So after reading Fairest, I get a very good idea on how the Lunar Royal Family (Channary, Levana, and Winter) are somewhat like. I'm excited because oddly enough I absolutely love the vindictive, maniacal, and evil witch Channary (she honestly is like my top three characters XD). Anyways, hope you like this chapter and have fun Lunartics!
Cinder walked frantically throughout the streets of New Beijing afraid of someone noticing her. Thorne walked confidently in the streets of New Beijing hoping someone would notice him because he looked good. Both of them side by side like two best friends shopping. Suddenly Thorne put his hand on Cinder's shoulder.
"Will you calm down, no one knows what you look like now you look completely different" Thorne said.
Cinder turned to him, her short cropped and black with golden highlighted hair swinging around. She wore dark blue jeans with a t-shirt and a cargo jacket. The ever longing combat boots and solid black gloves made her look a little feminine, but also more like a boy. They continued walking towards the Eastern part of the city, which is where they would make their escape using a new spaceship in which Logan Tanner had bought for them.
"Calm down?" Cinder asked.
"I just found out that my whole life has been a lie and you ask me to calm down?" she continued.
"Yes, I'm asking you to calm down. You look fine, mostly like a boy but fine. Besides people are looking for your long dark brunette hair and the Royal increscent jumpsuit of the Royal Mechanics office, not this. They expect you to have the same style and clothes that you had on when the Dianan Crystal showed you. You have new clothes and new hair, changing your style is something all criminals do to get the law off their backs. Hell, my hair has been cut many times and I've been on the run for months. It is the middle of the night and no one is out. You will be fine. Just act normal and we'll get to the ship all fine and dandy in no time." Thorne replied.
"But I'm not a criminal, I'm just a mechanic working so her family doesn't fall below the poverty line and end up homeless because my guardian refuses to help with the bills" Cinder said.
"Actually, you're the lost princess of Luna, Selene, and you're here because Logan Tanner brought you here to get you away from your mother, the Queen of Luna Channary, her insane sister, Princess Levana, and Princess Levana's crazy stepdaughter, Princess Winter. You were brought here by Lihn Garan and was raised here based on the lie that your parents died in a hover car accident" he replied to her.
Cinder grunted. She was angry. Very angry because her entire life had just turned out to be a lie. She thought her mother and father had died in a hover car accident, not that she was Lunar, or Channary's child. She was also angry at the fact that an entire underground Lunar terrorist group expected her to be Queen of Luna one day and make a change for everyone. But why? Why her.
"Don't worry Cinder, with this new look of yours there is no way Luna or anyone will find you. You heard the plan, all we have to do is let this die down and hide out for a couple of years. Then you can overthrow your family and reclaim the throne yourself. Of course I'll be there to help" Thorne grinned.
"It's not just that I'm worried about them finding me. It's not just that I've found out my whole life has been a lie. It's that I'm leaving everything that I have ever loved, to run from my batshit crazy mother and aunt whom I've never even known. It's that my only friends were my android Iko, who was destroyed by Adri because my stepsister Peony died who oddly enough I have in my calf compartment. My stepsister Peony herself. And lastly was Prince Kaito himself. He was one of my best friends, I talked to him whenever he needed me because he was my prince and now I'm abandoning him and everyone I know. You will never know how that feels!" Cinder yelled.
Thorne sighed. He knew exactly how she felt. He knew firsthand how it felt to leave everyone you know and care about behind because he had left his family and friends behind when he started to become a glourious criminal.
"You're wrong. I do know how it feels to leave your family and friends behind. I left mine behind when I chose to become a thief like this. I'm also leaving my family behind because I, along with millions of other people believe that you can change the world. You can do something about Channary. That you can change Luna and history all together. That is what I'm doing now Cinder. I'm leaving them behind for the greater good and I'm hoping that you will realize that leaving these people behind for the greater good will be the best as well" Thorne replied to her.
Cinder never thought of it that way. She was someone who was kidnapped because some people didn't believe in Channary, and he was just a blue collar thief. Even though the roads leading up to the entire fiascal was different, Thorne was right. Both of their paths were completely the same in terms of leaving people behind. She only has three people who truly care about her to leave behind. Throne has his whole family and multiple friends who care about him who he is leaving behind. She realized now at this moment, walking through the dark, cool streets of New Beijing that it was the same resolve. And the both of them needed to make things work. She was on the run for being the Princess, and he was on the run for committing criminal activities. However, both were trying to thrive for the greater good of humanity.
"Logan, our Queen will be coming for us soon" Dr. Erland said.
"I know, I've already said goodbye to Michelle, my son Luke, and my granddaughter Scarlet. It was literally the hardest thing that I have ever done in my life. I know my death is inevitable at this point, and Channary will keep us alive for nothing after doing this not only to her, but messing up her thought of perfection in Selene as well" Logan replied.
