Power Relic

Chapter Thirty Five: The Shadow's Hold Over Her

"Yes my Emperor!" she said and proceeded to genuflect.

"All of our hopes go with you now," The emperor stated as he ended the transmission.

"I don't like this idea of an orbital bombardment that spire has too much leech underneath it, Could cause a catastrophic explosion wiping out half the planet!" Bradley told Captain Choleska.

"I don't like any of it either, but we must follow our emperors orders!" she replied. Captain Choleska stood up from her kneeling position and walked over to her captain's chair and sat down. A new indicator was beeping on one of the security consoles it warned that Reegan's ship in the dock was attempting to leave on it's own.

"Ambassador Reegan's vessel! Do you think it knows where he is?" Captain Choleska asked Bradley. "We should let it go and watch where it lands. . . . I can board Reegan's ship. Let me at least find him and figure out what is going on down there! Permission to leave Captain?" Bradley asked, she gave him a yes nod.

June's little Tigris friends had gathered outside the locked door . They could see through the little windows that June was stuck inside. They took turns standing on each others shoulders to wave hello. But they all toppled over on top of each other when they realized Queen TyrAnna had arrived with her military generals and were standing behind them.

"When can June come out and play?" Catleah asked the Queen. But she was met with a stern grimace as TyrAnna looked down on her. Tafficious showed up from the other side of the hallway with members of his council, to supervise the interrogation.

"Queen TyrAnna we must be present when you speak with Sam,Rufus and June I must be allowed to speak with them as well!" Tafficious demanded. TyrAnna was not in the mood for this but the sad little Tigris who were in front of her gave her pause to reconsider.

"We miss our friends please don't hurt them!" Purby pleaded.

"As you wish!" TyrAnna nodded, she then repeated the same words to Tafficious. The guards unlocked the doors and they entered the room.

"Juniper! Samuel! Wake up!" Rufus shouted, he gave them both a good nudge when he noticed the Queen enter the room. June still had her evidence placed out on the table in front of her before she had fallen asleep.

June saw the Queen coming, she became nervous and stood up immediately to pay attention, she felt relieved to see Tafficious walk in behind her.

"Sammy wake up!" June yelled at Sam who was still sleeping.

"Uh Queen TyrAnna your Majesty and uh Council Leader Tafficious my friend Samuel has some information of the utmost pertinence!" Rufus explained with haste. Queen TyrAnna became impatient as she heard Sam snoring, she kicked his seat from under him.

Sam woke up suddenly, he was startled and jumped out of his seat. He had not awakened fully yet, his eyes were still adjusting as he looked up. Where the others in the room saw TyrAnna all Sam could see was a dark shadow with glowing green eyes. In his half awakened state his back arched and he hissed at it.

"What is this how dare you hiss at me!" TyrAnna proclaimed. But Sam appeared to not be able to control himself.

"Maybe he's just sleep walking?" June suggested.

"Sleep Walking? Hah!" TyrAnna turned to June and laughed at her. But just then there was a noticeable cold and a darkness that took over the room. Sam jumped again, he arched his back further and hissed louder in TyrAnna's direction.

The shadow appeared to react to Sam's anger towards it and moved quickly across the room. Sam followed it, he stared up towards the top corner of the ceiling hissing and growling, All Sam could see was a hovering shadow with green eyes.

"This is dark magic your majesty!" One of her Generals warned.

"Samuel stop that we must inform them. . .Right now! You should be the one to convey the information!" Rufus had walked up behind Sam and scolded him.

Sam pulled out his claws, as he ignored Rufus.

The others in the room began to sense a dark presence as well and took note of the room becoming dark and cold but TyrAnna paid no notice. All she could feel was how annoyed she was at Sam for having him back turned to her as he hissed at the corner of the room.

"I am about to lose my patience!" She warned.

Rufus grabbed Sam by the arm and turned him around. The shadow vanished and so did the cold feeling everyone experienced. Sam was awake, he looked around to see that the Queen and Tafficious were in the room but they were all behaving oddly he thought. Sam could see that Rufus looked as if he wanted to turn Sam around again and stand in front of him. June looked at Sam and her jaw dropped.

"What's on your Schnoz?" June blurted.

Tafficious looked deeply concerned with the Military Generals behind him reaching for their weapons. But TyrAnna looked down to the floor, she made a clenched fist. Her face was covered in a very angry expression when she looked at Sam to speak to him.

"You intend to insult the Tigris people?" She yelled.

"What?" Sam replied.

"Err Samuel your. .. . ." Rufus said.

Sam felt his face and he could tell that something was different. He turned to see his reflection in a small window and there was definitely something that looked different. Sam felt his nose quickly, he tried to remove something he thought was on it before looking at his reflection again.

It was still there, he realized that it was just like the day when his ears grew and became deformed and also just like the day he grew his tail. But this time his nose had changed in shape and size. Instead of his regular human nose he had now a very different looking

nose. He screamed as he backed up from his reflection. His first instinct was to pull down his toque but then he couldn't see. He tried pulling up his sweat shirt. But when he could not breath, in a fit of anger he gave up and stomped on the ground to show his frustration with how awkward he felt about his body changes.

"I. . . . . I didn't do this!"

"I don't know whats wrong with me!" Sam complained. He looked up to see the Queen's face filled with rage. He looked back at the reflection of his nose. His nose looked very similar to that of Queen TyrAnna's.

Just his bad luck he thought.

"Your majesty it must be dark magic we should get you out of here!" One of her generals insisted. The Queen stomped out of the room with disappointment.

"It appears that we maybe be in quite the predicament Samuel! Furthermore we did not have the chance to warn her about the White Knight's true identity!" Rufus exclaimed.

"You think we are in big trouble?" June asked to which Rufus nodded and frowned. June placed her head in her arms and began to cry. But it was then they heard Tafficious who was still present in the room after the other Tigris left.

"What is this information about the White Knight?" He asked.