Kara kept flying as fast as she could, doing her best to lure Silvaria as far away from the villages as she possibly could. She didn't know how much time she had, nor if her brothers managed to get to safety, but she knew she had to give them at least a fighting chance.
Silvaria chased Kara all the way to the dark woods at the far edge of the kingdom. The dragon continued to blast fireballs, attempting to hit the pegasus queen. And she barely missed her for the fourth time since arriving at the forest, when Kara crashed into a tree and hurt her wing!
"Agh! My wing." she winced.
"It's over, Kara! I have you right where I want you." Silvaria cackled. "Once I get rid of you, eliminating those bratty little brothers and nieces of yours will be all too easy!"
Kara quickly started to dodge Silvaria's claws on hoof, rushing underneath low branches, rocks, even thorny bushes... anything she ran into that could obstruct Silvaria's blows. But Silvaria continued to throw balls of fire at the trees, setting some on fire briefly. With the lightning storm above, that fire started to grow!
Kara continued to run, just barely managing to escape the falling flaming branches, and the black smoke that came not just from those flames, but from more of Silvaria's fire breath as well.
Back on the Lawquane Farm...
Suu and her husband Cut were kind enough to help Anakin and his group by lending a cart they could hide in to get back to the palace quickly. If there was a way to weaken and defeat Silvaria in dragon form, there had to be something in what remained of her lab. As for Carmine's group, they managed to get a couple of horses to ride back to the palace, having the same idea as Anakin's group.
Sometime after that...
The rest of the Fetts and the village leaders managed to find a potion that broke the guards out from Silvaria's spell. And, as it turned out, everyone else was shocked to learn that the royal family was actually alive, and Silvaria was the one who'd tried to kill them, and she murdered her own husband in the process, having only married him solely for the purpose of getting into the palace.
"Seriously. How long has this woman been planning this?" Crosshair said.
"That doesn't matter now." said a familiar voice.
And in came Anakin with Gabby and Boba. Except, no one recognized them at first... until Boba told them it was them.
"We didn't have the right potion." Gabby said before suddenly coughing and hacking something nasty. "Hairball."
"But we did," said Caroline, walking in with two of the royal family members turned human.
"Prince Carmine, Princess Lamenta!" Peppermint exclaimed. "You're humans again."
"Although..." Omega began, looking at the others. "You might wanna put something on before you drink it."
"Where's Queen Kara?" Mace said.
"I don't know." Anakin said. "We all split up so Silvaria couldn't get all of us."
But then, the twins came to a horrible realization: if Silvaria didn't chase after either of their parties... then she must have gone after...
A big "Oh no!" entered everyone's minds.
Anakin decided to hold off using a potion, and flew out to get a better view, and he gasped in horror when he spotted a forest fire, and Silvaria blowing more balls of fire! That could only mean one thing.
"Kara's in trouble!" Anakin exclaimed to the others. "We have to save her now!"
"There's gotta be a potion here that'll help us!" Gabby said, looking in the spell book. Well, as best as she could with paws.
"I'm afraid there's only one potion appropriate to use at this point." Anakin said, finding a green phial with a skull and crossbones on it. "The kind that started this whole mess."
"You mean... you wanna poison her?" Gabby said. "But aren't we being just as bad as Silvaria if we do that?"
"Unfortunately, it's the only choice we have. That woman is a murderer, and she was willing to kill innocent children to take over the kingdom."
"Prince Anakin is correct." Mace said. "She's too dangerous to be kept alive. She is trying to murder your aunt as we speak."
"It's gonna take more than just us to defeat her though." Anakin said. "We need all the help we can get, namely with containing those flames!"
Kara could barely keep up anymore! She was exhausted, in pain, and there was so much smoke she could barely breathe properly.
Kara climbed over another rock and tried to hide herself, only for Silvaria to place her giant claw over her and hold her down. It was too heavy for Kara to push off. Even if it weren't Kara was too weak.
"Not to worry, Kara. You will be seeing your parents again very soon."
But just before Silvaria could breathe fire again, something black and white swooped at her face. And then, a few more colorful somethings swooped at her in the form of multiple flying horses.
Silvaria tried to swat away all the equines, but there were more things thrown at her. Guns were fired, big rocks from catapults, even sharp syringes with pesticides were shot at Silvaria by the villagers, and many of the guards, so many people loyal to the royal family.