Dr. Erland sighed. He began to go into deep though and reminisce about the events that happened thirteen years ago. On that day thirteen years ago, Dr. Erland along with Logan tanner started a fire in the chambers of the Lunar Royal Family. It was a plan to divert everyone and kill all members of the Lunar Royal Family with the exception of Princess Selene and Princess Winter as they were young and neither Channary nor Levana could control them yet. However, things did not go as planned. Levana had taken Winter to a checkup appointment with Dr. Elliot and Selene was alone in her playroom with her nanny. Queen Channary had just returned to her chambers after a long day when the fire was started.
Dressed in all black ninja gear with heat and fire resistant fabric, about 13 members of the Lunar Resistance glamoured themselves in order to start the fire. Gasoline was poured in all of the rooms and in a straight line going down the middle of the corridor when the fire was lit so the rooms were connected. Dr. Erland remembers the night as it was just yesterday. The surrounding rooms were ablaze within seconds the match being dropped down to the floor. When the fire started, that's when the Resistance attacked. They killed. And he meant that they killed. It didn't matter if it was a member of the Lunar Court or the lowest janitor of that floor, they killed them. Levana and Winter weren't in any way near the fire so killing Levana was out of the plan, but Channary's actions was what landed them in the situation that they're in now. When the fire began, Channary ran out of her room and ran through the flames in order to get to the nursery, which was right across from her room at the end of the hall. Channary had burst through the door to find Selene on the ground and her babysitter writhing in pain. Selene had been burnt so badly from the initial flame blast because she was too young to understand the harms of fire, her left hand and the majority of her left leg was severely burned because gasoline fumes had rubbed off on them. Channary had picked Selene up and ran out of the nursery. That's when Dr. Earland saw them. A member of the resistance, Seth, the head of Information and Mechanical Technology on Luna had ordered Queen Channary to hand over Selene. When Channary tried to glamour Seth, she found out that she couldn't. The resistance had some help from Earth from a man by the name of Lihn Garan. He had developed a prototype neuro-ring in which blocks all glamour from all Lunars. Queen Channary was weak against it. She knew he wasn't a shell because he could glamour Channary herself. Dr. Earland watched as Seth and Channary shuffled, him ordering her to hand over Selene, and Channary resisting Seth's glamour. In the end, guards and the Royal military were coming up to the floor, and Channary had protected Selene this entire time by backing them both into a corner and blocking Selene from Seth's advances with her body. Finally Seth had snapped and pulled Channary out of the corner and with his sword cut Channary's arms off at the elbows, in which doing so she dropped Selene to the ground and screamed in agony. That was when Logan had grabbed Selene and all of them with the exception of Seth made their getaway through the Laundry hanger and the sewers of the palace. They eventually made their way to the mining district of Luna and stayed there for 4 months until everything calmed down. Channary had her arms surgically reattached back onto her body and they are fully functioning again, and she had no severe burns anywhere. Seth was killed immediately on the scene by the Lunar military from what he had heard. Winter and Levana as already stated where in no way harmed, but Selene took the worse hit out of all of them. Selene, no Cinder's left hand and leg were so badly damaged that they had to cut them off and make her have cyborgnetic surgery in order to have functioning limbs. She was sent off of Luna with Logan and was with Michelle Benoit until 5 years ago when Linh Garan adopted her.
"Lost in the thought of the events aren't you Sage?" Logan spoke up.
Dr. Earland snapped out of his trance and looked up at his old friend.
"Yeah, no thanks to you" Dr. Earland replied.
"What is she like? Our future Queen?" Logan asked.
"She's intelligent, helpful, nice, and headstrong. All qualifications on the personality traits of a future queen" Dr. Earland replied.
"Yes, indeed" Logan replied back.
Dr. Earland looked at the time. It was currently 4 am and he knew that things were about to change desperately. He looked out the window and notice that there were a couple of hovercars parked outside when there wasn't any before. That's when the realization came.
Logan had peaked over his friends shoulder and saw what he was looking at. He saw Sage's face go pale. He knew the time was coming but didn't think it would come so soon. They were coming for them, and the time was now.
Boom! Someone kicked the front door in and armed men in body gear rushed through the apartment. Outside, Logan and Dr. Earland saw red and blue flashing lights. They knew that they were surrounded, but they have completed their portion of the mission. They had gotten Cinder out of the vicinity of the main portion of the city. Now it was only time in which their deaths would come.
"Hands up, don't move!" yelled one of the officers.
Both men raised their hands in unison, revealing no weapons on either one of them in their old stages.
"Dr. Dimitri Sage Darnel Erland and Dr. Logan Tanner, both of you are under arrest for four counts of treason, interplanetary kidnapping, fleeing the scene of a crime, resisting arrest, use of biological glamour, six counts of interplanetary terrorism, and aiding a known criminal. You have the right to remain silent, anything you say will be held against you in the court of law" another office replied.
Dr. Erland and Logan Tanner were now caught, but they fulfilled their part of the Lunar Resistance advancement. They helped Princess Selene regain the knowledge of her past, and they are leading her away so she'll not have to deal with her mother and aunt unprepared so soon. They both knew that in the events of their deaths, Cinder would become stronger and better than Channary and Levana ever could, and then her reign of Queen would begin.