Protectors of Pandora

Chapter 38 ~true power~

The ferox Queen grabbed Ron’s neck in an arm and started choking him. “I always keep my word..” she said. “Nooooo!” Ping yelled, “PENGUJAS ATTACK!” He cried. “TREMBLE BEFORE ME!!!” Quan yelled as he lifted a torch off its stand and started beating at the ferox’s leg with it. The other pengujas started kicking her and smacking her with their flippers. The Queen laughed, “Ha! I can’t even feel these puny blows!” She said boastfully. This comment sent Quan into a furious rage, he grabbed her tail with his beak and bit down as hard as he could, even in her element mutated form she felt that. In the shock of the bite she dropped Ron, “GET OFF YOU SIMPLETON!” She said. “Pengujas! Do what Quan does!” Ron yelled. They all bit her wherever was closest to their beaks. The Queen shrieked in pain, she leapt at the ceiling and bursted straight through multiple walls. they landed outside, luckily the snow broke their fall, as most of them fell off when she jumped away. “What is that?!” Sir Charles asked. “It’s the Queen!!” The ice wyvern shrieked. “Alright then! Men attack!” The chalicotherium guard said. Ron’s raiders and the queens lackeys (those who hadn’t perished in the fighting or fled or were captured) charged at her, the managarmr blasted her, but she just shrugged it off. “You fools! I am your queen! Attack the interlopers!” The ferox yelled. “A Queen doesn’t hide in the shadows!” A guard yelled. “Well, I will hide no longer! I will show you, I am no weakling!!” She easily, brutally, beat down all of the attackers. Then she grabbed the ice wyvern by the throat, “you idiot, I gave you everything! How dare you turn against me?!” The Queen yelled. “That’s what I thought, but the wolf explained you were only using me until you could come out of hiding. Then what where you going to do with me?” The wyvern said. “Kill you of course, just as I will to any who defy me!” The Queen yelled. Then the arm she was holding the wyvern with started to spasm, she was forced to drop her and then stumbled backwards clutching her shrinking arm. “No! I need more!” She said, looking around frantically. Then she spotted a shard of element, Trickster had swiped it from her when they were hurtling through the walls. She made a mad dash towards him, he saw her and ran away screaming. “Everyone! Don’t let her get that peice of metal!” Ron yelled. Unfortunately the managarmr was knocked unconscious so she couldn’t grab it and run away faster. A few guards, Charles, Evelyn, Ron, the other pengujas, a mammoth, and Richard ran at her and tried to hold her down, her strength was dwindling but she shoved some of them off and continued chasing Trickster, she then completely reverted to her usual form and was able to get free of them, She was much faster than the kairuku and she caught up to him, shoved him to the ground, and took the element. “You fools.. you think you can defeat me! I’ve been gathering this substance for months! YOU CANT WIN, I WILL ALWAYS BE STRONGE-” she fell unconscious mid sentence, Quan was standing behind her with a club. “Who is puny now!” He said victoriously.

They put the Queen, and any loyalist guards in the prison, then tended to the wounded. “So what happened out here?” Ron asked Charles. “The plan worked, we beat them and I had Sheeri (the ice wyvern) pinned the the ground when she told me that she was just a figurehead, this was apparently the first any of the guards heard of it and they decided they didn’t like being deceived. So we made a truce. And then you came bursting out of a wall.” He explained, “what happened in there?” He asked Ron. “We made it inside easily and freed the Yeti Queen and you friend and then-“ “wait what?! You found Alfred? Where is he??” Charles interrupted. “What do you mean? You haven’t seen him?” Ron asked.

The wolf they freed was in fact not Alfred, they only helped an incredibly dangerous inmate escape prison. But more on that later.

The ferox was sitting in her cell, it had been a week and she had not slept since the fight, she was not pleased with her defeat and was having element withdrawals. A small tek drone hovered through the dark halls of the castle, eventually floating up to her cell, at first she assumed it was a hallucination, but then it displayed holographic screen inside her cell, nobody noticed as it was midnight and the inmates were fast asleep. “Hello, Queen Frozt.” (Frozt was a common last name on this ark, not even Salizar knew her first name.) “how would you like revenge, and all the element you could ever need?” Salizar whispered. “I would like that very much ape..” she said. “Then follow me.” He said. The screen disappeared and the drone quietly blasted the lock off her cell door. She exited and followed the drone, they past by multiple unconscious guards, and left the castle without detection. The drone led her all the way to a green supply drop, a side of it folded out and she stepped in.