Me: I've returned! Twice in a row, yes!
E: Don't mind her, she a little insane.
Me: Thanks, anyways, this is for white pedal who was both awesome to give me ideas and allow me to kidnap her characters.
E: Tenionia is the only character Sorceress owns. Cleopatra and Azenth belong to white pedal.
Me: Yep. I honestly got a little teary at the end, poor Tenionia. Anyways, Happy reading!
Cleopatra growled as her nimble fingers tapped the arm of the golden throne. Her thoughts were plagued by Tenionia's grim warning. Cleopatra growled. How she despised that woman! To think that just because she was a princess by blood, she can walk in and tell her that she wasn't worthy of the crown. Cleopatra smirked.
"Well, you made a grave mistake, Princess Tenionia. Guards! Find Tenionia and kill her!"
Tenionia leaned against a building eating a piece of bread she had bought. She smiled as she handed Abyss an apple.
"Are you Princess Tenionia?" She looked to see a young girl in torn rags and covered in dirt. She was holding hands with a younger boy that Tenionia assumed was her brother.
"Yes, what can I do for you?"
"Can you get those mean guards to stop bullying us? They say that we stole food that we bought." Her anger flared. There was nothing Tenionia hated more then corrupt people stepping on the weak. She knelt.
"Where are those mean guards you speak of?" The little girl grabbed her hand and pulled her and Abyss to where some guards were laughing, while tossing a bag of gold up and down. Tenionia scowled as she gracefully walked up to the guards with the pair of children behind her.
"May I ask where you two got that bag of money?" She asked in an even voice.
"Why do you care, woman?"
"That's ours!" The girl exclaimed.
"It was stolen." The one on the right snapped at the girl and the girl stuck her tongue out at him.
"No it wasn't!"
"What evidence do you have that it was stolen?" Tenionia cut in. The guard holding the bag turned to her.
"Street rats don't earn money, it's a well known fact."
"Really? Well here's news for you, sir. I wouldn't stand by as people like you and your companion bully the helpless, and children who don't have a home no less."
"What place do you have to say that?" He was a fair bit taller then her, but she knew that she packed a punch, despite her petite size.
"She is Princess Tenionia!" The girl snapped, standing tall next to the princess, still holding the little boy's hand. The guards eyes widened. Teninoia smirked.
"That's correct, now return the money to these two now." The guards hastily nodded and dropped the bag into the little girl's hand and ran off. Tenionia rolled her eyes at the cowardly display. The girl and boy smiled up at her.
"Thank you princess!" She smiled down at them.
"Of course."
Azenth changed out of her costume and stepped out of her tent to see the crowd that had gathered in front of the stage had thinned. She frowned when she saw the woman again, watching her with that dark purple gaze of hers. Her eyes seemed to hold power and a twinge of sorrow. She stood by her black stallion. One moment she was there, the next she vanished like a mirage. Azenth shivered.
"Creepy."
Tenionia chuckled to herself when she heard the girl muttered about how creepy she was. If only she knew.
"There she is!"
"Get her!" Tenionia smirked.
"Time to go, Abyss." She mounted and Abyss turned to see the dancer standing on the stage with a frown.
"That girl looks like the Pharaoh." One of the guards exclaimed. Tenionia rolled her eyes at their stupidity.
"Wow." She muttered. Tenionia rode up and offered a hand to the girl.
"Come, it's not safe for you here." The girl hesitated but accepted the hand offered and Tenionia pulled her onto Abyss.
"Go Abyss!" Tenionia kicked his sides and he reared and thundered off. People scrambled to move as Abyss galloped down the street with the guards chasing him on horses. Azenth clung to Tenionia and looked back.
"They're chasing us!" Tenionia smirked, opening her Diahank.
"Don't worry, they wouldn't be for long." She lifted her arm up in the air, concentrating.
"Isis, protect us!" She yelled. Azenth gasped when a woman with sparkling white wings that resembled an angel's loomed above them. The guards gave surprised yelps at the sight of the divine Ka.
"Show them your wrath, Divine White Lighting!" An orb of crackling lighting formed in her hands and Isis screamed as she launched it at the ground in front of the men. Dust and smoke filled the air as Abyss thundered farther and farther from the men. Soon they ducked into a sanded canyon and Tenionia dismounted.
"What was that about?" Azenth demanded and Tenionia lifted an eyebrow.
"I'm sorry, but the guards saw that you looked like the former pharaoh." Azenth blinked. She slid off Abyss and looked at Tenionia.
