Propechy of Mayhem | By : morgansbane Category: S through Z > Xena Views: 2358 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Ch 4 A call for help
13 years later
Mara Trueflight sat by a fire, rubbing her wrist where the shackles were kept. For thirteen years she had borne the burden of them, but hopefully soon she would be free. A young man came and sat beside her, a fellow slave who had also been there the past thirteen years.
"I'm surprised they are risking going back to Amazonia." he says quietly.
"So am I, they have avoided it like the plague since I came here. But if they are going back, we may be in luck." Mara whispers softly, "I doubt my mother has forgotten me Gio."
"I hope not, would be a great thing to be free of these chains." Gio says before standing and walking over to check on some of the older slaves that had been recently brought in.
Mara glances around herself before raising her eyes to the sky, "Goddess of the earth, please let this be the time we have waited for. Please let my mother and the others know what is coming their way and rescue us from this madness." she whispers softly, not realizing her request would be heard and answered by the mother of the gods herself, Lady Gaia.
{Gaia's Palace, deep within the earth}
Goddess of the earth, please let this be the time we have waited for. Please let my mother and the others know what is coming their way and rescue us from this madness. The plea echos in the palace of the earth goddess, Lady Gaia. The great mother herself pauses in her work, a soft gasp escaping at the plea she hears 'That's Mikhails granddaughter, the one the Amazon bore to him and Rhia. I must find them at once.'
Leaving her garden she rushes to the well that keeps track of her offspring and their descendants. Tapping upon it once, she whispers "Doom and Destruction come to me."
Within moments a whirl of wind comes out of the well as two beings step out, "Yes mother?" Mikhail asks once they appear fully before her.
"Your granddaughter is in need of help, my son. Marianna Trueflight is alive, and in the slave train." Gaia splashes her well showing her son and daughter their granddaughter for the first time in 13 years.
"We must find Amara and Marissa, they will know how best to handle this news." Rhia says quickly as she turns to leave, "Our thanks to you mother."
"you are most welcome daughter" Gaia answers as she watches them leave
{Amazonia- capitol of the Amazon territory}
With a flash of light, the two reappear in the capitol just outside the home of Marissa Trueflight, their long time friend and lover. With a soft knock the two wait for someone to answer.
"Can I help you?" a young woman answers the door warily.
"I need to speak with either Marissa or Amara Trueflight, urgently child, as it concerns someone close to them." Rhia speaks quickly beakoning the girl to go get the two.
"one moment, may I ask who wishes to see them?" the girl asks
"Just tell them Rhianna is here." she shoos the girl to go once more.
"Wait... Grandmother Rhianna? Grandfather Mikhail?" She says after a moment of thought, "Come on in, I will get mother and grandmother."
"You are Destiny then?" Rhianna asks, "we havent seen you since your sister went missing."
"Yes one moment and I will get them, here is a drink for you to tide your thirst." Destiny sits the glasses on water on the table before leaving the room, "Mother, grandmother, important visitors for you both, they say its urgent." her voice fades out as she reaches a back room away from the guests.
The two immortals look around their minds running over what all they have found out about the missing granddaughter, not paying much attention as Marissa walks into the room first, "Mikhail, Rhia, what are you doing here?" she asks them
Rhia smiles, "We bring good news and a warning, old friend."
"Whats the warning about?" Amara asks as she enters the room
"The slavers that took Marianna are coming back this way." Mikhail speaks up
"Son of a... When?" Amara demands to know, anger clouding her voice
"Hold child, we have good news as well, Marianna is alive and well, still in the slave train, however." Rhia speaks quickly, letting the news sink into her friends and family. "She sent a prayer to our mother, Lady Gaia, to get word to us and you, she wants to be free again, and is dead set on ending the train she is in, while keeping the other slaves safe."
"Destiny go get Hippolta, tell her to bring the war council." Marissa orders her granddaughter
"Yes grandmother." Destiny bows and leaves still in shock that her twin had been found.
Destiny returns with the Amazon queen and the war council, whom with the help of the titans and Trueflight family come up with a plan to end the slavers while keeping the innocents safe.
In the Train
The slavers call a halt to the march, moving everyone off the road towards the riverside, not realizing that they were being watched since entering the woods.
"Get a move on you lazy cows!" one of the foremen holler as his whip lashes out to the nearest victim, who just so happened to catch it on her arm, letting it wrap around before yanking on the whip with a growl.
"Why dont you watch where your whip lands, you clout?" Mara growls out,her hand twisting on the whip around her arm as the foremen flinches away from her.
"Get moving Amazon witch, or you and your buddy will be on pen lock down again tonite." He orders in a shakey voice.
"Try giving orders as if you aren't scared for a change, moron." Gio comments quietly as he unwinds the whip and tosses it at the foreman before handing Mara a rag to wrap around her arm.
The duo walks off and passes the water skins around to the other slaves, alternatively filling them up at the river side.
Once the other slaves have been tended to Mara, walks down to the river, rubbing at the shackle on her wrist as she wets the rag down before wrapping it around her forearm, "Stupid moron..." She mumbles under her breath.
Across the river just out of sight, her mother takes a sharp breath, seeing her daughter for the first time in years. Amara gives a soft whistle of a birds trill, watching as her daughter looks up and tilts her head.
A softer more hesitant whistle sounds quietly across the river, an answering from the wary girl as she glances back at the train of slavers. 'wonder who is out there? And how oblivious the slavers will be...'
Staring slowly across the river, Mara waits as she listens, trying to remember the years before she was taken, and the vague training she had been given by her mother and grandmother. Her eyes catch sight of the movements in the trees, the shadows of people gathering amongst the forest. Moving closer to the river edge, she stares into the trees, glancing back once or twice to make sure no one was paying attention to her.
"You need not worry child." A soft voice sounds next to her as a woman appears beside her, "No one can hear you or see you doing anything other then sitting by the water edge."
"And you are?" Mara asks suspiciously
"My name child is Rhianna, I am a friend of your mother and grandmother. They want you to know that they are waiting and watching out for you." Rhia answers softly, her hand motioning towards the woods.
"They remember me still...for the longest time I wasnt sure if they would or not.." Mara comments quietly.
"They remember dear one, and once night hits you will be free, let only the slaves who will be an asset know of the plan and to be ready." Rhia advises as she disappears
"I will.." Mara whispers as she turns and walks back to the group, touching key people with her hand to tell them to prepare themselves.
From the forest Amara watches her daughter walk back to the slaves, torn between happiness at her being alive and anger at the past for being stolen from her. She notices that there were not many whom her daughter touched, but those who she did had the look of fighters, those who would come in handy during the fight to come.
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