Chapter Twenty Three: The Accident

Victoria tried her best of follow behind Santara but quickly fell behind. Santara was always bit faster than her and it always drove her mad. But it an ability that she also had to let Santara have. She was not the strongest Warrior and was very clumsy. She didn't take the structure of battle as serious as Victoria. Which both seemed to always benefit or be Santara's downfall.

" Sannie. Please just stop. This is not going to end well, I've already told you that" Victoria called out. Why wouldn't she listen to her. Victoria had never steered her younger sister wrong and yet here they were. But this wasn't a scuffle behind the local tavern. This was an attack that could actually cause major destruction. Something that would not be so easily as fixed as paying the Tavern owner to look the other way.

" THAT BITCH KICKED ME IN THE FACE AND I WANT PAYBACK" Santara screams back and she shifts into her wolf form and begins running toward the Witch Kingdom. " Victoria looks back to the castle, thinking of Gabrielle and then turning back to Santaras direction.

" FUCKING ASSHOLE " Victoria roars as she shifts as well and chases after Santara. They run the same path they were all too familiar with by now. Victoria continuously tries to call out to Santara who just completely ignores everything that Victoria was saying. Somewhere in the back of her mind, Victoria knew this was going to end very badly. No matter who won the fight. There was no good that would come of this.

Around the same time, Kara was nearing Her Kingdom's borderlands. She could see the golden desert in the distance. She was so close to being home again. And she missed it. Though she wasn't gone all too long, she wasn't the same person when she left and she isn't the same person now. She fully comprehends the things that she has to do and is willing to take responsibility for any of the damage that she may have caused. She has a lot of apologising in a lot of work to do but she's more than happy and determined to do it. But this time, she was ready to take on anything that came her way. She was more serious in her nature and the way she carried herself. She couldn't be as emotional as she had been in the past. She had to be strong. Like Gabriel always had been.

As she made her way across the land, she noticed something far off to the West of her current direction. It seemed like to wolfs " Lycans?" Kara said to herself as she flew in for a closer look. Was it possible that these were the scouts for the war? She wasn't sure.

As she moved in closer she could see a giant red wolf followed by a giant white one. " Santara and Victoria." Kara recognized them both. And thought it best to try and make contact. Whilst they wouldn't be happy to see her, she needed to at least give it a try. They looked as though they were heading to her Kingdom. And whilst not being sure of the reason, she had to reach out. And if things got to bad or aggressive. She would leave. She didn't want to fight.

"Guys.." Kara calls out to them. They look around whilst running but see nothing. Kara rolls her eyes and lands in front of them which makes them grind their paws in the dirt to a hault.

" Kaaaara..just the Princess I was looking for " Santara begins walking towards her, eyes never leaving Kara. " I'm actually glad I bumped into the both of you. I wanted to apologize. I realize. The things I said and the way I acted with Gabriel was unfair. I shouldn't have been so inconsiderate. And Santara..I truly am sorry kicking you in your-" Santara jumps and lands on top of Kara. Pinning her down.

" What the hell are you doing? " Kara tries to shake her off but she is too big. Her arms are being crushed between Santara's Paws and the ground. " Get off me" Kara asks politely but Santara refuses. " You don't tell me what to do Princess. I'm not your subject. I am not your friend"

" I SAID GET OFF OF ME" Kara screams as burst of energy shoots out of her and sends Santara flying. Victoria watches in amazement that Kara managed to pull that off at all. " If you want a fight. Then bring it bitch" Kara cocks back as she stands up and readies herself. Santara who landed a few feet away had also made it back to her feet and immedialty charges at Kara.

Kara side steps as fire forms at her finger tips, so as Santara runs by, she drags her nails through her fur, lighting it on fire. Santara can feel this and begins yelping in pain. Dropping to the ground to try and put herself out.

Victoria simply watches on. In Lycan culture, it is disrespectful to help someone finish a fight unless you were fighting alongside side one another from the beginning. Smelling her Sisters burnt fur though, did make Victoria feel on edge.

" Fucking fuck. How did you do that" Santara snarls as she manages to put herself out and gets back to her feet. " I've been practicing" Kara responds as Santara charges again which Kara side steps again. " Stop fucking dodging and fight me" Santara roars. Which only made Kara giggle. " I'll fight you when you can actually hit me "

This enrages Santara and she charges again. This time, doing a zig zag pattern as she runs which throws Kara off a little and she isn't able to dodge as quickly as before. Which allows for Santara to bite down around her foot. Dragging and pulling Kara around the dirt.

" Kara leans foward and launches a fire ball directly behind the ear of the wolf and Santara let's go. The smell of burnt hair and flesh can be smelt from miles away. " IM GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU!! "

Santara screams as she charges and leaps foward. Kara closes her eyes and holds out her palm which makes a 4 foot emerald green fire blade that Kara had never even knew she could use appear. Victoria sees the blade and runs to aid Santara, jumping just in time to knock Santara out of the way but in turn, getting pierced by the blade itself.

