Original X-roads-2003

    The light flashed again. A woman of considerable size stood there now, and she was not amused.
    The Queen backhanded Sertoff upon arrival. She noticed the King dead at her feet and turned with fury.
    All off the sudden Sertoffs blaster went flying across the room. She ripped his sword from his side with such force it tore his sheath from his body. “How do you make this wretched thing work.” she complained and shook the sword a little in her hand, but the sword would not glow for her. The sword wouldn’t glow for anyone but Sertoff.
    She threw it behind her in anger, it clanged on the floor then slid into a dead servant. “You worthless pathetic excuse for a man!” the tyrant started. She bent over and backhanded Sertoff again to insure he stayed unconscious. “You’ll pay for this in ways you never dreamed possible.” she hissed at him.
    Sertoffs eyes suddenly opened, and he stared straight at the Queen.
    “I’ll hand you over to the Underworlders myself.” she said to him, then she stood and walked backwards from him.
    “Dis not good.” Jonothan moved closer to me. “Jasylin you gotta stop him, NOW!”
    How?!?!? How am I supposed to stop him? Kill him? It looks like he can control people now too. This doesn’t look good.
    “Do something.” Harley urged.
    “Sertoff, Stop.” I said, like he’s going to listen to mere words.
    He had though. The queen stood there in silence, standing perfectly straight.
    “I don’t have to kill her.” Sertoff said plainly, as he watched the Queen breathe. “I can rule through her.”
    The Queen raised her right arm in front of her body and held it there. Sertoff glanced at me, “I control every move she makes.”
    He got up off the floor. “I really should thank you, for breaking my heart. You unlocked powers within me, I never knew I had.”
    Mentaz and Flame stood ready.