Phantasia: The Princess Knight

Beast Kingdom…. One week ago...

Tall trees and jungle overgrowth covered the lands. A young girl with white cat ears sticking out of the top of her head and a white tail with black stripes protruded out at the bottom of her lower back. She stood in front of a similar featured but larger and more well bit middle aged man with her cheeks puffed out. The look on her face would be considered cute if it was not for the furrowed brow.

"Father, why are you attacking Alastine?" The young girl asked. Her voice filled with anger.

"Why? Why not? Alastine has no idea what they are sitting on top of! Half of their lands hold one of the richest minerals in all of Phantasia! Plus we are not the only ones who will be attacking. We got news back from the Empire, after putting a little pressure on them, in return for retrieving the demonic plagues as they seem to be called in the outside world, they will send their imperial army to attack Alastine as well. " The middle aged man replied. 

"Father are you… You have gone crazy! I will not stand this any longer!" The young girl shouted out before turning and running out of the room. 

The middle aged man helplessly looked at the young girl running away and sighed. "Follow her!"

"Yes, your Beastliness!" A young man with black cat ears and tail appeared from the shadows and chased after the young girl.

"Sola, in due time you will understand that your father is doing this for this kingdom. So we can survive far, far into the future." Sitting down at his desk, the middle aged man pulled out an ancient looking scroll that had some strange designs on it. He could only hope that one day he will be able to understand the strange language on this scroll.

---contemporary romance

The Kingdom of Alastine… Present time…

Forty five minutes had passed and Alicia was in tatters. The onslaught of wave after wave of Demonic Plagues would not stop. It felt that the more they killed the more that would attack. The number of Knights and Soldiers they had available was now down to less than five hundred. The fifteen minute rotation would provide much needed rest but it was just not enough. Just fifteen minutes fighting demonic plagues was enough to make one feel like they had been fighting for days on end. 

This was due to how fast the demonic plagues were. Everyone had to push their body's speed to the limit just to keep up. Those who failed to do so would either end up dead or severely injured. The death toll for Alicia's side already rose to six hundred out of two thousand. The most casualties happened after the half hour mark. 

One thousand demonic plagues rushed the barrier at the same time almost completely collapsing the defensive line. Because of this, the rotation was messed up since the previous team had to rush back out to help defend after a hundred soldiers fell almost instantly. 

But luckily all of this was not in vain. Right when things were at its worst and looked as if the whole world was about to collapse, King Augustus showed up earlier with over five hundred thousand troops to bolster the defense. 

"Royal Father, if you were any later I feel we would have lost completely," Alicia said while falling to the ground on her butt. Although tired and full of wounds she still looked up at King Agustus with a smile on her face. 

"I would have been here sooner but word came with information that it is indeed the Beast Kingdom who is in control of the Demonic Plagues. So I can not stay long, I need to rush back and make preparations, I can only..." King Augustus turned his head in a certain direction. "Seems I will need to stay a bit longer. We have a guest it seems."

As he said this a young girl with white cat ears and black and white striped tail limped her way towards the camp from the battlefield. Her pink dress was shredded, her air unkempt, blood dripped from a wound on her arm and leg. When Alicia saw her she knew something was not right. It wasn't hard to tell she was from the Beast Kingdom. But what was strange was that the little girl was being chased by the demonic plagues as well as a group of beast men!

Seeing the girl in such a state, Alicia quickly stood up and charged back into the battlefield arriving just in time to strike down a demonic plague who was about to pounce on the young girl. The young girl was in shock as she watched a girl around her own age effortlessly killing the demonic plague. 

"Don't let her escape!" One of the beast men yelled as they continued to charge towards Alicia and the young girl.

The young girl panicked and gripped Alicia's clothes as she frantically said: "You must bring me to your king! I have information of the utmost urgency!" The young girl's voice was filled with urgency, the look of impatience filled her eyes. Just seeing this Alicia knew what this girl said was true and if not and this was a ploy, then this girl had amazing acting skills. But Alicia couldn't ignore the fact that it seemed that the Beast Kingdom was willing to expose the fact that they were here to chase this girl which meant that Alicia should be able to trust her words.

She looked at the young girl and gave her a smile. "Everything will be fine, do not stray from my side."

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