Astra stood amid the ruins of Themyscira, the capitol city of Aqualaria.
Tears were in her eyes. The city
around her had been destroyed. As Fred and Exotica moved among the rubble
they found charred
corpses of both men and women. Velus simply stared from where he sat, the
sheer scale of the
destruction nearly overwhelming the young country boy. His own village had
been home for maybe four
hundred people, but this amazonian metropolis had housed thousands. And
now it was nothing but
rubble.
And then Velus saw movement out of the corner of his eye. He walked over and nudged Fred, glancing over at a broken wall. Velus did not want the person watching them to know that they had been found out. Fred nodded, whispered something to Exotica, and then he and Velus walked back to Astra. The mysterious figure kept their eyes on Fred and Velus while Exotica idly moved across the rubble strewn streets. Although it seemed that Exotica was simply meandering, she was actually positioning herself to catch the figure from behind. And it worked. When Fred suddenly pointed at the broken wall, the figure bolted. And she ran straight into Exotica's arms. The princess from Allaria struggled with the girl that had been spying on them, holding her tight as Fred, Velus and Astra ran up to them. Astra then ripped the girl from Exotica's arms and locked her in an unbreakable grip. The girl's dirt stained eyes looked up at Astra as Astra's eyes bore down into her like steel daggers. "WHO DID THIS?!" Astra screamed at the girl. The girl's lips trembled but no sound was heard. "WHO?!" Astra demanded again, shaking the girl like a rag doll. This time, the girl's answer found voice and Astra recoiled from it. For the girl had whispered, "The Elementals did this."
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