"For Coruscant! For the royal family!" the people kept chanting.
Silvaria attempted to hit the villagers with fireballs, but firefighters were fighting the blazes everywhere they went. Anakin carried Crosshair on his back, them having the most important job. All they needed was for Silvaria to open her mouth again.
While Silvaria distracted by the villagers, Wrecker rushed in and lifted Kara out of there and began getting her to safety.
Kara was barely conscious at the moment, but Wrecker continued to run in order to save the queen.
Crosshair, on the other hand, waited for just the right moment. And as Silvaria began to open her mouth to breathe another fireball, Crosshair aimed his blaster and counted... one... two... three!
The phial of poison was shot directly into Silvaria's throat, immediately choking her. If it wasn't the poison choking her, the bottle hitting her throat was enough to do the job.
Kara, however, felt herself getting weaker and weaker as Silvaria began roaring in agony. But before she could catch the finale of this battle, her eyes fell shut, and everything went black.
Kara felt her head throbbing as she finally started coming to. There were the sounds of beeping and people talking. She cracked her eyes a bit, her vision blurry.
"Shh! Quiet!" whispered a familiar voice.
"Is she okay?" said a voice, sounding a bit echoey.
"Look, I think she's waking up!" said another.
Kara slowly opened her eyes.
"Kara? Kara, can you hear me?"
Kara groaned and placed a hand on her aching head. Wait! A hand?
Suddenly, Kara was much more awake. She rubbed her eyes to clear her vision and looked to see she had hands again, and up in front, surrounding her was her family, all of them looking so happy to see her alive and well.
"What happened? Where am I?" Kara gasped.
"In the hospital, Your Majesty." said a doctor, coming in to check her blood pressure. "You suffered a few burns and some serious smoke inhalation. You were very lucky to survive."
"We gave you a dose of the potion once we got the all clear," said Carmine.
"There was a bit of damage to the palace," said Padme. "But its reparable.
"What happened to Silvaria?" Kara asked.
"She won't be bothering anyone anymore," said Anakin. "The people of our kingdom came to our aid to fight her off for good after you heroically swooped in to protect the villages. Without their help, none of us would be here now."
Kara's nieces both crawled onto the bed and gave their aunt a hug. Kara was so happy to see her girls safe and sound, and she was even happier to hear that she could go home soon.
After Kara was checked out and dressed, she was happily surprised to see a large crowd of people outside cheering to see their queen made a safe recovery, and praising her for the way she was willing to sacrifice herself to save her people. People brought flowers for Kara, and many also held signs that said, "We love you, Queen Kara" "Long live the Queen/Royal Family" and "The witch is dead!"
Kara felt happy tears come to her eyes when she saw how much the people of the kingdom she called her family appreciated her and the royal family as a whole. With Silvaria and Palpatine gone, the kingdom would be that much safer. Sadly, their journey was not left without some damages. Thus, Queen Kara immediately declared plans were to begin posthaste to mend the damages to the kingdom.
They would rebuild the homes that were damaged due to Silvaria and the storm, plant new trees to replace the ones lost in the fire, and of course she would see to it that the Fetts, the village leaders, as well as the Lawquane family were greatly rewarded for their assistance in ensuring the safety of the royal family in their desperate time of need. She especially honored Boba and Omega with special medals for uncovering the murder plot and saving the royal family from being poisoned, thus allowing them to discover their former advisors' true colors.
Of course, Kara and her brothers did not neglect their original plans to honor their late parents' memories.
One year later, the palace and the village were fully repaired, and Queen Kara finally cut the ribbon at the openings of the new school and park. The kingdom was more beautiful than ever before. Families everywhere felt safe again, the Kenobi family got to welcome their new baby girl into a safe and happy world, and the two youngest princesses could now grow up into wonderful young women and someday future rulers of Coruscant.
"So an important lesson to take from this," said Kara, still reading. "is that people close to you may pretend to be allies, and betray your trust. Nothing is for certain when it comes to finding who's true and who's not, but one thing that is for certain, those who stick by you during the darkest moments and are willing to fight for you when you need it most, are the ones who truly are not just your friends, but family."
The kids cheered when the story was finished.
"I love a story with a happy ending," said Gabby.
"I liked when they fought the dragon." Omega said.
