Parker looked around the War Room in angst and despair. He wasn't allowed to leave. What if Qua'ra was evil? What if she wasn't? Either way, he couldn't stay here.
What was that on the holoterminal? He read the description of Melisandre and Qua'ra, attempting to discover who they were nowadays.
So far, he had nothing. Qua'ra and Melisandre were so similar, but then so was Jine, the Oriental Cat, and look at what happened to her. Was Jine's leadership taken from her? Was she no longer a Queen of the Land of Talking Animals? If that was true, then who was this Melisandre? And why were the Big Cats spouting a war against themselves?
Either way, something sinister was going on that he hadn't been aware of since leaving the time Before the First Age.
Parker collapsed on a chair, unable to do much except stare at Melisandre's images of her raiding the various kingdoms in the Land of Talking Animals. There was something else, too, something he overlooked. Qua'ra was making negotiations with Melisandre on the holo. They were in league with each other! Oh no! Parker needed to escape the planet Zafna before it was too late!
He was about to stand up, when he saw another couple of holorecordings, showing the planet Zafna in great danger! Melisandre's lions and lionesses moved in, blocking the scarred lions and lionesses from leaving the planet. The other beings and creatures already left the planet. Qua'ra and her family were trapped!
"Please!" Qua'ra cried out in the holorecording. "You have to stop this! You don't know what you're doing! Parker will return. You'll see!"
"Parker?" Melisandre chuckled. "His hundredth year hasn't come up yet. The Land of Talking Animals has fallen into nomadic ways, believing their new king will come and save them. I'm afraid your time as the Empress of the Shadow Empire is coming to an end." Melisandre signed a paper, showing it to Qua'ra. "There. I signed it. Now," she took the paper from Qua'ra, "the Shadow Empire will see to its last days the moment your friend and once Emperor, Parker Dooley, shows up. The moment he does, the Shadow Empire will fall. Oh, you'd better prepare for the worst, Qua'ra or should I say Scar-ra? Your tribe of scarred lions and lionesses will be disbanded, your army will be no more, and I will have full control of this planet."
Melisandre sniffed the air. "I may give this world a new name before I go. I shall call it, and the second the Shadow Empire's destroyed, this world will be mine to call, Teremode. It will no longer be Zafna, but Teremode." She smiled, menacingly. "You had better be prepared for the Shapeshifter's Migration. I doubt your army will survive what's coming. Buh bye now!" She walked onto her ship, departing as the holorecording ended with Qua'ra collapsed on her knees in agony.
Parker couldn't believe what he saw. Melisandre was the villain in all of this? His coming meant the end of the Shadow Empire? He finished eating his apple, before proceeding towards the door out of the War Room. He couldn't take this anymore.
He needed to leave Zafna now and find Aslan sooner than later!