Annie pov

"But your majesty I-I can't do that." My eyebrows raise at the nervousness in the mans voice, I quicken my pace down the hall towards the office.

"You can't or you won't?" My sisters voice taunts the man causing me to slightly cringe and pick up my pace even more so.

"My Queen there are hundreds of kids there!" The guard tries to reason with her but I just hear her scoff.

"All of them tormented me, burn the school down now." My eyes widen at my sisters demand.

"But-but Yo-" I walk in just in time to see Desdemona flick her wrist causing ice to go straight through the mans throat. The man gurgles as he falls and I hear a giggle, I turn to see Jacy covering her mouth lightly as she giggles. I look to Desdemona as she turns to the other guard who looks fearful of his life as he looks back and forth between Desdemona and the dead guard.

"Now go burn that school down now!" Desdemona commands with out hesitation, the guard nods his head slowly as he turns and dreadfully walks by me. I grab his arm and shake my head.

"The Queens request to burn down the school is denied by the council, approved by myself the Head Of Council." A look of relief goes through the guard at my stern words and he quickly nods and rushes off before Desdemona or Jacy can say anything else.

"Annie! How dare you go against me! Send another guard this instant!" Desdemona glares at me as her body shakes lightly and I shake my head no.

"You may be my Queen but the council has a fair amount of power to keep you from killing everyone. You're lucky Jacy got a hold to the council before I did or there wouldn't be a war." My voice is stern as I cross my arms and look pointedly towards Jacy before looking back at Desdemona.

If I had gotten the vote of the council before Jacy had used her power to make them say yes this war could have possibly been prevented or at least held off.

"Annie that school is going to be burned down rather you like it or not." I open my mouth to speak but I'm cut off by a new voice.

"No Navi, you are going to leave the school be, your body count is high enough." My shoulders drop slightly in relief of her voice and I turn to see Riley in the door way, her arms cross as she has a look of complete seriousness on her face; something I'm not quite used to.

Riley POV

Dread fills me at Navi's words. I can't believe she so easily will burn a whole school down with kids in it.

I look to Annie as I see relief take over her features, though it won't be there long, I will be leaving again in a matter of hours. I then look to Jacy and smirk at the fearful look taking over her.

"What-what are you doing here?" My smirk grows at the nervousness in her tone.

"I have to speak to Navi, so if you would leave that would be great." I state as I look away from her and look to Navi.

"Well Desdemona and I work together so whatever you have to say you can say with me here." Jacy states as strongly as her nervous voice allows.

"What if I throw a stick, will you leave then?" I ask in a sickly sweet way causing Jacy to glare at me, Annie snickers on the other side of the room.

"You are just jealous because I'm Desdemonas right hand and you are not!" Jacy flicks her hair over her shoulder sticking her head held high.

"I'm jealous of the people that haven't met you, now leave before I make you leave."my tone is clipped showing no room for argument, of course Jacy starts to open her mouth before Navi interrupts.

"Jacy leave." Jacy's eyes widen slightly at her words, she huffs before quickly walking out of the room. I look to Annie.

"You to, but don't go far." I look into Annie's eyes a second longer than normal and she nods at the secret message before leaving the office and shutting the door after her.

"So are you trying to be the Queen with the highest body count or what?" My tone is clipped and Navi's eyes widen at it, I had never used that tone with her before.

"Don't talk to me like that I don't like it." Navi's eyes soften as the words leave her mouth and I see a glimpse of her old self pass through her eyes.

"I talk to monster's the way they deserve to be talked to." Again my tone is clipped and slightly aggressive. My heart begs me to soften my tone but I can't, tough love is what she needs right now. I couldn't softly handle her actions, she is in the wrong and she needs to understand that.

"Well I don't know what you want me to do, how can I make you not see me that way?" I tilt my head at the look of hurt crossing her features.

"Maybe start by apologizing to the other kingdoms and calling off the war?" I suggest nonchalantly as I shrug my shoulders. Navi rolls her eyes at my suggestion.

"Well no one apologized for making me this way."

"Well you killed them all before they had a chance so." I throw her a pointed look with my words and Navi shakes her head at me as she turns and walks to her window looking out over the garden in the back yard. The sun shines over them as it starts heading to the edge where it will soon disappear and warm the otherside of the world.

I follow after her and we both stand looking out over the garden, I lean slightly on the wall looking out to the garden. I then look at her and my eyes soften as she looks out into the field, her emotions on full display, and I see her.

I see Navi.

Confusion dances with fear as anxiety plays them a song, they dance in her eyes as she looks for all the answers to her problems in the flowers of the garden below.

A heavy sigh leaves Navi as she looks at me. I fight the urge of asking her if she wants ice cream. I wish my father was in town and we could go get pizza at the cabin. Like old times.

I thought times were hard back then, how easy they seem now.

Navi's voice softly finds it's way to my ears. "Remember when we said if we made it to 30 with out mates we would marry each other and runaway." Her voice is but a whisper but I hear every word loud and clear. "Is it to late for that?"

The question makes me desperately want to break down in tears, take her in my arms and run away from everything.

I shake my head at her and my eyes start to water, I shut my eyes for a moment and breath in deeply before opening them and smiling at her sadly.  I want so bad to run away with her, like we had planned when we were younger, but Navi isn't completely Navi anymore, and we have to clean up the mess she is making. After a moment I lick my lips before opening them and letting my shaky whisper caress her ear.

"You know I wish it wasn't."

At my words Navi nods and looks back to the window, looking down at the garden. By her eyes I know exactly what she is thinking. I can see how bad she wants to open the window and let the flowers catch her. Instinctively I grab her arm lightly. She turns her head slightly and looks at me. Slowly I see Navi being swallowed by the darkness again and I know my time is running out.

"Navi I have a question." I state hurriedly, Navi simply nods her head as she studies me.

"Is there any dragon queens that could produce fire that were never buried?" I ask causing her eyebrows to pull together in confusion.

"Uh." The sound leaves her mouth as she looks out to the garden in thought. Her eyes then widen slightly. "Oh yeah Queen Ittzy! Rumor has it when her son finally found the cave she was in he only found the chains, so she could never be properly buried." Navi shrugs she then looks at me with a confused look. "Why do you ask."

"Assassin stuff that's all." I shrug my shoulders nonchalantly and Navi nods, knowing she won't get much more from me.

"I need your help Riley. With this war." Navi states, as she looks in my eyes, I see the blue is darkened and Navi is no longer with me. Instead I'm talking to the Ice Queen.

I nod my head at her words.

"Of course, when the time comes I'll be here, I'll finish this mission up and then I'll help you." The lie easily escapes me and Navi smiles at my words.

"Good, I wouldn't want anyone else to help me."

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Tada! Sorry I haven't updated as frequently, I'm trying to get back into the swing of updating again. Going a week and a half of not updating really threw off my groove. But I'm getting it back slowly but surely. I plan to have another update by tomorrow or Thursday. Maybe even tonight but I dont want to push my luck I dont want forced chapters they arent as good!.

Thoughts?

The making of Glitch/To Fall.:

To Fall was almost titled "The Ice Queen."

How I imagine Daniel