Trials of Love, the Frostclaw Chronicles 13: Seeing the Evil with One's Own Eyes
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As the gates to Morgova opened up, the cheers of the inhabitants were loudly welcoming them all back, Tenchi looking a bit in shock from this as no one had known that they had left, how did they know then? Pushing the thought aside, she raised a hand to wave to the people as they cheered on even more, Alex walking up next to her and whispering, "I think Sasha have already spread the news of your victory against Malicoe." Tenchi just smiled, "I am not surprised. She is always the one getting to know it before others do." Speeding up the walk a slight bit, four guards came towards them and bowed, one of them which bowed deeply as he spoke, "The queen wishes your arrival posthaste. So please, do not make any plans."
Tenchi was about to object to it, but Alex was quickly sniffing the air, "Ummm, I think you should, Tenchi." Everyone looked confused until Alex pointed out Tenchi's right eye being blown apart, "Your cybernetic eye has blown up." Tenchi reached up and touched it before sighing, "Awww. This is no good." Alex nodded before pointing out, "Your arm did not break at least." Tenchi nodded before one of the guards took off the helmet to reveal a slender dragoness' face, but over one eye she wore an eye-patch, which she removed and put over Tenchi's own eye, "You have better use for it than me, miss." Tenchi wondered why the dragoness wore the eye-patch before, to which the answer was that she was hiding that her right eye was dichromatic.
Deciding to not fight it now, Tenchi followed the guards back to the castle, not even being able to get through the doors before the cheers started anew from the family, but also from the three Creators themselves, Jae Frostgate XXV and from a black dragoness that seemed to carry that familiar look of someone she had battled before, but she knew it was the planetary goddess of death herself. Sasha was the first to speak, "Welcome home, Tenchi. I heard from the thoughts of you all that a glorious battle has taken place and that you advanced beyond the expectations of many. Including me." Tenchi bowed, "Thank you, Sasha. Yes, the evil asshole Malicoe, husband to the Prime of the Kae'Machi, Shadowtails, whatever you wanna call them, has fallen to my hands." Sasha nodded, "To celebrate this, I invited many to a feast." Tenchi was smiling, she knew better than declining a feast made by Sasha, "Then what are we waiting for? Lets dig in!"
The tables in the Grand Hall were filled with many different meals, all from vegetable cakes to fruit salads, thin meat slices to gigantic wyvern wings, and even a meal for the wyverns themselves. While everyone listened, Ainohi and Kari told about the abduction and how Tenchi had snapped from seeing Alex and Lyra dying, making both of them cover their faces in shame from their lack of thought. On the floor, Arashi had managed to steal the orb from Tenchi's pocket and was biting on it some more while Leicna, Gane and Rywigo just watched before Leicna growled lightly, almost speaking to Arashi who let the orb go before watching Leicna breathing out ice over it, making it completely frozen before Arashi got one valuable lesson when jumping to bite it, never put the tongue on something cold. Arashi began to run around with the tongue stuck to the orb, squeaking in fear before Tenchi picked her up and with the heat of her hands got the wyvern's tongue unstuck, "Silly girl." Arashi just squeaked and then crawled into Tenchi's bust, something Peridot found cute.
"So, what is that orb?" Sasha asked before Tenchi put it down and everyone looked into it, the eyes on everyone around the tables soon widening at the image they saw. A place shrouded in a gloomy fog, trees with black leaves and houses looking like those they had in medieval England. Many black dragons roamed the streets, but it was mostly what was in the distance that caught their attention. Standing still under a tower-like building was a light-blue dragoness riding an equally light-blue wyvern, but both had markings on them that seemed out of the picture. Sasha was shocked, "They resurrected someone and their wyvern. Is that a Frostclaw?"
Janch stood up and grabbed the orb before walking over to Gane, the orb still zoomed in on the duo before she sat down, "Darling, do you know who this is?" Gane looked into the orb with confusion on his face until the confused face turned into one of pure anger and he jumped to attempt catching the orb and crush it as Janch sighed, "Yes, darling... It is Varani... it is my mother." Everyone was frozen from hearing this and soon Rywigo of all walked over to Janch and pushed her gently to make her fall forward onto his back before Gane laid down next to her, Janch showing for the first time in the eyes of many how she was crying, "They... resurrected my mother... and now they are planning to use her for misdeeds. That is... that is..." Gane knew what was about to happen and pushed up her face before an ear-piercing growl was heard and the orb itself shattered, "Completely unacceptable!"
Everyone covered their ears before none other than Lòeón pulled her up to a soft hug, "My child, let out it all now." With the head buried in his shoulder, Janch was letting out almost forty years of suppressed pain and sadness, making most smile at how they got to see that even Janch was a being capable of crying. Tenchi felt a light tap on her shoulder before Sasha removed the eye-patch on her and in front of Peridot, Ainohi and Kari, she was actually performing the procedure to remove the old eye and then let Peridot hold onto a new eye, which Faarg had secretly brought the materials for when no one had watched. Peridot soon got the clear sign as she put the eye in place, hearing the sound of it working before it was attached and Tenchi blinked before she saw how it worked, "Thanks, Sasha." Tenchi looked at the shattered orb and soon nodded, "We need to step up our game. Remember the power suit I made for that convention? I want a real one that enhances my body further." Sasha smirked before nodding, "I think I know what you want and I agree. It is time to prepare to make them pay for touching the Frostclaws!" Every Frostclaw at the table growled in unison, including the wyverns before Janch looked at the dust of the orb, "I am coming, mother, to save you. Just you wait."
The End.