"What are you talking about?" Tenionia knelt.
"Listen, you are the daughter of the former Pharaoh." Azenth blinked again.
"Get away from me! I don't know you." Tenionia shut her eyes.
"You know of me." Her eyes flashed and the wings of Isis appeared on her back. Azenth backed up and whimpered. Tenionia let her magic fade again and her eyes shifted back to their normal color.
"Y-You're Princess Tenionia." The princess nodded once.
"I am, and I was a close friend of your father's." Azenth frowned.
"I never knew my father, and I don't believe you that I'm a princess." Tenionia sighed. She knelt and touched a slender finger to the girl's forehead. Azenth yelped when an image of a man with deep crimson eyes and spiky black, red and blonde hair flashed across her mind. One moment it was there, the next it was gone and she was staring at Tenionia, who had a sad look on her features.
"I can see him in you, child." Azenth felt tears coming to her eyes.
"I never knew him."
"I know, he passed away before he met you." Tenionia let Azenth hug her and she gently hushed her.
"Shh, it's okay child." Tenionia looked up at the sky to see the sky darkening with thunder clouds.
"Come, we better find shelter before it rains." Azenth nodded. Tenionia took the reins and lead him through the winding floor of the canyon.
"I never caught your name." Tenionia said as they walked.
"Azenth. My name is Azenth." Tenionia smiled.
"That's a beautiful name." Azenth smiled back.
"Thank you, Princess."
The pair found a cave carved in the rock and settled there for the night as thunder rumbled in the distance. Tenionia noticed Azenth shiver. She picked up an extra blanket she bought in town and draped it over the girl's shoulders.
"Thank you." Azenth muttered and Tenionia smiled.
"I can't have you catching a cold."
Azenth tugged at the blanket and looked at the older princess.
"Wouldn't you get cold?" Tenionia shook her head.
"I'm accustomed to the cold nights on the dessert." Azenth hummed in thought and the two were quiet. A light smile twisted Tenionia's lips when she got a better look at Azenth. She looked so much like her friend and her father. Tenionia chuckled when her thoughts turned to the face that Atem made when he was deep in thought. Azenth was making the exact face now.
"Princess?" Tenionia looked to see Azenth looking at her.
"Yes?"
"You knew my father, correct?" Tenionia nodded.
"What was he like?" Tenionia sighed fondly at the thought of her dear friend.
"I think he was one of the kindest people I've ever met. He was considerate of everyone, both his friends and his subjects. He was a leader with a heart of gold. He however," She chuckled lightly.
"Had a sense of humor and had a little trouble trying to wrap his head around the fact that he was a royal." She chuckled.
"He also loved to play games."
"What kind of games?"
"Any game. He especially loved puzzles, anything that made him think." Tenionia smiled.
"I think that he would have loved to meet you." Azenth hung her head.
"My mother told me that he passed away before I could meet him."
"I'm curious as to where your mother is, if you don't mind me asking." She hung her head lower.
"She was killed for having me and I was taken in by the gypsies when I was six." Tenionia frowned.
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay, princess." Tenionia moved closer to the girl and hugged her.
"If it offers comfort, Azenth, I lost my mother when I was still young." Azenth looked up at her with teary blue eyes.
"How did you lose her?" Tenionia sighed and gazed off into space.
"My older sister, Zireria was bitter and angry for the mistreatment she endured by my parents, so she snuck in her bedroom and killed her." Azeth's eyes widened at she was told this.
"Wow..." Tenionia looked down at the girl with a reassuring smile.
"But don't fret, that was in the past, and besides, Zireria is gone." Azenth yawned and Tenionia chuckled.
"You should get some rest, we go to the capital tomorrow." Azenth yawned again and Tenionia allowed her to rest her head on her lap. The older princess smiled as she place a protective hand on the girl's hair as she curled up in the blanket.
"Goodnight, Princess."
"Goodnight Azenth." Then Azenth drifted off into a sleep with dreams of her father. Tenionia smiled as she patted the girl's thick hair. She sighed through her nose as she stared out to dark sky outside. It seemed to reflect the sorrow that she was feeling.
'I miss you all so much, even Seto. You all didn't deserve to die so quickly. I feel so lost without you all behind me. Being there to guide me.' Tears started to form in her eyes and she squeezed her eyes shut to keep them from falling.
'Forgive me, I can't protect you... Any of you.'