Tonight was the night. The night she would get her revenge for Kaj and their unborn child.
   "Are you sure you're up to this?" Phoenyx asked her.
   "Yes, I am. Now go get Helio and Helia and stash them away where I told you to. While you're doing that, I'll be having a nice little family talk with each of my family members." She said malevolently.
She and the assassin headed their own ways in the plan to carry out tonight's assassinations.
   Savita headed down the corridor towards Seraphim's chambers. He would be the easiest target.
   Easing the door open, she found her little brother reading at his desk. He was so engrossed in his book that he didn't even hear her come in.
   "Hello, Seraphim." She said to him, making him jump.
   "Oh, Savita, I wasn't expecting you this late at night. What are you doing up so late?"
   "I could ask you the same question but as always the answer is right in front of you."
   He chuckled a little. "I guess you're right. So, what brings you here?"
   Adopting a more sorrowful tone and making her eyes water, she looked at him sadly.
   "Do you know what day it is?"
   "Ya, it's Thursday." He responded.
   "No, I mean what's significant about this day."
   Seraphim looked at he closely, and then recognition flashed across his face.
   "Savita...I'm so sorry. I completely forgot about the accident. It was tragic indeed. Do you want to talk about?"
   She clenched her fist inside her dress pocket, but refused to allow any emotion on her face. His death was not tragic. It was straight up murder.
   "Yes, I would, but first I would like to know what you're reading about." She said, looking at the book with fake enthusiasm.
   Seraphim eagerly started telling her all about the book he was reading.
   While he was jabbering, she grabbed the hilt of the kunai, and jabbed him in the carotid artery.
   Seraphim clutched at his neck as crimson blood ran down his hands and chest and mouth.
   Then his head hit his desk, his eyes completely lifeless.
   Phoenyx was right. The first kill was the most exhilarating.
   Leaving a phoenix feather on the desk, she left, and rushed to the guards.
   "Guards! Guards!" She cried.
   "Yes, princess." They both said at once, giving her the bow reserved only for royalty.
   "My brother, Seraphim, he's been murdered!"
   "By who?" One asked.
   "I-I think it was Phoenyx. I went to go visit him, and found him dead with a phoenix feather next to him. It-it was just so—," she stopped her fake sob voice and acted like it was just too painful to talk about.
   "It's okay, princess, we'll go look for Phoenyx right now. We'll bring her to justice." The other guard said, and both took off to Phoenyx's chambers where a nasty surprise awaited them.
   Using this distraction, she went for Surya. The death of the next king was bound to get her father away from her mother in order to take away another thing he loved.
   Approaching Surya's quarters, she found that a guard had been placed at the door.
   She glowered at the guard.
   "Is something wrong, princess?"
   "Yes, there is. How am I suppose to talk to my brother in privacy if there are ears listening?"
   "Princess, I'm just following orders from my captain."
   "Well now I'm ordering you to go to the end of the hall, and wait till I'm done talking to my brother."
   "But—,"
  "Does it look like I care. All I'm asking of you is sometime to speak to my brother without fear of being interrupted or eavesdropped on. This...is something personal I would like to discuss with him."
   "As you wish, princess." The guard said, and retreated to the end of the corridor.
   Opening the door, she found Surya up and awake, and already putting on his armor.
   "Surya, what are you doing?" She asked him, startling him as well.
   "Oh, Savita, it's just you." He said, looking relieved that it wasn't someone—Phoenyx—else.
   "What are you doing?" She asked again.
   "Gearing up to fight against Phoenyx. Didn't you hear that she killed Seraphim."
   "She what?!" She pretended to act all surprised. "I didn't think Phoenyx was capable of such atrocities against father."
   "Well apparently she's quite resentful against him, and she's proving that by going after our family. You should get back to your room, and lock yourself in, just in case. She might not attack you with you two being friends in all, but I wouldn't trust her now or ever." He said, grabbing his chest plate, and slipping it over his head to have it come rest on his shoulders.
   Taking this opportunity, she went to go help him tighten the straps in his chest plate.
   When she had the shoulders done, she grabbed the shoulder piece, and pulled the whole plate of metal back, causing it to jab into Surya'a throat, and making it impossible for him to talk or breath hardly.
   He tried to fight free from her, but couldn't. Neither he or anyone didn't expect her to be this strong. It was all thanks to her secret lessons with Phoenyx.
   "Don't worry, bother," she whispered in his ear, "the rest of our family will be joining you and Seraphim shortly."
   Grabbing his head she wrenched it around so fast and hard that his neck broke smoothly.
   She caught him before he clattered to floor.
   Placing a phoenix feather next to him as well, she stepped over the body, and grabbed a sack from his closet.
   Proof for her father that his next successor what dead.

When she was done, she wrapped the sack up tightly, and hid it under her skirts.
   She opened the door to find the guard waiting for her.