Blood gushes out of Victoria fast and the moment Santara gets up, she rushes to Victoria's side " Vickie..sissy...come on.." She nudges Victoria with her snout but doesn't respond. She leans down, placing her hair by Victoria's snout. She hears no breathing.

Victoria's pure white fur was now stained with red. It was a deep would that had tried to Cardirize itself. Victoria's eyes were left open, a sadness weighed heavily on them.

" YOU KILLED HER.." Kara looks over to see that Victoria has a giant hole in her chest. " I didnt..I didn't mean too I..." Santara turns to Kara and charges again which Kara this time, puts up a windwall of sorts which knocks Santara back though she manages to land on her feet. " You fucking Witch...you fucking worm...you will pay for this. Mark my words. You will pay "

Kara backs away from the scene and flies away back into the sky. Getting as far away from it as possible. " I didn't mean for that to happen." Kara continued to say over and over again to herself. She had no idea that blade would form, she just knew she was trying to put up something that would defend her. She was actually hoping for a shield of some type. But in that moment, he had lost her focus and wasn't thinking properly. Her mother had warned her of things like this happening and Kara felt dissapointed in herself. And now, Victoria is dead. There is no way that this is going to end well. If there wasn't going to be a war before, there's damn sure going to be one now.

Kara flies straight home. She flies straight to the castle and lands right in front of the doors. The doors they greeted her and took her to her new home. Her home that she loves so much now. The home that she missed.. She opens the door to find that her mother is sitting on the throne next to a familiar face.

" Gooblin..?" Gooblin smiles at The sight of Kara and rushes to her and gives her the biggest hug that he can manage. She hooks him back as well. It's good to see if familiar face again. One that doesn't actually hate her.

" Its so awesome to see you here. Have you just been chilling with mom? " She fakes a smile but Goodblin can sense something is wrong. " Kara did something bad" he whimpers and looks back to Aurora.

Queen Aurora comes over and half expects Kara to spout some random thing about Pierce but instead, she just breaks down. Whilst being comforted by Goobin and her Mother. She tells them everything that happened. The scheme, the torture for Gabrel, and the fact that she just killed Victoria.

This was a lot of information to take in and Queen Aurora wasn't entirely sure what she could even say about it.. She did feel like the plan, whilst noble, was something that she should have been informed about from the beginning. She could have helped her perfect the plan so that these types of issues would have never come up. But it's too late for that now.

" And as for Victoria...I don't know what we can do...but I can tell you this much. If Gabriel had an issue with you before. He is gonna have a bigger one when he finds out that Victoria is dead. That was his childhood bestfriend. I'm hoping he is going to be mature to handle it but considering all he has been through. I'm not entirely sure. Anything is possible and I guess we will have to cross that bridge when we come to it" Queen Aurora really did want to actually come for Kara but at the same time she was trying to think of the bigger picture here. Trying to predict all the issues that would come up and follow this.

She had failed to do that before and it had made the situation supremely worse so Aurora refused to make that same mistake again. " I didn't mean too. I swear I just..I dont..I feel so fucking stupid" Kara was so angry with herself in this moment. How could she be so freaking careless? How could she screw this up? How could she be expected to run an entire Kingdom one day when she can't even use her spells properly? All she needed to do was knock her back which she was obviously capable of doing but she opted to not do that period instead, she allowed her energy to take control over her and look what happened. Someone that shouldn't have died ended up dying. And Kara was not entirely sure she could ever forgive herself for this.

Mind you, she didn't like Victoria. She despised her in a lot of ways. But she also knew how much she meant to Gabriel. On some level Victoria had earned her respect. For at the very least, Saving Gabriel's life.

Santara on the other hand, The loudmouthed Sister was definitely a lot more aggressive. And she would definitely be the type that would want pay back for something like this. And she's also going to be the type that's probably going to tell Gabriel what happened Yet it make it seem a lot more on purpose than the way that it actually was. Which in Kara's mind, was accidental.

" Its like we are out of one shit hole and right into another one, aye kid? " Aurrora says, almost trying to comfort herself as much as Kara. They didn't know what would happen. But they did know, there would be retaliation at the least.

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Meanwhile, Santara had managed to slip Victoria's corpse on her back and proceeded to ride off back to their homeland. The journey was long and quiet and filled with nothing but anger. Santara had no Room for any sadness at all. That did not mean that she didn't love her sister. But the anger that she felt towards Kara was far greater than any sadness inside. She knew, that she was going to make Kara suffer for this.

Before, She had only wanted to fight or simply kill Kara. But now, she wanted to make her absolutely suffer in every way imaginable. And she has the perfect tool to do that with. A comatose King, Who means absolutely everything to Kara. Santara no longer cared about her peoples best interest. Victoria had always come first to her just as Gabriel had always come first to Victoria. And while she liked Gabriel. She saw this as a chance and she was going to take full advantage of it.