~Queen StarStriker~

~Soon after the events of the attack on Wish~

In the cold wretches of a castle, far deep in unknown territory, howls of deep agonising pain swept through the castle. Awakening a false queen. She picked herself up, the robe she'd wear laid isolated close by. He must be back. She thought to herself, her head rising tall and proud. Let's see if he brought anything back.

"HYENA!" She bellows, guards straightening their posture as the queen trots down the hall, a small scorpion like amulet waving around her neck. "HYENA!" She bellows again. No answer. Just agonising yells. Putrid SandWing, he'd be no better without ears. Then, a door slams open followed by mournful cries and inaudible words. The queen turns expecting a prisoner to be wriggling under Hyena's claws. But none stood her eyes. Hyena mumbled, slightly limping towards the queen before bowing. The queen didn't show emotions for a moment.

"M-mistress." Hyena rose his head looking up to the queen, his piercing black eyes not fazing the queen. "Look, look what he did." Hyena rose up alert fore leg which seemed to end in a bloody mess.

"Dear Hyena, haven't I told you that a loss of limb means nothing?" The queen mutters fakely sympathising with Hyena abruptly before slamming his head to the ground with one strong paw. Soon after a NightWing slipped out of the nearby shadows, and quite literally, in fact it was quite terrifying. But not for the queen. "ShadowDancer dear." The queen smirks.

"You called mistress?" The NightWing bows, smiling at the queen. "What would you desire oh great highness?"

"Could you please bring Hyena to the animus we have under our special arrangement?" StarStriker smirks.

"The SandWing?" ShadowDancer questions. "I'm afraid the castle has not seen his presence all day-" a large stomp stops him in his tracks.

"He's what?!" She roars out throwing the whimpering Hyena away.

"Not here." The NightWing replies. The queen roared out in a fit. "However." The NightWing carried on. A beady eye from the queen laid sight on ShadowDancer she stopped her fit abruptly staring coldly at ShadowDancer.

"What?" StarStriker replies, her voice somewhat filled in some kind of hope. ShadowDancer reached out into a pouch he kept securely wrapped around his waist and pulled out a strange orb, inside it looked like it was covered in shadows.

"Ooooh, so this is one of those NightWing treasures?" StarStriker purred as she tried to grab it but merely missing as ShadowDancer moved it out of her reach causing the queen to pout.

"No no. No touchie. This artifact uses the three moons and astrological atmosph-" ShadowDancer began to go into one of his elaborate teachings about the deep history of animus objects only to be interrupted.

"Yeah yeah. Stars, space, cosmos. Yeah i get it." StarStriker flailed her forelegs around mockingly like she didn't care about the deep history. "Can we get on with what it does?" The queen pouts again, even with the pouting she was not one to like waiting. ShadowDancer rolls his eyes and sighs, as large dark cloud puffing out of his throat.

"Well, it gives us a map of Phyrria and locates every animus dragon, ooh and it shows their names above their heads!" ShadowDancer chuckled slightly staring deep into StarStriker's menacing eyes.

"WHAT USE IS A MAP OF EVERY…." StarStriker was about to throw a fit about what she thought she heard but realised what he said. "Actually, your little NightWing gizmo might help after all." StarStriker stares deep into the orb, watching the shadows swirl around each other in an endless loop. "But how does it show us the animus' locations, are we supposed to stare deep into the orb hoping some NightWing phenomenon happens?" One thing the queen had forgotten was Hyena who was still there whimpering on the floor.

"Try wishing!" He mocks in a coy voice. "I heard that works!" The queen twisted around noticing the thin smile on Hyena.

"I've had enough of you." She jabbed her eyes at Hyena. "ShadowDancer, take him to his normal place, let us see him smiling after another attempt." She smirks from cheek to cheek as she watched Hyena's face flatten and slump down.

"Yes your majesty." ShadowDancer did not dare question his queen, neither what she meant by 'attempt', he could only wonder the horrors it could be when he saw Hyena's reaction. He bravely trotted over to Hyena who was still marooned on the ground, growling at him.

"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU FIEND!" Hyena roared out, almost lashing out at ShadowDancer who went in to grab him only to be stopped. Hyena roared as a green like liquid convulsed from his missing limb, it piled upon itself and more convulsed out with no seamless end to it. ShadowDancer stuttered backward, his jaw hanging wide open, the horrific sight unfolding in front of him was only made creepier but StarStriker's psychotic laughter. It said it all in ShadowDancer's eyes, he knew nothing about what was happened. He wondered, why did the queen seem so insanely happy?

"What is he doing?!" ShadowDancer yelled out, most of his voice riddled in confusion, the rest in fear. He'd never witnessed anything like this before, the poison in Hyena was forging back a paw he'd lost. Eventually the paw reformed and the scales came back, good as new.

"AHAA!" Hyena let out a triumphant yell. Sudden applause came em from the queen. If only he'd done that sooner. The queen thought to herself.

"It's about time that putrid animus pulled off some 'real magic'." StarStriker snorted. "But not matter, Hyena.." Hyena pulls his attention to the queen, his red burning eyes darting at hers, his smile glued into one terrifying position. "How about a test?" The queen motioned her head towards ShadowDancer and before ShadowDancer could question Hyena bolted towards him, claws extended aiming for his chest.

What soon followed was howls of pain and agony. Hyena was monstrously clawing him to pieces whilst StarStriker, the false queen watched pleasantly.

"When you're done with him dump him somewhere." StarStriker ordered, she trotted over to ShadowDancer and removed the orb of shadows from his claws. "Where you're going it's not like you'll need this, I don't need you to figure out where he is, putrid NightWing." Under her breath a cold smile stuck out. A smile that showed her dark, sinister intentions. ShadowDancer was helpless as the raging SandWing tore him to shreds. An ultimate betrayal.