   "Where's, His Highness?" The guard asked suspiciously.
   "Up there." She said, looking up, causing him to look also.
   She would have to get some new guards. She thought to herself as she jammed another kunai in his throat.
   When she was sure he was dead, she headed for her mother.

At her parents' room she found no guard at all.
   Either it was her lucky day or her father set a trap for Phoenyx.
   Deciding to take the bait, she knocked gently on the door, and awaited an answer from within the room.
   The door cracked open, and she saw a guard looking at her.
   "Who is it?" Her mother asked.
   "Princess Savita." The guard replied.
   "Let her in." Her mother responded.
   The guard opened the door for her, and she walked in, closing the door behind her, and locking it.
   "Savita, why did you lock the door?" Her mother asked.
   "Phoenyx is out there, mother, and I don't want her to kill you." She said, grabbing the handle of the one handed crossbow at her thigh.
   "That's very sweet of you, Savita." Her mother said.
   "I wasn't finished speaking yet."
   "Savita, what do you mean?" Her mother asked.
   Before answering, she pulled out the crossbow, and shot the guard next to her and the other three soon followed.
   "I want to." She finished with a wicked grin on her face. Her death was going to make her father suffer even more.
Surya, her mother, and herself were her father's entire world. With the two dead and her betraying him, he would crumble. He would feel the pain she had been feeling for these past two years.
   "Savita..." her mother said in a shocked voice, getting out of bed. "What is the meaning of this? Why would you want to kill me?"
   "You know why. You know what day it is. You were in on his plan." She hissed.
   Her mother's face turned pale like a ghost.
   "Savita...I didn't want your father to do any of that. I—,"
   "But you let him anyways." She interrupted in a calm voice as she took closer steps. "You let him kill Kaj, my child, and make sure I could never have children again. You let him make me as barren as Sands ignis in deserto Iudaeae. Now, it's his turn to know how it feels to lose everything he cares about."
"No, Savita, no. Vengeance isn't the way."
She thrusted a kunai into her mother's chest.
"Yes, it is. Pretty words and pleas about sorriness isn't enough to bring back the dead, mother. Say hello to Seraphim and Surya for me." She let go of the dagger, and let the empty husk of her mother fall to the ground.
One more to go.
Leaving the room, she made her way to the throne room.
   "Hello, Princess Savita." An all to familiar voice hissed through the quite air.
   "What is my father's favorite rat up to now?" She asked the mage.
   "Oh, nothing much, just figuring out who killed over half the royal family in one night. And I figured it out, Savita."
   "That's Princess Savita to you, peasant." She snarled back.
   "Oh, I'm sorry. I think I know a title more deserving for you, murderer."
   Swirling around, she threw a dagger at him.
   The mage jumped to the side.
   Retaliating, he summoned a ball of orange fire, and flung it at her.
   Dropping to the ground, she avoided its fiery wrath.
   "Now, where in the world did, Her Highness, Learn to fight like that? I can only think of one person and her name starts with a P. Am I right?"
   "Go to hell old man." She growled, throwing another dagger at him. The mage stopped it with a blast of fire.
   Cursing for making so much noise, she quickly ran down the hallway.
   If there was one thing she learned from Phoenyx was to always use your surroundings to your advantage.
   Making sure Lokeigh was right behind her, she grabbed a tapestry, and pulled it down upon him.
   He cursed as he struggled to get free.
   Grinning with satisfaction, she grabbed her one handed crossbow, and filled Lokeigh with wood until he stopped screaming and moving.
   When she did a double check, he looked like a porcupine, but otherwise, dead as dust.
   Hearing the running of boots, she slipped the crossbow back in its holster, and dipped her fingers in blood and gave herself a fake, nasty looking gash on the head. Then she pretended to be knocked out.
   "Princess Savita!" A guard cried, gently shaking her shoulders.
   "Huh?" She asked, slowly opening her eyes. "W-what happened?"
   "That's what we would like to know?" Another guard asked, as the tapestry was pulled off Lokeigh's body.
   She acted like she was shocked at the corrupted mage's death, and let tears slide down her face.
   "No. Lokeigh. He's dead. She killed him." She whispered.
   "What do you mean?" A guard asked.
   "Phoenyx, she attacked us, and—and Lokeigh fought her off but then killed him, and knocked me out. I thought she had killed me too, I guess not. I just can't believe she would do this. I-I thought we—,"
   "It looks like you thought wrong about her."
   "Let us escort you back to your chambers." One said, helping her to her feet.
   "No, I think I would like to await for my father in the throne room. I'll be perfectly safe there. It's the most well protected place in the palace."
   "Okay, fine. But let the guards there know."
   "I will." She said, and faked limped away as the guards took Lokeigh's body.
   She grinned.
   One left.

At the doors to the throne room, she quickly killed all the guards with a little help from her friend in high places, literally. Phoenyx had been following her around throughout the palace by using the rafters where no one could see her.
