A/N: ok im back thanks for the reviews/favs/follows guys! Thanks chloestark99, thanks PenntheWriter. I fixed it. On with the story!
Two
Lupa Kesley tapped her fingers on her thigh, anticipation running through her as the podship they had just entered came closer and closer to Luna.
She looked over and saw Carter's face pressed against the windows, eyes panicked. "There's someone there besides Ech," he said. "A woman. I don't recognize her." His voice fell into a whisper. "She looks like former Queen Channary."
Lupa got what he was talking about. The woman looked like a descendant of the Blackburn line.
Suddenly, the group saw, through the glass covering the corridors to the landing platform, the woman strike Echo. Echo raised her right hand-the metal one-but her movements turned robotic and she slumped to the ground.
Carter's face turned white with anger and worry. Stress lines appeared on his face.
"What's happening?" Peony squeaked, sounding a bit scared.
Ignoring Peony, Lupa pressed her nose against the glass separating them from space.
"We can follow her through the glass," Luna suggested.
The woman promptly disappeared into the covered passages.
"Or not," the twins muttered together.
The podship landed smoothly on the landing dock, and then the covers extended over the platform. Oxygen was pumped into the room, and they exited the ship and entered the glass hallways leading into Artemisia.
Luna, who had a perfect memory, led them down the hallway they had seen the woman take.
The hallway came to a dead end, and they saw, horrified, that it was covered in blood.
Echo woke to darkness and pain. The room she was in really was dark, she knew, it wasn't made by manipulation. But what really scared her was the fact that both of her wrists were in pain.
That meant both her chips were gone.
Both of her lifeguards.
She was going to die, she thought. It was common knowledge that some supporters of Queen Levana still existed on Luna, along with other supporters of the fact that Selene was dead and that this was a hoax and Cinder was not to be on the throne.
People would say that Cinder had had a blood test which proved her to be of the Blackburn line. The supporters of Levana would retort that Cinder could've faked it, manipulated the doctors into thinking it was Blackburn blood.
Echo moved her feet around a little bit, and discovered that her feet were bound in cold material. Turning on her flashlight in her metal hand, she surveyed the room.
Both her wrists were indeed bleeding. She seemed to be in some sort of basement like room, except much smaller. A trapdoor was above her head about 3 meters high.
She probably could have escaped had it not been for the restraints.
She turned off the flashlight as she heard faint footsteps from above. She heard the creaking of a trapdoor opening, and reached out with her Lunar gift. She felt the powerful, crackling bioelectricity of someone with an especially strong Lunar gift. She was just latching on to the person when the door opened and the woman appeared. She was as before without a glamour, and was accompanied by two men in Lunar guard uniforms.
"Who are you?" Echo demanded as the woman smiled at her.
"I am the rightful heir to the throne, you filth. I am the sole daughter of Queen Levana. I have bided my time, and now the time is right. I will destroy you. I will take the throne for myself, the rightful heir of Luna's throne. I deserve the throne. I will make Luna great again!" And then, for probably the second time that day, everything went black.
A/N: I really wanted to make it longer but my brain just isn't working well today…..
