart Max./em/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"emThe prologue is short and super poetic compared to the rest of the story. Meh, it has its purposes./em/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"emMy partner in crime : /em/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"emMe : /em/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"emEnjoy./em/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"uPrologue/u/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Silence./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Complete quiet./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Every mouth was still. Every movement stopped. Every breath was held./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"The dust cleared./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"The victor rose to her feet./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Noise./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Complete chaos./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Every mouth was loud. Every movement wild. Every breath was screaming./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""The Empress is dead!" They screamed "Long live the Heiress! Long live the Heiress!"/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"Bloodied, battered, and bruised with one arm completely destroyed, the Heiress, no, the emEmpress/emspan style="font-style: normal;", grinned./span/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"It has been done./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"The opponent lie dead, bright purple-pink blood stained the floor around her. The color near identical to the to the victor's, only a few shades apart./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;""Long live the Heiress! Long live the Heiress!"/p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"The Empress has been over thrown and in her place now stands another./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;"The new Empress sways unsteadily, more royal blood drips onto the ground around her feet. A pair of arms steady her./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;""I won." She says./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal;""I know." He says./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"He leads her away. Away to be healed. Away to prepare. Away to start a new era./p
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p style="margin-bottom: 0in;""Long live the Heiress! Long live the Heiress!"/p