   "Is it done?"
   "Yes, the little brats are tucked away in a wagon being taken out of the city tonight, and will be stored someplace safely." Phoenyx said.
   "Good. Now, you remember the plan, don't you?"
   "Yes, I do, my queen." Phoenyx said, giving her a little bow.
   "Excellent. Now go hide till me and my father are done with our talk."
   "Yes, my queen." Phoenyx said, and went to go do as she was told.
Walking up to her father's throne, she sat down in it, with the sack next to her. She wanted her father to know exactly what she had done.
As she waited, she heard footsteps approaching the door.
"Agni." Phoenyx whispered from the rafters.
She gave Phoenyx a nod of acknowledgement.
The doors to the throne room creaked open, and her father entered the room. The man who made her what she is today.
"Savita, what are you doing?" Her father asked her.
"Are you alone?" She asked.
"Savita—,"
"I asked a question and I expect you to answer it." She said forcefully, talking her father by surprise. She was no longer his precious little blossom he tried so hard to protect. He killed that blossom and gave birth to a rose. Beautiful at first but deadly the next.
"Yes. Now, what is all of this about?"
"There is a choice you must make here and now today if you want Helio and Helia to live."
"They're still alive!"
She frowned.
"Yes, for now. But if you want them to remain that way then you must accept me as Et ignis in Terris new queen."
   "Savita, I will not bend the knee to you. After what you've done tonight, I will have you executed. You don't deserve the throne. Surya does."
   "Well too bad Surya no longer has a say in the matter." She said with a wicked smile on her face.
   "What do you mean?" Her father asked.
   She picked up the bag, and tossed it to him. 
   "Your answer is in there."
   Her father opened the bag, and then dropped it with pure horror written all over his face.
   "What is wrong with you! You killed your own brother, and cut off his head! This is exactly why you never will become queen."
   "But I will. Once you're dead along with mother, Surya, Seraphim, and with the twins missing and out of the way I am the sole heir to the throne. No one will question why I am the sole survivor because they will all think Phoenyx did it out of pure hatred of you. I've won, father. I finally took away everything and everyone you love just like you did to me." She boasted, savoring the feeling of victory.
   "I did that to protect you and Et ignis in Terris from that monster Kaj and his evil offspring that had been growing in your womb. I did everything I could to give you the best life, but you destroyed your chance to become queen when you and that monster conceived that unborn monster."
   "Kaj wasn't a monster and neither was our child. You never gave him the chance to show you that not all like him are evil you just jumped to conclusions like always."
   "He was a demon that somehow managed to slip his way in King Lazuli's favor and become his ambassador." Her father argued back.
   "No, you are the real monster. You would still be king, mother, Surya, and Seraphim would still be alive and the twins would be fine if you hadn't killed Kaj, had Lokeigh kill my baby with a spell and take away my fertility in the process. You would have been a grandfather as well, but no, you saw our child as a monster and as a threat. Have you ever thought that Kaj was trying to live a normal life away from his race and try to be human?"
   "His deceitful lies still cloud your judgement."
   "No, father. You stubbornness is what clouds your judgement, and for that you must die. You know what they say, out with the old, and in with the new."
   "Guards." Phoenyx whispered.
   She smiled. Right on time.
   "Time to die." She hissed, and threw a kunai straight into his eye.
   He fell to the ground, thrashing in pain. Then he stopped.
   She smiled. It was over.
   We got him Kaj, we finally got him. She thought.
   As she heard the guards approaching, her plan went into action.
   "Please, don't kill me, Phoenyx." She begged on the floor with the assassin standing over her father's dead corpse as the guards came rushing in.
   "There's the murderer! Kill her!" One of the guards yelled, and swords were drawn.
   "Wait!" She called out to the guards.
   "Princess, she killed your whole family. She must die."
   "I know, but as Et ignis in Terris law states a person who breaks the law must face judgement before being sentenced to death. And since there is no ruler to sentence her to death now we must follow the law until a coronation can take place."
   The guards all looked to Ignacio, who was in charge of the guard.
   Ignacio dipped his ash-grey head in acknowledgment to what she said.
   The guards surrounded Phoenyx, and led her away in chains.
   When everyone was gone, and her father's corpse was removed, she looked at the red-tailed hawk perched on the open window.
   She walked over to it, and stroked its glossy reddish-brown feathers.
   "You know what to do." She whispered to it. "Take this to Rhys." She told it, handing the predatory bird the piece of rolled up parchment.
   Taking it in one of its talons, the bird left her, and went to go find its master and the leader of et Images.

P.S. Hope you all are enjoying so far.
I feel like the song represents Savita's thirst for revenge. There probably could have been better songs, but this is just what I found and I liked how it sounded and a lot of the lyrics related to Savita's need for revenge.